1 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:23,399 Get your head off of the ground. Sing a song with a new sound. 2 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:31,719 Turn around, don't move too fast. This melody is sput to last. 3 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:54,719 Hallelujah. Sing hallelujah. Welcome mile in Someone's loose, take a step 4 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:02,200 and move those shoots the train roll song from here. I know I didn't 5 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:41,519 serve. Sing Hollluja. We will say, holleluja. Let the water ahead 6 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:49,920 your face drip back to a bed of face. Turn around, don't move 7 00:01:49,159 --> 00:02:02,680 too fast. This melody is failed to last. Say hallow Luia. We 8 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:24,639 will say how Lulia? We will say. We will say how Thelulia? 9 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:39,240 How Lulia? Ti Luia? Tilulia? We will say, we will say 10 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:52,800 how Lulia? How Thelulia? We will say, will say Howluia? Howlia? 11 00:02:53,560 --> 00:03:01,919 We will say, we will say how the Lulia? We will say. 12 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:22,400 We will say. You are listening to do wumin H ninety five point 13 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:30,360 three. You come here, God, don't get so freely die madself cobbing. 14 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,560 Welcome back, everybody, It's sad time again. Good Saturday morning to 15 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:12,840 you. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of 16 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:17,360 w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New 17 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,240 Hampshire. By the way, there is no video component to the show this 18 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:26,079 morning. Facebook is being a little bit difficult with us, so this is 19 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,480 audio only. But if you enjoy being in the Facebook chatroom, actually in 20 00:04:31,519 --> 00:04:36,720 the Matt Connorton Unleashed Facebook group, there is an active chatroom, so if 21 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,160 you're one of the cool kids, you can join us in there. But 22 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,519 but we do have a great show for you, and of course I am 23 00:04:45,560 --> 00:05:00,120 not alone. Jenny is here at the newsdesk. Good mornings, Good morning, 24 00:05:00,199 --> 00:05:02,759 good morning. We only have a few more shows in this building. 25 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,199 I know, I was thinking about that on the way in. Yes, 26 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:09,720 Yes, that is true, that is true. We've got a great show 27 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,279 today. We're going to introduce our first guest in just a moment, and 28 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,680 coming up later, we've got Dark Rain coming in and we've got Eric Piltri's 29 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:21,279 classic film review and this week the subject is Gladiator. But we're starting off 30 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:26,279 this morning. Tom Russo is here. Let me get that mic up for 31 00:05:26,319 --> 00:05:29,240 you, sir. Hello, Hello, welcome to the show. Thank you, 32 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:30,639 really looking forward to hearing you play. By the way, that opening 33 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,399 track saying holle Lujah, which I really love. That's so good. That's 34 00:05:34,439 --> 00:05:40,160 so good. And also too, we have Kate Shimkey from Darling Hill Is 35 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,000 in studio as well. Good morning, y'all. Are family you guess cousins. 36 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,680 Yeah, I watched him play music when I was a kid, so 37 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,639 oh, very cool. Definitely inspired me for sure, watched me. Didn't 38 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:54,399 didn't grow up, I didn't grow up. Both he got me hooked on 39 00:05:54,439 --> 00:05:57,560 Elvis Presley. Oh okay, how it all started? Oh, very cool 40 00:05:58,199 --> 00:06:01,120 Elvis impression. Oh excellent. Well we might have to we might have to 41 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,120 hear that later. Well, Tom's got his acoustic guitar out and he's gonna 42 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,319 play live for us, and then after that we'll, uh, we'll listen 43 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:13,319 to another studio track and then we'll we're gonna talk for a bit and uh 44 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:17,759 but I'm really looking forward to hearing this and Tom, this is the song 45 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,480 you're gonna play. This has not been recorded. This is uh yeah, 46 00:06:20,519 --> 00:06:25,680 this is actually a new song I am writing. Was even adding a few 47 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:29,000 lyrics this morning. Oh very cool, but yeah, this is this is 48 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,199 a newer one, so just trying to kind of work it out. Wow, 49 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,319 so oh cool. So this is this is like an exclusive, This 50 00:06:34,399 --> 00:06:40,120 is a world premiere this could be making or breaking right here, like I'm 51 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:45,600 either going to Hollywood or I'm not going very nice And uh, what's it 52 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:47,160 called? Do you? Or do you have the title for you? That 53 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:50,839 someone was you? His name of the song that someone was you? Yeah? 54 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,639 All right, very good. Uh yeah, whenever you're ready, go 55 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,839 ahead, ladies and gentlemen. Tom Russo live in studio, brand new song, 56 00:06:59,199 --> 00:07:16,639 Give it a go, all right. I took my chance on luck. 57 00:07:21,639 --> 00:07:30,519 Look took no chance on me. I belonged to where I was. 58 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:48,000 Something's got a hold on me. I was all over the road. It 59 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:59,839 took some more harm to see. That's some ham was you. That's so 60 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:16,519 one listen. I told the world of love and everything it could be, 61 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:37,519 love up and marked away until the day it was free. Love came back 62 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:48,279 to show the way. It took some harm to see. That's some moms 63 00:08:48,399 --> 00:09:07,399 you. That's someone who was in the back in the black, in the 64 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:22,399 dark, five in the light, in the light, in the truth we 65 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:39,080 return. I took my chance on luck. Luck took no chance on me, 66 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:52,720 and I belonged to where I was. Something's gotta hold on me. 67 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:07,639 I was all over the on the road. It took someone to see. 68 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:43,480 That's someone someone that's someoneng was you that's someone? This mean very nice, 69 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,679 very nice Tom Russo here in studio. That sounds finished to me. I'm 70 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,320 glad. I just threw the bridge and the bridge was awesome. Bridge was 71 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,480 written at about five am this morning, no kidder and practice for the first 72 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,799 time in front of you two or three minutes ago. Oh very cool, 73 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:01,600 cool, No, I love it. That's that is excellent. Well, 74 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:05,080 here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna play another studio track from Tom Russo 75 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,639 and then we're gonna come back and talk and get to know him. But 76 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,879 this is called Broke Heart. Check this out and then we'll we'll be right 77 00:11:13,919 --> 00:11:52,000 back. Tom Russo live in studio. This is the end of us. 78 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:11,919 When did we lose? Are the the trust? This is a new start. 79 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:22,480 This is my prodcar with all its scars and pain. How much we 80 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:31,480 both have changed. This is a new start. This is the best part. 81 00:12:33,039 --> 00:12:41,960 I'm walking down the road and a walking down the road. I thought 82 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:56,960 you spoke the truth, you lie, sweet dit Here I go again, 83 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:09,440 a new a new lie. This is a new start. This is my 84 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:18,200 bot part with all its scars and pain. How much we both have changed. 85 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:26,840 This is a new start. This is the best part. I'm walking 86 00:13:28,039 --> 00:13:37,120 down the road lawn, walking down the road, and then up from the 87 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:43,559 ashes comes and winning and all the chances, and you can't find me there, 88 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:56,240 And it's our sand down gravel. It's nothing I can handle. And 89 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:30,440 I'll reach beyond my yesterday I released me out my guest today m this is 90 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:45,039 the end of you, coming of us. Twere when did we move somewhere 91 00:14:48,080 --> 00:15:11,399 of the trust? This is the end of where we did? We new 92 00:15:11,559 --> 00:15:31,120 that way? Just this sis start. I like that a lot. That 93 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,879 track is called Broke Heart. And that is Tom Russo, who is here 94 00:15:33,879 --> 00:15:39,360 with us live in studio here on this Saturday morning on Matt Connorton Unleashed. 95 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,840 We of course are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five 96 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:48,519 point three FM. Jenny is here of course at the news desk, and 97 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,240 we have Tom Russo as well as Kate Shimkey from Darling Hill, who was 98 00:15:52,279 --> 00:15:54,320 on with us. When were you on time? It all runs together for 99 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,799 me. It was a few months ago, right right before Halloween, right 100 00:15:56,799 --> 00:16:02,039 before Halloween. Okay, right before Halloween, gotcha? Gotcha? Yeah? 101 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,120 And then so as we mentioned earlier. So the two of you are cousins, 102 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,559 and if you have you made music together? Do you appear on on 103 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:12,000 each other's projects at all? Or I don't think we've made music together. 104 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,919 Now I've booked him at my house. Remember I have like a backyard where 105 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:18,240 I book music. Yeah, so I've had him play at my house. 106 00:16:18,279 --> 00:16:22,399 We've we've we've split gigs before, I think at Marco's and air. But 107 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,799 we've never worked creatively together. But I would like to. We fight a 108 00:16:26,799 --> 00:16:32,519 lot. We just oh yeah, so drama. No, No, I 109 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:34,159 mean maybe that's a conversation we should have on the ride home. That's right. 110 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,159 Oh, they we'll write the song on the ride home as well. 111 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:42,679 Or you can have it here. It'd be good radio. If you have 112 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:48,200 any questions, uh for Tom or feedback or anything, or for Kate or 113 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,480 anything at all. The studio line is opened six O three two five O 114 00:16:51,679 --> 00:16:55,559 six oh seven six O three two five O six o seven. There is 115 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,759 also a chat room open. Did you do that Jenny and the Matt Connorton 116 00:16:57,799 --> 00:17:03,240 unleashed? Uh? After show group? No, an invisible little elf did 117 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,799 it? Oh my goodness? Well, thank goodness for the invisible elf we 118 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,240 do have if you're one of the cool kids. That way, if you're 119 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,359 one of the cool kids and you're in the chat room, there is a 120 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:19,039 chat room that is in the Matt Connorton Unleashed after Show group, and we 121 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,759 do see some people in there we'll say hello to. So, even though 122 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:26,480 we don't have a Facebook live feed today because Facebook is being glitchy, as 123 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:32,279 Facebook will be occasionally, I do want you to know that Melanie believes that 124 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:34,960 you need to feed a small child to your beard so it will be more 125 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:42,119 bearded. Oh okay, I guess I get that. Yeah, so what 126 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,559 you're saying is you want a better beard. She is a thing for this 127 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:52,200 bearding thing, well, and a new one for me. Her first question 128 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:59,480 was does he have a beard? It's a I do the same thing. 129 00:17:59,519 --> 00:18:02,839 I keep my I keep mind trim. I don't know how people allow them 130 00:18:02,839 --> 00:18:06,319 to grow out and deal with all the itching, and so I keep mind 131 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,440 like this, Yeah, yeah, oil it? Yeah, who wants to 132 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,000 do that now? I don't want to oil a beer. That's the most 133 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,319 oddest thing I've ever heard somebody request in my life. She wants him to 134 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:19,240 eat a small child. Yes, is it like a sacrifice to the beard 135 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:25,559 gods. That's a connection there. We'll have to ask you she does have 136 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,079 like a ten foot skeleton in our front yard on a regular basis, Yes, 137 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,599 like she's all in when Oh yeah, a little you. We have 138 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:40,759 a viewers listeners, Hi, we came in this morning to a piece of 139 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:45,720 mail and it is a Christmas card with a Christmas skeleton. Yes, thank 140 00:18:45,799 --> 00:18:49,000 you, thank you Melanie and Jason, Yes sent us this card. And 141 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,759 it was not just a Matt and I. It's also to every DJ Reckless 142 00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:59,319 and Mike Pelopeda and Tom Patrello and Steve Light, to Tony Petrello, sorry, 143 00:18:59,759 --> 00:19:04,240 Eric Pilcher, Dan Ralet, Steve Lights. Knees. Oh interesting, 144 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,359 he gets two, so it sounds like knees are separate from his name. 145 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:14,200 So it sounds like that card based on that is for this show and for 146 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:17,759 retro Spectrum Radio. I believe so. Yes, because Paul Krmier is on 147 00:19:17,799 --> 00:19:26,359 there. There's somebody named Jenny Coffee coffee co o f e e unlike the 148 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,160 drink, and there's probably a they probably sent a separate card for the morning 149 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,839 show. Yeah, but yes, show gets their own card and we're all 150 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:41,119 doing really Yeah, I assume that's that's that's what they did on the stamps. 151 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:44,559 That's what they did last year. Kidding, No, I know, 152 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,920 I love getting a Christmas card from them. Uh, Philip Garrikos, is 153 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:55,319 that Felipe from a glitter tooth? Philipe? It's Philip, But I do 154 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,720 like Filipe Felipe. Yes, he just messaged and said, listen live on 155 00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:04,160 the old school car radio. Absolutely loving it. Guys, say hi to 156 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:11,200 Kate and Tom for me, nothing but love and Jen, he added, 157 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:15,559 very nice, very nice. And in the chat room, let's see, 158 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:19,240 Miriam is in the Facebook live chat, says Bummer about the Facebook live stuff. 159 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,880 Well, that's all right, that is a radio show after all. 160 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,519 Let's see. We also have our friend Eric Pilcher is in the chat room. 161 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,759 In the third hour. We're gonna save it for the third hour. 162 00:20:27,799 --> 00:20:33,119 Today we're gonna have Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this week the subject is 163 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:40,519 Gladiator. One benefit to this chat thing instead of the online visual is that 164 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:45,880 you can share stuff with one another. Jason shared, Jay fed forgive me 165 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:52,119 shared a very interesting picture of his beard. Yes, his eyes are bulging 166 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,119 just about out of his head. Maybe he just came out of that ice 167 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:07,640 bucket like Steve Buscemi eyes they're not quite crossed. Yeah, she's got Steve. 168 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,519 Yeah, he likes to get into a bucket of ice water every day, 169 00:21:12,799 --> 00:21:15,279 and yeah, he does this for fun. He'll go out there with 170 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,960 a hammer and break the ice up and jumps in it. And then Melanie 171 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,799 takes pictures of him and sounds them to us, and he always invites us, 172 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:26,559 but we say, nay, Yeah, wouldn't good decision. Wouldn't be 173 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:30,640 for me, wouldn't be for me. No, I don't even think I 174 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,960 would put a toe in now these uh studio tracks, Tom, where where 175 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:40,640 are these recorded? Uh? They sound great? These are mostly well actually 176 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,480 all New Hampshire. Clark Creative in Amherst, he's done a couple of them 177 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:52,440 also Boathouse Productions. He's in Brookline, right, Pete Pelloquin Okay, that's 178 00:21:52,759 --> 00:21:56,839 glitter yep. Okay, I was gonna say that's a familiar name. Yeah, 179 00:21:56,039 --> 00:21:59,880 so a lot of a lot of these may have started at my house, 180 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,359 in my own little small studio, and then I'd bring the tracks over 181 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,799 kind of continue on from there. Yeah. But yeah, Brokekart, I 182 00:22:08,799 --> 00:22:15,559 think you played that singing Hallelujah. Those were both Clark creative Ya, but 183 00:22:15,599 --> 00:22:18,480 I try to change it up a little bit too, to just see what 184 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:23,000 sound I'm getting, and because you definitely get different sounds based on where you 185 00:22:23,039 --> 00:22:27,279 go or different inspiration. Yeah. Absolutely. How many studio tracks have you 186 00:22:27,319 --> 00:22:32,319 recorded? How much? How much do you have? It's tough to say 187 00:22:32,319 --> 00:22:36,759 because I have a lot with either other bands or other I had a solo 188 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,720 release I think in two thousand and eight. They're not all on there, 189 00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:44,559 but you can find them on Spotify and yeah, over the years, it's 190 00:22:44,599 --> 00:22:48,920 it's tough to really say. Like now, recently, in the last year, 191 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,200 I've released I think three four. Okay, you've been playing your whole 192 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,039 life. Yeah, I've been playing my whole life and recording my whole life. 193 00:22:56,039 --> 00:23:00,680 It's just it's probably got a lot. Yeah, they're not all up, 194 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,640 you know. We're we're now actually getting a lot of the old stuff 195 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,599 from old bands I've been in and yeah, we're taking that and kind of 196 00:23:07,079 --> 00:23:11,160 fixing it a little bit, making it sound a little cleaner, louder. 197 00:23:11,799 --> 00:23:15,079 So we will be releasing that. I had an old band called on for 198 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,039 Oh, and I feel like I remember on for do you I think so 199 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:21,880 we were around here for quite a while. Okay, yeah, I was 200 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,759 gonna say the name's familiar. That was the young band. Yeah yeah, 201 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,480 but yeah, for the most part, I just now have been trying to 202 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,440 record as much as I can now continually. Do you play with any bands 203 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,880 now or do you strictly do solo? Mostly just solo? Yeah, solo 204 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,039 unless I had opportunity where somebody needed a you know, a band or a 205 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:45,960 duo. Right, But it's you know, it's nice playing with by myself. 206 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,599 It's just I can't blame any of the mistakes in anything else, right, 207 00:23:51,839 --> 00:23:56,240 But it's easier in terms of scheduling and decision for people trying to come 208 00:23:56,319 --> 00:24:00,559 up with a schedule, right, right, Exactly how long has it been 209 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:03,200 since the last time you played in a band? Have you been a solo 210 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,799 artist for a long time? I think last time I was actually playing in 211 00:24:07,839 --> 00:24:12,880 the band was pretty steady in two thousand, okay, two thousand to two 212 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,720 thousand and five ish, I think, And then before that it was mostly 213 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:21,480 all bands. Like I didn't really start solo until moving back from Atlanta. 214 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,200 Oh, okay, that was like ninety I'm getting my years on it. 215 00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:30,359 Somehow, somehow the story makes sense. But once I started doing solo, 216 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,279 I just built up the confidence to do it a little more. H In 217 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,400 the beginning, I may have had to repeat songs. Maybe I didn't, 218 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:42,279 but maybe I did. Yeah. So yeah, I would just go out 219 00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:47,680 and try to pick up as many kind of little small venues here and there. 220 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,200 But are you from here originally? Yeah? Yes, Temple, ne 221 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,200 Hampshire now, but I was New Hampshire. Yeah, Temple, Greenville, 222 00:24:56,319 --> 00:24:59,119 Mason, New Hampshire. Okay. And then you live but you lived in 223 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,400 Atlanta for Atlanta. Moved there in right about the time of the Olympics, 224 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:10,359 okay, moved down there with a band, oh before before the Olympics, 225 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:15,359 and we played for a couple years in Atlanta. Okay. Interesting, So 226 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,200 so the whole band moved together from from here to there, from here to 227 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,079 there? Was that on for or was that some else that was on for? 228 00:25:22,279 --> 00:25:25,400 Okay? Wow? And that we started as four people in the band, 229 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,599 then it became three people. It was a three three member band when 230 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:33,839 we moved to Atlanta. But we're all still really good friends. Yeah. 231 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,960 Now that's interesting because you don't hear you don't hear stories like that much where 232 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,880 a band decides to all move together. Yeah, we actually moved with We 233 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:47,599 didn't really even know where we're gonna live. Wow, not really a lot 234 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:51,559 of money, just kind of stayed with somebody for a couple of weeks type 235 00:25:51,599 --> 00:25:53,680 thing. And then yeah, so you were you really believed in what you 236 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,920 were doing obviously, yeah. Yeah. And why Atlanta? Actually a lot 237 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,200 of it was the Olympics, you know, at the Olympics coming in and 238 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,200 the excitement at the Olympics just and things were happening there, a lot of 239 00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:10,920 a lot of music we could We were getting sick of playing in the winter, 240 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,079 yeah, like, and then we suddenly were able to play during the 241 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,400 day. You know. It wasn't screwing up our schedule at all. Interesting, 242 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:23,000 and we traveled a lot of college college type gigs. Yeah, yeah, 243 00:26:23,039 --> 00:26:26,319 no doubt. How long were you there in Atlanta? I think it 244 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,079 was right about two years, two and a half, Okay, And then 245 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,400 did you all move back? What happened then? No, Like a few 246 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,519 stayed there and we're you know, if you stayed there, I came here. 247 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:42,319 Kay. One of the members, Sean went out to Colorado. I 248 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:48,480 think John stayed and he was in Florida and North Carolina and so Atlanta broke 249 00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:53,440 up the band ultimately, right, we did have a great time. We 250 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,640 had gone there with you know, really being into the band R. E. 251 00:26:56,839 --> 00:27:02,759 M. And Georgia, so we were we were kind of intrigued by 252 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:07,480 that. Yeah, yeah, excellent. What was the was the music scene 253 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:12,680 like really different there just in terms of it was just there were just a 254 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:17,880 lot more places to play, yeah, like uh, you know you could 255 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,599 you didn't have to like rely on two places in a local area. Sure, 256 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:26,440 sure, And it was just more exciting, you know, and it 257 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,759 was people seem to be a little bit more willing to have music all the 258 00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:33,200 time. Interesting, the schedule was a little different. A lot of those 259 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,960 gigs would start at ten at night. Oh really yeah, wud be ten 260 00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:41,319 to two two am? Okay, So we life changed a little bit with 261 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,799 the schedule. But yeah, yeah, we enjoyed it. Yeah, yeah 262 00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:51,799 cool. And then so was it weird coming back here because it's it's so 263 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,759 and it sounds like it's really different there in some ways. Yeah, it 264 00:27:55,799 --> 00:28:00,160 was. It was weird coming back where the excitement wasn't the same, you 265 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,960 know, like we were excited to be back, but we didn't have. 266 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,839 I was excited to be back, but yeah, didn't have the momentum. 267 00:28:07,839 --> 00:28:10,440 And then when we would come up to visit, same the same deal. 268 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,359 We'd feel, what's there, what's there to do up here? Right? 269 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,039 But we we just spent so much time playing music together and practicing that we 270 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,359 really didn't always care as much where we were. Yeah, but yeah, 271 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:27,000 definitely two different places. We were probably excited to just get out of that 272 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:33,119 cold and stop hitting the frost. Heaves. Yeah, yeah, No, 273 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,799 it sounds like it was a good experience. Does does any of the material 274 00:28:36,839 --> 00:28:38,640 that you did and on forward is that? Do you still do that today 275 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,279 as a solo artist or not? Not really. I may have done like 276 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:48,039 one of the songs recently or on a different album, but not really. 277 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:51,079 I mean once in a while I'll go back and listen to some of those 278 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,039 or Yeah, the guy that was in the band with me, Sean, 279 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:59,200 we're kind of in talks right now and might even be a new song coming 280 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,839 that we're you know, so we're excited about that. Maybe he's listening right 281 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,119 now and shaking his head. No, I believe that's what's going to happen. 282 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,599 I think most of us have moved on with a lot of the older 283 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,400 songs, and you know, they're all there and we're excited about those still, 284 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,599 but we it would be nice to to do something new, you know, 285 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,160 especially to see what we might come up with now versus because we felt 286 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:33,079 we were pretty great back then. Well then you yeah, years years later 287 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,720 you listen and you you're like, well, that that guitar was out of 288 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,480 tune. I wasn't singing right, you know, but it just shows you 289 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,799 you can always keep getting better. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I've 290 00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:51,720 seen some people get worse, so that's that is possible. Also, do 291 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,640 you miss being in a band or yeah, yeah I missed. I just 292 00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,480 missed the playing off of each other in terms of where the music is going. 293 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:03,839 Yeah, I do. But it has to be always the right band. 294 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,480 I've always been lucky enough to always be in the right band. Like 295 00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:11,480 every band I've ever been in has worked for me, you know, so 296 00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:18,720 it's never been like wow, this is like it's only taken me somewhere else 297 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,799 in terms of music. So yeah, okay, I think we should play 298 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:27,000 another studio track, but I'll let you pick. I think we have a 299 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:32,599 couple that we haven't played yet. Let's see, why don't you hu? 300 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,000 Should I be Afraid? It's a little unique. Should I be Afraid? 301 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,759 I wrote that song the day of the studio time was booked. I actually 302 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:44,559 started the night before and finished it on my lunch break, and then I 303 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,920 ended up at Boardhouse Productions that night tracked it with Pete. And that's how 304 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,480 this that's how the story is. Is there a story behind the song itself 305 00:30:53,599 --> 00:31:00,200 or man? Probably not really, Okay. I have a good friend on 306 00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:03,400 it rapping, doing a rap. He goes under the name bug Out. 307 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,680 His name is Brian Ladd. Sorry if i've Oh, yes, I know 308 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,039 who that is. You know Brian? I think I do. I think 309 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:12,880 I've met him, at least I don't know him in the Granite State. 310 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:17,240 I'm sure i've met him. Kind of a hip hop type guy. Yeah. 311 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:21,000 Brett Wilson of Roots of Creation's playing guitar on this one. Oh cool, 312 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:26,400 excellent, Rick Cars on drums doing some different you know, just had 313 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,680 him kind of come in. But yeah, nothing too special. It's a 314 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,119 pretty straightforward song. All right, Well, let's let's give this a listen. 315 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,799 So, uh, this is Should I Be Afraid? Tom Russo is 316 00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:40,880 with us in studio. We'll play this and then we'll come back and talk 317 00:31:40,920 --> 00:32:08,039 some more. Tell you all of mysel I'm not a perfect mind. I'm 318 00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:17,119 hard to understand these DearS. It's taking most of me. What's left, 319 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:24,920 it's hard to see to do. Now it's time to sink your sir. 320 00:32:29,279 --> 00:32:38,480 I'm not afraid to start act so saying I'm wasting time. But it's only 321 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:49,200 mind here what you are making up your mind? I decide it to know. 322 00:32:55,599 --> 00:33:07,720 Should I be afraid see pray what I do not know? I lift 323 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:20,359 the sun shine? Is I lift and sween my soul? Shout? I 324 00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:29,559 see, oh said, see the reverence thing, got hold reverence thing? 325 00:33:30,559 --> 00:34:07,200 I lift the sp shin in my memo, sht is win Rick now the 326 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:19,480 realest spirits. We all have a difference. I'm not a perfect matter. 327 00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:29,480 Just be the best I can say. Is taking most of me, what's 328 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:42,639 left. It's hard to see today. Should I be afraid that I be 329 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:57,280 afraid what I do not know? Let me a sum shine in let dancing 330 00:34:57,599 --> 00:35:46,840 my soul? Yeah, I see verything I know gets weirdass. You're a 331 00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:52,599 hard times with yours before the John Riser can't hand for ever put it feel 332 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,719 like it's hard to find trying to keep focus to seem opus of being ocaus 333 00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,760 in getting up in the house and my hopes are trashed old, this moment 334 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:07,599 is gone going the before the storm is a raman when they came no longer 335 00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:10,239 promised in man Sarch the predominance and we mean it in the silence home. 336 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,079 Well, that is very cool. That is Tom Russo and Tom who remind 337 00:36:17,119 --> 00:36:22,079 us, who's that at the end? That is bug out? Bug out? 338 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,760 Yeah, that is very cool. That's you know, and it's it's 339 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,800 it's cool too how it's it's just at the end, and so you have 340 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,920 no idea that it's coming, but it sounds so natural it pertly. I'm 341 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,280 glad you said that because when I when I had the idea to put it 342 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,360 there, and he's he is a hip hop guy, if you know, 343 00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:45,199 Brian from Granite State. Yeah, he's like, oh, nobody's ever really 344 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,840 done that in the term you know, it's not like I'm really planning it 345 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,840 that way. But I liked it in the in that fact that it it 346 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,920 didn't start at the beginning of the song where you had any idea it was 347 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,480 going to come in at all, right, right, yeah, because usually 348 00:36:57,559 --> 00:37:01,880 when you do hear anything even close to that, it's usually in the beginning, 349 00:37:02,039 --> 00:37:05,519 and I'm sorry, not in the beginning in the middle, you know, 350 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,000 like where you might expecting a guitar solo, you might you'll hear a 351 00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:13,440 verse of of rapping. But to put it at the very end, I'm 352 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,760 trying to think of I can't think off the top of my head of another 353 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,440 example of somebody doing that, although I feel like I feel it has I'm 354 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,360 sure it's definitely been done, but it's uh. But but it's cool, 355 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:28,719 it's it's kind of it's it's surprising, but it's almost subtle at the same 356 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,159 time because it just fits its so perfectly well. The actually the thing I 357 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,880 was really happy about. If you listen to the lyrics and he wrote he 358 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,599 came up with those lyrics. I basically told him this is what this is, 359 00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:43,719 what the song is. Just I want you to do your thing. 360 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:49,719 Yeah, but his lyrics are meaningful too, like he those they fit the 361 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,239 song. Yeah, And that's his style, that's that's where he is, 362 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,880 that's why he does it, and he's he's a natural it doing it. 363 00:37:57,079 --> 00:38:00,920 So Yeah, I thought it was like I've never had a rap on a 364 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,039 song, and even earlier, Concetta was the one singing with me on sing 365 00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:10,480 Hallelujah, And she was somebody from the studio where I had gone to and 366 00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:16,679 recommended her, and she sang the national anthem at Red Sox Yankees game. 367 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:22,159 Just oh really recently she's worked with a lot of big people. She just 368 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,800 came in and sang that and that that's what that song needed. So same 369 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,400 deal with this song is it's it felt cool to put it there. I'm 370 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:35,920 sure some people might not like it, or maybe a true hip hop person 371 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,000 would be like, you know, because they don't they're not listening to the 372 00:38:38,079 --> 00:38:42,320 other stuff. Sure, but I think it fits. Yeah, yeah, 373 00:38:42,559 --> 00:38:46,480 absolutely absolutely. If you're just joining us, we have Tom Russo here alive 374 00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:51,119 in studio with us. Kate from Darling Hill is here too, and if 375 00:38:51,159 --> 00:38:53,920 you have any questions or anything at all, the studio line is open six 376 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,920 O three two five six seven six O three two five oh six seven. 377 00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:02,480 Facebook has given us a hard time, so we don't have our usual Facebook 378 00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:07,480 feed, but there is a chat room open in the after show group. 379 00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:10,679 Jay Fed in the chat room said I dig that song, Yes, yes, 380 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:19,159 thank you absolutely now are you Are you in the process of are you 381 00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,840 recording an album or are you doing any or what's your trajectory there? I 382 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,320 guess I have taken a different approach this time, where it seems like I'm 383 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,239 doing it as singles. Yeah, And then the way I look at it 384 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,800 is, then if I had ten different singles versus an album, gives me 385 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,440 ten different opportunities to be in front of somebody. Yeah, you know, 386 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:50,079 I think the idea eventually would be to have enough songs that an album would 387 00:39:50,119 --> 00:39:54,039 be made, you know, or maybe then kind of redone and the best 388 00:39:54,119 --> 00:39:59,280 of twenty different songs and maybe it would be one album. But yeah, 389 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,679 I guess it's tough to say, because if they're done and recorded, I 390 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,440 want to keep going right right. Yeah. We live in a time where, 391 00:40:08,559 --> 00:40:12,239 you know, you have so many different options as far as how you 392 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,719 release things and whether you want to put out a single or an album or 393 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,519 a repy or a lot of guests we've had on the show recently too, 394 00:40:19,559 --> 00:40:22,440 they talk about, you know, just releasing singles and then once all the 395 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,880 singles are out that they want for that album, you know, then releasing 396 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,920 an album of those singles, which is interesting because it's, you know, 397 00:40:30,039 --> 00:40:32,920 an obvious inversion of how it was when we were growing up, where you 398 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,559 know, a single would come out a little bit before an album, and 399 00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:38,199 then the album would come out, and then any more singles would come out 400 00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:42,079 after the album was out. But now it's like you can do anything you 401 00:40:42,159 --> 00:40:45,039 want to with the Internet. Well, the Beatles did it all that way 402 00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:49,599 if you think about it. They had different arrangements, collections of songs, 403 00:40:49,679 --> 00:40:55,039 and different US versions of versus other versions, and they just keep making different 404 00:40:55,079 --> 00:41:00,679 albums. Yeah, yeah, which people like that though, right. Absolutely, 405 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,519 are the Beatles a big influence on you? I hear some of that, 406 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,119 Yeah, definitely. The Beatles have always been probably really one of my 407 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:14,440 you know, the influences I've had have been the Beatles, Elvis, Yeah, 408 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000 in the beginning, that's who they were, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, 409 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:23,639 Everly Brothers, but yeah, that would crowded, how squeeze. Those 410 00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:28,400 are bands I've really been into, and I've been into a lot of singer 411 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:35,480 songwriters like Sean Mullins, Chris Christopherson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Tom 412 00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:38,920 Petty is actually a huge influence on I just like the style of writing. 413 00:41:39,199 --> 00:41:45,679 Yeah, So Tom Petty is somebody that can encourage me that I can just 414 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:49,280 write a song the way it should be written, which is just write it 415 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,480 as simple as it can be, right right? What is there a process 416 00:41:54,519 --> 00:41:58,719 in terms of do lyrics come new first or do you think of a melody 417 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:06,199 first? Or does it change? It seems to change now, it's probably 418 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,559 worth a few words. Something will just start, could be a phrase, 419 00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:15,039 could be four words that I just it's the words that make me think of 420 00:42:15,079 --> 00:42:19,280 the melody, and then it kind of takes off from there and then I 421 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,920 either know like it's worth going or it's you know, I either have to 422 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,440 convince if it's good. I have to convince myself it's good. If it's 423 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,920 if it's not a walk away from it, you know, or a little 424 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:36,199 confusing. But it comes in so many different ways. It could be you 425 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:42,280 could say something to me that I had never known about, and maybe that 426 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:47,119 could inspire me to to write something. Yeah. Does anything you write ever 427 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:52,280 wind up sounding really different when you record it than what you had envisioned? 428 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,280 Yeah? Yeah. The reason I ask is it sounds like because it sounds 429 00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,599 like you're very open to you know, like having bug out on that ving. 430 00:43:00,639 --> 00:43:04,400 I forget the name of the singer on Oh Conchetta, Conchetta. It 431 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,440 sounds like you're very open in that sense in terms of having, you know, 432 00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:12,000 having things kind of take a left turn for you know, from what 433 00:43:12,119 --> 00:43:16,079 you may have originally envisioned. I think it's easier now at my age because 434 00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:20,719 I can keep working for the song. When I was younger, you'd be 435 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,320 four guys in a band and everybody has their part, and everybody has their 436 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:29,760 opinion, which is fine, but sometimes it just it it holds things up. 437 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:35,519 It can take longer in this sense where you're still building songs, but 438 00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:38,119 you are taking the time to like you're getting smart enough to know if something 439 00:43:38,159 --> 00:43:43,960 doesn't fit, like you're taking it out. Like So there are tracks that 440 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:50,280 I paid studio musicians to come in on some of these songs that were great 441 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,760 parts. It's just that didn't work for the song. I had a violin 442 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:59,679 on a song coming up called Greet the Sun and the violin's beautiful and I've 443 00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,639 played that version of people who like it, but it just didn't work. 444 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:07,039 Yeah, that would have been harder to do in the band if you played 445 00:44:07,039 --> 00:44:09,840 the violin and said, hey, you know, really the part that we 446 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:15,400 all really liked last week. We don't like it anymore. Right, we 447 00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:16,880 have a call. I think somebody has a question for you. Hi, 448 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,719 Welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed. Who's this man? It's Mike Doyle. Hey, 449 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,159 Mike, how you doing. Good morning to you, Good morning to 450 00:44:25,199 --> 00:44:28,639 you. Guess hey, I just turned you on. I thought maybe, 451 00:44:28,679 --> 00:44:31,480 I said, no, he's playing music. Maybe maybe he's not on today 452 00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:35,440 or something. And I ended up listening to the song and I got to 453 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:40,360 tell you that song was was fantastic. It was who doesn't that fit that? 454 00:44:40,679 --> 00:44:45,039 The words I'm not a perfect man? You know right right? It's 455 00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:52,039 it's that's making it's that's making you reflect on yourself and friends and you know, 456 00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:53,880 the whole world. Man, with all the stuff going on these days, 457 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:58,000 I mean, who's a perfect man? You know? There's probably only 458 00:44:58,079 --> 00:45:01,480 one that we all know. But it was a great song, great lyrics, 459 00:45:01,559 --> 00:45:08,159 great great great music, great vocals. And I'm not a rap guy 460 00:45:08,199 --> 00:45:13,280 at all, but that that ending, you know, catch you. I'm 461 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,760 thinking here, it's going to be a soft landing for the ending, and 462 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,239 all of a sudden, the rap it's it, it's it. It wasn't 463 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,440 overbearing, It wasn't It was just enough. So I just wanted to say 464 00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:27,760 great song all the way around. Well, thank you very much. That 465 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,000 that Actually, that's really cool to hear, uh, because I don't know 466 00:45:31,039 --> 00:45:36,639 who you are, and it's neat to hear coming from a sixty five year 467 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,400 that's coming from a sixty five year old man. Man, he's living in 468 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:45,679 Manchester all his life and he's definitely not a perfect man. I'm glad you 469 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:50,440 picked up the phone. Yeah, thank you very much. Appreciate your music. 470 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,960 I'm going to look deeper into what else you do. Thank you. 471 00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:55,239 I'll keep singing them for you. Excellent, all right, man, Thanks 472 00:45:55,599 --> 00:45:59,000 all right, Mike, thank you for the call. Appreciate it. All 473 00:45:59,119 --> 00:46:01,199 right, We'll see you right by. Bye. Yeah, it's interesting what 474 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,159 Mike was saying. That's exactly what we were talking about. That the part 475 00:46:05,199 --> 00:46:07,239 at the end with bug Out, it just you know, it's a surprise, 476 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,599 but and yet it just fits so seamlessly into the song. Well, 477 00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:15,280 and what's cool here is I I might think that somebody just hears the song 478 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:22,320 and they go about whatever they're doing, but he actually heard my lyrics and 479 00:46:22,559 --> 00:46:27,159 just he recited back what he just heard, and he had meaning in what 480 00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,079 he heard, and that's to me, that's probably one of the coolest things 481 00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:35,679 I've ever really experienced to have somebody just call right and it's not my uncle 482 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,239 that called in, right, of course, it could be thanks uncle, 483 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:45,199 Mike. Right. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's got to give 484 00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:49,000 you chills. Right when when somebody really when they give you more than just 485 00:46:49,079 --> 00:46:52,840 oh I like that song, when they actually get something from the lyrics, 486 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,239 you know, that's awesome. Well, and even you bringing up the rap, 487 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:59,480 so you're you brought up something to me that was already a discussion between 488 00:46:59,639 --> 00:47:01,760 myself and Brian that did the rap, Like, well, it's you know, 489 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,199 but I didn't come in here and ask you, hey, what do 490 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,000 you think about that? Yeah, like you brought that up on your own, 491 00:47:07,039 --> 00:47:12,639 and he just called in in the same way he was surprised to hear 492 00:47:13,119 --> 00:47:16,119 that. So I guess that's that was effective in how it's supposed to be 493 00:47:16,199 --> 00:47:19,960 in there. So yeah, yeah, yeah, well done, well done, 494 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,800 thank you. That is that is awesome. So yeah, so kind 495 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:29,199 of circling back though to what we were talking about, so are you before 496 00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,760 about the singles? So is is your Are you just kind of doing singles 497 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,760 for now and then kind of see where it leads, or yeah, I 498 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,440 mean I think I would like it to lead somewhere where I just keep making 499 00:47:40,599 --> 00:47:44,320 better songs, right, and then I make it to the point where you 500 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,719 just can't deny it anymore. Like you know, I'll just keep throwing good 501 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:52,880 songs at people, and then I'm gonna just end up where that's going to 502 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,039 take me, which could then mean playing more music, you know, full 503 00:47:57,119 --> 00:48:04,000 time original music, or selling music, or just getting it everywhere. So 504 00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:08,280 I think the intention would be to just keep going in the direction that I 505 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,000 don't. I don't want to do it. I'm not. I've never done 506 00:48:12,039 --> 00:48:14,360 it just as a hobby. Yeah, you know, I've always in the 507 00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:20,880 background of anything I've been doing plugging away. Do you play out a lot? 508 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:22,360 Are you doing a lot of shows? I'm playing fewer now. I 509 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,199 mean, there was a point where I used to play, you know, 510 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:30,599 fifteen eighteen times a month and work a full time job. I'd say, 511 00:48:30,679 --> 00:48:35,039 Now it's and once I get going again, it's probably on average, maybe 512 00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:39,119 more like five to eight times a month. More than that. How many 513 00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,679 you know, did you say a month? How many times would you say, 514 00:48:43,039 --> 00:48:47,199 oh before yeah, fifteen, twenty seventeen, you know, but that's 515 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,320 crazy to me. But that would be because I was saying yes to every 516 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,400 gig I got, right, Yeah, like a lot they would call and 517 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,719 you were working. Yeah, but I'd be playing a Monday night, Tuesday 518 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,639 night, a Wednesday, a Sunday event. Actually I decided, actually that's 519 00:49:01,639 --> 00:49:06,719 when I decided to start getting back into focusing on recording my music. I 520 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,159 was like, I'm not gonna record my music and play all these gigs. 521 00:49:10,199 --> 00:49:14,679 So yeah, but I but I'm just more selective now, you know. 522 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,960 I have some coming up. I'm playing in peter Boron Hampshire at a nice 523 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:22,719 little family diner Christmas Eve called Pipa and Lulu's. And I went to school 524 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:27,559 with both of the people that own the place, and they just I was 525 00:49:27,599 --> 00:49:30,239 in there recently and they asked me, and yeah, I'll come in and 526 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,400 do that. So I've let a lot of things happen. You know, 527 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,920 I don't really search for it as much anymore. I do have a booking 528 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:44,559 agent once in a while get some calls, but yeah, I just kind 529 00:49:44,599 --> 00:49:46,000 of go where I think I should be go where the road takes you. 530 00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:51,280 Yeah, yeah, no, that makes that makes sense. Now do you 531 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,800 have Do you have anything coming up that you want to mention? Any shows 532 00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:59,159 in the area that I wish I wrote them down or you can tell us 533 00:49:59,159 --> 00:50:00,800 where to find that. And I don't think I have. I think I 534 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:06,400 have one coming up it's like January thirteenth, but that's in Hillsbrow. That's 535 00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,440 a place called Main Street Grill. I have a show coming up over at 536 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:15,159 Hampshire Hills, a couple of those what is that called the Hills, The 537 00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:20,159 Hills, the Hills. But I will start like I've just this time of 538 00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,400 year, I was like December and you know, it's a little slow, 539 00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,679 and then yeah, it will get warmer and then I'll be playing like you 540 00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:30,760 know, maybe some sea coast things and some places around here. But really 541 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:37,280 now I'm just trying to really refine my sound, get better with my equipment, 542 00:50:37,599 --> 00:50:40,360 you know, learn my equipment a little bit more in terms of sound, 543 00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:45,440 because I just I'm not I just put stuff on the floor and I 544 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:52,559 don't I don't turn too many knots. What I'm saying we should tell people 545 00:50:52,639 --> 00:50:57,639 too, So what's what's the best way for people to find you? Online 546 00:50:57,679 --> 00:51:00,920 who want to follow you, follow your music, and and and part of 547 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,960 why I think it's especially important to make that clear with our listeners is because, 548 00:51:06,079 --> 00:51:07,880 uh not everyone's going to know how to spell your last name. That's 549 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:13,320 true. Yeah, we should correct that. So it is Russo r O 550 00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:16,239 U S S E a U. That's how you. I'm sure all you 551 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:21,519 had a pen when I just said that. Guys in the chat room, 552 00:51:21,559 --> 00:51:25,920 I've dropped Tom Russo Music's book link. Oh yeah, there for you. 553 00:51:27,119 --> 00:51:29,480 I would you know, and I would say. Now, what I try 554 00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:31,480 to do now, and I've been encouraged to do this more, is just 555 00:51:31,559 --> 00:51:37,239 get people to stream it. Stream more like go on Spotify, listen to 556 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,960 whatever you want, go on iTunes music, go on Amazon Music, Apple 557 00:51:40,039 --> 00:51:45,159 Music. So it's it's all out there. Yeah, so it's it's it's 558 00:51:45,199 --> 00:51:49,519 all there for people to get it free. I think now the idea is 559 00:51:49,599 --> 00:51:52,519 just really getting people to share it. Like like I didn't really get that 560 00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,440 until a couple of years ago. I have my friend Lewis Gendron there that 561 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,199 wrote Broke Heart with me. He actually started that song. He was more 562 00:52:00,199 --> 00:52:06,239 of the main writer than I came in. He's he's been the one plugging 563 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,159 for me to do that. He's like, you got to get people to 564 00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:12,800 stream it, because if I had a stack right now of three hundred CDs 565 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,039 and I even told you it was two dollars for the CD, you might 566 00:52:15,119 --> 00:52:19,440 not buy it, right, you know. It's people don't care about that 567 00:52:19,519 --> 00:52:25,559 anymore, so some people do it. It's it's interesting how I would want 568 00:52:25,679 --> 00:52:30,400 a CD. Yeah, I mean physical media has really kind of hung on. 569 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,960 But you know, some people, like if they're really into an artist, 570 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,320 you know, they want the art and the liner notes and everything, 571 00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:44,159 you know. And we had like like we we've had actually like Byron G 572 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:49,159 and Cody Pope when they were on a couple of you know, pretty young 573 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,239 hip hop guys, and they're like, oh yeah, we still put out 574 00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:55,679 CDs because you know, some some people still want physical media. But but 575 00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,119 it's it's certainly has changed a lot. I think I think it was in 576 00:53:00,199 --> 00:53:04,480 twenty twenty two, I think, I hope I have this right, was 577 00:53:04,559 --> 00:53:08,280 the first year that Vinyl actually outsold CDs. You're right about that, Yeah, 578 00:53:08,519 --> 00:53:12,639 yeah, I think you're right about I'm missing albums. Yeah, I 579 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,639 missed, you know, having those big sheets and liner notes and stuff. 580 00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:17,679 But I'll tell you you're definitely on my playlist, which is why I don't 581 00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:21,159 know a lot of current day songs. You were at before the show, 582 00:53:21,159 --> 00:53:23,320 you had asked me about a current day song. My playlist is pretty much 583 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:29,039 all independent artists, but I really don't hear a lot of modern now. 584 00:53:29,159 --> 00:53:30,800 But you had only just heard it recently, right, I wasn't on your 585 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,719 playlist, right right? No, No, you're going on my play good 586 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,559 you are going. You are coming onto my independent playlist. That'd be bad 587 00:53:37,559 --> 00:53:43,880 if I've had to give my playlist for years you've just met No, No, 588 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:45,559 I'm not that quick. Yeah, it turns out. It turns out 589 00:53:45,559 --> 00:53:51,159 it's a different time, Russo. This is Tom Russo are USSL was approved 590 00:53:51,199 --> 00:53:57,559 and I did not even pay. I would say funny. Even for music. 591 00:53:57,639 --> 00:54:00,039 I'll be out more and more, uh, playing again live, so 592 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:06,480 somebody usually can kind of go search. I'll always post my gigs on Facebook. 593 00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,760 I do have the musician page and my private page. But over the 594 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:16,280 years nobody half of them come in on my private my personal page, and 595 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:20,079 I still accept them because it's just like, well that's what they find. 596 00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,559 So I think there's Tom Russo music and Tom Russo. But I'd say share, 597 00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:28,599 share that music as much as you can for sure. I don't know, 598 00:54:28,679 --> 00:54:30,559 do you have time to play that one last song or oh yeah, 599 00:54:30,679 --> 00:54:34,480 that's that's how I want to Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's how 600 00:54:34,519 --> 00:54:36,559 I want to end. I don't want to wear out my welcome here. 601 00:54:36,599 --> 00:54:39,320 And I'm very curious about that bike. And if anybody laughs at you when 602 00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:46,239 you ride that bike, there's a bike in the well. It looks like 603 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,199 a lot kind of a scooter. It's a bike scooter. I was going 604 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,679 to say a lot of that, like is somebody somebody won that at the 605 00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:59,760 Miracle on Elm Street, which is an awesome fundraise that's done here every year 606 00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:01,679 and all the money and toys and things that are raised day right here in 607 00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:06,920 Manchester and go to Manchester kids. So that was part of a raffle prize. 608 00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:08,880 It was probably called the Miracle on M Street when they saw it actually 609 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,960 rolling is look at it. It's only got two wheels, so nobody can. 610 00:55:14,159 --> 00:55:15,760 I would have to get on it and I'd be like, I do 611 00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,400 not know what to do things like that. I value not breaking any more 612 00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,440 bones. I think it looks really cool, though it does look cool. 613 00:55:22,599 --> 00:55:24,920 It does. Before we get to that track, we do have somebody on 614 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,280 the line. Somebody might have a question for you. Hi, welcome to 615 00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,559 Matt Connorton unleashed. Who is this? It's Chiff. How are you guys 616 00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:36,639 good? Oh? Is this Jeff Pegari? Hey man, I'm a question 617 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,239 for you. So you guys haven't youtib to say, because me and Isaac 618 00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:42,679 are wondering, how is Jenny doing? How are you guys doing? Oh? 619 00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,559 We're good, Yeah, we're not. There is no video component of 620 00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,760 today's show, unfortunately, because some some sort of a Facebook issue. I 621 00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,719 don't think it's internal here at the station. I think Facebook is being Facebook 622 00:55:54,039 --> 00:55:57,679 and is being very glitchy. So okay, no, I was just I 623 00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,760 was just wounding by the way, by the way, by the way, 624 00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:05,519 by way. Are you get to me next week? Yes? Absolutely? 625 00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,280 Okay, okay, am I content am I and my contin am my contin 626 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:13,599 my cost. We'll go next week? Is that next week? Figure and 627 00:56:13,679 --> 00:56:19,840 Jenny especial announcement especial and next week? Nice? All right, well we 628 00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:23,800 look forward to that. Mu. Okay to me, how do I, 629 00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:28,440 me and Isaac listen to you guys? Why now? Because how do we 630 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:34,239 listen to you guys Facebook, Go to w m n H radio dot org 631 00:56:34,519 --> 00:56:42,000 and click listen live. Okay, and I will be yes was how does 632 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,480 okay? W n a H Radio. Okay, excuse me, I must 633 00:56:45,519 --> 00:56:46,079 yes, okay, Well, excuse me. I don't know what time the 634 00:56:46,119 --> 00:56:49,280 announcement gonna be, but it's gonna be. It's gonna be. It's gonna 635 00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,199 be a holiday announcement from miss Steve. Excuse me, excuse me, from 636 00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,960 mister Steve. How is mister Steve doing? By the way, I really 637 00:56:54,960 --> 00:57:00,239 missed mister Steve a lot. Mister Steve. You mean DJ Steve? Yes? 638 00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:06,599 Yes, Oh he's on retro Friday nights. Yes, eight pm, 639 00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,960 am me. Maybe I would actually call him find in the second time. 640 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,719 There you work? Well, well, that that would be wonderful. We 641 00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,840 look forward to that absolutely. All right, Jock, have a good guys, 642 00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:21,559 all right, thank you YouTube, bye bye? All right. Jeff 643 00:57:21,599 --> 00:57:25,000 Pigari from Greensboro, North Carolina. Uh, chiming in, very nice, 644 00:57:25,119 --> 00:57:30,000 very nice. So we will Yeah, So we're gonna end the hour with 645 00:57:30,159 --> 00:57:32,840 this, uh, this song, I greet this song? What should we 646 00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:37,320 know about this? Tom before we play? Just actually to me kind of 647 00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:43,559 started a lot of this off in me recording again. Actually, I wrote 648 00:57:43,559 --> 00:57:45,719 the song a piano, which isn't really what I would do. So I 649 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:50,119 played piano on the song. A friend of mine's playing with me as well. 650 00:57:50,159 --> 00:57:55,280 But it just seemed really easy to write because I wasn't playing a guitar, 651 00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,280 so I really didn't know what I was doing, so I didn't know 652 00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:02,159 what I couldn't do right. It was more just playing it and it sounded 653 00:58:02,239 --> 00:58:08,039 right. But yeah, I don't know. It seems to this this seems 654 00:58:08,039 --> 00:58:12,559 to be a song that will always be an end of the album song. 655 00:58:12,679 --> 00:58:16,079 It just it feels that way to me. It's kind of slow, but 656 00:58:16,199 --> 00:58:22,719 it has a certain melody feel that that I wanted to get through, and 657 00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,320 I think it happened. Yeah. Well but pretty simple, you know, 658 00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:30,480 pretty simple overall, perfect way to and the segment then excellent, Tom Russo, 659 00:58:30,559 --> 00:58:32,679 thank you so much. This has been wonderful. Well, thank you 660 00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:37,480 very much for having me absolutely absolutely and my cousin Kate O. Yeah, 661 00:58:37,599 --> 00:58:42,159 Kate from Darling Hill, go back and check that out. If you missed 662 00:58:42,159 --> 00:58:45,079 that interview. That was really good. That was a few months ago, 663 00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:46,880 right before right before Halloween. You said, right, yeah, and I 664 00:58:47,039 --> 00:58:52,079 just want to thank you guys for showcasing local artists like you do. Happy 665 00:58:52,119 --> 00:58:53,599 to do. It's really fun to sit back and watch you interview them and 666 00:58:53,599 --> 00:58:57,280 ask them all the questions like you seem to get to the heart of the 667 00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,679 creation process, which I really, I really think it's cool to hear and 668 00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:02,639 share with people. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Nice style, 669 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:07,280 right, and I love that. And I appreciate that your camera was 670 00:59:07,639 --> 00:59:13,480 broken today. Well I'm sorry. You're you are on cable. You're on 671 00:59:13,639 --> 00:59:15,960 Comcast channel six right now. I'm out here. Yeah, you're not entirely 672 00:59:16,719 --> 00:59:21,599 on camera. All right, all right, we uh so we're gonna play 673 00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,199 We're gonna play this, and then we're going to u in the second hour, 674 00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:28,599 we have Dark Rain in studio with us. They they traveled here from 675 00:59:28,679 --> 00:59:31,280 Maine, so really looking forward to that. But uh let's give this a 676 00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,760 listen. This is greet the Sun, Tom Russo, Tom, Thanks again, 677 00:59:35,920 --> 01:00:14,639 thank you. I don't see anything in front of me. I see, 678 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:30,760 well, want to sing, I hear what I hear. Don't hold 679 01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:44,199 on, I'm still singing, singing more song, dream, say more dream 680 01:00:45,760 --> 01:01:02,559 till I come back. And it's nothing that I have it. I've been 681 01:01:02,679 --> 01:01:13,320 haunted by the same old dream comes to take my hand. Days night, 682 01:01:15,199 --> 01:01:24,320 I pray the Lord he has my life. I'm still going down the same 683 01:01:24,519 --> 01:01:37,000 old road, telling stories I've already took, and I'm waiting here for me 684 01:01:38,679 --> 01:02:22,320 to come back for m hmm. I'll be me someone you can see, 685 01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:43,000 still dreaming every dream. Till it come by, Come till it come by, 686 01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:58,480 Come till it come by, Come till it come by, Come till 687 01:02:58,519 --> 01:03:13,000 it come back. Tillo come back back, Tillo come back. M hmm.