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the novels. MHM, Ladies and Gentlemen. By way of introduction, this
is a film about trickery and Robert about lies. You don't talk about Napolio
Judaiza. It's about Elidia hell Me Elmer. Who is Elmia? That question
has yet to be answered with any real precision. Can I kiss you?
Truth? Someone? Everybody wants to me in the world, the jet setters,
among us, beautiful people. Everybody knows el Me. But tell me
of what he has about sixty times the same name. He's going his made
Uriby Gory, Barry Dove, all thea with you are why sixty names?
His real name was Elmer Ferren Hoffman. Then sixty personalities as much lies and
as much real. Well sounds very Jesuitica. Yes, it's his world is
a world of make believe. You're not an actor, not an actor,
Elmer. I'm not an actor. I am not a professional actor. He's
a leading actor in this movie. He is a professional. It's true.
His painting painting fakes. Among all fakers, Elmer is number two. Once
I saw a man from Bibidza writing a book on fake we came to see
me to Paris. He said, I heard you are the first man who
both a ell me or that man's name. Was the important distinction to make
when you're talking about the genuine quality of a painting. It's not so much
whether it's a real painting or a fake. It's whether it's a good fake
or a bad fake. The art of illusion or magic is often just pigeonholed
into describing magic shows or magicians. From Houdini, seek Fried and Roy,
David Blaine, and Chris Angel, these individuals have provided us with mind bending
moments that make us forget logic. However, behind every trick is a secret
away the illusion is pulled off. Film directors are the same way. In
orson Wells is no different. As a matter of fact, the outright owns
it. In nineteen seventy six, Wells would release a video essay slash docu
drama called F for Fake. In this film, Wells would look at notorious
art forger El Mayor Diori, gamed biographer Clifford Irving, who wrote a biography
on dr called Fake, and was later shamed for writing a hoax biography on
Howard Hughes and Wells's companion at the time, the Beautiful Oja Kodar. Wells,
as well as being a performer, director and writer, was a magician.
In this interview from nineteen seventy four, he talks about being a magician
and how that segued into him getting into cold readings. As he explains how
this works, he exposes the hoax. This shows how Wells could be the
ultimate charlatan, speaking on something notorious, misleading and having people laugh with him
all along the way. I once, you know, I'm a magician,
and I got interested in mind reading and fortune telling, fake fortune telling,
you know. And I got to know a lot of old fakes would re
tired as millionaires, you know. And they told me their secrets how you
do it. They are things that are called cold readings. A cold reading
is you warm up the sucker by telling him things that he says, How
could he ever know that? You see? You say, you know,
between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, you had a great change came in
your life. Well, that happens in everybody's life. But he says,
he came in and told me things I already said. You've got a scar
on your knee. Everybody fell down and has the scar on their knee Those
are cold readings. You see. Now I have a scar that you see,
there's something bigger than myself. Well, now, the point about this
is that after they're warmed up, they're amazed by this knee bit and the
rest of it. They start telling you because you just say is it's it?
And you see from their face it is or it is and then you
tell it back and they say, how did he do it? You see?
So I was bored. I was playing in Kansas City with Katherine Crunnell
one time and we didn't have any matinee on Wednesday. So I hired a
room and put Doctor Swami fortune teller, you know, two dollars readings,
and for the whole day that came in and I each one because I felt
guilty about it. At the end, I was said, I'm not going
to take your money, you know, because I couldn't have really taken.
For a whole day, I was a fortune teller faking. But then there
began to happen to be the thing that does happen to fortune tellers, and
which is the occupational disease of fraudulents fortune tellers. And they have a name
for it. It's called becoming a shut eye and a shot eye. In
the argo of these crooks is the fellow who believe begins to believe himself.
You see, and you make these wild guests, is one of them.
Explained to me, says, Supposing you're a night clerk in a hotel,
and when you get the job, first of all, fella comes in wants
a single room. You look at how good his luggage is, how good
are his shoes, and you tell him there's a room in the court.
There's no room. More. Yes, sir, depending on various pieces of
evidence, says, you've been a nightclerk long enough. You glance, and
you tell him a night cook a little longer, and you don't have to
look. You've seen it. But you have the computer in here has made
all of those deductions without your being conscious of it. So the mind reader
gets so that he, without thinking does that, and then they say it's
true. And a woman came in to me at the end of my career
as a fraudulent unfortune telling in a bright print dress and sat down looking perfectly
all right, and I said, you've lost your husband last week, and
she burst into tears she had and then I quit it's one of those things.
Undoubtedly it's not psychic. Undoubtedly there was evidence of a tragedy. There
was all kinds of things that went into the computer and got processed without me
crookedly thinking what I'm going to say to her, And that's how it works.
I think that's fascinating. And you get sort of five spooky premonitions with
that, and then you know, yes I do, and I'm sure they're
all they're spooky like that in some kind of funny wa I suppose I look
to do and you know, she's just una as the exact the girl that
would be happy with Charlie, I suppose. And instead of thinking maybe you'll
meet him, I just tweted I lose. I said you're gonna marry it,
and she did. From that clip, we learn that Wells does have
a love of magic. You can hear it in his voice. That love
sets the stage for this film. In the first scene he performs a series
of tricks for a young child. We hear Wells fully admit it's a hoax,
but he keeps up the hoax to entertain. In all the while he
beautifully ineloquently explains what is going on to keep us the audience a part of
the trick. At the end of this scene, we hear wells make a
promise that for the next hour, everything we hear is really true and based
on solid facts. For my next experiment, ladies and gentlemen, I would
appreciate the loan of any small person object from your pocket, a key or
a box of matches, A coin? Oh good, sir, hold it
up ten feet over your head and watch out the slightest hint of panky pecky,
And behold before our very eyes a transformation. We've changed your key into
a coin. What happened to the key? It's been returned to you.
Look closely, sir. You'll find the key back in your pocket. May
we see it? Please? After your old tricks? I see why not?
I'm a charlatan. What's that said? Did? I used to be
a magician, sir? I'm still working on it. As for the key,
it was not symbolic of anything. This isn't that kind of movie.
You will find the coin now in your pocket, sir. Keep your eyes
or the coin, sir, while it's returned to you as your key.
Should we return you to your mother? Is this your mother? No?
Of course not open your mouth. Why I will return you your money.
By the way, have you ever heard of Robert speaking of magicians? Any?
Of course not, But of course you do know. My partner in
France for a writing Barner was the greatest magician who ever lived. Do you
know what he said? A magician? He said, is just an actor?
Well, good luck to you, just an actor playing the part of
a magician. Very nice and she's fabulously rich too. It's a good story
about her. Do you want to tell her? We'll cover that one I
did. Now it's time for an introduction, ladies and gentlemen. By way
of introduction, this is a film about trickery and fraud, about lies.
Tell it by the fireside, or in a marketplace or in a movie.
Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time.
Now, this is a promise during the next hour, everything you'll hear
from this is really true and based on solid effects. Throughout this film,
Wells presents the idea of illusions in hoaxes being misunderstood. That is what makes
this docudrama so intriguing. None of us like to be misled, However,
how many times have we bought knockoff designer clothing or accessories, off brand food
items, famous pieces of art reproduced into a poster, such as Starry Night,
The Mona Lisa, or any of Grentwood's pieces. Wouldn't that make us
a part of the hoax and not the victim of it? These are the
questions this film presents to us. In our final clip, Wells has just
told the story regarding Kodar, her grandfather, and her grandfather forging Picasso paintings.
This is the final scene of the film where Wells shows us the viewer
that not everything is what it seems, and that quote that we mentioned previously
that for the next hour that everything presented is really true and based on solid
facts. Time for a confession, Time to go good night. That's a
real name, you know, oh yah Oya Koda. I don't think that
young gentleman is a trump home player. That Ohya's grandfather was Hungarian, he
laid any pictures never in his life, and gentlemen, we did you Soya's
grandfather to lend versimilarity to the reenactment of this story, but is reenactment really
the word? What I mean is with the story, this is hard to
believe reenactment isn't easy, right, brats who are at the very beginning of
all this, I did make you a promise. Remember, I did promise
that for one hour, I tell you what, the truth that our ladies
and gentlemen is over. For the past seventeen minutes, I've been lying my
head off the truth, and please forgive us for it is that we've been
fortune an art story. As a charlatan, of course, my job was
to try to make it real, not that reality has anything to do with
it. Reality. It's the toothbrush waiting at home for you, and it's
glass, a bus ticket, paycheck, and the grave. In the right
mood, perhaps Elmeir has just as few regrets as I have to have been
a charlatan. But we're not so proud either of us has to lay any
superior claim to being very much worse than the rest of you. Now what
we professional liars hope to serve his truth? I'm afraid the pompous word for
that is art, because of himself said it art. He said he's a
lie, a lie that makes us realize the truth. Oh yes, grandfather
floating here in the air has no comment, which isn't surprising because he ever
existed. To the memory of that great man who will never cease to exist,
I offer my apologies and wish you all true and false are very pleasant,
good evening. When this film was released, it was met with widespread
criticism. Wells had released a nine minute trailer that only featured scenes that were
not even in the film. When critics and moviegoers went to see the release,
this led to them not understanding what the film is about and being confused
about what Wells was even trying to convey. Those feelings could be the ultimate
story of Wells's career. A man, a director, a magician, a
performer that was far ahead of his time. His films were not heralded then
for the most part, but now they are a part of the greatest ever
film's discussion, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, the list
can go on and on. His influence is felt through decades of cinema,
and he is my all time favorite director. His films were made by a
performer and magician, and in my opinion, that is why they captivate in
awe even today. I hope you join me next week when in honor a
major league baseball season starting, we will look at the nineteen eighty nine film
starring Charlie Sheen, Corbin Burnson and Wesley Snipe's Major League. To conclude this
month long tribute to Orson Wells, we will feature a scene from f for
Fake where he compares art to human life with the backdrop of Chartez Cathedral in
France. It rises, it falls, and it is forgotten, thankfully for
us, Wells and his masterpiece as he left us. Never will be a
celebration to God's glory and to the dignity of man. Well Well, that's
left. Most odd, it seemed to feel these days, is man naked,
poor, forked, raddish. There aren't any celebrations ours. The scientists
keep telling us. As a universe which is disposable, you know, it
might be just this one anonymous glory of all things, this rich stone forest,
this epic chant, this gaiety, this grand quiring shout of affirmation,
which we choose when all our cities are dust, to stand intact, to
mark where we have been, to testify to what we had in us to
accomplish. Our works in stone and paint in print are spared, some of
them for a few decades or a millennium or two. But everything must find
a fallen war, or we're away into the ultimate and universal pash, the
triumphs and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes, the fact of life.
We're going to die, be of good heart, cry the dead artists
out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced. But what
of it? Go on singing? Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that
much. You are listening to Tuminate, don't get Welcome back, everybody.
This is 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. Also
streaming at Matt connorton dot com slash live. You can go there for your
live stream and all your live streaming options. Today is Saturday, April twenty
seven, twenty twenty four. Jenny is here, of course at the news
table, present and accounted for, and we have a couple of guys here
from the band Already Dead. How are you guys? Good morning, Morning
morning, and they're gonna gonna play live for us. But before we do
that, uh, And we're also gonna play a studio track. Actually,
we're gonna do that first, and then here you guys play live. But
please, if you could each introduce yourselves, tell us who you are and
what you do and already dead. Yes, I'm Dan Cummings guitar and vocals
have already dead. I am Nick Cally. I played drums for Already Dead.
All right, and it's it's uh Now there's other guys right or are
there? Yeah? Yeah, yea, so we're at three piece? Okay,
yeah, so so there's another guy, basic players sleeping somewhere. I
got those bass players. I'm a bass player, so I can say that.
And you guys got a big show tonight in Nashua. Yeah, man,
was psyched down at a terminus with our good friends the Granted Tears and
the Lipstick Boys party and very good a third show three days in a row.
So where running on adrenaline, fumes, coffee, all the Yeah,
you guys have been working hard. Where'd you play last night? Down a
roll at the Safe? And okay? Yeah it was a blast, man,
A lot a lot of good bands. I don't I don't know the
Safe Is that a newer place or did it just s get by me.
Might have just got to ask me. Yeah, I never knew it either,
but I guess it's been around for a while. But it's good.
It's underground, so yeah, you got a great vibe to it. Yeah,
yeah, I guess it's been around at least like ten years. But
we're just like to be there. Man. It was a lot of fun.
Yeah, it was a blast. It's right on the corner my tremante.
Yeah, right right on that same block on the other side. Oh
okay, Yeah, it's one of those places you would never know it's there,
right right. It was a blast unless they give you the info.
You don't know, right right. It's just a secret. Well actually,
Terminus is kind of like that too. Yeah, totally like legit. We're
actually a secret band. Yeah yeah, we don't play it. We're private,
private outfit. Well, looking forward to her and you guys play live.
But first off, let's play this studio track Stability. I really,
I really like this song a lot. Thank you. Love what you guys
are doing. So let's give this a listen, and then we're gonna come
back and these guys are gonna play for us. Shot stop loving the pun
of drink the cup. I'm looking up on my pitch reach media got sell
put that dads up, Melos gyp to me my table, Kennedy always up
and Watts a melancy pretent family. Any they got Reski back guys test schools
six to last until I ask my like sad and stuff like about of breaks
at the time Test brinks. What they said, I play God Tests,
So I take that that s not saying that all, but my friends not
saying that I'll be there every the year. What about the prison, It's
like it's I say, that's it all already did? Yeah, so sorry,
that's what's so big about recent class I think about about it? Said
I about about drinks at the time, I'm looking up a top of tests.
What they say, my friend god Test, I love it. That
is stability. The band is already dead. We've got Dan and Nick from
already Dead here with us in studio, and these guys are set up and
dying to hear you play. Dan, Can you strum that guitar a little
bit? I want to make sure we'll make sure we have you in the
mix. But I think that's you know what, I'm not sure. Can
you tap that mic for me? Okay, oh no, I hear it,
okay, all right. I just want to make sure. Sometimes it's
hard to tell what I'm hearing through the headphones and what I'm hearing, yeah,
exactly, and say something yes, yes, Hello, Hello, you
know what? Say something again? Hello? Oh that's better. There.
I am how you do it? There? I am how you do it?
Yeah? Soya used to the new set up here? All right,
very, I think we're good. If you guys want to dye to hear
you play live, this will be cool. All right, ready, all
right Nicholas, Yeah, sure, sure, you right to say, not
out of mine. We're rather to touch I'm doing. I'm hitting the tracks
were out gone if you can, you know, beating coming back, traveling
on south down the East coast cent I'm heading out west. When they love
Emosie, I'm going on the road. If you tell me you love me,
will it be ba? I'm coming home? So catch me chasing a
rod on a street when no beginning of rent to be seen, when my
past and future they meet, and decisions were heavy yond me on my mind
when I think about how we try to know, I had to hit the
road even though my mind. But when I'm gone. If you call,
tell me that you love me, Literrick have a home. Maybe nothing's gonna
stop me. No, you're out of sight, not out of mind.
We're raut of touch. I'm at a time so I'm gone. That was
awful. Oh I love that. That was awesome. That's a new one.
Yeah, I got me moving. I like it, fingertips, I
like it. We've got Already Dead here with us live in studio. Two
of them members two thirds of Already Dead and basically as sleeping that can happen.
That can happen. By the way, j Bellow from Chasing the Devil
is in the chat and says, love these guys. Is there a horn
section? If not, man that would rock with this band. There is
horns on the album actually, so if you listen to that album you will
hear some horns. Yes, yes. Now we were talking off here about
the album that's coming. When is that coming? So the first single?
Yeah, So we have a new album. It's done, fourteen songs.
It's a worth psyche to be have a complete it's been a mission. Yeah.
But it's called something like a War And the whole album comes out on
July twenty sixth, Okay. The first single, which is called the Spirit
of Massachusetts Avenue, comes out out on May thirty first, and a week
or two later we're gonna drop a music video for that one, and then
probably a month later we'll drop another single before the whole the whole album comes
out. Yeah. Yeeah man, Okay, just really excited to get this
one out there. Yeah. So why why fourteen songs, because that's a
that's a big commitment. I'm an idiot, to be honest. Some of
these songs this so already dead started. It was like a product of COVID,
you know, live music died. Yeah, sitting at home. I
only ever really played in other bands. I never I never even hopped on
a mic. Really. Oh wow. I was just kind of like motivated,
you know. So I had some songs i'd written at home and stuff,
so I just uh just started recording, you know, getting some demos
together. Yeah, and Nick and I have played in bands before, so
oh okay. I basically said, hey, man, what do you think
It wasn't even supposed to be a band. I was just like, let's
go record these, let's have some fun, you know. Yeah. I
sent him which is now our first album. It's called My Collars Blue,
My Collar's Blue. It's seven songs, but so I sent them to him.
He was down, got ourselves a bass player, and all of a
sudden we were a band. Just started playing shows. But so when we
were recording that album, some of the some of the songs on this new
album already done. We've been playing them live since we've been playing shows.
So yeah, I think it was a mix of writing new songs because we're
motivated because now we're a band, Now we will find a sound. So
yeah, it was a mix of the new songs and just to get the
old ones out, you know what I mean, just on the mental like
put them out in the world so we can move on, right right,
Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah, So that's why there's so many freakins.
No, it's interesting because a lot of the guests that we have on
the show, you know, they talk about they just released singles and then
eventually those singles form an album, right, But you know, when I
was growing up, it was the other way around. You know, typically
an artist, you know, they released a single ahead of an album,
but then the album comes out before any other now, before the second,
third, fourth, single, whatever comes out. So it's but the Internet
has kind of allowed us to invert that and do it any way you want
to. So that's why it's impressive that, you know, you made the
commitment to do a fourteen song albums. Yeah, and I think it's because
I grew up on albums too, you know. Yeah, yeah, I'm
right on that cusp but both. But I I think I'm also striving to
make a great album, yeah, because of the albums we grew up on
and that influenced us, and so we're just aiming to do that, probably
failing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah,
we're excited. Man, how many how many bands did you guys played
in multiple bands before this or we've So I met Nick, this is a
great story. Yeah, I answered a Craigslist sad. I was in between
bands, and so I played bass like in a lot fill ins on a
lot of bands and stuff. So I anstead a Craigslist aad or you know,
like a cover gig or whatever. Yeah. I was probably twenty seven
at the time, and Nick, a fresh young eighteen year old, walks
in and the second I heard him play, and I was on bass,
and we just clicked and then we both talked and we grew up on punk
rock, sky music stuff like that, so we just kind of that.
Even that cover band did not work out really yeah, but I was me
and him were like, oh, we'll just talk, we'll stay in touch.
A couple of years later from from when he met me, not not
a previous band, yeah right right, yeah, but yeah, so a
couple of years later, I was starting another group and we were looking for
a drummer, and I was like, I get a guy. Yeah,
I mean, let me, I got a guy. That band Nick came
over to the house I was living at the time. It's like six pm,
two and a half songs in on the cop show up at our house.
Really yeah yeah, well that's when you know you got something good.
Yeah, where the neighbors hate us. The cop knocked on the door,
He's like, hey, it sounds all right, but you guys got to
stop. Yeah yeah, oh that's awesome. So now, so what was
how how long has this project been around? Because I imagine it's been a
few years, right with fourteen songs? Yeah, so call it three years
now from like the inception of Already Dead. Yeah yeah, and yeah,
yeah, the the album came Our first album came out about two years ago,
so okay, i'd say call it three years okay, okay. And
the songs, I mean they seem to have a theme, you know,
the band seems to have a theme. Yeah, that sure, you know,
and as evidenced by you know, My Collar is Blue? I mean,
is that kind of kind of your Can you tell us about your perspective
in terms of the songs. Yeah, So I'm a I'm a union pipe
that are in Boston, NIX, the CDL operator, I don't know,
we and sitting on job sites. I think a lot of times I would
come up with songs and stuff. Yeah, would just kind of naturally be
in that theme. Yeah yeah, yeah, grinding pipe in a trench and
thinking about yeah whatever, right right, Yeah, I'm angry about my job,
so I'm writing it becomes what runs through your brain. Yeah yeah,
yeah, it makes sense, it makes sense. It's yeah. I think
that was just a natural step, you know, because the other songs that
we have are more like self reflection, something like that little social commentary.
But sure, I think we we landed on My Collars Blue just that when
we're coming out, we need to stand for something, you know, yeah,
have something to go with. Yeah. Well, and it's relatable.
Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously people can can relate to what
you're right, what you're doing. Yeah, it's an easy theme. You
know. He sits in traffic for hours every single morning and driving to work
and yeah, we're working like ten to twelve hour days or more. Yeah,
just yeah, what becomes you? Right? Right? Yeah? Stroy
my road rage into songs. Yeah what about Not to speak for him,
but what what about your bass player? It is? Yeah, so he's
a union iron worker Okay, yeah, really it's just like kind of worked
out. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good way to at least present the
band to start, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And by the way,
so I'm curious too about the name Already Dead, because when I hear
that name, you know it okay, could be a punk band, could
be a it could be a metal band. Yeah, you know, it
evokes a couple of different ideas about what I'm about to hear. Where does
the name come from? It actually comes from stability the song. In the
song, there's a lyric, that's all. That's it. Oh yeah,
it's already Dead. Yeah, yeah, no, I don't pursue. If
I don't pursue this life, that's a sin. That's it. Call it.
I'm already dead. I wrote the song and I was like, oh,
that's kind of cool. Oh okay, And then it's also a name
of another it's a song from a band I know, so I was like,
oh, I don't know. It just kind of like stuck in my
head a little while. And then, like I said, we weren't even
going to be a band. We were just going to record those songs.
But once we decided to be one, Yeah, we've got to call ourselves
something, right, they could just stuck with it. Yeah, Yeah,
it just came down from the sky and yeah, we took it and brought
it in the house and yeah, rossed it. There you go, there
you I like it. Are you guys play a lot? I know?
I know this weekend you're doing. Yeah, you're doing a lot. This
is the busiest weekend we've had so far, for sure. But yeah,
we we want to we're looking to get out there more this summer. June
second will be at the Middle East. Actually excellent, I'll look up the
bill before the chill. Yeah, we're psyched to get on that one.
Middle East upstairs. It's gonna be a Sunday night June second. Yeah,
and that's the weekend our the first single from the album comes out, so's
it'll be timed very nicely. Oh okay, okay, cool, cool,
good time, man. I think off air too. You were saying something
about a video, Yes, music video for the first single, spear of
Massachusetts Avenue. Probably like a week later we'll drop the video on that.
But yeah, it's that song is interesting. I wish we could play it
here, but it has swears and uh but Sam, So I wrote that
song. I was working a job in Cambridge. I was still a pipe
fitter apprentice at the time, and my school was in Dorchester. Yeah,
I went to night school. So I drive Massachusetts Avenue from Cambridge down to
Boston and I would just see the progression of uh, you know, the
the area. I guess, yeah, you know. I was working at
MIT, so it's you know, more upscale Whatnotah, And so I just
made that drive so much. I just started thinking, like, it's just
one road. Why is why? I think so different as you go,
you know, just a couple of miles down the road. Interesting. Yeah,
songs more like an observation of you know, allocation of resources and the
people who control that, and like, what the hell are they doing?
Right? In my mind, I just throw two miles and it's like two
completely different worlds. Yes, I feel like that's I don't have the answer,
but I feel like it's a problem that could be solved right right.
And then the video, Yeah you got us walking on the mass Have Bridge
over the Charles River and playing live but man shout out to Berto Yeah,
burto Media, the director who made the videos killer but oh, okay,
I I love I love getting you know, stuff done and working on albums
and everything, but to be able to do it correctly and everything, and
then you end up sitting on it and then you're yeah, it's like oh
I can't wait. Yeah, yeah, how did you How did you work
with him? How did you connect with Berto Media? So? I knew
him, No, actually I met him. He knew my cousin. He
grew up in a Woburn, mass So it was just mutual people. Yeah.
Yeah, but I originally hit him up. He's done every video since
our second one. Now I hit him up to maybe get some reels done
or something just for social media. Yeah, doing the title track my Colors
Blue music video for that, and we're so happy and I'm gonna have to
check that out. Yeah, this will be our fourth video with them.
Oh wow, oh cool. Yeah, he does great, great work,
great work he got us. Yeah, it's like twenty degrees that we're walking
over the bridge on the Childs. We did one take. Yeah, I
don't blame you. It was ondy and cold. Yeah. Drone flying up
in the air. Yeah, brilliant. Yeah, oh wow, it's gonna
be a We're excited to put that one out. Man. It's crisp.
Yeah, it's it's a crisp video. Cool. Cool. Well, do
you guys before it gets too late, you want to play another one live?
Yes? Yeah? Cool? If you're just joining us, we have
two of the guys from Already Dead. They're here with us live in studio,
and they they played one song live first, they're going to do another
another live one. We did play a studio track earlier, so if you
missed it, of course, you can always check out the podcast when we
upload it later. But these guys are going to be playing and tonight in
Nashua at Terminus and uh, let's see Yeah, just okay, should be
good with the mics. Yeah, that sounds good. Whenever you're ready cool
all right? This one is called Lamlord. It is uh. We have
an acoustic version already out, but the full band version will be on the
new album. Hi, you're ready, Nick? What sip? Out of
the land Lord? And I'm running out of time? We're shrid up stall
is it? There's no peace of mind? So I'm running bye, coming
back up again. It's a wall and die just why losing it all?
But there's shill time. One more billy job and they'll keep the lights on
the bridge, the move, the heat blows. What's up head of the
land boat? And I'm running out of time. We're drying up storm as
it. There's no piece of mine, So I'm running. Whoa running?
Right? Just go at your job and die? Get Payton when I get
off, get me song time. Don't count me up? Is yet?
Don't just keep the lights on. You don't see the struggle. We don't
do what step head of the land on? And I'm running out of time.
We're dried up the storm as it? Don't tip you one whine?
So when I'm running, whoa running? What's that fut of the land loading.
I'm running at a time you're trying up the storms in there's no peace
of mind with food and rents, the joints of make I feed my kids
before they take another the time of mine, Jo, I'm running, whoa
running? Very cool? Thank you, wonderful, wonderful, already dead live
in studio with us here on this Saturday morning. These guys are gonna be
uh, these guys are gonna be playing tonight at Terminus in uh Nashua.
We gotta yeah, we got a little bit of time left. So now
what uh where? Where is your next after after tonight? Do you have
another show this weekend? Or is that uh sleep? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, we got to find it there. Yeah, this has been a
great, great three days. Man, We've had some fun, good good
with a couple of great bands. Uh yeah, I don't know, excellent.
It's been a good one. Yeah, see we'll see you know,
you know tonight, play the show tonight. And you know it's all about
networking, you know, in the local music scene. Yeah, you know,
half the shows you get are you know, from going to them sometimes
and you know talking with your friends or you know, other artists and everything
and yeah, and that's that's kind of the beauty of it. I guess
I'll supporting each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were kind of
talking about that in the first hour or two with Seth the Barlow was here
with us, and they just booked like a twenty two date tour starting in
June, and and to hear how they did it and and all the networking
that went into it, and yeah, a lot of work, handshaking and
kissing babies and oh yeah, all the hold on yads. I mean,
so, yeah, we have that Middle East show coming up, and then
well we're gearing up too for our album release party, which will also be
in Louell. Yeah, gonna be at a Thirsty First on July twenty seventh.
So the album comes out on the twenty six. We're gonna throw the
party on the twenty seventh. But okay, we're after this weekend, we're
gonna buckle down and really set that one up. And we're excited. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, we're gonna have we have a vinyl EP, so
four songs off the album are coming out, so we're making vinyl two.
But I don't know. Yeah, we're gearing up over here. We're really
excited. We've got plans for days. Yeah yeah, like yeah over here
winging hanging by a thread. That came up the first hour too. The
subject of Vinyl and the resurgence, Yeah yeah, I kind of love it.
Yeah, yeah, it's funny, man. I got hundreds of CDs
that are just I don't know, I'm not I'm never gonna call them worthless,
but it's just funny, man. The shift, it's wild. Well,
nothing sounds better than Vinyl. Yeah, you know, you know,
I just think, you know, sitting putting a putting a record on in
the living room is like a rare thing now because you got you got your
phone, you can listen to music as you do in anything else. So
just that's true. Yeah, that's true. And I think too, you
know, with Vinyl, a lot of people who buy it, they they
never even open it. They just if they really are a big fan of
an artist, you know, they just buy it to have it to collect
it. Right, Sure, but what should people know about where to find
you guys online? To keep up with everything that you're doing. Yeah,
so all the socials, all the things, uh, Instagram, it's already
dead music. We have a website already dead music dot com, band camp
already dead music dot bandcamp dot com. But yeah, Facebook, Facebook,
yeah, all the places anywhere you want to find us. Yeah yeah yeah
yeah man, cool, very cool. I am going to play because,
uh, I want to sneak in one more studio track. My Actually,
your songs are kind of short. We might might even be able to play
two of them. Awesome, But I really like what you guys are doing,
so I'd like to be able to, uh to do that. Let's
see we've got, uh, you can do collar my collar is blue?
Yeah, yeah, we should do that one because we talked about it.
Yeah, let's play that one, and then, uh, what else if
we have if if I wind up being able to sneak sneak to and what
else you got on that, I might be able to sneak a part of
another one and got a got a second here, Let's see what we got
forget what I sent you. We've got oh bruises and bottles, which I
really like that one a lot going on. Absolutely, well, we'll we'll
sneak that one into perfect. Cool cool guys, Thank you so much.
This has been wonderful. Thank you for thank you for for coming in and
playing for us too. Yeah, we'll have to do it again. Absolutely,
we definitely will. We definitely will. You guys got a lot going
on, so we'll we'll absolutely have you back. Uh, don't forget.
These guys are going to be tonight at Terminus with the Graniteers and who's the
other band, the Lipstick Boys. The Lipstick Boys tonight at Terminus in Nashua.
Very very good, and thank you to everybody who joined us today.
Of course I set the bar Low and Ricky Mapleton and thanks to Eric Pilcher
for another great classic film review. And Jenny, you want to plug your
website. You've got a big week coming up. Well I don't think I
get that, okay, Oh, anyway, I want to talk about it
here, kidding, No, you can check me out at Gencoffee dot com.
J E n n C O f f uy dot com. You never
know where in the nation you might buy me. That's right, it's a
good huh yeah. And of course if you missed any part of today's show,
it will be up in just a little bit at w m n H
radio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com. And uh,
we will leave you with uh so this is called my caller is blue.
This is from U. The band already dead and guys, thanks again so
much, thank you for having us. You got it. Really appreciate it.
You got it there city gassh' so many ways that's got like a PRIs
rating these little changes to the green line. They see about how many many
By sorting out the sundown, we build the one so high, you know,
when you can stuff stuff. It's a way of my fans understands.
Ways we are get up a wee day. I hope they yes, give
me the first weekday.