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live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et
cetera, et cetera. Today is Thursday October five, twenty twenty three,
so nice to have you all with me. By the way, open with
a couple of tracks today from the band d C Wolves, because Dan Cahill
from DC Wolves is going to be skyping in today at five pm Eastern time.
Of course for those of you listening from other places and really looking forward
to that, he's they are in Connecticut, So I think it's just from
the email. I think it's just Dan who's skyping in. He's the founder
of the band but we'll see if anyone else is with him. But I
love their sound. DC Wolves, great band they're going to be at.
This Year's a Swarmy Fest coming up? Is it November fourth? I believe,
so wow, just just about a month away. In fact, that
is why for those of you watching online, I'm wearying my Swarmy Fest from
last year, so I love this shirt and I'm sure I'll get one for
this year as well. Jenny and I will be there, we will be
participating, in fact, representing, and really looking forward to that. But
yeah, there's gonna be great bands there this year. Of course sepsis headlining
as always, and really looking forward to that. But DC Wolves, what
a cool sound I love. I love this band, so I'm really looking
forward to talking to Dan and whomever else might be with him today at five
pm. Also, today is the first Thursday of the month, which means
that today, immediately after this show, I will be jumping on the phone
and calling into the Doctor Kevin Show, as I do the first Thursday of
every month from six to seven pm. That streams online on the ome Times
Radio network oom as an omeome Times dot com you can find it and if
you don't get a chance to listen live. Of course it'll be in the
archive, but we do that the first Thursday of every month, and we
talk about news and current events and politics, and so there's always plenty to
discuss, that is for sure. And by the way, it is perfect
for those of you and you know who you are. If you get to
the end of this two hour block of time and you say to yourself,
oh my god, I need more Matt Connerton, well, as long as
you don't mind sharing me with Doctor Kevin, there's a way that you can
get an extra hour of me. And I do end up doing most of
the talking. It's probably the only person ever on the Doctor Kevin Show who
winds up doing most of the talking, but he does kind of seed the
floor to me somewhat because I'm more immersed in all things politics than he is
himself. But he enjoys having me on because he enjoys the discussion. And
I think, I think this might be our friend, easyg. How about
this? I think he's gonna do. He's gonna do an entertainment report perhaps
maybe how are you EASYG? Boy? I didn't know who was singing that
song, but boy, that was a long song. Well, there were
two songs. I played two songs from DC Wolves all right, and we're
gonna play more. I've never heard that band. They were pretty good the
other Oh, they're really good. Yeah, we're gonna play You have a
lot of uh he's like a lot of bands on the last whiles as I've
called up before us. Right, yeah, absolutely, Jenny's doing a great
job of political shaw. You do bring in bands typing, you live in
the studio, you see a lot of pictures, so that's great. Yeah.
Well, we've always had an element of music. It's a word to
get out there, the music, you know. That's right. Well,
we've always had an element of music with musical guests, but you know,
since the start of this year we've really tried to ramp that up, and
Jenny's doing a great job with the booking and uh Adam Ember's band. They
were and seeing them in the Frischman's Park a couple of years ago, and
they said, music is to be music is then to be heard. They
said, if you don't have any money for a CD, it's just coming
to booth there for the show and I'll give you a pre CD. Who
is that one Adam Ezra band. Is that Emers band? Yeah, yeah,
I've interviewed Adam Ezra a long time. He probably doesn't even remember it
was. It was over a decade ago, but uh I entered. Yeah,
they're really doing very well. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, great
band. No, And it was a little bit of a long intro today
because I was trying to finalize something else. I've got a hypnosis event.
I need to let Peter White know this. He might be listening, but
I should alert him. I haven't done this yet. On October twenty six
I will not be here live, so I'll have to prepare a new best
of for that day or something because I'm going to be in Providence for I'm
going to hypnotize a room full of real estate agents, so that'll be fun.
So I'm really looking forward to that. But yeah, October twenty sixth,
I will be I will be in Providence, Rhode Island for an event.
So those corporate events are Yeah. I get my volume all the way
up from my phone, so can you hear me better? I can hear
you fine, you sound great? Yeah, I get the volume all the
way up. I think that's the secret of hearing me better. In that
way, I can hear the intro to my report. That is the secret.
Just turn the volume all the way up, Turn it up to eleven.
Are you a spinal tap fan? Turn it up to eleven. These
go to it. I'm spinal tap fans. Have you not ever seen the
film? This is spinal tap? Is that what you're revealing to us?
I can't say. I have seen a lot of movies and not that one.
What kind of an infidel has not seen this is spinal tap? I
can't believe it. I can't believe it. I've seen thousands of movies,
but not that one. How could you have seen thousands of movies and not
one of those thousands of movies is not the Is this spinal Have you ever
seen Purple? Funny to say that I got I got a movie of the
week, I got a restaurant for the week, and I got a podcast
of the week. Have you seen Purple? Have you seen Purple ra?
Have you seen Purple Rain? Yes? I have? Okay, good,
very good movie. Yes. Well, I'm glad you've at least seen that.
This is a little bit inside. I hope poly Ce is listening anyway.
Yes, so yeah, yeah, it's been a while since we've had
in April Cushman, Katie Dobbins, and Mana McCarthy report from you. This
is exciting. Yeah, it's funny missing Aman mccaffee. She was in town
and I saw her on Sunday with Tom and I tell you that was Austin.
Oh, yes, so they actually I haven't seen them in two years,
so they actually so they actually went to the facility where you are currently
housed for hours, right, and then they were supposed to do a gig
in uh in Hudson, but it got canceled because of the football game,
which is probably gonna put the football game off and had them play but for
the end up in Massachusetts and it end up colds in the place that's the
band. I mean, the place was apparently going out. I don't remember
all the dd but the end of the Massachusetts and they had opportunity to sing
over there, and I guess the fire guys came up. There were two
people in the building and it was a big It was a big uh.
It was big and crazy, but that's the way they liked it. I
guess work. Well, that's good. So it was great seeing them.
Yeah, I put it all over my Facebook page. I put them on
my people, I text two and I put in my wallpaper. Why not
did you and Tom share an extremely awkward hug? Oh yeah, we did
a group hug after, so we did it at all. You had a
group hug with Amanda and Tom. Wow, look at you, Look at
you. I know. I bet that I saw wing too, my friend
who came in the door, so I want to see that ring. Wow,
very nice. Wow. Yeah, so's a bird woman. Now he's
up limits. Now that's all over. That's all. I didn't know it
had ever started. Easy, g What are you telling us that was running
gag over the years Tom wasn't around. You slide right in there, so
you know what. He's having a good chuckle. Huh, the gag at
the radio station. If if Tom wasn't around, I slide right in there.
All right. That's definitely furn sheath. It's easy, all right.
So you have you have an actual entertainment report for us. We wrote the
whole thing like a month ago. Wow, well, let me update a
little bit. So when you so, when you were in September, because
I haven't done this August probably right, right, we actually forgot it was
the thing. So you So you wrote the entertainment report a month ago,
but you've updated it since then, is what you're saying. Well, yeah,
I did. It'spend like a half an hour on it. Now what
made you decide to update it? Did you look at it and go,
hey, this is from a month ago. Yeah? Everything, it was
Stember September. I better update this stuff. I think that's wise. I
think you've made an excellent choice. Well, I'm on, I'm on pins
and needles. I think I might have a circulatory issue, but it also
might be I'm just very excited. Entertainment coming up five o'clock. We sure
do. I'm looking for your intro here? How come I can't be here?
File nine found? Oh? Here we go? All right, here
we go? He by good news, I hear it? Easy? You
want to know about stock market crashes? COVID nineteen, drive buys, celebrity
gossip. Easy, gee's gotcha? Entertainment reports? Wow, because they ain't
nothing but a jig bang. Are you ready for stock let's find out?
Ready, let's go. Hey, I can hear my my intro. It's
amazing what you put the bome all the way up. Anyways, the cover
fifth, I know you've done any the fourth this August. It's been a
long time. It's been a long time. Easy. We're going to dedicate
to a couple of different people here. Uh, I'll just a shout out
to this lady Mel Mel Robins. He has the podcast of giving her a
podcast of the week. You ever heard that lady who Mel Robins? Mel
Robbins? Yeah, lady, yup, she's a lady. She's a lady
whoa a lot of them the last month Donny Tom Jones and your entertainment report.
Mel Robbins actually is a familiar name, but I can't quite place her.
All right, I don't think you've heard this lady. You she's a
big entertainter England. You can Facebook are a few more and more information.
Hillary Clugg I'm not going to from England. Now, what's her name?
Hillary Clugged? Hillary clar Is that what you said? Clark? Hillary Plug?
Yeah? Like tap dances, he sings. He's really good. Well,
when you have a name like Plug, of course you're going to play
the fiddle and tap dance and check that off you like on Facebook? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, boy, I'll tell you. Oh, no,
please, the floor is yours, sir. Let's would do you have any
more to tell us about this plug individual? He's a really good looking lady
by he's off limits. He's married. Oh reason, we got married too,
like a year ago. Everybody gets married ezg. Except you. You're
always the anybody married one. You're always never the bride. Yeah. I
also want to say the movie of the week, I have you ever heard?
This movie is called The Kissing Booths exclusively on Netflix where they found out
yes today that's there and when it prices up, I'm surprise and uh yeah,
one, two, and three, and they were probably gonna make a
couple more. It's a really good movie. But it's not a movie for
kids under fourteen. But doesn't mean they can't walk it right? Well,
that depends, easy g. Why is it not for kids under fourteen?
Well? Uh, seam in theirs. But hey, once stop kids were
walking unless the parents. If I put eye on them, hey, what
are you gonna do? And then they I got so many news. The
restaurant of the week I went to there about the Moth a couple weeks ago,
called the Old Fault. You heard that restaurant? It's from the beach
area. I don't know, but I'm worried that this computer is possessed because
we were talking about demonic possession yesterday. Listen to this EAZYG WHOA what is
that anyways? That sounded like a bad I had a big fish, had
a big lunch, and I mean big dinner. I had some lunch and
then I ordered to see this tells at dinner later. So what highly recommend
it? I enjoy a caesar salad. I think it's delicious, although I
have a suspicion that if I looked up caesar salad at Urban dictionary dot com,
I would find something truly horrifying. Yeah, and also at the end
of the report here we're gonna do a song of the week. Is it's
it's not really new now, it's when I like eight Night, probably eight
seventy weeks now. April Pushman another new songs. He's rolling the new songs
out called Borrow Time. How do you choose what goes into that easy G
When you make the decision too, when you choose a song of the week,
what is the criteria and what is your process for deciding on what would
be a suitable song of the week, it's one of the three ladies I
like, and I got it in there one of the three ladies. Well,
a lot of songs that April cut three out and incas a new one
out normal and Katie do a new o the news song Wild probably play next
week. That means it's pretty easy. Just place enough. Yeah, don't
I don't even I don't even have to get different mission anymore. Of the
three of the three ladies you like, would you please put them in order
for me? Uh from uh you like? And it's Katie then in April
gotcha man's up there too, Okay, all right, very good? All
right, Well, if you were looking to uh to get over to oh
yeah, they're going to go over the cream Land. Unfortunately they closed early,
probably due to none enough help. They're closed as the Chamber twenty first,
so you have to wait till next March. Oh wow, they they
closed really early. This You do see the cupcakes on Elm Street open the
year round. So yeah, yeah, so tasty. All right. We
got cricker treat coming up and I don't have an official date, but I
know it's October thirty fourth here in Manchester. I'm pretty sure. At six
date, but I'll have to confirm that because they don't have an especial date.
But if you're looking to have something fun, Tricker treet at the ballpark
from noon to two. It's a free event. A Cobra twenty eighth,
a family Themes doors place. They might check that out. Oh then my
church, first Church of five away Union Street here in Manchester, it's another
free event. It's a holly Berry fair cover twenty first and nine to two,
and they're gonna have all kinds of items for your for your Christmas and
beyond. Oh yeah, the plus of a lunch pounder. If you look
at it to get helpies of food, they got sandwich or something. You
know, how drinks available? What kind of sandwich? What kind of sandwich
do you recommend? Uh, they've probablys have finger sandwiches, you know the
ones you get. Finger sandwiches are inexpensive. That's another thing. If I
look at ways Joween, they're gonna have it. They're gonna have another Cober
twenty seven right here in downtown thanks to the Manches sturring cling. They have
it on their post. It's three to six thirty specticular downtown trick or treat
extravaganza, treat surprises, family friend of the family fund activity. I always
say it's free to come on down with a super fun you haven't had one
in a while because of the COVID unfortunately. By the way, Isaac Banks
in the chat room just said that, Uh, Jason Patterson is very good
doing his impression of the Finns. He as smart as ever he can be.
Do you do any impressions? EASYG, I really don't know you you
really don't know, don't I'm then this update in a while. The Snow
Arena, uh, you know a long times I go to this. But
you want to go Snow Arena. Pay Facebook page for ticket invation, or
you can call six ose three six four four five thousand, or you can
go SNeW Arena dot com. Uh huh. They have a band coming around
the corner. I think it's gonna beet Sellow. For the actual event,
it's covering pretty soon here cover twenty seven Guard Smack at seven thirty. Are
you a Godsmack fan? So here's the thing, EASYG. I have never
And by the way, for those who don't know God Smack, I mean
people around here know. But if you're listening in online from somewhere else you
might not know. God Smack is from here and originally. And I'm not
a fan of Sully's vocals other than that, I like the music, but
I've just never liked his vocals. However, I have been I was once
in a band that did play a god Smack cover. Well actually we played
well different Godsmack covers at different times, but so some of the songs are
fun to play, but not a fan of Sully's voice. All right,
well, okay, but then I'm going to list all these events coming up,
and because the tickets were all the sales for these events and we'll repeat
them every week. But remember fourth sus Marks is gonna be going to be
a fundraiser event day o'clock. I don't remember what all the all there all
their yeah, first charity events. You go on New Arena facebook page.
You can find all the informations. Oh good. And then November ten and
twelve, Jurassic Live World for the kids shows. They'll be doing seven six
shows for that. Uh huh. I means up being their kiddies down to
Stu Arena and then again another rock and roll band. I bet you're a
fan of this band November thirteenth, Tool. Do you like that music?
I like Tool, I never loved Tool. If you're a big fan,
that's gonna play at seven to fifteen casual weeks later November twenty fourth. I've
seen this band when not live, by just having to work there trans Severian
Orchestra at three pm and seven pm. They're really good. Yeah, this
show is they come here every year every uh for the cod obviously December ninth
a hollypop. This is a really big show anymore, but it's the Boston
Pop. And I always remember remember that time I worked there one time and
they said, hey, Texas and they call it bikes. I was saying,
not Texas. Mic They said, when you can do a job where
we need to clean up the tables and you know, put all the carries
away. But he said he needs to do much tonight. He just sat
down. He had a lot of food that people left behind. That story
never gets told. That story was fifteen and sixties. Professional bull riding is
coming unlease the beasts and they haven't least of times. Yep. But the
Me and Rocky went there a couple of years ago, believe it. And
when the new arena is basically opened when when the COVID back in twenty twenty
one in the fall, and then this show I've seen before, it's really
it's not as good's it used to be, but still fun for the family.
Hammond grows throughout a twenty twenty four world tour two pm and seven pm
December twenty eighth, and this is way far away. But you cant tickets
for all these fun shows, they said, Disney on ice again and they
canna be doing uh seven shows. And last year they had a big ruckus
because there was a big snowstorm. And around that time, people are all
keeeed off because they couldn't go through the arena. It's all, can we
think cancel the event? Blah blah uh. They offered to take us for
another show, So people wrote a lot of bad stuff on it on on
Facebook about that. What are you gonna do? Right? The fans,
the people already there, you know, it's hard to just reschedule all this
stuff. What are you gonna want to hear? You know? Sways in
January so it's always a crap too. With the weather, it's gonna be
good or it's gonna be disaster. Mm hm. Anyways, figure disasters.
I'm sure you've been following what's going on in the world. I think of
that too. Yeah, I can't believe that that guy Edge went to a
w What do you think of that move? Yes, but he's no longer
Edge. He is Adam Copeland his real name. Of course. I think
it's cool. It's used to be full time, but I'm not how it's
gonna work out. He's alost fifty years old, so he's in shape.
It doesn't matter. He is the same show. That's a big crew for
them, isn't it. That is a big coup and they get to use
because WWE, of course does not own the rights to that song metal English
medal I can't at metal ingis by alter Bridge. He gets to use his
regular theme music too. I think it's great. We got a lady from
eight. We got a lady from a W I never heard over because I
should have heard the names down. But he's seen him going back and forth.
I don't think it really matters anymore. They go back and forth all
the time now we know. I don't know. But anyways, I was
I was no mercy the other day. And if you haven't see that one
nx C. No, we're not pretty good. We have not watched that,
but I do enjoy an exca's events was pretty good too, because December
I don't know if I talked about that, but that's old fast Line is
coming up. I don't think it's really gonna be a good show. They
got that crazy John Seen is back in town, do you know why?
And the Rock was there the other day because see people making movies are on
the strike. Well they were. The strike is over, but uh yeah
they're gonna, but they're gonna, you know, tis just commitment. Come
on, No, his time is't up as time is now. You
can't see him as time is now. Another fun another fund stat Oh again,
December and nine they're going to have deadline for n XC and then a
four the oh yeah, going forward this store for interesting fact here eliminated the
chamber in the hustle February next year. But it's going to be in Australia.
That's way far away Australia. That's a whole other continent. But they're
trying to get then email you know, well they are. It's called WW
for reasons, you know that's right. Then a W tries the next year.
I'm think gonna try for it. They're probably gonna do it. They
want at pay review every month like that WW does. Yeah, we're gonna
try to do their platform like a they're trying to do a platform on Cinemax
Hour or something. Max. It used to be has Peacock, it's Max.
It used to be HBO Max. Now it's now they just call it
Max. Right, so they got a lot of money. They're not going
anywhere anytime too. And that's the store. That's right. That's time to
be a wrestling fan. If you like that stuff. I agree. Anyways,
moving on to April, pushman here it's done all you're gonna play us
on borrow time and finances August. But they went on and then uh,
oh yeah, you've got a couple of shows coming over here. Oh yeah,
we got the stuff coming up in the Florida and in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
in Tennessee. But we don't talk about those shows like goo. Good for
her, and she's gonna have another sir coming right around the corner here.
September twenty fourth, Tickeret Star available still at indian rams dot com. It's
a big show. It's skate th eleven shows at noon. The background tribute
band Trailer Trash sounds kind of funny. Charles Live, Andy Bross. Well,
she's got a big show coming up in the Er four. The only
reason I say it now. You can get tickets Friday at seven thirty the
Breck Theater of all places, the Stand in Clark and the Sugar You canet
tickets at Pedal Theater dot org. When we go in to Facebook phase probably
find them there too. And then the Cob Race is playing the bambling Brook
Farm and Stoppling Leave Maine and that is a in bright dot com the ticket.
So even though she don't have a lot of local shows custos outside of
the New England, and that's great for her, get her name out there,
working hard. Shows it all to you, I say, I don't
know about that. And then Katie Domins got that new song Wild and that's
out on all the platforms. So we'll get to that that song next week
as they come out. And in December it was just right around the corner
it came out, and show's coming up too. She's really killing it out
there. She's killing it. Cob oh yeah, oh yeah, Here we
go Cober seventh. Yeah, the Warner's Fall fully as Festival Warner in Water
they probably, Oh, that's why they call it. That must be why
they call it the Warner Fall Fulliot's Festival. Yeah. And then she's playing
Cover six of the Beans Green North E I E R D A R T
N. I can't spell that one in Guildford at five pm. Okay,
and Cober he's playing at the busker Fest Conway Cober twenty he's playing the figures
are a needed seven o'clock. I got Songwriters in the round and Laurence math
COVID twenty seconds. He's playing at Guilbert and Busy designed by Fall Festival event
and that's a free event at four o'clock. And either I had a way
ahead of time, but she's still going to be doing it there obviously cover
Announce and remember three is a free event the Courier a gally at five pm.
They have it every Thursday career. And then she she's playing again in
November twenty ninth at two pm. I'm sorry. November twenty nine there covered
twenty five at seven pm. Tickets that are available at Songwriters around Up.
George Barber in Mariworth and I can't spell that word. I mean I can
sell if I can't say I I I A N C A L I P
A E A at seven pm? Where you going on Facebook page only Facebook,
Katie Dobbins. Then they wrap it up here there flip page there are
all right, But you know in a couple of weeks we're going to have
that news new song by a Fromman McCarthey and you can get on all platforms
called normal. And then Jasmine Man is going to be doing a show real
I'm going to real quick o Sober thirteenth of the Wild Rover. You might
have heard of that place up the street from them from Europe or Race seven
and nine, and that's a free event. But I always don't forget to
tip your waiters. Waiters and they're doing their good job. So you're gonna
go to the restaurant, well's a deposit a few bucks on the tip if
that they work hard for that money. They work hard for their money,
all right. And then I would always say always forget this far. I'm
forget this time, as I say in party interdropped on the ESPN, we
will try to do better the next time and that's all you can do.
Right. I've heard you say that on many occasions, EAZYG. I want
to forget it this time, I'm I guess I'll wrap it up. You
guys have a good rest of your show. All right, Thanks EAZYG.
Bye bye. Wow. Well that was something there we should have known by
now, easy don't all right? Well, let's he did request this,
and April Cushman, yes, very talented artist. We will play this was
Easyg's request, and then we'll come back with some more show. But this
is called borrowed time. From the great April Cushman, one of the three.
I guess there's four ladies now that EAZG likes to feature during his entertainment
report. But this is called borrowed time. I met a man named Steve
who could barely both leave. The eighty years had come and gone. He
raised your kids in diet with his leg wife Fallace, and now those kids
have babies over their old with a tear in his eye, gave me some
manvies. Well, he said, time flies by even when any races,
but they're alloyed that you can swam it on and die. Some raised your
babies like there's no too more love like you wrong worrow. He's lying on
his face, told a story all the people and places before war, and
he sare he remembered everyone, he said, chairs every mon because before you
know, today will become one a one. So what because time flies by
even when any'st expect they're a no that you can stop in on a time.
So raise your babies like there's no to moro love like you go time.
He's got me think hello if escapes bob blinking and how thirty years of
mine come in and go? Because time flies by even when you listic expect
they're a way the joke can stop it all time. So raizer babies like
there's no more two more love like you on borrow time, love like you
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cetera. It is Thursday, October five, twenty twenty three. We just
had ezg's entertainment Report and we capped it off with Borrowed Time, a great
song from the great April Cushman. But coming up in just a few minutes,
we're gonna have Dan from the band d C Wolves skyping in from Connecticut.
Really looking forward to that. We played a couple of DC wolvestracks at
the beginning of the show today and we're going to play another one in just
a few minutes and then we'll have Dan on with us via Skype. Really
love their sound very much, looking forward to speaking with them. Should mention
too or with him. I'm not sure if Dan's gonna have any other band
members with him or if this is going to be Dan. It might just
be Dan. We shall see. But we should also mention because it is
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the hop Not tonight. I will remind you too if you're just joining us.
It is the first Thursday of the month, which means immediately after today's
show, I will be doing my monthly call into the Doctor Kevin Show,
which is on the Home Times Radio network, and we talk about politics and
current events from six to seven pm the first Thursday of the month. So
I look forward to calling into him into Doctor Kevin's show that airs on the
OLM Times Radio network omomomtimes dot com. By the way, Jenny has just
alerted me that John will be on the skype call too, so two members
of DC wolves, Dan and John will both be with us. So excellent,
excellent. We'll say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat quickly before
we do get to the top of the hour. Let's see who we have
in here. John c. Hopwood is in the chat and says, if
Donald Trump had a dog, even it would have turned on him, just
like Ivanka. Oh my goodness, is that true. Well, you know,
dogs have been in the news or a dog commander, the dog of
the Bidens. Apparently it keeps biting people, including secret Service agents, so
they're sending it somewhere to hopefully learn not to do that. I suppose Isaac
Banks is in the Facebook live chat. Isaac Banks, I believe from Greensboro,
North Carolina. Isaac says good afternoon. Matt Connorton EAZYG is in the
Facebook live chat. Of course. Jenny is in the chat and says shilloam
peeps. Isaac Banks says good afternoon. Katie Chesney hashtag, Meredith Graves hashtag,
Amber Carter, Justin Cox, Brandy Justice, and trip pocket. I
was wondering if you can pick me up from the Lindley Park Baptist Church in
Greensboro, North Carolina of the rehearsal. I'm in the Inner Rhythm choir at
eight pm until be over. Please I appreciate it. Hashtag everyone Okay,
So, if anyone anyone listening in the Greensboro, North Carolina area, be
you, any of these people or anyone else, Isaac Banks, if you
could pick him up from the Lindley Park Baptist Church after rehearsal tonight. He's
in the Inner Rhythm choir. So if any of these people are around,
if you wouldn't mind picking him up please. He's a very loyal listener.
We want to take care of him. Or if anyone you know anyone up
here who wants to make the drive down to Greensboro, North Carolina. I
don't know if he'll offer you gas money. I don't know. He might,
you know, let's see. Jenny was commenting earlier how much she loves
the music of DC Wolves. Yes, yes, yes. Isaac Banks also
says in the chat room, Matt Connerton, I was giving a shout to
hashtag Katie Chesney hashtag Meredith Graves, hashtag Amber Carter, hashtag Justin Cox,
hashtag Brandy Justice, and hashtag trip Pucket. Well, I certainly hope that
one of those people can give you a ride this evening. Isaac Banks,
let's see. JFED is in the chat, of course from the great state
of Vermont, says good afternoon everyone. Isaac Banks says, hello, JFED,
how are you doing? What's up? And JFED responds as the fawns
hey, and Isaac Banks says, j Fed, aka the fawns. My
man, if you can do is snap the fingers to get the ladies.
That's right, that's right, all right, We're going to uh, we
have a call. It's our friend Shannon is online. Hi Shannon. I'm
going to ask you to be quick because we do have an interview coming up.
But what's on your mind? Yeah? If easy, he can take
to a message and you commuted it off later, right, Huh, what
do you want me to do? I was just gonna I'm gonna try to
get queens easy some Queen City cupcakes. Oh, very nice. I just
wanted to know if you wanted any particular signd okay, so if you could
say, yeah, give me a cocoa or canoli or you know, that's
okay. And I had some excitement here. I said, I hated something
up with my microwave. Uh huh. And I was looking at the microwave
and it was all yell. It looked like the sun in there. Because
I let my fork on the place. It was kind of neat dangerous but
neat. Yes, Uh, well, I feel like the danger I suppose.
Well, well, good, I'm glad nothing exploded. No, no,
I opened the door right away. But yeah, after that happened,
that was weird. I've never seen that before. Yeah, that's that's not
supposed to do that. Oh, all right, have fun on a good
show, all right, Shannon, thank you for the call. Bye bye.
All right, all right, that was our friend, Shannon. I'm
glad. Uh, I'm glad no one's dead from the h from an exploding
microwave. Uh. Let's see. Uh. John c. Hopwood in the
chat room says new Exorcist movie is receiving egregious reviews. Uh oh. John
also said my internet connection has got Facebook in low res. I thought Matt
was wearing a brazier. H No, I've never worn a brazier, John,
But thank you. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook
live chat, another one of our great sponsors here at WM and H Queen
City Cabinetry. In the Historic Sunbeam Mall, Isaac Banks says Matt connorton J
FAD is very good doing this impression of the fonds. He as smart as
he can ever be. Yes, and Isaac Banks also says, I will
I would like to give a shout out to Victoria Piper from Greensboro, North
Carolina and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Hashtag Victoria Piper. I was
wondering if you can give me a ride home from the rehearsal of Inner Rhythm
Choir at Lindley Park Baptist Church and pick me up there until be over at
eight pm. Please, if you be nice, you'll do this. Guys,
well, I hope so I listen. I always say if you can't
count on hashtag Victoria Piper, who can you count on? Let's see?
All right? Oh, and Isaac Banks also says Matt Connerton according to this,
my mom don't drive at nights for the evenings very much. I see.
So, really, Victoria Piper is your best option because your mom can't
pick you up. I understand. Carol's a Warwitz joins us in the Facebook
live chat and says good afternoon, Good afternoon, Carol. Also, Miriam
vanishes in the Facebook live chat, Hello Miriam. Isaac Banks also said tomorrow
evening, I will be performing for the fall dance Sunshine Club Saint Pius Catholic
Church is performing known as Aikman Breezy, and I will be singing and dancing.
Well very nice. Now, if I could make a suggestion, Isaac
Banks, assuming you're able to get Victoria I'm sorry hashtag Victoria Piper to give
you a ride this evening, I would also say just a suggestion that you
just kind of casually mentioned something about tomorrow night too. Maybe she'll offer to
give you a ride tomorrow night as well. I'm not saying you should take
advantage of her friendship, but I mean, you know you're gonna need a
ride both nights. I assume. Kevin Doherty is in the Facebook live chat
and says get easy his cupcakes. Yes, that's right, that's right,
cupcakes for eazyg. All right, here's what we're gonna do, because we
are almost at the top of the hour. So we're gonna take a break.
We're gonna play another great track from this spanned DC Wolves, and then
when we come back, Dan and John from the band should be on Skype
with us there, skyping in from the great state of Connecticut, the state
of my birth, and really looking forward to talking to them. I love
this band, I love this project, really really good stuff. So we're
gonna play this track. Oh. Paully C just joined us in the Facebook
live chat and says it's a known fact that Saint Pius hated dancing. I
didn't know that, Polly C. But it's wonderful that we can get these
theological insights. Polly C, of course host of retro Spectrum Radio with pouly
C, which you can hear Friday nights from eight to eleven pm Tomorrow night.
Friday is my favorite day of the week here at WMNH really look forward
to that. And Paul was at the NHAB Awards last night too with Peter
White, and I think Matt Juno and Kyle Clayton all went together, I
believe. So I always call it the I call it the Channel nine wg
IR Awards. But yes, I'm sure they had a wonderful time. All
right, let's do this. We're gonna get to this track and then we're
gonna have those guys on skype with us. This is called I am Atomic
from the band DC Wolves. Check this out. This is great stuff.
It's a side shooting the building. Swell well, I grew up at as
a show. But it's snow one fall of base fa fall the gang up
brain so that your base four and other day oh nin gets to the five
D cred go nouse like how the zomac ol b gets to the time may
crab gold nows, like how a zomba is a co at youth dreams.
What's fool? And once more you're twice called the game r. You'll go
the babe into the five cretical Mass. I am Masonic, into the five
cred mass. I have something, go mycredible mass. I am something us
five credical mass. Son My yeah, I am atomic. Oh that is
good stuff. That is DC Wolves, And I think we've got I think
we've got both guys on skype. Let's see. Dan are you there?
I am here? Can you hear me? I can excellent? Excellent?
And John are you there? Yep, I'm here as well. Perfect.
Perfect. You just never know what Skype with merging calls and everything. If
it's all gonna work out, there's a lot that can go wrong. So
I'm relieved. Welcome to the show, guys. It's great to Uh,
it's great to have you on. I love what you're doing. We've got
if you're just joining us. We have Dan and John from d C Wolves.
They are skiping in from Uh you're both in Connecticut, I assume.
Yeah that's correct. Yeah. Yeah, and uh, you're gonna be at
Swormy Fest this year coming up next month, right, we will. We're
very excited about that. Yeah, I'm looking forward to see I was just
gonna say, I'm looking forward to seeing you guys live. Yeah. Yeah.
So so it was kind of interesting because we followed Sepsis at least for
a while, because they have such an interesting online presence. You know,
they're doing podcasts, they're doing all kinds of stuff, and so when we
saw the announcement for it, we're like, oh, it would be kind
of neat to get on, and here we are. They pointed us to
you guys. Oh I'm glad, yeah, very glad. Yeah, they
do a lot they're very good, you know, like you said, with
their online presence, they're pretty advanced in that way, and it's wonderful to
see. It's wonderful to have that association with them. They've been on the
show a bunch of times, and we do feature a lot of their music.
And Jenny and I we were at last year's Swarmy Fest and we're looking
forward in fact, and we're on the shirt today and we're looking forward to
being involved this year as well. Now, So this this band, So
Dan, this started with you? Right? Did this kind of from what
I was reading online? Did this kind of grow out of a solo project
that you were doing initially? Right? So it started back in twenty eighteen.
I was playing in another band at the time, but I was getting
the itch to start writing on my own. I don't know, I just
wanted to kind of explore that a little more and it was more of like
a challenge to myself to see if I could do it. Yeah, and
you know, lo and behold, I was able to come up with,
you know, a full length version of other songs, and then you know,
slowly started putting the pieces of a band together, and you know,
that's how I got involved with John too. You know, he's helped me
realize the whole vision, which is great, excellent. So so John,
now what do you do in the band? Because obviously you know it started
with Dan and then he credits you with really helping him put this together.
So what's what's your role in DC Wolves, John? I play guitar.
I basically pick up all the parts that Dan wrote that that are too difficult
to play and sing at the same time. Yeah, so he hands over
all the heavier, uh, the more intricate riffs to me. But like
it's it's been really cool working with Dana. I'm my backgrounds, I've got
a metal background, so this was completely different from me and uh Dan.
Dan and I met up because I was working on a different project and that
project didn't work out. But Dan was looking for a guitar player for this
and I was like, you know what, this seems really cool. I
want to I want to see if this works. So I learned a couple
of songs, met up with the guys, and end up joining up and
really love it. Excellent. Yeah, is that the leads? Is that
all you are? You doing? All the leads, the solos, Dan,
Dan's like I live, I do, but I'm not on any of
the recordings. Dan did all the recordings himself. Oh I got you,
I gotcha, Yeah Dan, I love those solos. They're really melodic and
very very tasteful. I took a lot of David Gilmore inspiration because he's not
necessarily I mean, he's technically proficient, but not like you'd see like a
metal guitar player. But his lines tend to talk. You know, you
could go and you could sing a David Gilmore solo. True, And so
I took that as kind of how I wanted to do it. You know,
it's not too complex, but it's also something that you could hum along
to. Yeah, I forget who I heard say it, but there's somebody
I heard say once. I wish I could remember who it was. Oh,
maybe it was David Gilmore, but somebody said that. As a lead
player, part of what you should try to do is tell another part of
the story. You know, whatever the story is that the lyrics are telling.
When your solo comes up, you want that to be more of the
story and not something that's kind of because you know the way some guitarists approach
it they're not concerned with that, and it ends up being this whole other
thing that doesn't necessarily sound like it's part of the story, which is fine,
obviously it doesn't matter, but but it sounds like what you're doing it
really kind of fits with the verses in the way that you're continuing the story.
At least that's how my ears sort of sort of interpret it. And
maybe it was David Gilmore who had said that. I don't know, but
he's definitely he's definitely a master of capturing the mood of a song. Oh
yeah, oh yeah. I mean that's my favorite part of Pink Floyd because,
to be honest with you, I've never been a big Pink Floyd fan
only because a lot of those songs, I'm just only there for the solo,
you know, like a song like Comfortably Numb. I, to be
honest with you, it kind of bores me a little bit, except I'm
there for the solo, do you know what I mean? I know most
people love Pink Floyd. I just I just love I just love David Gilmore,
to be honest with you, you know what I mean? Or that's
a hard one for me because honestly, I'm there for the entire thing,
Like, yeah, they were La song as echoes, So take that what
you will mean? Yeah, yeah, well no, I mean I'm the
weird one. I know that because I'm probably I'm probably the only person who's
ever said that I'm just there for the solo. Is anybody else? You
know, they're there for the whole thing. But no, I mean,
I respect I respect Pink Floyd of course and all the members. But yeah,
but but yeah, I love a good I love a good Pink Floyd
solo. Can you tell me about Dan Did you write all these songs yourself?
Or did did John have a part in that? Or tell me about
the songwriting process. Sure? So in the songs that are out right now,
those were all just me. So I the only with the exception of
the drums, because I can write drums on a keyboard. I can play
some simple stuff. But ultimately in the recordings, I had somebody come in
and work with me. Now on future recordings, we're working on stuff as
a group. Now it's time, you know. I like the process of
working on my own, but there's something about collaborating with other people and sharing
ideas that's really exciting. And it's just great to be in a room with
people who are all excited about the same thing as you work on it.
In terms of songwriting process, I tend to start with the idea of what
I want to sound the song to sound like before I've even written anything.
So, you know, on an album like Predator, which is probably a
lot of the songs that you're going to be sharing tonight, you know,
I'll start with, Okay, I want something to start this section of the
album off with a bang, or okay, let's get a little introspective or
slower, or I want something with a better beat. So say, if
I want to have something with a beat, I'll start with the bass and
drums as opposed to guitar riffs, and then I kind of work off that
way, so if I get something really thumping, I can kind of build
the song from there, and also focusing on mood. Do I want it
to be slow? Do I want it to be do I wanted to be
upbeatn fun? You know, That's kind of where I come from. Yeah,
it's interesting to hear you explain it, because it sounds like a really
different approach than the way a lot of songwriters do it a lot of people
I talk to, you know, it's kind of like a melody occurs to
them, or some lyrics occur to them, and and it's they're they're kind
of and then they go from there. But but it sounds like you're really
kind of building it from the ground up in the sense that when you're writing
a song, you know, you're starting with things like you know what the
mood is or what the you know what the beat's going to be, and
you're kind of really just just starting at the very bottom and just kind of
building up. It's it's interesting, have you always approached it that way because
you've been You've been at this a while obviously with different projects before you really
started with DC Wolves. So has the process changed it all over the years.
It has. And I wasn't always a songwriter. For a long time.
I was the bass player in several bands, and so I think a
lot of my songwriter comes from that, where I'm starting with what rhythm is
going to work under what people are playing over the top of things, you
know, what are the guitar players doing, and what can I make that's
interesting to listen to but still kind of covers, you know, a rhythm
kind of guitar part because the way my previous band worked, we had me
as a bass player and the drummer kind of filling the rhythm section, and
our guitar player would would not solo, but he would use a lot of
effects and make kind of soundscapes. So I kind of started with that because
I would take whatever he was doing on guitar and try to make some kind
of mood out of that, and it just kind of evolved from there.
You know, I learned a lot about songwriting from the other people that I
worked with, and so eventually I started getting the itch on my own,
and you know, you go with what you know. I was never taught
formally, so you know, that's how I learned, and that's how I
continue to work. Yeah, I love these, Like I said, I
love all the tracks that you sent us. I played a couple of them
at the start of the show today and you're getting a great response to in
the Facebook live chat. How do you describe your sound to people who haven't
heard it, because it's you know, I can I can hear a mix
of influences, but I also I can't think of your vocals remind me of
somebody, but I can't quite place who it is. But but I but
I can't think of another band at least that I've heard recently that you really
sound quite like. I think there's I think there is a uniqueness to your
sound. So how do you describe it to people who've never heard you?
I guess I would kind of, you know, I'd stick to probably the
hard rock realm, because I have a lot of you know, when when
I was really catching on to music, that was like the new metal era,
right, yeah, so grunge had just happened, and then the Late
nighties and all of those bands do one temple pilots and that kind of stuff.
So it's kind of specific. But I would kind of describe it as
stoner rock a little bit because I tend to write or I tend to like
to write a lot of riffs, yeah, and I also like to have
the melody, so I can write some very you know, hard hitting riffs,
but also be singing over with as catchy as I can come up with
of a vocal line. So it's it's kind of balancing the line between rock
and metal folks, lind of somewhere in between, and that's kind of where
I like to go with it. What do you think, John, what
would you agree with me on that? Yeah, I would definitely. It's
it's definitely we're I don't know, I think the realm that we're in it's
it's like we're kind of a throwback to a lot of ninety stuff, but
we also have some like some parts that are definitely influenced by NERR bands as
well. So it definitely falls in the realm with like alternative rock, but
on the harder age. Yeah, and it doesn't sound you know, I
definitely hear the nineties influence, but it but it sounds uh, you know,
it sounds modern and contemporary. It doesn't sound like I guess what I'm
trying to say is, to me, it doesn't sound like something that you
would necessarily put to any particular era, you know what I mean, which
is and I mean that as a compliment. It's it's it doesn't sound like
it's from necessarily any one specific time. You know, if if you told
me that this came out in the nineties, I would have believed you.
But but I if I had no idea that it had been recent and you
told me, yeah, this came out recently. I would also believe you
does that make sense? Yeah, it does, it does, And I
think that makes a lot of sense because you know, the first one of
the first concerts I went to with my parents was Tom Petty. They brought
me to Moody Blues and like a bunch of those bands, and then start
getting into as I growing up the nineties, you know, I was a
little late on that, so kind of on the tail end of the nineties.
But also you know, Nirvana of course, and Pearl Jam is still
kicking and doing their thing. But then more modern bands, Queens of the
Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, you know, lots of untold metal bands.
Yeah, yeah, and I can I can hear I can hear the Queens
of the Stone Age influence certainly, just as one example. And by the
way, so this is now Predator is your your sophomore release right with this
project, So there's there was something before a Predator for this band, Yes,
there was. You've Been Careless was the first one that was my first
foray into that, and that was that was I think twenty I want to
say twenty nineteen, and then Pandemic happened kind of around the time I was
working on Nighthawk, which was just an EP that's about four tracks, and
then Predator was recorded while things were you know, everyone's masking up and all
that. So, yeah, it was an interesting time. It was very
creative, and I think that's partly because it was kind of a shitty.
Oh he's a bad time. Sorry, we're on a delay. I caught
it. Yeah, that's been It's been a consistent subject that comes up on
the show when talking with musicians is how, you know, the pandemic obviously
was terrible, but we have to find these silver linings where we can.
And one of the silver linings is it really a lot of creativity and a
lot of great work came out of that time period. And I always say,
too, you know, as bad as it was, we are fortunate
in a sense. It sounds strange to say it this way, but we're
fortunate in a sense that had happened when it did, because if it had
happened twenty years earlier, or even ten years earlier, before we had as
much technology as we have now, I think there it would have been much
more difficult for musicians and other creative people too to really produce a lot of
work, you know, yeah, without without doubt, ten years ago,
you didn't have any the capabilities you got now. Like technology is really springboard
in the last decade. Like most people have home recording studios now, you
didn't have that ten years ago. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And
the ability to you know, easily just email tracks back and forth if you're
you know, working on a song remotely with people and or or get on
zoom. And you know, something we saw a lot at the height of
the lockdowns is uh, you know some of these classic bands, you know,
getting on Zoom together and doing live performances together from different remote locations just
just incredible the creativity that came out of it. So, like, like
I said, we have to find these silver linings where we can. But
yeah, so now, so are you already working on new material now that
it's now that you're working as a band and the two of you guys plus
the other guys in the band, are you have you already started recording new
material or are you still kind of promoting Predator? So we're at the point
where we're just about done with the demos. It's going to be another EP
and other four songs, and we are working on the scheduling piece. Okay,
so working out with the studio when we can get in there and make
it, make it happen. So we're very close to getting started with that.
Excellent, and this will be this will be all four of you on
the on the new EP. That's correct. Excellent, excellent. Yeah.
You know a lot of great bands, you know, start with UH with
one person and then you know, it starts out a solo project and then
it grows into into UH into something else. So it's it's cool to see.
I mean, you know, Food Fighters being the obvious example. So
was that Dan? Was that kind of the goal from the beginning with this?
When when you started this UH DC wolves as UH, when you started
doing this by yourself, was it always the idea in your mind that you
know, you would in somebody like John and bring in some other people and
then it would grow into a band. Did you know that from the beginning
or did it start out as you know, we're going to see where it
goes. I think it was more of a we'll see where it goes,
and as we kind of got more comfortable with each other, it just seemed
to make sense. And I really like and I really, like I indicated
before, I really missed the collaborative process of working with other people. And
then, you know, the way we're doing it right now is we're writing
a lot of parts on our own, you know, and sending them.
Yeah, as you said, you know, use used dropbox all the time,
you know, we have our whole project folders in there, and then
getting together when it's time for practice, and then we play it live in
a room and by then we've already constructed most of the song. And you
know, it's it's actually really exciting to write things that way because you all
get together and get to hear it firsthand the way you always imagined it in
your head, right, And did the two of you work together you you
might have mentioned this already, give me, but did the two of you
work together musically prior to DC Wolves? Is that how you knew each other?
And we actually, I mean that through a project that I was working
on. It was like a dual metal project and Dan came down, so
I try out for vocals and unfortunately, just the pairing of everybody together in
that project, it didn't. It petered out pretty quick after that. That's
like when I contacted Dan was like, hey, you know, I kind
of got the age to play live. It was like right after Lockdown started
getting lifted and everything, and I was and so I hit up Dan was
like, hey man, you're looking for the guitar player because I think I
can play this stuff. Cool. Cool, there you go. And then
how quick did it come together with the other guys? If I remember right,
and correct me if I'm wrong. John, the time, you were
the last piece of the puzzle that we needed. Yeah, oh yeah.
Joe the drummer and I had already been playing together or pre Pandemic a little
bit, and we had kind of constructed a band. We had done a
three piece for a short time, which was difficult. As John indicated,
it's tough to play all of the guitar parts and sing at the same time.
You really don't get any break when you're doing that. So Pandemic happened,
no band for a little while, got back together with Joe, and
then recruited Andy on bass, who is also contributing a lot of the background
vocals. Oh, John was the last piece of the puzzle. Excellent,
excellent, very good, And we have a call. I think easyg is
on the line. I think he has a question for you guys, and
I think I can guess what it might be. Easy is that you I
haven't called up. I haven't called up during one of your rock and roll
stuff, is there? I was just wondering that the band has ever played
in Canada. I knew that was going to be the question. You guys
ever play in Canada? Would love to play in Canada? I don't know
about John having a passport, but I do. I get one pretty quick.
Oh there you go, there you go? Does that answer your question?
Easy? Okay, that's the only question you guys? All right,
thank you? Yeah, cana does a big country. Where where would you
like us to play? That's part? Yeah. I've always heard Montreal is
a really good metal scene, but I don't know Montreal. Yeah, there
you go? You visited? What's that? What'd you say? It's a
great I used to work for a bunch of metal record labels and I've went
through Montreal a bunch of times on different tours, and it is a great
metal city. They love metal there. Yeah. Yeah, I've never been,
but that's what I've always heard. Oh so you've got so you've got
some other do you still do do you still work in the music industry,
John No, no, no, I actually work at a shop now.
Oh okay, oh wow, very good. Well that's that's cool. That's
you know, you get to do something something else that's also creative. Very
cool. How long did you you worked for late What did you do for
these labels? I worked. I worked as a merchandiser for a bunch of
bands I worked for. I worked for Central Media Records and Ah worked for
Candle Light Records for a handful of years in the early two thousands and kind
of got burnt out from it and then stopped doing music for a bunch of
years, and then met Dan kind of when I was trying to get my
foray back into it. So excellent, excellent working for Century Media that must
have been cool. It was awesome at the height that I was doing it.
They were they were They were just massive, and everybody that worked there
so much fun. Like they had a bunch of record labels under the same
roof, so you had the entire Central Media family, had Abacus Records,
Nuclear Class USA was under the same UH label as them, and then there
was three other subsidies I can't remember the name of, but and everybody worked
in the same building. It was really awesome. Oh wow, that's that's
fantastic. How long did you work for them? About four years? Four
years? Yeah, Yeah, it's interesting. I had We had a Conrad
where on the show who worked at what was the name? He was in
Boston. He worked at a big label in Boston and now the name escapes
me, but but he kind of he did what what you did? Uh?
And a merchandiser and uh, but he said the same It's so funny,
he said the same thing. He just got he loved it, but
he got to a point where he just got burnt out with it. But
yeah, the industry will do that to you. Oh. It was like
at that time, I had I had an apartment, I was running in
mass shows and apartment I was running in California, and I wasn't there for
like nine months out of the year in each each place. So I was
like, why am I spending all this money on these places? I need
to settle down and get my finances in order. And that was like part
of the burnout too. Being in the road's rough, man like it really
it kicks a crap outy after a while. Yeah, it's absolutely. It's
I have a little bit of experience with that, and it's it's not it's
not as glamorous as people think you're. You're not a lot of a lot
of legwork. Yeah, you're not flying around on a private jet and you
know, just having fun, that's for sure. That's for sure. A
lot of a lot of standing around, a lot of waiting around. Then
one's time ago, you got to go exactly exactly. So what's fast food
too? Oh, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, it's not not the
healthiest lifestyle. Yeah, yeah, living a gas station food. So so
what's kind of the long term Do you guys have a long term trajectory for
DC Wolves Do you have do you have any any specific goals? Are you
looking to go on tour or anything like that, or what's what's the plan
or is there a plan? Well, I think for next year, we're
looking to do some short tours and really get out there. I mean this
was more or less a building year. You know. We we spent time
getting the band together, the four of us gelling, and then you know,
played a bunch of shows this year and now as we're starting to write,
you know, once we actually have that EP to get other and ready
to release. You know, it's time to time to get out there and
and and actually show some people. So you know, I think New England,
Pennsylvania, New York, some of those areas are probably the make the
most sense to start with. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Are all
Are all four of you guys in Connecticut? Are you all kind of kind
of close to each other geographically? Two of us in Connecticut and two of
us are in Massachusetts. So Joe is in Westfield and Andy is up in
the Worcester area. So he's got a bit of a haul. Yeah,
yeah, not worth it though, I like I said, I mean,
I love your sound. I love what you guys are doing. By the
way, it might be an odd question. I'm probably the only interviewer who
asks guests this question. But but there's a reason. So I really like
your website. Do you guys, does one of you do the website?
Or who does the website? So I actually work with a PR. I
don't want to call it a firm because it's a single person, but I
have a PR person that actually does a lot of the social media and website
design and that kind of stuff. And it's somebody I worked with that I
started working with when I was still doing it on my own because you know,
I was writing and producing all this music, but it was kind of
a lot for one person to then also be spending time online doing posts and
doing all this stuff. So I got connected with with with her and this
is Noisegate pr is what they're called, okay goes by. Her name is
NaIO, and she's done a great job. You know, we worked we
have regular meetings talking about Okay, here's our release plan, what's coming up,
what shows are coming up, you know, making sure that we're getting
all the flyers out there and the event invites. And she's always looking for
opportunities to you know, get on and shows like this for instance. And
we just work great together. So I can't take credit for the design of
the website. It's her, Like I help out with the info. But
that's about it. Yeah, No, that's great, and yeah, shout
out to her. The reason I part of why, well, there's really
two reasons I bring it up. One is so I'm a web designer myself,
so I look at and I analyze websites a lot. But number two
is I see a lot of artists who have websites that are not great.
So when I see a band with a website that I think is really good,
I just have to say, you know, well done, well done,
Neo. Yeah, this is a really good website. So I'm a
website nerd. What can I say. I appreciate it, and I think
it's a great tool to even if it's not the main page because a lot
of people find artists on Spotify or something like that. Yeah, but it's
a great tool to have that you can have all of your links to everything
you've got available, not to mention things like you know, uh say an
ePK. So so an ePK being a collection of information that you would send
out to a publisher or an interviewer or something like that that might have articles
about you or reviews and a collection of videos and those kinds of things.
So it's really like it ends up being a marketing hub in a way.
Oh absolutely, it's so it's so critical more than some people realize. And
the pictures are really good too. Now does she does she do your your
press photos too? Now, we worked with various various photographers, but I've
always liked to work with people in the area to kind of support different artists
in all kinds of different areas. So you know that some of the artwork
and stuff has been used by graphical designers that we know, or in some
cases even like companies like five or so photographers. We've used the various ones
in the area. We've tried different people for all kinds of different sets of
photos. And you know, it's great. You gotta you gotta, you
gotta support the scene. Yep, yep, absolutely, and it's and it's
worth doing not only to support the scene, but it helps your presentation online
as well. And this is really good. I'm very impressed. So I
just wanted to I just wanted to say that give you I wish I wish
every uh, everybody that I interviewed put as much time and and importance into
that part of it. So so excellent, excellent, We appreciate that.
Yeah, absolutely, guys, this has been wonderful. And I'm gonna let
you go. In a couple of minutes, I'm gonna play another one of
your great tracks, lie Down. This is another one that I absolutely love.
But but before we do that, so obviously we were just talking about
at DC wolves dot com all the links are there to all your social media
and Spotify and all of that. Anything else you want our listeners to know.
You got any shows coming up this weekend. Obviously you're gonna be at
Swarmy Fest that's next month, but really looking forward to that, But anything
coming up in the meantime too that you want our listeners to be away of.
Wormyfest is going to be the next one for us, and then after
that we're getting back to recording. We've got some personal stuff going on in
the meantime, so we do have to make time for our own live yeah,
of course, of course. Yeah. Well all of this, I
mean, this is more time consuming than people might realize, you know,
writing and recording music and playing shows and everything. It's funny people who have
never been a musician, I'm sure you encounter this don't realize how much work
that it really is. But kind of like what we were talking about earlier,
it's not all it's not all glitz and glamour. There's a lot that
goes into it. There's a lot that goes into it. So all right,
well we'll let you go. Dan and John thank you both so much
for joining us. It's been a pleasure talking to you. I am a
big fan. I can't wait to see you live at Swarmyfest next month.
That's going to be amazing. But I really love your sound and like I
said, I can't think of anybody who's doing it quite like you're doing it
right now. I can't think of anybody else out there who I think quite
has your sound. So, uh, that's that's cool too. It's it's
good to hear something, uh, you know, something that's unique. But
thank you guys so much. We'll let you go. I'm gonna play this
track lie Down, and I will see you next month at Swarmyfest. So
thanks guys. That great. All right, take care guys, thank you,
bye bye, thank you bye. All right, wonderful. That was
Dan and John from d C Wolves And let's play this track and then we'll
we'll come back with the balance of our show, our final segment coming up.
But listen to this. This is lie Down from DC Wolves here on
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with me. By the way, thank you again of course to Dan and
John from the band DC Wolves. We displayed another one of their tracks,
lie Down and I just I love that band. We are going to play
one more by the way to end today's program in just a little bit.
But great sound and really, like I said to them too, I can't
think of anybody currently who sounds quite like them. It's it's really really good.
So oh and Dan Patrick Cahill is in the Facebook live chat and says,
thank you so much for having us. My pleasure, My pleasure.
What a cool band. So really enjoy that a lot. I like their
music and I can't wait to see them at Swarmy Fest that is coming up.
That's just I think just under a month away, November fourth, I
believe at Jewel and Jenny and I will be there as we were last year.
But that's why I'm wearing the shirt today. For those of you watching
online, so sepsis of course headlining a lot of great bands are really looking
forward to that, so that is that is not far away now, so
so thanks again to those guys. Also want to remind you because it is
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seven. You know, we've been talking a lot lately on the show about
Bob Menendez, Senator of New Jersey, who's been in some trouble. Did
you know his wife killed somebody? Yeah, this happened back in twenty eighteen.
It was apparently a hit and run that didn't get a whole lot of
attention. Or maybe not. Uh, I'm gonna got some attention, but
maybe not sufficient attention from law enforcement. I mean, this Bob Menendez story,
it just there, just continues to be more and more wrinkles to it.
And what I'm actually gonna do is I'm gonna play you a little bit
of audio. This is from Lawrence O'Donnell's show on MSNBC last night. Uh.
He delivered a pretty scathing takedown of uh Menendez and his wife Nadine I
believe is her name. I mean, this is something we're learning about on
top of everything else, all the ethics struggle. Oh hello to glennar J
will Let the People's mayor by the way, who I see in the Facebook
laugh chat. But I mean I could read what he said, but I
think I think we should play This'll let you hear it in his own words.
This is how Laurence O'Donnell apparently opened his show last night on MSNBC.
The life of indicted New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez is much darker than we realized.
The breaking news of the day is that Robert Menendez's wife killed someone.
Senator, there's a report that your wife was potentially involved in a hit and
run back in twenty eighteen. Do you have any comment on that that was
a tragic accident, And obviously we think of the family. He's lying.
They don't think of the family. They have never communicated with the dead man's
family in any way. In December of twenty eighteen, Robert Menendez's girlfriend,
who was on her way to becoming his second wife, hit a pedestrian who
was crossing the street at seven thirty pm and killed him. His name was
Richard Coope. He was forty nine years old. The New York Times reports
today quote His body was thrown to the curb just steps from his home and
badly mangled. The police reports indicate she was never tested for drugs or alcohol
and was allowed to leave the scene not long before mister Coop was declared dead
at a nearby hospital. Richard Coope's sister told the New York Times quote,
the family really has had serious concerns over what we felt was a very sparse,
one sided investigation. We felt that the whole thing was very silently swept
under the rug. The only problem missus Menendez seemed to face after she killed
someone was how to replace the damaged car. According to federal prosecutors, Robert
Menendez and his wife took a bribe in the form of a sixty thousand dollars
Mercedes Benz C three hundred convertible to replace the damaged car. The indictment of
Robert Menendez and his wife contains a text message from her saying all is great
exclamation point. I'm so excited to get a car next week exclamation point.
The indictment says she told the man who was bribing them that she would quote
never forget this. So you've killed a man with a car, and you
are so excited to get a car next week, not even slightly traumatized about
driving, not in any way. And the thing you say you will never
forget is the bribe that got you the car, not the man you killed.
The indictment contains a text message that seemed creepy enough when all we knew
it was describing was an alleged bribe, But now that we know that it
is the reward missus Menanda's got after killing someone, it reads as sickeningly perverse.
She wrote to New Jersey's senior senator, Congratulations, Mona more de la
Ville. We are the proud owners of a twenty nineteen Mercedes. She got
that car only because she killed someone with her previous car, and she calls
herself a proud owner of the new car, the bribe car. And while
she's at it, she congratulates her future husband, the senator, for taking
what federal prosecutors call a bribe, for which they are now both criminal co
defendants who have pleaded not guilty. So there you have it. That is,
uh, that's the latest on Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine, who
you know, maybe on their way to prison, because you know, see,
sometimes that's what happens, is you you know, somebody's charged with something,
and you know, we can talk about other examples, but we don't
have a lot of time left on today's show. But sometimes you know,
someone's charged for something and investigated for something, and then you find out,
uh, you know, you start finding finding out all these other sort of
tangential details about things that they've done, and you realize that it's so much
worse than you might have thought. And part of why I say that is
as I reflect back on because when the when the story first broke about Bob
Menendez, Senator from New Jersey, about him being indicted and you know,
been being charged with various bribery schemes and so forth related to what he had
already been charged with back in twenty seventeen. And it was a hung jury,
so he was never convicted of anything. And I remember talking about that
on the show at the time. That was I think that was one of
the first subjects on the show since I had started here, started doing the
show here at WM ANDH. I even remembered we were in the old studio
upstairs, and so I remembered all of that vividly. And then Bob Menendez
he was again it was a hung jury, so you know, he wasn't
convicted of anything, but wasn't acquitted either. So so then that was the
end of that. And of course now it's all come back around and there's
new charges and so forth, most of it related to what he had been
charged with before, but not exactly of course. And uh, and now
we're we're learning all this other stuff. But that's that's what tends to happen
when you and that's why you know, you hear these expressions like where they
smoke this fire. Sometimes there's uh fires you didn't expect to find and then
you you know, yeah, what what I always tell people is that we
have to keep this in mind, is this is a great example. See,
we never would have known, we probably the general public, we never
would have known that any of that had happened had it not been for Bob
Menendez and his wife Nadine, because they are co defendants, co conspirators in
their their bribery, their partners in crime. As we say, you know,
we wouldn't know about this story had these other charges not happened. And
it sounds like from what I was reading earlier, because Laurence O'Donnell, he
doesn't get into all the details there that that was just the opening segment on
his show, but you know, it sounds like they, like the police
in that area, they did this is my impression from what I read.
We'll learn more in the coming days, i'm sure, but it sounds like
they kind of did the bare minimum of what they had to do to look
like they were sufficiently investigating this, you know, because you you want to
sort of placate the family of the dead person, mister Coop again from their
perspective, but so you know, and mollify them, but also and you
want the community to feel like you have sufficiently done your job, while at
the same time not actually doing anything to upset Senator Menendez and his future wife.
Because this is what I always say it is we have a system,
not on paper, not by the letter of the law, but we do
have a system implicitly, an unspoken sort of system in this country where the
wealthy, the powerful, the elite, uh, we try not to hold
them accountable. And when I say we, what I really mean is it's
just again I'm talking in a broad sense about the system we as individuals who
would be probably charged with manslaughter or something for you know, I mean,
I assume she didn't intentionally run the man over, but she did. She
killed him. That's an undisputed fact here, right, she killed him.
But the wealthy, the powerful, the elite largely are protected from being held
accountable for what they do. And this is just another example of it.
And it's something to just be aware of. We have there are certain elements
that allow for that to happen. Part of it is and this might sound
like a like a tangent, but it really isn't. Part of it is.
You know, I talk a lot about how and I have for all
the years I've been doing this show about my distaste for this binary two party
system that we have, because what happens is when it comes to accountability and
holding people accountable for what they do. And Bob Menendez is a professional politician,
obviously a Democratic senator from the state of New Jersey, in our system
when it comes to holding politicians accountable, with exceptions, and and Ndez is
turning out to be an exception. Right, So there are exceptions, but
generally, broadly speaking, Republicans only want to hold Democrats accountable, and Democrats
only want to hold Republicans accountable. And like I've always said, imagine if
you worked at a company, some sort of a corporation, and you were
in middle management, and maybe you don't have the ethics and morals required to
keep yourself from somehow being abusive or untoward or unprofessional with people in lower management,
people who work beneath you. But imagine what you could get away with
as a middle manager if you didn't have ethics and morals. Imagine what you
might be able to get away with if you knew for a fact that in
upper management only fifty percent of the people in upper management would actually ever be
interested in holding you accountable for your mouth feasance, because the other fifty percent
would be willing to look the other way or do whatever they have to do
to actually protect you. Right. Well, that's how it is in American
politic part of the reason why the wealthy, the elite, the powerful,
why they're able to get away with what they do, is very often again
i'm speaking in politics specifically, really only fifty percent of Americans, of those
who are paying attention to any of this, only fifty percent of them are
interested in old thing that individual accountable. The other fifty percent will use what
aboutism or excuses or justifications or rationalizations for that person's behavior or say, oh,
it's just fake news or whatever it is. Right. So that's only
I'm not saying that that's the whole reason why the elite are so well protected.
That's actually only a very small part of it. But it is a
part of it. It is a part of it. And so that's just
another example of why we have to break that sort of mental partisan logjam that
people love to be in so much, in their little ideological bubbles where they
think that everyone they don't like is a bad person in some way, but
everyone they do like walks on water when in reality there's a lot of evil
to go around. Okay, we are just about out of time. We
are going to close with one more track from this great band. Thank you
again to DC Wolves for joining me today. I really loved having them on.
And the only one we haven't played yet on this show of the tracks
that Dan sent me is night Hawk, So we will close with that,
another great track from DC Wolves. If you miss any part of today's show,
it'll be up in just a little bit at WM andhradio dot org and
on my website Matt Connerton dot com. And I'm going to wrap up here
and I'm gonna call Doctor Kevin do my monthly appearance on the Doctor Kevin Show
on the Home Times Radio Network, and that's going to do it for us
for now. I will talk at you all a little bit later to know
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