1 00:00:01,879 --> 00:00:11,039 You are listening to w U n H Command God, don't get so greenly 2 00:00:12,199 --> 00:00:50,000 Matselthank you, Hey, everybody, Welcome, Happy Monday. It is that 3 00:00:50,119 --> 00:00:55,240 time again, Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w 4 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,799 m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious, very rainy and dreary 5 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,120 downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. I do not like this weather, not two 6 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,799 days in a row. Also on Comcast Channel six if you're in Manchester. 7 00:01:07,879 --> 00:01:11,359 And hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. 8 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:14,599 You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your 9 00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:18,680 live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. 10 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:25,040 Etc. Today is Monday, October thirtieth, twenty twenty three. Nice 11 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,079 have you all with me. We've got a great show coming up in the 12 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,000 second hour today, We're going to be joined in studio by the band Heavy 13 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:34,400 America and they are one of the bands who is going to be performing this 14 00:01:34,519 --> 00:01:40,519 Saturday at Swarmyfest. Jenny and I will be there, of course, representing 15 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:46,480 the program in an official capacity of course, but really looking forward to this. 16 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:51,640 Let me tell you just briefly. Swarmy Fest. Yeah, this Saturday 17 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:56,959 at Jewel Jewel Music Venue here in Manchester, actually not far from here, 18 00:01:57,159 --> 00:02:00,480 actually very close to where our new location is going to be for the radio 19 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:05,480 station. When we make the move will be like spitting distance anyway, new 20 00:02:05,519 --> 00:02:09,919 after an Each Booking presents Swarmy Fest twenty twenty three, two stages featuring Sepsis. 21 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,360 Of course, that's how this whole thing started. Swarmy Fest with the 22 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,919 band Sepsis. They're gonna be here on Friday. Also on the show, 23 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:24,879 A Simple Complex, Carpathia Trading Tombstones after the Winter Paradise is canceled, Dark 24 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,039 Rain, My Last Mile, DC Wolves, Heavy America who are coming in 25 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:36,400 today and in the Wind. It is eighteen plus thirteen dollars advanced tickets, 26 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,439 a fifteen day of show and yeah, that all starts at six pm, 27 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,960 two stages, I believe this year, so we're looking forward to that. 28 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,439 So Jenny and I will be there. You can come down meet us and 29 00:02:47,479 --> 00:02:52,120 say hello, and there's gonna be some great bands there. A Simple Complex 30 00:02:52,199 --> 00:02:54,800 they're coming in later this week. I've known them forever, so it'll be 31 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,960 really good to see them and get caught up after the winter. They were 32 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,560 on a number of weeks ago with us DC, Wolves was on Recently, 33 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:06,800 My Last Mile was on Recently and Heavy America. They are going to be 34 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:13,560 on with us today in the second hour and it will be the world radio 35 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:20,639 premiere of their brand new single called Pretender. Really great track. Nobody has 36 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,919 heard this yet. You'll be hearing this for the first time today on the 37 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:24,960 show, but we're going to save that for the second hour when they join 38 00:03:25,039 --> 00:03:29,360 us live in studios. So really looking forward to that. These guys are 39 00:03:29,479 --> 00:03:32,520 unique, They've got a I'm really looking forward to talking to them about influences 40 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,639 just because they've got such a unique sound. So that will be coming up 41 00:03:37,639 --> 00:03:39,680 today in the second hour. Also, I think EZG is going to be 42 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:44,520 calling in with an entertainment report, so we can get caught up on what 43 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:50,360 Amanda McCarthy, Katie Dobbins and April Cushman have coming up, let's see and 44 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:55,120 what else? What else We should say hello to everybody in the Facebook live 45 00:03:55,159 --> 00:03:58,039 chat, but let me give the phone numbers and everything if you'd like to 46 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,520 get in with a quick call before EASYG joins us UH six O three two 47 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:04,800 five O six seven is a studio line six O three two five O six 48 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:09,120 oh seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven 49 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:13,039 four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can 50 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,079 email me Matt at mattconnorton dot com. And of course you can interact end 51 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,199 Opine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that 52 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,920 we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones. Oh, actually I think this 53 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:30,120 is uh, this might be EASYG on the line now, Hello, hello, 54 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:39,399 hello, hello, hello. All right, well it looks like his 55 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,319 phone number, but he doesn't seem to be there now. Tomorrow is Halloween, 56 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:49,519 so it's possible that that was the phantom. We do occasionally get calls 57 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,399 and it could have been the phantom using Easyg's number. You know, you 58 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:57,319 can spoof numbers. You can make it look like you're calling from any numbers. 59 00:04:57,319 --> 00:05:01,399 So it might have been the phantom using eg easy He's number to fool 60 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,600 us. Uh. Let's see, perhaps it's the phantom Gourmet. That would 61 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:12,160 be fun Eric. Are you there? Yes, I am. He He've 62 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:16,279 been tell you that I'm digging that new entrance song for your show. Yes, 63 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:21,199 yes, Jerry and the Scumbags. The intro to the Supreme Leader of 64 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:28,519 Jerry's Rock and Roll Army, Jerry Robinson's rock and Roll Army, they called 65 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,959 Scumbags. Jerry m the Scumbags. That's the name of the band. Oh 66 00:05:32,959 --> 00:05:39,120 that's what ms itself? Your favorite scumbag? Yes, that is. Last 67 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:44,399 night Jenny and I watched M J F versus Kenny Omega for the A E 68 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:54,439 W World title and it was an incredible match. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 69 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:00,560 We found it on Twitter now known as x. Yeah. You're find 70 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,680 things all over the place on that worldwide web. You sure it can't easy, 71 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:08,319 g you sure can. What is that? Uh? Now? What 72 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:11,639 is that sound that I'm hearing on the phone line? You sound like you're 73 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:15,120 calling, uh from the nineteen eighties? Uh? With that that sound on 74 00:06:15,319 --> 00:06:20,120 on the uh on the phone there? You can't heard me. I can 75 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,319 hear you. It's just there's an odd sound that goes with it. You 76 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,759 sound like you're calling from another time? When? Uh, when another time 77 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:35,199 in American history when phones just generally sounded where here where phones just generally sounded 78 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:41,759 horrible? Is that the time? Is that the top phones? I put 79 00:06:41,759 --> 00:06:46,480 the volume all the way out called volume all the way out. Uh huh. 80 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:50,480 Well that's good, so you can hear everything they did destruct Uh huh. 81 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:58,079 I don't know whoa what's going on? Now? It got worse? 82 00:07:00,519 --> 00:07:06,800 Hello, Hello, I can hear you find Yes, you're cutting in and 83 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:14,560 out. Let me call you back. Maybe that'll back okay, all right, 84 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:21,480 yeah, uh that's great. I actually hope it sounds even worse when 85 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:24,959 he calls back, just because it'll be fun to see if it's possible. 86 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,040 Now, didn't it sound like he was calling from another time? Like like 87 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:31,720 that's that's what phones used to sound like, like in the nineteen forties or 88 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:34,480 something, when they first invented the telephone. If you called someone on the 89 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:38,560 phone, that's what it sounded. No, now, I'm now I'm being 90 00:07:38,839 --> 00:07:46,319 I'm exaggerating a little bit. Sorry, I'm back any better. Well, 91 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,480 it's a different sound now, it kind of it almost sounds like there's a 92 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:57,759 are you running a hair dryer in the background, No, just the heats 93 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:01,480 on. The heat's on. Ah. Are you holding the phone directly in 94 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,160 front of the heater? No? No, no, down on my bed, 95 00:08:05,279 --> 00:08:11,639 the heaters on the back of the room. All right, Well, 96 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:18,480 would you like to do an Entertainment report eazyg Yeah as well before people can't 97 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,160 people, people can't think I hear right, No, we can here, 98 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,879 we can hear you. It's just a terrible phone connection. So uh maybe 99 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:31,000 we'll uh maybe we'll make it, uh you know, an amended version. 100 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:37,360 But here let me go ahead and hit the theme music here for you Around 101 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:43,600 the Way? Easy? You want to know about stock market crashes? COVID 102 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:50,159 nineteen, drive buys, celebrity gossip, easy, geez, gotcha? Entertainment 103 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:58,799 reports stamp Wow, because they ain't letting but a jeep bank? Are you 104 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:07,360 that? Let's find out? Let's go? Are you? I could hear 105 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:15,000 the whole the whole entrance song. Are you using? Yes? Go ahead? 106 00:09:13,039 --> 00:09:24,559 The Halloween call it all all? Uh huh this report to Susie and 107 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,840 Summers. It just died a while back, Susanne Cyrus Company. Yeah, 108 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,559 did you like that show? Backing today? Come and Knock on a Door? 109 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:37,679 Apparently I know the theme song? Yeah, I like that. Actually 110 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,919 a funny thing about that show when I was a kid, and I don't 111 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:45,120 know if my dad will remember this he listens to the show, But when 112 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,200 I was a kid, I remember having a conversation with my father where he 113 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:50,960 told me he didn't want me watching that show. He felt it was too 114 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,519 adult, you know, the humor and so forth. But as I got 115 00:09:54,519 --> 00:09:56,039 older, he was cool with it, and he and I ended up watching 116 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,440 it together when it was like in its final season or something. Although they 117 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,240 tamed it down too, they did, they did. They tamed it down 118 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:07,960 over the years too. I remember toward the end of the series it was 119 00:10:09,879 --> 00:10:16,039 it wasn't it wasn't as risque with the humor. Shall we say, yeah, 120 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:20,720 yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I have. I'm gonna 121 00:10:20,759 --> 00:10:22,960 go back to a new ultimate movie of the week I started the other day 122 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,559 on my television, Jurassic World, Jurassic World, the Alligator. But they 123 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:35,080 got yeah yeah, those let's folks back way back in the day. We 124 00:10:35,159 --> 00:10:41,120 used to make those animals, way back in the day of the dinosaur Scarolis. 125 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:43,440 At the same time, ez G. Do you believe, Dina, 126 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:50,440 Do you believe the dinosaurs and humans co existed? I don't think so, 127 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,679 No, good, I do not. I strongly suspect our new speaker of 128 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,200 the house believes that. But that's another subject. Yeah, go ahead, 129 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,360 yeah, crazy yeah, And we're gonna have a song of the week too, 130 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,080 I threw you, I give you the little song for the week, 131 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:11,360 MANA McCarthy. We heard of that girl? Ah, yes, yes, 132 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,120 I've heard of her, and I imagine we'll be hearing a lot about her 133 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:18,840 during your report. Yeah, we've got some local dates coming up to coming 134 00:11:18,879 --> 00:11:22,960 around the Horn this week, coming around the Horn anyways. To get to 135 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,000 that the uh oh yeah, don't forget to check out City Cupcakes. So 136 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:30,720 safety is not really one hundred of green sauce that I might taste pretty well, 137 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,440 but they can't go today as a close, so they open tesday Saturday. 138 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:37,440 Now, by the way, uh easyg Rob Dyon is in the chat 139 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:41,919 room, and he is lamenting that your theme music is so much cooler than 140 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:50,440 his, as he is also an entertainment reporter. And and Melanie, uh 141 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:54,960 of course from the Great State of Vermont, is questioning are alligators technically dinosaurs? 142 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,320 I would not have thought so, although, uh, you find alligators 143 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:03,399 I believe in the state of Florida, and there's a lot of people there 144 00:12:03,399 --> 00:12:09,080 who might be old enough to remember where there when there were dinosaurs. You 145 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,399 see what I did there, easygo well, I made a joke and look 146 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,159 for something to do tomorrow. I'm a trick a treat here in Manchester six 147 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:22,279 to eight. They want a bundle out to be a little chilly out and 148 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:28,720 then we got the oh another event and the people should check out that's coming 149 00:12:28,799 --> 00:12:33,480 up November eleventh, Thevesman's stay paraded. It kicks off around eleven o'clock am. 150 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,000 Then they stop at the Veteran's Hall, I mean City Hall at eleven 151 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,279 eleven eleven and he played a taf and then they go over to Veterman's Park 152 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,039 for like thirty minutes. The Merrill Steak and some other dignitarias very good. 153 00:12:46,159 --> 00:12:50,440 There's always a good idea to check that out for your vestmans. And then 154 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,720 next month about months when now I get signed up early and you get a 155 00:12:52,759 --> 00:12:56,440 discount. You go to the Facebook page of the fisher Cats and you having 156 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,879 to Thanksgiving their run, I believe it or not in November twenty Thanksgiving. 157 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,679 It's a charity. It's a last year. I think it was last year 158 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,679 of the year before they was horrible, whether it's like cleaning out and raining, 159 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:11,440 but they still have people come out. Believe it or not. I 160 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,080 believe it now I guess believe and now believe this or not easy. G 161 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:20,960 Melanie uh has shared some information in the Facebook live chat. She says, 162 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,519 I looked it up. Alligators are not dinosaurs, but they, along with 163 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:31,799 other crocodilians, are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs apart from birds, which 164 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:35,360 are dinosaurs. Although alligators are neither dinosaurs nor the descendants of dinosaurs, they 165 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,440 are more closely related to dinosaurs and therefore birds, than they are two other 166 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:46,600 living groups of reptiles, such as snakes and turtles. Boy, I hope 167 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,679 you wrote that down. Well, we gat some events come up with this 168 00:13:50,759 --> 00:13:56,440 new arena uh new arena age. You get all the ticket information in right 169 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:01,120 around the corner and the remember fourth uh oh, yeah, what it's coming 170 00:14:01,159 --> 00:14:05,120 up the omberforeth Myers at Edic Walk, it's Pa Cassa and Grain and Ali 171 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,519 state children. All the money's gonna go for them. And speaking of Jurassic 172 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:20,159 law as I remember, Attendant twelve, what is that the this? I 173 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:28,039 noticed the sound on your phone changes when you're counting, ezyg. Have you 174 00:14:28,399 --> 00:14:31,799 switched to a different cordless phone from the year nineteen eighty eight because you suddenly 175 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:39,600 sound very far away? Vera again? Yeah, you sound like. Uh, 176 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:43,559 it sounds like you put the phone like you put the phone on a 177 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,879 table by the door and then walked back to your bed, and now you're 178 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:52,279 just sort of speaking in the room and the phone on the table by the 179 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,399 door is sort of picking you up a little bit. That's what it sounds 180 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,320 like. Would you like to hear though, some Crocodile Rock by Elton John 181 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:11,720 since you weretioning, uh, crocodiles and dinosaurs. Personally, I prefer Tiny 182 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:18,720 Dancer. Are you still with us? EZG? Yeah, more things, 183 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,600 wrap it up. Yeah, that's a good idea because we can barely hear 184 00:15:20,679 --> 00:15:26,440 you. Yes, for of course mean December for us Friday at seven thirty 185 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:31,080 at the Rex Theater with Shandon Clark and the Sugar and you go to Peli 186 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:33,000 State Dot for tickets, so you can go to the box office right here. 187 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:37,799 So we go six o three six, six eight five five eighty for 188 00:15:37,919 --> 00:15:41,720 tickets. Uh huh and uh. Moving on to Katie Dobbins, he's gonna 189 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:48,200 be playing remember a free event Hadrick pub and go got the right the time. 190 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:52,039 So that's pretty sad, EAZYG that November thirty is going to a free 191 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:58,960 event at the Cure Gully at five and she's at the Songwriters Round Up pronounced 192 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,919 at seven pm with Morris and to Horror and that's it for her right now. 193 00:16:07,639 --> 00:16:12,000 Talk about that right now, right right that. Amanda McCarthy's he's coming 194 00:16:12,039 --> 00:16:18,120 to town this Thursday into Woven Soul Boat with concert series and New Bedford, 195 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,799 Massachusetts and duo assuming it must be with Tom the Drummer Boys. Tom the 196 00:16:23,879 --> 00:16:29,519 Drummers. He's doing eleven five right here in Hudson this Saturday, five days 197 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:37,679 at the bar, and he's going right over to Manchester for nine. Easy 198 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:41,919 G. Are you choking on your phone? It sounds like you're choking on 199 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:53,960 your phone right now. I think this might be the most disastrous entertainment report 200 00:16:55,039 --> 00:17:03,559 yet. Uh not not because of Easyg's performance, but because we can't hear 201 00:17:03,639 --> 00:17:11,920 him. And I don't think he knows we can't hear him, all right, 202 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,799 that that's unlistenable. I didn't hang up on him. He's still there 203 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,400 and we'll check back with him in a few seconds. But I can barely 204 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:25,039 hear him, which actually, interestingly enough, now some people might not know 205 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:30,720 this unless you unless you're someone who has broadcasting experience. But if you have 206 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:33,839 someone on the phone and you can barely hear them, it doesn't make for 207 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,720 necessarily the best radio. Now, let's see if we can hear him. 208 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:38,920 Now, let's see if he's still there and we can hear him. Easy 209 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:45,559 G, are you there? Wrap things up? Okay, very good? 210 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:49,119 All right, We're gonna wrap things up with EASYG. Yeah. I can 211 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,799 barely hear him. No disrespect. We love EAZYG, but we can't hear 212 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:56,519 you. Okay. He did request a song, however, and we will 213 00:17:56,519 --> 00:18:00,720 honor that request. I have not heard this song yet, so this might 214 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,480 be a world radio premiere. Actually, let's give this a listen and then 215 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,440 we'll come back and I have a subject I want to talk about and we'll 216 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:14,480 say hello everybody in the chat room. But this is called normal apparently. 217 00:18:14,519 --> 00:18:18,839 This is a new track from Amanda having Babies that I went down now row 218 00:18:19,039 --> 00:18:30,640 nine years ago getting married. Still see his lack fable brokenhearts? O love 219 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:47,720 it now? I'm not if I'm no normal baby, I normal want to 220 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:59,680 be called been a pushing for the last wee reality of sad in all this 221 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:19,200 fantasy that I'm riding my own fairmited I now a normal means me. Some 222 00:19:19,519 --> 00:19:30,799 people go to college. I dropped out for three content the truth. It 223 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:41,799 may not be with some the TV A mother, superficial pathos out of the 224 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:52,759 king for my baby. If I'm my normal baby, I don't want to 225 00:19:52,839 --> 00:20:02,519 be called to be a bush And for the last three realities money outside of 226 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:14,039 all this fantasy, and I'm banning my fairys and no normal means to me? 227 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:33,720 Why he's a green of crow when you could chase some neverse slad? 228 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:45,160 Can you even find a beauty in avent? Need you bad? Thats wow? 229 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:52,440 I'm not normal, but I don't want to be. I have been 230 00:20:52,640 --> 00:21:07,400 breaking down a very since nineteen ninety three. On the outside, there's a 231 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:30,799 bunning my own erity. But now we're normal mes normally very nice. That 232 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,559 is called normal. That is Amanda McCarthy. That is the track that our 233 00:21:34,599 --> 00:21:40,839 friend EAZYG requested for today. Yeah, Amanda has such a beautiful voice, 234 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,799 and I think she's going to be in the area doing a show. I 235 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:47,359 think I heard EZG mentioned something about that. It was a little difficult to 236 00:21:47,759 --> 00:21:52,680 tell because easygh. I think he was calling us using a tin can and 237 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:56,599 a string, uh while posted up behind a radiator. So it's a little 238 00:21:56,599 --> 00:22:00,720 difficult to understand most of his report. I really didn't understand much of any 239 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:07,440 of it, but except that he did dedicate this week's report to Suzanne Summers 240 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:12,440 of Three's Company who passed away and the thigh Master commercials. I was surprised 241 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:18,119 he didn't mention the passing of Matthew Perry that was over the weekend. Was 242 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,079 that yesterday or Saturday, age fifty four from the television sitcom Friends, and 243 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,440 he had he had some other shows after that too, But yeah, that 244 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,640 was wow. He I mean, I was never a big fan of the 245 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,480 show Friends. I saw it a few times. It was funny, but 246 00:22:32,559 --> 00:22:34,000 it was just to me, it's just kind of your standard sitcom. I 247 00:22:34,079 --> 00:22:41,720 was never into it, but standard nineties television sitcom. But I know he 248 00:22:41,799 --> 00:22:44,599 had a lot of problems. And yeah, Jenny and I were talking about 249 00:22:44,599 --> 00:22:47,079 it, and you know, she had commented and I thought the same thing 250 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:52,400 that when she heard that he had drowned, that you know, maybe he 251 00:22:52,519 --> 00:22:56,279 had fallen unconscious in his swimming pool, you know, because he had a 252 00:22:56,319 --> 00:23:00,440 lot of substance abuse issues, and and I thought the same thing. And 253 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,799 it turned out it was actually in his hot tub. So yeah, he 254 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,519 must have he must have fallen unconscious. Uh, I don't know if they've 255 00:23:07,519 --> 00:23:10,319 released an actual cause of death. I mean, obviously he drowned, but 256 00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:14,359 you know what would what would cause you know, a fifty four year old 257 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,160 man. You know, I have to assume that it was something he had 258 00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:21,240 ingested that had caused him to be unconscious. Perhaps he overdosed on something or 259 00:23:21,319 --> 00:23:25,680 who knows. But uh, yeah, Uh, Matthew Perry aged fifty four, 260 00:23:26,599 --> 00:23:30,359 So that was that was too bad. But uh, six oh three 261 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,960 two five O six o seven is the studio line. If you'd like to 262 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:37,160 join us today on the program six O three two five O six oh seven. 263 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,319 You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four 264 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,200 seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connorton. You can email me 265 00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:47,559 Matt at Matt Coonnorton dot com, and of course you can interact endo Pine 266 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:49,200 in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we 267 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,519 can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six 268 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:56,759 O three two five O six oh seven. We have a great musical guest 269 00:23:56,839 --> 00:24:00,640 coming up today in the second hour, Heavy America. UH will be live 270 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,240 in studio with us, and they're gonna be playing this Saturday at Swarmy Fest, 271 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,200 but they're going to be coming in today to talk to us, and 272 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:11,359 we have the world radio premiere of their brand new track, Pretender, so 273 00:24:12,039 --> 00:24:15,240 looking forward to that. We'll go ahead and say hello to everybody in the 274 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:22,640 Facebook live chat. Let's see here. Charmaine Davis Elliott joins us and says, 275 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,079 Hey, Matt, Happy Monday. Hello Charmain. Easyg is in the 276 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,839 Facebook live chat. Hello, Easy Beat Flash. Who I'm going to go 277 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,359 out on a live here. I suspect very strongly in fact that Easybeat flashes 278 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,480 from Greensboro, North Carolina. And Easy Beat Flash says, hello, Matt 279 00:24:38,559 --> 00:24:42,519 Connerton. We say to you from us, and it's a awesome from us 280 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:48,720 to you, sir. We are from Greensboro, North Carolina. Sometimes I 281 00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:53,039 wonder if I am in fact clairvoyant. Easybeat Flash also says Matt Connerton. 282 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,799 We sing and dance from us. I feel like everybody in Greensboro sings and 283 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,960 dances. Carol's a Warwitz is in the chatroom. Hello, Carol. Also 284 00:25:03,079 --> 00:25:07,640 Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, one of our great sponsors here at WMNH and 285 00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:11,400 every Friday night I get to hang out with Mike along with Pauly C and 286 00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:15,519 DJ Steve for Retro Spectrum Radio with poly C right here at WM and H. 287 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:21,079 This past Friday, we celebrated our third anniversary of doing that show here 288 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,880 at this station, so always a good time. J Fed joins us and 289 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,599 says, good afternoon everyone from the great state of Vermont, as well as 290 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:32,559 Melanie allat Liberty. Mariam Bannis joins us and says good afternoon. Easybeat. 291 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:36,640 Flash says, we say is rest in peace, Matthew Perry, and we 292 00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:41,200 say are a good actor. We always watch you on reruns of Friends TV 293 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:47,319 show from us. Very nice. Rob Dian, of course I mentioned is 294 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,559 in the chat room. Rob is, of of course part of the WM 295 00:25:51,599 --> 00:25:53,400 and H family. He hosts his own show called Through the Stage Door, 296 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,519 which airs Tuesdays and Thursdays right after this show, and I think it airs 297 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:02,960 on Sunday as well, and then Rob Thursday Mornings does a segment on the 298 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,960 morning show name that Tune and does his own entertainment report as well. Let's 299 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,920 see, I just want to make sure we don't miss anybody in here. 300 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,440 Jenny, of course, is in the Facebook live chat, says shill Oam 301 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:30,319 peeps might be everybody so far, and I'm having difficulties scrolling down. Facebook 302 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:37,400 is being Facebook. Oh, EASYG just said Matthew Perry will take whoops. 303 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,440 Matthew Perry will take a couple of weeks to find out how he died. 304 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,519 Matt I didn't know that, EASYG. Thank you. That's why EZG is 305 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:48,680 such a great entertainment reporter. He's able to explain how long it takes before 306 00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:53,599 you know how someone died. Yes, thank you. Eric. Speaking of 307 00:26:53,759 --> 00:26:57,160 Eric, by the way, the other Eric, of course, Eric Pilcher 308 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:06,000 from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is going to have the classic film review 309 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,039 tomorrow. That was originally supposed to be last week, but it's for Halloween, 310 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,960 the movie Halloween, and Eric had the idea that we should save that 311 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:19,799 for actual Halloween Day, so that will be tomorrow. We'll run that during 312 00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:22,480 the first hour, and of course we have a great musical guest tomorrow in 313 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:26,960 the second hour, and so that will be very exciting. But let me 314 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,160 give the studio line one more time. Six oh three two five six seven. 315 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,480 Jay fed says there are a lot of murders in Greensboro. Is that 316 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,119 true? Oh my goodness. Eric Street just joins us in the Facebook live 317 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,720 chat, and Eric says, as of November thirtieth, it will be ten 318 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:48,119 years since Paul Walker passed. Yes, Paul Walker of the Fast and Furious 319 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,480 franchise. Wow, that was a decade ago that he died. That's incredible 320 00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:56,440 to me. Where does the time go? And I believe this is our 321 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,519 friend to Charles Richardson on the line, Charles is that you Yeah, that's 322 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,519 me? How you doing good? And I'm doing pretty good? And greetings 323 00:28:03,559 --> 00:28:07,759 to all the fifty thousand people that are in North Carolina listening at this moment. 324 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:12,880 Yes, he them in Greensboro, the entire population of Greensboro. Exactly 325 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:22,079 in Greensboro where the entire population is a team hop bands and did you know 326 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,200 this, Charles? Did you know this? They sing and dance. They 327 00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:33,799 also use hashtags quite a lot. Yes, I noticed that how they communicate. 328 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,519 What I wanted to touch on Matthew Perry for a couple of things. 329 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:44,960 Sure. First off, my wife and I are were actually my wife more 330 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:48,680 than me, very big in the Friends. So we watch it almost all 331 00:28:48,799 --> 00:28:52,319 night when we're trying to go to sleep. Because we'd like the TV on 332 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,799 so playing like almost all of them. But I actually got turned on to 333 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,319 it too. It's like it was actually kind of a it was a cool 334 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,680 comedy number. The first thing that's been potentially when they first broke out, 335 00:29:04,759 --> 00:29:08,359 it was an apparent drowning. We wasn't sure. Then they're saying that he 336 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:15,559 had a heart attack, Oh nosto, and he said he went out for 337 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,880 pickleballing earlier that day. He normally is an avid pick a ball player. 338 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:26,160 Apparently in his teenage years he was a ranked tennis player. And they're saying 339 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,599 that, you know, he got home, you didn't feel really well, 340 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,200 you know, felt tired, a little bit out of breath. He apparently 341 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,720 he has an assistant in his house, sent the assistant off, Aaron went 342 00:29:38,799 --> 00:29:44,000 to the hot tub and baboom, there you go. Then the rest is 343 00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:49,359 history. So yeah, I'm sure when you've been addicted drinking and drugs for 344 00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:52,440 that long, even if you're trying to get sober, you know it's still 345 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:56,680 gonna it's it's gonna beat you up inside. Yeah, and I don't know 346 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,880 if that's ever anything you can get over. Well, Yeah, eventually gonna 347 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,240 take a toll. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, obviously, 348 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:10,119 fifty four is young, uh for a heart attack. But but you're right, 349 00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:14,000 Charles, I mean, all that abuse that you do, if you 350 00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:17,200 abuse yourself in that way with drugs and alcohol, it does, Yeah, 351 00:30:17,319 --> 00:30:22,000 it wears down those uh you know, your internal organs uh. And your 352 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:26,079 heart is vulnerable to that obviously, and so yeah, it would not surprise 353 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,680 me if that is. Again, fifty four is awfully young for that still, 354 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:33,000 but I think the average I looked it up once. I think the 355 00:30:33,119 --> 00:30:37,119 average age for a heart attack for men, for a first heart attack is 356 00:30:37,599 --> 00:30:41,319 sixty eight maybe in the United States, So fifty four is still pretty young, 357 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:45,000 but it is. But yeah, he'd be it's young. It's young 358 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:48,839 to die too, for fifty four, I mean, that's that's still very 359 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,279 young. Yeah, it's terrible. I mean he did, he did climb 360 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:56,599 the hurdle and pass it over. He was sober for two years back in 361 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:02,000 twenty twenty one, claimed he was sober and for the past few years. 362 00:31:02,039 --> 00:31:04,640 But again, like I said, you know, you're fifty two when you 363 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,279 were sober, and god knows how long you've been doing drugs and alcohol. 364 00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:11,960 He said through the whole time he was on friends, he did it. 365 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,759 Oh really, we got to go to the assumption. That's a long time 366 00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:21,119 and you know, finally getting sober, that's good and all. But again, 367 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,240 like I said, the after effects of probably probably weren't very good, 368 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:29,880 and he probably didn't look after himself very well. That's probably why we see 369 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,240 a lot of these photos where he was just gray out and kind of looked 370 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,720 a little bit disheveled. And you know, he wasn't the healthiest looking person 371 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:44,680 during that time period. But you know, he made he made a commitment 372 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,880 to it and he got over it. But just it just you know, 373 00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:52,319 I think if somebody was there, or I think I was somebody was there, 374 00:31:52,319 --> 00:31:56,559 I think there may have been a chance he would have survived. But 375 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,119 you know, when he died, it was really hard breaking because not only 376 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:06,240 as Matthew Perry, this is a guy who's done. He was a tremendous 377 00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:10,720 personality he had. He was very funny, he could do many different roles. 378 00:32:12,319 --> 00:32:14,759 You know, he was definitely a guy in Hollywood that I think everybody 379 00:32:14,759 --> 00:32:17,960 would have looked up to. You take a look at it, and you 380 00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:23,400 know, you've got when this death happened, When it was reported you got 381 00:32:23,559 --> 00:32:30,799 like five or six cop cars over there, you got the helicopters roaming around 382 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:36,039 his house. I mean, listen, why don't you guys. I know 383 00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:39,960 he's a star. I know he's a Hollywood superstar, and I know he's 384 00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:45,440 you know that there's no privacy in Hollywood. My god, can't you just 385 00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:49,559 guys give these people a break and get some privacy. I mean, Okay, 386 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,240 he passed away, that's very sad. We all grieve. No need 387 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:57,039 to go ahead and do like an inside edition right away, once you give 388 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,759 some time. I'm over here seeing the helicopter fly over his house. Yes 389 00:33:00,799 --> 00:33:02,559 I'm watching, I get it, but I'm almost just seeing a lot of 390 00:33:02,559 --> 00:33:06,880 people just making these comments. But I'm seeing it. What isn't exactly a 391 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,839 luxurious mansion or anything like that. I mean, yeah, it was a 392 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,480 nice house right there on the shore, almost on the shore of the beach, 393 00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:16,200 But by no means was it like, you know, a fifty eight 394 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:20,680 or a lot. And it didn't look like anything huge. It looks like 395 00:33:21,119 --> 00:33:25,519 it was a very modest for somebody of that fame and caliber that that passed 396 00:33:25,519 --> 00:33:30,680 away. I mean, yeah, but again, just why can't you guys 397 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,519 just leave it alone. And then of course the people making early jokes on 398 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,000 memes. I guess he died in the hot tub. I guess nobody was 399 00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:40,400 there for him making reference to the song. Yeah, yeah, but that's 400 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:47,039 so clue, that's so heartless. Well, I would say this Charles, 401 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,599 so I would not be comfortable making those jokes myself. I don't tend to 402 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,480 do that, but I'm not offended when I see other people do it because 403 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,480 I think I think for a lot of people, that's especially when it comes 404 00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:00,400 to death, you know. I think for a lot of people that's how 405 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,480 they deal with it is with dark humor, you know. So I don't 406 00:34:04,519 --> 00:34:08,639 make any judgments about it, you know, but I guess that's one way 407 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,880 to look at it. I don't know. I just I just don't see 408 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,760 it though. I just see it like listen, wait, yeah. You 409 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,519 know when everybody tries to make a joke and you hear you, especially a 410 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:20,800 stand up comedian, and they go, oh, you know, they start 411 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,000 jeering, That's how I feel. It's like, all right, you're making 412 00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:28,880 a joke. It's you having time to pass. You know. There's some 413 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:32,840 nice memes there with another friend of the the cast as they were doing the 414 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,639 show. One of them was like Joey, one of his closest friends and 415 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,400 roommates during the show, on scene of course, taking a look at another 416 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,480 recliner. He had two recliners death the show is known for. He's looking 417 00:34:45,519 --> 00:34:49,599 at the other recliner of bear and dose. The caption over. So it's 418 00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:52,159 like, you know that, that's I've seen that. I like those type 419 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,639 those sentiments. Yeah, you know, I like those. You know, 420 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,719 it's just you know, it's it's it's it's a it's a sad day. 421 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,280 Because that this was a good actor. I enjoyed some I enjoyed several of 422 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:10,599 his films. One of them is uh with that one sick. I forget 423 00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:15,199 the name of it, but he's like a construction worker knocks up one chick 424 00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:16,880 in the bathroom and has to marry her in front of her parents. It's 425 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:22,320 like, uh, But I mean he he had a lot of good roles 426 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,320 and a lot of TV roles, and I think he just, you know, 427 00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:29,360 he needs to be memory. He needs to be remembered, I think 428 00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:32,320 in a in a more uplifting manner. I think so, I mean again, 429 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:37,599 he just battled or just got over the battle of alcohol and druggism, 430 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:43,840 which you know, that's a mistake, but he did it, and unfortunately 431 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:50,199 he just didn't have long enough left apparently. Yeah. Yeah, no, 432 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,960 it's uh, it's it's uh. It's too bad. He didn't he didn't 433 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,199 have any He didn't have any children, did he he? I don't know, 434 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,960 Actually, I couldn't tell you. I don't I know. He was 435 00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:07,599 like, you know, he he dated like you know, uh uh, 436 00:36:08,559 --> 00:36:12,119 pretty woman. I forget her name. Oh my god, I cannot talk 437 00:36:12,159 --> 00:36:16,719 today. Yeah, Julia Roberts. Apparently he did Julia Roberts for a little 438 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:23,960 bit. He had a lot of high profile relationships. I don't know if 439 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:28,159 he had any kids. I mean, that's something actually would probably not be 440 00:36:28,199 --> 00:36:32,280 a bad idea to look up. Scott Robinson says in the chat room, 441 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:37,320 I do believe that Matthew Perry got his first big break as a character on 442 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,239 Beverly Hills nine O two one. Oh. That's actually good. That's actually 443 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:50,559 a good thing if that's the case. M I don't know, he doesn't 444 00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:54,599 say anything in regards to kids. I mean, I'm looking up his Wikipedia, 445 00:36:54,679 --> 00:37:00,239 which that can be true, you know, but yeah, yeah, 446 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:07,280 that's it doesn't say any kids. Chris Uh. Chris from the band Edgewise 447 00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:12,960 in the chat says, if helicopters and TMZ surround my house when I go, 448 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,960 uh, when I go, i'd be psyched. Most of us, 449 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,519 most of us will go unnoticed. That's well, that's a good way to 450 00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:23,800 look at it. But listen, trust me, if I go and helicopters 451 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,760 around my house, it's because I'm hiding a whole bunch of heroin or something. 452 00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:31,760 Ain't gonna be because I'm dead. Are you saying your high No, 453 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,320 never mind, Chris h yeah, yeah, yeah, no, never mind. 454 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,480 I'm sorry. Bleep me out please, oh Chris. Also, Chris 455 00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,320 also said, yeah, it is sixty eight for a heart attack. That's 456 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,800 that's the average for a first art attack for men, he said, gives 457 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:49,360 me ye. But you've got to realize that's probably in a semi healthy, 458 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,039 you know, lifestyle. Well, you're you're your age agent. Wait appropriate, 459 00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:59,119 Okay, maybe you know you're not eating the healthiest, but you got 460 00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:04,760 taken to consider alcohol and drug factor in there, and you got it's not 461 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,679 good. It's just not good. Yeah, yeah, no, I I 462 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,800 assume the more you abuse yourself with drugs and alcohol. I would imagine the 463 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,400 more likely you are to have while something catastrophic happened to be at a heart 464 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:21,159 attack or anything else. But Chris also said, gives me hope I can 465 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,280 enjoy my love for steak and cheese subs a bit longer. That's it's funny 466 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,440 when when I eat something that's bad for me, I can relate to that 467 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,519 because I when when I eat something that I know isn't necessarily healthy for me, 468 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,199 I have the same thoughts. It's like, I'm still a long way 469 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,159 away from having to worry, but when in reality, it's those things that 470 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:46,440 cumulatively over time catch up with you unfortunately, although they catch up with you 471 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:52,440 less when you're young, like if like if you're you know, geez, 472 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:53,760 when I was in my twenties, I was eating Burger King every day, 473 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,960 and it's like, she's if I did that now, I'd probably be dead 474 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,880 by now. But uh, anyway, yeah, I listen to this. 475 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,079 In two thousand and two, he estimated that he spent nine million dollars on 476 00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:10,639 his addiction, including fourteen stomach surgeries, fifteen stays in rehab, and therapy 477 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:15,920 twice a week for thirty years. I believe that how long that was. 478 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:21,320 That's just crazy. Fourteen stomach surgeries. That's gonna definitely go down that that 479 00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:24,880 in your lifespan of Come on, he spent two weeks in a coma and 480 00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:29,559 used the colostomy bag for nine months. Oh my god, I didn't know 481 00:39:29,599 --> 00:39:40,119 because he had a gessional profriation ohation twenty eighteen. He Yeah, I didn't 482 00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:44,239 know all this. That was crazy. I did not. Being admitted to 483 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,360 the hospital, doctors told his family that Perry had a two percent chance of 484 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:52,960 survival. Oh my god, he was connected to an ECMO machine. I 485 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,039 don't know what that is, you cmo. So he did have a lot 486 00:39:57,119 --> 00:40:00,960 of medical issues and apparently becau I'm not sure if this is because of them 487 00:40:01,159 --> 00:40:06,360 of the alcohol and drugs, but safe bet apparently it was. He had 488 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,679 a lot of He had a lot of stomach and digestional issues too. I 489 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,920 did not see. I didn't know all that. I didn't know. I 490 00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:16,960 just always I mean, I knew everybody knows. And again, I never 491 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:21,599 really paid that much attention to him. But you know, I think everyone 492 00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:23,079 knew that. Uh well, let me put it this way. I thought 493 00:40:23,119 --> 00:40:30,039 he was your standard celebrity with a substance abuse issues. I had no idea 494 00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:34,280 that he had had some pretty close calls there and it had been a yeah, 495 00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:37,199 I didn't know about all of that, which and again I don't say 496 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:42,199 this to sound callous or anything, but now hearing about all of that, 497 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,280 it's not a surprise at all that he's gone at fifty four. I mean, 498 00:40:46,519 --> 00:40:50,719 oh my god, I did not know all of that. A lot 499 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:57,519 of going in. Yeah, he had fourteen stomach surgeries, yeah, esz. 500 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,760 So just to clarify, eighteen seventy nine television role on nine two four 501 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,320 zero Dash Robert, I don't have no idea what that is, but that 502 00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:12,519 was his first acting role, okay, in television. His first film, 503 00:41:12,639 --> 00:41:16,000 A Night in the Life of Jeremy Reardon in eighty eight. Nine years later, 504 00:41:17,159 --> 00:41:20,800 Mike from Fools Rush In, that was the one, and he was 505 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,480 in the whole nine yards, in the whole ten yards with Bruce Willis. 506 00:41:22,599 --> 00:41:25,559 Okay, I've seen Fools rush In. I thought that sounded kind of familiar. 507 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,239 Now, Mike from Queen City Cabinetry set in the chat room, so 508 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:35,440 that that machine you were referring to before, it's uh, extra it's extra 509 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:43,360 core, corporeal Jenny would know how to say this extra corporeal membrane oxygenation. 510 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:49,119 He says, it pumps, It pumps and oxygenates a patient's blood outside the 511 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,239 body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. I think Keith Richards has 512 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:57,599 had that done. I've heard of that. Okay. Yeah, so it 513 00:41:57,639 --> 00:42:00,440 almost sounds like it cleans you out really good. Yeah yeah, yeah, 514 00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:04,280 like it like it cleans your your blood if I if I understand it correctly, 515 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,840 which I probably don't, but that's heavy duty stuff. Wow. So 516 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:12,239 he really he did a lot of damage to it. Yeah, yeah, 517 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,639 I mean honestly, again, and this and this was after Friends. This 518 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,320 is definitely after nine oh two one oh, which he was only in one 519 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,360 episode, by the way. Okay, so but this is after everything. 520 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:29,039 He was on the Good Wife, he was on the Odd Couple. Uh. 521 00:42:30,039 --> 00:42:32,280 Of course. The last thing he ever did, looks like was Friends 522 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:37,480 of Reunion. Oh was it? Oh? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 523 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,480 I think I remember seeing something about that. Yeah. His last movie role 524 00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:43,880 was seventeen. Again, that was in two thousand and nine. So he 525 00:42:44,039 --> 00:42:47,280 wasn't really a huge film guy. Yeah, but he did serve in a 526 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,440 few good films. Sure, Sure, I mean, obviously Friends is what 527 00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:57,880 he's most known for because that that series was such a massive, massive hit. 528 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,280 Couldn't get away from it, definitely almost ten years it was. I 529 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,360 mean, listen, I understand if you're not a fan of Friends. It 530 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,800 was probably just like one of those you know of scoofy sitcoms that I'm telling 531 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,920 you. That thing made a splash in American TV, like you know, 532 00:43:14,119 --> 00:43:16,039 like Home Improvement Band, you know that that was like one of the most 533 00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:21,519 watched things back in the day. Massive and they had that you know that 534 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,280 song, not that I liked the song, but that I'll Be There for 535 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:29,000 You by the Rembrandts. You know what. I remember. This is just 536 00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:31,639 an odd, random thing. It has nothing to do with Matthew Perry, 537 00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:35,760 but I remember seeing a story about that on I think it was on Entertainment 538 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,079 Tonight. I don't know if that show even still exists anymore, but back 539 00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:42,079 then it did. It does, it's just labeled as ET now, gotcha. 540 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,639 So I remember seeing a segment on that show about that song, and 541 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,079 it was all about the rem Brands, and there was an interview with the 542 00:43:49,159 --> 00:43:52,519 Rembrands and it was all about how this was their first big hit and their 543 00:43:52,559 --> 00:43:57,760 big break, you know. And I remember sitting there watching this segment and 544 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,400 the entire time I'm thinking this, this is completely inaccurate. This is not 545 00:44:02,519 --> 00:44:07,320 their first hit song, and it really bothered me because their first hit song 546 00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:09,440 was a song called I think it's called The Way It Is, which was 547 00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:13,960 also a big hit. But for some reason in this segment, they're acting 548 00:44:14,039 --> 00:44:15,639 like, oh, the Rembrands, there's this hot new act that nobody ever 549 00:44:15,679 --> 00:44:19,000 heard of until now, and I'm like, they just had a big hit 550 00:44:19,079 --> 00:44:21,599 song a couple of years earlier. Do you remember that song the Way It 551 00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,840 Is? Baby? That's just the way it is baby? Yeah, yeah, 552 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,920 yeah, that was a bit. I remember hearing that. I think't 553 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,679 that's the reason why they're Lincoln I'll be There for You is because that thing 554 00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:36,960 that's still collecting royalties beyond belief. I mean, yeah, the way it 555 00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:40,360 Is, that's still that's still being played like on like oldies radio and satellite 556 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:45,000 radios. But I'll be There for You. That's just iconic, that's known 557 00:44:45,119 --> 00:44:50,480 for a lot more than just you know, the I know, I know 558 00:44:50,599 --> 00:44:52,360 that. It's just I'm just saying though back then, though, back then, 559 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,440 when I saw that this would have been back when Friends was just becoming 560 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,920 a hit. And I saw that segment and at the time, I was 561 00:44:59,039 --> 00:45:04,360 like, am I witnessing the death of journalism? They already had a big 562 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,960 hit. This, this entire segment is completely wrong that there's no accuracy here. 563 00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:12,039 Wait, just the way it is released in nineteen ninety and I'll be 564 00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:15,480 there for you as in ninety five, those five years between hits. Yeah, 565 00:45:15,519 --> 00:45:16,760 but they already are those hits, I should say, yeah, they 566 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,840 were already, they were already famous. And in this segment they're like, 567 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,480 oh, I even remember at the end of the segment, whoever was Mary 568 00:45:24,559 --> 00:45:30,480 Hart or whoever? She's like the rem brands one hit and counting, you 569 00:45:30,559 --> 00:45:32,760 know, And I'm like, no, that's not that they have two hits. 570 00:45:34,039 --> 00:45:37,360 This is their second hit. I'm very much a stickler about that kind 571 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,960 of thing, Charles. I don't like it when artists are labeled as one 572 00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:44,800 hit wonders when they're not. It really bothers me. As you can tell, 573 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,840 I got very exercised about it. Yeah, well, well as all 574 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,960 as you being a fellows this, and of course you're gonna go ahead and 575 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,079 feel a certain type of way. It's like Hey, No, that's bs 576 00:45:54,679 --> 00:45:59,320 right. No, you're you're gonna stick to those facts. But when you 577 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,039 going ahead and you're gonna be you know, filming something for an article or 578 00:46:02,079 --> 00:46:06,800 a show or or something like that, nobody's gonna remember that one. You're 579 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,440 gonna see you all. I'll be there for you. That's gonna be the 580 00:46:08,519 --> 00:46:13,440 song that everybody's gonna cling to. You may have to think about the other 581 00:46:13,519 --> 00:46:15,679 one a little bit longer. But you don't want people to watch and listen 582 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,519 and think no, no, no, you just want them to watch and 583 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:24,480 listen. You want them to think me and you will think mm hmmmm m 584 00:46:25,159 --> 00:46:31,360 exactly. So that's what's wrong with America. Yes, I think the next 585 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,960 time we get a president, there he does the thinking for us and we 586 00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,800 just listen. Yeah. Oh that would be paradise. Everything would be so 587 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:46,440 easy. That's you know what the next president should be, somebody that's evolved 588 00:46:46,559 --> 00:46:51,440 in round. AI. Get an AI president. I think everything will be 589 00:46:51,519 --> 00:46:55,079 perfect. Yes, yes, oh that's a wonderful idea, Charles, I 590 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:59,079 like it. I think so I think I should run for president just for 591 00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:01,440 getting that idea. Yeah, but that would defeat the you're not a I 592 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:06,440 so that would defeat the purpose. Yeah, well, how many ideas have 593 00:47:06,599 --> 00:47:07,960 other presidents come through that I'm gonna do this, this and that, and 594 00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:13,400 they never do right. Well, that's true. So you're saying, that's 595 00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:15,400 that's my lock and key right there. So you could you could live up 596 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:21,519 to that standard, is what you're saying easily as as president. Oh hell 597 00:47:21,599 --> 00:47:22,679 no, no, no, no no, I'm just gonna make people think 598 00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,159 I can. Oh right, well, yeah, that's that's what I mean. 599 00:47:25,599 --> 00:47:28,360 Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah, yes, I can. I can 600 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,360 live up to San Matt. Yes, yes, they better work on my 601 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,719 line. I'm not there yet, right right, You'll get there. You'll 602 00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,960 get there. I mean you're gonna have to if you want to be president. 603 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,559 Yeah, definitely, I gotta. I gotta throw that bs out there, 604 00:47:39,639 --> 00:47:46,079 really thick and steamy. Yeah, yes, well, very good. 605 00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:50,840 All right, Charles, wonderful dear from you, my friend. Yep, 606 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,800 take care all right, bye bye. All right. That was our friend 607 00:47:54,079 --> 00:47:59,639 Charles Richardson from the great state of Florida. Here's what we're gonna do, 608 00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:06,239 as I see out in the hallway musicians, So we're gonna get them in 609 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,400 here. I'm gonna play a track of theirs. This is called The Fall. 610 00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:12,199 We've got the world radio premiere their brand new song. We're gonna hold 611 00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:14,519 off on that though, until they're in the room, but we're gonna play 612 00:48:14,599 --> 00:48:16,480 this track. It's called The Fall. I really like this a lot. 613 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,880 The band is Heavy America. We'll listen to this. We'll show some love 614 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,199 to our amazing sponsors, and then when we come back, Heavy America will 615 00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:27,800 be here with us live in studio. Don't go anywhere. There's plenty more. 616 00:48:27,920 --> 00:49:00,599 Matt Connorton unleashed, coming right up, stand like a bone. He 617 00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:17,760 do to spell side let me watching, then didn't dispell. Oh no, 618 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:38,199 look now we've done it. Cracks falling There one more ship to step back, 619 00:49:40,159 --> 00:50:16,000 freepell for the pall He stop ball calling dab dam Bell's confusing to sans 620 00:50:16,079 --> 00:50:29,719 were else? Oh no, the system is falling. The cupboards up it 621 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:58,559 one mom ship to step back, three pair for the fall happen. 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You can go to my website 664 00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:45,280 Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, 665 00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:49,079 contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is 666 00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:54,559 Monday, October thirtieth, twenty twenty three, and we've got some musicians here 667 00:59:54,719 --> 01:00:00,719 in studio. Heavy America joins us live in studio. Welcome, Hey, 668 01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:05,239 thanks for having us, and uh yeah, and uh this is special because 669 01:00:05,239 --> 01:00:08,119 we're gonna be doing the world radio premiere of a brand new single, which 670 01:00:08,159 --> 01:00:12,760 we're going to talk about in a moment. But uh, let's Mike, 671 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,679 let's start with you. You're at the news desk. Why don't you just 672 01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:17,800 tell us who you are and what you do in the band. My name 673 01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:22,440 is Mike Seguin. I am the lead vocalist and guitarists in Heavy America. 674 01:00:25,679 --> 01:00:30,519 I do a lot of the audio engineering for the band. Oh cool when 675 01:00:30,559 --> 01:00:36,719 we record excellent, Uh, pretty much most of the managerial skills. Yeah, 676 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:40,519 you know that, come with it. Try to be a little bit 677 01:00:40,599 --> 01:00:44,880 of everything, Try and take care of whatever needs to get done. That's 678 01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,440 what we'll keep it all, you know. Yeah, yeah, there you 679 01:00:47,559 --> 01:00:51,000 go, there you go, all right. I like that, keep it 680 01:00:51,039 --> 01:00:54,119 small, keep it all. I like that. And on the couch, 681 01:00:54,199 --> 01:00:58,280 you, sir, I am Dan. I am the drummer of the band. 682 01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,559 Also a little the singing, but mostly the drummer and percussionist. Okay, 683 01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:06,840 and you, I'm Bud and I play the bass all right. I'm 684 01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,719 a bass player as well. So very nice, very nice. When you 685 01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:14,400 guys are from Boston, yeah, yeah, the band's based out of Boston. 686 01:01:14,639 --> 01:01:19,440 Excellent. How was your drive it wasn't too too bad. Yeah, 687 01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,400 there was some rough spots, but yeah, this time of day it can 688 01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,400 be a little dicey. Yeah, and with the weather too. Oh yeah. 689 01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:29,400 Dan had the worst of almost two hours to get and these guys know, 690 01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:31,320 I'm used to the guy always early. So we get here with a 691 01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:35,599 couple of minutes. Spot right up front like you normally do. Did really 692 01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:39,360 always that's our joke at gigs. I always get the spot. I got 693 01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,880 the drums, got all equipment. I always get the spot right off front 694 01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,039 of why it is, but we're looking for the gig. Just look for 695 01:01:45,199 --> 01:01:47,840 Dan's cards. Yeah part of the gig. Yeah, well with the drums 696 01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:51,719 that smart? By the way, are you? And this has been a 697 01:01:52,159 --> 01:01:53,400 trend on the show recently. It seems like every band we have on the 698 01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,920 drummers in like ten different bands. Are you in a bunch of different bands? 699 01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,280 Are you just in this one? We are all in this one band, 700 01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:00,800 no kidding, well, being in this one band. So we're dedicated 701 01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,679 to this very cool, very cool. Yeah, this is our band. 702 01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:10,119 Ye excellent, excellent and uh everything. So we played a couple of tracks 703 01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,920 during the during the break, but we're gonna play you know a couple of 704 01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:16,880 your older songs, but we have a brand new You have a brand new 705 01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:21,000 single, I should say, yes, we do, called Pretender, and 706 01:02:21,559 --> 01:02:23,519 this is the world radio premiere, right, nobody's uh, nobody's heard this 707 01:02:23,679 --> 01:02:28,079 yet. That's correct. Yep. This is the first time it's been on 708 01:02:28,239 --> 01:02:31,760 public years excellent. Just got it back from mastering last weekend. We figured 709 01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:37,280 what better place to show it off than Yeah, yeah, oh we love 710 01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:39,639 it. We love it great. Anything we should know about this before we 711 01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:43,519 hear it? Any uh, anything you want to tell us about it? 712 01:02:43,679 --> 01:02:47,239 Or uh no, no not really, Just sit back and enjoy. All 713 01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:50,360 right, very cool. All right, let's give you this a listen, 714 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,719 and then we'll come back and talk with these guys some more. This is 715 01:02:52,800 --> 01:03:16,079 the brand new single from Heavy America. This is called Pretender. Right hard 716 01:03:16,639 --> 01:03:24,760 to spend my wood, notty three things, the silver spood bed down, 717 01:03:25,519 --> 01:03:37,199 but either pretend that now. The wado means no surrender your come out pretenda 718 01:03:45,239 --> 01:03:54,880 click hand thousand one five down the room set the world of fire to pool 719 01:03:55,360 --> 01:04:04,199 with patients to spend what got I've gone everywhere? Come home, come home 720 01:04:06,639 --> 01:04:33,880 that shagenda live no carender that pick the kernw my Bregenda. Joe Jane said, 721 01:04:35,599 --> 01:04:45,000 tid on the other side, So it off getting near sow it up 722 01:04:45,119 --> 01:04:59,599 and start all over again. Come come that Shayanda live. Now, come 723 01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:46,760 pick the cantato hot. They sat like that's say the pet got lou don't 724 01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:55,920 he d go hot pick? They can sid go hot mil the pick sad. 725 01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:26,920 You heard it here first pretender. That is a brand new single from 726 01:06:27,079 --> 01:06:30,599 Heavy America. And we have Mike, Dan and Bud here with us live 727 01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:36,679 in studio and great great stuff. So where do you record? You do 728 01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:42,159 this all? Mike you said you handle the audio engineering and everything. Yeah, 729 01:06:42,199 --> 01:06:46,840 we do all the recording ourselves right at our rehearsal studio and bill Ricka 730 01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:54,280 Mass We've been there since twenty fifteen. Yeah, so we've done a pretty 731 01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:58,119 good job of you know, getting the place all soundproofed and you know, 732 01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,480 cables run and everything and it's I mean, it's a down and dirty recording 733 01:07:01,679 --> 01:07:05,239 studio, but it definitely gets the job done. And it saves us thousands, 734 01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:09,000 oh no doubt. Yeah, you know, and we live in a 735 01:07:09,079 --> 01:07:12,239 time and I've I've talked about this with a lot of guests on the show 736 01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,039 over the years that. You know, we live in a time where you've 737 01:07:14,039 --> 01:07:16,119 got so many different options in terms of how you approach recording. You know, 738 01:07:16,239 --> 01:07:19,320 you can you can go to a recording studio, you can build your 739 01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:23,679 own, you can you have a very small setup in email tracks back and 740 01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:25,800 forth. I mean, it's amazing all the different ways you can do it 741 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,480 now. Yea, And before we go any further, by the way, 742 01:07:28,559 --> 01:07:30,239 too, these guys, now, I did not open this yet or look 743 01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:34,320 at it for those of you watching online or on Comcast Channel six, because 744 01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:38,800 I wanted to do this on the air. Whoops. Oh there's a sticker 745 01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:45,079 too. Awesome. But these guys brought me a shirt, brand new Heavy 746 01:07:45,119 --> 01:07:47,599 America shirt. Oh nice, very nice. Yeah, we went with a 747 01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:53,000 tan with black this time instead of a black T shirt. The last six 748 01:07:53,119 --> 01:07:56,639 runs of T shirts have all been black, so no, you changed it 749 01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,280 up a little bit. I was just thinking, I think that's cool because 750 01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:02,199 everybody to black T shirt exactly, so that's something different. I like it. 751 01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:04,880 Yeah, that looks really good. You can wear that to a formal 752 01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:09,280 event too. There you go, there you go. Now, that is 753 01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:13,400 awesome, Thank you guys. That is that is fantastic. Who designed the 754 01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:16,800 logo. I really dig the logo we did. Yeah, what font is 755 01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:23,680 that? It's called Madison Square in size. Okay, yeah, it took 756 01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:27,439 a long time to find that it really Yeah, well, you want something 757 01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:30,039 to be original and to carry the the you know, through time. So 758 01:08:30,159 --> 01:08:32,840 yeah, yeah. By the way, Dan, I have to tell you 759 01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,640 so you won't you won't know who I'm talking about. But the listeners might 760 01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:40,880 appreciate this, the ones who are familiar with this gentleman. There's a guy 761 01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:45,159 named Ron who a great guy. He calls the show occasionally and sometimes on 762 01:08:45,239 --> 01:08:48,199 another show that that I'm on on Friday nights even sits in and or he 763 01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:50,640 was on the morning show today in fact, and you sound a lot like 764 01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:56,279 our friend Ron, so our listeners might might have noticed that it is. 765 01:08:57,159 --> 01:09:00,119 Yeah, no, you sound a lot like him. It's funny. Now, 766 01:09:00,159 --> 01:09:02,800 you guys are gonna be at Swarmy Fest on Saturday coming up this weekend. 767 01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,880 Yep, Yeah, we're going on well ten minutes to eight I think 768 01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:13,760 is that time for Swarmy Fest. But there is gonna be a lot of 769 01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,960 good bands there this weekend. It's gonna be wicked good yep, yep. 770 01:09:17,239 --> 01:09:19,880 Looking forward, Yeah, we knew some of them, but when we you 771 01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:23,000 know, all of us go to see and listen to the bands before we 772 01:09:23,079 --> 01:09:25,560 go out and play, and it was fun to listen through and some really 773 01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,560 good bands. We're gonna be really good. Yeah, it's gonna be great. 774 01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:30,079 God, the more you talk, the more you sound like Ron. 775 01:09:30,119 --> 01:09:35,119 It's weird. We'd like to thank, like to thank Sepsis also forgetting us 776 01:09:35,199 --> 01:09:40,399 on that bill. They were very gracious in having us and we appreciate that. 777 01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,079 Yeah, we have in the chat room right now. Hans A Smith 778 01:09:44,239 --> 01:09:46,800 of Sepsis is in there. Hello, Hans says, Hey Metal Matt Hello. 779 01:09:47,159 --> 01:09:50,600 Yeah, I've got the full listing here. So and each booking presents 780 01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:55,079 Swarmy Fest twenty twenty three. There's gonna be two stages this year, yep, 781 01:09:55,279 --> 01:10:00,479 and featuring Sepsis with We've Got a Simple Complex. They're going to be 782 01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:02,880 on the show later this week. I've known those guys forever. Carpathia, 783 01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:08,119 I don't know if I'm saying that correctly. If it's Carpathia, Carpathia trading 784 01:10:08,159 --> 01:10:11,760 Tombstones who I love After the Winter. They were on the show not too 785 01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:15,520 long ago. Paradise is canceled Dark Rain My Last Mile. They were on 786 01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:19,039 the show just recently, DC Wolves. They were on just recently Heavy America. 787 01:10:19,119 --> 01:10:24,359 You guys are here now, of course and in the wind and that 788 01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:29,520 all that starts at six pm at Jewel Music Venue. You can go to 789 01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,720 Swarmyfest dot event bright dot com for tickets if you want to get tickets in 790 01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:38,479 advance thirteen dollars and I think they're fifteen at the door day of show, 791 01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,520 and Jenny and I will be there. Of course, people can come down 792 01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:45,279 and say hello, Oh Sepsis is in the chatterman says, thank you guys 793 01:10:45,359 --> 01:10:47,560 for being a part of the show here in Manchester. We can't wait to 794 01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:53,279 see your set. Thank you nice. Absolutely, can you guys talk to 795 01:10:53,359 --> 01:10:57,640 me about influences because it's you know, we listened to that track and then 796 01:10:57,800 --> 01:10:59,960 I went and I listened to some of your others because I wanted to play 797 01:11:00,119 --> 01:11:02,840 some others too, as we did during the break and hard to pin you 798 01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:09,800 guys down. There's you know, you got kind of a I don't know, 799 01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,199 it's it's raw, it's it's kind of, you know, kind of 800 01:11:12,239 --> 01:11:16,319 a stripped down sound, but the melodically it gets weird. There's twists and 801 01:11:16,359 --> 01:11:19,520 turns you don't expect, and it's really cool, especially that track Vacation is 802 01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:23,840 a great example of that. But can you guys just talk to me about 803 01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:29,720 influences and what I assume there's a lot of diversity there. Yeah, yeah, 804 01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:35,359 there is. All three of us grew up in homes that were, 805 01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:41,279 you know, full of music. My dad, you know, grew up 806 01:11:41,319 --> 01:11:45,439 in the late sixties, early seventies, so I had access to his album 807 01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,119 collection when I started learning how to play guitar at like thirteen, Yeah, 808 01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:55,640 and so a lot of my early influences were from that late sixties early seventies. 809 01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:59,760 I think Dan too, Yeah, And I came from a musical family 810 01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:00,760 and my brother was always in a band ahead of me, in one of 811 01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:03,680 the big bands. And where I grew up in Connecticut, so growing growing 812 01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:06,760 up in all that classic rock. So it was definitely a classic rock thing. 813 01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:11,199 The funny thing with us is we never really sit down even when we 814 01:12:11,279 --> 01:12:14,880 did this and talked about sound influences. Yeah, it's an odd thing. 815 01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:16,479 We just kind of brought the music and we never spent a lot of time 816 01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:18,880 saying, you know, what do we need to sound like? Or who 817 01:12:19,079 --> 01:12:23,039 who really came from where? It's kind of an amalgamation, so we we 818 01:12:23,279 --> 01:12:28,239 tried to avoid it. And you know, we're all pretty seasoned musicians. 819 01:12:28,279 --> 01:12:31,479 We've been around for a little while. And I mean it's not just music 820 01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:36,319 that's an influence, you know, in your music, meaning other music, 821 01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:41,720 but it's it's everything, you know, It's all all things you come across 822 01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:44,920 on a daily basis can influence you in some way. So yeah, I 823 01:12:45,359 --> 01:12:47,880 I never liked the idea of pigeon holding yourself to one thing, you know, 824 01:12:48,119 --> 01:12:54,159 And we a few years ago got described as every genre of rock by 825 01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,720 a review that was done of us, and I saw that on your website. 826 01:12:57,760 --> 01:12:59,960 I kind of liked it. Yeah, I was like, that's true, 827 01:13:00,199 --> 01:13:04,479 you know, and that it's when you played Vacations that mentioned that that's 828 01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:10,680 kind of quirky. And that song when we released it that the guy person 829 01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:15,000 that did the review on that song tagged us as psychedelic, progressive hot Brock 830 01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:18,159 And I like that too. I think that's pretty good too. But you 831 01:13:18,239 --> 01:13:23,600 know, we do we like to we like to stretch our own talents too, 832 01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,760 you know, So we were always challenging ourselves as musicians. So if 833 01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,880 you hear one of our songs go off on some wacky key change or time 834 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:35,159 signature change, it's because we probably decided to challenge ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. 835 01:13:38,119 --> 01:13:41,840 Has the sound changed over time or has it always been a little bit 836 01:13:42,039 --> 01:13:45,119 Yeah, Yeah, it's it's become more us. Yeah, you know, 837 01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:49,760 you can still hear all of our you know, our influences, but it's 838 01:13:50,079 --> 01:13:54,680 our sound is becoming more us, you know. I'd say in the past 839 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,319 probably two or three years, we've really started to get our own sound, 840 01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:00,319 and that was the goal. Yeah. I think the other thing where we've 841 01:14:00,319 --> 01:14:03,800 become much better at building songs. We might Mike is obviously our our fearless 842 01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:06,720 leader when it comes to bringing music, but sometimes it can start at a 843 01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:10,279 rehearsal. Right, we can we come up with stuff, but a lot 844 01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:12,680 of times Mike comes with a couple ideas. But the three of us really 845 01:14:13,159 --> 01:14:15,720 contribute. But I we you know, I think more lately now than we 846 01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:17,520 did in the beginning. We spent a lot of time building a good song. 847 01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:20,439 I think earlier on is what it's whatever came to you and you kind 848 01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:24,319 of accepted that and then you you might have tweaked it, but we spent 849 01:14:24,399 --> 01:14:27,960 a good amount of time working through songs now to make sure the parts fit. 850 01:14:29,199 --> 01:14:33,279 It's interesting, listenable and uh yeah, and then we're proud of it. 851 01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:38,560 Yeah, and they never really done you know, like we've gone back 852 01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,159 and we just did it for Swarmy Fest. We took a song that was 853 01:14:42,359 --> 01:14:45,600 eight years old and chopped a minute and twenty seconds out of it. Oh 854 01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:48,640 yeah, just because we didn't like that part anymore. Yeah, you know, 855 01:14:49,359 --> 01:14:53,520 but we're not you know, we're not afraid to hack up our own 856 01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,439 music. And well, it keeps it interesting, right, It kind of 857 01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,840 renews something that's that's uh, you know, if you take an old song 858 01:14:59,880 --> 01:15:01,279 and you kind of do it just differently, it's like it's a new song. 859 01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:04,079 Yeah. And plus you know you've improved as a player and you want 860 01:15:04,119 --> 01:15:06,920 to put you know, you want your new chops in your old songs, 861 01:15:08,199 --> 01:15:12,319 right right. Uh. Chris from the band Edgewise says, I heard some 862 01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,399 big Elf in their Great Bay Side band. Do you know them Big Elf? 863 01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:18,319 I don't much. I don't think I do either. I don't know. 864 01:15:18,359 --> 01:15:21,600 It sounds kind of familiar, but I'll have to check them out though, 865 01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:26,680 I'm curious. Has it always been the three of you in this band. 866 01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:30,520 Interesting enough, We started as we need to start as this band as 867 01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,880 a four piece, but we were a four piece and we started together on 868 01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:35,920 a project together. These guys would known each other forever, okay, they 869 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:40,800 knew somebody else that I'd been playing drums with. We started out on a 870 01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:44,439 project to do a studio recording of old songs they had done way back when 871 01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:48,079 it kind of resurrects under them. And then after that we three wanted to 872 01:15:48,079 --> 01:15:51,039 stay on and continue on. That's how you know I was born. Yeah, 873 01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:55,600 but we you know, at that time we had it was a singer 874 01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:58,159 and Mike wasn't singing. And then Mike said, now I'm picking up singing 875 01:15:58,239 --> 01:16:00,239 dudies. We're like, okay, let's let's see that goes. But we 876 01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:03,079 love a three piece. That's our that's our bag. Yeah. It's when 877 01:16:03,079 --> 01:16:06,800 you can it's hard. I mean you can execute and record what you know, 878 01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:11,239 play what you recorded, and like saying, singing lead and playing guitar, 879 01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:15,600 and it works. It's great. Yeah, yeah, I imagine. 880 01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:17,000 I mean it's easier in some ways too, right if you have if there's 881 01:16:17,039 --> 01:16:19,640 only three of you, Because the bigger the band, the more you have 882 01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:23,520 to work around, you know, the more people whose schedules you have to 883 01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:28,000 work around for rehearsals and for shows, and so the three piece that must 884 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,520 be pretty streamlined. I would think, yeah it is. Yeah, and 885 01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:34,760 you know, we we all think the same when it comes to music, 886 01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:39,399 and I don't. We've never had an argument. Yeah, in the eight 887 01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:42,520 years that we've been in a band together, we've never had an argument. 888 01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:47,319 It's it's just it's beyond that, you know. I think that's what about 889 01:16:47,319 --> 01:16:49,640 You know, when you're talking about adding another person, has it come up 890 01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:53,079 like a couple of times, could you imagine if we had a keyboard player 891 01:16:53,119 --> 01:16:57,319 or something like? No, because that the relationship we have just works. 892 01:16:57,359 --> 01:17:00,520 So it's just not worth even screwing with. Yeah, it makes sense. 893 01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:05,600 Chemistry is too good. Yeah, Yeah, why we're ye, Are any 894 01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:11,640 of these songs difficult to to recreate live? Do they change it all live? 895 01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:15,159 Because what you've recorded is difficult with just the three of you? Or 896 01:17:15,319 --> 01:17:18,880 no? We we we always try whatever we put on record, we we 897 01:17:19,079 --> 01:17:23,560 try to make sure that we can replicate that live. And we and we 898 01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:28,399 don't use any backing tracks. When you see us, it's literally you're hearing 899 01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:32,319 the three of us raw playing no backing tracks. Well, we we want 900 01:17:32,399 --> 01:17:36,439 to make sure that we can reproduce, you know, live, So there's 901 01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:40,760 there's a few small things like if you're hear in the fall, uh, 902 01:17:41,239 --> 01:17:45,000 there's a little piano key thing in the back. But you know, there's 903 01:17:45,039 --> 01:17:50,279 little accents that we may do in the recording studio, but we'd never record 904 01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:58,119 or use any instruments that we can't use live. Okay. Chris from Edgewise 905 01:17:58,319 --> 01:18:04,520 just shared a link to big Elf in the chat room. I want to 906 01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:09,840 see if it. I want to see if it loads up here. It's 907 01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:15,760 for some reason my internet here is running very slow. But yeah, I'm 908 01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,720 just curious to hear just a little bit of this because you guys are are 909 01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:23,359 unique and I couldn't think of anyone you sound quite like. So it's it's 910 01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:28,760 interesting that let me see here, turn this up, see what we get 911 01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:35,840 here. There's no reason just buy. Let me go a little further in. 912 01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:56,960 Oh, there we go. That's a song. That's a song called 913 01:18:57,039 --> 01:19:00,760 money. It's pure evil. Listen to that later. It does sound interesting, 914 01:19:01,119 --> 01:19:04,319 Yeah, it does sound interesting. I'd have to listen a little more 915 01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:10,079 myself to try and hear us. Yeah, do you guys, how many 916 01:19:10,199 --> 01:19:13,640 songs do you have because you've been together? What eight years? Just eight 917 01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,279 years? We got right now? I think twenty eight originals. Okay, 918 01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:20,520 okay, do you do any covers or no covers? But we do a 919 01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:26,920 medley of of some covers? Oh okay, yeah, but with no vocals? 920 01:19:27,159 --> 01:19:30,000 Well really yeah, and it's just the hooks. Yeah, you know, 921 01:19:30,399 --> 01:19:34,079 but it's about thirteen or fourteen different songs that we just took all the 922 01:19:34,159 --> 01:19:38,399 hooks of them and jammed a minute one six and a half minute long. 923 01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:41,680 Yeah. Now it's free break is the way Mike. You know, we're 924 01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,840 not doing it this weekend, so it's fine. I can talk about it, 925 01:19:44,159 --> 01:19:46,640 not taking away the surprise. But the way Mike always explains is, 926 01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:49,039 you know, we could tell you what our influences is but are, but 927 01:19:49,119 --> 01:19:53,119 instead we're going to show you. Yeah, and literally we all contributed, 928 01:19:53,199 --> 01:19:55,520 like here's three songs I want to do, three I want to do. 929 01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:58,920 We kind of cobbled it together and they're all snippets and the hardest part was 930 01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,319 sewing them a all together. And it's it's it's every time we get done, 931 01:20:02,319 --> 01:20:06,520 everybody just says that's freaking genius. Yeah, and it's it's a highlightment. 932 01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:09,840 But you know that's our covers, you know. Yeah, yeah, 933 01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:14,560 very nice. We should, Uh, I'd like to play another song. 934 01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:16,640 So I listened to obviously, you know, we did, we premiered the 935 01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:19,960 new song, but I also listened to a bunch of your other your other 936 01:20:20,119 --> 01:20:25,079 songs online, and uh, I think we should. We should get one 937 01:20:25,119 --> 01:20:27,680 more in and then we'll come back and talk. We'll come back and talk 938 01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:31,479 some more. But I already played the fall that was That was pretty cool. 939 01:20:32,239 --> 01:20:35,359 Oh crushed. We Uh I like Call You Tomorrow a lot, but 940 01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:40,760 that does a swear in it. But yeah, but we're too bad. 941 01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:43,159 It's a killer. But yeah, that is a great track. If I 942 01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:45,640 actually, if I had time, I would have made a radio edit of 943 01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:47,479 it, because uh, I'm pretty good at that and that is a great 944 01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:51,720 track. But uh, I also really like this song. Crushed. That 945 01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:56,319 song did well in Europe, did it? Yeah? Yeah, we got 946 01:20:56,399 --> 01:20:59,399 a lot of press out of London. Oh no kidding with that song. 947 01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:02,640 Yeah, most it did way better over in England than it did here in 948 01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:05,760 the United States. I mean, we were obviously have rock stars or anything. 949 01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:15,920 It got a lot more press and online play and terrestrial play in England 950 01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:18,359 than it did here. Interesting any idea, why do you know, do 951 01:21:18,399 --> 01:21:21,560 you have any idea what it is about it that caught on there or I 952 01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:26,560 don't. I mean we released it in the summer, which is it does 953 01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:30,000 have kind of that bouncy summary type feel maybe, and I guess it does 954 01:21:30,159 --> 01:21:35,359 have a little hint of English mixing, like you know, the the tones 955 01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:41,520 in there are a little bit more British than than probably didn't you'd hear it 956 01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:45,560 here. But yeah, we're just happy people liked it. I don't know, 957 01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:47,560 I don't care if you're from Zimbabwe if you like that, so it's 958 01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:50,960 great with me. Man. By the way, Melanie said in the chat 959 01:21:51,039 --> 01:21:55,680 room, that must be annoying being more successful in another country. Yeah, 960 01:21:58,239 --> 01:22:00,039 no, it's pretty cool that. I mean, I don't know, I 961 01:22:00,119 --> 01:22:01,800 think it's cool that. Uh. And again it's the time that we live 962 01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:05,640 in too, you know, whereas you know, pre internet, you know 963 01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:11,039 that that really would be pretty unlikely or if something like that did happen where 964 01:22:11,039 --> 01:22:14,000 you have something that catches on somewhere else, you might not ever even know 965 01:22:14,079 --> 01:22:16,279 about it. You know, if your band has a good online presence. 966 01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:21,760 I mean, chances have more than eighty percent of your fans are going to 967 01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:25,880 be from somewhere else, right, right, you know, it's it we 968 01:22:26,039 --> 01:22:29,239 made. We knew the importance of that, like real early. I mean, 969 01:22:29,279 --> 01:22:31,119 you can you can play your local scene, and you should as much 970 01:22:31,159 --> 01:22:34,319 as you can. Yeah, but I mean it's not like the nineties where 971 01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:39,000 that's what you were limited to, right, or like you had to physically 972 01:22:39,359 --> 01:22:43,680 leave to get people to know you. Right, you can you write a 973 01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:46,239 song now you can the whole world can hear it exactly. And we chose 974 01:22:46,279 --> 01:22:49,079 a different path. I mean, yeah, we've all played out in bands 975 01:22:49,119 --> 01:22:54,159 and played out and done. You know, we're more into getting our music 976 01:22:54,239 --> 01:22:57,840 heard now than just going out and playing clubs around here. And Mike's done 977 01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,039 an amazing job of figuring out how to get your music out there, so 978 01:23:00,119 --> 01:23:02,920 we got you know, Mike's got the numbers and we were reviewing. Sometimes 979 01:23:03,039 --> 01:23:06,560 you're amazed where your music gets played, and I just think getting it out 980 01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:10,680 there and having people listen to it is what makes us happy less than not 981 01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:14,039 less than you know, playing outs great, and we'll do it, we'll 982 01:23:14,079 --> 01:23:16,560 do it whenever. But knowing that people are listening. You're getting hits around 983 01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:19,239 the world. Is pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, that is that is 984 01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:23,600 well, let's let's give this a listen. So this is called Crushed, 985 01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:27,000 and then we'll come back and talk with these guys. Some more Heavy America 986 01:23:27,399 --> 01:24:00,760 is with us live in studio. But this is Crushed. Love it card 987 01:24:01,279 --> 01:24:16,680 one. You just don't have the demp cor flee Jesus up, say a 988 01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:28,880 word I'll say. You gotta promise you come real soon. No lockast sleep, 989 01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:39,760 don't turn it on it too deep it up, flee Jesus up past 990 01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:50,479 one way, no think about thing, no day to forget it out to 991 01:24:51,479 --> 01:25:19,079 s come to me. I can't something I don't You should see about fat 992 01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:35,520 time show me on the show. You fair sweet Jesus an one way, 993 01:25:36,199 --> 01:26:02,880 no thing about my idea. They didn't know me, sir. Crush please 994 01:26:03,159 --> 01:26:17,399 Jesus out. Wish you can see is out Crush. You're making me sell 995 01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:34,199 you no where, say send no word company live it, send you no 996 01:26:34,359 --> 01:26:42,760 word no company. Crush. Yeah, that is catchy. That is Crushed. 997 01:26:43,279 --> 01:26:45,840 The band is Heavy America and they are with us live in studio. 998 01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:49,239 If you have any questions or anything for these guys, the studio line is 999 01:26:49,359 --> 01:26:53,760 open six oh three two five oh six oh oh seven, six oh three 1000 01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:57,279 two five oh six oh oh seven. You can also text me at six 1001 01:26:57,439 --> 01:27:00,199 one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at 1002 01:27:00,279 --> 01:27:03,359 Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Coonnorton dot com. And 1003 01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:08,640 of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the 1004 01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:12,319 best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your Dulca tones is 1005 01:27:12,399 --> 01:27:15,520 give us a call at six o three two five six seven, six o 1006 01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,359 three two five oh six oh seven. Uh. Tom Blanchard is in the 1007 01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:26,439 chatterman says, good song, cranking it up. You guys were we were 1008 01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:29,560 talking off air, there's a there's a video for that that, Uh you 1009 01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,720 said was was pretty fun to shoot or interesting to shoot. I haven't. 1010 01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:34,159 I haven't seen the video yet, but I guess all your singles have videos. 1011 01:27:34,359 --> 01:27:38,079 Yep. Yeah, every every song that we published we do a video 1012 01:27:38,239 --> 01:27:43,039 for, which is why Pretender hasn't been published yet because we're doing the video 1013 01:27:43,159 --> 01:27:45,640 for it right now. Oh excellent. Yeah, then once that video is 1014 01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:49,680 done, then that song will be published. But yeah, we we try 1015 01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:54,039 and shoot a video for every song, we work with a videographer who's a 1016 01:27:54,079 --> 01:27:58,079 great friend of ours, does an awesome job. His name is Frank Avini. 1017 01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:01,760 If anybody's looking for a good videographer, look him up on Facebook, 1018 01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:06,840 Franke Avini. But yeah, that the song Crushed. We actually did that 1019 01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:13,560 video ourselves. Oh okay, and it was fun. If if you watch 1020 01:28:13,640 --> 01:28:17,199 the video, we're all laying on our back wearing like white it out smart 1021 01:28:17,319 --> 01:28:24,800 center stick wearing whited out costumes and we kind of green screened it, so 1022 01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:29,039 there's all this activity going on like through our bodies and in the background while 1023 01:28:29,079 --> 01:28:30,600 we're playing the song. And it was it was a lot of fun to 1024 01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:34,920 shoot. And we edited it, uh, did all the editing ourselves, 1025 01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:40,319 and so that had a learning curve, but it was fun. Yeah, 1026 01:28:40,399 --> 01:28:43,800 that is cool. I'm I'm looking at it now. Yeah, that's pretty 1027 01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:46,079 cool. Yeah, trying to you know, you read about green screen that 1028 01:28:46,119 --> 01:28:48,640 we lay down this tarp and were lying on our backs and the camera. 1029 01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:50,880 You know, how do we get the camera above us and it's just the 1030 01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:54,319 three of us and you're you know, you got some help from your family. 1031 01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:59,159 We got an extension ladder with the camera tape duct taped to a broomstick. 1032 01:28:59,239 --> 01:29:02,840 You know, fun, you do a ladder hang out. It was 1033 01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:08,399 fun. Now, so what was the process like of I've never worked with 1034 01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:11,960 a green screen? Do you? How do you get? You? Pretty 1035 01:29:12,039 --> 01:29:15,560 much just in the editing software. You choose the color that you want to 1036 01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:21,840 mask. Okay, and we wore white and we had so, but the 1037 01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:26,680 tarp that we were laying on was blue, So we masked all the blue 1038 01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:31,159 and that became, you know, the essentially the green screen. So anything 1039 01:29:31,239 --> 01:29:35,239 that was the color of that tart just gets replaced with whatever background image you 1040 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:41,199 put on it. Yeah, because of the suits that we were wearing, 1041 01:29:41,359 --> 01:29:44,720 it kind of bleeds through the arms and legs, and yeah, it was 1042 01:29:44,880 --> 01:29:47,039 it was just kind of an anomaly we didn't plan on happening. Yeah, 1043 01:29:47,159 --> 01:29:49,640 we didn't plan on it, but it just added a cool effect, you 1044 01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:53,600 know. Yeah, that is really cool. Yeah, I recommend everybody checked 1045 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,359 this out. Heavy America crushed. Look up the video on YouTube. Not 1046 01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:00,319 right now, wait till after the show, but yeah, you got to. 1047 01:30:00,359 --> 01:30:01,880 You gotta look this up. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. 1048 01:30:02,079 --> 01:30:06,800 So you so it's interesting though you're used to working with a videoographer, but 1049 01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:10,399 when but this one. You guys did yourselves, yep, ye, and 1050 01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:15,600 it came out pretty amazing. Yeah yeah we we. Uh during twenty twenty 1051 01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:19,880 when everything shut down and you know, nobody was doing gigs, we invested 1052 01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:26,319 in a really good Nevo live streaming camera okay, and got you know, 1053 01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:30,439 some nice soft editing software to go with it. And that thing. It 1054 01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:35,840 shoots in four kh but it also it's got a two hundred and eighty degree 1055 01:30:36,279 --> 01:30:41,960 field of view and it actually has three different lenses in it, okay, 1056 01:30:42,079 --> 01:30:45,680 so it looks like whatever you shoot was shot by three different cameras from three 1057 01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:49,920 different angles. But it's only one camera. Interesting. It's really really cool 1058 01:30:50,520 --> 01:30:55,119 and it'll do it all on its own. You can just pre set for 1059 01:30:55,239 --> 01:30:59,279 it to find faces and follow faces and really yep, you set it up 1060 01:30:59,359 --> 01:31:02,079 and just hit the top and do your thing and it it zooms in and 1061 01:31:02,159 --> 01:31:05,520 out, pans and does all kinds of cool stuff. Yeah, oh by 1062 01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:08,960 itself. Oh that's really cool. Yeah, it was. It was well 1063 01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:11,520 worth the money. I don't even know if they make that camera anymore. 1064 01:31:11,720 --> 01:31:14,399 Really. Yeah, it was real short lived, but it was it was, 1065 01:31:15,199 --> 01:31:18,239 you know, worth the money for sure. Wow. Hans Smith of 1066 01:31:18,319 --> 01:31:21,760 Sepsis, says Heavy America. I can't wait to see you on stage. 1067 01:31:23,119 --> 01:31:28,039 Yeah, we we missed you guys that lived Love Laugh. You guys were 1068 01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:31,479 playing Saturday. We played Friday night. But and that was where was that? 1069 01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:35,600 That was in Lebanon, Maine. Oh, at the end of August, 1070 01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:41,600 the end of this past August. What was the venue? Charlie Hill. 1071 01:31:41,720 --> 01:31:43,840 Charlie Hill, Okay, and a lot of people can't out. You 1072 01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:45,720 can do a two day festival there, and some people stay on if we 1073 01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:49,000 wanted to stay on, so sorry, we have to stay there overnight camp 1074 01:31:49,079 --> 01:31:51,680 out. It was rainy and muddy, so we left and the next day, 1075 01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:57,680 I guess was beautiful. But yeah, I've been hearing a lot about 1076 01:31:57,760 --> 01:32:00,960 Charlie Hill. That's uh, it sounds like a lot. It sounds like 1077 01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:02,840 a lot of people are playing there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very 1078 01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:05,119 good. Do you guys play out a lot? Are you doing a lot 1079 01:32:05,119 --> 01:32:09,600 of shows? Uh? Not really. We probably do about a half a 1080 01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:14,359 dozen a year, okay, you know locally. If we have an opportunity 1081 01:32:14,479 --> 01:32:17,399 to travel, we will, But if we're just playing locally, it's usually 1082 01:32:17,439 --> 01:32:21,039 about you know, six times a year, okay, every couple of months. 1083 01:32:21,319 --> 01:32:28,560 Yeah, what's uh. Now, do you guys have a full album 1084 01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:30,960 or do you just release singles? No? We we did release a full 1085 01:32:31,039 --> 01:32:36,159 album in twenty seventeen called now Oh Okay yeap. Before that, Oh here 1086 01:32:36,199 --> 01:32:40,600 it is Yeah. Yeah. Our first release was a five song or five 1087 01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:44,159 or six song EP, yeah, just self titled. That came out in 1088 01:32:44,359 --> 01:32:49,079 twenty fifteen. Okay, in twenty seventeen we released a nine song album and 1089 01:32:49,239 --> 01:32:54,680 then from then on we've been releasing singles. Okay, And what goes into 1090 01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:57,079 that, because that's another area too, where it's like, you know, 1091 01:32:57,119 --> 01:33:00,800 you've got so many different options nowadays, you know where you know, growing 1092 01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:02,000 up, it was like, you know, you put out an album and 1093 01:33:02,039 --> 01:33:04,760 then you go on tour, or you put out it or maybe an EP, 1094 01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:06,960 although I don't remember a lot of EPs grown up, but you know, 1095 01:33:08,039 --> 01:33:10,279 somebody might put out an EP and then go on tour and then make 1096 01:33:10,279 --> 01:33:13,840 another album or something. But now there's so many different ways you can do 1097 01:33:13,960 --> 01:33:17,319 it, and and a lot of artists. Actually, really common trend that 1098 01:33:17,399 --> 01:33:23,079 I've noticed when talking to people on the show is artists will put out a 1099 01:33:23,199 --> 01:33:26,359 series of singles, like maybe one a month and then and then at a 1100 01:33:26,399 --> 01:33:30,079 certain point, those singles become part of an album. We did. We 1101 01:33:30,199 --> 01:33:32,520 did that, did you ye? But the album is only off or well 1102 01:33:32,680 --> 01:33:35,279 it's a it's a physical CD, so okay, you can get it on 1103 01:33:35,359 --> 01:33:42,079 our website or at our shows. But it's uh, it's just that it's 1104 01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:45,960 uh nine of us singles. Oh okay, I'll put on one disc. 1105 01:33:46,239 --> 01:33:49,119 Okay. We talked about it early on, like how should we approach it 1106 01:33:49,159 --> 01:33:51,960 after we did those albums and we and you just called out, you said 1107 01:33:53,039 --> 01:33:57,159 before it's it's a different time. So we land that on a focus on 1108 01:33:57,399 --> 01:34:00,960 you know, coming up with anytime six songs as we know that are new, 1109 01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:03,279 come up with a release plan. We probably do one every two months 1110 01:34:03,319 --> 01:34:08,119 three months now, yeah, I think, and uh, and really focused 1111 01:34:08,159 --> 01:34:12,039 on good recording and good solid releases, give them some air, yeah, 1112 01:34:12,159 --> 01:34:14,560 and then move on to the next. But no more big releases of all. 1113 01:34:14,760 --> 01:34:17,159 We learned an important lesson with that album. When we released it. 1114 01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:23,359 It took us ten months to you know, not including writing the songs, 1115 01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:27,479 but just just for the recording and the mixing and the mastering and all the 1116 01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:30,920 artwork and you know, everything that goes into releasing an album. It took 1117 01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:35,760 us ten months. Yeah, and uh, what we found was we released 1118 01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:43,560 that album six weeks later, it was old news, you know, yeah, 1119 01:34:44,119 --> 01:34:47,119 and ten months of worse work should go a lot further than that, 1120 01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:53,840 you know. Interesting, So we we we figured out real soon that it 1121 01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:58,359 doesn't matter if it's an EP and album or a single, it's it's gotta 1122 01:34:58,520 --> 01:35:02,960 it has a very short longevity, you know, where where you have maybe 1123 01:35:03,359 --> 01:35:09,720 six to nine weeks like from release date to really grab people's attention with this 1124 01:35:09,880 --> 01:35:14,760 thing. So instead of just you know, shooting it all off on one 1125 01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:17,880 album right away, we we learned that if you just released one single, 1126 01:35:18,439 --> 01:35:23,479 you stretch it a lot further and it keeps your band relevant a lot longer. 1127 01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:28,159 Yeah, because every three months you're back in the press, right right, 1128 01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:31,439 Yeah, that makes sense, especially you know in the social media era. 1129 01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:36,000 You know, it's like you got to feed that machine steadily, so 1130 01:35:36,199 --> 01:35:42,239 short exactly worth giving them everything all at once, right bit, Yeah, 1131 01:35:42,399 --> 01:35:45,960 no, that makes sense, that makes sense. And and the videos too, 1132 01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:50,920 you know. You know what's funny too about about that is I don't 1133 01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:54,439 know if you guys ever run into this, but there are there's some people 1134 01:35:54,479 --> 01:35:58,239 who, uh, if you talk to them. Maybe they don't know much 1135 01:35:58,279 --> 01:36:00,960 about the maybe they don't pay much attention to the music industry or whatever. 1136 01:36:00,039 --> 01:36:03,880 But some people think that there there are no more music videos because you know, 1137 01:36:04,119 --> 01:36:09,279 MTV v H one they haven't played videos and so long, and and 1138 01:36:09,479 --> 01:36:12,279 and a lot of people think it's it's kind of a dead medium, the 1139 01:36:12,399 --> 01:36:16,239 music video, and they don't realize that actually there's more music videos than ever. 1140 01:36:16,600 --> 01:36:20,920 I think it's we all agree it's a necessity. Yeah, I mean, 1141 01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:25,119 YouTube is the number one search engine for music. Yep, you know, 1142 01:36:25,439 --> 01:36:30,840 and our publisher automatically sends our you know, posts on music to our 1143 01:36:30,920 --> 01:36:34,239 website. But it's just the audio. It's up to us to create the 1144 01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:41,079 video content. But it's so important when you you can release your song, 1145 01:36:41,199 --> 01:36:44,239 and a lot of bands do. And there's nothing wrong with just a stagnant 1146 01:36:44,279 --> 01:36:46,600 image of your you know, CD artwork or a lyric video, yeah that 1147 01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:49,840 lyric video. But you know, we want to keep it a little more 1148 01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:55,960 interesting. And you know where we we save a lot of money doing our 1149 01:36:56,039 --> 01:36:59,319 own recordings, so we're able to spend a little bit of money to get 1150 01:36:59,359 --> 01:37:02,479 a good video done. Yeah. Yeah, but you know, it's also 1151 01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:08,920 important to have a promotional budget too. You know, we we plan on 1152 01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:14,560 any time we release the song, it's anywhere between one thousand to fifteen hundred 1153 01:37:14,600 --> 01:37:18,439 dollars. We a lot for promotion of that song across a whole bunch of 1154 01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:25,600 different mediums, you know, YouTube, Spotify, getting press, social media 1155 01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:30,640 boosts and advertising and all this other stuff. It's you got to invest a 1156 01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:33,720 little bit if you want to get your reach right right, So yeah, 1157 01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:40,479 no doubt. How did you guys get involved with Swarmy Fest? If you 1158 01:37:41,159 --> 01:37:44,800 did Stepsis reach out to you, do you? I actually reached out to 1159 01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:47,960 them. We followed each other online a couple of years back. We started 1160 01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:53,159 following each other because you know, we're same look music scene pretty much, 1161 01:37:53,199 --> 01:37:56,039 and you know we try and support everybody we can. And I know those 1162 01:37:56,119 --> 01:38:00,920 guys are phenomenal and supporting other actsents. Yeah, oh yeah, and so 1163 01:38:00,079 --> 01:38:04,279 yeah, we we you know, just watching each other's bands kind of grow. 1164 01:38:04,399 --> 01:38:11,039 And I saw a posting from New Hampshire Booking saying they was still looking 1165 01:38:11,079 --> 01:38:14,239 for a couple of bands for Swami Fest. So I reached out to Melissa. 1166 01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:16,399 Yeah, and I asked her if he's still looking for another band, 1167 01:38:16,439 --> 01:38:19,279 and she said yeah, yeah, we'd love to have you, so it 1168 01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:23,520 was. It was just a post I saw online. I just got there 1169 01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:29,359 first. Yeah, excellent, excellent. And how long is your set on 1170 01:38:29,880 --> 01:38:31,840 Saturday? Do you know? Twenty five minutes? Yeah, twenty five minutes 1171 01:38:31,920 --> 01:38:36,079 yeah, yeah, cool, cool. Do you guys play obviously you've been 1172 01:38:36,079 --> 01:38:39,680 around a while, you said, what eight years? Eight years? Yeah? 1173 01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:42,359 Do you play songs that go all the way back to the beginning of 1174 01:38:42,399 --> 01:38:45,439 the band, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We we rehash our 1175 01:38:45,640 --> 01:38:50,079 set list constantly at our rehearsals. We get together once a week, but 1176 01:38:50,159 --> 01:38:54,039 it's for four hours. Yeah, and we you know, we'll take like 1177 01:38:54,079 --> 01:38:57,720 a half an hour dinner break usually in the middle, but we'll plow through 1178 01:38:58,119 --> 01:39:00,880 fifteen eighteen songs in a night. Yeah, And we try and keep it 1179 01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:05,800 all fresh, because just because the song's eight years old doesn't mean you don't 1180 01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:08,920 you know, you shouldn't play it anymore. It's a great song, right 1181 01:39:09,119 --> 01:39:12,600 right, Yeah. Yeah. We love curating a new set list, or 1182 01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:15,880 at least set list used for a period of time, and then we work 1183 01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:18,520 hard on rehearsing a set list to make sure we can get through it right 1184 01:39:18,680 --> 01:39:24,159 right time, that it flows. We just enjoy doing that and then rehearsing 1185 01:39:24,239 --> 01:39:26,479 that. Yeah, literally, that's set a couple of times, you know. 1186 01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:30,680 Yeah. One of the songs we're doing at Swarmy Fest is actually was 1187 01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:33,920 on a twenty fourteen demo. Oh no kidding. Yeah, that song's you 1188 01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:38,079 know, nine years old. We're gonna play it. Yeah, cool, 1189 01:39:38,279 --> 01:39:43,439 cool, Yeah, Hans says, Sepsis is about discovery. That's the most 1190 01:39:43,520 --> 01:39:47,039 powerful thing ever. Yeah, very cool. And hello to Adam Slim in 1191 01:39:47,119 --> 01:39:51,680 the Facebook live chat and anybody in there I might have missed. Now, 1192 01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:55,960 what's up next for you guys after Swarmy Fest? Do you have another show 1193 01:39:56,439 --> 01:40:00,600 for later this year? We're working right now with another band, trying to 1194 01:40:00,640 --> 01:40:05,000 book some a show in the Austin Brighton area, but we were unsure of 1195 01:40:05,119 --> 01:40:10,640 the of a date just yet, but that that'll be sometime probably end in 1196 01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:15,600 November, beginning of December. Okay, okay. And then now there's oh, 1197 01:40:15,319 --> 01:40:17,399 I think you mentioned it earlier. I can't remember if it was on 1198 01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:21,000 air or off air, But you guys are working as your videos for all 1199 01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:25,039 the singles. You guys are working on a video now for Pretender? Is 1200 01:40:25,079 --> 01:40:28,359 that correct? Yep? Excellent? Yeah, Well, the song. We 1201 01:40:28,520 --> 01:40:31,760 just got it back from mastering. Yeah, so you know, we've decided 1202 01:40:31,800 --> 01:40:35,920 we're happy with it. Yeah, so we're gonna go ahead with the video 1203 01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:40,560 production. But we haven't even broke round with that yet, and that usually 1204 01:40:40,640 --> 01:40:44,720 takes anywhere between four to five weeks to complete. Wow, okay, are 1205 01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:47,039 you going to be working with the same videographer? Probably? Yeah, if 1206 01:40:47,039 --> 01:40:50,760 we don't shoot at ourselves, we'll be working with Frank Evitie again. Yeah, 1207 01:40:50,880 --> 01:40:54,880 okay, okay, I'll have to check out your other videos. But 1208 01:40:55,800 --> 01:40:58,560 I don't know. When you do it yourselves, it does seem to work 1209 01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:00,880 out pretty well. I don't know what rushed video is awesome. I don't 1210 01:41:01,159 --> 01:41:05,760 know if you played the song tales earlier, but I know it's one of 1211 01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:09,960 the tracks that I sent you. But Frank shot that video for us back 1212 01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:14,359 in twenty nineteen or twenty twenty. That one we haven't played. Well, 1213 01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:17,520 we'll probably end with that one. Actually, that that to this is still 1214 01:41:17,640 --> 01:41:21,800 my favorite video. Yes, you got to watch that because I just I'm 1215 01:41:21,840 --> 01:41:25,319 proud he did such a great job. He did. He did an amazing 1216 01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:28,199 job on that. Mike Mike, Mike game a great storyboard, and you 1217 01:41:28,279 --> 01:41:30,479 wonder how it's going to be consumed and executed, and we knew where we're 1218 01:41:30,479 --> 01:41:34,439 going to do it, but just Frank just masterfully helped us get that, 1219 01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:39,600 you know out there. He's real good at pulling the idea you have it 1220 01:41:40,199 --> 01:41:43,560 in your head out and being able to understand it. Yeah, you know, 1221 01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:46,239 which is tough sometimes, you know, like you're trying to you're trying 1222 01:41:46,279 --> 01:41:51,119 to explain to someone a storyboard that they have no idea. He didn't even 1223 01:41:51,119 --> 01:41:56,239 hear the song, you know, Okay, yeah, you know, they're 1224 01:41:56,319 --> 01:41:59,039 like, yes, what we want to do, and right away he got 1225 01:41:59,119 --> 01:42:01,439 it. Oh that's cool. Yeah, when you say storyboard, what do 1226 01:42:01,479 --> 01:42:05,760 you mean exactly? For people who don't know, well, the lyrics of 1227 01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:11,039 a song usually tell somewhat of a story, you know, and so you 1228 01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:15,439 we try and come up with a storyboard, uh, if you will like 1229 01:42:16,039 --> 01:42:21,880 scenes to go along with the lyrics in in the video. Yeah, Tales 1230 01:42:23,000 --> 01:42:27,039 was is a song about desperation, you know, and and solitude and and 1231 01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:32,119 you know, just having no hope and uh he did a great job of 1232 01:42:33,159 --> 01:42:42,760 capturing that emotion with the video. And so like the the Crush video, 1233 01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:47,239 obviously that's that has a long storyboard you know that that song. To edit 1234 01:42:47,359 --> 01:42:53,760 that was crazy because that's a whole story. Yeah, Mike, you did, 1235 01:42:53,840 --> 01:42:56,439 you did, You did a real storyboard, and you did the animated 1236 01:42:56,520 --> 01:43:00,039 video. Right, we hired a young animator and in Generation we hired uh 1237 01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,880 this, when we did the video for the song Generation Lane, we actually 1238 01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:10,239 hired a local animator to do a minute in forty six forty eight seconds worth 1239 01:43:10,279 --> 01:43:15,520 of animation and that took almost three months because it's all hand done. Yeah. 1240 01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:19,720 Yeah, and so we we really had to wait on that. Oh 1241 01:43:19,880 --> 01:43:24,359 wow. And then you know, on top of all the other video clips 1242 01:43:24,399 --> 01:43:27,600 that get edited into it and everything. I mean, and it's a long 1243 01:43:27,720 --> 01:43:30,159 song. It's like almost five minutes long, so it's it's like a mini 1244 01:43:30,319 --> 01:43:34,600 movie. Yeah wow. Yeah, I'll have to check that out. That 1245 01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:38,479 was one of the early ones, right, Generational Yeah, that came out 1246 01:43:38,520 --> 01:43:41,840 in twenty twenty. Okay, oh twenty twenty okay, okay, cool, 1247 01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:45,199 cool, we are we are almost out of time and we are gonna we 1248 01:43:45,279 --> 01:43:47,359 are gonna finish up with Tails, so I'll we'll play that at the end. 1249 01:43:47,439 --> 01:43:51,439 But I want to remind everybody you can see these guys heavy America. 1250 01:43:51,760 --> 01:44:00,680 They will be at Swermyfast on Saturday at Jewel right here in Manchester, not 1251 01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:03,000 far from here. It's kind of down and around the corner. It's funny, 1252 01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:08,119 I was commenting earlier when the radio station is going to be moving probably 1253 01:44:08,199 --> 01:44:11,279 in January, and the building that we're going to be moving to is like 1254 01:44:12,039 --> 01:44:16,560 in almost spitting distance of Jewel. It's like right down there. But let's 1255 01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:20,680 see. Yeah. NH Booking presents Warmyfest twenty twenty three, so these guys 1256 01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:26,079 will be there. Sepsis will be there obviously, also a simple complex Carpathia 1257 01:44:26,159 --> 01:44:30,359 trading tombstones after the Winter Paradise is canceled, Dark Rain, My Last Mile, 1258 01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:33,199 DC Wolves and in the Wind, and Jenny and I will be there 1259 01:44:33,239 --> 01:44:39,039 of course representing Matt Connerton Unleashed. So we're looking forward to that, looking 1260 01:44:39,039 --> 01:44:41,359 forward to seeing all the bands, and I'm really looking forward to seeing you 1261 01:44:41,439 --> 01:44:44,359 guys live. It's gonna be Yeah, we can't wait. It's gonna be 1262 01:44:44,399 --> 01:44:46,199 a blast. It's gonna be very cool. And of course the website too 1263 01:44:46,239 --> 01:44:49,079 for people who want to keep up on with everything you guys are doing. 1264 01:44:49,319 --> 01:44:54,079 Heavy America dot us correct, yep, that's correct. You can find us 1265 01:44:54,159 --> 01:44:59,920 on Facebook Facebook slash Heavy America. We're on Instagram, where where everywhere? 1266 01:45:00,680 --> 01:45:01,720 By the way, where does the name come from? It's a cool name. 1267 01:45:02,680 --> 01:45:05,199 Is that the name of any meaning? Or you know? I actually 1268 01:45:05,399 --> 01:45:09,720 was not there when the name was conceived. Dan was, so Dan's going 1269 01:45:09,800 --> 01:45:13,760 to have to tell you the story it really comes from. We're at rehearsal 1270 01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:17,640 at some point in Everett, and uh, it's basically the same incarnation of 1271 01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:21,079 the band. But we went outside, sat on a stoop afterwards, and 1272 01:45:21,479 --> 01:45:25,039 some kids said, you know, I forget whether he said do you have 1273 01:45:25,119 --> 01:45:27,600 a name or whatever? And a kid blurted out, he said, you 1274 01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:30,079 sounded like like Heavy America. We're like, what does that mean? Yeah, 1275 01:45:30,279 --> 01:45:31,720 like, what does that mean? It was just a joke. We 1276 01:45:31,840 --> 01:45:33,840 just brought it back as we could never settle on a name. And I 1277 01:45:34,199 --> 01:45:36,920 said this kid said that, you know, yeah, yeah, and uh 1278 01:45:38,560 --> 01:45:43,199 we loved it. Yeah, yeah, like that's where it came from again 1279 01:45:45,399 --> 01:45:48,439 and went on his way. Yeah. I guess it was hope he doesn't 1280 01:45:48,439 --> 01:45:53,079 come out of the wood. I guess it was meant to be. It 1281 01:45:53,199 --> 01:45:55,239 was fate. Yeah, No, it's cool. It's a cool name. 1282 01:45:55,439 --> 01:45:59,720 Is there any significance to the a at the end also being capitalized, or 1283 01:46:00,039 --> 01:46:03,520 it just syesthetically looks better. Yeah, no, it's cool. It's cool. 1284 01:46:04,960 --> 01:46:09,159 All right, guys, thank you so much. It's wonderful to meet 1285 01:46:09,159 --> 01:46:11,720 the three of you. I can't wait to see you live on Saturday. 1286 01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:15,319 Mike, Dan and Bud from Heavy America. And we will end with this 1287 01:46:15,520 --> 01:46:18,479 track. And if you miss any part of our discussion or any part of 1288 01:46:18,520 --> 01:46:23,039 today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at wmn hradio dot 1289 01:46:23,239 --> 01:46:28,399 organ at my website Matt Connerton dot com. And we'll end with this track, 1290 01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:31,439 Tales. And if you miss it again, go back and listen you'll 1291 01:46:31,439 --> 01:46:36,039 hear the world radio premiere of Pretender from Heavy America, the brand new single. 1292 01:46:36,119 --> 01:46:39,319 But we'll end with this, gentlemen, thank you so much. This 1293 01:46:39,399 --> 01:46:44,199 is one so much, absolutely and I will see you Saturday. And here 1294 01:46:44,239 --> 01:47:16,359 it is Tales from Heavy America. Never day anymore, never nothing more. 1295 01:47:16,640 --> 01:47:26,159 This is what you've waited for, beginning back to basicgain. I happy you 1296 01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:42,119 you let me lose by friend. You're waiting watching through the trees, back 1297 01:47:42,279 --> 01:48:09,520 the box, eat the keys one you what heavy written food, I've dragged 1298 01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:17,319 my knees got and see I can barely breathe. So fun, so fun. 1299 01:48:28,119 --> 01:48:35,399 You're killing flag, but the pound ball you wait, faw, that 1300 01:48:35,640 --> 01:48:49,279 doesn't fall. It's a shot off. Bobo comes in twos and trees the 1301 01:48:49,399 --> 01:49:02,680 only one, the one gets the fun. You're John Jay up number. 1302 01:49:21,560 --> 01:50:00,520 God is no. I can't fairly dream s