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my name? Do you cry? I got do? When you see my
face? Do you die? I got do? I can't hear your boys,
and I don't know how I should feel. I can see your smile
and die don't know it? It's real? Is it the same? Everywhere
I go? I can feel the sair give it in my ba. I
can feel your scall shot, know that job the shuttles at the thing when
I'm my mile. I really all the same for you. But I've been
lady Joe and did a shave. Feel that flad though I'm not you why,
I'm gad why I wanna know it's the same. Don't want to sleep
because I know I'll meet you there. Don't wanna away to the saw too
bad? You got know go child? Got do? Went off my father?
I know it saw anything rat set to be shot my eyes, he
got talking. My goot to off the hide. Co may not do something
that I can I f this side. I'm going to do in set.
Maybe got doing by maybe got doing by sh that is good. That is
Dying in Breath by Soda so ot Ah, And we have the man behind
that with us here today and we're going to introduce him in just a moment.
But this is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of
w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New
Hampshire. And of course you can go to my website Matt connorton dot com
slash live to stream the show from anywhere and to interact with us. And
of course we're also streaming on Facebook. You can go to the Matt Connorton
Unleashed Facebook page, participate in the chat room and all of that. It
is, of course Saturday March nine, twenty twenty four. Jenny is here
as well at the news table. Yes and returning to the show Casey Darren
is with us. Hello, Hey, how you doing, Matt good?
How are you? I am doing fantastic. Thank you so much for having
me back. Absolutely, I love that Dying Breath that as catchy as hell.
Thanks so much. It's impossible not to not to get into that,
so really really good stuff. Now, the last time you were on you
were in We should get this part out of the way for people who were
wondering, you were in a band called after Image as well as this.
You had this project going on at the same time. But now what happened
with after Image? Well, we a few months ago it was decided that
After Image was going to be no more. And it was not my decision.
It was came, as you know, a big surprise to me.
I really loved being in that band. It was a different outlet for me
than Soda was. Yeah. When Soda was started, it was never meant
to be competition or anything like that. Yeah, you know, a different
emotional outlet with After Image. I didn't write any of the lyrics early on.
I had a little bit, but I got to a point where I
felt that I needed to, you know, have an emotional outlet lyrically,
and that's why I started Soda. Yeah. So Yeah, when the rest
of the band presented the fact that they wanted After Image to be no more,
Like I said, it came as a surprise and I loved I loved
the band. I thought it was it was a lot of fun. We
had some great shows together over the seven years that we were a band,
and we gained quite a lot of fans in the New England area that like,
it was just I was living my dream for a nice run. Yeah
you guys, I mean you put a lot into it too, with the
videos and everything were really well produced and you know, I mean you you
really put a lot into it. Yeah, no, I mean it was
it was my it was my baby, it was all of our baby,
and it was a passion project for all of us. So I don't know,
I like we had a lot, or at least I had a lot
on the horizon that I wanted. I still had goals for After Image,
and I think the whole band did. But I don't know. I think
that I think that there was a misconception that maybe I was taking Soda to
a new level that I didn't care as much for after Image, which was
absolutely not true. I there was a lot that I was planning out and
I was getting excited for for this coming year. But at the end of
the day, I I am so happy that I was in that band for
the time I was, and I can't thank the fans enough for giving us
that support. It was really something that let me. I like I said,
I was able to live my dream and I played some really cool shows.
We opened up for Morbid Angel. Actually five years ago today, I
got a Facebook notification at the Worcester Palladium and like things like that that I
never would have dreamed of back when I was in high school. And it
was thanks to the collective of the band that we were able to do that.
Yeah. Yeah, Like I said, you guys had a lot.
Did someone indicate to you that they felt like, like, did you sense
a resentment about what you were doing with Soda or did somebody say something to
you about it directly? I don't nobody said it directly. I don't know.
I just felt like at the end of the day, they started a
new project without me, and I just kind of felt like, oh,
so to me, it seemed like I was the problem and I didn't realize
that was the problem, and I like, I would have loved to have
had a conversation, and I would have loved to have fixed if there was
a problem, I would have been more than happy to, you know,
fix that and continue on and grow as a band, because that's what you
do. It's not easy being in a band. There's a lot of push
and pull. So when I found out that they were moving on without me,
that's when I was like, oh, man, Like so there was
something there that I didn't even know that that was causing I guess some resentment.
So but was it when when they made that decision? Was it we're
going to do this other thing and put after Image aside without you? Or
or yeah that's how the conversation went. Wow, and you did you didn't
see it coming? No? No, I honestly was blindsided. I we
we had a show in December, they made the decision in November. We
had one final show in December that we kind of quietly exited, and then
just last week they made the post on our after Image social media accounts that
we were no more. Wow. We do still have some music that I
think will be coming out this year. I'm not really in those chats so
much as I was six months ago, but I'm hoping that you'll hear a
new EP from us to kind of close that book. Yeah yeah, wow,
Well I'm sorry to hear about that, but but I do have to
say I love what you're doing with Soda and I like that you gave it
a new England name. A New England name. So oh, I mean
there you go, sled styled? Where where? Where does the name come
from? How did you come up with the name. We actually talked about
this the last time I was on but basically, the name Soda comes from
the Old Testament and it's basically the name or somebody who was accused of cheating
on their significant others oh right, right, right. So they went through
this trial of the poison water where if they were given poison water and they
survived, oh, they're not a cheater. They drank it and they died.
It was like, well, you know, they had it come into
them because they were a cheater. So when I was writing one of my
first songs with Soda, I kept hearing the phrase in my head poison the
water, poison the water. And at that point I knew nothing about the
religious aspect to it. I'm not very religious by any means, but I
like to pull from religion because you know, I'm deeply rooted in metal roots
and they love the you know, this band's like Testament and I love that
stuff. There's a lot of imagery to pull from. So I kept hearing
that phrase poison the water. So I looked it up and I said poison
the Water Bible on Google and Soda came up, and I was like,
wow, that's that's really like spot on to where I was at that point
in my life. And I looked on Spotify. I said, is there
a band called Soda? There wasn't, so I said, okay, that's
it because it's so hard to find band names these days. Oh yeah,
yeah. You would almost think there'd be like a Christian rock band somewhere called
that or something, you know, I know, I know, but yeah,
but it's named after somebody who's a bad person, So why would you
know necessarily true? Yeah, well might not think that. Yeah, yeah
that's true. Yeah, that's uh, you're right, I do remember now
before Yeah, no, that's that's great, that's great, and it is.
Yeah, it is hard to find band names that you know, somebody
else hasn't already taken. So uh so that's now. Now who else is
in this project with you? Or is this all you? You do everything?
So I write all the music, and up until this point I have
recorded most of everything. So the core band is I play rhythm guitar and
I sing. My brother Killian Drone is on the bass and he does backup
vocals, and then my longtime friend from high school, Johnny DaShan plays drums,
So on all the studio recordings he plays drums. I do everything else
except for the solos, which was Brandon Curcio from Afterimage. He recorded all
of that for me. But when we do the live shows, we keep
that core three of yes, and we've gone through, you know, a
handful of lead guitarists, just because it's hard to find musicians that want to
that aren't in another band. First of all, right, right, that
can stay fully committed. But we've had many phenomenal guitar guitar players play with
us live and they've all just killed it. So yeah, yeah, very
cool. Uh. If you have any questions or anything at all for our
guests, we have Ksey Darren here from Soda S O T A H is
the spelling if you're looking for them online, and the studio line is open
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You can also text us at six one seven nine one four seven six on
social media at Matt Connorton. You can email me Matt at Matt connorton dot
com, and of course you can interact on to opine in the Facebook live
chat. Uh j fed, our friend from Vermont, is asking U have
you ever considered growing a beard? He's very beard centric, So I would
love to grow a beard, if I could even start to grow a beard.
I got a little, you know, a little fuzz going right now.
That's as much as I can get. No, I could. I
could try to growing this thing for months and you'd see nothing. You should
see my head. Yeah, we we a hat? Well, fair enough,
fair enough. Now you you brought your guitar. Did you want to
play a couple of songs for us? One thing I'd love to Yeah,
I love to hear you live. Yeah, yeah, so we'll let you.
Yeah, and I've got that other mic plugged in, so that should
it worked well for Eric. Yeah, we'll let you do whatever, do
whatever you gotta do. But yeah, if you're just joining us, Casey
Darren from Soda is here with us live in studio and we're talking about his
project and we'll play some more studio tracks later in the show too. But
uh, he's gonna play live for us. Really looking forward to this.
And if you are just joining us, of course, uh, we are
everything's everything seems to be working this week. I know last week we had
a little bit of a problem with Facebook, but uh, looks like we're
good. All right, let me turn that other like, actually, let
me get both of those mikes on. That would probably help. Yeah,
go ahead and strum a little bit. That sounds good. That sounds good.
So yeah, we'll let you, uh yeah, whenever you're ready,
just if you want to tell us what you're gonna So this is an unreleased
song. It's called Flood of Tears, and there's a little bit of a
backstory to this. This was written. I think I wrote this about two
or three years ago. In my time as a musician, I have become
very close with an organization called the Jason R. Flood Memorial and they host
an annual event called Pizza Stock. So Doug and Danielle Flood lost their son
to suicide about eight years ago, and he was exactly my age, and
I've been a part of the Pizza Stock events for since since. It's an
inception and it really hit hard. I never knew Jason Flood, but he
was very close to me. We shared a lot of similar interests. We
both love the mighty Mighty Boss Tones, the Dropkick Murphy's I Love the Muppets.
He loved the Muppets like they were all sorts of things that we're just
so close between us, and I wrote this song and tribute to him,
a kid that I never met, but the story just resonates with me so
much and the magnitude everything that the Flood family has endured. But they've spread
such positivity and they're creating such change by spreading suicide awareness and mental health awareness
in the past seven eight years that I just found them so inspiring and I
had to write a song for them. So we played this first live a
few weeks ago at their Pizza Stock event at Tupelo Music Hall and Darry and
I'm hoping to release this on my first studio LP, which yet to be
recorded by This is definitely on the cutting block for that excellent, excellent This
is called Flood of Tears. I've seen the tears that can never be clean,
boring down from the faces of those in between, darkening the light where
the sun never shines, who just want to live, but their souls have
died. They want to go back to the life from before. They want
to see his face through that all ben door, sing in his songs with
this electric guitar. They want to take him back, but he's gone too
far, and they know there's nothing they can do but stay strong with some
hope. Together, they can sing as a song. Together, they can
sing as a song. Oh oh oh, I've seen your flood of tears,
but still you're standing here. They watched him play it away when he
turned eighteen. He never got to know what it's like to be free from
the darkness he felt on the lonelyest nights, to the battles inside that he
just couldn't fight. They saw it in him when his heart hit the floor,
They saw it in his eyes, went in look through the door,
and all they ever wanted was to kill all his pain. They never thought
they'd have to give their baby away the morning, or some days alone in
the rain, watching the deer drop's father his gray put love in their hearts
and promises wad together they will never let his dem refain. Oh oh oh,
I've seen you're blood of tears, but still you're standing here. Oh
oh oh oh, I've seen your blood of tears, but still you're standing
here. Wow, beat, awesome, beautiful, beautiful. Casey Darren is
here with us of Soda s O T A H Live in studio. Yeah,
that's a great song. I felt that absolute absolutely. By the way,
you had a very nice uh comment in the oh, we got some
multiple comments for you here, Drew Darren, I'm sorry, Dave. Dave
Darren rather says a great song. Uh, And Jody West Darren says,
you have a beautiful face, no beard necessary. So there you go.
Yeah. Those are my parents. I figured they'd be in the chat today.
Yeah, I think I think they were last time you're on the show.
I think they were in there too. My dad called in actually last
time. Oh that's right. Yeah, And he asked about my Kermit tattoo,
because it's a running joke in my family for whatever reason, that I
have a Kermit tattoo. Yeah, they use it. One of my brothers
uses that as like a line of defense if we're like in an argument.
He goes, yeah, but you have a Kermit tattoo, as if that
like hurts me or something like, I love the Muppets, I love Kermit.
Of course I have a tattoo. Well you did mention, Yeah,
you did mention the Muppets earlier, and yeah, I remember you. I
remember you explaining that before too. I remember that that that that subject came
up. Oh, that's funny, that's funny. Now, how much how
much material does this band have? Soda? Do you have a lot or
we have a lot that's not recorded? So we have an EP that I
released back in September. That was the last time I was on this show,
was promoting that Dying Breath was a standalone single, and the very very
first single that I released was an acoustic cover of the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones.
They will need music, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We have
six songs out on Spotify and Apple Music and YouTube and wherever else. Yeah,
and I probably have about twelve to fifteen songs that we've played. We've
played a couple of them live. They're not recorded yet. I'm trying to
get my ducks in a row and figure out what songs I want to put
on my first full length album. Yeah, that's the next goal. I
do have a song that I don't want to say too much yet because it's
going to be coming out relatively soon. It's in the final mixing and master
stages. But one of my biggest influences of all time musically is actually a
guest vocalist on the song. And I wrote this song probably two to three
years ago as well, and I have been itching to get this one out,
very excited, so that's something to expect probably late spring, early summer.
Okay, so yeah, I can't say who yet though, No,
because it's so big, and it's so big to me that I don't want
to just drop it right now. I think that we should set up like
a whole another interview for that alone in a few months, because it's pretty
big and to me, it's just I feel like all my work for the
past eight years has culminated to this point. So I'm very excited. Okay,
okay, very cool. Where do you record so for the past?
Well, for the EP, I recorded everything at Blackheart Studios, which is
right across the street over in the right by the Manchester Music Mill. I
finally met him, Eric Souder. Oh, he's a great guy. Yeah,
because I and I find Yeah, I finally met him. I think
it was a couple of months ago because I was at Manchester musicvill and uh
and I told him, I said, dude, your name comes up all
the time. On my show. Yeah, he's got a great studio and
it's it's great, it's very it's very homey. I definitely want to mention
that he actually had very little to do with that Love Hate EP that I
put out. We used his beautiful space, but it was actually Brandon Curcio
from After Image who mixed, mastered, engineered the whole project for me.
Oh okay, And then the first two singles They Will Need Music and Dying
Breath I recorded in my bedroom. Yeah, yeah, so everything was just
it was actually I hate to say this because I know the guitar aficionado's out
there are gonna kill me for this, but the guitar was just direct into
my computer and I did some ant modeling for the first two singles, but
everything after that was at Blackheart. We have the technology where you can yeah
do that. Yeah, I mean Brandon did a phenomenal job getting it to
sound like it wasn't recorded in my bedroom, right right? Yeah? Yeah?
Well do you want to you want to play another live one for us?
Absolutely? Yeah, I'm gonna do a cover it's an old one,
and then we're gonna throw in a couple more. Uh, it's a little
medley that I put together. Actually this week I was playing around. I
was like, you know, this would be cool. So we're gonna start
off with us so lonely by the police. Oh sorry, let me get
I apologize. Oh, no worries. We're going to take two. There
we go. We're still get used to the new studio here, absolutely beautiful
studio. I love it. Oh thank you, we love it too.
Yeah, all right, this is so lonely by the police. Well,
someone told me yesterday that when you throw your love away, you act as
if you just don't care. You act as if you're going somewhere. But
I just can't convince myself. I couldn't live with no one else and I
can't on live play that part. Then City, that's my broken hut,
the Loanlans, Lonelans, Loanelans, Loonland, Loanelands, Loanlans, Loanelans.
Now know what's knocked up for on my door for one thousand years old?
More on it up and nowhere to go. Welcome to this one man show.
Just take a seat there, always free, no surprise, No mister
rests at that I call my soul. Ioways playing the Starling role so loanlan
so loanlans solanlans so Loanlan so Loanlan so loanlan so Lonelan Solanla so loanlans Loanelan
so Loanlan so loanlans Loaneland. It was a place and the name of the
place escaped mare, but I can't remember. Hit in the tates mac or
b. I can't remember, could be at you? Just to no it's
moved the sun alone and try to find the blood. There was a girl
and I don't know her name either. She gave in love and I said
I never leave it rima. Did I come back? Some can't finder?
Maybe I will. I should write down and remember one day one day,
who knows. Some day, some day, I suppose there was a place
and the name of the place escapes man, but I can't remember. Hit
in the tates me could p I can't remember, could beat you just to
not? Just moved a song alone? Heain try to find the blood play
the mabe with promises. She certainly uncertain. I can't wait to see the
paper. Oh they close the curtain. One day I feel so low.
Someday I feel so low. One day, so low someday you're so low,
you're so halfe long episode and on no up, only up below ups
man and only no up it so lonly up feel low ever being close to
trag of fels, close to folks who have hea, you have a piper
paints so powerful, so heavy you collapse. No, well, never I
had to knock onward, but I know someone who has, which makes me
wonder a rip that could? It makes me wonder to rip. I I've
never had to knock gone wood, and I'm better I have, and yet
because I'm sure that isn't good. That's the impression that again, have you
ever had the arms nicked up so high you need a strange mosa process?
Or has it ever come down to do or die you got to rise above
the as? No? Well, God never had tune knock goneward, but
I know someone who has, which makes me wonder rip I could? It
makes me wonder rip I've never had to do God would, and I'm glad
i have been yet because I'm sure it isn't good. Definitely appreciate that.
Again you so low, up up up low, very cool. That is
Casey Darren. He is live with us in studio from the band Soda and
uh that sounded great, great, yeah, very much. I like it,
very cool, very cool. We should play another studio track absolutely,
go ahead, And what would you suggest you have a I've got your band
camp open here. Yeah, why don't you do a Shadow over my Heart
that seems to be a little fan favorite. Let's see on the Love Hate
ep. Yes, I think, oh, here we go yep. Oh
wait a minute, wait a minute, I see Uh, what's up?
Why I see unfinished? Oh you're looking at the Yes, that's the Love
Hate demos that I released exclusively on band camp, which is just my original
iPhone recordings of all of those songs. Here we go, okay, all
right, cool, Yeah, let's uh, we'll give this a listen.
This is Shadow over my Heart studio track from Soda Today Taxes Abo, so
the Stars suyester Day. I say, I'm not the song concaster about something
to say? Why don't be so stonebout something's in the world? Shadow old
of my eyes, shout out, move my bye, shout out over my
eyes, shout out move with my eyes said my you sho say no,
it's not insane, gotta change. She just to the game. What if
make you fallo out to buy the world, sir, trying to see so
loud and conta shadow of my eyes. Shoutow, move my eye, shoutow
my eyes shadow move by so out to keep myself. I'll child happy that
word, STA said, I I know what my Lord by it all again?
Mony sody an change. Where's my father again? I just told my
lord. Oh oh shadow the shadow, shadow, shadow, shadow shadow,
the shallow shadow over my heart from the band Soda and that is spelled s
O T A H. That is from the E P Love. Is that
an EP? It is a EP? Yeah, yeah, very very cool.
Do you do you have a lot of songs that you play live that
you haven't recorded yet? Just a couple. Yeah, there's a song that
we've played for about a year now intermittently called Sunrise that is not released.
Like I said, Flood of Tears is another one that we just started playing
live, not released. And there was one it's a fun little song called
too Much that we've played a couple of times where it's like a fast hardcore
punk song and I explicitly swear every other beat of the song and it's it's
a little joke. I wrote it because there's an abundance of swears in a
lot of modern music, and I feel that it takes away the power and
the weight of that word, so when you use it so much. So
I said, you know, what would be funny if I wrote a song
where every beat I'm saying the F word. So it's fun to play live
because we usually end the sets with that, and we're not very much a
hardcore punk band, so when we play that one hardcore punk song, everyone's
kind of thrown up guard, especially with all my profanity, right yeah,
yeah, because everything else is clean, which is nice. No need to
make radio edits. I don't think I can make a radio edit of that
one, right right? Yeah, No, No, that's like, uh,
that would be like we had Kenny Trudea on the show and he's got
that song, Yeah, don't blank this one up, and it's like,
uh, they really good song. But because sometimes I will, you know,
if I have a guest who's who's got a song with a swear in
it, you know, I'll make a radio edit of it for the show.
But but I was like, I don't think I could do this with
this Kenny Trudan song. I don't know if you've heard it, because it
would ruin the song, right right, you know, it would just be
too much. Well when swears it used tastefully, yeah, I think they
can hold a lot of power. Yeah, and that's kind of what the
song's about. Yeah, as I use it untastefully there, that's cool.
What it must be a big surprise to people when they hear it. It
was the surprise to my mom, that's for sure. Now do you have
do you have a lot of shows coming up? We have one and then
we're actually going to be taking a little hiatus and I'll talk a little bit
more about that. But we have a show in man Chester, New Hampshire,
Thursday, March twenty first at the Shaskiine Excellent. It's gonna be a
really fun show. It's a six to OZHO three showcase show. So we
have Dead Time is opening up the show. They're duo actually from New Hampshire.
Then we have We're Up second, there's a band called day Trip,
and then coming in from Chicago. There's a band called Guardrail headlining the show.
So it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's only five dollars at
the door, twenty one plus but We've got all sorts of merch that we're
going to be selling, all sorts of songs obviously, and we're unveiling a
brand new long sleeve tea that I'm super excited to have everyone see. It's
it's full print, sleeve, print everything. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
we'll have to see about getting a guardrail. That's the name of the
band from Chicago. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, they'll be in
on twenty first. Are they on tour? Are they coming in They're doing
a little mini mini tour yeah, yeah, interesting. Interesting, And then
so you're you're taking a break after that, we're taking a little high eight
and I this is the first time I'm publicly saying this, but I'm actually
going to be going on tour as a roadie, merch tech, guitar tech,
all of that. With a newer band called The Defiant, which is
Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones. He has a new supergroup,
so Dicky Barrett, Greg Camp from smash Mouth, Pete Parratta from the off
Spring on drums, Joey Laracca from a band called The Briggs, and then
Johnny Rio from a New England band called The Street Dogs. It's a supergroup
and they're doing their first tour. They're opening up for Me first and the
Gimmy Gimmes. Okay, so I'm gonna be hitting the road with them for
through April and May, and then after that, I'm going to be tour
managing a local reggae artist named Joe Samba, Killer Killer musician that has really
been blowing it up in the past year and a half. So we'll be
doing all sorts of festival gig one of his shows he's playing, actually two
of the festivals that he's playing, Sublime is headlining. So it's like some
pretty real, real deal stuff. So I'm super excited to spend the next
you know, four or five months on the road and it you know,
it puts Soda a kind of a standstill for a few months. But the
opportunity and the connections that I will be making in the next five months,
it's it would be a no brainer. It is a no brainer. Well
worth it. Yeah, you ever do anything like that before? No,
this is my first time. It was funny, So I I go to
the Joe Samba shows all the time when he's local, and we went out
to lunch because he posted on his Instagram. He said, you know,
if any local musicians want to meet up and you know, either record music
talk music, and I was like, I'd love to talk music. So
we had lunch and about a week later he said, hey, are you
interested in doing tour managing? And I'm like, oh my gosh, I
don't know, Like that's that's a big you know, it's a big ask
because I have a full time job. I do marketing. And I was
like, I don't know, you know, I don't think I can swing
it. And then a week after that, Dicky Barrett texted me and he
said, hey, do you want to come on the road with us?
And I was like, all right, I get it. This is a
sign like I think this is my calling. I think this is something I
need to do. So I said, you know what, this is my
passion. So I'm doing both tours and I'm very excited about Yeah. Good
for you, Good for you. Yeah? Absolutely, Well will there be
any opportunities do you think on these sours for you to play? I don't
think definitely. With the Defiant, that's a no go because they're they're an
opener for like I said me first in the gimme gimmis. But and they're
playing some killer but like they're playing Big Night Live in Boston. They're doing
House of Blues Orlando, like some really really good venues. Joe Samba,
he's expressed interesting. He said, you know, maybe one day and we
might get to open, which would be a dream. I love I love
him, and he's a really cool guy. So nothing's a fish. I'd
love for that to happen. So we'll see one day. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, because I assume you'll bring your guitar, right, Oh of
course. I mean, well, we'll all be talking music the whole time.
So now the Defiant are they? Do they have an album? If
they recorded anything? Yeah, they just released an album, full length album
that I actually appeared on. I did some vocals. Yeah, they released
that back in October. It's called if We're really being honest, phenomenal album.
They're kind of a misunderstood band, and I won't get into the details
of that, but all I can say about The Defiant is that they are
some of the nicest, down to earth people that you will ever meet.
And all of them have just shown me such grace and kindness and compassion and
love. So I think that people need to, you know, just give
it, give them a second and take a listen to the music. They're
all coming from these huge bands and they they just put out a killer,
killer album, killer products. So I'm very excited about that opportunity. Cool.
Cool. Are the Bosstones doing anything? They broke up? They broke
up. Yeah. Based on interviews with Dicky, he he would love to
be in the boss Tones, but given what he is singing about, in
the lyrical content that he's pushing at this point in his career, I I
don't think some of the members of the boss Tones really wanted that enveloped in
their band. It's a lot of it is political, and the Bosstones have
always been political, but we're at such a divisive point in the country.
America is so divided that if you say anything the wrong way politically, you
know, half half of the country cancels you, half the country praises you.
And I think that's the problem is that, you know, the Bosstones
just didn't feel comfortable with the lyrical content that he wanted to put out.
And the reason I love Dicky Barrett is that he's singing these songs about what
he stands up for what he believes in. But never once does he tell
you this is how you should believe. He is always like, you make
your decision. This is what I believe, and this is what I stand
for. And I really appreciate that sentiment because there are bands out there that
are like, you know, this is what you need to follow, and
if you don't follow that, then you're dead to us, right right.
I've always appreciated about that, that about Dicky and the Bosstones, where it's
always been make your own decision. We're here to question things. We're here
to you know, question the government, question all sorts of things. But
at the end of the day, it's your choice and you do what you
want to do with your life, you know. Yeah, Now when does
that start? When does that tour start? That starts I fly out to
Chicago that is April fifteenth, I believe, and then that goes through May
fifth. Oh okay, yeah, so we'll be doing pretty much an East
coast run. We'll go up to Canada, come down through Maine, Boston,
then obviously New York. You gotta do New York, ye teck our
way down to Atlanta, and then a couple of stops in Florida. Yeah,
wow, cool outstanding. Are you playing out of Manchester? I don't
know yet. I'm gonna have a little phone call chat with the band manager
next week, so we'll see. I'm assuming not I might see you.
I'm flying the fifteenth. Oh really, Oh that's funny. Where are you
going? I can't tell you. Okay, that's a surprise. Oh very
nice, very nice. No, that's that's cool though, that you're getting
to do that. So now do you have so you probably don't have any
any shows book because it's hard to even long term, it's hard to know
when you'll be wrapped up all that right beyond this show in two weeks,
I don't have anything booked. But when I come back in the fall,
maybe even late summer, I really want to do a homecoming Soda show and
just you know, plan it all, get some bands that I love on
the bill, and bring it back because we have a lot in store.
I don't want to, like concern any of the listeners that were you know,
we're stopped. There's so much on the plate. Like I said,
we have like about fifteen unrecorded songs. I want to release a full album.
I'd love to tour yeah, but it's just I'm teaching myself that I
have to be a little patient with these things. As my girlfriend can attest.
Well, Casey, this has been wonderful. It's great to see you.
Thank you for coming in. Oh, thank you so much for having
me sound great. Absolutely. What should our listeners know in terms of where
to find you online, where to keep up with everything that you're doing.
I'm on everything. I'm on Facebook, Instagram. If you look up Soda
Band, Soda New Hampshire, whatever, you'll find me s O T a
H. We're on every streaming platform. We have music videos and live video
on YouTube, so just look up Soda s O T a H. We
post silly stuff, we post serious stuff, We post about our shows,
our music, all of that. And like I said, we're playing the
shaskiin in Manchester, New Hampshire and Thursday March twenty first five dollars at the
door, twenty one plus. I'm super excited about it. Like I said,
it's kind of our farewell show for a few months, so I'd love
to see some friends out there. I'd love to see some new faces.
It's going to be a really fun time. Yeah, yeah, outstanding outstanding.
We will. We'll actually close out in a moment with one more studio
track. Great stuff. But yeah, Jenny, do you remember who we
have? You know who we have next week? Off hand? Do we
have next week? I know we got a we have got a pretty stacked
show at Pop Farmers coming in Jesse Coffee will be returning with some original Yes,
and we'll have a skyping guest from Texas, missus Nancy Mennett will be
introducing herself to our listeners. Very good, very good, all right,
and doesn't look like we've had any technical glitches today, so the show should
be up and available today's show in just a little bit, both in video
and audio form. We've had some gremlins on some weeks here as we continue
to settle into the news space, but overall, it's it's all been been
quite wonderful. And of course, if you miss any part of today's show,
it will be up in just a little bit as far as I can
tell at Wmnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com, and
we'll throw the video up on YouTube and all that good stuff. And thank
you everybody, Thank you everyone in the Facebook live chat and of course everyone
who participates, and Jenny, you want to plug your website absolutely come check
me out at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N C O F f
UI dot com. I will be speaking next week onnay Limes, one of
the invited guests today live stream. Go to my blog you can find out
more information on where I'm speaking and what we're talking about. Yes, yes,
absolutely all right and by the way, thank you again to Eric from
Temple Mountain for joining us in the first hour. That was wonderful. Do
you know him? Do you know Temple Mountain? No? I just heard
of them today because of you. Yeah, yes, super talented guy.
I love his voice, just really really good. But we will close with
one more track from Soda and again that is spelled s O T A H
for those of you looking online, and I encourage you to do. So
what should we close out with? Key? Did you do better than you?
That's another one that the fans seem to really like and I like it
too. Oh, I like this one too because I remember we played this
last time and yeah, this is yeah, this is really good. So
we will we will close out with this and uh again, thanks everybody and
we'll talk at you a little bit later. Bye. I'll let you give
by the show. You want to see me though, see a couple of
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