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am not alone. Best, Good morning, Sunshine. Jenny is here at
the news desk. Welcome, President of the accounted for Yes, Yes,
And we have a great band joining us today who we're going to talk with
in a moment and actually they're going to play live for us in studio.
We've got Glittertooth here, looking forward to that. Also later in the show,
we have Eric Pilcher's classic film Review which returns this week and this week
the subject is Enter the Dragon and uh and we'll see what else we get
into today. But the studio line is open if you'd like to join us,
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just quickly in the chat room because we've got our many of our loyal listeners
in there. Carol's a Warwitz says, good morning everyone. Good morning Carol.
Eric Pilcher, who I just mentioned, of course he's in there,
he says, good morning, all the way from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Jenny, you're in there. Of course, We've got Jyfed from the great
state of Vermont says good morning. Uh. Legion of a great band,
very loyal, says morning friends, full day. Can't stay long, but
wanted to stop in. Wonderful to see you in there. We have Isaac
Banks in the chat room. The People's mayor, Glenn R. J.
Willette says, nice music, very nice. Let's see and let's go ahead
and we'll bring in the band. So we've got Taylor, Phil and Dan
from the band Glitter Tooth. How are you guys? Welcome, great,
good, thanks for having us. This is awesome. Yeah, yeah,
it's wonderful to meet you all. Actually, let's start with we'll start with
Taylor in the corner around the drums. Tell us go ahead and introduce yourself
and tell us everything that you do in the band, or maybe you just
play drums. I don't know. Well, I do play drums, yeah,
that's like my main instrument. But I actually actually do have one song
in the band where I play guitar and I sing a little bit. So
we're actually excellent. We're actually going back into the studio tomorrow and we're finishing.
We're actually, uh, we're actually recording two new songs tomorrow. We're
working on like an EPIX or seven songs, okay, and I have I
have one track where I I wrote I wrote it like seven years ago.
But it's gonna be it's gonna be a Glitter tooth glitter tooth thing, brought
it back to back. I've got I've got guitar and vocals and working on
finishing that up tomorrow, and uh, it's gonna be it's gonna be cool.
Most of most of them. Phil sings on Dan. Dan's got some
vocals in there a little bit, but but yeah, it's gonna be fun
to actually put out put out some music with. He's an awesome he's an
awesome harp player too, excellent, not like I wish I could play.
Yeah. Yeah, it's been fun though. And we've got Phil on the
couch. Yes, hello, I played guitar and sing in the band.
I played drums on the track that he was just talking about. Oh yeah,
he plays drums. I forgot that. Yeah. Do you do a
decent amount of the writing so far? We all collebrate on bringing the songs
together and making them into the glitter Tooth form. But yeah, yeah,
very good, very good. Yeah. And then we've got the bass player
over here, Dan. Yeah, I'm Dan Moran. I sing some backups,
but mostly let Phil do all the all the diva work, and I
just I just play bass and try to wrangle the cats. And uh,
we Uh yeah, I'm like the grandpa of the band, so we're much
needed. Yeah what he does, he's the young man. You know,
these guys keep me young. So yeah, it's pretty cool. So I
got to get to it first. Yeah. Thanks, and we should mention
to you are the parent of a musician. Yeah, on the show,
my son Tyler Moran. He's in the Fox and the Flamingos, who we
were on your show before, and they are awesome, incredible band. Also
he's the father of an incredible musician. I would say Tyler is he's something
to see. Yeah, he was. He was in a band with me.
Well, he was in our band, the Pop Farmers, and he
left to join the Flamingos, and uh yeah he's doing great. And the
Flamingos are awesome. Yeah they uh well as I'm sure you know. I'm
sure you listened or watched it, but yeah, they're they're amazing. Oh
what's that. They have a studio track that I sometimes play on the show
because I just love it so much. And uh, that's a great song.
But no, it's the Don't Be a Stranger. I think it's called
or Stranger. Maybe it's just Stranger. Yeah, really that is a great
song. I told them, I said, you've got a hit single there.
Yeah. I just played out in Worcester last night. I was hoping
to go, but I didn't go. But really yeah, yeah it was
it was yeah, there's they're starting to make some good noise. The other
thing I always say about them too is no disrespect to Fleetwood Mac. But
they played the best version of Rihanna and I've ever heard in this studio.
Yeah thatsion, Yeah, just acoustic. It came out really cool. Oh
it was so good. I mean being here in the room too, you
know. I mean, you know, I'm sure it sounded okay on the
radio, but being here in the room, you know what I mean,
it was like, wow, this is this is truly remark But yeah,
great band. But uh yeah, you guys, we uh we've got some
studio tracks. You sent me three of them and we did open the show
with that. Well, I played something uh something else, but then we
played Amigo uh from uh from Glitter Tooth. Great great track and we'll we'll
play the others too, and uh, I'm looking forward to hearing you guys
live. So actually, if if you want to play something for us and
then we'll we'll talk some more and uh learn, learn all about the band.
But yeah, I'm done done to hear you guys play all right.
The first song we're gonna do is it's called I May be Right. It's
a song about questioning your choices. All right, you guys ready, we
we are ready? All right? Maybe right, maybe wrong. I guess
I'm sorry it took this long. Go run away when it gets too deep.
Would you like the match? Let it put you back to sleep?
Now? It's all right. If you can't say no, this run won't
die until we say so. Don't let them tell you to stay in the
line. This pavement spray in one crack out in time. I told you
once, and I told you twice. The third time, charm is the
time. I'll let go go on away when it gets too deep? Would
you like the match? And let it put you back to sleep? Now?
It's all right. If we can't say no, this run won't die
until I say so. Don't let them tell you to stay in the line.
This pavement is pray in one crack out in time, one crack guys
up. Very nice, Thank you, awesome, very nice. What's that
called the I May be right, I may be right. Yeah, that's
a great tround not to be confused with. You know, the Billy Joel
song you may be right, you may be right, you may be right.
No, no, no. When I learned that, or when I
started playing that song out, every time i'd say it, people be like,
oh sweet, and then it'd be that song. They'd be like,
okay, well like in a in a bar open mic, you know,
like people are like, oh, Billy Joel sweet, and then you're like,
actually it's like a softer original song. Okay, like this is cool,
but yeah, the bass is just dropped and then the piano man,
Yeah, we we have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Conderton on
Leash two is on the line. Well, yeah, this is Doug and
actually sorry to interrupt your programming. I just called because when I got out
of work this morning, I was on the way home and listened to your
station and Maggie Hassen came on. You guys were talking about election day in
New Hampshire today. Is that is there election day in New Hampshire today?
No, what you probably heard was, oh, actually I know what you
definitely heard. The Morning Show with Peter White. He runs classic episodes on
Saturday, so the show's on weekdays from seven to nine am. I understand.
Sorry, I bothered you guys. It just seemed seemed God that there
was something on there, and and I came home and I said, I
don't know, there's as far as I notes on Tuesdays and so and so
on. Anyway, thank you much. You guys are doing a great job.
Thanks touch. That's right, vote vote very early and often. Yes,
But yes, of course you can hear the Morning Show with Peter White
weekdays from seven to nine am, with a replay two to four pm.
But of course on Saturday mornings, Peter does run classic episodes of the Morning
Show, so hence the confusion. But I do commend Doug on his paying
attention to his civic duty, and that is that is a great thing.
Actually, I haven't voted on a Saturday morning in a while. Yeah.
Well yeah, Jeff, Jeff Nyan is in the Facebook lift chat. Hi
Jeff. He says, good morning, great start to the day. Thank
you, Jeff, Glad you enjoyed it. Uh. Also, Paul,
I'm sure I won't say this correctly, but Paul cal Loot in the chat
room is also Calouett this is this is Paul's base he today. Out of
all the bases I have, I didn't have a totally acoustic one, so
Paul to lend me one. Thanks Ball, excellent, Thank you. This
show is all courtesy of a guy named Paul. Very nice, brought to
you by Paul. I like it. I like it. Melanie Liberty from
the Great State of Vermont in the chat room says, oh is Santa Claus?
I get that quite often. That is top top. Oh, it's
easy top. Yeah. Yeah. But the last time when the Flamingos were
on, they had a whole big discussion about beards because they're all growing their
beards and those are cute beard that comes up often on the show. In
fact, our friend Jay fed will probably ask you a question about your beard
shortly because he does. Uh. Michael Albert joins us in the Facebook and
says in the Facebook love chat says, good morning, uh, good morning,
Robin Lee Moran. Oh that's my wife. Oh okay, she says,
who h o o oh. Yeah, right back at you, Robin,
right back at you. She lets me out to play once a while.
Thank you for sharing him this morning. Yes, yes, they sound
really good. Absolutely, if you're just joining us, we have a glitter
Tooth here live in studio with us, Melanie says. The ladies like a
sturdy beard. Phill's working on him as usual, trying. I'm trying to
catch up, right, I can't. If you have any questions or anything
for the band or about beards six six o seven six o three two five
seven dirty beard. That's a new one for me. Yes, yes,
oh geez, Jeff and I and just read my mind. He's asking a
question in the chatterman it was about It was literally what I was just about
to ask you. I think we're we have a telepathic connection. Jeff is
asking how did the name Glittertooth come to be? Okay, I'm gonna pass
this one over to the sturdy beard, all right, sexy gentleman over here.
I tell this story because we got together. We we all met at
Phil hosted an open mic for a while, and then he decided not to
do it anymore. So I took it over, and then we met.
I met Taylor threw that open mic, and so we decided, hey,
we should form a band and we'll get together and see what happened. So
we got together in Taylor's barn and played and it sounded pretty good. So
we decided to get together the next week. And in between those two weeks,
I had to have a tooth pull, so I was that was you
know, I was that night. I was recovering all hopped up on the
legal yeah yeah, stuff that they gave me to and I had your dream
and in the dream, I was, and I was in a band called
Glittertooth, and I was like, oh, So the next time we had
practice, I said, hey, you guys are gonna hate this name,
but I dreamt it that it was glittering. I was in a band called
Glittertooth, and they both loved it. So thank you. Thank your hydro
code. On when we go on tour, we're gonna have sponsored by whoever
it makes that because that's where the name came from. But it was a
fever dream and from henceforth we are glitter Tooth. Very nice, very nice.
Dylan Reynolds is in the Facebook live chat, a very talented musician in
his own right. Dylan says, congrats on the new show time slot.
Thank you, Dylan, I appreciate it very much. And Texas Mic is
in the chat room and says, listening to you guys at work, thank
you, Texas, Mike, mikey Uh, Jeff nine says, tremendous name.
Yeah, he really likes he really likes that. Very good, very
good. Do you guys? I'm dying to hear more. Do you guys
want to play another track? And then we'll we'll talk some more, or
maybe we'll maybe afterward we'll play another studio track. But uh, hey,
you guys want to play something live for us again? Sure? Yeah,
you guys like the Black Keys? All right, we're going to do a
cover. Then what what song we're gonna do? Have? Love Will Travel?
All right? Technically written by him Taylor I can tell you sonics and
then somebody before the Sonics. It's an old song, yeh, traditional blue
songs. Oh, Taylor's the Encyclopedia Music. Any questions about albums or when
it came out or who played on it, they use Taylor's our guy,
excellent, excellent. All right. If you're just joining us, we've got
glitter tooth a live in studio all right, whenever you guys are ready,
all right, you need a love mand no, baby, I'll travel.
I travel from Maine down to Mexico to find that girl that loves me soon,
no matter where all be I find that girl. She satisfy me.
You have love. We'll travel, have lord, we'll trouble. You need
a lot bad no baby, our travel? You need a lot bad o
baby. Our travel might take a boat, might take a train, and
my hitch, I could jump a railroad train. You kind of love driver,
crazy man sayings. Look for me walking just standing here all way.
Tavel will travel, havela will travel. You need a lot bad no baby,
I travel? You need a latpad a baby beyond travel you excellent,
thank you, excellent, excellent. We have glitter Tooth here with us,
a live in studio this morning and the program. Of course, if you
have any questions or anything at all for the band, uh six O three
two five six seven six O three two five six seven, the studio line
is open. I see peter O Peloquin in the Facebook. That's uh,
sorry to interrupt you, but no, that's that's Pete Pelican Lord Lord boards
that call him. He's he owns the the recording studio Board's house Productions and
Brookline. That's where we're doing our recording. Oh, excell everything you hear
is recorded. Is he just makes us sound good? So that's Pete Pelquin,
Thank you, Pete. Also, Dan Fallon is in the Facebook live
chat from the band Run Like Thieves, who we had on last week.
Just phenomenal. Yeah, now the the studio tracks and we'll play another studio
track in a moment too. We played Amigo earlier. Well, we'll play
another one. But were these the ones that we're hearing today? Were these
all also recorded with Peter Pelloquin? Okay, okay, yeah, it all
sounds great? Does he? I know that oftentimes, and partly from my
own experience and partly from talking to guests, it seems like very often whomever
records you, if if you know an audio engineer, they often become sort
of a de facto producer. Do you have that kind of relationship with him?
Doesn't have a lot of Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. He helps us,
like when we're doing solos or you know, if if all three of
us are a little unsure about something, he's like the wisdom that'll kind of
like pull us together and yeah, either come up with a better idea for
us or just help us. He'll be like the deal breaker. Okay,
okay. And Board's house is where The Fox and the Flamingos recorded too,
so oh okay, work was done there. Yeah, oh wow, Yeah,
he's he's really good boards house Productions Rubin of the area. Yeah,
he's the wizard behind the board. How did you come to work with him?
Because you know, we live in an era where you've got so many
different options as far as how you know, there's many different recording studios.
Also, you can record it funny, I'll jump I think I'll jump in
here. That uh, that open mic that you guys were talking about,
so uh, Phil was hosting that, doing that open mic, and then
I took it over for Pete. He took for Pete and then they started
doing It's like everybody in the area was I. I probably I got offered
to host it like many times, and I just like, I don't want
to do it. Yeah I could have been. I could have been the
next guy. But it was like yeah, but yeah, it's just like
a lot of really like you said, and it's like a lot of talented
musicians or whatever in that that area the MILF, A lot of knowledgeable people,
really cool people like yeah, Pete's one of our go to guys.
So we're all really close to like, the whole scene is really close in
a sense where, like you know, if somebody needs a bass player for
a gig, or like somebody needs a guitar player needs to record somewhere,
like we all just kind of work together, and like we'll send whoever is
asking if they need to record, We'll send him to Pete's. You know,
he's our guy. He also lives like ten minutes away from all of
us. He's yeah Taylor basically Taylor's neighbors. So yeah, yeah, you're
you're You're playing guitar with some cool band tonight, aren't you. Oh yeah,
would you like to tell him about that? Yeah? The band all
you? Phil fills one of our my regular band, the Pop Farmers.
We were playing at tonight at the Peddler's Daughter in Nashua and Phil is filling
in on guitar with us, so excellent, Yes, are filling Phil.
It's always fun, always a good I just get to sit back and play
guitar is my favorite thing. Yeah, what do you know? What do
you do in the Pop Farmers? It's a we play a lot of classic
rock, but we play a lot of Irish bars, so we do some
Irish stuff too, So I play mandolin on the Irish stuff and then bass
and sing and then yeah, Mike, Gary Blaisdell and and Jim Mahoney there
my regular pop Farmers and uh, we're one man short tonight. So Phil
is filling in excellent, excellent And uh, by the way, so Taylor,
do you play any other bands? And the reason I'm asking, the
reason I'm asking you specifically, well, I was gonna say, so,
Okay, it's funny that you say that, because the reason that I ask
is there's been this trend on the show is playing a lot of bands.
Every drummer we have on the show plays because drummers are high. Yeah,
I was. I was. I'm in another band called Swipe Left with my
you know, a friend of mine, Graham, and this other other friend,
Mike, where we do a lot of covers, but we have some
really cool originals too. And uh, I was in a punk band for
a while, punk metal type band, and we just went on tour to
like New York, Philadelphia, all that type, you know, all over
the place. But that kind of fell apart. I don't know a lot
of whatever I left that band. So, you know, I don't know.
Maybe they're going places I don't know, but but it was cool for
a while. It was it was fun. But you know, I'm playing
honestly right now, I'm only playing in a couple of bands mainly so,
but it's been like six seven however many bands at times, I don't know
how many bands. Wow, yeah, but I'm trying to work on.
I'm happy that I got like a song that I've had for a while that
with this band. Yeah, these are like the guys I wanted to play.
I told Phil years ago. We I don't feel forever now like it's
been like, hey man, I'm gonna do this song. I want you
to play drums on it. Yeah, so another dream, you know,
so you know, because I play guitar and do that stuff too, So
it's like I want to get some of those out there. But yeah,
yeah, drummers playing are always in high to band. That should be our
slogan. You're at Glitter Tooth we make dreams come true. That's true.
All started from a dream. Very good man. Well let's let's listen to
another studio track. We've got this song saved myself from me and so,
by the way, just to just so we're clear too, So are these
going to be on the upcoming because you guys are working on an EP right,
yeah, okay, and these are all gotta be these studio tracks will
all be on it. Yes, pretty cool, Pretty cool. All right,
let's give this a listen. This is a great track. And uh,
and then we'll come back and talk with these guys some more and they'll
play a little more for us. But uh, check it out. This
is Save Myself from Me and the band is Glitter Tooth. Some waste my
time. I could tell a vision screen some waste my money like a lottery.
It saved me like a priest m messing. I would trade my teeth
for a pack of cigarettes for you. Give you anything, give me,
set myself, comp me, set myself, comp me, Darlean. Hear
me like fag bread records. Watch me like the foods. You help me
like the dog w Turn me on this side your ress. Give you anything
me. Save myself from me, Save myself from me, darlings. Drop
me like friends from a tree. Turn me like your steer and weird strap
me just like your cell phones, Screa. You can pick me up just
like the magazine. If you anything you need, send myself up me,
save myself, up me, doll, give me up me, save lass,
help um me save my lum me darling. That is very very catchy.
That has saved myself from me. The band is Glittertooth and we've got
all three members of Glittertooth here with us live in studio, and Jenny is
here with us as well on this Saturday morning. President accounted for and uh
and if you'd like to be here with us, if you have any questions
or anything for the band. Six oh three two five oh six oh seven
is the studio line. Six oh three two five oh six oh oh seven.
You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four
seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me
Matt at Matt connorton dot com. And of course you can interact endo opine
in the Facebook live chat. Uh. But we'd love it if you give
us a call at six oh three two five oh six O seven six o
three two five six seven. Are you guys playing out a lot? You're
doing a lot of shows or not. At the moment, we were kind
of sporadic with gigs, we take them when we get them. I work
in a restaurant, so Fridays and Saturdays are hard days to get off.
Usually we you know, we take them when we can. But the next
gig that we have coming up right now is New Year's Eve at stone Cutters,
which is gonna be awesome. New Year's Eve gigs are always a blast.
But yeah, that's all we have on the books so far. So
if anybody out there on the the radio waves has gigs hit us up stone
Cutters, where's that? It's Milford, Milford. Okay, remember the Red
Arrow in Milford? So downstairs? Oh okay, gotcha? Gotcha? Cool?
Now is there any kind of uh, I know you're you're still working
on it. Do you have any kind of an e t A on when
the EP might be out or spring? Maybe? Or I would say,
yeah, like even late winter. We're kind of cranking through it. Yea,
Pete work, Pete work fast. We we we went in. We
did four songs in two sessions, so we got the four done and so
we get two more tomorrow. So yeah, we just got These guys know
the social media more than me. I don't know how to get get things
out there, But yeah, as soon as we can get them done,
we'll get him out there. Because they're really cool. Phil. Phil wrote
some really good songs, and Taylor wrote one really good song too. Actually
he's written more good songs than that, but one that we're I've written a
lot. It's just it's good to get one out. Yeah, right right,
yeah, well, very cool, very cool. Well you guys want
to you want to play another live one for us? Sure? All right,
all right. This one's called living breathing Walking. It's about feeling contagious
right thinking about a girl on the top of the world. She's a million
miles away from me on another day and another town was a freething. Flying
is for birds like swimming is for fish. Fixing is for the broken.
Give me your heart and I will a bit to shreds. I will make
you wish you were dead, won dude three. But it's not you,
babe By promises me. I'm lifting breathing walking disease. But it's not you,
babe By promises me. I'm a living, breathing, walking, living
breathing walking disease. Women to my left, Dan, women to my right.
But she's still on my mind all night. Cigarettes burn while the conversations
turn. I'll be going on more. Flying is the bird, Nike,
Swomen is for fish, Vixen is for the broken, Give me your heart
and thrip to show. I will make you s you were dead? Oh
two three cool? But it's not you, babe A promise, it's me.
I'm a living, breathing walking to see. But it's not you,
babe A promise it's me. I'm a living, breathing, walking, living,
breathing walking to zease. Very nice s Glittertooth live in studio with us
this morning. We are, of course, uh live from the studios of
w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New
Hampshire. And uh, yeah, you guys sound great, getting a lot
of love in the Facebook live chat. I like that a lot. Thanks,
Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Now how many how many originals do
you guys have in terms of uh? I assume you have more than what
you're recording, right because you're you're doing an EP. But have you written
a lot of songs or do you have a lot of songs as a band?
A lot of original music? We have like probably eight okay eight,
maybe ten total. Yeah, we've like played we actually played a show in
Manchester at a distillery not long ago. Yeah, Manchester's Distillery. That was
That was a lot of fun. Yeah, and we played a full set
of originals and the Black Keys track, but that was about eight songs.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, very good. Do you have any
Are there any other bands in the area that you that you play out with
a lot, you know sometimes I mean it just really happens organically in my
experience. Sometimes bands kind of team up with other bands or you know,
play a lot of shows together. Not really lately or not yet, at
least we've recording, well, we've been recording a lot. The other thing
is this started out as like a cover gig scenario in the sense where we
were, you know, taking gigs at bars where we'd play the three hour
shows. Yeah, get paid a flat rate, you know, you get
tips. Like, so we were focusing on like learning songs. We have
probably thirty or forty songs that we know, covers that we could play like
all together. Yeah, and then all of a sudden we started diving into
the original stuff. And it's been fairly recently, i'd say, right,
like yeah, within the last couple of months even, and we've just kind
of gone full steam ahead on writing and recording honestly, like like really we've
phil has like this extensive list of like song he has like albums full of
original I've been writing for a long time, songs that he's just recorded,
and like we're just working on making those into our own I guess glitter too,
putting the glitter and they're just like like his songs are just like all
kind of like finished and like like we're just making them different. I've got
some songs that originals that I'm trying to like work and do it. Dan
has originals that maybe we'll probably work into them later, and we're just trying
to like get all of our own stuff out there. He'll just had like
something like these are these are done like just like like sing singer songwriter.
You know, I write a lot of songs. It's kind of like by
nature my job. Yeah, it's been it's been fun though. It's been
cool to ye to do that and put on all of our own Philip.
Philip was pretty uh pretty out there for a while. Yeah, So I
did like the solo thing. I went under the name Philipe and I've recorded
some albums, put out some stuff on like Spotify and all that whole thing,
but it was always it was a solo project where I would record the
bass and the drums and the guitar and like do all the arrangements for it.
And then sometimes I'd bring a band in and we'd play live here and
there, but all the recordings was it was kind of created in a vacuum,
you know. Yeah, So like I've just been having a lot more
fun in the band experience and taking those songs that like, yeah, they're
finished, but like they were recorded like very rigid, you know, like
here's the drum part. It'd be like a straight something boring, you know,
because I'm not a drummer. So having like an actual drummer and an
actual bass player and the whole collaborative effort is so much more fun. Yeah,
no doubt. But it definitely it yielded a lot of songs, which
I'm grateful for. Yeah. Yeah, And so the material that you released
as Felip, that's all on Spotify and every yea yeah, interesting band camp,
Spotify, all those random sites SoundCloud, I think, yeah, SoundCloud,
And does any of that music is any of that music currently being played
in this spand or is this all? Yeah? So were most of them
really? Yeah? Some of them? Yeah, definitely. Yeah. The
three that you or the three that we have today. Only one of those
was recorded beforehand as a Philip track, okay, and that one is not
on Spotify, that's just on band camp. But the other two were like
brand new, like glittertooth songs. Okay, they haven't been released elsewhere,
you know. Yeah, when we started, we were doing a lot of
well all covers at the beginning, and these guys looking at them, they're
they're young enough to be my my kids, and they're they're turning me onto
like we did the Man of Me and it was the old Dylan song.
I've never heard it before, and these guys turned it out, turned me
onto them, like, oh, that Bob Dylan guy, he's going to
be pretty good. Who's this guy? And so yeah, So these guys,
even though they're they're youngsters, they're old souls and they they they know
a lot of a lot of songs and they're bringing dragging me with them.
So it's cool, it's awesome. Well you've introduced them to spinal tap.
Yeah, no, great, great, music is timeless though, and I
feel like what what you guys are doing, especially when I listen to these
studio tracks, it's you know it it's uh, there's a timelessness to it,
and that it doesn't sound like like if if somebody played these songs for
me and I didn't know that it was a current band, you know,
I might not know, Like if somebody played these songs for me and said
when do you think these were recorded? I I wouldn't necessarily know, you
know what I mean, which which I which I think is a good thing.
You know, you know, there's there's a timelessness to it. You
know, I can hear different influences. But uh, but but but it
doesn't sound like there's nothing dated about it. Specifically, Oh speaking a spinal
tap, Michael Albert is making requests in the chat room. He says,
uh, play big Bottom or or play that baseline. I don't think you
can play it on that baby, Yeah, it might break the base.
We have a I do a show on Friday nights. I'm the co host
on a show called retro Spectrum Radio with poly C and Paul has never seen
spinal tap, and we uh, we like to we like to bust his
stones about that. Sometimes he's never seen that, and he's never seen Purple
Rain. I thought you talked, I've never seen Purple Rain. Purple Rain.
But to be fair, I love Prince, but I think spinal type
more. Yeah. I agree, actually, and I've listened to like most
of the Prince's albums. I was telling them talking to my wife about spinal
Tap. And there was used to be a movie theater on where the old
Union Leader used to be. Whatever road that was in here, I don't
know what one of these streets over here, and it was a little,
a little movie theater. And I went to see it when it first came
out, and it was so cool to me. I got done, I
went back out into theater, bought another ticket, and went back in and
saw two ice in a row. Oh it was awesome. Yeah, I
think I think the second time I was the only one in the theater,
but it was it was I was. I saw it and I was like
to see this again, and I was like, well, I got nothing
to do, I'll go buy another ticket. I should have just hit out.
And this was spinal Tap. Yeah, this was like for my generation
probably when I saw Tenacious T in the Picadestiny. Oh yeah, I saw
it today. It came out with my friends. We were like the only
four people in the theater. Came out. Yeah, we went to go
the next week. It wasn't It wasn't theaters anymore. That's how bad it
did. It wasn't even there. My friend Robert and I went down to
there. It was either Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun. When Spinal Tap was doing
the on they called it unwigged. It was just the three they did.
They did it acoustic. It was just the three of them. I was
really good Spinal Tap unplugged. It was just weird. But and they were
dressed normally they weren't dressed, thanks spinal Tap. But it was so it
was really cool. I love it. Yeah. Well, do you guys,
uh, do you guys want to do one more? Uh? Did
you want to do a fourth live song? Yeah? Sure, you talked
about it. We've we've got time if you want to. I'd love to
hear more. Okay, so we can do one more selfishly perhaps, but
I think you guys sound great. Well. This this is one of the
phils that I always request the fulfill to play and I don't know if he's
getting tired of playing it, but it's like you never Well, the first
time I saw him play though, Yeah, the first time I saw him
play it, I thought it was a cover because it was so cool.
I was like, who's that buy? And he's like me, I'm like,
oh, that was really awesome. Oh wow, Well, now I
really want to hear it. I've never played on the radio before, it
has not. Yes, yeah, it's a it's a personal song to me.
It tends to be a fan favorite, which is interesting because when I
first wrote it, I didn't think anything of it at all. I was
like, it's cool, it's done. It's a song. You know,
there's like songs you finish and you like get excited about. You're like,
oh, this one's gonna be like it. This is the song. This
was not it at all to me at least, it was just like it.
I don't know, it was personal, but like it didn't feel like
anything. And then all of a sudden, like everywhere I go, people
are like, that's the song, is alright, it's called new Skin.
They're right, you're Sometimes I will on a song that you will sing me
to sleep. Sometimes I wish on a god got awake up and brand new
set of skins. Sometimes I sing to the bugs in my room, sometimes
they sing to sleep. Sometimes I wish I want an empty liquor ble that
awake up the Brandy set of Scared. Sometimes I pray to franticke int sometimes
a lesson with me. Sometimes I sing to an empty back. I want
a wake up. The brand is set of Scared, Brandy sadiscared, BRANDI
Sada scared, Brandy sudden scared. That is awesome. All right, thank
you. The chat room thinks so too. In fact, Okay, I
don't know if I'm saying this right, Kaylee, Kaylee Verville, Kayleiver.
Hello, Kaylee. She says, uh hah, the down tuning gave it
away, so I'm sure it very well. Yeah, she says, I'm
so glad I made it to the live chat for this, And Michael James
says, new skin, what's my bass player? Yeah? Uh yep,
Kaylee says, uh, I'm listening with chills and tears in my eyes.
Wow, we love you, Kaylee. Don't cry, there are tears of
joy. Don't cry. We should have brought her with it. We should
have next time, next time, right, that's right, that's right.
Uh, Lou love it. Uh in the chat room says sturdy beards are
hot. Wow, So you didn't even to be here. I don't need
to be here either, Just send my beard and Lou love it also says
love the song. Okay, all right, it's because I said something very
nice. Isaac Banks also Isaacs also really enjoying that. Yeah, yeah,
great great stuff sound. Yeah, I really love it. Yeah, absolutely
if you are just joining us, Glitter Tooth is here with us live in
studio and uh sounding phenomenal. Now do you guys, do you ever do
play this way or is this a different experience? Usually plugged in, usually
plugged in and loud. Yeah, yeah, yeah, song Usually it's real
pretty usually electric guitar, Yeah, drugs Yeah, well there's some of the
some of the open mics, we go mostly acoustics, so yeah, yeah,
no, you gotta sound great. We do it sometimes. Yeah.
Yeah, sometimes I play harmonica if there's no room for a drum kit.
Oh no kidding, Yeah, yeah, yeah I do that sometimes. Very
cool. Yeah, Phil and Phil and Taylor did a lot weird on some
of the songs, but I can do you did a lot of acoustic shows
where just you on guitar and you on harmonica, right, yeah, you
Phil used to do that before, before Dan was playing with us before.
Yeah, Well, what should people know? We want to make sure our
listeners know how to find you online. What should they know about so they
can keep up with what you're doing live shows? And of course, uh,
the EP that you're you've got coming out? Uh? When when that's
ready? And yeah, right now we're just on Facebook and Instagram, yep.
And once the songs come out, we'll put them out somewhere else.
On Instagram it's at glitter tooth one two three. And what's the Facebook link?
I believe is the same. Yeah, I don't know if the numbers
are in it, but like I said, these guys are up on the
social media thing more than me on the Google. I want to make sure
I get the link right before I say it. It's uh Facebook dot com
backslash glitter tooth. Yeah, okay, thanks thanks for getting that for I've
been sharing the link in the chat room while you've been playing. Awesome,
great, I got your back. Thank you much. I don't know if
I can give a shameless plug on Thursday nights. These guys haven't been up
there yet because they work and I don't. But on Thursday nights up in
Pittsfield, New Hampshire, I host an open mic at over the Moon Farmstead
and it's it's turning out to be really cool. It's it's turning into like
we were talking about the Milford music community, and it's kind of I grew
up in Derry and when I was playing there. There may be a music
scene in Derry now, but there wasn't when I was in there. And
when I moved to Milford, I was like, holy crap, look at
all these musicians there everywhere. And then up at Pittsfield with the open mic,
I didn't know anybody up there, and now we're starting it's starting to
be a little community up there too. So it's pretty cool that like most
of my friends now or either musicians or I met through the band. So
yeah, it's it's a really cool circle of people to be in with what
was the name of the place again again, over the Moon Farmstead. Nice
it's the owners are the Moonlight Meter in Londonderry. They they have a place
up in Pittsfield. It's beautiful and up on Thursday nights. It's an open
mic from six to nine and one of these days I'll get glitter tooth up
there. Yeah yeah, yeah, be careful with that stuff. Man,
I'll drive you home. Thanks for the shameless plug. Absolutely anytime, anytime.
Well, guys, this has been great. We'll we'll close out the
segment with one more studio track, this song before I Go, which is
uh and then uh and then that'll be uh. That'll be it for this
portion of the show. But this has been wonderful. Thank you all three
of you. Thanks for having especially on a Saturday morning. Yeah, it's
very un rock started, but thanks a lot. Absolutely so happy to be
here. Oh yeah, no, thank you guys for coming. Oh lou
love it. And the chat room says over the moon rocks on Thursday night.
Very cool. There you go, very cool. Uell is one of
our people. Well, if you're listening live, we are going to close
out with another studio track from these guys, and then we'll show some love
to our amazing sponsors, and then from there we're going to go right to
our classic film review our friend Eric Pilcher, and this week he has chosen
the nineteen seventy three film Enter the Dragon, So that will be coming up
next, and then after that, Jenny and I got some stuff we'll we'll
talk about on the show. But so there is plenty more to come if
you're joining us live on Saturday morning. But we're gonna close out this hour
with again. This is another great studio track from a glitter Toooth. This
is called before I Go and guys, thank you again, great great stuff,
Thank you, thanks for having us. You got it attacks I waking
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a script in morning, kiss ravelry such a good make them up, wucking
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can remember and any thanks is everything? No want you to wake me up
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that dream back, the zennybody know where the lads? Has anybody here?
Say the lie? Can a newbody get me some answer? Before I got
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the Secret Chambers of an evil Silent number Hire. What do you know about
Han Heyler's Like a king on that island, totally self sufficient of fortress,
without walls, protected by an invincible army that needs no ordinary weapons. This
is Enter the Dragon, the first martial arts film produced by a major Hollywood
studio. John Saxon is roper. He was in it for the money.
US Karate champion Jim Kelly. As Williams, he was there because he had
no choice. Black Belt Hall of Fame, undisputed martial arts champion and international
film star Bruce Lee. His job was to get them out alive. I'm
hoping you'll join us, represent us in the United States. You want me
to join this roper Williams and Lee. Just when they think they've broken the
secret of the Island, they find there is no escape from the inscrutable Han.
Warner Brothers presents Enter the Dragon, where the world's greatest martial arts athletes
meet the automate challenge with the most patient and deadly of weapons, the human
brother Enter the Dragon from Warner Brothers Bruce Lee. Even over fifty years after
his death, his name hearkens to martial arts. His contributions to worldwide cinema
cannot be understated, and with one film, he brought martial arts films to
the popular consciousness of America, a country that once shunned him. Sadly,
he was never alive to see its enduring legacy that lasts to this Day,
released in nineteen seventy three and directed by Robert Klauss, Went to the Dragon
gives us the tale of Lee played by Bruce Lee, a martial arts master
tasked with entering a martial arts tournament hosted by the deadly Han, a renegade
monk that has become a crime lord. In Lee is tasked with uncovering his
criminal empire. Joining Lee in the tournament is the gambling addicted businessman Roper,
played by screen legend John saxon In Williams played by American martial arts master Jim
Kelly. Our first clip is Lee being presented with the mission. I chose
this scene because it presents the dark and mysterious nature of Han, a man
that lives in a fortress like mansion and it's only opened up for this martial
arts tournament. This is a trope regarding villains now commonly seen in martial arts
films that began with this very film. But do you know abou Han?
He lives like a king on that island, totally self sufficient. All of
his efforts seemingly are directed towards supporting what he calls his school of martial arts.
Han's only contact with the outside world. Is this tournament which he holds
every three years. This was a stewardess, Mary King, found floating in
the harbor. Nothing unusual about a body in the harbor, but this girl
was last seen at a party aboard hans private junk. They'd reported a lost
at sea before the body was found. We believe he selects attractive girls and
methodically builds their dependence on drugs, then sells them to an elite cleontelle around
the world. What did he autopsy review at the cause of death? She
did not drown, she ordeed er. Yes, cause of death was a
heroin overdose. I gather you still don't have enough to bust up his operation.
We know everything, we can prove nothing. We want you to go
in there as our agent, get us our evidence, and come out in
one piece to give it to you. We'll give you anything you need,
electronic equipment, weapons, anything, drink No thanks, guns now, why
doesn't somebody pour forty five and bang settle it? No? No guns.
Look at this map here. As you know, the possession of a weapon
is a serious offense. Here Hans Island rests partly within our territorial waters.
If we were given the slightest reason to believe that he has any kind of
arsenal, we'd move in on him. Besides, Hahn would never allow guns
on the island anyway. He had a bad experience with them once and he's
fearful of assassination. Can't really blame him. Any bloody fool can pull a
trigger. I guess I won't need anything. There's a radio on the island.
We'll be monitoring it on the chance that you can get to it,
and then you come someone will. We aren't an agency of enforcement. We
function as gatherers of information, evidence upon which interested governments can act. I
see if there's any trouble, you make a phone call. Oh, by
the way, two months ago we managed to place a female operative on the
island. Since then we've lost her. If she's still there, she might
have something names a mailing. Sure you won't have one, no, thank
yes. Martial arts films have a very distinct way of showing us, the
viewer, the difference between heroes and villains. The heroes or good guys look
at martial arts as a way of life, a way of living that one
should not fight and use it unless provoked as a means of defense. Villains
look at it as a way of force, a way to intimidate and consolidate
power. Our next two clips show this. First, in a brief clip,
we hear Han show off his treasures to Roper that he has acquired through
criminal activity. Then, in an early clip from the film, we will
hear Lee speak to his martial arts master. Of note, here is the
piece in ease that Lee's master carries compared to Han in the way that he
explains Lee's martial arts skills as being a part of him and not a skill.
Learn this is my museum. It is difficult to associate these horrors with
the proud civilizations that created them. Sparta Rome, the Knights of Europe,
the Samurai. They worship strength because it is strength that makes all other values
possible. Nothing survives without it. Who knows what delicate wonders have died out
of the world for want of the strength to survive? What's this? Oh,
a souvenir? And now Lee and his master. I see your talents
have gone beyond the mere physical level. Your skills are now at the point
of spiritual insight. I have several questions. What is the highest technique you
hope to achieve. Do we have no technique? Very good? What are
your thoughts when facing an opponent? There is no opponent? Then? Why
is that? Because the word I does not exist? So continue. A
good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. A good
martial artist does not become tense but ready, not thinking yet not dreaming,
ready whatever may come. When the opponent expand, I contract. When it
contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not
it. It hits all by itself. No, you must remember the enemy
has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the
image and he will break the enemy. The it that you refer to is
a powerful weapon, easily misused by the martial artist who deserves his thoughts.
For centuries now the code of the Charlin Temple has been preserved. Remember the
honor of our brotherhood has been held true. Tell me now the short in
Commandment number thirteen, A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept
the consequences of his own doing. Prior to the release of this film,
Bruce Lee was known in America. This was through his films from Golden harvest
over in Hong Kong that had found their way to the States in his time
playing Cato in the short lived American television series The Green Hornet, but this
film made him a global legend that endears to this day. Our final clip
will be Lee's daughter Shannon Saxon and actor Bob Wall not just talking about Lee
in this film, but his long lasting, ever reaching legacy. Everywhere they
know who my father is and they've been touched in some way, inspired in
some way, or just excited in some way, and it's such a blessing.
I now work doing things for the legacy, for through my foundation and
through our licensing business and that sort of thing. But I'm just so amazed
and so inspired on a daily basis. And it's really why I want to
do what I do in keeping the legacy alive, because I'm inspired by it.
If you know, there hadn't been that depth of philosophy behind it,
if there hadn't been so much more to it and so much authenticity to it,
then I don't know that I'd be doing what I'm doing today. I
had been doing things like judo and Japanese karate and stuff like that. A
good bit and I would ask him, what do you think i'd try to
do this kind of thing. He said, that's pretty good. Tried that,
and we were working like that all the time. You know, you
know, it probably didn't mean it. But when I got to Hong Kong,
I was there with my wife and my son, who was not yet
two years old. And the next day I went to see Bruce and he
brought me into his house. He was waiting to see me, and then
I saw he had a gym, and I looked at it and reminded me
of what I had a little bit of at my home, you know.
And we began to talk this and that, and he was telling me things
what he could do with kettlebells and stuff and things that I had little contact
with at that time. And we kept going on and on and on,
and then all of a sudden he began to tell me, show me how
you do your sitkick. And I said, okay, But I had done
a scene at the park about two three weeks or four weeks prior where I
had sprained my ankle. And I said, oh, well, all right,
he's wanting to do this with me, I'll do it, you know.
So all of a sudden, I threw a kick, and then he
said, let me show how I do mine, and he did. He
moved around with a chair and I didn't know what he was doing, you
know, I was looking over his shoulder like that, and all of a
sudden he stood in front of me for about fifteen feet or something like that,
and he did a hot skip and a jump and hit a bag,
you know, and he knocked me clear across on my heels, like there's
going into a chair like that, and the chair fell down and broke,
and I got up Linn and I saw he was very kind of quiet and
anxious about this, and I said, listen, it's okay. I mean,
I didn't get hurt. I didn't get hurt. He says, I
know, but that's my best chair. And it was the same chair that
he had everybody else do the same thing with me that I discovered later,
sit behind the stand behind it and then he's kicked and you'd go back and
boom, you'd hit this chair. But I had broken it. I was
the only one that had broken it, okay. I loved Bruce Lee and
we were really close friends for many, many many years over ten and training
partners, and I got five hundred a week when I was making ten to
twelve thousand a week my real estate business. My wife of forty four years
now said why are you doing this? And I just love Bruce. He's
my first close Chinese friend. And I can take these hits and everybody's afraid
of them, and I've been training with them. I can take the hits.
And Bruce wanted to do everything real. He really Freddie and Paul can
tell you they Bruce got hurt a lot in this film. He got bit
by the snake, he got hurt by the windows, he got cut with
a glass scene with me, we're using real bottles, so my pardon it
was. I was really enjoying it. You don't see yourself as a bad
guy all, and my wife does. He thought it was typecasting. I
had so many people over the years say I hated you. I wanted you
dead. Even Freddy said I wanted them to kill you, and he'd even
want to hire me for the part in the beginning. But I really enjoyed
doing it. I loved Bruce, and it was It's like my partner for
forty years is Chuck Norris, and they're both the same Chuck and Bruce,
and people say you've never missed a workout with either one of them? I
said, no, why would you miss a painting lesson from Picasso? In
the world of cinema, words groundbreaking, landmark, in trendsetting are used ad
nauseum. I will admit I'm guilty of over using them even on these reviews.
If there ever was a film deserving of those words, though it is
this film here. It is an understatement to say this film brought martial arts
films to America. It affected many other film genres. This film led to
blaxploitation films and other action films using martial arts as a way of fighting and
not just using guns, knives and explosives. This film has generated an American
gross box office of one hundred and twenty million dollars upon its release, and
to this day it has generated two billion dollars in worldwide box office gross through
its original release and countless re releases. For Lee, it finally made his
dream come true to have jee Kundo, his version of martial arts brought to
the American mainstream. Sadly and tragically, he never had a chance to see
it come to fruition. Lee suddenly passed away July twentieth, nineteen seventy three,
almost two months before the film's American release. However, its influence carries
on, and that is due to Lee, who would have celebrated his eighty
third birthday this past November twenty seventh. To know what American martial arts films
are, one must see where they began, and that is with this action
masterpiece. I hope you join me next week when we will look at the
directorial debuty of screen legend Robert de Niro. Next week's film is a Bronx
Tale starring de Niro in Chaz commentary for WMNH and Matt connorton Unleashed. This
has been a classic film with Eric Hilcher Bosom Bosshushshash, I'm talking to fish.
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you. Welcome back, everybody. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are
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archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, December two,
twenty twenty three. Jenny is here as well at the news desk present accounted
for yes and you're wearing a did you want to show the shirt that you're
wearing? Pretty late? Great great band. Actually we opened the show today
with one of their songs, Guardrail, which I love but yeah, they
were here last week was the last week or the week before it was last
week together. I chose to wear the T shirt. Yes, yes,
yes, I thought, you know, they gave us these lovely T shirts
and I love their music absolutely. Yeah, great great bands. The decision
to wear the T shirt, yes, yes, we love pretty late let's
see today we had to start off the show. We had Glitter Tooth here.
They played live in studio and shared some of their recorded tracks as well.
Great band. Really really enjoyed having them here. A tremendous amount of
talent here, oh absolutely is anything I've learned after a year of booking bands
the way we've been doing this year. It's amazing how much talent, overflowing
talent we have in New England. Yeah, and I would say too,
uh that that applies to wherever you are, where, wherever you are in
the world. Check out what's going on in your local music scene, because
I guarantee you, uh, there are artists in your local scene just doing
incredible things, and you know, get out and check it out, you
know, uh, go on. You know, a band camp is a
great resource if you want to look for music specifically in your area. Wherever
you are band camp dot Com or you know, go out, go out
and see some live bands. You know, there's there's great talent everywhere.
You know. I've always said, the greatest band that ever lived. For
all we know, we've never even heard them because they just never got famous,
you know, but they're but they're somewhere or they were somewhere. But
I mean, obviously it's all subjective what's great and uh what, but there's
so much great music out there. So yeah, Glittertooth absolutely amazing. Really
enjoyed having them here. And then of course we had Eric Pilcher's classic film
review this week, the subject being Entered The Dragon from nineteen seventy three,
which I'm embarrassed to say I've never seen that film. I say I'm embarrassed
to see it because actually, growing up, I was never really in the
up martial arts movies, but I did, you know, for about five
years I did do g Kundeau, which g Kundou, which was of course
developed by Bruce Lee, which is really an amalgam of different styles of martial
arts. So I did. That was kind of the height of my exposure
to Bruce Lee. But yeah, there was a place in Conquered called Integrated
Martial Sciences, and Paul Maller was the instructor there and just incredible. But
learned a lot about Bruce Lee from him. Actually, but we have a
call. We'll see he was online. Hi, welcome to Matt Conderton.
Unleash. Who's this? Hello? Hello, good morning, Matt, Good
morning, Jenny, Good morning. Oh Eric, I don't think I've ever
heard her. I don't think I've ever heard your voice in the morning.
What was that? I don't think I've ever heard your voice in the morning.
It threw me. Yes, it is early. I'm having tech issues
at work, so I haven't worked yet, just by getting paid for the
last two hours. Oh I see. Yeah, so I thought I would
just call in and say good morning to both of you. And Matt.
You must see Enter the Dragon, Yes I must. And I agree.
Like I said, I'm embarrassed that I haven't seen it. I mean,
it is so much more than just a martial arts film. Yeah, it
is great story, well written. I mean you really see the influence that
this film had on directors like John wu and others. Yeah, I mean,
just amazing film. The problem is, I do not think it is
streaming anywhere. Oh. You know what's funny is coincidentally, as the guys
were packing up from Glittertooth, Taylor the drummer was commenting that he just ordered
Enter the Dragon. It's coming on. He'd never seen it before, but
he ordered it and it's coming on four K. I yes, that's what
I did my review off of is the four K that was just recently released.
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was funny. He's
like, wait a minute, I just he's hearing the review. He's like,
I just ordered this film. That's funny. Yes, the four K
looks absolutely stunning, and yeah, it's just such a great film. Albeit
not Bruce Lee's best film. I mean, his Golden Harvest films are by
far head his shoulder better than Enter the Dragon. But this is the film
that really really brought martial arts films into America mainstream and showed major Hollywood that
these films can be profitable. Like you, it's not just a film that
you buy from Japanese studios in era as Friday night midnight movies at the drive
in, or just release them on crappy quality vhs. Yeah, how many?
How many? How many movies your money back. How many movies did
he make? Bruce Lee's quite a few, right, Bruce Lee made.
Well, let me venture out into my living room here, because there was
his Golden Harvest films, and then there was Enter the Dragon. Then there
was Game of Death that they completed after his death, and it just doesn't
look great. He did five films, oh, okay for I don't know
why, but my perception, although I think I might know why, but
my perception has always been that he made more that that he was like into
the double digits with the movies that he made, But he only made five.
He starring films of his I mean complimentary rules, yes, way more,
but in starring there is only I believe five. Okay. Now,
was there somebody else? Because I remember this was years ago. I had
a conversation with someone actually who happened to be a musician who was in a
band. I don't remember his name or what bandy was in. This was
a long time ago, but he was telling me about there was somebody else,
like a stand in or somebody who was pretending to be Bruce Lee,
that they made some movies with, and he was known as Bruce Lie.
But but like people call them that as a joke because he was like pretending
to be Bruce Lee or some Hollywood producers were trying to pass him off Game.
Yeah, I forget his name, but they used him for Game of
Death. Oh okay, the one that they had to complete, yes,
okay, yeah, I mean enough of it was done. That's the one
that has the fight scene with him and Chuck Norris. Okay, but and
a fight scene with him in Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Really, yes, it
is painfully awkward. I bet it is. Is it obvious though, Like
when you're watching it, is it obvious that it's somebody standing in it is
just because it's not even body or or voice. It's his movements. I
mean, it's you. If you've watched Bruce Flee, you know Bruce's movement.
No, just it's this quick, flawless. It's like I love the
line in the review that we heard, like would you ever miss a painting
lesson with Picasso? Like there are so few athletes in the world where where
in their sport, their movement is just beautifully flawless and just it looks like
art and Bruce Lee's martial arts is that? I mean I've heard people compare
Jackie Chan, Jet Lee Donnie Yune and it's like, no, there's there's
no comparison, just beautiful movement, like no no flaws. It's probably the
sweetest motion in any sport. Is Bruce Lee's kicks and punches. M h
yeah, no, I will. I'll definitely have to see Enter the Dragon,
Like I said, Yeah, I mean, it's a great It is
a great film, very captivating. Some of the reviews when it was released
were not very good, really they I believe the reviewer for Variety said it
was a low rent Chinese food version of James Bond. Yeah, that which
you definitely could not say that today, right, But back then, you
know, reviewers had carte blanche to say whatever they wanted to say, And
unfortunately that's what Bruce Lee was faced with most of his life. Mm hm,
I mean, in his endeavors to try to bring his this art to
America. Mm hmm. Yeah, it is with a great deal of derision
and just vitriol. And the film Dragon, the Bruce Lee story does a
great job of encompassing there. Now, Melanie in the chat room, she's
uh, she has a counterpoint. She says, I heard Bruce Lee hit
and kicked like a little baby, and no one was ever really hurt.
Now, I don't I don't think that's true. That's not correct, is
it, Eric? No? No, No, I I mean I I
think you hear from John Saxon that Bruce Lee could royally mess you up.
Yes, there, you know. It goes without saying. I love Clinton
Tarantino, and I took great exception to his portrayal of Bruce Lee in Once
Upon a Time in Hollywood. That's another film I haven't seen. Why how
does he how does he portray Bruce Lee in that movie? Uh? Ego
maniac? Uh? Very condescending and borderline stereotypical. Yeah, it's it's not
uh endearing, look at Bruce Lee. It's a brief scene as well,
probably one of the more memorable scenes in the film. Okay, but uh,
you know it just it really it did upset me when I saw it
in theaters. I was there with my cousin Joe, and I told him
and I nudged him and I go, that's disgusting. M hmm. I
said that, that's absolutely horrible. H Well, because yes, Bruce Lee
did talk with an aura of confidence, but he had every reason to be
confident, right, right. There's a difference between confidence and arrogance, yes,
and faithful adaptation and racial profiling. And Quentin Tarantino, I defend him
on much of what he's done, but I don't defend that it was very
disrespectful to Bruce Lee's daughter and his wife. Yeah, because he didn't even
tell him he was doing it. Right. Oh. Now, Dan Fallon
from the band Run Like Thieves says in the chat room, a baby once
kicked me and I cried, Yes, but that baby was not Bruce Lee.
Yes, if Bruce Lee kicked you, you'd be doing more than crying.
I if anyone's interested in they have Hulu with the ESPN plus login,
the ESPN thirty for thirty like water does a very good job of encompassing Bruce
Lee. And is g kunda teaching And what I mean g Kundeau wasn't just
isn't just a martial art. It's a way of life. It's meditation,
it's relaxation, it's in what you eat, it's everything. And that's I
think that's a common misconception, is that Bruce Lee was just a guy that
kicked and punched no, he lived what he said. When I did see,
we never got in any of that. Unfortunately, when I did g
kundeou, I did it for about five years, and our instructor, I
don't know, maybe he assumed we didn't care about any of that stuff.
I would have been interested, but yeah, we just did a lot of
actually my two favorite things, because jikundo is a mix of really anything you
can use that works basically, and yes, we did a lot of We
was the first mixed martial artists. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly, and
we did in the class that I was in, we did a lot.
The two things that we did the most of were jiu jitsu and kickboxing,
which were my two favorite things to do anyway, So that worked out really
well for me. That's why I stuck around as long as I did,
even though I was, you know, getting the hell beaten out of me
twice a week for for five years. But but yeah, it was But
we never our instructor never ventured in any of the other elements of of gikundo
with that, just the just the fighting, which which was fine, but
but I would have liked to have learned more about everything else. Well,
I still could actually, but a lot of martial arts studios and this isn't
just reflective g Kundo, this is across the board. Unfortunately, a lot
of martial arts studios don't focus on the whole life aspect of it. And
that's the thing with martial arts, karate, judo, hopkedo, all these
different fighting styles have a physical mental life balance to them, and a lot
of studios don't focus on that because quite frankly, that's not where the money
is, right right, People go to them to learn how to kick butt,
like Jet Lee, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, so on and so
forth, Tony Jah, Jason Stadum. They don't go to learn all that
there is to it, right right, true. I remember too the thing
that something that was unusual to me though at the time, was Paul Maller,
the instructor, Like there was no belt system. You know, you
know how if you go to a karate studio, you know you can be
a black belt, you know eventually, you know, you've got a lot
of belts to go through to get to that, but you have a belt
system, and there was no There was no belt system. And Paul always
said that. Bruce Lee objected to that. He didn't. He didn't,
like he said, he felt it would be disrespectful to Bruce Lee to introduce
any kind of a belt system at the studio. So it was basically,
you know, there was beginner, there was intermediate, and there was instructor.
Those were like the three levels and you know I was intermediate because you
know I went for five years. But but that was it very true.
Yeah, did not believe in the belt structure. That actually caused a lot
of the dissension martial arts so American Martial Arts Associations had with Bruce Lee.
Yeah, because he felt that your experience wasn't based on fighting. Your experience
was based on life. The more you did in life, the more you
learned it in regards to combat. Mm. Yeah, yeah, that is
true. He did not believe in the belt system. Yeah there. I
mean, jee Kundo has adopted it over the years, but that in the
book of jeek Kundo that Bruce Lee wrote, they do have a belt system,
but it's very simplified. It isn't like you know, Brazilian jiu jitsu
and uh karate, where karate there's written tests you have to do to advance
as well as combat tests. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I
remember Paul explaining to us at the time that there was MG Kuno Studios that
did have a belt system, but but he felt that it would be that
that would be wrong because that's not what Bruce wanted. And the other the
other thing, the other thing too. That was kind of an unusual that
sort of when I first started going there, it sort of broke whatever stereotype
ad in my head about what it was like to do martial arts was you
didn't have to wear a gee. Uh some people did. I'd never in
my life have worn a gee. You know, you could wear shorts,
you could wear sweatpants, you know, just regular you know whatever, but
you did not. It was not required. And actually only a couple of
students did wear geeze. But you did not have to wear a gee in
that class. And I always thought that was cool because I didn't want to
be bothered with uh with That's another Bruce Lee original. You had a good
instructor, Bruce when he taught at the University of Washington, he never had
students wear geez. Yeah. Yeah. To me, it's just you don't
wear a gee when you're defending yourself exactly. That's what Paul used to say,
you don't wear a gee when you're defend yourself exactly. Yeah, so
why would you wear one to train? Yeah, that was Bruce Lee's belief,
like someone isn't going to attack you if they see you wearing your gee.
Uh. Melanie is asking in the chat room, what about really tight
spandex? Have you ever worn that? Matt? I am legally prohibited from
answering that question publicly. I'm not gonna say what I'm thinking, but uh
yeah, well there's a there's a whole thing. But uh yeah, so
that was Yeah, I never I never wore a gee or spandex but not
at not a class certainly. But uh yeah, no, I'll I'll have
to see Enter the Dragon definitely. But it's not it's not streaming anywhere,
right, you have to order it? No, it isn't. It is
not streaming. I don't think I can check that and get back with get
back with you guys in the tap. But I don't believe it is okay,
all right? From if it were streaming, I would guess it would
be on Peacock because it's uh well no, it'd be HBO Max because it's
Warner Brothers Melanie says in the chat room, like a one piece body suit.
Those are sexy. I would uh the only the only time I would
wear a one piece bodysuit was if I were a super villain. I think
that would be appropriate. I think it's best served if I bow out before
I get asked about wearing some I don't know, a gimp outfit or something.
Sure, sure, well you did mention Tarantino, and of course we've
all seen pulp fiction. But before you go, Eric, do you want
to tell us what you have planned for the rest of the month for the
film reviews unless you have to get back to work. I don't next next
week we are looking at This is one of my personal favorites. A bronx.
It was adapted from Chas paulmn Terry's One Man's stage play of the same
name by Robert de Niro. It's his directorial debut and he also stars in
it. It's a It's one of the few gangster films that I feel is
centralized to one neighborhood and it's just a great story. Has an excellent cameo
bite with Joe Pashi, who actually was uncredited in the film. Ah yeah,
that is a great brin sail is one of my absolute all time favorites,
favorite films. He went uncredited and it didn't have a theatrical release.
It's you was on HBO. I didn't realize that, Yeah, it had.
It had a very limited theatrical release like that, it was very limited
to New York. Oh but other than that, HBO did the worldwide premiere
of it. A lot of people say that that was the prectice of The
Sopranos. Oh okay, that the success of that movie and the success of
the film they did Gotti led to HBO wanting more free crime drama, so
hence the Wire the Sopranos Oz. By the way, I just have to
say my favorite, my favorite scene in a Bronxdale is the scene in the
bar with the bikers. Oh yeah, when Chasvolmentary when he says, now
you can't leave such a great scene. Yeah, that that is, in
my opinion, one of the greatest scenes in gangster film history. Agreed,
it is in the voiceover narration in that scene. US makes it work.
Now, putting that scene in the review could provide quite difficult because of certain
language used throughout it. But I'm I have it downloaded and have actually started
working on it to see how intelligible it is. Oh yeah, I'm sure.
You know, obviously things will have to be believed, but I'm sure
it's not that bad. Well, there's a lot of Italian ethnic slurs used
in that scene, and and some of them are very quiet in the background,
so it is hard to edit those true true, good point, And
so yeah, I get there are things you pick up on with film when
you're reviewing it for a radio show that you didn't pick up on before,
or you're so desensitized to it you just bypass it right right, Yeah,
and so yeah, that's one, but I would love to That scene is
amazing. Yeah. Then after that is Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Yeah, I've
that I haven't seen in honor of Ridley Scott's latest release, Napoleon, and
then we will be doing let me look at my calendar, I believe the
twenty second will be a Christmas story in honor of Christmas, and that will
be the last film review of the year until the first film review of the
year, which will be a very highly requested film Schindler's List. Uh.
Yeah, A lot of people have requested it, and I remember watching it
when I was in high school for a class and I haven't watched it since
because that film is so haunting. Oh yeah, so it'll be interesting for
me to watch it, yeah once again. Yeah, I've only seen it
once. It's an incredible film. But that film is on a very short
list of films that I think are absolutely amazing, but I never really particularly
want to watch them again because they're so overwhelming. There's a very It's not
a Buddy and popcorn slip stretch, No, certainly not. It's in the
vein of twelve years of slave. Yeah, and you've seen it and you
really only need to see it once because you get it right, and it
just leaves that impact on you. Oh yeah, you never forget it.
Yeah. No, but yes, we will be reviewing Schindler's List. Okay,
okay, all right, So yeah, so I this month should be
fun. Melanie points out, by the way, regarding Schindler's List, the
Little Girl in the Red Coat was a powerful scene. That's exactly what I
was thinking about too. Just now. I was singing that Sam time that
is actually on the cover of the four k Oh is it? Yeah?
Yep. The Little Girl in the Red Coat. Yeah, the pink coat.
I believe it's pink, pink or bread for I thought it was red,
but I could be wrong. I think it's one of those where it's
such a light color, but that makes it so much more powerful. Yeah,
it's open to interpretation. But that was a brilliant move by Spielberg.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, so, yes, that's what we have.
But I will let you guys go have a good rest of the show.
Jenny was nice speaking with you again, and you as well, and have
a good rest of the show. You two, all right, Eric,
thank you for the call, appreciate it. Safe, no problem, all
right, bye bye. All right. That was our friend Eric Pilcher with
Eric Pilcher's classic film review and today this week the subject was Enter the Dragon
from nineteen seventy three. Jayfed in the chat room says, I'll make sure
you get my reviews as well, Matt. He's always trying to get in
there on Eric's reviews, kind of one up them. I think. You
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