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this one a s boy that I was. When I was a kid,
I got my face out and not a biless The Geese say. I wasn't
always a stoom, but when I was, I was a jump. I
had always look cancel ing school and go fill us. I remember roll the
band sis a big member. It feels like someone is stop me and sid
fu my mom ry does your mass side go away? No scene? Down
the Bobby road alive? Do you miss side go away? No? Same
down the Moby road up. When I was at school, did my good
rais? I was yes, still big, no fool. When I was
still young and all I care about crowd was girls. But they did my
mendosus the bees I just don't move before days are crying on the floor.
They used to or me me up my milk money taking. When I was
growing up, I remember the man and the long meels like someone in the
shop. Ain't the same of my mom? I d do you as side
call when sing down the bomb? Roll a live dog as side go w
No sing down bob. You know when I was a boy and my father
used to look down at me and saying, what guy, hell even go
outside and cut some grass. Why don't you go kids a girl? You
stolen loser? Down your name, SI call away, no scene want name
your name side, go away the scene, dannel. Let's taste like whisky
us spell doctor, She says, Look up at the scars. Look how
close thing to me? God, your way back home? That's what he
should do, because I know somewhere there's a porch right now waiting for you.
You gotta tell a good bye, tell her good name, tell a
good boys don't always do right that time. Love, I'm gonna leaves you
in the hall here where is girl like Steve? You devers? Dream not
you home? That in our teen has not time? Love, Gonna leave
you with dol water help with the slim home right now it's just gonna burn
us both see in a few minutes, will be consoles out. We ain't
going home more and I'd like to leave here. We trust a little bit
to lift up my soul. Did I have to do with me what you
will this night? This house for the take care. You gotta tell a
good time, tell a good night, tell the coach drowns junk as to
right, not time ball, it's gonna leave here the moment, well,
it's gone, like Steve were doing little Steve not being wrong. Goddy hour
see house down, time ball come out, wants to leave you. A
don't all it's all My mom's all right now in the moment's long gone.
The murmur reason of your love day is still in. Go home? Hell
mother, what you would do if I turn this car around, hit it
back to your town? And but I I tell to look up after seven
hours at you bab run it an. You gotta tell a good back,
tell a good nay, tell a po people jump about to right. Not
time bull just gonna leave you in the morning. Where let's come back stam.
The tambo's teasing not feel wrong that in our teas, not time all
my time about reason you please for please you in your water bro you are
listening to do w humin h Come in God, don't get so friendly,
madself. Good morning everybody. Here we go. It is that time again.
Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety
five point three FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Now on Canal Street,
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It would not be Saturday morning if something didn't work, so it must
be Saturday. But anyway, but that's all right. Radio is theater of
the mind, and so here we go, and it is, of course,
if I failed to mention the date April twentieth, twenty twenty four.
And we've got a couple of guys with us here from a band who has
been on the show before. And I'm gonna get those get those mics up
for you guys, run like thieves is with us. Let me see here
we're still getting I'm still getting used to the new setup here. Yeah,
and go ahead, Dan Fallon is here, go ahead and say something now,
Good morning, Good morning, Manchester, New Hampshire. You sound great,
and Abe, I've got Abe set up on a mic that we don't
usually use, but it was convenient. And oh no, I do not
hear you say that again. Abe. Oh there we go. We found
you. I found you, thank you? Yes, yes, Abe Hughes
is here as well. And where so where's the running drummer? He's off
running his kids around to basketball games and such. Oh okay, that sounds
kind of important, I guess. I mean, I don't know. I
don't have any kids, so I don't know. Is that like something you
have to do not necessarily I don't have so you don't have to do it.
I don't know. I made the choice a long time. Well,
i'd say I made the choice. Hey, I made the choice when I
was like fourteen. I said I'm never having kids, and I stuck to
it. I'm just getting warmed up. I've got four I need some more.
Oh wow, I do you really have for Yeah? Yeah, but
my youngest is fourteen. Oh okay, and my oldest is a twenty nine,
twenty eighty eight, hold twenty eight. Yeah, I was twenty eight,
so yeah, our grandkid, grandson. I got a granddaughter coming.
Oh wow, bright, congratulations, thank you. But yes, but our
running drummer, that's a really good point. He's running his kids around.
If you, if anybody listening gets a chance to check out that, go
on YouTube and you can see his daughter, Athena's YouTube channel. It's bald
but Beautiful. She has alopecia. Oh wow, and she yeah, she
makes these great really great content. She actually just passed one hundred thousand subscribers
on YouTube. And it's really really fun stuff and interesting and and and just
you know the they're anti bullying too, so you can imagine what kids have
to go through. So it's it's all about that stuff. It's really really
fun, engaging for for people and kids, and it has a really good
message to it. But so it's bald but Beautiful Athena on YouTube. That's
Greg's daughter, one of the people that he's running around today. And for
people who don't know about alopecia, I know what it is because I had
a good friend who had it. But when you essentially you don't have any
hair right, including on top, So it's uh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. I had a friend I haven't seen him in a long time
who had it. And he didn't have you know, no eyebrows, nothing,
just just it's it's really interesting and I can't remember though, is that
something you're born with or does that or does that happen do you know?
I don't really know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's great.
Want to have you guys back. When was the last time? Has it
been a year? No, it hasn't been a year, has it.
No, we came in I want to say December. Okay, it was
before well, it was obviously right after we finally became Run Like Thieves,
which was back in what October November? Wow, that feels like a long
time ago. Yeah, we've been doing a lot outside. Yeah, so
I want to say, like it was like December. I think it was
when we were on the show, because originally our show that's at the Banking
Newhampshire Stage wasn't going to be on January fifth, I believe it was in
it was it was it was rescheduled for single day, mayo, May fifth
coming up, and it was that's right. We wanted to come on and
promote and talk about some of the things we were doing, but it got
snowed out that day. Yep, yep, So we got the best day
of the year, I think, best Sunday of a year that you could
have a concert Sinco day mayo. Oh so it kind of worked out.
Yeah, it worked out in the end. Yeah. So we're back at
the banking New Hampshire stage in the Canoe in the Canton Room, and we're
back here at that. It's amazing. Yeah, yeah, no, it's
great. Great to have you guys back. By the way that I love
that song Teller Goodbye that we opened with. Uh, and I know you
guys are going to play a few live for us, by the way.
Uh. The studio line is open too if if you have any questions or
anything, any comments or feedback for the band. Six oh three two five
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O three two five oh six oh seven. We have two thirds of Run
Like Thieves here with us live in studio. You guys want to play something
for us some dining here you play live? Yes, yeah, absolutely,
We're gonna play a song that we wrote. We've been writing more together,
which is really fun, and so I'll come up with like a dumb idea
and able to usually fix it. So this one's a little bit more interesting
because it started off like one way, like we went through kind of a
temporary like nickelback phase for like a couple of weeks, Like Dan was like,
hey, I want heavier guitars and stuff like that, and we're like
okay, and then it was kind of like not digging this. This is
just too butt rock. And then we still wanted to like rework the tunes
because I don't think the songs are bad. So Dan said, okay,
let's do this one more of a blues style. And then my head like
I just heard like a descending bassline and we kind of turned it into that.
So has a little bit more of like a feeling good or a portoishead
glory Box kind of sound to it. Yeah. Cool. It sounds almost
a little psychedelic when we get to do it together with all the effects and
the band, and it's really I think it might be one of our better
tracks all overall. It seems to be very getting warmly received at live performances.
Cool, okay, and uh we even had a We had a DJ
actually at the last show that we played, and he said I would love
to hear that for an hour, and I was like, you know what,
I would love to play that for now. So you're not gonna get
that right now, though, Matt, because we're playing an acoustic but we'll
do the best we can. So, Okay, before you guys rip into
a two, Dan, can you just strum strum a little for me?
I just want to make sure that we can Yeah that okay, that sounds
nice. And uh, Abe can you do the same. I want to
make sure we got your h your base in the mix. Let's see here,
Oh there we go. Cool, all right. I'll have to kind
of ride the faders as we go because we're live, but we can hear
everybody, so that's uh, that's most of the battle, all right.
Whenever you guys are ready, Run like thieves, live in studio. We're
ready. Sometimes I stand taller, sometimes I cross smaller. You are the
one commonalty. Drink till I stop smiling, Drink till I feel like I
hear. She gotta blieve me how slow? Oh yeah, too much of
a good thing, baby, too much good well, it's bad for me.
Oh oh yeah, you too much of a good thing. Baby.
She's gotta believe me how slowly. Sometimes her thighs run here, sometimes her
kingdom comes there in her rubble. You can just burry somehow. She finds
me when that door shut behind me. She's gotta bleed me how slowly.
Oh yeah, too much of a good thing baby, too much good well,
it's as me. Oh yeah, too much of a good thing baby.
She she's got to bleed me how slowly. Oh yeah, too much
of the good the baby. Too much good well, it's bad for me.
Oh lord, oh yeah, it's too much of the good the baby.
She's's gonna blave me here slowly. Loe. I love it. I
love it. Great job, guys, thank you. That sounds really good.
If you're just joining us, Run like thieves is here with us,
Live in studio two thirds of the band. Anyway, Daniel, we were
talking about off air earlier. You were talking about what happened at the Is
it the New England Music Awards. Yes, we we just well it's the
Battle of the Bands for the New England Music Oh okay, gotcha, Battle
of the band's last band standing New England Music Awards. We just played last
week and it was an interesting thing. You know, we we don't really
do battles to the bands. Yeah, but so it was the first one,
and I don't know that was the first one I did in the last
couple of years. I did one for them a couple of years ago.
Don't know when was the last time we did a battle of the bands.
Last time I did one was with I think East is East back in twenty
thirteen for the f Nice Records. Yeah, but it was that was like
another Boston thing, and that one we did, we made it up to
like fourth place. Eventually we got to play at the Middle East, which
was nice, but we made it fourth place out of four bands. That's
past Saturday, so but we Yeah, it was it was at the Zorba
Music Hall and lowl It was kind of cool, actually nice place, and
you know, it was well done event. All the New England music events.
They're actually going to be in Plymouth soon at at the Edge of the
World Tavern, I think for the last yeo. I'm not sure what day
it is, okay, but yeah, during the set, my guitar went
out within the first kind of minute and that's when I realized how much water
I drank that day, because it all sweated entirely and it must have caused
some type of electrical circuit error on the ground because not only did that the
guitar went out, next thing, you know, the MIC's out and in
the monitor was out for for greg Ard drummer, so he was just kind
of winging it the rest of the gig. He didn't have any monitor.
The only the only thing that actually he could hear was my vocals, poor
guy, and he could near the bass, so that was tricky. But
he really did a really great job. But it was It was a nice
event. The Gray Curtain is the one that won the night and they I
think they deserved it. It was such a unique act. Yeah, amazing
vocals and in a true performance, a true performance, it was very theatrical,
the way the the singer kind of held it down. The band was
amazing. All the bands were great, though, Big Sun Band, there's
some other bands they were. They really were great. The first band was
like a seventies I think it was one of the best battle of the bands
I've ever been to. Really. Yeah, everyone there was top of their
game. Yeah, excellent. Do you remember the first band had a gone
yes, trying to remember the names like led Zeppelin or something like. Yeah,
they were. There were definitely like a throwback kind of band, like
a led Zeppelin Albon Brothers trio thing going on. But it was. It's
nice and I love that the organization because they the New England Music Awards.
They do all kinds of stuff. They have great events, but they you
know, the publicity that they try to help you with is it really gets
your name out there. And when I had started playing out again doing original
stuff, that's the first place that said, hey, we got a gig
for you that type of thing if you want to participate. Oh wow.
Yeah. So John Fleming, Lindsey Vaughn, the people that run a really
great people and it yeah nice. Nice the opportunity to network with other musicians
and things like that. Yeah, it's It's interesting though too. It's interesting
to be around the other bands at those type of events because I feel like
we're the most senior. I think I'm the only granddad. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, Well it was also good because it's nice, nice to see
what the younger kids are doing. Yeah, I can say younger kids now
too, I'm hurtle as Henry Rollins would say, I'm hurtling towards forty.
But yeah, so, and what was weird was still doing a lot of
the same stuff. There was basically metal bands, there was weird art bands,
and there was punkin reggae bands. Good to see. Yeah, so,
like I didn't hear anything like I was hoping to hear like one band
that just like did something completely new and amazing and awesome, which I didn't
see. But like I said, everyone there was top their game. They
weren't slouches. All of them came and prepared. They were really talented musicians.
A lot of the battle bands or even just you know, when I
was doing regular shows, there was usually like one or two bands that you
could just tell, like the bass player is just the guy from the local
gas station that they taught like three notes too, and he doesn't care about
like progressing any He just like, I just need to know the root notes.
That's it. And none of the bands were like that. Everyone seemed
to, you know, really care and that's it's good to see like the
younger crowd still going out there and doing that and being into it. Yeah,
so rock and roll isn't isn't going anywhere. It's where it is.
You know, you get that feeling every now and then, especially going out
a lot, you kind of wonder, like, WHOA, what's happening right
the music? But it was it was I was really just like abes that
I was really happy to see the level of professionalism and young young just really
excellent musicians top of the game. I thought a bunch of them were they
could have been hired studio musicians. Yeah, these kids, Yeah, they
were really really great. But it's fun to it's just fun to do that
stuff and to run into people and then make contacts and you know, you
make you know, ten friends that day and then they're you know, they
already reached out. A bunch of them reached out you know, for other
for things, to collab or to do a show with them. We want
to do a show with us, make sure you know whatever you know?
Yeah, yeah, but are we a little old for you know what?
Oh yeah, that's that is one of our singer that was singing with us
for a lot of the cover gigs was twenty one or something, and uh
and she's great and she was really great. But I definitely got that feeling,
like, especially like the song selection, like I don't feel old,
and you don't feel old, and we do anything, We'll play anything.
But at the same time, you know, maybe like not knowing led Zeppelin
right right, kind of weird. You're like, oh god, David Bowie,
you know what journey you have to cover? You know that song that's
in that movie? Oh that's y Yeah, you know it's kind of you
know so, uh yeah, it's kind of weird, you know, but
it's good to I don't think I'm never gonna I don't I'm never gonna stop.
Yeah, I am old. I got like I'm sitting here with my
knees all messed up from trying to jog. That's a bad idea. Jogging's
a bad idea. I don't care what anybody says. It's dangerous for your
health. Does your drummer know this. He runs, he doesn't jog.
Yeah, he's okay. I was gonna say, you're gonna have an intervention
with him. He does like a five minute miles like a lot of the
times he'll do in for like these distances, he'll do like five six minute
miles. Yeh, I'm on a sixteen minute mile, right, yeah,
them lucky. Well, what's the rush exactly? You know, enjoy enjoy
the treadmill exactly, you know exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And this week
I stopped drinking alcoholic just just yeah, just just just to see what would
happen. But yeah, boy, do you notice a change already? Wow?
The sleep is a lot better. Good. And and I I'm a
lot worse than I realized when I'm performing it was much you know, it's
like you're much more aware. Yeah, but you know it's it's you know,
it's everything else. It's time in its place just right now, it's
just time to stop, you know. Good for you. Yeah, trying
to trying to bolster some kind of self awareness in those instances. And it's
very interesting. Yeah, but after a few days, the first one was
rough, really yeah, and everybody wants to buy drinks like, hey,
you want want some, you know. And then second one was a little
bit easier. And thanks to my boys over here too, because they totally
awesomely sort of and in u but yeah, but you know, I didn't
realize it was gonna be that, no kidding, no kidding. And then
people are buying you drinks and then you just you know, I appreciate it.
I noticed. Wait, staff doesn't say that guy isn't drinking anything.
They say what they the people, I want to buy him a marguerite or
something, or buy him a shot, and they always they always add to
the until like you know, you see like a couple of beverages at the
table that are supposed to be for me, but I'm not drinking them,
you know, And yeah they just added to somebody's check. Yeah, yeah,
exactly, so that but you know, no, good for you though,
that's awesome. It's hard, isn't it hard? Yeah? Next thing
is ice cream. I'm gonna try to give that up at some point,
so we'll see what happens. It'll be tricky. It's always good to give
stuff up, replace it with something else, you know, more interesting,
give it a shot. That's what when I do. Uh, I don't
know if you know this about me, I'm a hypnotherapist. Yes, and
and one of the things that we try to do in a session is replaced
what the bad habit is, which is usually smoking. That's what I that's
the clients I get the most is people want to quit smoking. But we
try to always replace something bad with something good. So that way, it's
not like you're giving something up, you're just replacing it with something else.
Just the something else happens to be something positive for you. You know,
like you're not smoking anymore. Instead you're eating celery and carrots, and you
know what do you what do you think you could do for like sugar?
Oh yeah, that's stuff's easy. Yeah. And anything that's habitual, you
know, like whether it's smoking or eating junk food or anything like that,
that's that's easy to U attack with hypnosis. Yeah, that'd be interesting.
I'd love to, you know, sit with you. Maybe we'll talk after,
I'll after the show. We could figure out something. I'd love to
give it a shot. Yeah. Yeah, it's very difficult for me for
some reason. I don't I just love food. Yeah, No, I
hear you, I hear you. Yeah, we should uh hear the doorbell
ring. It's funny, all right, well it is. Uh, it's
already nine thirty's. I want to hear another song. You guys want to
play another one? Yeah, yeah, we do. We're gonna play our
song. Oh yes, yes, yes, I like this one very much.
If you're just joining us. We have two of the members of Run
Like Thieves here with us live in studio. Dan and Abe are here with
us, and uh, we'll get those Mike's back up for you guys.
See if the guts and get the bass up there. Oh, there we
go. These guys are performing live for us today, which is very very
cool. Coming up in the second hour, Fox and the Flamingos are gonna
be here too, and they're also gonna play with us live, so that'll
be nice. Yeah, we were. We're so glad to be back,
Matt. Thank you very much because the the show at the Bank of Champshire
Stage is a big deal for us. Yeah, and it's gonna be really
interesting for people because it's gonna be it's absolutely gorgeous. The Canton Room.
Have you been up there yet? It's beautiful. I have, believe it
or not. I haven't actually been in there. It's really nice, really
yeah, and uh, it's gonna be very kind of stripped down kind of
band set for us. We are rocking, like even though we're so freaking
old, we're jumping around. We definitely feel it. I was asking at
one of those I was like, did you feel like because we were jumping,
Yeah, a very you know, physical and me too, but and
uh, I was feeling it. But this one's very gonna be stripped down
and we're gonna be kind to be able to interact with people. It's an
early show, which is really nice too. So you know, we started,
we'll probably start right at six six fifteen, and it'll be over early
so people can kind of go home or they can go out and enjoy the
rest of the night. But it's gonna be really fun get to know the
band a little bit more in a in a in a relaxed kind of environment.
Yeah, there's a lot of coaches and all the shows that I've seen
people sit this close to the whole band. Yeah, it's really really nice.
Yeah, a nice little, nice little bar. Maybe I'll have a
drink that night. I'll see how you know you're good? But this song
is Tennessee and uh, just wrote it and it has some meaning to us.
But we were the like I came with this idea and then it was
kind of crazy, and Abe and and Greg were like, actually, let's
let's bring this down to a place where it's it's, uh, what kind
of approachable. I didn't. I don't know. It kind of had this
kind of wacky kind of thing going for it, and and it's it's it's
been kind of well received. Actually I sent it to a just because of
the name is Tennessee. I sent it to a Tennessee tourism uh company,
see, and they wound up using it. Really was really cool. Yeah,
yeah, that's awesome, very very cool. But hopefully this is the
I detuned this guitar to mimic the seventh string, no kidding. Okay,
well, well this will be a this is an acoustic first for this journey.
All right. I think I'm in the right tuning, I hope.
So we'll see. We'll see what happens if the guitar drops out. Don't
it's not the micro it's not that electrical issue. Good right, Yeah,
all right, so she sticks a clue bruse them in the ocean breaking California,
son tell lies, expos loves bare pale devotion, Hellelujah. Here she
came, watches me Watch she need tell us see mm hmm what she need?
What she need? Tell us? See take my hole lie bym living
for them, break this vicaly um for my soul and her nom. We
gotta leave hell of New Yem. Here she come what you need? Watch
she need? Tell us? Watch your need, watch your need us look
here yo here see come watch your need watch she'll need it this tennessee sit
watch Let's see what's it? What's d what? What's you? Watch?
You tell Let's see? Hell. Oh that is fantastic. I love that
song. That song. Great job, guys. If you're just joining us,
we have Dan Fallon and Abe Hughes from the band Run Like Thieves,
a lot of us in the studio this morning on Matt Connorton Unleashed and these
guys, these guys sound great. I'm trying to make everyone's mic is on
here, Okay, still getting used to the new the new setup here on
on Canal Street. By the way, if you're just joining us, so
we've got a packed show today. Of course. After after these guys,
we have Eric Pilter's Classic film review and this week the subject is the Orson
Wells classic The Third Man. And then after that Fox and the Flamingos are
going to be performing live in studio with us, and then in the third
hour we have the Whole Loaf. Uh, they're coming in. We have
some studio tracks from them that we're going to feature. So lots going on
today, and uh, do you guys want to you guys want to go
ahead and play play another one because you wanted to do three? Right.
I'm dying to hear more. You guys sound fantastic. So a lot of
time the h I'll write a song and it will stink and they'll give me.
The guys will tell me like right about this kind of uh you kind
of give me something to write about, you know, write about give you
a direction to write about. And this one was like just kind of writing
about doing all the doing all the shows, you know, and okay,
and that's what that's what it is. And this is this is our first
time playing this acoustic too. Oh nice, So uh m hm mm hmmmmm
mm hmm mmm mmm mm hm Burning Road again where it spoke, can see
the signs eye m wanna feel the same burning tell it die m h feeling
light ding, got it been mine? Don't be the wing. Well,
all eyes upon you keep me on that stage, felting neck, you in
her hand and a glass of light. Now, Paul, eyes upon you,
keep me on that stage. Maybe gotta tell the truth, tell the
truth. Maybe what you're gonna do on the road again? Feel that losing
that I don't feel no pain, but uh feel you anything? He's it
a real mind lost in a dream again. I can't feel that wheel,
but I ain't a sleep again. Well, all eyes upon you, keep
you on that stay fever is the lucky I am? And a glass of
light that when all lies upon you. Well, the keep you on that
stage, and maybe you tell the truth, get to tell the truth that
you can't do. You're gonna tell the truth. Mm we hear that road
again? We hid it fast and hard like you don't feel a stinger.
I'm praying, Oh my God, keep me on the ground. Nothing left
to be. He's I'm found though, Mark than me said, all upon
you on that stake fell right hand and just a glass of light down as
upon you ge me on that stage. You gotta tell the truth. You
gotta tell the truth, gotta tell the truth. Maybe tell the truth.
I love it. I love it. Run like Thieves is here with us
live in studio on this Saturday morning. You guys sound great. What's that
song called again? Tell the Truth? Tell the truth? Really really good,
really good. By the way, I'm just curious. This might be
a little bit of a nerdy question, but playing with a slide on your
pinky like that? Is it difficult to because I'm watching you solo. Does
the slide ever get in the way when you're soloing like you do? It
does? Okay, Yeah, it's it's it's don't try this at home,
but try it at home a lot before you Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and this is it was Abe actually was suggested we did the song this morning,
and I would I would use maybe a brass a thinner slide for this
guitar, So so many different considerations. Yeah, but this is the one
that I had with me, so I was like, you know, we're
going to do it with this one to be Yeah, but yeah, actually
a lot of the gigs, I'll bring the lap steal too, So okay,
to make it a little bit more, just give it a little of
that kind of swaggy blues edge and sometimes it's just it's just a couple of
notes with the slide just adds so much to it. Yeah, it's also
well, I mean, I'm sorry if your MIC's down a little bit.
There we go. And it's also you know, you want to make sure
that the audience always has like something they don't normally see, right, So
like having little things for production value, having you know, a slide,
that slide guitar that's in front of you that adds a different texture to something,
just visually gives you something on the stage. Little things like letting that
makes a big difference when people go out, I mean, like their time
is precious. You want to make sure that they're seeing something they don't normally
see or you know, definitely make sure that like you show them that you
put time into it and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of fun too. So it's just it's
fun to you know, have that interaction and and then people talking what's going
on over there right right? You know. But it's a great question though,
and the lap still you use a different type of slide. There's a
couple that I have yeah, depending on but they they are really interesting.
Like the hand position. You can actually do bends if you practice a lot
where I don't have the pedals, like I'll try to mimic what a pedal
steel does. Oh okay, and it just sounds so cool. It's like,
oh, it sounds really really good. Yeah. I've got a dough
bro for like the acoustic stuff too. Yeah, and that's something that's really
fun. So they translate really well. But there's definitely different, different technique.
This guitar is a little low for slide too, so it definitely bangs
into stuff. So yeah, yeah, this the other the other different depending
on what we're doing. I'll you know, use a different guitar for it
that has a little bit of a raised area and it just sings a little
bit better. Yeah slide so okay, Yeah, it's fun. Yeah,
the time goes quick. I want to make sure we remind everybody what's coming
up, So the big show. Do you have anything before the May fifth
show or no? Right now, we've just got the May fifth show coming
up, which we're putting a lot of time and effort into. So once
again May fifth at the Bank of New Hampshire, stage in the Canton Room
upstairs, six o'clock. Tickets are about fifteen bucks. Okay, okay,
if you go to our Run Like Thieves or any of our Instagram's apes,
Gregg's Mind, Dan Follen Music, Apu's Music, Greg the Running Drummer or
The Running Running Drummer Stantinia, Yeah, yeah, it's Greg's, Dan Fallen
Music, Apu's Music, Running Drummer Santini Run Like Thieves, you'll see the
the ticket link and you'll see your links to your show too, so yeah,
yeah, excellent. Yeah. I noticed to you you'd posted our last
interview on YouTube, which is very cool. Yeah. I wish everyone did
that. I wish all the guests would do that, but nobody ever thinks
of it. You know something that we were talking about this and we really
want to thank you very much for all that you really do for promoting I
mean, you're you're really kind of out there on you know, in in
in a in a field alone with how much stuff you do to promote music
and local acts, and this is such an enormous passion for us, so
we really appreciate everything that it's you know, Matt connorson Unleashed and then all
the other links we followed, how often you posted just that interview and all
the different spots. It was really great. I really appreciate it. Oh
yeah, thank you very much. Well I have a lot of help too,
you know, Jenny, she she does all the booking now, which
is great and h you know, and of course we have this beautiful radio
station here at WM and H ninety five point three to do this in.
So uh, you know, so I have a lot of help. But
I appreciate that, thank you. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know,
it's a it's a passion of mine. And you know, I know
when I think when I first met you a but it was at the beginning
of Local Outbreak, right, yeah, back when Jonas started Local Outbreak.
Yeah, you were kind of doing the podcast thing. Yeah. Oh yeah,
I'm on your own. I'm a podcasting o G. Yeah. Too
bad. I didn't get famous like all the other podcasting OG's. But there's
still time. Yeah, but no, it's true. Yeah, I was.
I was. I was doing it. Geez, I started podcasting and
like two thousand and four. Yeah, like I said, I I got
in early. I just didn't parlay it into you know, I'm not Joe
Rogan. You know what I mean. I didn't far Land into something huge,
but yeah that's okay, well we we yeah, but no, but
thank you guys. I appreciate that so much and we appreciate thank you,
thank you. And May fifth for you guys, and yeah, everybody should
follow you online. And I love what you're doing. Oh I would be
remiss too if I didn't ask before we wrap up any anything new coming as
far as studio material, So not not yet. I actually I am going
to have some solo stuff coming out. I'm recording next week with the New
Hampshire So the New Hampshire Music Collective, John MacArthur, Revertangle, Brad Merrick
are the ones that book this uh gig in promoting the gig, the Bank
of Hampshire Stage gig on May fifth, and many others many they're just amazing,
amazing, the New Hampshire Music Collective, amazing people to work with,
excellent and professionals. And they they have put another event together. It is
kind of a solo thing, but but it's at the studio in Portland,
Okay, and and they're doing some very high production video and audio. So
I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a couple of our our songs and and another
something I don't know. I don't know what I'll do. I get to
think of something, you know, just to kind of keep it going.
But as a band, not not just yet. We're kind of in that
stage where we're kind of redefining where we want to go. And it's it's
it's tricky because we do a lot of gigs and we'll do like a lot
of cover gigs and and things, and but it's coming, it's coming together.
I don't know. Like the last couple of directions, especially with like
that you put us in a it sounds really real. It's interesting, you
know, and uh, it's it can be confusing, like which way do
you want to go? Right? And like I was, I was thinking
we're going to be new metal for for a day. There where gonna be
yeah, yeah, Nickelback, you know, and the and then more country.
I do love the kind of country. I love the Americ kind of
stuff a lot. I really I really take it, you know. But
uh, you know, that's so it's interesting to see where you're gonna go
with a bunch of different people so much it's so enriching. It's it's challenging
too to work with people, especially like you know, if I'm kind of
just off doing my own thing, it's kind of it can be challenging because
you have to you you you constantly humbled because reality is it's better this way
or that way, and and uh, it's it's like, oh wow,
that's interesting. So you learn to trust the guys that you're with, which
is really great. It's great to be able to and they know they have
to they have to help help the I'll go off on it different without even
realizing it, right right, I'll I'll be singing like in a British accent
or something. I don't know if I freaked you guys out, I'm probably
I can't freak them out now. But when we did a bunch of Saint
Patrick's Day gigs, I'm like, like, we get booked early for Saint
Patty's. Oh, but we go I go hard with the Saint Patty's stuff.
You know. Yeah, sounds like I'm going to my Dublin roots there,
you know, right right, Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.
Well, listen, guys, we got to we got to wrap up the
segment. But again, thank you both so much, Dan Fallon and Abe
Hughes from run like thieves and we will do this again and don't forget May
fifth at the Canton Room in the Bank of Bank of New Hampshire, State
Bank of New Hampster. All right, very very cool, all right,
so much, Thank you guys, Thank you guys, and plenty more to
come. We've got Fox and the Flamingos coming up next. Thank you.
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