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Speaker 8: That is Glow, That is who I am. And Thrax
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Speaker 8: Of course. Today is a Saturday, April twenty five, twenty
Speaker 8: twenty six. For those of you who are listening live,
Speaker 8: Jenny is here of course at.
Speaker 7: The news table.
Speaker 8: President and who I Am and Thras are here with us.
Speaker 8: Welcome back, Hi hi oh I. So of course Glow
Speaker 8: that is from Hot Wax. And now the last time
Speaker 8: you both were here, I think you were. Were you
Speaker 8: in the process of recording Hot Wax or what was
Speaker 8: the status of things at that point. It was a
Speaker 8: while ago.
Speaker 9: I believe we had just released it.
Speaker 8: Oh, it had just come out. Okay, okay, we just
Speaker 8: released it.
Speaker 9: We were having a show at Photy's like that Saturday,
Speaker 9: and but yeah, no, it's it's still our mantra. It's uh,
Speaker 9: some of our favorite songs that we uh that we
Speaker 9: like to play together and yeah, Hot Wax.
Speaker 8: What is it about these songs that make them special
Speaker 8: to the to the both of you that you like
Speaker 8: to play them together?
Speaker 9: Well as far as with the messages and the songs,
Speaker 9: and you know about you know, believing in yourself, believing
Speaker 9: in your surroundings. Yeah, enjoying what you're doing, have fun,
Speaker 9: but be real.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and and so.
Speaker 9: You know, being with Rax, that's it's very easy for
Speaker 9: me because he's a great guy to be around.
Speaker 10: And excellent and the and those songs off that album
Speaker 10: are legitimately all of your songs, but those specific ones
Speaker 10: are the ones that we've played live and a lot
Speaker 10: of people have given us a lot of good uh. Yeah,
Speaker 10: A lot of feed feedback for that, and we noticed
Speaker 10: like right right away that we actually had a lot
Speaker 10: of uh like energy that people really didn't expect to happen,
Speaker 10: right because we we I think we even said it
Speaker 10: before that our our first time playing together was like
Speaker 10: legitimately live. We didn't even rehearse it. We just like,
Speaker 10: was that a Jewel, No, that was at the Jungle?
Speaker 10: Was that the Jungle?
Speaker 9: That was actually yeah, some of Somerville masks at the
Speaker 9: Jungle Music Community Center And so yeah, right, we you know,
Speaker 9: we I approached Thrax and said, you know, he wants
Speaker 9: to join what's going on with who I am? And
Speaker 9: uh so I gave him some of my things, uh
Speaker 9: to to work on and yeah, just it just like
Speaker 9: we just went for it. You know, I had I
Speaker 9: had a live thing set up already, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 9: come join me and we'll we'll just see how it
Speaker 9: goes together live.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, was Jewel one of the early shows because
Speaker 8: I remember seeing you play together at Jewel.
Speaker 7: It was a first time.
Speaker 8: It was the first time I had seen you play together.
Speaker 9: And yeah, yeah that was the yeah Spelfy Fest.
Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, because we had we had our our set
Speaker 10: that we had in the back room. Oh yes, yes,
Speaker 10: and then we and then we had an impromptu jam
Speaker 10: randomly in the room, okay, and I think my buddy
Speaker 10: Brandon at the time was was singing. And then I
Speaker 10: forgot who was who was on?
Speaker 9: Sean from holl Loaf he was playing there actually, Sean
Speaker 9: and guitarists.
Speaker 10: Yeah, because they they joined on like midway through too.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was. It was a good time.
Speaker 8: But yeah, but.
Speaker 9: We had played probably a few shows before that.
Speaker 10: A handful of shows. Yeah, yeah, mostly like either at
Speaker 10: photies or at the at the time it was either
Speaker 10: the Jungle.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay.
Speaker 8: Was it was it easy playing live together right off
Speaker 8: the bat or because I would think it'd be an
Speaker 8: adjustment for both of you, right, because Lacy, you were
Speaker 8: used to all right, right, just you.
Speaker 9: Know, having the the keyboard drum following whatever I do.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is you know, it's a unique project that
Speaker 8: you've probably never done anything quite like this, I assume, or.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, this is a I mean, it was an
Speaker 10: idea that I've always wanted to be part of of
Speaker 10: a a drummer and either keyboardist or DJ type of ensemble.
Speaker 10: Like I've always really wanted that to happen somehow organically.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And I've I've known Lacey in the in the scene
Speaker 10: for quite quite a while.
Speaker 9: Right, We've known. Yeah, we've known each other, been on
Speaker 9: bills together.
Speaker 10: It wasn't foreign, but it was like a hey, you
Speaker 10: want to try this, like all right, it was it
Speaker 10: was like an offshoot thing because I liked, I genuinely
Speaker 10: like the music as she as she said about about
Speaker 10: the message, right, and it's a lot of genuine feeling
Speaker 10: about that, and she has a lot of great story
Speaker 10: storytelling with that. And yeah, when playing with drums, I'm
Speaker 10: trying to match that. I'm not trying to take that away, right,
Speaker 10: And a lot a lot of people out there can
Speaker 10: like overplay if you're listening to something like oh I
Speaker 10: want to put my stamp on it. I just want
Speaker 10: to be able to play what's good good enough for
Speaker 10: the song and like try to see what I can
Speaker 10: do from there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And as I said, like when we played live, it
Speaker 10: was perfect, perfect feedback, So we're like, hey, you want
Speaker 10: to keep doing this? Yeah, And then and then thus
Speaker 10: ensued the the EP.
Speaker 9: Right yeah, right, and uh, it just became a natural
Speaker 9: thing because we had after we had done a few
Speaker 9: live shows together. We were like, hey, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 9: You know, we're having a good time and you know,
Speaker 9: people are having a good time with us, and why
Speaker 9: not let's let's take some of these songs and put
Speaker 9: them together and you know, like some studio stuff with it.
Speaker 9: And so yeah, that's when, yeah, we've worked out you know,
Speaker 9: what we could both do for it, and and and
Speaker 9: the songs that we had played live and it kind
Speaker 9: of we got, like Threax said, we've gotten really good
Speaker 9: feedback from and their fun is a good representation of
Speaker 9: the you know, the forty minutes that we do. So
Speaker 9: you know, four songs just boom hit you with who
Speaker 9: I Am in Thrax, Hot Wax, Who we Are, what
Speaker 9: we do YEP. And I think the EP is actually
Speaker 9: a really good representation of how we sound live like glow.
Speaker 9: You know, as long as I hit all my marks right,
Speaker 9: you know that's what we sound like. You know what
Speaker 9: you hear on the EPs just like we've rehearsed, right, yeah,
Speaker 9: just like exactly because we didn't reheard it, so we do.
Speaker 8: So the tracks on on Hot Wax on the EP,
Speaker 8: these are these are all the two of you, Yes,
Speaker 8: and then is there anyone else, any any other guests on.
Speaker 10: The technically technically yes, technically yes, uh you got, you
Speaker 10: got Brad. I'm very proud of that. I forgot. I
Speaker 10: forgot what song right now?
Speaker 9: Oh it's on Open Your Eyes and Brad who plays
Speaker 9: for Cosmic Blossom and Dog a Dog and I know
Speaker 9: him from Earth back in the day, Earthmark from Towns
Speaker 9: and it was just the band they used to, you know,
Speaker 9: they call themselves Towns. And so I just said, hey,
Speaker 9: you'd be interested in dropping a little bit for this,
Speaker 9: and he did. He sent me something. Oh, it was
Speaker 9: just a one take situation. You know, he's a pretty
Speaker 9: busy guy. He's very busy, and so he dropped it
Speaker 9: to me and I sit over to th Axe and
Speaker 9: Throx is like, this is how it should go in
Speaker 9: the song. And I think I gave him some version
Speaker 9: and he's like, no, this is how it should go
Speaker 9: in the song. I was like, yeah, exactly, it's it's perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 9: it sounds great in the song. And it's like totally
Speaker 9: Brad Joe's offs.
Speaker 10: What was just like a serious I was getting goosebumps.
Speaker 10: Well mix again really oh man, it's good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it really makes that and it gives
Speaker 9: the song like life that you know.
Speaker 10: As a side note, shout out to to Brad and
Speaker 10: Nick and all them. Yes, Brad is just like living
Speaker 10: his life on on like the most positive scale I
Speaker 10: could ever see anybody do anything.
Speaker 7: Really.
Speaker 10: There was a Jiggy had a birthday party over it
Speaker 10: shasking last year, right and ian Ian put it together
Speaker 10: from the track cones. Yeah, no rehearsal, no nothing. He
Speaker 10: just handpicked people like hey, you want to play, Hey,
Speaker 10: you want to play, Hey, you want to play? Like
Speaker 10: there were people from like what was it, Tray Combes
Speaker 10: and like the whole Loaf and Leon Trout, the main
Speaker 10: dude from Leon Trout showed up in either which way
Speaker 10: that like, nobody rehearsed it, Like all right, cool, let's
Speaker 10: let's get up on there. Like while okay, so while
Speaker 10: I'm jamming Adam nowhere, Brad just shows up. He just
Speaker 10: gets to the front road, gets to the front road,
Speaker 10: takes his guitar out and gets gets tuned in and
Speaker 10: I'm like literally playing drums and he he's doing that
Speaker 10: next to me. I'm like, and because he had a
Speaker 10: show earlier, he had a show earlier. I think with
Speaker 10: dog a Dog and then packed up and then came
Speaker 10: came over to Manchester. Oh okay, I'm like so like
Speaker 10: the team and yeah, the real deal.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's.
Speaker 9: He's in my view, he's he's the best guitarist and
Speaker 9: our Yeah yeah, I mean I've listened to everybody, you know,
Speaker 9: I had that radio station. I've heard them all, and
Speaker 9: like everybody's good. But he's he's like a he's transcending,
Speaker 9: I think.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 9: Yeah, listen to our listen to our album Hot Wax,
Speaker 9: go listen to Open your Eyes and you'll hear like
Speaker 9: just guitar work that it's just one take. And he
Speaker 9: told me, he goes, oh wow, that was such a
Speaker 9: such a fun time doing that. But he just did
Speaker 9: one take and his sounds well, maybe we should amazing,
Speaker 9: Maybe we should play that now.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, of course we do have the single that
Speaker 8: we're going to feature in just a little bit, but
Speaker 8: this might be a good time to play Open your
Speaker 8: Eyes Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh featuring Brad to
Speaker 8: Palma on guitar. Yeah, let's give this lesson if you're
Speaker 8: just joining us, who I am and Thras are here
Speaker 8: with us in the studio and this track is from
Speaker 8: the Hot Wax EP with Brad de Palma on guitar.
Speaker 6: In the time we as and Masters there see.
Speaker 3: NiCl fall.
Speaker 6: A prize, shifting time fine, love to be free.
Speaker 3: See going back to the scene you see.
Speaker 4: It waste fir takes.
Speaker 5: Somebody say too gay lest design.
Speaker 3: See what you find.
Speaker 7: Anyone that is open your eyes?
Speaker 8: Who I Am and thracks featuring Brad de Palma on guitar,
Speaker 8: and that is of course from the EP Hot Wax.
Speaker 8: And we've got Who I Am and tracks here with
Speaker 8: us in studio. So Lacy, for those who you've been
Speaker 8: on the show a number of times, you're not in
Speaker 8: the five five time, this, third time, third time? Okay,
Speaker 8: not quite there yet, not quite there yet there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we'll get there and next time I'll you know,
Speaker 9: bring keys and we'll play music.
Speaker 7: Nice. Nice. Yeah.
Speaker 8: So for the uninitiated, Who I Am? Where does the
Speaker 8: name come from?
Speaker 9: Who I Am is? It's a good question. It's a
Speaker 9: it's kind of a two parter because I spell it
Speaker 9: who dot I.
Speaker 8: Am, Yes, and it looks like a U R L
Speaker 8: yeah right right, I know, And it's.
Speaker 9: Very confusing and weirdly enough, I somehow got an email
Speaker 9: with that dot in there too, So I was like, wow,
Speaker 9: I know, I was like, will it take this?
Speaker 8: I'm actually I'm actually surprised.
Speaker 9: Yeah, who dot I am at Comcast dot man email.
Speaker 9: I don't care, say hi, say hi whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 9: so who I Am? The spelling comes from, like, uh,
Speaker 9: where I am? Oh, from Black Eyed Peas when I
Speaker 9: was kind of creating who I Am. That was a
Speaker 9: very influential artist and in that time, so black Eyed Peas,
Speaker 9: especially the one album they played and then so so
Speaker 9: that's where the like spelling from it comes. Okay, it
Speaker 9: comes from there, but they the name who I Am
Speaker 9: is actually about you know, there was a time when
Speaker 9: I was doing like open mics and going through kind
Speaker 9: of discovery of who I was, what the you know,
Speaker 9: what music was going to be about for me, and
Speaker 9: you know, where it fit into my life and where
Speaker 9: it fit into the larger community as a whole, and
Speaker 9: so in observing and you know, being part of it
Speaker 9: and enjoying the whole scene, I started to you know,
Speaker 9: I just kind of said, look, the main thing is
Speaker 9: whatever you're going to do with your keyboards, you're singing
Speaker 9: your songs. You can only do what you are. You
Speaker 9: can you know, make blue sounds or rock sounds or
Speaker 9: you know, symphonic sounds, whatever sounds you're going to make,
Speaker 9: and whatever songs you're going to make. But you can
Speaker 9: still only be you, right right.
Speaker 10: You can't be.
Speaker 9: Somebody else if it's not possible. So in your music,
Speaker 9: in your creation of what this is, it's you can
Speaker 9: only I can only be who I am, okay, and
Speaker 9: that that's it, you know, musically, story telling, song wise,
Speaker 9: performance wise, I can only be who I am. That
Speaker 9: is it. I cannot be any more than that. And
Speaker 9: that's if somebody else is being who they are, then
Speaker 9: I respect that and there's no other There's no way
Speaker 9: I'm going to say, well I need to be that,
Speaker 9: because it's not possible to do that. So I am
Speaker 9: who I am.
Speaker 11: I like it.
Speaker 7: I like it all right.
Speaker 8: And tracks and by the way, you're you're definitely in
Speaker 8: the five Timers club.
Speaker 10: Yeah, various been coming over since I was in married
Speaker 10: Iguana that first time with Brett.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.
Speaker 10: I did too, back at the Old Building. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 10: because then after that I showed up with Fredo and.
Speaker 8: Then yep Withank Sinatra.
Speaker 10: And then and then I I I phoned in when
Speaker 10: he was a guest guest.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah for a little bit. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 7: good memory.
Speaker 10: Well, and I think apart from that, it's been and
Speaker 10: Harrison and Dead Harrison. Well, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 10: think Dead Harrison showed up to the old the old building.
Speaker 8: They were here. You guys were here here here, No,
Speaker 8: you guys were at the old building. You might not
Speaker 8: have been there that day, but probably because I remember
Speaker 8: Andre standing on the desk. What yeah, yeah, you stood
Speaker 8: on the desk during the interview.
Speaker 7: He's making some kind of joke.
Speaker 10: And then I think twice here and I think us
Speaker 10: twice yeah right, yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 12: Means you don't constitute as a guest anymore.
Speaker 8: You're you're now a friend of the show, which is
Speaker 8: like level up from guests.
Speaker 10: Yes, it's like the Patreon level where like the more
Speaker 10: times I show.
Speaker 7: Up, except there's no yeah, yeah, I get no, he
Speaker 7: gets the raise, Yeah get the raise.
Speaker 10: Now wait the same rais you get?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll have to give him an annual review.
Speaker 10: I've never had a review from you guys.
Speaker 8: Definitely definitely kind. So where's the name Thracks? And I
Speaker 8: know you told this story last time. But it's a
Speaker 8: great story.
Speaker 7: I think it is.
Speaker 8: I think it's interesting where the name Tracks comes from.
Speaker 10: So for the for the longest time, people know me
Speaker 10: for my regular name Axl obviously.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that is your real name.
Speaker 8: That's my real name, because I'm sure people wonder about
Speaker 8: that is not his real name.
Speaker 11: But it is.
Speaker 10: It's my real name. I can't fake that.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: The reason why I can't fake it is because I
Speaker 10: was made fun of my whole entire, like academic career,
Speaker 10: bring upbringing, my childhood, just because like the connection between
Speaker 10: Axel and Axle Roads, what's your last name Road? It's
Speaker 10: always been that. It's always literally been that way for
Speaker 10: the kids, teachers, doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so like, uh, what's it.
Speaker 8: What's as weird in a way because it's a cool name,
Speaker 8: Axel Rods are not Axel is a cool name. So
Speaker 8: it's it's so weird that people people made fun the
Speaker 8: first thing.
Speaker 10: It's like the first thing. It's like in the early nineties.
Speaker 10: It was the early nineties, and that's just how it happened.
Speaker 10: It still happens to this day. Doesn't really not as frequent. Yeah,
Speaker 10: when it happens I'm I'm at the point now where
Speaker 10: I'm like, I've never.
Speaker 7: Heard that, Like, oh good, never that one before.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Like there was a point in time I was
Speaker 10: I named myself Smitty Werben Yegermann Jensen because he was
Speaker 10: number one. That that's when I was. I was hosting
Speaker 10: the show as a TJ's. Yeah, shout out to TJ's.
Speaker 10: It's no longer there. It's now a high rise buildings,
Speaker 10: So that's a separate issue. But like I I used
Speaker 10: to do like open mic nights, but I used to
Speaker 10: do I hosted shows at Club Realm two, which now
Speaker 10: is The Racks, But like I used to host shows there,
Speaker 10: used to host shows as Smitty whatever. Like some people
Speaker 10: just like vibe to it. It was my raver days.
Speaker 10: It was my rave.
Speaker 12: But my.
Speaker 10: My way of getting two tracks is like a no
Speaker 10: a no brainer that I wanted to do like years years,
Speaker 10: years ago because I don't like my first name aforementioned
Speaker 10: being being bullied about it. So that's my actual middle name. Okay,
Speaker 10: come to find out.
Speaker 8: That's the part that's very interesting to me, that practice
Speaker 8: practice is actually your middle name.
Speaker 10: It's my my government god given name from it from
Speaker 10: my parents. That like they really liked guns n' roses
Speaker 10: and anthras and put them together. But like, for the
Speaker 10: longest time, I've been wanting to either change my name
Speaker 10: or uh just have I want that as a moniker
Speaker 10: more than my actual name, just because I fit more
Speaker 10: with that now than my actual name. And kind of like.
Speaker 9: The whole like where did the name who I Am
Speaker 9: in Thracks come from?
Speaker 10: I mean, it's pretty much put them together, but like
Speaker 10: the I started using that for my like drum videos
Speaker 10: and all that stuff, being integrated with Dead Harrison as
Speaker 10: well used as that name that it just it just
Speaker 10: goes with what like what I feel like who I am,
Speaker 10: Like there's a whole correspondence between both of us that
Speaker 10: are like where we were trying to find who we
Speaker 10: were and and it's ourselves. It It just it didn't
Speaker 10: dawn on me until like one of the first like
Speaker 10: couple of times we were like jamming that it like
Speaker 10: that that makes sense of putting two of those like
Speaker 10: entities together.
Speaker 9: Right when I first met I think the first time
Speaker 9: I met you, you came on my radio show. Yeah,
Speaker 9: that was that. The first time I actually like mess
Speaker 9: with Dead Harrison, I think, so, yeah, I mean maybe
Speaker 9: i'd seen you at a show or I'd been in
Speaker 9: the crowd or something. I don't know if we had met,
Speaker 9: not formally, no, but I think but I remember you
Speaker 9: saying like I was like, you know, everybody introduced yourself,
Speaker 9: and I remember you saying, like, you know, kind of
Speaker 9: wavering on what you were going to say, your name was,
Speaker 9: oh yeah, and I kind of and I was like,
Speaker 9: bring it and you go thracks tracks. I'm going by tracks.
Speaker 9: Trax is what it is, you know, And so I
Speaker 9: mean we didn't get together until you your couple of
Speaker 9: years after that, but I I always remember you saying
Speaker 9: that likes that's my name. Oh sorry, sorry my people,
Speaker 9: very excited.
Speaker 10: I haven't I have a knack for whoever I'm on
Speaker 10: this radio broadcast, very excited.
Speaker 9: I got over excited. I apologize.
Speaker 10: That's great, more pressure.
Speaker 7: I'll never know.
Speaker 8: Like, like I said, that's his.
Speaker 9: Name, yeah right, but that you know, I was like,
Speaker 9: that's his name, you know tracks, And I forgot like
Speaker 9: because you because I was also there.
Speaker 10: I think I showed up for Dank Sinatra as well. Uh,
Speaker 10: like the times that I was going in there, I
Speaker 10: didn't know, like how to present myself. So that was
Speaker 10: that was a good point because I was like on
Speaker 10: the press of this so that I'm like, no, I'm
Speaker 10: going to stick to this because I'm like at that time,
Speaker 10: that's when I was, I was dating on it, and
Speaker 10: I'm like, no, I need I just need to stick
Speaker 10: to it.
Speaker 9: Yes, that was very cool. Yeah, and so it only
Speaker 9: makes sense to me. And the and the thing is like,
Speaker 9: you know, I know I come up with like songs
Speaker 9: and stuff and the lyrics and whatnot, but but you know,
Speaker 9: the thing is we were like born on a live stage,
Speaker 9: and the live stage is who I am. In tracks,
Speaker 9: I mean, there's just no way to get around you know.
Speaker 9: The drums are a part of who I am thing
Speaker 9: and tracks is the drums that are that. And I've
Speaker 9: tried with other people who do drums and it has
Speaker 9: not worked.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't know that. So so you tried this.
Speaker 7: You tried this before.
Speaker 9: I've practiced with and played with other people and it
Speaker 9: just never really came out the way that I wanted
Speaker 9: it to sound.
Speaker 8: Was part of it because Thracks who were saying earlier
Speaker 8: there's a temptation in a situation like this to overplay. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean is that, Lacy, Is that part of what
Speaker 8: you ran into, uh well with other drummers.
Speaker 9: I think what it became was certain people were in
Speaker 9: a niche as far as what they were going to
Speaker 9: do with with their instrument.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and.
Speaker 9: And my music demands you to be kind of very
Speaker 9: dynamic and yeah, ever flowing yep from genre to genre.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 9: And you know Thrax can do all genres. Yeah, Like
Speaker 9: and I do a lot of hip hoppy kind of
Speaker 9: stuff too, So.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's kind of my bread and butter.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I he's someone that can really you know, you know,
Speaker 9: put it out there, right, And that's not to shade
Speaker 9: on anybody else. It's just for my songs. That's what
Speaker 9: I need.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense.
Speaker 9: But but yeah, no it didn't work.
Speaker 10: We've had this conversation. We've had this conversation that like
Speaker 10: hip hop and rap we're kind of a a thing
Speaker 10: for you to you you had a thing for like
Speaker 10: trip hop and like the R and B in hip
Speaker 10: hop area of like the early nineties, where like that's
Speaker 10: kind of like where I first started listening to hip
Speaker 10: hop when it was like ingrained to me, like mid nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and like I still listened to old school hip hop
Speaker 10: and stuff like I can name hundreds, but like that
Speaker 10: that clicked with me with with her because when when
Speaker 10: we had that conversation, like I got it now, because
Speaker 10: like the approach to making certain songs if you have
Speaker 10: the if you have the influence of whatever it is,
Speaker 10: like if someone tells you hated that, I want the
Speaker 10: influence of blah blah blah blah. Okay, cool, I can
Speaker 10: think about that now.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Most of what you gravitate with is like dance and
Speaker 10: and yeah Dan hippin hip hop. Yeah, And I'm like
Speaker 10: that's brilliant And what you can do with that is limitless.
Speaker 10: You can make that into anything you want to. It
Speaker 10: can't It doesn't have to be just rapper. It doesn't
Speaker 10: have to be just since you can do so many
Speaker 10: it right, I.
Speaker 9: Feel like, yeah, that's the in like you know, look,
Speaker 9: we're simpatago on on what we think music can be.
Speaker 9: Like you know, in this kind of you know instance
Speaker 9: where you don't see there's no keyboard artists out there,
Speaker 9: who's the show? Yeah, there's keyboard artists, Like I know,
Speaker 9: you know Crowley is incredible for hell Loaf, and you
Speaker 9: know there's some really good keyboard artists out there, but
Speaker 9: they're not the show. They're adding to the show, right,
Speaker 9: So that's kind of what we have is you know
Speaker 9: who I am is the show, and the sounds coming
Speaker 9: from a keyboard are the show. They're not just part
Speaker 9: of a nuance or a mood that you're trying to
Speaker 9: set with other instruments. And right now, that's the only
Speaker 9: place you're really gonna hear keyboards and synth music unless
Speaker 9: you go to like, you know, one of those things
Speaker 9: where they got like a hundred wires coming out of
Speaker 9: the thing, you know, And that's cool too, that's like
Speaker 9: you know, deep sense stuff. But you know, what we're
Speaker 9: doing is unique. You know, we're like a musical unicorn.
Speaker 9: You won't find us anywhere. This is where you'll find this,
Speaker 9: and when we for people live, it's like, you know,
Speaker 9: it's like a musical experience.
Speaker 10: She's not she's not kidding. It's very rare to show
Speaker 10: up to, like like saying, like the early earlier areas,
Speaker 10: like going to places that we've probably don't have any
Speaker 10: any business being, and we we we get fans no
Speaker 10: matter where we are, no matter where we go. One
Speaker 10: case in point Chickapee. That that was. That was such
Speaker 10: an experience. I did not expect that was such a
Speaker 10: wonderful experience. The mayor of Chickapee came out and did
Speaker 10: a whole like drag drag lap that was amazing. But
Speaker 10: the the overall like uh unification of what of what
Speaker 10: we were doing was very very received in the crowd.
Speaker 10: Like as soon as we were done. As soon as
Speaker 10: we were done, we got like almost mobbed by by
Speaker 10: different people at different times, Like I saw you're said,
Speaker 10: I that was amazing. But like people we don't even know,
Speaker 10: like we I mean, you have your fans, I have
Speaker 10: my fans, we have our fans, but like it's different
Speaker 10: when we don't even know these people and they come
Speaker 10: up to us with like grins smiles, like that was amazing.
Speaker 10: That was amazing, Like it's in real time. It like
Speaker 10: really solidifies us that we know what we're doing, we're
Speaker 10: having fun doing it, and we know for a fact
Speaker 10: that it's electrifying because we when we play in front
Speaker 10: of people, that's the response.
Speaker 9: It's like, oh, we keep telling us, like in real time,
Speaker 9: it is pretty great. I know, it's it's why I
Speaker 9: do it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, doubt, no doubt. Well we should so I
Speaker 8: think we should go ahead and do that world premiere.
Speaker 8: Is this the worldwide? Has this been played on the radio?
Speaker 10: Never heard it? Heard? We we did the old card test.
Speaker 8: Hey, before we do that, we actually have a call
Speaker 8: curious it might be one of your fans.
Speaker 9: I hope so would be.
Speaker 7: Hi, welcome to the show. Who's on the line, Uh, Cisco, Cisco?
Speaker 7: Let's Usco? Yes, welcome to the show, Cisco. What do
Speaker 7: you have to say?
Speaker 11: I am, well, I was listening to the program, and Uh,
Speaker 11: I just thought i'd call in and offer my two cents.
Speaker 9: Thanks Cisco.
Speaker 7: Yeah, go ahead, go for it.
Speaker 11: So a couple of things I don't know. Am I live?
Speaker 8: Yes, you are live on the air.
Speaker 11: I have the audio turned off on my uh computer
Speaker 11: because I don't want to obviously, But just a couple
Speaker 11: of things. First of all, really beautiful story on tracks.
Speaker 11: I can't believe so the the local musician I've known
Speaker 11: the longest, is actually tracked, and I can't believe all
Speaker 11: this time I didn't think to ask in the origin
Speaker 11: of his name, because I probably, like many, assumed a
Speaker 11: nickname that he gave himself. I did actual little days.
Speaker 8: I know it's wild that That's why I wanted him
Speaker 8: to tell the story.
Speaker 11: That I really appreciate you giving that context.
Speaker 10: That was pretty cool, no problem, Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: I it was.
Speaker 10: It's something that I've been molling over for literally years
Speaker 10: by myself. Uh, And I didn't I didn't know if
Speaker 10: I really wanted to or not until like basically like
Speaker 10: last year, a couple of years ago. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 10: that's a real thing, man, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 9: Per Uh.
Speaker 11: The second last thing, I didn't want to interrupt the conversation,
Speaker 11: but listening. The second and last thing I want to share,
Speaker 11: and this is more for the throngs out there listening,
Speaker 11: is uh, the who I am sharing about the musical
Speaker 11: vision for the band Sofa. So for everyone out there
Speaker 11: who hasn't seen who I am in Thrax Live, you know,
Speaker 11: they're talking about some special concert experiences, some of which
Speaker 11: I haven't been to. But for me personally, as a
Speaker 11: big patron of the local music scene, I have to
Speaker 11: first of all, I put it like on my socials.
Speaker 11: My friends know you know, I have friends part and
Speaker 11: live in the local music community. No, because I constantly
Speaker 11: put it out there that my favorite you find of
Speaker 11: twenty twenty five is Who I Am in Thrax, and
Speaker 11: I really appreciate Who I Am giving the context of
Speaker 11: about the keyboard the keyboard slash scent piece, because what's
Speaker 11: funny is I never thought of it framed that way before,
Speaker 11: and it makes perfect sense. And for everyone out there,
Speaker 11: for all the you know, listeners into the station who
Speaker 11: haven't seen Who I Am. It's one thing to listen
Speaker 11: to on the radio, but who haven't seen them live.
Speaker 11: I want everyone to give themselves an opportunity to see
Speaker 11: what who I Am is talking about in the flesh.
Speaker 11: Because as much as I love music, and as I
Speaker 11: much other as I love keyboards and music, it's quite
Speaker 11: another to see what she means by the keyboard is
Speaker 11: is the music. It's the central piece. And so obviously
Speaker 11: with you know Trax coming, I mean Trax is the
Speaker 11: backbone that like obviously you know, but but yes, who
Speaker 11: I Am, you know, the keyboard is is the music,
Speaker 11: and it's that filling sound in the room that you
Speaker 11: know you don't need. Because I also listen to some loopers,
Speaker 11: yes you know, like some like Reggie Watts and and
Speaker 11: Mark Revla, but there's something that who I am. But
Speaker 11: it is unique. It is unique to music, especially in
Speaker 11: the local scene, that I've seen no one else do
Speaker 11: where it manages to fill the room. And I always
Speaker 11: love that when an artist sometimes with just free instruments,
Speaker 11: gives a sense almost like of an orchestra, because the
Speaker 11: sound is that filling and complete. And I just want
Speaker 11: to offer that to the masses as they got a
Speaker 11: compulsion to come see them live, yes, listen to them
Speaker 11: on the radio.
Speaker 8: Well, very good, very good, Thank you well Cisco, thank
Speaker 8: you for calling.
Speaker 10: Thank you man.
Speaker 11: All Right, carry on, I will I'm heading my stores.
Speaker 11: You in it and I will let's see you guys
Speaker 11: in the car and talk about it and you know,
Speaker 11: share the gospel from the mountaintops.
Speaker 8: All right, there you go, all right, Sosco, thank you
Speaker 8: for the call.
Speaker 7: We appreciate it, all.
Speaker 11: Right, love you guys.
Speaker 10: All right, man, Bye bye bye bye. So that's what
Speaker 10: I'm talking about. That's that's that's exactly what I'm talkingking about.
Speaker 10: People that actually know what we've been doing and seeing it.
Speaker 10: That's a that's a first hand testimony in real time.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, because we didn't know Cisco before we met,
Speaker 9: Like I mean, yeah, I didn't know Cisco.
Speaker 10: Is he a musician, No, he's just uh an, he's
Speaker 10: a he's a huge local.
Speaker 9: Music supporter and I think the musician things going on.
Speaker 10: He's like one of the biggest supporters of the New
Speaker 10: England scene as a whole.
Speaker 9: And he's Yeah, he's a wonderful person any right, huge
Speaker 9: supporter of the music scene, especially out in ash And
Speaker 9: you thanks so much, Cisco. I mean, that's it. That's
Speaker 9: that's what he walked into that one day when he
Speaker 9: walked into Yeah, I mean Podies shout out to Photies.
Speaker 7: Love you.
Speaker 9: You know. Photies is where we created our hot wax
Speaker 9: Here in nashaua are hot Wax like home. I would say,
Speaker 9: they've you know, allowed us to come in and just
Speaker 9: like overtake the place and really bring a vibe that
Speaker 9: like Cisco is saying, you know, we it's it's just
Speaker 9: a vibe you're not gonna hear anywhere else. And like
Speaker 9: even if you go to a synth concert, like you
Speaker 9: know who, I don't know who plays synth anymore, like
Speaker 9: like that, you know, maybe some eighties bands or somebody
Speaker 9: from the night like O. M. D.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: Maybe yeah, you know, but they're like up on a big,
Speaker 9: huge stage and everything's all separated, and you know, maybe
Speaker 9: Pink Pink Floyd's show and that's where you get, you know,
Speaker 9: but that's mostly guitar. Come see who I am in
Speaker 9: Thrax and you'll get you'll get a full synth explosion.
Speaker 7: Very good, very good.
Speaker 8: Well let's get to that now.
Speaker 9: Anywhere Yes, sold leader, Right. So so I I originally
Speaker 9: thought I would that we would do Hot Wax two
Speaker 9: album and and that's that's and that's still coming. Hot
Speaker 9: Wax too is still coming, yeah, and and it's a
Speaker 9: continuation of our live songs that everybody loves. It's so
Speaker 9: starting to work on that, and then I kind of
Speaker 9: started getting a feeling of I need to write this
Speaker 9: kind of thing, yeah, this kind of music, and and
Speaker 9: I need to have this content come out. So I
Speaker 9: came up with a concept album. It's called Welcome to Dystopia,
Speaker 9: A Survivor's Scroll Oh wow. Yeah. And the the content
Speaker 9: is much like our song Opened Your Eyes from Hot Wax.
Speaker 9: It's it's thoughtful and hopefully thought provoking, and it's about
Speaker 9: things that I think we all see and hear and experience,
Speaker 9: and it's you know, lean into this synth and and
Speaker 9: make it, make it become part of of a message.
Speaker 9: And that's what this first song is called Leader of
Speaker 9: the Pack from the album which should be out thinking
Speaker 9: maybe late summer.
Speaker 7: Cool.
Speaker 9: But we have two songs completed already. Uh and we
Speaker 9: have one we're presenting here as our first single called
Speaker 9: Leader of the Pack.
Speaker 8: And this is not a cover.
Speaker 11: No, I know.
Speaker 9: I love that song. And it's weird how I find
Speaker 9: sometimes like, yeah, the name of the songs, Like I
Speaker 9: have a song called dreams. It's not the Fleetwood Mac song,
Speaker 9: right right knows.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of songs all dreams.
Speaker 9: There are, but so well that's it. Yeah, just use
Speaker 9: the words that match for you. But so leader of
Speaker 9: the Pack and it's it's a it's a concept. Yeah,
Speaker 9: So I hope you all enjoy.
Speaker 7: All right, very good. Here it is.
Speaker 8: This is the world radio premiere of a Leader of
Speaker 8: the Pack from Who I Am and Thras.
Speaker 7: You are listening to Wumination.
Speaker 9: World premiere.
Speaker 2: Leader.
Speaker 3: We are created.
Speaker 5: Scope and you can tell you.
Speaker 1: You can shoots wizards?
Speaker 3: Can you want to push.
Speaker 1: Chet Brown?
Speaker 3: Can straight tests back going back?
Speaker 1: You shack you can.
Speaker 8: Ba there it is Leader of the Pack, the new single,
Speaker 8: the world radio premiere from Who I Am and Trax
Speaker 8: and I love it. That's actually my favorite the ones
Speaker 8: that you've done together so far. I really like that
Speaker 8: one a lot.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, that's really good. That's really really good. Before
Speaker 8: we run out of time, So when's your next show?
Speaker 8: And where should people go online to keep up with
Speaker 8: everything that who I Am and thras is doing.
Speaker 9: For sure, you can go to who I Am in
Speaker 9: thracks on Facebook, on Instagram.
Speaker 8: Oh and remind people to how to spell because of
Speaker 8: who that I am. Yes, yes people know, yeah.
Speaker 9: And on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, all this basically all the
Speaker 9: streamers we're there, just type in who I Am in tracks. Also,
Speaker 9: our next show is coming up on May thirtieth, and
Speaker 9: it's a porch fest down in Maldon, and so I
Speaker 9: had to take a little break for the last couple months,
Speaker 9: and so May thirtieth is when we're coming back and
Speaker 9: gonna hit the uh hit the porch down on on
Speaker 9: Bainbridge Street, fifty nine Bainbridge Street down in Maldon, her
Speaker 9: porch Fest and.
Speaker 10: That's my home, my hometown.
Speaker 7: Oh okay for a while, oh wow, very cool.
Speaker 9: And then just after that, keep your eyes open. We'll
Speaker 9: have some photies the spot, you know, terminus. We'll be
Speaker 9: at some places. Yeah, I'm working out some dates for
Speaker 9: June and July and August.
Speaker 8: Outstanding, outstanding, come.
Speaker 9: And listen and you know, find us online and uh
Speaker 9: go listen to our music and pass it around.
Speaker 8: Very very good, very good. So in a moment, we'll
Speaker 8: we'll wrap up. We'll play one more track. We can
Speaker 8: play one more track from the EP. What what should
Speaker 8: we play? Do you have a we didn't play a
Speaker 8: new love or wait no we didn't play that one right,
Speaker 8: or we didn't play Moon run.
Speaker 10: Ah, but we want to send people to the moon.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll play to be a good example
Speaker 9: of the synth being the lead.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, yeah, that's that's okay.
Speaker 9: When I play this live, I used all my limbs, yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: use my foot to uh control the control certain aspects
Speaker 9: of the song.
Speaker 8: All right, So beginning, so we'll give that a spin. Jenny,
Speaker 8: you want to mention your website and anything else.
Speaker 7: Uh you want people to know.
Speaker 12: Absolutely if you want to check out the good trouble
Speaker 12: I get into go do Gencoffee dot com. J E
Speaker 12: N then C O F F e y dot com.
Speaker 12: And if you can't find me there, check out the
Speaker 12: mosaic Our Collective mosaic Arcollective dot com right here in
Speaker 12: the Queen City.
Speaker 8: All right, very good, and of course you can find
Speaker 8: me at Matt connorton dot com. And you can find
Speaker 8: the show now at Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com that
Speaker 8: just went live. Still got some things to do. This
Speaker 8: to the side, but all the episodes are archived there,
Speaker 8: going all the way back to the very beginning to
Speaker 8: the summer of twenty eleven when the show originally launched,
Speaker 8: and so everything is right there. Let's see. Okay, so
Speaker 8: we will again who I am in thracks, Thank you
Speaker 8: both for we appreciate it absolutely, and we will end
Speaker 8: with this. This is Moon Run from the ep hot Wax.
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