Matt Connarton Unleashed: Willy Chase

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0:39 Speaker 3: Time stands still my drink moble pulling air into my chest. Oh,

0:57 Speaker 3: I know, visit instant dandy, It's gone out and flow.

1:10 Speaker 4: Let the current take me.

1:22 Speaker 5: Tide. Let's time. Let's time. We are less time and

1:30 Speaker 5: think time is time. Let's still morning.

1:38 Speaker 6: Sorry seconds flow, lean up my glass san zero, tip

2:14 Speaker 6: me over, take.

2:16 Speaker 5: Me back to se why my day?

2:23 Speaker 7: To that lifeple less song, sample game.

2:32 Speaker 5: To that summer veto.

2:43 Speaker 8: So never read off, walking to run.

2:56 Speaker 9: Dancing across the surface of the sun, goes around, chase

3:03 Speaker 9: it down, He's eat it forty half it's slip.

3:08 Speaker 10: So oh, time.

3:23 Speaker 5: Less time, let's time, we are less time.

3:29 Speaker 7: Then we thinging time less time.

3:34 Speaker 3: Left till the moments satdery.

3:58 Speaker 11: Oh my god, that is great. That's brand new.

4:01 Speaker 1: Huh thanks man, Yeah, brand new.

4:03 Speaker 11: Wow, that is fantastic. If you're just joining us, Willie

4:05 Speaker 11: Chases here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning.

4:09 Speaker 11: That's very cold Saturday morning. But yeah, that's how new

4:14 Speaker 11: was that. You said you just wrote that with a

4:16 Speaker 11: friend who didn't know you were going to play it today.

4:18 Speaker 11: Is that true?

4:19 Speaker 1: That's pretty accurate.

4:21 Speaker 12: We just had our last co writing session maybe a

4:24 Speaker 12: week ago, and I had written the song thread probably

4:30 Speaker 12: five or six months ago. It sat for a while

4:32 Speaker 12: in my in my voice notes on iPhone, as a

4:35 Speaker 12: lot of them do, and then I threw it over

4:39 Speaker 12: to my friend Ian Gallipo, who's from the Keen area,

4:42 Speaker 12: and he liked it, kind of wrote a chorus to it,

4:46 Speaker 12: maybe some verse parts, I think, and then we just

4:49 Speaker 12: put our heads together over a video.

4:51 Speaker 1: Chat and kind of hammered it out.

4:52 Speaker 12: I had written that bridge, and yeah, it kind of

4:57 Speaker 12: came together, and then I was kind of like, holy cow,

5:00 Speaker 12: have a song, you know what I mean, which is

5:01 Speaker 12: a really cool moment as a songwriter.

5:04 Speaker 11: I feel like Ian Gallipos a name that's come up

5:06 Speaker 11: on the show. I don't think he's ever been on.

5:08 Speaker 11: I always say I don't think he's ever been on,

5:10 Speaker 11: because it does become I've been doing this a long time.

5:12 Speaker 11: It does become a little bit of a blur, of course,

5:14 Speaker 11: but I don't think he's been on the show. But

5:15 Speaker 11: I feel like, his name comes up a lot on

5:17 Speaker 11: the show.

5:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's awesome. So I work a lot with the

5:19 Speaker 1: New Hampshire Music Collective.

5:21 Speaker 11: That might be how I've why I've heard his name.

5:23 Speaker 12: Yeah, Yeah, so he's he's, you know, a member of

5:26 Speaker 12: the collective as well, does all sorts of stuff with

5:28 Speaker 12: that and other things.

5:29 Speaker 1: But that's how I met him. And he's great.

5:32 Speaker 4: Man.

5:32 Speaker 12: If you've never heard his song little Things, check it out.

5:35 Speaker 12: It's a gut wrencher be ready to cry. Yeah, But

5:38 Speaker 12: he's just an incredible lyricist. He's an incredible musician and

5:42 Speaker 12: a down to earth guy. You know, he's really enjoyable

5:45 Speaker 12: to be around. So I had a really good experience

5:46 Speaker 12: writing with him, you know. In the level that I'm

5:49 Speaker 12: at right now, there's no skin in the game really,

5:52 Speaker 12: you know what I mean. I'm kind of just starting

5:53 Speaker 12: out on the songwriting journey over the last few years.

5:55 Speaker 11: Really.

5:56 Speaker 12: Yeah, And I've been a musician my whole life. I

5:58 Speaker 12: can fill you in on the back story if you want.

6:00 Speaker 12: But with the end, it's just great because we it's

6:03 Speaker 12: just pure creativity, you know what I mean. Two musicians

6:06 Speaker 12: hanging out writing a song. There's no pressure to do anything,

6:10 Speaker 12: and for whatever reason, I was just kind of had

6:11 Speaker 12: that feeling when we were doing that together, and and

6:14 Speaker 12: that's what it's all about for me. Yeah, those kind

6:16 Speaker 12: of experiences and writing music and being just purely creative.

6:19 Speaker 11: No doubt. So you you've been a musician for a

6:23 Speaker 11: long time, as you said, but you only started writing

6:25 Speaker 11: songs a few years ago.

6:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I quote unquote have written other stuff.

6:30 Speaker 11: Yeah.

6:31 Speaker 12: I was a horn player in high school. I was

6:33 Speaker 12: our class instrumentalist. I was in like every music group,

6:36 Speaker 12: did all of it, show choir, I did a lot

6:38 Speaker 12: of theater.

6:40 Speaker 1: I was.

6:41 Speaker 12: I started in high school musical when I was in

6:42 Speaker 12: high school, all sorts of you know of stuff to

6:47 Speaker 12: leave me on my musical journey. And then I kinda

6:49 Speaker 12: I kind of went a totally different direction for the

6:51 Speaker 12: last decade. I got a degree in resort management and

6:54 Speaker 12: have worked at ski resorts and done all men or

6:57 Speaker 12: of other things. But I never put down the guitar.

6:59 Speaker 12: That's kind of what kept it alive for me. And

7:00 Speaker 12: then yeah, like three years ago, I had a really

7:02 Speaker 12: good friend who was living around here, and she convinced

7:04 Speaker 12: me to go to an open mic up at Patrick's

7:07 Speaker 12: Pub in Guildford, New Hampshire. That's where I met John MacArthur,

7:10 Speaker 12: who's one of the owners of the New Hampshire Music Collective.

7:13 Speaker 11: Yeah, we had him on the show. He's great.

7:14 Speaker 12: Yeah, he's awesome. Can't say enough good things about him.

7:17 Speaker 12: And you know, especially in this context with the opportunities

7:19 Speaker 12: he's given me playing a lot of these bar gigs

7:21 Speaker 12: and stuff around here, which is just it's like with anything, right,

7:26 Speaker 12: if you want to be really good, you got to

7:27 Speaker 12: just put in time and hard work. It's kind of

7:29 Speaker 12: the grind that I've been on these last few years

7:31 Speaker 12: since doing that.

7:32 Speaker 1: And then you know, I've.

7:34 Speaker 12: Like I said, I've been a musician my whole life,

7:36 Speaker 12: and I have a really I lean really heavily on

7:37 Speaker 12: my ear. Yeah, and I can be judgmental in that way.

7:41 Speaker 12: So I think, as most musicians will probably tell you,

7:44 Speaker 12: there's a lot of stuff that goes on with songwriting

7:45 Speaker 12: in terms of being hyper critical of yourself and self confidence,

7:49 Speaker 12: releasing tracks and everything.

7:50 Speaker 1: So you know, it's a slow process.

7:53 Speaker 12: But I'm in early production of making a record hopefully,

7:56 Speaker 12: and you know, that might be one of the songs

7:57 Speaker 12: that's going to be on it.

7:58 Speaker 11: Oh, I hope so yeah, yeah, it deserves it.

8:01 Speaker 12: That's totally good. Yeah, that's very kind of neat to say.

8:04 Speaker 12: I yeah, it's it's something I'm really interested in. But

8:06 Speaker 12: like I said, it's it's just tough not to be

8:07 Speaker 12: able to overly critical. But at this point in my life,

8:09 Speaker 12: on my early thirties, I feel like it's a really

8:14 Speaker 12: good place to be doing what I'm doing with music.

8:16 Speaker 12: I think that if I had gone right into music

8:20 Speaker 12: school like I kind of wanted to after high school,

8:22 Speaker 12: after doing all that stuff, I don't think it would

8:24 Speaker 12: have gone well. I think I was on the edge

8:26 Speaker 12: of burnt out really because yeah, I mean we had

8:28 Speaker 12: jazz band practices every morning before school. At six forty,

8:31 Speaker 12: it was taking trumpet lessons. It's just completely saturated in music. Yeah,

8:36 Speaker 12: and not really knowing you know, at that point in

8:38 Speaker 12: my life, you know, late teens, early twenties, you're just

8:41 Speaker 12: figuring out who you are, right. So all the experiences

8:44 Speaker 12: I've had over the last ten years of not being

8:45 Speaker 12: involved in music, I think have just fueled this crazy

8:48 Speaker 12: fire that I have now to write and collaborate with

8:50 Speaker 12: people and just really like I just started taking guitar

8:54 Speaker 12: lessons a couple you know, maybe a month or two

8:57 Speaker 12: ago with a really great guy. So I'm actually put

9:00 Speaker 12: some of the old theory knowledge that I have to

9:02 Speaker 12: use with like the fifteen years of guitar playing, just

9:05 Speaker 12: playing songs that I like to hear and play. Yeah,

9:08 Speaker 12: So it just feels really, really awesome, and I'm really

9:10 Speaker 12: grateful to be here doing what I'm doing now.

9:13 Speaker 11: You know, during the span of time where you you know,

9:16 Speaker 11: you had kind of gotten away from it all, did

9:18 Speaker 11: you always kind of know that you would come back

9:21 Speaker 11: to it, or did you really at the time kind

9:24 Speaker 11: of feel like you know that was you know, I'm

9:26 Speaker 11: sort of done with that. I'm sort of burnt out

9:28 Speaker 11: on it.

9:29 Speaker 12: If you asked me that question years ago, I probably

9:32 Speaker 12: would have told you the latter. I probably would have

9:33 Speaker 12: told you now, you know, And I think that comes

9:37 Speaker 12: from being jaded and my no, through no fault of

9:40 Speaker 12: his own, my trumpet teacher was one of the ones

9:41 Speaker 12: who convinced me not to go to school for like

9:44 Speaker 12: performance really yeah, which how much of that was actually

9:48 Speaker 12: him and how much of it was in my head?

9:49 Speaker 12: I can't really tell you, but you know, and his

9:53 Speaker 12: point was very valid. You know, forty years ago there

9:55 Speaker 12: was just so many horn players working in places like

9:58 Speaker 12: New York. Boss, you know, all these clubs and theaters

9:59 Speaker 12: have live orchestras, and now it's just a percentage of

10:02 Speaker 12: what that was. So yeah, the statistics just make it

10:05 Speaker 12: pretty daunting. Yeah, but I think subconsciously, very deep down there,

10:09 Speaker 12: to answer your question, I think it was inevitable of

10:12 Speaker 12: coming back to music. I mean, it's just such a

10:13 Speaker 12: part of me. It's part of who I am, been

10:16 Speaker 12: part of who I am since a very young age.

10:19 Speaker 12: And like I said, you know, I rely heavily on

10:21 Speaker 12: my ear. I don't like to say I have a

10:22 Speaker 12: good ear because it's like what does that mean? But

10:24 Speaker 12: I just the way I hear music and interpret music

10:26 Speaker 12: is so ingrained with everything else about me, and it

10:29 Speaker 12: affects my you know, emotions, It affects my goals, it

10:34 Speaker 12: affects you know. So I think it was it was inevitable.

10:36 Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt. Well I'm dying to hear another one.

10:38 Speaker 11: If you want to play.

10:39 Speaker 1: Another live shirt for us, Yeah, if.

10:41 Speaker 11: You're just joining us, will he chases here with us

10:43 Speaker 11: alive in studio and playing some stuff and that guitar sounds.

10:49 Speaker 11: I love the way that guitar sounds.

10:50 Speaker 1: Thanks man, Yeah, it's uh.

10:52 Speaker 12: Since you can't see it, it's a rain song, fully

10:55 Speaker 12: composite guitar. It's fully made of carbon fiber, and really yeah,

10:59 Speaker 12: the whole thing that, the bridge, the body, everything, the

11:03 Speaker 12: whole thing's carbon fiber. And the reason I got it

11:05 Speaker 12: was I've I've got an old tailor that I really

11:07 Speaker 12: really love, which you know, it's not a special instrument

11:10 Speaker 12: by most people's standards, but it is to me. And

11:12 Speaker 12: playing all these gigs, like playing outside a lot, playing

11:14 Speaker 12: around campfires all my friends, was just getting trashed. So

11:18 Speaker 12: you know, I saved up some tip money and got

11:20 Speaker 12: this thing, and it just holds tune really consistently. I

11:22 Speaker 12: don't have to worry as much about it. But it

11:24 Speaker 12: turns out that despite all of that, it's a really

11:27 Speaker 12: fun guitar to play, and it sounds great plugged in.

11:29 Speaker 12: You know, it's a little tinny acoustically if you're gonna

11:31 Speaker 12: make it up, because it's not very it's pretty cold.

11:34 Speaker 12: But right, right, So this next song, I go a

11:38 Speaker 12: bunch of different directions, so forgive me, but this is

11:41 Speaker 12: what I like to call cheap country song. But this

11:44 Speaker 12: this song, it has some country roots, but it's it's

11:47 Speaker 12: it's deeper than that. It's about kind of being in

11:50 Speaker 12: a bad place and this vision I had of of,

11:54 Speaker 12: you know, if I didn't kind of get my act

11:56 Speaker 12: together and you know, have a few less beers and

11:58 Speaker 12: stop feeling sorry for myself. It was kind of a

12:00 Speaker 12: place where I was gonna end up. So it's a

12:02 Speaker 12: little bit about that. But yeah, this song is called

12:06 Speaker 12: I don't know what this song is called. Oh I

12:07 Speaker 12: guess it's called Pushing my Luck something like that. Okay,

12:11 Speaker 12: so it's a country song and g about that.

12:13 Speaker 11: All right? There we go Willie Chase live.

12:31 Speaker 3: Mama's in the kitchen here, he's in New York. Dog's on.

12:36 Speaker 5: Then. I ain't got it too far.

12:38 Speaker 3: I keep on living here, you keep on growing. I'm

12:42 Speaker 3: burying my money out in backyard, down on my luck,

12:47 Speaker 3: strutting my stuff. It's wearving me down. I'm ana sweeter,

12:51 Speaker 3: I'm tough. I ain't done a lot. It's getting hard

12:55 Speaker 3: the baby I make it too far. It's time keeps

13:00 Speaker 3: moving like in the north.

13:01 Speaker 4: And blow in.

13:03 Speaker 5: That's one thing knows right where it's going.

13:06 Speaker 3: I tried and mon on, but I just couldn't stays wrong,

13:12 Speaker 3: So I cracking another bottle.

13:14 Speaker 5: Try to make a quick fuck. Man, I know that

13:18 Speaker 5: I'm pushing my luck.

13:22 Speaker 4: And pushing up.

13:27 Speaker 5: Out here. The bullets third night are running thirty minutes.

13:31 Speaker 8: Colls.

13:32 Speaker 3: She don't think it's funny. She's pissed off from pissed

13:35 Speaker 3: drunk family. In of that, all the things I can handle.

13:40 Speaker 3: So I'll just talk to mister Daniels. Because time keeps

13:45 Speaker 3: moving in the whiskey kings flow in, drump me nose

13:49 Speaker 3: right away, I'm going. I tried and moving on, but I.

13:55 Speaker 4: Just couldn't stays wrong.

13:57 Speaker 3: So I cracking another bottle, try to make a quick fuck.

14:01 Speaker 3: Cause man, I know, and I'm pushing my up. You

14:07 Speaker 3: haven't pushing my love. Yeah, I'm pushing my up. Mama's

14:19 Speaker 3: in the kitchen, he's in the yard, dogs all the

14:23 Speaker 3: bed and man, I'm trying to up. I keep on

14:26 Speaker 3: drinking there, you keep on leaving, burying my soul out

14:31 Speaker 3: in the backyard. Because time keeps moving, like can the

14:38 Speaker 3: north wind blowing.

14:40 Speaker 4: That's one thing.

14:41 Speaker 3: Knows right where it's going. I tried and moving on,

14:46 Speaker 3: I just couldn't stay strong. So I cracking up the bottle,

14:51 Speaker 3: try to make a quick. Fuck man, I know what,

14:55 Speaker 3: I'm pushing my up.

14:59 Speaker 4: I am pushing my yeah, I'm pushing that.

15:14 Speaker 11: That is really good.

15:16 Speaker 1: Hey, thanks man, really good.

15:17 Speaker 11: Willie Chase us here with us live in studio and

15:20 Speaker 11: uh yeah, that's fantastic. I love her.

15:22 Speaker 1: Voice, appreciate it.

15:25 Speaker 11: Is there anyone who influences you vocally? Is there anyone

15:27 Speaker 11: you try to kind of sound like?

15:31 Speaker 12: It's probably an amalgamation of like twenty five people. Yeah, yeah,

15:34 Speaker 12: there'd be some easy ones to name, But honestly, recently,

15:37 Speaker 12: I've just been trying to sound like me. I think

15:40 Speaker 12: in the past I've tried to sound country singing country

15:43 Speaker 12: because of like the way I listen to music. I like,

15:46 Speaker 12: if I love a song, I'll just try to play

15:48 Speaker 12: it sound just like it, you know what I mean, Yeah,

15:51 Speaker 12: which gives me great satisfaction to be able to be like, yeah,

15:53 Speaker 12: I can play that song right. One thing I'm kind

15:56 Speaker 12: of figuring out or thinking more about now that I'm

15:58 Speaker 12: writing my own stuff is just, you know, how to

16:00 Speaker 12: I sound like me? How do I convey even if

16:02 Speaker 12: it's that feeling? But but you know, be unique? So

16:05 Speaker 12: but but yeah, vocally, I mean, you know, I'm sure

16:09 Speaker 12: a lot of people would say this is an influence.

16:11 Speaker 12: But Chris Stapleton, I think has an amazing voice. You know,

16:14 Speaker 12: he's he's great. I'm a little below that, so you know,

16:18 Speaker 12: I would I would say another vocal influence, even though

16:20 Speaker 12: I don't think he's a great vocalist.

16:22 Speaker 1: I don't like being negative.

16:23 Speaker 12: But but David Gilmore, Yeah, you know, I think the

16:27 Speaker 12: way that he sang was just really soulful and honest.

16:30 Speaker 11: I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, he's not a

16:32 Speaker 11: great like from a technical stand right, He's there's nothing

16:35 Speaker 11: great about him at all. But yeah, but you're right though,

16:38 Speaker 11: for what he's doing, for what Pink Floyd is supposed

16:40 Speaker 11: to sound like.

16:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know. And I was fortunate when I

16:43 Speaker 1: was younger, I had some good coaches. I had.

16:46 Speaker 12: One of our theater directors was a Boston Pops pianist,

16:50 Speaker 12: great woman, Jill Wriggles, God Rest your soul and she.

16:54 Speaker 1: You know, that was a lot of like theater based stuff.

16:56 Speaker 12: So yeah, I think from early on I had a

16:58 Speaker 12: good foundation of like brief and you know, despite the

17:02 Speaker 12: fact that I'm sitting back in my chair, like sitting

17:04 Speaker 12: on that sit on the front of your chair like

17:05 Speaker 12: put vocal support, you know, single and then also YouTube great,

17:10 Speaker 12: there's great like vocal instructors on YouTube that can give

17:12 Speaker 12: you tips on warming up and all this stuff. So yeah,

17:16 Speaker 12: I don't know if that answered your question, but oh definitely.

17:19 Speaker 11: I don't know if you notice I kind of reacted

17:21 Speaker 11: when he said Chris Stapleton, because if I were to

17:24 Speaker 11: choose all the singer songwriters we've had on the show

17:28 Speaker 11: over the years, if I were to choose the number

17:30 Speaker 11: one name that comes up in conversation as far as influence,

17:34 Speaker 11: it's Chris Staple. Yeah, everybody.

17:36 Speaker 1: He's a monster.

17:37 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean just you know, in the years he

17:40 Speaker 12: spent writing before he was, you know, pop famous. I

17:44 Speaker 12: especially like his stuff he did with the steel Drivers.

17:48 Speaker 11: I've never I've never heard any of that Steel Drivers.

17:51 Speaker 12: Yeah, they're they're a bluegrass group, and he was he

17:53 Speaker 12: was there frontman and guitarist.

17:56 Speaker 11: I didn't even know that. Huh.

17:57 Speaker 1: Yeah.

17:57 Speaker 12: Check it out, man. They've got a bunch of great tunes.

17:59 Speaker 12: Blue Side of the Mountain, Angel of the Night, that's one. Sorry,

18:03 Speaker 12: do you don't mind if I play a few minutes?

18:09 Speaker 5: No, go ahead, I love it.

18:12 Speaker 1: This is the steel Driver's Angel of the Night.

18:14 Speaker 3: Well, the music is playing in you have the Whiskey Saloon.

18:22 Speaker 3: It comes through my window. I like my favorite tune.

18:31 Speaker 3: I can walk down the stairway, I can walk down

18:36 Speaker 3: the street, laid down my money.

18:43 Speaker 13: Well it's not God, I mean, let me fly on

18:48 Speaker 13: your wings rather these earthly things they did all be

18:57 Speaker 13: alright Angel of the Night.

19:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's Chris Stapleton and the Steel Drivers.

19:07 Speaker 11: I've heard that song. I had no idea who it was,

19:09 Speaker 11: but I recognize that song.

19:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, great tune.

19:11 Speaker 11: Well, yeah, no, that's that's really good. That's really good.

19:14 Speaker 11: You do a lot of when you play live. Do

19:15 Speaker 11: you do a lot of covers or yeah?

19:18 Speaker 12: Mostly covers. Yeah, I've got almost an hour of original

19:20 Speaker 12: music that can do. I'll stretch it and do a

19:22 Speaker 12: little storytelling. Yeah yeah, but but yeah, mostly covers. I mean,

19:26 Speaker 12: you know, for the for the gigs that I'm doing

19:28 Speaker 12: right now, you know, the main point is entertaining everybody

19:31 Speaker 12: at the bar and stuff, and you know, oftentimes people

19:34 Speaker 12: respond well to my music, which is you know, just

19:37 Speaker 12: great and validating, and but you know, people want to

19:39 Speaker 12: hear what they want to hear, right when they're having

19:42 Speaker 12: a beer, which is which I totally understand, and I

19:44 Speaker 12: think I kind of love that. You know, I look

19:45 Speaker 12: at those gigs as a challenge. You know, how do

19:49 Speaker 12: you get people's interest, how do you get foot feet tapping?

19:52 Speaker 12: You know, how do you get people turning around and going, WHOA,

19:54 Speaker 12: who's this guy?

19:54 Speaker 1: Right? Or whatever?

19:55 Speaker 12: And that's a challenge to me. And I mean, you

19:57 Speaker 12: know that's that's how you make tips. Any performer will

19:59 Speaker 12: tell you. But yeah, financially it's a good strategy. But

20:03 Speaker 12: but that's you know, from the beginning, that's always been

20:05 Speaker 12: the fun part. It's like, how do you get people

20:07 Speaker 12: to notice you? Because that means they're enjoying it, right,

20:10 Speaker 12: They're having a cool experience, they're listening to the music.

20:13 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. How did you get involved with

20:17 Speaker 11: the with John MacArthur and the Collective because that's again

20:21 Speaker 11: such a great organization. And we had John on the show,

20:24 Speaker 11: and you know, we've had a lot of musicians on

20:25 Speaker 11: the show who who work with them. And John, by

20:29 Speaker 11: the way, is he's very very busy. Like when he

20:32 Speaker 11: told us we were talking about the events, how many

20:35 Speaker 11: events they do, and he told us the number that

20:38 Speaker 11: he personally is at running. It's like, dude, you don't sleep.

20:42 Speaker 11: It's staggering, which I which I admire. You know, But

20:46 Speaker 11: but but how did how did you get involved?

20:48 Speaker 1: Yeah?

20:49 Speaker 12: So I I met John He I mean now hosts,

20:52 Speaker 12: but he goes to open mics around and kind of

20:54 Speaker 12: you know, looks for talent a little bit, I think,

20:56 Speaker 12: but uh, yeah, I met him at Patrick's Pub, Guildford.

21:01 Speaker 12: We kind of hit it off and exchanged information. And

21:04 Speaker 12: you know, at that point, I didn't have three hours

21:06 Speaker 12: of consistent songs that I could play that were all

21:08 Speaker 12: polished and yeah and done. You know, so it took

21:11 Speaker 12: me a little while, but I played a bunch of

21:12 Speaker 12: voting mics and and got my act together, and you know,

21:16 Speaker 12: John and I kind of became friends. He would, uh,

21:18 Speaker 12: he would give me a call. We live pretty close

21:20 Speaker 12: to each other up there in the Lakes region, so

21:22 Speaker 12: he'd give me a call.

21:22 Speaker 1: We'd go out and see somebody.

21:24 Speaker 12: You know, I'm I'm not afraid to share my opinion

21:26 Speaker 12: about other people, I guess in a friendship situation, which

21:29 Speaker 12: is but you know, I've been around a lot of

21:31 Speaker 12: music in my life and been around really good musicians

21:34 Speaker 12: and and you know, regardless of whatever, whatever I play,

21:36 Speaker 12: I think I have a pretty good idea of you know,

21:39 Speaker 12: who's doing what or who's who's been practicing.

21:42 Speaker 1: That's really all that comes down, right.

21:44 Speaker 12: But yeah, so we would go off for fun and

21:47 Speaker 12: and you know, he would kind of ask my opinion

21:48 Speaker 12: about people. And you know, I'm not trying to say

21:51 Speaker 12: that I'm judging jury but or anything, but we just

21:53 Speaker 12: kind of enjoyed it. You know, we enjoyed each other's

21:55 Speaker 12: presence and hanging out and talking about music and and

21:58 Speaker 12: and John's just such a great guy.

22:01 Speaker 1: You know, he's you.

22:02 Speaker 12: Know, in an in an industry that and I haven't

22:04 Speaker 12: experienced this really, but in an industry there's a reportedly

22:07 Speaker 12: very cutthroat people will say about music and arts and

22:09 Speaker 12: you know, getting gigs and stuff. John is just somebody

22:12 Speaker 12: who genuinely cares about everybody he works with. He genuinely

22:15 Speaker 12: wants everybody to succeed. And he'll give you an opportunity

22:18 Speaker 12: if you're working hard, no matter you know who we are,

22:22 Speaker 12: what you look like, what you're doing, what kind of

22:25 Speaker 12: music you're playing. He's just able to recognize people who

22:27 Speaker 12: are there for the right reasons and are working hard.

22:30 Speaker 12: So I really respect that about John and his partner Brad,

22:34 Speaker 12: who's the other half of the New Hampshire Music Collective,

22:36 Speaker 12: who's an unbelievable guitarist. I'll have to recommend you his

22:41 Speaker 12: him for the show too. But yeah, but but yeah,

22:44 Speaker 12: just John. You know, John's awesome, so from there, you know,

22:46 Speaker 12: he was he was gracious enough to give me some

22:48 Speaker 12: gigs and you know, and I can crush the bar

22:51 Speaker 12: gain pretty well. I have a lot of nineties tunes

22:54 Speaker 12: and I just I know, so like I just listened

22:56 Speaker 12: to so many different types of music that I have

22:59 Speaker 12: this kind of weird catalog. But it works great for

23:01 Speaker 12: that situation, right because you never know who's going to

23:03 Speaker 12: be in there.

23:04 Speaker 11: Yeah.

23:05 Speaker 12: Certain, you know, you think a lot of country, but

23:07 Speaker 12: then like you play something yeah anyway, you know you

23:09 Speaker 12: know what I'm saying. Oh yeah, yeah, So I've done

23:11 Speaker 12: pretty well with the bar gigs and we have a

23:14 Speaker 12: great thing going.

23:14 Speaker 1: You know. I love working with those guys. It, yeah,

23:16 Speaker 1: helps me. It's a great side hustle.

23:18 Speaker 12: I do still have a day job unfortunately, but but yeah, no,

23:22 Speaker 12: it's awesome all around.

23:23 Speaker 11: It's so important to find people who are who are

23:26 Speaker 11: positive and honest, and you know, there are a lot

23:28 Speaker 11: of sharks, you know, so to be able to connect

23:31 Speaker 11: with somebody like John and the NH Music Collective, it's

23:34 Speaker 11: so important. When we had Rebecca Turmel on the show

23:39 Speaker 11: and we were talking about that too, because it's I

23:42 Speaker 11: do feel like there, you know. I mean, there's there's

23:44 Speaker 11: some people you want to avoid, but I think generally,

23:46 Speaker 11: I think the music scene, at least around here, is

23:50 Speaker 11: people are pretty supportive of each other and want to

23:52 Speaker 11: work together and uplift each other. I always contrast it

23:55 Speaker 11: with I've listened to some podcasts over the years of

23:59 Speaker 11: stand up comics, and that my impression of that world

24:03 Speaker 11: of stand up comedy. I mean, it's all part of

24:05 Speaker 11: live entertainment, but stand up comedy, as far as I

24:08 Speaker 11: can tell, is very cutthroat, like everyone secretly hates each other,

24:11 Speaker 11: everyone secretly wants to see each other fail, you know

24:13 Speaker 11: what I mean. That's just the impression that I get,

24:16 Speaker 11: the vibe that I get from it. Whereas I think, yeah,

24:20 Speaker 11: there's there's always people you want to be careful of,

24:22 Speaker 11: but I think generally people are pretty supportive in the

24:24 Speaker 11: music scene and yeah cool, you know, and and why

24:27 Speaker 11: not be you know it doesn't, right, None of it's

24:30 Speaker 11: a zero sum game. You know, life is not a

24:33 Speaker 11: zero s game. Just because somebody else is being successful,

24:35 Speaker 11: that doesn't take something away from you. If anything, it

24:39 Speaker 11: should inspire you to maybe be able to do what

24:42 Speaker 11: they're doing, you know.

24:43 Speaker 12: So absolutely, that's a great perspective. And that's been my

24:45 Speaker 12: experience or in the music scene around here. And I'm

24:48 Speaker 12: sure you've seen way more than I've been exposed to.

24:50 Speaker 12: But yeah, so it's it's great. I think we got

24:51 Speaker 12: a great thing going on.

24:52 Speaker 1: Here, you know what I mean?

24:53 Speaker 11: Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely fun. You want to play another one?

24:57 Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah, yeah, definitely if.

25:00 Speaker 11: You're just joining us. We have Willie Chase with us

25:02 Speaker 11: live in studio. Oh, let me get that on.

25:06 Speaker 1: I make sure those things in tune too.

25:07 Speaker 12: It's cold outside, it is, Yeah.

25:13 Speaker 11: I think it's the coldest morning we've had this season

25:15 Speaker 11: so far.

25:16 Speaker 1: I believe it. Yeah, there's plenty of ice on my truck.

25:19 Speaker 12: Yeah, after sixty in raining what three days ago? I know, right,

25:25 Speaker 12: that's this song. I've been playing this song out a

25:27 Speaker 12: little bit. This is another song I wrote after coming

25:31 Speaker 12: out of a hard place. This is kind of about

25:33 Speaker 12: just being who you are and getting back to yourself

25:35 Speaker 12: and away from other toxic people.

25:38 Speaker 1: But yeah, this is called back to me.

26:33 Speaker 4: Fell into the ghosted you heartlem sleep, a fellow part

26:45 Speaker 4: in front of you. I guiding your dreams.

26:59 Speaker 3: God never ever gonna come back to you.

27:05 Speaker 7: Oh no, no, baby, please forgive.

27:12 Speaker 5: Me, but I'm coming back to me.

27:19 Speaker 3: I'm coming back to me, watching through the window page

27:29 Speaker 3: and trying to sleep, wondering if the rain could wash

27:40 Speaker 3: you from my sheets. Oh time, never ever gonna come

27:57 Speaker 3: back to you.

27:59 Speaker 7: Oh no, no, baby, please forgive me, but I'm coming

28:08 Speaker 7: back to.

28:09 Speaker 5: Me, back to me. I'm coming back to me.

28:37 Speaker 11: Very nice, very nice. Willie Chase is here with us

28:41 Speaker 11: live in studio, sounding great. And yeah, I think that's

28:45 Speaker 11: a universal theme, you know. I think we've all had that, that.

28:48 Speaker 12: Moment depitely and if you haven't, well you know it's coming.

28:53 Speaker 1: That's right, That's right.

28:55 Speaker 12: Yeah, man, that that was that came from a dark place,

28:58 Speaker 12: for sure. But there's always light at the end of

29:01 Speaker 12: the tunnel, I guess.

29:02 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well it could be an oncoming train.

29:05 Speaker 11: You never know.

29:07 Speaker 1: Sometimes it is, sometimes it is.

29:09 Speaker 11: No, No, I really like that a lot. Are you

29:12 Speaker 11: playing out a lot? Are you doing a lot of shows.

29:14 Speaker 11: It sounds like you are.

29:15 Speaker 1: I am.

29:15 Speaker 12: Yeah, probably coming up on sixty or seventy book.

29:19 Speaker 1: For next year already. Wow, And yeah, pretty much every weekend.

29:23 Speaker 11: Good.

29:24 Speaker 12: Been a little bit of a light stretch right now.

29:26 Speaker 12: I really just this past like August, I really kind

29:30 Speaker 12: of had a revelatory moment where I decided I was

29:32 Speaker 12: just gonna say no to nothing and say yes to

29:36 Speaker 12: everything and just kind of give everything I had, you know, yeah,

29:40 Speaker 12: because yeah, this is what I want to do for

29:43 Speaker 12: the rest of my life. Yeah, and I'm planning on

29:45 Speaker 12: it so good through a set of experiences that I

29:47 Speaker 12: don't have to go into, you know, that song came

29:50 Speaker 12: out of and the dedication and so yeah, I've I've

29:53 Speaker 12: been playing pretty much every weekend.

29:55 Speaker 1: We've had a couple of really cool shows. Recently.

29:57 Speaker 12: We had a singer songwriter competition up there in Guilford

30:01 Speaker 12: and then John put together John MacArthur put together a

30:05 Speaker 12: show at the BNH Stage and Conquered where all the

30:07 Speaker 12: finalists from that competition came and played and played with them.

30:10 Speaker 12: We did a couple numbers together and it was really fun.

30:13 Speaker 12: I mean, just what a group of talented people.

30:16 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, excellent do you always play? Is it always

30:20 Speaker 11: just you or does anyone ever join you?

30:22 Speaker 12: Yeah, I've got a couple of different settings. I mean,

30:24 Speaker 12: most of the stuff I book is solo. But there's

30:27 Speaker 12: a shop in Laconia called NH Vintage Vinyl. This guy,

30:31 Speaker 12: Dan McLaughlin owns it, Dan Mack He's a friend of mine.

30:33 Speaker 12: He plays bass, so he comes out. We do a

30:35 Speaker 12: really cool duo. We do like a bunch of grunge

30:38 Speaker 12: oh stuff, so to have like you know, it's still

30:41 Speaker 12: kind of acoustic. But then there's a couple of different

30:44 Speaker 12: groups I've played with in more of a band setting,

30:46 Speaker 12: but nothing, nothing super firm. I'm definitely looking to collaborate

30:50 Speaker 12: more with other people and you know, getting into more

30:52 Speaker 12: of a production role and self producing a lot of

30:55 Speaker 12: stuff just for you know, demos and yeah, and not

30:57 Speaker 12: in preparation of going into the studio. And that's all

31:00 Speaker 12: always been a h A fun thing for me. Is

31:02 Speaker 12: you know, I took a few recording engineering courses in

31:06 Speaker 12: community college before I kind of went went to school,

31:08 Speaker 12: and and so knowing how to use pro tools what

31:12 Speaker 12: I interface does, and you know, spend a little money

31:14 Speaker 12: on plugins, so I do a little bit of that,

31:17 Speaker 12: and I'm looking at you because I just playing with

31:19 Speaker 12: other people is is magical. Yeah, you know, I think

31:21 Speaker 12: that's one thing that's a little bit I don't want

31:23 Speaker 12: to say it's lost, but you know, not as common

31:25 Speaker 12: these days. You know, fifty years ago, you didn't have

31:27 Speaker 12: any any choice. If you wanted to play with somebody else,

31:29 Speaker 12: you had to go in and link up with them

31:31 Speaker 12: and say, hey, let's sit down and play some music.

31:33 Speaker 12: And now there's everything's in the internet, and it's obviously

31:36 Speaker 12: it's you know, there's so many bonuses from that. But yeah,

31:39 Speaker 12: it's been it's been kind of tough, honestly to get

31:42 Speaker 12: people to, uh, to want to collaborate. I mean, I

31:45 Speaker 12: don't know if it's a function of just the location

31:46 Speaker 12: I'm in or my you know, lack of outreach, I

31:49 Speaker 12: don't know, but but it's something I'm craving. Yeah, if

31:52 Speaker 12: you're listening to this and you want to collaborate, you

31:54 Speaker 12: want to play some music up.

31:55 Speaker 11: Have you ever played in a full band?

31:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.

31:59 Speaker 12: We had with Dan Mack and then we had another

32:02 Speaker 12: drummer and his name was Dan Hewitt. We played a

32:04 Speaker 12: couple of shows like My Buddy's birthday.

32:06 Speaker 1: Party and stuff. But we put together like two hours

32:08 Speaker 1: having a killer. Yeah.

32:09 Speaker 12: We did this cover of Comfortably Numb, and I don't know,

32:13 Speaker 12: I think we all shocked ourselves.

32:15 Speaker 1: I thought it sounded great. Yeah.

32:17 Speaker 12: And then I have another friend, another friend, Dan Fallon.

32:19 Speaker 12: I don't know if you've come across him.

32:20 Speaker 11: Dan's been on the show.

32:22 Speaker 1: Yep.

32:22 Speaker 12: Dan's another buddy, and I've played a little bit with them.

32:24 Speaker 12: We played the reck Yard up in uh up at

32:28 Speaker 12: you know, Tower Hill, Weir's Beach.

32:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of times. It was fun. Did a

32:33 Speaker 1: couple other things, but.

32:35 Speaker 12: Yeah, I haven't I haven't really been like a you know,

32:37 Speaker 12: a standard with with anybody, but you know, hoping to

32:40 Speaker 12: find people and collaborate. I'm I just kind of take

32:42 Speaker 12: it as it comes, you know what I mean, because

32:44 Speaker 12: that's sometimes you can rush into situations and it's not

32:46 Speaker 12: where you want to be or you And conversely, you

32:49 Speaker 12: could just sit in your apartment play guitar all day

32:51 Speaker 12: and never talk.

32:52 Speaker 1: Sometimes, I find my son, that's all the balance, right.

32:55 Speaker 11: Do you as far as shows and you got out

32:58 Speaker 11: of New England at all, have you done that yet

33:00 Speaker 11: or not?

33:00 Speaker 1: Really?

33:01 Speaker 11: Yeah?

33:01 Speaker 14: No?

33:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's not.

33:03 Speaker 11: It's not as though there aren't a million places to

33:05 Speaker 11: play here, because there definitely are.

33:06 Speaker 1: True.

33:06 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I haven't really. I spent the last four

33:10 Speaker 12: winters out in Park City, Utah. Really yeah, why working

33:14 Speaker 12: at a ski resort out there?

33:15 Speaker 5: Okay.

33:16 Speaker 12: Yeah, I've been a SnowCat operator for like twelve years,

33:19 Speaker 12: building train parks and grimming and stuff, so I it's

33:22 Speaker 12: kind of the other side of my life.

33:23 Speaker 4: Yeah.

33:24 Speaker 12: So I've been out there and and did like one

33:27 Speaker 12: or two open mics and and kind of you know stuff,

33:29 Speaker 12: but nothing significant outside of New England.

33:31 Speaker 1: Now.

33:31 Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm getting ready though, you know, I'm geared enough

33:34 Speaker 12: for the big launch. But once I get some you know,

33:36 Speaker 12: once I get like a solid record out that I'm

33:38 Speaker 12: happy with, you know, and then can release and like capitalize.

33:42 Speaker 12: But I'm I'm yeah, I just I'm cool, kind of

33:44 Speaker 12: cool with where I'm at now because I feel like

33:46 Speaker 12: I'm just racking up all these hours, right, all these

33:48 Speaker 12: gigs and just like, yeah, I want to blow the

33:51 Speaker 12: doors off when I go somewhere, you know what I mean.

33:53 Speaker 1: Right, Anyway, it's it's all, it's all just fun.

33:56 Speaker 11: But yeah, but yeah, excellent excellent is so is the

34:00 Speaker 11: goal to make an album, because you know, we live

34:02 Speaker 11: in a time when you you know, people approach it

34:04 Speaker 11: all kinds of different ways. You can make an album.

34:06 Speaker 11: You could make an EP, you could make a series

34:09 Speaker 11: of singles that eventually becomes an album. You know is

34:11 Speaker 11: but are you is that kind of your goal is

34:14 Speaker 11: to make a full album creatively?

34:16 Speaker 12: Yeah, I think just the way that I've listened to

34:18 Speaker 12: music always and the way that I think about music,

34:21 Speaker 12: I think, like a song is too short for me

34:23 Speaker 12: to convey what like a message, Yeah, you know what

34:25 Speaker 12: I mean, And I understand the way the industry is,

34:27 Speaker 12: so I'd probably release some singles, yeah, you know, once

34:30 Speaker 12: I can get things recorded properly and whatnot, which is

34:33 Speaker 12: mostly just you know, financial Oh but but yeah, I

34:39 Speaker 12: think like my favorite albums are the ones who you

34:43 Speaker 12: just you know, front to back, right, you just put

34:45 Speaker 12: put the needle down and go through it, and it

34:47 Speaker 12: tells a story or it conveys a feeling, or even

34:50 Speaker 12: if it's just totally your interpretation of it, it all fits together.

34:53 Speaker 12: I think that's really beautiful. It's like a book, right yeah, yeah,

34:56 Speaker 12: people released the chapter of a book.

34:57 Speaker 1: I mean maybe, but.

34:58 Speaker 11: That's a perfect and now. Yeah, yeah, so.

35:02 Speaker 12: But you know, I you know, there's obviously other real

35:05 Speaker 12: world limitations like resources and time, yea, you know, and

35:08 Speaker 12: I understand, you know, singles are the big thing now.

35:11 Speaker 12: I think you really want to push singles and yeah,

35:14 Speaker 12: the way music is released and distributed, but I'm I'm

35:16 Speaker 12: a long way away from that, you know what I mean.

35:19 Speaker 12: I'm sure I'd love to be in a place one

35:22 Speaker 12: day where that all that really, you know, matters, and

35:24 Speaker 12: a lot of people are listening to the music. But man,

35:26 Speaker 12: I gave up on I'm fantasizing too much a long

35:29 Speaker 12: time ago, you know.

35:29 Speaker 4: What I mean.

35:30 Speaker 12: That's part of what I said earlier about being in

35:32 Speaker 12: the position I'm in now. You know, I do just

35:33 Speaker 12: for myself, and I realized that as some of those

35:35 Speaker 12: first open mics. It's actually just a quick story that

35:39 Speaker 12: I won that songwriter competition three years ago and it

35:42 Speaker 12: took me. There's eight qualifying weeks and I played all

35:45 Speaker 12: of them and I didn't qualify until the very last

35:47 Speaker 12: week and went to the finals and then I was

35:49 Speaker 12: I won the competition, but the process it was all

35:53 Speaker 12: new to me. I'd never performed like solo acoustic like that,

35:55 Speaker 12: and I hadn't performed any type of music in twelve years,

35:59 Speaker 12: no kidding.

36:00 Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, I'm gonna come in

36:01 Speaker 1: here and everybody's gonna love me songs and I'm gonna

36:05 Speaker 1: be great. I'm gonna be famous in two weeks, right,

36:07 Speaker 1: you know jokingly of course. Yeah, But that taught me.

36:12 Speaker 12: You know, I've realized through those eight weeks, I was like, man,

36:16 Speaker 12: you know, because it was all about the competition.

36:17 Speaker 1: It was new, it was fresh. This was like everything

36:19 Speaker 1: to me.

36:19 Speaker 12: Yeah, and I just realized that if they weren't gonna

36:23 Speaker 12: let me through the finals, I didn't care because I

36:25 Speaker 12: just it was the only place I could go and

36:26 Speaker 12: play music in front of people at that point in time.

36:29 Speaker 12: It was the only opportunity I had. And I just

36:30 Speaker 12: kept signing up for slots because I was like, I

36:32 Speaker 12: just I love this feeling. I love being up here.

36:34 Speaker 12: This is really cool.

36:35 Speaker 11: Well it isn't that a relief too, to let go

36:37 Speaker 11: of the caring about it part?

36:39 Speaker 1: Massive?

36:39 Speaker 11: Yeah?

36:39 Speaker 12: Yeah, massive, weight off your shoulders, right, yeah, exactly, because

36:42 Speaker 12: so much of it is based on luck and connections

36:45 Speaker 12: and stuff like you can't you know. It was a

36:47 Speaker 12: great Quincy Jones quote. God rest his soul that I

36:49 Speaker 12: always think of. It's like when you start talking about money,

36:52 Speaker 12: God walks out of the room.

36:54 Speaker 11: And I've never heard that, but that is a great quote.

36:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just it's so true.

36:58 Speaker 12: Man, if you're here for all the those other things,

37:00 Speaker 12: Like it's with anything in life, right, you know, do

37:03 Speaker 12: what you love, work really hard at it, and all

37:05 Speaker 12: the things that you want, all the material things will

37:07 Speaker 12: come usually in excess, if you know, if you're really

37:10 Speaker 12: devoting yourself to something right, and and that just you know,

37:14 Speaker 12: it has a whole set of problems with it. And

37:15 Speaker 12: you know, listen, I live in the real world. I

37:17 Speaker 12: got credit card dead right, I got.

37:19 Speaker 1: Wet, I'll make money. But but man, I just do

37:21 Speaker 1: this because I love it.

37:22 Speaker 12: I never get sick of picking up a guitar and

37:24 Speaker 12: playing music or talking about music. Like being here with

37:27 Speaker 12: you right now is awesome just because we get to

37:28 Speaker 12: spend time talking about music and thinking about it.

37:31 Speaker 1: And yeah, so I'm.

37:32 Speaker 12: Just grateful for where I'm at and I'm going off

37:34 Speaker 12: on a tangent like I normally do.

37:36 Speaker 1: But you know, but yeah, that's.

37:37 Speaker 11: All right, it's kind of what we do here.

37:40 Speaker 1: Well, do you want to play another one.

37:42 Speaker 12: Sure, Yeah, I'll play a fun song that I wrote

37:45 Speaker 12: for that competition. Cool that my my friends and folk

37:49 Speaker 12: friends love this song.

37:51 Speaker 1: Uh.

37:51 Speaker 12: The song is called Misery and Tequila. Uh, and it

37:54 Speaker 12: is in fact about a bottle of tequila.

37:56 Speaker 11: Excellent, hope.

38:02 Speaker 1: How we signed.

38:03 Speaker 15: Willie Chase Slive in studio. There's a battle, lad you

38:21 Speaker 15: wan it staring me in the face that Blanco's got

38:28 Speaker 15: this haunchokedyed on Lock of the Lakes.

38:33 Speaker 3: I ain't got no girl to leave me if I

38:37 Speaker 3: did it, will she be through?

38:40 Speaker 1: Here's a.

38:42 Speaker 4: Key?

38:43 Speaker 5: I love you.

38:48 Speaker 3: One another, Shine on the front porch knocking?

38:51 Speaker 5: Maybe three more? Who have you knocking on my door?

38:56 Speaker 4: Poor little?

38:56 Speaker 16: More?

39:01 Speaker 4: Misery and k I love you.

39:12 Speaker 3: Listen on some's gude mean thinking about old day Jadin,

39:18 Speaker 3: when it's starting to taste like water. I get the

39:22 Speaker 3: feeling and I should call her and lifting when I

39:29 Speaker 3: she'll tell me that we're through misery, Kee, I love you.

39:40 Speaker 3: The parting of the shot on the front porch knocking

39:44 Speaker 3: baby three board, will have you knocking on my door?

39:48 Speaker 5: Poor little moment?

39:54 Speaker 3: Misery and kr Misery and misery tends to kill you, but.

40:10 Speaker 11: You I love it. I love it. Will he Chase

40:22 Speaker 11: here with us alive in studio today and uh sounding fantastic.

40:27 Speaker 11: Uh what do you have coming up?

40:30 Speaker 5: Are you?

40:30 Speaker 11: Are you playing anywhere this weekend? You got any for

40:32 Speaker 11: our live listeners, anything to plug?

40:35 Speaker 12: Not this weekend, but coming up. Yeah, I got a

40:37 Speaker 12: bunch of stuff. You can always go to my website

40:39 Speaker 12: Willichase music dot com. Uh, there's a schedule tab on

40:43 Speaker 12: there with all my upcoming shows. But yeah, I'm playing

40:46 Speaker 12: just about every weekend around the Lakes region. I'm gonna

40:48 Speaker 12: be at the Waterview Pub this coming Wednesday. I can't

40:52 Speaker 12: remember exactly where that is. That's a new one for me.

40:55 Speaker 12: And then I'm usually at Twin Barnes and Meredith all

40:57 Speaker 12: the time, about once a month or so. I've got

41:01 Speaker 12: shows coming up at the four oh five in Laconia.

41:05 Speaker 12: I've got shows coming up at Foster's Tavern in Alton Bay,

41:08 Speaker 12: so you know kind of that circuit up there. I

41:10 Speaker 12: will be in Manchester at certain points in January and

41:14 Speaker 12: February playing in the Backyard Brewery and the Anheuser Busch

41:19 Speaker 12: Beer Garden. I've done that those a couple of times.

41:21 Speaker 12: I've got a couple more dates booked there. I'm going

41:23 Speaker 12: to be playing at Defiant Records and Laconia. So yeah,

41:26 Speaker 12: if you go to my website Willichasemusic dot com, w

41:28 Speaker 12: I L L Y, or Google me, social media, Instagram

41:33 Speaker 12: and Facebook at Willy Chase Music, you can always find

41:36 Speaker 12: I'm posting about the shows and stuff.

41:37 Speaker 11: So, do you have a favorite place to play or

41:41 Speaker 11: a couple that are just really really that you just

41:44 Speaker 11: love playing it?

41:45 Speaker 1: That's tough.

41:46 Speaker 12: They're all fun, but I would have to say, you know,

41:50 Speaker 12: Foster's Tavern is always a super fun time. Yeah, it's

41:53 Speaker 12: always full of people and everybody's always usually singing along

41:56 Speaker 12: by the end.

41:57 Speaker 1: Oh that's what it really gets people singing along these

41:58 Speaker 1: days is playing Creed.

42:01 Speaker 11: Well. I keep seeing that meme.

42:03 Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, man, I've never had more people sing along

42:07 Speaker 12: to a song and playing Take Me Higher by Creative

42:09 Speaker 12: Get the Whole Place Rocket.

42:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so much fun.

42:12 Speaker 12: Yeah, it's so funny some of those It's so interesting

42:16 Speaker 12: the arc of some of those artists. Yeah, you know,

42:18 Speaker 12: like very popular and then basically geting dragged on social

42:21 Speaker 12: media for ten years, but everybody loves him.

42:24 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, that's happened to a lot of those lymp

42:28 Speaker 11: Biscuits a great exit. Yeah toolymp Biscuit is huge. Yeah,

42:31 Speaker 11: and they were huge. But even but even when they

42:34 Speaker 11: were huge the first time, a lot of people look

42:36 Speaker 11: down on them and you know what I mean. But

42:38 Speaker 11: now it's like everybody's just kind of like, oh yeah,

42:42 Speaker 11: I guess I likelymp Biscuit.

42:43 Speaker 4: I know.

42:43 Speaker 12: Now Fred Durst comes out with like a silver goatee

42:46 Speaker 12: and yeah, yeah cowboy.

42:48 Speaker 11: Yeah he's really having a good time and yeah yeah.

42:51 Speaker 1: West Portland's a great guitarist too, man, he is.

42:53 Speaker 11: Yeah, in general, yeah, underrated, I think because you know,

42:56 Speaker 11: he gets overlooked because of the band that he plays in, right,

43:00 Speaker 11: but yeah, no, I agree, I agree. Yeah, that's They've

43:03 Speaker 11: been a topic on the show recently because of that

43:05 Speaker 11: big two hundred million dollar lawsuit. UMG, talking about sharks

43:10 Speaker 11: in the industry.

43:11 Speaker 1: No caring but crazy stuff man.

43:15 Speaker 11: Yeah, but yeah, a lot of those a lot of

43:17 Speaker 11: those bands, Yeah, like like Creed and who else? Do

43:19 Speaker 11: you so you play a lot of that stuff right

43:21 Speaker 11: live in your son.

43:23 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah I do.

43:24 Speaker 12: I mean I don't play a ton of like, you know,

43:26 Speaker 12: Unknown Creed. I guess you would say, I know some

43:28 Speaker 12: of the bangers yeah, but I play a lot of

43:31 Speaker 12: like Alison Chain's Stone Temple pilots like that's always been

43:34 Speaker 12: a very I've always been super fond of that. Yeah,

43:38 Speaker 12: you know, kind of era in music. To be honest,

43:40 Speaker 12: it was never like a huge Nirvana fan. Yeah, which

43:43 Speaker 12: might seem weird, but I'm a huge Alison Chains fan.

43:46 Speaker 12: Like Lane Staley, I think was it was one of

43:49 Speaker 12: my favorite vocalists. That actually kind of goes back to

43:52 Speaker 12: that earlier question. I try to sound like him, but yeah, unsuccessfully. Yeah,

43:56 Speaker 12: but I when the screen because he's like he was

43:58 Speaker 12: a bit of a screamer, but not a high register

44:00 Speaker 12: like I can never sing like Chester Bennington or anybody

44:04 Speaker 12: from you know, more metal league groups. I just I

44:07 Speaker 12: don't have that in my range. But like guys like Lane,

44:11 Speaker 12: you know, we're we're kind of in that lower register

44:14 Speaker 12: but still managed to get that like rock high like

44:17 Speaker 12: screaming sound, which I really love, you know. And then

44:21 Speaker 12: of course I'm big fan of like Audio Slave and

44:23 Speaker 12: Chris Cornell, Yeah, Sound Garden and yeah, you know and that,

44:26 Speaker 12: and but Chris Cornell was way up there too, but

44:28 Speaker 12: he was one of my favorite rock writers. I would

44:30 Speaker 12: I would say, yeah, what a legend.

44:34 Speaker 11: I know, I know, absolutely absolutely. You know, it's funny

44:38 Speaker 11: when you mentioned Lane Staley, I had to stop myself

44:40 Speaker 11: because I started to have this thought. You ever started

44:43 Speaker 11: to have a thought and then you're about to say it,

44:44 Speaker 11: and then you realize it's stupid, like all the time,

44:48 Speaker 11: all the time, because I found myself thinking and I

44:51 Speaker 11: almost said, you know, Lane Staley such a unique voice,

44:54 Speaker 11: as nobody who sounds like him? And then of course

44:56 Speaker 11: I remember, no, they found a new singer who sounds

44:59 Speaker 11: exactly like him. But other than other than that guy.

45:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, other than that guy.

45:04 Speaker 11: It is really he he was he did have an

45:06 Speaker 11: unusual voice.

45:07 Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, and very like dark in drab. But then

45:10 Speaker 12: you'd hear it like you'd be listening to jar of

45:12 Speaker 12: Flies and it's like, you know, just do me almost

45:16 Speaker 12: and then there's like this whole major, like beautiful acoustic song.

45:20 Speaker 12: I'm trying to remember the name of the title of

45:21 Speaker 12: the track, but it's like later on in that jar

45:23 Speaker 12: Flies album, Oh just like super pleasant, you know what

45:25 Speaker 12: I mean, Like very major and beautiful, so like the

45:29 Speaker 12: complexity is what really hooks me.

45:31 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, those guys, you know.

45:33 Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt, we have time you want to play

45:35 Speaker 11: one more. Sure, I'd love to hear one more if

45:38 Speaker 11: you're just joining us. Will he chases here with us

45:39 Speaker 11: live in studio and uh that back up there?

45:44 Speaker 12: Yeah, so this last track, well, making sure my guitar

45:47 Speaker 12: is in two and I'll tell you a little bit

45:48 Speaker 12: about it, Okay, this I So I grew up down

45:52 Speaker 12: in Connecticut, which evokes many things. But my mother's family

45:57 Speaker 12: has been there for a very long time. They were

45:59 Speaker 12: dairy farmers for three hundred years, and.

46:04 Speaker 1: I love it there.

46:05 Speaker 12: We have like a little bit of land left, and

46:07 Speaker 12: I have a big family and I love everything about it.

46:10 Speaker 12: But it's there's no farming left, you know, we don't

46:13 Speaker 12: farm anymore. And the last dairy farm in our town

46:15 Speaker 12: just closed a few years ago. So this whole lifestyle

46:18 Speaker 12: of generations and generations my family the way that I mean,

46:21 Speaker 12: nobody left, like you know, it was just always there,

46:25 Speaker 12: and it's just not a place I ever felt home at,

46:28 Speaker 12: you know, outside of our little bubble like Connecticut. Rather,

46:30 Speaker 12: you know, it's just this what used to be really

46:33 Speaker 12: a graririan kind of nice place is just surrounded by

46:36 Speaker 12: all this other stuff that isn't really interesting to me.

46:38 Speaker 12: And I was drawn in the mountains and you know,

46:40 Speaker 12: the North country and everything. So this song is kind

46:43 Speaker 12: of about that feeling of this whole paradigm shift, and

46:47 Speaker 12: you know, like feeling like you know, I have three

46:49 Speaker 12: hundred years of dairy farming in my blood, but it's

46:51 Speaker 12: like just this weird anyway, I'll stop talking about it

46:54 Speaker 12: and play all right.

46:57 Speaker 1: This song is called Thicker than Water.

47:13 Speaker 4: There used to be a cornfield right here.

47:16 Speaker 3: Green Backers cut it heavy in here, and now they're

47:20 Speaker 3: putting up the panels, and the picture on the mantel

47:23 Speaker 3: gets a little smaller every here. Wind house through in

47:34 Speaker 3: old barn window. That's the empty stoves in old hay bells.

47:39 Speaker 3: That's blowing off your old hay hang picking up a

47:43 Speaker 3: memory and flies into.

47:51 Speaker 5: The Mama, love is town.

47:57 Speaker 3: I got a lot of reasons left sticking around, And.

48:04 Speaker 17: That's blood run sticking in water. God Lord, that's making

48:09 Speaker 17: me drown.

48:10 Speaker 5: No, my root scar old me.

48:14 Speaker 16: Down On't me me tell me everything?

48:34 Speaker 5: How older and sure of had no I carry it in.

48:39 Speaker 5: They're always with kicking my battles or keeping my cool.

48:51 Speaker 5: I see the way the.

48:52 Speaker 3: World is going, but I can't take it anymore.

48:57 Speaker 5: But my family. You keep me around it.

49:01 Speaker 4: That's the only thing I know.

49:03 Speaker 14: For sure, Mama, I love this town.

49:15 Speaker 3: I ain't got a lot of reasons left sticky around.

49:22 Speaker 5: Because there's blood run sticky and water of my Lord

49:27 Speaker 5: that's making me drown. No, my roots came and all

49:32 Speaker 5: the down.

49:35 Speaker 10: From my roots can hold me down.

49:52 Speaker 3: And I feel the break faster than ever who befooling good?

49:59 Speaker 4: All the.

50:01 Speaker 5: I'm bringing me home No more my roots can hold

50:20 Speaker 5: me down.

50:24 Speaker 4: And there's a million things that will put me.

50:30 Speaker 17: Because there's blood runs in water my Lord that's made

50:35 Speaker 17: me drown.

50:36 Speaker 10: No, mo roots can down.

50:43 Speaker 5: No, my roots can't hold me down.

50:52 Speaker 4: Hold me.

50:55 Speaker 5: Now.

51:10 Speaker 11: Oh that is so good. That is so good.

51:12 Speaker 1: Thanks man.

51:13 Speaker 11: Willy Chase with us live in studio today. Hey, before

51:16 Speaker 11: we wrap up, I want to remind people if you

51:18 Speaker 11: are listening live on Saturday, today is the Magical Market

51:22 Speaker 11: at the Great North Ale Works from noon to four pm.

51:26 Speaker 11: That's where Jenny is right now, and I will be

51:28 Speaker 11: joining her in a little bit after the show, after

51:31 Speaker 11: I get everything uploaded, so come say hello. Lots of

51:35 Speaker 11: great artisans and local businesses participating in that event. And

51:39 Speaker 11: as I like to remind people, every holiday season. Walmart

51:42 Speaker 11: and Target don't need any more of your money. They

51:45 Speaker 11: will be just fine. But please support your local businesses

51:48 Speaker 11: and we'd love to see you there. So that is

51:50 Speaker 11: a great north Aale works from noon to four pm

51:53 Speaker 11: this afternoon on the fourteenth. If you are listening live

51:58 Speaker 11: Willie Chase, this has been wonderful.

52:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks so much, man, it's been so fun to

52:01 Speaker 1: be here.

52:02 Speaker 11: Absolutely, remind everybody again where to find you online.

52:05 Speaker 12: Absolutely, you can find me on social media, Facebook, Instagram,

52:08 Speaker 12: threads at Willy Chase Music All one word or Willichase

52:12 Speaker 12: Music dot com.

52:13 Speaker 11: W I L Y excellent, you have much luck with threads.

52:17 Speaker 11: I forget it's there.

52:18 Speaker 12: Actually, it's been really great, mainly because there's no ads.

52:22 Speaker 12: Oh best thing ever. Yeah, And one of the first

52:24 Speaker 12: posts I put out I was just talking about like

52:26 Speaker 12: jazz orchestras and got like ten thousand people viewed it

52:29 Speaker 12: and got everybody talking about posting old pictures of jazz

52:31 Speaker 12: clubs in New York. It was like the best social

52:33 Speaker 12: media experience I've had in a long time.

52:34 Speaker 11: No o kidding, So you're having good engagement from.

52:36 Speaker 1: It, Well, no, it was just that one post. It

52:39 Speaker 1: just happened to go.

52:39 Speaker 12: But uh, okay, but yeah, yeah, it's been really cool.

52:43 Speaker 11: Yeah no, that's good. That's good, very good. And when

52:47 Speaker 11: is your next show?

52:48 Speaker 12: I have a show coming up this Wednesday at the

52:50 Speaker 12: Waterview Pub. And yeah, go to my website. Everything's listed

52:54 Speaker 12: right out of the schedule tab. You can see all

52:55 Speaker 12: my shows coming up. I'll be playing all around the

52:58 Speaker 12: Lakes region and south down to Manchester Conquered in the

53:00 Speaker 12: next few months.

53:01 Speaker 11: Outstanding, outstanding, very good. Well, thank you so much, and

53:05 Speaker 11: thank you to all of our guests today. Of course

53:07 Speaker 11: we had Tom Modern in the second hour. In the

53:08 Speaker 11: first hour we had Sean Devlin from the band Devil

53:11 Speaker 11: Inside Us and of course, uh, they're playing tonight at

53:14 Speaker 11: Terminus in Nashua. Big show there. It's the Christmas in Hell,

53:20 Speaker 11: I believe, is the name of the show. But uh,

53:22 Speaker 11: don't don't be put off by the name, because it's

53:24 Speaker 11: actually for a great, great cause. They're raising a ton

53:27 Speaker 11: of money for to buy toys for children who might

53:31 Speaker 11: not otherwise have a Christmas this here, So that's a

53:33 Speaker 11: great event to and Terminus is a great place, so

53:36 Speaker 11: check that out. That out. If you can come to

53:38 Speaker 11: Great north Ale Works, come say Hello to Jenny and

53:40 Speaker 11: I and Willie Chase. Thank you again, and if you

53:43 Speaker 11: miss any part of today's show, it will be up

53:45 Speaker 11: in just a little bit w mnhradio dot org and

53:47 Speaker 11: at my website Matt Connorton dot com, and we will

53:50 Speaker 11: talk at you all a little bit later. Bye, everybody, My.

53:56 Speaker 7: God bless keep you always your wishes all come true.

54:04 Speaker 7: May you always do for others and let others do

54:10 Speaker 7: for you.

54:11 Speaker 5: May you build a letter to the stars, climb on

54:16 Speaker 5: every long. May you stay foreveryon.

54:27 Speaker 7: May you stay foreveryon.

54:40 Speaker 5: May you grow up to be righteous.

54:44 Speaker 7: May you grow up to be true. May you always

54:51 Speaker 7: know the truth. Fancy the lights surrounding you.

54:56 Speaker 5: May you always be courageous, stand upright, be strong.

55:05 Speaker 4: May you stay.

55:08 Speaker 5: Foreveryon.

55:11 Speaker 7: May you stay for everyon.

55:56 Speaker 5: May your hands always be busy. May your feet always

56:02 Speaker 5: be with.

56:05 Speaker 3: May you have a strong foundation when the wind of

56:10 Speaker 3: changes shift.

56:12 Speaker 5: May your heart always be joyful. May your song always

56:17 Speaker 5: be song.

56:22 Speaker 7: May you stay foreveryon. May you stay foreverial.

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