From the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in downtown
Manchester, New Hampshire. You are tuned in to the best of Matt Connerton
Unleashed and we have some very special guests in studio with us. We've got
the band horse Fly Gulch here and uh, let me bring those mics up
there and uh this is uh um Adam, let's start with you, and
let's let's have you all before you play, We'll have you tell us who
you are and what you do in the band. You get to go first
because I'm gonna knew the longest. All right. Hey, my name is
Adam Cody and I've played drums all right pretty much yet all right, and
you sir, Hello, I am Paul Davidson and I play bass and also
do some backing, singing and some percussion as well. Yes, yes,
he got a for for those not watching online, you've you've got a what
do you what do you call that? A horse? Uh? A horse
tambourine? I don't know what you know? Yeah, a stick kind of
a kind of a Godfather vibe? Did you did you wake up one day
with that and then you were like, oh, put a tambourine on it.
I woke up. He was looking at me and all right, very
good. And you, sir, you know that thing that's harrd movie written
all over it, by the way. He found it at some yard sales
somewhere, and it's gonna be gonna be hunting the studio for the rest.
Yes. Yes, my name is Steven had a Chuck. I go by
Steven Scott sometimes depending on the day. Um, I play guitar and I
sing in Horse Flag Goats very good. Well, Um, so what we're
gonna do is these guys are gonna play live for us, which I'm really
looking forward to, and then we'll we'll take a quick break and then we'll
come back and we're gonna talk and catch up on everything these guys are doing.
But what do you guys? Um? And we'll have to kind of
sound check on the fly. Um, but I'm pretty I'm pretty good at
that. It ends up sounding U surprisingly good in this room. Actually,
Um, what what are you guys gonna play for us? This is a
song called Burn the Breeze. Burn the Breeze, all right, whenever you're
ready, right, I don't love to come down put Smith back. I
have to stop. Speed another wing. It's a man, this brew in
heart. You with the childhood love of mine, my greediest mistake and dance.
I want to wait. I heard your voice call my name, and
now her voice call my name. Spurn the breeze together. It's not waste
standtime. Spurn the breeze together. Get away this time. It's river flow,
steep all the way to see I swept from the desert to the trees.
You ain't ever can read to me. It's the breeze together. It's
not a way standing time, but the breeze together. Get away these times
it's been the breeze together. It's not was standing time, but the breeze
together. Get wait these time, get wait thees time, God wait the
time. Yeah. Oh fantastic, Well done, gentlemen, well done,
thank you. I love it. I love it. If you're just joining
us, horse fly gulch, just here with us in studio, what we'll
do is we'll take a break. We'll let you guys put your stuff down
and get comfortable, and uh, I'll um. While we do that,
I'm gonna play. I'm play an old mindset X song. What do you
think? Yeah? What's uh? What should I play from? Oh,
I got oceans pulled up here. I think we're always a fan of Island.
Uhland, Okay, no swears in it obviously. Yeah, this is
there's a good twelve minute song on there. If you really want to go
crazy. No, that's all right. We'll go with so Island. Yeah,
all right, Island, It is all right. And and then we'll
we'll come back and we'll talk with these guys. Check this out. This
is Island mindset X, and we'll explain everyone why I figured it out.
Play a Mindset X song, Comestone Flick, staring back and oh clear reminder
of the way things USTI ways waup with no camera, but I'm the same
time, the watch the feel, Listen to the side, Listen to the
side, show down the tide of the world that is out. We know
what we want to They tell you the danger, they show you the way
the program be dreaming and my mind, don't take him in the silence when
you want to say you follow the room with the love of your soul.
And then the water plan the one can't talk to stop. I've been't where
I speaker, but one han't talk. So I've been't where I go wat
and either five he ain't water yeah, and want not bother don't only Oh
that's cool. That is island from the band Mindset X. And you guys
know what happened to those guys? Are you ever see him? That beast
has taken a nap right now. It's hibernating but not dead. I think
last time I saw him they were in a rubo. So there you getting
a tan if you're if you're just joining us, We are joined in studio
by the guys from Horse Fly Gulch, but we're all three of you also
in Mindset X. That's the same okay. Um, yeah, that band
was around for a long time. Now is does the new project replace that?
Or well? Mindset X continue in the future as well. And in
addition to that, I mean again, you know after twenty years it's in
hibernation the Mindset X. Yeah. Um, but we're focusing just on the
new project right now. But yeah, the old one's not dead. It's
just just sleeping. Yeah. There actually is an album written too, right,
an album in the can Oh. Wow. It's kind of a weird
story actually, And when I now that you kind of reflect on it,
like so before the whole COVID thing hit, right, We were gearing up
to write a new album as Mindset X, and then COVID hit, right,
so we couldn't get together for a little while. And then by the
time we started going back, like a couple of years later, getting back
together and rehearsing those songs, were like, man, these songs they sound
they feel really old now because they were like three years old at that point,
right, And we were like, all right, well, we can't
just not record them, like we spent all this time writing them. Yeah,
So we did record them, right, um, and we released a
couple of them and then and then we just we just said it just just
time to something a little bit different, right, you do medal for twenty
years straight? I think you are my sex was never so much this but
locked inside a box of what you could particularly do as a band when you're
expected to kind of put out a certain style of music, right Yeah.
And I think we just came to a point we were like, you know
what, let's try something new. Does um, do any of those songs
make it into this project or do you do you keep them? You keep
them completely separate? Yeah? Is that the plan? Going forward or is
there a chance of anything kind of Yeah, I do. I mean,
I mean I could sell you from a personal respective. We've discussed this.
I think as a band is not only is it something you a musical perspective,
but they think it's something new, just challenging us. Not for me
anyway, not to cover things up with the storation or you know, to
see if I can actually play something, you know, cleaner, because there's
a lot more room for mistakes when people can hear oh yeah you as a
three piece and there's nothing behind it that's dirty or grunty or into that.
And I don't think that those songs would fit particularly what we're doing right now.
Yeah, makes sense because to be honest, I think the last my
Sex stuff was probably the most pruggy stuff we've done. So and the other
thing is the new stuff is flowing, you know, unlike anything we've done
in years. Like we're basically writing a new song almost every time we get
together. We've been doing this pretty much just since the turn of the year,
you know, on a new year, new project, and we're already
on like ten songs. I mean, it takes a little while to record
them, but yeah, you know they're in the set. You know we
can come out and play them live. Yeah, yeah, another full album
written? Right, pretty much right. We shouldn't have to, you know,
write another ten. We shouldn't have to pull anything. You know.
By the way, our friend Texas Mike, although you might know him as
Michael Martineau, but around here we call him Texas Mike. He's in the
chat room and he says, uh, I know Stephen uh aka the Deviant
music through Ed Murphy and uh and Ellie Murphy. We saw him at Clemento's
Pizza in Manchester. You spotted and you heard that fantastic commercial just about fifteen
minutes ago. I think, didn't we not? Even Michael? How are
you buddy? It plays in my mind all the time. It is catchy,
It is yeah clement people people get mad at me for singing it,
but it really, it really does. Can we steel bad for a riff?
I can't. I didn't write it, so I can't, but yeah,
I have had it. I cannot imagine under any circumstances where anyone would
also, Oh there you go. Um now are you guys playing playing out
a lot with this project? Or well, we just did our first show
what a month ago. Yeah, and then we've got right down the street
one coming up in Dover down at the Strand. It's a new it's a
new venue for us. Oh yeah, Edgewise is in the chat room and
they just posted a picture of them at the Strand. Yeah, it's like
a cool, cool room. It's yeah, it's it's nice because one it's
all ages, and two it's just to be a beautiful venue. Yeah.
I didn't realize it was all ages. That's that's hard to find and I
mean that's important. I think this. Yeah, something we've been missing out
on a lot. Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah. Um and is that
the show? Is dust Profit on that show? Yes? Yes, um,
dust Profit of course. Uh. I used to be in a band
with Auto Kinsel Nice Chemical distance. So yeah, they're and they're in crad.
Have you guys seen Dust Profit live? No, No, very week,
very intense, it'll be it'll be a fun night because they actually us.
We talked about this a while back as Mindset X, and we joined
the bill as Mindset X. Oh back you know, six like four or
five months ago whenever we discussed it. Yeah, and so then a couple
months ago, I texted the little chat group and I was like, Hey,
I just want to let you guys know we have like a Western rocket
billy thing is kind of sleeping even though it doesn't really fit with any of
the style stuff going on. Can we just change the name? And they're
like, yeah, cool, let's do it. So it should be a
really cool night in music. And I think we've always been about screwed the
genre, it doesn't matter, or just get a bunch of bands together that
love what they're doing and open people's minds to listen to different styles of music,
right, And oh yeah, I always been about that. Yeah,
got a couple other lined up. Two. We got one right down the
road at the Shasky in which that's where our first row was. Oh,
excell we'll be back there on the sixteenth of June, I believe ye.
And then the twenty third up at Area twenty three. Okay, my favorite
new hang out there, Yeah close to me. Oh there you go,
there you go? Yeah, edge Y says the Straight. I assume it's
Chris in there. He says, all ages for those unh kids at the
Straight. That makes sense. But why why do I hear a lot of
good things about Air twenty three. I've been there, but not for a
long time. What is it? Uh, but everybody's talking about not just
because it happened if they happened to be close, but everyone's given it rave
reviews. Yeah, Kirk up there is one of the biggest supporters of local
music north of Manchester anyway. Yes, yep, Um, you can go
in there any given night. There's live music. He's got open mics Wednesdays.
I just saw an incredible band there. Um, Dan Bedrosian in the
Secret Army okay spot of p funk. Oh he's playing. I've interviewed him,
yeah, in this in that little room. Yeah, it's mind boggling,
you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah he was. He
was on the show. Was a few years ago now before it was before
COVID but um cool. Now, so when when you guys play live with
this project, how many songs do you have that you do live? Right
now? We've got ten? Oh okay I think nine? Yeah, forty
five minutes to an hour, yeah, yeah, depending on the jam mood.
Very good, very good, horse Fly Gulch in the studio with us
and uh, these guys played live earlier. So if you missed it.
You definitely want to go back and check the archive and uh yeah, Paul,
all right, tell us the story. So so again for for those
who are of course you've got I'll let you describe it. Your your instrument
of choice that you brought to do. So yes, um so, being
a unique band, we decided to try different instruments and stuff. In fact,
Steve does a little mandolin here, a little banjo there, and I
was like, oh, I need something, right, and so we came
up with the song. Actually we just played burn the Bridge and there's space
in the middle in the in the beginning. Yeah, And I didn't want
to just kind of stand there right right. So being horse fly gulch,
you know, we were out, um, me and my wife and we
were looking for props and stuff like that that we could use. Yeah,
and um, this is happens to be one of them. And what it
is, it's it's one of the old riding horses, yeah, stick that
the kids used to go around and and we added a little tambourine to it.
And now you can witness it live, yes, you know. Yeah,
and uh I might see somebody dancing around with it as well. Does
the when when it squeaks. Has that made it in any of the songs
or do you just do that? Oh? It definitely definitely YEA Burned the
Breeze that was the debut of Yeah, yeah, oh very good. The
only thing it's missing is a name. Yeah, so we don't have a
name. Anyone on the chats the name the horse Peace feel free. We
have a contest, yes, yes, the winner gets the name the horse.
Oh very nice, very nice. Where do you guys record? Because
everything, uh and and this has been the case, you know, not
only with this band, but with the previous band. Everything sounds really good,
just sounds really good. Where do you record? I assume it's changed
over the years, but I'm happy to say that this every hust Flag Elt
song thus far has been recorded at our own recording studio, so excellent.
Over the last five or six years, I've been kind of revamping and kind
of rebuilding that whole thing, YEA, saving here and there and buying little
pieces of equipment and figuring out actually how to use it. Yeah, you
know, so I think I finally got to a point where I feel relatively
comfortable and you know, releasing stuff to the public. And it's definitely going
to help us out because when Adam is ready to lay tracks, we just
throw the mics up and go and don't have to go anywhere else. It's
beautiful not to say that we might. You know, there's still is always
the chance of saying, let's go somewhere else that sounds different or can produce
it behind it, or something happened. Who knows what's going to happen.
But I think from a convenience standpoint and from my own personal uh holy crap,
I can actually do this standpoint, it's nice to be able to have
that. So yeah, no doubt, Um has it always been that way,
Like like even with the early mindset X stuff? Did you the days
in the early days, we you know, we started off probably the first
two or three recorded at Steve's and then uh you remember the one the first
place we went into but Drumling Downs. We did like three full CDs there,
Yeah, Brian Sachs Rested Peace yea. And we've also recorded at what's
Jay's metronome okal like as he calls it right, okill, and mastered at
metronome y. So we think, you know, at the end of the
day, I think we want to try something different, right, And I
think, you know, I think every band wants to have a different sound,
and if you stay in the same place all the time, you get
poured. And I think we didn't want to do that. We wanted to
like try to branch out. And yeah, branching out for us was branching
in really right, And I think it's it's been great, it's been It's
nice to go in my studio at you know, eleven PM and work till
one, yeah, teene. It's just nice to have that luxury. Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's nice to live in an era where,
you know, you have so many different options as far as how you
record, you know. And like we say, we did the original with
the first couple of my six albums, we did it at home too.
Well. Yeah, the first one was fun. It was like two microphones
hanging in a room, you know. Yeah, and we did this whole
concept album with just these two Chintzi mics hanging. Yeah. Actually still use
the same mic. Yeah. One of the mics I just recently found is
a it's a old radio shack condenser with a little switch on it. You
put no kid, double a battery in there. Oh, Wow, we've
found that and it's still worse. Use it and we use it as we
use it as a drum overhead in both of those songs. No kid ain't
I'll be damned. Wow, that's amazing. It still works. That's a
low five sound. That's cool. Yeah. I bought that back when there
was a radio shack in West Franklin, if that If anybody knows the area,
that was a long time ago. Oh yeah, jeez, yeah,
there used to be radio shacks everywhere. I think they're all gone, right
that so they back online? I saw it, but I gotcha, gotcha,
Yeah, Adam. When I first met you, um way back,
I was working at Strawberries Loddon Road and Conquered, and I remember you brought
in a CD. You brought in a CD for me to check out Liquid
Native, yeah my first band. Yeah, yes, that was uh now
whatever ended up happening, because I remember actually going to see you guys live
too it uh, I can't remember that. No, I might have seen
you there, but I also saw you in Conquered, Oh she Antillies and
Conquered, Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, the good old days when
it was you know, bigger clubs up there. And I mean it's coming
back. It is nice. Whatever happened to that band? Um, you
know in the end, it was just like oil and water, you know,
like, yeah, when everything's settled, you know, we all just
kind of went our separate ways. Yeah. The singer I can kind of
still remember him. He was like like a wasn't he like a big,
like biker dude, very intimidating. Yeah he was. Yeah, he was
stocky. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I can still picture
of the cover too. It was a black and white photo and I think
you guys might have been at railroad tracks. We were on the stairs up
at the Stammy Corp of Engineer's Damn up in Franklin. Gotcha, gotcha?
Yeah? Now after that was mindset X. Next for you. After that
band, I had one more small project that lasted maybe a year, but
oh name is familiar. Yeah. There was a CD floating around out the
other maybe like a hundred copies in existence. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think you still have that email address, don't you? That still
email? Now? What about you guys? Obviously you know mindset X has
been around for a long time, but have there been other projects too?
Along the way or uh, definitely for me. So like I actually was
trying to think about this the other day. So I have I'm up to
like about. It's over thirty years I've been playing on the music scene.
Yeah, and with my well, I can't say my first band, but
the first gigging band was Hollywood East, which was out of Manchester here,
ok and uh it was a hair hair rock, hair metal what I call
it. It's a cool names it was. It was a lot of fun.
Yeah. So I went from that to a a punk jazz band up
in Maine called Pog Soldier um, and then some variations of other bands.
I started also recording, uh the Obe Show, which is an all day
experience of music and art and stuff like that. Wow free for music,
so very experimental stuff and um. And then before Mindset X, before I
joined on with them, I also was part of a m It was a
instrumental progressive hard rock band think about that, yeah, called Dreamline. And
so I remember Dreamline, really I do? Um? Did I sit Okay?
Did you ever? Uh? Now I can't remember the name of the
venue. I feel like I saw you. Did you play out a lot
with Dreamline? We we actually did a good amount of shows. In fact,
we've we actually played with Mindset US as well, because I feel like
I saw Dreamline live. I can't remember where though I thought I thought I
had it, but I remember Dreamline. Yeah, showdown at Millie's. It
was Dreamline Mindset X Yeah. Oh might have been there. Yeah, it
might have been that one. Oh actually late, now that you said it,
very well might have been. I think it's coming back to me.
Yeah, yeah, which could have been yeah, yeah yeah, Bob Bobs.
Yeah. But we played Darren Boston, were played Summer's Worth. We
actually got down into New York City as well with that band. Yeah.
So just saw all about the East coast. Yeah, yeah, the Northeast,
I should say, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well what about you,
Steve So, I started a band's right out of high school or was
part of a band anyway called Salem, which was kind of a I guess
progressive rock band, I guess, um and that did pretty well for a
while actually, and then Salem kind of this band a couple members left.
We started a band called Sage sa Je, which was a little bit out
there. Um, but we did. We did again pretty well for a
little while, and then Um and then I think you and I met from
a Craig this sad or something right, And then it was I think it
was New England Rocks. Yeah, yeah I do, I do. Yeah,
it was you know, bass player and singer guitarist looking for drummer and
I was a drummer looking for them. And yeah, we got together and
we're like, you know what, let's just start from scratch, new name,
songs, knew everything. Yeah, so I didn't draw any anything from
my past. Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, we used to
practice that. That first practice space was the town clerk of Atkinson's house,
really clerk's basement, Linda. Oh how jammed up in the in Linda's basement,
don't ask we I knew a light guy named Gary who lived in Atkinson
who liked Salem and he was a fan of that Salem Sage stuff my past
bands. And then we were looking for a place to practice again and he
was friends with the town clerk and she just loved music, right, and
she was all about that um and I remember many nights three am trying not
to stuff. There was like the scares from hell. Yeah, I went
down there. You'd like have to carry these you know, back then everything
was gigantic and heavy, right, so like you're trying to do this at
three in the morning, and you know, um, but great times.
They We probably still have equipment in those cupboards down stairs down there, everybody.
Um. Yeah. So it's been a quite an interesting ride. And
I think the cool thing about horse Flag is it feels like or kids again,
you know what I mean. And definitely all new. Yeah, we're
not. We're not superhold by any means, but I think from a musical
perspective, it's fun and exciting to be able to write new stuff with no
nothing kind of confining you. Yeah, And and the fact that the songs
just keep flowing, you know. And that's that's from a musicians standpoint and
artist standpoint, that's you don't want to put a stop on that. So
I think we're kind of taking whatever the heavens gives us and running with it
here. So, by the way, I've been told in the chat room
Edgewise played with Sage a bunch back in the day. I do remember that.
Yeah, I remember that. Yep, yep, So Edgewise, you're
twenty six two, right, we're all twenty six If you're just joining us.
We've got the guys from horse Fly Golch here in a studio with us.
Also, we'll just say hello to everybody in the chat room. I
did mention Edgewise in there, and oh Steve, I see you're in there.
Excellent and Texas Mike. Of course we mentioned earlier Melanie La Liberty from
the Great State of Vermont. We have a board seven who is from,
of course, Greensboro, North Carolina. These a lot of hashtags there in
Greensboro. It's very interesting. Now Jay fed is in the chat of course,
from the Great State of Vermont, and he has a question and he
asks this of all the musical guests. He's kind of shopping around, and
I think he's running out of time. I think yes, to have this
figured out by September. Do you guys play birthday parties? I think we'll
play anywhere as long as no win throws anything shop at us. Okay,
So yes, now I must Now he didn't bring up this part yet in
the chat room, but I feel a duty to forewarn you about this before
you even entertain any such agreement. He will probably invite you. I don't
think this is compulsory. If you go there and play necessarily, but he
will probably invite you to join him in an ice bath. I don't know
how you all feel about that. Personally, I find the idea terrifying,
you know, hypothermia, things like that, But apparently it can be very
healthy and refreshing. I guess I don't know. Uh so just come up
for that. You would do it? Yeah, if it's ninety degrees,
Oh, after we've done playing covered with sweat, you'll hop in some ice.
Yeah. I don't understand any of it, but yes, all right,
there you go. These might be your guys, Jay fed, These
these might be uh, these might be the guys to do that. Um,
we'll write we'll write a song called frozen. Yes, I feel like
I'm gonna all go home like Han solo. Here you go. Jenny is
in the chatrooman says Shalom Peeps from Reagan Airport in d C. Yes,
she's off line back from Washington, DC today. Nice, Hello, very
exciting. Yes. Yes, um so, now what's the strategy as far
as because you kind of told me this off air, but what's the strategy
as far as releasing new music with this project? They're coming out at one
at a time. Every however often, yeah, as quick as we can
put them together and get them out, but have them sound decent. Been
averaging six to eight weeks. Would like to hit six every time obviously,
Yeah, but we're just gonna try and keep releasing songs every six weeks,
and so we don't know is the idea to eventually have enough that because I've
seen a lot of artists of this now where they release a single, you
know, like every four or six weeks, whatever it is, and then
eventually those singles at a certain point become an album. Yes, So that's
exactly what the plan is. So if you're looking at something particularly like Spotify,
right, it's what kind of do with doing the waterfall release method,
right, which we released the One that Got Away, which is out for
a single, and then we just released Snake Dance, which you played,
and theoretically Snake Dances an EP. Right, So you see, if you
go on Spotify, you'll see those two songs, and then you'll see those
you'll see three songs. In a couple of weeks, you'll see that song.
So eventually all that stuff is going to come to fruition and be a
full length album. Um. At this point. To be honest, we'd
like to do a vinyl run too, if possibly a double a double vinyl
album because um, as a crazy minds work and the way we've always loved
progressive music. Um, these songs actually represent a story. So um,
one side is from one person's view of the story and the other side from
another person's view. Oh so it it. It's unique kind of concept that
we're kind of running with and seeing where it goes. So yeah, yeah,
Um, any any plans for I mean, there's a lyric video I
think right for the one that got away. Any any plans for to do
a proper like a because it seems like it's easier than ever to make videos.
You know, if you got an iPhone and you can, you can
do some really amazing things. Yeah, we got Um, we actually are
in the process of, uh of filming a video. Um, what's it?
Is it high weekend in June? Something? Is it with the release
or I think it is? Yeah? All right, well, yes,
the next song should come with a video released on the same day. Cool,
it will will come with it. It will excellent. Are you are
you guys making that yourselves? Are you working with anybody on that? A
good friend of mine, Christian Patty. Um he will be helping us with
the production part of it and stuff and be doing most of the editing.
Um he's a you know, he he's a great friend, loves it,
takes pictures and wants to take it a step further and has worked with um
some video stuff before. Uh so we are looking forward to having a real
nice classic, you know, whatever, whatever it comes out, there may
be snakes, snakes, something like that. You never know video. Is
it going to be for snake Dance? No, you know, originally it
was and the concept kind of holds true. It was nice and interchangeable.
So yeah, I think the next song I think we're releasing it is called
The Long Road, And from a single perspective, it's got that thing on
it, that thing. We don't know what that thing means, or if
we all knew what that thing means, we all be millionaires, right,
But I think it's from a single perspective, we think it makes sense to
kind of put the video behind this particular song. But in the concept for
the Snake Dance and this, they're actually close to each other in the story.
So okay, from a video perspective, it's kind of easy to yea,
yeah, that changed. So it's funny. I was having a conversation
with somebody recently on the show about music videos and because there are people who
I'm sure you guys run into it, there are people who have this idea
that, you know, since MTV stop showing videos, I don't know if
they show any at all anymore, a long time ago, that the music
videos are just like a completely dead medium. It's like there's really if you
go on YouTube, there's more. I mean there's there's artists, you know,
of course, like major artists who have a lot of money, like
if Beyonce, you know it, puts out a new album, you'll get
a video for every single song. There's actually more videos than ever. I
think I agree with you. I think a lot of people don't even know
a song is released unless there's a video for it, right, and that
goes down like when you when you say video now it's it's reels stories this,
you know, let's not even get into TikTok. Right. So I
think I think videos are more important than probably even the MTV days at this
point, because that's that's all people do. We see it every day right,
you go anywhere people just scrolling through their next thing, right, and
that's that's how it is these days. Um, so we've as a band,
we we even the mindset XT. I think we were never very diligent
about making good videos. I mean we made a couple of good videos of
Amanda we made too, I think, and I think that's as far as
we went. We were just going way back. Yeah oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, Atmosphere had a video then and here and there, So we
we gotta get on that bandwagon. I think, you know, we've learned
thirty years later, maybe we should make some more videos. Yeah. No,
I think you're right though that now it's more important than ever, you
know, because especially now, you make a video and then you can share
it everywhere. And I remember being a kid, and uh I would with
the VCR. I would record videos off of MTV, you know, out
the Beta Max. Yeah, I know I'm not quite that old, but
but I did. But I did do the VHS and uh, I mean
I remember Beta Max. I know what it is, but it's funny that
actually better quality and yet that's the one that died. But um but yeah,
I remember recording videos off of MTV and hoping that you know, my
my favorite video would come on and I would record it and it was a
big deal, and then I get really upset, if you know, after
a while the tape would wear out, and then it's like, oh,
I don't have that video anymore, and that song is not popular anymore.
They're never going to show it again. Yeah, you know, now I'm
just screwed, you know. And now in the year twenty twenty three,
any any music video I've ever wanted to see, I can just go on
YouTube and type it. It's such a crazy thing, like the videos video
thing, especially in so many variables with that, where like you have to
keep in mind, like the demographic that your band is kind of aiming for,
right, So obviously, if if you're aiming for eighteen nineteen year olds,
it's all TikTok, snapchat and all that stuff, but there is still
a group like if you're aiming for you know, forty five year old whatever,
fifty year olds, I mean they still buy cts. Oh yeah,
So yeah, you're kind of got to find that weird middle ground. You
make a small CD run, you're at the same time you're supposed to be
on social media daily and all this fun stuff. And you know, if
there's any social media mans out there, please give us a call. Yeah,
because this is not an easy thing to do, and it's a lot
to keep up with, lots to keep up constantly changing and evolving and yeah,
who does that? Like, do you guys all just kind of handle
that yourselves, all three of you or right now? Yeah, right now,
we're just doing it ourselves. Yeah, I mean, Steve does a
majority of it, but I'm doing what I can. Paul and I are
doing what I can to pitch in you know what I mean? Yeah,
yeah, absolutely. Um, are there any live performances on YouTube? I
didn't. I didn't. There's one. It's got the first three songs from
the first show. Oh okay, Um, well yeah it's um. I
actually requested so Tom O'Connor's friend there. I did request a copy of it,
but I haven't got yet. But there is one that should be floating
around YouTube somewhere. Um and funny it has to only as mindset X.
We always wanted to write an instrumental and we never did. And then really,
yeah, I don't know why. We every time we wrote the song,
we're like, oh, which is just right. But then then we
wrote the outlaw, and the outlaw was like, this doesn't need any lyrics.
So it's the first instrument that we've ever written as a band is actually
on this two and that's actually recorded. It's on that video. So every
time I'm watching like, yeah, like that's all. We have a call.
Hi, I'm Maddy's Gary. Hey Gary, how are you doing?
We are we are short on time, my friend, So I'll just ask
you to be uh be terrists if you would. No, I was just
wondering if they would do like maybe MPR's tiny guest concerts. Oh, I
can imagine you guys on there, absolutely the contact information for that. Yeah,
we just want you. Talked about that last week and a lot of
our little band meetings. UM, so the answer would be we would definitely
be exploring that option, and if we can, um somehow pulled that off,
we'll definitely promote the heck out of it. So oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, because I've seen a lot of I've seen a lot of the
good They've got a lot of good groups and a lot of good people on
there, and uh and they yeah, they do and they you know,
like I just saw a couple of them, and there was this Latin group
all girl and they had they were playing with a susaphone and uh some some
brass and then uh girls, but they were really good. This girl was
she played twelve string and she played six string. It's really good at it,
so very very cool. Yeah, and then they support all the genres
too, which is nice. Yeah, we'll definitely see what we can do
to get on there. I appreciate that. And yeah, if you guys
do videos, maybe you could get Melanie to start on one of your videos.
You know, I don't know who Melanie is, but yeah, it's
always looking for something like that, you know in Vermont, you know.
Oh yeah, cool, Yeah, have her send us an email on our
website. Hush play golstuck on. She's a big actress. Cool. Well,
well if you go for the birthday party, lady, it's a big
act chriss nice. All right, Well let's go, Maddie. I know
I talked too long, but I just wanted to put my two cents in
on it. Thank you very much, No, thank you, no worries,
Gary, We appreciate the call. Yeah, all right, and I
love Jenny. Tell Jenny I'm so proud of her. I heard her.
I'm so proud of her. So absolutely, we'll do we'll do, all
right, great, all right Gary, thanks have a great evening by all
right bye bye. All right, very nice. That was our friend Gary,
and we are we are nearing the end of the show. So before
we run out of time, I want to make sure you mentioned, of
course, where people should go online. Oh question, where does the name
come from? By the way, where fly Gulch back? It was very
spontaneous, really, Uh yeah. We were on our bi weekly or weekly
little zoom meeting that we do to try and move things forward when we're not
physically together practicing or writing, yea, and we were just thrown around ideas
and one of us blurted it out, like hey what about this? Yeah,
it seemed to stick, you know. And plus, you know,
it's hard to find a name nowadays. Everything's taken right right, you know,
you go on that you can go on these name generators online and stuff
and come up with some two or three silly words that don't really make sense
together. Yeah, that kind of made sense, And there's actually a horse.
Fly Gulch is a place in Idaho or something right, it's literally adults.
It's like in between two ravines. We knew it would be some sort
of Western vibe because that was the solid music we were writing, right.
I mean it's not country by any means, but I think it definitely pays
homage too, a little bit of the rocketbilly folky stuff, right, So
we want something to fit that. And originally it was going to be the
bar Flies right then, just like seven million of the band, I was
gonna say, no matter what's spelling you did or whatever they did in the
bar Fly, that didn't even work. All yeah, right, No,
I like, uh worst fly Gults. It's a good name. It's uh,
we're pretty happy with its memorable. Yeah, no it is. It
is, all right? So what should people know about where to find you
guys online? Keep up with what you're doing, go to shows, get
your music, all of that. I'm looking at you, Poem. Well
you do most of the media I do, all right. So Fly Gulfs
dot Com is our official website. Um and I think Instagram and Facebook definitely
the two social media platforms that were kind of really into at the moments.
Instagram will probably the one that you'll find us on the most as we move
forward. We do have a band camp and there is a SoundCloud and all
that fun stuff, but I think Facebook, Instagram, housflagos dot com.
It's kind of the main places. And obviously at the website, all the
links are right up tops YouTube, right yeah, YouTube. The videos will
always be up on YouTube. But I'm not sure how much of a creator
aspect we're going to be able to play with that, because that just takes
so much time. And yeah, I don't think we chose that that avenue,
but it is on YouTube Music and it and several other pretty much all
the platform all all the streaming platforms are on. So if I could give
any love out there, and I could say, if you could do anything
for us to help the pand out, go on Spotify, give us a
like at the City of Playlists m because because that's where the three cents a
month rolls in. Yeah, that's right, that's right, all right,
very good, very good. And uh, we'll close out the show with
what now? What's is snake Dance the current single or is it that's the
newest one. That's the newest one, so well, I played it earlier,
but we'll close with it. Too cool, great great song. Thank
you. Um I love both of them, but yeah, this is a
This is a great track. Gentleman, Adam, Steve Paul, thank you
all so much. Good to see, nice to see. This has been
wonderful. M M. Now I'm now going. It's tire you to see
the sounds. It's all und stars, guy stars and rains batas star.
I feel the same. I found away to get down Chacob the du through
the town. I found a new romance with this The snake dance got starting
come and the vandom turns. If it comes into like crashing way away snake,
then my dance googs and my bike steams. I feel the pain.
I found away to get down Chickop the d through the town. I am
found the new old man. What is the snake damn m I am abound
the way to it down up this town. I'm found the new romance with
this state. I'm on the way down cheek up the dusts down a romance
with this snake. Dance with this snake. Dance with this snake. Dance
from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in downtown
Manchester, New Hampshire, you are tuned in to the best of Matt Connerton
unleashed. And we have a couple of fine gentlemen here on the couch.
We have a Cody Pope and Byron Gee. How are you guys? Hey
doing great? Thanks so much for having us? Absolutely absolutely so um and
you guys are going to perform and this is very cool. Have you ever
performed sitting on a couch before? Honestly, I think this is the first
for us. Definitely a different vibe, but first time here, first time
performing on a couch. Yeah, yeah, there it is there, It
is okay? Should I all right? Are you guys ready? Yeah?
We are ready? All right, Here we go. The song title is
called Knugi off of our debut album Together and Meet Me in Gate City.
That is Cody Pope and I am Byron Gee. I turned thirty and felt
I had a cracker. Two. People love to just sit back and laugh
at you, miraculously think that life is just gonna turn around. Same people
always telling you to turn your frown, turn it down, music loud,
what neighbors? I do this for real ones and no, my true players,
not no sense thinking you're flipping up quick or like clipping bricks and cooking
it like this quick. I had needles in my arm. Monday again the
same felt the treason from my dogs looking funny in their face. Almost sat
down for a couple for defending the turf. This planet truly hates me.
I'm no friend of the earth trail blazing. I don't need to ride a
coat tail. Things I've survived are the singing things that most failed. Tried
to ride the waves, but couldn't fix a boat's sail. Like all listen
to Hope's fault, I was watching Hope fail. Broken pottery manned with the
gold dust, never was shamed to make repairs to the old dust cracks in
our armor only show. We have history. If you don't get it,
it don't mean it's it is to me, Broken pottery man with the gold
dust never was shamed to make repairs to the old dust cracks in our armor
only show. We have history. If you don't get it, it don't
mean it's it this to me. You might catch me prowling down Vine Street
or at the crib holding them my dime piece. Might see me at the
record store chilling with my niece. Every song is a capsule like it's my
diary, diagoria of the mouth. Things I spit specific thing no one gifted
like I float off the Pacific. You miss every shot that you don't take.
Shoot so much. You might meet me at my own way. When
see began big like a soda in the three piece, like Jordan with the
three peak CD stuck on repeat. We like the hot boys Turk, Juvie
and big Man. We freshest Mandy when he making beats for Wheezy best believe
me being greedy, get you left behind. Everybody meet their maker friends with
death in time. My breath is Rihm's mind crime, body shrine, piss
excellence with these, might as well bottle up the wine. Broken pottery mended
with the gold dust, never ashamed to make repairs to the old dust cracks
in our armor only show we have history. If you don't get it,
it don't mean it's a dis to me. Broken pottery mended with the gold
dust, never ashamed to make repairs to the old dust cracks in our armor
only show we have history. If you don't get it, it don't mean
it's a dist to me. Preach, Oh you guys sound great, Hey,
thank you, Mann solutely if you're just joining us. Cody Pope and
Byron g are here with us live in studio. That was not a studio
track. That is them performing live here. They are on the couch with
us, and gentlemen, I have some good news if you want to keep
going. Oh, if you're gonna twist my arm because I'd love to hear
more. Yeah, I finally I figured out how to get that folder over
beautiful. So you want you want just the next track? Sure? So
this track two is called Scary Stories. We just had this going throughout college
radio in North America and it was really cool to see how far it went
so excellent. Is kind of like the first proper single from the album,
if you will, so shout out to everybody that helped make this one count.
It's a little more rapidly rapped than the last one. Yeah, cool,
cool, All right? Are you ready? Yes, sir? All
right, here we go. Shout out to DJ Myth on the Scratches,
Manchester's Finest Yes, sir, no sign yo, don't talk to me about
the rapper with no Book of Flames. Don't look away. I'll burn the
bridge with one book of flames. Shook with a shame, took a look
and play the crooked game hooks the same. But the word you say don't
mean a thing. You want your masters because nobody wants trash. Don't flaunt
at me the label won't call back. Do something to magnitude before flexing attitude.
Say you don't give it up until people la mad at you? Only
positive vibe? Okay, you opportunists, surround yourself with toxic people just to
push your music integrity and sacrifice me tona before success can't be new to When
people relying to the press, the mind minds that rappers are actors to what's
this man's intention with all the questions he's asking you? So I clearly want
to run until they fall face first instead of go in the slow clumps at
the pace first? What taste worse with a bit of frank friends becoming foes
with someone who plans to use it against you? What they know all one
and the same, all one in the equal. We both can't live.
You gotta die before the sequel gave me life. Taking yours is not a
problem. Plunge with a knife before they say they got him this that I
do. Take every penny in breath so know what, I have no fear.
I'm already friends with death. Why so serious? Because life's so hard
somehow a lot of these frauds left me scarred, trusted in people who wouldn't
give me a crumb to live, having to navigate humanity has dumb to live,
Still swinging, still fighting, I show why trying, y'all tough on
song, Facebook all crying bitch, probably sell your journal out reviews. I'm
the World's night many dreaming for you preach. You guys are left to excuse
me skipping out a couple of phrases here and there, trying to trying to
keep it, keep it radio clean. So just you know, but I
love doing this. This is really cool man. It's all a great way
for us to uh share the album with people. I love this. Oh,
it's great here and you guys live in the in the studio like this.
This is awesome. Thank you. Yeah, it's cool. It's been
a while since we've got to perform or really rock these, you know,
we've been so busy with doing We we both do like event planning and stuff
like that, and we do a lot of booking of shows, and we
run a record label together. So it's like it's been probably months since we've
played a show, so it's nice to just even be here kind of like
flexing the muscle again. Yeah. Yeah, well let's talk about some of
that stuff and then and then if you guys want to do another track.
I'd love to hear another track absolutely in a few minutes. But yeah,
yeah, tell me about now. So, Cody, I've interviewed you,
I think once, maybe twice. Yeah, I think it was it was
like I want to say, it was twenty fifteen when you were doing Local
Outbreak in Laconia. Yeah, yeah, long time ago. Yeah. Now,
how long have the two of you been working together, because it sounds
like you do do a lot of stuff together, right, Yeah, just
over the last like two years now. We had met We're both from Nashua,
New Hampshire, so we met through like the Gate City hip hop community
there, yea, and he had just sent me a couple of beats and
what was going to be a couple of songs turned into an album. Us
doing the album turned into him coming on board to help me run the record
label, and honestly, ever since, we've like found this symbiosis in our
partnership things have just taken off tremendously for both of us, and yeah,
I think we both attribute a lot of that to the partnership because we'd both
been out We've been out here for over a decade on our own, yeah,
making waves, but not anything sustainable. And uh, you know,
now ever since we've put this album out, things have really opened up for
us fortunately. Yeah. Now, do you guys always perform together at this
point or do you ever still do solo shows or how does that work?
So he does solo shows as a producer, so so Cody Pope and Byron
Gee. He produces all the music for us and is like composing all of
that, you know, working with any of the instrument players we work with,
anything like that. And so he can go out and do like DJ
shows and gigs like that where it's like, um, he'll go and play
his beats and things of that nature. I don't I honestly could go out
and do shows without him, but we have so much fun performing together that
any opportunity I get to perform, I try to get him involved. Yeah.
He's really good about supporting me live too, where you know, when
we do certain you know, I'll get offers to open for certain artists where
you know, for example, we just opened for nonfiction a few weeks back,
sold out at the Shaft Sky and it was great. Wow. But
um, anybody that's familiar with nonfiction that's like a really heavy, like you
know, hardcore hip hop, and so some of the songs from our album
are a little more soulful. Yeah, but you know, I have a
really deep back catalog, so he'll learn songs from my back catalog and we'll
go and play. You know, we never played the same set twice basically.
Yeah, he's really good about playing my old catalog songs in with the
songs that we've made, sorry made together now okay, okay, and Byron,
did you like what what did you start doing first, producing or rapping
or what? Like? What what game first for you? I started producing
first two rap so I was writing and stuff. This was you know,
back early two thousands. Yeah, and uh, I I wasn't really you
know, on like the YouTube find beats and stuff. So I really fruity
loops and learned how to produce beats basically for myself to wrap over it.
Okay, you know, over the years, I just liked producing more and
uh, engineering, mixing, mastering that type of stuff. Yeah, and
uh, I kind of just gave the didn't really write as much anymore.
I kind of gave that the backseat and to focus on the other things where
it was, like I really was needed because you know, a lot of
people out in this area. Um, you know, it's easy to pick
up a pen and a pad. It's you know, it doesn't cost a
lot of money and just get your thoughts out. And a lot of people
didn't really have the bed to you know, lay their lyrics down too.
So I kind of took that helm and and and started to progress in the
producing and engineering rather than the writing and stuff. Okay, okay, um,
but you still you still do some writing, not much. I'm getting
back and I'm trying pressure him too. I tell them all the time.
I go, Byron, we got to put out a rap album for you
on help stuff. You know, not a lot of people now, But
I'm slowly getting back into it, you know, bring something different to the
table for the next projects we have coming up. Yeah. Yeah, and
you guys tell me about the label. You started that together. So I
started that back in twenty eighteen. I had I had started a different record
label back in twenty ten, and I did that on my own for like
eight years. Decided it was time, you know, it had run its
course, closed the doors. I had also like taken some time off I
you know, the this was a little before the pandemic, but the pandemic
also kind of put that into motion too. I had like a three year
hiatus, and I started doing a lot of different writing. I was writing
poetry. I'd written a couple of screenplays for like radio screenplays. Yeah,
I got I got really into like old radio dramas from like the forties and
fifties and stuff like that, and so I kind of wrote this like detective
sci fi story that takes place in Nashua in like the fifties and had a
bunch of voice actors come and I put like two years into that, and
then I was right, you know, and that so that just kind of
opened me up to I love hip hop. I love everything that I do,
but I want to create a label or some sort of distribution house that
I can put all of my art out through. Yeah, And then so
I'd spend a couple of years kind of just getting the branding right, figuring
out what I was going to do next as an artist, and when he
came along, it was just like the It was like, I can't explain
how perfect the timing was, where both of us wanted the same thing,
but both of us brought the thing that the other person didn't do, where
it was like I always, you know, ever since I was a kid,
pretty much, I wanted to like have a record label and be a
musician and do all this stuff. But I'm not an audio engineer. I
don't know things about bit rates and file sizes, and you know, distributors
will ask us questions and I'm like, oh, well, I'm gonna pass
that off to my man over here. Yeah, and uh, you know,
so even in my like personal goals, him coming on board has allowed
me to pursue my like professional goals at a rate of speed that I wouldn't
have been able to without having a partner like that that was like equitably invested
emotionally and everything else. Oh yeah, yeah, very cool. It's like
fate really. Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was perfect time and
for sure because you had just released The Howling Man, and I think you
were just like like what's next, and you're throwing shows and stuff, and
I was just I had recently just really like released my first two instrumentals on
like digital. Yeah. Other than that, it was just a hard drive
full of stuff, you know what I mean. So joining up with him,
I put out a whole basically beat blast year full album. We put
it on physical and CD and sold it out and and we've released uh,
like seven I think it's seven records on the label since he came on board.
We we did three. We did three instrumental albums so far. We
did our Meet Me and Gate City album, we did another we did worked
with a vocalist who's based out of Salem now who was like into a little
more modern style of music, and we did a project for him that Byron
had curated. Um, we have like a sampler out as well. Um
so we we got super busy right from the jump, and we had a
whole roster of artists that really were just ready to work. And we got
really fortunate too. Um we're at record number ten in our catalog. I
had put out the first couple of Cody Pope records on my own, but
um so yeah, so as of as of right now, we're at we're
going into record eleven this summer, So just for for that like couple years
of time. You know, some of the CDs have sold out and we're
on second runs. Some of them were still kind of figuring out how to
who the audience is and how we're going to market. Yeah, but this
experience has been like everything that I've wanted to do in life, and so
I feel so fortunate to be kind of like fulfilling all of these ideas that
I had for so many years. That's awesome. Now, how does that
work with CDs now? Because some people think that actually, I don't know
if this is true. I read somewhere that in twenty twenty two that it
was the first year that Vinyl Byron You look like you already know, yeah,
yeah, yeah, that is supposedly the first year that Vinyl actually outsold
CDs. Yeah, I don't I don't know if that's true. No,
I've I've definitely read that too. I don't know if it was twenty two
or twenty three, but one of those years it definitely has happened. And
it's not to my surprise at all. You know, like, I love
Vinyl too, don't you know? That's people get it twisted because we put
so much of our catalog on CD. Yeah, it's just like, from
from a consumer standpoint, a lot of that people don't understand that vinyl has
insane turnaround times gosh, and it's a huge labor of investment. And so
if we wanted to put ten records out on vinyl, that would have never
happened. You know that that would have cost us tens of thousands of dollars
that we didn't have access to months and months and months lead time. Yeah,
you know. Instead, we were able to using CDs allowed us to
get artists off the ground really quickly who didn't have a platform but could utilize
our you know, we had venues that we booked shows at in our own
booking company. We had the record label, which our office also doubles as
the studio with the ISO booth and the control room in a podcast lounge and
a photo area, and so artists that came to work with us had basically
all of the resources at their disposal, and so it allowed us to kind
of do the artist development that we grew up seeing happen, but that clearly
doesn't happen anymore. So it was like the artists didn't have to compromise anything.
All we needed them to do was show up and create the best art
they could make, you know, not sacrifice their integrity. We would be
the ones to figure out how to package it, distribute it, sell it,
the whole nine. And yeah, we got really lucky. A lot
of these guys had never played a show before, and now they've played through
all the beast. They have CDs distributed all over the country, like they're
making really big headways, and it makes us really proud that we got to
be involved in that and still keep sight of what we want to do as
artists as well. Yeah that's fantastic. Yeah, I do want to talk
to you more about that, but I also want to hear another song.
You guys want to do another another song? Sure, so we go with
the next. Yeah, we'll go with track three. So this one's called
Superpowers. This one, this one's for all the artists tuning in. Whatever
your medium is. You're a writer, a photographer, a painter, or
a radio DJ, whatever your thing is, you know that your art is
your superpower. And as soon as you put that down and you stop wielding
that sword every day, you lose touch with what makes you you, and
so this is all about using your superpowers. Nice, nice, all right
here Cody Pope and Byron g Live in studio. Superpowers. Use your superpowers,
use your superpowers. Of the wise. You might wake up and find
your lose your power. Use your superpowers, use your superpowers. Of the
wise. You might wake up and find you lose your power. Use your
superpowers, use your superpowers. Of the wise. You might wake up and
find your los your power. Use your superpowers. Use your superpowers. Yo,
Nev Campbell scramble not no, but not Cooke's face never written. Example
The Man Show with the most Taste slam like tight and in the midst of
a boat race jam just like a sandwich. I'm best with bread and most
case Lee Marvin and me always starving from a feast, stomach grumbling, you'll
have to pardon the beasts and then me s crumbling, stumbling on their speech.
That's why I shop in my knives and I land on my feet.
Eartha Kitch flow like Catwoman's balance, Someday's stoic. Some days of macnum Hart
and madlists signals of misery, giving me fops like Travis crazy but not insane.
Constantly reaking half It Elliot Goold Cool via the Long Goodbye. They're telling
me that I'm fooled for having knives on the prize, cries from the audience,
but critics viewing lies. It's life. I live cinematic by ticket you
when nis y'all, the movies understand me better than most of my friends.
Songs I hear in my headphones he me from feeling dead books of my favorite
authors responses, I never had an auto superpower. The monsters are never bad.
The movies understand me better than most of my friends. Songs I hear
in my headphones keep me from lying. Dead books from my favorite authors,
the sponsors I never had when at your superpower, the monsters are never bad.
Nick and not watching Nick and Knight and maybe Breathless. I make off
from the heart that some deemed reckless. In the morning, play a Love
Supreme for breakfast. Before I hit the road, I leave a pearl necklace.
Do I come here? Often? Hallucinations of grandeur travel far and wide,
but always come back to New Hampshire, Tropica. Virgo Pope reading Tropic
of Cancer Suspiria to any student transfer dancer. I'm Lennon cot when blowing smoke
with Pair re sites in Heaven, A beautiful loser who music writes like confessions
Different. Now my rear window will real romanitarian. Now watch him die,
You're watch him ride like a cherry. Yet I won't let you bevery yet
you will find the bodies artist giving me your life. That won't me time
for hobbies. Days, keep moving faster, doing laps like Ricky Bobbie,
I'm Exhibited and Gallleries who locked out of the lobby on I love It,
I love it. Cody Pope and Byron g are here with us in studio,
and I love the positivity. Awesome, Thank you. You know that
was that was really important for me. You know, people that know my
back catalog a lot of what got me. I, you know, have
a very like dark past, much like a lot of people, and so
like my first few albums really dealt with me learning how to cope and recover
and deal with some of the things that I had been through, and so
it was incredibly cathartic music. But looking back on it, some of it
is really hard to listen to, and I can understand why not only for
me. I mean, obviously I know why it's hard for me, but
um, I can understand why for the average listener. It's you know,
if you're in a tough spot, listening to somebody that's trying to climb out
of a tough spot, you're either going to see motivation or you're going to
see struggle. And so um, when we got together to work on music,
I had always told him I was like, one of the things that's
really important for me going forward is I don't want to lose sight of how
I write and how raw and vulnerable. I try to keep my storytelling,
but I just want to show that there's like a flip side to the coin
and that I've been able to turn some of these things around. And so
meet me in gate City. I really feel like is like the first album
where I've tried to exercise that mentality of like, look, I can address
that things are horrible and everything is tough, but I need to show people
that I have the strength to overcome adversity and that hopefully they will too,
right right, Yeah, No, I like that absolutely. If you got
any questions or anything at all for these guys, the studio line is open
six zo three, two five, six seven, six, three, two
five six, ZO seven Again, we have Cody Pope and Byron Gee here
with us in studio. Ronda in the chat room, our friend from California.
She says, damn, y'all got folks driving looking at me. Funny
because I'm popping and locking in the car. Let's go love these guys awesome,
Thank you much love. Yeah. Jenny is enjoying it very much as
she says, they are awesome. I love this awesome, thank you,
thank you. Let's see. Chris from the band Edgewise is asking about the
label if it's a genre specific No, because he says, asking for a
friend, I don't know if you guys know Edgewise, Yeah, no,
shout out to them. They're you know, they're definitely notable around around the
New England culture. Oh yeah, yeah, and I even wear their hat
right, But no, so so me personally, Like I grew up in
like the punk and hardcore realm. That was very much what got me into
being in the music scene and caring and being as passionate about music because I
am. Yeah, when I was like twelve years old, my sister brought
me to some of my first hardcore shows and some of my friends brought me
to my first punk shows and that just carried me through life. And so
I still carry a huge love and passion for all that. And my taste
is eclectic anyway. So when you look at the roster, we have a
lot of hip hop on our roster, but that's also because, like we're
hip hop artists and so we move in that circle and it's easy for us
to move like that. But we actually just did a record label pop up
shop at Bridge nine Records in Boston, which is like a more like hardcore
like a kind of like a legendary hardcore label. Yeah, And we set
up shop and we're just talking with a bunch of other record labels and sharing
game and trading records and stuff. And you know, it's really important for
us to show people the parallels that hip hop, punk, rock, hardcore,
metal, you know, even like gonzo journalism, all of these different
things that we like, love, motorcycle culture, all these things parallel in
so many different ways. Yeah, and it's important for our music to kind
of represent a lot of that like working class ethic as opposed to just like
what people expect from hip hop traditionally, right right, Yeah, absolutely,
very cool. Melanie Liberty from the great state of Vermont. Also really enjoying
you guys. Yeah, much love. Shout out to Vermont. Vermont,
Vermont has always been good to the hell Hound crew. Our first show this
year, actually we did, I want to say it was January something.
I forget what the date was, but it was snow and it was in
January. We played up at Sugarloaf Mountain. We played. They have like
a little bar up there where they do some crazy hip hop shows and uh
so we brought everybody that was on the record label roster up there and played
and it was like one of the funniest shows could have ever done. Um
so we we got a ton of love for Vermont. Shout out to mister
Burns. Shout out to all the Vermont crew up there. Very nice.
Yeah, Chris from my edgewise, she says love cross promotion will connect awesome.
Yeah, please please get in touch with us hellhum Publishing dot com.
At Hellhelm Publishing you can get a hold of us anywhere. Check out all
our music we got. We got CD samplers that we try to put in
the local record stores and stuff like that. So if you're connected to a
record store and you care about physical music, get in touch with us and
we'll give you some free stuff to give out. Yeah yeah, excellent.
Also a Board seven one of our friends from Greensboro, North Carolina checking in
in the chat as well. Um. Yeah, so so it's funny.
You know, I used to work for you guys. Remember Strawberries. Yeah
yeah, oh yeah, I used to. I used to work there.
I worked at a bunch of different locations, but um, I remember people,
and then you know, and then eventually it became fye. But I
remember when I worked there, and I left that company in twenty thirteen,
but even then, people were People would come in and they'd be like,
Wow, people still buy CDs, And I mean, what do you guys
think it is that, you know, in this this digital age, some
people still want a CD. I assume it's because if you're really a fan
of somebody, you want the artwork, you know, and you just want
everything that goes with it. I think there's just so much that goes into
that listening experience where it's, like you said, having the artwork, being
able to open the liner notes. You know. One thing we talk about
all the time, especially me being like an old like punk hardcore kid is
like I learned about music through liner notes. I would be finding out about
bands and I would blind by CDs at Newberry Comics or at Strawberries off of
what this band had in their liner notes. And so we try to carry
that on as well and thank people from our community and artists and people that
really matter to us. You know. We try to tell the story of
how the record was made. All the photography is usually done by like our
team in house. Shout out to Nicolette Ryan, my girlfriend. She did
the cover for Meet Me and Gate City as well as a lot of our
other albums, and so there's like that part of it. There's like the
listening part of it, which is like when you put a CD in,
whether you're in the car or at home cleaning the house or whatever, you're
gonna probably listen to it top to bottom. It's an easy play to just
put on and let it skip, versus having it on a digital playlist or
something. We're not adverse to, like the digital streaming world, you know,
we jokingly we will say that we are from time to time, but
uh, CDs have just provided a great benefit to us. Obviously, they
help us fund the label and fund you know people are people understand that they're
investing in keeping our label going and helping us pay these artists. Even if
it's a couple hundred bucks here and there, we're investing in keeping them going
and building upon their platform. So that part of it's really important. And
then there's just like a collectibility to it too, where it's like, you
know, having all of the different catalog numbers and having the CDs and which
artwork are you going to display on your shelf you know, or which one
are you going to listen to in the car? You know? It creates
conversation. People have to come up and talk to us at the merch table.
We know who our listeners are. We have so many of the names
and addresses of the people that support us, and so we can contact them
directly and keep that that line of communication open without getting lost in We're not
that popular on Instagram. Uh, we don't get that many likes on a
post, so no one's gonna see our next video. Those things are gonna
We're always gonna have to overcome that adversity. Yeah, but why not have
this like handshake deal where it's like, you like our music. So you're
gonna be the first one to get it, and we're gonna give it to
you in the best format and the best quality that we can do. Yeah,
and these people, you know, and the more of these people buy
the CDs, we're going to be able to do vinyl eventually and well,
and we'll keep expanding because we love physical media as a whole. You'll notice
in the gift pack that I gave you there's actually a book in there.
We put out a book m in twenty twenty one. I'm gonna gohead and
open this now. Yeah, go for it. I'm talking about Yeah,
definitely please do. Um. We we helped co publish a book with the
Underground Writers Association and so it's a it's a volume of all poetry of people
from like New Hampshire and South Africa. Um. So it's a really cool
collaboration that the Underground Writers Association pulled together and we got really lucky to help
co published that. But I've always wanted to put out books, and so
that was kind of like our first foray into getting the books printed and how
to learn how to do all that. This is really well sealed. YEA.
By the way, Jenny, they brought one for you too, so
I'll be bringing you home one of these. But I'm thinking, I'm do
you guys want to do another song? I mean, I won't say no,
why don't, because I'm thinking if you want to do another song,
and while you're doing that, I'll figure out how to open At least we
know it's secure. Shout out to everyone that orders through our web store,
because now you know that our packaging is secure. When you get your packs
in the mail, I can attest. No, that's a good thing.
That's a good thing. But yeah, I'll find something sharp to open it
with. But yeah, you guys want to do uh we go, let's
jump to seven? I think seven? Yeah? No, sorry you thinking
of six? Six is six is diminished? Seven? Is the Business?
The Realness? Yeah? Oh I have it? I have it numbered wrong.
We wrote down a different set. That's another reason why we make CDs
has the track listing on the back. Ye gotcha, Gotchaah? This song,
this, this, this song, this little this little ditty right here
is called the Realness. Oh the Realness? Oh what did I said?
The Business? Why did? That's a great title too. Shout out to
the business, though it's a great hardcore band here you go. All right?
Yeah, boy, maybe I need to get my eyes checked. I'd
lasic and everything. I'm starting to wonder. All right, So the realness,
that's the one you're doing. All right, cool? All right here
it is the realness. This is h Cody, Pope and Byron g with
us live in studio. Yeah. N dot ladi dai dai data lai dai
dai ni dot yo. My life is better nesting Coltrane mixed in a blender.
Most days are complicated, beautiful if I remember. Lately, though I
hate me. I can't take no. On Novembers, my best days was
a knighted who had a bender. I thought I was moving on up,
like mister Jefferson. You know I'm a loser, just waiting forward, check
again, checking in, having hard times lately, texting friends, got money
coming, but so broke. I needed second hands my family on sunny days
and happy songs. I can't relate frankly, the reasons that I'm laughing wrong.
No, I got skilled, though I'd be laughing y'all. Just need
a path that I can successfully travel. Long, babbit long, calling them
maybe existing turning up I feel bad more in my jams. Ain't got you
turning up, whish when I had shows more of you was turning up.
But life goes on and hopefully be y'all just learning. Rarara the rab man
yell boom boom boom, the bapso fell, the rawness should not deter you
from the realness. That's why it's raw, because you gotta truly feel this.
Ra ra ra, the rab man yell boom boom boom, the baps
fell my braw and this should not deter you from the realness. That's why
it's raw, because you gotta truly feel there. To understand man is to
crack the algorithm. Pieces I can formulate, but better give in rhythm hard
to give the answer, to start him off with the mission to answer.
Life is like an endless acquisition. Life be dishing, meet things my stomach
can't handle. No money for, no family, no pictures on no mantle.
Matter of fact, my life feel pretty dismantled. I take the blame
for some things. Money mishandled. A lot of this just feel a little
circumstantial, wondering how long I live with her financials ask for pepperoni, They
just give you ant trophies. Can't stand the lonely from fingers to my head
in the shape of a gun. Enough vitamin D. I have to take
the sun. Want to be a good enough man to raise the sun.
But I'm worried I'll be a failure if i can't raise the funds. I'm
done. Wow, I love those lyrics are fantastic. Thank you man.
I appreciate that absolutely absolutely. If you're just joining us, we have Cody
Pope and Byron g with us. And for those of you watching online,
I'm gonna put the camera back on me for a moment because I want to.
So this is the I did get the package opened, and so this
is this is the book that you were the wonderful book that actually the camera's
over here, the wonderful book that you were talking about, this poetry book.
Very cool. So so you obviously so you don't put out only CDs,
No, no, no no. We're trying to expand as much as
possible. Most of our music catalog is on CD right now, but we
try to do books. We have like podcasts on YouTube and stuff like that.
UM cool. It's really just about keeping the like giving artists of any
artistic medium that fit that, like raw, vulnerable storytelling. That's really I
guess if you had to give us an aesthetic, it's about just being creatively
free but still you know, being able to execute professionally and get that across.
Very cool. And also a copy on CD of Meet Me and Gate
City Cody Pope and Byron g And there's there's the back of it there.
And so you said your girlfriend did did the artwork for this? Yeah,
yeah, she did the French. She did all the photography for that one,
as well as a lot of our other records. Too cool cool,
Yeah, I like it, very nice. And also as a sampler a
crew called hell Hound. Now hell Hound is the name of the label,
correct, Yeah, hell Hound Publishing, hell Hound Publishing. Yeah, very
cool. Okay, so this has uh yeah, quite a few. How
many how many artists you have actively on the label right now? Um?
So. So it's it's interesting is typically what we do is like one album
at a time. So some of the artists that we've put out records for
finished their album with us and are now moving on to other things. And
then we have some people that are in the midst of an album cycle right
now. So we probably have like five, five or six active artists,
but then we have like seven or eight in total on the roster, some
of who we just at this point distribute the record that they did with us.
Okay, okay, we have a call. I think somebody wants to
talk to you. Guys. Hey, Matt, this is actually you calling
in. Thanks for taking my call. Wow, this is wonderful. I
always dreamt of the day where I'd get to talk to myself. I'm curious
if you remembered to pick up toilet paper or if you plan to do it
on the way home. We needed to wipe our little bottom. Oh my
goodness. Wow, I did not know that we were out. But I'm
really glad that you told or I'm really glad that I told me. Our
little bottom can get at messy. Sometimes it feels like we use too much
of that dang stuff toilet paper, I mean right right, toilet paper.
I've never actually called it. John Hopwood, Oh John. I've always thought
of him as a father figure, mostly because he always tries to spank my
little bottom. I never let him, but he keeps asking, this must
be an AI thing. Yes he does, he does. How did I
know that I just mostly wanted to say that I am very nice and very
much a sweet little boy, and even though my bottom gets a bit messy,
I am a nice guy and someone that people love. That's very nice.
Thanks. Oh and one more thing, Hopwood looks like an eighty six
year old toddler and he makes us mush up bananas for him for lunch.
Well, yes, yes, that is uh goodbye, Matt, you at
home in the mirror, thank you? Yes, well, very such.
I'll tell you what, That's a first for me. I've never gotten to
speak to myself now. Is it possible that someone puts something into my energy
drink and I just hallucinated all of that? Nah, I mean I don't
know. Somebody must have put something in my something too? Then? Yeah,
Wow, that was that was crazy. I felt like I spoke a
little bit faster just now than I usually do on the phone. Well maybe
not anyway. Wow, all right, Well I'm glad you guys were here
for that. Yeah that was first. Yeah, that was never a dull
moment up up in here. That was fun. That was fun. Oh,
also too, in the package, just before we sew those uh some
stickers here in a couple of cards. Thank you for your support. Absolutely,
no, you guys. Um, yeah, I'm really impressed with what
you guys are doing. By the way, how long is uh? I
know you told me this already, I'm sure, but how long is the
label? When did the label start? Twenty eighteen? Okay, yeah,
like you guys, so that's what five years? So you got a math,
But it seems like you guys have accomplished a lot in uh in five
years. That's that's really impressive. Yeah, definitely. I feel fortunate.
It took us a couple of years to like get it off the ground,
but these last two years have just been phenomenal for us. Learned a whole
lot, a whole lot in these last two years. Yeah for sure.
Yeah. Bill Fee is in the chatwoman much love to Fee the Evolutionist the
lyrical Yeah, he says, Cody Pope and Byron Glenn are the bomb.
Let's go love the songs yep, and that's out to you. Bill.
Jenny says, Oh, I love stickers, Yes she does us. Hit
us up hell Hound Publishing dot Com. We'll hook you up with some stickers
for sure. Yeah, there you go, there you go. Um,
did you guys want to do one more song before we run out of tim
er. I mean I'm not not like opposed, Yeah, I mean yeah,
I'm up for whatever one you think we should do. Matt, you
pick, oh you want me? He's a dealer's choice. Oh my goodness.
Um, four and nine are skits? Oh okay, so, um,
I know this is no. Nine's not a skit. I think eight
is oh nine is called chopping stone. Oh yeah, so that's like an
interlude, Oh okay, uh? Or what about an anthemic? Yeah,
I was either that I was in, say anthemic or PDSD. Yeah,
that could be kind of cool. So either what is that eleven or six?
Yeah, since six is diminished it says yeah yeah, oh yeah,
is that that's the right one though? Or yeah? Can we yeah?
Can we do? So we don't. We don't play this song live.
It shows this kind of goes back to um, you know when you're when
you're playing live, you got to keep a certain energy yea. Um.
But when I wrote this, we wrote this song for the album, and
it's a little bit of a concept song. Um, I was really in
there's like an old NAS song that he does from like the perspective of the
gun. Yeah, and uh, you know, I gave you power and
so I kind of took uh, well you'll figure it out by the end
of the song. But I took something that I was dealing with and tried
to manifest it into its own person. And so like throughout the song,
you'll quickly pick up who PD is. The song's called PTSD. Okay,
this was track six. I just want to make sure I grabbed her.
I one, yes, Oh that's right, all right, cool, all
right. Here here they are Cody Pope and Byron g live in studio about
a minute. Since we don't say, don't don't yell at me for having
my cheat sheet out here, I just figure it. We never do this
one. It's cool to do it here for a little rare radio performance.
Shout out to everybody holding on. I knew this cat PTSD. He was
always testy, the type to have a few drinks sake, come and test
me. Pete would never ever dare to be bested, even if it means
his ass got arrested, always stressing hard to understand why your man will leaven
let the hands fly on a damn fly. One of the few whom y'all
never seen the man cry. Whatever you plan to do, he's probably anti
syndical comedian at everyone's expense. Funny till it's on you. You're probably on
the fence, willing to make tear so large. They don't mend opinion so
strong, My god, they don't bend. Nobody's asking, nobody know how
we're doing. Look like he's winning, but really inside he's losing. Maybe
not the race, but the destiny that's looming, a type of hell.
Most certain of the track you win. Man, I can't stand the man
I see in the mirror, a man that the man's way morer and way
clearer. They say life is beauty, But some days I fear a less
fear or death, even if she being nearer. Man, I can't stand
the man I see in the mirror, a man that the man's way morring,
way clearer. They say life is beauty, was some days I fear
her less fear or death, even if she be nearer. It hurts him
to hate and fail this hard. It's worth it to wait. They want
him to stall. Don't feel like he's making it too next fall, I
can't take it, can't think it at all. That damnage American prosperity doesn't
say that only to talk scarily. Life is not a dream merrily merrily these
days, honest is something that summers there to be trying to write to those
who may relate. But if you feel this feeling, and I hope you
find real escape. Not supposed to use eye as much as I do.
But when I was stuck on agehn't want to die, dude, life will
get better. Feels like another lie too. I don't want to live in
the world where I get lie too. Don't want to misconstrue you as on
my side, dude, Just to wait in the time to say goodbye.
Man, I can't stand the man. I see in the mirror of the
man that the man's way morvery way cleverer. They say life is beauty,
but some days I fear a less fear ragette, even if she being nearer.
Man, I can't stand the man. I see in the mirror of
the man, that the man's way morrer and way cleverer. They say life
is beauty, but some days I fear unless fear ragette, even if she
being nearer. Not too shabby, Yeah, well done, gentlemen, well
done. I love it. I love it. Guys. We are just
about out of time, so I want to make sure before we go.
I want to make sure everybody knows where to find you online, where to
keep up with what you're doing, your website, any social media, upcoming
shows, you want us to know about anything at all, Just to make
sure our listeners know where to find you. Awesome. Thank you so much
for having us. It's been a blast, honor to be here. Everybody
that's been tuned in, Thank you guys for all to love once again.
We're Cody Pope and Byron g On behalf of Hellhound Publishing. You can find
us at www dot Hellhound Publishing dot com or at Hellhound Publishing. Across social
media, you can find me personally at Cody Pope HC. That's Hellhound Crew
cross platforms, and you can find Byron at BG six zero three excellent,
excellent. Do you have any shows coming up in the area? Yeah,
So next Sunday we're going to be playing at the Nashua Farmers Market. We're
actually gonna be doing a two hour set that day, so we're gonna yeah,
So it's gonna be a rare set for us where we're pulling out a
lot of deep cuts, a lot of unreleased songs, obviously songs from Meet
Me and Gate City. But yeah, it's gonna be a really special performance.
We haven't performed in a while now, so this is going to be
a really big way for us to kick in the door. It's the first
farmers market of the season for Nashua and be in some Gate City boys.
We love anything. Yeah, you know, a different audience than our usual
crowd, so we really love trying to cater to those kind of events.
You know, we always appreciate a good challenge, and I say that in
an endearing way because you know, the non hip hop listener is different than
the people that are going out of their way sure to take it in.
So we always try to challenge ourselves to put on an extra special show that
will welcome everybody graciously hopefully. And I think, why you guys who is
accessible in that way anyway? Thank you? That's really good man. Yeah,
yeah, absolutely. Sometimes you try to tie to Can't Love from Bestial
book, Can't Hope He's making lemonade from lemon Sometimes the prison no below for
Reblove, Life is up and death is heaven. Sometimes you gotta die to
can't love from mosial book, can't hope he's make lemonade from lemon sometimes the
prison below for rebove. Life is up and death is heaven. Jesus,
I'm a creek. Take a peek dog billy, sleep my face when I
eat in case the next times in a week, eat the fruits of my
ladyhood. Close sheets. All my neighbors never need me a savior, And
I ain't ask you for favors, can't say see you later. Not sure
this time he then't heat like Equaida forehead in this mind, go ahead and
abandon deathbed is made. Won't be my grave till all of my dude is
repaid up late another victim of a power nap. Didn't mean too, would
have happened fast. Took a shower, but it didn't last. I've been
rolling brown, playing in the grass. Arm stopped to breathe before you drop
it collapse like like university. Don't stop the class, never forget, just
a momentary lapse, like like Ammidon moments of Early Lap Show. Sometimes you
gotta die to ga't love for sosial love can't always make lemonade from lemons.
Sometimes that risk no beloved for love, life is hell and death is heaven.
Sometimes you gotta die to get love from social love can't always make lemonade
from lemons. Sometimes that grad isn't help. Belove for life is helt,
death is heaven. Dear Lord Whipper, I'm trying to talk to another ghost,
invisible person, to walk through felt a connection that suddenly lost. Film
to leave it in you over me would have been non true. Survival loved
to fit. I'm survival to my core. So I'm dying to quit.
I'm supplying over my pores. Day's filled with demons, all testing my will
power. They asked my drug a choice, wrapping it still flower? So
who needs you? I don't need you? Like a breathing too. I'm
holding the door, roping, hoping that you're leaving through an anxiety come,
starting to sweat. I'm getting feverish up, I'm coming down with it,
yo. Could you believe this issue? Lifeful of Deamon is haunting? My
dreams are very dumb and chasing. It can't be caught me, no matter
what it's cost me aim to execute perfect. Sometimes it come my flowing.
I feel like giving up. Don't both let this will stop me? Oh
jeez, wow, it's almost four thirty already. Well, you know what,
I'm gonna go ahead and uh let's get ready for easyg and you know
how we do it. You know how we do it. Courtesy of of
our great friend DJ Midas, host of Late Night Delight here on WMNH.
Oh Jeff nine is in the Facebook live chat says, good afternoon, Good
afternoon, Jeff. Here we go a little egg man for you for the
I think thirty sixth week in a row number one here on w MNH.
God, terrors, egg Man, there's no such thing. Let's take this
call um just because they keep calling so good morning over all, guy,
over all, guy, oh god, oh all right, an hour's been
the pain. But I don't have you know what, I'm really not in
the mood for that today, Eric. So I'm gonna tell you what.
You already have a ticket. So I'm sorry I didn't get the ticket.
If I get another one, come to see me tonight. But you know,
I mean, you already have it. You already have ticket. There's
other people out there, like like Terry Trayner that doesn't have to or I
said, I'm gonna tell you don't have egg on your face. I'm gonna
tell you what. You should be grateful that you have one ticket? All
right, kid, do you understand me? You're calling, you're calling for
free stuff. We take care of you. All the time I tried to
get the ticket. I couldn't do it. I've been very busy. So
so don't worry about you having egg on your face. Eric, that's that's
being a little selfish. Do you know what I'm saying? Maneter, what
I'm saying, see you tonight front? Wow? Whoa you know what?
The guy calls up for free stuff? You know we take care of him.
We take care of doesn't have a tickenmore. He already has a ticket
he wants. He wants a ticket for someone that may go with him,
and I told him I would try to get him a ticket, and I
was upset. He says he has egg on his face. There you go
a little bit of Eggman from DJ Midas featuring Peter White and easyg Yes,
yes and uh. Eric did begin to skype and then I went to answer
it and he was gone. So Eric, go ahead and try skyping in
again. My friend Peter in the chat says, wow, I can be
such a dick. Oh boy, we do have a call. Let's grab
this. Hi, welcome to Matt Connors and unleash does this easy? I
try to skype in, but it wasn't working well. I went to Uh,
I went to answer it, and uh, you were gone. What
happened when you tried skyping in? Because it showed up on this kept bringing
on my side. We'll try again, hang up and try again. All
right, I'll try one more time, try one more time. Okay,
all right, all right, all right, but good goodbye. I think
he just uh you know, I had the volume down on Skype because we
were playing the Eggman song, and I think he just gave up too quickly.
He can't give up too quickly, easy, g You have to approach
it with the same dogged determination as though you're calling Peter White and trying to
get free tickets to something. Okay, Eric, is that you? Oh?
Yeah, I can hear you now. Yeah. I think you just
gave up too soon. The last time persistence wins out, my friend.
You know, if at first you don't succeed skype skype again, that's my
third times, right, you're third time trying? Well. I had the
volume down while we were playing the Eggman song. Oh all right, third
times the charm, third times the charm? EASYG. Wow, my goodness,
I want to get that off my chest right now. I can't believe
the A W signed the Big Show. It's a big show. Well,
if they used this for a commentary, I guess it's okay. But they
put them in the rank. Come on, it's twenty nine years old.
You don't like it when the old guys come back for the wrestling a spot
on the young guys? Yes, yes, Then they end aw learned that
you don't pick up all the old guys. That's all that you go out
of business. W C, W, A and all the other leagues.
They are folded in the past. Maybe you should uh, maybe you should
call them and give them some advice. You could call them and say,
ollo guys, don't pick up all the old guys. Let c W they
made a history of picking up all the old parts from WWE, W W.
Right, Oh god, now are you? How are you skyping an
EASYG? Is this on your phone or is it on your wonderful tablet?
And the tablet story. I'm the feeling the best I figure I'll go.
Might I feel better, right, So why don't you just donate the tablet?
I cant activate it. I can't figure it out, so right right?
So is the tablet like the worst gift you've ever gotten because it's actually
turning out to be more trouble than than you can deal with a password for
the stupid sorry for the crazy item that. I think it'll be a great
thing, but right now is it's, uh, you can't remember the password?
Well, how many trouble to figure out what the password is? That?
So I can figure out how to use the thing? The thing is
on bike can't figure out how to use it without a password. So did
it come with a password? And you can't figure out what the password is
that it came with? I tell where? Anyways, let's stop talking about
it. I'm so confused. Maybe the password is Eric is aggravated. Yeah,
anyways, I guess the rumor is he's gonna fight that other part Sequille
O'Neil from the Lakers there, Oh god, didn't they already do that?
Maybe the password is eggman. Yeah, maybe it is, but the uh
I think they did that. I's trying to do it. Wwe date,
I think over Sequiel o Neil's hole too. I guess he's being I don't
watch AW, but he's a commentator now, I guess. Michael Albert in
the chat room says the password is zero zero zero zero. Try that?
All right, that's my that's my two cents of my AW. Do you
have the tablet with you right there? You can try it right now.
No, I'm not gonna worry about it right now. Alex Alex Whiteley is
in the chat room now. He'll be joining us in the second hour via
Skype, says, I got beef Melissa Wellington. Try that, easyg Perhaps
the password is Melissa Wellington. All right, well, I'm ready. I'm
ready to do my crazy report. Oh, you've got your edit taber report
ready? Well here, let me uh, let me pull up your your
intro. Here we go, a nice new folded two. It's orange.
Oh, I should you wait a minute? Are you telling us before I
hit your intro? Are you telling that? Let me pull up your Oh
whoops, wow, it's like we're time traveling. A nice new folded two.
It's orange. Oh, I should have you wait a minute? Are
you telling us before I hit your intro? Are you telling that? Let
me pull up your Oh that's very confusing, isn't it? Hang on?
Um? Okay, so are you telling us that you you've retired the big
blue binder? Yeah? I threw it away. Let's all wow. You
should? Uh you should? We could have auctioned that off for charity.
It's only paper, so it's only paper, easy G. All right here
it is Easyg's intro for the entertainment report that I'm around the way? Easy
You want to know about stock my ould crash is COVID nineteen drive buys,
celebrity gossip. Easyg's gotcha entertainment reports stats. Wow, he think nothing but
a jeep? Thank baby? Bad? Are you ready for let's find out?
Ready? Let me go now, Eric, EASYG. I'm sorry,
Alex whiley is asking who is Melissa and why did she make it into my
beef? Wellington comment? Who is Melissa? EASYG? Is she and your
entertainment report? Melissa Wellington? Oh? No, Ellie? Who she is?
All right? You should research that she might be touring with Amanda McCarthy.
Yes, and Mike got a lot of Manna McCarney dates. Oh boy,
I hope Scott Robinson has his pen and paper ready. He's going to
be very excited. Oh yeah, I just want to give a shout out
to uh not listening so later on because he's working right now. But huh
um um, oh my goodness, gave me some good information about the Majestic
Theater, which I will again to in a few minutes. Oh very nice,
very nice. You know, the great Peter White game you a hard
time. But I was, uh what I was go forth with him in
the morning show. What I'm sorry? What did Peter give you hard time
about? He was, do you find your own information? Right? Oh?
Now. Peter White, by the way, has addressed you in the
Facebook live chat. He says, I say easy and Jeff Nyan should settle
their differences in the ring for charity. You know, we love each other.
I thought you squashed that beef, but he but Peter White seems to
be suggesting that there's still beef or y'all is beef. And again when he
was on the Peter White Waney Show, and I said, like, I
no beef with you, all right, and he just said, all right,
well you just so you think that's just it? The beef is squashed.
Do you ever eat squashed beef? It's an old beef. Do you
ever have like a squashed beef sandwich? Or you a vegetarian? I have
some beef sandwich. Is sometime you have a nice beef sandwich. Do you
do you ever have beef Wellington? I might have in the past. Do
you ever have his sister Melissa Wellington? No? Okay, I noticed he
chuckled it when you said that, So I don't quite believe you. Hey,
February twenty fifth, I believe still. You know what they say,
we're on the roads or so many. We're also on the road of Christmas
chas Christmas. Peter White says, there's definitely beef and he capitalized beef.
All right, well, hm, anyway, I think y'all are beefing.
We're gonna dedicate the three people that are no longer with us, my friend
Chuck, who passed the other day and unfortunately another friend of my Isaac,
passed the other day. So while we're also dedicated to the king of rock
and roll, Elvis Presley, why don't you, uh, well, I'm
surprised you don't dedicate it to your friend's Chuck and Isaac. Jeff Nyan says
that beef is not over nor will it ever be? And Peter Why says
super beef. Oh my god, easy gee this super beef between you guys.
Still this is terrible. So my book is the only one that counts.
Peter White and Jump Night, your book is the only Oh oh,
those are words of somebody who's beefing. No beefing, no beef in.
That's what everyone says before they're beefing. They say no beefing. Miscellanious dates
here they say, yo, I'm not beefing. And then there's beef yep
going on? This uh this coming? Uh yeah, this sat it.
Paul Nelson, I've seen a guy many times. What does that song or
what does that sound? Or is it a power drill? No, it's
just a update on Facebook. But maybe you're drilling some beef. Peter White
says, the beef goes on. That's a great uh. You know that
Sunny and Share song. The Beef goes on and the beef goes on.
It's gonna be on February twenty seventh and the Share Brew Company Ian March twenty
seventh at the Sharbrew Company at Since the Clock, Paul Nelson will he'd be
performing the Beef goes on, maybe, yeah, this coming on, Okay,
let's come up, and the beef goes on, here we go,
Oh yeah, here we go Sundays. They can't do the arena while back
and didn't do it very well. So now they're going to smaller arenas like
Celtic Woman at eight o'clock in March twenty fourth the Chevalry Theater in Medford,
Massachusetts. Now Celtic Celtic Women. Is that the the w NBA version of
the Boston Celtics. They play all kind of they play hoops, they play
all kind of great music, but it's not uh, it's all um um
while they're shooting hoops Celtic music, and it's not not popular anymore. So
they go to smaller arena, right right, Jeff Nyan says, way to
perpetuate the beef. I believe this was Oh yeah, this place was right
up earlier on the Rubbert Dian Report, March thirteenth, six thirty Saint Patrick's
Day Beer Theater at Libert Labelle's Winery and the Rust. Now, uh,
I'm sorry, EASYG. Not to interrupt, you know, I try not
to do that. But Jeff Night is saying, EASYG and Andy from Inklink
are in the same bucket for me, so I think he's interested in maybe
a tag team match. Jeff wants to tag with somebody against you and Andy
from Inklink and Peter says it's all about beef. Yeah, Andy, I
don't know. Boy Rocky Rocky Huber says, I get easyg to uh say,
oh will you? Will you say snapp into a slim Jim? Uh,
just like I don't like slim Jim's but but but can you just say,
like snapp into a slim Jim slapping a slim Jim? Oh? Very
nice. I have to unplug the Alexa. The alexas talking and I don't
know why I have to unplug this rou when mussel manaus to do those commercials.
Oh I do yes, I think that's what he was referring to.
How about ground beef? Jenny is suggesting ground beeef, not cornbeef. As
Michael looking too. I get Mary sull a wedding expo coming up right here
in downtown manyas Chester March twenty eight is a sponsor here and it's gonna be
an eleven o'clock on at the Double three Hotel. A wedding expo yea,
what is getting married? What? What? What They're gonna have people come
and get married at the extra You just get married? What do you?
What do you like? Walk around? You to these different exhibits and I
don't understand. Can you get married? What? Yeah? DJ is there
you know, and i'll kind of I'll kind of people that help you get
married. I've never heard of a wedding expo. Well, they have them
all the time. Jenny is suggesting beef steak. Can you snap into a
beef steak? Easyg or beefcake? Yes? The here we go the another
great performer coming up. And I believe Peter White's a big fan Adam and
Am Andrean Adam Enzrom they performed here. I would be uh, Eric,
I would be very careful of speaking for Peter White that way. You know
that got you in trouble before. Yeah's true. But I know he's a
big fans off that the Taco Gate scandal, the entire city was engulfed in
scandal and uh sour cream. I know, I know he's a big fans
off. You know, Oh, you know he's a big fan do you.
They're playing at the Flying Monkey Movie House and Performing Center. I believe
it's right here in New Hampshire, right, I hope? So having Easter
Sunday Brunts at the Amorous Lebrow Winery April fourth on Sunday, m and oh
yes, March eighth. I've seen this guy before, Michael Boulet. He's
gonna be performing at the TV Bank in Boston on March eighth. Oh yeah,
and the Amorous when Brianon Winery Easter Sundays and Easter Sunday Bruns is gonna
be a ten am and two thirties two service of great food. I believe
you have to make reservations ahead of time. Jared Martineau in the Chy room.
As a question, he says, we just passed two anti abortion bills
in twenty twenty one. Can we get down to talking about how this never
happens again? Oh your thoughts on that, easy, g I really don't
want to talk about that stuf because it's too controversial. Oh right, and
you are never controversial, now, are you right? Right? All right?
Keep that my opinion under the table, under the table. Anyways,
the speaking of Peter White, and he's been to this event many times,
you're talking a lot of writer, very very risky for you to do.
Yeah, I know new horizons Walking against Unger That's where I met the Great
Peter White and I met the great Matt Connor. And there that is true.
That is how you and I met. The Walk against Younger last year.
It will be virtual because of the pandemic. So more information than to
be coming on. How do you say? Oh, Peter White, U
says this report needs more beef. Can you include more beef in the report?
Easyg O come along? The uh oh, yes and um. Sometimes
beef presents itself. Everybody official, guys having that first game by eleventh and take