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Speaker 3: To someone who kids, save your preaching, your rock adoptees.
Speaker 4: You get.
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Speaker 4: So, keep you blind face.
Speaker 2: I'm never change. From Cradle to Cray.
Speaker 5: You know your knees.
Speaker 2: It's nothing to me.
Speaker 6: So see you're heaven in hell.
Speaker 5: For the wishing.
Speaker 2: Well all you know my te well, well say.
Speaker 4: Man the world. You need to say so, keep your
blind face.
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Speaker 4: Statt do my way to say to say.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not a you need to say he last
night from Cradle.
Speaker 7: That is Cradle to Grave. The band is Lone Wolf James,
and we have Lone Wolf James here with us in studio.
Welcome everybody, if you are listening live on Saturday, April
twenty six, twenty twenty five, we have crossed into our
number three of Matt Connerton unleashed on this rainy day.
Jenny is here, of course at the news table president
and she's not on a mic, but Echo Ray is here.
She was on the show with us recently and first
introduced us to the band well technically although well she
brought that track. But and we will play some more
from Lone Wolf James later in the show. But Jenny
and I had seen Lone Wolf James live and I
don't know if you guys realize this, but we'll we'll
talk about it, and we really enjoyed your set. But
let's get into it. So we've got the guys here,
Gary James, of course, the Lone Wolf James yourself. How
are you, sir? Welcome to the show. Good, thank you
for having any and you are you singing? And you
play guitar?
Speaker 5: Correct?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 7: Okay? And what do we'll get? Actually here, let's start
with you over here in the corner, sir. Tell us
what you do and I'm sorry, tell us who you
are rather than what you do in the band. My
name is Jeff Holmes from the bass player and do
backup vocals. All right, Jeff, welcome and you, sir, my.
Speaker 9: Name's Tim Evans and I'm the lead guitarist.
Speaker 7: Lead guitarist. Okay, and you, sir, oh, Sherman, I can't
hear you, and I apologize. Let me you know what,
I got to really crank that up here? All right,
let's trade that again. There we go.
Speaker 8: I'm Sherman Wilson and I'm the drummer.
Speaker 7: All right, sorry Sherman, you're you're in the microphone that
we don't We'll use that one if we need an
extra mic. And but we did get it plugged in,
so we got that much figured out.
Speaker 3: Always the drummer, It's always the drummer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so uh yeah, so guys, welcome to the show.
Jenny and I saw you live at Swarmyfest. Oh okay, yep, yep,
that was and and I'll tell you I so I
had not heard Lone Wolf James prior to that, and
I saw you on the schedule because we were there.
We were there as a sponsors and representing the radio show.
And I remember saying to Jenny after or during your set,
I said, they sound like a band named Lone Wolf James,
Like like you sounded like I expected you to sound
based on the name. And please take that as a compliment,
because I think the name is really cool and I
really like your sound. But but yeah, so have you
guys been around a while? Has the band been around
for a long time? That's my impression that I actually
I started it years ago and I was like.
Speaker 3: Playing acoustic on a stool doing open mic oh really, yeah,
and that's how it all started. I had left the
band and the whole I think Echo told you this before,
but when I left the band, I was leaving all
the crap behind.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And the guy went, well, there goes Lone Wolves, and
I was like, I'm going to use that. Oh yeah,
so I use that my last name, James. I put
them together. There was the Lone Wolf James. Yeah, and
the fact that I'm part Native American kind of fit
into so I was like, all right, I'm going to
use that. But yeah, so I started it then, and
there's been you know, over over the years, you add
people and you do this to that. But I was
I was trying to find like the right lineup because
I was getting to the point where the band is
starting to go from regional crossing into the national border. Yeah,
and we'll get into that, you know. But as I
did it, it was just like, you know, this is
this is not the lineup that is going to do
it so right. So we kind of like just been
with me eleven years. He's like my right hand guy,
and and we've all I've known Tim, We've known each
other since we're fourteen. You know what I mean, so
we were in our very first band together. I was
a drummer back then, so it all kind of came together.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: I would with fight and phone calls, you know what
I mean, and all kind of felt. Jeff and Sherman
had gone and tried out for the same band at
one time, and then they were both like and nope,
but they were friends. And then when I told Jeff
that I was going to have Sherman come in audition, He's.
Speaker 5: Like, hire that guy, you know, and whatever. So it
was just like it was kind of it was faded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this particular lineup now has been like you've
been a couple of years now, right, and uh, we've
we're like gone from the local to the regional and
now we're tipping our hat into the national. We're playing
with all national bands. Yeah yeah, because certain deals and
connections and stuff.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah. So is the band I mean, are
you the only original member technically.
Speaker 5: Or yes, from the original a yeah, because it started
with me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and my first record, My first two first records
were acoustic, okay, and I added like drums and stuff
to it. But I mean the first couple of EPs
are sold out, so that one that you played cradle
off of was actually my was like the second full
album and that's the only one still available really. Other
other than you know, I have like a few of
the one before that, but we've I've been in the
studio for the last couple of years now recording this
new EP with the guy from that works for Sony
and Capital and oh very nice.
Speaker 5: So and you know, everybody has except for Sherman because
it happened right before he joined the band.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but so he's the only one doesn't have
to get yelled at in the studio, right, But other
than that, yeah, I mean it all everybody here is
the loan old James. Well, everybody brings something to the table.
But it's it's like you have to have the head
of the the the artpus so of course just kind
of that, but yeah, I have to do the like
the business part of it too. Yeah, you know, I
take care of like the contracts and that kind of stuff.
And then as far as like the songwriting goes, you know,
I come up with an idea and I go I
like this, and I sometimes I just go to his
house and say, hey, this is what I got. Yeah,
and he'll go, let's do the or whatever, you know,
or I just bring it to the table and go, okay,
this is like here's the pizza dough at the topping
right right, and everybody kind of puts in their stuff
and then.
Speaker 5: You know, you get ideas as it goes.
Speaker 7: But you know, is the original material that you did?
Is that available online?
Speaker 6: Some of it?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you had to like have been around.
I released the first EP in two thousand, okay, so
it was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 5: I mean I was just just coming out, just you know,
just getting out of like.
Speaker 3: The cover band situation and a couple of a couple
of local bands that weren't doing anything but garage, you know,
yeah local maybe you know, once in a while a
rock pile or something, but other than that, it was
and I just wanted to get serious and they were
all about drugs, and I was just.
Speaker 5: Like, I'm done with this, you know.
Speaker 3: And that's why he was he was trying to chafe
me by saying, oh, that goes lone Wolf, like I'm
gonna go off of my and I was like, you
know what, I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 7: That's you know, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 7: You know, somebody threw that at you, trying to insult you,
and you took that and said.
Speaker 3: And now they're going, oh Jesus, guys are playing with
this guys and these guys and A's and you know,
and the like yeah, who's laughing now? Yeah, you know,
but that's that's really the way, and it's it's it's
about the hard work that you put it in and stuff,
and it's about the loyalty too, you know, Like these
guys have played some I don't know, I'm surprised they
didn't call me and call you crazy, you know, but
some of the places that we've done and some of
the things. Sherman's first gig with us was in this
It was a it was a biker fast thing, but
it was in somebody's yard and it was all it
rained so bad, it was like mudfest two thousand and nine.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god. And he pulled in.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, this kid is never coming back, you know,
and whatever, and uh and we you know, we go
from those to what we're doing now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you know, very cool. Yeah. I saw pictures
that you mentioned Ace Freeley, and I saw pictures of
you guys Online with a Kiss is my favorite band.
So I saw those I was like, oh, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: He was awesome, was he yet?
Speaker 7: I've heard I've heard yeah, Day to Attend?
Speaker 5: Who've Jeff?
Speaker 7: Yeah? The show you Jeff?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, those guys are great and uh yeah. They
played with a set the Aura, I think in Portland,
but I heard that Ace went on. I haven't seen
Ace solo live for a very long time, but I've
heard they went on that he went on very very late.
Oh really that night? Yeah, I know. I guess it's
kind of but your experience with him was positive.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the funny thing is, and this, I love Days
to Attend. They're great guys.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: We were supposed to play that show and I had
prior engagement so I turned it down. Yeah, And then
I found out that they got the opening slots.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh great, yeah, that's great for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the manager of Ace called my agent and
came back and said, can they play the Blue Ocean
since they can't do the Aura? Oh yeah, And I
was like, yeah, we can do that. Yeah, but no,
we didn't have any any any at all. In fact,
that's good, you know, We had played with some other nationals,
big nationals before that, and we didn't really get them,
with the exception of like a couple didn't really get
to meet anybody real kind of hit away in So
I never went into it thinking we're gonna meet Ace,
you know.
Speaker 5: And we did our show and the and the crowd.
Speaker 3: Loved us, and it was a line at our echoes booth,
you know, for the merch and all that stuff, and
the guy come, We're doing our meet and greet because
we do what every show, signing autographs and you know,
take a picture some stuff. And one of the guys
that owns the Blue Ocean came running up to me.
He looked kind of frazzled, and he's like, is your
whole band here? And I'm like yeah, I'm like they're
over there doing the meet and greets, right, Yeah. He's like, okay,
you gotta come up back. Ace wants to see you.
So now I'm thinking, yeah, well, I didn't know if
it was nicer he was gonna rip us. I didn't
know if we did something wrong, so I was like,
uh sure, So I go in and grab the guys
and I'm like, let's just go out back and we
passed all these VIP guys, you know, people with VIP
passes and stuff. I still don't know what's going on.
And then we get to the wall and he goes,
you know, hold on, I'm going to take a picture
of you. So I'm thinking, oh, maybe Ace takes a
picture of all the opening said he gets for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm still thinking this is why we're back here.
And then this door opens and here he comes at
six foot five or whatever.
Speaker 5: He's huge, he's so tall. Guy, he is he must
have been wearing he was wearing cowboy bodes. Really yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 7: Because I noticed in the pictures he's towering over you guys,
and I'm like, this, isn't that tall?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Five eight?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: So he but he came out, shook our hands, said
you know, he loved what we played and thanked us.
We thanked him, and he put his arms around us,
took some pictures. Yeah, and then we went back to
the things. So we weren't expecting that. Yeah, you know,
so that was very cool of.
Speaker 7: Him, that is, you know, that's extremely cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, who else have you? Who else have you opened?
Speaker 3: For as far as far as legends, like I, uh
was it with this present lineup? But I did Zeezy
Top and Skinned on the same bill. Yeah, but we've
done everything from It's funny because we're my agent now.
The one thing he loves about us is he can
put us in any category from seventies to the two
thousands to whatever. So yeah, we have literally done like
eighties bands where we're playing with like enough's enough. We've
played with Jackal, I've done Cinderella, you know, Faster pussy Cat.
Then you turn around and they put us with all
the Bridge, Theory of a Dead Man, Blackstone Cherry, you know,
Buck Cherry, all these other bands, and then you go
to bands like Edema and head Pe and you know
when we played with Saliva and so Powerman five thousand
is coming up, you know what I mean. So he
loves the fact that he yeah, we did with Lynch Bombs.
So it's like nice we have all these different He
loves the fact that we don't have to just go hey,
it can only put you guys with this type of music,
Like we have done everything from the seventies, eighties, nineties
and thousands, you know. And the good thing about that
is he's just like, well, your branch of music can
go from a twenty five year old to a seventy
five year old. Yeah, you know what I mean, So
you have a fifty year gap, which a lot of
bands don't have, and especially for a younger act like us.
Speaker 5: You know, these bands that we're playing.
Speaker 3: With are all fifteen years older than we are, you know,
so it's kind of like, well, we kind of got
into a niche where it fit for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, but a lot of a lot of
those bands, I mean, we've we've done a lot of.
Speaker 3: Nationals from lower nationals that like the like uh you know,
something that was around in the eighties, to legends like Ace.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's fantastic. Yeah, have you in terms of I mean,
do you get out of New England to watch for
those kind of shows?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I did a couple of stints myself in Nashville.
Speaker 7: Nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I played the Bluebird and stuff like that.
But the band right now, the core of us is
I mean usually I hate to say it, but it
usually comes down to money and things like that. And
I mean everybody here has got you know, I'm the
only one that's really not married. You know what, I mean, yeah,
so it's it's kind of like one of those type
of deals. So I what I do is I keep
it enough for everybody to go. Look, I made a
deal with them and I said, we'll start will go
from Maine to Jersey. Yeah, you know, and I go
in anything past that. I mean, obviously I'll give plenty
of notice and all that stuff. But this way, everything's
a day away, you know, a.
Speaker 5: Few hours, you know. That way, it's like, okay, you know,
if we're.
Speaker 3: Playing I'm telling you in two months, we're playing four
shows and we're going from Maine to Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Speaker 5: The to Jersey to back to me then no, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And they can put in for and in that way,
it's not like I'm calling them, Hey, we're leaving for
New York tomorrow, right, you know what, So we kind
of you kind of have to deal with the pros
and cons of it. But if I want the lineup
that we got, you know, and which I don't want
them stuck sticking me with people that I don't know,
you know, So it's just kind of like, all right,
this is what we'll do, and and be honest with
you until the gigs are worth going past that. It's
it's you know what I mean, like, unless they're gonna
give me a lot of money to go play for
somebody that's in California. I mean, we'd love to go
play the Whiskey, but how are we gonna do it?
You know, you know, I'm not spending seven grand to
get to California, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean he's asked us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the guy that books the Whiskey's asked us twice.
Speaker 5: All right, Oh, no kidding, Yeah, So I just it's
all in time. Yeah, it'll happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's just going to be when it's
a little bit more efficient to everybody, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm curious if too, if anybody has any other
projects that you're involved in, because I'm thinking of you
Sherman specifically, because every drummer that we have on the show,
almost every drummer, although Space Casino our guests in the
last hour were a rare exception, but almost every drummer
we have on the show is in like ten different bands. Nope,
I I spend all my time these guys, no kidding.
That's awesome. Well, it's cool that you know, I mean,
you guys play enough that, you know to keep you busy, right, Yeah.
Speaker 8: One of the things that you know, I dabble in recording.
And because I don't have my studio set up right now.
We moved here from Houston, and once I get my
studio set up, then we can start recording our stuff.
Right now, I'm just recording our rehearsals. Okay, so we
kind of flushed things out and yeah, just kind of
experiment there. But but as far as you know, I'm
not opposed to getting involved with a recording project, but
performing no, okay, because I and I've been approached a
few times. It's just that I tell them, you know, Okay,
but you know my priorities with Lone Wolf James. Yeah, yeah,
so that's even on my my band Mixed Photos is yeah. Yeah,
I'm the drummer for Lone Wolf James. Yeah, this is
my first priority.
Speaker 7: Because I have I have a theory that you know,
when you're when you're growing up and you first get
interested in playing a musical instrument, you got to have
the conversation with the parents. If you approach them with
either the drums or maybe the tuba, they're they're trying
to talk you out of it. And that's why drummers
are in such high demand, I think, because a lot
of parents try to talk their kids out of Now
you don't want to play.
Speaker 5: They had the trumpet and then the drums.
Speaker 7: You're drum first, Yeah wow, yeah, but oh boy, you.
Speaker 5: Played the trumpet. It started off in trumpet.
Speaker 3: We ain't even getting into that story. Go ahead, and
Sherman keep talking.
Speaker 8: That's funny.
Speaker 7: I started on the vio. Yeah, yeah, Oh that's cool.
That's cool. Now, how many how many songs do you
have as a band, because you've got you've got one
full length album, right, but you've got others.
Speaker 3: Have two full length albums, and there's two before that,
there's three EPs.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, we're a lot of material now yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but where we I mean, unfortunately, on stage you
only get about forty five minutes.
Speaker 5: So we're we're taking with Sherman.
Speaker 3: Now, we know probably let's say fifteen sixteen songs, okay,
and we dabble in twelve of them for the for
the shows, we switch stuff in and out and whatever.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but as a.
Speaker 3: Unit, like they're still Like the other day, we were
bringing up songs that I hadn't played in fifteen years,
you know, and they were just like, hey, you know,
what if what if we do this? You know, and
or hey I haven't heard that one or whatever. So
my old stuff is still brand new to them. It's
like saying I came in with a new record, right so,
And the good thing is is, like I said, the
first couple were acoustic. They were drums and stuff, but
there were acoustic versions of the songs. So to bring
it in with a massive band and have that full
band sound now, I mean when I traded my acoustic
in for a marginal and Les Paul, I was like, Okay,
this is serious. We're moving forward.
Speaker 5: And then you add.
Speaker 3: Everybody and the next thing, you know, it's like, gee,
what would this like. There's a song that we're doing
now that I want to record that I only have
an acoustic version of and we do play it once
in a while called Native Groove, and it's one of
my favorites. And that was strictly me on acoustic with
some drums and a little bass, that's all it was.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 3: It was big sounded, you know, and I was like, man,
imagine what this would sound like with a band. So
we brought it in and now you add Sherman. You
had Jeff, you know, and you had Tim with my guitar,
and it's like, wow, this is just like a wall
of sound, you know. So this is that's one of
the first tracks because I want to record after we'd
get done with this one, you know, like when they
come to us and say.
Speaker 5: Hey, I need more material, you bet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, write in the studio because we got a couple
of songs written that we want to do, and that's
high on my list.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's good to have things that are ready
to ready to work on, you know, you know, uh,
trying to come up with ideas, you know.
Speaker 3: And we've written some new ones, like there's a song
that we're dabbling on right now that Jeff and I
kind of we're trying to put together. And then it
was called Showtime, and and another one I want to
Be Bad, we wrote.
Speaker 5: I wanted to do like a a c DC bass groove,
like like the Jack, you know, and I.
Speaker 3: Kind of wanted to do something like that where it's
all like sexual talking instead of singing, and it's and
I said, but I need this certain, So I went
to I went to his house, and he's like, what
do you want me to play? And I'm like, just
go bom bom. Think of like running with the Devil,
you know what I mean, you know, like type of
type thing. And he did that, and uh, we kind
of put this stuff in together, and Tim came in
is like, you know what'd be great there some of
this wah guitar you know, and all that stuff, and
then you know, Sherman's just looking at us.
Speaker 5: I like, just play a beat.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: He finally gets in figure out what he wants to do.
Speaker 3: But they came together and I was like, wow, and
we were actually gonna play that on these upcoming shows.
Speaker 5: Oh, very cool. I want to be bad. It's gonna
be late on those.
Speaker 7: So yeah, you've got Enough's enough coming up. You said
you're gonna be opening for them, Yes, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3: We're doing a tour leg of a tour with them,
you are, Yeah, we're doing it doing I think it's Manchester,
Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're doing three nights in a row with them
in June.
Speaker 7: I always said they were underrated. Fly High, Michelle, I think,
is such a great song, and it's one of those songs.
You mentioned it to people now they don't even remember it.
Speaker 3: You know. It's funny too, because Chip is singing. I
think now I don't think it's the it's the original
singer anymore. I think Chip's enough to the bass player.
I think he's he's the original member obviously, but I
think I think I could be wrong, but I think
he's singing.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, I think he's a singer. But he
kept the name.
Speaker 7: Okay, but you mentioned lynch Mob too. You open for
lynch Mob?
Speaker 5: Yeah, down down in Webster.
Speaker 7: Oh that must have been cool. Yeah, that first Lynch
Mob album. Again, this is no one, no one even remembers.
But Wicked Sensation. Yeah, this one of my that would
be in my top ten all time, just so so good.
Speaker 3: Well, it was funny because this was this is where
I bring Tim in to that show because I, you know,
George Lynch Hello, yeah, yeah, he's a league guitar player.
Speaker 5: So I told I kept busting his chops.
Speaker 3: I kept saying, do you realize in the same month
you have to open for for you know, for basically
George Lynch and a's freely and he's.
Speaker 7: Just like shut up.
Speaker 5: So we were going over Andre playing.
Speaker 3: We did our set and we played Lynch and then
Tim and I are on the side of the stage. Ye,
and George Lynch is right there, yeah, and.
Speaker 5: He's just playing. And I look over at Tim and
he's just looking up at Georgie looks at me. He's
got this like kid a Christmas look. So I'll let
him take it.
Speaker 9: He even gave me a little nod because like I
tried to squeeze in just a little piece of I
didn't think he noticed, but he barely looked at me
off stage, but I was side stage and he turned
around and he did like a little rift that I do.
Speaker 7: No kidding, And then I was like, that's really cool.
What was he all buff? Too? Was his big body
building phase?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Oh he wasn't like that super buff. Yeah really yeah,
he's concentrating all this.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, So but you've got enough enough coming up.
Speaker 10: But what was it?
Speaker 7: There was there was another one.
Speaker 5: Power Man five thousands coming.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We got a leg of a tour with them, and
it's it's them and head pe ands like that, and
we just got off the road head p because they
were on the Saliva leg that we did. We did
Saliva okay, and you know Josie Scott and what about
nin What are we doing Nazareth?
Speaker 5: Oh Nazareth, Yeah that's a big yeah.
Speaker 7: Sweet.
Speaker 5: So that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: They got legends like Ace and Nazareth, and then we
have you know, the Power Man, five thousands, the Saliva's
you know, you know, we're trying to get hooked up
with a couple of things that you know, I really
I can't say anything of who they are yet because
until the ink as dry as they say, but I
think this summer, later in this summer, we're going to
get some bigger you know, the whole point if it
was to try to get in with a lot of
these bands that and in order. What people don't get
is like the management companies and the agents are all interacting.
So if you're playing with this band, they're the same
agent as this band, and you ain't gonna play with
that band?
Speaker 5: Do you play with this band? You know, like the
or this venue without that venue and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So the right now the contracts I'm doing the bands.
It's great because you get to have a colectic of
all these Like we opened the first tour we did
was Tantric Okay, I only knew one song from Trick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and now.
Speaker 3: They're like the coolest guys, you know what I mean,
Like we hung out every night all weekend.
Speaker 5: We hung out with them every night backstage or real
good to us.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: In fact, Hugo even approached me about, you know, maybe
producing one of my next songs and something like that. Okay,
so we'll see what happens with that. But but you know,
in general, they were just cool guys. Yeah, they were
really you know, we were and we're looking forward to
to tour with them again. But we did that tour,
I didn't know who they were other than you know,
that one song or whatever. But but then it came
out and you're like, wow, these guys are really good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, they had a few hits. Yeah, Morning
was the big ballad, which I really like that song.
I can't remember what else, but.
Speaker 5: No breakdown was that breakthrough breakdown?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there was.
Speaker 3: But I mean, you know, it's it's so rare that
you see because there's always an interconnection to like a
lot of people don't know that Hugo's connected into the
Bett and Court family, you know, and all that stuff
and It's funny because I knew all those guys, so
it was kind of like, oh, okay, so we kind
of know the thame like, we're going we're going to
play a local show. We're not doing too many local shows,
and we're playing a local show at the Raven, which
is Chris Betton Courts Club.
Speaker 5: Who's Nudo's cousins, no brother. It's all connected, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's all connected. So yeah, it's you just
have you make the right friends, right places.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: I'm curious because a lot of you know, a lot
of music industry people listen to the show. Do you
do you enjoy the business side of it? It seems
like you do the way that you talk about it.
But I know, but but maybe not, I'm the truth.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know.
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously you'd rather not have to do that
part and focus on the creative part. I know, But
but it seems like you or you or you seem
like you understand the business part of it at least,
which is puts you ahead of a lot of musicians.
Speaker 3: Used to be very overwhelming y now it makes you
kind of a hole, but you have to be because
if you're not They're gonna walk all over you.
Speaker 5: You know, absolutely, So like the biggest thing I do.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of people think, oh, you know Loan James,
he named the band after him and he's a singer. Yeah,
I wish that was the case. That would be so
much easier, right, But it's like, but I tell people
all the time, and I say this to even these guys,
and it's not a down shoot because I love them. Yeah,
I said this is you guys are part of it,
and you get to walk away and go home.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 3: I don't get the lead lon Wolf James because I
am him right, so, well, everybody else is doing whatever
they're doing. I'm handling contracts and phone calls and you know,
and all this venue change this or this guy's been
like we just we were supposed to play with La
Guns right here in Manchester in October and because they
played the Tupelo last night, which Tim went to, y.
Speaker 5: You know they went, you know they went last night.
Speaker 7: I didn't even know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, amazing they pulled the show I was already contracted for.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like one of those like okay,
well you know, what are you gonna do? You know,
it has nothing to do with me personally, right, so
now I have to wait we do it. But it's
like little things like that, or you know, you don't
get you get to a you have everything in your
contract about a venue and you get to the venue
and there's no place for the band to change or
park and they want you to pay the park, like
you want me to pay the park.
Speaker 5: I'm playing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like that's where you go, okay,
because only so far you're gonna go, even just yourself,
you have to get an agent. You have to get
So what I did was I had an agent from
years ago, and he hooked us up like Jeff's first
show with us.
Speaker 5: I think it was Jackal. I mean he put us
right here.
Speaker 3: At Jewels and yeah, and it was like, you know,
he booked us with that, and so I knew him
for years and but basically I ended up calling him
and saying, how much to hire you want as a
consultant just for us, just to do this blah blah blah,
because I said, I'm getting calls and I'm doing these things,
and I'm like, I need somebody who can haggle for me.
That can talk contracts with these people and then gives
me the contract, so I understand it, you know, without
all the bull you know. So that's basically all it did.
And then with the fact that I've in the studio
recording right now, and the and the producer that is
recording us is he is huge. He he did stuff
with Ray Charles, you know, Elton John with the Franklin
Guns and Roses ac DC. So he yeah, he's he's
worked with them all and he's in the studio producing
this next record. So he's got us working on a deal,
whether it's Sony or whatever. So hopefully that comes through.
But with that happening, you get a buzz. People see
who you were recording with, See what's going on. Well,
these guys aren't kidding, you know, they're in Like you
see the studio on Man, you know, and that kind
of stuff, and people are like wow. Then you go
from that and you get the right consultant who knows
you and knows you're not just talking. And next thing
you know, he's like, well, I'll give you a chance
like his our are put our toes in the water
for him? Was I know you can play a one
off I'm gonna put you on toe with Tan Trick. Yeah,
don't disappoint us, you know what I mean, because if
it comes back and you hear all this noise.
Speaker 5: He's gonna go any booking.
Speaker 7: These guys.
Speaker 3: Broke his foot right before the tour, and he looked
at me right after it happened.
Speaker 5: He goes, do not cancel those shows?
Speaker 7: Oh wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it.
Speaker 7: Was my fault. Oh my god. So you have how
many shows did you have to play that way?
Speaker 10: We did?
Speaker 5: We did three or four of them.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, I think I took the
boot off when we did Lyunch Mob because we were
shooting the video. Because I took the boot off for
that seconds. I didn't want to have this gigantic Yeah.
Speaker 3: We were like the second night in on the Tancer Show.
Oh wow, he's back there and he's you know, he's
got this big boot and I'm just like, I'm looking
back at him on stage and he's playing his heart
out right.
Speaker 5: And then in the Alchemy, we were playing.
Speaker 3: This place called the Alchemy is a great, great venue
down in Providence, right, and.
Speaker 5: It was pretty packed.
Speaker 3: I mean it was ocean all the way all the
way back for a small club and I finally look
at him and I look at the crowd.
Speaker 5: I looked back at him, and I go and look
at this.
Speaker 3: You know, And I said, whatever I said, and I
like and he said he's played with one leg right
the d he lifted up and the whole place went
not you know, And I was just like, wow, that's great,
you know, but that is rocket up, you know.
Speaker 7: Wow, Now good for you. Wait, maybe said how many
shows did you play with at least? Like, yeah, I
assume you didn't tell your doctor about it.
Speaker 8: No, he actually knew.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was all right with it.
Speaker 8: I'm a double bass drummer, so it was just my
high hat, okay, but I couldn't do I do do
some sparse double bass in our songs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, oh wow, oh wow job yeah wow. Definitely
pulled it off. If you're just joining us, we've got
the band Lone Wolf James here with us. Uh, live
in studio. You want to play another we can play
another track from the album. Sure, yeah, I'll let you. Uh,
I'll let you pick. Try first breath, Jeff Scotch. I
like that one.
Speaker 5: First ahead.
Speaker 3: He's trying to get me to bring this back into
the set list.
Speaker 7: It's a good track. Yeah, all right, here it is.
This is First Breath and the band is a Lone
Wolf James.
Speaker 10: Okay, so look.
Speaker 11: It's mine.
Speaker 2: Say me.
Speaker 4: Everything go be.
Speaker 1: Just the person.
Speaker 2: Trying to make.
Speaker 4: He me.
Speaker 2: All about?
Speaker 5: Is that your way go?
Speaker 1: You take the.
Speaker 4: First trime.
Speaker 11: First first, Well, yesterday's.
Speaker 2: Wa wa squears that.
Speaker 10: You're not You're not the first.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you.
Speaker 4: Won't be.
Speaker 1: The tomorrow will come, you know, the day we'll take there.
Speaker 11: First first word start sport.
Speaker 7: All right, that is uh, first Breath and the band
is Lone Wolf James. We've got the guys from Lone
Wolf James here in studio with us. If you are
listening live on this Saturday morning, and uh hopefully it
is uh sunny where you are, but probably not. You
got Yeah, you guys are all uh you're you're pretty scattered.
I know we were talking about it. Off. Are you
guys are pretty scattered right in terms of where you
all live?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Does that make it well? Actually, though, although I think
you had said earlier too, you're playing so many shows
you don't necessarily need to get together for too many rehearsals, right,
but but it must make it a little challenging, right,
but it shows it shows a level of commitment to
that you have, that you're able to be be kind
of scattered and you know, live far away from each other,
but still you know, put in the time to get
together and and work on the band.
Speaker 3: Sherman actually kind of came to the rescue on that
one when when I had my studio. My dad died
years ago, and I had put built a studio, rehearsal
studio downstairs my mom. My mom lived upstairs and and
I had my studio downstairs, so the band would always
just come there, and I was down a mass Yeah,
and unfortunately this passed Oarcoba, she passed away.
Speaker 5: So when she passed away, you know, I had to
sell her house and all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were looking around for places to go blah blah,
and Sherman was just kind of like, just bring it
to my house, okay.
Speaker 5: And then we went up there and we you know, he.
Speaker 3: Has a he has a bunch of gear and studio,
so he he cleared out one of his rooms at
his house. Yeah, and up in Wakefield, so that's where
we were rehearsed now, so excellent, and so he kind
of came to the rescue on that one, because yeah,
it's private and we can get there, we can play
when we want to, you know. And but yeah, my
goal was to keep us so busy. We're not just
sitting in our rehearsal room concert, right, I mean, if
we have something we want to work on, great, yeah,
you know, but like we took April off, and I
think this is the most we've rehearsed, we've had like
we got today, It's it'll be like the third one
in a row.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: But then after that we hit May and we probably
won't be back in that room till August.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so who knows, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's good to be busy. Yep, excellent, excellent,
what do you oh? Jeez? The time goes so quick.
So I want to make sure well, a couple of things.
So I want to make sure people know where to
go online to keep up with everything that you guys
are doing. Where's the best place?
Speaker 5: Reverb Nation is our main like our main page.
Speaker 3: So if you go to reverb nation dot com slash
Lonel James, it brings up pictures, our tour dates, all
up live events, things like that. Plus each one of
us has our own Facebook page. Okay, so if you
go to Gary James or or there's a Lone Wolf
James Facebook page. Yeah, yeah, but that's more of a
bulletin page. It just kind of shows the posters where
we're playing and things like that. But individually, you can
contact any of us on Facebook individually and then go
ask any questions or what.
Speaker 5: Do you want?
Speaker 7: Okay? Okay, And oh, you have a couple of videos too,
right do you? Or maybe just one do you have?
You have a yea music video?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 3: Cradle was the professional videos. Cradle was the professional video
we shot years ago. And as of right now, we're
going to start soon production on a song called Freaks
that we're recording in the studio and we're we're doing that. Plus,
Sherman had mentioned off air in he reminded me thank
you that when we played the Lynch Mob show, our
engineer from the studio, Jay had come down and brought
he works for Metronome and he had come down with
all his cameras and everything and shot a live video
of us that night opening for Lynch Mob. So it
was a huge crowd at the website there, cool and
all that. So we have the live footage. We just
don't have the concept footage yet, gotcha. So we're going
to be doing that over the summer and then when
it gets all it's called. And in fact, I got
in touch. I don't know who we're gonna use yet,
but one of the guys that contacted me off, he
contacted me. He did all the Saliva videos. Yeah, So
I was like, well, that's that's a good rep. You know,
if he's doing Salivas click click home and always. So
I was like, that's a good guy to have in
your pocket. So I've been going back and forth with
him and now we're discussing contract about it.
Speaker 5: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Because you know, the live footage from Jay and the
concept stuff that this guy's going he's talking about me
like having some kind of weird circus tent type looking thing.
And so we've already kind of gone back and forth.
I'm gonna get everybody's input on what we're gonna do. Yeah,
but so it'll you know, that'll come out after the record,
after the.
Speaker 5: Song comes out.
Speaker 7: Okay, but okay, very cool. And what's the next show
you've got coming up?
Speaker 3: The next one is going to be. The next national
show is May seventeenth, May ninth at the Blue Ocean
with Nazareth.
Speaker 7: Oh very cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the next one. And then May seventeenth is
at Hartford with Tim Montana.
Speaker 7: Outstanding, Yeah, outstanding, very good, very good. Well, guys, thank
you so much for coming in, all four of you.
This has been wonderful. I really appreciate your being here. Uh,
we're going to wrap up in a moment because we
are approaching the top of the hour, but we will
We'll play one more track to end the show today.
What what should we play?
Speaker 5: Wickhaman? We'll end it up with Wickhaman wick.
Speaker 7: A man, Okay, cool?
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 7: Any kind of a story behind this song, not everyone.
Speaker 5: Knows, not really.
Speaker 3: It's just the fact that I'm wicking, okay, and and
somebody once said, you know, oh my god, you're evil
and blah blah blah blah. So I kind of did
a tongue in cheek song about you know, the wicked
man being evil. But it's kind of it's eerie. But
it's eerie in my book because I joked about it. Yeah, yeah,
but that's it's this is really no like deep subject
to it or.
Speaker 7: Anything that's cool. No, that's that's a perfect way to
end the show. That yeah, and uh, Jenny, do you
want you've been very busy of course as always you
want to mention your your website. As always, you can
find me at Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 3: J E N N C O F F e y
dot com.
Speaker 7: See what kind of trouble I'm going to get into next? Yes, yes,
and uh, thank you to everybody who joined us today.
Of course we had no Siva in the first hour
and then space becaus you know in the second hour,
Lone Wolf James in the third hour. Great show, Echo,
thank you so much. Wonderful to see you, and if
you miss any part of today's show, and we'll be
up in just a little bit at w m n
hradio dot org at my website Matt Connorton dot com.
And we will leave you with this. This is Lone
Wolf James and this is called the wickha Man.
Speaker 6: Will have you.
Speaker 4: Heard the story?
Speaker 2: I'm out a pay say no out in Swampling.
Speaker 1: Under the Moon's gloo.
Speaker 10: Welling. It is restless. A town lives in fail.
Speaker 5: From a dirty omen.
Speaker 2: With the Damn's glad. You can't you can't it is side.
Speaker 4: It's just quick as you can.
Speaker 2: The side wigging get up. There's no way to find him.
Speaker 1: You can't make a stamp.
Speaker 10: Nothing's gonna stop him.
Speaker 2: It's insane hands.
Speaker 3: No shaman food dooo, no gypsy crystal ball, no motile magic.
Speaker 5: It's gonna make a fall.
Speaker 4: You can run.
Speaker 2: You get it side this wage you can. The boy
in the side wing you get run, you get get
is this brigeti water in the side.
Speaker 4: Being a you can you can get your sound as
quick as you can.
Speaker 2: Barside in the side way.
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 2: You can get it side it's as quick as you can.
The boys in the side way.
Speaker 10: Where m I feel ross slick a lot at you
the be You'll never find me. You're a gust us.
Speaker 2: You don't find me.
Speaker 10: Still into the street.
Speaker 3: Who is the bottle in?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I feel like say the choice or is about you?
Speaker 10: So it's because you have just shot it? Ome on
you go be?
Speaker 4: Who is the pot in her?
Speaker 10: He's surpass me to move? Why if you're looking.
Speaker 3: So sircut s pat, straighten up your back?
Speaker 10: How to be?
Speaker 2: It's all?
Speaker 6: But is it ignorant?
Speaker 4: Turning back?
Speaker 2: What's that bottles in your.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Don't that mean.
Speaker 2: Speak. In my book, chill, just keep rolling my buck.
Speaker 6: Cha, just keep ut rolling with the jack. Just keep unrolling.
In my book, chick just keeping the chick, just keep
rolling my
Speaker 4: Keep