1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,080 Because these guys are coming in. I'm gonna play I'm gonna play the new 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:10,480 single no Longer Myself from the band uh house Lights. And I did see 3 00:00:10,519 --> 00:00:23,960 Sam Beechard in the hallway holding up. It's hard to do when all these 4 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:35,920 thoughts fall through your fingers, the worst single on your side see through blad 5 00:00:36,479 --> 00:01:06,760 some staring into this casting side, Tanklaia, where y'are crap? So time? 6 00:01:07,879 --> 00:01:14,719 Row? Are y'all black? And y'all where your chersey? No? 7 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:34,480 Y'all jell every day years a new days the same day as yesterday? Am 8 00:01:34,519 --> 00:01:47,879 I crazy? My calling is say, Tanklaia, where y'are? Time? 9 00:01:49,000 --> 00:02:00,519 Row? Are y'all black? Y'all your jersey? No? John O? 10 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:25,039 The side side the clay well, outside the place says outside Fili show show 11 00:02:31,840 --> 00:03:08,159 you listen my john O that side. We've got got some musicians in the 12 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:13,240 house. So at the news desk, Sam Beechard returns. Hello Sam, 13 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,039 Hello, welcome back, Thank you, thank you for having me, and 14 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:19,520 I will let you introduce the the new gentleman who I'm just meeting for the 15 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,319 first time today. All right, well, yeah, this is Matt. 16 00:03:22,439 --> 00:03:25,240 He is the guitarist for house Lights and writes pretty much all the music. 17 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,240 Well, welcome to the show. Thank you, glad to be here. 18 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,360 Yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing you guys play. And uh, you 19 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:36,439 guys have worked together for how long is this? Uh we met So we 20 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,599 met in college at Hesser College in Manchester way back in two thousand and eight. 21 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,759 Yeah. Probably. Yeah. So we've been making music off and on 22 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:50,680 ever since, you know, several hiatuses throughout Uh, you know, life 23 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:53,280 gets in the way, and but we keep coming back to each other. 24 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,199 We work really well together, and uh, you know, this is some 25 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,319 of the best music that I feel like we've ever made together, for sure. 26 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,319 So yeah, yeah, and I love the new single. We just 27 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:04,960 gave that a little gave that a spin there that no longer myself. That's 28 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,680 great and that just came out Friday. Correct, yep, excellent, excellent. 29 00:04:10,919 --> 00:04:13,120 Well, you guys are gonna play something for us. What are you? 30 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:15,560 What are you gonna play? Yeah, we're gonna play a song called 31 00:04:15,839 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaking Tongues. Uh. It's second single off our album. It's coming out 32 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,759 of September. First called what it Means to Feel. Yeah, and the 33 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,879 song just give you a kind of a uh you know, synopsis on what 34 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:35,560 it means. It's kind of a song about being really having having difficulty being 35 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:40,000 able to communicate, whether it be in a relationship that you have with anyone, 36 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:44,720 you know, a personal relationship or work relationship, whatever it may be, 37 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:47,839 trying to get the right words out and just can't do it. So 38 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,199 I think, you know, I can certainly relate with that. I communicate 39 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,920 best through music, So that's why I wrote the song. And yeah, 40 00:04:56,959 --> 00:04:59,399 all right, very cool. Well, whenever you guys are ready, I'm 41 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:01,040 looking forward to this. It's a lot. We have a house lights here 42 00:05:01,079 --> 00:05:25,120 with us live in studio. Talk to you today before the words escape? 43 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:31,879 Where do I start strain from my heart? Thoughts fall apart? You're not 44 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:40,560 understanding what's making you so angry? I'm messing up so badly. But in 45 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:46,680 the tank to make you happy, you gotta fight for something. There's no 46 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:55,240 progressing pretending everything's just fine. Kids, turn back time. There's no rewind. 47 00:05:57,079 --> 00:06:03,360 I took abuse today, could not artic you late what I'm feeling inside 48 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:12,639 this fragile mind. I'm trying to hide what am I not understanding? What's 49 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,480 making me so angry? I'm messing up so badly? Wanta it take to 50 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:26,040 make me happy. We've got up, but for something. There's no progress 51 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,600 and pretending everything's just fine. Can turn back time, there's no rewind. 52 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:39,680 We can't over run our feelings. Have to face them to find healing. 53 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:46,519 If we draw the line, we may just find will be all right alone 54 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:54,839 away from you, knowing nothing can be perfect, or if it's even worth 55 00:06:54,959 --> 00:07:00,839 it. But I'll try it anyway. Didn't I still make you nervous? 56 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,120 I can only dream of matamorphous hope for a dress on the surface, breaking 57 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:18,879 through the other side. How could I be so stupid? I lost you, 58 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:28,519 chipping away and my old habits today. Thought I needed help on away. 59 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:38,360 I let us astray, chipping away and my old habits today. Thought 60 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:45,079 I needed open my way. But now I'm okay. We're here to stay. 61 00:07:46,519 --> 00:07:53,120 You never understand me? Is that why we're so angry for messing up 62 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:59,600 so badly? This time? My kids make you happy? We've got it 63 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:07,439 bore something. There's no progress in pretending everything's just fine. Kids turn back 64 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:16,600 time. There's no rewind. Can't feelings have to face them to find feeling. 65 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,439 If we draw them nine, we may just fine. We'll be all 66 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:26,480 right? Is it on us stop to speaking songs. You're holding your breath 67 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:37,879 saying that is enough. Come home, dang o bread very nice, very 68 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,440 nice. We've got the guys from House Lights here with us in studio, 69 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,720 if you're just joining us, and that is called speaking tongues. Yep. 70 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,279 That was the second single I can single yep off the new album. Very 71 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,639 good, very good, Thank you. Yeah. So so the album comes 72 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:54,200 out is it September one? Very good? Yeah, just some time for 73 00:08:54,279 --> 00:08:58,519 Labor Day. You can spend your weekend jamming it wherever you're traveling. How 74 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:03,200 many how many tracks? Eleven? Eleven? Very good And we actually had 75 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:07,720 fourteen that we could have recorded and we uh so we have some potential material 76 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:09,759 for the future, but a few that just didn't quite make the cut. 77 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:13,840 Okay, Well what goes into that? What goes into that decision? Yeah, 78 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,919 you know, it really depends on a couple different things. So first 79 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,720 we want to pick, obviously the ones that we think are our strongest, 80 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:24,159 and then you know, you kind of look at like the flow of the 81 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,279 album and what you think is going to make sense. Yeah, you know, 82 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,480 because we'll we'll try to blend up a mix of different genres. We'll 83 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,559 have songs that are more like pop punk, and then we'll have ones that 84 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,559 are more metal, you know, almost hardcore. So it's finally the right 85 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,200 balance between everything. You don't want to skew too much to one side, 86 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,399 at least we don't want to. We want to like kind of show all 87 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,200 the different influences that we've had throughout our lives. Yeah, yeah, and 88 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,279 you guys have so you guys have performed music together for a long time. 89 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,240 Right, So did you have other actual bands before house Lights or yeah, 90 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:03,759 we were in Our first band was called Horns become Halos. Oh yeah, 91 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,320 yeah, yeah, I remember Sam. I remember you mentioning that name before 92 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,360 and I was like, oh, that's a cool name. Uh. And 93 00:10:09,399 --> 00:10:13,879 then yeah, after that, that band kind of turned into house Lights over 94 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,480 time. We had released house Lights has released an EP it's already on streaming 95 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,919 called Stages. We released that back in twenty fourteen, and that was kind 96 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,240 of like a concept album on how to deal with grief, like kind of 97 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,879 the five Stages of grief or death if you've ever heard of that before. 98 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,080 So you know, that was a kind of a new thing for us doing 99 00:10:35,159 --> 00:10:37,600 a concept album. This isn't a concept album, so much, but kind 100 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:41,519 of all the songs are linked in the sense that they're all kind of an 101 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,200 expiration and kind of like human emotion. I'm surely the same top more to 102 00:10:45,279 --> 00:10:46,200 that, right, Yeah, I mean, well, you know when we 103 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:48,200 talked back in April, when I was in the hear of the you know, 104 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,879 promoting all this forward and stuff. But this album, you know, 105 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,679 not necessarily a concept album, but it's all you know, the lyrics are 106 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:01,360 all related to personal experiences that I've I've had have every day that I have 107 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,159 memories of that I've gone through, you know, So it's it's kind of 108 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,960 a concept album for my my inner psyche. I guess you could say, 109 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,600 you know, just me processing all the different things going on in life and 110 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:18,240 trying to find a way to you know, kind of you know, put 111 00:11:18,279 --> 00:11:20,200 it, put a spin on them, hopeful spin or or just you know, 112 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,480 come to terms with things and try to move on in any way that 113 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:26,279 I can. And like Matt said, I mean, music is one of 114 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:31,759 the ways that we know how to communicate best, you know, and it's 115 00:11:31,799 --> 00:11:35,919 a music is a universal language. I love that music can mean different things 116 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,720 to different people. Yeah, you know, you can listen to you know, 117 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:41,159 twenty people listen to song and every one of them can find a different 118 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,039 meaning. And that's that's amazing to me, so very very happy that we 119 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,759 could get to do that every day. And Matt, you write the music, 120 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:52,639 is that? Yeah, I write the majority of the music. So 121 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:54,679 I'll generally start with guitar and the way I kind of do it, you 122 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:58,320 know, honestly, sometimes I'll just open up I'll go to my computer, 123 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:01,159 I'll open up logic, you know, plug my guitar, and I'll I'll 124 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,879 start recording and then play. So I won't even like jam first. I'll 125 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,799 you know, I'll just start practicing, see what comes out, and if 126 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,399 anything sticks, have already got you know, a demo track at least recorded, 127 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,759 and then I can do it a little bit better, you know, 128 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,639 and tweaking, you know, touch it up to how I want it to 129 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,279 sound. And I think, like especially the same and I worked so well 130 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,200 because I think the music as I write it, you know, full song, 131 00:12:24,399 --> 00:12:28,240 I may have like kind of a sadder you know sounding verse or you 132 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,960 know, maybe uplifting chorus, but towards the end of our bridges, we 133 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,519 kind of have like there's a conclusion sound to it kind of like a finite 134 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,080 like kind of purpose. And I think Sam likes really good lyrics that kind 135 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,799 of compliments that. Yeah, no, that makes sense. Now have you 136 00:12:45,919 --> 00:12:48,919 guys played Do you guys ever play out acoustic just the two of you, 137 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,480 like like you did here today or was that a yeah, that was pretty 138 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,960 much the personal Oh that's cool. We uh, you know, we'll get 139 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,399 We used to play around and horns became halos. I think two was our 140 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,120 last show. Yeah, and neither of us have played live. It's been 141 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:07,519 a bit not original music, you know. I've done a couple of little 142 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,080 things here and there. Yeah, but nothing nothing for house lights yet. 143 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,039 Okay, So okay, we've been we've been working on getting the full band 144 00:13:15,159 --> 00:13:18,200 together. We finally have a second guitarists, so we've been good charging ahead, 145 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:22,039 you know, practicing, learning the songs, trying to find a space 146 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,799 to practice. Oh yeah, so that's always tough, but you know, 147 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,200 we're we're on the lookout for a practice space so we can all get together 148 00:13:30,279 --> 00:13:33,519 and you know, hopefully my my original target was you know, maybe end 149 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,559 of the Fall may be ready, so we'll see. We'll still try to 150 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,399 try to hit that goal. But uh, you know, definitely be be 151 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,480 ready. As soon as we're ready, we'll be getting shows going. So 152 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,360 yeah, yeah, totally like a non conventional way to kind of build a 153 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:52,519 band or you know, start something where I just recorded a bunch of songs 154 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:54,679 first, then we did the vocals, and then we said, hey, 155 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:58,159 let's just you know, actually record these. Let's get a mixed. We 156 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:03,840 found this great mixer on the sound Better website, which is a website you 157 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:07,600 can go to. Finally, mixers, producers, et cetera. He's out 158 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:13,240 of Argentina, which was awesome. So we got to work with someone really 159 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,840 cool. They mixed and mastered the album for us, and then you know, 160 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,240 now we're obviously trying to put together a live show because yeah, there's 161 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:22,759 nothing like playing live. It's it's such a thrill. I love it. 162 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,480 Yeah, when you guys were in the other band, uh Horns become Halos, 163 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:28,320 did you play out a lot? Did you do a lot of shows? 164 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,120 We played a decent amount. Yeah, we played it like and a 165 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,080 lot of these places don't exist anymore, which is ahead, But the Sad 166 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,120 Cafe, Rocos Ground Zero played all those places a couple other places too. 167 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:45,000 Did any of that material make it into this band or is this all no? 168 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:50,080 Yeah, so funny you ask us. You know, so we one 169 00:14:50,159 --> 00:14:54,960 of the reasons why horns become halos ended is we uh we had an opportunity. 170 00:14:54,559 --> 00:14:58,679 Uh I don't. I mean maybe twenty ten, nine, two ten, 171 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,840 somewhere on there. We had an opportunity to go record with a studio 172 00:15:01,879 --> 00:15:05,960 in Florida. You know, a person that was previously in a pretty well 173 00:15:07,039 --> 00:15:09,600 known band that left to start their own studio gave us an opportunity. I'm 174 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,879 not gonna say names because I don't want to any bed blood or anything. 175 00:15:13,559 --> 00:15:16,320 Uh. You know, it was a confluence of us being young and hungry 176 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:22,759 and not really understanding how things work and not having our own stuff together because 177 00:15:22,759 --> 00:15:24,679 we were in no way ready. So we went down to Florida for a 178 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,720 couple of weeks, you know, tried to record an album, had some 179 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,799 studio arguments, uh you know really yeah, oh yeah, there was a 180 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,879 lot of stuff we hadn't figured out. Yeah, we were a young band. 181 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,039 I mean most of us were twenty one nineteen. You know, Bobby 182 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:46,000 and Adam are a little bit younger than we are, and uh so we 183 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,120 didn't really know what we were doing. Ye and each of us had an 184 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:52,320 idea of how we thought it should go. We didn't iron it out, 185 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,840 and so we got the studio and then the result is we we had a 186 00:15:54,879 --> 00:15:58,840 failed album, essentially, we yea. We ended up with a bunch of 187 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:03,120 late, half mixed songs and a ton of them weren't finished. More than 188 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,360 half of that album. We recorded a whole album down there, but less 189 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:08,960 than half of it we released, you know, because we just weren't happy 190 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,759 with the end product. Yeah, but we learned a lot from it too, 191 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:15,480 so that's yeah, we kind of, you know, decided to start 192 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:18,559 doing things ourself, and you know, I kind of trained myself to be 193 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:22,879 proficient in you know, recording everything myself and and mixing a little bit at 194 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,399 least to the point where you know, I get the point across and then 195 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:29,960 we send it a professional. Yeah. So we so we end up taking 196 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,000 three songs from our previous stuff. One of them was more around when we 197 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,600 first started house Lights. But there's two songs that were on supposed to be 198 00:16:38,679 --> 00:16:42,639 on that Horns become Halo's album, the second one that we have pulled for 199 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,120 this one, and there's definitely more tracks that we're gonna go back and revisit, 200 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,960 yeah, you know, maybe revamp them a little bit, modernize them 201 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,200 a little bit more. But hopefully for the you know, whatever's next is 202 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,200 definitely more material to come from that project. So is any of the Horns 203 00:16:56,279 --> 00:17:00,279 become Halo's stuff online or is that you know it? Actually it's not in 204 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,680 any streaming services. We were just talking about that the other day. Should 205 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,079 we release it because you know, looking back at your old stuff sometimes you 206 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,759 cringe a little bit, but there's some there's definitely some good stuff there, 207 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:14,960 so we might release it, yeah, and just probably release it under the 208 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,400 house Light's name. Yeah, I mean you can find it now if you 209 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,319 search Horns became Males on YouTube, no kidding. Yeah, there's there's at 210 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,400 least most of that first album. There's stuff out there which was a much 211 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,119 more kind of alternative rock sound, okay, a little bit more experimental, 212 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,519 you know, not as polished by any means, and uh, you know 213 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:37,519 you'll hear me do some screaming on that. That's the first time I ever 214 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,599 jumped into screaming, kidding. So yeah, it's cool to go back and 215 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,599 see, you know, to see how far you've you've come and where you've 216 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,160 been and in the moment, you know, we definitely had different ideas of 217 00:17:49,279 --> 00:17:52,160 what the music was. Yeah, but looking back at it, like, 218 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:56,319 well, I used to be pretty like I used to be pretty embarrassed because 219 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,640 my expectation for what I wanted to be was not what we were achieving. 220 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:03,400 But you know, you go looking back at that stuff, it's pretty solid, 221 00:18:03,559 --> 00:18:07,079 Like some of that still holds up for me, and like I'm I'm 222 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,559 definitely no longer like oh yeah, don't listen to that. Push it off 223 00:18:10,599 --> 00:18:11,400 in the court, like I'm like, no, this is this is what 224 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:14,960 we did. Like, yeah, I'm proud of all of that music that 225 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,200 we made. Yeah. Yeah, How did that opportunity come up? When 226 00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:22,799 where you you went to Florida to record with Yeah, I mean we had 227 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:30,160 released a full length album with someone local here at Project two Studios, This 228 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:33,680 guy Connor had who we've been friends with for forever, you know, he 229 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,039 makes the master that album for us, and then, uh, we were 230 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:40,640 looking to do a second album and we got an opportunity to work with, 231 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:42,400 you know, a guitarists from a band that we all kind of liked, 232 00:18:44,279 --> 00:18:45,640 you know. Unfortunately, thing it's just didn't really work out well. But 233 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:48,359 yeah, you know, you live and you learn. Yeah. Yeah, 234 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,799 Now what about the other guys who were in the band with you at that 235 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,680 time? Yeah, two of them are are you know, still with us. 236 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,160 So we've got Adam Adams the drummer, and he is amazing. He's 237 00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:08,880 a professional drummer. You know, he's practically every night he's off doing a 238 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,880 different gig for uh, you know, he's playing at Wallies. I think 239 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,960 he played at Yeah, he played, he played at Walli's he played, 240 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,440 He's played at Fenway. He played a House of Blues with Andy Brobs. 241 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:23,000 Some people might have seen him. So he drums for Live Good. He's 242 00:19:23,039 --> 00:19:27,000 got a lot of other acts that he plays out with down in the you 243 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:32,119 know, Massachusetts area. He started to branch up to New Hampshire a bit 244 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,000 more, which is good. And he's got like five or six different projects 245 00:19:36,079 --> 00:19:40,079 that he is either in or you know, plays out with or does studio 246 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,160 work with. Yeah, so he's he's pretty incredible. Oh wow, yeah, 247 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,160 excellent. And then we've got Bobby who was the guitarist back in Hornsbycome 248 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,279 Halos and uh he now does all the harsh, screaming vocals in these new 249 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:56,839 songs. He's also in his own project called Hotel Graffiti shout out. These 250 00:19:56,839 --> 00:20:00,960 guys are awesome. That's a cool name. Yeah. And then then we 251 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:06,200 just added our new friend Josh Noonan, who is going to be our second 252 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,599 guitarist. So we're pretty stoked. He's been really jumping in, working very 253 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,799 hard to learn the songs, so he had a lot of ideas, a 254 00:20:11,839 --> 00:20:15,880 lot of feedback for us. Yeah, so we're we're excited man to bring 255 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,319 it all together. Excellent, excellent. Uh, let's see, we've got 256 00:20:18,559 --> 00:20:22,400 a couple of questions in the chat room. Jay fed Uh, one of 257 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,480 our friends from Vermont, says, have you ever thought about increasing the lengths 258 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,240 of your beards? Yeah, you guys are well, you guys have a 259 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,039 little bit longer beards than me. I keep mind very trim. I don't 260 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:36,400 even like having facial hair, to be honest with you, but I look 261 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,400 better with it. But so you guys have a little more length than me. 262 00:20:38,519 --> 00:20:41,680 But you guys don't have the you know, like bearding is a big 263 00:20:41,799 --> 00:20:45,440 thing now where you got the people with the big beards. You guys everything 264 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,440 about having big beards. I mean this is about as big as I usually 265 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,960 let it get. Yeah, I don't. I don't like to manage it, 266 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,160 honestly. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit of the same. So 267 00:20:56,319 --> 00:21:02,240 my wife hates my beard. Oh really? Oh yeah, for the record, 268 00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:04,200 I know everyone else does, that's the thing, but she just she 269 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:07,480 does not like it, no matter what people say, She's like, no, 270 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:11,359 no beard. Yeah. I have let it get longer than it is 271 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,839 now before. Yeah, you know, this is this is the longest I've 272 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,319 had one, for sure. It's been a little over a year. Yeah, 273 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,839 but I'm actually like managing it now and taking care of it, so 274 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,000 yeah, it probably not much longer than this either. Yeah. Yeah. 275 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,519 He was the baby face before this. Yeah, back when we were doing 276 00:21:29,559 --> 00:21:33,920 all the other stuff. Yeah. J Fed also asked, uh if you've 277 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,960 ever considered uh oh as a band, do you ever consider the potential benefits 278 00:21:40,319 --> 00:21:45,160 from cold bathing that might have come up before the ice bath guy. Yeah, 279 00:21:45,839 --> 00:21:49,640 yeah, maybe we'll have to. It'll be a social media thing we 280 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,680 can do. Well, we'll jump in an ice bathroom. I can't tried 281 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,880 it. Yeah yeah, yeah, well we'll set that's what we'll do. 282 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,960 We can that can be one of our milestone challenges. We'll come up something 283 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,720 and you know, if we hit hit a certain mouthstone, we'll all jump 284 00:22:00,759 --> 00:22:04,519 in a nice challenge or yeah, some people, some people swear by it. 285 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:10,240 He says. The health benefits are remarkable. It wouldn't be for me, 286 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,160 you know, the hypothermia and things like that. Melanie law Liberty from 287 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,960 the Great State of Vermont says, I'm picking blackberries as I listen, and 288 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:22,519 I want Matt to know I am sometimes waist high and shrubs and reaching into 289 00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:27,359 bushes up to my shoulder. Can you visualize the spiders and ticks lurking? 290 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:32,200 Matt? Yes, I can, and that's horrifying. I don't. I 291 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,160 don't go into the woods myself. I'm like the least outdoorsy human you'll ever 292 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:41,160 meet. I wish I could just like teleport from one concrete structure to another. 293 00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:45,119 You know, there's yeah, there's there's ticks, there's uh bugs, 294 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:51,000 there's yeah, yeah, there's the Blair witch. There's all kinds of things 295 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,160 that can get you. Yeah, bigfoot, Yeah, I mean probably not 296 00:22:53,319 --> 00:22:59,200 real, but who knows. And Jay Feed is very excited that you're open 297 00:22:59,279 --> 00:23:04,400 to the uh uh i spath and he also says, ah, the beer 298 00:23:04,519 --> 00:23:08,839 and coyotes. Yeah, coyotes. Yeah, you know, and then sometimes 299 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:15,079 they're roaming around in a city. Yeah, very very scary. Now, 300 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,200 what's what's going on with Sam with Always Forward? Do you have some uh, 301 00:23:19,279 --> 00:23:22,839 I know, you've got well this swarmy fest you're you're involved in that. 302 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,480 Oh you're not involved in this one. Yeah, so they're they're for 303 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:32,079 a brief moment, they were you know, we were in conversation. Yeah, 304 00:23:32,079 --> 00:23:33,960 they have uh, you know, they've got things handled. Oh, 305 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,799 okay, they're they're all set there. Uh yeah, I don't want to 306 00:23:37,839 --> 00:23:41,039 take too much from from House Lights. Yeah, just real quick. Yeah, 307 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:45,400 so Always Forward, you know, I'll be kind of transitioning with how 308 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,519 I utilize my business. I have signed on with Don't Blink Music Group as 309 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,039 an assistant booking agent really, which is very exciting for me. I've been 310 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,000 talking with one of the owners, Colin you know, for quite a while, 311 00:23:56,839 --> 00:24:00,279 you know, and and he and I aligned very closely on our you 312 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,400 know style around booking shows and promoting and that kind of stuff. And uh, 313 00:24:03,519 --> 00:24:07,359 you know this kind of really they are doing a lot of things that 314 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,440 I want to, you know, was looking to grow Always Forward into cool. 315 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,680 So I've got a really good opportunity to kind of do that, you 316 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,759 know, eliminate a lot of the red tape and the uphill battle. Good 317 00:24:18,799 --> 00:24:21,599 for you, congratulation, thank you. Yeah, and I'm very excited to 318 00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:23,359 be able to get the experience, you know, and learn from people to 319 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,279 have been doing it for a while because it's it's tough. Yeah, I'm 320 00:24:27,319 --> 00:24:30,200 not gonna lie, you know, it's coming coming into it cold and trying 321 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,680 to figure things out on the fly. It was a great experience. I'm 322 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,680 very thankful for the connections I've made and and they're going to continue. You 323 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,599 know, any bands that worked with Always Forward, you know, you'll have 324 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,640 an opportunity to work with Don't Blink as well Excellent. So and does that 325 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:48,799 mean so, is that the end of Always Forward is so? So, 326 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,680 I'm just gonna be transitioning into uh, you know, different avenue, whether 327 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:57,200 it be more of marketing, promotions, more of networking as a resource for 328 00:24:57,319 --> 00:25:02,160 bands to utilize, you know, still working on figuring that part out. 329 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:07,000 Yeah. Yeah, I'm definitely not the end of always Excellent. Excellent, 330 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,920 Always Forward is me. It's my mentality, it's how my brand of how 331 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,640 I work and try to promote bands and grow scene. Yeah. So yeah, 332 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,039 we're just getting started. Yeah, excellent, excellent, Well, let's 333 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,920 do this. I'd like to play. Let's play the first single, Love 334 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,960 and Understanding. I'd love to give give this a listen, and then we'll 335 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,880 come back and chat some more. But for people who haven't heard it, 336 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:33,559 this guy, and when did this come come out? This was a July. 337 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,160 Yeah, we're in there, right, because I think when you were 338 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,119 on the show the first time, this hadn't come out yet, and I 339 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,720 think this was this was the first place, Uh, it was heard publicly. 340 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,680 But yeah, this is a great song, and sometimes I'll just play 341 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,960 it. Uh, all right, let's give this a listen and then we'll 342 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,880 come back and talk some more with these guys. This is Love and Understanding. 343 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,759 This was the first single from the band house Lights. Check this out. 344 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:30,200 Where close I know a struggling to day. Everything deals out of place. 345 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:38,039 It's so easy to forget to struggle that so many facets. You're not 346 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:51,799 alone's battle, you're fighting, You're not alone. I side you still fighting, 347 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:30,240 stiffer, comfort, myself, saturation, fiery flower, all what they 348 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:41,000 say, Yeah, off a right roun through round love. This association turned 349 00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:53,000 pain into motivation. In spite of my creation my hands reaching out above you, 350 00:27:55,039 --> 00:28:07,440 above you love speaking out he love you. I love you my very 351 00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:37,359 day Ray said, get to look down right gay time my race. So 352 00:28:38,519 --> 00:29:23,519 I don't know other this Ral is cat very qui si albody has tall. 353 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,759 But we have joining us here today in studio the members of the band House 354 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,880 Lights. We've got Sam at the news desk and Matt with one Tea is 355 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,000 on the couch. The reason that's so interesting to me is when I was 356 00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:48,920 a kid, people would always ask me, because my name's Matt obviously, 357 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,240 and they would say, is that with one T or two? And I 358 00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:52,880 would always say two, And I'd be thinking, I wouldn't say it out 359 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,839 loud, because I'm unfailingly polite, but I would be thinking, who spells 360 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,279 it with one tea? You'd never see it with one tea? Uh. 361 00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:04,359 And then I think it was maybe ten years ago I started seeing examples of 362 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:07,599 Matt with one T. I never saw that when I was a kid, 363 00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:11,359 but it started to become a thing. Yeah. Well, and I guess 364 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:15,680 you know the reason my mom the I'm named Matthew with one T is because 365 00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:18,839 my mom wanted people that call me Matthew. Yeah, I guess that was 366 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,200 a reasoning, And I guess I'm named after Matthew of on Green and of 367 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:26,359 Green Gables, which okay, I've never even seen it, but I'm named 368 00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:30,640 after that person. Oh but uh yeah, So the idea was, you 369 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,599 know, call me Matthew, not matt obviously as time goes on and people 370 00:30:34,839 --> 00:30:37,920 always call you matt usually if your name is Matthew. So you know, 371 00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:42,559 my family generally calls me Matthew, but everyone else calls me matt Yeah. 372 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:48,160 Yeah, it's uh so I assume Matthew is with one t yes, yeah, 373 00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:51,880 yeah, no, that makes sense because well it's funny too because even 374 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,400 when I was a kid, I would see Matthew with one tea sometimes, 375 00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:56,640 but then but then it would always be matt would always be with two teas. 376 00:30:56,799 --> 00:31:00,240 Totally. Yeah. These guys playing acoust song earlier for us, and 377 00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:04,759 we just listened to Love and Understanding, which is the first single from house 378 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:10,519 Lights from the upcoming album September one. It's Outpember one. What it means 379 00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:14,440 to feel Yes, yes, looking forward to that. We have a question 380 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:18,680 in the chat room. Sonia Laramie uh says, as someone you know that's 381 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:23,119 my wife, Well, your wife has a question, Matt Love the sound. 382 00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:29,519 Which bands have influenced the sound of your upcoming album? I wonder I 383 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,119 think she knows, but everyone else, Yeah, so definitely. I mean 384 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:38,559 the first like growing up, I mean, my mom had great musical tastes, 385 00:31:38,599 --> 00:31:42,480 so like she would listen to Atlantis, Morrisette, led Zeppelin, all 386 00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:48,839 these sort of classic rock bands and everything Stevie Nicks like great singers, great 387 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,920 music. So that was kind of the first music I listened to. And 388 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,559 then the first music that really inspired me to play guitar was Lincoln Park. 389 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,519 Actually, like when I remember, I was like thirteen years old when I 390 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:04,680 heard One Step Closer in the radio and that streaming part that was like shut 391 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:07,160 up when I'm talking to you, like obviously, like the angsty thirteen year 392 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:12,200 old in me was like, yeah, that's cool. I want to make 393 00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:15,680 music like that and like express myself that way. So yeah, like Lincoln 394 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,000 Party, a lot of new metal, and then pop punk, so like 395 00:32:17,039 --> 00:32:23,200 Blink when at two uh def tones brand new from like the kind of like 396 00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:29,000 the emo like seeing the style, so you know, all those sorts of 397 00:32:29,039 --> 00:32:31,680 bands that like you would kind of hear on like any anyone that would play 398 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,920 that Warped tour. Basically it was like my style music that I listened to. 399 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,480 Yeah, yeah, what about you, Sam, I mean, you 400 00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:40,200 know, and again that's why it kind of with the recently works so altogether 401 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,240 as Matt and I do have a lot of the same musical influences. You 402 00:32:44,359 --> 00:32:46,319 know. Definitely, Alexis on Fire has been a huge one for us. 403 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,720 You know, they're one of those bands that melds a lot of you know, 404 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,039 very harsh, aggressive sound, but also they can do the most beautiful 405 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:59,839 you know ballady just you know, they got chimes and stuff in their music 406 00:33:00,039 --> 00:33:04,119 and like they can take it right down and just you know, bathe you 407 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,359 in amazing sound, just something so tender and gentle. So they're a huge 408 00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:13,480 inspiration for me. You know, bands like Tool Uh you know, I 409 00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:15,559 used to I used to be in another metal band, so you know, 410 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,759 all the all the kind of you know bands back the day, Eventual seven 411 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:22,559 Fold, that kind of stuff. You know. Uh, Yellow Card is 412 00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:27,039 a huge, huge one for me, like one that I listened to quite 413 00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:30,920 a bit Thursday Thursday. Again it's another huge one. That's where we got 414 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,599 our name from is uh so they they yeah, they have like a live 415 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:40,640 album called kill the House Lights and so and and and they're also coincidentally, 416 00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:44,880 there is one of our One of the songs on the album is also a 417 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,400 title or the name of a Thursday album, Full Collapse. It's the last 418 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:57,119 song on the album. Oh okay, so loosely inspired just kind of coincidentally 419 00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:00,880 fell into place. Yeah, yeah, definitely big odd to Thursday. They're 420 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,240 they're amazing. I got to see them for the first time last year. 421 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,680 You know, they've been They've been playing music forever. I was gonna say, 422 00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:08,639 yeah, they've been around a while. They they sounded amazing. Yeah, 423 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,519 I was. I was blown away. They sounded really good. So, 424 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,360 by the way, I'm Miriam banished in the chat room. She really 425 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,400 likes that song, Loving Understanding, She said, she enjoyed it. Thank 426 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:22,840 you. Can you guys tell me a little bit about the production, I 427 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,119 was commenting off air, the production is really good. It's just, uh, 428 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:30,880 what's your recording process? Yeah, it's it's really you know, I'll 429 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:36,239 the engineering is all took place in my room. Basically, I get I 430 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,199 have like what I call the music room or the office in my house where 431 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,360 you know, I just opened up my computer. I've got some studio Ma 432 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,320 Hunters. I've been an audio interface. I just plug in, I record 433 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,320 direct into logic from my guitars. So, you know, I know a 434 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,960 lot of people like you know, recording like amp, miking up an amp 435 00:34:54,039 --> 00:34:58,440 and getting like dialing a tone that way. But I love the flexibility of 436 00:34:58,559 --> 00:35:01,199 like just recording direct, didn't put and then I can change the tone however 437 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:07,119 I want later on. So that's what I did for this album. I'll 438 00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:10,320 write like placeholder drums because I'm not a drummer. I can you know, 439 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,920 I know how drums should sound. But I know that's the reason why we 440 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,840 have a great drummer is I'll, you know, I'll just write something placeholder 441 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,840 and then I'll send it off to him and be like, you do your 442 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,000 thing on this. That may influence or change what I then do. So 443 00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:28,079 we do all the music first, and then after the the main music has 444 00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:30,000 written and I'll do the guitar and the bass, and then once I get 445 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,559 the drums back, you know, Sam and I will look at it and 446 00:35:32,639 --> 00:35:37,880 explore melodies and and such. It's it's you know, i'd say ninety percent 447 00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:40,920 Sam, but when he comes over to record. We also did the vocals 448 00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:45,519 in my house for this, I'm just using you know, a pretty standard 449 00:35:45,559 --> 00:35:47,800 mic, like a one hundred dollars microphone. And that's why I love about 450 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,039 music these days too, is like you can make something that sounds so good 451 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,960 for so cheap. Yeah, and pretty much anyone can do it. Yeah, 452 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,559 he'll come over and we'll work on melodies, we'll explore different ideas and 453 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,760 you know, record it down there. And like I said, we sent 454 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,920 it off to to this guy and Argentina that did a great job mixing it 455 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,639 altogether. Yeah. We we had talked last time Sam about that that website 456 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,239 what what is it call the a Soundbetter dot Com? Yeah, yeah, 457 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:16,880 I hadn't even heard of it, and I thought, wow, what a 458 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,880 great uh, what a great concept. Yeah, it's it's pretty amazing that 459 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:23,840 you know that we live in an era where you can do you know, 460 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,559 you can to place older drums and then you send it to the drummer and 461 00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:30,960 then the drummer. Yeah yeah, I mean it's it's just it's really incredible. 462 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,599 Yeah, and then it's it's just, uh, it sounds really good. 463 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,599 Uh. Is the whole album recorded with that same process? Or yeah? 464 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:43,239 Yeah? Absolutely? Yeah, and now and again until what Sam was 465 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,239 saying later earlier. We we did a bunch of other songs too as well, 466 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,920 So we've got stuff, you know, sitting in the pipeline that's ready 467 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,719 to go, because I think that's one thing, you know, we've definitely 468 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,119 realized about the music industry is that most people aren't releasing footfall length albums or 469 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,000 that's not how they're getting their start. So it's a bit unorthodox. You 470 00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:05,239 know. Obviously we've been releasing singles and that's kind of been helping. But 471 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,320 we have stuff planned for after this too as well, So we're gonna continue 472 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:12,119 releasing music. And you know that's kind of how you slowly but steadily build 473 00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:15,199 a fan base. Oh yeah, yeah, you know, we live in 474 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:16,960 an era when you've got so many different options as far as how you want 475 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:22,639 to do that. And Chris h is in the chat room from the band 476 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:30,239 edgewise, he says, offending drummers daily. Yeah, it's funny. I 477 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,559 mean, you guys probably never imagined how could you like when you were in 478 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,320 in the other band and you go to Florida with that horrible recording experience. 479 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,719 It probably didn't occur to you. Now someday we'll just be able to do 480 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:45,719 this ourselves right well, and you know again not you know, not fully 481 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,119 doing ourselves, you know, but bringing in the right people. Well, 482 00:37:47,199 --> 00:37:52,159 yeah, building building a good enough foundation to get to that point, because 483 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,840 you know, if you just have a bunch of sound doesn't mean you're ready 484 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,719 for an album, right right. That's the thing with Matt is that I've 485 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,719 always tied into his music because he finds a way to it's not just a 486 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,920 guitar riff. It's not just everything that he writes has a feeling behind it 487 00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:13,800 that resonates with me very emotionally, and like I'll listen to twenty seconds of 488 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,760 something he's played and I'll immediately have melodies in my head. I'll immediately have 489 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,400 like an idea for the theme of the song. Okay, you know, 490 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,280 based off of that emotion. Yeah, so you know, keep a good 491 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:27,880 thing going. Yeah. Yeah, And uh, Matt, can you tell 492 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,400 me about that guitar. That guitar sounds really good. Yeah. It's it's 493 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:36,000 a brand named Orange Would. They're online only, they're out of Los Angeles. 494 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:42,079 Yeah, It's it's a Mahogany would And it sounds great, you know. 495 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,760 They I definitely took a chance on it because they only sell online, 496 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,519 so I didn't have a chance to try one beforehand. Yeah, but you 497 00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:52,480 know, it was highly reviewed. I watched some YouTube reviews of it and 498 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:53,840 sounded great there, so I figured out, give it a shot, and 499 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,320 yeah, I love it. Yeah, yeah, excellent, No, it 500 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,840 sounds really good. And oh, Sam, we had two last time you 501 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,360 were here about vocals and you were what what was it? You said you 502 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:12,679 were learning how to how to do the the yelley and the growling. Yeah, 503 00:39:12,679 --> 00:39:15,760 I was getting getting my screams back essentially. Yeah, I had done, 504 00:39:16,119 --> 00:39:20,440 you know, sort of developed screaming on my own back and horns become 505 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,960 halos. You know. I ended up being kind of like the primary person 506 00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:29,239 doing that towards the end of our you know band when we were playing. 507 00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:35,559 But I hadn't done it at all in the twelve years that we ten really 508 00:39:35,599 --> 00:39:37,199 ten ish years that we had been broken up before we started working on the 509 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:42,760 new project. Yea, and this was an opportunity. So I started working 510 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,159 with a vocal clean vocal instructor last year and then evolved into also working with 511 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:52,280 a extreme vocal coach this year because I I want to be as versatile as 512 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:57,119 I can you know, the more vocalists we can have. It is kind 513 00:39:57,159 --> 00:40:00,400 of my ideal band is is, you know, three or four different singers 514 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,440 would be great to have all the harmonies, to be able to do as 515 00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:07,000 much as stuff live possible as we can. Obviously, we do put a 516 00:40:07,039 --> 00:40:09,159 lot of production into the songs. We like a lot of harmonies and you 517 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:14,480 know, kind of backing vocals. Yeah, but it's been cool to see 518 00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:19,960 that a lot of the stuff I've worked with my amazing extream vocal coach Kyle 519 00:40:20,039 --> 00:40:22,719 Farr's in band Late nine shout Out. Dude's amazing. He just guests spotted 520 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:27,840 for Emotionless and White this past weekend. I don't know him Guilford, Oh 521 00:40:28,039 --> 00:40:30,719 dude, he was amazing. He killed it. But working with him a 522 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,440 lot of the stuff I've learned as far as like mouth and throat positioning and 523 00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:38,440 like the way that the muscles interact is also helped my clean vocals. Really, 524 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,559 I feel like like my falsetto, my high notes are way more crisp 525 00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:46,320 and easy to get to based on like you know, kind of breaking down 526 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:52,760 what's going on in the vocal tract. So they've both been amazing. Katie 527 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,920 galls my clean vocal instructors the New Market shout out to her as well. 528 00:40:55,679 --> 00:41:00,280 I wouldn't be where I am without both of them, you know, the 529 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,639 best that I've ever been, and I'm only you know, trying to get 530 00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:07,239 better, you know, so we're not messing around with this stuff. Where 531 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,159 ready to go? Yeah? Yeah? So you continue to go to both 532 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:14,599 vocal coaches? Yes, wow, yep, So I go to them regularly. 533 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,440 Yeah, you know, to just keep keep me honest, you know, 534 00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:21,239 keep me on my game, you know, trying new things. You 535 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,039 know, Hey, I heard this the other day. I mean extreme vocals 536 00:41:24,079 --> 00:41:30,400 in particular right now, are are just it's a vic quickly emerging landscape. 537 00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:34,639 You know. There's a new new thing called the chortal that has been invented, 538 00:41:35,199 --> 00:41:37,360 you know, in screaming, and there's there's a lot of different avenues 539 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,800 and styles you can go down and sounds that can be made. Yea. 540 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,199 You know, it's really uh, you know, people are experimenting very heavily 541 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,599 in it right now. Yeah, it's really cool to see. Did you 542 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:57,280 ever before you saw an extreme vocal coach, did you ever like hurt yourself 543 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:02,280 doing that? Didn't hurt myself? Know, maybe luckily that I didn't, 544 00:42:04,199 --> 00:42:07,039 you know, just I I heard the sounds and one of the ways that 545 00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:09,519 I had always learned, you know, kind of taught myself how to saying 546 00:42:09,679 --> 00:42:14,920 was just by hearing other people's voices and trying to mimic those sounds, and 547 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,280 that was my my first experience, so you know, just kind of went 548 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,679 for it day at band practice. It's funny, there's this band, this 549 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:29,039 kind of like post rock metal band called Giant that I cannot find their music. 550 00:42:29,119 --> 00:42:31,960 If you have any Matt, you need to. It's like there was 551 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,079 a brief time when we first started practicing, when we were younger that they 552 00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:37,920 were like we would listen to them at practice and stuff. I feel like 553 00:42:38,599 --> 00:42:42,480 them. They were one of the first bands that I I emulated. The 554 00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:45,719 screams too, yeah, because it's you know, kind of long drawn out 555 00:42:45,599 --> 00:42:49,039 that you could just one note at a time and you could really, you 556 00:42:49,119 --> 00:42:51,960 know, get a sense of the feel. And so that's kind of how 557 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,119 I learned and evolved when I was younger. And it was definitely a more 558 00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:00,440 kind of raw, you know, mixed vocal sound where they're was a little 559 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,039 bit of my voice behind it that I didn't even know what I was doing. 560 00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:06,519 So, you know, one of the things I've worked on with Kyle 561 00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:09,119 is kind of walking that back, learning the fundamentals, but then rebuilding, 562 00:43:09,199 --> 00:43:13,159 bringing that voice back in to try to get you know, somewhat of that 563 00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,239 sound again. Yeah. You know, so the voice can do amazing things. 564 00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:21,239 Yeah, it's pretty wild once you start breaking it down and you'd see 565 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,199 how everything works together. Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of how 566 00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:27,960 I came by it. I just started doing it, yeah, because I 567 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,239 remember we talked to before about how one of the things that's really important if 568 00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,880 you're going to do that is just learning how to do it safely so you 569 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,239 don't hurt yourself, because some people do. Yeah, we've seen so many 570 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:43,400 great streamers lose the ability to do it over time. You know. Uh, 571 00:43:43,559 --> 00:43:46,599 Chino from Deft Tones and all has, you know, lost his voice 572 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:51,880 and then went through you know, revocal coaching and you know built it back 573 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,920 up. So yeah, it's it's difficult to do properly, yeah, because 574 00:43:54,960 --> 00:44:00,800 it's not considering. I think there's kind of like, you know, a 575 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,079 little bit of taboo to it, you know, because it's it's it's not 576 00:44:04,199 --> 00:44:06,880 conventional. A lot of people don't do it. A lot of people don't 577 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:14,000 know how to how to properly scream yeah, yeah exactly. Now. Uh, 578 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,519 the so the new album, So that's that's coming out September first, 579 00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:22,719 and then do you guys do you guys have any kind of a timetable as 580 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:27,679 because you mentioned that you've already got more songs sort of ready to go. 581 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,679 I mean, are you gonna do you have a long term plan as far 582 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:35,400 as how it, uh you space it out. I think it's important to 583 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,239 like find the right spacing where you don't want to, you know, lose 584 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,920 your audience and you want to you know, keep a study momentum going. 585 00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:43,360 Yeah. So you know, I've kind of always looked at as like, 586 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:49,760 I think we the speed at which we can produce music is pretty quick nowadays 587 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,760 with with all the technology and everything, and so I you know, I 588 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:57,079 my goal would be to maybe release a single every month or so, you 589 00:44:57,159 --> 00:44:59,960 know, even after the album comes out. I think it's easily doable, 590 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,159 whether that be you know, things we can experiment with two you know, 591 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,880 one one month, it might be a cover, it might be an original 592 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,719 song something like that. Yeah, do you guys do any do you guys 593 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:14,679 know, any covers they you've played together. We haven't done anything officially. 594 00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:19,440 We actually just start working on potentially a cover that we might be you know, 595 00:45:19,559 --> 00:45:22,960 releasing later on. Yeah, I think we want to try to find 596 00:45:22,039 --> 00:45:28,760 like the right the right song to cover. It's you know, whether that 597 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,400 be something that is brand new, recent in a totally different genre that we 598 00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:35,880 want to put you know, our spin our style onto, or take something 599 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,920 that's you know, a much older song from some like maybe Kiss or The 600 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:43,639 Who or Aerosmith or something, you know, some classic rock band and and 601 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,360 put a modern, you know spin on it too. Yeah. Yeah, 602 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:50,800 very cool, very cool. Now, what's the So you guys don't have 603 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,840 any you don't have any shows coming up right because you're still kind of putting 604 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:57,559 the band together. But you said, uh, Sam, I think you 605 00:45:57,599 --> 00:46:00,360 said, well, like end of fall, you're I would I would like 606 00:46:00,519 --> 00:46:02,480 to be playing shows by end to fall, and that's all. I mean, 607 00:46:02,679 --> 00:46:06,599 that's a very loose timetable. Yeah, you know, you know how 608 00:46:06,679 --> 00:46:10,639 hard it is to wrangle band members absolutely together. So you know, we're 609 00:46:10,679 --> 00:46:14,199 going to be doing as as much as we can to try to you know, 610 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,960 get ready in time for that. But you know, we'll see if 611 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,760 we get there. Uh, we want to do it right too, you 612 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,320 know, like we don't want to go out there and you know, you 613 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:28,000 know, be a colossal failure. Like we want to make sure that we 614 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,280 we're really tight and we give the audience what they deserve. Yeah, we're 615 00:46:30,639 --> 00:46:34,440 not looking to you know, jump on and do any like you know, 616 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:39,599 twelve minute sets and that's all we got right twenty just talking. We want 617 00:46:39,599 --> 00:46:43,119 to we want to come ready with a good you know, at least twenty 618 00:46:43,159 --> 00:46:46,880 five thirty minute set that we can play start to finish. That's gonna give 619 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,880 people, uh, the experience of the album, you know, that's it's 620 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,760 intended to be heard and played. Obviously will be some variation for for live 621 00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,320 shows, but yeah, you know, we want to be able to back 622 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,159 up the production that we have and the quality of the music. So Adam 623 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:08,679 Boss in the chat, Dam that's not our drummer. We know him, 624 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:13,440 Okay, we all way back. He says that you have always been one 625 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,679 of the most talented musicians he's ever met. I appreciate that very nice. 626 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,440 I love you, Adam, although he did spell it with two teas, 627 00:47:20,599 --> 00:47:22,480 so maybe he means me. No, he definitely, No, he definitely 628 00:47:22,519 --> 00:47:25,840 doesn't. He definitely doesn't mean me, No, he means you. Yeah, 629 00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:30,280 no, very nice. So he's but he's someone you've worked with or 630 00:47:30,119 --> 00:47:34,000 yeah, he's he's a guitarist as well. I think okay, he might 631 00:47:34,079 --> 00:47:37,440 have briefly been in Hornse Become Haloes for a few moments. Oh yeah, 632 00:47:37,519 --> 00:47:42,079 we had a couple of lineup changes. But yeah, yeah, and we 633 00:47:42,159 --> 00:47:45,079 went to high school together. So oh, very nice, very nice. 634 00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,679 Is he in a band currently? I don't think so okay, okay, 635 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,320 very good. Now where should before we run out of time and I do 636 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,719 want to, we'll end the show with I'm gonna play No Longer Myself Again? 637 00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:02,239 Uh, the the newest single. But where should people go online? 638 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,679 What should they know about to keep up with everything you guys are doing. 639 00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:08,199 Yeah, there's a bunch of places, I mean, check us out on 640 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,360 all the normal socials. So we've got a Facebook page, Facebook, dot 641 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,719 com, slash Houselights, we got TikTok account, we've got Instagram. Pretty 642 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,119 much everything is at House Slights. We try to, you know, cover 643 00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,719 our bases there and get that name. But you can also go to our 644 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:30,039 link tree, which is link tree it's tr dot e slash house Lights and 645 00:48:30,159 --> 00:48:34,079 that links you to all of our other websites. We've got merchant two. 646 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,880 We just got shirts made too, so actually, if you want to help 647 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,719 support the band, feel free to buy a shirt and then buy a stick 648 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:44,400 or two and yeah, absolutely that will help us out a lot will be 649 00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,159 You will be streaming in all platforms you know, Spotify, Apple Music, 650 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,880 band Camp, SoundCloud, Yeah, you know, whatever, any other one 651 00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,480 name. There's a million. There's some I have no idea what they are. 652 00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:59,440 Thank you both so much, Sam and Matt from house Lights. This 653 00:48:59,519 --> 00:49:00,400 has been one her fault