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The Grey Curtain | Matt Connarton Unleashed
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Speaker 8: That is the Florist. The band is the Gray Curtain.
Speaker 8: And we've got a couple of the guys here with
Speaker 8: us in studio. We're gonna talk with them in just
Speaker 8: a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number two
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Speaker 8: there you go, there you go. So yes, yes, all
Speaker 8: these these synchronicities. But today is Saturday, April four, twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six. Genny is here of course at the news table.
Speaker 8: I am president, and we have of course Dennis and
Speaker 8: Troy from the band The Gray Curtain.
Speaker 7: Welcome back, guys, thanks for having us back. Man having
Speaker 7: to be here, you got to be.
Speaker 8: In the five Timers club by now right four four.
Speaker 7: This is this is fourth. Uh well, if you count
Speaker 7: the wait at.
Speaker 9: The old studio, didn't you come over there? He came
Speaker 9: to the old ones.
Speaker 7: I don't think, no, maybe not, maybe not. I think.
Speaker 10: Uh so there's the first time that Sean and I
Speaker 10: were here, our bass player Sean okay, uh, Troy has
Speaker 10: been here twice, and there was the over the.
Speaker 7: Phone interview that I was regretfully late for. Oh okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: oh wow.
Speaker 9: So well, well we're almost there. Then one more to
Speaker 9: be in the five timers.
Speaker 7: One more, one more.
Speaker 8: But we've run into you at shows. Maybe that's maybe
Speaker 8: that's why it seems like we've because we have all
Speaker 8: done the same room together ultple occasions.
Speaker 9: And Dennis and I vote had our work on display
Speaker 9: at the Terminus. Uh, you have to undergrounds Terminus, which
Speaker 9: was really fun. There were a lot of artisans there,
Speaker 9: and you know, and I know they've been doing a
Speaker 9: lot of work recently. I'm looking forward to seeing the
Speaker 9: changes and things they're doing.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 8: Mean your art is incredible, absolutely, yeah yeah, because until
Speaker 8: that I didn't even know that you also were a
Speaker 8: visual artist until until that event. Well, I mean, leading
Speaker 8: up to that event, obviously, But by the way, so, uh, Jenny,
Speaker 8: does Troy remind you of anybody visually?
Speaker 11: Maybe a little people, of a lot of different people.
Speaker 8: Okay, does he remind you of anybody? Not not not somebody,
Speaker 8: not someone that we've ever met in person, but we've
Speaker 8: consumed some of his content online, although not recently.
Speaker 9: My brain's not going where your brain is going, because
Speaker 9: when I am, my brain is going to the band rush.
Speaker 7: See the hair.
Speaker 9: And I've been watching a lot of videos, yes.
Speaker 11: Because I can kind of see that, maybe the facial
Speaker 11: hair anything like, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 9: The facial hair and the hair and longer face. And yeah,
Speaker 9: he's been coming up in my YouTube stream a lot lately.
Speaker 7: And it's a very polite.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that Calmnessedty has that calmness.
Speaker 8: That's true, right, No, are you familiar with I mean.
Speaker 9: That complimentary because I think he's a great individual.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely held a bass player.
Speaker 7: Are you familiar with pod Awful?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 8: No, Okay, there's a guy named Jesseps who has a
Speaker 8: show online called pod Awful.
Speaker 7: And you look a lot like jesse Ps, like a
Speaker 7: lot like, don't you think so? I'm not certain.
Speaker 9: I'd have to look at it another picture of him
Speaker 9: because in this moment, I can't pull Jesse.
Speaker 7: Gotcha, have to check it out, gotcha. Yeah, deficits really
Speaker 7: messing with me. I understand. I understand.
Speaker 8: So so we do have we do have, of course
Speaker 8: Dennis and Troy from The Gray Curtain here and that track.
Speaker 8: So we were kind of talking off air about that
Speaker 8: The Florist, and you were saying, how much now you
Speaker 8: don't currently play that one.
Speaker 10: Live, but you have with the current lineup, or we
Speaker 10: play that song, you play that song. We do play
Speaker 10: the title track. Basically every show we play, we play
Speaker 10: The Florist. It's usually second right out of breath for
Speaker 10: all of a sudden. Yeah, that one's a pretty big
Speaker 10: staple for our setlist.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, it's a great song. Well you were talking
Speaker 8: about why you you really enjoy playing that one live?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Basically, as I've mentioned the last time, the last
Speaker 10: few times I came on, the whole concept of our
Speaker 10: music is based around the storyline.
Speaker 7: Very therapeutic for me and for anybody that swims in
Speaker 7: my sea, and the.
Speaker 10: Story of The Florist is uh, it's the first time
Speaker 10: that I had a chance to delve into like character
Speaker 10: work because the first album is very autobiographical, with the
Speaker 10: exception of the end, but the second album I worked
Speaker 10: a lot with trying to get more of a metaphor.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 10: The the album is a metaphor for like trying to
Speaker 10: like hold on and like get back what you can't
Speaker 10: get back, and how it kind of it makes us
Speaker 10: less when we hold onto things and just won't let go.
Speaker 8: And that was very which is human nature. I mean,
Speaker 8: we're all guilty of it to some degree.
Speaker 7: Exactly, We're all human. We all do it.
Speaker 10: So I had a very good friend of mine named
Speaker 10: Jesse put together a mask that is that symbolizes the
Speaker 10: character of the Floorist. Okay, you know, maybe next time
Speaker 10: I'll actually think ahead and bring it and bring it.
Speaker 10: But what I enjoy is like and we don't really
Speaker 10: get a chance to do it all that often. We
Speaker 10: did do it once at at Terminus, Okay, to bring
Speaker 10: up Terminus again. We did a Halloween show and even
Speaker 10: though the rest of the set was basically the first
Speaker 10: album Shadow of a Man, we did play the Flooriest
Speaker 10: and when we played the Florist, I was able to
Speaker 10: break into that character and I put the mask on.
Speaker 10: I had the whole get up. You know, the character
Speaker 10: has a certain look. You know, his hands are ripped
Speaker 10: up from you know, working in the dirt and basically
Speaker 10: you know, just wrecking his hands. Because, as the name
Speaker 10: may suggest, he's a florist. He's not a botanist, so
Speaker 10: he doesn't know what he's doing. You know, his wife
Speaker 10: was a botanist, so he's trying to do her job
Speaker 10: instead of just arranging the flowers and selling them. And
Speaker 10: he cuts his hands up, so he's got a lot
Speaker 10: of tape around his hands. He's you know, they're dirty,
Speaker 10: they're bloody, and you know, he's an elder gentleman, so
Speaker 10: he's got like the pants up to his stomach and
Speaker 10: the suspenders. He's wearing a scarf that his wife was
Speaker 10: wearing on the day that she died. It still smells
Speaker 10: of her, so he's constantly holding it up to his
Speaker 10: face and he doesn't realize that that scarf is drenched
Speaker 10: in the the oil of this plant called the Devil's Trumpet,
Speaker 10: And when he breathes it in and when he's like
Speaker 10: touching it, he's absorbing this oil and it's making him nuts.
Speaker 10: You know, it's because in real life, this plant, if
Speaker 10: you if you ingest it. It's like it uh it
Speaker 10: causes you to hallucinate, and it doesn't make you hallucinate,
Speaker 10: and you know, not the fun with no. I was
Speaker 10: gonna say, for anyone listening, don't try this. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: you know it's it's not it's not the fun kind
Speaker 10: of hallucinating. And it's uh, you know, I imagine like
Speaker 10: your worst nightmare cranked up to eleven. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 10: and you know it causes you to have problems breathing
Speaker 10: and things of that nature, which also causes problems because.
Speaker 7: You're not getting oxygen to your brain. If you eat
Speaker 7: this plant, you die.
Speaker 10: There's there's coming back and uh he he essentially goes
Speaker 10: into like this really tail spinning story that uh, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm a big fan of a twenty four films and.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know what what is that?
Speaker 10: A twenty four If you've ever watched Hereditary midsommer, they
Speaker 10: talk to Me, I think was, Oh, talk to Me?
Speaker 7: I love that one. Yeah, talk to talk to Me
Speaker 7: is my favorite. Uh heretic The Green Knight.
Speaker 10: It basically it's a production company and they make some
Speaker 10: of my favorite movies.
Speaker 7: But I try to I try to work it into.
Speaker 10: The story of like this, This story is not supposed
Speaker 10: to make you feel comfortable. It's supposed to make you
Speaker 10: feel the exact opposite. It's supposed to make you think
Speaker 10: of stuff that may make you think, Wow, you know,
Speaker 10: there's a problem with me that I need to address, because,
Speaker 10: like we mentioned, you know, we all have like that
Speaker 10: thing that we just can't let go of. If somebody
Speaker 10: brings up this topic and conversation, it makes us feel
Speaker 10: a little angry and whatnot.
Speaker 7: So when I get up on.
Speaker 10: Stage and I get to portray the floorist, it's almost well,
Speaker 10: it is. It's therapeutic to be able to, you know,
Speaker 10: play this character and realize that you know, this, like
Speaker 10: any other character of the Town of Apathy that I've created,
Speaker 10: is a way to exercise.
Speaker 7: Demons that I had a long time ago.
Speaker 10: And it's it's a lot of fun because like when
Speaker 10: I'm on stage and playing myself, uh you know, I
Speaker 10: I don't know, I generally have a pretty good demeanor
Speaker 10: and whatnot, But when I'm playing the florist, it you
Speaker 10: can see the change. Yeah, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 10: of twitching, there's a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 10: spasming and uh, yeah, a lot of staring into the void,
Speaker 10: right right. So I remember we were playing at Terminus
Speaker 10: the last time that I put the mask on, and
Speaker 10: I'm just like staring at at nothing.
Speaker 7: But everyone that was in my eye line was like,
Speaker 7: what what's happening?
Speaker 4: Right right?
Speaker 11: I'll catch a glimpse of it, Like standing from this
Speaker 11: side of them, I'll look over I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 11: he's gonna kill me or somebody else.
Speaker 7: I love theater.
Speaker 10: I've been a cinephile all my life, and you know,
Speaker 10: any chance I get, I will go to the hanover
Speaker 10: in uh in Worcester watch a play. You know, I've
Speaker 10: like some of the best times in my life was
Speaker 10: going to Broadway when I was in chorus, you know,
Speaker 10: seeing Rent live and whatnot. Yeah, it's a It's a
Speaker 10: great feeling to be able to not just uh portray
Speaker 10: characters and emotion, but to invoke emotion into your audience.
Speaker 10: I mean, that's why I do it. Yeah, Yeah, it
Speaker 10: makes me feel better. It makes my audience feel better
Speaker 10: when people come up to me after a show, especially
Speaker 10: when we play how does it feel.
Speaker 7: You know there there are there are people? And I
Speaker 7: brought this up.
Speaker 10: We played Maine and you know, it was like a
Speaker 10: nice line wrapped around you know, people were buying merchandise.
Speaker 10: That's basically how we made our money that night, and
Speaker 10: being able to talk to these people who wanted to
Speaker 10: share their stories with me. And I'm not going anywhere
Speaker 10: if people do that. I cannot stress enough. Like a
Speaker 10: lot of you'll hear a lot of bands and you
Speaker 10: know they mean it. Yeah, I'm not saying they don't,
Speaker 10: but you'll hear a lot of bands say this, so
Speaker 10: it kind of loses its flavor after you hear it
Speaker 10: so often. But I am at the merch table afterwards,
Speaker 10: and I'm not going anywhere if people want to talk.
Speaker 10: You know, I always want to listen to people because
Speaker 10: people should be heard, you know, And I know what
Speaker 10: it's like to feel the opposite.
Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely. It's interesting too, you know. Some of what
Speaker 8: you're saying we had earlier. We had Emm a hunter
Speaker 8: who's a great artist from the UK and she's got
Speaker 8: this album, Yolanda, and it tells a story and it's
Speaker 8: very cinema and some of what she was talking about,
Speaker 8: it's it's similar to to what you were just saying about,
Speaker 8: you know, being able to how it's therapeutic. Yeah, you
Speaker 8: know it is, you know, yeah, because she has a
Speaker 8: her album Yolanda. It's Yolanda's a fictional character that she
Speaker 8: made up, but she's she was talking about how some
Speaker 8: of it's based on things that happened to her and
Speaker 8: some of it's not, and it's up to the listener
Speaker 8: to try to figure out what's what if they if
Speaker 8: they want to. But but I think she used that
Speaker 8: word a couple of times. Actually, I think she said
Speaker 8: there it's therapeutic.
Speaker 11: Yeah, to be able to do that, Yeah, that that's
Speaker 11: also a big thing of like what we want to
Speaker 11: do going forward is like even for the rest of
Speaker 11: the band, kind of come up with our characters and
Speaker 11: kind of make it more of a theatrical performance and
Speaker 11: like we're getting like local artists and like animators involved
Speaker 11: and having like projection screens cool going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah you beat me to it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, working on that and yeah, it's becoming definitely, uh,
Speaker 11: the kind of bigger project than.
Speaker 7: What it has been.
Speaker 11: And I'm really looking forward to that.
Speaker 8: Too, Yeah, because your music certainly lends itself to that.
Speaker 8: Definitely those theatrical elements. So that's that's amazing, excellent excellent
Speaker 8: if you're just joins joining us. We have Dennis and
Speaker 8: Troy from the Gray Curtain here with us in studio.
Speaker 8: And then what's so you guys were kind of talking
Speaker 8: off their about you've got how many songs you're working on?
Speaker 8: Like you've got like a thousand songs?
Speaker 7: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it feels that way one. Two, yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 13: we are you know what Troy you want to Yeah,
Speaker 13: I talk way too much.
Speaker 7: Coming up.
Speaker 11: What we're working on is basically a continuing or kind
Speaker 11: of another part of this story with the town of Apathy,
Speaker 11: and it's these two kind of main characters that we're
Speaker 11: working with. So each album, it's going to be a
Speaker 11: double album, is what we're going for. And it's yet
Speaker 11: each album is following each of these characters and the
Speaker 11: ways that they kind of cross over with each other
Speaker 11: and just kind of being involved in like this whole,
Speaker 11: you know, bigger story of everything, and it's just been uh,
Speaker 11: really interesting, a really interesting challenge too, kind of feel
Speaker 11: like the the moods that are captured in these two
Speaker 11: these two character stories, and it's kind of like it's
Speaker 11: kind of cool, like something that we've figured out, like
Speaker 11: a couple of weeks ago. It's like they both start
Speaker 11: and end in like opposite areas. It's like ones kind
Speaker 11: of already in this madness and it's kind of like
Speaker 11: his dissent kind of brings him back up almost to
Speaker 11: I guess kind of. But then the other one, it's
Speaker 11: like she starts off more calm and composed, and then
Speaker 11: like you know, something bad happens and it just kind.
Speaker 7: Of goes off the rails.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they don't get too much way, yeah ye, but yeah,
Speaker 10: ye a, a negative point happens and she goes into
Speaker 10: the madness spectrum of it.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's just the the finding these uh.
Speaker 11: Like the the way to convey these moments and these
Speaker 11: these feelings within the music has been a cool, cool
Speaker 11: experience for me because like I've only done like death
Speaker 11: metal in the past.
Speaker 8: Oh really yeah yeah, So how far into this are
Speaker 8: you into the I mean, are you actually recording? Are
Speaker 8: you still writing or writing?
Speaker 7: We're still very much in the writing process. Unfortunately. Living
Speaker 7: in New England, you know, you face certain challenges like
Speaker 7: the weather. Uh you know this.
Speaker 10: I mentioned at our twelve year anniversary show last month
Speaker 10: that uh, you know, the New England weather doesn't know
Speaker 10: what it wants to be when it grows up, you know. So,
Speaker 10: uh yeah, we ended up losing a lot of time.
Speaker 11: It was that, and like it seems like one after
Speaker 11: the other, like everybody's cars just started dying.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, it was like some sort of curse,
Speaker 10: I'm telling you. Yeah, because his car died. So I
Speaker 10: went to go pick him up for a rehearsal. It
Speaker 10: was our last rehearsal before the twelve year anniversary show,
Speaker 10: and we got about five miles away from his house
Speaker 10: and my car died.
Speaker 8: Really, oh, what are the odds?
Speaker 7: And then like the very next week, Sean, our bass
Speaker 7: player's car died. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but you know, obviously, you know, we're we got
Speaker 10: it all squared away. But yeah, but as far as
Speaker 10: the album, we're hard at work on the writing end
Speaker 10: of it. Okay, the story end of it is done.
Speaker 7: Oh okay.
Speaker 10: I'm working with a very talented writer, my writing partner, April,
Speaker 10: and we're a little over twelve hundred pages of this
Speaker 10: script that goes along with oh with not just this
Speaker 10: album that we're working on, all of them, okay, all
Speaker 10: twenty chapters of the Town of Apathy.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, And what's nice.
Speaker 10: Is before with the old line up, we you know,
Speaker 10: it was basically like fill in the blank, like what's
Speaker 10: happening here? And we're writing the story as we go along.
Speaker 10: What's nice about this time is the story's there. We
Speaker 10: basically go, okay, let's write a song around this scene.
Speaker 10: Let's write a song around this feeling and this emotion
Speaker 10: that's happening right now.
Speaker 11: It is good to have like the source material to
Speaker 11: work off of instead of kind of just like you know,
Speaker 11: playing on the fly, like yeah, okay, so what happens next?
Speaker 10: Well, even with the Florists, you know, it was like
Speaker 10: we would write a song and as I was writing
Speaker 10: the lyrics, I'd sit there in the studio and go,
Speaker 10: I don't I don't know where to put this song
Speaker 10: like in the in the spectrum of the story.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 10: But then, as you know, with my old bandmate's help,
Speaker 10: I'd be able to be like, oh wait, no, it
Speaker 10: makes sense to add like this lyric, and then we
Speaker 10: can fit it in here.
Speaker 7: And this is what's happening with.
Speaker 10: Again with this one, it's like we are currently working
Speaker 10: on I believe twenty six okay, twenty six different songs
Speaker 10: of three or four of them are done. We're just uh,
Speaker 10: you know, we need to work on them as a
Speaker 10: band and tighten them up before we play them live.
Speaker 7: Right, like any band. Right, But yeah, we're currently yeah,
Speaker 7: we're currently deep in the writing process. Then the recording. God,
Speaker 7: I don't know how long that's going to take. I
Speaker 7: really don't, you know.
Speaker 10: Thankfully, our our drummer Tyler, who you know from Scarecrow Hill. Yes, yes,
Speaker 10: he is very averse in the recording aspect. He loves
Speaker 10: that part of He's told us many times.
Speaker 7: He's like, this is what I like doing.
Speaker 8: Oh that's good because a lot of musicians don't a
Speaker 8: lot of musicians only one to play live right in
Speaker 8: the studio.
Speaker 11: So I know a little bit here and there, like
Speaker 11: enough to get like a demo together or like yeah,
Speaker 11: just kind of get ideas onto the daw But it's
Speaker 11: like he I can't do any of the mixing or
Speaker 11: anything like that. That's all foreign language to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And then you know, Tyler introduced me to Joe
Speaker 10: Clap at Ultrasound Studios. Okay, great guy. I can't wait
Speaker 10: to work with him. To be honest, I'm so excited
Speaker 10: for the possibilities that is going to be this new album,
Speaker 10: like and the fact that we we already know like titles, okay,
Speaker 10: like the next album you know we have we already
Speaker 10: have the title for the album after that, you know,
Speaker 10: depending on where we go, like which story we choose, right,
Speaker 10: already has a name.
Speaker 8: Okay, but so do you literally already have the all
Speaker 8: twenty six titles.
Speaker 7: For yeah, oh you do? Okay? Yeah, okay, yeah, you
Speaker 7: know there's a couple that are working chartles, but even
Speaker 7: the even the ones that are like, oh, you know,
Speaker 7: we don't know if this is actually yeah.
Speaker 11: The working title just kind of becomes the name of
Speaker 11: the song.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, okay, Yeah, it's like it's just.
Speaker 11: A funny string of words that kind of came together,
Speaker 11: and it's like, you know what, it kind of fits.
Speaker 11: So Sean's February song, Like yeah, Sean's February Surprise or
Speaker 11: something like that.
Speaker 10: That's what it was, Sean's February Surprise. It sounds like
Speaker 10: something you got at a restaurant, right.
Speaker 7: It does, it does?
Speaker 10: But uh, it was the other spider soup. Dude, I
Speaker 10: cannot stress enough. I want spider Soup on this program
Speaker 10: so bad. When it when it's done, I want to.
Speaker 10: I want to be able to. I want to be
Speaker 10: able to have that herd.
Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent.
Speaker 8: So do you plan to play any of these live
Speaker 8: before the album is done?
Speaker 7: We already are playing too.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, yeah, we've been playing two of the tracks
Speaker 10: now for oh good years going on.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10: There's Hollow, which is a song that Shawn, our bass player, basically,
Speaker 10: you know, it's like, here's the song, completely done, lyrics
Speaker 10: and all, and it just so happened to fit very
Speaker 10: well with one of the characters very well. And it
Speaker 10: was funny because he didn't write it to be like,
Speaker 10: you know, oh, you know, this is a song for
Speaker 10: this character. He was just like, I wrote this song.
Speaker 10: I think it's very good for the Great Curtain? What
Speaker 10: do you guys think? And we played it and for
Speaker 10: a while I was like, oh man, I'm gonna miss
Speaker 10: this guy's song up so bad because because he has
Speaker 10: a tenor register, I am more of a baritone. I
Speaker 10: can hit some tenor. Yeah, he is up there really yeah,
Speaker 10: and which makes great for harmonies with the three of.
Speaker 7: Us, Oh, no doubt. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 10: But for a long time I was so afraid to
Speaker 10: play this song live. Because I'm like, yeah, when you
Speaker 10: don't write the song, you know, I know I'm not alone,
Speaker 10: but you know, I feel bad about this. When I
Speaker 10: didn't write the lyrics, I'm like, I'm gonna mess his
Speaker 10: lyrics up.
Speaker 7: And for a long time I was.
Speaker 10: Very tense about that really, but now we play it
Speaker 10: live and it's like I'm in it. Yeah, yeah, everything's fine.
Speaker 10: And the other song is I Live in Shame. Okay,
Speaker 10: so one song is one character, one song is the
Speaker 10: other character. And yeah, Hollow is a very h.
Speaker 7: It's very like heavy, kind of like driven like this.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I was gonna say more like emotional,
Speaker 7: like theatrical, but yes, it's definitely, especially towards the end. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Meanwhile,
Speaker 7: I Live in Shame.
Speaker 10: It is dark, it's moody, moody, it's uh but again
Speaker 10: it's got like that, it's got that driving force in it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: But yeah, I Live in Shame was like the first
Speaker 11: one that we wrote in this iteration of the band,
Speaker 11: and it's just kind of the first one that came
Speaker 11: together with you know, with me and Sean at least
Speaker 11: we had some Joe from uh A billion of bands
Speaker 11: drums writing that one and then but yeah that that
Speaker 11: that was the first one, like this ineration iteration of
Speaker 11: the band wrote together.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, oh very cool. Big shout out to Joe. Yeah,
Speaker 7: big shout out to Joe.
Speaker 10: Excellent, Joe soo, Guello, the Megans, Rags, Stitches, watch like,
Speaker 10: watch any of those bands, They're all great.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, we have the Megans on the show, didn't we?
Speaker 7: Did we have the Megans on? I'm not positive. I
Speaker 7: have to do the search. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I gotten to that point where, oh my god,
Speaker 8: it's uh nine years uh today, w M and H
Speaker 8: real nice. I've I forgot to even mention it at
Speaker 8: all the in the show, yat because nine nine is
Speaker 8: an odd like like the ten year anniversary will be
Speaker 8: a bybody else.
Speaker 9: Is a little older in the room though.
Speaker 8: Thank you Birthdays.
Speaker 7: Donnis Layton's birthday, Ye, well, Thursday was.
Speaker 9: Today. I apologize.
Speaker 7: Oh it's fine, it's close enough, thank you.
Speaker 10: Thursday was my birthday. Uh turned forty five. Uh yeah,
Speaker 10: it's uh, it's it's tough. It's tough sometimes because you
Speaker 10: know when you reach us, you know, when you're a
Speaker 10: certain age and you know you're still struggling and whatnot.
Speaker 7: You know and do the things that you love to do.
Speaker 10: It's like, you know, the voice in the back of
Speaker 10: your head that sounds like the people that told you
Speaker 10: when you were a kid that you you wouldn't amount
Speaker 10: to anything or starting to sound like your voice right
Speaker 10: and uh it, but I cannot stress enough. I'm really
Speaker 10: looking forward to to my forty fifth year on this planet.
Speaker 10: Couldn't say that, you know a few moons ago, sure,
Speaker 10: you know, and if anybody listens to the first Gray
Speaker 10: Curtain album, you definitely get the idea that I didn't
Speaker 10: always like life. But yeah, I I celebrated with one
Speaker 10: of my best friends and we went to the movies.
Speaker 10: We went to see, Uh, They Will Kill You, which
Speaker 10: I highly recommend for anybody who's a fan of Kill
Speaker 10: Bill and Evil Dead, you know, like the original Evil
Speaker 10: deads Sam Raimi, great movie.
Speaker 7: Who directed this?
Speaker 10: You know, I don't know, I will know because I
Speaker 10: need I need, like all the information about this movie
Speaker 10: when it comes out, you know, when it when it's
Speaker 10: out on streaming. But yeah, I didn't catch that. But
Speaker 10: Patricia Katt's great in it. Heather Graham, who I've never
Speaker 10: really said like, oh, you know, this is a She's
Speaker 10: a great actress. She is amazing in this movie. No kidding,
Speaker 10: she is great. But yeah, I can't remember his name,
Speaker 10: but he played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.
Speaker 10: He's in it, but he's great and it's a great cast.
Speaker 10: It's if you're into like visceral action scenes and things
Speaker 10: like that, it's right up your out.
Speaker 7: No kidding.
Speaker 10: Okay, if you if you go in, if you watch
Speaker 10: it going into it thinking, uh, you know, this is
Speaker 10: gonna be like the best movie I've seen. It's gonna
Speaker 10: be like best picture next year. Then you're gonna hate it. Right,
Speaker 10: you're gonna hate it. But if you go into it thinking, okay,
Speaker 10: kill Bill meets like Evil Dead two, yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 10: love this movie. Okay, all right, very cool.
Speaker 7: But anyway, I had you know it was a good
Speaker 7: birthday and thank you guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely if you're just jing Us,
Speaker 8: Dennis and Troy from The Great Curtainer here with us
Speaker 8: in studio. Yeah, speaking of movies, I did notice The
Speaker 8: Reservoir Dogs. Sure, Yeah, my favorite movie of all time?
Speaker 8: Oh is it?
Speaker 7: Yeah? It is. It's a good choice. It's a good choice.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm a like I mentioned I'm a big centophile.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and there's something to be said.
Speaker 10: There's something to be said about a movie about a
Speaker 10: diamond heist that never shows the diamond heist. Yep, you
Speaker 10: have to paint the whole picture with the dialogue. You know,
Speaker 10: it centers mostly around one scene. It's completely dependent on
Speaker 10: how great the actors are, and they all are great. Yes,
Speaker 10: Tarantino's second film, or you know, first film, it.
Speaker 7: Was one of the one of the first.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm trying to remember if Four Rooms was before
Speaker 10: Reservoir Dogs, but I don't think so.
Speaker 7: It was after. Oh yeah, then Reservoir Dogs was his first. Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's uh, it's always hit home to me. It's my
Speaker 7: comfort movie. Yeah.
Speaker 10: An anytime that somebody says, you know, oh, I've never
Speaker 10: seen Reservoir Dogs, I immediately I will be at a
Speaker 10: festival in a different state if somebody says they you know,
Speaker 10: if I'm having a conversation with somebody and they say
Speaker 10: they haven't seen Reservoir Dogs, I immediately turned the car around, go.
Speaker 7: To the nearest place that we can watch it. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's you know, it's one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not my favorite, so you guys playing a
Speaker 8: lot live or you doing a lot of shows.
Speaker 11: I think we only have a couple lined up right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean you're busy with you got a lot
Speaker 8: on your place with the double album.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well that and uh, it's a it's a blessing
Speaker 10: and a curse having somebody in our band that is
Speaker 10: in a such a busy band.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Tyler from Scarecrow Hill.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and they are about to put out this album. Yeah.
Speaker 7: And I cannot stress enough.
Speaker 10: I've heard like four or five songs on this album,
Speaker 10: even people that have been fans of this band for decades.
Speaker 7: Yeah, not ready for this album.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's that good. Oh it's so good.
Speaker 10: Oh wow, there's one song in particular I'm kind of
Speaker 10: biased about.
Speaker 7: But you know, okay, you'll hear that when yeah, Okay,
Speaker 7: people will understand when that when that comes up. Okay.
Speaker 10: But but yeah, they're gonna be playing a lot of shows.
Speaker 10: Uh so you know, as they're promoting and painting shows
Speaker 10: for this album, gives us time to write.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but we will. We have two shows in May.
Speaker 7: One will be up.
Speaker 11: Here at a Jewel on the exteenth.
Speaker 10: Excellent, making our debut at Jewel, like, oh wow, okay,
Speaker 10: good good, Yeah, opening up for Who's forty Below Summer?
Speaker 10: Yeah okay, yeah, very cool, along with Scarecrow Hill.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 11: I think that one's like one of those festival type shows.
Speaker 11: There's like two stages back and forth between each stages
Speaker 11: like teen bands or something.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, okay, put on by Justin Marcott. Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 10: I always have fun at these multi stage oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10: You got to see so many local bands. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 10: so like for anyone that says, oh, you know, oh
Speaker 10: you're in a local band, it's like, yeah, but you
Speaker 10: obviously don't go to a lot of local shows. If
Speaker 10: you did, you'd know that there were great bands in
Speaker 10: this area, so much, so much great.
Speaker 7: I mean you're the masses.
Speaker 11: I got there, the masses.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love I love all those guys. Yeah, great guys.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, we've had we've had them, but I
Speaker 8: think we just had we had.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Love love those guys. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Uh, you're a wrestling fan, so you'll probably dig this anytime. Scarecrow,
Speaker 10: Greg Hurtin Devlin and Fear of the Masses are on
Speaker 10: the same bill.
Speaker 7: I always put up the four fingers.
Speaker 10: Oh you, yes, I always like my My cover on
Speaker 10: my cover photo on my Facebook is the four of
Speaker 10: Us Okay, and I've had it up for pretty close
Speaker 10: to a year now.
Speaker 7: I'm not taking that down. Yeah, yeah, that's one of
Speaker 7: my favorite pictures.
Speaker 11: I have Terminus again, that was that Terminus Terminus.
Speaker 7: Yeah. But but yeah, we got we got that show.
Speaker 10: Then we're playing Charlie's Hill, another one of our favorite places,
Speaker 10: in May thirtieth.
Speaker 7: Excellent. Yeah, yeah, I believe it's May thirtieth.
Speaker 10: We're playing there for another multi stage, multi band festival, Gaganza.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, probably book a couple of shows throughout the summer.
Speaker 10: But again, you know, it's kind of like at the
Speaker 10: whim of Tyler's schedule because for obvious reasons, is.
Speaker 7: Going to be busy.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're very grateful for Oh, Tyler is one of
Speaker 10: my favorite people. I think I think it's I think
Speaker 10: it goes my kid, and then Tyler is like somewhere
Speaker 10: around yeah, and then Joe is like right below, uh
Speaker 10: but no, but anyway.
Speaker 8: They're all ahead of Troy.
Speaker 11: I'm somewhere down here.
Speaker 7: You can't even see you know, the desk is in
Speaker 7: the ways behind the.
Speaker 10: Sure we put that, we put Troy right, very nice.
Speaker 10: Troy knows not much he means to me. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 10: because he can joke around with me like that. Yeah,
Speaker 10: a lot of people don't. A lot of people are like,
Speaker 10: what do you mean by that. It's like Troy helped
Speaker 10: me help them understand this is my sense of humor. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I'm being glid bumper.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: But we do have like other shows like in the works.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but nothing that we can really announce, okay without
Speaker 10: the promoter being like, yep, we're one is happening. Yeah,
Speaker 10: one or two that I'm very excited for, you know,
Speaker 10: the possibilities. But now for the most part, like you mentioned,
Speaker 10: we're going to be taking a lot of time to
Speaker 10: write this album because it's uh, I've always wanted to
Speaker 10: write a double album, and now that it's here, I
Speaker 10: am dreading it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was curious if there was a part of
Speaker 8: you that was like.
Speaker 2: It is a lot.
Speaker 11: We definitely want to do it right, but we absolutely
Speaker 11: don't want to like drag our feet are on anything.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I think it was a couple of days ago.
Speaker 10: I was I was on Facebook, as one does, and
Speaker 10: I put up a saying I'm working on over twenty
Speaker 10: songs worth of lyrics at the same time. My brain
Speaker 10: is not cooperating with me, and the comments just made
Speaker 10: me laugh so much that Yeah, one guy said, pro tip,
Speaker 10: don't do that, right. I was like, you know, I've
Speaker 10: been doing this since I was five years old, right,
Speaker 10: fourteen bands, chamber choir, men's choir, State Competition's voice lessons,
Speaker 10: all that jazz. It's like, pro tip, here's pro tip
Speaker 10: that is That is funny. But I understood what they
Speaker 10: were trying to say. Yeah, yeah, you're purposely frying your brain.
Speaker 7: You're crazy. I am insane.
Speaker 10: I am insane. I've never doubted that. I've never denied that.
Speaker 10: You know, I'll never played the fifth on that.
Speaker 7: You know there. You have to be a little crazy
Speaker 7: to do this.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely if you're just doing honest.
Speaker 8: We have Dennis and Troy from the The Gray Curtain
Speaker 8: here with us in studio and then so you probably
Speaker 8: don't have any kind of an ETA on the album,
Speaker 8: right because it's going to be a lot of work.
Speaker 10: If I had my way, would be out by by
Speaker 10: middle of twenty twenty seven. But that is like if
Speaker 10: everything goes like perfectly smooth, perfectly smooth, which how often
Speaker 10: does that?
Speaker 7: He never, never, never and again.
Speaker 10: You know when when you have a band member in
Speaker 10: such a busy band as Tyler is with Scarecrow, it's
Speaker 10: basically like, Okay, Tyler's busy this week, so Troy and
Speaker 10: I or Sean, Troy and I will all get together
Speaker 10: and we'll work on these songs, and then when Tyler's available,
Speaker 10: we'll go down to his house and we'll work on
Speaker 10: these songs.
Speaker 11: Meantime, I need to learn how to use like easy
Speaker 11: drummer or something like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yep, but it's uh as far as any
Speaker 10: I mean, god, I want it out as soon as possible.
Speaker 10: But yeah, when you're working on like, like you know,
Speaker 10: at the risk of sounding redundant, when you're working on
Speaker 10: twenty six songs at the same time, you want them
Speaker 10: all to match up. You want them all to be understood,
Speaker 10: You want them you want people to listen to all
Speaker 10: of them and be like, right, they didn't they didn't
Speaker 10: just write this one in right, right, right. Yeah, So
Speaker 10: we're going to agonize over this for probably a good
Speaker 10: year year and a half no doubt, and then hopefully
Speaker 10: you go into the studio after that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, very cool, very cool. So where should people go online?
Speaker 8: Where's the best place to go online to keep up
Speaker 8: with everything that the Great Curtain is doing?
Speaker 11: We got Facebook, Great Curtain, Instagram, Uh, we're on YouTube.
Speaker 11: I think we should probably get on like centralizing all
Speaker 11: of our YouTube stuff because it's like April like puts
Speaker 11: videos that that she takes that's at uh Inner Child
Speaker 11: Studios on YouTube, So she's got a lot of our
Speaker 11: stuff on there, a lot really yep.
Speaker 7: And what else do we have? We're on Spotify, Apple
Speaker 7: Music for some reason, we're not on Amazon. We really
Speaker 7: need like we need to work on that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, band camp, you know, uh you know, uh, I
Speaker 10: was gonna say our e p K, but uh, you know,
Speaker 10: like outside of promoters, no one really has access to that, right.
Speaker 7: But man, wouldn't it be.
Speaker 10: Great to have like like a public ePK that people
Speaker 10: can just be like, oh, you know, everything's in one
Speaker 10: spot right.
Speaker 7: It's like I only have Apple Music, so I'll click
Speaker 7: on their link.
Speaker 11: But yeah, pretty much where where you get your music
Speaker 11: unless you're on Amazon Music?
Speaker 10: Yeah, and again, can't stress enough. I want to be
Speaker 10: back on We were at one point, but I want
Speaker 10: to get back on that.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, well, very good, very good. Well, guys, thank
Speaker 8: you so much. How long was your drive, by the way,
Speaker 8: because you're are you in Massachusetts or I forget exactly.
Speaker 7: Where you guys are. It was about an hour and
Speaker 7: twenty five?
Speaker 11: Oh wow, that was about two hours.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, well, I really appreciate you guys
Speaker 7: coming all the way here. Glad to be here. I
Speaker 7: was going to say, love that you guys have a song.
Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely absolutely very very glad to do it. I
Speaker 8: do think we should end the segment with burn that
Speaker 8: Bridge because this happens to be my favorite Great Curtains song.
Speaker 8: Love this one as as I think we've talked about
Speaker 8: this before. Should we talk about the song before we
Speaker 8: play it before we uh?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 10: Well, burn that Bridge is much like with the song
Speaker 10: that uh that Sean put in for this upcoming album.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 10: The old lineup made up of the Miller Brothers and
Speaker 10: Sean donnellan. They worked on this song for a long time. Musically, yeah,
Speaker 10: they didn't have any lyrics for it, and we basically
Speaker 10: chopped it up and uh, you know, can dentsed it
Speaker 10: to be a more I don't want to say radio friendly,
Speaker 10: but you know it was easier to digest, and I
Speaker 10: put the lyrics in to kind of fit it in
Speaker 10: with the Florist concept.
Speaker 7: Then it became burn That Bridge.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, I love it absolutely well. Guys, Thank
Speaker 8: you again so much. And if you are listening live
Speaker 8: on Saturday, stick around. We've got Warhog coming up in
Speaker 8: the third hour.
Speaker 7: They're going to be joining.
Speaker 8: Us via Microsoft teams from Texas and really looking forward
Speaker 8: to talking with them.
Speaker 7: They might be in the five Timers club. Actually they've
Speaker 7: been on a lot.
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe's hard to work over there.
Speaker 9: Special nice seek.
Speaker 8: All right, very good. So we will end this segment
Speaker 8: with this. This is Burned That Bridge. The album is
Speaker 8: the Florist and the band is the Great Curtain. Guys,
Speaker 8: thank you again, thanks for having us. Absolutely had.
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