New Age Phonograph | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Oh, that is so good.

0:02 Speaker 2: The song is out in the valley and that is

0:04 Speaker 2: New Age phonograph, and we have them on the line

0:07 Speaker 2: with us. Let's hopefully we can hear them.

0:09 Speaker 1: Hello. Are you there, Hey, Matt, how's it going? Oh awesome?

0:13 Speaker 1: Sounded great?

0:14 Speaker 2: Yes, welcome to the program, of course. So we have

0:18 Speaker 2: Matthew and Randy. How are you both doing today?

0:22 Speaker 3: Doing all right? Can't complain good? Good? No?

0:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm excited to talk to you. I love

0:27 Speaker 2: your sound. That is just so so good. I love

0:32 Speaker 2: not only not only you're playing on that, but the

0:34 Speaker 2: production is great. We're gonna play another song, of course,

0:37 Speaker 2: at the end of our conversation.

0:39 Speaker 1: But so I'm bummed we.

0:40 Speaker 2: Don't get to meet you in person because I know

0:42 Speaker 2: originally you were on a tour and you had some trouble.

0:44 Speaker 2: How are things going now?

0:47 Speaker 4: Oh, well, the van's in the shop right now, so

0:50 Speaker 4: we're hoping to hear some good news back here in

0:53 Speaker 4: the next week or so.

0:54 Speaker 5: Yeah.

0:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's stressful. So what were you you

0:57 Speaker 1: were out on You're out on tour and the van

0:59 Speaker 1: brook down? Is that what happened?

1:02 Speaker 4: Yeah, we were actually in New Mexico and Arizona area

1:08 Speaker 4: when we started having a little trouble with it, and

1:10 Speaker 4: then we when we got into our Colorado section, that's

1:14 Speaker 4: when we were like, no, we got to take it home,

1:17 Speaker 4: got to get it looked at definitely something up with it.

1:21 Speaker 4: So yeah, there was no way we were going to

1:23 Speaker 4: go any further east. We were actually supposed to be

1:26 Speaker 4: on the East coast up in uh where it was

1:31 Speaker 4: not Quebec, Nova Scotia before we came down and saw

1:36 Speaker 4: you guys, So we were kind of bummed that we

1:38 Speaker 4: couldn't go hit that whole area on this leg of

1:42 Speaker 4: the tour. Yeah, we were able to come over the

1:45 Speaker 4: East coast on the first leg and we were just

1:49 Speaker 4: lucky to be able to do that.

1:50 Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, well, you know, there's there's always the

1:54 Speaker 2: future when you get when you get back at it. Now,

1:56 Speaker 2: are you in the meantime are you playing shows locally

1:59 Speaker 2: or what's kind of the situation there.

2:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, we have access, we we have an alternate car.

2:06 Speaker 4: So we've been uh planning on doing other shows here.

2:09 Speaker 4: We have one coming up locally in Roseberg in October

2:14 Speaker 4: that's at a really nice venue called the Rosebud Theater.

2:18 Speaker 4: And then we have a couple of little ones in

2:20 Speaker 4: between there that are just fill in things, and we're

2:23 Speaker 4: trying to pick up as many as we can along

2:26 Speaker 4: the way, but it's always hard filling in stuff last minute.

2:29 Speaker 1: Really. Oh yeah, oh absolutely? And where where are you located?

2:32 Speaker 2: You're in uh, and we were debating it's it's it's Oregon, right,

2:35 Speaker 2: but we were debating what is the correct way to

2:37 Speaker 2: say the name of your state?

2:39 Speaker 3: Oregon? Yeah, Oregon, Oregon.

2:41 Speaker 4: And we're in the Umquaw Valley. We're just a little south.

2:46 Speaker 4: Uh would you call it southwest? Yes, southwest Oregon. We're

2:52 Speaker 4: we're right around the little place called Roseburg.

2:54 Speaker 1: Okay.

2:55 Speaker 5: Uh yeah, so about our our and a half north

3:00 Speaker 5: of the California border.

3:01 Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, south south. Yeah.

3:04 Speaker 2: I've never been there, but I've heard that it's it's

3:06 Speaker 2: a beautiful state, but I've never I've not personally visited there.

3:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. I moved here a few years ago or

3:14 Speaker 4: and now is a few years Well. When I first

3:17 Speaker 4: moved here, I was like, Nope, it doesn't get any

3:19 Speaker 4: better than this. You don't have the uh, the reign

3:22 Speaker 4: of the normal Northwest, and you don't have the heat

3:25 Speaker 4: of the south. So it's kind of a perfect moderate

3:27 Speaker 4: temperature right in the valley.

3:29 Speaker 1: Right, No, that makes sense. And what's the music scene

3:32 Speaker 1: like there?

3:33 Speaker 2: Because you know what you're doing to me when I

3:36 Speaker 2: listen to a new age phonograph and and we'll we'll

3:38 Speaker 2: talk more about the music in a moment, but but

3:41 Speaker 2: to me, it's it's, uh, you.

3:43 Speaker 1: Know, not not terribly common.

3:46 Speaker 2: Like when I listened to it, I don't think, oh,

3:48 Speaker 2: they sound exactly like so and so, you know, so,

3:51 Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm curious if where you are, where

3:54 Speaker 2: you're located, are there other artists that sound like you

3:57 Speaker 2: or do you really kind of stand out in the

3:59 Speaker 2: scene there?

4:02 Speaker 4: Well, there wasn't much of a scene not that long ago,

4:06 Speaker 4: but lately the Roseberg scenes picked up a little bit.

4:09 Speaker 4: And there's there's a few bands that I would say

4:12 Speaker 4: are like the top competing bands in the area, but

4:16 Speaker 4: nobody really sounds like each other. There's a local band

4:19 Speaker 4: called Widespread Haze. They have their own hippie jam vibe

4:23 Speaker 4: going on. There's James and the Lost Dogs. They have

4:27 Speaker 4: more of a classic rock like electric guitar feel. And

4:32 Speaker 4: then with us, the way it evolved with the foot

4:35 Speaker 4: drums that we play or that I play that whole

4:40 Speaker 4: That whole thing gives us a real retro vibe and

4:45 Speaker 4: we just have kind of our own thing going on

4:48 Speaker 4: due to the limitations.

4:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's something that too, I think is really

4:53 Speaker 2: interesting because it's so it's just the two of you, right,

4:55 Speaker 2: there's there's no one else, or maybe you have guest

4:58 Speaker 2: musicians join you sometimes I don't no, but yeah, New

5:01 Speaker 2: Age Photographs as an.

5:02 Speaker 1: Entity is just the two of you. Correct.

5:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's pretty much been me and Randy since

5:09 Speaker 4: we started it up. I play the foot drums to

5:12 Speaker 4: round it out. And then this last record has harmonica

5:17 Speaker 4: ron Ron the Hartman Perkins. He's featured on the whole thing.

5:21 Speaker 4: He featured on our first record, but we put him

5:25 Speaker 4: on this whole thing because they had a real good

5:28 Speaker 4: blues rock vibe. This this whole new album called the Old.

5:32 Speaker 3: Ball and Chain.

5:35 Speaker 4: That one's uh. That one was all kind of new

5:39 Speaker 4: new material. The old one, the old record, or the

5:42 Speaker 4: first record we put out, had a mix of some

5:44 Speaker 4: new stuff and some old stuff. But the latest record,

5:49 Speaker 4: the Old Ball and Chain, it it really has evolved

5:53 Speaker 4: to where that's kind of our vibe. That's kind of

5:56 Speaker 4: what we sound like if we're in a room and

5:59 Speaker 4: we just tried to catch sure what we sound like

6:01 Speaker 4: in a room.

6:02 Speaker 2: Okay, you know what else I like too is listening

6:04 Speaker 2: to the studio tracks so it sounds like a full band.

6:08 Speaker 2: And again, I know you're both multi instrumentalists, and obviously

6:12 Speaker 2: you know when you've got the foot drum going, you

6:13 Speaker 2: can you can do that while while playing something else.

6:16 Speaker 2: But but it's interesting that are people ever surprised when

6:20 Speaker 2: they listen to your music and they don't know anything

6:21 Speaker 2: else about you and then they find out it's just

6:23 Speaker 2: the two of you? Does that surprise people? Or maybe

6:25 Speaker 2: they go see you live and they're surprised at how

6:27 Speaker 2: big a sound you're able to create with just the

6:29 Speaker 2: two of you.

6:30 Speaker 3: It is, it is.

6:32 Speaker 4: It is an interesting thing because it's a kind of

6:36 Speaker 4: hard to market because there are places who say duo oh,

6:40 Speaker 4: and they think this acoustic duo is going to show up,

6:42 Speaker 4: and we're like, well, we can do that if that's

6:45 Speaker 4: what you guys want for the evening. But if you

6:47 Speaker 4: really want a rock band, we can really kick it off.

6:49 Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.

6:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, It's definitely been something where a lot of people

6:56 Speaker 4: are surprised when they hear us, they're just, oh my god,

7:00 Speaker 4: you guys are amazing. How do you even do that?

7:03 Speaker 4: Because it's just the two of you. But it's this

7:06 Speaker 4: weird little custom foot drum that I came up with

7:09 Speaker 4: that has a little high hat on top of it,

7:12 Speaker 4: and because of the symbol and the back beat of

7:16 Speaker 4: the bass drum and the snare, I mean, the only

7:19 Speaker 4: thing you're missing is the fills from the toms. And

7:23 Speaker 4: we don't do anything too complicated. It's all straight back beat.

7:27 Speaker 4: It's all blues right right.

7:29 Speaker 2: I remember the first time I ever saw somebody do

7:31 Speaker 2: something like that live, and it was just Jesus was

7:36 Speaker 2: more than twenty years ago, but John Hyatt was on

7:38 Speaker 2: tour and he was in the area and I went

7:41 Speaker 2: to see him at the For people in area who

7:44 Speaker 2: know the Capitol Theater or Capital Center, I think back

7:48 Speaker 2: then it was the Capitol Theater and now it's the

7:49 Speaker 2: Capitol Center. Maybe it's the other way around, but anyway,

7:52 Speaker 2: he was doing this. It was a solo acoustic thing.

7:54 Speaker 2: But he comes out and he's, you know, he's As

7:57 Speaker 2: he starts to play, it was a surprise. He starts

7:59 Speaker 2: stapping his foot and it was obvious that I didn't

8:02 Speaker 2: see a drama on the stage. It was like it

8:03 Speaker 2: was like he just had a mic like on the

8:06 Speaker 2: floor there and he just tappened. But it sounded really

8:09 Speaker 2: good and it you know, and just that one little

8:12 Speaker 2: thing changes everything, like it's it's like I remember thinking,

8:18 Speaker 2: he opened I don't remember what song he opened with,

8:19 Speaker 2: but which I'm embarrassed about because I love John Iyatt.

8:22 Speaker 2: But although he played everything that night that I really

8:25 Speaker 2: wanted to hear, which was great. But I just remember

8:27 Speaker 2: he starts playing and he's strung, and I'm thinking it's

8:28 Speaker 2: just gonna be him and his guitar, and then he

8:30 Speaker 2: starts tapping and it just changed the whole vibe. Like

8:33 Speaker 2: it was this energy burst immediately in the room and

8:36 Speaker 2: it was so cool. But that must be that must

8:39 Speaker 2: be one of the most fun things about doing what

8:40 Speaker 2: you do. Right when you're playing and people are surprised

8:43 Speaker 2: and you can see they're surprised, or they come up

8:45 Speaker 2: to you afterward and say, wow, that was that was

8:48 Speaker 2: more than I expected.

8:50 Speaker 1: That was great. You know, that must be really cool

8:52 Speaker 1: for both of you.

8:53 Speaker 4: Yeah, I told my little brother, I said, uh, I

8:57 Speaker 4: think we've been we've been looking around for a drummer,

8:59 Speaker 4: and he goes, you know what, I'm almost more impressed

9:02 Speaker 4: when I see you just doing what you're doing and

9:04 Speaker 4: it's just the two of you, and I'm like, yeah,

9:07 Speaker 4: that you're You're right, I guess as far as a

9:11 Speaker 4: musician seeing see another musicians play.

9:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, And also well, basically we have to rely on

9:17 Speaker 5: each other. We show up for the gigs, you know,

9:20 Speaker 5: we have to. We're married.

9:21 Speaker 3: So yeah, right, it's hard.

9:24 Speaker 4: To keep a drummer around, right, right, right, Randy. Actually,

9:29 Speaker 4: she uh wasn't uh wanting to do. She didn't have

9:34 Speaker 4: aspirations to be a musician. It was just something kind

9:37 Speaker 4: of like my little brother and I started the band.

9:40 Speaker 4: But then before we even got anything going, he moved

9:43 Speaker 4: up to Washington, Okay, and uh Randy was like, well, uh,

9:48 Speaker 4: we got the drum set. Do you wanna do you

9:50 Speaker 4: wanna me to learn how to play drums? And I said, well,

9:53 Speaker 4: we have a bass sitting around. Do you want to

9:55 Speaker 4: just play single note based stuff? And she was like, well, yeah,

9:59 Speaker 4: I do that and then I showed her a blues

10:02 Speaker 4: scale and now you can't stop her. She writes her

10:05 Speaker 4: own bass parts. Yeah, just based off of the blues

10:08 Speaker 4: rock scale that I showed her. Yeah, and uh, we

10:11 Speaker 4: played cover stuff. She's like, oh, I'm not playing roots

10:15 Speaker 4: and fists. I'm gonna just play this. I'm gonna jam

10:17 Speaker 4: out and feel my way around it. And then write

10:19 Speaker 4: her own bass parts for everything.

10:22 Speaker 2: That's cool, that's awesome. Well, Randy has a bass player myself.

10:25 Speaker 2: I respect that. That's really good. That's really cool, awesome.

10:29 Speaker 4: And then yeah, we also we met doing karaoke, so yeah,

10:33 Speaker 4: she actually had to kind of be pushed into singing

10:36 Speaker 4: a little bit.

10:37 Speaker 3: Oh because.

10:39 Speaker 4: When we first when we did our first record, it

10:43 Speaker 4: was definitely a lot of well all just sing backup

10:46 Speaker 4: and I was like, no, no, you can do full stuff.

10:50 Speaker 4: And I think it was my mom who was like,

10:52 Speaker 4: make her do more songs. Yeah, So definitely her on

10:57 Speaker 4: the album next time.

10:58 Speaker 3: Like that.

11:00 Speaker 4: Definitely when we came up to the latest record, we

11:03 Speaker 4: actually we wrote a few of the songs together and

11:09 Speaker 4: tell them tell him how you came up with with

11:11 Speaker 4: the the main songs that you wrote.

11:14 Speaker 5: Oh, well, two of them. I woke up late night

11:17 Speaker 5: and it was like half an hour forty five minutes.

11:20 Speaker 5: I had both the mostly written down. Now not music,

11:23 Speaker 5: just lyrics, and so I took him to him. I

11:25 Speaker 5: was like, put music to this, please, yeah, yeah, yeah,

11:29 Speaker 5: And literally the song pretty much wrote themselves.

11:32 Speaker 4: She came to me with lyrics. The lyrics were in

11:35 Speaker 4: a structure where it was like, oh, okay, this is perfect.

11:39 Speaker 3: And then of.

11:40 Speaker 4: Course there's only one song on the record that she

11:44 Speaker 4: wrote that she didn't sing. That had to do with

11:46 Speaker 4: times constraints. Okay, So mostly the stuff she wrote she

11:51 Speaker 4: sings now.

11:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent, excellent, and it's nice to you know, you

11:57 Speaker 2: know you've really got something when it comes together easily

11:59 Speaker 2: like that, right, you know, when you don't have to

12:01 Speaker 2: when to I mean, you know people talk about, you know,

12:03 Speaker 2: it's a lot of work writing songs and everything and

12:07 Speaker 2: getting recorded the way you want them, and it is

12:09 Speaker 2: a lot of work, right, But when when you have

12:11 Speaker 2: something that you know, okay, here's the lyrics, Oh okay,

12:14 Speaker 2: I can work with that, here's here's an idea for

12:16 Speaker 2: the melody and everything, when it comes together fast, then

12:18 Speaker 2: you know you've really you've really got something when it's

12:20 Speaker 2: when it's easy, you know what i mean.

12:22 Speaker 1: So I'm sure that.

12:23 Speaker 3: Was yeah, yeah, for sure.

12:26 Speaker 4: Almost all the best songs that that I think we've

12:29 Speaker 4: done just came came to us. They weren't really difficult

12:34 Speaker 4: to write. We only struggled with UH with UH Bruce,

12:40 Speaker 4: with our comedy song Bruce. Yeah, and that's because Randy

12:44 Speaker 4: came to me with the concept in most of the lyrics,

12:47 Speaker 4: and then we tried to fish it out and make

12:49 Speaker 4: it funny with that one. But my my songwriting method

12:54 Speaker 4: is literally come up with the chord structure and then

12:59 Speaker 4: ones I come up with the chord structure, like the

13:02 Speaker 4: stuff just drops out of the ether. It's I sometimes

13:05 Speaker 4: like those aren't even my songs. I'm just like the

13:08 Speaker 4: caretaker of them because they're just they just come out

13:12 Speaker 4: of nowhere. And you know it's probably a subconscious thing, sure,

13:15 Speaker 4: but but nothing's too I've been writing songs since I

13:22 Speaker 4: was fourteen, and so it's like, oh, here's the basic structure, verse, chorus, verse,

13:27 Speaker 4: let's throw in a solo here, Let's make sure we

13:30 Speaker 4: come up with an intro an outro if we can.

13:34 Speaker 4: But other than that, the song structure is the framework,

13:39 Speaker 4: and then the lyrics, if they're difficult to work on,

13:43 Speaker 4: those usually don't make the records.

13:44 Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense, Yeah, it makes sense.

13:49 Speaker 2: I'm really curious too about recording because you know, sometimes,

13:56 Speaker 2: at least this is my observation, sometimes you'll hear an

14:00 Speaker 2: artist who's doing something like what you're doing, or well,

14:04 Speaker 2: like I said, nobody sounds exactly like you, but but

14:07 Speaker 2: but kind of a kind of a similar vibe where

14:10 Speaker 2: you know you wish you don't want it to be

14:12 Speaker 2: too you don't want the production to be too clean,

14:15 Speaker 2: you don't want it to be too slick, And sometimes

14:20 Speaker 2: you might hear something that you know you wish the

14:24 Speaker 2: production was a little grittier, you know. But when I

14:27 Speaker 2: listen to these tracks, I think the production matches what

14:31 Speaker 2: you're doing in the sense that the production is great.

14:33 Speaker 2: It's it's totally pro It sounds amazing, the mix is

14:36 Speaker 2: great and everything, but it's not but it's not overly slick,

14:39 Speaker 2: which is what I hear a lot of sometimes where

14:42 Speaker 2: where it's like, Okay, this is too slick for what

14:45 Speaker 2: this vibe and the sound is that this band is making.

14:49 Speaker 2: But I love the production on on this on this album,

14:54 Speaker 2: Can you tell me about that? How did you record

14:57 Speaker 2: old Ball and Chain that's the newest one? Yeah, yeah,

15:01 Speaker 2: how did you record that?

15:03 Speaker 5: So? Once we had what tracks we were going to

15:05 Speaker 5: put on the album. We actually recorded here at the house.

15:09 Speaker 5: We invited Ron over for a couple of days. Uh,

15:12 Speaker 5: we gave him some input on what he wanted to

15:14 Speaker 5: do on each track, and then we recorded him probably

15:18 Speaker 5: three or four takes each probably, and then after that

15:24 Speaker 5: we took them to a local place way back recording

15:29 Speaker 5: and they we listened with them and kind of you know,

15:34 Speaker 5: we you know, we've told them, you know, we're recording

15:36 Speaker 5: them at home. We want to have that kind of

15:39 Speaker 5: live feel, you know, so when you listen to him,

15:41 Speaker 5: you know it's what you're gonna get basically, you know,

15:45 Speaker 5: nothing to like you said, overproduced or anything like that.

15:47 Speaker 5: So uh yeah, and then they you know, put a

15:50 Speaker 5: little extra on it, which you know, it worked out

15:52 Speaker 5: pretty well.

15:53 Speaker 4: Yeah, Uh definitely. When when we were recording this one,

15:58 Speaker 4: we knew we were kind of sudden up tour and

16:00 Speaker 4: it was a big tour, and uh, in order to

16:03 Speaker 4: do that, you know, you gotta you gotta kind of

16:06 Speaker 4: give people a sound. You don't want to overproduce it.

16:10 Speaker 4: I wanted it to sound just like we do if

16:12 Speaker 4: we're sitting in a room together. We don't play to

16:14 Speaker 4: a click track, ever, and so it was like, this

16:18 Speaker 4: is what we sound like, this is our vibe. We

16:21 Speaker 4: want to be able to sell ourselves, Like, hey, if

16:23 Speaker 4: you come to see us, this is what you're gonna get.

16:26 Speaker 4: Is you're going to get this if we if we

16:28 Speaker 4: added too many overdubs or we did too much fancy

16:32 Speaker 4: production on it, it just wouldn't sound like us in

16:35 Speaker 4: a room, right And and I mean not to toot

16:38 Speaker 4: my own horn, but I think we we sound really good.

16:41 Speaker 4: We we've been working on this a while and it's

16:44 Speaker 4: evolved to the point where it's some really good blues

16:47 Speaker 4: rock and we've got a good dynamic. We we uh,

16:51 Speaker 4: we're comfortable on stage now. It's quite a while to

16:54 Speaker 4: get comfortable on stage. And now that's where we work

16:57 Speaker 4: out all our marital issues.

16:58 Speaker 1: They got there, Oh that's perfect. Yeah.

17:04 Speaker 4: On the whole tour, I was side seat driving Randy

17:08 Speaker 4: because I'm a control freak. Yeah, And so it became

17:12 Speaker 4: a thing where like one day I was like, I

17:14 Speaker 4: just don't know how you put up with all my

17:16 Speaker 4: side seat driving and she was like, oh, yeah, well

17:19 Speaker 4: you know, and it just became like a thing where

17:22 Speaker 4: that's where we work.

17:23 Speaker 3: Out all our issues. We just do it in front

17:25 Speaker 3: of people.

17:25 Speaker 5: People just kind of love the dynamic of your husband

17:27 Speaker 5: versus wife type of thing.

17:29 Speaker 1: You know.

17:29 Speaker 4: Yeah, usually on my side, but they're always on your side.

17:36 Speaker 2: They should take the bass player's side if you ask me.

17:39 Speaker 2: There you go, I support that. I support that.

17:43 Speaker 4: Well, well it helps me too, because I got to

17:45 Speaker 4: keep my ego in check, right because you know, I'm

17:50 Speaker 4: just doing all this stuff over here, and then I

17:52 Speaker 4: think it's the Mat Show, but it's it's not the

17:55 Speaker 4: Matt Show. It's the Matt and Randy show, right.

17:57 Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's crazy because you know, I'll think,

18:01 Speaker 5: you know, he he's lead, singing, guitar and drums.

18:07 Speaker 3: You know, I'm we're playing and sometimes singing.

18:10 Speaker 5: So I'm like, you know, but yeah, I do have

18:12 Speaker 5: to keep him in check.

18:13 Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, by the way, the obvious question, where does

18:18 Speaker 2: the name come from? New age photograph?

18:21 Speaker 3: Oh man.

18:22 Speaker 4: So me and my little brother worked for quite a

18:25 Speaker 4: while trying to figure out how to how to give

18:28 Speaker 4: the vibe because both of us like old music, both

18:32 Speaker 4: of us like new music, and we'll cover everything from

18:36 Speaker 4: old lead belly stuff from the nineteen thirties, howling Wolf's stuff,

18:40 Speaker 4: from the thirties and forties all the way up to

18:44 Speaker 4: uh we were working on flowers from uh that some

18:50 Speaker 4: What's is that the newest song we do?

18:53 Speaker 3: No stuff? Yeah?

18:55 Speaker 4: K Jellison, Yeah, Well, we've just got stuff that goes

19:00 Speaker 4: all through. We're nineties kids, eighties nineties kids, so we've

19:04 Speaker 4: got a bunch of eighties nineties stuff that we'll do

19:06 Speaker 4: and then all the way up to modern stuff. And

19:09 Speaker 4: so we're trying to say, how how do you say

19:12 Speaker 4: that we're new, but we also have love old stuff

19:16 Speaker 4: and the phonograph part is the old party and then

19:21 Speaker 4: the new age is like, well, you know, hippie crystals

19:25 Speaker 4: and stuff. So we were like, how do we associate

19:28 Speaker 4: the two that sounds that sounds right and the vibe

19:32 Speaker 4: with just the alliteration.

19:34 Speaker 5: Yeah, and then also with just the two of us

19:38 Speaker 5: and having our you know, being a kind of broke

19:41 Speaker 5: down sound. You know, we try to say we take

19:43 Speaker 5: songs back to their bluesy roots. So when we're playing

19:46 Speaker 5: some of these songs, it's not exactly how you're you know,

19:49 Speaker 5: cover songs, not how you're going to hear them all

19:51 Speaker 5: the radio. So we're trying to you know, we're trying

19:53 Speaker 5: to figure out that point you know, what matches that

19:56 Speaker 5: vibe as well, so you know, hopefully people have an idea. Well, okay,

20:01 Speaker 5: so there's something new and old going on here and

20:04 Speaker 5: maybe you know, peaks their interesting. We never do a

20:06 Speaker 5: straight cover song. We do a cover song. However, we

20:09 Speaker 5: play a cover song, yeah, yeah, so it never comes

20:13 Speaker 5: out quite.

20:13 Speaker 4: Like, oh, play me that that Hank Williams tune, and

20:17 Speaker 4: it's like, oh, well we can do that, but it's

20:22 Speaker 4: not gonna be as country as you want it.

20:24 Speaker 2: Do you do you ever run into a situation like

20:27 Speaker 2: does anyone ever complain you like, oh, you played that wrong?

20:30 Speaker 1: Or have you ever run into that?

20:33 Speaker 3: No? Actually we haven't.

20:34 Speaker 1: That's good.

20:35 Speaker 4: We haven't really had anyone complain that we played anything wrong. Yeah,

20:38 Speaker 4: And I think that's when we do cover songs. We

20:42 Speaker 4: just don't play any of them right.

20:43 Speaker 1: There you go, they're all They're all.

20:45 Speaker 4: The way we do it, right. We were talking the

20:48 Speaker 4: other day about a CCR song that we did and

20:50 Speaker 4: we're like, man, when we hear it on the radio,

20:53 Speaker 4: it's like, man, that's so slow. Now to hear that song,

20:58 Speaker 4: we play it fast and it's just how like I

21:01 Speaker 4: used to bust around a lot, so a lot of

21:04 Speaker 4: these songs I wouldn't like listen to the radio version

21:07 Speaker 4: and then play it. I was just looking at the

21:09 Speaker 4: chord chart trying to flip to the next song and

21:12 Speaker 4: play the song. And I grew up with a lot

21:14 Speaker 4: of these songs that we play and I would just

21:19 Speaker 4: play them that way on the side of the road.

21:21 Speaker 4: And then they I brought him to Randy and I

21:23 Speaker 4: was like, oh, so I got this. What was it?

21:27 Speaker 4: The Tom Waits. I got this Tom Waits song and

21:32 Speaker 4: we play it like this and then we play it

21:35 Speaker 4: and then she hears it on the radio and she's like,

21:37 Speaker 4: nothing like how we play it, And I was like, well,

21:40 Speaker 4: that's just how I play it.

21:41 Speaker 1: I get. Yeah. See, I think that's cool.

21:44 Speaker 2: I think that's much more interesting anyway, because for me,

21:47 Speaker 2: I know a lot of people don't feel this way.

21:48 Speaker 2: A lot of people like if they're if they're somewhere

21:51 Speaker 2: and they hear a band playing a cover, they want

21:53 Speaker 2: to hear it, especially if it's a cover band quote unquote,

21:56 Speaker 2: and that's like their their mission, so to speak. You know,

21:59 Speaker 2: they want to hear it's exactly the way the original sounds,

22:03 Speaker 2: and it's like, to me, it's always been, well, what's

22:04 Speaker 2: the point, Like, I already know how the original sounds.

22:07 Speaker 2: I can listen to the original, I can go, you know,

22:10 Speaker 2: listen to the radio, or listen to it online. If

22:13 Speaker 2: I really want to hear the original, I want to

22:14 Speaker 2: hear your interpretation of it, you know.

22:17 Speaker 1: Because otherwise, otherwise, what's the point.

22:19 Speaker 2: I know a lot of people don't feel that way,

22:21 Speaker 2: but that's always been my My feeling is I want

22:24 Speaker 2: to hear your interpretation. I want to hear how it

22:27 Speaker 2: sounds from your perspective, and I just think that's so

22:31 Speaker 2: much more interesting.

22:33 Speaker 4: Yeah, I never I never would have heard of Holan Wolf.

22:36 Speaker 4: It wasn't if it wasn't for the Doors playing back

22:38 Speaker 4: door Man.

22:39 Speaker 1: Good point.

22:39 Speaker 4: And if you've ever heard the Doors play back door

22:42 Speaker 4: Man and then Howland Wolf's back door Man, they're completely

22:45 Speaker 4: different songs.

22:46 Speaker 1: Right right?

22:47 Speaker 4: You say, Bob Dylan's version of All Along the watch Tower, yep.

22:51 Speaker 4: I feel like I showed that to Randy the other

22:53 Speaker 4: day and she's like, oh, I like that's cool, but

22:57 Speaker 4: that harmonica, you know, Okay, Yeah, definitely the interpretation of

23:04 Speaker 4: that song is definitely better than the original.

23:07 Speaker 3: But at the same time. If you're a.

23:09 Speaker 4: Huge Bob Dylan fan, you don't want to hear knocking

23:13 Speaker 4: on Heaven's Door by Guns n' Roses.

23:16 Speaker 3: You want to hear.

23:17 Speaker 4: Bob sing knocking on Heaven's Door. So it just depends

23:21 Speaker 4: on what you're in for for the night. A lot

23:24 Speaker 4: of people, especially the places we go, they just want

23:29 Speaker 4: to have a good time, and so that was kind

23:31 Speaker 4: of the thing we tried to evolve to be was

23:35 Speaker 4: first of all, not to just do cover songs. We

23:37 Speaker 4: got our own stuff, and so if people aren't coming

23:40 Speaker 4: up just to see a cover band, you know, like

23:43 Speaker 4: if we were called the Petties or something and all

23:45 Speaker 4: we played was Tom Petty, then yeah, you'd want it

23:47 Speaker 4: to sound like Tom Petty. But when you're coming to

23:51 Speaker 4: see us, we play original stuff. So then when we

23:54 Speaker 4: Pepper and the cover songs, it's like we give them

23:58 Speaker 4: our own little twist.

24:00 Speaker 1: Yeah definitely, Yeah, yeah, No, that's that's excellent.

24:04 Speaker 2: So what's so what's kind of the future trajectory? I mean,

24:07 Speaker 2: do you have do you have more things that you're

24:09 Speaker 2: going to be recording or the new album hasn't been

24:11 Speaker 2: out for that long, right, so you're probably focused on

24:14 Speaker 2: on promoting the current album largely, I would imagine, right.

24:18 Speaker 4: Definitely go pick up the new album. No, watch the

24:22 Speaker 4: new album. I'm sorry, you'll watch the latest video on YouTube.

24:27 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we have a we did our our album

24:35 Speaker 3: release party.

24:36 Speaker 4: Okay, we recorded a video there that we just got

24:40 Speaker 4: edited after we got back from the well, after we

24:44 Speaker 4: had to come back from the tour. Yeah, we threw

24:46 Speaker 4: that up and uh so messing Around is one of

24:52 Speaker 4: the I would call it a single if we had singles.

24:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, off that record and we made a video for that.

24:59 Speaker 3: Go check that out.

25:00 Speaker 4: There's a wolf Hollan at My Doors another one that

25:04 Speaker 4: we did from the first record that we had a

25:06 Speaker 4: little video and we produced all the videos ourselves. It's

25:11 Speaker 4: it's the age where you can shoot your own stuff yeh,

25:14 Speaker 4: super cheap and edit it yourself, and so they aren't

25:19 Speaker 4: high production things. But we're just trying to push the

25:22 Speaker 4: latest record. As soon as we get the van fixed,

25:26 Speaker 4: we're gonna see what we can salvage from this tour

25:31 Speaker 4: and start setting up for the next tour. We're just

25:34 Speaker 4: gonna try to keep going as much as we can

25:37 Speaker 4: while we got a little momentum going. And we do

25:41 Speaker 4: have a bunch of songs that either are sitting on

25:45 Speaker 4: the back burner and we have them written, or when

25:51 Speaker 4: we talk about doing another album, we've been talking about, well,

25:56 Speaker 4: you know, if we're going to write some new stuff,

25:59 Speaker 4: then we might work together a little bit on some

26:01 Speaker 4: new stuff. But all that stuff just kind of evolves

26:05 Speaker 4: on its own. When we came up with the first record,

26:09 Speaker 4: we put a lot of singer songwriter stuff that I

26:11 Speaker 4: had written before on there, but then there was stuff

26:15 Speaker 4: like call Me the Wolf. That was one where I

26:18 Speaker 4: was just while we were even talking about writing the record,

26:21 Speaker 4: I came up with the baseline and wrote all the

26:25 Speaker 4: lyrics down, and then that song just kind of evolved

26:28 Speaker 4: on its own while we were writing that record. Okay,

26:31 Speaker 4: so we gave ourselves we said we're going to tour

26:34 Speaker 4: on this one for two years. So next year we'll

26:36 Speaker 4: be the second year, and we'll start working on the

26:39 Speaker 4: record next year for whatever we're going to release in

26:42 Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven.

26:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, So okay, okay, very good, very good. Well, in

26:49 Speaker 2: a moment, we're going to play that track messing Around.

26:51 Speaker 2: We'll play that at the end of our conversation. I

26:53 Speaker 2: think that'll be and I might even sneak in another

26:55 Speaker 2: one after that because I love what you're doing, really

26:59 Speaker 2: really good stuff. So Matt and Randy thank you both

27:02 Speaker 2: so much before we let you go. So what should

27:05 Speaker 2: people know about where to find you online? To keep

27:08 Speaker 2: up with everything that you're doing, everything, all things New

27:10 Speaker 2: Age Phonograph. Where's the best place to go?

27:14 Speaker 3: Okay?

27:14 Speaker 5: So we're very active on Facebook and Instagram. You know,

27:18 Speaker 5: a new Age tentograph. We keep it simple, so if

27:20 Speaker 5: you search for new Tinograph you'll find us YouTube as well.

27:25 Speaker 5: We always joke we have not really a big presence

27:27 Speaker 5: on TikTok. We are on there, and then we're on

27:31 Speaker 5: all streaming you know, Spotify, Apple Music, all that kind

27:34 Speaker 5: of stuff as well. We have band Camp. We're kind

27:37 Speaker 5: of all over the place.

27:39 Speaker 4: If you need to be directed anywhere, New Age phonograph

27:42 Speaker 4: dot com has has all the links to everywhere that

27:45 Speaker 4: you want to go. And as long as people are

27:49 Speaker 4: looking after us and trying to find us, we're pretty

27:52 Speaker 4: easy to find. We were super excited when we typed

27:54 Speaker 4: it into Google and we were the first hit that

27:56 Speaker 4: came up. Yep, So there's no other New Age The.

27:59 Speaker 5: Actually have like an artist description like our ages and information.

28:03 Speaker 4: I'm like, wow, good, there's no there's no other New

28:05 Speaker 4: Age phonographs out there. We find that in our area

28:08 Speaker 4: there's several bands that have the same name, and it's

28:10 Speaker 4: like when we that was another thing coming up with

28:13 Speaker 4: the name, wanted us to be, to be something that

28:15 Speaker 4: nobody else had.

28:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's very important.

28:20 Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely Okay, so uh we're gonna let you go

28:24 Speaker 2: and we'll hit that track again. Thank you both so much,

28:26 Speaker 2: Randy and Matt, thank you so much for joining us

28:28 Speaker 2: this morning.

28:29 Speaker 1: Thant and we have absolutely you two. Okay, take care,

28:33 Speaker 1: bye bye,