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From the studios of w m n
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Manchester, New Hampshire. You are
tuned in to the best of Matt Connerton

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unleashed. The band is My Last
Mile and we have Aaron and Rich from

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the band My Last Mile here with
us in studio. How are you guys

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doing well? How are you very
well? Very well? And who are

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we missing? So you are actually
a quartet? Yeah, we're missing in

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our drummer Mike Goslin and our bassis
Nick Truist. No rhythm section. I

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see now. What what do you
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I play rhythm guitar okay, and
I do a little bit of a

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backup vocals okay, very good.
And Aaron, how about you, I

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do lead vocals and lead guitar.
Excellent, excellent. Yeah, I've been

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looking forward to talking to you guys
because I opened the show with that song

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Island, and of course, so
we just are at seaside and we'll we'll

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play another track in a little bit. But I love your sound. It's

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you know, it's it's kind of
kind of heavy rock, but it's super

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catchy, you know, very melodic, just really good. Jenny. Jenny

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really likes it too. She was. She was saying to me, you're

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really gonna like this band, you
know when when she first kind of presented

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presented you guys to me, you
know, she does all the book in

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it, and I said, yeah, these guys are amazing. Have you

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been around a long time? My
Last Mile originally started in Upstate New York,

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where I'm from, and I had
a different lineup then, and this

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was back to like twenty sixteen,
oh seventeen, and we did a lot

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of shows up in that Upstate New
York scene. We released the EP The

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Storm Is Out, and then time
went on. I moved out here when

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COVID started, and I kind of
hung it up for a little bit.

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But then Rich actually and I started
jamming together and he's like, you know,

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I really liked those songs. Yeah, and I would really love to

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play those songs. So we had
a couple of guys just you know,

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to get a feel for him,
and we finally got the lineup that we

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actually really want and these guys all
love the love the songs and we may

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rehearse them every week and also working
on new material as well, because like

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I can't just say, hey,
let's just rehearse you know, all the

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old stuff. We also have to
make it kind of more. It's also

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kind of like a new band.
It feels like sure at the same time,

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Sure, it's a lot of fun. Rich What was it about the

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songs that made you want to be
a part of this and to work with

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Aaron? Oh? The songs were
definitely They're catchy, They're mostly upbeat.

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I mean, it gets you bob
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know. And I just really was
digging the sound and I pulled them aside

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and I was like, hey,
I think we should, uh, we

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should bring this back. Yeah.
And I was definitely like like starstruck because

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this sound was so like so there, and yeah, that's that's what got

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me, uh wanting to bring this
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The sound of this band, it's
kind of it's got a certain timelessness

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to it and that you know,
it sounds contemporary, it sounds comfortable with

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things that are out today, but
it also, you know, twenty years

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ago it would have as well,
you know what I mean. There's a

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certain there's just a timelessness to it
where in any era I feel like these

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songs would succeed on that, you
know, like you said, getting your

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head Bob and all whatnot. You
know, it just really good stuff.

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Thanks you. I'm a big fan
of like old school sounding stuff. I

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grew up on eighties rock and metal, Assie, Yeah, Group, Panterra,

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stuff like that. To me,
all that stuff was more appealing personally

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than what I listened to now.
But there's a lot of good monitor bands,

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So we try to keep bringing like
that old school influence, but we

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also kind of modernize it a little
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Yeah, yeah, and how are
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because you know, like they sound
amazing, just not only in terms

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of the songs themselves, but sonically
they sound really good. It's all the

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amps are miked up, all the
drums are miked up, and that's really

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kind of it. You know.
We just we do it in a we

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do it digitally, but also try
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it. And wow, no kidding, So it's kind of the idea you

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do it all yourselves. I do
a lot of the tracking. Yeah,

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on our EP, The Storm Is
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all the tracking. I sent it
to a guy named John Felino and Latham,

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New York, and he mixed it
all okay, yesterday, and then

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we got back and then our old
drummer, Tyler Shoemaker, who now plays

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in a group called The Broken View
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talented as well. Him and I
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all the mixing and master and he
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and that was a lot of guitar
layers and okay, just weeks on it

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and making just six songs. Okay, yeah, because it I mean,

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every everything you sent me it sounds
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you know, done in a million
dollar studio. So that's thanks. But

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we're you know, but with the
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to really be able to I mean, there's so many different ways you can

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approach recording and have it sound really
good. You know. So has any

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of the So have you guys written
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writing together? Because obviously these songs
were all already written when you came into

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the band. Rich is that all? But so many callers we actually wrote

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that together. Yeah, oh cool, Okay, that's the newest one that

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we've done together. Is so many
excellent? Yeah, yeah, well we'll

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play that in a little bit too. I'm looking forward to sharing that with

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everybody. But I assume there's more
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definitely. We are putting our nose
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uh you know, gives give some
good stuff. Now, what about what

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the other guys are they involved in
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gonna be I couldn't imagine them not
wanting to be you know. Yeah,

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an idea kind of spurs off of
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you know, a riff or something
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then yeah, we'd present it to
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it weird for you? Is it? Is it weird playing some of these

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songs with with a whole new configuration
of the band or does it feel like

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a normal sort of evolution of things
or one thing I've noticed with our new

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drummers, he kind of puts a
little twist on some of them. He

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plays the parts pretty much precisely,
but like there's times she might just put

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a little twist on things. And
also and I'm fine with that. Yeah,

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at first it's yeah, I can't. It was a little like this

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is a little different. But as
time went on, you know, it

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didn't feel like it was really any
different. It felt real fun. And

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also just to add those little twist
on the songs, like when we go

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and play them live, yeah hear
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I was. I was in a
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few different drummers, and I always
found it kind of you know, every

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drummer would who would come in would
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and I for me, it kind
of kept it exciting, you know,

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because, yeah, the songs would
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it was kind of like, okay, the song we've been playing for five

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years now, it feels new in
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I know what you mean about how
it it. You know, you get

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used to it being different than it
actually kind of sounds good, you know,

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with with that little bit of a
twist on it. But it must

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be surreal, right, some of
these songs, who have played them in

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the old version in a different not
really different part of the country, the

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Northeast, but still you know,
in New York and then to and then

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to be doing them here. It
so, but you haven't you haven't recorded

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yet with this new with the full
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so many colors? Gotcha? Gotcha? Okay? Are you guys playing out

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a lot to play a lot of
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this this year, and we started
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I know we're playing Swarmy Fest on
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played Jewel a couple of times and
we always have a good time there.

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Yeah. And and also one thing
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song called Awakening that we played.
I remember thinking to myself hearing it through

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their sound system, just that thunderous
sound. See playing live too is a

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little different than the recording. You
hear more of that, more of the

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punch and everything. Yeah. So
yeah, really excited to do that.

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But yeah, once that's done,
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and then just keep booking up shows. Yeah. Yeah, we're looking forward

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to Swarmy Fest. Uh. You
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representing the show, and uh can't
wait. Really looking forward to that.

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Yeah, definitely can't wait. I
can't wait to get up there and uh,

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you know, have some fun and
uh get the crowd moving, you

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know. Yeah, for sure.
Where are you guys from? Where where

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are you Lebanon? We're both from
Lebon's. It's actually funny. He's only

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like five minutes down the road for
me. Oh no, kid, there

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are two guys live in Claremont,
New Hampshire. Okay for rehearse every week.

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Oh I got youa yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to.

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I used to occasionally go up to
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years ago, and I used to
I used to go to work up there

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occasionally to help out. But yeah, so what's that like an hour from

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here? Or yeah? Yeah,
it's about an hour. Yeah sure.

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Now are are there up up there? Like what's the what's the situation?

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Like as far as venues up there? Are there places to are? There

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a lot of places to play or
I find if you're in a cover band

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doing like classic rock or a country
band, you know, there's saw whole

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pub and there's uh, there's probably
I don't know a couple of breweries up

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there. Yeah, more going toward
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for that kind of thing. Yeah, we do a couple of covers,

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but we're not that type of band
that plays you know, yeah, three

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sets and we had we did start
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our own stuff and incorporating a couple. We like playing with other bands as

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well on a line up. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of We find

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that that's more funs. You find
more people and even if the venues empty,

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playing to the band, right,
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I know all about how that works. That's for sure. That's for

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sure. Are the Do you guys
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lot of shows with? You know, sometimes, I mean it kind of

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happens organically by accident really, but
sometimes bands have certain bands that they just

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sort of team up with, do
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Oh, I love them, but
those guys that they're one song I

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talked to Alex a lot on Facebook. They're one song caught my eyes out.

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and yeah, I just love it. And then there's a new one he's

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just released. But yeah, no, I find we I find we end

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up with those guys. A couple
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one I can't I can't remember.
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but I can I see them right
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I know. It's green. Tombstones
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Facebook live chat. He's in Vermont. He says, you live close to

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Vermont. Have you ever considered growing
beards? Well, Rich, you've got

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quite the beard going there. We're
gonna say, yeah, not not as

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much as Jay Fad is one of
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And Aaron you've got somewhat of a
beard. I had a full on and

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then I'm working. I'm gonna grow
it back. No shave novembers around the

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corner. Yeah, definitely, So
mine will be a little bit bushier,

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a little bit longer. Yeah.
We all have facial hair in the band.

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Oh really yeah, Yeah, I
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just undernath my hat. That's what
I tell people to. We have Aaron

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and Rich from my last mile here
in studio with us. Where does the

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name come from by the way.
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I think our old drummer Tyler,
I think he came up with it.

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We were just sitting at a pizza
shop one time and he said something along

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the lines of if i'd walk,
i'd walk some mile or I'd walk a

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bunch of miles to do this or
something. And then he was like,

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oh that, and then the other
guy with us he was like, oh,

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that'd be your last mile. Then
I just smile it. I'm like,

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how's that for a band name?
And they're like, that's not bad.

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Once we got we went through a
couple other ones once we got some

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artwork back. Oh, I want
to say settled. But what were the

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other ones? I love rejected band
names. That's like my favorite thing.

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What like what what my last name? West Fall was one. I remember

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that. Okay, I didn't want
to do that, really, I didn't

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want to play the whole solo artist
thing or the Yeah, I mean west

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Fall is not a bad name for
a band, but but I can see

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where, Yeah, you didn't want
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rejected. Actually we had deviation for
a little bit. Yeah, and what

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do we have that for like at
least a month, didn't we at least

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a year? Was it a year? Oh? Really? Like a month?

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Oh wow, I think that.
I don't think there were a lot

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I can't remember. Yeah, yeah, my last mile is a good name.

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Thanks, I dig it. It's
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Now, how many do you guys
have a full album or have you just

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put out singles? At this point
to two EPs? Two EPs came is

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out. I came out in twenty
seventeen, and then ILAND was twenty twenty.

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Okay, has the sound changed over
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it's had to have changed a little
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But I mean, has a has
it the sound and style overall changed

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at all? Or vocally? Probably
a little bit because I'm not twenty two

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anymore. They're pretty high, but
I still but I still like to hit

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high notes. I don't like to
scream much. But we were trying to

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push, like so many callers is
a lot. I think that push is

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going to push us more into a
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Yeah's just kind of what we want
for this next EPH. Where are are

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you. Where are you from originally, Aaron, because yeah, you don't

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sound like you're from here necessarily.
No, I'm originally from Saratoga, New

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York, Okay, okay? And
Rich did you grow up here? Yep,

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I grew up here. I been
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Okay, well, very good.
Let's uh yeah, let's play what was

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the name of that song? The
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talking about. Uh? Oh,
I found it so many colors we should

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uh, we should give this a
listen. And then so what what should

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we know about this track? This
is the one you guys wrote together?

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Is that correct? Yes? Okay? Cool? And so this is the

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first one you guys wrote together,
and anything else we should know about this?

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This this must be the newest one, right, Yeah, not our

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current drummer Mike Goslin, but are
We had a guy who was with us

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for a little bit, Paul Picard, Yeah, who also plays in Robin

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V group around the area. And
I think I think there's another group you

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might play with. But he actually
played drums on this song, oh okay,

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And we sent it to a guy
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he did the mixta mastering, so
we we did all the tracking together and

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then Paul did the drums on it. And Paul's also in the music video

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for it. Oh cool. And
then there was another guy named Chris Rai

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Jeski who actually came in and played
lead guitar on it. Okay, cool

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cool. By the way, with
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is in like multiple like drummers basis
five or six different bands. Oh yeah,

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I have a theory about that.
I think the I think the reason

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for that is, you know,
when you're growing up and you develop an

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interest in playing a musical instrument and
you have to talk to your parents about

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it, you know, the last
thing they want to encourage you to take

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up is drums. Absolutely, So
that's that's my theory. So every drummer

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isn't and bass players are an I
demand too, but drummers, like,

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it's just it's crazy. Every yeah, every drummer I know is in like

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twelve bands. All right, let's
give this a listen. This is really

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good. This is so many colors. This is my last mile here.

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Check this out. They called it
Santa, you are the bas on my

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dreams, suspect you bess you rest
your tellt in not the guy, I'm

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an angel show I'm the one who
can show you I am, and you

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should not save I one ly bad
batcher. You cannot be you. There

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is nothing you can do for yourself. There's no serving back as you got

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you to hell. You should have
though the slong go. You should not

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before I show your somebody count there's
so many sides. This isn't messing liked

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Sam given so many count yet this
successible place, this says it doesn't like

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Dan's rich card. Get about your
best friend till the all I stop by

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your side with you and not again. It's not my boss. You don't

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that sign you are not forgive.
There must be some way to say so

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till my han you descending to help. I hate to say I told you

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so. You're trying to wait here
how so far? But somebody come.

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It's somebody else. It's just as
every days an not so many go you

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mississ some thousand like ds not here
they do. It's on so many so

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many guess says some thousand like that
sound down not so many times uses side

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says some dos it like the start
here they breaking sound where stories. So

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it's somebody size this sis a dozen
like that? So many cats you pen

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socidal things, necess a, that's
it that there's a chidden. It's not

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so many gass side there's some does
it? I'm like the r so many

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cats you are my societies, the
accessive thousand, there's my Chimney card.

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So the rays my Last Mile and
the track is called so Many Colors.

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That is great, really really catchy. We've got a couple of the guys

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from the band here, but we've
got we've have Aaron and Rich from the

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band My Last Mile in studio with
us. Yeah, that's a great track,

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guys, So many Colors. And
so that's now the newer material that

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you're writing together. Is it similar? Is it? Because that's I think

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that's the heaviest of the ones that
you sent me. Is that Are these

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are the new ones kind of heavy
like that? Or do they vary?

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Or I would say yes, they
definitely will get heavier as they come.

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Yeah, but if they're still they're
in the works, yeah for sure.

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And and Aaron, are you writing
all the lyrics still? Are you the

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Yeah? Primarily? Yeah, I
mean I get you know, subject matter,

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I'll get him influenced and such.
But usually I kind of write like

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I'll have a vocal melody in my
head and I'll just you know, add

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the lyrics to that kind of Yeah. Is there any kind of a theme

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to your lyrics, any kind of
an overarching theme or approach or some of

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it's personal? A lot of it's
actually personal, But I kind of just

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write. Again for me, like
songwritings more of a spur of the moment

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kind of thing. If it's in
my head, if it's something I can

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nod my head to and that I
really like, you know, that's kind

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of where I think, oh,
this might actually be a good song.

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And so as far as the theme
goes, not so much. It's kind

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of just just based on what I'm
feeling, you know, certain things I've

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experienced in the past, certain things
I'm experiencing now. That's kind of where

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it all comes from. Sure,
Sure, we have a question for you

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in the Facebook lot Chata Isaac Banks, who is from I know exactly where

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he is in the South Greensboro,
North Carolina. He says, speaking of

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interesting questions, my last mile,
how are you fellas, what's your favorite

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hoodie? And the Blowfish song,
let her cry, I'm doing great,

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it's awesome. Thank you asking that. I don't think I've actually listened to

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Hoody and the Blowfish, so you
mean recently or ever ever? Fair enough,

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but I'm doing well. Thank you
for adking. I was waiting for

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him to say wagon Wheel. Oh
goodness, let her cry. That was

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a huge Uh that was a huge
song. My god, Yeah they were.

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They were the biggest thing out there
in the mid nineties. Have you

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guys opened for you guys open for
any national acts that have come through the

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area or not here. In twenty
seventeen, My Last Mile did do a

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warp tour appearance on Long Island.
Oh no kidding. Yeah, it was

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like a local you know, we're
the local band, sure from way up

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north. I got picked and we
went. It was like fifteen twenty minutes,

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but was well worth it. Oh
that's cool. Remember that year they

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had Eye Prevail. Gosh, Shape
Reed was somewhere nice still maybe Chelsea might

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have been August Burns Red. It
was a much heavier year for warp for

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and then the following year in twenty
eighteen, that was the last year they

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did it, and then they stopped
doing it. I was kind of bummed

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about that. Yeah, twelve,
So twenty eighteen was the last warp to

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her. Huh, I know twenty
nineteen they did select shows, but like,

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oh, okay, yeah, gotcha, gotcha. Did you get to

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see Hate Breed while you were there? Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah. I

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used to be in a band called
First Shove and we used to play.

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We used to cover. We did
very few covers, but we we we

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would do a last Breath, which
was honestly my favorite part of our set.

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It's so quick though, it goes
by so fast. It's such a

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short song. But just the adrenaline
of playing that. Yeah, but I've

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never seen them live. That must
have been cool. That must have been

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That must have been cool. Now
what so? What? Uh? What

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brought you to New Hampshire? Like
did you did you guys know each other

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prior to you come in here?
No, my fiance she lured you here.

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Yeah. I was living in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina at the time.

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Man, just oh we met and
yeah I've been here ever since.

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We were still together. That How
long were how long did you live in

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Myrtle Beach? A year? Okay? Yeah, I have family down there,

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and I I thought why not?
But then I realized I'm not a

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Southern especially this time of year.
I'm very I like the seasons a lot.

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I like this time of year is
like my favorite time of year.

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And I felt like when I was
down there, just you know, the

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leaves never change, like at Christmas
time. It's cool, But at Christmas

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time you'll be driving through like a
neighborhood and you'll see like all the Christmas

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decorations and then just a palm tree
and grass. It's just not the same.

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I mean, seeing the snow and
decoration. I guess see, I'm

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the opposite. I would love that. I love that. I love it

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a spring and summer my times,
I I don't like. I don't like

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fall because well because of what it
leads to the winter and dragon that is

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true. Yeah, it gets colder
and then yeah, I don't want to

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do this. Yeah, Like I
think I think I would do fine down

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south. How about you, rich, you think you'd you do all right

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down there? No, because I'm
in New Hampshire too, I'd probably like,

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yeah, me too, That's why
I think. That's why I think

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I would do well down there.
No, But I do love New Hampshire

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too. There's a lot to there's
a lot to love here. Oh yeah,

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definitely a hunting fishing. That's that's
my game toward this time. Yeah.

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See, I don't hunter fish.
I don't do any outdoorsy things.

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I'm terrified of deer ticks and there's
wild animals. You know, you could

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be eaten by a bear or a
mountain lion or something. It's true,

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the blair Witch is out in the
woods. I think I saw a movie

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about that once, and that's that's
very frightening. But no, in the

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winter, I'd like to be able
to just teleport from one room, one

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warm place to another, you know, I think that'd be great. But

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no, But in the summertime,
it's it's beautiful here certainly. Now everything

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every everything that the band has is
all it's all up on the streaming services,

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right, it's on Spotify and everything, Modify, YouTube, iTunes,

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gosh, I haven't even looked at
iTunes, and it's on Ideas, yeah,

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I think, yeah, we use
a distro kid and yeah, it's

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all on every streaming service now for
those who don't know, so distro Kid

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obviously, how do you find them? Is that a good service. I

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hear mixed reviews from people. I've
never personally had a problem with them.

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Yeah, it's just you know,
you pay X amount a year, Yeah,

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and sometimes you might pay a little
bit more if you want it,

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like you know, if you want
your EP, your album or single or

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whatever out on a certain day.
Yeah. Yeah, I personally have never

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had a problem with them. I
mainly only use it though, to just

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upload tracks and maybe check stats and
little er things. But yeah, I

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personally never had a problem with them. Now, do you guys have any

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physical copies of your CDs? I
get I get such varied answers on this

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because it seems like to a lot
of artists that physical media is still really

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important, which surprises me sometimes.
And then to a lot of artists it's

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like what what physical media? Why
what y're with? So I encountered very

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different attitudes about it. So I'm
curious how you guys feel about it,

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and if if you have any actual
physical discs, I'd say they will be

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coming at some point, but we
normally just have our stuff on Spotify and

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yeah, YouTube and iTunes and all
that stuff. Yeah, yeah, I

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think the storm is out back when
that was when we released that we did.

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We did a couple of gigs in
Albany and sarah Toogua, New York.

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We I think we made a couple
of copies and yeah, I think

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at the time, gosh, you
might have used CD baby maybe and they

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they made all the copies and a
little of the artwork and a sleeve and

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put the disc in. But yea, Honestly, I'm a big fan of

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physical music. I'm actually really a
big fan of DVDs. I collect horror

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DVDs, like that's my collector's item. I love horror films and DVDs,

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and that's my that's my thing.
I love a DVD. Yeah, especially

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if like your Internet goes out or
something. You have your player, you

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can plug it in, you know
what I mean, You're not just sitting

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there bored in the dark. All
yeah, you know. But for us

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though, I at the moment,
no, we don't have any physical anything

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physical. Yeah. It's interesting how
how different artists approach it differently. I

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mean a lot of some artists now
too well. I mean obviously all the

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majors, you know, they put
everything out on vinyl. But I've I've

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even met the local artists from the
area who will do like a run of

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vinyl. But it's apparently, from
what I'm told, it's extremely expensive to

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do it. It's really cost prohibitive. Yeah. Yeah, it's the biggest

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mistake I ever made. I've had
a whole bunch of vinyl records, probably

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about the size of the desk.
I'sit in front of it. Yeah.

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I shipped them all to my friend
in Texas and for three hundred dollars,

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and I was just some all of
those things. They're heavy and they pick

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up space. It's just one of
those things I wish I never got rid

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of. Oh really yeah, yeah, how much did it cost a ship?

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About one hundred and fifty I think
I did one hundred, So yeah,

408
00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:55,559
it was very expensive. Yeah I
can imagine. Yeah. Yeah,

409
00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,960
they're just heavy, right, Oh
yeah, yeah absolutely. I was shocked

410
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,440
a few years ago. I was
on band camp and uh, when I

411
00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:07,119
real this was maybe five or six
years ago, so this trend may have

412
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:12,200
already passed. But I was shocked
to see some artists selling cassette tapes like

413
00:29:12,279 --> 00:29:15,880
cassettes were back, you know,
and and and it's like, I I

414
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,319
mean, I guess if you're a
fan of tape hissts. You know that's

415
00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:22,880
cool, but but I was.
I was just shocked. And the first

416
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:23,480
one I found, I was like, oh, is this a joke?

417
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,759
Is this? Like I realized,
I know a lot of these artists are

418
00:29:26,839 --> 00:29:30,279
are are selling cassettes, and of
course most people who buy them probably never

419
00:29:30,319 --> 00:29:33,880
actually play them. They're just buying
them because they like that artist, and

420
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,200
oh it's cool to have a cassette, you know. But it's it's just

421
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:42,599
it's fascinating to me to see what
technology comes and goes, what what sticks

422
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,160
around that you don't think is going
to stick around, and and what does

423
00:29:47,279 --> 00:29:48,880
end up going away that you think
is going to be here forever. You

424
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:56,079
know. It's it's it's very interesting
to me. But uh, now,

425
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:57,880
so as far as so you've got
you've got two EPs, and then do

426
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,720
you have any singles that are not
on that are only singles that are not

427
00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:04,160
on one of the EPs as of
right now, it's uh, it's so

428
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:10,559
many colors. We did a shine
Down cover a couple of years ago,

429
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,720
and that I think also we released
maybe as a single. Yeah, oh

430
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:18,599
okay, but we uh yeah,
so many colors that will probably go on

431
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,960
to our next EP, may not
if we have a different if the songs

432
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,359
are in a completely different theme than
that, yeah, or if they're even

433
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,319
if we decided to go a different
route with mixing or whatever, then obviously

434
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,599
we would probably just leave it as
a single and go on go forth with

435
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,319
that. But as of right now, mainly So Many Colors is the only

436
00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:41,039
one that's a single. Our songs
are on what what shindown song? Did

437
00:30:41,079 --> 00:30:42,880
you cover? Sound of Madness?
Okay, Oh that's a great song.

438
00:30:44,119 --> 00:30:48,559
Yeah. I I when Shineedown was
really big, I got I got pretty

439
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:52,279
sick of them because what was the
really big song? Second Chance? Right?

440
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,359
Oh? Yeah? Was it that
one? Was it that one?

441
00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:00,119
Or was there? Was there another
one that was really big? No?

442
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,880
I think it was Secon Yeah it
was second Chance. Oh god. I

443
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,720
grew to hate that song because I
heard it so much. But then I

444
00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:07,440
heard Sound of Madness and I was
like, Okay, I like them again.

445
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,119
That's a great track. That's a
good album, the whole album.

446
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,319
I've never heard the whole thing.
Is it good? Yeah? But I

447
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,400
can I can imagine you guys doing
that song, because I can. I

448
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:18,799
can hear it in my head with
your voice. He's a hard guy.

449
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,640
To replicate, is he yeah,
really hard? Yes? Are they still

450
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:27,519
around yes? Shine down? Yeah? Yeah. Sometimes it's hard to keep

451
00:31:27,559 --> 00:31:32,319
track of who's still. Like I
just found out the other day the Godsmack

452
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,319
is is going to be uh playing
I think at this SNeW arena And I

453
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,960
was like, I didn't even know
they were touring. That's news to me

454
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:44,119
too. Yeah, No, I
had no idea. Let's uh, well,

455
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,680
let's play another track because we still
have Let's see, oh every Night

456
00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:56,759
that's the other one. Anything anything
we should know about this twenty seventeen just

457
00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:05,319
a band written song. No,
I guess really really yeah, it's colorful.

458
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,680
I like, uh I wrote that
about I get asked, like we

459
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:12,799
were talking about this rehearsal and somebody's
like, oh, it's every Night,

460
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,200
I think that. Isn't that a
relationship song? I said, no,

461
00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:20,039
it's not. It's not you.
It's written to make you think that,

462
00:32:20,319 --> 00:32:22,319
but it's really not why I personally
wrote it. Oh okay, yeah,

463
00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:25,480
all right, all right, do
you want to tell us why or is

464
00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:30,440
or do you want to keep that
a mystery? It goes kind of in

465
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,440
the lines of like alcoholism issues,
addiction issues and all that stuff. So

466
00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:38,319
that's kind of it's basically like kind
of being on a amster wheel. Yeah,

467
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,920
yeah, gotcha. Thing, so
something a lot of us can relate

468
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,960
to. Certainly, all right,
let's give this a listen. So this

469
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,839
is called every Night. This is
the band My Last Mile. Check this

470
00:32:50,960 --> 00:33:20,079
out. I can't believe if you
said that you to recycle, you're nine

471
00:33:21,279 --> 00:34:30,760
this. I feel less spell seeking
after your agree agree says my days my

472
00:34:36,719 --> 00:35:54,800
song play and I have sat shore
sa good times. I can't. But

473
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:13,039
you said that you to side cold. You know this? I feel this

474
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,079
the band is my last smile.
That guys, it's been wonderful to have

475
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:51,280
you here. I love the music. Uh, And I was Aaron,

476
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,639
I was sending you off air too. I love the solo on that.

477
00:37:53,440 --> 00:38:00,280
That's that's really good. That's really
good. We should uh. I Obviously

478
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,639
you're very googleable, as I like
to say, if you if you google

479
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,000
My Last Mile, actually, if
you google my Last Mile band, I

480
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:09,760
think that's probably the easiest way to
find you. But of course you're on

481
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,480
all the social media right and everything. And yep we have a Facebook page.

482
00:38:14,679 --> 00:38:20,239
Yeah, so if you find us
My Last Mile on Facebook and subscribe,

483
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,400
that'd be great, yep, follow
us YouTube and then we're in the

484
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:29,159
midst of making a website. Our
basis is a cyber guy. I don't

485
00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:32,920
know what he does, he's an
engineer. Oh yeah, we're going to

486
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,480
work with him and getting that all
getting all situated in coming weeks. Oh,

487
00:38:37,679 --> 00:38:40,960
very good, very good. Yeah
yeah, And now what do you

488
00:38:42,039 --> 00:38:45,599
have coming up? So you're gonna
be a swarmy fest obviously that's coming up

489
00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:47,400
in November. Do you guys have
shows before then leading up to that or

490
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:51,719
no, we're kind of getting we're
kind of just getting everything tight for that,

491
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,039
and we're in the midst of making
some new music. Yeah at the

492
00:38:54,119 --> 00:38:59,920
moment. And do you have probably
too soon to know, but you have

493
00:39:00,039 --> 00:39:01,800
any kind of an et a on
when we might hear some new stuff for

494
00:39:04,159 --> 00:39:08,960
oh really oh Christmas time? Oh
fantastic, fantastic. Well, we'll have

495
00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:13,840
to have you back when when that's
ready, because I definitely want to definitely

496
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,039
want to play and talk to you
guys. Yeah, we love to come

497
00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:20,159
back. Yeah, it's great,
absolutely, absolutely, And guys, thank

498
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:23,840
you again Aaron and rich from uh
from my Last mile. This has been

499
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:29,000
great. Guys from the studios of
w m N H ninety five point three

500
00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:32,480
FM in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. You are tuned in to the best

501
00:39:32,960 --> 00:40:12,719
of Matt Connerton unleashed. Let's go
ahead get those mics up for you,

502
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,800
guys. We're going to introduce our
great musical guests. So we have on

503
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:22,079
the couch H Matt Collier and you
are from the band Witch Trot. Yes,

504
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,960
and is it by the way,
is it one word or two?

505
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:29,440
I can't. I can't figure out
online if it's one word or two depends

506
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:34,679
on the month. Yeah, it
is one word, but is the Is

507
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,079
the second syllable also capitalized? Yes? Oh? Okay, so I got

508
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:39,760
it right then in the Facebook post
I made earlier. That's good. That's

509
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,880
good. So we have Matt Collier
is here and Edward McPherson. Am I

510
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,679
saying last name correctly? That is
how it's pronounced. Very impressive. You

511
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:52,000
got it right the first time,
because a lot of people don't. Why

512
00:40:52,119 --> 00:40:54,920
what do people usually say McPherson.
They usually say McPherson. As far as

513
00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,440
I understand it, I think McPherson
is the Irish way and mc person is

514
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:06,599
the Scottish way. Oh, I
think so you're Scottish of Scottish descent,

515
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:14,239
and Scottish people get upset if you
say things the Irish way, right and

516
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,119
assume it's the same, because it's
not the same. You're different. At

517
00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:22,119
that point, you're in over my
head. See I'm Irish, so I

518
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:27,239
I understand these things. But by
the way, you guys are getting some

519
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,039
love in the Facebook live chat already. Let's see, we have Adam Jocelyn

520
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,880
from able Blood. We were talking
about able Blood off air a little bit.

521
00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:38,000
Uh. He says, Hello,
Matt ce and hello witch Trot.

522
00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:45,800
What's up? Fellas? And Isaac
Banks in the chat room says witch Trot

523
00:41:45,079 --> 00:41:52,639
rocks all right, yeah yeah,
and I thought there was another and Malcolm

524
00:41:52,800 --> 00:42:00,440
Sols says, says witch Trot rules. Let's see. I think there might

525
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,000
be some other people in here too. It's a very very busy chat room,

526
00:42:02,039 --> 00:42:07,960
which we love to see. And
now if you're watching online, you

527
00:42:08,039 --> 00:42:12,599
can see that Matt has an acoustic
guitar with him, so we're gonna hear

528
00:42:12,679 --> 00:42:15,400
some music. Matt's gonna play something
for us from the band, and we're

529
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:20,079
also we have a brand new and
I think it'll be the world radio premiere

530
00:42:20,199 --> 00:42:22,119
right of this newly remastered song that
we're gonna play it a little bit.

531
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:27,039
Yes, very nice. We like
the world radio premieres around here, very

532
00:42:27,159 --> 00:42:30,960
very good. But I don't should
we go ahead and and have you play?

533
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,440
I'm dying to hear you play.
But but but before we do that,

534
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,960
can you tell us what it is
that you're gonna play? Is this

535
00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:39,320
a is this a witch trot song
or a solo thing or what have you

536
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:43,559
got for us? Yeah? This
is a witch trot song. It's one

537
00:42:43,599 --> 00:42:45,719
of the ones we recorded at off
a Maker studio. We just got it

538
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:51,880
mastered, so this will be the
first time anyone would be hearing it really

539
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,199
Yeah, very cool, Yeah,
very cool. All right, well yeah,

540
00:42:55,199 --> 00:42:59,920
if you want to uh now,
what is this called parallax? Parallax?

541
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:01,519
Okay, all right, yeah,
if you're ready, Matt, I'm

542
00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:29,039
dying to hear you play. Morn
the absence of oh your restless peaks to

543
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:39,119
the place off and swander, scrounging
of what I'm indifferent to, motivated by

544
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:47,199
survival, I never want to miss
this, remember ants, could you just

545
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:57,119
leave me alone? No play some
melody? Why should I tie all of

546
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:05,320
these vacancy and give a fuir new
life? Taking the shape of limitless blight,

547
00:44:07,199 --> 00:44:22,039
A fly to run slow, sound, a pushing paul, the papering

548
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:30,840
off affection, glyss sins through worried
about recluse, A carry the fire in

549
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:38,320
the road so I can fly kite
through humanity? Was our business taking turns

550
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:45,920
for a wetness to catch up mantista
clean or ground a never on a shrug

551
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:55,000
this tantarness. I could you preach
through my pous ah, playback this melody

552
00:44:55,639 --> 00:45:01,519
and climb new heights away from the
smell melody. Let's give it a try.

553
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:10,400
Break for v sipity or showers shits
bite, A fly to run slow,

554
00:45:14,039 --> 00:45:22,639
a fly to run slow, A
fly to run slow, fly to

555
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:39,719
run slow. I portrayed some for
you today, and I play some for

556
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:46,599
melody. Where should I tie all
of these vacanciason. Let's give it a

557
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:57,719
try. Break forth the melody or
showerish shits bite, fly to run slow?

558
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,039
Very nice, very nice. I
like that a lot. I like

559
00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:07,000
that a lot. Adam Jocelyn in
the chat room, of course from Abel

560
00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:09,000
Blood says, such a unique voice. You do have a unique voice.

561
00:46:09,119 --> 00:46:13,679
Your your uh, your vocal delivery
is very raw, but but I like

562
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,719
it. Thank you how I mean, is there anyone who inspires you vocally

563
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:22,079
that you kind of try to sound
like or or or who has influenced the

564
00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:25,639
way that you sing because it is
it is unique. Yeah, it's definitely

565
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:32,039
a lot of the grunge nineties music
like Kirk Obain, Kevin Rossdale. Yeah

566
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,280
yeah, Pete Hamilton from Helmet,
those are my vocal influences. Yeah,

567
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:44,119
yeah, very cool. Now now
the two of you is is are the

568
00:46:44,199 --> 00:46:46,079
two of you witch Trot? Or
are there other members? Because I know

569
00:46:46,159 --> 00:46:50,639
I saw I saw at least one
video online, a live video where it

570
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,400
was just the two of you.
Yeah, right now, it's the two

571
00:46:53,400 --> 00:47:00,159
of us. We've had my girlfriend
Ed's sister Meghan fill in on bass for

572
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:07,039
us for some shows. Yeah,
great band. Yeah, so but for

573
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:13,320
right now, like just the two
of us. And uh now, how

574
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,440
long have the two of you been
in the spand like, are you both

575
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:20,840
original members of Witch Trot? No, but I've been in the band for

576
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,559
about four years now. Okay,
so but no, Matt's been. Matt's

577
00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:30,039
had this thing going since he was
like god sixteen or something. Yeah,

578
00:47:30,599 --> 00:47:34,199
okay, okay, And then how
did the two of you meet and come

579
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:39,519
to work together through the Stone Church. Yeah, it was through a through

580
00:47:39,519 --> 00:47:45,920
a mutual acquaintance the guitarist of a
band that was formerly in called Marvel Prone.

581
00:47:45,639 --> 00:47:47,920
Oh, Marvel Pro. Wait a
minute, have you been here before?

582
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,280
I have not? You have?
You have not? They have?

583
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,480
I left that band a year age
ago? Okay, this is I'm like

584
00:47:55,559 --> 00:47:58,159
because you said that, I'm like, wait a minute, have we have

585
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,519
we met before? No? It's
funny, how you know the scene,

586
00:48:00,599 --> 00:48:05,679
it's like this, It's ah,
so many people move around in different bands.

587
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,280
Okay, so you were in Marvel
Prone. Interesting, I was in

588
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:15,119
Marvel Prone, and I believe Rayner, the band leader of Marvel Prone and

589
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:20,639
Matt met each other at the Stone
Church sometime and Matt mentioned that he needed

590
00:48:20,679 --> 00:48:23,119
a drummer. So okay, put
us in contact with each other. Oh

591
00:48:23,199 --> 00:48:30,159
cool cool? And then so now
what about so you had a bass player?

592
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,320
Did you have a regular bass player
before Megan or yeah for a while?

593
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,719
Yeah, ok yep, okay?
And then how long were they in

594
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:43,760
the band? Two years? Two
years? Yeah? So now do so,

595
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,119
but you guys do some shows where
it's just the two of you if

596
00:48:45,159 --> 00:48:50,480
Megan's not available or how does that
work I think we have done that before.

597
00:48:50,639 --> 00:48:52,519
Yeah, because I'm pretty sure,
Like I said, I'm pretty sure.

598
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:53,000
I saw a YouTube video where it
was just the two of you,

599
00:48:53,039 --> 00:48:57,440
and I think somebody whoever posted it
put in the description something about, uh,

600
00:48:58,159 --> 00:49:00,679
even even without a bass player,
these guys were or something, or

601
00:49:00,679 --> 00:49:05,039
maybe it was one of the comments
in the video. But I feel like

602
00:49:05,199 --> 00:49:08,400
that happened once. It's kind of
I feel like you could say playing with

603
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,920
a bass player is a is best
practice. Yeah, but I think once

604
00:49:13,039 --> 00:49:15,000
in a pinch, we did do
it, just the two of us.

605
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:19,360
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's
there's others that have that have done it

606
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,840
and and made it work. But
yeah, there's there's nothing quite like having

607
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,519
you know, you want to have
that bottom end if you know, if

608
00:49:24,559 --> 00:49:29,880
you can't, you know, like
I saw Local H once in Boston years

609
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:31,280
ago, and uh, but it's
obvious, you know, it was just

610
00:49:31,519 --> 00:49:35,679
the two guys, but it was
obvious that I can't remember his name for

611
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,960
the life of me, the guitar
player. You know that he had an

612
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:42,960
effect that you know, gave him
extra bottom end. And and I've I've

613
00:49:43,039 --> 00:49:46,920
I've seen bands do that, not
very many, but now so, so

614
00:49:47,039 --> 00:49:50,519
how long has the band been around
total? Because because you said you've been,

615
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,960
you've been doing it for it.
But was there another drummer before Edward?

616
00:49:54,320 --> 00:50:00,320
Yeah, there were some other projects
a little different from which tr that

617
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:06,719
I had started up, but witch
Trout was fairly new when ed joined.

618
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,599
Okay maybe six months Okay, yeah
I didn't even know that. Yeah,

619
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:14,880
yeah, so I had it was. It was pretty much similar genres but

620
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:20,360
just different band names. But I
I separate witch Trut from that. Yeah,

621
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,400
it's different. Yeah, Fredo was
in the Facebook live chat. Uh.

622
00:50:25,159 --> 00:50:28,119
Yeah, I was gonna say,
you guys, bust know Alfredo everybody,

623
00:50:29,079 --> 00:50:32,400
right. I do enjoy, oh, absolutely absolutely. Fredo has been

624
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,679
on the show a number of times. I do enjoy saying his full name

625
00:50:35,679 --> 00:50:38,719
when I see him in the chat
room Alfredo Enrique Benavitez. But yeah,

626
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:44,239
Dank Sinatra, Cosmic Blossom, great
great stuff, you know, and he

627
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,280
posts a lot of solo videos too. That it's just such a such an

628
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:51,199
enormously talented guy, really good on
the show too. We gotta get him,

629
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,440
get him back on. Yeah,
Ronda Favera, you know when I

630
00:50:53,519 --> 00:50:58,760
was asking you about your vocal style, Ronda from our friend from California.

631
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,960
She said, kind of minds are
of Nirvana, So that makes sense.

632
00:51:02,039 --> 00:51:07,920
Yeah, are you are you self
taught vocally or what about? Now?

633
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,519
What about on guitar? You ever
take lessons or are you self taught?

634
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,960
I haven't take lessons that Yeah,
I'm self taught. Wow. Yeah that

635
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,559
always that always impresses me. How
about you? Edward? On the drums,

636
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,639
I had drum lessons for like two
years, like the first year I

637
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,280
played, and then I went a
few years without. Yeah, then I

638
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,199
took lessons for another year. I've
been playing for like eleven years, so

639
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:34,159
I had lessons for two of them. Okay, Okay. I like to

640
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,159
think I'm pretty good at self teaching. Yeah, like like actually working on

641
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:45,400
things and not just screwing around.
Right right, that's good. And are

642
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,599
you in any other bands? Because
most drummers I meet are in like ten

643
00:51:47,679 --> 00:51:52,840
different bands because there's just not a
lot of drummers around. I've been their

644
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:58,440
homie. Yeah. I'm currently in
one other band, a metalcore band from

645
00:51:58,559 --> 00:52:04,199
New Market called Proelium. Actually,
the guitarist of Proelium, a dude named

646
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,880
Darius, was the drummer of witch
Trout before I was Oh no, kidding.

647
00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:13,000
Yeah, oh wow, So it's
all so it's the music scene.

648
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,519
It's like incestuous in a way.
Yeah, but not in that way,

649
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:21,440
you know what I mean. I
mean we are in the Northeast after all,

650
00:52:21,519 --> 00:52:27,840
so but no, but yeah,
so that's interesting. So the reason

651
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,039
I say that is the reason I
asked that is there's just been a trend

652
00:52:30,079 --> 00:52:34,639
where, like I have these bands
on and everybody's drummer is in like multiple

653
00:52:34,679 --> 00:52:37,639
bands. And I have a theory
about that. I think it's because when

654
00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:40,559
you're growing up and you first start
getting interested in playing a musical instrument,

655
00:52:42,039 --> 00:52:44,199
and you have to kind of have
the talk with your parents like, hey,

656
00:52:44,199 --> 00:52:47,320
I want to take up an instrument. If you express an interest in

657
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:51,360
the drums, your parents are probably
going to try to talk you out of

658
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,480
that and say, well how about
guitar or something, you know, something

659
00:52:53,519 --> 00:52:59,320
where you're not going to be making
a lot of noise. So so what

660
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,800
that ends up happening is you end
up with just not a lot of drummers

661
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:07,880
around because you know, parents don't
want their kids growing up playing drums and

662
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,480
making all that noise. That's my
theory. Anyway, bass players tend to

663
00:53:10,519 --> 00:53:14,320
be in high demand too, but
I think drummers especially, Yeah, I

664
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,519
think your theory is pretty spot on
for drummers. I think for bass players

665
00:53:17,559 --> 00:53:22,800
it's just because everybody wants to play
guitar, guitarists get the glory. Yeah,

666
00:53:22,159 --> 00:53:25,920
yeah, you know most bands have
a guitarist playing bass. Really right.

667
00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:30,800
Well, it's funny because I so
I'm a bass player, but I

668
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,800
started out on guitar when I was
a kid. I took guitar lessons and

669
00:53:35,559 --> 00:53:38,079
never took a bass lesson. But
I took guitar lessons. But unfortunately,

670
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:42,159
I was one of those kind of
lazy kids that if I wasn't good at

671
00:53:42,199 --> 00:53:46,519
something really fast, I would get
discouraged. And so I was getting discouraged

672
00:53:46,639 --> 00:53:51,440
with the guitar and I wasn't putting
the work in to really practice it.

673
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,679
And then when I was in high
school, I picked up a bass,

674
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:59,039
you know, just hanging out with
some friends playing music. And bass players

675
00:53:59,079 --> 00:54:00,480
hate when I say this, but
it's it's just the reality of it.

676
00:54:00,599 --> 00:54:05,039
I picked up a bass, and
I said, oh, too, fewer

677
00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:07,800
strings and I don't have to learn
any chords. I think I found my

678
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,679
instrument and and but yeah, I
mean it worked out. I went on,

679
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,199
you know, I played in a
bunch of bands and and uh so

680
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,920
I did find my instrument. But
it kind of sucks that it happened the

681
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:22,519
way that it did because it was
out of my own laziness. But it's

682
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:25,199
true though. And bass players hate
when I say that because it, you

683
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,639
know, it makes it sound like, oh, the bass is easy and

684
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,480
to play. It's not easy to
play the bass really well, but if

685
00:54:30,519 --> 00:54:35,440
you just want to be you know
what I always say. I was never

686
00:54:35,599 --> 00:54:38,159
good, but I was always good
enough. And bass players being in not

687
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,079
as high demand as drummers, but
in sort of high demand, you know,

688
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,880
you end up playing you can you
can be just okay and end up

689
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,760
in a bunch I was in a
bunch of different bands at once, actually,

690
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,639
But but yeah, drummers, I
mean so many drummers who were just

691
00:54:52,760 --> 00:55:00,480
in just in tons of bands.
Uh So, maybe we should maybe we

692
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:04,440
should talk about this more after we
play the single. But I don't want

693
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:09,159
to forget to ask you this in
terms of influences, Edward. I when

694
00:55:09,199 --> 00:55:13,320
I was listening to the you know, because Matt sent me the single earlier

695
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,639
that we're going to play in a
couple of minutes, well, first of

696
00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:20,320
all, overall, I got kind
of a Sabbath vibe from it, and

697
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,079
I definitely got a bill Ward vibe
from your drumming. And I'm curious,

698
00:55:23,199 --> 00:55:30,159
is he an influence of yours or
that's a that's an interesting question. I

699
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:35,000
think your your pills, your drum
fills remind me a lot of Bill Ward,

700
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,760
and he's one of my favorites.
So it's you know, it's please

701
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,199
take it as a compliment. Oh, I absolutely do. I love Black

702
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:46,760
Sabbath, Yeah, always have.
I don't consider bill Ward specifically an influence,

703
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:52,519
but I do consider that kind of
music and Black Sabbath's contemporaries to be

704
00:55:52,639 --> 00:55:57,360
a great influence. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well what are tell me

705
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,719
about? Who are some of your
influences? Really? I'm just a sucker

706
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:07,039
for all of the great prog rock
drummers. Yeah, Neil Peart, Phil

707
00:56:07,159 --> 00:56:14,519
Collins, those are probably the biggest
two. Who else? I always my

708
00:56:14,599 --> 00:56:16,519
head always goes blank when people ask
me things like that. Yeah, that's

709
00:56:16,559 --> 00:56:19,559
okay, that's all right. It
kind of puts it on the spot.

710
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:25,480
Phil Collins is a surprise to me
though, because I don't know, I

711
00:56:25,559 --> 00:56:30,000
never really hear anyone say so.
Is Phil Collins? I know this kind

712
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,239
of an ongoing debate that I've seen
online in some forums. Is Phil Collins

713
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:39,599
a great drummer? In your opinion? Phil Collins is the man, no

714
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:45,079
kidding, But you have to listen
to the early Genesis albums to figure it

715
00:56:45,119 --> 00:56:46,400
out. He also has other bands. He has, like a jazz fusion

716
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:51,760
band that I haven't listened too much
from. Yeah, but honestly, if

717
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:55,119
you like bill Ward, yeah,
you would probably dig Phil Collins drumming on

718
00:56:55,199 --> 00:57:02,480
the early Genesis albums because that is
a very similar, low jazzy, feely

719
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,199
style, if you know what I
mean. It's not rigid at all.

720
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:10,559
He's very much just like sinking into
the music. See that surprises me because

721
00:57:10,599 --> 00:57:15,840
I guess the more commercial Genesis stuff
that came out later, I feel like

722
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:20,840
his drumming is very rigid. But
but I have but I have heard some

723
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:25,440
early Genesis with when Peter Gabriel was
singing, and now that you mention it,

724
00:57:25,639 --> 00:57:30,480
yeah, his drumming was different.
I know what you mean. Yeah,

725
00:57:30,679 --> 00:57:32,639
I'll have to go back and listen
to some of that. Yeah,

726
00:57:32,679 --> 00:57:37,679
you're getting some support on that in
the chat room, right, DJ Midas

727
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:43,320
as Phil Collins is a phenomenal drummer. Malcolm Salz says, any Genesis album

728
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,880
he wasn't allowed to sing on was
incredible. That's a great way of putting

729
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:52,639
it. Although I love Phil's voice. Phil's got a great voice. But

730
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,719
I but I understand. I understand
what he means, because that makes sense

731
00:57:54,719 --> 00:57:59,559
if you're talking about the earlier stuff
before Phil took over on vocals, and

732
00:58:00,079 --> 00:58:04,239
Fredo says, uh, brand X. Actually, let me read these in

733
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,559
order. Fredo said Phil Collins was
a masterful drummer. Check out his fusion

734
00:58:07,679 --> 00:58:13,639
band. His fusion band brand X. Brand X is Phil Collins displaying his

735
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:19,719
jazz prowess and crazy Prague chops.
Interesting. Interesting. Oh, and Malcolm

736
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,199
had said earlier Phil Collins and early
Genesis is some of the best Prague you

737
00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:27,320
will ever hear. Interesting. Yeah, I'll have to I'll have to go

738
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,880
back and give that another listen.
Okay, Yeah, it's coincidentally several months

739
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:37,199
ago I happened to hear I cannot
even remember what album it's on. It

740
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,960
was on one of their really commercially
successful albums, Genesis with Phil on lead

741
00:58:42,079 --> 00:58:45,039
vocals. But the song is Domino. Did you know that song? I

742
00:58:45,199 --> 00:58:49,199
do not know that song. Yeah, it's it's from It's it's again.

743
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,400
It's from their really commercial period.
But but I just remember listening to that

744
00:58:52,599 --> 00:58:59,800
song and I'm listening to the drum
track, and I'm thinking, you know,

745
00:59:00,519 --> 00:59:02,639
this, this song would be so
much better if the drums weren't so

746
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:07,159
you know, they sound it sounded
like programmed drums. I don't know if

747
00:59:07,199 --> 00:59:09,400
it was actually him playing or if
it was all programmed, but I remember

748
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:13,719
thinking, this song would be so
cool if you know, it was Phil

749
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,440
Collins without drumming, without all the
effects and everything. But it was,

750
00:59:16,519 --> 00:59:20,599
you know, it was like the
mid nineteen eighties. You know, I

751
00:59:20,719 --> 00:59:22,800
lived through it. It was.
Everything was very sort of overproduced in that

752
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,960
way. But I'll have to go
back and listen to some early Phil Collins

753
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,280
or some early some more early Genesis, and I'll have to check out Brand

754
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,639
I didn't even know about brand X, so that must have been the band

755
00:59:32,679 --> 00:59:37,119
he was in before Genesis maybe,
or I don't really know. There might

756
00:59:37,159 --> 00:59:40,760
have been some overlap. Yeah,
yeah, interesting, No, I'm very

757
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:45,760
curious. Now Now how about you? How about you, Matt In terms

758
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,119
of influences, I mean, we
talked a little bit about your vocals,

759
00:59:47,199 --> 00:59:51,519
but how about guitar or just the
overall vibe. Like I said, I

760
00:59:51,719 --> 00:59:57,440
get a heavy Sabbath vibe from Witch
Trout. Yeah. I really like the

761
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,480
Melvins. I can hear it.
Yeah, I like Houdini. That's probably

762
01:00:01,519 --> 01:00:06,840
my favorite from them. Stoner which
is another one I really like. Of

763
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,400
course, Nirvana and Utero is one
of my favorite albums. Yeah, and

764
01:00:10,599 --> 01:00:16,239
I love Black Sabbath as well.
Sleep is a cool band. Electric Wizard,

765
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:21,960
a lot of that doomy type rock
and as well as the grunge stuff

766
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:28,559
I've always been a fan of.
Yeah, yeah, oh, Fredo and

767
01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:31,599
the chat Room says regarding Phil Collins, he didn't need to, he didn't

768
01:00:31,639 --> 01:00:36,599
need to give us his all on
the Tarzan soundtrack, but he did.

769
01:00:37,679 --> 01:00:42,519
Yeah, when the Tarzan soundtrack,
I remember when that came out, and

770
01:00:42,559 --> 01:00:45,440
I remember kind of thinking, yeah, he's definitely entered his Uh, he's

771
01:00:45,519 --> 01:00:50,639
moved from his rock face to his
adult contemporary face. Actually he had probably

772
01:00:50,679 --> 01:00:53,480
done that long before that. But
yeah, I understood. He can't even

773
01:00:53,599 --> 01:00:57,719
he can't even really, it's hard
for him to stand up now, Phil

774
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:00,960
Collins, like you see do you
see any videos from that last from the

775
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:05,400
Genesis Farewell to her. It's kind
of it's kind of heartbreaking. You feel

776
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:09,360
bad for him, you know,
although miraculously his voice still sounds pretty good.

777
01:01:09,639 --> 01:01:14,039
Oh his voice is great. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, just a

778
01:01:14,119 --> 01:01:17,400
poor guy. He can't it's hard
for him to move around. And you

779
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:21,840
know, but drums is such a
physical instrument too, that you know,

780
01:01:22,159 --> 01:01:24,000
if there's anything you're going to get
injured playing, it's that. I suppose.

781
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,280
Well, we should get to this
track since we've been talking about how

782
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:35,639
you guys sound. Now again,
is this noms Thomas? Is that how

783
01:01:35,719 --> 01:01:38,280
you pronounce it? Yes? Okay, now what does that mean? No

784
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:44,960
more Thomas. So I have a
friend named Thomas, and he's I can

785
01:01:45,039 --> 01:01:46,679
tell it's this will be a good
story by Edward's reaction. Well, he

786
01:01:49,639 --> 01:01:58,920
he's very unpredictable and like he's always
he always does very like wild things,

787
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,039
like I've always and like he's younger
than me, so I've always kind of

788
01:02:02,079 --> 01:02:06,199
been like I've acted like the older
brother in some ways. So I'm always

789
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:10,440
like Thomas, no, don't do
that, especially in public, or he's

790
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:17,280
gonna watch this and be like right. But yeah, so yeah, that's

791
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,920
that's why I called it no more, Thomas, and I've told him that

792
01:02:21,159 --> 01:02:22,760
and he thinks it's pretty cool.
That's cool. I thought maybe it was

793
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:28,519
Latin or something very cool. All
right, let's give this a listen.

794
01:02:28,559 --> 01:02:31,199
Where was this recorded, by the
way, Alfa Omega Studios. And where

795
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:37,639
is that that's in Massachusetts? Some
town in Massachusetts I've never heard of before.

796
01:02:38,039 --> 01:02:42,079
Okay, all right, cool,
Let's give this a listen and then

797
01:02:42,079 --> 01:02:44,800
we'll come back and we'll talk some
more with these guys. Check this out.

798
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:50,119
This is witch Trot. This is
brand new, newly remastered and world

799
01:02:50,239 --> 01:05:38,400
radio premiere. Mm h muss spots, subsos, m hmm. By Heaven,

800
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:49,679
why your pass way, the new
ass came, the fast, the

801
01:05:49,880 --> 01:06:00,119
sacrifice, surpass the holy exercise,
please the Holy One who will win a

802
01:06:00,280 --> 01:07:50,599
job on the jars. Mm hmmm, oh that is so good. No,

803
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:55,199
miss Thomas, am I saying that
right? Mats no mos no no

804
01:07:55,360 --> 01:08:00,760
Moss Thomas, Yes, from the
band Witstrot, and we have Matt and

805
01:08:00,119 --> 01:08:03,480
Edward from the band here with us
alive in studio. That is the world

806
01:08:03,559 --> 01:08:06,559
radio premiere of that track. And
I love it. You know what's cool?

807
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:12,360
Is it? Kind of the song
fools you I'm sure I'm not the

808
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:14,840
only one who's made this observation,
But when I was listening to it for

809
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,319
the first time, I was like, Oh, it's an instrumental. And

810
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:20,960
then the vocal finally shows up,
but it's so far into the song,

811
01:08:21,239 --> 01:08:25,479
but it's like a cool surprise when
the vocal comes in. I was like,

812
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:29,640
Oh, it's not an instrumental.
I like that, Like, did

813
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:32,279
you do that intentionally or is that
just kind of how the song developed?

814
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:40,039
That was actually done intentionally. A
lot of the stoner rock doomy stuff band

815
01:08:40,159 --> 01:08:45,439
Sleep does that a lot. They'll
have a lot of instrumentals and then they'll

816
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,920
sing, and then they'll stop and
do a lot of long instrumentals and then

817
01:08:48,079 --> 01:08:51,520
continue back into singing. Yeah,
yeah, no, I like that.

818
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:57,520
It's cool. It's kind of a
cool twist. Yeah, Fredo in the

819
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:03,720
chat room says long intro. Fredo
also said too earlier, you know,

820
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:08,000
the Melvins came up as an influence, and Fredo said, up, Melvins

821
01:09:08,039 --> 01:09:12,000
are one of the most influential badass
bands ever. They did more for grunge,

822
01:09:12,199 --> 01:09:15,960
sludge and underground music in general than
any of their contemporaries. Yeah,

823
01:09:16,039 --> 01:09:20,840
definitely, the Melvins, very very
influential, but kind of unsung heroes.

824
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:26,640
And you know one of those bands
that you know, musicians know the Melvins,

825
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:30,880
but non musicians never even heard of
them. It is one of those

826
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:35,319
kinds of bands. Yeah, so
we've got the guys here from witch Trot.

827
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:39,600
By the way, so where does
the name come from? Witch Trot.

828
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,279
I assume you came up with that, Matt, because you're the like,

829
01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:45,840
the original, the founding member.
Yeah. Yeah, Well there's several

830
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:49,680
wits Trout roads in Maine. I
noticed that. I noticed that when I

831
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:53,680
googled you guys, and I was
like, oh, this is a common

832
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:57,720
thing in Maine. Yeah. Yeah, And well the name came about was

833
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:01,159
Maine was part of Mount to Choose. That's during the Salem witch Trials,

834
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:06,960
and they brought down a preacher or
parson from Maine, and the road is

835
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:12,640
called witch Trot Road. That was
trotting down, which which is on horseback.

836
01:10:14,039 --> 01:10:18,439
They would commonly do that and and
pick that name because it was it

837
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:27,199
signified like judgment and symbolized the road
to judgment when those witches were crossing over.

838
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,640
Yeah. Yeah, I thought that
was cool. Yeah, No,

839
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:33,039
it's a cool name. Now,
how many songs have you? Is this

840
01:10:33,119 --> 01:10:36,880
the only Is this the first song
that you've done in that studio in North

841
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:41,520
Reading or do you have others that
you're working on or we would like to

842
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:46,520
go back soon. We have two
other ones I played. Parallax was one

843
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:49,640
of them, and I played the
acoustic version of that. Yeah, we

844
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:55,640
have a song called Hello Dmitri that
that's also was recorded at Alpha Omega.

845
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,680
Oh okay, Yeah, we're gonna
We're gonna sorry, we're going to release

846
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,479
those hopefully tonight tomorrow. Oh okay, yeah, oh okay, Yeah,

847
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:04,439
I'd love to hear Hello Dmitri.
So that'll be so at some point this

848
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:08,840
weekend that'll be available, yes,
online. Very cool, Very cool.

849
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:13,199
And what's the writing process, like, do you guys write together or do

850
01:11:13,399 --> 01:11:15,399
you come up with the ideas initially
and then bring them netword or how does

851
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:23,319
that work? It's sort of they
always originate with Matt. You know,

852
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:28,039
I like to consider myself a valuable
part of the band, but it's always

853
01:11:28,079 --> 01:11:33,159
been Matt's songs that we're playing.
Yeah, he sometimes he comes at me

854
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:39,520
or me and whoever former basis was
in the band at the time with a

855
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:43,840
completed idea, But usually it's just
like, you know, an intro of

856
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:47,479
verse and a chorus and we jam
on it for a while. Someone might

857
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:54,680
make a few suggestions. Yeah,
they come together very organically and as a

858
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:59,560
consequence, somewhat inefficiently. Sometimes it
kind of takes a while for them to

859
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:03,760
reach their final form. Really yeah, like, how long like, uh,

860
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:08,239
to develop a song does it take? Does it take days? Weeks?

861
01:12:09,319 --> 01:12:14,760
A couple practices? Yeah? Okay, yeah yeah yeah, because Edward,

862
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:17,680
what what you're doing on the drums
that that that winds up becoming you

863
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,800
know, even if the idea doesn't
start with you, I mean you you

864
01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:25,119
are really kind of contributing to how
the song forms because your drum patterns are

865
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:29,800
complex and you know, it's it's
not it's not like, you know,

866
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:32,000
you're not the guy from ac DC
sitting over there. You're actually really you

867
01:12:32,079 --> 01:12:34,760
know, not nothing against a c
DC, but you're really you know,

868
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:38,960
you're really helping to form and shape
that song with what you're doing on the

869
01:12:39,039 --> 01:12:44,079
drums. Yeah, so I scer
them, you could say. Sometimes sometimes

870
01:12:44,119 --> 01:12:46,680
it's something as simple as like a
bro, what if we like this?

871
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:54,039
Right? But it's being humble.
But like for especially Nomas Tomas. That

872
01:12:54,279 --> 01:12:57,159
song, the breakdown at the end, that wouldn't have happened, you know

873
01:12:57,199 --> 01:13:00,880
without the drums. A lot of
the drum definitely, the drum carry like

874
01:13:01,159 --> 01:13:05,359
all the songs. Yeah, it's
just you know, I have a rough

875
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:11,680
draft really and then it forms into
something. Yeah, I wouldn't have expected

876
01:13:12,079 --> 01:13:15,319
right right now now in studio?
Now, who's playing bass in studio?

877
01:13:15,399 --> 01:13:19,159
Are you doing that yourself? Or
is Megan doing that? Or who's our

878
01:13:19,199 --> 01:13:23,680
friend? Tony Woodman played bass on
that actually? Oh okay, Yeah,

879
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,880
he has a band, Black Headdress. I drummed for for that band and

880
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,640
he helped us out a lot.
See. Now that's a twist on this

881
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:34,039
whole drummer thing. So there's this
other band that you play drums in.

882
01:13:36,239 --> 01:13:44,800
See is it what's your first instrument? Is drums your first instrument? Or

883
01:13:45,159 --> 01:13:47,600
or is a guitar? It was? It was drums was the first thing

884
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:54,880
I learned. I gradually went to
guitar and I've been playing that. That's

885
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:58,760
kind of like my main instrument.
Oh I gotcha, I gotcha a Black

886
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:01,560
head Dress. That's the other band. Yeah, it's a cool from around

887
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:05,039
here? Is that is everybody from
around here? Uh, yeah, there,

888
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:12,880
Tony's from Sandford, and then Josh
is from he's the guitarist and the

889
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:17,000
band. He's from Alfred and then
so it's kind of kind of all over

890
01:14:17,039 --> 01:14:23,319
the place. Alfred. Where's that
It's it's in New Hampshire or no,

891
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,520
sorry, Maine. It's a Maine. Oh, it's in Maine. Yeah.

892
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:29,159
And I know Sandford is in Maine. Yes. Yeah. The only

893
01:14:29,199 --> 01:14:30,479
reason I know that is because that's
where I almost dround when I was a

894
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:35,439
kid. My dad had to save
me. So the Sandford, Maine is

895
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:41,399
uh is forever etched in my brain. So you're now you live here now,

896
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:44,760
but you're from Maine originally? Is
that York Maine? You're from York.

897
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:46,159
Okay, that's a nice area.
Now about you, Edward, do

898
01:14:46,199 --> 01:14:49,199
you live in the area here or
or do you have a commute? I

899
01:14:49,359 --> 01:14:54,520
live in Rochester currently. Okay,
I grew up in Portsmouth. That's where

900
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:57,720
I was living when I joined the
band. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,

901
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,119
so you guys got a little bit
of a commune between you. It's

902
01:15:00,159 --> 01:15:02,439
half an hour. It's not bad, it's not bad. Yeah. Yeah.

903
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,720
Now are you playing a lot of
shows? Do you play a lot

904
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:09,319
of shows or are you focused on
recording or we have a couple of shows

905
01:15:09,319 --> 01:15:11,800
coming up. We have a house
party on the twenty eighth, and then

906
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:15,439
we're playing at the Stone Church on
Halloween. Oh very cool. Yeah,

907
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:20,640
we're playing. We're playing with Proelium. They're headlining. Yeah. Yeah,

908
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:26,720
it's gonna be Prollium headlining witch Trout
before them, and then a band called

909
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:30,960
green Eye before witch Trout. Yeah. And does one of you play drums

910
01:15:30,039 --> 01:15:39,560
and green Eyes? No, we've
reached the limit. Okay, understood.

911
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:44,119
Speaking of drums, I wanted to
mention something. Yeah, a lot of

912
01:15:44,239 --> 01:15:48,680
the older Witch Trot songs, like
from when I first joined the band,

913
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:57,159
I actually learned from demos that Matt
posted on YouTube again when he was like

914
01:15:57,279 --> 01:16:01,119
when he was like seventeen or SOHK. And on all those demos he's playing

915
01:16:01,239 --> 01:16:05,520
drums. Oh wow. So the
way I played drums in the band was

916
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:15,800
influenced by what Matt played oh way
back in the day. So it kind

917
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:20,279
of like it's sort of like a
it comes full circle. Yeah, so

918
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:25,960
you you committed to learning, but
do you play the parts now the same

919
01:16:26,119 --> 01:16:30,920
as when Matt put them in those
demos originally? Or do you or do

920
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,560
you even still play those songs,
because obviously those songs go backways some of

921
01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:40,079
them we do it kind of it
depends on the song. Sometimes. I

922
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:45,520
sometimes I liked what he played and
and I would more or less stick to

923
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,840
that, and if anything changed,
it would again change like subconsciously and organically

924
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:55,479
over time. Other things it was
more of a like, hey, I

925
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:59,279
have an idea for how else this
could be done? Right, Yeah,

926
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:03,760
makes sense. I definitely think even
even of the parts themselves have changed the

927
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:10,760
way Matt plays drums influenced how I
choose to play drums in the band.

928
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:18,319
Now, Okay, okay, interesting, So are your styles now today on

929
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:24,159
drums somewhat different then? Or or
are they similar very much? So we're

930
01:17:24,199 --> 01:17:27,520
completely different drummers? Really? Yeah? Yeah? In in in what way?

931
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:30,760
I mean? Cause I kind of
have a vibe of how you play

932
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,199
obviously from listening to that track,
But like, what, how how are

933
01:17:34,279 --> 01:17:40,000
your drums different, Matt? If
it's something you can put into words,

934
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:43,720
maybe it's not the easiest thing to
verbalize, but I'm curious now. Uh.

935
01:17:44,239 --> 01:17:48,319
Well, with Black Head Dress,
a lot of the songs are kind

936
01:17:48,359 --> 01:17:54,279
of tribal, like a lot of
a lot of toms. It's pretty heavy

937
01:17:54,359 --> 01:18:00,760
on that rather than a lot of
a lot of crack or fills or it's

938
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:06,399
just kind of sets the tone for
because I follow, like with Black head

939
01:18:06,479 --> 01:18:10,720
Dress, I follow Tony and Josh
quite a bit. I just go back

940
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:14,720
and forth, and they're really the
ones who are setting up the structure,

941
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:18,159
and I'm and I'm yeah, it's
just kind of tribal like, I mean,

942
01:18:18,199 --> 01:18:24,239
that's kind of how the songs felt. Yeah, no, that makes

943
01:18:24,279 --> 01:18:28,640
sense. Yeah. I was actually
just looking up Black head Dress online and

944
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:34,039
maybe we'll maybe to end the show, we'll play Do these have swears in

945
01:18:34,079 --> 01:18:42,239
them? Honestly, it depends on
the song like Disconnected that shows up on

946
01:18:42,279 --> 01:18:45,159
the website. Do you know?
If you don't know, we just won't

947
01:18:45,239 --> 01:18:46,439
risk it. But I was just
thinking if if you did know, we

948
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:49,760
could play something, because I'm curious
to hear here it now. But if

949
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:55,720
not, I'll just wait till later
and we won't risk it. I can't

950
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:58,319
remember, honestly. Yeah, no, that's fine. That's all good.

951
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:00,760
By the way, Melanie in the
chat says high five for not being a

952
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:11,119
part of Massachusetts anymore. Now have
you guys? Obviously you you play shows

953
01:19:11,119 --> 01:19:15,359
around here. Have you have you
toured anywhere outside of the area. No,

954
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:17,720
we've never been on tour. Okay, We've played mass a little bit,

955
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,199
New Hampshire, a little bit,
Maine a little bit. Yeah,

956
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:24,920
but I think that's it. Okay, yeah, okay. And are there

957
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:28,640
are there any other bands in the
area that you kind of team up with?

958
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:30,239
You know, I mean it tends
to happen organically, kind of by

959
01:19:30,279 --> 01:19:33,920
accident, you know, bands will
have other bands that they wind up playing

960
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:36,279
a lot of shows with. Do
you have anybody in the area like that?

961
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:42,800
Oh? Yeah, well Wired for
Sound Yeah, yeah. I played

962
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:46,560
with Marvel Prone a few times back
when I was in that band, played

963
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,680
a few shows with Proellium. We're
about to play another show with Proelium.

964
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:57,159
Yeah. Who else? Who are
like some of the Charlie's Hill bands we

965
01:19:57,239 --> 01:20:00,880
played with Sauce on the side,
I was one on the show. Yeah,

966
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,800
Yeah, they're They're fantastic, Yeah
they are. Ye, they're great.

967
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:09,119
Able Blood of course, able Blood, love able Blood. We had

968
01:20:09,159 --> 01:20:14,079
them on the show. We have
sophisticated adult martial law. There's a lot

969
01:20:14,119 --> 01:20:16,720
of I found that in the more
of the Seacoast area. There's a lot

970
01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:23,920
of more metal type bands, hard
rock band, yeah, like metal core

971
01:20:24,079 --> 01:20:29,279
type bands. Yeah and yeah,
so we kind of get placed in in

972
01:20:29,399 --> 01:20:30,680
those types of shows, which is
a lot of fun, a lot of

973
01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:34,279
the mosh pits and whatnot. Yeah, no, no doubt, no doubt.

974
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:39,479
And uh so this, uh this
weekend is a Stone Church? Is

975
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:43,159
that this weekend or next weekend?
That's Halloween Night, Halloween Knight. Yeah,

976
01:20:43,239 --> 01:20:45,439
that's very cool. That's a good
that's really good. I haven't been

977
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:48,319
to the Stone Church in forever,
but that's a really nice that's a nice

978
01:20:48,359 --> 01:20:54,279
place to play. They're actually a
not normally open on Tuesdays, but Halloween

979
01:20:54,359 --> 01:20:58,479
is a Tuesday this year. Yeah, and so they figured they'd throw a

980
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:01,680
little shin dig It's gonna be a
full on costume party. Yeah. Three

981
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:08,640
bands, good fun, very cool
if anyone's interested. Wish Front, Prellium,

982
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:12,560
and Green Eye, not in that
order. Yeah, the Stone Church

983
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:18,199
Halloween Night, come in costume seven
pm. Yeah, very cool, very

984
01:21:18,279 --> 01:21:21,960
cool. Well, listen, we're
going to uh hope we have a call.

985
01:21:23,279 --> 01:21:27,720
Oh, looks like this is Malcolm
Souls who we saw in the Facebook

986
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:31,319
live chat. Hi, welcome to
the show. Hey man, it's Malcolm

987
01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:36,720
from Abel blood. Hey Malcolm,
Oh that Malcolm. Hey, what's up?

988
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:40,840
Man? I just want I just
want to chime in here and tell

989
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:45,279
you that these guys are like they're
like having a reaction video at your show,

990
01:21:45,359 --> 01:21:47,760
because every show we play with them, we always like to watch people

991
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:51,039
milling about before they start. Yeah, and as soon as they start playing,

992
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:56,479
everything stops and everybody's like, holy
crap, who are these guys?

993
01:21:57,520 --> 01:22:02,239
I believe it. That's awesome,
very cool, very cool. Yeah.

994
01:22:02,319 --> 01:22:06,000
They make a lot of noise for
well three piece technically right when you've got

995
01:22:06,079 --> 01:22:09,840
when you've got a bass player with
you. But uh, yeah, that's

996
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:13,760
cool, have you well yeah,
go ahead, Malcolm. I was gonna

997
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,079
say they can reach out to Adam
and I because we have bass issues too,

998
01:22:16,199 --> 01:22:20,159
so we're splitting bass duty now.
Oh that's right, that's right.

999
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:25,159
Yeah, that's right. We talked
about that when you guys were here.

1000
01:22:25,199 --> 01:22:28,000
I forgot about that. You're you're
one of the bands I was I was

1001
01:22:28,079 --> 01:22:30,279
thinking of earlier when we were talking
about the bass thing. Yeah, that's

1002
01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:33,680
funny. That's why I call it, just to remind you. Yeah,

1003
01:22:35,239 --> 01:22:38,960
hey, I still play uh geez, maybe I'll play it at the end

1004
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:40,640
of the show today. I want
to have time to play the whole thing.

1005
01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:43,239
But mental note, man, that
always goes over a big when I

1006
01:22:43,279 --> 01:22:45,800
play that on the show. People
go crazy for that in the chat room.

1007
01:22:46,239 --> 01:22:49,479
Awesome. So glad to hear,
So glad to hear. But I

1008
01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:54,000
gotta I got to run because I
have my daughter with me. Thank you,

1009
01:22:54,119 --> 01:22:58,239
Malcolm. Yeah, I love you
guys. Can't wait too to do

1010
01:22:58,359 --> 01:23:00,399
a show again soon, all right, Malcolm, Thank you for the call,

1011
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:05,000
my friend, take care all right, bye bye, all right Malcolm

1012
01:23:05,039 --> 01:23:09,359
from Abled Blood. Very cool,
very cool, such a great band.

1013
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:12,279
Well listen, guys, we got
to wrap up in a moment. Where

1014
01:23:12,279 --> 01:23:14,960
should people go online? What's the
best way to go online to find you?

1015
01:23:15,039 --> 01:23:17,760
Guys? Just Google? Because if
you google Witch Trot, I guess

1016
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:21,439
Witch Trot band, right, because
otherwise all those roads come up in Maine?

1017
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:30,800
Yeah, yeah, on YouTube,
Instagram, Facebook, Yeah soon,

1018
01:23:30,159 --> 01:23:35,039
every screaming platform that matters. Yes, yes, yes, And the new

1019
01:23:35,119 --> 01:23:40,960
single comes out this weekend. What's
it called again? Yes? Parallax okay,

1020
01:23:41,119 --> 01:23:45,720
yeah, and then followed by shortly
no Mas Tomas and hello Dmitri very

1021
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:48,079
cool, all right, hello Dmitri. That was the other one. Yeah,

1022
01:23:48,119 --> 01:23:50,439
and thank you for playing live for
us. That was phenomenal man.

1023
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:56,640
All right, Matt and Edward,
thank you guys so much. Witch Trot

1024
01:23:56,800 --> 01:24:00,000
and good luck with the Halloween Show. That's amazing. Good for you guys.

1025
01:24:00,399 --> 01:24:03,520
From the studios of w m n
H ninety five point three FM in

1026
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:09,159
downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, you
are tuned in to the best of Matt

1027
01:24:09,279 --> 01:25:14,880
Connerton unleashed. My name is Ash
and I am a slave. As close

1028
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:16,439
as I can figure it. The
year is thirteen hundred a d. And

1029
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:23,119
I'm being a dragon my death.
It wasn't always like this. I had

1030
01:25:23,119 --> 01:25:36,560
a real life at once a job
hardware I'll twelve shop Smart, Shop Smart.

1031
01:25:38,119 --> 01:25:45,279
I had a wonderful girlfriend, Linda. Together we drove to a small

1032
01:25:45,359 --> 01:25:53,680
cabin in the mountains. It seems
an archaeologist to come to this remote place

1033
01:25:53,800 --> 01:26:00,239
to translate and study his latest fine
acranamicon Ex mortis, the Book of the

1034
01:26:00,399 --> 01:26:09,000
Dead. Found in human flesh and
inked in blood, This ancient Sumerian text

1035
01:26:09,119 --> 01:26:16,680
contained bizarre burial rites, funerary incantations, and demon resurrection passages. It was

1036
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:21,279
never meant for the world of the
living. The book awoke something dark in

1037
01:26:21,399 --> 01:26:35,039
the woods it took Linda, and
then it came from me. It got

1038
01:26:35,079 --> 01:26:39,800
into my hand and it went back, so I locked it off at the

1039
01:26:39,880 --> 01:27:11,439
wrist. But that didn't stop it. It came back big time. Ya.

1040
01:27:19,560 --> 01:27:28,520
In nineteen eighty one, a little
heralded independent supernatural horror film about a

1041
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:34,479
group of college students camping in rural
Tennessee that find the Necromonicon otherwise known as

1042
01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:41,279
the Book of the Dead, and
unwittingly bring forth demons from al that take

1043
01:27:41,399 --> 01:27:47,039
their lives captivated audiences. However,
at the end of that film there was

1044
01:27:47,159 --> 01:27:54,800
one survivor. That survivor would go
on to start in two additional sequels and

1045
01:27:55,039 --> 01:28:00,760
a cable television series. It is
the third film of the series that is

1046
01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:08,159
most known and our subject for this
week's Classic Film review. Directed by Sam

1047
01:28:08,319 --> 01:28:14,520
Raimi, released in nineteen ninety three, Army of Darkness is the third film

1048
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:20,159
in the Evil Dead series. The
film continues directly where nineteen eighty seven's Evil

1049
01:28:20,279 --> 01:28:27,640
Dead two left off. Our everyman
hero Ash Williams. Bruce Campbell, in

1050
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:32,520
his career defining role, is transported
through a demonic portal to medieval times.

1051
01:28:32,920 --> 01:28:38,840
We're in order to get back home. He must retrieve the Necromonicon, but

1052
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:45,000
in doing so unwittingly on Leashan's demons
of Hell onto the land and must help

1053
01:28:45,119 --> 01:28:53,439
the Kingdom ward them off in a
climactic final battle. Our opening clip was

1054
01:28:53,520 --> 01:29:00,760
the voiceover that starts this film.
Ash explains the story of the past two

1055
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:05,319
films and where he is at now. Our next clip sets Ash up as

1056
01:29:05,359 --> 01:29:13,960
an unlikely hero of the Kingdom after
defeating the infamous Pit Witch, where he

1057
01:29:14,199 --> 01:29:19,279
was thrown into a pit to die. He uses his unknown technology to the

1058
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:27,760
people a shotgun lovingly known as his
boomstick to ward off the Witch and gets

1059
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:39,880
the people of the Kingdom to rally
behind him and get him home. For

1060
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:56,960
that arrogance, I shall see you
dead. Yeah, all right, Two

1061
01:29:57,079 --> 01:30:05,239
primitive screwheads, listen up. See
this. This is my pool mistake.

1062
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:11,800
It's the twelve gates, double belled
Remington s Smart's top of the line.

1063
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:15,800
You can find this in the sporting
goods department. That's right. This week

1064
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:19,920
baby was made in Grand Rapids,
Michigan retail for about one hundred and nine

1065
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:26,439
ninety five. It set a walnut
stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair

1066
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:35,199
trigger. That's right shop smart shop
s Smart, you got that? Now,

1067
01:30:35,640 --> 01:31:12,239
I swear the next one of you
primates even touches me. Now,

1068
01:31:13,840 --> 01:31:17,199
let's talk about how I get back
home. It could be argued, and

1069
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:23,800
I would even get behind the argument
that the original Evil Dead is one of

1070
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:28,720
the greatest cult classics ever. A
great deal of the credit has to go

1071
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:33,000
to Campbell and his performance of Ash. This is because, in a way,

1072
01:31:34,199 --> 01:31:40,000
like many great movie characters, Ash
can be seen as all of us.

1073
01:31:41,079 --> 01:31:47,239
We have all been in positions where
situations of possible heroism or the requirement

1074
01:31:47,399 --> 01:31:53,840
to help have been thrust upon us, and we have to accept it against

1075
01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:59,560
our own intuition. That is Ash
in a nutshell. Our next two clips

1076
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:05,880
show this. First is a short
clip that has Ash being given specific instructions

1077
01:32:06,600 --> 01:32:13,479
on what words to say by the
village wizard, the great Ian Abercrombie better

1078
01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:18,600
known as mister Pitt from the great
TV series Seinfeld In. The words are

1079
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:26,680
a homage to the original The Day
the Earth Stood Still. Ash proclaims he

1080
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:32,119
will remember those words. But then
our next clip shows us that despite Ash's

1081
01:32:32,239 --> 01:32:40,720
best intentions, he once again,
through his own inability to do things the

1082
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:45,119
right way, brings deadites unto the
world, and that is due to his

1083
01:32:45,239 --> 01:32:49,720
own dim witted nature. This path
will lead you to an unholy place,

1084
01:32:50,720 --> 01:33:00,680
a cemetery. They're then Ecronomica awaits. When now retrieving the book from its

1085
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:08,840
cradle, you must recite the words
platu verrata nickto, clattu verrata nickto.

1086
01:33:08,920 --> 01:33:15,079
Okay, well repeat them clattu verrata
nickto again. I got it, I

1087
01:33:15,239 --> 01:33:21,840
got it. I know your damn
words all right now. Ash attempts to

1088
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:33,680
recite the words when he retrieves the
necromonicon. Wait a minute, the words

1089
01:33:34,039 --> 01:33:54,159
right, right, right, say
the words plato verrata, necktie nectar.

1090
01:33:55,319 --> 01:34:14,079
Nicol said word, it's differently inward. It's definitely an inward class veranda.

1091
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:43,079
Okay, then that's it. Hey, wait a minute, everything's cool.

1092
01:34:44,159 --> 01:35:00,399
I said the word. I can't
do no like whoam the This film is

1093
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:08,960
such a phenomenal array of genres.
It has comedy. This is largely due

1094
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:15,920
to Ash and his many quotable one
liners. It has horror, science fiction,

1095
01:35:15,600 --> 01:35:25,079
fantasy, action, and even old
style special effects that will even warm

1096
01:35:25,159 --> 01:35:30,159
the heart of the most hardened cinemmaphile. With so many elements of film at

1097
01:35:30,239 --> 01:35:35,399
play, It's easy to see why
so many, no matter what they are

1098
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:42,560
a fan of, simply adore this
film to this day. This film lives

1099
01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:47,199
on you. Hear ashes quotes regularly. Hail to the King, Baby,

1100
01:35:48,119 --> 01:35:55,239
groovy, you got really ugly really
quick, that was only pillow talk,

1101
01:35:55,479 --> 01:36:00,439
baby, and this is My Boomstick, among many others, are a part

1102
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:08,039
of pop culture vernacular to this day. Campbell is one of the most highly

1103
01:36:08,159 --> 01:36:14,479
regarded and best beloved B movie actors
of all time, a role he relishes

1104
01:36:15,119 --> 01:36:20,399
and welcomes at comic book and film
conventions to this day. That is why

1105
01:36:20,560 --> 01:36:27,319
this film is a classic. It
doesn't take itself too seriously. It doesn't

1106
01:36:27,399 --> 01:36:32,800
allow itself to get put into one
genre. Forget about talking about awards,

1107
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:39,680
box office numbers, or even critical
analysis. If you want a great film

1108
01:36:40,199 --> 01:36:45,279
that serves anything you're in the mood
for, this is that film that will

1109
01:36:45,399 --> 01:36:50,439
do that for you. It is
one of the best films to watch,

1110
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:56,600
and much like all the films covered
this month, the time of year does

1111
01:36:56,760 --> 01:37:01,199
not matter. I hope you join
me next week when we conclude our Halloween

1112
01:37:01,359 --> 01:37:08,079
slate of films. Within my opinion, the greatest slasher film of all time

1113
01:37:09,159 --> 01:37:16,520
John Carpenter's Halloween. To close this
week's review and a rarity for classic film

1114
01:37:16,560 --> 01:37:24,479
reviews, I want to share the
final scene of Army of Darkness and let

1115
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:30,640
Ash have the final word, and
for you the audience, to hear how

1116
01:37:30,840 --> 01:37:39,079
once again Ash is ineptness brings doom
to the world. For WMNH and Matt

1117
01:37:39,159 --> 01:37:51,079
Connorton unleashed, this has been a
classic film review with Eric Pilcher. I

1118
01:37:51,119 --> 01:37:56,039
thought about Stag. They offered me
the chance to lead them, to teach

1119
01:37:56,159 --> 01:38:02,800
them to be king. But my
place is here. So I swallowed the

1120
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:05,600
Jews said the words, and here
I am. Did you say the words

1121
01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:12,279
right this time? Well maybe I
didn't say every single tiny little syllable no,

1122
01:38:12,439 --> 01:38:21,000
but basically I said him, Yeah. Basically. You know that story

1123
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:26,520
about how you could have been king? I think it's kind of cute.

1124
01:38:28,439 --> 01:39:05,479
Yeah, lady, I'm afraid I'm
gonna have to ask you to leave the

1125
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:38,960
store hood Ahi, name's that Housewares. I'll swallow your soul, come get

1126
01:39:39,039 --> 01:40:04,600
some Sure I could have stayed in
the past, could have even been king,

1127
01:40:08,319 --> 01:40:14,720
but in my own way, I
am King. Hail to the King.

1128
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:24,800
Baby from the studios of w m
N h ninety five point three FM

1129
01:40:25,119 --> 01:40:29,399
in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire.
You are tuned in to the best of

1130
01:40:29,560 --> 01:41:06,760
Matt Connerton unleashed and as promised,
we have a great musical guest in studio

1131
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:13,840
with us, Lou Antonucci, and
I am saying that correctly, exactly awesome.

1132
01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:15,359
That's a that's a big relief.
I try to I try to get

1133
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:21,640
names correctly. Very very Italian,
very Italian. Yes, So welcome to

1134
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:24,760
the show. It's uh, it's
great to meet you. Finally. I

1135
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:29,720
love your sound. Uh, great, great voice and the guitar work and

1136
01:41:29,760 --> 01:41:32,680
everything. We were kind of talking
off here a little bit that one of

1137
01:41:32,720 --> 01:41:36,880
the songs that that I played,
Closed the Door, you were talking about

1138
01:41:38,079 --> 01:41:41,359
some lead guitar work on that from
Jerry Putnam. Is that his name from

1139
01:41:41,399 --> 01:41:45,159
Jerry Putnam up at Cedar House Sound, Yeah, and that that name has

1140
01:41:45,239 --> 01:41:48,319
been coming up on the show so
much recently. In fact, the guys

1141
01:41:48,359 --> 01:41:51,840
I had on yesterday from the band
Pointless Culture, that's where they record,

1142
01:41:53,159 --> 01:41:56,479
and I hear nothing. I don't
I don't know Jerry personally, but I

1143
01:41:56,560 --> 01:41:59,199
hear nothing but great things. Yeah. No, it's a it's a great

1144
01:41:59,279 --> 01:42:02,720
studio. I'd suggest it to anybody
that's looking to do to do some recording.

1145
01:42:02,800 --> 01:42:05,800
Absolutely, and he does all the
mastering there too, right Oh yeah,

1146
01:42:06,119 --> 01:42:10,399
yeah, that's that's that's amazing.
Yeah, and you'll even you'll even

1147
01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:13,479
even do a little guitar for you
for you, if you brought him enough,

1148
01:42:13,520 --> 01:42:15,800
and he's a great guitarist. So
yeah, yeah, it seems to

1149
01:42:15,880 --> 01:42:19,920
me too, like I get the
impression that he kind of becomes like a

1150
01:42:19,960 --> 01:42:25,039
de facto producer, which which usually
happens by accident, but it sounds like,

1151
01:42:25,119 --> 01:42:26,880
you know, he's somebod who really
knows what he's doing and he has

1152
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:29,479
a lot of good ideas. Oh
yeah, absolutely, yeah. And he

1153
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:33,680
produced the uh the CD that that
uh that that song that you played was

1154
01:42:33,760 --> 01:42:36,520
on as well. Yeah, let
me hold this up for the cameras over

1155
01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:39,600
here, so let me hold this
up for everybody. So, uh,

1156
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:45,279
Lou brought brought me copies of for
Jenny and I. It's called an almost

1157
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:48,239
perfect Flight and uh, no way
to really zoom in, but I'll hold

1158
01:42:48,239 --> 01:42:51,560
it up there if some people at
home can see, or people listening or

1159
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:55,760
people watching on their computers, I
should say, or on Channel six.

1160
01:42:56,039 --> 01:42:58,680
But uh yeah, that's a cool
cover. I like that. Yeah,

1161
01:42:58,760 --> 01:43:03,199
if if nothing else, they make
great coasters. But you know that's the

1162
01:43:04,199 --> 01:43:08,760
I still give those out, you
know, at performances. And yeah,

1163
01:43:09,199 --> 01:43:13,079
you know, it's interesting because the
one thing that I miss about the days

1164
01:43:13,159 --> 01:43:17,239
of of vinyl albums, even though
vinyls come back, que are the liner

1165
01:43:17,319 --> 01:43:21,800
notes? Yes? Yes, and
so we courted incorporated quite a bit of

1166
01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:26,479
liner notes in there about the different
stories behind the song. Oh cool,

1167
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:30,760
cool, very cool. Yeah.
Yeah, and yeah people still buy CDs

1168
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:34,039
certainly too, you know that for
that reason. You know, people like

1169
01:43:34,119 --> 01:43:39,199
to have the liner notes. And
of course Vinyl, someone had told me,

1170
01:43:39,279 --> 01:43:42,960
I think in twenty twenty two it
was the first year that Vinyl had

1171
01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:46,960
actually outsold CDs. Really. Yeah, well, you know with Vinyl too.

1172
01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:48,840
I mean a lot of people,
you know, they'll buy vinyl of

1173
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:51,479
their favorite artists and then never open
it. You know, they just buy

1174
01:43:51,520 --> 01:43:55,520
it to collect it and then they'll
leave it sealed, but they'll you know,

1175
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:59,439
put it on their bookshelf or whatever
it is. So but I had

1176
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:05,520
read an ordic where actually there's less
homes now with CDs in them. Yeah,

1177
01:44:05,560 --> 01:44:09,399
it used to be like that's really
going to you really only find CD

1178
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:13,279
players in people's cars, yep,
And I figure those are probably go by

1179
01:44:13,279 --> 01:44:16,560
the wayside in the next year or
two, probably already. Yeah. Yeah.

1180
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:20,840
It's interesting to see over time,
what what technologies go away, what

1181
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:26,800
technologies stick around, because it's it's
often hard to predict, you know,

1182
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:31,760
like cassette tapes stuck around, probably
about five or six years longer than I

1183
01:44:31,920 --> 01:44:36,399
expected. And then a few years
ago I was on band camp and even

1184
01:44:36,479 --> 01:44:40,600
cassettes were back. I couldn't believe
it. I saw I saw local independent

1185
01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:43,840
artists putting out cassettes. Wow,
yeah, did you Yeah you know,

1186
01:44:44,079 --> 01:44:45,840
yeah, no, I didn't even
know you could buy a cassette player anymore.

1187
01:44:46,199 --> 01:44:48,600
Yeah, the high end stuff,
I guess. Yeah, you can

1188
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:51,720
get them online and uh but yeah, people, I mean, I don't

1189
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:55,920
know if anyone actually I think it's
I think it's an idea similar to with

1190
01:44:56,319 --> 01:44:59,079
vinyl. You know, you buy
the cassette, but you don't necessarily listen

1191
01:44:59,119 --> 01:45:00,479
to it, you know, like
he really liked the sound of tape hiss,

1192
01:45:00,560 --> 01:45:03,199
why would you? But if you
really like an artist. But yeah,

1193
01:45:03,279 --> 01:45:06,439
you can go on band camp and
there's artists selling cassettes, limited edition

1194
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:11,880
cassettes. It's it's wild, so
you just never know interesting. Yeah,

1195
01:45:12,039 --> 01:45:15,520
yeah, but Lou, I'm dying
to hear you play. And I know

1196
01:45:16,600 --> 01:45:21,479
we were talking off air during the
break about this up this song message from

1197
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:26,079
Harry, and I don't know if
you want to tell us about it before

1198
01:45:26,079 --> 01:45:30,800
you play it or sure. Yeah. Well, actually recently I've put together

1199
01:45:30,840 --> 01:45:35,359
a small stage show that we've been
doing called You, Me and Harry and

1200
01:45:35,479 --> 01:45:42,399
what it is. It's a very
intimate solo performance, just me doing quite

1201
01:45:42,399 --> 01:45:46,439
a bit of Harry Chapin's music.
And you know, he's well known for

1202
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:49,920
his story songs, right, songs
like Taxi and so on. Yeah,

1203
01:45:50,119 --> 01:45:56,600
well, this particular song, it's
the only Lou Antonucci song in the show.

1204
01:45:57,119 --> 01:46:00,720
Oh, but it was kind of
inspired out of an inn that happened.

1205
01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:04,079
You know. I play all around
southern New Hampshire, and I was

1206
01:46:05,520 --> 01:46:10,520
before I had written this song.
I had just gotten back into performing because

1207
01:46:10,560 --> 01:46:14,560
I had worked in high tech for
a number of years right sold the company

1208
01:46:14,720 --> 01:46:17,640
finally had the opportunity to retire earlier, just get back into music, and

1209
01:46:18,520 --> 01:46:23,399
so I started playing again, picking
up my old repertoire. And I hadn't

1210
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:29,319
had a complete yet right by just
adding songs from my past and working.

1211
01:46:29,439 --> 01:46:35,840
Run. One night at the Copper
Door over in Bedford and I'm just finishing

1212
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:40,399
up a song and I see a
gentleman. He gets up from the bar

1213
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:44,399
and he walks over. He's got
a napkin in his hand, and he

1214
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:48,000
hands me the napkin and I see
there's one word on the napkin, and

1215
01:46:48,079 --> 01:46:50,720
I immediately look up at him and
I say, oh, you must be

1216
01:46:50,760 --> 01:46:56,159
a Harry Chapin fan, because the
word was taxi. He wanted to hear

1217
01:46:56,279 --> 01:46:59,920
taxi. And so he said,
hey, can you do this song?

1218
01:47:00,119 --> 01:47:02,760
And I said, well, you
know I haven't. I haven't performed that

1219
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:06,920
song probably for twenty years. Wow, you know I might be able to

1220
01:47:08,279 --> 01:47:10,399
figure it out. He says,
well, I'll tell you what. If

1221
01:47:10,479 --> 01:47:15,479
you can play the chords, I
can sing it. Well, Matt,

1222
01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:19,720
I don't know if you've been out
performing anywhere, but the last thing you

1223
01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:24,560
want to do is when someone is
missing at the bar for two hours walks

1224
01:47:24,640 --> 01:47:26,800
up and says he can sing,
the last thing you want to do is

1225
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:30,279
give him the microphone. So I
quickly ran through some chords and I figured

1226
01:47:30,279 --> 01:47:39,359
out the song and I did it, and I blew myself away because I

1227
01:47:39,439 --> 01:47:43,279
didn't. I didn't screw it up. I remembered all the words, remembered

1228
01:47:43,279 --> 01:47:45,359
all the chords. I must have
played it thousands of times when I was

1229
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:54,279
younger. So and that's not even
that's not even the craziest thing that happened

1230
01:47:54,319 --> 01:47:57,439
that night, which kind of comes
at the end of the song. So

1231
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,439
I'll leave that that little opening.
But I went home that night and the

1232
01:48:00,520 --> 01:48:04,279
next day and I wrote this song. Okay, it's called message from Harry,

1233
01:48:04,479 --> 01:48:18,960
all right, wonderful. Playing Friday
night at the Copper door, I

1234
01:48:19,159 --> 01:48:27,960
got a message from Harry when one
of his fans walked across the floor ANDed

1235
01:48:28,239 --> 01:48:35,840
me a note, just one we'd
heard on a paper napkin. Took me

1236
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:42,760
back to when I was young.
I must have played that request one thousand

1237
01:48:43,199 --> 01:48:56,359
times back then got a single note. And now the man stood there with

1238
01:48:56,520 --> 01:49:01,279
his drink in his hand, asked
me if I could Glad said it's his

1239
01:49:01,520 --> 01:49:08,239
favorite song. He could sing along
if I could figure out the tune.

1240
01:49:11,359 --> 01:49:17,079
It's been two men in miles on
the ould guitar since I last sang those

1241
01:49:17,239 --> 01:49:23,439
words. Boda told this guy,
I'd give it one good try if I

1242
01:49:23,560 --> 01:49:31,119
could get me up the nerve,
Harry, will I do it? Justice?

1243
01:49:32,760 --> 01:49:39,520
Harry? Will I make you prowl? Not every body's looking call that

1244
01:49:39,880 --> 01:49:46,920
story song? But there's this one
man hit the crowd. I could have

1245
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:56,479
said, I'm sorry, haven't played
that one he needs, But something told

1246
01:49:56,680 --> 01:50:10,560
me to give it a go and
became my feet. Now I started slow

1247
01:50:11,239 --> 01:50:16,600
as it goes. I was a
million miles away. His story has had

1248
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:28,119
a way of doing that even to
this day. Well, the lyrics flow

1249
01:50:28,319 --> 01:50:35,199
black satin of the tale that Harod
spun. It'd been twenty odd years since

1250
01:50:35,279 --> 01:50:58,840
the sang those words, but I
remembered everyone. Yeah, I surprised myself

1251
01:50:59,520 --> 01:51:06,119
form memory. And about three or
four minutes in that man he made his

1252
01:51:06,319 --> 01:51:15,439
way back to the bar with a
whiskey in his hand, and I could

1253
01:51:15,520 --> 01:51:24,279
see him mouth in every word and
it didn't miss me. It made his

1254
01:51:24,520 --> 01:51:33,239
night. It made mine too.
However, a bitter sweet herod did I

1255
01:51:33,319 --> 01:51:42,199
had too with justice? Harod?
Did I make you Proud? Not everybody's

1256
01:51:42,319 --> 01:51:46,800
looking for that story song, But
there's this one man in the crowd.

1257
01:51:49,960 --> 01:51:56,600
I could have said, I'm sorry, I haven't played that one. In

1258
01:51:56,840 --> 01:52:04,199
me, something told me to give
it a go and overcame my feet.

1259
01:52:15,319 --> 01:52:25,680
As I was leaving full evening,
perried out the door, this limo pulled

1260
01:52:25,800 --> 01:52:33,239
up. This couple jumps out,
just trying to make last call, but

1261
01:52:33,479 --> 01:52:43,479
the door headlocked behind me, bolted
for the night. They looked at me

1262
01:52:43,800 --> 01:52:47,960
and I said, yeah, they're
closed. As their limo drove out of

1263
01:52:48,119 --> 01:53:01,399
side and as I packed my car, they stood there in the chili win

1264
01:53:01,600 --> 01:53:10,720
to frost. I could see they
had disappointment, wondering if that night was

1265
01:53:10,920 --> 01:53:23,000
lost neither war and overcoat. So
I offered them arrived, but they said

1266
01:53:23,159 --> 01:53:30,000
thanks, we'll take a taxi.
That's when I got all choked up inside.

1267
01:53:33,560 --> 01:53:39,640
Howrod did I do it justice?
Howrod did I make you proud?

1268
01:53:41,279 --> 01:53:46,960
Not everybody's looking for that stories song. There's this one man in the crowd.

1269
01:53:50,199 --> 01:53:57,000
I could have said, I'm sorry, I haven't played that one in

1270
01:53:57,199 --> 01:54:08,960
me. But a guy a message
from Harry and my feet. Yes,

1271
01:54:09,159 --> 01:54:29,880
I got a message from Harry,
and overcame my feet. Oh very nice.

1272
01:54:30,279 --> 01:54:33,079
Wow, that's that's incredible, and
uh, you know it's a true

1273
01:54:33,439 --> 01:54:38,399
true story. Yeah, to this
day, I wonder why the guy said

1274
01:54:38,439 --> 01:54:42,279
we're taking a taxi right, versus
like an uber or a lyft right,

1275
01:54:42,359 --> 01:54:45,560
but it's just kind of it kind
of what with what happened earlier in the

1276
01:54:45,640 --> 01:54:47,760
evening was kind of crazy. Yeah, yeah, wow, that's fantastic.

1277
01:54:48,319 --> 01:54:54,000
H If you're just joining us.
Lou Antonucci is here with us live in

1278
01:54:54,199 --> 01:54:57,720
studio. He is on the couch
and he's playing some songs and we're talking

1279
01:54:57,840 --> 01:55:01,159
and having a great time. I
also see Gary Smith from Fox and the

1280
01:55:01,239 --> 01:55:06,119
Flamingos and Jam Tomorrow also in the
Facebook live chat, and my old friend

1281
01:55:06,399 --> 01:55:12,399
Jay Bellow from the band Chasing the
Devil also in the chat room. So

1282
01:55:12,479 --> 01:55:15,000
we got a very busy, busy
chat room today. A lot of musicians

1283
01:55:15,079 --> 01:55:17,760
in there, which is good to
see. Do you always fingerpick? Do

1284
01:55:17,800 --> 01:55:19,119
you ever use a pick? Or
do you always? Oh? No,

1285
01:55:19,239 --> 01:55:24,239
I probably more often than not use
a pick. It's just just depends on

1286
01:55:24,319 --> 01:55:28,800
the particular song. Yeah, yeah, I'm always I'm a bass player,

1287
01:55:28,880 --> 01:55:31,359
but I use a pick. And
I'm always amazed at how people are able

1288
01:55:31,399 --> 01:55:35,159
to fingerpicking. It just kind of
fascinates me watching it, like how do

1289
01:55:35,199 --> 01:55:39,840
you even make your fingers do that? I didn't know where they go,

1290
01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:45,600
They just go where they want to
go. Yeah, have you have you

1291
01:55:45,640 --> 01:55:51,560
put out other albums prior to this
one. The now Actually, this was

1292
01:55:51,640 --> 01:55:57,800
really kind of the first one I'm
done in a long long time. I

1293
01:55:57,880 --> 01:56:02,840
didn't there's there's a song on this
album called Living in My Fantasies, yeah,

1294
01:56:03,039 --> 01:56:08,880
which I think you have a track
of. Yes, And there was

1295
01:56:08,920 --> 01:56:12,600
an album I had done back in
I believe it or not nineteen seventy nine,

1296
01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:16,680
when I was just a lad and
Chip was a pup, and the

1297
01:56:16,760 --> 01:56:19,319
name of the album was Fantasies.
If you were to if you were to

1298
01:56:19,399 --> 01:56:26,279
google Fantasies Lou Antonucci on Google,
you'd come across this album. It was

1299
01:56:26,399 --> 01:56:30,479
probably the worst piece of recording I
ever had done in my life. Yeah.

1300
01:56:30,520 --> 01:56:32,119
Yeah, because we were young.
We did it in the studio where

1301
01:56:32,159 --> 01:56:38,199
the guy was like the engineer was
really into polka bands, so he knew

1302
01:56:38,279 --> 01:56:40,520
nothing about what he was doing.
But it was just, you know,

1303
01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:45,399
we did it. But that album
was really the only other album I had

1304
01:56:45,479 --> 01:56:48,640
ever done. Wow. But the
interesting thing about Fantasies, that song on

1305
01:56:48,760 --> 01:56:55,560
the album is completely different from what
the song is today. Yeah. Yeah,

1306
01:56:55,840 --> 01:57:00,359
I kind of rewrote it after so
many years and put it on this

1307
01:57:00,479 --> 01:57:03,960
CD. So but yeah, that's
really the only thing I'd done a couple

1308
01:57:03,960 --> 01:57:11,840
of singles way back when forty five's
were big, and I lived in Pittsburgh,

1309
01:57:11,880 --> 01:57:15,319
Pennsylvania Outsiue of Pittsburgh. Yeah,
and this is definitely a full length.

1310
01:57:15,399 --> 01:57:19,800
There's geez, how many songs around
here? Like fifteen tracks? Thirteen

1311
01:57:19,880 --> 01:57:24,039
fourteen? I think there's thirteen?
Wow. Yeah, and you did this

1312
01:57:24,159 --> 01:57:26,479
all at Cedar House, the whole
thing. Yeah. You know, I

1313
01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:30,680
told my wife at one point and
here this and this was several years ago,

1314
01:57:31,039 --> 01:57:34,359
that I wanted to take, you
know, my original material that I'd

1315
01:57:34,359 --> 01:57:40,239
written over the years and kind of
put them all on a CD. Yeah,

1316
01:57:40,319 --> 01:57:42,359
And she says, no, what
you know, what would that cost

1317
01:57:42,439 --> 01:57:45,640
you to do? And I said, probably about five hundred bucks, go

1318
01:57:45,760 --> 01:57:49,000
into the studio and do it.
She just, okay, I'll get that

1319
01:57:49,119 --> 01:57:55,479
for you for your birthday. And
two years and about five thousand dollars later,

1320
01:57:55,600 --> 01:57:57,479
I had I had an album.