Speaker 1: Well right now, joining us alive in studio and let
me get that mic up there. We have Rick Everhard,
better known as six Minds Combined. Hello, Hello, Hello, welcome
to the program. We're going to play some of your
tunes and get to know you a bit. And I
have to tell you so. And I didn't mention this
off air, but so last night on Friday nights, I'm
here too. I do a show called retro Spectrum Radio
with Polly c. Polly sees the host. I'm his co
host on that program, and he always asks me during
the show what do I have coming up the next morning?
On Matt connorton Unleashed, And he loves the name six
Minds Combined. He absolutely loves it. He thinks that's like
the coolest name ever. So before we play the first
track the single, let me get the obvious question out
of the way. Where's the mine? Where does the name
come from? Rather six Minds Combined?
Speaker 2: So actually it's it's not a long story, but but
there's so when I first started making music, way back
when I was eighteen, I I I came up with
a name and I was like, oh, I like this name.
It works. But it didn't work for everything that I
was making. So so I was like, oh, well, let's
let's try this name, and then this name and then
this name, and it eventually it became six different names.
So I went by I went by Schitzo for a
little while. Yeah, and then uh. And then one day
I was like, so, so there was another artist, underground
artist at the time that was going by the same name,
and so I was like, you know, I can't really
like bite off this guy. I got all my own names,
you know, so so why don't I just stick to
to those depending on what I'm working on at the time. Yeah,
and uh. And then one of my songs that I wrote,
I had wrote, uh, something like with these six minds combined,
and and I read it off and I was like,
wait a minute, that's perfect. So so that's that's basically
where that came from.
Speaker 1: Oh, very good, very good. By the way, who I
am is in the Facebook live chat and says yes
six MC, I'm sure, oh oh MC and two exclamation points.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, we were talking off air too. You were on
Lacey's show recently? Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, she was
here and a while ago and brought her keyboard and
played live for us at the studio. It was a
lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a song called Oh let Me Know when
It's Time to Rock that was stuck in my head
for months after hearing it. Wow, but let's do this.
Let's play this track now. This is the single day Dreaming.
I have a radio edit of it here. We'll listen
to this and then we'll come back and talk about
it and get to know more about what you're doing.
But if you are just joining us live, we have
right here in studio. Six minds combined, and check this out.
This is called daydreaming.
Speaker 4: Six minds combined. Minds combined dangerous.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I get to thinking about all the things I'm missing.
I get so many inklings to do. Should be rid
slifting what mind dismissing? Time persists too, mind back, mind
starts drifting. I find myself in vel loved, helpless as
to where I'm visiting. Dimension shifting, vented and burst up
of our sentence, left intact on wrecking what we've left untouched.
The future is not above us, but right in front
of us. Enough of not embracing faid, it's plain to
see the change we.
Speaker 4: Need to make. Its time to shape the tree. What
could this mean?
Speaker 5: I'm ddree I see the scene, nom men to see
misleeeding me.
Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene, the men to see misteaeding.
Speaker 4: Different directions, FECs.
Speaker 2: My mind is left invested in this fanta see it's fans.
I see you're run me, screaming at me, laughing, crying,
funding lights so bright, the sight is like a dream.
Speaker 4: It's me. I'm standing.
Speaker 2: It's outstanding, handing me the trophy, holding hands, whip, woopy.
Speaker 4: Hugs and speeches, leeches.
Speaker 2: Creeping me out, sneaking past the popper Rotzzi. Whoops, they
got me shot outside, accosted at the Boston Market. Stars
are made this way. Let's like the spark Let's fight
the darkness. Harkness holding up the gate. It's time to
fade away.
Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene, not meant to see misleeeding me.
Speaker 4: What could this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene, nom men to see I'm misleeding me,
misteed me.
Speaker 2: The stakes are racing, lifting faces, journing to change places,
aces saved in case adjacent to the Jack of Space,
wasted place it face down, passive takedown, patients gaining me
the high ground, chasing faithless vagrants aimlessly down past. They
want to try it now. I do want to die now,
but want to fly. This guy's the limit, getting like
to find out what's next to my route to try.
Speaker 4: I'll get it.
Speaker 2: I'll win the contest of constant progress on top of
the charge with my songs about this and the roll
up doubtless. No mouth, don't shout with us when we
buffed down, shouting I'm out shame, come out shame.
Speaker 4: What good this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene nomenzacen misleeding.
Speaker 4: What good this mean? I'm day dreaming.
Speaker 5: I see the scene nomenza misleading.
Speaker 4: Miss me? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Could this mean? Is it just a day dream?
Speaker 4: What could this mean? What could this mean?
Speaker 1: I like that that is daydreaming, and that is six
minds combined. And we have six minds combined here with
us live in studio. Yeah, great track, awesome?
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Is that you singing as well?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh so you do? You do all the vocals?
Speaker 2: All the vocals?
Speaker 3: Is me?
Speaker 1: Oh excellent? Now what about the instrumentation do you play
as well?
Speaker 2: Or so. Actually all the all the music off of
this album was all made by Chris carwellos okay, good
friend of mine. He's uh he's doing a drum and
based thing as Skinny Jeans.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, from the area or where christ the area?
Oh okay, okay, very good.
Speaker 2: He actually lives in Conquered I think.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, And how did you connect with Chris to
work on this project?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Actually, uh, I've been I worked with Chris for for
like eight years, just making music, hanging out, having fun,
you know, making stuff for us, you know, just just
just to do it. Yeah. And actually I got I
got mixed up with him because I got into some
trouble and I had to do some community service, so
I went, Uh my friend Gillian Anderson introduced me to
Tom Lopez, who was at the time the vice president
of Positive Street Art. Okay, and I had to do
some community service. So I did all my community service
through Positive street Art, which was It was great. It
was so if if anybody has has community service, need
to work out, definitely, you know, uh, look us up
and and uh and and get involved. But it's positive
straight out changed my life. I met a whole bunch
of people through them, I obviously, you know, I got
I got my act together, and uh, it's it's just
been great, great, it's a great organization and uh. But anyway,
so so through that doing the different events that we do,
I ended up meeting uh Chris at we we had
a dance program going on for a while, so he
would come to that every every week or every other week,
whatever it was. And I met him there and we
we hit it off right away. Yeah, and uh and uh.
He he mentioned that he was you know, he was
a producer, he made music in the past, and I
was like, oh, we should work on something together. So
he he gave me everything that he had in his
archive and he's like he's like, you know what, I
really like you. I trust you. Here, take all the
and see what you can do with it. And so
I wrote to a couple of the tracks that he
gave me and he's like he's like, wow, you know
this is this is this is cool. Let's let's keep
working together. So he started coming over like once a month,
with once every couple of weeks, and he would pump
out like five minute beats and then we would sit
there for hours and we would just write to it
back and forth, and we must have made well over
one hundred songs together. And so I'd say somewhere abouts
a year ago we had we had made that song Daydreaming.
He used the this this instrument called the machine, and
he like recorded a couple of vocal samples and just
turned it into this sick beat. And I was like, oh,
this is really cool. And and I was like, it
feels kind of like daydreamy, and he's like yeah, and
so it just it just went from there, you know.
And and and I think it was like two or
three days and we had the song done yep. And
so shortly after that he had, you know, he had
things going on in his life. I had things going
on in my life. And he's like, he's like, you
know what. We sat down and we talked, and he's like,
he's like, I'm going to take a different direction with
my music right now. You know, I'm going to do
this this drum and bassed thing. And and he's like,
but I wanted to let you know that anything that
we've worked on up until this point is yours. Do
whatever you want with it. Rewrite the lyrics, use the lyrics,
whatever you want to do. And I was like, you
know what, I should do something with this. So so
I put it out in the universe, you know that
I wanted to start, you know, chasing the dream, right.
So so somehow the universe answered and they introduced me
to Eleanor Luna from Midnight Creatives Collective and she she's
they are are became my manager.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I mentioned my ideas and she's like, we can do
this for you. So so it's just been it's been
a ride since then. But we I picked uh seven
of the songs that I had been working on, and
I went to uh toy Bok Studios with mister good Bars.
Speaker 1: Yes, ye, yeah, he was on the show a couple
of months ago, I think I think it was a
couple of months ago. Yeah, yeah, he's he's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a great. Dude's phenomenal. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and he works with so many different genres too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yep, yeah, so many different genres and he's
good with with all of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's just got a huge talent for music and and
putting it all together. He also does cinematography, so he.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He he made the Daydreaming official music video that's
on YouTube. Oh okay, yep. So, so we had a party.
He came over, I had a few people over and
and we created the ambiance and and he did all
the recording and and then put it all together afterwards.
But anyway, so, so I had the beats, I had
the I had the lyrics. I have a home studio.
It's not that great, but but I don't know all
the technical things, you know, the tweaks in this that.
So I was like, I want to get this professionally recorded.
And Eleanor introduced me to mister Goodbar's. I went over
and he's like this, this stuff is great. He's like,
let's do this. So we we laid down all the
lyrics onto the tracks, and then he did He worked
his wizardry magic and made it sound ten times better
than I could have ever hoped. And uh and and
it became the album. Eleanor uh then she she, you know,
put the booklet together. I had my friend Hegan Fitzgerald
art by KF that did the artwork for the album.
Speaker 1: We should mention and and I'll hold it up too
for I mean, they won't be able to see it
super well. But for people watching online, yeah, you brought
in you brought in a few copies of the and
I just want to say too, it's impressive. So you know,
it's a conversation that comes up a lot on the
show with guests, you know, whether you know physical media,
you know, are you gonna are you gonna put something
out on physical media or not? And and a lot
of our guests really are putting out CDs. But you
you kind of went all out with this too, because
you know, you've got the book and you know you've
got all the lyrics and everything, you know, full liner notes,
all of that, which is really cool. And I love
the artwork. So but yeah, for people watching online you
can kind of see it's it's impressive, but yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Cool. So actually about the CD, I don't know. It
was like fifteen six and sixteen hundred bucks. We went
through Super Dupes yep, and got them all printed up.
They're right in Salem, right, Yes, yes, I I am
if I meet anybody in person. And actually I figured,
since we're on the radio here, if anybody wants to
reach out to me, I will give them the free
a free CD. So I don't want to. I'm not
trying to make money off the CDs. I feel like
I feel like like music itself should be as free
as it could possibly be. The things that I feel
like artists should get paid for is shows, merchandise and
things like that. But the music, I just want to
get it out there. I got a message. I want
people to hear it. That's again why I put the
lyrics in there too, because I want people to know
what I'm saying and understand the message that I'm trying
to portray, you know, like a it's like uplifting, like
let's let's make some stuff happen together, you know, you know,
forget all this negativity and and all the bad stuff
that's happening in the world. Like let's let's let's ignore
that and and let's move forward in a progressive way.
You know. At the end of one of my songs
and one of my lyrics, I say, we can be
we without being forced, and and that's I really feel
strongly about that. You know. I feel like like there's
there's too many organizations and people that are they're just
doing it for themselves, you know, and they're trying to
be the better of of whatever they're they're into. They're
trying to be the best. I'm looking at it differently.
I don't think. I don't think that I can be
my best without somebody helping me become my best. Right,
I wouldn't have been able to get as far as
I've gotten with the music in these past few months
if it wasn't for Eleanor at Midnight Creatives Collective. Yeah,
she's she's really taken, taken the bowl by the horns.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what what she's doing there is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's it is great. And if if
there are any aspiring artists, musicians, painting artists, pencil artists, crafts,
like whatever you do, check it out Midnight Creatives Collective.
She they will, they will help everybody. So the idea
is to basically have like a business bar where people
can come together and they can collaboratively work on whatever
art projects they have going on. And at the same time,
she also does like this this management. Yeah, and she's
been picking up quite a few clients lately, so get
on the list. As soon as I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say, I think she's assigned a couple more.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 1: She's doing great stuff there, and so I'm associated now too, tangentially,
but I'm doing I don't know if you know this
about me. I'm also a certified hypnotherapist. Oh really, and
I'm now available Mondays and Tuesdays if someone wants to
book a session with me in Nashua at the Business Bar.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, they can do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Oh so you're involved with her too, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've known Eleanor for probably twenty years. Oh wow, yep, yep.
Speaker 6: Absolutely highlighted my artwork in the month of August. They
took twelve of my darkest paintings and put them up.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, yep, yep. Yeah, she's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The whole organization, like the idea that they have
for it and everything that they're doing. They actually they
just opened up another room in the building that they're
at where they want it's gonna be like a community
jam space. Okay, So anybody you know, bring your guitar down,
bring your keyboard down, bring your bring your amp and
your microphone, and let's all hang out in that room
together and just jam out, you know, makes them makes
them have some fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh that's fantastic. Well we should play another track.
I'll let you pick what. Uh what should we play next?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Uh, my my favorite song off the album is Running
through a Mansion.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what's cool?
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that because, uh, that's actually my
favorite too.
Speaker 2: Oh cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this one. So we'll give this a spin. Yeah,
if you didn't pick this, I was gonna close the
segment with it when we get to the top of
the hour. But I'm gonna gohead and play it now.
Cool and yeah, this is my personal favorite. You know,
and your your tracks, I mean they're they're unique, you know.
It's it's this song especially, it's it's like nothing I've
ever heard before you did. How do you Everyone always
say it's this question about how do you define your
music for someone who's not heard it. Do you call
it alternative hip hop? Because that's the first thing that
came to behind when I was listening. It's like all
hip hop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's probably what I would classify
it as. I tell hip people hip hop because it's
got rap in it. Yeah, rap is significantly, you know,
a big part of the hip hop scene. So so
that's what I start with. But I'm like, but it's
not just hip hop, right, Like, you really got to
check it out and listen to it because every song
is different. Every song's got its own cadence and feel
to it. And if you don't like one song, you
might like the other six, so it's worth checking out.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, very good? Well check this out. This
is called running through a mansion and this is six
minds combined.
Speaker 4: M Well you know, will you know? Will you know
that you got this? HM?
Speaker 7: Said?
Speaker 4: Well, you know? Will you know? Will you know that
you got this?
Speaker 1: HM?
Speaker 2: Running through a mansion? Answer in a standing question? Left
are going through room through? Bobas I know you left
me questions to me as fest to ring obsessing all
my lessons learned. I think I've earned some rest against
It's time to burn the desperate yearning for Lott's to
cope with later greater understanding handling matters as a man
in standing a foot what we know is right, and
making not demands and never given into ghosts, just hoping
for for change.
Speaker 4: It never comes as long as you don't run.
Speaker 2: It's fundamentally U Central Central Intel spelled it out. It
sounds a bit like self half wellness, You've already won.
It's all about to combine. Some time is an illusion.
You can do it because you've done it someday, some day,
prove it to yourself. And that's enough to use the
runway claims taking off about the skies and bids to
try to find us, flying freely, feeling fund and finding
flight beast, not to find us climbing higher than we
dared you scared to fall back to the ground, resounding
off the atmosphere.
Speaker 7: It's clear, will never come back now, Oh no, we're
all outday.
Speaker 4: Painting on this. Can our spots leave? We'll burning like
the stars. We've got scars as we from them, working hard.
So well, you know, will you know? Will you know
that you got this? Hmm? Sen, Well you know, will
you know? Will you know that you got this? Hm?
Speaker 2: I feel a little bit of I've just read a
lot a lot of lyrics. Need a bit to sit
and settle myself down before I hear it. Fear is
nothing to do with the science system. Listen, serious, gear up,
dust off, stript rust off. You can drive a Numkin
ver six off this path that at last I have
found so many floors and lock doors are torn down?
How many more before I'm forced to lay down and
take a break, before I break and fade out. Listening
to this, it's got me thinking about what's missing. It's insensitive,
obsessing over every single mistake, taking time and making rhymes
to take my minds up, all the sickness witness in
between the lines of something written.
Speaker 4: You got this, you got this?
Speaker 5: Shut h.
Speaker 4: Well you know? Will you know? Will you know that
you got this?
Speaker 7: Said?
Speaker 4: Well you know? Will you know? Will you know that
you got this?
Speaker 8: M You can through these windows, watching people following wind blows,
holding on the hope that no wind, Folks beneath the
way they can't regetting their burdens, hurting inside them out,
trying trying to be something someday, some way, somehow, someone
that they can be proud of, shure the world what
they climbed out of, holding onto who they were while
turning into something more, be putting keys in their own doors,
ensuring needs to just be sure so they won't.
Speaker 4: Need to need no more.
Speaker 2: Indeed, we plead to leave this core, imploring we don't
need to work, and we can be without being forced,
without be forced, without being forced big without being forced, without.
Speaker 4: Being for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, that is my favorite. That is
running through a mansion. That is six minds combined. Who
is here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning.
There's a line in there too, watching Uh was it
watching people? Watching people falling over when the wind blows?
It just Uh, you couldn't have predicted when you wrote
that song. But when I when I hear that, I immediately
think of I just have visions of all these videos
that I've seen, Uh in Florida, Yeah, the hurricanes, like
literally people being knocked over by the wind. But yeah,
such a great track. And uh, I love your your
singing voice too. You remind me of somebody, but I
can't quite place who when when you're singing, has anyone
ever told you that you were anyone?
Speaker 2: I've heard every single person that says I sound like
somebody says I sound like somebody different?
Speaker 1: Oh, no kidding. Oh that's interesting. That's interesting, is it?
I assume it's not. But is it difficult to shift
gears live between singing and rapping? It's probably pretty natural out.
Speaker 2: Imagine it is, especially I've I've practiced, practiced these songs
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times. So it's so
it's like, uh, and I listened to them every single day,
you know, my my music is my favorite music.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so when when I first write the songs, they
they don't sound the way they do at the end,
like I have to find, I have to find, like
I write first, and then I'll find the cadence and
I'll i'll create the melodies and things like that. So
so a lot of those words I wrote them as
words first, and then I would listen to and go, oh, well,
this would sound good with some sort of melody here, okay,
And and then and then I would adapt the words
to to work for that melody.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, that song in particular has a lot of
words in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's got the most words on
the album.
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that challenging for you or I?
Speaker 2: I have a horrible memory, so it's really really hard
to remember all my lyrics. And I've I've made like
I've like I said before, I've made hundreds of songs. Yeah,
past I don't remember any of them. You know. Actually,
one thing I do remember, though I can't I can't
say it because there's there's bad words in it. But
the very first the very first four bars I ever wrote.
It's stuck in my head forever, that'll never go away.
But yeah, so especially that song, it is hard to
remember the lyrics, but it's I almost use like a
visual and and like the the fact that it that
the things rhyme that that helps a lot. And and
like if I if I say the first line, it
triggers the second line in my mind. Yeah, the second
line triggers the third, and then the fourth. So if
I jump in the middle of a song and try
to start it, I'm so lost. I have to start
from the beginning.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. That makes sense. That's something too. You know,
there are people who who don't like hip hop, and
I always tell them one thing that I just feel
nobody ever brings us up either. Something that I feel
that people who rap don't get enough credit for is
the memory skills. Yeah, because you know, your typical rock
song it's pretty easy to remember. You know, you listen
to it a few times, you know, verse course verst course,
you know you get the lyrics. But your average hip
hop song has a lot more lyrics. Ye packed into
it than your average rock song. So there's you've really
got to have good memory skills or you know, or
find some something that works for you mentally, like the
way that you described where you can recall all of
that and even and also two with a rock song,
if you do mess up a lyric, it's pretty easy
to recover from it. But I would imagine a song
like running through a mansion if you mess something up
as you're performing it live, you know, I mean in
your mind that there must be like a little bit
of a hiccup there, like uh oh yeah, yep, does
that ever happen?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it happens all the time. Yeah. And that's
another thing like I want to put out there is
like everybody makes mistakes, you know, and especially in live shows,
there's a lot of pressure that you're under being in
front of even if you're in front of ten people,
if you're in front of one hundred people, there there's
pressure to do a good job, and that on top
of all the other little things. It's, you know, anything
can make you skip up, mess up. I was at
I host an open mic for through Positive Street Art
once a month. The next one's October eighteenth. At the
last one I was at was also my record release party,
and I was I was performing the song Champion, and
I forgot the first word. Oh no, So I had
to restart the song two times and and and I like,
I I was perfectly fine. I was calm, like I was.
I wasn't nervous at all. And then I forgot that
first word and then then like my anxiety shot to
the roof and I started I started all like panicking
right there. I'm like, oh God, what do I do.
I can't remember. I can't remember. So I just I
like centered myself and I just press play, and then
the lyrics all showed up. Yeah, yeah, it was well.
So the we haven't mentioned it yet. The name of
the album is Issue zero.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I was curious about that. The title.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so I'm I'm into like comic books and
series and things like that, so I like to I
like to integrate all my passions and and my hobbies
into everything I do. So so with the with the
name of the album, I was like, I wanted to
be the first of something so like in like issue
or or something like that. But but it's it's kind
of like the before album. Okay, you know, I'm just
coming out. Everybody's getting getting to know me, so it's
not the first one. Yeah, it comes before that, so
it's zero, so it's it's issue zero. And then that's
that's basically why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. Well,
we should play another track. What do you want to?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Where where should we go next?
Speaker 2: Let's go with Champion.
Speaker 1: We'll go with Champion. And that was that was not
one of the ones.
Speaker 2: I needed a radio edit for. And that one's that
one's a it's a little more melodic than the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And then my song in your Hands, I feel like
that's the closest to like a rock song that I have.
Oh really, uh yeah, so maybe we'll play that at
some point too.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, cool. All right, let's give this ha spend.
If you are just joining us, we have six minds
combined here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning,
and this track is called Champion.
Speaker 4: Okay, we really yea when nobody wants to me that.
Speaker 3: Yap ya?
Speaker 4: What do we run to? We need someone's you need
finds through? What if we're running the wrong way? And
how do we know with what if we do ourselves today,
and how we show me the right path.
Speaker 2: And give me from all this darkness.
Speaker 4: Or sharpen my knife hand and be out on my tar.
Speaker 2: Who do we become when there's no one to take
the far the one to make the sacrifice, no one
to make that final call? Who do we become when
someone threatens those beloved above and below? We'd go to
the deepest depths to hold that crutch, hold that crutch.
Speaker 4: I judge my fair share of.
Speaker 5: Square swearing love in love has somewhere off in.
Speaker 2: Sart shared I often got off God after our mer
sign and a normally normally a normal guy, but I'm
not just me.
Speaker 4: Might want to see what I might decide.
Speaker 2: I gotta not just be, gotta be the best of
my monsters. I normally intent to intensified the descent, to
pretend to decide that this that's decided to repent, invent
a sentiment for desensitized descent, commending me every simple step
a symbol. Who do we turn to when we burnt through?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Are hero bros? And hear go stewing brose to becomposed
to beat this? Those noose also just thrown in pits
of bones no fits in. Those that lived there sold
this pigs to stuff and filled their bellies with these
demon fixings. Hm hm nice short song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is a short one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That is called Champion. That is six minds combined here
with us live in studio on the Saturday morning. By
the way, you are getting a lot of chat room love.
We should uh mention some of these folks, uh I
Jones is that he said a y E Jones A
Jones A Jones. Uh says a lot of very positive
things including I'm so proud of.
Speaker 2: You dude, yep, which is uh.
Speaker 1: Which is very nice.
Speaker 2: A good friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent Eddie uh seven two three oh says
love you six mc uh. Let's see who else who
I am we mentioned is in there earlier being very supportive.
We appreciate that, uh. Andre Dumont of course. In the
Facebook live chat this morning, Andre says, this show has
amazing local variety. Does New Hampshire even realize the local talents? Yeah,
there's a lot of talent here. You know, sometimes somebody
will ask me, you know, how does you know Jenny
does all the booking, and somebody will ask me how
does Jenny find all these artists? And it's like, well,
there's so much great talent out there, so many uh,
you know, and not just here but all over the
all over the world. Really, we live in a time
where it's easier than ever to create music and then
share it with the world, you know, with the globe.
Speaker 6: And a lot of times it's when an artist says
can I, all.
Speaker 2: They do is ask, right, that's it. Well, that's that's
the huge thing, is uh any opportunity. There are tons
of opportunities out there, and you just gotta you gotta
see them, you know, if you if you see something, yeah,
see something, say something, you know, like the like the
radio shows, I would have I would have I would
have never done this myself. But knowing knowing the people
that I do it gives me the confidence, you know.
So but yeah, you know, get out there, if you
if you're if you're making music for yourself and you
think it's good, you know, show show it to some people,
see if they think it's good. And if they think
it's good, then show it to more people. You know,
get get on the radio, talk to you know, reach out,
get a hold of eleanor at the MCC and she
can make it happen for you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. By the way, can you tell us a
little bit more about positive street art because it sounds
like so it sounds it sounds like you have to
do that because of community service. But it worked out
great obviously, it's it helped you turn things around and
you're you're still working with the organization.
Speaker 2: Yes, so I'm I'm on the board. Excellent. Yeah. So,
so I I had to do my community service and
I had one hundred hours I had to do. So
I worked with Paul Sheha at Great American Downtown on
Sundays doing the Farmer's Market. And then I worked with
Tom Lopez painting murals. You know who who who doesn't
want to paint murals for community service? So I had
such a great time doing it that I continued to
volunteer with them afterward. And I just really wanted to
like it. It was very fulfilling, you know, So I
was like, I want to be a part of this.
And then you know, one thing led to another and
they finally asked me, They're like, well, you're you're such
a huge part, you know, you're always helping us out.
Why don't you join our board, and I was like,
I'll do it. Yeah. I was like, I don't know
what I'm doing, but I'll do it. You know, I'll
take the opportunity. I'll make it out. But through positive
street art many many. Ramirez is our lead painter. I
don't know what title he goes by now, but he
does most of the murals or organizes them. But he
he was leaving an apartment way back shortly after I've
got involved with them, and I was looking for a
place and he's like, Oh, there's an apartment in my
building that's opening up. Why don't you check into that?
So I checked it out. I was like, this is perfect.
Ended up living there for sixty years. But after I
got the place, the landlord showed up three weeks later
and he goes He goes, hey, man, I heard you're
a carpenter. You want a job? And I was like, yeah,
I'll take a job. So I've actually been at that
company for eight years now. It's the best company I've
ever worked for in my life.
Speaker 1: Excellent.
Speaker 2: That's Turncycle Solutions out of Nashville. It's a general contracting
and weatherization company. But anyway, so positive street art, you know,
years go by. I'm involved with all their different programming.
I try to be as involved as I possibly can.
A little over a year ago, I came up with
the idea. I was like, you know what, I want
to start doing something with my music. Why don't I
try to do that through positive street art. So I
talked to them and I brought up the idea of
starting an open mic, and and they're like, yeah, that's
a great idea, so let's do it. So almost every
almost once a month, I've been I've been putting on
the the open mic. It's called Vicus Fox, which is
Latin for Voice of the City or voice of the street,
and it's it hasn't really taken off yet. I've been
doing it for over a year, but hopefully now that
you know I'm getting out there personally and I'm trying
to get as noticed as possible, other people will be.
They'll they'll want to come just to see me, and
maybe I could get some of them on the mic exact,
you know, because That's what I'm all about. I want
to I want to bring everybody up. I want to
get everybody together. I want I want I want to
collaborate with people. You know, I'm anybody, you know if
you know, uh yeah. So so that's that's a That's
a huge thing that I that I want to mention
is I'm all about collaboration. You know, I'll work with anybody,
and I want to work with people. I want I
want to you know, share my talent with other people,
motivate other people. They do the same thing that I'm
doing right now.
Speaker 1: So what I what I love about the whole you know,
your your whole story, the trajectory of we talk a
lot on the show about taking negative things, taking negative experiences,
and creating something positive out of them, right, creating art.
You know, people take trauma and then they make music
with it, you know, but your your story is an
example of that, but even on a on a higher level,
because you got into some trouble, right, so you had
to do community service, but you did that with positive
street art and then all the great things that came
from getting involved in that. So it's it's like, you know,
it's like, you know, taking something negative and creating art
with it, but on steroids, it's you know what I mean,
It's like, that's that's such a great story.
Speaker 2: And once you start that trajectory. It just keeps going.
You know, if you have the positive mindset and you
put that out in the universe, it's going to keep
flooding you with positive things. Yes, you know, I've over
the past eight years, my life is completely turned around.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I own the nicest car I've ever owned,
the best job I've ever had, and I'm doing something
with my music finally, and I'm I'm meeting up with
a mortgage guy to try and buy a house. None
of this stuff was was even a thought in my
mind eight years ago. And then I got involved with
positive street art and and everything changed from yea, you know,
all that all that positivity that I was involved with
just surrounded my life, and I just, you know, I
kept taking every opportunity that came, and here I am
today on Matt Connerton Radio.
Speaker 1: And no, We're glad you're here, and yeah, and and
so much of it too. I think it is, you know,
surrounding yourself with positive people. Because sometimes I think Jenny
and I've had conversations about this with someone we know
off air. You know, the importance of surrounding yourself with
people who are going to lift you up. And be
good for you and be positive for you and staying
away from people who are only going to bring you trouble, right,
you know that's that that's such a huge part of it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: By the way, So when you play live, do you
do you ever perform with a band or is it
just you with backing tracks or out? Does that work?
Speaker 2: So it's right now, it's me with backing tracks. But
I would I would like to get together with a
band and and some other solo artists that play instruments.
I want to do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I want to do an acoustic version of the album
as well. Yeah, change up the lyrics a little bit, Yeah,
the melodies and things like that, and you know, create
a whole nother project with the same project. Yeah, you know,
and and and again, uh, work with other people so
that you know, we can bring this whole collective of
people up. I uh, I'm I'm working on some some
music videos and uh, and like like promo videos and
things like that to try and you know, on social media,
to try and get people interested and listening. So ideas
for that, you know, they're like, there's there's so much
you can do, and I only have so many ideas
So if anybody wants to throw some ideas at me
and and and maybe work with me or or whatever,
you know, I'm down for it. Yeah. I wanted to
mention I don't know how much time we have left,
but uh, I have a I do have a show
coming up. Oh yeah, yeah, in November, November twenty fourth.
It's going to be at the Jewel. We'll be there
right across Yeah, Sealfie we're involved.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. So I don't know how the
lineup is going to go or anything like that, but
but show up at the beginning, stay till the end,
and you'll get to see me perform.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, looking forward to that. Yeah, Spelfiefest is going
to be great if you go to actually, if you
go to Midnight Creatives Collective dot com Midnight Creatives Collective.
Want to make sure I say it right. Sometimes I
mess it up. But if you go there, Yeah, you
can actually get tickets right through the website.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And Jenny and I are going to be there. Jenny's
gonna a take, She's she's been making some amazing things
and I'm going to do I'm not sure exactly what
it's going to be. I'll kind of read the room
and see what people want. But I'm going to do
some kind of a hypnosis demon straight.
Speaker 2: Oh cool. Yeah, yeah, that'd be nice to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that'll be That'll be a lot of fun.
So yeah, So Spelfi Fest coming up, Yeah, November twenty
fourth at Jewel Yeah, it is right, I forget that it's.
Speaker 2: Right across the street. And that's it's also a benefit
for rare pain disorders. Yes, they wanted to make sure
that I mentioned that.
Speaker 6: Ye re the RSA organization that reflects sympathetic dystrophy. I
do have CRPS. Okay, yep, So I'll be saying a
few words on behalf of the organization. But they're super
excited about this happening because it's it's it's rare to
have fundraisers for rare diseases. We don't get a heck
of a lot of attention, so this is super important.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, we're uh, yeah, we're very excited about it.
It's going to be amazing. And also, are you already
working on the next album.
Speaker 2: Or so right now, I'm I'm focusing more on trying
to get the live shows going. Yeah, And and.
Speaker 1: Because you strike me as somebody who's probably always writing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, always, so so I am you know. I actually uh,
one when I was in the studio getting all the
stuff together, good Bars hooked me up with with a
beat that is going to be on the next album. Cool. Yeah,
and uh, and I have a couple other tracks that
I've worked on in the past that I that I
think are going to be good for the next album.
So I would say yes a little bit. Yeah yeah,
so so hopefully within the next year I'll have that out.
But again, I want to I want to work with
people I want, you know. So if if somebody's got
a beat and and they want they want they have,
you know, a space that's open on it, and they
want you know, some talented lyrics on there, then you know,
hit me up. I'll jump on the beat. We'll we'll
turn it into a video and yeah, we'll get it
out there as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: By the way, good Bars is in the chat room
and says six MC is the truth.
Speaker 2: Yeah there you go.
Speaker 1: You go absolutely, no, that's that's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Well we will.
Speaker 1: Uh, we are approaching the top of the hour, So
did you want to finish out with in your hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that one and you were saying this one
is kind of the closest thing you have that's to
a rock song.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right until the next album because until yeah, yeah,
just the beat that I got from Good Bars, that's
that's like a solid rock song. Okay, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool? And uh so before we play this
and finish out, what should people know about how to
find you online? Anything specific? You want to make sure
people know about how to how to reach out to you,
follow you keep up with everything.
Speaker 2: That so six Minds combined obviously issue zero I'm on
so YouTube has got this weird thing where you have
to like claim your channel and it's a process.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the the the music video Daydreaming is on It's
on my channel, and then the album is on. Uh
it's on the music YouTube, but it's under topic or
something like that. Ye like claim it. They do weird, right,
I know. But it's on it's on YouTube music, it's
on Spotify, it's on uh Apple Music, it's on band camp.
We Uh, what was I gonna say?
Speaker 1: It's on all the.
Speaker 2: Stream Yeah, yeah, it's on everything.
Speaker 1: We should say too. It's the number six, not six
spelled out for the right. I mean, I assume if
you search it with six spelled out you still come up.
But maybe just I hope so. But you just make
sure people know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can. You can find it on on
on any of the any of the streaming platforms