1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,240 And we have some musicians here in the studio. We've got three members, 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,240 the founding members of Andrew North and the Rangers. So we've got to Andrew 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,839 North here at the news desk. How are you. I'm great, good 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,000 to be here. Yeah, it's good to meet you. Welcome. And 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:19,679 uh we got Chip and Dale on the couch. We've got uh and they 6 00:00:19,679 --> 00:00:23,800 are the rhythm section of the band. Uh So, now Chip you're the 7 00:00:23,839 --> 00:00:26,399 basis Is that correct? That is correct? Yes, I should have known 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:31,160 from the shirt and so Dale you're the drummer obviously yep. And who say, 9 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:33,159 do you guys all sing or who? Or do you do all the 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:39,159 whale sing? Um? We we try to spread leads singing duties around a 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,359 little bit. Everybody sings some harmony parts. I end up doing a good 12 00:00:42,359 --> 00:00:45,399 tunk with the leads singing. But but we all sing. Okay, yeah, 13 00:00:45,399 --> 00:00:48,439 you got you got some love. In the Facebook live chat while that 14 00:00:48,679 --> 00:00:52,560 uh, while that last song was on, Miriam Banish was commenting how much 15 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,880 she liked it, and uh, somebody else said they had a chicken in 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,280 the backyard. Oh, Melanie Lia Liberty from the Great State of Vermas. 17 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,079 She says, Hey, I to check it in the backyard too, very 18 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:07,120 relatable too. Yes, yes, yes, So Andrew North and the Rangers 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,280 is here with us in studio. You know that when I first started to 20 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,760 become aware of you guys, I had seen um Fredo from Dank Sinatra. 21 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,439 He had, Uh you probably saw this he had. This was a while 22 00:01:18,439 --> 00:01:21,799 ago. He had posted on social media something about he was thinking about Starry 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,840 in a band called Andrew South and the Rangers. I still hope he does. 24 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:27,599 I think that would be incredible. That would be great, and you 25 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:30,239 guys could tour together. Know I was gonna say, I would love to 26 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,480 be their opening act. Yeah, there you go, There you go. 27 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,640 Where does the name come from? Hey, well that's a long story. 28 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:45,319 Well we got time Andrew. When when Andrew first met us, he was 29 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:49,079 doing a solo gig, is just Andrew of the North. Oh yeah, 30 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,719 we were. We were still trying to figure out how to name the rest 31 00:01:52,719 --> 00:01:57,319 of the band. And the first gig we were at at True Ru which 32 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,920 Sade no longer exists and conquered and we were Andrew of the North and Friends 33 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,199 or something. And Andrew introduced us to the crowd as and this is Chip 34 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:13,240 and this is Dale. Yeah, some woman out there goes chipping Dale like 35 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:16,240 the Rescue Rangers. So we're like, oh, we'll be Andrew of the 36 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:21,759 North and the Rescue Rangers. Oh way too long. That eventually got you 37 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,800 know, short to Andrew North and the Rangers. But that's where Rangers comes 38 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,840 from because some women screamed out Rescue Rangers. Oh okay, okay, that 39 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,080 makes sense. Um, you guys got a bunch of live albums. I 40 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,520 mean it seems like, um, I mean you're really are you kind of 41 00:02:37,039 --> 00:02:39,159 really just more focused on being a live band, because it looks like you've 42 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:43,280 got a lot of live stuff. We're geared towards the live show. Every 43 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,360 every show is different. We improvise a lot, set list is always different. 44 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,599 We try to keep you know, a lot of new covers, entering 45 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,639 rotation, that kind of stuff, and so yeah, our our model is 46 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:59,120 to share as much of that as broadly as possible. And then the new 47 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:02,439 live album we have Thanks for the Warning Volume one is sort of a selection 48 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:06,400 of stuff that we thought was was really noteworthy from the last year. But 49 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:10,360 we also just we publish everything. So we record shows on our own and 50 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:17,159 put them up on bandcamp and on archived out organ things like that, just 51 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,120 to just share it. I don't think there's any benefit in this day and 52 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,680 age to kind of keeping that stuff close. I think it's it's nice to 53 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,560 put out. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. I opened the show today 54 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:31,919 with Infinity Spinning, which was cool because I usually opened with a long song, 55 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:36,080 you know, let people get tuned in and whatnot, and yeah, 56 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,680 great stuff. Yeah. That's the challenge actually with this album and promoting this 57 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:42,479 album is every track on it it is like seven or eight minutes long. 58 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:46,199 Yeah. Yeah to radio shows and they're like, yes, a little long. 59 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:47,479 Yeah, yeah, we don't we don't mind that here, but we're 60 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,360 we're unusual. Yeah, you got a couple of shorter ones. Looks like 61 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,520 the shortest one on this album is Thing about the Woods. That's only four 62 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,680 and a half minutes. That's a good radio length. But yeah, everything 63 00:03:57,719 --> 00:04:00,400 else, Yeah, you're right, a lot sucks. Now. We are 64 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,879 not known for our short songs. Yeah, but when you when you play 65 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,159 live, does that kind of vary with these songs because there is some improvisation. 66 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,360 I mean it is a lot of that just kind of feeling your way 67 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,759 through it. And then yeah, it depends on where things are at on 68 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,839 any given night. We don't buy into the pure jam band model where a 69 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:21,920 song is going to go like to the left and end up at you know, 70 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,959 eighteen minutes or something. But there's there's a lot of a lot of 71 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,920 padding built in where you know, if the vibe on a given night is 72 00:04:29,959 --> 00:04:31,879 to take something and you know, make it a little weird or explore something 73 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,959 that we find while we're in the middle of it, we'll just jump right 74 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,399 into that and and go with it. And um, So that that puts 75 00:04:40,439 --> 00:04:44,759 things on the longer side because I think we all as players really enjoy having 76 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:46,279 that room to explore, and I think our audience really likes it too. 77 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:50,360 Yeah, drives Chip crazy. So we like to do that. Appreciate that 78 00:04:50,519 --> 00:04:58,480 question. Does it interesting adventure? I mean I I generally like it. 79 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:00,959 I mean I love the the level of talent in this band. Yeah, 80 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,079 it's probably the best most talented band I've ever played with, oh course, 81 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:08,120 which is really nice. Cool. So it's a lot of fun playing of 82 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,360 these guys. So so it started so the band, as far as it 83 00:05:11,439 --> 00:05:14,199 being a band, it started with the three of you. But then there's 84 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,199 there's other but you have other musicians who play with you, right, Yeah, 85 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,839 we're six piece, okay, six piece? So yeah, because I 86 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:23,519 saw a couple of different pictures and I think, yeah, I think the 87 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,040 most reason why I had seen there were six of you, Okay, So 88 00:05:26,079 --> 00:05:28,199 who else is there who's not here with us? And by the way, 89 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:30,800 I feel free to make up any crazy stories about why they're not here, 90 00:05:30,879 --> 00:05:32,279 because we enjoy that. Have fun with it if you want to, it's 91 00:05:32,319 --> 00:05:39,199 up to you. So I think the first the first to bring up is 92 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:45,720 Rob the mysterious Stranger O'Brien, who is um a saxophone player by trade, 93 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:48,519 but he also plays You may have seen pictures of it, this like silver 94 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,959 sci fi looking thing. Yeah, it's called an aerophone, okay, and 95 00:05:54,399 --> 00:05:59,839 um it's been a real education for me is how win synths work. And 96 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,120 so it took us a little while because he would come in and like play 97 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,560 a clarinet sound or something and be like, it kind of sounds like a 98 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:10,800 clarinet, but not quite and it like when when we were first exploring that 99 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,519 turf, I was like, I don't know if this is cool or not, 100 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,120 and then it's sort of overtime has become the coolest thing ever, because 101 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,079 it's on stage and everyone's like, I have never seen one of those before, 102 00:06:19,079 --> 00:06:23,279 I have no idea what it is, and we don't have a guitarist 103 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,439 in our band, and so we actually have him rip electric guitar solos on 104 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:32,519 that thing. Wow. Um, yeah, it's unique. Yeah. There's 105 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,199 always one person at the show who will come up, you know, like 106 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,839 either during a sepreaker at the end and say, what is that thing? 107 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,600 Oh I can imagine? Yeah, yeah that's cool too, because it gives 108 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,680 you, i mean, you know, to be able to to really stand 109 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,040 out and have something that nobody else has and nobody else does. I mean, 110 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:50,040 that's that's awesome. Well, and Rob just keeps getting better and better 111 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:54,240 with it as far as the sounds he finds and the spots he finds to 112 00:06:54,279 --> 00:07:00,079 fit in where it's he has, you know, just these unbelievable, like 113 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,839 weird synthesizer sounds that are almost like sounds like it's through a bunch of effects 114 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:09,720 pedals, and oh wow, it's super cool. Yeah, you'll hear it 115 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,079 on on our songs. And now that you've now that we've said erphone, 116 00:07:14,079 --> 00:07:15,879 you'll start to listen and go, yeah, oh, maybe that's that thing. 117 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:19,439 Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh that's cool. Yeah you said, 118 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,079 and you call them the was it the mysterious serious stranger? I have to 119 00:07:24,519 --> 00:07:29,680 know that sounds like there's a story there. We have a concrete story. 120 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:35,519 You know. He's sort of ever evolving between uh, different stage attire that 121 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,600 he chooses, the different times that he does or doesn't show up for a 122 00:07:40,639 --> 00:07:45,199 show. Um. I mean initially when we got started, I think it 123 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:47,279 was more the fact that he was not able to make practice a lot of 124 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,800 the time because his job took him away. Yeah, and so whenever he 125 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:54,279 showed up, he was the sort of stranger who kind of just popped in 126 00:07:54,319 --> 00:07:57,519 and still knew everything. Yeah. Yeah. It would usually just roll into 127 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:00,759 a show without practicing at all, and we would be maybe send him some 128 00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:03,240 stuff from practice, but like here's what we're working on. Yeah, you 129 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,920 show up and just slay at the show. He'd be like, okay, 130 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,639 cool, Like we don't know who that guy came out on stage and I 131 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:15,399 did his thing with his sci fi toaster and yeah, that's great. And 132 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,839 so that, that, in varying degrees, has continued. And yes, 133 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,160 Robbed is like he's a vibe. Like sometimes he'll show up dressed like mister 134 00:08:22,279 --> 00:08:26,759 Rogers. Sometimes he'll show up dressed like like, I wouldn't be surprised if 135 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:30,079 he showed up in like shorts and an open leather jacket with no shirt on 136 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:35,159 underneath. Yeah that kind of thing. Yeah, Oh that's cool. All 137 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,559 right. So there's Rob and then Uh and then who else? And then 138 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:45,120 Jillian Rourke who plays baritone saxophone, and she, like most of us in 139 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,799 the band, is a recovering grown up ye who came to us what two 140 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:52,480 years ago now, just yeah, a little less than two years ago. 141 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:58,960 She met Rob at a Fourth of July party and she is a pediatric dermatology 142 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,080 USA. Um, and Rob was talking about our band and you know, 143 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,360 playing music, and she was like, well, I used to play baritone 144 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,919 saxophone a long time ago and I'm dying to do something with it. And 145 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:16,840 so Rob brought her to band practice, and um, she took that opportunity 146 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,720 and ran with it like I've never seen anybody run with anything before, like 147 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:28,879 just fall in personality, fed, absolutely perfect and just brings the best energy 148 00:09:30,039 --> 00:09:33,279 that just it. It's um. They contributed so much to what we do, 149 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,759 and so it's been amazing to have her on board. Very cool, 150 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,480 Yeah, very cool. Um. And then we have Randy Honeyman, who 151 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:46,159 plays percussion and he's in every band and Conquered, which is kind of amazing. 152 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,759 And uh we initially we had you know, a big show at the 153 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:54,759 banking new Hampshire stage and Conquered and we were looking to sort of pad the 154 00:09:54,799 --> 00:09:58,399 sound and you know, so we brought Randy on for that one gig and 155 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,559 he came to a few practices and we're all like, wow, we all 156 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,679 really get along really well, and it's really nice having this extra layer on 157 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,759 the sound. And so he um, you know, has really quickly gotten 158 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,399 up to speed on learning all of the material and the way that we operate 159 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,000 with again, you know, improvising or being ready to like take a song 160 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:20,519 in a direction you might not have expected it to go or it has never 161 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:22,840 gone in practice or at a show before. Yeah, and he's a really 162 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:31,879 good sport about that as well. Yeah. Um, So we've ended up 163 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:35,039 with this group of six people who are all very much on the same page. 164 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,679 We all get along really well, we're all willing to work really hard 165 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,279 at something um that is a little bit ridiculous and a lot of fun for 166 00:10:43,399 --> 00:10:48,039 us, and I am so grateful for it. It's such a cool thing 167 00:10:48,039 --> 00:10:50,639 to be a part of. Yeah, and every every time we get buy 168 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,480 in from more people, it blows my mind a little bit because it started 169 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:56,600 as like my weird little thing, and then I had you guys in on 170 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:01,279 my weird little thing, and now we're like a go and concern. Yeah 171 00:11:01,279 --> 00:11:05,120 it's really cool. Yeah, that's that's great. So with a band like 172 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,960 this and this kind of configuration, if like like you mentioned, Rob isn't 173 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,559 necessarily he can't necessarily make it to every show. So is that kind of 174 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,279 doing the kind of music that you're doing and with the ability to kind of 175 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,200 improvise, does that make it easier to kind of adapt to situations like that. 176 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:24,279 I've always wondered because you know, I'm a musician. I've played in 177 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:26,000 a bunch of bands, but I've never played in anything where you know, 178 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:31,480 you kind of had that flexibility. Maybe if somebody isn't there, that's okay, 179 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:33,679 you can kind of work around it and still have it be really good. 180 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:37,360 Is that kind of the situation with Yeah, we do that all the 181 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:41,440 time. Yeah, being we're eighty percent original. Yeah, yeah, so 182 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,519 doing that we can show up with anything from a trio to any of the 183 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:52,039 combination of quads to the full band and put on a good show. Yeah 184 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:56,440 yeah, Chip and I are the only people who've played in every anter North 185 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,639 in the Rangers show. Yeah, okay, I missed one. Oh really 186 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,159 yeah in five years? Was it was the other guy? Won't let me 187 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:09,080 forget it was the other guy who does percussion. I forgot. We go, 188 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,360 yeah there you go? Yeah, yeah, very cool. What about 189 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:16,080 on the on the live releases, I assume that's the full full that's everybody 190 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,039 on the UM. Some of those live releases on band camp are but again 191 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,559 by nature of publishing as much as we can, some of those are are 192 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,279 different configurations. And we've had um you know, we had a night recently 193 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:30,240 where we couldn't have either sax player. They weren't available, so we called 194 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:33,720 in, uh I do you know I'm at the sax I don't think so. 195 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,639 Um he plays with UM super nothing. Yeah, he's a great sax 196 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,080 player. I think he's going to be playing the national anthem at the uh 197 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:45,159 oh yeahs game coming up soon. I can't remember which one, but okay, 198 00:12:45,159 --> 00:12:46,519 I think the fourth of July weekend. Yeah, yeah, he's an 199 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,759 amazing player, and he for years he'd come up to me be like, 200 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:52,879 I want to play a gig with you guys. Sometime I was like, 201 00:12:54,039 --> 00:12:56,960 here's your gig. So he came like on extremely short notice and played the 202 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,600 gig with us and and killed it. And again, by nature of having 203 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:05,399 a lot of improvisation, there's a lot of room to just you know, 204 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:09,919 here's where we're at tonight, here's what we've got, and let's you know, 205 00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:13,960 do do something interesting with it. Yeah. Yeah, it's really a 206 00:13:13,039 --> 00:13:16,679 fun place to be as a musician to have the opportunity to do that. 207 00:13:16,759 --> 00:13:20,080 Oh yeah, yeah, so you guys probably sometimes you'll fill a whole night. 208 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,320 I would imagine, right, like, do you could do like three 209 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,960 hours or something? If yeah, I mean we can, we can do 210 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,440 seven hours seriously. Yeah. Yeah, we got a couple of gigs coming 211 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:31,919 up back to back where we're gonna do two nights in a row. Yeah, 212 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,879 no repeats, Oh no, kidding. Wow, Wow, that's cool. 213 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,279 Yeah yeah, that's kind of been a goal. I mean, I've 214 00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:41,600 been in bands all over the country and I've never had a band in the 215 00:13:43,879 --> 00:13:46,720 what forty something years that I've been playing that could ever do that. Yeah, 216 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,759 this is a it's a fun milestone for me. It's yeah, whoa, 217 00:13:50,919 --> 00:13:54,480 we'll play two nights and not repeat. That's very cool. That's very 218 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,440 cool. And you said it's like eighty percent originals. Yeah, yeah, 219 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,440 we um we add as many covers as we can. Those tend to get 220 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:09,000 second place priority in practice part because of working on original stuff is really fun. 221 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,480 Yeah, so we we tend to be a little more motivated towards that. 222 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:16,200 And then the covers were always working on sort of a cover that will 223 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,879 visit over the course of practice until it's where it needs to be to play 224 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:24,080 out, and so that that like those keep accumulating, but the original stuff 225 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,240 tends to be where we're motivated to move things along faster, So we're always 226 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:33,519 picking up new songs. What kind of covers do you do all anything? 227 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:41,240 I think our main like uh influence for covers would be like The Cure and 228 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,679 Warren Zevon, Ben Folds. We're all fans of those types of bandage. 229 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,480 Yeah, yeah, but we also do you know, some jazz stuff like 230 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:52,720 you know, John Scofield, some tunes off of the Go Go Ye, 231 00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:54,440 things like that, So we try to cover some good range. I mean 232 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,399 that, you know, playing scofield isn't really going to get you a lot 233 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,759 of crowd buy in, But yeah, I would. I would imagine there's 234 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:05,639 probably something that you do that the crowd doesn't necessarily even realize that they're covers, 235 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:09,600 right, Yeah, it's nice to have a few of those, um 236 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:13,720 like, you know, and uh, I'm a big fishhead and we do 237 00:15:13,799 --> 00:15:18,360 Wolfman's Brother and like, so for a certain set of people, they're like, 238 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,600 oh, I know that, you know you Okay, I got it. 239 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,919 But like a lot of people are just like, oh I like that 240 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:28,200 song. Yeah. So you know, sometimes you're you're visiting like little camps 241 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,720 of music fans with the way you choose covers. Yeah, and then you 242 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:33,159 know, we also have a few that are like right down the middle, 243 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,200 like we do you know, call me out? Oh really, you know 244 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,200 everybody knows them love that song to be yeah, just two whatever. Yeah, 245 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,360 we've got a weird alt tune on our Oh I have to know what 246 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:52,240 what song? Oh really? Uh it's almost a two for one cover because 247 00:15:52,279 --> 00:15:56,879 you get the Kinks fans. That's true, that's true. Yeah, yeah, 248 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,919 yeah, we have we have Andrew North and the Rangers here with us. 249 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,240 In studio, But we can play another another song? Should we do 250 00:16:04,279 --> 00:16:07,679 something from Thanks for the Warning Volume one? This is the newest one, 251 00:16:07,759 --> 00:16:14,120 right, the newest album? Yeah? Absolutely? Um what should I'll let 252 00:16:14,159 --> 00:16:18,360 you pick. But I'm kind of curious to hear something where Okay, so 253 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:21,919 rob's what's the name of the instrument again? It's an aerophone. Is there 254 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,799 a particular song where the aerophone really stands out? Because now I want to 255 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:34,720 hear something where it's prominent and I can listen for it. Yeah. I 256 00:16:34,759 --> 00:16:38,559 see a song called epiphone, but I don't see one called aerophone. Yeah. 257 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,200 It's a very straight up saxophone type song, is it. Yeah? 258 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:45,440 I Want to Be a Ranger's real long. But that has a lot of 259 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:51,559 cynthy stuff from the aerophone on it. Yeah, uh yeah, we have 260 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:52,720 time we can play that one. Cool. Yeah, well all right, 261 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:56,320 let's let's do that, all right. So this is I Want to Be 262 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,000 a Ranger. This is from Andrew North and the Rangers. The album is 263 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:03,720 called Oh by the way, why is it? Why is it called Thanks 264 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:10,680 for the Warning Volume one? We're still figuring that out. Thanks as a 265 00:17:10,759 --> 00:17:15,599 reference to um, we got a wonderful right up from Matt whit Hoouse at 266 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:19,599 the Hippo. Yeah, for the studio album we did, and he likened 267 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:26,759 it too. It was like Frank Zappa meets Chicago Transit Authority slash something else. 268 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:30,640 What was the third one? Do you remember? Yeah? Um, 269 00:17:30,319 --> 00:17:33,400 but anyways, those two are enough to give you the gist of like what 270 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:37,039 he mentioned, and we're like, oh, that's amazing, Like we're really 271 00:17:37,039 --> 00:17:38,640 proud of that. We made like Facebook post, you know, with that 272 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,920 quote pulled out and like the first comment immediately with somebody who's like, thanks 273 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,880 for the warning. Oh really. I was like I could see that. 274 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,359 That's funny. But we'll run. We'll run with that stuff. Yeah. 275 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,039 Yeah, so that's bring it on. Yeah, it suck with us. 276 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,000 Yeah yeah, that's cool. All right. Here it is this is uh, 277 00:17:56,039 --> 00:18:11,240 this tracts called I Want to be a Ranger. M This one's true. 278 00:18:15,079 --> 00:18:33,480 M h M. Seriously, it's true. I know you guys believe 279 00:18:33,519 --> 00:18:40,559 me. I'm not sure Kyle believes me. That's okay. We still love 280 00:18:40,640 --> 00:19:27,720 Kyle. It's a good guy. I wanted the arranger draw the forrest in 281 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:37,119 my truck, then poaches out of love. I wanted the arranger a laser 282 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:45,279 skates in ms Cheek, I had drinking by score three. I wanted the 283 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:53,640 arranger. I'm arranging, roping tough, I don't take no go. I 284 00:19:53,799 --> 00:20:02,640 wanted the arranger. I'm all with powers never known a send a reader repulsed 285 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:18,079 the hole, raining farn line, y'all mess upside, raining farm wide, 286 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:30,680 y'all bess sapside. Wanted the arranger like Chuck Orus, I could be walk 287 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:41,440 with Texas ranger Free. Wanted the arranger because I shall ray when I said 288 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:49,599 arranging, my k range across the plains, range new mountains, high mountains, 289 00:20:51,039 --> 00:20:57,920 ranging in the sea of sand in skye, ranging plain crime, rang 290 00:20:59,000 --> 00:24:45,279 new mountains, high out an just see the sam in sky You want the 291 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:51,559 rain across fain across the ranged town in the mountains, rained in the sea, 292 00:24:52,160 --> 00:25:00,839 books high beside, rain across faint across the regional town strange in this 293 00:25:00,119 --> 00:26:12,680 scene the sky. I want to be arranging. What do three? I 294 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:21,319 want to be? Oh? That is cool. That is I want to 295 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,440 be a ranger from Andrew North and the Rangers here and they are with us 296 00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:30,000 in studio. That is from the album Thanks for the Warning, Volume one 297 00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:33,480 Live in twenty twenty two, Do you guys. Um, are you guys 298 00:26:33,559 --> 00:26:37,680 recording anything this year as far as live live albums are U. We're gonna 299 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,640 sort of see what we end up with at the end of the year. 300 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,839 We always get as high quality recordings as we can for everything we play, 301 00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:48,119 and then we can sort of assess at the end of the year what we've 302 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,880 got and what we want to share as far as at a level of you 303 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,720 know, getting it properly mixed and mastered and putting it out as a compilation 304 00:26:56,759 --> 00:26:59,839 album like this. Yeah. So I don't know what we're gonna end up 305 00:26:59,839 --> 00:27:02,759 with for this year. I hope we end up with something that we can 306 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:06,319 do a volume two. Yeah, for twenty three, but that is yet 307 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,759 to be determined. We keep threatening to work on a new studio album, 308 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:14,480 which we need to get going on. Yeah. Yeah, no, that 309 00:27:14,759 --> 00:27:18,799 that's uh. Yeah. We did play um I played earlier in the show 310 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:22,440 one of the studio tracks there. Well, yeah, from Phosphorus. I 311 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:26,799 can't say that word Phosphores and snack Um. Is that the only UM studio 312 00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:30,799 album so far? Everything else is live. Yep, that's what we've got 313 00:27:30,839 --> 00:27:33,559 so far. Okay, okay, cool, cool. If you're just joining 314 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,359 us, we do have Andrew North and the Rangers here or half the band, 315 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,440 the founding members here in studio with us we have of course Andrew North 316 00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:44,880 and uh Chip and Dale or with us. What is the what is the 317 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,880 songwriting process like? Because and again I've I've never played in a band where 318 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,680 there's a you know, some improvisation and whatnot. I mean when when you 319 00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:56,359 guys, well who writes the song? Do you guys write together or do 320 00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:02,079 do you come up with individual ideas or We've worked just about every possible way 321 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,960 that you can approach that, and we're always open to approaching it whatever way 322 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,559 is gonna work in any particular time. So there's a little bit of improvisation 323 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:15,519 of that aspect too. Yeah, I just write a lot by nature. 324 00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:19,480 So I bring a lot of stuff to the band and at the level of 325 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,319 all right, here's how I play it by myself on piano and sort of 326 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:29,200 what I'm going for, and then everybody else in the band takes that and 327 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,119 runs with it and we end up where we end up. So I'll never 328 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,799 come in and be like and the base part should go right like you know, 329 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:38,839 mostly I'll come with it and be like, all right, here's what 330 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:44,640 I've got as far as you know, words and chord changes, and usually 331 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,680 it's in a state where it's going to end up fairly close to where I 332 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,000 started from, not always, and that's been a really rewarding process. It's 333 00:28:52,119 --> 00:28:56,160 really good practice for me letting go of being a control freak about some of 334 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:02,200 that. It's great practice. We also do write as a group, as 335 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,119 some of our favorite stuff has been stuff that we all wrote together, like 336 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:10,160 Mary's Chicken Thy Money was this weird shamble process of things that came out of 337 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,440 band practice, inside jokes and then we're all of a sudden that it turns 338 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:19,920 into a song. Yea. And Chip writes as well, I'm always hoping 339 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:27,200 that everyone else will write Dale, I'm still waiting for your songs. Our 340 00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:33,640 policy is to always have sort of a yes policy, Like when people bring 341 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:36,240 songs or covers they want to do or things like that, it's always like, 342 00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:38,079 yes, we'll try it. It may not stick, and it may 343 00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:41,319 be something we try and we're like, yeah, that didn't really get to 344 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,240 where we wanted it to be. But we're always willing to try things. 345 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:49,720 And I think that's really important in a band to give everybody space to express 346 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,279 themselves and to use, you know, to have it be the same creative 347 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:56,839 outlet that I'm lucky enough to have it be where I'm like, you know, 348 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:57,720 I wrote a bunch of songs and here they are, and now we 349 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,799 play them all and to That's the coolest thing ever, and I hope that 350 00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:04,720 the band can serve that function for everybody. Right right, we have a 351 00:30:04,839 --> 00:30:07,599 call. Somebody wants to talk to you. Hey, this is Rob. 352 00:30:07,799 --> 00:30:11,839 This in the kind of plays that roophone. You were Rob. I heard 353 00:30:11,839 --> 00:30:15,920 about you. I heard You're very mysterious. I tend to be. That's 354 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,880 that's why I'm not there in person. I usually don't show my face unless 355 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,160 i'm I'm at a performance in full costume. But right I just wanted to 356 00:30:23,359 --> 00:30:26,319 thank you since I couldn't be there personally, for bringing us on the show 357 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,799 and you know, sharing our music with the area. Oh, happy to 358 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,799 do it, Happy to do it. I really like what you guys are 359 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,480 doing and uh fascinated to learn about the aerophone. I'm saying that right area. 360 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,039 You know, you can search for it online. You know it's it's 361 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:47,279 gonna bringed some sketchy like North Korean website but through all of the spam filters, 362 00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:49,839 you'll find some documentation on it. I gotsha is that? Wait? 363 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,720 Is that how you bought your aerophone? You bought it from North Korea? 364 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:59,640 Is that even legal? I thought it was legal if you're in North Korea? 365 00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:02,640 Right right? I understand. So you went to North Korea to gain 366 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:03,839 I mean, you know, you're mysterious, so you can make up whatever 367 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,200 story about it you want. So you went to North Korea to get the 368 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,160 aerophone? Is that correct? It's actually it's a it's a it's a rolling 369 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,839 product. It's it's very fun. It's what kind of got me re energized 370 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,000 back into music after I found these guys. Oh no, kidding, my 371 00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:22,160 little toy that keeps things interesting. Yeah, yeah, no, that's very 372 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,319 cool. That's very cool. Yeah. I don't know if you were listening. 373 00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:26,960 I don't know if you've been listening from the beginning, but yeah, 374 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,599 I was asking these guys for a song where you can really kind of hear 375 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,839 the aerophone, and uh, yeah, it's fascinating. I'm gonna have to 376 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,519 because obviously there's some live videos too, right on YouTube. Yeah, I'm 377 00:31:37,519 --> 00:31:38,759 gonna have to look up some of those and watch some of those and I 378 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:42,119 want to. I want to see the aerophone in action. That's pretty cool. 379 00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:47,799 Oh you'll you'll see some stuff. I got that impression. Yeah, 380 00:31:51,599 --> 00:31:55,079 thanks again. I'll let you guys continue listening from Afar. All right, 381 00:31:55,119 --> 00:31:56,519 all right, Rob, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. 382 00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:01,079 But bye, all right, very good, very good. So uh, 383 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,920 when you when you write something, uh, and you you know, you 384 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,960 bring it to the band and you know, like you said, you don't 385 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,240 try to control what everyone does in terms of of their parts. But do 386 00:32:12,319 --> 00:32:15,640 you ever find that what you had in mind or how you heard it in 387 00:32:15,759 --> 00:32:19,640 your head, what it comes out as ends up being just wildly different from 388 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,920 what you had envisioned. Always to a matter of degree, it always ends 389 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,160 up different from where I thought it might have been going, and sometimes it 390 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:35,319 does end up extremely different. Um. And I find that's a big part 391 00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:39,240 of the fun and really a rewarding process. And that's like I used to 392 00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:42,799 have a really hard time with that with bands, where I would write something 393 00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:45,759 and I would be very committed to what I thought the song should be like. 394 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:49,359 And everybody, you know, you've you've been in bands, you know 395 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,359 the nature everybody brings what they bring to it, and you sort of find 396 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,759 navigate to where it's going to. And it took me a while to appreciate 397 00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:00,240 that process. And you know, especially with this band, the verse alts 398 00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:05,039 are consistently so good that I really trust that process a lot more than I 399 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,799 have in the past, or in past bands where it's like you know I 400 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:15,799 and sometimes it is it takes a few weeks for somebody to really dial in 401 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,359 the part and you have to trust. You're like, all right, I 402 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,799 hear sort of what you're going for, and even though it's not there yet, 403 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,640 we'll keep working on it, and I know what's going to get there. 404 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:29,279 And that is really cool to watch every you know, as Chip was 405 00:33:29,319 --> 00:33:32,319 saying that we're so lucky to have this just a phenomenal group of musicians, 406 00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:37,039 and watching everybody sort of work things out in real time and challenge themselves and 407 00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:39,720 get better. I think it's a big part of what keeps us all energized 408 00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:45,680 as a band and keeps making those songs better. And that's another thing is 409 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,799 that we're never officially done with a song. Songs are always sort of open 410 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,359 to revision. So if you know, we can have a song that we've 411 00:33:53,359 --> 00:33:55,960 been playing for two or three years, and in practice we're like, you 412 00:33:57,039 --> 00:34:00,400 know, let's try this or you know, change this around about it, 413 00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:06,759 and um, that's also sort of a fun process and a nice way to 414 00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:13,199 let songs move along with us as a yeah, because I personally, I 415 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,840 get really bored playing stuff that's on the rails exactly the same every time, 416 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:22,159 and here's the fill right after the first first It's always the exact same notes, 417 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,039 and that's not how my brain works. So I'm really glad I've found 418 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:29,280 a group of other musicians who uh are willing to put up with that. 419 00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:32,320 We're all off the rails too. There you go. Well, it's like 420 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,440 we were talking off air while that song was playing. I want to be 421 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,239 a ranger. You guys were talking about how there's multiple different there's what three 422 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:45,599 different possible endings for that song, right, and and it kind of depends 423 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:50,920 on that happens once a show, uh Sirens every every day. I never 424 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,199 know when in the show it's going to happen, but it happens. Looking 425 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:59,840 forward to it, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, but yeah, 426 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,400 I mean that I would imagine that helps, you know, kind of keep 427 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,119 it fresh and exciting when it's you know when the songs kind of change and 428 00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:09,639 evolve over time, and UM are there are there a lot of UM songs 429 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:14,199 that go back to when you like pre band, pre meeting these guys. 430 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:21,360 While one a couple of those tunes go way way back epiphone on the on 431 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,719 the on the album goes back to uh I Will Stay two thousand four or 432 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:30,280 five. And I actually didn't write that one. A band made of Mind 433 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,079 named Jeff Rhodes, who's a guitarist wrote that one, and I always liked 434 00:35:34,119 --> 00:35:37,199 it so much that we kept it going, you know, almost twenty years 435 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:42,559 later now, which is crazy. Yeah. And then Electrostatic Chills, which 436 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,159 tends to be the song that we put at the end of every show. 437 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,599 But again, we improvise a lot, but we also play the same song 438 00:35:47,639 --> 00:35:52,639 at the end of every show. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's 439 00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:58,280 fun. And I wrote that one. That was a really early one when 440 00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:01,519 UM in college, I would go down to like the basement in the music 441 00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:06,400 department and just like hang out of the piano rum just noodling around for hours 442 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,239 at a time because I didn't know what else to do with my time. 443 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:14,320 Yeah, and I was starting to write, and I wrote that song in 444 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,280 that in that stretch, which was almost twenty years ago that it might have 445 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:21,440 been, oh three or four, and it's it's really cool to let a 446 00:36:21,519 --> 00:36:23,360 song like that keep going. I played that in my college band, in 447 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:27,360 my band for a couple of years after college, and yeah, so to 448 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,280 be able to still be doing it and to have added so much to it 449 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:31,920 in that, you know, we have new vocal parts that we've worked up 450 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:36,599 over time, and having saxophone parts that are really specific in it, and 451 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,159 there's sort of little things that line up with the lyrics that have evolved over 452 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,760 time. Is really cool to have sort of a song that is almost old 453 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:49,960 enough to drink get stuff added to it, right right, Yeah, Yeah, 454 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,360 And we were also, I think this was just off air, we 455 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,519 were talking, but it's interesting to me Dale, you were saying that, 456 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,920 um live, you're playing electronic drums. Ye, and uh, it's it's 457 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,280 remarkable how good they sound like. And I haven't asked you. At one 458 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:07,719 point during that during that song, I said, so, this is all 459 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,039 electronic, but that's that's pretty amazing. Yeah, it's funny because people a 460 00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:16,159 lot of times we'll play in front of audience where we've got um audience members 461 00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:20,039 that have not seen us play yet. Yeah, And I can see on 462 00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:22,679 their face, especially if they're old school or if they're drummers, they'll look 463 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:28,039 and go, yeah, yeah, electronic set. Then by the end of 464 00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:30,719 the first set they're coming up to me like, oh my, I cannot 465 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,159 believe that's an electronic set, you know. So then I'm explaining about all 466 00:37:35,199 --> 00:37:38,880 the new Roland technology and they're just so into it because it's it's amazing how 467 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:46,440 the yeah technology sounds Roland since daylicheck, every month they do. One of 468 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,920 the great things about an electronic drum kit is that you can actually pick different 469 00:37:51,039 --> 00:37:54,000 sounds for different songs, yeah, which is one of the you know, 470 00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:57,719 it's yeah, a lot of different variety there. And the other awesome thing 471 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,880 about it is we can control our own sound level from stage, so they 472 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:07,440 can play indoor in breweries or small venues. Everything goes through the board. 473 00:38:07,559 --> 00:38:09,880 No amps on stage, because that's usually dictated by how love the drummer is. 474 00:38:10,119 --> 00:38:15,800 Yeah, And so we're literally mixing everything through the monitors first and then 475 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,239 out to the mains and whatever level the venue wants we can do. We 476 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,480 get a lot of compliments. Oh, we can listen to you guys and 477 00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:24,400 still talk. This is awesome, right right, Yeah, no, that's 478 00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:29,679 very cool. Um chips as the bass player, where you skeptical at all 479 00:38:29,679 --> 00:38:34,880 at first with with about the electronic drums or well, um, it was 480 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,480 a little bit getting used to because I hadn't played with anybody who had played 481 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,519 electronic drums before. Although yeah, I mean Dale and I had played together 482 00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:45,480 some at one of the open mics Up and Conquered before we actually ended up 483 00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:47,880 in this band together. Okay, So I mean I knew, I knew 484 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,519 we was talented. I knew you know, we got we clicked very well. 485 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,960 Yeah, and so it was interesting singing that and yeah, I mean 486 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,159 I got used to it pretty quickly. It was fine. Yeah, yeah, 487 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,519 yeah, cool, a lot of fun. Yeah, no, it 488 00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:06,159 is amazing how far the technology has come. Um, what is the gigging 489 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,079 schedule? Like are you are you guys you play out a lot pretty consistently 490 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:14,480 or yeah we got um as Dale said, we got back to backs coming 491 00:39:14,559 --> 00:39:17,679 up next week on Thursday and Friday. So Thursday, the twenty second, 492 00:39:17,679 --> 00:39:21,760 we're at Panucci's Up and Conquered. It's gonna be a really fun show. 493 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,000 And then on the twenty third, on the Friday, it's the Market Day's 494 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,440 Festival and Conquered this week, which is um, you know, kind of 495 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:35,000 a festival of everything. Oh yeah yeah, and it's it is like the 496 00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:37,400 conquered music scenes time to shine. So we always really look forward to it. 497 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:43,320 And if folks don't know, the Bicentennial Square stage by the coffee shop 498 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:50,440 there, uh Brothers Quartado. That stage in there is like like New Hampshire 499 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,079 band Central and you can just post up and hang out there all day and 500 00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:58,679 see so much incredible music. So we're playing on that stage on Friday at 501 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,840 six thirty. We're really looking forward to. We did that um last year 502 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,559 on the Saturday and night and it was it was such a good time. 503 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:10,320 Yeah. And then let's see the week two weeks after that on Saturday, 504 00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:15,239 July first, we're a Feathered Friend and conquered and is that one week? 505 00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:17,679 Okay, I can't tell times is that new Feathered Friend? Feathered Friend they're 506 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,920 pretty new. They've they've been around for a little more in a year. 507 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:27,719 But in that time they've gone from like little startup brewery too like all right 508 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,000 now we took over the back parking lot and we're gonna have music back there, 509 00:40:30,039 --> 00:40:34,920 even though there's no shade and it's a million degrees whatever to they've built 510 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,400 this crazy stage and patio set up in like like sound system. It's really 511 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:44,119 cool and UM and even we played there a couple of times last year and 512 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,239 this year they've upped their game really. I've seen a couple of shows there 513 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:51,159 and it's UM really stoked to get back there. They're really committed to doing 514 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,239 like a live music thing there. Yeah, and their beer is really good 515 00:40:54,280 --> 00:41:00,400 too, So UM recommend stopping buy that one UM wearing Conquered is that it's 516 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,280 in the in the South End. It's on Top Street, okay, kind 517 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,239 of buy Vinie's Pizza. Oh yep, yeah, And I grew up in 518 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,760 Conquered, so I know that area. Well, what's the data in the 519 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:13,440 Hanneker concert series is at the eleventh, that's the eleventh, July eleventh, 520 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,639 we're playing at Hennecker for their summer concert series. UM. And then on 521 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:25,679 UM July fifteenth, we're playing at Litherman's Limited and Conquered Librewery gig and they 522 00:41:27,079 --> 00:41:30,440 usually put us outside on their patio, which is another UM actually surprisingly lovely 523 00:41:30,519 --> 00:41:37,400 parking lot. Yeah yeah, and so we played there a couple of times 524 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:38,400 a year as well, and we always really look forward to it. So 525 00:41:38,559 --> 00:41:42,719 summer tends to be pretty busy for us. Yeah. Um, we have 526 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,639 not been able to maintain a schedule that lets us get too far afield right 527 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:50,559 now. You know, we're always looking for gigs to get um out of 528 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,320 town, but logistically it's really hard to pull off with six people. So 529 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:58,519 yeah, we we've been having a great time playing Conquered, and because every 530 00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:00,840 show's different, people keep coming to see us. Yeah. So it actually 531 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,960 works out pretty well for us to be able to just play a lot and 532 00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:09,360 have people get to know our music better and get to know our weird sense 533 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:14,320 of humor and our inside jokes, and so it kind of builds on itself 534 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,760 in a really nice way. Yeah. So it's always the more people we 535 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,960 can bring in, the better. Yeah. Yeah, that's excellent. One 536 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,719 other thing real quick to mention that we should do is that every month, 537 00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:27,440 first Wednesday of the month, we actually host the open mic at Area twenty 538 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,760 three up and Conquered. Okay, yeah, I mean we'll play a few 539 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,519 songs ourselves, but will also back up of the musicians if they ask us 540 00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:37,760 to yes. And that open mic thing has really become a thing. Like 541 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,360 when we first talked to Area twenty three about doing that once a month, 542 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,320 I figured it would be you know, pretty casual, open mic, pretty 543 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,199 chill. We you know, we we'd get through the list of singer songwriter 544 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,639 guitar folks and then we would have you know, a couple hours at the 545 00:42:50,679 --> 00:42:53,400 end to just basically have an open band practice. Yeah, and it very 546 00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:59,840 quickly ramped up to people found out we were hosting, and now in Conquered 547 00:43:00,679 --> 00:43:02,639 there's like one hundred and ten people out on a Wednesday night and they're there 548 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,199 from you know, six thirty pm to like ten thirty pm. Yeah, 549 00:43:07,199 --> 00:43:12,000 and people don't go out and Conquered, So it really like blows my mind, 550 00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:15,079 right, Like we get that every month and it's so cool and it's 551 00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:19,719 a really like fun and positive community that's grown in that. So it's super 552 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,679 cool. And now we're getting full bands that want to come and debut that 553 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:28,000 have never played in fun of people before our host night. Yeah. Yeah, 554 00:43:28,039 --> 00:43:30,199 it's just become a really cool thing. For some reason, it's worth 555 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,760 their time to try. Like we had a guy drive from Maine last time 556 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,760 to play with his band there and we're like, we're like, I know, 557 00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:40,000 I know, it sucks, but you get three songs. Yeah, 558 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,960 that's it. Yeah, and like they they're all super stoked on it. 559 00:43:45,199 --> 00:43:46,800 Wow, it's really cool. And I learned about a ton of bands and 560 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:52,880 musicians through that. And seeing people come out of the woodwork and just blow 561 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,400 my mind with how talented they are is yeah, amazing. Yeah. Area 562 00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:00,239 twenty three seems to have really caught on. M Kirk was on my show. 563 00:44:00,519 --> 00:44:04,320 Not he's never been on this iteration of the show. He was on 564 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,159 the old version of the show that I had when I did the TV show, 565 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,960 but uh, yeah, it seems like they're really thriving. Just good 566 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,119 to see. Yeah, good to see and you know, and it allows 567 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,920 local music to thrive and uh, you know that's that's fantastic. So um 568 00:44:19,679 --> 00:44:22,360 yeah, so you guys. Uh And then at some point, I can't 569 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,559 remember if we talked about this on air or off are at some point you 570 00:44:25,639 --> 00:44:30,480 might do another studio album. Yeah, we were always working on it. 571 00:44:30,599 --> 00:44:32,840 We have more songs than we know what to do with for that context. 572 00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:38,000 And what's really nice is that with the electronic drums um and all that it's 573 00:44:38,039 --> 00:44:43,599 actually really easy to self record without a lot of lead or things like that. 574 00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,239 So we Phosphorescent Snack. We did you know, the basic tracking on 575 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,360 our own, and then got some professional help doing the mix and master to 576 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,239 get it you know, where it really needed to be YEA. But that 577 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,400 that kind of process, and again, I think it's really enabled by the 578 00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:04,679 electronic drums allows us to take the time that we really need to tinker with 579 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,760 things or to to do it in our own time and to get to a 580 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,840 result that we're really excited about, which I think, you know, I've 581 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:15,880 I've recorded studio albums in studio and that I've paid for myself and things like 582 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,800 that, and that feeling of being under the gun, I don't feel like 583 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:25,679 it's really Sometimes it's great for the creative process for me personally, I stress 584 00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:30,880 too much, and it was not I'm not happy in that process, so 585 00:45:30,119 --> 00:45:34,000 much happier being like, all right, let's try this song and we can 586 00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:37,760 play it, you know, fifteen times over and over and over again and 587 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,360 sort of see where we end up with it and not have to be watching 588 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,360 the clock or anything. Right, once we have that bundle together. Then 589 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:50,840 it's much easier to take a project that's a discreet size and scope and you 590 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,519 can go to an engineer and be like, all right, can you help 591 00:45:52,639 --> 00:45:57,239 us, because I'm not an audio engineer, can you help us make this 592 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,880 sound amazing? Yeah, we were lucky to have folks, oh yeah, 593 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,159 and we're fortunate to live in a time where you have so many different options 594 00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:07,960 as far as recording and um, you know, I've I've talked to bands 595 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:12,679 who you know, they never even were in in the same room when when 596 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,679 recording albums, you know, they would like during the pandemic, you know, 597 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,880 they would email tracks back and forth and you know, just just uh, 598 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,679 it's it's incredible what you can do now. And you know, and 599 00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,639 of course there's still plenty of great studios around too where you can go and 600 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:29,280 you can pay the money and and uh and spend the time there. But 601 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,079 but you can do a lot on your own these days. It's uh, 602 00:46:31,559 --> 00:46:35,360 it's changed a lot from when I was growing up, or when any of 603 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,760 us were growing up. Really well, definitely, on some of the songs 604 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,760 on Fuss for Us and Snack, we'd be doing stuff and then Rob would 605 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,639 come in and he'd record, like eight different tracks for the same song, 606 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:49,320 different instruments on his erophone to a bit of an orchestra, and to himself. 607 00:46:49,519 --> 00:46:52,079 Yeah yeah, it's true mysterious stranger fashion. We just gave him the 608 00:46:52,199 --> 00:46:54,679 tracks, he gave him back to us, and we're like, oh my 609 00:46:54,840 --> 00:47:00,679 god, what did you do later? Yeah, yeah, well it's gonna 610 00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:05,840 have options. I guess right. We're gonna in a in a couple of 611 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,280 moments, we'll we'll start to wrap up. We'll play one more track from 612 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,840 your live album. Thanks for the one of your live albums, I should 613 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,480 say thanks for the warning volume one. But but before we begin to wrap 614 00:47:16,639 --> 00:47:20,559 up, I want to make sure that everybody knows where to find you guys 615 00:47:20,639 --> 00:47:23,239 online, so they can keep up with everything that you're doing, and uh, 616 00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:27,880 I keep up with shows and and uh it sounds like you've got a 617 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,840 busy summer ahead and all of it, and of course where to find your 618 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,079 music, so anything you want to make sure everyone knows. Oh yeah, 619 00:47:34,159 --> 00:47:37,599 yeah, we I mean we we um Dale webmasters our website at under North 620 00:47:37,639 --> 00:47:39,920 and the Rangers dot com. So nice, nice website. Thank you. 621 00:47:40,079 --> 00:47:44,079 Yeah, I'm a I'm a website geek. So I noticed these things, 622 00:47:44,119 --> 00:47:47,000 and then you know, we keep up with our Facebook. You know, 623 00:47:47,079 --> 00:47:50,400 we keep that really maintained if you want to know what's going on, and 624 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,960 that's probably a great place to go to. Search North and the Rangers on 625 00:47:52,039 --> 00:47:55,719 Facebook. Yeah, uh, you know on Instagram at Andrew North and the 626 00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:00,280 Rangers. Those are probably the primary ones. Um as far as keeping up 627 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,119 with output. Band camp is a great place to We post almost every show 628 00:48:04,199 --> 00:48:08,599 up there for folks to keep up with it, and and do go to 629 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:13,480 Andrew North on the Rangers dot com and go to the contact page. We 630 00:48:13,599 --> 00:48:16,760 just have like a little four or five field contact form. Yeah, and 631 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,679 we'll get you on the email list. And Andrew is awesome at putting out 632 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:30,800 basically a monthly newsletter and a preh like calendar session update when we have a 633 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:35,119 bunch of shows lined up, and he'll get emails out to everybody. We're 634 00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:38,159 cool, We're very communicative. So just go on there and sign up for 635 00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,840 our email list. Excellent, excellent, All right, well, gentlemen, 636 00:48:43,199 --> 00:48:46,320 thank you all so much. Andrew chip Dale. I appreciate the three of 637 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,519 you coming in. This has been wonderful. But guys, thank you again 638 00:48:50,599 --> 00:48:52,320 so much. Andrew North and the Rangers. This has been cool, and 639 00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:57,920 I'll let let you guys pick. I'm gonna play one more track to close 640 00:48:58,039 --> 00:49:00,079 the show from Thanks for the warning Volume one? What should I? What 641 00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:04,599 should I play? First off? Thank you so much Matt for having us. 642 00:49:05,039 --> 00:49:08,679 Thank you it was so much fun pleasure. I'd say play Okay, 643 00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:15,440 alright, cool, there are absent saxophone players, gotcha, gotcha? All 644 00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:17,480 right, we will close out with that. Okay. So this is epiphone 645 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,400 from Andrew North and the Rangers, and I'll talk to you all a little 646 00:49:22,400 --> 00:53:14,599 bit later. By everybody, the bore the name the Fou