Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Vauli
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Speaker 7: Welcome everybody. Matt Connorton unleashed. We have entered our number
Speaker 7: three New Marrow trace on this Saturday morning, December twenty eight,
Speaker 7: twenty twenty four. We are live from the studios of
Speaker 7: wm n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester,
Speaker 7: New Hampshire. And Jenny is here as well, of course
Speaker 7: at the news table ant for and the track we
Speaker 7: just heard is Colleen Season from the band of Volley,
Speaker 7: if I'm saying that correctly. And we've got the guys here. Welcome, gentlemen,
Speaker 7: Audi going on, So let's let's start in the corner here.
Speaker 7: Tell us who you are and what you do in
Speaker 7: the band.
Speaker 8: My name is Sean, and some people know me is
Speaker 8: Skeet three Pan, which is a it's a long stupid story, but.
Speaker 9: Which I will ask you about because I'm very.
Speaker 5: Curious, fantastic.
Speaker 8: So I am the vocalist and I write all the lyrics, okay,
Speaker 8: and uh yeah, I do some of the art stuff too, okay, excellent, excellent,
Speaker 8: And you, sir.
Speaker 5: My name is Dane.
Speaker 10: I'm the guitarist in Vali and Bally's newest member.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, well, congratulations.
Speaker 5: Also he also goes by dB Pooper that's.
Speaker 9: Correct, okay, which I will ask you about.
Speaker 2: And and you.
Speaker 11: Jonah Jonah, I play the drums.
Speaker 7: You play the drums, very good, very good.
Speaker 11: And that's not a drummer.
Speaker 7: But you don't have but you don't have like a
Speaker 7: funny weird name.
Speaker 5: Or he does, but we can't stay it on the radio.
Speaker 11: Oh gotcha, Jona Jonah five bone, uh something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 9: All right, So let me ask, so Sean, what what's
Speaker 9: your weird name again?
Speaker 5: Your nickname Skeet three pan?
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 8: So I went to Taco Bell many many moons ago
Speaker 8: after having a few drinks, and I told them because
Speaker 8: they asked my name for the order and I said
Speaker 8: my name was Scaffon with a K yes, and they
Speaker 8: spelled it as Skeet three pan and they yelled ski
Speaker 8: three pan to call me over for my order, and
Speaker 8: it just it just stuck from there.
Speaker 7: So I love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's great. Oh.
Speaker 8: Also side notes, so Cody isn't here. He is the bassist,
Speaker 8: uh and he puts that bag there, but he is
Speaker 8: at work. So okay, I wanted to clarify that.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, yeah, his name is Han Blo Okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: all right, And where's your funny name came from? What
Speaker 7: was it or is that a story you can tell
Speaker 7: on the air.
Speaker 12: Well, it's easy because well, first off, the name is
Speaker 12: dB Pooper, don't forget, and it was it was just
Speaker 12: it was given to me by these gentlemen.
Speaker 10: So okay, oh okay, it's it's it's an honorary name.
Speaker 10: So I'll dig it with Pride.
Speaker 9: Okay, how long have you been in the band? You
Speaker 9: said your name?
Speaker 12: I want to say since like a Halloween okay, like
Speaker 12: like maybe like a couple weeks before Halloween.
Speaker 5: Our first show of them was Halloween.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: He had maybe three practices with us Pride too, and
Speaker 8: he just picked it up like that, yeah immediately.
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh very good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: How long has the band existed?
Speaker 8: Technically since summer summer twenty twenty one. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 8: So we started the band. It was just Joanah and
Speaker 8: I and we were in the room of my old apartment.
Speaker 8: We had my electronic kit and I had this super
Speaker 8: crappy guitar that was fed straight into my DII and
Speaker 8: we had it monitoring. So I could hear it well recorded, Yeah,
Speaker 8: and that's how we recorded those first three songs, no kidding. Yeah,
Speaker 8: So our summer twenty one demos up on our band camp.
Speaker 8: I think it's on Spotify as well. All our music's
Speaker 8: on all the streaming.
Speaker 10: But not to be confused with the three songs we're listening.
Speaker 5: To today, yeah exactly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's quite the difference between the two sonically alone.
Speaker 8: But yeah, we just kept going and recording and doing
Speaker 8: music and having fun, and we eventually rained in our
Speaker 8: old guitarist, Josh. So we originally brought him in, I believe,
Speaker 8: on bass, and then I was gonna play bass, he
Speaker 8: was gonna play guitar, and jonahould play drums, and he
Speaker 8: really rained us in because when Jana and I play together,
Speaker 8: we just play as fast as humanly possible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Josh was kind of our metronome.
Speaker 8: And then after we reeled Josh in, he suggested that
Speaker 8: we get Cody on bass, and right from the get go,
Speaker 8: it was like four friends in a room that have
Speaker 8: known each other forever, Like we were doing more joking
Speaker 8: than actually making music. So it was like it was
Speaker 8: a very nice fit, and I want to say a
Speaker 8: month after that month or two, we recorded all of
Speaker 8: the tracks that are on our album rough Cuts, which
Speaker 8: it's no misnomer.
Speaker 5: They're all like room recordings that.
Speaker 8: I ripped the audio from the video of so they're
Speaker 8: not Wow, I bootleg all of our music.
Speaker 9: That's very punk rock, really is.
Speaker 8: So Jonah actually had this huge cassette deck because we
Speaker 8: put all our music on cassette. Yeah, like we handed
Speaker 8: it and uh wow, yeah that's a whole thing. But
Speaker 8: Jonah and I were using his cassette deck cause mine
Speaker 8: I just have like the little single cassette one you'd
Speaker 8: bring to like a college lecture in the nineties. So
Speaker 8: it's not the best. And uh we tried his and
Speaker 8: for it to record it, I forget exactly what it's called.
Speaker 8: But it'll take like a speed dubbing. Yes, so his
Speaker 8: has speed dumb, so it'll take like a two minute
Speaker 8: song and it'll record it faster, like it plays the
Speaker 8: tape at a higher speed while it's recording. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 8: but when it does that, you can actually turn the
Speaker 8: volume on and listen and it sounds like the Chipmunks.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: And the chip Punks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've heard of that speed dubbing. But but do
Speaker 7: you lose quality when you do it that way or
Speaker 7: does it does it?
Speaker 8: Would imagine, Yeah, I would definitely imagine. So, but we
Speaker 8: we weren't exactly much exactly so Jonah had an idea
Speaker 8: a while back that we would take like because I
Speaker 8: record to cassette from a line out on my computer
Speaker 8: directly into the cassette player. Okay, yeah, so it's it's
Speaker 8: a little jankee. But uh, he had the idea of
Speaker 8: doing that and then just continuing to record from cassette
Speaker 8: to cassette to cassette, so it just loses more and
Speaker 8: more quality until it's just like jarbled.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So we we do want there to be some quality
Speaker 8: to our music where it's like you can listen to it,
Speaker 8: But of course we don't need super ritzy recordings and
Speaker 8: like a three thousand dollars per hour room. We want
Speaker 8: we want it to sound as true as it can. Yeah,
Speaker 8: because we're not those type of people.
Speaker 5: We're not. We didn't pull up in a limousine right right.
Speaker 12: Right, And you don't need a super expensive studio to
Speaker 12: catch authenticity either, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 12: think that's kind of the biggest thing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, well you know, we'll take one though. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: as a free one.
Speaker 5: Yes, it would be rude to not accept.
Speaker 10: We're good guests.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go. If the opportunity presents itself, sure,
Speaker 7: why wouldn't you. Yeah, so do you so with the cassettes?
Speaker 7: So so do you sell the cassettes that shows?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So we actually I think we only have three left,
Speaker 8: no kidding.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So every or darn near every person that we've sold
Speaker 8: a cassette too has followed it up by saying, I
Speaker 8: have no way to play this, right, And almost all
Speaker 8: the people who didn't buy cassette said I have no
Speaker 8: way to play this right. But I think the two
Speaker 8: people we've given cassettes to actually had cassette players and
Speaker 8: were like, oh, you can just okay, take it. You're
Speaker 8: not going to use it as a paperweight.
Speaker 10: Yeah, also works great as a key. Yeah, it's a phenomenal.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I found a briefcase on the side of the road.
Speaker 8: There was a moving sale in this like ritzy neighborhood,
Speaker 8: and they had a briefcase.
Speaker 5: I was just going.
Speaker 8: They had a huge table of free stuff and I
Speaker 8: opened the briefcase up there was like seventy blank cassettes
Speaker 8: in it wow wrapped. And I was like, well, I
Speaker 8: guess I'm starting a label.
Speaker 5: And I didn't.
Speaker 8: I never started a label, but I put yeah, I
Speaker 8: put are I think two albums EPs, whatever you want
Speaker 8: to call them, on cassette or three?
Speaker 5: Actually?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so three of our releases are on cassette or
Speaker 8: where we got rid.
Speaker 5: Of all of them? Uh?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: We we recorded him in my room from my computer
Speaker 8: to the tape deck. Yeah, made all the album art,
Speaker 8: made all the album sleeves.
Speaker 10: Like we might get demand now I might have to
Speaker 10: mix some more.
Speaker 5: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 7: No. It's it's interesting to me because I remember it
Speaker 7: was probably seven or eight years ago. Maybe I was
Speaker 7: on band camp dot com and and I'm looking around.
Speaker 7: I'm looking for bands in the area and see who's
Speaker 7: out there, and and I noticed somebody. I don't remember
Speaker 7: who it was the first one I noticed, but I
Speaker 7: noticed somebody was selling cassette tapes. Yeah. I was like, huh,
Speaker 7: did I just time travel? And then I looked around.
Speaker 7: I'm looking at others, and I'm like, oh, it's not
Speaker 7: just them. This is a thing now, this is actually happening.
Speaker 7: People are doing this. I was like, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: It is super cool.
Speaker 8: Like I I am happy to see it because the
Speaker 8: more formats we have to listen to, the better. Like, yeah,
Speaker 8: sure you can get like a flack recording, listen to
Speaker 8: it on the nicest sound system you have via your computer,
Speaker 8: what have you. I still love the emotion behind the
Speaker 8: music that was recorded on to cassette, you know, and
Speaker 8: not to discredit the stuff that's overproduced if you will. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's just it feels more authentic, I know what you mean.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, almost, how like Vinyl had like a resurgenist
Speaker 12: lately and you know, now cassettes and I bought my
Speaker 12: son like a whole bunch of CDs in a boombox
Speaker 12: for Christmas. Yeah, he's a you know, he's a he's ten,
Speaker 12: and you know, he didn't grow up a CDs. But
Speaker 12: he's listening to his room and he pops them in
Speaker 12: and listens to the tracks and he's really liking it.
Speaker 10: So it's cool to see that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, ultimately, you know, people don't know that the quality.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think Vinyl sounds better than anything, right nothing, Vinyl, Well,
Speaker 7: Vinyl sounds better than a CD, and a CD sounds
Speaker 7: better than a wave file, and a wave file sounds
Speaker 7: better than an MP three and so on, you know.
Speaker 7: But but I think I think a lot of people
Speaker 7: just don't realize that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, but and they all sound better than
Speaker 11: a tape.
Speaker 7: Because with a tape you'll you'll get I mean, I
Speaker 7: guess with a cassette you get some of that warmth
Speaker 7: that you get with vinyl, right yeah, but you might
Speaker 7: get some hiss too.
Speaker 12: I feel like with vinyl though too, with you know,
Speaker 12: amongst other things, it's like the ritual of doing it.
Speaker 12: You know, to leave and you're reading up everything and
Speaker 12: you put it down and set the needle and all that,
Speaker 12: so it's, you know, the ritual of it at all.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: My theory too is I think probably most people who
Speaker 7: buy vinyl never open it, or or they open it,
Speaker 7: but they don't they don't play it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like like just like with the cassettes.
Speaker 7: You know, if someone's like a really big fan, you know,
Speaker 7: they might just want it to have it, yeah, but
Speaker 7: they're not, but they have nothing to play it on.
Speaker 7: And I strongly suspect that most of the people who
Speaker 7: buy vinyl don't.
Speaker 5: Even have a record player, right, I'd have to agree
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's I think it was what was it,
Speaker 7: twenty twenty two. I think was the first year that
Speaker 7: vinyl had outsold CDs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in forever.
Speaker 7: I think it was twenty twenty.
Speaker 10: They're everywhere f y E, Newberry, Comics, everywhere you go
Speaker 10: there's records.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I haven't even forget even a Walmart. I've
Speaker 7: seen vinylists. They've got it like that.
Speaker 8: That is the That is the funniest part of it.
Speaker 8: Like when when you start seeing a certain type of
Speaker 8: product being sold at Walmart, that's when you know it's like, oh,
Speaker 8: this is definitely a thing.
Speaker 10: Now got to go to Walmart for my George Straight CDs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is so I I worked at I worked
Speaker 7: at f y E, which before that was Strawberries. I
Speaker 7: don't know if any of you guys remember Strawberries, No,
Speaker 7: but that was that was a record store that U
Speaker 7: f Ye came in and bought. But there were Strawberries
Speaker 7: locations all over New England. And I remember when we
Speaker 7: had when when I started there, we still had cassette tapes,
Speaker 7: SU and uh and it was interesting. One of the
Speaker 7: things that I always found fascinating was to see, you know,
Speaker 7: older technology you know, people make all kinds of predictions
Speaker 7: about when it's going to go away, but then does
Speaker 7: it actually go away, you know. And cassettes, even at
Speaker 7: that time, hung on for a lot longer than I
Speaker 7: would have expected. And I think the reason was they
Speaker 7: were still selling new cars with cassette players in them,
Speaker 7: and then once that stopped, that's when we didn't have
Speaker 7: cassettes anymore in the store. So it's wild to see
Speaker 7: them come back. And of course vinyl, which never went away.
Speaker 5: People.
Speaker 7: It's funny people talk about vinyl like, oh, vinyl is back,
Speaker 7: and it's like, well, never stopped. Yea, they never stopped
Speaker 7: making vinyl.
Speaker 11: But I have a record player in my car.
Speaker 5: Do you really know?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 10: Okay, I think he's got the dash mount for that.
Speaker 7: So I was gonna say, I think if you buy
Speaker 7: a Tesla, you can actually get it with the record
Speaker 7: player in it. Like I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 5: Oh, man, have you ever seen the.
Speaker 8: No, I don't think I have, so it, dude, it's
Speaker 8: basically like plastic the thickness of a soda bottle, like
Speaker 8: a two liters of soda. Yeah, and they I guess
Speaker 8: they used to give the mountain boxes this Cereal, But
Speaker 8: I got one from one of my favorite bands. They
Speaker 8: have like they do it all DIY and I bought
Speaker 8: this record. I've never seen a flexi disc before in
Speaker 8: my life, and it's just like a sheet of plastic.
Speaker 5: It's so thin. And I pulled it out. I'm like,
Speaker 5: did these guys like pull a fast one on me?
Speaker 5: Is this a joke? And I put it on.
Speaker 8: It actually plays, and I looked it up. So flexi
Speaker 8: discs are like very low quality. The quality is terrible,
Speaker 8: but they're definitely a novelty because it is cool to
Speaker 8: see this thing and be like, I can play music off.
Speaker 7: Of that, no kidding.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I definitely recommend looking out and you just play
Speaker 8: it on a record player. Yeah, you can play it
Speaker 8: on a record player. And they're like, I was looking
Speaker 8: into how much it costs to get a run of them.
Speaker 8: It's not it's not worth it.
Speaker 5: There's more.
Speaker 8: There's more labor involved than you would imagine for that
Speaker 8: tiny little piece of plastic.
Speaker 7: But yeah, because it's probably there's probably like one place
Speaker 7: in the entire country that does.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's not too many. There's not a high demand
Speaker 8: for flexi discs for a reason.
Speaker 10: Yeah, a little bit of a new meaning to low fi.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Is it the size of a full record?
Speaker 8: Or is it what I believe? They make some that
Speaker 8: are the size of a full record. The one I
Speaker 8: got was like a seven inch okay, so yeah, well
Speaker 8: that's wild.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've never even heard of that, which surprises me.
Speaker 7: But oh that's cool. I'm gonna have to look that up.
Speaker 7: I'm super curious now now.
Speaker 9: So but you guys put you do CDs to right
Speaker 9: or do you have.
Speaker 5: We ever done a CD?
Speaker 11: Have yet to make it?
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm working on it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but but but is that so I assume that's
Speaker 7: the plan for the new It's an EP right there.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's gonna be a six song EP.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be coming out January twenty fourth. Funny enough,
Speaker 8: we're playing at Codo and Lowell January twenty fourth with
Speaker 8: our good buddies Street Trash okay and the Lipsticks Boys yep,
Speaker 8: the Lipstick Boys hat and yes, the black hat. Oh yes,
Speaker 8: so that should be a good time. I think it's uh,
Speaker 8: it's gonna start at nine. It's on our Instagram. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 8: six song EP on the way and we are going
Speaker 8: to put it on CDs. Okay, yeah, the theoretically they're
Speaker 8: gonna realistically, it's gonna be a CDR that we burnt
Speaker 8: it onto and I just wrote on sharp with Sharpie
Speaker 8: on it, like this is it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I'm a big CD fan, so I'll definitely be getting one.
Speaker 12: However that needs to come to fruition. There'll be five dollars.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 9: I love the CDR idea.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I've I've done it before where I printed
Speaker 8: out the Uh it's like a sticky label you can
Speaker 8: put right on top of the CD. Yeah, so I
Speaker 8: can make it look a little more Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but.
Speaker 9: That's funny.
Speaker 7: When I first started doing this because I started well, actually, yeah,
Speaker 7: when I started interviewing bands, like back in two thousand
Speaker 7: and eight, two thousand and nine. This show hasn't existed
Speaker 7: that long, but but I was doing it for a
Speaker 7: while before I was at W M and H. And
Speaker 7: when I first started, like people hadn't even gotten really
Speaker 7: comfortable yet with sending things via Dropbox and Google Drive
Speaker 7: or just attaching files to an email, and occasionally like
Speaker 7: guests would show up. The move was they'd have a
Speaker 7: CD that they burned with the music on it that
Speaker 7: they wanted to play, and they'd write on it with
Speaker 7: a sharpie and then it wouldn't even be in a case.
Speaker 7: They would hand it to me. They put the CD
Speaker 7: on their finger and be like, here.
Speaker 10: You go, I've heard you. I've heard you. Tell this
Speaker 10: more sure, And that would happen all the time.
Speaker 12: Well if you have kids too, like you know, with
Speaker 12: like any like Xbox or PlayStation disc, like, if it's
Speaker 12: not in the machine, that's the last time it'll be
Speaker 12: in the machine.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, it's nice to have technology, you know, we do.
Speaker 7: We actually have a CD player here, but the only
Speaker 7: one who ever, I don't know if he has no
Speaker 7: rob as a veto, he also to show here called
Speaker 7: granted state of Mind and he uses it. But he's
Speaker 7: the only one. I've never even used a CD player.
Speaker 7: That's sick, yeah, but it's but yeah, the technology is wonderful,
Speaker 7: too wonderful to have. So now, so where did you
Speaker 7: guys record so the new EP, the six songs? And
Speaker 7: did you record it the same way you've recorded everything
Speaker 7: else or no?
Speaker 8: So we actually we we bucked up and started paying
Speaker 8: for studio time instead of just recording it with a
Speaker 8: crappy camera. Oh god, yeah, so we recorded it with
Speaker 8: our good buddy Axel.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 13: He helped us bang it out. It took I only
Speaker 13: know one axle around your axle, Baguley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the very same. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10: He's a great guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah he as I.
Speaker 8: I told him several times. He's an absolute wizard.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So if he's listening, shout out to Axel for sure,
Speaker 8: or more specifically PACIFICO. Don't know what I mean specific Yeah.
Speaker 8: Uh So it took us about seven or eight hours
Speaker 8: to bang it all out. We did the drums all
Speaker 8: in one night, then we did guitar and bass the
Speaker 8: next night, then we did vocals. Okay, so it was
Speaker 8: uh I'm still getting over being tired from all of
Speaker 8: that because that was the week before Christmas is when
Speaker 8: we like really started hammering it down. So it was
Speaker 8: a busy time to be doing that. Uh yeah, if.
Speaker 12: I'm not mistaken, I want to say that's the first
Speaker 12: time we've all experienced that kind of like recording process.
Speaker 12: So it was you know, you're I gotta be on point,
Speaker 12: and you know, I've getten locked down and locked in.
Speaker 8: So I've done it once before, but it was maybe
Speaker 8: four hours worth of being in the studio and I
Speaker 8: was on drums the entire time, so it was like
Speaker 8: I was in a completely separate room with headphones on it.
Speaker 8: That was the first time I ever had to do that,
Speaker 8: and I'm like, this is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 7: Is weird, isn't it?
Speaker 5: It's so weird. Yeah yeah, oh that's uh.
Speaker 7: That's cool though, that you got recorded with AXL. Where
Speaker 7: did the place in Nashawa? Yes, sir, okay, excellent. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's outstanding. You guys ever play there at Terminus.
Speaker 8: So I have been talking to actually another shout out
Speaker 8: my good friend sim So she just started, uh, sim.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the very same Ye, your people know my feef.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, that's a small scene.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So she reached out to me recently about potentially getting
Speaker 8: us booked there in twenty twenty five, and I am
Speaker 8: quite excited, yeah, because I my old old band actually
Speaker 8: used to practice there, no kidding, yeah band. So it
Speaker 8: was Putrid Lizards at the time, and then yeah, we
Speaker 8: went through several name changes.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 8: It was certainly an interesting period of my life.
Speaker 9: Futrid Lizards strike me.
Speaker 7: Strikes me as a kind of name where you're probably
Speaker 7: pretty safe that somebody else isn't gonna, you know, come
Speaker 7: after you.
Speaker 9: And say hey we we already have that name.
Speaker 7: We're gonna right am I right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, correct correct a Mundo.
Speaker 7: Oh that's awesome, but no, that's cool recorded with Axel?
Speaker 7: And then so now why an EP? I'm always curious
Speaker 7: about this because again, we live in a time where
Speaker 7: you have so many different options.
Speaker 9: You can do an EP, you can do an album,
Speaker 9: you can just release singles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of the guests that we talked to
Speaker 7: lately they released a bunch of singles that eventually become
Speaker 7: an album, you know, instead of doing it the old
Speaker 7: way where they release an album and put out singles.
Speaker 9: But why did you guys decide to do an EP?
Speaker 7: What went into that decision?
Speaker 8: We had the opportunity, So it actually kind of started
Speaker 8: when Axel hit me up because he was saying, you
Speaker 8: wanted to record us. So we finally hashed out a
Speaker 8: day to start recording, and we thought, okay, well, we
Speaker 8: have like seven songs that we want to get recorded
Speaker 8: now that we have Dane, and we also were deciding
Speaker 8: what do we want to rehash from Voluntary Suffering that's
Speaker 8: our album okay that we recorded prior and we didn't
Speaker 8: necessarily want to rehash anything. So we went forth to
Speaker 8: start recording those six seven songs. It was seven, but
Speaker 8: one of them we scrapped for now, but uh, we
Speaker 8: just we recorded them and felt like this is exactly it,
Speaker 8: Like this is how it should be. We shouldn't add more,
Speaker 8: we shouldn't redact anything like it just it kind of
Speaker 8: all collectively felt right.
Speaker 10: It sounds how Folly should sound exactly.
Speaker 5: And it's like you need to know.
Speaker 8: How much to how much to pour into something. You
Speaker 8: don't want to overpour and overfill the cup, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 9: Actually, it's kind of nice right when it when it's.
Speaker 7: Sort of organic, when the exactly when the answer just
Speaker 7: presents itself, it's like this feels right, this sounds.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 12: It should be fun, and you don't want to get
Speaker 12: to a point where like you're agonizing over every silly
Speaker 12: little thing that's going on in the recording thing too.
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, we we we want to rock
Speaker 12: out and want to sound good, but we're not like,
Speaker 12: you know, going to lose our minds.
Speaker 9: Over it, right right, Yeah, that makes that makes sense.
Speaker 11: I don't know what the difference between an EP and
Speaker 11: an LP and an album miss. So I'm glad Sean
Speaker 11: answered that question.
Speaker 10: I don't know if he really answered it.
Speaker 8: I M dude, I think it's I think it's very subjective,
Speaker 8: like because you know, especially in punk rock, you have
Speaker 8: like nine minute long songs, right, So is the standard
Speaker 8: set on the track the amount of tracks, or is
Speaker 8: it set on the length in terms of you.
Speaker 10: Know, I never thought of it getting to something else
Speaker 10: that's gonna come.
Speaker 8: Out because you can have like you have these crazy
Speaker 8: Norwegian black metal bands that have songs that are like
Speaker 8: thirteen minutes long and they have three songs and they're like,
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna do death.
Speaker 5: Just to picture it. But it's like this is an album, like.
Speaker 7: Right, it's three songs, like, but if it's an hour long,
Speaker 7: it's hard to argue with exactly.
Speaker 5: That's what I mean.
Speaker 10: Like AFI has an EP and it only has four
Speaker 10: songs on it, but it also I.
Speaker 8: Feel like that's typically what you find on an EP
Speaker 8: is like anywhere from one to like seven songs, and
Speaker 8: then there's that weird like limbo seven to nine songs
Speaker 8: where it's like, yeah, you're you're curious of what you are,
Speaker 8: I suppose and then you have anything past that hours
Speaker 8: like that's an album. But we could be funny and
Speaker 8: do like a twenty six song EP.
Speaker 5: We have it in us.
Speaker 12: We could definitely definitely have it now that we know
Speaker 12: and then you know the recording process and all that
Speaker 12: sort of thing. I feel like that's possible if we
Speaker 12: wanted to do like, you know, a thirteen fourteen song
Speaker 12: thing and have it be anything legit.
Speaker 11: Yeah, twenty six songs single, yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, double album.
Speaker 8: We're never putting out We're never putting out another album.
Speaker 8: We're just gonna put out EPs.
Speaker 7: Do you got how many songs do you guys have?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 7: Sounds like you guys have a lot of songs, right.
Speaker 10: Geez, I don't know. I never really thought about it.
Speaker 5: Maybe roughly be in the twenties, Yes, we're in the twenties.
Speaker 8: Like, and that's involving like the half written ones, the
Speaker 8: ones that we've played though in progress.
Speaker 10: Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, covers of band z ownes ever heard, so we
Speaker 11: just call our song.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we uh, that was a good thing about doing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're like we need we need to learn covers
Speaker 8: so that when where it shows people will at least
Speaker 8: recognize something that was our logic behind it. And then
Speaker 8: we're like, let's cover the like lowercase B sides from
Speaker 8: every band, right, like the Four of Us. Yeah, I mean, well,
Speaker 8: people know Nirvana, but they don't know Tourett's by Nirvana
Speaker 8: because we cover that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: When when I first got in the band, I thought
Speaker 12: Floyd the Barber was a song that they wrote Yeirvana.
Speaker 12: I was like, wow, you guys have great songs, and
Speaker 12: they're like, banks, we didn't write it.
Speaker 7: That's awesome. I was in a band that we did
Speaker 7: a Kiss cover called Hate, and like only the most
Speaker 7: diehard Kiss fan would know about that song from their
Speaker 7: most obscure.
Speaker 11: Album sound like a Kiss.
Speaker 7: It doesn't, Yeah, and and but we would play it,
Speaker 7: and you know, we never told anybody, you know, and
Speaker 7: nobody nobody knew, Like nobody nobody ever came up to
Speaker 7: us and said, wow, I can't believe you're covering that's
Speaker 7: like the most obscurre Kiss song ever, Like literally nobody
Speaker 7: ever said.
Speaker 6: It to us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and we just we just put it in the
Speaker 7: set because we liked it. Yeah, It's funny how that
Speaker 7: that can work out. What do you like, what do
Speaker 7: you guys do for covers?
Speaker 5: So we got.
Speaker 11: It's Nirvana.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we we have Tourette's by Nirvana, Floyd the Barber
Speaker 8: by Nirvana. We do Molly's Lips, which is a cover
Speaker 8: of the Vasilines that Nirvana did.
Speaker 10: Oh that's a double cover.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were working. Oh, paper Planes by m I
Speaker 5: A Kid. Yeah, yeah, that one.
Speaker 7: That's kind of cool.
Speaker 5: It's a goofy one that we do.
Speaker 10: It's a favor.
Speaker 7: What do you do about the gunfire? Does everybody clap their.
Speaker 5: Hands or something? So I'm glad you know the song?
Speaker 8: So for the gunfire, Jonah just hits the snare and
Speaker 8: I do like weird little wootily woos with my voice.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So yeah, we thought we thought about though, if we'd
Speaker 12: were to record that cover, we'd actually use real guns,
Speaker 12: right right?
Speaker 7: Well, yeah you want to.
Speaker 9: I mean that's like the punk rock Yeah, exactly, keep
Speaker 9: it real, you know.
Speaker 8: So I saw I saw one of the funniest things
Speaker 8: I've seen. It was on YouTube and they did paper
Speaker 8: Planes by m I A. But if they used muskets,
Speaker 8: it's so funny.
Speaker 5: I have to see that. It's amazing.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 8: There's one shot that's licked off and then it's like
Speaker 8: two minutes of them packing it really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is hilarious.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 9: Whose idea was that to do?
Speaker 3: That was?
Speaker 8: Oh dude, I have no idea. It's someone on the
Speaker 8: internet graced us with its presence.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So that's awesome.
Speaker 5: That's awesome.
Speaker 7: Oh so where does the name come from?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was listening to a podcast about I
Speaker 8: think it was World War One and uh, because I
Speaker 8: just I listened to like random podcasts every day when
Speaker 8: it was working, and they were talking about the method
Speaker 8: of attack of Baley and Joan and I were jamming
Speaker 8: at the time, and I really that word just resonated
Speaker 8: with me and stuck in my head. So I told
Speaker 8: him I wanted to try to use that name, and
Speaker 8: he's like, I definitely dig it. We have to spell
Speaker 8: it differently, though, Okay, that's why it's spelled the way
Speaker 8: it is, and like we've gotten the funniest pronunciations. I'm
Speaker 8: glad you in the email you asked me like phonetically
Speaker 8: how to use that. Yeah, because most people call us
Speaker 8: Valie and I get it, that's what.
Speaker 5: Girls. Yeah, but I didn't know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like I saw that, and I thought I was wondering,
Speaker 9: like is it the name of a place?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 8: The only other thing I found online is some like
Speaker 8: Italian muffler man.
Speaker 10: Custom exhaust for your like it's from a Romeo or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so.
Speaker 7: Do people Yeah, you said people mispronounce it? Does anybody
Speaker 7: ever spell it wrong like on a poster or something?
Speaker 8: Or No, we haven't encountered that yet. So the main
Speaker 8: reason is most of the flyers I make, so I
Speaker 8: guess I lucked out with that, But the flyers that
Speaker 8: I didn't make, we haven't had it spelled incorrectly yet.
Speaker 5: That's good because there's more, there's.
Speaker 8: More communication that happens online and like with our Instagram
Speaker 8: right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's like I would hope you wouldn't spell
Speaker 5: it wrong.
Speaker 10: Man, five letters isn't too hard.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but if someone was like doing speech to text
Speaker 8: to just be like volley like a volleyball. We actually
Speaker 8: we were joking about for our merch making volley volleyballs.
Speaker 9: So that's a good idea. That's a good idea.
Speaker 10: I like that.
Speaker 7: Why not? Why not?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 9: So Sean you write all the lyrics I do?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 9: Is there like a theme or does it vary?
Speaker 5: It varies.
Speaker 8: I kind of just write what I'm feeling. I don't
Speaker 8: necessarily fixate on a topic like I. I don't give
Speaker 8: myself a topic to write about. When I'm writing. I
Speaker 8: just I'll see like a word on the wall, or
Speaker 8: something in the newspaper or something on the TV, just
Speaker 8: one word and it just it lights a fire into
Speaker 8: my butt and I just start writing.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: More often than not, I write the lyrics before we
Speaker 8: write the music, so to speak. But we'll have, for instance,
Speaker 8: Dane will start playing a riff and I'll be like,
Speaker 8: I'll either start writing something or in my giant folder
Speaker 8: of half written songs, I'm like, I think this will
Speaker 8: fit perfectly. Yeah, And I have way too because I
Speaker 8: have massive ADHD so like I literally have like a
Speaker 8: thousand notes in my.
Speaker 5: Like lyric folder.
Speaker 10: I've seen him scroll through.
Speaker 8: He is, you know, but we like typically it's more
Speaker 8: I suppose there's a darker vibe to our songs and whatnot.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't necessarily call myself a missanthrope, but I would
Speaker 8: say they're a little misanthropic. But it's it's very cathartic
Speaker 8: for me to write lyrics and then yell those lyrics
Speaker 8: with my best friends, no doubt. Yeah, it's like there
Speaker 8: are bad things that are happening in the world, but
Speaker 8: we're having a ball. However, I'm cognitive of the fact
Speaker 8: that there's bad things going on, so maybe I'll tell
Speaker 8: some people.
Speaker 11: He stole the chorus of fTPM from me?
Speaker 5: Yes, I did.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, Jonah, that's my only contribution.
Speaker 5: There's only lyrical contribution.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay. I'm curious about the ADHD does that,
Speaker 7: and there's specific reason I'm asking. But does that help you, Like,
Speaker 7: do you feel that that that helps you in terms
Speaker 7: of writing and creativity? Is it a is it an
Speaker 7: advantage somehow? A?
Speaker 5: Yes and no.
Speaker 8: It's like a it's a very black and white yes
Speaker 8: and no. It's either it depends on like there's so
Speaker 8: many factors like what I ate during the day, how
Speaker 8: my mood is going and whatnot. But I like I'm
Speaker 8: either a hurricane of just starting things and not finishing them,
Speaker 8: like back to back to back, I'll start sweeping the
Speaker 8: floor and then get distracted and do something else, or
Speaker 8: I like hyper fixate on it, I lock in on
Speaker 8: it and just.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more often than not it. Uh, it throws
Speaker 5: a stick in the spokes.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 9: The reason I was curious is, I don't know if
Speaker 9: you know doctor Kevin ross Emory.
Speaker 5: He's I don't think so.
Speaker 7: He's from Nashua, and I've done a lot of work
Speaker 7: with him over the years. I'm on his podcast sometimes
Speaker 7: and he's been on the show a lot, and I
Speaker 7: know him really well. But he he's done a lot
Speaker 7: of work in the area of a d D and
Speaker 7: ADHD and he's written he's written some books. One of
Speaker 7: the books is called Managing the Gift, and in it
Speaker 7: he talks about how it can actually be an advantage
Speaker 7: if you play it right, and and how you know,
Speaker 7: a lot of creative people you know have ADHD and
Speaker 7: a lot of very successful entrepreneurs you know, and there's
Speaker 7: a spectrum and so forth. But but yeah, he talks
Speaker 7: about how a lot of musicians you know, that it
Speaker 7: can again if you if you use it to your advantage,
Speaker 7: you can it can help you with your creativity and
Speaker 7: coming up with concepts and then expanding on them.
Speaker 8: And I think if anything musically that it's helped with,
Speaker 8: it's playing the drums really, because I am always tapping
Speaker 8: on stuff like NonStop ever since I was a little kid.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gonna say I'm not a drummer. I'm a
Speaker 9: bass player, but I constantly.
Speaker 5: Tell yeah, I uh.
Speaker 8: When I first started playing drums, that's how I would
Speaker 8: like write most of my drumming and learn and practice
Speaker 8: was like in lass. I would be stopping my foot,
Speaker 8: tapping my right hand, tapping my left hand, and visualizing
Speaker 8: the kit, which did not help it. It almost made
Speaker 8: it more enticing to tap on everything. And my classmates
Speaker 8: weren't too stoked on that, as you can imagine.
Speaker 10: I bet your teachers loved you.
Speaker 5: No, they hated me, dude.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, that's too bad because you were you know,
Speaker 7: because they should have been. It'd be nice if they
Speaker 7: were supportive. But teachers don't always know what.
Speaker 10: I had a tough time in school too, well, for sure.
Speaker 12: Yeah I was always getting in trouble and being a
Speaker 12: menace and yeah, you know, but it's all how you
Speaker 12: turn out in the en, I suppose.
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 7: How how about you?
Speaker 11: I got good grades when I didn't know anyone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 11: I just ran cross country and track and did my
Speaker 11: homework because I didn't know anyone when I moved to
Speaker 11: Florida for high school. Oh okay, but then once I
Speaker 11: decided that I had other things on to tape it off.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense.
Speaker 7: We should uh oh Jesus already eleven thirties. Let's uh,
Speaker 7: let's play another track. Oh, by the way, so what's
Speaker 7: before we do that?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 9: So what is what is calling season about?
Speaker 7: Because the lyrics are really interesting and that that that's
Speaker 7: part of why I was asking too about uh, you know,
Speaker 7: is there a theme to your your your lyrics?
Speaker 5: Oh? Well, that one is about.
Speaker 8: Killing and eating the rich, the top one percent, like
Speaker 8: the folks that are so rich you have no idea
Speaker 8: who they.
Speaker 7: Are, right, I approve, Yeah, I literally doing yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: I approve of the.
Speaker 8: Car Yeah yeah in Minecraft, in Minecraft, No, it's it's metaphorical.
Speaker 8: I'm not I'm not, of course saying like, hey, go
Speaker 8: do this dog, but uh, it's it's just it's what
Speaker 8: I am agine the collective messages that the general populace
Speaker 8: feels about the struggle that we're all going through right now,
Speaker 8: to some degree, because there's different facets of struggling financially.
Speaker 8: But yeah, you know the fact that you have someone
Speaker 8: like Jeff Bezos or Bezos however you pronounce his name,
Speaker 8: that make my yearly salary in a minute, Like, I
Speaker 8: feel like you have enough, buddy, Right, I'm all for
Speaker 8: folks winning the metal, but.
Speaker 5: Come on, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And and that concentration of wealth, it becomes more and
Speaker 7: more concentrated all the time. Yes, exactly, Fewer and fewer
Speaker 7: people control more and more of the wealth.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 11: Are you registered to vote, Sean?
Speaker 9: No, you should, Yes, I am.
Speaker 5: I actually voted for Dane.
Speaker 7: Oh that's nice, you wrote, Amy.
Speaker 5: It would have been nicer if he won.
Speaker 10: I don't remember what I what I was running for.
Speaker 9: I was gonna say, were you on the ballot or
Speaker 9: was it around now?
Speaker 5: I put him on the ballot.
Speaker 7: Oh very good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's very.
Speaker 10: Sweet of you.
Speaker 9: There's something very that's very new Hampshire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do that.
Speaker 10: That's a very nice I think Cody ran for sheriff.
Speaker 11: I want to say I voted for Cody for sheriff too.
Speaker 10: I quoted for Cody.
Speaker 5: Oh, very nice.
Speaker 10: Would I think he'd make a great sheriff?
Speaker 8: So he said, he said, if he became the sheriff,
Speaker 8: he would make everybody in the entire state deputy.
Speaker 9: Okay, I mean that's a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 7: I don't know if i'd want.
Speaker 5: To be well tough luck buddy, you're a deputy.
Speaker 12: It'd be cool to have the badatory deputy service.
Speaker 8: It'd be hilarious if everybody in an entire state was
Speaker 8: a deputy.
Speaker 10: Watch out Massachusetts.
Speaker 9: I feel like that would not be very New Hampshire.
Speaker 9: That would be more like, uh, Utah or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I could see that where you just deputize everybody.
Speaker 11: Yeah, everybody's a wife in Utah.
Speaker 10: Yes, more wifes per capita.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 7: That might be a lyrical idea. You could do something
Speaker 7: with that. Well, let's let's play this track Static. Anything
Speaker 7: we should know about this before we play it.
Speaker 8: Uh, If you come to see us when we're playing
Speaker 8: this live and you don't yell along to the part
Speaker 8: that you'll know what to yell along to once you
Speaker 8: hear it, I'm gonna be pretty sad.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, fair enough? Check it out.
Speaker 7: This is Static.
Speaker 9: The band is Volley, and they're here with us live
Speaker 9: in studio.
Speaker 2: I feel like understanding.
Speaker 6: I'd feel like.
Speaker 5: My labor.
Speaker 11: I'd be like hes so made.
Speaker 2: Up last gnawing on your picture. I'd be like, god,
Speaker 2: the any crime, clinning in the script shirt stand. It's
Speaker 2: a static stack insh away and it's a static stag.
Speaker 2: It wast away standing the static stag.
Speaker 4: It wasted away and it's a static.
Speaker 2: Stagging walk away. I'd feel like, got me any priceman
Speaker 2: on the sun.
Speaker 3: I feel like the fian Pemin and a broken gun
Speaker 3: so ready to burst.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to burst.
Speaker 1: Someone bottled up studdy, but the ready and jump like.
Speaker 4: Day dag away, dagon locked away, and.
Speaker 5: It's a.
Speaker 7: Away that is static. The band is volley here with us.
Speaker 8: And I'm a robot. My voice sounds like a flanger
Speaker 8: right now. But Axel is assuring me that I'm not
Speaker 8: going to sound like a robot. I will, in fact
Speaker 8: sound like a human being, because I am a human
Speaker 8: being that is not, in fact a robot.
Speaker 10: It's true, he is not a robot.
Speaker 5: Thank you for leaving that in, Axel, I love you.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, you can turn it off.
Speaker 9: That's all right, we got this far.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 7: I totally forgot that there was something else there that.
Speaker 5: Makes two of us.
Speaker 10: Well, at least it was radio friendly.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, we have to do that to make the
Speaker 11: song two minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7: That's smart.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 7: I when I listened to it, I was like, I
Speaker 7: got to remember this something at the end, and then
Speaker 7: of course I forgot, but uh no. I like that
Speaker 7: track though. It's very very catchy, thank you, And I
Speaker 7: like the do you want to tell you? You were
Speaker 7: telling off air?
Speaker 5: Do you want to Yeah, what you were talking about? Yeah?
Speaker 8: So I wrote that on guitar like four years ago,
Speaker 8: give your take. And this was when I was playing
Speaker 8: guitar a lot. I I broke my wrist a few
Speaker 8: years later, like once Volley started really picking up.
Speaker 5: I broke. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 9: That's all right, we're on it. We're on a delay.
Speaker 7: I caught it.
Speaker 9: We're on an eight second delay. So when the when
Speaker 9: the naughty.
Speaker 11: Punk rocker, Yeah, you want to say something bad?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 8: So I broke my wrist and I was unable to
Speaker 8: play that song anymore because there's a solo part that
Speaker 8: it's very difficult to do, and we kept trying and
Speaker 8: trying and trying. So at one point we were just
Speaker 8: playing the last two measures of it. After it does
Speaker 8: the little solo we part, and we wound up messing
Speaker 8: around at practice and I was yelling along to what
Speaker 8: the solo would have been that I was doing and
Speaker 8: to do that just so we could keep time. I
Speaker 8: was going but that, and when we recorded it, I
Speaker 8: was doing that in the background and Axel said that
Speaker 8: sounds pretty sick. Next practice, I texted them, I'm like,
Speaker 8: we need to at least try this, like, hear me out,
Speaker 8: let's try it.
Speaker 5: And we didn't.
Speaker 8: We all just looked at each other and we're like, oh,
Speaker 8: that's it. So now we have that part where we
Speaker 8: all yelled the solo instead, and it's just it gives
Speaker 8: me like such a great feeling every time I hear it,
Speaker 8: because yeah, what we want is we want people to
Speaker 8: hear it and yell along with us, right, because we're
Speaker 8: all we're all in it together to have fun, right, right.
Speaker 12: Yeah, play live at a show, it's definitely easy for
Speaker 12: the audience to like chime in on that and yeah,
Speaker 12: the whole place, you know, you know, yelling it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, that's very cool. That's very cool. Are you
Speaker 9: guys playing out a lot?
Speaker 5: We have been playing more and more.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So we have a show January twenty fourth at
Speaker 8: CODO and Lowell. We're playing the twenty seventh at that's January. Yeah,
Speaker 8: we're playing the twenty seventh of January at O'Brien's in Boston.
Speaker 7: Oh nice.
Speaker 8: We're setting up a show in February at the Keep
Speaker 8: and Lowell, so we're super stoked for that. We have
Speaker 8: been playing out quite a bit.
Speaker 12: This will be our second trip to O'Brien's. We just
Speaker 12: played with Already Dead and Dave Strong a couple.
Speaker 5: Of weeks ago.
Speaker 10: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, big shout out to both of those.
Speaker 7: We love absolutely, Yeah, we love Dave's been on the
Speaker 7: show a couple of Dave's amazing and we had Already
Speaker 7: Dead on I don't know, maybe six months ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they're fantastic.
Speaker 8: They're they're awesome. They're such funny guys. Like after the
Speaker 8: show is finished, we sat and joked with them for
Speaker 8: like thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and there they have some pretty good, pretty sophisticated
Speaker 7: themes to their Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, no, I love I
Speaker 7: love those guys. That's that's great. Do you guys have
Speaker 7: any is there anybody in the scene you kind of
Speaker 7: you know, because it happens organically, anybody that you kind
Speaker 7: of team up with. Are there any other bands that
Speaker 7: you play a lot of shows?
Speaker 8: It's so street trash there. There are buddies. We play
Speaker 8: with them pretty frequently. A lot of the shows that
Speaker 8: we've played have been with them, from either of them
Speaker 8: reaching out to us with an opportunity or us reaching
Speaker 8: out to them and saying like, hey, we want to
Speaker 8: play with you guys again. Yeah, And every time we
Speaker 8: play together, it's just it's so much fun. It it
Speaker 8: feels very organic, like because we basically just laugh the
Speaker 8: entire time. Yeah, and we're not playing music, we're messing
Speaker 8: with each other.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 5: That's very cool.
Speaker 10: Street trash rules for sure.
Speaker 7: I don't think, Yeah, we haven't had them, have we Jenny, Oh,
Speaker 7: she's busy doing something.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it becomes a blur. I've been doing this a
Speaker 9: long time.
Speaker 7: It's like sometimes sometimes we'll we'll have somebody and it's
Speaker 7: like looking forward to meeting them. It's like, oh, I've
Speaker 7: already met them, but I don't realize it until they're here.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 9: But uh no, but that's you guys.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: What about in the summertime, do you plan to do
Speaker 7: a lot of shows in the summer. It seems like
Speaker 7: a lot of bands that's when they.
Speaker 8: Yes, so we are actually, uh, we're hoping for a
Speaker 8: busy summer, but we're also trying to formulate it's towards
Speaker 8: the end of summer, we're gonna try to go to Japan. Yeah,
Speaker 8: so Cody again, big ups to Cody. I know you're listening.
Speaker 8: I'll at work.
Speaker 5: Uh uh.
Speaker 8: So Cody was in Japan for a few years and
Speaker 8: he brought up the idea last year that we should
Speaker 8: go to Japan. And we're like, we're trying to save
Speaker 8: all our money from shows and like pil in our
Speaker 8: own personal funds too to try to go over there
Speaker 8: for like a week and wow, yeah, just just have
Speaker 8: a blast.
Speaker 12: It seems Cody has like connects with some venue owners
Speaker 12: over there when he was stationed in Japan. And yeah,
Speaker 12: the punk scene in Japan is really cool too. It's
Speaker 12: like they're still in the eighties punk scene. Still, it's
Speaker 12: still really raw and still really you know, kind of
Speaker 12: that that original punk.
Speaker 5: Vibe over there.
Speaker 7: No kidding, I had no idea.
Speaker 12: Yeah, what's the EP comes down, We're gonna send it
Speaker 12: their way and you know, get them, get them primed.
Speaker 7: Oh wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the punk scene in Japan is really really big, no.
Speaker 7: Kidding, Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed. Now, are there other
Speaker 7: American bands that they go there to tour that go
Speaker 7: to Japan specifically?
Speaker 8: Yeah, a good amount of them, None that I know personally. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: but if there's a larger, larger scale punk band that
Speaker 8: you can think of, they probably tore over in Japan.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 12: There's a Facebook page too that you know, it's all
Speaker 12: just you know what bands are coming through in the
Speaker 12: dates and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: So yeah, okay, you know, tune into what's going on
Speaker 10: with that.
Speaker 5: That's wild.
Speaker 7: Are there any Japanese punk bands a tour here that
Speaker 7: I don't know about?
Speaker 8: So Odabo k Beaver there. I believe all female punk band,
Speaker 8: I know it. If not all, most of the members are.
Speaker 8: It's like a female front of punk band, and they
Speaker 8: are phenomenal. They're so fast and so like sick. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they just got done touring over here, no kidding, Yeah,
Speaker 8: like a couple of weeks ago. I didn't get to
Speaker 8: go see him. I was super bummed. But yeah, they're
Speaker 8: very very good.
Speaker 9: Oh wow, yeah, oh that's pretty cool. It's interesting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I had no idea if you are just joining us.
Speaker 7: We have Volley here with us alive in studio. Hi,
Speaker 7: when does the when does the EP? I'm sure you
Speaker 7: said it, but I can't remember when When does the
Speaker 7: EP come out? Or do you know yet?
Speaker 8: So it's gonna be releasing January twenty fourth, January twenty fourth.
Speaker 10: Day, which is the same night as the co Lowell Show. Yees,
Speaker 10: gotcha Codo and Lowell?
Speaker 7: Hey, is that a new place by the way, Codo,
Speaker 7: Because all of a sudden, I'm hearing about it, and I.
Speaker 8: Know I'm not certain that it's necessarily a new place.
Speaker 8: I think it's new that they've started hosting music. I
Speaker 8: could be very wrong, though, So I just discovered this
Speaker 8: place because it's the first I started hearing of it too.
Speaker 8: So there's a location in Lowell, and then there's a
Speaker 8: location in Salem.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, yeah, I want to say Street Trash just
Speaker 12: played in Salem last night. Yeah, literally last night Friday
Speaker 12: and Friday night they played it Salem.
Speaker 5: Codo.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, I'm gonna have to learn about that because
Speaker 7: I got a yesterday. I got a text message from
Speaker 7: somebody wanted to know if I had a suggestion for
Speaker 7: a band, Yeah, to play a show at Codo and
Speaker 7: loll and I'm like Codo, that's new to me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so no, that's cool though. I mean we need
Speaker 9: more venues.
Speaker 5: We always do.
Speaker 8: We absolutely need more venues there. There aren't too many
Speaker 8: around this neck of the woods.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: Union Coffee in Milford is it has a special place
Speaker 8: in our heart really?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, shut out Union Coffee for sure, and big ups
Speaker 10: to Drew.
Speaker 5: I love you.
Speaker 9: Why is Uh? I've heard of it, but I've never
Speaker 9: been there.
Speaker 7: What's special about Union Coffee?
Speaker 8: So it's a tiny little coffee shop that you would
Speaker 8: not expect an absolute hurricane of a punk show to happen.
Speaker 5: It happened at Yeah.
Speaker 8: So last time we played there, it was too cold
Speaker 8: to play outside, so we played inside or it was
Speaker 8: rainy something like that. But it was pretty cramped in
Speaker 8: there and it was just chaos. Street Trash actually brought
Speaker 8: this big inflatable pill that they threw up into the
Speaker 8: crowd and that people were smacking it around and it
Speaker 8: wound up hitting one of the beer taps and beer
Speaker 8: was spring everywhere.
Speaker 5: Well, they were playing and.
Speaker 8: It was like, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it was an absolute madhouse. And prior to that we
Speaker 8: played outside and it was just so much fun because
Speaker 8: that was the first show in a long while where
Speaker 8: I got to just do vocals.
Speaker 5: And when I can just do vocals, I run around
Speaker 5: like a madman. Yeah, just like act like a crazy person.
Speaker 7: So yeah, oh that's cool. So the owners there were
Speaker 7: cool about the beer tap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't think anybody really notified.
Speaker 12: I don't think any other venue in town because there's
Speaker 12: a few you know restaurants stuff where they have you know,
Speaker 12: local bands that do cover songs and stuff like that,
Speaker 12: and I don't think anyone else.
Speaker 10: Would let them get away with that in that place,
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so.
Speaker 10: Having as much fun though, Yeah.
Speaker 8: The shasking in Manchester is sick. Yeah, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 8: certain of too many other places. I know there are
Speaker 8: other venues in Manchester, the Jewel. The Jewel I'm talking
Speaker 8: about more like our type of venues what you do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: the places where you go to the bathroom and the
Speaker 8: stall door was ripped off.
Speaker 5: That's where our music.
Speaker 10: There may or may not be a volley sticker in
Speaker 10: the urinal.
Speaker 5: I don't know who put that there.
Speaker 7: Oh, my goodness. Well, yeah, so the EPs in January
Speaker 7: and then are you guys already working on new stuff
Speaker 7: for the next one or.
Speaker 8: We have actually several other songs that are like half written, oh,
Speaker 8: that that have music behind them too, And we're always,
Speaker 8: you know, messing around of practice. So we just got
Speaker 8: done building our new practice space. Ah, so we were
Speaker 8: pretty occupied with that. But now that we're all moved in,
Speaker 8: it's like our little clubhouse. We're working on soundproofing because
Speaker 8: it's loud in there. Yeah, of course, but yeah, we
Speaker 8: have been playing more frequently too, so we haven't had
Speaker 8: much time to have just a relaxing practice. It's like,
Speaker 8: we have a show Friday, we need to we need
Speaker 8: to stop goofing off, right, which we still goof off
Speaker 8: during that time.
Speaker 9: But when do you guys wear us a couple of
Speaker 9: times a week or so?
Speaker 8: We do once a week. Uh, it's it changes. So
Speaker 8: we were doing every Monday, now we do every Wednesday.
Speaker 8: Not that people are like concerned with what day of
Speaker 8: the week unless they're trying to kill us.
Speaker 12: I suppose we had a show and then now it's
Speaker 12: been the holidays and you know, a little little disbanded
Speaker 12: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you have Thanksgiving, then you have like what
Speaker 8: three or four weeks until Christmas, So that entire chunk
Speaker 8: The past two months of my life have just been carpentry. Yeah, carpentry, uh, sleeping, occasionally,
Speaker 8: recording music, and taking care of my kiddo.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it can be a relief when the holidays are
Speaker 7: over and it's like, okay, I can get back. Dude.
Speaker 8: December December twenty sixth is my favorite day.
Speaker 7: I was like that when I worked in retail. Oh man,
Speaker 7: December twenty sex could not come so enough I worked.
Speaker 8: I worked in retail too, and Black Friday was just
Speaker 8: an absolute nightmare. It's been probably about eight or nine
Speaker 8: years since I worked in retail, but brother, if Black
Speaker 8: Friday is a nightmare.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah. Well, when I worked for Fye, because you know,
Speaker 7: Strawberries had been bought by Fye, and that's a chain
Speaker 7: of stores that just won't die. Every time it looks
Speaker 7: like they're done, they open a new location somewhere and
Speaker 7: they survived. But over the course of the span of
Speaker 7: the years that I worked there, like Black Friday was
Speaker 7: so just monstrously busy, but by the time I left.
Speaker 7: I left that company in twenty thirteen, and by that
Speaker 7: point Black Friday would be so busy at the beginning
Speaker 7: of the day, and then by the time we would
Speaker 7: get to the afternoon, you know, because online shopping is
Speaker 7: so big now, it would be just like kind of
Speaker 7: a normal day. It really changed over the years, and
Speaker 7: I found that I didn't mind it as because it
Speaker 7: was like not so overwhelming. Like when I first started there,
Speaker 7: it would be like Black Friday was super busy, and
Speaker 7: then every day it was super busy right up to Christmas,
Speaker 7: and then by the time I left there, it was
Speaker 7: like Black Friday was kind of busy, and then the
Speaker 7: rest of the time would be just kind of normal. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and then you'd be wondering, are they going to close
Speaker 7: this location in January, which often turned out to be the.
Speaker 5: Case, but it becomes a spirit Halloween pretty quick.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely so. Guys, where should people
Speaker 7: go online to keep up with everything that you're doing?
Speaker 9: Where's the best place?
Speaker 8: So on Instagram it's at Bally six sixty six because
Speaker 8: we're super edgy. On Facebook dot com, that's www dot
Speaker 8: Facebook dot com. Uh, I feel to need to clarify, Oh, lord,
Speaker 8: uh so, I believe it. I believe it's also Bally
Speaker 8: six sixty six. We are on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music,
Speaker 8: all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Band Camp and band camp.
Speaker 8: Our favorite is when you go to our band camp
Speaker 8: because when you go to our band camp, we actually
Speaker 8: get a cut of some of the profit when you
Speaker 8: purchase our stuff instead of getting a fraction of a
Speaker 8: cent every thousand plays or something. Right, Not that we're
Speaker 8: in it for the money, but if there's money being made,
Speaker 8: I don't feel like ninety nine percent of it should
Speaker 8: be going to the streaming platform, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: And band camp has band Camp Friday, so if you
Speaker 8: need to buy somebody a belated Christmas present, you should
Speaker 8: totally buy them something from our merch store.
Speaker 5: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 10: That's www dot bali, dot bandcamp, dot com.
Speaker 7: Did somebody tell you guys that that's my pet peeve?
Speaker 7: The Www?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 13: I know.
Speaker 5: That's awesome though it's a lot of people's pet peeves.
Speaker 5: That's why I did it, dude.
Speaker 7: I've been I've been upset about that for twenty years,
Speaker 7: like literally twenty years ago. I was going, why do
Speaker 7: I still hear radio ads where when they give the
Speaker 7: website they say w WLB.
Speaker 5: Why I could have said worldwide Web dot?
Speaker 10: That is that actually what that stands for?
Speaker 5: Worldwide Web? Yeah? Dog, yeah, okay, I heard. I had
Speaker 5: heard that.
Speaker 10: I just wasn't sure if someone was just trying to
Speaker 10: mess with me or now it sounds too perfect.
Speaker 2: I swear to you.
Speaker 9: Twenty years ago I was complaining about it, like.
Speaker 7: Why why do people still say that it's a rightful gripe.
Speaker 5: It's there's no need to say it.
Speaker 10: What about http slash slash you.
Speaker 5: Forgot the semi colon?
Speaker 7: Okay, I'll only say this publicly because I don't think
Speaker 7: he actually listens to the show. Doctor Kevin I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 7: Doctor Kevin ross Emery he had an ad once. It
Speaker 7: was it was just it was a an ad for
Speaker 7: his book. I think it was probably managing the gift
Speaker 7: and ad for his book. That it wasn't on the radio.
Speaker 7: It was only online.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it was it was like it was produced
Speaker 9: like a radio ad. I swear to god.
Speaker 7: It actually said in the ad go to h T
Speaker 7: t oh no actually said that in the ad.
Speaker 5: That is hilarious, and.
Speaker 11: I just I was I never still talking about the
Speaker 11: ad today, so I think it was successful.
Speaker 7: Well that's true.
Speaker 10: Grandmother is going to actually type that in.
Speaker 8: So what you're going to do is you're going to
Speaker 8: turn on your personal computer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just uh, but the ad wasn't successful because
Speaker 7: I don't remember exactly what it was for.
Speaker 5: It was for doctor you just remember his flub. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I remember.
Speaker 7: Hearing him saying in the ad for more information, go
Speaker 7: to HTTP. I'm like, what is that happening.
Speaker 10: That's precious airtime you by saying all that exactly.
Speaker 7: Well, that's that's that's that's why, even because even today
Speaker 7: I hear it in radio ads, sure, and I'm baffled, like,
Speaker 7: why would you do that? Why would you waste that time?
Speaker 11: Anyway, I am wasted airtime.
Speaker 5: You know you're not.
Speaker 10: Jonah.
Speaker 5: We love you well.
Speaker 7: I appreciate you guys coming in. This has been this
Speaker 7: has been great having us. Absolutely we will do it
Speaker 7: again in the future. And we can close with this
Speaker 7: track sleep anything we should know about this.
Speaker 8: So this song is about how I've just been dealing
Speaker 8: with massive sleep deprivation for thirty whole years. I just
Speaker 8: I have a very hard time sleeping. So I wrote
Speaker 8: this And also I don't know if my son's listening,
Speaker 8: but shout out to meson tax fraud.
Speaker 12: Sean's sleep situation is getting better though. He was gifted
Speaker 12: a new mattress for Christmas. Shout out to a mattress.
Speaker 5: Firm or I don't know who you want to, I
Speaker 5: don't know if we can do that.
Speaker 10: He's sponsored.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you to the manufacturer of my match. Well
Speaker 8: from a person who coiled the springs to the person
Speaker 8: who stuffed it.
Speaker 9: Yes, very good. Well it's probably all machines, but.
Speaker 10: Well we can hope.
Speaker 7: Right exactly exactly, Well, we'll play that in a moment.
Speaker 7: But Jenny, before we go, do you want to plug
Speaker 7: your website?
Speaker 10: Absolutely you can come check me out at gencoffee dot com,
Speaker 10: g E.
Speaker 7: N N C O F f U I dot com
Speaker 7: for all my creatives and trouble making and links to
Speaker 7: your article. You've been you've been.
Speaker 9: Quite a bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's there too, Yes.
Speaker 9: Yes, absolutely, all right, So we will end with this track.
Speaker 9: This is called Sleep. The band is Volley again.
Speaker 7: Guys, thank you so much, thank you, good night, and
Speaker 7: if you missed any part of today's show, it will
Speaker 7: be up in just a little bit at w m
Speaker 7: H Radio dot orgon at my website Matt Conorton dot com,
Speaker 7: and we'll talk at you a little bit later.
Speaker 9: Bye everybody, Bye.
Speaker 5: Bye bye.
Speaker 2: Sleep time.
Speaker 4: Yah.
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Speaker 2: I try to cat pulling their buddy? Can my eyes
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm running out a boat fine.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm running down a feather cheap ye.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm running out a boat. I can
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Speaker 1: So s to sase pretty modern looking out of the
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm running out of hook ye. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm running out of a cheap ye. Feel
Speaker 1: like I'm running out of home.
Speaker 8: Nine.
Speaker 2: Feel like I'm running a gay right.
Speaker 6: Feel like I'm running got a funny feel.
Speaker 5: Like come running out
Speaker 2: Of Penerchee I feel I come running out of hope.
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