SuperBug | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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0:09 Speaker 2: I'm a grave shine to just people in the human.

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0:31 Speaker 1: You'll be the curtain come and stocking thing I've never heard, so don't creak their panth.

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0:51 Speaker 3: Bus disease, but be going like the heats and can be made braid like a cold passion.

0:56 Speaker 1: It's costs, Okay manner talking about.

1:01 Speaker 3: The person that you don't need his counts.

1:03 Speaker 1: They notice kidding the heil count conte.

1:07 Speaker 3: To lash just wanna be.

1:32 Speaker 1: A melody with you with me, She's gonna be please harmony with you.

1:45 Speaker 3: Sim me the wee HORMONI.

1:56 Speaker 2: Pray show me my gray shore.

2:02 Speaker 3: Great show.

2:05 Speaker 1: Skater, Get jumped on the skater, get jumped on the s skat.

2:14 Speaker 3: Will the share We.

2:14 Speaker 2: Won't that is super Bug brand new. That is it's all Greek to me. I forgot how short that song is?

2:31 Speaker 4: Quick one.

2:31 Speaker 2: There we go, we got we had all these mics up here. No, I do love that one. That's that's my my favorite of the new songs. But uh, welcome back everybody. We have entered our number three Nwmarrow trace of Matt connorson Unleashed. If you are listening live on Saturday, July twenty five, two thousand, twenty six, and we have fifty percent of the band super Bug here, gentlemen, please introduce yourselves.

2:54 Speaker 5: I'm Parker h drummer for super Bug.

2:56 Speaker 4: Yes, my name is reed By play guitar, and we are missing Adam Thunderfingers Vondette on the bass guitar and also the Worm on vocals, Justin Coombs Okay, okay, and Warm wanted me to share with you that he is out saving the children. That's why he couldn't be here today.

3:13 Speaker 2: He's saving which children because we didn't specify.

3:16 Speaker 4: He likes to keep things vague.

3:17 Speaker 2: There's a lot of kids. There's a lot of kids out there, all of them super buggs for the children. That is amazing. That would actually that'd be a good T shirt.

3:25 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, we're thinking about sponsoring some Little League teams and stuff, you know, going forward, just to get her name out there, you know. All right, all right, very good community outreach, very good, very good.

3:35 Speaker 2: So we have Reebn Parker here. All right, refresh my memory?

3:38 Speaker 4: Why are you reb It's just a childhood nickname that's stuck. And now I kind of my ego is very happy that I can go by like a one name moniker, you know, like Princeton Madonna or something. So yeah, yeah, and I like the mystery of people not really know my real names.

3:53 Speaker 2: That's okay, very good, very good. Now tell us about the new album, of course, because we're playing some songs from the new album.

4:02 Speaker 4: Well, let's see, this might be an interesting fact. But we did the whole thing in two hours. No, yeah, everything you're hearing today is the first take, live in the studio, no overdubs.

4:14 Speaker 2: That's that's a record. When you started that sentence, I thought you were going to say, yeah, we did the whole thing in two weeks or two hours.

4:23 Speaker 4: Two hours from start to mastered, ready to release with six days.

4:28 Speaker 2: Good lord, super bug, ladies and gentlemen, the most efficient band. Yeah on Earth. That's incredible.

4:34 Speaker 6: Yeah, we just went in played live and we were going to do five. That was the plan, like half the album. Yeah, it just started.

4:42 Speaker 2: Do be a favorite, pull that mic, this this way a little bit rookies. No, that's okay. Those mics are very beauty directional unless you're just being like directly into them. They lucy a little bit. No, that that's great. Yeah, thanks Parker.

4:53 Speaker 5: But we were going to do five. That was the plan.

4:55 Speaker 6: Okay, come back to do another five, and we just started rolling. And we had actually talked about before that yeah you know, hey, if we start rolling, let's just keep going and get all ten.

5:04 Speaker 5: And wow, sure enough that's what happened.

5:06 Speaker 2: That's incredible.

5:07 Speaker 4: We didn't even listen to it, like, we didn't played the first one. He's like, you want to hear it? Like nope, go no kidding, yeah, yeah, like there's I think there's two clams on the whole thing. Uh, you know, but it wasn't worth redoing it. I think out of the ten songs, seven of them our first take, two of them were second take, and there was one that we had to restart three times.

5:27 Speaker 2: Really, but Yeah.

5:28 Speaker 4: We were in and out of there in two hours and went, you know, to the brewery and had a beer.

5:32 Speaker 2: That's incredible. Yeah.

5:33 Speaker 4: Well, now the funny thing is everybody that goes to work with him, he's like, you guys are the standard. This is now what I expect. Well it was great.

5:41 Speaker 2: Well where did you record?

5:43 Speaker 5: Uh, Dave Palmer Garlic Rock Studios? Okay, conquered?

5:47 Speaker 2: Okay, oh, Dave Palmer.

5:49 Speaker 5: That probably knew him.

5:50 Speaker 2: I'm not sure that I actually know him, but the only but I know that name, and it's probably because of you guys, because I think he just friended me on Facebook or something probably, So yeah, yeah, I saw we had a lot of mutual friends, of course, so of course accepted him. Okay, So was it your first time working with him?

6:06 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we I hadn't even met him until that day. The reason we went there is Parker wasn't crazy about the drum sound on the first record, so we wanted to find a guy that had the kit set up in the studio and everything was dialed in so we didn't have to play with it. And he recorded with another band he's playing with stage in the Tumbleweeds. They went up there and did a session. He liked the drum sound, and so we said, let's just go in and do it, and yeah, we caught fire and just went wow, yeah it was insane.

6:32 Speaker 2: That's incredible. All right. So a lot of musicians listen to the show. So for somebody who wants to be able to do that, to go in and record an album in two hours, what advice do you have for them?

6:42 Speaker 4: Go in rehearsed, don't go, you know, don't go in the studio and decide to write a song or arrange it therenge it right. Yeah, you're wasting everybody's time. It's like, if you can and if you can't pull it off live, don't go try and do it in the studio. And that's my advice. But we're where at me and Worm in particular, very impatient. We don't want to do things one hundred times. We want to go and get it done. Is it good enough? Yes, let's move on, right But yeah, so right now, working towards the next one, we're probably planning on being in this winter again.

7:14 Speaker 5: Wow, good for you, Good for you guys.

7:16 Speaker 2: You know what this makes me think about is, you know, like, like you guys were saying, you know, don't be writing in the studio and arranging. And you see these documentaries of like these classic rock bands where they're in the studio. You know, of course they are classic rock bands who are very successful, who have, you know, just all the money in the world. So there you see these argumentaries where they're in the studio and they're writing in the studio as they're recording the album and they're experimenting with all these different things, and you know, and you can tell they're just burning money, you know.

7:44 Speaker 2: But of course they have all the money, so it doesn't matter.

7:47 Speaker 4: And you know, i'd like to point out too, is do what works for you. I mean, obviously it's not gonna work for everybody. And I don't want to say most guitar players, but a lot of guitar players are fussy. You know, every think it's going to be perfect and this that. Yeah, I'm kind of raw. I don't, I don't, I don't care. I actually like hearing on the recording where I turned a pedal on or off. Yeah, I think it's cool. You know, it makes it sound live.

8:08 Speaker 2: I agree, I agree.

8:10 Speaker 4: I'm a fan. I can point to it and go oops. I made that chord change a little too quick to get to the solo, but I you know, it's cool for me because hey, we didn't have to just play it and go back and overdub the solo or something. So it was great. I can't wait to do it again.

8:24 Speaker 2: Yeah.

8:24 Speaker 4: Yeah, one guitar, I mean one setup. I think I one of the songs will be listening to today. Gray on Sunday. I went to the neck pickup and you can really hear it, go go lo e and I kind of laugh about it, but it's cool. It helps make it a little bit, you know. Yeah, yeah, So I don't mind those little hidden errors because there you know, it's just cool. Like I think there's time as on my side by the stones, the tambourine on that is off time. If you listen to it, I think Brian Jones is playing it. But that's what makes it cool, you know.

8:54 Speaker 4: And most people don't notice that sort of thing, right character.

8:57 Speaker 2: I never noticed that on times on my side.

8:59 Speaker 4: So now listen to it, you're gonna go, oh, yeah, that is a bit.

9:01 Speaker 2: I'm gonna listen to it later today. I'm gonna have to now, yeah, because I love that kind of stuff. Of course. Oh that's interesting. That's interesting.

9:06 Speaker 5: So we were not shooting for perfection.

9:09 Speaker 2: Right right, yeah, but I think what you what you did get is something even cooler, you know.

9:14 Speaker 4: So I think it's a great snapshot of us live too because boom, like a steamroller coming at you, right. And it's over quick too, because I think the whole records what probably about half hour? Yeah yeah, so it's like what just happened?

9:31 Speaker 2: We were also talking off air, you guys played at Pembroke City Limits. Yes, shout out to Rob yep, Rob as a video of course, he's a colleague here at CEOs a show here, great show called Grantited State of Mind on Fridays.

9:44 Speaker 4: He's played us on that as well.

9:45 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, Now how did you? Because we were also talking off air, Superbug is not the kind of band they're rob necessary, I mean, don't get me wrong. You know, since Pembroke City Limits opened hour many years has been now at least track of time, it's been a few years now, right or at least two maybe three years, and it's you know, there's a been a variety of different kinds of artists that have played there, but not necessarily something quite like Superbug.

10:08 Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you exactly how it happened. I bugged him quite a bit, but he had a big fear that we're going to be too loud. Yeah, So I went and watched, I think, with Parker and some friends, Andrew North and the Rangers, yep. And I immediately went over to Rob and I said, we're not going to be louder than these guys. Yeah, you know, and he took the bait. I brought him a record, you know, schmoozed him up a bit, and he gave us a shot at it, and it's sure enough. It's It was wild for me because there's no way I could bring a tube bamp there, which I can't get low enough in volume, so I had to bring a little ten inch solid state fender and even that was kind of too loud.

10:44 Speaker 4: Really yeah, yeah, which is weird being on stage that quiet, But when you hear it from the audience, he's right, it's perfect.

10:50 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:51 Speaker 4: But we found our setup. We dialed it in, we muted the drums enough and it actually sounded great.

10:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's awesome. Did you have to kind of adjust I mean, in terms of the way you were playing at that show. Did you have to adjust?

11:03 Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know, I didn't really. I guess I played loud and it's kind of hard, but yeah, you got to tone it down.

11:10 Speaker 2: What was it difficult?

11:11 Speaker 5: A little bit? Yeah, but I'm trying to practice that a little bit so I.

11:16 Speaker 2: Can do it. You know. I would imagine it's probably like a like a UFC fighter having a professional wrestling match and they have to kind of pull their punches, you know, and figure out how to do that without screwing.

11:26 Speaker 5: Up and keep the energy and keep the energy.

11:29 Speaker 2: Yeah.

11:29 Speaker 4: Well the cool part was the last time we played, uh during our second set, he said, okay, you can come up a little bit. Oh okay, so you know, and it's cool and great crowd there. People really like music. Yeah, and yeah, those those are a couple of the better gigs that we've ever played. I mean, it was it was it was just fun. Yeah, and it was a big deal to us because you know, I was all, you know, sad, like, hey, why doesn't Conquered are you want to play? You know, let us play? And the fact that they let us in finally yea, and we've been back, you know once, and we're eduled again.

12:00 Speaker 2: In October, so outstanding.

12:02 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great, so thanks Robby really uh myself, it made me super happy, yeah, get the band too, like it made me feel a part of you know, part of something right right.

12:11 Speaker 2: Well. It also probably opened up Rob's mind a bit to having you know, some louder bands or yah.

12:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's He's definitely had some heavier accent there, which is secret, a little behind the scenes thing. The bartenders are happy about that, but yeah, I don't know if they share that with him, but I've heard stuff. Yeah, yeah, they like the variety, right.

12:30 Speaker 2: Right, well, very good. When you when you played there most recently, did you play I assume you played songs from the new album.

12:37 Speaker 4: Yeah, even songs that aren't on this record that are new. I mean, we're always writing all the time, so yeah, yeah, in the old classics from the first one. Even a couple of covers we did because we know well, actually I can't say the word, but Rob's got a a big Neil Young poster up there. So the first time we played f and up yeah, via Pearl Jam. So that was kind of cool. It was kind of like a let's throw Rob a bone and give him a good cover.

12:57 Speaker 2: Oh, that's really cool.

12:59 Speaker 4: Yeah, because we typically, especially lately, we're not playing really any covers at all in our sets. We would always have one in there. Yeah, but now it's just been like, why are we going to waste it? We got some good stuff too, let's put ours in there instead.

13:10 Speaker 2: Well that's nice too, when you get to that point where it's like, eh, we don't really need to play covers.

13:14 Speaker 4: I always felt like that. It's trying to get everybody else on board.

13:17 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I was in a band called the Jinkst a very long time ago, and those guys always wanted to do covers and I was always but our I felt our original material was really strong, so I was. It was just a constant battle in that band, you know, especially when they were pulling out. Like at one point they wanted to do Talk Dirty to Me by Poison, and I was like, you guys are killing me. Adam.

13:35 Speaker 4: Adam would do that at the drop of a hat. I love that song too. We could do it just because it's funny. Yeah, you know, but Adam loves poison. He's got a Poisoned shirt, so yeah, he's a throwback. He loves Cinderella Poison.

13:46 Speaker 2: Yeahh rat.

13:48 Speaker 4: I mean, I like, talk dirty to me, but the rest of it, I think I can live with that.

13:52 Speaker 2: Right right, no doubt. As an aside, they were in the news recently because they were supposed to do their fortieth anniversary tour. Did you see this? Apparently Brett Michaels wanted way too much money, make way more money than the other three guys, and it all fell apart.

14:05 Speaker 4: Yep, that man, that's what happens. You know, even being in a band ain't easy. I mean, you gotta you gotta deal with everybody's schedules, you know, you gotta deal with all the personalities and everything.

14:14 Speaker 2: I mean, it takes a real commitment, it does. You have to want to absolutely. Paul Stanley I heard once describe it as it's like when you're in a band with three other guys. It's like a four way marriage.

14:24 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's accurate.

14:25 Speaker 2: And uh, and somebody else said two on the show. It's like, I wish I could remember who said it because it was such a good insight. It's like, it's like being in a relationship with three other people or four other people depending, uh, and being but being in a relationship not only with them, but with everyone that they're in a relationship asolutely. Yeah, yep, Well we should play another track from the new album. I'll let you guys pick what do you want to What do you want to play an X?

14:51 Speaker 4: You want to do Gray or you want to do Eternal.

14:54 Speaker 2: Let's do Gray, do Gray Grand Sunday. Sure tell me about this song?

14:58 Speaker 4: I will actually so, actually if I can go back to the first one, immigration and that message there.

15:04 Speaker 2: Oh yes, it's all Greek to me.

15:06 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all Greek to me, so warm wanted me to share that.

15:08 Speaker 1: Uh.

15:09 Speaker 4: What inspired him on that is he just found it ridiculous to think that somebody is less of a person than you because they weren't born on the same piece of earth, which I think is factual. So that was the message behind that one. This one is really just about losing somebody you love and not having the chance to say goodbye.

15:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this song kind of stands out to me too, him that it's I feel like it's it's more melancholy than than I would agree than your other stuff.

15:35 Speaker 5: We sawed a slow song, but the tempo is probably about one thirty five.

15:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's got but it's got a vibe.

15:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we really liked this one. This happened Adam headed out cracked his classical skateboard, you know, because he's he's he's ba. Yeah, so he was out there skateboard and like most almost fifty year old men should you can say badass, thank you. I was so while he was doing that. This is something that Parker and I kind of plugged away at. Yeah, so when he was ready for action, he just had to put his bass magic on it, and uh, we could hand it over to Worm. Most of our stuff the band will iron it out and then kind of submitted over to Worm for him to put his lyrics on top.

16:13 Speaker 4: Okay, and the same one with this one. So yeah, I would say that's the message behind it. But if you're listening, listen to that low East ring buzz on it.

16:23 Speaker 5: That the bass solo at the end.

16:25 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, as a bass player, I enjoy a bass solo. And what's the album called too? I don't think did we mention that?

16:32 Speaker 4: No, I'm sorry, I disturbed the Comfortable, Disturb the Comfortable. Yeah, it's out on iTunes, Spotify, all that fun stuff, and it's a banger.

16:39 Speaker 2: We're pretty proud of it absolutely all right. Let's listen to this from the new album disturb the Comfortable. This is called Gray on Sunday and the band is super Bug.

17:14 Speaker 7: I can see them standing, I can see them standing in the moonlight, silouet surrounded silhouet surrounded by the twilight. Lonely shadows, dance in lonely shadows, dancing in the kindle light.

17:35 Speaker 3: The revision from the tears, the revision from the tears in my mind's side. If I could let it all go,

17:46 Speaker 3: if I could let it all go, if I could let.

17:51 Speaker 1: It all go, if I could a sweeden life.

17:56 Speaker 3: Wrap the blone and down, going.

18:00 Speaker 1: Down the river, fling down, got down the.

18:04 Speaker 3: River, bain of time. I couldn't say, good my.

18:22 Speaker 1: I see them smile.

18:25 Speaker 3: I see them smile.

18:26 Speaker 7: The portrait of a memory, A distant laugh, a distant laugh, and page of sweet melody, slowly fading voices, slowly fading voices go infinity lost in a moment, had a loss of some gimp serenity. If I could let it all go,

18:54 Speaker 7: if I could let it all go, if I could let it all.

18:58 Speaker 3: Go, if my truls.

19:04 Speaker 2: I listen for their voices through the wind in the tree.

19:11 Speaker 3: Gone before I knew when slowly fading.

19:15 Speaker 5: Man if let it all go.

20:02 Speaker 3: They fucking let it off. The girls, they fucking let it all go. You my cover between live ri take your bill up the hole in town.

20:15 Speaker 1: I'm going to table ripper, Hold in town, I go to table ripper. The many times I got the single Byes, Oh I needn't Singleboes, Oh I needn't single.

20:30 Speaker 3: Bye oh my never a single?

20:34 Speaker 2: Bye hang out?

20:35 Speaker 3: Been about ton? How that a single? Boot?

21:12 Speaker 2: That's so good? Grand Sunday The band is Superbug. That's from the new album Disturbed, the Comfortable and read Are you a Are you an a Fraily fan at all?

21:22 Speaker 4: Nope?

21:22 Speaker 2: I wondered, just because that solo kind of sounded a little ace to me that.

21:26 Speaker 4: You know what, It's funny you mentioned that because I'm not a fan of his. I'm not a huge kiss guy. But everybody, I think, all the guitarists I hear say that he just repeats the same lick a few times, right, And I'm definitely somebody that does that.

21:38 Speaker 2: Okay, that's probably why, probably what I'm hearing. Yeah, yeah, I would agree, Yeah, yeah, No, I really I really like that a lot. I love the solo. I love the bassline, the drums, all of it. All of it really good. Uh tell me about the album title, Disturb the Comfortable.

21:53 Speaker 4: Well, we have a song called Comfort that disturbed, yes, and then uh kind of the refrain at the end is Disturbed the Comfortah. So we just thought it was a cool title. Yeah, Yeah, I'm gonna tell him that story. Parker doesn't want me to, but I don't go to so our artwork. We had a great picture on the cover that was drawn by a fan of us playing live, So I said, let's take that and make it look like it's in a sketchbook. And Adam designs all our art So he designed the super Bug logo and then he wrote in cursive underneath it Disturbed the Comfortable because we wanted that to We wanted to look like a teenager's sketchbook where he was writing stuff.

22:30 Speaker 4: And we were waiting, like three weeks like the record was ready to go out, we're still waiting to finish the artwork. And you know, he's you know, he's a man of mystery all respect.

22:40 Speaker 2: So he gave it to us, but he.

22:42 Speaker 4: Had comfortable misspell drong on it. Oh No, and I was just like, whatever, I just want to put it out there. I'll make it seem more juvenile, so be it. And I was gonna buy an article, buy a page advertisement in paper jam. So Sheila and Tony great people up there. And Sheila pointed it out. She's like, you know that comfortable is misspelled. And I'm like, yeah, I was gonna roll or whatever. And thank you Sheila. She had the software to be able to go in and chop the letter that was wrong okay, which was perfect.

23:10 Speaker 4: She's like here and she also helped out. She put the the three ring binder kind of looked through the middle of it.

23:15 Speaker 2: Oh wow.

23:16 Speaker 4: Shout out to Shila for all our help, because we would have put something out there and you know, in all honesty, probably just looked dumb. And I don't blame Adam for this. It's my impatience because I just wanted to get it out there. I didn't have the patience to be like, dude, can you redo this and this and that. I just we were so excited to get it out, you know. But now it's a pretty funny band joke, you know, inside joke. We got a good chuckle out of it.

23:36 Speaker 2: Well, now now I'm just also curious, how do you remember how comfortable was spelled? How? Oh? I know exactly how it was a.

23:42 Speaker 4: C O M P F O R T A b L comfortable, pumped pumpfortible. It was incursive. So who knows if the kids these days even know how to read that sort of thing? Am I right?

23:56 Speaker 2: But uh? True?

23:57 Speaker 4: So I was just gonna let it go because I'm like, all right, well out to fifteen year old. He doesn't pay attention in class and you don't not to spell nothing. But thank you Sheila for having the time and effort to correct that for me unpaid. Uh you know, I feel bad. I should have given her credit or something, but it's not like we've got you know, records out there.

24:17 Speaker 4: But yeah, so that was kind of funny. It's a it's a good intervan joke now yeah. Yeah, But I'll respect to Adam for his artistic ability. He really he comes up with some cool stuff.

24:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent, excellent. So the album is it? Uh so it's out? But is it? Do you have digital copies? I mean, I mean sorry, do you have physical copies or is it just digital at this point?

24:38 Speaker 4: Or just digital? You know, we did a run of vinyl for the last one, But in all honesty, we really didn't sell a whole bunch of them. A lot of them just became business cards. If we played a place or wanted to play a place, it's like here, check us out, gotcha. We still got a box of fifty of them sitting there that we're going to be selling a gigs and stuff. As I mentioned the last time, I ain't about that. I would go cassette before CD. Fight me on, I don't care. I stand behind that. But yeah, the we'd love to do a vinyl run, but to spend twelve hundred bucks for nothing.

25:09 Speaker 4: We would rather have that money to go into the studio to do our next record. I mean, we've got another eighteen songs we haven't recorded. Yeah, and we're constantly wrong. Yeah, we've got a couple in the can just to work on too, So no kidding, Yeah, we're it just flows from us. Yeah, it's real easy, No wonder. You don't have to do covers anymore. You had a lot of music, that's the thing. We want to squeeze it all in. And there's I don't think there's a song we have that it's like, oh, we have to play that one, right, you know, Well maybe Parker because some of the stuff on drums, if he's tired, it's going to be a drag for him, because yeah, we've got a lot of pace on some of the.

25:40 Speaker 5: Stuff, right, almost all of them.

25:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, we we hadn't played much for about a month just because you know, it's it's people had stuff to do and it's not a we're kind of learning as we've been a band now that what works best for us. We're trying to keep it to one gig a month, yeah, you know, regular practice, of course, but everybody had vacation, so we took three weeks to month off. Yeah, and then just playing for the first time the other night, I was like, holy crap, Like there's no song you can take off, Like this is not easy stuff to do and the pace is there.

26:10 Speaker 5: But that's cool, you know, it's.

26:11 Speaker 4: A good exactly. It's still very exciting to play anything. Yeah, you know what I mean.

26:17 Speaker 2: Oh, that's excellent, that's excellent. How long have you guys been around now?

26:20 Speaker 4: Five years since I joined the band?

26:22 Speaker 5: Five years that long?

26:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, five years since you joined that's right. So there was Superbug before Reeb.

26:27 Speaker 4: Yes rec uh yeah, Pine Tree Riot R. Yeah, shout out to Rick.

26:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, well that was the before Superbug was Pine Tree Riot.

26:38 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.

26:38 Speaker 6: It was me Adam and and Worm okay, and then our guitarist Rick okay, and then he decided he wanted to do other things, so okay, Reb came on and uh, then we became Superbug.

26:51 Speaker 4: And I have been playing for thirty years with Dent, which we still play with. Oh wow, So yeah, I'm I'm I'm parking and I are both juggling two bands right now. Yeah, Superbugs is the main one, of course, but you know, it's but it's great to have that creative outlet.

27:05 Speaker 2: Yeah.

27:05 Speaker 4: If I write something and I get two rhythm sections to try it.

27:08 Speaker 2: Out with, that's true.

27:10 Speaker 4: So it's it's kind of cool.

27:11 Speaker 2: That is true.

27:12 Speaker 4: And sometimes it's surprising which one works with which one, but it's it's a luxury and I mean and both rhythm sections are stellar, so it's it's pretty grad Oh.

27:20 Speaker 2: That's excellent that you've played with for a long time.

27:23 Speaker 4: Since high school. You know, we've got two records out on iTunes and you know Spotify. Yeah, oh wow, Yeah, we've been playing. We played five gigs last year. We played two this year. Yeah, we played the Backwoods Metal Fest at Hannecker Brewing Company. And that's the other thing with us. We've been playing with doom metal bands like Superbug, but we've also played with the jam bands. I mean, we've got a wide swath of you know, genres we can kind of fit in with and co mingle with.

27:46 Speaker 2: That's true.

27:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really cool, like the Pig with the Milford Pig Growth. Yeah, I mean it was all like Witch Spire and Hobo Wizard and Proelium and all these you know that kind of stuff. Yeah, and we came up and I thought it was great because I don't know about you, but if I go to a show or festival, I don't want to hear eight of the same thing.

28:04 Speaker 2: I'm the same way.

28:05 Speaker 4: Give me something that that's different. Absolutely, But yeah, it was. It was super fun doing that.

28:10 Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.

28:11 Speaker 4: We're happy to be anywhere.

28:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see how you guys would fit in different different places, which is good.

28:16 Speaker 4: Yeah, And uh, hilariously, on the thirteenth, we're going to be playing like our local community music spotlight on Thursday night, you know where the uh the elderly folks bring their lawn chairs and sit down and super bugs playing that. So we're really excited because our hometown Hillsboro. Yeah, you know, growing up there as a teenager, this is the sort of thing you really wanted.

28:37 Speaker 2: To do right right.

28:38 Speaker 4: The fact that they actually asked us to do it is mind blowing.

28:41 Speaker 2: Oh that's very cool.

28:42 Speaker 4: Well, because you know, four years ago and now four years ago now, we played the big summer fest there and they threw us off the stage.

28:51 Speaker 2: What happened.

28:52 Speaker 4: It's our street cred, so yeah, yeah, it's it's super funny. So the first issue was we bought a brand new Pa not PA mixer, and we tested it out in my yard and thought we had our level set, like this will be perfect. So we went to the ball field and set up on stage and we began playing and we were so loud that vendors across the field you had to yell just to order food from them. So after about two songs, they came over and they're like, you need to cut your volume in half, which we did and we're cool with it, but in all honesty, we were pretty green.

29:21 Speaker 4: That was like one of our first gigs, and so Worm said the F bomb a few too many times. Now, keep in mind this is a family event, so it was kind of so. But the funny thing is we made it through our whole set. We had one song left, which we did a cover of war Pigs, and they just like, no, you gotta go. And we were heroes of the beer tent right next door. They loved us, and a lot of people did dig us, but the organizers, they weren't too fond of that. Looking back on it, they were right one percent.

29:48 Speaker 4: You know, there's artistic integrity and I know you want to. Now we can play spots and censor ourselves a bit more. We've learned, we've made progress. But it makes for a great street cred punk rock story. You know, threw us off at the summer Fest.

30:01 Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's cool.

30:02 Speaker 4: The fact that we're playing the Community Square this year, it's it's pretty hilarious. Yeah, but you know, if any of you Hillsboro folks are listening, it's going to be a clean show. Okay, we are going to uh yeah, we're going to rock your socks off, but there'll be no bad words.

30:16 Speaker 2: Right right, well, very good, very good? And when is is that.

30:22 Speaker 4: August thirteenth Thursday Night. I'm not sure if it's that's six or seven, but we'll post it on our socials. Yeah, but we're really excited for that.

30:29 Speaker 2: Yeah.

30:29 Speaker 4: Those are the type of gigs and when I drive by and see another band doing it, it's like, huh, well, how come we're not doing that? But we're not really background music too. But the weird part is Pembroke City Limits showed us that we could be true. So shout out to Rob again.

30:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I'm sure we talked about this last time. But where does the name Superbug come from? Well?

30:51 Speaker 4: I have a h I think we did talk about. I have a vintage Richard Nixon poster. Oh yeah, seventies. Yeah yeah yeah, and it said Superbug at the bottom and one of our our number one fan shout out to Money. He was over and we were thinking of names and he's like, what about Superbug? Like okay, so yeah, that's it.

31:09 Speaker 2: If you're just joining us. We have Reeb and Parker here from Superbug with us in studio. Why did it say Superbug at the bottom of the Richard Nixon poster? What am I missing?

31:19 Speaker 4: If I showed the poster because it had like a it was called the bug Booth and it had him with headphones on like the Democratic National can right.

31:26 Speaker 2: Right right, okay, right, that makes sense now.

31:28 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so we kind of he took it from that and I was like, ah, that's a great idea.

31:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that is that is a great idea. I do remember we talked about Hesitation Jelly and why the album the other album was called Hesitation Jelly and that's that's that's a fun story too. My dad. My dad got a kick out of that one. Well that's hilarious, but absolutely, well we should we should play another song. Let's uh, let's see of the three you sent me three? Right, yep, I think the what didn't we play yet?

31:56 Speaker 4: Eternal Youth?

31:57 Speaker 2: Eternal Youth? Yeah, tell me about this one?

32:00 Speaker 4: Well, we I think we went through a bit of a rush phase and I wouldn't one of the songs on the record time or No. It's called Taste for the Medicine. It's got three different times signatures in it, and we were we liked the abrupt changes. I'm a huge Strokes fan. Yeah, I love abrupt changes. I love parts that are fighting against each other. But this one's almost like I don't know ADHD because it's going from one pace to another. It jumps around a lot, you know, in tempo wise and uh, just rift wise.

32:28 Speaker 4: It actually started as another entire song that it just we It's one of the only ones we just couldn't get to work.

32:36 Speaker 6: I'd say, oh, really the transitions, for you know, how do we how do we transition from one part of the next?

32:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're going from like a slow to a fast part. So we had to figure all that out.

32:47 Speaker 2: And you know what, so we we got.

32:49 Speaker 4: I took the rifts that I like from the song, and I was going back through my phone and the verse riff that's quiet. I had found that that I just made a recording of it laying around and I'm like, all right, well that's in D two. Maybe I could put that in the middle of it. And then it was just a matter of, like Parker said, getting in and out of the changes. Yeah, and this one's super cool. It's the live first take, guys, you know. So yeah, it is a banger. And they had to do some adjustment to the drums at the beginning in the studio because his kit was a little bit higher pitch than what we normally have, so they didn't.

33:21 Speaker 4: It sounded it didn't sound right, but Dave used his studio magic to kind of make him sound bigger than they were. Yeah, and it's pretty cool. My inspiration for the intro was Over the Mountain by Ozzie. Oh yeah, yeah, so Parker, did you know something along those lines. I wouldn't say it's a direct copy, but that was for me to go, this is what I'm looking for and then you know, so he was able to do that, and yeah, it's it's it's pretty cool. I don't have any other Oh wait, let me Parker or not. I'm sorry, Parker.

33:51 Speaker 4: Worm did tell me what the words were about, so if you would like, I could share that with you. Yeah, absolutely, because I tried to be prepared and ask his opinion on this stuff instead of just assuming. Right, So let's see. Uh, Eternal Youth is about the awakening of realizing that just being alive should be celebrated. Who knew that Worm was such a hippie.

34:11 Speaker 2: Well that's a good Uh, that's a good message. I like that, right, but yeah, absolutely, all right, let's give this a spend. The track is Eternal Youth. It's from the from the album Disturbed, the Comfortable brand new from Superbug. Here we go.

34:54 Speaker 1: I'm not the same the same as yesterday yesterday. Seasons change looking ahead the rainy days. The seasons change.

35:07 Speaker 3: As a meadow into feel alive.

35:23 Speaker 1: It's coming on here to West predud A time takes to show about the good, the shallow sickness an the pumps, where is the hole?

35:34 Speaker 3: The sermon thoughts, women side.

35:36 Speaker 8: Of my head occupying the space too soon, cut myself in the paddle well to myself and not gone.

35:50 Speaker 3: Into my love alive.

36:13 Speaker 1: I'm not the same, the same as yesterday yesterday. The season's changed, looking ahead the rainy days.

36:24 Speaker 2: The seasons change as a fado way.

36:33 Speaker 5: In time, sinking back to.

36:42 Speaker 7: The times a year the magic for one off at all, no things open mind, no one ever has to take the ball.

36:53 Speaker 3: So two defensime my head, I playful.

36:56 Speaker 1: Time, time of the s treaking freeway.

37:01 Speaker 3: That's a bay room.

37:14 Speaker 8: A wicked is the burdens Excel, the wate Ska and the Juvenile.

37:52 Speaker 1: Wicked is the burs An amazing stars, the juvenile prods a.

38:00 Speaker 2: Electric that's so good, That is a banger, eternal youth. The band is a Superbug and we've got one half of super Bug here with us in studio. We have Reeve and Parker here with us, and yeah, that was a good good choice like that one a lot. Absolutely, absolutely, I'm still amazed that you were able to record the album so quickly. That is Uh, that is incredible. Yeah, if you are just joining us, We've got the guys here talking about the new album, Uh, Disturbed, the Comfortable and yeah. I was looking at the artwork too while that was playing.

39:11 Speaker 2: I really like that. So those a fifteen year old who did that?

39:14 Speaker 4: No, we wanted it to make it look like that was Oh Dave, Dave what's his name that did the drawing.

39:19 Speaker 5: Oh Mark, Mark Seymour did the drawing. Oh okay, got bottom.

39:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, we were playing yeah, so he is not fifteen.

39:25 Speaker 4: No, we were. We were playing in worms she shed in his backyard. Yeah, just for like an outdoor party, and the guy just drew us while we were doing it, and to me it was very flattering. I thought it was super cool. Yeah, so yeah, we were I always wanted to do something with that. We were going to have it as the the art on the back of our first record, but you know, it just made it more complicated, so we used it for this.

39:48 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. How long did the first record take? I mean, obviously this one was so quick.

39:52 Speaker 4: But that was about ten hours, no, seven hours?

39:55 Speaker 2: Really yeah, yeah, so really fast.

39:57 Speaker 1: Yeah.

39:57 Speaker 4: Well that this one did. We recorded the vocals live in the room on this one. Yeah, that one, we did the tracks and overdubbed him.

40:05 Speaker 2: Oh okay.

40:05 Speaker 4: The only thing we overdubbed on this was the background vocals, okay. So yeah, And it's funny because if you listen to a song called Disturb the Comfortable at the end, you can really hear Worm's voice breaking up because it's the part that I usually sing. Oh, and he comes in on, but because we were recording it live, he ended up doing that whole part. Yeah, And I'm like, dude's fine, just leave it, you know, Yeacause if you can recall like Territorial Pissings by Nirvana, the end of that where Kurt's screaming and you can just hear his voice shredding, that'll just get chills up your spine.

40:34 Speaker 4: It's so cool.

40:35 Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah absolutely, do you guys, Is there are any live video of you guys performing for any of these shows? Yeah?

40:44 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, if you go on I mean some of the I think the only book, yeah, the full shows that we have probably old ones from like Area twenty three, but you can find if you go to YouTube and type in Superbug stuff. We just throw on up from market Days, pray on Sunday. We just recently got to go pro. Yeah, so we're gonna be working on doing more shows to put it out there.

41:07 Speaker 2: But yeah, usually if we have a.

41:08 Speaker 4: Gig, if I can get one good song for content, I'm happy. Yeah, and uh yeah so it Sunday, Yeah, market Day. That was a good one. That was just from a couple of weeks ago. But if you go to uh, I guess my page Reeve Grady on YouTube YouTube, you can find some Superbug stuff there. If you go on our social Superbug NH on Instagram and also on Facebook, we've got a bunch of stuff there. And then also come out to shows. We've got some we've like I said, we've were booked through November, one show a month at least anyway, so we got let's see, you want us to go over some upcoming.

41:45 Speaker 2: Sto go for Yeah, yeah, we got time here all right, Yeah, a flex on that whatever.

41:48 Speaker 4: So we got the uh, the Butler Park thing in Hillsboro on August thirteenth, which is going to be uh a hoot. We spoke on that earlier. And then on September we're going to be playing at the State House and Conquered for the Friday Night Music Series, the Original Music Series and College Wow. So we're gonna play there a couple hours, all original stuff. And then on the twenty fifth of September, we're gonna be playing Hannecker Brewing Company from six to eight. That's a Friday night. And then we've got Pembroke City Limits coming up.

42:18 Speaker 4: I believe it's seventeenth October seventeenth, Yeah, and then November twenty eighth, we've got a gig. It's going to be in Conquered. It hasn't been officially nailed down yet. I don't want to ruin the announcement. Look out for that. We should be doing that as well. Yeah, So those are the upcoming gigs. And I'd also like to shout out George at the Hawk one oh four point nine. He's been playing Invasive Species off the first record for almost two years now.

42:40 Speaker 2: Oh wow.

42:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's in the regular rotation on the Sunday Night, you know, Hometown Spotlight. Thank you George. And he also played Daily Grind off the new record Kidding, and I think Humanity off the last record too, and also the Takeover they played at this moment recently. Oh really, yeah, that was kind of funny work. You know, a guy came in and to do some safety training and we got to talk and he had a radio show, so you know network and hey, I got a band blah blah blah. Oh yeah, so he threw something on and that's super fun.

43:11 Speaker 4: But yeah, those are the upcoming gigs we get stay tuned for more. Like I said, we're trying to trying to keep it to one a month because I would say last year in particular, we were pretty busy and I didn't realize it until I looked at a Facebook post like memories our list of upcoming gigs. It was like, dang, we were like working every weekend last summer. It felt like, I'm like, no wonder. My wife was so mad. So I think all of us we found a happy medium, a gig a month, you know, because last year was more like hey they want us to play Holy cow, let's go do it.

43:43 Speaker 4: Now we can be like no, you know, we don't. We just don't have time for it or whatever. Yeah, and you know all are we're like getting paid gigs regularly now and it's super excited. Well because we just play to go into the studio. That's the kind of the new model. Because you know, my thought to the the gus and I told them, if any of you don't feel like doing this anymore, I'll foot the bill. Let's go to the studio and record the songs. I don't want them to go away, right, you know, I want to keep them because how many bands you've been in where you had a great original song, Oh god, you didn't record it and it's just lost to history.

44:14 Speaker 2: Heartbreaking? Yeah, I think about Yeah, yeah, I agree.

44:16 Speaker 4: So that's I mean, we're all into it, but I just try and reinforce that. Listen, if you want to do it, to heck with it, Let's go to the studio and record them, right and get them out there just so they don't get lost to the you know history, right.

44:27 Speaker 2: Yep, yep. Absolutely. I have songs from bands I've played in that will just randomly pop into my head where I'll think I wish out a recording of that it's very, very frustrating.

44:39 Speaker 4: Well, I agree, but it's cool too because sometimes I had, like maybe something I wrote ten years ago for Dent that didn't work. We couldn't make it happen. Now I can try with Superbug. Yeah, so you know those things are good. And I mean on the first record there's a song called Views that originally I was playing in like nineteen ninety three with my old high school band, Uncle Slough. Yeah, you know, and so it was cool to get that on record somewhere. And the guy who wrote the lyrics is no longer with us either, so you know, he can't claim them right in their mind.

45:10 Speaker 4: Now it's copywritten under me or us. I didn't even write the bass riff. Shout out to Charlie Acorn. That's a great riff. But yeah, I'm gonna get liberless. They are libelists. Here is a state will come after it, right, you know, you kidding? But yeah, this is also cool stuff for us because we got new gear. I mean, Parker got a fancy new kid. Yeah, so it's just pretty it's good to be super Bug. We're pretty happy right now.

45:37 Speaker 1: Good.

45:37 Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a big boog wig and a small Yeah.

45:41 Speaker 4: Excellent, excellent, excellent, And I think if you ask my wife, I have more guitars than it is humanly needed, you know, necessary.

45:47 Speaker 2: Every guitar player's got to have more guitars.

45:49 Speaker 4: Thank you for justifying that. Now I feel better.

45:51 Speaker 2: But it's a rule. I agree, it's a rule. Yeah, you know, they look great in the case, you know, Yeah, how many? Now I'm curious, how many do you have?

46:01 Speaker 4: Probably fourteen? Oh jeez, yeah, and I've probably got oh, she.

46:04 Speaker 2: Might have a point.

46:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, And then I've probably got seven thousand dollars worth of effect pedals just sitting on the shelf, Lord, because I don't use much on my board, you know, I use like two pedals and that's it. Yeah. But the sad part is is recently I got one of those j Mascus Squire Jazz Masters I've been looking at for fifteen years, and I'm so embarrassed that all I want to play is this four hundred dollars guitar and it might be my best guitar. And I've got, you know, twenty five hundred dollars guitars or whatever, but they don't stay in tune as well, they don't sound as good.

46:40 Speaker 4: I'm blown away. But I'm embarrassed because you know, I'm you know, I don't want to be caught dead on stage playing a squire, you know. But it's awesome, So I'm really torn. Like, you know, I'm probably gonna play it because I love it, Like since I got it, I haven't been able to put it down.

46:57 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Oh so heavy endorsement of it.

47:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this is the white one you see of him, or there's a lot of them out there. Yeah, I'm willing to bet three quarters of people that own one don't have any idea who the guy is. Right that it's modeled after, right, But I'd say for a beginner guitar, good luck finding something better, no kidding?

47:16 Speaker 5: Yeah?

47:16 Speaker 2: Oh interesting? Interesting, Well, gentlemen, we are running out of time. Remind us and we are going to play that track. Remind us of where where should people go online to keep up with all things super bug?

47:28 Speaker 4: All right? Well, go to Facebook dot com and then we are Superbug n H and then also on Instagram Superbug NH. My name is REEB.

47:37 Speaker 2: Grady.

47:37 Speaker 4: Feel free to follow me. We've got my homeboy Parker over here follow him. But yeah, you should be easy to search and find us on there.

47:44 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And of course the new album is great. Disturb the comfortable and what can you tell us about? So I technically can't say, so it's funny. So the last song we're going to play, ironically, the title has a swear, and so we can't say the title on the air, but the lyrics don't have any swears.

48:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, we call it no bs no bs.

48:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah I say that.

48:04 Speaker 4: But yeah, no swears this one. If those are you nerds out there, they want to listen to it, listen to the verse because it's almost like Adams taking the tradition of the bass player is taking a traditional guitar kind of role and me, I'm just playing staccato, one note kind of guitar things on the low strings. Yeah, kind of what the bass would normally do. So I think it's kind of a cool little mixture there. And then to be really nerdy during the solo part. Basically for the it's four four times through, but the first two I'll play the fifth and he'll play the root note, and then we switch it.

48:37 Speaker 4: He'll play the root note and I'll play the fifth, Okay, and it's the same riff stuff nobody notices, but it makes us feel like we're all smart or something.

48:45 Speaker 2: Right right, No, that's cool, Yeah, that's cool. I like it. I like it. Reebend Parker. Guys, thank you again so much for Thank you absolutely. Before we play that track too and close out, I just want to remind everybody if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at WMNAH radio dot org at my website Matt Connorton dot com. We also have the new site, Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com. Thank you everybody who listens everywhere, whether you listen locally in Manchester, New Hampshire on ninety five point three, or if you listen online uh, somewhere else in the country or on another continent.

49:17 Speaker 1: Uh.

49:17 Speaker 2: We've got listeners all over the place and I'm very appreciative and grateful for that. So thank you all. And we will leave you with this. This is we'll call it no BS and the band is Superbug. Yes, thanks again, Thank you.

49:42 Speaker 1: Well listed up, took out the ste march, made it pretty and add its own blitter. Oh the wick From the inside it looks so sweet, but the has been you've been being you're locked into check mate.

49:55 Speaker 2: You got the choice.

49:58 Speaker 1: I got to know if you me an energy, having faith in the many road symmetry. I'm healing past, I'm going rose, I'm seeing.

50:12 Speaker 2: Revealing all.

50:14 Speaker 1: I'm feeling.

50:17 Speaker 3: It's what I saw.

50:20 Speaker 1: You know what to be head at all? Braven's boys getting on with be silence. A peaceful voice can sometimes be in violent if nobody.

50:29 Speaker 3: Is present to who listen? If the boy it's making is missing.

50:34 Speaker 1: Being tripping on the stone's own on the ground, the spirits head a man a feat of truth.

50:39 Speaker 3: It's definitely deep.

50:40 Speaker 5: Can you hear?

50:40 Speaker 2: Can you hear the sound?

50:42 Speaker 1: The sound of leave is coming from the truth. I want to.

50:50 Speaker 8: Really feel it all.

50:55 Speaker 5: I hear the bat.

50:58 Speaker 3: That's what I saw.

51:01 Speaker 1: No wait at all?

51:06 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I want it raw, Oh yeah.

51:45 Speaker 3: The ones who have been lost there, the ones who know, the ones who have been they're the ones who knows, the ones who can't be.

52:00 Speaker 1: Who knows?

52:00 Speaker 2: The crazy ones who he is?

52:02 Speaker 3: The in the sun the window let it?

52:05 Speaker 2: But what he the mat I want to draw?

52:14 Speaker 3: We're really noise.

52:16 Speaker 1: I'm reeling bad.

52:19 Speaker 5: Guess what I saw?

52:22 Speaker 1: You don't wanting or hot at all? Oh yeah, I want it raw

52:32 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're being no