Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again,
Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n
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links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Thursday,
June fifteen, twenty twenty three, so nice to have you all with
me. And just a little bit, I believe our friend EASYG is going
to be calling in with his weekly entertainment report. Unfortunately we don't have Dank
Sinatra here again this week to participate in that, because I feel that they
really kind of elevated you know what. I think they pushed EASYG to do
even better. I think they helped him to they inspired him, if you
will, to up his game. So we'll see, we'll see how this
week goes when he calls in our friend EASYG with his weekly entertainment report and
then coming up in the second hour. Our musical guests today Andrew North and
the Rangers, although I believe us specifically just Andrew North is coming in solo
and he's gonna bring in his keyboard and he's going to perform live for us
on the show, and we will talk. Of course, really looking forward
to that. I've been hearing a lot and seeing a lot on social media
about Andrew North and the Rangers, so that should be that should be really
really cool. By the way, we do have a musical guest stuff for
tomorrow as well, an international guest. I believe they are from Germany if
I remember correctly, Hell's Throne. We'll be skyping in tomorrow on the program.
So lots going on, lots to do, always, lots to talk
about. If you'd like to get in with a quick call before EASYG calls
us, the studio line is open six ZO three two five six seven six
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of course you can interact end Opine in the Facebook Live chat. But oh,
I believe our friend EASYG is already on the line. Easy is that
you? Yeah, I'll to wait a few minutes. Woods, What do
you mean? What? Well? He said, a quick phone call before
I call in. Somebody wants to call in up. Wait just a few
minutes. They're gonna have to wait a few minutes. How are you,
sir? Do you feel? How was it? How was it last week
during your entertainment report with the guys from Dank Sinatra here? Did they did
they help? Do you feel they helped you elevate your game? Oh?
Yeah, definitely. I think it just could have heard him better. But
right I hear people are sitting in the Uh yeah, I can hear you.
Fine, but some reason it was anyways, I need to hear him.
I can hear them. One musycrophone was down. I don't know,
at a hard time hearing what he was saying. Uh huh uh huh.
And yet you feel that they helped you elevate your game? Oh yeah,
why not? I've noticed you've it's great. You have music on almost every
day now, it's great. Yes, I noticed you've adopted a mischievous laugh
recently. There. It is great, though, you know, it's great.
You have musical artists, you know something skype in or come in or
call on the phone, and that's great. Yeah, Jenny does all the
booking and she does a fantastic job. And uh yeah, you know we
used to, uh prior to prior to twenty twenty three, we kind of
had musical guests, you know, two or three times a month, and
now it's more like two or three times a week, and it's it's great.
I'm enjoying it tremendously. Yeah, it's a great way they get there,
they get their music out there in this in this or yes, actually
I think this week it's four or four times this week, which is even
better. Great. I love it. I love it. It's you know,
as much as I love talking about politics, and I do, I
am a political junkie, but there's something sort of music and talking about music
or any creative endeavor, it's almost like a palate cleanser, you know.
It It rejuvenates me. Yes, yes, because as much as I love
politics and I do find it exhilarating, it can also be frustrating, and
it can be demoralizing, and you know, it can be a lot of
negative things. Too, so you take the good with the bad. But
so so it's good. It's a good balance. Well definitely, yes,
yeah, a family like politics. This is your show, that's right.
And if you like Easy G's entertainment report, am I right? True?
I guess you're right? I yes, not, Well, shall we get
to it? I can go ahead and hit your music. Yeah, might
as well have my guess coming on forty five minutes, so we'll try to
we'll try to get out of here before then. I would, I would
imagine, so okay, he was once that thought. I'm around the way,
easy You want to know about stock market crashes COVID nineteen, drive buys,
celebrity gossip. EASYGS got you entertainment reports stuff wowes think nothing but a
jeep bank baby back, Let's find out pretty, Let's go by the way.
Easy g. Our friend is is a banks from Greensboro, North Carolina.
Just said in the chat room, EASYG. Holy smokes, which is
ironic. Well work coincidental really, because the song you requested this week for
the end of your segment is April Cushman's song smoke Right the uh it's funny
A second week in a row. I couldn't hear the music in the background.
I don't know why. I don't know either. Maybe you need to
listen to and they were doing the if you heard the show this morning when
they're doing the report there from Robert Dion. He one of the person in
the audience there in the in the yeah, the audience in the room there
the radio room said April cushy, and right, I used to call her
April cushy. Yes, I remember you also used to call her April cushion.
It took you a while to learn her actual name for some reason.
I don't know why, but uh huh, Well, anyways, you had
a mental block, went yes, I must have. Yes, Hey,
we're gonna dedicate to show a couple of ladies there est there or Bianca Belair
and Rare Ripley and the old blady God versus old China. Uh huh.
And what you said, right, Bianca and Rare Ripley is a lot better
than China bulls. Oh, definitely no disrespect to China. I ran on
the gossip on the on the yeah, on the internet that she's going to
start wrestling some some men and then what trying it used to do? Oh,
yeah, I hope that's not true. I don't want to see that.
I don't like intergendern wrestling, you know as we do. But anyways,
I let to give it a quick shout out to I ever do this,
But m j F and Adam Cole what any performance last night? Thirty
minutes show on a match on on TV the resually never said that, never
had that many minutes on a on a TV wrestling show. I need to
find that match and watch it with Jenny MJF versus Adam Cole. I very
much want to see that was real w you guy, of course, and
it has been around lately because I could see been injured. Yes, but
the gimmick was if he won last night, he would get a title shot
against m JF. So it since he'll ended in a draw and calls it
five more minutes that they want to give it to him n Ja Rain on
the door thirty minutes. Yeah, no, I need to see that.
Absolutely need to see it, definitely. I recommend anybody that can watch it.
Anyways, and of course that my question is impossible to have too much
wrestling on television. Ah, well, that's up to the out of a
Collisidence on TNT eight to ten, and of course it's it is. It
is promoted as the c. Himpunk Show. Yes, that dummy in a
while. Uh oh, I like se him punk. I mean, I
don't agree with what he did during that that press conference there that of course
not media scrum. But one thing that the guy in their wrestling show on
ten minutes highlights of always good to bad and ugly and he's one of the
his MGF slapping a pan we okay, taking his slim in his head,
his hat off. But I think it was just a plan, you know,
make him look like a bad guy. By the way, Now,
Melanie Liberty from the Great State of Vermont has a question in the Facebook lap
chat, because you know she loves the wrestling talk. She's she's very into
it. She says, why the dislike of intergender wrestling? Um, I
do not like any kind of a situation where you might have a where you
have a man uh doing wrestling moves or any kind of striking or any kind
of violence at all on a woman. I do not like to see that.
I don't like that now, um and I'm agree, I'm okay with
Occasionally they'll have an intergender tag team match where it's right because as long as
there's no male on female violence. But I don't like to ever see circumstance
any even even the potential of even the teasing of male on female VI Ellen's
absolutely is uh. It turns me off. I don't like to see that.
You think m j f slapping the hat off was it was a plant
for one of those fans make him look like a bad guy. Oh?
Probably, I don't know. I haven't seen it. Melanie also says through
coffee is somebody's face. I don't like that one. That's not right when
you spend somebody's face, I don't like that. Right. That's all.
We're boored, Melanie says, expressing why she loves wrestling. She says,
yum yum, oiled up dudes and spandex trying to cuddle each other. That
isn't exactly what happens, but you know, when you have a wrest hold
like you have, like somebody has the other guy in a headlock or something
that could look like coddlin I suppose, yeah, I didn't. I didn't
see it because when they showed it on Wrestling Live, this guys show one
Internet he said m j MP was worrying on some you know those things you
wear around your you know when your rest is says Vince was right because we
do that promo last week he's saying, Adam cole vincing, you know,
it couldn't be the name with a company. What he's shooting out to the
old wwe Mmmm, Well, like I said, I think you signed a
long term contra. He's not going anywhere, right, But it's good wrestling
talk though, you know, talking about Vinci Man. Yes, yes,
publicity. Don't they say a publicity is good publicity? Well, not that
that gets overstated at times, but basically yes, true. But that guy
Breshaw, if you wrote a book about that? He wrote a book and
I did read it. Yes, Controversy Creates Cash by Eric Bischoff, right
was pretty good? Yeah, pretty good? Uh, pretty good reading.
Huh Oh, Melanie is uh, Melanie is asking is MJF. Is that
Michael J. Fox? Uh? No, no, no, no,
no no. Do you know what MJFF stands for? Easyg Let's test your
knowledge. What does MJF stand for? And don't look at the chat.
I don't think the same thing. We can stay on the radio probably right,
of course we can. It's Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, I think it's his real name, right, what what I
think? So? What did you think it? Man? Something naughty?
I was thinking. I was thinking something you couldn't think on the radio.
But I guess you're right, You're you're right this time? Yes, yes,
oh boy, all right, we'll go on to the rest of the
fun stuff right now, right now. Oh yeah. Man is doing a
lot of gigs and Tennessee, but we don't don't talk about that. She's
real busy, which is great. But she is working on a new album
and it's gonna be coming out in the future. I don't know what day
that is. I working on new songs and yeah, so uh wow,
that's some big news. So she has a new album that's going to be
coming out in the future. Well, she don't really say when. I'm
just saying this sounds good. You're bringing the exclusives today. Yeah, and
of course we played the last week You're finding on all platforms new music from
Katie Dalmas called when Seasons Changed, Yeah, and he said, um,
more songs to come in the few Sure you let's say when doesn't say when,
So more songs in the future. Once again, you are breaking news.
This is why and this is why we depend on your Yeah. Oh
this one I already went by, so I want to talk about that.
Good Okay, very good. Yes, move along, Yes, that was
in the past. I'm gonna play at June twenty first, at four o'clock
at the Best of Lakes Region the celebration in Guildford. It's called the Gunstock,
my owned resort. So I think if I'm gonna advertise these events,
it's important that people going to the right place. Yeah, I think Guildford
is like we're in Guildford. Is that people might say that on the child
line, but where the heck is that? So you're saying playing at the
You're you're saying in your entertainment report, you like to include the place,
the actual place, because before I just mentioned the city is like, right,
the city isn't so Dune twenty eighth and says o'clock took us, so
we're able to the door ten to fifteen dollars called song run around up with
Jack Terry or and of course the Great Ali Bowdreys merrimentis at the herman Wards
rhinery. Now, Scott Robinson said, now, I think he meant the
previous announcement, but I'm not sure which one someone'll go with that one.
Scott says that announcement should get the air horns. Oh that was not the
right one announcement. I need a different air horn. All right, there
we go. Anyways, you can be playing. I don't hear it for
some reason. I don't hear the background noise. I don't know why,
but I don't know. He pats free sception. Yes, as whom they
You've played it and the next month, in a couple of weeks, he's
here playing July eighth, one, one thirty pm at Alvern House Vineyard in
Brookline. It's a free event and it's wide music and it's called a summer
series. Should be playing other dates. Who who's playing that summer? Who's
playing that? Katie Katie Dobbins, O, Katie Dobbins, that's who we're
talking about. If you announced another show. But the it's way in the
future, so we want way in the future. What is your what are
your parameters? Easygy? How far in the future are you willing to go?
Uh? It's actually the fall time right after you know that if you
follow the pet White morning starts after his birthday, right, So anything after
Peter's birthday you will not be announcing in your entertainment report. I think it's
birthday is the eighteenth, and I think I'm right about that. I might
be wrong. Do you think it's the eighteenth of one? Isnt September?
I support that way. Eighteenth of September is Peter White's birthday? Is what
you're saying, right? Or wrap it up with April? Of Coursemen,
you got a new song. We can play it next week, I believe,
And it's on every platform. It's called more than This Truck, more
Than This a couple of seconds of it. Well, she's a country artist,
right, so we can play it next week because it's coming out in
the twenty third. Oh will that be a world radio premiere? I have
no idea. Probably let's assume it is. But yeah, well, what
you get to say it is? I guess Yeah, it's good to a
super one. Here he goes. He was telling everybody in May that she's
kind of more music in the future, So I guess the future has arrived.
Apparently the future will be next week. Very exciting, right, in
the year ago in the springtime to release on all platforms a song called Smoke
Smoke wasn't got in a Bear a few minutes. Yes, that's how we
will end. There's a busy time. Comments, you've got more gigs.
I'd like to say this name in more gigs. Well, and then we'll
we'll put it in in the summertime. Right, So you're not going to
be telling us those today. Is that because they're in the future. Now,
they're in the summertime, so it won't be good. Yeah, you
released a lot of gigs, but they don't have so they're not time or
place. So they hold off by announcing those. So they're there later in
the summer. But they're not technically in the future, is what you're saying.
Well, they're kind of in the future, I guess kind of future.
It depends on how literally do you want to take the word future.
There's so many different ways you could take that word. Yeah, yeah,
it's a good word future. Yeah. Anyways, she's back at four o'clock
in the Golden and Manchester in the patio and it's Mondays and June twenty six
and third. Who were we talking about April? Yes, and she's going
to be playing on August Eight's called the jelly Roll Tour, the Jelly Roll
Backyard Baptism. It's going to be Ellie King and Struggled Jennings on a hazy
little States Bank of pavilion. People won't know what it is, Hampster Pavilion.
It's a good, good venue, seven PM show and productum is at
four thirty indoors or at six. But I don't have any ticket information right
now, so it's to be announced. Why is it? Why is that
it called the jelly Roll Tour? Is that the only thing that's available at
concession? No idea? Yeah, how to give us some name? I
mean, I would hope Backyard Baptism. I would hope that there would at
least be maybe some beverages to wash down the jelly rolls, I would assume.
So, yeah, I hope. So, I hope you're telling on
some local shows right here in town. Huh? Who shows June seventeen a
free show once again? Backyard Brewery in kitchen right here in Manchester at six
o'clock? Do they have jelly rolls? Is he's flying right down the street.
In June twenty second, the three restaurant. They definitely they definitely have
jelly rolls. This was going on in Manchester. Can play a crease called
the Libry at seven o'clock and sun up in that June thirtieth. In the
free flows they used to don't forget to tippy of waitresses and waiters and throw
a couple of dollars into donation. Jarry. What they have now? You
can probably go on line now because not a lot of people carry you know,
five ten bucks on him, right, I never carry on their on
their assigned you know, you can go to a certain website and you can
throw him a few bucks for their uh for they're singing. Uh, throw
him a few bucks for their singing. Yeah, and why not? Yeah,
they're there to uh make make some money. Yeah, it's all about
right and to sing. Melanie wants to know what fla favor of jelly roll
or I'm sorry, what flavor of jelly do they use for the jelly rolls
on the I really have no idea. Well I should look into that.
Please if you could contact their tour manager and he or she should be able
to tell you. Yea on this announced these two shows only because their tickets
are on sale right now. Yes, and this one here is on ninety
old Turnpike Road in Manson and Joe Nichols is the opening act. And you
get ticket information. Yeah, four ticket element at range Manson dot com in
a general emission is forty eight dollars bus shipping a handley, or you can
pay fifty five dolls to day to show, or if you really want to
go out there, and um, I guess some VIP seats over the skybox.
I five hundred dollars for four tickets. I s expect you must have
a wait racon waiter come by. Maybe as a special food. Yeah,
it was probably a jelly roll that price strawberry hopefully, according to Melanie,
she hopes it's are at six and shows at seven. One time I sat
in the VIP section when I got tickets to the Celtics game. Yes,
you told us about that, You said one. I think that the name
of the place. But the owner of the place gave me oh yeah,
beat Sullivan, Jayson, Yeah, it was there. It was a place
where you make a hair supplies. Oh b CB Sullivan. Yeah. The
owner gave me is for tickets and I had VIP tickets. Cracking and underneath
we had waitress and waiters come to our table, and that was just great.
You get up and go to the concession stands. Great. You told
us it was the best day of your life. I remember you saying that
one of them. Yeah, no, you said it was the best stall.
Ended with this show September twenty fourth. Tickets Are we going on Indian
rants dot com? Of course, it's events in Indian Ranson is a two
hundred gore road building on number one Webster Mass. We have and gate through
eleven shows at noon, Zach Brown Tribute Band, Trailer Trash Guard, Alide
and Bros. And of course April Qushman. Now we have a very important
question for you in the chat room, Erica, and this is from our
friend Scott Robinson, who I dare say my very well, I'd be your
biggest fan. And but this time it is not about it. It is
not about the hulkster. Uh. This time Scott is asking Eric, do
you know if they make orange marmalade roles? Asking for a friend. I
don't know. I don't know that question. I don't I don't have any
answer for it. Unfortunately, all right, I was hoping you could answer
and I was gonna give you all forgot last time. I don't want to
pick out this time. Yes, Like like the folks on my one of
my favorite shows on on ESPN two, I believe is part of the interruption,
and they always say at the end of the show, try to do
better than next time. Yes, and that's your contract. Well, you
can do, right, try to do better the next time you come into
your shoulder today you say, Wow, I like to do better than I
did than. Yeah, I'll try to do better the next time. We
all sit in your head. Right, maybe I could do a different show
a different way. I can. I can. I can speak for all
of us, EASYG when I say, we all hope for that, right,
all right, anyone, I'll clearly here look more than my song of
the week. All right, Easy G? Thank you? All right,
bye bye? All right, that's our friend, EASYG. What you should
have known by now. Easy dos with his entertainment report, and per his
request, we'll play a little music he likes to. Uh. He always
requests a song to end his report. I'm gonna play this. Uh.
This is Smoke by the Great April Cushman. This is the acoustic version,
so check this out. She does have an incredible voice, very very talented.
We got to get her on the show. I feel like we've been
talking to easy g about her for years now. We gotta get her on.
But yes, here it is, and then we'll be back with more.
Matt Connerton unleash, don't go away, but check this out. April
Cushman with smoke? Are you long smile to me? Do you light your
tongue in flight? Little green? You walk around on the shelves pretending that
you're someone else, your free we want when you're looking the marriage see smoke
or the girl nobody knows? I think you got it all together, but
you don't see all truth? And where's you searing back at you hears a
secret? Long bodys, it's all so feel like you have to use that
field like you loosh yourself in this world just lah area, stuck somewhere in
between who you are and what they see play on its seem when you work
in the urduy small all the girl nobody knows. I think you've got it
again, but you don't. Do you see like all true? And when
you sit back, you gets a secret. It's all I came telling myself
over again, the on you see what you get when you're looking there?
Do you see smoke? Or the girl nobody knows? Thinking Godi all together
but you don't true you And here's a see and here's a secrette nobody.
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Thursday, June fifteen, twenty twenty three. Coming up in the second hour,
we have Andrew North of Andrew North and the Rangers. He's gonna be
live in studio with us and he's bringing in his keyboard. He's gonna play
some songs. It's gonna be really cool and of course we will talk and
get to know him. Looking forward to that. And in the meantime,
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great choice. They're easyg for a song Smoke by April Kushman. I
think we've played that on the show before. That is really good and she's
got just an incredible voice. Let's do this. Let's say hello to everybody
in the Facebook live chat quickly. Oh I should remind you too, because
it is Thursday. Tonight is Trivia Night at the Hop not hosted by Broderick
Lang, and that starts at seven BM I believe seven pm. But if
you are going to participate, just make sure you call ahead and make a
reservation with Kenny because those spots do fill up very very quickly. Isaac Banks
is in the Facebook live chat and says, good afternoon, Danny man Chester.
How are you doing? However, hope keep in touch with Terry Harris.
Yes, we make a lot of connections on the Facebook live chat.
Jenny is in the chat room, of course, and says, shalom,
peeps. Let's see. Isaac Banks says, Jen Coffee. That is so
great here in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was raining here and stop raining.
Hashtag Jenny Coffee and Matt Connerton. Today is Sue Rose birthday. That
is my friend. She's from Greensboro, North Carolina. Well what a surprise.
Well, happy birthday, Sue row Payne train pipe bomb our friend Ricky
lit Winkowich is in the Facebook live chat and says, what's up, good
people, what's up? Ricky jay Fed of course from the great state of
Vermont, joins us sense his good afternoon everyone. Let's see Melanie La Liberty,
of course we mentioned, is in there. Let's see who else have
we got. I want to make sure we don't miss anybody. Scott rob
and I mentioned is in there. Isaac Banks says, my brother Mike Banks
likes wrestling and there was some wrestling talk in there. Let's see. Oh,
and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live chat.
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tomorrow night, Friday is my favorite day. It's my long day here at
WMNH, and I do love it so because I get to do this show,
and then of course there's immediately after me is granted State of mindos to
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for eight to eleven PM for retro Spectrum Radio with Police along with DJ Steve
and of course Mike from Queen City Cabinetry. And this week on the show,
the theme, because always a theme is original demo versions of popular songs
and I love that kind of stuff, so I'll be geeking out on that
getting to hear the original demo versions of these, uh of these tunes and
you kind of hear hear how they started and so forth. So that will
be uh, that will be a lot of fun. Um. Something Jenny
sent me something that she thought might be appropriate for Pride Month. It is
Pride month and we do support that here of course, in fact, DJ
Reckless, who I think is going to try to come in tomorrow because he
was on the news the other day and it's pretty cool. But we'll we'll
save that clip for tomorrow's show because he wanted to be there for that.
But Channel nine did a quick uh he was asked about his feelings about the
Trump indictment and so forth. But um, but you know, he's Djane
for Manchester Pride and of course the hop Knot does a lot for h or
Queen City Pride, and the hop Knot does a lot for that too,
of course. But um, I wanted to I'll here this audio. It's
it's only a few minutes. But let me just for contexts, I'll tell
you what this is from. So the person in this clip is named Jackie
Goldberg, and it says here in the description of the video, LA Unified
School District President Jackie Goldberg and openly gay lesbian who has lived with her partner
in Echo Park since nineteen sixty seven, denounces protesters, including someone who burned
a teacher's rainbow flag. Who better to lead the district's way, as outsiders
have pilgrimaged to North Hollywood's Sataquoi Elementary School, if I'm saying that correctly,
to complain, among other things, about the Great Book of Families, which
Goldberg notes has one sentence about families who have two mommies or two daddies.
Yeah, you know, book banning is a big thing now, which just
is incredible to me in the year twenty twenty three. I remember when I
was a kid, like I remember seeing stories in the eighties on television about
banning books, and here we are, all these decades later, and we're
banning books. But the reason I'm gonna play this clip, and you know,
it really struck Jenny when she watched it, and it really struck me
too. I thought it was very powerful. So the name of this clip
is, and this is her speaking at at a public meeting, the name
of the clip is, how dare you make them afraid? Because you are?
And I'm not gonna say anything more about it. I'm gonna play it
again. It's about four minutes. She does at one point get pretty animated.
So if that freaks you out here in a person passionate and animated about
a subject that they're speaking on, then this might not be for you.
Just for warning, and that's another way of saying she does raise her voice,
but she gets pretty passionate here, but rightfully so in my opinion.
So I'm gonna share this. I'm gonna share this with you now and again.
This is from and by the way, the reason part of why this
is relevant is not only because do I think the way she speaks here is
very powerful, but also we're talking about the school district where you know,
there was it was in the news the other day. They're actually a fistfight
broke out because you know, you've got people showing up very angry and hateful
about well, people who are different from them, and apparently they want to
make sure our schools are not doing anything to uh, you know, teach
our kids that you know, some people are different than you and that's okay.
Apparently it's you know, it's very important to some people that children are
taught that, no, you have to be afraid of people who are different
than you are. For whatever reason, I felt like we were making a
lot of progress in this country, but I feel like we're backsliding. Yeah.
Mike and Queen City Mike and the Chatman. Mike from Queens City Cabinetry
says, book banning, burning bras. It's all a quick road to hell.
Yeah, it's it's just incredible that this is where we are in the
year twenty twenty three. But this is where we are, and all right,
I've enough. Here's uh, this is Jackie Oldberg did the entire book.
It had one sentence. Families can also be two parents that are mothers
and two parents that are fathers. They were told the parents at that school.
Hey, I'm sorry the audio and this is lower than I thought.
So I'm gonna start that. We're not far in, but I just want
to make sure we get the whole thing, So I'm gonna start from the
beginning. It kind of catches her in mid sentence, but she's holding up
a book that was banned at the school. She's holding up a book about
having to I forgot the title having two mommies and you know, oh,
you know again to some people, that's very scary. But oh, Melanie
says in the chat room, that's right. Ellinois just passed a law against
book banning. Yeah, that's good, that's good. I'm proud to have
spent a good chunk of my childhood in the great state of Illinois. All
right, here we go. I'm starting this over from the beginning. I'm
sorry, and I appreciate your patients, but it's worth it, and you're
the entire book. It had one sentence. Families can also be two parents
that are mothers and two parents that are fathers. They were told the parents
at that school that if it was very difficult for their children to be in
that room, that they didn't have to be in the room. They announced
the assembly told all the parents, this is a problem for you. We
get it. You know. I've been confronting this issue my entire life.
I have been threatened, I've been harassed. I've been denied jobs because of
who I am and who I love. Now, a lot of people out
there I talk to outside satokite. Oh I have a gay cousin, I
have a gay nephew. I can't be b S. B S. You
can be homophobic and have a gay friend, a gay neighbor, a gay
son, a gay anything. Talked. All the gay kids that get thrown
out of their houses and onto the streets by parents who say I won't have
you in my house any longer and tell me that having a gay relative means
that you're not homophobic. But here's what really scares me. When you have
two or three days of this kind of chaos, of people screaming at the
top of their lungs outside a school that read a book with one sentence in
it that said, yeah, guess what families can include? Two moms and
two dads. By the way, at the little discussion at the school after
that, as soon as the book was over, one of the little girls
sitting at my knees said, I have two mommies, But a little boy
on my other side said, I have five grandmas. The idea that there
are different kinds of families, the people screaming out of the streets, they
didn't get a chance to find out about that because they made a decision based
on hearsay. They made a decision based on agitators, not from their community,
but from outside their community, who saw an opportunity to take advantage of
the real fears of people. I want to be very, very very clear.
Nobody has to accept me. I'm not looking for your acceptance, but
you better treat me the same way you treat everybody else. That's how we
live in this country. You don't have to love me You don't have to
like me. You can think on the devil incarnate, but you better treat
me like a decent human being, because that's how I treat you, even
though you don't believe that I have the right to exist. I am very
tired of having young people and adults in the lgbt HE community. Here are
three days of yelling and screaming about this. What do you think that did
to them? What do you think that did to every gay teacher, every
gay custodian, every gay worker in this city, every gay kid. What
do you think that did to them? It made them afraid? It made
them afraid? How dare you make them afraid because you are. I'm sorry.
I told you this was personal. I went through with this. My
son was harassed because he had two mommies, But my grandchildren aren't. That's
progress. But I say to all of you, nobody in this district will
ever ever sexualize any kid for any reason, in any classroom, in any
way, shape or form. And those of you who believe that this might
happen are allowed to read the curriculum materials, are invited into the assemblies with
your children, are invited not to have your children go to the assemblies.
I do not believe in forcing a parent to have a child attend assembly that
they feel would be violating their values. That's fine with me. We don't
all have to agree. In fact, none of us all agree. Well
that's it. That's the clip. How dare you make them afraid? Because
you are. I really have nothing to add because it would be impossible for
me to say it any better than that, or to sum it up any
better than that. So good on her again. Her name is Jackie Goldberg
and I'm a fan. We're gonna wrap up this segment though, because I
saw a musician looking person in the hallway, so I think our guest is
here, So we're gonna take a break. We'll play a little something from
I found a song. This is from a studio album of There's Andrew North
and the Rangers called Phosphor Essence Snack and uh. Let's listen to this and
uh, and we'll show some more love to our sponsors. And then when
we come back for the second hour, Andrew North is going to be with
us live in studio. This is gonna be cool. Looking forward to this.
But in the meantime, check this out. Oh the song is called
Chicken in the Backyard from the album Phosphorescent Snack from Andrew North and the and
the Rangers. All right, talk at you on the other side. I
can't sleep my backs number. He's at a county cheat. I shouldn't the
dollar every day? A thousand happy lines, nothing else to say, a
photo Jenny feast, But I'm bowing a finger in the feet of me.
Swah, whoa gott a chicken in the back down? Whoa? Who?
WHOA? Got a chicken in the back down? Who? Who? Whoa
got a chicken in the back down? Who? Whoa shot? It's that
the presson couple. But you can't be beat the packages in the plot bringing
every doughor for a country mind you please your boy your bait, and then
you throw your back and can you catch your breaking? Who? WHOA gott
a chicken in the backyard? Who gotta chicken in the backyard? Got chicken
in the backyard? Who asters the snack? Don't worry where you go when
you're coming back? A grand a dollar a day sends also kicking out that
winn square that chin so bright? All of the Sigy're gonna be all right?
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Welcome back here, everybody. We are in our number two numerow doos of
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in folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Thursday June fifteen,
two thousand twenty three, and we have some musicians here in the studio.
We've got three members the founding members of Andrew North and the Rangers. So
we've got to Andrew North here at the newsdesk. How are you, I'm
great, good to be here. Yeah, it's good to meet you.
Welcome. And uh we got Chip and Dale on the couch. We've got
and they are the rhythm section of the band. So now Chip you're the
basis Is that correct? That is correct? Yes, I should have known
from the shirt and so Dale you're the drummer obviously yep. And who say,
do you guys all sing or who? Or do you do all the
whale sing? Um? We try to spread leads singing duties around a little
bit. Everybody thinks some harmony parts. I end up doing a good tunk
with the leads singing, but but we all sing. Okay, yeah,
you got you got some love in the Facebook live chat while that uh,
while that last song was on, Miriam Banish was commenting how much she liked
it, and uh, somebody else said they had a chicken in the backyard.
Oh Melanie Lia Liberty from the great state of Vermont. She says,
Hey, I got a chicken in the backyard too, very relatable too,
Yes, yes, yes, So Andrew North and the Rangers is here with
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oz six O seven. Isaac Banks in the chat room says Andrew North,
how are you, chippen Dale? How are you doing? Gentlemen? That's
how they talk in Greensboro, North Carolina. That's where Isaac Banks is from.
Well, I'm doing awesome. It's beautiful here today. It's been a
really nice day. Yes, yes, you know that. When I first
started to become aware of you guys, I had seen um Fredo from Dank
Sinatra. He had. You probably saw this he had. This was a
while ago. He had posted on social media something about he was thinking about
started in a band called Andrew South and the Rangers. I still hope he
does. I think that would be incredible. That would be great, and
you guys could tour together. I know I was gonna say I would love
to be their opening act. Yeah, there you go, There you go.
Where does the name come from? Hey, well that's a long story.
Well we got time Andrew. When when Andrew first met us, he
was doing a solo gig, is just Andrew of the North. Oh yeah,
we were. We were still trying to figure out how to name the
rest of the band. And the first gig we were at at True Brew,
which sadly no longer exists, and conquered and we were Andrew of the
North and Friends or something. And Andrew introduced us to the crowd as and
this is chip and this is Dale. Yeah, some woman out there goes
chipping Dale like the Rescue Rangers. So we're like, oh, we'll be
Andrew of the North and the Rescue Rangers way too long. That eventually got
you know, short to Andrew North and the Rangers. But that's where Rangers
comes from because some women screamed out Rescue Rangers. Oh okay, okay,
that makes sense. Um, you guys got a bunch of live albums.
I mean it seems like, um, I mean you're really are you kind
of really just more focused on being a live band, because it looks like
you've got a lot of live stuff. We're geared towards the live show.
Every every show is different. We improvise a lot, setlist is always different,
and we try to keep you know a lot of new covers entering rotation,
that kind of stuff. And so yeah, our our model is to
share as much of that as broadly as possible. And then the new live
album we have Thanks for the Warning Volume one is sort of a selection of
stuff that we thought was was really noteworthy from the last year. But we
also just we publish everything, so we record shows on our own and put
them up on bandcamp and on archived dot organ things like that, just to
just share it. I don't think there's any benefit in this day and age
to kind of keeping that stuff close. I think it's it's nice to put
out. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. I opened the show today with
Infinity Spinning, which was cool because I usually opened with a long song,
you know, let people get tuned in and whatnot, and yeah, great
stuff. Yeah. That's the challenge actually with this album and promoting this album
is every track on it is like seven or eight minutes long. Yeah.
Yeah to radio shows and they're like, yes, a little long. Yeah,
yeah, we don't we don't mind that here, but we're we're unusual.
Yeah, you got a couple of shorter ones. It looks like the
shortest one on this album is Thing about the Woods. That's only four and
a half minutes. That's a good radio length. But yeah, everything else,
Yeah, you're right, at sucks. We are not known for our
short songs. Yeah, but when you when you play live, does that
kind of vary with these songs because there is some improvisation. I mean,
it is a lot of that just kind of feeling your way through it,
and then yeah, it depends on where things are at on any given night.
We don't buy into the pure jam band model where a song is kind
of go like h to the left and end up at you know, eighteen
minutes or something. But there's there's a lot of a lot of padding built
in where you know, if the vibe on a given night is to take
something and you know, make it a little weird or explore something that we
find while we're in the middle of it, well we'll just jump right into
that and go with it. And um, So that that puts things on
the longer side because I think we all as players really enjoy having that room
to explore, and I think our audience really likes it too. Yeah,
drives Chip crazy, So we like to do that. I appreciate that guy
does it interesting adventure. I mean I I generally like it. I mean,
I love the level of talent in this band. Yeah, it's probably
the best most talented band I've ever played with, oh course, which is
really nice. Cool. So it's a lot of fun playing of these guys.
So so it started so the band, as far as it being a
band, it started with the three of you. But then there's there's other
but you have other musicians who play with you, right, Yeah, we're
six piece, okay, six pieces? So yeah, because I saw a
couple of different pictures and I think, yeah, I think the most reason
why I had seen there were six of you. Okay, So who else
is there who's not here with us? And by the way, I feel
free to make up any crazy stories about why they're not here, because because
we enjoy that, have fun with it. If you want to, it's
up to you. So I think the first the first to bring up is
Rob the Mysterious Stranger O'Brien, who is um a saxophone player by trade,
but he also plays You may have seen pictures of it, this like silver
sci fi looking thing. Yeah, it's called an aerophone, okay. And
it's been a real education for me as to how win synths work. And
so it took us a little while because he would come in and like play
a clarinet sound or something and be like, it kind of sounds like a
clarinet, but not quite. And like when when we were were first exploring
that turf, I was like, I don't know if this is cool or
not. And then it's sort of overtime has become the coolest thing ever because
it's on stage and everyone's like, I have never seen one of those before,
I have no idea what it is. And we don't have a guitarist
in our band, and so we actually have him rip electric guitar solos on
that thing. Wow. Yeah, it's unique. Yeah. There's always one
person at the show who will come up, you know, like either during
a sepreaker at the end and say, what is that thing? Oh I
can imagine? Yeah, yeah, Well that's cool too because it gives you,
i mean, you know, to be able to to really stand out
and have something that nobody else has and nobody else does. I mean,
that's that's awesome. Well, and Rob just keeps getting better and better with
it as far as the sounds he finds and the spots he finds to fit
in where it's he has, you know, just these unbelievable, like weird
synthesizer sounds that are almost like sounds like it's through a bunch of effects pedals,
and oh wow, it's super cool. Yeah, you'll hear it on
on our songs. And now that you've now that we've said erphone, you'll
start to listen and go yeah, oh maybe that's that thing. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, oh that's cool. Yeah you said and you you call
them the mis? Was it the mysterious serious stranger? I have to sounds
like there's a story there. We have a concrete story. You know.
He's sort of ever evolving between uh different uh stage attire that he chooses,
the different times that he does or doesn't show up for a show. Um.
I mean initially when we got started, I think it was more the
fact that he was not able to make practice a lot of the time because
his job took him away. Yeah, and so whenever he showed up,
he was the sort of stranger who kind of just popped in and everything.
Yeah. Yeah. It would usually just roll into a show without practicing at
all, and we would, you know, maybe send him some stuff from
practice, but like here's what we're working on. Yeah, you show up
and just slay at the show. He'd be like, okay, cool,
Like we don't know who that guy came out on stage and I did his
thing with his sci fi toaster. Yeah that's great. And so that,
that, in varying degrees, has continued. And yes, Robbed is like
he's a vibe like sometimes he'll show up dressed like mister Rogers. Sometimes he'll
show up dressed like like, I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up in
like shorts and an open leather jacket with no shirt on underneath. Yeah that
kind of thing. Yeah, Oh that's cool, all right. So there's
Rob and then and then who else? And then Jillian Rourke, who plays
baritone saxophone, and she, like most of us in the band, is
a recovering grown up um who came to us what two years ago now,
just yeah, a little less than two years ago. She met Rob at
a Fourth of July party and she is a pediatric thermatologist. And Rob was
talking about our band and you know, playing music, and she was like,
well, I used to play baritone saxophone a long time ago, and
I'm dying to do something with it. And so Rob brought her to band
practice, and um, she took that opportunity and ran with it like I've
never seen anybody run with anything before, like just fall in personality, fed,
absolutely perfect and just brings the best energy that just it's um. They
contribute so much to what we do, and so it's been amazing to have
her on board. Very cool, yeah, very cool. Um. And
then we have Randy Honeyman, who plays percussion and he's in every band and
Conquered, which is kind of amazing. And we initially we had you know,
a big show at the banking New Hampshire stage and Conquered and we were
looking to sort of pad the sound and you know, so we brought Randy
on for that one gig and he came to a few practices and we're all
like, wow, we all really get along really well, and it's really
nice having this extra layer on the sound. And so he um, you
know, has really quickly gotten up to speed on learning all of the material
and the way that we operate with again, you know, improvising or being
ready to like take a song in a direction you might not have expected it
to go or it has never gone in practice or at a show before.
Yeah, and he's a really good sport about that as well. Yeah yeah.
Um. So we've ended up with this group of six people who are
all very much on the same page. We all get along really well,
we're all willing to work really hard at something um that is a little bit
ridiculous and a lot of fun for us, and Um, I am so
grateful for It's such a cool thing to be a part of. Yeah,
and every every time we get buy in from more people, it blows my
mind a little bit because it started as like my weird little thing, and
then I had you guys in on my weird little thing, and now we're
like a going concern and yeah, it's really cool. Yeah, that's that's
great. So with a band like this and this kind of configuration, if
like like you mentioned, Rob isn't necessarily he can't necessarily make it to every
show. So is that kind of doing the kind of music that you're doing
and with the ability to kind of improvise, does that make it easier to
kind of adapt to situations like that. I've always wondered because you know,
I'm a musician. I've played in a bunch of bands, but I've never
played in anything where you know, you kind of had that flexibility. Maybe
if somebody isn't there, that's okay, you can kind of work around it
and still have it be really good. Is that kind of the situation with
Yeah, we do that all the time. Yeah, being we're eighty percent
original. Yeah, yeah, so doing that we can show up with anything
from a trio to any of the combination and of quads to the full band
and put on a good show. Yeah yeah, Chip and I are the
only people who've played in every at North in the Rangers show. Yeah,
okay, I missed one. Oh really, uh yeah in five years?
Was it was the other guy? Won't let me forget it was the other
guy who does percussion. I forgot. We go, Yeah, there you
go. Yeah, yeah, very cool. What about on the on the
live releases, I assume that's the full full that's everybody on the UM.
Some of those live releases on band camp are but again by nature of publishing
as much as we can, some of those are are different configurations. And
we've had, um, you know, we had a night recently where we
couldn't have either sax player. They weren't available, so we called in.
Uh do you know I'm at the sax. I don't think so. Um
he plays with um super nothing. He's a great sax player. He's going
to be playing the national anthem at the uh oh yeah, the Cats game
coming up soon. I can't remember which one, but okay, I think
the fourth of July weekend. Yeah. Yeah, he's an amazing player,
and he for years he'd come up to be be like, I want to
play a gig with you guys. Sometime I was like, here's your gig,
And so he came like on extremely short notice and played the gig with
us and and killed it. And again, by nature of having a lot
of improvisation, there's a lot of room to just you know, here's where
we're at tonight, here's what we've got, and let's you know, do
do something interesting with it. Yeah. Yeah, it's really a fun place
to be as a musician to have the opportunity to do that. Oh yeah,
yeah, so you guys probably sometimes you'll fill a whole night. I
would imagine, right, like, do you could do like three hours or
something? If yeah, I mean we can, we can do seven hours
seriously. Yeah. Yeah, we got a couple of gigs coming up back
to back where we're gonna do two nights in a row. Yeah, no
repeats, Oh no, kidding. Wow, Wow, that's cool. Yeah
yeah, that's kind of been a goal. I mean, I've been in
bands all over the country and I've never had a band in the what forty
something years that I've been playing that could ever do Yeah, this is a
it's a fun milestone for me. It's yeah, whoa, we'll play two
nights and not repeat. That's very cool. That's very cool. And you
said it's like eight originals. Yeah, yeah, we um, we add
as many covers as we can. Those tend to get second place priority in
practice part because of working on original stuff is really fun. Yeah, so
we we tend to be a little more motivated towards that. And then the
covers were always working on sort of a cover that will visit over the course
of practice until it's where it needs to be to play out. Um,
and so that that like those keep accumulating, but the original stuff tends to
be where we're motivated to move things along faster. So we're always picking up
new songs. What kind of covers do you do all anything? I think
our main like uh influence for covers would be like The Cure and Warren Zevon,
Ben Folds. We're all fans of those types of band. Yeah,
so we also do you know some jazz stuff like you know John Scofield tunes
off of the Go Go, Yeah, things like that, So we try
to cover some good range. I mean that you know, playing Scofield isn't
really going to get you a lot of crowd buy in, but yeah,
I would. I would imagine there's probably something that you do that the crowd
doesn't necessarily even realize that they're covers, right, Yeah, it's nice to
have a few of those, um like you know, and uh, I'm
a big Fishead and we do Wolfman's Brother and like, so for a certain
set of people, they're like, oh, I know that, you know
you Okay, I got it. But like a lot of people are just
like, oh I like that song. Yeah. So you know, sometimes
you're you're visiting like little camps of music fans with the way you choose covers.
Yeah, and then you know, we also have a few that are
like right down the middle, like we do you know, call me Out?
Oh really, you know everybody knows and loves that song to be yeah,
just too whatever. Yeah, we've got a weird alt tune on ours.
I have to know what what song? Oh really? Uh, it's
almost a two for one cover because you get that's true, that's true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have we have Andrew North and the Rangers
here with us in studio. Again, if you if you have anything for
the band, any questions or anything six zo three two five six seven six
ZO three two five six seven. But we can play another another song?
Should we do something from Thanks for the Warning Volume one? This is the
newest one, right, the newest album? Yeah? Absolutely? Um what
should uh? I'll let you pick. But I'm kind of curious to hear
something where Okay, so rob's what's the name of the instrument again? It's
an aerophone. Is there a particular song where the aerophone really stands out?
Because now I want to hear something where it's prominent and I can listen for
it. Yeah. Uh, I see a song called epiphone, but I
don't see one called aerophone. Yeah, very straight up saxophone type song.
Yeah. I Want to Be a Ranger is real long, but that has
a lot of synthy stuff from the aerophone on it. Yeah. Uh yeah,
we have time, we can play that one. Cool. Yeah,
well all right, let's let's do that, all right. So this is
I Want to Be a Ranger. This is from Andrew North and the Rangers.
The album is called Oh by the way, why is it? Why
is it called Thanks for the Warning Volume one? We're still figuring that out.
The thanks a reference to um we got a wonderful rite up from Matt
Whitthouse at the Hippo Yeah for the studio album we did, and he likened
it too. It was like Frank Zappa meets Chicago Transit Authority slash something else.
What was the third one? Do you remember? Yeah? But anyways,
those two are enough to give you the gist of like what he mentioned.
And we're like, oh, that's amazing, Like we're really proud of
that. We made a Facebook post, you know, with that quote pulled
out and like the first comment immediately with somebody who's like, thanks for the
warring Oh really. I was like I could see that. That's funny.
But we'll run. We'll run with that stuff. Yeah yeah, so bring
it on. Yeah, stuck with us? Yeah yeah, that's cool.
All right. Here it is this is uh, this tracts called I want
to be a Ranger. M This one's true. Seriously, it's true.
I know you guys believe me. I'm not sure Kyle believes me. That's
okay. We still love Kyle. It's a good guy. I want to
be arranger, draw the forest in my truck, then poaches out of love.
I want to be arranger. I'm blazing skates in ms che I had
drinking by score free. I wanted the arranging. I may rangeing rough and
tough. I don't take no better. I wanted the arranging. I'm moved
with powers never known a send reader proposal hole ranging farn wide, y'all mess
upside, ranging farn wide, y'all mess, shepside. I wanted the arranger
like Chuck Norris, I could be walk with Texas ranging free. Wanted the
arranger because I shall rack when I said arranged by range across the plains,
crossed, the ranging mountains, high mount to ranging in the sea of sand
in sky, ranging abross plains, across the plain, ranging mountains out tar,
ranging of the sea, the sand in the sky, rained across the
pain, across the arranged, the nounside in the mountains, rained in the
sea in shine, rain across the plains, across the ranger now times ranging
in the sea, under the sea and the sky. I want to be
a ranger. What therefore up playing from time and see the sky, playing
to see the sky. I want to be ring. Oh that is cool,
that is I want to be a ranger. From Andrew North and the
Rangers here and they are with us in studio. That is from the album
Thanks for the warning. Volume one Live in twenty twenty two. Do you
guys, um, are you guys recording anything this year as far as live
live albums are, Uh, We're gonna sort of see what we end up
with at the end of the year. We always get as high quality recordings
as we can for everything we play, and then we can sort of assess
at the end of the year what we've got and what we want to share
as far as at a level of you know, getting it properly mixed and
mastered and putting it out as a compilation album like this. Yeah. So
I don't know what we're gonna end up with for this year. I hope
we end up with something that we can do a Volume two yeah for twenty
three, but that is yet to be determined. We keep threatening to work
on a new studio album, which we need to get going on. Yeah,
yeah, no, that's uh. Yeah, we did play I played
earlier in the show one of the studio tracks there. Well, yeah,
from Phosphorus. I can't say that word Bosphores and Snack. Is that the
only studio album so far. Everything else is live. Yep, that's what
we've got so far. Okay, okay, cool cool. If you're just
joining us, we do have Andrew North and the Rangers here or half the
band, the founding members here in studio with us. We have of course
Andrew North and uh, Chip and Dale or with us and if you'd like
to join us six three two five six seven six three two five O six
Z seven the studio line is open and we do have a little bit of
time left on today's show if you'd like to get in with a call for
these guys. Um what is the um? What is the songwriting process like?
Because and again I've I've never played in a band where there's you know,
some improvisation and whatnot. I mean when when you guys, well who
writes the songs? Do you guys write together or do do you come up
with individual ideas or We've worked just about every possible way that you can approach
that, uh, and we're always open to approaching it at whatever way is
gonna work in any particular time. So there's a little bit of improvisation of
that aspect too. Yeah, I just write a lot by nature, so
I bring a lot of stuff to the band and at the level of all
right, here's how I play it by myself on piano and sort of what
I'm going for, and then everybody else in the band takes that and runs
with it and we end up where we end up. So I'll never come
in and be like and the base part should go right like you know.
Mostly I'll come with it and be like, all right, here's what I've
got as far as you know, words and chord changes, and usually it's
in a state where it's going to end up fairly close to where I started
from, not always, and that's been a really rewarding process. It's really
good practice for me letting go of being a control freak about some of that.
It's great practice. We also do write as a group, as some
of our favorite stuff has been stuff that we all wrote together, like Mary's
Chicken THI Money was this weird, shambly process of things that came out of
band practice, inside jokes and then we're all of a sudden it turns into
a song. Yea. And Chip writes as well, I'm always hoping that
everyone else will write Dale. I'm still waiting for your song. Hey,
That's what ly Our policy is to always have sort of a yes policy,
Like when people bring songs or covers they want to do or things like that,
it's always like, yes, we'll try it. It may not stick,
and it may be something we try and we're like, yeah, that
didn't really get to where we wanted it to be. Um, But we're
always willing to try things. And I think that's really important in a band,
to give everybody space to express themselves and to use, you know,
to have it be the same creative outlet that I'm lucky enough to have it
be where I'm like, you know, I wrote a bunch of songs and
here they are and now we play them all and to me, that's the
coolest thing ever. And I hope that the band can serve that function for
everybody. Right right, we have a call. Somebody wants to talk to
you. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connors and Unleashed two is us. Hey,
this is Rob. This is kinda Rob. I heard about you.
I heard You're very mysterious. I tend to be. That's that's why I'm
not there in person. I usually don't show my face unless i'm I'm out
of performance in full costume. But right, I just wanted to thank you
since I couldn't be there personally, for bringing us on the show and you
know, sharing our music with the area. Oh, happy to do it,
Happy to do it. I really like what you guys are doing,
and uh fascinated to learn about the aerophone. I'm saying that right area.
You know, you can search for it online. You know it's it's gonna
bring you some sketchy like North Korean website, but through all of the spam
filters, you'll find some documentation on it. I gotsha is that? Wait?
Is that how you bought your aerophone? You bought it from North Korea?
Is that even legal? I thought it was legal if you're in North
Korea? Right right? I understand, So you went to North Korea to
gain I mean, you know, you're mysterious, so you can make up
whatever story about it you want. So you went to North Korea to get
the aerophone? Is that correct? It's actually it's a it's a it's a
rolling product. It's it's really fun. It's it's what kind of got me
re energized back into music after I found these guys. Oh no, kidding,
my little toy that keeps things interesting. Yeah, yeah, that's very
cool. That's very cool. Yeah, I don't know if you were listening.
I don't know if you've been listening from the beginning, but yeah,
I was asking these guys for a song where you can really kind of hear
the aerophone and uh, yeah, it's fascinating. I'm gonna have to because
obviously this some live videos too, right on YouTube. I'm gonna have to
look up some of those and watch some of those. And I want to
I want to see the aero phone in action. That's pretty cool. Oh
you'll you'll see some stuff. I got that impression. Yeah, thanks again.
I'll let you guys continue listening from Afar. All right, all right,
Rob, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Bye bye,
all right, very good, very good. That does open up the
line for you if you have anything for the band six zo three two five
six seven six three two five zero six zero seven. Um. So uh,
when you when you write something, uh, and you you know,
you bring it to the band and you know, like you said, you
don't try to control what everyone does in terms of their parts. But do
you ever find that what you had in mind or how you heard it in
your head, what it comes out as ends up being just wildly different from
what you had envisioned. Always to a matter of degree. It always ends
up different from where I thought it might have been going, and sometimes it
does end up extremely different. Um And I find that's a big part of
the fun and really a rewarding process. And that's like I used to have
a really hard time with that with bands where I would read something and I
would be very committed to what I thought the song should be like and everybody,
you know, you've you've been in bands, you know the nature,
everybody brings what they bring to it, and you sort of find navigate to
where it's going to. And it took me a while to appreciate that process.
And you know, especially with this band, the results are consistently so
good that I really trust that process a lot more than I have in the
past, or in past bands where it's like you know, I and and
sometimes it is it takes a few weeks for somebody to really dial in the
part, and you have to trust you're like, all right, I hear
sort of what you're going for, and even though it's not there yet,
we'll keep working on it and I know what's going to get there, And
that is really cool to watch every you know, as Chip was saying that
we're so lucky to have this just a phenomenal group of musicians, and watching
everybody sort of work things out in real time and challenge themselves and get better,
I think it's a big part of what keeps us all energized as a
band and keeps making those songs better. And that's another thing is that we're
never officially done with a song. Songs are always sort of open to revision.
So if you know, we can have a song that we've been playing
for two or three years and in practice we're like, you know, let's
try this or you know, change this around about it. And that's also
sort of a fun process and a nice way to let songs move along with
us as a band. Yeah, because I personally, I get really bored
playing stuff that's on the rails exactly the same every time, and here's the
fill right after the first first. It's always the exact same notes, and
that's not how my brain works. So I'm really glad I've found a group
of other musicians who uh are willing to put up with that. We're all
off the rails too. There you go. Well, it's like we were
talking off air while that song was playing I Want to Be a Ranger.
You guys were talking about how there's multiple different there's what three different possible endings
for that song, right and it and it kind of depends on that happens
once a show, Uh, sirens every every day. I never know when
in the show it's going to happen, but it happens every looking forward to
it. Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, but yeah, I mean
that I would imagine that helps, you know, kind of keep it fresh
and exciting when it's you know, when the songs kind of change and evolve
over time. And um are there are there a lot of UM songs that
go back to when you like pre band, pre meeting these guy m one.
A couple of those tunes go way way back epiphone on the on the
on the album goes back to uh, I'll say two thousand four or five.
And I actually didn't write that one. A bandmate of mine named Jeff
Rhodes as a guitarist wrote that one. And I always liked it so much
that we kept it going, you know, almost twenty years later now,
which is crazy. Yeah. And then Electrostatic Chills, which tends to be
the song that we put at the end of every show, but again,
we improvise a lot, but we also played the same song at the end
of every show. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's fun. And
I wrote that one. That was a really early one when um in college,
I would go down to like the basement in the music department and just
like hang out of the piano rum, just noodling around for hours at a
time because I didn't know what else to do with my time, and I
was starting to write. And I wrote that song um in that in that
stretch, which was almost twenty years ago that it might have been, oh
three or four, and it's it's really cool to let a song like that
keep going. I played that in my college band, in my band for
a couple of years after college, and yeah, so to be able to
still be doing it and to have added so much to it in that you
know, we have new vocal parts that we've worked up over time, and
having saxophone parts that are really specific in it, and there's sort of little
things that line up with the lyrics that have evolved over time. Is really
cool to have sort of a song that is almost old enough to drink get
added to it, right right, yeah, yeah, And we were also,
I think this was just off air we were talking, but it's interesting
to me Dale, you were saying that UM live, you're playing electronic drums.
Yea, and uh, it's it's remarkable how good they sound like.
And I haven't asked you. At one point during that during that song,
I said, so, this is all electronic, but that's that's pretty amazing.
Yeah. It's funny because people a lot of times we'll play in front
of audience where we've got um audience members that have not seen us play yet.
Yeah, And I can see on their face, especially if they're old
school or if they're drummers, they'll look and go, yeah, electronic set.
Then by the end of the first set they're coming up to me like,
oh my, I cannot believe that's an electronic set, you know.
So then I'm explaining about all the new Roland technology and they're just so into
it because it's it's amazing how the technology sounds. Land Check every month they
do. One of the great things about an electronic drum kit is that you
can actually pick different sounds for different songs, yeah, which is one of
the you know, it's a lot of different variety there. And the other
awesome thing about it is we can control our own sound level from stage,
so we can play indoor in breweries or small venues. Everything goes through the
board, no amps on stage, because that's usually dictated by how the drummer
is. Yeah, and so we're literally mixing everything through the monitors first and
then out to the mains and whatever level the venue wants. We can do
that. We get a lot of compliments. Oh, we can listen to
you guys and still talk. This is awesome, right right, Yeah,
no, that's very cool. Um Chips as the bass player, where you
skeptical at all at first with with about the electronic drums or well, um,
it was a little bit getting used to because I hadn't played with anybody
who had played electronic RUMs before. Although yeah, I mean Dale and I
had played together some at one of the open mics up and Conquered before we
actually ended up in this band together. Oh okay, So I mean I
knew, I knew we was talented. I knew, you know, we
got. We clicked very well. Yeah, and so it was interesting singing
that and yeah, I mean I got used to it pretty quickly. It
was fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, a lot of fun.
Yeah, no, it is amazing how far the technology has come.
Um, what is the gigging schedule? Like are you are you guys?
You play out a lot pretty consistently. Yeah, we got a as Dale
said, we got back to that coming up next week on Thursday and Friday.
So Thursday, the twenty second, we're at Panucci's up and Conquered.
It's gonna be a really fun show. And then on the twenty third,
on the Friday, it's the Market Days Festival and Conquered this week, which
is um, you know, kind of a festival of everything. Oh yeah
yeah, and it's it is like the conquered music scenes time to shine.
So we always really look forward to it. And if folks don't know,
the Bicentennial Square stage by the coffee shop there Brothers Quartado, that stage in
there is like like New Hampshire Band Central and you can just post up and
hang out there all day and see so much incredible music. So we're playing
on that stage on Friday at six thirty, which we're really looking forward to.
We did that last year on the Saturday and night and it was it
was such a good time. Yeah. And then let's see the week two
weeks after that. On Saturday July first, we're at Feathered Friend and Conquered
and that is that one weekend. Okay, I can't tell time. Is
that new Feathered Friend. Feathered Friend they're pretty new. They've they've been around
for a little more in a year. But in that time they've gone from
like little startup brewery too, like all right, now, we took over
the back parking lot and we're gonna have music back there, even though there's
no shade and it's a million degrees whatever, to they've built this crazy stage
and patio set up in like like sound system. It's really cool and um
and even we played there a couple of times last year and this year they've
upped their game really. I've seen a couple of shows there and it's um
really stoked to get back there. They're really committed to doing like a live
music thing there. Yeah. Um, and their beer is really good too,
so UM recommend stop and buy that one um wearing Conquered is that it's
in the in the South End. It's on to street okay, kind of
buy Vinnie's Pizza. Oh yep. Yeah, And I grew up in Conquered,
so I know that area. Well. What's the data in the Henneker
concert series is at the eleventh, that's the eleventh. July eleventh, we're
playing an occur for their summer concert series, and then on July fifteenth we're
playing at Litherman's Limited and Conquered Aliverwery gig and they usually put us outside on
their patio, which is another actually surprisingly lovely parking lot. Yeah. Yeah,
and so we played there a couple of times a year as well,
and we always really look forward to it. So summer tends to be pretty
busy for us. Yeah, we have not been able to maintain a schedule
that lets us get too far afield right now. You know, we're always
looking for gigs to get out of town, but logistically it's really hard to
pull off with six people. So yeah, we've been having a great time
playing Conquered and because every show's different, people keep coming to see us.
Yeah, so it actually works out pretty well for us to be able to
just play a lot and have people get to know our music better and get
to know our weird sense of humor and our inside jokes, and so it
kind of builds on it itself in a really nice way. Yeah. So
it's always the more people we can bring in, the better. Yeah.
Yeah, that's excellent. One other thing real quick to mention that we should
do is that every month, first Wednesday of the month, we actually host
the open mic at Area twenty three up and Conquered. Okay, yeah,
I mean we'll play a few songs ourselves, but we'll also back up of
the musicians if they ask us to. Yes, And that open mic thing
has really become a thing. Like when we first talked to Area twenty three
about doing that once a month, I figured it would be, you know,
pretty casual open mic, pretty chill we you know, we we'd get
through the list of singer songwriter guitar folks and then we would have you know,
a couple hours at the end to just basically have an open band practice.
Yeah, and it very quickly ramped up to people found out we were
hosting, and now in Conquered, there's like one hundred and ten people out
on a Wednesday night and they're there from you know, six thirty pm to
like ten thirty pm. Yeah, and people don't go out and conquered.
So it really like blows my mind, right, Like we get that every
month and it's so cool, and it's a really like fun and positive community
that's growing on that. So it's super cool. And now we're getting full
bands that want to come and debut that have never played in fun of people
before our host night. Yeah. Yeah, it's just become a really cool
thing. For some reason, it's worth their time to try. Like we
had a guy drive from Maine last time to play with his band there and
we're like, we're like, I know, I know, it sucks,
but you get three songs. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, and like
they they're all super stoked on it. Wow, it's really cool. And
I learned about a ton of bands and musicians through that and seeing people come
out of the woodwork and just blow my mind with how talented they are is
yeah, amazing. Yeah, Area twenty three seems to have really caught on.
M Kirk was on my show. Not he's never been on this iteration
of the show. He was on the old version of the show that I
had when I did the TV show. But yeah, it seems like they're
really thriving. Just good to see. Yeah, good to see and you
know, and it allows local music to thrive and uh, you know that's
that's fantastic. So um yeah, so you guys. Uh. And then
at some point, I can't remember if we talked about this on air or
off are at some point you might do another studio album. Yeah, we
were always working on it. We have more songs than we know what to
do with for that context. Um. And what's really nice is that with
the electronic drums, um and all that, it's actually really easy to self
record without a lot of lead or things like that. So we Phosphorus and
Snack. We did you know, the basic tracking on our own, uh,
and then got some professional help doing the mix and master to get it
you know where it really needed to be. Yea. But that that kind
of process, and again I think it's really enabled by the electronic drums allows
us to take the time that we really need to tinker with things or to
to do it in our own time and to get to a result that we're
really excited about, which I think, you know, I've I've recorded studio,
albums in studio, and that I've paid for myself and things like that,
and that feeling of being under the gun. I don't feel like it's
really Sometimes it's great for the creative process. Sure for me personally, I
stress too much, and yeah, it's not I'm not happy in that process.
So much happier being like, all right, let's try this song and
we can play it, you know, fifteen times over and over and over
again and sort of see where we end up with it and not have to
be watching the clock or anything. Right, Once we have that bundled together,
then it's much easier to take a project that's a discreet size and scope
and you can go to an engineer and be like, all right, can
you help us, because I'm not an audio engineer, can you help us
make this sound amazing? Yeah? We were lucky to have folks who can
do that. Oh yeah. And we're fortunate to live in a time where
you have so many different options as far as recording. And you know,
I've I've talked to bands who you know, they never even were in the
same room when when recording albums. You know, they would like during the
pandemic, you know, they would email tracks back and forth and you know,
just just uh, it's it's incredible what you can do now. And
you know, and of course there's still plenty of great studios around too where
you can go and you can pay the money and and uh and spend the
time there. But but you can do a lot on your own these days.
It's uh, it's changed a lot from when I was growing up,
or when any of us were growing up. Really well, definitely on some
of the songs on Fuss for Us and the Snack, we'd be doing stuff
and then Rob would come in and he'd record like eight different tracks for the
same song yea, and different instruments on his erophone atle bit of an orchestra
and to himself. Yeah, yeah, it's true mysterious stranger fashion. We
just gave him the tracks. He gave him back to us and we're like,
oh my god, what did you do later? Yeah, yeah,
well it's gonna have options, I guess. Right by the way, in
the Facebook live chat, Police is in there, he says, Hello,
a big fan Paul of course from Retrospectrum Radio with Police every Friday night,
and I have the honor of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show,
and also my dad, Martin Connerton is in the Facebook live chat as
well. Um, we're gonna in a in a couple of moments, well
we'll start to wrap up. We'll play one more track from your live album.
Thanks for the one of your live albums, I should say thanks for
the warning volume one. But but before we begin to wrap up, I
want to make sure that everybody knows where to find you guys online, so
they can keep up with everything that you're doing. And uh, I keep
up with shows and and uh it sounds like you've got a busy summer ahead
and all of it, and of course where to find your music, so
anything you want to make sure everyone knows. Oh yeah, yeah, we
I mean we um Dale webmasters our website at under North and the Rangers dot
com. So nice, nice website. Thank you. Yeah, I'm a
I'm a website geek. So I noticed these things. And then you know,
we keep up with our Facebook, you know, we keep that really
maintained. If you want to know what's going on, that's probably a great
place to go to. Search North and the Rangers on Facebook. Yeah,
uh, you know, on Instagram at under North and the Rangers. Those
are probably the primary ones as far as keeping up with output. Band Camp
is a great place to We post almost every show up there for folks to
keep up with it, and do go to Andrew North on the Rangers dot
com and go to the contact page. We just have like a little four
or five field contact form. Yeah, and we'll get you on the email
list. And Andrew is awesome at putting out basically a monthly newsletter and a
pre like calendar session update when we have a bunch of shows lined up,
and he'll get emails out to everybody. We're cool, We're very communicative.
So just go on there and sign up for our email list. Excellent,
excellent. All right, well, gentlemen, thank you all so much.
Andrew chip Dale. I appreciate the three of you coming in. This has
been wonderful, and I'll just remind the listeners if you miss any part of
today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at WMAH radio dot
org and in my website Matt Connerton dot com. And of course if you
are listening live on Thursday on WMNH Through the Stage Door hosted by Rob Dan
is coming up next. Uh, and I'll remind you too tomorrow on the
show. Our musical guest is Hell's Throne. They're skyping in I think from
Germany. Uh, and they're like kind of dark and heavy. I don't
know if you guys figured that out from the name Hell's Throne, but name
I'm gonna listen to this. There you go, there you go. But
guys, thank you again so much Andrew North and the Rangers. This has
been cool. And uh, I'll let let you guys pick. I'm gonna
play one more track to close the show from thanks for the warning volume one?
What should I? What should I play? First off? Thank you
so much Matt for having us. Oh yeah, thank you. That was
so much fun. Oh my pleasure. I'd say, okay, all right,
cool, there are absent saxophone players, gotcha, gotcha? All right?
We will close out with that. Okay. So this is epiphone from
Andrew North and the Rangers and I'll talk to you a little bit later.
By everybody, E