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Speaker 17: That is such a cool vibe. I didn't even want
to talk over it at the end. That is Silicon
Kong broken Down, really really cool. This is Matt Connorton unleashed.
Of course, we are live on this Saturday morning, August
twenty four, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 13: Jenny is here as well at.
Speaker 17: The news table, present and account of our and we've
actually played a few Silicon Kong tracks so far this morning,
but we have is this the man himself joining us
via Skype. Hello, Hello, welcome.
Speaker 6: Oh can you hear me?
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 13: Can you hear us?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 6: I can?
Speaker 13: Very good, very good.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We played.
Speaker 17: Yes yes, uh so we played Broken Down, and we
did play a little bit earlier before the break Cosmic
Groove Pool, and I also played even though the let's
see what was it computer? I'm trying to get back
to it now. I played a couple of older things as.
Speaker 6: Well, because that do you compute?
Speaker 13: Oh, yes, do you compute?
Speaker 17: I was listening to that last night and I was like,
I gotta play this one too, because that Associate Iris cover,
is it?
Speaker 6: I didn't realize that Pittsburgh.
Speaker 13: Yes, I had no I I had no idea. I
I really like that song.
Speaker 6: Thank Donnie Iris too.
Speaker 13: I'll have to check. I'll have to check out the
Donnie Iris.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 17: When I think of Donnie Iris, the only ah Leah,
which is a personal favorite of mine, and what's the
other one?
Speaker 13: Love is like a rock?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Being that I'm a jer and I grew up on
in Pittsburgh, you know, I'm just so used to I
grew up listening to Donnie Arris. I loved him. I mean,
he's awesome. He's he's king cool to us. He's like, uh,
he's like an icon. So, I mean, so it was
only fitting that I did a suitable cover that will
fit him and hopefully he liked it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Do you know if he's ever heard it? Like, have
you ever met him or.
Speaker 6: Talk to him? You know, I can't say I have.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I actually just released that not too long ago, maybe
a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, you know, because uh,
I I do. Uh like my My covers are very
as you can tell, they're very unique. I'm sure if
you would go to my reverb Nation page or my
Facebook page. I do covers, but they're different.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, no they are. I also listened to maybe
I'll play later. I listen to your cover of Destroyer.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 13: It's really really cool. By the way, So what is
a YenS yer.
Speaker 6: That's a pittsburgher. Okay, it's just you know that, it's
a it's it's a form of identification for Pittsburgh, Okay,
because you know, because we uh, you know uh and
that and you know yuns and you know, we have
our own little dialogue out here in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 13: Well, apparently I had no idea. I don't know what
any of these things are.
Speaker 6: I work with. You know what, I've worked with a
lady here and she's actually from New Hampshire and her
accent is is you know, I can tell she's definitely
from New Hampshire. I mean, you just have your own
little dialogue accent thing going on up there.
Speaker 13: Right right.
Speaker 17: Well, we have the It's it's strange though, because in
New Hampshire we have variations of it. For example, there's
that classic well not just New Hampshire, there's that classic
New England thing of which I think with every generation
becomes less and less prevalent. Prevalent where people drop their rs,
you know, like Instaid of park the car, they say
pack the CA. But but there's also but but there's
also variations where uh, you know, where you do pronounce
your ours, but but there's something else weird going on
where people can still tell that you're from here even
though you do pronounce your ours. It's it's strange, there's different,
there's there's levels.
Speaker 6: To it, you know what. A couple of years ago,
I was traveling down south. This is just a cool story,
and I stopped in this little mini mart. It was
Bowling Green, Kentucky. Outside Bowling Green, Kentucky, there's two in
the morning, and there's this nice little girl working the
counter and I was looking around, say, hey, where do
you put the cigarettes at? She said, you're from Pittsburgh,
ain't you. Oh she could tell huh yeah because the yins.
Speaker 10: Oh so not not just so.
Speaker 13: That's that's not like a Pennsylvania thing. That's very specifically
a Pittsburgh thing.
Speaker 6: It is definitely a Pittsburgh thing, a Steel City thing.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay, all right, very good and so Silicon Kong
is from the Steel City, from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6: Suburb of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It's about about twenty minutes outside
of Pittsburgh Southeast.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay, and tell us about now, there's a movie
coming right, The Steel City Architect.
Speaker 18: Yes, there is.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you mentioned that. Yeah, it's a movie called
it's called The Steell City Architect, a Pittsburgh rockumentary.
Speaker 8: What that is.
Speaker 6: That's a movie that will be released in January. It's
with Drew Morland of Improv Chills Studios and uh Santo's
or Tess Patrick of Downcast Park and what that is.
It's kind of like years and years ago. I'll tell
you what I guess I have time, I can tell
you the story. Yeah. Yeah, a couple years ago, a
couple of years ago, there was a producer writer, like
I said, he names Drew Morland, and she was a filmmaker.
She's she's won quite a few awards, and she's also
an author of a couple books, which I'll post on
my Facebook page. I wants to check it out. But anyway,
what happened was she was looking for she was doing
a zombie movie, and I was like, well, you know,
somebody contacted me, one of her affiliates calling attacked me,
and I was like, well, hey, you know, I wouldn't
mind doing like a soundtrack. You know, I do some
songs for all because I love horror movies. I grew
up with horror movies. And I was like, wouldn't that
be really cool? I said, well'll tell you what. How
about you know I'm playing this show. It was a
place called Casey's in Pittsburgh, and I said, come out,
check out the show, and you know, if you like it,
maybe we can arrange something. I can do some soundtrack work.
So make a long story short. She came out with
her constituent at the time, and she was like, I
came out, and I had I come out. I'm a
one man show, much like grim Rock. I know, you
know grim Rock.
Speaker 13: Yes, and he's in the chat room by the way,
and yes, we.
Speaker 6: Love Grimmy, we love me and grim got a lot
of things going on, so people please stay tune. But anyway,
back to the story, and she came out and she
was like, well, hey, you know, I was like, well,
come out, and I come out. I opened that particular
set with the Ballad of Dwight Fry cover by Alice Cooper.
Oh nice, yeah, and I come out in a straight
jacket and the mask and she was she lost it.
She was like, oh my god, get my camera and
she said, do you mind if I filmed this. I
was like, no, you go right ahead and you're cool.
I like to have a little video thing anyway and
make a long story short. After the set, after I
was done playing, I was like, so, is there a
chance of me getting in the soundtrack. She's like a soundtrack?
She said, I want you in the movie. And I
was like, wait a minute, Wait a minute. I'm just
a musician. I'm not an actor. She said, you know
what you was doing up on stage that was acting
and you should look into it to make a long
story short. We've had a long, good, long relationship with
each other since then, and we was We've done a
couple of movies Hidden Behind a Veil, which was like
by Drew Moron and Santos Patrick's past k as well.
We also did Pizza Musical. These things will be get
released within due time, so people just want to stay
tuned to my Facebook page. I will be releasing the
links to the YouTube and anything anyway. So I was like, well,
know what, I had this cool idea I wanted to
do like kind of a spinal tap movie, you know,
I want to do a song. It was basically Silicon
Kong is a character, and what he is is he
is a guy that has been in Yinzer, a still
city guy who's been trying to pound the pavement in
Pittsburgh and trying to get recognition for years to no avail.
So people just kind of overlooked him.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what it was was like, and I'd like to
kind of do tie that in. I always had this
cool idea of tying out into it like a movie,
and I explained it to him. I told her about it,
and she came back to me a couple of weeks
later she said, let's do it. I was like, do
what she said, Let's do this movie. I was like,
whoa wait a minute. I wasn't expecting that. Yeah, but
to make a one and now we started filming in
twenty two. Okay. What she wanted was she wanted a
nice timeline of a struggling musician in Pittsburgh. Okay, And
we just finished Last Sing I think a couple of
months ago, and that's due for release, and like I said,
in the new year, it'll be due for release like Sai.
If anybody wants to keep up on my Facebook page,
I also have a Reverb Nation page, some music page,
Silicon Kong. I always put the links to everything on
that so uh yeah, like I said, so that's exciting
for me. I mean it's it's uh, you know, that's
it's it's just kind of kind of strange, a nooid
because like I said, I was for years, I've just
been a musician and I've all of a sudden, I
see myself on camera and I see myself on and
it's like whoa, yeah, but it's cool, it's cool.
Speaker 17: So so so Silicon Kong is the character you Ian,
hemy are the are the You're the tray, the portrayer.
But do you always are you always Silicon Kong on
stage or are you okay?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah on stage? I'm you know what I've been, Uh,
I've been around and pitt Like I said, this is
my home, this is my home area. Like I'm definitely
ay Inser and from the Pittsburgh region. I've been in
countless bands, Leaping the Bull, f six Aprils Full Still mana.
You know, I've always been the singer and a bassis
in a band of some kind of band. Yeah, but
the Silicon Kong stuff. Actually, what happened there, uh, Pseudo
Anam was another one I was in. What happened there
there was I have I'm a multi instrumentalist, so everything
that you're hearing, I play everything. Oh wow, Yeah, I
play it all. I mean I play there's songs I'll
play mandolin. There's songs I'll play harmonica. There are songs
I'll play drum.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: All the drums are me or were they are drum machines,
but there's some kinds sometimes I use live drums as well. Yeah, yeah,
all the influence I play them all. So yeah, that's
and what happened was because I've always just had a
love for music and I just enjoy it so much, right,
So I taught myself everything, you know, And there's particular
songs that I could couldn't really divulge with another band.
You know, there's certain certain feelings with certain songs that
I needed to get across in my own dialogue, in
my own way. Yeah, and it just in a live band,
it just wasn't working. So I credit. Like I said,
the new wave movement in the industrial metal music is
a huge influence to me. Yeah, so as well as
the progressive rock. I mean, of course, let's go back
to Pink Floyd, Yes, Crack the Sky, which actually West
Virginia's guys, Cracked the Sky. Great band, if anyone has
a chance to check them out. They were kind of overlooked,
very very good progressive rock band. I actually covered one
of their songs called from the Greenhouse. They could probably
find out on my YouTube. So if yeah, family, almost
go on my YouTube. I have a YouTube channel. Ian
Hemy just pulled up and it'll pull everything up. I
have I think eighty videos up. Okay, yeah, so and
that is actually one of them. But anyway, and so
I just started tinkering around. I built my own little
home studio and you know, much to my, much to
my how can I put it? And well, my wife's
used to it, so I've been married thirty two years.
She's used to it. She supports it. But anyway, and
I would just sit around and just you know, I
get ideas. Sometimes I start with the drum line. Sometimes
it's a bass line, a piano line, or guitar line.
Of lyrics and I would just sit down and tinker
with them. Yeah, and they've become songs and they become
the material that is now Silicon Kong.
Speaker 17: Well, it's it's got to be very sort of liberating
to be able to do that. I mean, obviously I
wonder what it would be like to do that.
Speaker 13: I've I've played in a lot of bands.
Speaker 17: I'm not currently active with that, but I've played in
a lot of bands, but I've never done anything where
it was just me creating. And I'm not although I'm
not a multi instrumental, you know, I play bass. I
can play a little bit.
Speaker 6: Of guitar, and the bass is my actually bass is
my primary primary instrument. That's why I started playing.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay, And so in the bands that you fronted,
you were the the bass player and lead singer.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I was the bassis and lead singer.
Speaker 13: Did you get I'm curious about this.
Speaker 17: Did you get a lot of people who would be like, WHOA,
that's unusual, even though it's not that unusual. I mean,
there are there are singing bass players like Geddy Lee
and Tom Area, but yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but what would people come up to you and
be like whoa, I've never seen that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what you do? That is because I
only play six string bas Oh yeah, I'm a huge
prim Is fan as well.
Speaker 13: Okay, that makes sense. Yep.
Speaker 6: So and you know Steve Harris, Getty Lee, of course,
Les Claypool. Let me see who else there's there's Mark
Antois the who I mean I've always uh. What happened
was from how I started out as I was fifteen
years old and a friend of mine who was in
a neighborhood kid excellent guitarist. This was back when Metallica
was huge. Just was during the one yeah e Metallica
and he was like, dude, we're gonna do a band.
Oh you? And I was like, dude, I could play
a guitar because at that time I could play a
little bit of guitar. And he's like, oh no, we
already have enough guitarist. I was like, oh man, if
you're not, if you can play bass, you can be in.
So what happened there is my grandmother guard Russelsoul. She
went to a flea market. Okay, remember keep in mind
I'm only fourteen fifteen at the time. She went to
the flea market and found this old Gibson p bass
and she brought her up. I told her, you know,
she said, you know, I was actually talking to her
about and I was like, well, you know, I wanted
to be in this band, but they need a bassis
And she said, what's a basis? It's it's hard for strings,
you know. Of course I had to explain it to her,
and that woman came home the next week with one
from the flea market and I learned to play it
nice and and that's where it all started. And I
played bass in that band for a while. And the
thing about a bassis is we're as hard to find
as drummers. Sometimes I think we're harder to fine than drummers.
And so I just stuck to it. But what happened there, man,
is like I perfected it within a year, and then
I got bored. So that's when I started turning to
Steve Harris, okay, Jeddy Lee, and I started to really
really perfect the bass and in ways that played. I
wanted to play it the way no one else did
and with you know, locally, no one else play, and
so I did.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, I can relate to what you're saying about
bass players being in high demand. You know, when I was,
when I used to be really active, I played, and
at one point I was in three different bands that
were all actively playing out and I was I was
kind of sought after in the scene. But in my
case it was never because you know, I would rate
myself as a bass player as average, you know. But
but I had a good reputation, you know, I know,
no drugs or alcohol or anything. People knew they could
depend on me to show up and that went a
long way. I agree with you there, yeah, yeah, But
but with drummers, it's interesting because you mentioned drummers being
hard to find. A lot of the guests that we
have on the show, and Jenny can attest to this too,
it's like, you know, the drummer, if we have a
band on the drummer will be the one member of
the band who's in like multiple bands because drummers are
so hard to find. And my theory about it is
when you're first, when you're growing up and you start
to get interested in playing an instrument, when you got
to have the conversation with the parents about how I
want to start playing something. If you say drums, that's
like the one thing, and maybe the tuba. Maybe those
are the two things that they're going to try to
talk you out of, Like, oh, does it have to
be that because nobody wants all that noise. So yeah,
drummers are really hard to find. Like every drummer I
know is in like ten bands. It's amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah the drum I have a studio. Drummer's name is
Kane Cross. People want to dig him up. He's on
Facebook too. But in the last due actually Leaping the
Bull was a duo.
Speaker 14: Or we was in.
Speaker 6: It was kind of like Royal Blood, but we as
a more creepier, kind of gothy version of Royal Blood.
We had a run since we started. What happened there
was we started finished our first CD in November of
twenty nineteen. Okay, now you know where this is going.
I was like, oh yes, dude, let's get out there.
We're going to get out there and nail it. You
know how many months there boom, pandemic, no one's doing nothing, yep.
So what we did is we continued. What we did
is we continued to do some really cool videos. Like
I said, I fayone goes on my YouTube, they can
find them. They're Leaping the Bull videos. They're like many
horror movies. Oh oh yeah, they're really really actually cool
kind of both. They're cool to watch. It's like a
mini horror movie. But anyway, so we continue doing that
up until well, just recently he sustained an injury on
a bike act on a motorcycle accident, so he's unable
to play, so, you know, unfortunately. But anyway, so yeah,
I mean, and you know, we was like, oh yeah,
you know, but the pandemic came in. The pandemic, I mean,
I'm sure effected everybody as far as being an artist,
and we were all just knocked down one you know,
and it was sad. It was really sad actually in
this area. It's sad because I want to say, fifty
percent of the bands that I used to play with
and eighteen and nineteen yea never came back. Half of
the venues never reopened, you know, because it was that
was really hard on everybody.
Speaker 13: Oh absolutely, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 6: So during that time period also whenever I was doing
Leaping the Bulls, that's whenever I really started to focus
on doing a you know, releasing more Silicon Kong things.
You know, that I had lots of downtime because you know,
I actually in twenty twenty, we actually Leap in the
Bull was a schedule to play all year. I mean
we had to cancel every show.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's heartbreaking. That's heartbreaking.
Speaker 6: You know, you know, what can you do though, I
mean pandemic. I'm you know, I work in health field myself.
Speaker 17: So I know that it was terrible, you know, yeah, yeah,
and who knows, I mean you might not. You know,
we have to find these silver linings where we can.
Speaker 13: And it did.
Speaker 17: It did kind of force a lot of people to
be creative in ways that maybe that and considered. And
you know, some of the projects you know that we
talked about on the show, different guests that we've had,
you know, some of them found themselves kind of in
scenarios very similar to yours, where they started just creating
their own music on their own, where they didn't necessarily
have to be in a room with anybody, and and
really doing something like Silicon Kong where you know, like
you said, you know, you're doing it all yourself and
you know which is which is pretty cool? Well is
by the way, So when you play live, because you
talked about playing live, when you play live.
Speaker 13: As Silicon Kong. Are you with a band or is
it all you or does it vary?
Speaker 6: Or I'll tell you how I do that. I have
a like I said, I have an home, a home studio.
And what I do, like I said, I record. Like
I said once again, I play everything. So what I'll
do is I'll take my laptop when I have two
or three of them, and what I have is I
have those songs on a playlist. I use Sony products,
recording products, studio, and what I'll do is take the
you know, I'll take the lyrics out and I'll just
get up and sing to them. Or sometimes I'll play
I'll take a guitar line out and play guitar, or
take a bass line out and I'll play bass. I mean,
it varies, I mean, but usually on stage.
Speaker 13: Yes, it's just me, okay, okay.
Speaker 6: Some kind of outrageous outfit.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Like I'm also a very big Alice Cooper fan, so.
Speaker 13: Oh me too, me too.
Speaker 17: Absolutely, if you're just joining us, we're talking with Ian
Hemy about Silicon Kong and uh Ian of course, is
ayser Am I saying that correctly?
Speaker 6: Yes, Matt, I just want to point out I know
you're New England. Hey, just we can still be friends.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 17: Okay, oh, why is there some sort of sports rivalry
I don't know about.
Speaker 6: Now we're just referring to the NFL.
Speaker 13: Okay, see, I don't know. See I'm not I'm not Bruins, Bruins, Bins.
Speaker 6: Jenny knows, I gotta I gotta, I gotta stay true Steelers, Steelers,
and speaking time.
Speaker 13: I have no clue.
Speaker 17: Jenny knows more about sports ball than me. I I
don't Uh, I know nothing. I don't even know. I
don't know how many Innians are in a football game.
I don't know anything. I'm just I'm completely lost.
Speaker 6: But uh, like, I work with one lady, she's from
New England and we always discussed the football. You know,
she's a huge Patriots and you know, me and her
are always kind of going at it.
Speaker 17: So yeah, So I'm really curious to see this movie.
I'm a huge by the way, this is spinal Tap.
Happens to be my favorite film of all time.
Speaker 6: Wow, and you'll love it, You'll love you love it.
Speaker 17: So I'm sorry, I'm very curious to see it. And
this is supposed to come out in January of twenty.
Speaker 13: Five, is that correct, right?
Speaker 6: Now it's on YouTube, and my producer, like I said,
Drew Moreland is working on various streaming platforms. Yeah, she's
working on those now. So by the time it happens,
and by the time she's I mean right now, the
movie is in post production, so by the time she's
done with all of that. And I mean, the woman
is awesome. I mean she does so much. Like I said,
she's a producer or director, an actor, an author. Oh
my god, like I said, I definitely, Like I said,
I can't stress enough. But I'm going to put on
my Facebook page after we're done, here a link to
her book. It's called The Horrific This is Cool, The
Horrific Tales of Artificial Intelligence, and her full name is
Drew len Nay Moreland. And I will post that on
my timeline on my Facebook, so if people want to
go and check it out, it's an awesome read. Actually
back to that real fast, and I'll get back to
the movie. She actually started writing the book I want
to say, eight months ago, okay, and we was talking
about it, you know, me and her just kind of
brainstorming about it. Because as Silicon Kong, as you can tell,
has a AI thing going some kind of AI vibe going,
and we was talking about it, and and she was like,
you know, we were discussing how just mankind becomes a
really dependent on AI and various and various reasons in
many ways. I was like, well, you know what, when
you write the book, I will write a song. So
when your book is done, we'll let people know, Hey,
here's the book, and this is a song inspired by
that book. Actually, I'll have to send that to you.
It's actually a song called Cyber Jesus. And I will
be releasing here within the next week because her book,
Like I said, you just finished her book and just
put it up for sale last week. Oh so yeah, yeah,
so I will be releasing that. It's a brand new
tune and it's pretty it's pretty cool.
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, send it to us. You know something something
that we love to do here on the show. We
do world radio premieres. Okay, so we would love to
be the first FM station to air it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I said, I have I have an internet
an Internet station waiting forward to but of course FM.
Yeah you can have the first FM. Yeah, you can
have it.
Speaker 13: Awesome, awesome, we love it. Yeah, yeah, very cool and we'll.
Speaker 6: Back thee back to so what about the movie again?
Speaker 13: No, I'm really looking forward to seeing it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, I like that she's working on a yeah,
back to that, she's working on various streaming platforms. We like,
I said, her ultimate release state she liked to do
January twenty five. Yeah, and uh, like I said, I mean,
as soon as that's up and as soon as the
information is released to me, you know, putting it up
on all my social media's. I have Instagram, I'm on
x TikTok, I'm on Facebook, I have YouTube reverb Nation.
Like I said, all you gotta do is typeing Ian
Hemmy on your Google time. It'll pour up everything, Okay,
and you can anyone and everyone can find me.
Speaker 13: Hey, where's the name come from? By the way, Silicon Kong.
Speaker 6: Ah, good story, I got time. I'll tell you.
Speaker 13: Oh we got time?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, okay, cook uh on a see my general
I grew up in the late late seventies and early eighties. Okay,
so every year at I don't know if they did
the same thing in New England, but here in Pittsburgh,
uh Pittsburgh, and that with every year at Thanksgiving time,
it was kind of like a tradition with my family.
You know, of course, Thanksgiving the big big, a big bed,
you know, big holiday for a lot of families. But anyway,
every year they would play King Kong on on Thanksgiving
Day would be uh, I'll never forget. It was always
Wizard of Oz was first, and then they would play
King Kong. That's back when we only had three or
four channels to watch.
Speaker 13: Remember, yeah, I remember when they would play Wizard of Oz.
They might even still do.
Speaker 6: That, yeah, I think they still do, but I remember
back then and they would always play King Kong right
up the original King Kong of course, and King Kong
was always kind of like my favorite monster movie. I mean,
I love Godzilla and Gammer and all that, King Kong
was always the top. Anyway, back to the name. I
was sitting around, like I said, you know, coming in
and out of bands like I've done, like I was doing,
and I was trying to think of a cool thing.
I was just like, well, maybe I just released you
know these songs under Ian Hemy and I was like, nah,
that's not really that cool. Anyway, I was sitting down
one day and I was talking to a friend of
mine and I was just kind of kind of messing
around and the newest King Kong with Jack Black? Do
you ever see that movie?
Speaker 13: Oh, I'm aware of it. I've never actually watched it
though it's.
Speaker 6: A newer movie. I mean, it was like the whole
start of it all. But anyway, maybe was on and
it was it was on a Sunday, and we was
watching it downstairs, and I was just that's at that
time my home studio was downstairs, and I'm looking around,
you know, I was just kind of messing around with
my music and that nuntry and I was like wow,
I said, you know, the new remake of the King
Kong with Jack Black is excellent. So if anybody gets
a chance, definitely check it out. Anyway, so I was
like wow, you know, and I just kind of reverting
back to my childhood how much I loved King Kong. Yeah,
and wow, I wish I could use that somehow. And
I was like, Kong Kong Kong, you know, I could
be like I could be King King of the Electronics.
And then my friend said, hey, wait a minute, why
don't you go with Electronic Cang? And I was like wait,
and jokingly I was actually it came upstairs and uh,
my son was watching something on YouTube or something like that,
and they mentioned Silicong Valley. Okay, I was going to
the restroom. I went back downstairs and just half heartily
and I don't know where. I just how about I
just go to Silicon Kong.
Speaker 13: And he was like, dude, yep, that's yep, yep.
Speaker 6: So I'm the king of the electronics, I can tell you.
Speaker 17: So Friday nights, I'm a co host on a show
called retro Spectrum Radio with poly C and so during
the show, Paul always asks me to plug whatever I'm
going to be doing here on Saturday morning, and so
I mentioned I said Silicon Kong and he loved the name.
Speaker 13: He had not heard it before. He was like, that's great.
He loved it.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 6: Last Halloween, another local band, Jessica Bella band, good band.
Check them out. You can find them on the internet.
To Jessica Bella. And she's a cute, cute little Pittsburgh
pop singer. Anyway, we work. They have a company called
MP Records. Being an artist, you know, an actor and
a musician, we all try to help each other out here,
you know, that's what you do. Yeah, you know, if
we can help each other out in some form artistically,
we will. Anyway, she was doing a show and she
invited me to come up to her show last Halloween
and kind of make you know, I'm kind of promoting
the movie. I've been promoting the movie be really hard
for I'd say about eight months now, because like so
I knew we was wrapping it up and finishing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Anyway, So I got up on stage. Before I went
on stage, I came out. I was outside this place
called Gurgles in Pittsburgh, and uh, you know, this one
lady came up and she, you know, uh, hey, how
are you doing? You know, of course, you know, and
we're talking. You know, I'm dressed up almost, you know,
dressed up and everything except from my mask. So she
knew I was some kind of kind of artist there
for a purpose.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Anyway, so she said, oh, yeah, who year. I said, yeah,
I'm here. I'm gonna do a little thing on stage.
She said, what's what's your name is? Said Silicon Klong.
She said that is an awesome villain name.
Speaker 13: I was like, yes it is, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 6: So that just stuck to me. I just kind of
remembered that.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, No, I think it's great. And uh, I
think it's cool that you're doing stuff with grim Rock.
Speaker 6: But you you you awesome, Graham.
Speaker 17: You kind of you kind of hinted, but it sounds
like you've you've got things in the works that you
can't necessarily talk.
Speaker 13: About yet or right now.
Speaker 6: Man, Grima, we have a plan. Okay, all Italians Italians
is your listeners, not just a state, you know, stay
posted to me or grim Rock, uh for for further information.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, did you say all I CA Italians?
Speaker 12: Is that?
Speaker 19: Uh?
Speaker 17: That's that's Pittsburgh right there, Pittsburgh, Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 13: I do feel like I feel like I've had that
got that in that.
Speaker 6: And at NAT and that and that.
Speaker 17: Wow, you really do have your own dialect there, Yeah,
we do. That's amazing. Are there a lot of Are
you able to play out a lot? Are there are
a lot of good you did mention after the pandemic
or during the pandemic, a lot of venues closed, but yeah.
Speaker 6: A lot of them just never reopened and it was
just so sad.
Speaker 17: And what you're doing is unique. Are there still a
lot of places to play? Or do do you hit
the road and get out of the area and play
some places or.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what, Matt. I just we just recently
thanks to grim Rock. Actually, you know, I'd have to
say I have to thank grim Rock for that, But
just recently I've been racking shows up left and right back.
Now I can also say, like Silicon Kong was somewhat around,
uh during the pandemic and that, But prior to that,
I was in a real quick story here. I've always
kind of liked it strange musical combinations, like there's a bay.
I was an industrial metal band called F six. Now
what that consisted of was me playing bass and singing
and a friend, my friend guitarist at the time, Dustin Marx,
was guitarist, and we would come up on stage with
just a computer, you know, wow, and we would play guitar.
I would play bass and sing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: So years and then after after that, I also did
another thing called Pseudo and with Jeff Keetemy and we
would do the same thing, you know, we would he
would do the singing part and I would kind of
do the rapping, kind of creepier rock vibe.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: The strange thing about that why I'm mentioning that is
then this is we're talking. This is between two thousand
and five, and I'd say fourteen or fifteen, and we
would go out there and people would be like, dude,
where's your drummer, where's your drummer? Where's your band? So
at first we wann't like this kind of coincides with
what I do. It really wasn't well accepted. People in
Pittsburgh want to see bands. They go to see an
old stage full people headbanging, playing urnishments, whatever the case
may be. So for me to get up Aaron Grim
could attest to this, He's actually had to deal with
this as well. Getting up on stage as I just
you playing something or whatever. Back then was not accepted.
But since the pandemic, I will say this, I mean
that's nothing. Really nothing good came of that pandemic. I
don't care what analyst is. It was terrible in every
possible way. But the only thing that to come out is, uh,
we decided, you know, going out on stage with a
computer or whatever and like a like a lot of
the rappers or hip hop artists would do. Now it's accepted. Yeah,
Now people are like, hey, that's pretty cool. Now so
it kind of works out for that. So because of that,
like I said, uh yeah, now, because of that, and
it's more widely accepted in the area. Yeah, I got
lots of shows coming up.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 17: Well, plus I would imagine too, other bands must love
playing with you, because when you get to play with
someone who like like if you're if you're opening for
somebody and they have to follow you and you're not
going to take you don't have a you don't need
twenty minutes to break down a drum set, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 6: And dat And like I said, you know, the thing
about it is, there's a few bands excuse me out here,
God Hates Unicorns, Primate, there's a few of the bands
that did survive the pandemic. Uh, and we're all all
of us are really tight in the area. Yeah, Perishables,
there's a couple other bands that, like I said, And
the thing about that is we just all even though
we may be different, different styles and different genres, we
all support each other. I mean, there's a handful of
us that support each other. Of course, it's just like
any of the big city there are some bands that
are like, yeah, great show that as soon as you
turn around their stabbing me in the back. Sure, you know,
there's quite a few of those two. But the thing
about it is like these guys, like I said, back
to the God Hates Unicorns and Prime Aid and Comparcial,
these are guys that are really down to earth, excellent
human beings.
Speaker 13: That's good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we stick with that. We basically like to
stick with our little circle of various bands that we
like to play with. So yeah, and we enjoy playing
for each other. I mean, I've opened up for God
Hates Unicorns. I've done stuff with Prime Eate, you know,
and we always had a great time. You know, we
love it. We all support each other.
Speaker 17: Yeah, no, that's really cool. God Hates Unicorns. I've heard
that name. That name came up on the show recently.
Grim might have might have mentioned them.
Speaker 6: But awesome. I will say, I can't really for very much,
but I'll just to be saying they'll be They'll be
around with us in one form or another. Yeah, just
stay tuned. Like I said, people just gonna have to
go on the Facebook pages mine and Grim's and Grim's
website and you know, just keep keep posted because there's
some surprises coming that's all I got to say.
Speaker 13: Very cool, very cool. Well we look forward to that.
Speaker 17: Well listen, uh Ian hemy also known as Silicon Kong.
We're we're gonna have to let you go in a moment.
But it's been wonderful having you on. I've really enjoyed
talking with you. I enjoyed and I'm I'm a big
fan of what you're doing.
Speaker 13: I love your music.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, and I really appreciate uh you
for for supporting you know, guys like me and grim.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: It's awesome because every little bit helps. And like I said,
back to the Facebook pages, you know, go on to
Facebook pages. Likes are cool, shares are better.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. What should people know about where
to find you online?
Speaker 6: Like I said, really back to what I said. You
just type in Ian hemmy and anything that has is
affiliated with Silicon Kong in any possible way, we'll pull
up on one of the if not all, I'm on
the IDMB, the actors thing on you know, the Hollywood
actors thing. I mean, I'm also a producer and a writer,
you know, like so I've done things with movies and
stuff like that. So anywhere you type in Ian Hammy
and pull it up. Just click the link and I'm
sure you'll find a link to take you to everything
that I do.
Speaker 13: Yes, yes, you are very googleable.
Speaker 6: Yes, very googleable. I like that both.
Speaker 17: Yes, yes, very good, very good. I'm going to close
out this segment with it. This is another track that
I found on Reverb Nation that I really like. Twitter padded,
I really.
Speaker 6: It's yeah, you got real quick. I'll tell you the
story behind that. You know that camp? No, Jen, do
you know where I came from?
Speaker 13: Oh, she's she's actually out of the room for a moment.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, well growing up you know Disney. Let's
go back to you and growing up Bamby the movie Bamby,
Remember everyone bamb He's like, what's wrong with them?
Speaker 20: Oh?
Speaker 6: They're okay, they're just Twitter painting.
Speaker 13: Oh okay, I gotcha.
Speaker 6: Cartoons are my life.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I love Coromedi's and cartoons. I'm very animated, as you
can tell.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's also the John Burrows remix. Oh okay,
you know John Burrows.
Speaker 13: I feel like I do.
Speaker 6: Look it up.
Speaker 13: All right, all right, very good? All right?
Speaker 17: Uh Ian Heavy aka Silicon Kong, thank you so much,
my friend.
Speaker 11: I can't wait.
Speaker 13: I can't wait to see the movie, and uh, I'm
sure we'll What's I'm sorry?
Speaker 6: I was like some people, ye have I said, just
find me mainly A lot of that stuff will be
released on my uh mainly my face pages. Okay, so
people just follow me, friend me, whatever you want to
do if you want to get more information on it,
and also on my Facebook pages you can scroll through
it and no take you. I had to also have
a Facebook page for Silicon Kong, okay, so I also
have another Facebook page for the Still City Architect of
Pittsburgh documentary itself too. Oh on Facebook.
Speaker 13: Excellent, excellent.
Speaker 17: All right, ian Hemy, We'll let you go for now,
but I'm sure I'm sure we will talk again in
the future, I hope.
Speaker 13: So thank you, all right, man, thank you, take care
bye bye, all.
Speaker 6: Right, you take care now on Matt bye bye bye.
All right.
Speaker 17: That was Ian Hemy, Yes from Pittsburgh also known as
Silicon Kong, and we will we'll close out the segment
with again this track is so it's actually pronounced Twitter
painted and then coming up, we have under the Horizon
is going to be here with us alive in studio,
so plenty more to come, don't go away.
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