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Speaker 6: That is Aliens, that is Volley and they're here with us in studio.
Speaker 5: Hello, welcome guys, thanks for having us once again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, uh yes, we have entered our number three new marrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w M n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere but to Matt connorton dot com, slash live or our new site, Matt connorton unleashed dot com. Jenny is here, of course at the news table, presence and account as far. And we've got the guys or three of the guys from Volley here with us.
Speaker 6: All right, Dana, let's start with you.
Speaker 5: You know the drill.
Speaker 6: You can each tell us who you are, what you do in the band, and any other pertinence you would like us to know.
Speaker 5: Sure. Sure. My name is Dane. I play guitar.
Speaker 6: Oh Dane, I'm sorry, I said, Dana.
Speaker 5: I get a bunch of Dean. Just don't call me late for dinner.
Speaker 6: Right, all right, very good, I cut you off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry, no, but yeah, I just I play guitar and I yell and lose my voice.
Speaker 6: Very good.
Speaker 7: My name is Sean. I do the vocals, and I write the lyrics. I do a lot of the artwork and stuff too, and I wrangle all the I wrangle these boys together.
Speaker 5: It's a much you needed. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I'm Cody. I played bass in the band. I'm not really a bass player, but I.
Speaker 5: Do my best. You're stealing Jonah's stick.
Speaker 7: I have to channel Jonah's energy because it's not here. Okay, all right, he actually got abducted by aliens. That's why he's not here.
Speaker 6: Okay. Is he the one saying he's got the probe?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Well that was me, but he he he kind of came up with that. I can't really really yeah, based off of real world events. Yeah, I can't talk about it on the radio, gotcha. The FCC would not be proud.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, the Pentagon is releasing all these files, so you know it.
Speaker 7: Might be all right from everything else, Yes, files.
Speaker 6: Yep, agreed, agreed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but anyways, we have aliens. It's like a pixel.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Do you have coincidental that all of the sudden aliens are real? They've been real? Dude is out there?
Speaker 6: That's right, that's right. So you guys have been busy the we're playing some new music today. Now do you have a new Uh? Well, well, actually I should hold this up for people watching online. Let me hold it up for the camera for people watching the video feed. Got the new album, yes, sir? And uh looks like a lot when especially the back there.
Speaker 7: A lot went into that it has cellophane on it is legitimate, it does it is name another punk act that will take the time to actually cellophane in their album.
Speaker 6: It's right.
Speaker 7: I painstakingly hand packed and cut all of the artwork and put the labels on the CDs and package them and dude, I wanted to die.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Special Ones, that's the Magenta Special Edition, right, there is no that's the.
Speaker 5: We were joking about that.
Speaker 8: We do have a couple of different color ways though we have black and white. I believe there's a blue one with the flowers, and then that's the original, which is the red.
Speaker 5: So there are a couple of different Ones variants. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So the the album cover, actually that picture is from when we were in Japan. Uh there was a castle that was just completely graffiti bombed. So I took that picture and we had the title disappointed Setia kicking around for a while. We wanted to use it, and I figured that's a that that picture is very disappointing. So and then we through some point setias around it.
Speaker 6: And yeah, no, I like it. I like it disappointed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 7: Out of all the pictures from the Japan trip. I'd say that probably is the best one for him album. Yeah, so when you do open it, the inner jacket, I think the back of the jacket actually has another picture from when we were in Japan, and then the inside of it. Not to spoil too much, but there's a there's a little collage in there.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, outstanding and tell us about what's going on in the back of this.
Speaker 5: So that is that is a collage that I did. It's called Mother.
Speaker 7: I used some old medical textbooks from the seventies and I used another one that is obstetrics.
Speaker 5: Right. I'm looking at you guys like you'd know, yeah, don't. I don't really like journal like I do.
Speaker 7: I do a lot of clause artwork with that stuff. But uh yeah, it's just uh, just nifty artwork that I made. And we were like, yeah, we'll throw that on the back and confuse people because if you notice there's no song titled song listings on the back right right, that's because you have to pay to know what songs are on the CD that you're not going to listen to.
Speaker 8: I guess I'm sure a lot of a lot of them end up as like wal art or whatever, or put them on your shelf.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're appreciative either way.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, because like we we haven't done it in a while, but like we'll put stuff out on cassette and maybe eight track.
Speaker 5: We've talked about that before with our different media platform.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a there's a band that I love actually wearing their shirt, Corrupt Vision. They uh they put out uh Flexi discs, so they're like the flexible records really like getting cereal boxes. They've done me the little tiny CDs. Yeah, all kinds of cool stuff, which it's like it's definitely more of a souvenir than anything.
Speaker 5: Well of course, yeah, because like I was scrolling.
Speaker 7: Facebook earlier and I saw this band putting out eight tracks, Like, dude, like, I'm not going to go buy an eight track to I probably have one of my eight track player in my basement. We could probably get something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Wow, that'd be really cool.
Speaker 6: I've I've talked about it on the show. I might have even talked about it with you guys. This this must have been like ten years ago now when I was on I remember looking on band camp looking for local bands, and I noticed that people were releasing cassettes. And the first one that I found, I don't remember the name, but it was a band from Keene. I can't remember who they were called, but I was like, Oh, that's interesting. And then I found more of them, and then I kept finding more and more. I was like, Oh, I guess this is a thing.
Speaker 6: Now, they're actually releasing cassettes. Yeah, and I thought that was pretty cool, but it was also quite shocking. Yeah, especially in like the the punk scene. It's it's definitely gaining quite the resurgence. Yeah, and it's just so cheap to do. Like I I found a giant suitcase full of cassettes. We talked about this story before.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I found a huge suitcase full of cassettes and was like, I'm just gonna see if I can do this. And then we put out a bunch of cassettes. Joan and I were just like leaving them in bathrooms and stuff. Yeah, yeah, and we'd have our band camp in there. We left the other side blank. I stole it from the Dead Kennedy's but it said like this side is for you to steal music with. Oh wow, yeah, Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess I can't remember who I've talked about this with or not, but years ago I was in a band called The Jinks and we used to have a running joke in The Jinks that we were gonna release like a single, and then we never did.
Speaker 5: But it was thunder on that one.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, No Effects, not on cassette, but No Effects put out a single. I can't say the title of the song, but it's a six second long song and they put out a single on vinyl. It was like a seven inch with a six second song.
Speaker 5: So funny.
Speaker 6: That's awesome. Yeah wow wow, So what so tell us about that song? Aliens Like what I mean, we kind of just laughed about it.
Speaker 8: I think that one kind of just came out at practice one day. Yeah, I just, you know, we were playing around with rifts and stuff, and I think Sean might have had lyrics or Hayden Sport on the back burners fit together and just kind of became itself.
Speaker 7: So I wrote the lyrics like on my way or I was at work when I wrote the lyrics, and it just it was like lightning hit me. I just because sometimes it'll take me a month or two to write something. Sometimes I write something in two minutes. Yeah, that was I literally wrote that in two minutes, and then like we got to practice and I was like, guys, I have the song, and I started singing it. He immediately came up with a riff and like that. We were like all right, yeah. We just looked at each other, We're like, so that's the song, and yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah.
Speaker 7: It's a lot of our songs tend to have like a darker theme, like very anti government, very like, you know, we're very big into advocating from like mental health and everything.
Speaker 5: So a lot of it has to do with you know, very real poor subject matter, like for.
Speaker 7: Mental health and whatnot. So we kind of wanted to pepper in like more goofy stuff. So like the the Aliens one is just yeah.
Speaker 8: We were talking before the show started, and we have a lot of fans who like, like they'll be in the crime.
Speaker 7: Be like, yeah, it's crazy how many people come up to us and ask us to play Aliens And every time we're like, no, dude, you can't. You can't ask us at the beginning of the set list, when we're still full of energy and spry. It's always at the end of the set list. Someoneill come up and be like, dude, can you play aliens? I'm like, I can't even say the word aliens right now. Shawnie's next set of lungs, it's a lot. It's so much, it's so rapid fire, and like we we actually made the song longer so I have more time to breathe.
Speaker 7: We did the same thing with a formula number four because it's just so fast. I I can't breathe. I have no time to breathe. Yeah, So I like I quit. I quit vaping, and that's howped my lungs a lot. Like quit smoking, vaping, all that stuff. Been trying to do more cardio, but I like ice cream and sitting on the couch.
Speaker 6: How did you How did you quit vaping?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: What did you do?
Speaker 6: I just just stopped.
Speaker 7: I just stopped. My My lovely lady told me she wanted me to stop too, so that helped.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I I've been wanting to stop for a while and it's it's hard, but I just I'm sick of it. Man, It's it's gross. It's a great US habit. It's like I'm addicted to a flash drive. Like you're really addicted to flavored air lose there. So yeah, I just cold turkey did good.
Speaker 5: Good for you.
Speaker 7: I slipped up a couple of times when I was drinking, like I took a chuck or two. But yeah, I've been around doing doing pretty good with it. Yeah, excellent, good for you, good for you. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: So all the three new songs that were featuring today, those are all on the album correct, yes, And how many songs on here of total ten?
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's a solid ten piece Okay, very good ten piece Chicken Nugget Brothers.
Speaker 8: There are three volley songs that are like a revisit or a reprise if you will, okay, and then the rest of them are brand new.
Speaker 6: Yeah, excellent.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So actually all of the songs that are used to no useless. No, I don't think that's been played on the area yet.
Speaker 8: Nothing at all, because it was just never really it was on an old record, or it was on an old collection maybe on band camp or whatever, or on an older was off.
Speaker 7: It was off our first album. It was written before I joined the band, so so we needed it recorded correctly. I think that was the that was the one that we recorded with the room mic and yeah, one one hanging from the sprinkler pipe.
Speaker 6: It was so it was so.
Speaker 7: Literally an Amazon special microphone too, and like really that thing is such a piece of junk man.
Speaker 8: Once again to also produced and mastered and all of that and recorded by Axel Begley, so he was did this one as well.
Speaker 5: We did last record. If you are if you're watching, listening or both, we love you. Yeah, is the man.
Speaker 7: We always appreciate his input and you know, he always does his very best to make sure that our vision kind of comes to fruition. You know, he's really he's really the man when it comes to the recording stuff.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, absolutely, And we think the production on this one is kind of head and shoulders above the last one too. It's nice when it's just we're proud of the last one as well, but it's a big progression.
Speaker 5: Each time. We just want to add a little bit more.
Speaker 8: You have more ideas and from contrasting from the last works and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So it was a little really road handstaking.
Speaker 7: We spent we spent some extra time on every song to make sure that it came out exactly.
Speaker 5: How we wanted it. But we didn't spend the same money. Thanks you.
Speaker 2: So we.
Speaker 5: Didn't.
Speaker 7: We didn't have sixteen pacifico's before each recorded. That definitely helped.
Speaker 8: Okay, head, yeah, majority I doubled guitar tracks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my goodness, gracious.
Speaker 7: I was listening to Useless Apology, and I was like tripping because I'm like, I heard the vocal doubles and they had to twist my arm to do that.
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, that's not well.
Speaker 8: It's like with Kurt Cobain, Butcher Big had to tell him, well, John Lennon doubled his vocal Yeah, double guitars, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was so, I was so opposed to it. And then like I was listening to Useless Apology when I was making the radio edits. Actually yeah, I was listening and like, what the heck?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 7: Like I thought there, I thought like my speakers were messed up or something like, oh, there's there's vocal doubles. Like if something doesn't sound like utter crap, I assume something's wrong.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, that's funny. You did a great job on the radio edits.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you. I swear a lot, so I got pretty good at it. Flipping them, dude, I the original radio edit. It was too painstaking for me to actually do. But I don't know if I could even say the name of the bird. It is the bird's name, but it's an American wood blank. It goes meat, yeah, meat.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So he sends me this edit with the meep and I'm like, oh my god, I love We send each other these videos back and forth every day. Yeah, and it's just a American wood blank bird meeping in a weird kind of edit.
Speaker 5: And it's like, I'm so excited for He's like, yeah, I know this is too much work. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 7: I'm like, I will never forgive you.
Speaker 8: Anyone out there who has a group chat with their friends, they just know that it's a lawless wasteland.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So if you if you message us and you ask us to hear the meat version, I'll send.
Speaker 5: It to you.
Speaker 7: But I'm trying having to message you right now because I want to hear it.
Speaker 6: What American would something?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like I feel like I'm I'm putting I mean, it's a it's the name of a bird, so sure you can.
Speaker 5: Close is another word for a pecker.
Speaker 7: I think I shouldna We're going to take that out.
Speaker 6: Okay, what is it a Woodcock? Yeah, I said Woodcock. Yeah I can say that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, great movie, mister Woodcock, great, great film.
Speaker 7: But I'm just I'm trying to, you know, keep the f c s from putting help us, help you, help us, help you me too.
Speaker 5: I actually I love the FCC.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you love about them?
Speaker 5: Everything?
Speaker 6: Everything?
Speaker 5: Everything, They're so cool. I'm not being facetious.
Speaker 6: We're probably safe because you know, I don't do politics on the show anymore so, because the current FCC isn't likely to be upset with me about anything. I suppose I don't think I'm not I'm not saying anything bad about the uh, because I'm not saying anything about well current administration.
Speaker 5: We can we can chop it up if you like.
Speaker 6: No, No, I literally can't anymore.
Speaker 5: No, dude, me, I don't. I don't want to. I think I think you can deduce how I feel about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. We should play uh Cheaper to Die? This is my favorite of the ones you sent me.
Speaker 5: Heck, yeah, I love this. What what do you like about it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 6: Specifically the lyrics, but also it's just it's just a banger. It's it's just really good.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you like it too, that's fortuitous. What can you tell me about it? I think you want to tell me about it?
Speaker 5: So it's expensive to be alive.
Speaker 7: Yes, I don't know if I don't know if you've noticed, Matthew, but living is expensive.
Speaker 6: It is expensive. Yeah, it's very expensive.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It has some uh, it definitely has some Pantera and some seither esque influence without the shore, without the racism.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Philm. Somo. If you're somehow listening to this, I hate you.
Speaker 7: Get better, get better, be better. Yeah, but uh no, it's uh, I forget exactly. How like we came to the like we were just talking. I someone said something about, oh, it was cheaper to die, and I'm like, yo, the light bulb just head. Yeah, oh dude, So part of those lyrics actually were I started writing more to the.
Speaker 5: One of our old songs.
Speaker 7: I think it was blind, and I like, I dumped the lyrics and then I found them again, and I took like a little bits and pieces and that that became cheaper to die.
Speaker 6: So all right, all right, very good. Let's give this a spin. If you're just joined in us we have volly here with us, live in studio, and here it is cheaper to die.
Speaker 5: Friend, change.
Speaker 3: You act to say, tried to blind?
Speaker 5: I think you feeling real? Sorry talk thinking.
Speaker 3: Of myself, suspect, suspect.
Speaker 9: There's nothing left too loper, there's no we're.
Speaker 3: Left to hide. You save them all.
Speaker 10: Your life is cheap bird and cheaper and cheap bird and cheapird, a time cheaper and jeh.
Speaker 5: You hold your bread, your bray, change.
Speaker 3: You putting, nothing's moving. You aren't the same.
Speaker 10: You drink the wine from sabber grapes. Everything you feel it's real. You think you complicated, would order got you from Sorry talking to you late.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of yourself.
Speaker 5: Want tom turning my suspect.
Speaker 3: There's nothing left too longer, but there's nowhere left to hide. You say a ball.
Speaker 10: Your life is cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and a cheaperd a time.
Speaker 4: Cheaper and ji.
Speaker 3: When the world sorry, talk, I can't play well. Think you got yourself left walk Now we're left to hide.
Speaker 9: You save them all. Your life is cheapberd and CHEAPERD and cheaper and cheaper cheamberd and cheap bird and cheaper cheaper and.
Speaker 5: Tie Cheaper to Die, It really is.
Speaker 6: The band is Volley and we've got the guys here with us live in studio, and can you can you talk about that on the air what we were just talking about, yeah or anything? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no, no, no names if you know do you even know his name?
Speaker 2: Uh no?
Speaker 5: Okay no, but you guys have a I don't.
Speaker 7: We have a We have a stark greaving fan that uh he like runs up and like steals the tabs off of my beers and stuff.
Speaker 6: You did use the word stalker off air?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Thanks, Yeah.
Speaker 6: A few weeks names.
Speaker 8: We were at the Bad Burger and it was like about of the band's sort of thing and him and his friends were getting down with us when we were playing and that's cool and stuff. And then the other bands were playing and he would like go up to like the stage like cross his arms, starts shaking his head.
Speaker 5: Else.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like super not cool behavior. Like you know, it was about all the bands and we wanted to win, but we're also we're respectable. We're respectable. We were there like digging all the other bands, like chopping up with them and whatnot, and he like he was walking up shaking his head and no at them and like, like dude being rude, and like I went up to him, like cut it out.
Speaker 8: And at the end of the day, he's our band too, Like you know that could potentially be a reflection of us.
Speaker 5: I don't want that look.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and like you know, he's a young kid, so like the right trying to be influential in a positive way.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was joking last night, like doing screaming vocals in the parking lot of jewel and.
Speaker 5: Like roast parents. Yeah, but uh yeah, dude, he like bless his heart, bless his heart. Yeah, he'll come around. Hey.
Speaker 7: The weirdest thing, dude, is he like keeps coming up and stealing the tabs off of my beers And for whatever reason, dude, I'm like, that's getting so deep under my skin.
Speaker 5: It's in the bone marrow.
Speaker 7: He wouldn't have set list everything set list, And it's like in my eyes, I'm.
Speaker 6: Like take it right.
Speaker 5: He's the paper to me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like if it means something to you, like it's a strange thing, I'll even sign it for you.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 8: Yeah, if I met someone who I looked up to, I would be on my best behavior. I would, you know, I really admire you, and I think you're cool, and I don't want you to think I'm lame. Yeah, yeah, seems pretty normal.
Speaker 7: We've had a few other fans that, you know, it's often folks that are younger than us, Like, you know, we have a few like older heads that really dig us that are.
Speaker 5: A little like a little over a pretty broad demographic.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so there is there's a couple other that I can think of offhand that like when they first met us, they were like, and you know, we're we're human too. We're not like some crazy big band or aliens that you know of, but you know, we're very humble people and we're human. We love talking to people before and after the show, and just you know, going out.
Speaker 5: Don't don't treat.
Speaker 7: Us like we're we're some circus act. Treat us like we're human. Will treat you like you're human. Right, But there were a couple other people that I can think of offhand, where like when they first met us, they like, I felt like I was being treated differently, like I wasn't being treated like a person, and like they were just like going way too heavy handed, was like trying to make us laugh, trying to like be like super over the top friendly with us, very overfamiliar put it.
Speaker 8: And he parked himself right next to me. I was the next to com to me, and so started blasting and showing me as Instagram and I'd like tell him straight up like this. I was like, you do respect my boundaries, dude, Like I don't know how much more clear, Like why don't you why why don't you tell them what you did to me yesterday?
Speaker 5: We can't. We're on the radio, dude, So I'm sitting you shut your mouth. It was you.
Speaker 7: So we're sitting in the venue and I see the little flock of young wings and I'm like, oh no, And I looked. I looked at my lady and like the kids are here, and she's like, what are you talking about? The And I'm like, the kids are here and she's like, oh no. And then he comes right up to me and just stares at me, and dude, he he does he does it. It's a little unsettling. He does a Donald Trump impression constantly and it drives me up the wall. And I like, I just I tell him, I'm straight out. I'm like, dude, stop, like you're genuinely irritating at least give me r f k.
Speaker 6: God is impression at all?
Speaker 7: No, No, I think that's why it irritates me so much because it's not even good, but so like he's doing his thing and I'm like, dude, just like give me some space, man, like I'm doing something right now, and uh, Dane comes up and like, dude, the kids are here, is like, yeah, I told him to go bother you.
Speaker 8: Because they found me in the parking lot and my patient's worth in pretty fast and there's like a group of four of them and the rest of the kids are fine, but it's it's definitely that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's one kid. You're less thing. Please fix yourself. We love you, Yeah, we do better. We love We love you, dude.
Speaker 7: We love all of our fans, and we hope that this comes as uh, you know, like a learning moment.
Speaker 5: The constructive critics.
Speaker 7: You're you're cool as heck, but just you know, chill out, work on your eyeliner. Two big dog bro.
Speaker 5: You can't talk like you got punched in the face last night.
Speaker 7: I did pretty good. It was why it was hot, al right. You looked seductive as heck, smoky. I was beautiful Dane. Hey, now I have a ring on my finger. Goodness, I noticed that this morning. I'm gonna ask you about it.
Speaker 5: Wait, did you get married, Sean?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Not yet, but we're going to.
Speaker 6: Have you guys been like, have you've been playing a lot of shows.
Speaker 8: Or I don't think we've hit this year as hard around the same time as last year. But I mean, we have a lot of stuff coming up, and we've been pretty consistent and stuff. We a little bit more of a slower start to the summer season spring summer season, but we got stuff.
Speaker 7: We We spent about a month or so pre recording, recording, and then post recording doing the the album artwork, like packaging everything. It was just a lot and uh, we all kind of collectively said, like we kind of want to slow down a little bit, just to give ourselves all time to breathe, Like, we all have so much going on.
Speaker 8: We've got a lot of personal stuff to in our lives and things like that, like everybody else. Yeah, yeah, sometimes you just you know, have to take the things that are your auxiliary things in your life and just maybe you know, pull them back a little bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's normal. So we have a we have a couple of shows coming up June nineteenth. We're playing at Thirsty First and lolls Low, Massachusetts. To specify, just in case there was any confusion out there, I don't remember who's playing that, and I am so sorry if you guys are listening, but uh, I know it's going to be a super kick butt show. We're playing some hippie festival too.
Speaker 5: Out in the woods? Really is that new Ipswich?
Speaker 6: Nah?
Speaker 5: I think so?
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, I said that was like your cousin or something who invited us to do that. My cousin is friends with the guy who is putting it on. It's called Electric camp Out. Okay, I feel like I've heard of it. Yeah, so's it sounds really cool. It's a it's kind of outside of our wheelhouse. We don't we're not like a festival band, but yeah, if the money is right, there's an opportunity to kind of kind of do something different. You know, we played a lot of you know, a lot of bars, and you know we've played Bad Burger a few times, which are great venues and great stuff.
Speaker 7: But uh yeah, yeah, you do something a little different when you use your breath of fresh air we usually play places where there's a higher risk of being stabbed.
Speaker 5: Okay, especially normally, that's the most comfortable.
Speaker 7: Last night across the street and dude, every single person that I told about the show because we played a jewel and they're like, didn't somebody get stabbed there? I'm like, dude, come on, like people get stabbed everywhere. People get stabbed every day.
Speaker 6: That's true.
Speaker 5: It's it's an epidemic.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 8: To expand off what Cody was saying, though, too, we have been doing more things that have been out of our comfort zone. We played a like a benefit show at the Stumble Inn and Dairy, so it was us obviously punk band, and then we played with the same bill as the Children's bluegrass ensemble.
Speaker 5: They were they were so so like they were cute.
Speaker 7: There was like this little six year old girl and she was playing like a double bass, the stand up one and it was taller than her.
Speaker 5: Dude, it was. It was adorable. It sounded great.
Speaker 7: They were, dude, they were they were so good. They were like I was watching them like, oh no, dude, we're gonna get outshined by six. He grabs me by the arm, he looks at me he's like, are you serious?
Speaker 7: I called him a few choice words that I can't say on the radio, but right yeah, I was like, dude, are you you're messing with me right now?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 10: Wow?
Speaker 8: And then we did we didn't go ahead, know you, I was gonna say. We did the Battle of the Bands at Bad Burger like a month or so ago, and it was us a prog rock type of outfit, like a five or six piece, uh, prog rock band, and then it was the girl with an acoustic guitar and he swept it, single one, the whole thing.
Speaker 5: We lost the Battle of the Bands to a singer songwriter.
Speaker 6: Wow, who was it? Do you remember?
Speaker 5: I don't remember her name?
Speaker 2: She was.
Speaker 5: She was very talented.
Speaker 7: I'm sure she just all kidding aside, Like I'm not salty about it. Very talented, But it's we've been doing things out of our norm which, yeah, I think that's good for any band or any person or whatever you do. It's good to get out of your normal systems or whatever once in a while, experience new things, to kind of find your your niche, you know, find where you variety.
Speaker 5: I appreciate what you got. Variety is the wine of life. I don't think that's how that goes. That's not how that goes.
Speaker 7: Well, it's a good thing, like wine. I'm actually kind of hungover right now. Well, yeah, you guys played just last time.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I had a little too much fun in the sun. If I was a careous i'd fall right to the ground.
Speaker 6: If you're just joining us, we have Volley here with us in studio. That's that's a great place to play, though, Jewel, because you know, the stage is nice and the.
Speaker 5: Lighting, the sound was immaculate. Yeah, good job with us. You wanted to make sure that we all had what we needed. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I believe our soundertech guy was the lead singer of Martial Law. I could be I could be wrong, but yeah, he's super nice. He even remembered my name because we saw him another time. I can't recall. It was the Bungalow, The Bungalow, Yes, yes, okay, I did the Bungalow Love Bungalow. But yeah, no, jewels pretty cool. I think it was our first time playing there. Yeah, or at least for me anyway. Wow, okay, and uh, we would like to go back sometime. Yeah, maybe on a more normal type of bill for us, so maybe we can do work something like.
Speaker 5: That out that was.
Speaker 7: That was my first time playing there. I've been to the Jewel a few times and uh, last time I went there, I wasn't even old enough to drink and my homie Timmy and I got kicked out because our friend's grind band was playing Yeah, and they gave me quite a I'm sorry, I purchased quite a few tequila pineapples. I was telling the guys the story last night. They're like, oh, they gave it to you. I'm like, wait, how did those kids get.
Speaker 5: In then, dude, I don't twenty one to get in I don't know, man, I think they might have had any they had access on their hands, because that's the first thing I said, is how did you get in here?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: Did you crawl in through the wall?
Speaker 7: You know, I wouldn't put it past them to find an open window somewhere and just crawling. They crawl in through a window like holding a knife rambow style and attack'd be like, I heard what you said on the radio put the pop out of the ceiling here in that accent.
Speaker 5: But I heard what you said on the radio that wasn't very nice or.
Speaker 7: Sorry, Well, we're a punk band. Buttercup fixing yourself in the real world. Oh my goodness, I'm digging myself deeper and deeper.
Speaker 6: That's all right, it's good radio.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I love that for you, Matt. Deeper, to die deeper, to die deeper.
Speaker 6: Are there any bands in the earth that you guys play a lot with that you team up a lot with.
Speaker 5: Oh we Trash Street Trash. You haven't seen them in a little while, granted, but in the past we we hook up a lot. We love that.
Speaker 7: We're playing their uh annual barbecue we played every year. Already Dead. Those are the homies. Yeah, we love them. Uh Ian love you guys. I can't say what I'd like to say to you, but I love you. Yeah, already Dead. We've been playing with them a bunch.
Speaker 8: Our homie at Basics Plus, which was his old band. He is back in the scene now, David Circle, and he has a new outfit, so i'd like to I've been to him at some point.
Speaker 5: I think it's Dave. I just said, Dave. You said David. Oh, I guess we're gonna be able to run this back after the over, and I'm going to show you that you're wrong. Oh man, I almost said, you know what I'm gonna I don't think Jamie's there anymore.
Speaker 6: Is he on Rogans?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think they got rid of him. Then the thing now everyone that.
Speaker 7: I don't want to go down the rabbit hole. But if you're using AI for art, you're a doodoo head.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of that's been a big topic lately, people like for show flyers, whether people should.
Speaker 5: Use they're so it's too easy.
Speaker 7: So my god, they're all the same layer and like, I guess maybe I'm a little more of a stickler because I'm an artist, but like, dude, they're all the same layout. It's the same exact flyer with the same lame font and it just it looks so it's so weak, it's so lame, Like you're not you're not showing, you're not showing me you're passionate about your craft at all.
Speaker 8: My mommy are lazy as heck, and Grandma will send me things online. It'll be obvious he saw it. And I'm like, they're boomers, so like I get it. They don't really understand. But there's like a dog video skateboarding, but it's not real. But it's like, but dogs can actually skateboard in real life, So now you find me a real life skateboarding dog instead of been a generated one.
Speaker 7: Dude, I would rather the skateboarding dog than a show flyer. Even music people do, like people are using AI to make music now, and it's like you're taking.
Speaker 5: Bread out of my Oh yeah, there there's these AI bands that have a billion streams. Dude, there's one it's crazy Velvet sundowns. Yeah, that's what. Right.
Speaker 6: We did a whole segment about in Wild.
Speaker 7: Yeah absolutely wild. So I forget if it was them or if it was another one. But uh, because I listened to a lot of like cybersecurity podcasts and whatnot. Okay, but they were talking. I'm pretty sure it was them. It might have been a different guy though, that he was doing streaming fraud. He made an AI band, put it on Spotify, They never played any shows. They had three million monthly listeners. This guy got life in prison because for seven or eight years he was doing streaming fraud.
Speaker 6: That's a different guy. I know the story you're talking about.
Speaker 7: We did a segment about yeah Wild, absolutely wild, and like, I forget who I was talking to about it, but I was telling somebody about their like he got life in prison for this, Like yeah it was you yeah a word, yeah, like actually insane. But the Velvet Sundown thing, it's the meme of all the Spider Man's pointing at each other because you have one person saying, no, we're the real real Velvet Sundown.
Speaker 5: It was an art project, and then there's another one like, no, we're the real real Velvet Sundown.
Speaker 7: We recorded and the way that the article was it was like we spent many hot, sweaty summer nights.
Speaker 5: It's like, dude, that you use AI to write that. Well that's the thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's all like the press releases everything. It's all AI generated.
Speaker 8: Gordon Solarbrain like, come on, yeah, well I was just down in Virginia over April vacation, and I guess obviously not just there but in tons of places. But they want to put those big AI data centers everywhere and they just kill the environment and suck up resources. And one of their bigger points is like, oh, well it creates all these jobs and stuff like that. Well, yes, it creates jobs when you're building them, but when they're up and established, it only takes twenty twenty five people to run these things.
Speaker 8: It's not like sustainable, and it's just it's all pretty wacky. I don't like where all this is.
Speaker 7: Imagine imagine in conversation, every time that you responded to someone, like like, if you asked me a question and I pounded a gallon of water before I answered you.
Speaker 5: That's that's it, dude. And it's not even right, well, at least that's not. You're staying hydrated most of the time you look things up. So what I found.
Speaker 7: Side note, if you want to circumvent like when you google something is AI, if you put a swear word in your search, it circumvents that. Really, yeah, so I typically do that or I just tag tac Reddit at the end.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that I'm doing that.
Speaker 8: I don't sometimes I like rather, you know, because it gives you the AI prompt of what you're looking for, which it you know, we've continued to Google, not doing that, but I kind of like the sleuth and look for my own. It's an AI overview if you will everything I get it.
Speaker 7: I saw I saw one, and I like because the internet's full of memes and everything, I thought it was a joke and I looked it up and like, I forget it was like, if you googled, what like your standing normal body temperature is something like that, It's set one hundred and sixty five degrees.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, dude, what are you doing. You are misinforming the people. It thinks you're Thanksgiving turkey. I am a bit of a turkey.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dude, it's the world we look. I hate it.
Speaker 7: I hate it and I feel like I'm thirty two and I feel like an old man because I'm like, oh what you feel?
Speaker 5: Shut up? You're you're an old man. Oh yeah? Oh yeah, like you're some spry young buck over there. I mean, hot kettle, bro, you're your bones sound like glows sticks. Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's not the it's not the years, it's the mileage.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: I just realized, you've so got your U.
Speaker 7: I still have my wristband on from last night.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know, I always call myself.
Speaker 8: I'm never washing this rolling and where their hospital wristband for the next week after.
Speaker 5: They get out. Yea, so uh that's I started doing that.
Speaker 7: Uh with my fiance, we save every wristband from all the shows to Yeah, I have a giant bag of them and like I, dude, I have so many. I've been saving them for years. But like her and I started doing it, and uh, we have a we have a secret secret supplies that we're going to do with them. But oh yeah, anyways, what's your what's your favorite color?
Speaker 6: My favorite color is red.
Speaker 5: Really, it's just interesting. That's interesting.
Speaker 7: If I was a psychologist, I could dive deeper into that.
Speaker 5: But red school, But you're not.
Speaker 7: He's a he's a parking lot psychologist. Okay, I could definitely see that. He's literally an AI psychologist basically, because you'll be like, oh, my favorite color is red, and it'll be like you.
Speaker 5: Want to die, don't you? Ten reasons why it's not.
Speaker 5: So this is why. Your favorite color is green? My my favorite color, I really like forest green.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like purple, purple, purple, purple. What about you?
Speaker 6: Not everyone even has a favorite color. Some people don't.
Speaker 8: It changes for me, honestly, But Matt heard have you heard that radio commercial where it's like the US the kid and he's sick and you've just we've had.
Speaker 5: It in your favorite flavor, your honey, take this medicine. It's your favorite flavor purple. No, honey, it's great. No, it's great. Oh god, we're so cooked. We would say that back and forth with each other so many times. It's just like, I love purple. He's gonna be a marine when he grows up.
Speaker 6: I have not heard that. I've not heard that.
Speaker 5: Last year. Yeah, it's fun. Just I feel I need to say this.
Speaker 7: It's trampin Trampina. I got him just Smiling Friends at work. You ever watched Smiling Friends? No, dude, I so when we got it, looks when we got last night, Uh, Sarah was like she passed right out.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 7: I was drunk as heck and I was laying in bed watching Smiling Friends, just going, dude, I probably will.
Speaker 5: You need to have like at least three firing neurons to enjoy that show. So I guess I guess it checks out.
Speaker 6: It's just on YouTube.
Speaker 7: It's got an adult shoe, makes sense. You can find it elsewhere on the internet. I'm not going to tell people where a pirate cartoons, but.
Speaker 5: It's like, you know, morning, I'll tell you where you can.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you Smiling Friends is the new like what Rick and Morty was supposed to be okay, it's just irreverent, you know, comedy.
Speaker 5: It's like out out of left field.
Speaker 6: It's uh sounds like something in my like actually, you have to check.
Speaker 5: It's so funny. We just like to each other at work all day. It's literally so.
Speaker 7: Like it's become like my main vocal stem is just where is shrimpeda? And like I scared the but Jesus out of my boss. So like I went up to Cody, so where we work, like you know, there's certain aspects where we have to wear respirators and it's really loud pp so what oh he's gonna say.
Speaker 5: He can't.
Speaker 7: Anyways, I like I went up behind Cody and I did it. I did it so loud to wear a shrimpina thing, like I was almost screaming it. And my one of my bosses, I didn't see him, but he was like crouched down doing something and he like jolted, and my other boss came up to me and she was like, so what was that?
Speaker 5: I'm like, and I did it again. I'm like, where is shrimpina? You're like right, but like what was that?
Speaker 7: I'm like, oh, it's from smiling friends. And she was like, you just scared the ever loving crap out of I'm not going to say his name, but his name is we'll appropriate, We'll call him Zach. Yeah, just to keep anonymity, is that Yeah, that's not his real name. No, Zach, you know who you are?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 7: So Cody and I have a running joke I put that bag there. Yes, it's literally in the liner notes of one of our albums. And then at the very end of the album, I put like I used text to speech, yeah, to say, like, you know, I'd like to thank so and so, and then it's like twenty seconds of silence and then it's I put that bag there. And I was winning for a while, and then Cody got me the job where we're working, and in my interview, at the end of my interview, the boss turns to me and he goes, oh, also, I put that bag there, dude.
Speaker 7: I literally I threw my hat on the ground. I'm like, what did you just say to me? And he just smiles and like, I texted Cody and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, you in, what do I do?
Speaker 3: What do I even do?
Speaker 7: I cornered Zach when he was getting ready for the interview.
Speaker 5: I'm like, you don't. You don't get a say in this, like you have to say it.
Speaker 7: I was like, I don't care what you think, Like it's not inappropriate, Like it's just an inside joke, and you say it, you're going to just short circuit him in the amazing short circuit me.
Speaker 5: He did, dude.
Speaker 7: I I was so professional through the whole interview. I have, I have over a decade of experience in this line of work, so I was like very eloquent in my speaking, you know, trying to not come across.
Speaker 5: As an idiot. I was trying to pull the wool over his eyes, you know.
Speaker 7: And I'm like talking about seeing C machining and everything and like just very technical stuff.
Speaker 5: And then he's like, also I put that bag there. I'm like.
Speaker 7: Just to give you an idea of the energy that we put out at work.
Speaker 5: So that's why we were around all day.
Speaker 7: It's you know, it's it's gotta be fun if yeah, it's not worth dude, We're literally just like walking around quoting SpongeBob all day. Yeah, Like there's all these number one rule to have that's great. That's the second is a no high ball, No Jude high ball, No Jude. Yeah, past that part of my life now.
Speaker 5: Lots of inside jokes that people want to understand on the radio, it's all lower.
Speaker 6: Well, you did a good job explaining that one though.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you. We need a Wikipedia page for lore. Wikipedia page.
Speaker 7: A cyber truckster of buy a refrigerator. Yeah, final man looking cars.
Speaker 6: I see a lot of those around Manchester.
Speaker 5: Yeah see, I don't know.
Speaker 7: People used to flip the bird at those trucks. And then the funniest thing happened when everyone's like, it's just so much better.
Speaker 5: Of a react if you yeah, it's hilarious.
Speaker 7: It's so much funnier because like you flipped someone off. It's aggressive, but you boo somebody or just shake your head. No, it's it's the equivalent of when you would get in trouble as a kid and your parents are like, I'm not mad, I'm disappointed.
Speaker 5: That's always the worst it cuts.
Speaker 7: You might be in the minority here, but it's like, I feel like they could have been cool, like at some level, like you know, just changed the body style a little bit. I used to make fun of Cody's so much, but he said that one time and I took and ran with it. I like in our group chat, I changed his name to cyber Truck Enthusiasts. Oh yeah, it's funny. It's like, you know it's supposed to be bulletproof.
Speaker 5: You know, it's got that world thing too. I guess the build quality is off.
Speaker 8: So many recalls from obviously I told you what I for work, and yeah, from an automotive point of view, they're just they're super too deep and they catch on fire and they catch well, that's electric cars in general for sure.
Speaker 7: The thing that got me the most with those is the electronic steering rack. So it's like it's not at all feel right. Older drive an older car that has like a touch screen and you try to do something on the radio, there's that delay.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So the cyber trucks are already starting to get the delay with their steering, so you'll you can find a video online. It's pretty prevalent. But it's like the scarring, like glitches out. It turns the wheel and then there's like a solid like half second pause.
Speaker 6: Wheels turn. It's like, yeah, that's not right. Wow, No, that's very dangerous.
Speaker 5: I'm very old school with cars.
Speaker 7: It's like it's got to be you know Rack and Pinion li by Cable like you know what, that's it worked for a thousand years. It's all this electronic stuff just ruins my life.
Speaker 5: Just get just just get yourself a horse. At that point, well, guys, we are.
Speaker 6: We're almost out of time. We got one more track to play useless apologies, but before we start to wrap up. So where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything you has are doing?
Speaker 7: Volley dot bandcamp dot com is where you can find our music. Uh, and we'll actually get paid if you purchase it versus Spotify. Yeah, I don't have enough time to go down that rabbit hole, but I was talking.
Speaker 6: About that with our guests in the second hour actually that same subject. Yep.
Speaker 5: But h so you know you can find us on band camp.
Speaker 7: We're obviously on Spotify and iTunes and all that YouTube YouTube So if you go on Instagram, it's Volley six six six. We're on Facebook as well.
Speaker 5: W w W dot com. I'm sorry, I've been waiting months to w W dot you Is it a backslash forward slash forward slash? Yeah, now they're going to go to the wrong website.
Speaker 7: I'm literally like studying cybersecurity, and I'm like, you've got to study hard, clearly. But yeah, we're on Instagram, Facebook. Uh,
Speaker 7: we were talking about we were talking about making MySpace.
Speaker 6: We should now that's old school.
Speaker 7: We're gonna get a po box you can mail us letters. That's actually not a bod idea.
Speaker 6: And uh yeah, well guys, thank you so much, and of course we should have run everybody to let me put the camera on me for a second while I hold that up the new app.
Speaker 11: Thanks for bringing this in the new album. Disappointed you for having us on once again. Matt Connorton's absolutely now your your presence is a present to us. We thank you, of course.
Speaker 6: Dude.
Speaker 5: Well goalie.
Speaker 6: Oh oh and where's your next show too?
Speaker 5: So the next the next.
Speaker 7: The next show is at Thirsty First in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is June nineteenth, all right, so you should come out. There's gonna be a lot of awesome bands there and uh, we'll also be there.
Speaker 6: Coming right up. Very good, very good, Jenny. Before we go too, you want to mention your website anything you want to plug us very quickly.
Speaker 12: Absolutely make sure you get down to the Mosaic Our Collective and check out our new gallery at four ten Chessnuts Street, in addition to the one on Hanover Street. Stay tuned for more stuff coming from them. If you want to keep up with the good trouble I get into, visit Gencoffee dot com.
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Speaker 6: All right, very good, and of course don't fore at Matt Connorton dot com if you want to keep up with everything I'm doing, and of course our new site, Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com. And these guys are waving goodbye, so we are out of here, Volley bye, thank you. This is this is useless apology. Thanks, yes, say then, I'm just getting fine.
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