Speaker 1: When Mattso wakes up in the morning, he gets into
the shower and to the top of his lungs.
Speaker 2: He sings, and I do what I want because I
can have it all.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm back to the radio show. Now, all the
best Jerry.
Speaker 4: In your wildest dreams, you couldn't ever imagine, in your
craziest thoughts, you couldn't ever conceive.
Speaker 5: One on, one.
Speaker 3: Mind, one soul, one voice, one true, one no one choice.
Come on, people, come on, people, Come on, peoples, get
this done. And come on people, come.
Speaker 6: On, people, come on people.
Speaker 1: Let's get this started right now. Let your dancing fierce against.
Speaker 7: The side get together.
Speaker 3: We are strong and whistle, one hard.
Speaker 7: One mind, one.
Speaker 8: Soul, one noise, one true, one do, one choice.
Speaker 5: Come on, people, come on, people, come on, people us
get this start.
Speaker 3: Come on, people, come on, people, come on.
Speaker 6: Theypleas get this started.
Speaker 5: What we did to give just wait to see to
escape the starting in the brow in the if they
use gap the stock to bar, they would they would
could be hardship the stock to maybe to regulars.
Speaker 3: Scape the stop water.
Speaker 9: Who hey, welcome back everybody.
Speaker 10: If you are listening live on Saturday, October twenty five,
twenty twenty five. We've just entered our number two new
marrowdos of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from
the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM
and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here, of course
at the news table and the song we just heard
that it's called People Come on and we've got kt
K also known as Kevin Kirsted here with us in studio.
Speaker 6: Welcome Kevin. Hey, guys, I love having.
Speaker 10: I love that song. I love everything about it. I
love the solo, I love your voice, and I love
the whole vibe. Everything about that is amazing. Thank you
very much, absolutely absolutely very happy to play that this
morning and excited to talk to you. You came to
us through Eric from Jamdemic.
Speaker 6: Jam Demic one of my best buddies these days. Yeah.
They're really on top of things, on top of their game.
They're a hot band. Yeah. I run sound for them, Okay,
and yeah, Eric said, Matt Connerton has some spots and
so I'm new and I have all my material ready.
I'm just getting started in the local area. Yeah. Yeah,
Eric sent me over here and I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well we're glad to have you. Yeah, I love
what you're doing. What can you tell us about that song?
Speaker 6: By the way, So that particular song was inspired and
a couple of roots. The ascending rhythm line came when
I bought my Yamaha trans Acoustic is an acoustic guitar
that has cours and reaver built into it. Okay, my
boss at work brought one in two years prior and
played it for me, and I was absolutely amazed, and
over the course of I wanted one. I wanted one,
but I really didn't buy things too much. I didn't
buy new instruments or things like that, and I really
wasn't doing my own music, just a little bit here
and there. But I sold all kinds of little things
on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and saved eight hundred dollars
and bought a brand new my first brand new instrument, yeah,
in my late fifties, Yamaha trans Acoustic guitar. And once
I got it, I picked it up and played it
every single day. So the rising line in that come on,
people come on. The guitar rises in there, and it
was born out of that people come On. But it's
a really a song about revolution and joining together and
the power of unity. And it was inspired by there
was an Iranian woman who was shot and killed for protesting,
and shortly afterwards, all the iran and women started coming
out into the streets and protesting. Yep. And I really
don't remember what happened with all of that, but it
really inspired. It showed me the power of what they
were starting to do. Yes, and even though they were
against all odds and they really didn't have much of
a chance, what they could do together made a difference
and made an impact. So that song speaks to the
power of unity, one heart, one voice mind. Yeah, I
love it. I love it.
Speaker 9: Where did you record that?
Speaker 6: So all these songs were recorded at A shout out
to Zach Kazik Wild Feather Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Excellent.
So last October, it's been a year now. These songs
haven't existed until a year ago. I started recording all
these and I just got the master that you played
two weeks ago. Okay, wow, so I've had I went
down I did fourteen songs down there. Yeah, and that
was one of the first ones. Yeah. So it's a
magical place. It's just a little small place, much like
the radio station, and all the studios down there, all
just small old houses converted and all vintage equipment. And
I walked in to that place and I had my
dream of recording all my life. I walked in there.
I said, I'm not here because I think I have
something that's going to sell a jillion or anything like that.
I'm here because I don't want to playing crap at
my funeral. I have all these songs. I have basement recordings.
They're just not good. I have old live recordings, old bands,
and something's not recorded and people Come On was a
basement recording. A lot of the elements of it, like
the beginning whispered come on Yeah, was developed in the basement.
Over time, some of those things came together. Yeah. But
you just walk in the studio there, and the studio
pros are worth every penny. They seem to know what
you're thinking. I just laid down my dummy track with
my trans acoustic yeah, and they take it all to
the next level, and then I get to sing on
top of it. I got to play bass on all
those too, lucky me. Yeah, it was only taken out
of my hand at one point from someone who could
do a little better. Really, that's funny.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you recorded how many and fifteen?
Speaker 6: I did fourteen songs in the studio. I have fifteen
tracks for you, okay. One of them is from nineteen
ninety two. I recorded at Ryan's songs in pepperl Wow
and had to be remastered. So I've had the opportunity
to record a couple of times over my life just
that really, well that one time in ninety two and
now here at Wildfeather Okay, so Wildfeather, Zach Kazak, he's
a complete pro. All the magic is the producer. The
people are good, you know, the musicians of course, Off Notch. Yeah,
the producer who tells you no, don't do that, here,
do that there a little less? Think about that baby
you're singing too. Ye. He was really an inspiration and
uh he sent me in the right direction. So that's excellent. Yeah,
it's been tough for showing up with the whole band
of YEA, so it was very It was fun to
just be the only person so and yeah, I went
with his input a lot of times over mine. I
don't care later on that you we might play. I'm
not sure. There's a part we cut out a little
talking part that I do live. The time I do
open mic, everyone gets a chuckle and I do live
because I do an implied rhyme with a bad word. Okay,
and I never say it. But he said, this song
will hit the radio. You can't leave that in there.
They don't want that. Yeah, so he was really conscious
of what could how he was aware of what could
happen in my music, and he was really helpful.
Speaker 10: Yeah, was that intimidating at all going to Nashville and
doing all that? Or because we've had a lot of
artists on the show, a lot of guests over the
years who have done that, and and I hear different.
You know, some some people say, oh no, I felt
really comfortable, and you know, I knew exactly where I
was going and everything, and other artists will tell me.
Other guests have said, you know, yeah, it was kind
of Nashville. That's kind of a big deal going there.
I was a little it was a little scary, Like,
how did you feel going there and doing this?
Speaker 6: So this relationship was cultivated over a number of years
through Facebook friends and through connections that helps. Yeah, So
I sent a few things to Zach over the years,
and you get mixed reactions. Yeah, And I sent him
Round Up the Vote, which I did in the basement
barbershop quartet. It was me myself and I all me
except for Tom from the Milk Crates came over and
played piano for me. Okay. But I sent that to
Zach and he said, wow, that's a cute little thing.
You need that mastered, and he offered to do it cheaply, yea,
And so I sent him. I was, I was a fool.
I sent him my mess of tracks from the basement.
I sent him forty three different tracks for maybe six
different eight different elements. Yeah, but he cleaned it up
and made it real nice. And after that point he h.
I said, can you listen to the rest of my
stuff and put them into folders? And I let him
listen to twenty odd songs, maybe old live band recordings,
some just me doing it by myself in some basement recordings. Yeah,
I said, put them in hits and shelf, you know,
And he put most of them in hits. Nice. So
I had I found myself with some money to do
some stuff, and I scheduled my time for October to
go down there, and we picked six of them, eight
of them the first time. Yeah, and did did those
in a week. I stayed down there a whole week. Yeah, yep, excellent. Wow.
It was one of the funnest times in the studio.
Magical place. Yeah. And you know when they're tracking and
when the lead players are doing all their work a
couple of times down outside and cry tears of joy,
magic happening upstairs. You didn't expect these things to blossom
into this. I knew in my head what they sounded like,
so they didn't make it sound exactly like that, but boy,
they did an awesome job and making it sound into
something spectacular. Absolutely. So some of the things they're completely
different from the basement recordings, I don't care. And the
basement recording is real guitar heavy and stuff, and the
studio recording is just pretty yeah. And so yeah, things
changed in the studio too, But it was the most
It was one of the most fun things, fun times
ever around in my life. Oh that's great.
Speaker 10: Now, while you were down there, did you get a
chance to play out at all? Did you do any
open mics anywhere or anything like that?
Speaker 6: Not? This time. Yeah, a time prior. I had made
sure I went down to visit and I made sure
I went to an open mic. So yeah, and I
had never done any up here at that point. This
was like three or four years back, and I told myself,
I'm going to Nashville. My daughter went to college in Nashville.
Oh okay, I was in and out. Yeah. And I
went to an open mic there and had never been
to one, and so I didn't know what to expect.
I didn't know you had to listen to the featured
artists for like an hour and a half or two
hours before you get to play your one song in
a chair with four other people in a row. So yeah,
it was a little tough in Nashville's tight town and
there's not too many open mics.
Speaker 10: That's the part that where people have told me it
can be intimidating, that that whole element of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. They were all sitting in the chairs and that
was the last one, and I couldn't sit in my chair.
I'm not a sitter when I sing, Yeah to stand up. Yeah,
And I did my Tequila song and I did really well. Yeah.
I did my basement recording of Tequila is out at
the time, and it still is out right now. On
sodcast you can find Kevin kirstaid hashtag Hydrate is the
name of the song. Okay aka Tequila. But I played
down in Nashville. I made little QR codes on business
cards and little stickers. Smart. I went in bathrooms and
stuck my stickers and stalls. Ye left my little cards everywhere. Yeah,
my reverb Nation page got a few hits from some
of those things. Yeah, that's good. So it was fun.
Self producing is tough. There's a lot to do, a
lot a lot to do. Yeah, absolutely, But Nashville it
was a little intimidating. But I'd been there with my daughter,
so I loved the town. Loved the town obviously. Yeah.
I couldn't wait to play there. I can't wait to
play there someday as artist. Oh I can imagine.
Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Well, should we play another one of
these studio tracks?
Speaker 6: Uh? Missed me when I'm gone? It's one of my favorites. Okay,
that was one of the ones I was never able
to pre record. Most of the other ones had a
pre recording. That one I went down with and I
just play through it and they took it from there
get a groove to it and got a Yeah, it's
got a groove.
Speaker 10: It does, it does, Yeah, it does absolutely. All right,
let's give this a spin. If you're just joining us,
kt K is with us Kevin Kirstead. But kt K
is what that's the name of the project, right, that's
what you're going with for Yeah, and for those of
you watching online, if you're watching on YouTube, he's got
the shirt to with the cool I do like.
Speaker 6: The logo kt K. The T is me?
Speaker 9: Is he your middle initial?
Speaker 6: Kevin Thomas? That's what? That's what?
Speaker 9: Oh, we have the same middle middle name. I'm also Thomas.
Speaker 6: There's another Kevin Thomas kirst in this area? Is there really? Yes?
There is? Jeez.
Speaker 10: That's funny. All right, Well let's give this a spin.
So this is called the full title has Missed Me
when I'm Gone, Missed Me when I'm gone, miss Me
when I'm Gone by K t K.
Speaker 6: Check it out.
Speaker 3: I'm staying in my face, but I'm staring at the door.
Speaker 1: I'm miss communication, scrimmling up my brain hidden mean you
windo driving me insane?
Speaker 3: Maybe it's team.
Speaker 5: I've been the team.
Speaker 7: I know, I know, I.
Speaker 2: Know, I've got I gotta get away.
Speaker 1: You gone, miss me, young y'all, miss me, you young,
miss me when I'm gone.
Speaker 5: When I'm gone yet.
Speaker 8: Young y'all, mess me, you're gone, miss me, You're gone,
miss me. You're gonna miss me, miss me, miss me
when I'm gone.
Speaker 3: I can have my opinion, and if I keep.
Speaker 1: It to myself, I can talk about our proper you're
listen with someone else.
Speaker 3: I can make my own decision if I'm sure that
he could fight. But you can think I just screwed
up again. I can't see any of you.
Speaker 6: He needs a team.
Speaker 5: I need the team.
Speaker 7: I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I know, I God, I gotta get away. You're gonna
miss me, you you'll miss me. You're gonna miss.
Speaker 7: Me when I'm gone. When I'm gone.
Speaker 8: Now you're gone, miss me, You're gone, miss me, You're gone,
miss me. You gonna miss me, miss me, miss me
when I'm gone.
Speaker 3: Me my chance, the clouds will go and see.
Speaker 5: Your line and the team.
Speaker 3: I'll just get back into line to.
Speaker 11: Everything you say, y y'all, miss me, young' miss me,
young you'll miss me where.
Speaker 7: I'm gone, where I'm gone, Get.
Speaker 8: Young y'all, mess me, young god, miss me, I got
I God, mess me miss me?
Speaker 7: Wow, Well, well, well where I'm gone?
Speaker 9: That has miss me when I'm gone.
Speaker 10: The radio edit from kat K Kevin Kier said, who
is here with us live in studio? Yeah, you were
saying at the end of the song. The other version
ends a little bit differently, a little differently, a little differently. No,
but I love that. I do love the groove on
that and the guitar playing.
Speaker 9: So is that all you as well?
Speaker 6: No? No, I don't play the guitar on that, only
bass okay, okay. Guitarist was in Nashville, Mike Sherry is
his name, and amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 10: What's going on in your mind when he's laying down
that solo, Like you must be over the moon, like
at how well that's coming out? That was a solo
is fantasy. Everything he did on that track was fantastic.
Speaker 6: Absolutely fantastic. And that was like his second time. That
was only like a second really, Yeah, So I think
that was one of the moments I listened to it
and then it was being remixed. I went down and cried.
You know these things, it's like so amazing what these
people come up with. The pro Like I said, the
pros are worth everybody. Yep, yep. But he nailed it
exactly what I wanted, exactly what I I wanted because
he heard the angst in the song. Yep, he caught
the growing and that was the bassline too. The groove
is in the bass line. It's in his line. But
he there's multiple multi So you listen to that and
you only hear a guitar or two, but you don't
know this several layers, and so the amazing part of
the studio.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: He plays the rhythm part for that, and then producer says, Okay,
pick up the strat the same exact thing with the
Stratton now instead of less Paul, okay do that. Okay,
Now we're plugging you in a different amp. Multiple, multiple
takes of the same thing, keep different sounds and different instruments.
The producer built the sound so it sounds like one guitar,
but it's actually multiples of different guitars and different amps
that are cleverly woven together to craft that. And so
there's the different tracks too and this, so there's multiple
takes of multiple That was the fun part of listening
to it. Yeah, the leads weren't just the one time obviously, yeah, things,
and then the producer would reached out. So all the
leads and most of the guitar playing was done in
the control booth, you know. The amp was in the
other room, and it was Oh, so this was the
funniest part. I went to help Mike come in and
I went to pick up his amp. Have you put
it on the ground outside the car And I went
to the handle, and Zach and Mike both looked at
me and say, don't pick it up by the handle.
Oh really, fifty seven Fender Tweed Vintage something other other. Yeah,
just don't pick them up by the handle. Yeah. Yeah,
But brought it upstairs. They plugged it in and had
a giant hum in it. What are they why are
they bringing this here? Yeah, And Zach gets in the
studio on the other side of the control booth and
he pulls up this little plug in and all of
a sudden, no hum on. Yeah. So he just knocked
it right out of the thing, and then everything out
of it was clean and pure. After that, it was
on eleven, and so the guy was in our round
room playing. So you're just sitting in a room with
his pedal board just few pedals. Yeah, the producer is
reaching down half the time, changing the pedals, doing all
kinds of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, the musicians are one thing,
and the producer, the magic producer, is the really the
key element of all that. Zach Kazak a shout out
once again. Yeah. Wild Feather Recording, Nashville Studio, Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Did any of those songs that we recorded there become
out like a lot different than what you had imagined?
Or was everything pretty close? Or I mean, obviously, I'm
sure a lot of them came out, you know, better
than you had you would even imagine, right, But but
but did any of them come out I guess what
I'm really asking is were there any surprises where at
the end of it you were like, wow, this is
I like this, but it's not necessarily what I thought
it was going to be.
Speaker 6: Absolutely I don't care that. I hope we play later. Yeah.
One of those songs that was the basement recording, and
it was heavy, heavy guitar, heavy into the guitar and
I leaned on the decord and just rolled around with
the bottom things. But it was heavy on the top
end of the two strings being the same sound all
the time, and when it got to Nashville, that was
gone and I kind of realized it, but I loved
what was happening with it. And I got back and
I let a friend listen to it. Yeah, and they
said that song is completely different, and I was like,
you know what, You're right, it is different. So what
they morph and turned into. I accept that there's different
versions of different songs and they'll be played differently many times.
And so the heavy guitar version is my open mic
version that I go to all the time, and it
still is the root and like it's sure, and but
I love the stuff that came out of the studio
is excellent.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that must be exciting too, like like not only
seeing these things or hearing these things that you've you've
come up with these ideas that have now that are
now these fully produced songs. But when something does turn
out differently, that's that's there's something kind of advance terious
about that, right.
Speaker 6: Like absolutely, yeah, you'll let take it to the edge
and push it. And so all of my ideas I
think are good and in my head, and songs there
of course in my head, they're all hits. Yeah, when
you present them to other people, and other people's input
comes into them and they morph is when they start
to get wings, yep, and change into something different, hopefully
for something good you know that you're working with. But
all these guys were pros and and this stuff even
happens live at open mics and things when you're working
on originals and uh, you just throw it out there,
come on up and play. It's ea, b let's go one, four, five,
you can do it. Yeah, And what it what they
end up coming up with is is unique. Sometimes you
need stuff I hadn't thought of.
Speaker 9: But we should talk about the open mics.
Speaker 6: Open mics. I've been to open mics for about the
past fourteen months. Yeah, i'd only done that one in
Nashville prior. Oh, that was intimidating.
Speaker 10: It's it's cool though that the one, the first one
you did was in Nashville of all places. Right like
you jumped into the deep end of the pool before
you really had had any experienced swimming, you know.
Speaker 6: What I mean. Absolutely, I wondered what the New Hampshire
open mics were going to be like. So my niece
Rachel Rachel Evan Jocos shout out to granted State Blue Society.
Speaker 9: Oh, yes, we've had a couple of people from there
on the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah. My very first open mic in New Hampshire was
July one Keys Piano Bar when they had an open
mic on I think it was a Monday night. I'm
not sure. It might have been a Sunday hosted by
One Dying Band. Shout out to One Dime Band. Uh,
they were great hosts. I showed up at a blues
open mic with an acoustic guitar. I felt like I
had a rubber knife at a gunfight and I didn't
know what to play. But I signed up and Rachel
was going to meet me there, and Rachel all of
a sudden couldn't make it. So here I am my
first open mic all by myself. I'm like, oh, okay, wow.
And then he called me up and I played Mustang
Sally and so we did blues and other people played along.
Obviously they were awesome, yeah, and I was like, wow,
it's great playing with these people. But I wish I
knew some blues or something. Yeah. I didn't do any
original that. I just played along with a couple of
other things. But that was my first open mic. But
of course, I was a bit by the bug and
I started looking for where there was open mics, and
it was you can. You can do an open mic
almost every night of the week if you're clever enough.
It's hard to find him on Fridays and Saturdays where
the people get paid. But yeah, Monday nights I found
stumble in Lisa Guyer's open mic. She doesn't have it
there anymore. I don't know if that'll come back. That
was a wonderful time. I can talk about that a
little bit. Tuesday night Casey's Ribshack, Manchester Tuesday night also
Alford Station one on one. Okay, Wednesday night Riley's Place
in Milford and Thursday night Rilly's Place in Milford. That's
become like my home base. Yeah, so that's where I'm
living now. I go there almost every week. So if
you want to hear any of my stuff, any originals,
come down to Riley's Place in Milford Wednesday or Thursday.
I'm usually there. Yeah. I usually end up getting signed
up last because I get there late and so you
won't catch me till near the end. On a Thursday,
But Wednesday Night's acoustic open mic there. Thursday nights they
have a whole backline, drum set, bass, guitar. You could
come down with your band, Matt and jump up on
stage and play your stuff or my stuff if you want. Yeah. Yeah,
but it's fun showing up with a band. Sometimes sometimes
I do organize a few people and we show up.
But those are yeah, so open mics have been. I've
been doing them the past fourteen months, almost every night
of every week. Excellent. I sag all my life. I
always helped people and did gigs with people. Play bass.
I play based mostly.
Speaker 10: Yeah, me too, I'm a player. Oh yeah, by five string? No,
I've never played a five string in my life. I've
never picked.
Speaker 6: I know. Wait till you hit that other string. That's
what That's what everyone says. Drummers love that other string. Yeah,
you can move drummers with your fifth string. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah,
I believe it. I believe it. I've got more smiles
out of drummers that have never played with a five
string bass player kid, and then all of a sudden
they jam with him and they're like, whoa, what is
that vibe? I'm feeling? No kidding, that's part of getting
your songs. Haven't a groove to them. Yeah, you got
the groove and you can bounce down and have some
low rumble going on. They haven't felt before like that.
Speaker 10: Stuff some of the bands I've played, and that would
have been really uh handy. Actually yeah, I never Oh,
you know what. I wanted to mention too though, about Milford,
because you're talking about Milford. This comes up a lot
on the show Milford, so so for people who don't
know people listening online from other areas, Milford isn't even
And because people from other areas who don't know New
Hampshire might think, because Milford comes up so often that
Milford is like this booming metropolis in New Hampshire, because
it's like it's almost like the center of the of
the music universe in New Hampshire is in what is
actually this little town Milford. There's so much going on
in Milford for music, Like it's like it's at a
point where like at least, you know, we do the
show every Saturday at least two or three times over
the course of a month, Milford. Somebody's talking about Milford
and and everything that's going on in Milford with music.
It's really interesting, like like it seems like that town
really it's a music city, but it's not even a city.
Speaker 6: It's a town, you know what I mean. It's wild
and it's very cool. I had never known that Milford
was the music metropolis. I love that term. Yeah, that
it is. You can walk around the Oval in Milford
and there will be six different places that you could
walk in that someone's playing an acoustic guitar singing.
Speaker 9: It's wild.
Speaker 6: Absolutely one of the most musically magical places. Yeah, I
had never known a place like it existed. I surely
hope there are other places in the country like Milford.
I would love to visit them.
Speaker 9: And I'm sure there are.
Speaker 10: We just don't know because you wouldn't hear about them
because they're just these towns, right, These just these small
towns where.
Speaker 9: For whatever reason, music is really prevalent.
Speaker 6: It's the smallest little town. Yeah, there's music, and within
walking distance you could go to ten different places hear
a live act or a band. It's amazing. It's amazing.
It is a blast showing up at the open mics
of these different places too. And now that I'm there,
I'm recognized and I recognize others. I'm invited to play
with others too. That's the funnest part. I don't I
don't want to ask to play, but if they want
to ask me to play, I will. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, that's tremendous valady right when somebody says, hey, you
want to play with us?
Speaker 6: Yeah. Fun. So I was doing open mics and I
was playing bass along, playing bass with some things that
I would have my sister. So one of the greatest
joys of my life has been making music with my sister.
She's the alto, I'm the tenor. We could make you
sound great, Matt. Yeah, yeah, we'll back you up and
make you sound awesome. Yeah. It's been fun. And so
sometimes she's available and we'll she'll come down to Riley's.
And I have different drummer friends. One of my drummer
friends Jean Richard from Six Ways to Sunday, the band
that I'm working for tonight, Okay, Okay, he's their lead singer,
but he's my drummer okay, And I bring him in
there and and different guitarists and stuff. But we will
do the whole band stuff with some of these originals
as well. Yeah. And we also play annually at a
camp for physically mentally handicapped people. We've played it fifteen
years now. We started out in the dining hall, me
and Barb doing an amazing grace take me out to
the ballgame on the piano and guitar and bringing in others,
and now we play in the gymnasium. This past year
we were told no light show, no blow upst no
confetti can its okay okay? Yeah, So this past year
I actually brought cotton snowballs instead and we had an
indoor snowball fight.
Speaker 12: Oh.
Speaker 6: I try to bring something every year for these people
to props to play with. One year it was noisemaker things. Yeah.
One year we let them come up and sing a
few things too, but we played there. Yeah, fifteen years
running excellent. It's one of the greatest blessings is playing
people who really appreciate it. Don't get to see bands
and things where they're dance for their week. It's a
faith based camp where they're let their hair down and
have a dance night. Yeah, we do a couple of
faith based songs, but we do mostly Taylor Swift and yeah,
you know, all that kind of stuff. So we'll have
the whole band and that's fantastic. One year, we did
the Stroll by the Diamonds. Well, all the wheelchairs went
down the middle of the gymnasing for ten minutes we
played that song. Yeah, we loved it. Yeah, and they
love it. It's one of the greatest joys to playing
there year. But that's with my sister. One of the
greatest joys of my life. Yeah, music with my sister.
So shout out to Barb Patch. Yeah, Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 10: Does she also do like, does she do her own
thing musically or does she only perform with.
Speaker 6: You or so she's recorded with me on this on
the fourteen songs, So we did. So. I went to
Nashville the first time by myself. Yeah. I went in
February again to do six more songs, and me and
Barb drove down. Yeah. Great trip of my life. If
you want a good trip of your life, spend eighteen
hours in a car with your siblings. Yeah. The person
who knows you the best will bring up all kinds
of things you don't need to you know, sure, no doubt.
Wonderful time. And she had never been in a big
studio either, and uh, it was I think one of
the greatest trips she's had as well, so that's so cool.
My daughter also came in and did some of the vocals.
One of the songs that we won't hear today, but
tied up Baby in Love. My daughter sang with me,
so she's the female lead on that song that goes
back and forth. Nice.
Speaker 9: Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 6: And several songs that we wrote even at church. So
with Barb, I did five years of church band my
kids were two and five and five years of every week,
three new songs a week. So at the time I
looked at it as difficult and oh I got to
go do this again. But it was the greatest learning experience, Oh,
no doubt I could have never asked for. And it
was absolutely wonderful. I had to work on new things
every week, things you've never heard before. Yeah, And you
had to learn your harmony part and your guitar part,
your bass part, all the drummers out you're playing drums
this week, so things like that. Yeah. So one of
the greatest learning experiences she gave me without me realizing it. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the thing you don't realize still later, right,
how how important that was and absolutely you know, and
having that foundation musically and ye.
Speaker 6: And the foundation did come from the religious music in
the beginning. We were all brought up there and she
does that every week. Still I do that probably once
a month. Yeah, there's a need for musicians at local churches.
They could use any of us anytime. They are so
glad when I come play music. Yeah, just so thankful
and joyous. Yeah, and they try to pay me. I
don't accept it at this really. Yeah, some of the
piano people, you know, they're paying gigs at churches for sure,
but I'm not interested in any But yeah, there is
a need for any musicians out there to serve in
that fashion if they're available to do so. Oh yeah.
Speaker 10: I grew up in Concord and we used to go
to Saint John's on Sunday and they they always had
a band.
Speaker 6: The worship team, be part of the worship team. Ye,
it's funny.
Speaker 10: I don't I don't remember ever hearing that term specifically
worship team, but I just remember like, and I don't
think they had any kind of a name or anything.
They were just but but I think it was pretty
consistently the same people each week. But they would do
these songs they were like they were religious songs. But
they were like they but they weren't hymns, you know
what I mean. Like like they would do a song
called share a little Bit of Your Love, Okay, but
it was like share a little bit of your love,
my friends, share a little bit of your love. But
it wasn't it wasn't a hymn. You know that that
I did any of us had ever heard before.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 10: They may have even written it themselves, I don't know.
But they would do songs like that, you know what
I mean, like almost like almost borderline secular some of them,
but but just very positive, uplifting songs, if that makes sense.
But but yeah, I was always kind of fascinated by
that because it was like I've never like, I've never
heard that. I mean, they would do I suppose they
would do him too. My memory of it is fuzzy.
This was when I was a kid. But but but yeah,
Darryl Hall, I've heard say in interviews he credits his
mother taking him on Sundays and they, you know, in Philadelphia,
they would go to they would go to a black
church and that's how he learned to sing, singing at
the black church because that that gave him that that foundation,
you know. And his mother was apparently a really good
singer too, but but she insisted on bringing him there
so that he could learn how to sing like her,
and that's that's how he developed that that soulful voice.
Speaker 6: It's a great foundation and it's a lot of fun
to sing in church. I did the choirs, and then
they learned that I could find the note and read
the note and follow it on the sheet music. So
I was pulled into a quartets and things like that.
And quartets were good sing along with background tapes yep,
and touring different churches with the PV and short column speakers,
the old school stuff. Wow, And so that was yeah,
my younger days, that was a lot of fun. The
church was a great foundation to learn, and so singing hymns,
we would sing those in the pews and we would
sing our harmony parts, and sooner or later we would
get bored singing harmony and we would sing off key
on purpose. The old ladies would look at us really funny. Yeah,
we would sing so well that we would sing off
key on purpose a few times. The church was the
foundation of singing and learning sound stuff, learning how to
plug in wires, learning with all those buttons.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, all that stuff. Absolutely well. We talked
about it a bit. Do you want to play this track?
I don't care.
Speaker 6: Let's do. I don't care and one of my favorites.
This is my radio song. Okay, so at every open
mic and I get smiles from this minute every open
mic too. So it sounds like a love song. It
is a love song. It's actually written from the perspective
of your pug. Oh you pet Oh okay, so it's
it's unconditional love. I don't care about anything, you know.
I don't care about why you look like, what you
smell like, and I don't care what Just let me
be with you. Yeah. So, I don't think people will
hear that it's from their pet. I always thought it
could be used as the ASPCA commercial or something like that.
Oh yeah, so, but I don't care. It's one of
the ones that morphed from the basement recording into something
quite different when the pros got it. And it's beautiful,
lots of keyboards layers that I didn't expect. That's where
a lot of the new stuff came from. How sounds
changed when you added a player on an instrument. That
could be any other instrument, and so a lot of
things changed in that it really became something beautiful.
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, great, let's give this a spen. This
is I don't care, and this is K T K.
Our friend Kevin Kier said, is here with us alive
in suity, and let's give this a spender.
Speaker 13: He shure your fancy clues, Oh the way that you
strike a pose that keeps me hanging around without a frown,
your personal clown.
Speaker 3: It's not the funny things you.
Speaker 11: Say, oh the silly games we play that keep me
sticking around.
Speaker 14: I'll never ever let you down making your big plans,
and everything's okay if you on the pinmows.
Speaker 13: I got nothing to say because I don't care.
Speaker 3: I'll go with you anywhere.
Speaker 13: I don't care about your little tattoos or the color.
Speaker 12: Of your hair.
Speaker 1: I don't care downtown, back grill, see sambo on the top,
a way up.
Speaker 5: In the wherever I'm with you, I don't care.
Speaker 6: It ain't the way to batch your.
Speaker 7: Eyes, oh the way out those sides that keeps.
Speaker 13: Me hanging around frown upside down, your personal clown. It's
not the crazy things you say.
Speaker 3: Oh the records that we play that keep me sticking round.
Speaker 7: I'll never let you down making your big.
Speaker 8: Planes, and everything's okay if you are opilions.
Speaker 14: I get nothing to say because I don't care.
Speaker 3: I'll go with you anywhere. I don't care about your
old tattoos.
Speaker 6: Or the color of your hair.
Speaker 1: I don't care downtown, back road, see soundboun it's.
Speaker 8: Up a way up in.
Speaker 3: Wherever I'm with you.
Speaker 6: I don't care.
Speaker 1: We want where we where we go, and we mean
if we talk, if professors, so I only know the
one thing I.
Speaker 14: Can't hide when I'm by your side.
Speaker 7: I feel, so I don't care.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I'm going with you manywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't care about your old tattoos and the color
of your hair.
Speaker 7: I don't care downtown, man.
Speaker 3: Kelsey said, laughing, tap away uppily.
Speaker 7: Where we go to.
Speaker 12: Me too.
Speaker 5: As long as I'm with you.
Speaker 6: I don't care.
Speaker 10: That is I don't care, And that is Kevin Kirstaid
also known as kat k and uh he is here
with us live in studio, and that's a great song
I was selling, Uh, I was selling Kevin off air
that I'm gonna hear that in my head now in
the morning when when the cat. Jenny and I have
a cat who will sit outside the bathroom door, me owing,
wanting to come in. Well, well I shave, watch me shave.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't have a pet. But that's the
perspective I chose when I wrote it. Yeah, you know
how they they don't care what you look, they don't
care that you smell, They don't care. Just let me
be with you, right that the whole vibe of that song.
Speaker 10: Exactly, yeah, exactly. Now are these so the songs that
you've recorded, are these all? Are Are these part of
an album?
Speaker 6: Or what?
Speaker 9: What's the plan with to do with these?
Speaker 6: That's my hope is that this is an album package.
I have fourteen of them. Yeah, I mean I'm working
on my artwork right now, so I will have CDs
to sell and I want a physical media. Yeah. It
costs a little a little bit to get the albums done.
I'll probably make an album pressing if I sell enough CDs,
I'll probably press a couple of Ye. The CDs are
real cheap to have made. So the do it yourself,
do it yourself music career thing is is just coming
upon me now and just learning all the ins and
outs of that. Yeah, I'm finding partners and helpers like
Eric from jam Demik. Yep, it was great with all
that marketing stuff. Yeah, and let's talk Gamdemic for a
minute while I can. They have lots of their own
original stuff out. They're a force in this southern New
Hampshire area and so you guys can get out and
catch a jamdemic. Do it. They're good and I'll probably
be running sound for them. So come on buy and
say hi. Excellent, excellent, yeah, absolutely, so, yes, the dream
is to make the package, and so I'm working on
my artwork. I've written my liner notes, I have all
my credits for all the people, and yeah, to have
the package in my hand before Christmas to hand to
my family at Christmas time, but to have stuff to
sell it open mics. So I have a couple of
options of how it's getting posted online. And I posted
I don't care on my song cast account and it's
having a little trouble with the artwork, all the artwork. Yeah,
I'm not sure if they're the venue I'm going to choose.
So yeah, I'm undecided as to how how to release
it all. Yeah, I don't care. We'll be out there eventually,
because that's the first one I was hoping to tell
you today it's available. Okay, not quite. Yeah, it's still
having some issues, and that's also making me wonder. So
do it yourself. Music we were talking about is a
tough gig. There's lots of different options things to choose
from and things to where to release your music through.
So I'm hoping someone loves me, and what I really
need is management. I'm doing it all myself and I'm
stepping out there and this is the year that I'm
going to put the effort into showing up and getting
all the music out there. And so it's going to
be an album package excellent, all fourteen songs good. I
didn't want to sell anyone short and just have tens.
The fifteenth song I recorded in nineteen ninety two, a
song called rat Race and at Ryan Song Studios in
pepperle and that was remastered. So that'll might not make
the album, but I'll keep that one in my pocket,
you know, as a bonus track for something or who knows.
The original tape on that was quarter inch tape. Zach
had it in Nashville, but when he opened the tape
that had been in storage since ninety two. Heat had
gotten to it over the years and it was unusable. Okay,
so we had to use an old MP three and
he said, this is okay. I said, it's okay. Make
it sounds as much as you can like the others.
But yeah, it's not quite as as good as sounding
as the others. It's a different vein. So it's not
going to make this collection, but it'll definitely be out
there posted some day.
Speaker 10: Curious to hear it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so I'll have it for you later. You
can have a cop Oh awesome, Yeah, thank you? Yeah
yeah wow. Ninety two.
Speaker 9: And then so when's your next when's your next appearance?
Speaker 6: So I let's see, I just did a pumpkin fest
in Milford talking to Milford. Yeah, I ran sound for
six bands at the Keysfield stage, the first time they
had bands of the Keysfields brand new wooden, beautiful that
they built on a super fun site, nice stage. I
wouldn't top stone Back. Ran sound for six acts there
and I was the seventh act that was right before
the end, second to last. We got to do four
songs there. Yeah. So my next thing, I have a
showcase at Riley's place. In Milford coming up December twenty seventh. Ok,
I get an hour and a half. I'm gonna start
off some things by myself. Probably I don't care all
alone on acoustic, because that's when I do well on
acoustic called by myself. Yeah. So at the Keysfield thing,
I did really planned my fourth song set really well
I did. I don't care all about myself on acoustic.
Second song, I brought two friends up and we did
Simon and garfuncle Cecilia a cappella.
Speaker 9: Nice, wow, no kidding.
Speaker 6: Third song we did an original blues So this original
blues song. Riley's Place has blues open mic on Sunday
afternoons from one to four. Yeah, I had been, like
I told you, I went to the blues one, the
first one I ever went to at keys Piano Bar,
and I felt like I had a rubber knife for
the gunfight. Yeah. So I always stayed away from Riley's
Sunday blues thing other than I poked my head in
and said alone, saw the incredible guitar players and sexophone,
all these incredible musicians. Yeah. I went to rallies one
Sunday with my bass and I walked up on stage
and I signed up and I walked up on stage
and they said what are you doing. I said, we're
doing an original and the drummer looked at me like
people don't do originals, said blues jam. Yeah, I said, well,
it's one four five. They said it's the format. I said,
it's the right blues format. Don't worry yea doing it.
And the drummer was Phil de Luca was his name? Okay.
He looked at me like I had two heads. Yeah,
you're doing an original. I said, yeah, you'll be all right,
just watch me for the changes. Yep. And at the
end of the song he gave me a big giant
thumbs up in a smile and yeah, you're a good singer. Yeah,
And so I was really I had won him over
in that one song, and uh, and then I played
along with blues. I just played bass with whatever they
wanted to be after that. But yeah, I have then
back since other than just visit and say hi. But
Phil DeLuca played on stage with me at Keithfield. I
wanted when I did Keysfield, I wanted to bring in
town people that had I had met over the course
of this year of doing open mics, and that I
had made friends with and that liked me because I'd
won them over, you know, yeah, yeah, And I love
that fact that he wanted to come and play Keysfield.
So He's field was a wonderful thing. And so I
did that blues number with him, and I had Scott
Gibbs come up and play guitar, real good guitars, and
he's the one I'm going to be work with going forward.
I got oh nice Scott Gibbs, Mark Shemitt and Kevin
Johnson going to be playing, and my sister to work
on the original act that'll be coming out in twenty
twenty six. Look for Katie K. We might be going
to MMI, Kevin Kirsty, I'm not sure the name will
be going under, probably Katie K. But we will be
having the full band thing with the My favorite type
of music is searing malten lava guitar with three part
harmony over the top of it. There you go, and
we will be having a lot of that too.
Speaker 9: Nice, nice, very good, very good.
Speaker 6: Kevin.
Speaker 9: Where should people go to keep up with you online?
Where's the best place to go to keep up with
everything you're doing?
Speaker 6: So I'm a fledgling, I'm new to this, but I
just made less than a month ago my Facebook band page.
Eric from Jamdemick is going to help me with my marketing,
so you will see it's spreading quickly once he gets
his hands to help me. I got a few things
I got to help him with too, So yeah, we
have a wonderful working relationship of give and take good good.
And yeah I'm doing some sound of Big Bear too. Okay,
Big Bial Lodge Andrew Institute of Art where Eric and jamdmic.
Oh right, I remember he was talking about that. Yeah. Yeah,
another great venue to go see live acts in the
Brookline Yeah yeah. Oh, and I forgot to mention the
other Brookline open mic every other Thursday, the Alamo. Okay,
I took my a cappella team down there. I did
about eight songs there. That was a lot of fun.
Oh wow, people don't expect that. Yeah, no kidding. And
at open mics, I do a lot of girls songs.
A lot of times. Girl songs are in my range.
Boys songs are usually out of it. I have to
change the key. But girl songs are in my range
and people don't expect that from me either, So yeah,
come on catch me sometime and I'll might do something
I expected. I hope to something you.
Speaker 10: Like excellent, excellent, well, very good. Well we're gonna close
out the segment in a moment with follow Your Dreams,
another great song. Anything we should know about this before
we play it?
Speaker 6: So this one. I had a live recording of this
song from ninety one ninety two. I showed up at
the studio in February. My sister was with me. I
also took a risk that I didn't know. I brought
Zachary Stone. Shout out to Zachary Stone, drummer from New Hampshire.
He was a young kid. He had played at my
house in my basement and jammed once or twice when
he was sixteen or seventeen yea, and I knew he
was a good drummer. He had some videos where he
played outside of Fenway Park at ten years old. Oh
Jack Stone, you know, and a lot of hits on YouTube.
So he's active in the industry down there. He's a
band called Gray Lee right now. They played a few
nights ago. He's really active. But I brought him into
the studio with me and Zach Kasik. The producer says,
you know you took a risk for a young kid
in here. Most of these people they can't stay in time,
they can't do this. They that he goes. Yeah, I said, well,
he's from New Hampshire. I really wanted him and it
was pretty good. And it turns out I hit a
home run. Zach Stone has been called back by Zach
Haazik Wilth other to do some stuff. So yeah, Zach
turned out to be a really good drummer. So the
song was follow Your Dreams, and I am playing it
for Zach in the studio and Zach actually had heard
it and listened to it many times. Zach listened to
all the ones I had him on and did him
almost to a tee to the old band recordings. Yeah, well, yeah,
he did the new ones he'd never heard. There was
two he got cold that he hadn't even heard before.
But I played it on the little JBL speaker and
Zach Kazik walks in the control room and says, what
the heck is that you're listening to? I said, that's
the song we're doing, dude, and it's this one, follow
your Dreams. Okay. It turned out Zack Stone killed it
on drums. It's very drum heavy, synth heavy. It turned
out to be Zach Kazik encouraged Mike Sharp, the synth
player from Nashville. Excellent, excellent. He said, think the cars,
think the cars until you might hear some of the cars.
And there we hope. Okay, and yeah, the guys did
really good with Zack Stone on drums on this one.
Shout out to Zach Stone and the other drummer who
I didn't shout out to as Shaky. When I walked
in Wild Feather Recording studios, well, first let's start at Milford.
Milford people says, why are you going to Nashville to record?
We have studios around here. I said, do you have
golden platinum albums hanging on the walls of your studio
up here right? And they were quiet, So yeah, that's
why I went to Nashville. And some of those golden
platinum walls. On the walls were Shaky's oh albums from
playing on Kid Rocks album. Oh Okay, So Shaky play
drums on my eight songs and he played for kid Rock,
So Shaky. Shout out to Shakey. All the guys at
Zach studio were awesome, Oh, very good. The one I
brought that follow Your Dreams was Zach was a little
afraid of it, but it came out really good.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, so we'll give this a spin to
close out the segment, and if you are listening live,
stick around. Of course, in the third hour, we have
Ephemea in the house and really looking forward to talking
with them.
Speaker 9: But kat K Kevin Kier said that I got one.
Speaker 6: More shout out to dream Track Studios, Gary Connelly. I'm
gonna be doing some work there coming up. They gotta
Oh they're just getting started. They're the new studio in Milford.
They got the best recording stuff in the world. Oh
ex less than a mile from my house. Completely surprised
about that. Oh very cool. I don't know how that
landed anywhere near me. And this guy's my friend and
he likes my original music. So yeah, we hope to
be doing some stuff at dream Track Studios Milford.
Speaker 10: Oh excellent, excellent, very good. All right, well we will
do this again in the future, my friend. Absolutely wonderful, Lavire,
thank you so having me, Matt, absolutely absolutely And here
it is. This is follow My Follow Your Dreams by
k t K.
Speaker 3: Stuck in a.
Speaker 1: Ruts same old routines every day.
Speaker 3: You're sick and tired.
Speaker 7: Of going to work.
Speaker 3: But that's rice we all got today.
Speaker 7: Whatever happen to.
Speaker 3: This challenge, dreams all means with you all the job.
Speaker 7: Was a g suspind.
Speaker 6: Us feel.
Speaker 12: You've got to follow your treat to sty to buy
the powers outside, following dream stime that don't come true?
Speaker 1: You God believing.
Speaker 7: That free to you.
Speaker 3: When you look in the mirror, are you proud of
what you see?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 7: Tell me the truth?
Speaker 3: Is this the way you want your like the fee?
Do you need a new directions or anything he.
Speaker 7: Gave you had to.
Speaker 8: You bring in your soul as faith those dreams come
up true.
Speaker 2: You gotta follow your dreams through the sky to find.
Speaker 6: The followers down inside.
Speaker 5: Follow your dreams. See you don't come true.
Speaker 3: You got don't believe in.
Speaker 15: Your dot boy treat su Star you by the powersteeds outside,
bow your train SI and they'll go to.
Speaker 3: The dot boy.
Speaker 5: Dream sup Star you by the powers steeds outside.
Speaker 3: Drain sewn and they'll do true.
Speaker 6: The die leave