It's ok. Are we can change if we con the data that God tell
me? Why can they do so something? I think? An can't you
stay doing? That wouldn't be any changes. You so many life causing the
sleeted to count. But think of letting the eyes. You remember sum Man,
the third man, hated by a thousand men, desired by one woman.
The third man. Hanging is too good for him. Nothing is too
good for the third man. Her Man was the third man, the man
on every woman's lips via a nineteen fifty A city fearful of its present,
uncertain of its future, once gay, capital of a lighthearted people, here
in the shadows of its palaces and ruins. It's told with tenderness, drama,
and suspense. The story of the Third Man was a third man there?
And I suppose that doesn't sound for cutie to me. I'm not interested
in whether a racketeer like lyme was killed by his friends or by an accident.
The only important thing is that he's dead. Third Man the story of
two men and one woman caught in the dangerous web of an international love affair.
Oh, please, for heaven's sake, stop making him in your image.
Harry was real. He wasn't just your friend and my lover. No,
I don't know. I'm just a hack writer who drinks too much and
falls in love with girls. You me told me such a fool, of
course. The Third Man Joseph Cotton, in his most successful performance as an
American caught in a whirlpool of connin evel intrigue the Glamorous Valley. There is
a mysterious Viennese actress you the Secret of the Third Man. Bit Roles are
one aspect of cinema we have yet to speak about on this program, even
though they are a major part of cinema history. They are short moments when
someone is in a film or seen in a film. They can be when
at the time a novas performer is getting their first role, or done as
a cameo to generate gravitas towards a character or pivotal moment in a particular film.
This week's film has, in my opinion, the greatest bit role in
cinema history, and that is due to the power and complexity in the performance
from this month's Focus or sin Welles, released in Britain in nineteen forty nine
in Stateside in nineteen fifty directed by Carol Reid and based off a treatment from
writer Graham Green. The Third Man tells the tale of down and Out writer
Holly Martin's played by screen legend Joseph Cotton, a man that travels to post
war Vienna to take on a job from his friend Harry Lyme played by Wells,
whom upon his arrival Martins finds out has been murdered. However, while
investigating his death, Martin finds that things are not what they seem. Our
next clip will introduce us to Martin's Shortly after his arrival, he is drinking
in a local pub when he is confronted by major Callaway. As the film
is placed in the film noir genre, this interaction conveys many aspects of this
amazing genre. In one of my personal favorites, the drunken down and out
lead in the authority figure thought to be villainous in the beginning, but as
the film goes on, we find out they are not. Also noticed the
short and terse dialogue between the two that is quite present in this scene.
I guess nobody knew Harry like he did, like I did how long ago,
back in school. It's so lonesome in my life till showed up and
you seem nice. September thirty night, when the business started. She mat
before that once in a while, best friend I ever had. That sounds
like a cheap novel, at my right, cheap novel at I'm afraid I
never heard of it. What's your name again, Holly Martin's? Sorry you
ever hear of the lone writer of Santa Fe Tanjaya? I have det the
double X ranch of Raunch. Nope, Mum must have known how it was
broke. He even sent me an airplane ticket. He's a shame. But
him dying like that the best thing that ever happened to him. What are
you trying to say? He was about the worst racketeer that ever made a
dirty living in the city. Policeman, huh, come on, haven't have
a drink? Oh? I never did, like policeman. I have to
call him sherriff. Have a seen one pending on a dead man? Some
petty racket with gasoline or something, just like a cop? Youre real cop.
I suppose it wasn't petrol, So it wasn't petrol, so it was
tires or sacrine. Why don't you catch a few murderers for a change.
Well, you could say that murder was part of his racket. It's all
right, pen, He's only a scribbler with too much drink in him.
Take mister Holly Martin's term. Holly Marty's the uh the writer deal through the
death at double Ing's run. That's in't callahan, callaway. I'm English,
not Irish. If you're not going to close your files at a dead man's
expense, so you're going to find me the real criminal. Sounds like one
of your stories. When I'm finished with you, you'll leave Vianna. You
look so silly. Here's some army money and should see you through tonight.
That soccers will tell if you don't drink too much in the bar, we'll
keep a seat for you on tomorrow's plane. Please be kntlesit written anything lately.
Take him to soccers. Don't hit him again if he behaves. When
talking about the film, the performance by Cotton is one of his best,
and that is saying a lot. However, Wells is hairy. Lime is
the main attraction in this film. Wells was only on the screen for ten
minutes. However, in those ten minutes, Wells delivers an amazing performance the
film in the writing with this great story builds up the appearance of this wartime
profiteer. But if not for Wells, it wouldn't matter in this film would
not have the legendary status it has today. Our next clip is one of
the most well known from this film. Lime explains to Martin's why his selling
diluted penicillin that has led to the death in paralysis of many, including children,
is acceptable. This scene also shows what made Wells an outstanding performer.
His range and depth is on full display as we hear his callousness, charm,
wit, knowledge, and greed. Victims be melodramatic. I've down,
then, I would you really if you have any of one of those dots
stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that
stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money?
Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare free of
income tax only free of income taxes, only way you can save money.
Don't there how good your money? I'll do you in jail not jails is
another's zone. There's no proof against me. Besides you, I should be
pretty easy to get rid of, pretty easy, wouldn't be too sure.
Might carry a gun. Don't think they'd look for a bullet, won't After
you hit that ground, dug up your carpet, confound hobby pittying? Holly,
what fools? We are talking to each other this way is though i'd
do anything to you, or you to me, You're just a little mixed
up about things. In general. Nobody thinks in terms of human beings.
Governments don't. Why should we. They talk about the people and the proletariat.
I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
They have their five year plans. So I used to believe in God.
Well I still don't believe in God. I don't believe in God and mercy
and all that. But dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here,
poor devils. What do you believe in? Or who? We get
Anna out of this mess? Be kind to her to find she's worth it.
I wish i'd ask you to bring me some of these tablets from home,
Holly. I'd like to cut you in home man. Nobody left,
and then I can really trust and we've always done everything together. When you
make up your mind, send me a message on meet you any place,
anytime. And when we do me though, Man, it's you I want
to see, not the police. Never that won't you don't be so gloomy
after that awful Now, what the fella said Natalie. For thirty years under
the Borges, they had warfare, terror, murder of bloodshed, but they
produced Michelangelolion out of Da Vinci and the Renaissance in Switzerland. They had brotherly
loved five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce?
The cuckoo clock. It's a lot, Holi. This film was very important
to the career of horse In Wells, as it introduced him to the film
noir genre. This genre would allow him to use his love of lighting,
camera techniques in dialogue to drive a film. You could say that film noir
was set up perfectly for Wells's strengths, as famed director in Wells' biographer Bogdanovich
explains in our final clip, Wells would go on to direct two more harolded
noir films, The Stranger and the Lady from Shanghai, and I'll take a
moment here to argue that his film, The Trial would be classified as neo
noir, a subgenre of film noir. This clip will also tell us Wells's
love for black and white as a medium. I think The Third Man is
probably one of the best, if not the greatest, non o tour films
ever made, where you have this extraordinary coming together of a bunch of really
first rate talents, all working at their top. Graham Green as a writer,
Alex Corda as a producer, Carol Reed as a director, Vienna looking
very photogenic right after the war, Trevor Howard at his best, Orson Wells
certainly at his most mysterious in a role that you know he was born to
play, and Joe Cotton really very American and eloquent, and Alita Valley,
you know, at her most ingrid bergmany Carol Reid is one of those underrated
directors who was highly thought of during his lifetime, but since he's passed away
and nobody much talks about him, probably because the last few films he made
were not among his best, even though they were his most successful. So
Oliver, which won Oscars and so on, isn't exactly a film buffs Delight,
but films like The Third Man or Odd Man Out or the Fallen Idol,
or even outcasts of the Islands, or even the Stars looked Down.
All those films thirty years ago were considered to be classics of the classics of
the English cinema, and you see them again they hold up awfully well.
One of the wonderful things about The Third Man also is this extraordinary black and
white photography that you can feel the wetness in the stones of Vienna. You
know. Orson used to refer to black and white as the actor's friend,
and I said, why do you say that, said, well, he
says, you know, every performance is in black and white. Name me
a great performance in color. I defy you. And you know it is
hard to think of great performances in color. There is something about black and
white. It's the lack of distraction. You don't sit there saying aren't those
blue eyes beautiful? Or isn't that hair color nice? It focuses on the
dramatic. I once said to Orson, welles, my god, that role
of Harry Lyme. You're so great in that picture. And he said,
well, he said, that's the part. It's the greatest star part ever
written. Well, you know what a star part is. He says,
that's where they talk about you for an hour and then you appear. He
says, I did it on the stage one called mister Wu. Everybody for
the first forty five minutes of the play says, you know, but what
will happen when mister Wu gets here? And yes, but what will mister
Wu say about this? And wait till we find out what mister Wu thinks
and all that, and he says, and everybody boils around the stage,
as Orson said, for about almost an hour talking about mister Wo. And
then just at the end of the first act, way in the distance on
the stage, crossing a bridge, comes the small figure of mister Wu,
and everybody goes, ah, mister Wu. And the curtain comes down and
the audience comes out and says, isn't that actor playing mister Wu. Great
Orson said, that's a star part for you. He always said that he
had no influence over the production, except that he wrote that speech about the
cuckoo clock, which is the one speech ability remembers from the picture. But
when I asked him whether he'd influenced Carol Reid, he said, Carol Reid
was a hell of a director and didn't need my opinion. However, I
think it's important to note that the look of The Third Man, and in
fact the whole film would be unthinkable without Citizen Kane, The Stranger, and
The Lady from Shanghai, which Orson made in the forties and all of which
preceded The Third Man. Carol Reid I think was definitely influenced by Orson well
as the director from the films he had made. Whether or not there was
any conscious conversation about shooting things a certain way or not, it probably wasn't
the case because Carol Reid was awfully good and he was a good craftsman,
knew what he was doing. The picture is very daring, very fast cutting,
probably the greatest of the foreign film noirs. You know, it's just
one of those extraordinarily happy accidents, which isn't to be patronizing because Casablancas that
can be called that too. Kind of an extraordinarily happy accident, But when
you see The Third Man it doesn't seem accidental. Everybody, I think knew
what they were doing and it's a great film. The Third Man was highly
regarded upon release. It was the highest grossing film in Britain. In nineteen
forty nine, it won the British Academy of Films Best Picture. It took
home the Palm Dior from Cans In America, it was nominated for three Academy
Awards, including Best Director. It won for Best Cinematography. This film has
become a staple of the film noir genre and most importantly is an example of
the beautiful, over the top performer that Wells was. I hope you join
me next week when our month long tribute towards and Wells concludes with what is
often looked at as his final masterpiece, the nineteen seventy five film f for
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that's Wren's wonder. Don't you nh rip the dolls you could see under my
skin? Scared, but I'll let you in. It's cozy in sid happen.
Don't don't pip me if you could use me song in my soul.
Let me start it softing, go theever go because it time. Know the
counts that, because it never s. I wouldn't hide you so well.
This love's too heavy. Lay it all up in me. Let's make some
colors. I remember morning the colors now that is we're golden and Fox and
the Flamingos is here with us alive in studio. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed
and we are live on this Saturday morning from the studios of wm n H
ninety five point three FM on Canal Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. And
it is April twentieth twenty twenty four, and they are here with us live
making their return to the show. By the way, is that the world
radio premiere of that song the we like the world radio premieres here, all
right, So what we're gonna do Fox on the Flamingos is gonna play live
for us like they did before, but this is the first time here doing
them doing it here at on our new location, at our new location on
Canal Street. So we've got everybody set up. We're gonna see how this
goes. What I'd like to do is and we're going to start with the
gentleman who didn't get to talk last time, but you here. He's in
the corner and he's a radio guy himself. So we're going to what I
like to have everybody do is and we'll start with you. If you can
introduce yourself, tell us who you are, what you do in the band,
and we'll do a quick sound check to make sure that we can hear
your instrument. So go ahead, sir, Yeah, here everyone, My
name is Ryan Pratt. I play drums for Fox and the Flamingos. And
that's it. One to a sound check. Yeah, yeah, go ahead
and go and hit those hit that. What do you call that? A
cohone? So here's the here's the foot pedal, now, oh yeah,
that's coming through. Here's the front. Oh yeah, okay, great,
great, and you sir, Oh, I can't hear you at all.
Hang on, I'm sorry, you'll not hear you at all. Try that
again, Ryan, What is going on here? There we go? I
found I found you. I found you. Hey. I'm Ryan Bossy.
I play keys in the band. Yeah, all right, Carrie, I
don't know if you want to test the keyboard here. Oh yeah, I'm
sorry, yes, that that would probably be a good idea. Let's see
shriek loudly to trying to figure out where you're There we go. Oh that
sounds nice, cool, very good, very good. And you Gary,
Gary Smith, I play bass guitar in the band, trying to figure out
which channel you're on. Okay, that that makes sense, that makes sense.
Okay, there we go. Awesome, Thank you Gary. Oh we
lose you. M hm, you're here somewhere and there we go. There
we go, all right. And Mazie, Hello, my name is Mazie
Ray. I'm the lead singer. Yours is easy to sound check. It's
gotta worry about the voice. All right, and we have Hyler, a
gentleman who's been on the show very recently. In fact, Yes, Tyler
Moran, Alan Moran, welcome back. M hm, sounds good, sounds
good? If do you guys? Do you all wanta before you're you're gonna
play two live songs for us? Correct? I keep losing your your vocal
somehow, keep keep talking around? Right here we go, Test one two,
Test one two. There it is there, it is. Thanks.
Sorry about that. We didn't have the soul thing at the old at the
old place. I'm glad we have it. But all right, do you
wanna do you want to just play? Just play something short to sound check
with first, so I can kind of make sure these levels are good and
then before you play the actual uh songs that you want to perform live today?
Sure sound checks song. Yeah. I can't hear myself anymore. I'm
not going through I can hear. I can hear you. You're not in
your headphones. It's weird, is it loose? Hello? Okay, now
I am I think I'm just really quiet. Bost you up a little bit,
thank you, because they're all, they're all, they all very much
overpower me like all the time. I understand. I love you guys.
It wrought me to sound like a dying more than I already do. Bryan,
can you talk a little more? Yeah one too. Okay, I
think we got I think we got everybody. I think we're good. All
right. So we have Fox on the Flamingos alive in studio on this Saturday
morning. Really looking forward to this and uh yeah, whenever y'all are ready,
and then we I figure if you want to play a couple and then
we'll we'll talk for a bit afterwards. How does that sound? Intro?
So this one is called to Brushing My Table by Grace Potter, and we
love to cover it all right. Came back calling with the dool missing out
of the crowd. Tell me it top my empty bags on the girl,
open this door, come out and I'm not messing around. Can't believe I'm
standing in here. You used to call me Fry, will believe me.
I'll be gone by the time you get it back from work. I'll just
have to do things I don't want to, no want to get. Give
me back myhammer, give me back my nail, give me back my teens
and machajaco, give me back my box with the colder nch cable, and
don't forgive my truck bro and my table. You by a good things going
on? Would you want to take you away? The non be some one
goes dirty business, so they say, I don't wanna tell you wrong,
but here we are, pays the face. Oh I'm sure, I'm glad.
I don't have to hang around this. Please well bing me baby the
same bumpigu with me neither, So get out of my way, all stop
blessing cats, grass fever, Give me back Comma, give me back my
name, give me back my teens and must say take care, give me
back my backs with the code of ridge cables, and don't become my tool
first and my table. I don't care which way you think, Stormy my
out of witch. I've already recollected all the love I wish I had,
not spin the marry. Who knows I'll pay more than myself of the rich.
There ain't nothing in my heart for you. It's up a big old
dance, trying to put it down, trying to tear it up, and
trying to give me a gold. I just need a few things for the
road, then I'll be Yeah, give me back my emma, give me
back my nail, give me back my cheese and my chase headcat, give
me back my bax with to go to rens cables, and don't become my
toothbrush in my table. I love you. Give me back my hammer,
give me back my nail, give me back my jeans and let tachakecam give
me back my box with the go to its cable and don't begin the table.
That was fantastic, fantastic. Fox and the Flamingos live in studio and
uh, who does that song again? Grace Potter. Grace Potter. He's
one of my biggest influences ever. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Yeah,
okay, okay, so incredible, very cool, very cool. Yeah yeah,
I think so. Actually, Pete's worked with Grace our sound guy our
Oh okay, pell Quin of Board's house production. Oh, very cool,
very cool. I know you wanted to do too. Do you want to
do another one? I'm I'm feeling anxious to get to the next one while
I've got the levels actually where I think they're okay, because that's a that's
a challenge. But if you want to play another one, and then what
we can We can talk for a few minutes afterward and get caught up on
everything you got go? How does that sound if we do? Isn't she
lovely? Last? Yeah? Yeah, crazy cool perfect? All right,
there's another cover. It's our taking on a queen song. Okay, very
cool, very cool Fox on the Flamingos live in studio with us today.
This thing couple. I just can't handle this thing coda. I must getting
around too bad. This thing guys and a griddle like a baby on that
its wings, it dives and it shakes. Ang Lord, I can tell
you this that goes my baby as a rock and rob. See it doesn't
me, Crazy sees me how and cold fever knows me in a cuckool sweat.
I gotta be cool glad get again on my times and they got back,
take a long ride on my mother bikes on my day. Crazy there
goes up there. Wow, she knows how to rocket bo See it doesn't
mean a crazy singing me, hot and cold fevers me and cuckoo sweat.
Gotta be cool again. I'm take a digo vacca sing along by get Ready,
Crazy Little very Cool Fox on the Flamingos a live in studio with us
on this Saturday morning here on Matt Connorton Unleashed sounding fantastic. By the way,
the studio line is open, so if you have any questions or anything
for the band, you can give us a call. Six oh three two
five oh six oh oh seven? So three two five six seven And uh
so, what's been going on with y'all? What what have you been up
to since the last time you were on? Oh my goodness, so much?
Yeah, yeah, fill us in. So the first thing I would
like to say is like, uh, a dream of mine came true,
and like, I just am so grateful to all of my bandmates. All
of you guys are amazing for putting up with my my stuff dreamt not swearing
on air, And well, I mean we won this Battle of the bands
recently at Hawks and Reed and Greenfield, Mass Congratulations and thank you. It
was such a crazy night and we are playing because of that a cabin set
at Strange Creek camp out Okay, And it's my favorite festival of all time.
It's put on by Warmtown Trading Posts out in Greenfield and they're so amazing.
It's and all of the other bands were amazing, The Chops, Cosmic
Blossom, Hopefield, General Store, Faith and Band and Dog Eate Dog,
all incredible bands that were just so amazing, And so it was. It
was a really great night of like great music and great people, every one
of them. Yeah, yeah, really was a wild night. And and
Mazet isn't building this up enough, you know, she's she's saying it's her
dreams and it's there's a reason why, you know that this is a big
deal, this getting into this festival, being even associated with this festival.
There's thousands of people there every year, and it's a really good opportunity for
us to really get our name out there, get our sound and our songs
out there. So, uh, what you know, I'm sure, as
you know, in this business, it's all about who you know, and
it's tough to break in. So winning this Battle of the bands was a
big, a big ice breaker, if you will. For Fox and Flamingos,
we're now on the scene. You know, I've been talking to them
about playing this festival for since we got together, like since we very first
got together, and they were like, what the heck? That tell where
the dream started? Oh, so well. I mean when I was eighteen,
I was in kind of like a really bad headspace and my bad my
buddy she invited me to this festival and I was like, you know,
why not. I've never been to a festival. And it was life changing,
Like it literally changed the entire trajectory of my life, I feel,
because I got there and instantly I was like I need to be here all
the time. Yeah. Yeah, And I remember being in a cabin and
looking at my best friend and being like, I'm going to be on that
stage one day and she was like, yeah, you are. And it's
crazy because like I didn't know what actually happened gave me. But I'm really
excited and we have a lot of new music coming as well. We're working
on an album that we're going to be releasing by the summer. Yeah,
I'm sorry. We're pretty close. We're very close. We have one song
that actually we're going to be recording next Tuesday. It's our newest one background
and another song in the Bank and another one on the bank called Home at
the Creek get Ready to Sneak Peak, Sneak Peak at the Home of the
Creek, So that track, We're Golden that we played. Is that that's
on the new Yeah, that's our most recently finished mixed and master tune.
We used Pete Pelliquin from Boards House Production, so ou to Brookline, New
Hampshire. Pete's a master. Yeah, wonderful, He's a master. You
know we what what what takes bands months to do? Pete dozen three days?
Wow? So he's uh, he's he's a genius for sure. Did
he also produce the previous He's produced all of our tracks so far. We're
we're kind of, i think unspokenly, just kind of giving him this this
first album, you know, just we're gonna stick with you because he's formulating
our sound and it's coming out really really good. What was he in that
role from the beginning or because sometimes you know, it happens organically where someone's
working as an engineer on your music and then they sort of become a producer
de facto producer. Well, I've known Pete since I was like yay hi,
Like my mother knows him very well. And when I started singing,
which has been forever, I was probably like fifteen years old. He told
my mom, when she's ready one day, I want to record her for
free. And then I got we got this band together, and he was
like, yeah, whenever you guys are ready, And he actually did our
first couple on the house, and that was really cool. I'd known Pete
from from just music scene. He was in a couple of bands, and
you know, he tours it with you know, Bad Fish and Roots of
Creation and all that kind of stuff. But I know those guys and and
so you know you, like I said, it's all about who you know,
you meet people or whatever. So I'd known Pete for a while.
So when you heard that May's was in the band, I'm sure he messaged
her as well or you know whatever, but he messaged me. He goes
soon, he goes, you know, heard you're in a band with Mace,
And I was like, yeah, it's going so super good so far.
And we started off just writing or doing covers, you know, just
playing covers because we knew we needed to build a base. We wanted to
play bars and clubs just to get out there and you know whatever. So
learned a little art of covers and to get ourselves through a three hour night.
Yeah, but Pete goes, you guys ever started to write songs.
I want to record you so and he's he just reached out. He kind
of grappled us from the beginning, and we didn't give us a choice to
go anywhere else. Thanks Pete. Yeah, and all of our friends actually,
like my buddies shout out to Rabbit's Foot, that's my buddy's band.
They record with them, and they actually released their live album recently, Like
they are awesome, and he just it's cool because like it's interesting how like
you become friends with everybody in the direct circle that's around you as far as
music goes. Yeah, yeah, and that's actually how we got into trout
Stock because we have a lot of mutual friends with me on trout another great
band, and they shout out to Roger for getting us onto trout Stock twenty
twenty four. We'll be there on Thursday at five thirty. Yeah, the
opening night of trout Stocks in July. Okay, the opening night we play
at five thirty and it's a we've been told, so that's the The opening
night's got a good turnout too. But good trust Stock is another one of
those Western Massachusetts festivals you know that draws a lot of a lot of good
bands, a lot of crowd you know a lot of people that are that
are really into into original music. Yeah. Yeah, so oh very cool,
very cool. Oh I don't know why I can't hear you Ary,
let me boot boost that all that. Oh, that's part of the problem,
you're drooping. We're doing a bunch of gigs just around. Yeah.
We have probably twenty five beyond that this year. Okay, we got we
got a website. Yeah, everything's on there Fox dot com. Yeah,
sign up for the mailing list. Yeah. We pretty much have a residence
at the Peddler's Daughter in Nashua or local haunts. Yeah, oh excellent.
It's I mean it's they still got a good late night scene and they got
people to come out and dance and party and have fun. And yeah,
it helps keep our chops fresh, you know what I mean, No matter
what, no matter what it is, it's like if we're working on new
originals, that's where we play them live. Yeah. Yeah, that's it's
a good it's a great, you know, great outlet. And shout out
to John and the Stafford Pets. Yeah, they're super good to us there
for sure. Yeah. And then the Brick House Restaurant in Milford, New
Hampshire, you know, we're still playing out there Riley's Place. Uh,
small little place, but man, they got kick ass music scene there.
They really care, you know. They they got a nice house sound system
and was great. Where's where is that? A long time ago? It
used to be the Colonel Shepherd House. It was a you know, bar
and restaurant. It's it's like I said, it's t little. It's in
like the first floor of a house built in the seventeen hundreds. You know,
I was wondering where it came out of nowhere. Yeah, it's been
there forever, but it's been like four different things. So it's finally a
place that's harnessing musical talent and excellent. Yeah, excellent, very good,
very so, even even with recording, because obviously you've been working on an
album, but you're still playing out really consistently too, So that's great.
That's excellent, excellent. And then the album July is kind of the the
ETA. It sounds like I'm hoping. So we we're all very critical of
ourselves, and especially me and mister drummer Pratt. So yeah, it's kind
of like it takes us a little bit to kind of you know, get
it all. Nailed down, but I'm excited about it by the way,
you know, I don't know. We want to announce what we're releasing.
Oh announced, okay, so let's get let's if it's okay, we'll get
like a thirty seconds of backstory here. So yeah, uh, the uh,
some of us believe in and putting you know that patience is a virtue
and putting together a compilation of songs is an expression of you as an entire
band. Yeah, and that like all at once, that ritual, that
ritual of building an album, releasing an album, and having the listener be
able to go through your selection and your expression all in one kind of thing.
I think that that's you know what some of us think that that's a
valuable thing to do. And then the rest of us and even I know
I'm speaking of myself as holding that that value of releasing an album and Tyler,
but in every in every one of us now that you know, I'm
coming around to the idea understands the world that we live in this day and
and uh, it's all about pumping media out regularly, record it and release
it, record it and release it. So the more you can get out
there, the more you stay irrelevant and fresh in people's minds just because there's
so much out there, and so we're kind of changing our tune and and
uh, you know, we've we I've been doing some research pros and cons,
and it seems that there are there are definitely some pros to to dropping
singles from your from your album prior to your album release. So it seems
like we're gonna be able to get best of both worlds. So we have
a tune called the Water, which I think we're gonna, uh, well,
you're going to play for us man that the one we're going to release.
Was it Water or A Stranger? Like, okay, so the song
that you play, Okay, we're deciding. Wow, I was just confused.
I had the Water on my mind, but you're right, I for
some reason, because we heard Matt playing Don't Be a Stranger when we walked
in, I was like, Oh, it's already out there right now.
So yeah, Matt, right now, you're the only person that has Don't
Be a Stranger. That's great. So so yeah, so the week the
Monday before we play Strange Creek, which is Saturday, May twenty fourth,
we play from eleven thirty to one thirty AM eleven thirty. That's our Strange
Creek Cabin set. The Monday before we are going to uh, we're going
to release Don't Be a Stranger. Awesome, awesome. We got some new
T shirts too. Oh good. It says on the right side, on
the right front like near heart, you know your heart's on the left side.
It's on the left shirt. It's on the right, but the person
wearing it, it says don't be a Stranger. And then on the back
it's got our little go and cool. Yeah, I'm excited. We we
we kind of made this agreement that every thousand followers we get, we're going
to do a giveaway, a little merch bundle, so like T shirt sticker,
Oh cool, And that's followers on Facebook, Instagram. Yeah. I
always say that song, Don't Be a Stranger. You know, I play
it often on the show, and I always say, both on and the
off in the off air, I've said, you've got to hit there,
you really do. It's such a great song. I mean, I like
everything you do, but that's such a great song. And by the way,
so the other two studio tracks you sent me, we're going to play
both of those at the end of the segment. The time goes fast,
it's it's already getting close to eleven. But but I do want to play
both of those as we bridge to the The next guest, The Whole Loaf
is going to be coming in for the third hour today. You know them,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool. Yeah, so they're gonna
be on with us. But but I'm actually going to play both of those
tracks. But mentioning one of those tracks is just a live direct one that
was the one. So that's the one we're actually recording, kind of like
a little teaser that direct at the last show, okay, wondering what we
sound like live. Yeah, so that's an idea of that, but it's
not the that's what we're recording. Okay, next week in the studio,
Okaya, it has already been recorded water Okay, So we'll play Water and
then we'll play the other one too. I'm going to play them back to
back at the end of the the end of the segment. Yeah, yeah,
no, I really like I really like everything you guys are doing.
So where where so where is the next show? Where's your next live show?
That you want to make sure people know about Our next show is at
the brick House. Brick House Perry forgetting that all squared away business now with
nice excellent, excellent, and then on the tenth will be at the brick
House. So that's another back to back weekend for shows. Okay, very
good, very good. The eleventh, so we're at the Shoskine on the
ninth Soul Night with DJ Myth, which is a lot of fun. Yeah,
it's super fun. If y'all are in the Manchester area, come out
to the Shascine on funking Soul Night. Sean Caliber will be there. DJ
Myth's been in track and then Little collab with them and then we'll get up
and yeah, we'll get up in jam a set. Very good, very
good. Oh we should mention too, we'd be remiss. I I forgot
someone's uh, someone wants to say to somebody. Guess we actually have a
very special listener today. Her name is Kathy Pratt. So I just wanted
to say, hi, mom, Hi, missus. I I heard a
little bird tells me that she really enjoys our commercial spots. She feels there,
she feels they're they're well produced, and she likes the sequence of them.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know where I heard that, but yeah,
somebody somebody told me. Uh so, Patty Pratt. Very good,
very good. Well listen we will we got to begin to wrap up.
Like I said, the time goes fast. It is already almost the top
of the r I'm going to play both of those tracks though. Fox and
the Flamingos thank you all for joining us. Absolutely no, and you sound
amazing live so really great to uh hopefully the recording came out well the first
time doing quite quite such this production. In this room here here in the
new studio. It's great in here. Yeah yeah, it's like I always
say, you know, it's it's new, it's clean, and now that
there's a sign on the building, hopefully fewer people will show up looking for
bus tickets. I don't know if you, uh ye are aware of the
situation there, but so everybody, uh listening, stick around. We've got
the whole low Fu coming up third hour. But uh, here it is.
We're gonna play this. This is the water from Fox and the Flamingos.
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