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Speaker 8: That ending was a surprise. Hey, welcome everybody. I love it.
That is a bright future. That is Quincy Lord. If
you are listening live on Saturday, we have entered our
third hour New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and
we are live from the studios of w m n
H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.
And today is Saturday, January eighth, teen, twenty twenty five.
And let me get that mic up for you there.
Quincy Lord is here with us live in studio.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Hello, Hello, how are you good? Welcome back.
I saw you using a cheat sheet on the calendar
just then.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well when I look over there, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's un until it becomes afternoon. I don't recall what
day of the month it is, but you know by
the afternoon I've woken up.
Speaker 6: Same. We'll get there together.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so welcome. When was the last time we
had you. We haven't had you since you've been since
we've been here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think we had put out with my
band's Sunset Electric. We had put out an album last November,
and it was just a little bit before that came
out because we had a couple of singles for you
to play. So yeah, it must have been early last November,
maybe October, so over a year.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, long enough. And the band is still going, right.
Speaker 6: The band's still going. We have a couple of shows
coming up. I'm sure all glad about that as the
day goes on. But we're having a good time. But
I've had all these songs collecting for a while. On
a side, put out this solo record that I'm here
to talk about. Obviously that was the title track if
we didn't say that A bright future.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I listened to the whole album. You sent us
the whole thing, and I love it. I love the
whole thing. Is just great.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that you said.
Speaker 8: So this is a collection of songs that you've been
accumulating for a while now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is I've been telling myself I was doing
a solo acoustic record for a while, because yeah, I've
written a lot and there's a lot of songs that
don't fit what the band does. So okay, but there's
fifteen songs on this, which is obviously too many, about
five too many? But basically there's a it's broken into
three groups of five here, and there's a The last
five songs, which are I just see as extra are
acoustic versions of songs we've already put out the band
did on the last record or one it's a single
we've done since once a song I did with my
old band in like twenty nineteen, but oh okay. And
then there's five songs that are very old, some I
wrote when I was a teenager, which is a lifetime ago.
And so there's five very old songs, five new songs,
and five songs that are re released acoustic versions. So
I was like, let's just stick them all together and
put them out there. So it's not the most cohesive unit,
but I think it's a I enjoy it. I like
to have that they came to life, and I can
be like, okay, I don't have you have this one
you know on the back of my mind, like I
want to do something with that song someday, right right.
Speaker 8: In terms of recording these who else is on these
tracks with you? Or is it all you? Did? You
do this all yourself?
Speaker 6: I did all the recording, but I had a bunch
of friends join me on this. The Sunset Electric tracks,
the four of the tracks at the end, I had
my bass player from the band, Dan Smiles or No
on the bass guitar. My buddy Justin Fife helped with
a bunch of these. Justin mckinnis also, they're both in
a band with me. And then they had help from
my friend Cassidy. That song we just played, she did
some backup vocals on, and she's on two other songs
on the album. I met her in this past year
and yeah, just I heard her. We were at the
same show and I heard her sing and I asked
her to come feature on some songs and she didn't.
I was very glad it ended up working out really well.
Is she in a band or she isn't? She actually
does music therapy, I believe. Yeah, Yeah, it's very cool.
I'm a little jealous. It sounds like a fun thing
to be doing. But yeah. And then my friend will
Hart on one of the tracks that will probably play
later steam Town played some harmonica for us. So anyways,
I had a bunch of people on this and snow Cone,
my partner did the al martwork. If for those who
didnt see the picture. It's a kind of a newspaper
front with the title of bright Future and reflection of
an eye with an atomic explosion in the background. So yeah,
if to set the cynical tone there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I really like the cover. I was curious about that. Yeah, Uh,
that's that's really cool. How how is your approach different
to recording these than than with the band.
Speaker 6: Well, I set out with the intent to just keep
it so simple and just have my voice and the guitar,
and I didn't let myself do that. And yeah, there's
one track which ended up just being vocals and guitar
and arrests had a lot more. But you know, I
mixed the band's record also when we recorded that ourselves,
and I want to see how it would be to
mix something without drums. So for me, the approach was
thinking about the mix and that process of it, the
post production of how's this going to be different? And
I tried a bunch of different things on different songs,
and uh, in the future, I'll look back and they'll
be someone will be like, Okay, that really worked, and
others will be like I should never have done that.
Speaker 8: Right, Oh that's yeah, that's the inevitability of some of those. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But yeah, did you record these in a studio or
did you do it at.
Speaker 6: Home or the studio being my apartment? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
much to my neighbor's chagrin, I'm sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, but you didn't have like a full drum
set in there.
Speaker 6: No, there wasn't that. Just a lot of takes in
me being very loud.
Speaker 8: Really h oh, that's funny. Uh you want to play Uh,
I'm dying to hear you play live. Let me uh
pull that. I'll pull that out. So, because we're already
live on the air, we can't we can't do a
proper soundtrack. But if you want to strum that guitar
a little bit, got some say.
Speaker 6: I know from history that people like hearing guitar be strums.
Speaker 8: So yeah, well that sounds nice. Yeah, that sounds really
good in the headphones.
Speaker 6: Sounds great in my headphones. I'm not wearing any if
you're not listening, not watching, I guess right.
Speaker 8: Right, yes, the uh, well, radio is theater of the mine,
so you could have actually just pretended to add headphones.
Speaker 6: You want me to be full of deceit today? Is
that what we're doing well.
Speaker 8: It's early, you know. We can be more honest in
the afternoon.
Speaker 6: See, that's the thing, It's true. Some morning voice. We'll
have some gravel here.
Speaker 8: Well that could be a good thing. That can be
a good thing. What are you going to play for us?
Speaker 6: So this song is called Dive, and it's actually from
this album and anything I've released. Probably the oldest song
I have because I've wrote it as a very angsty teenager.
I think it was probably sixteen or seventeen when I
wrote this, But I always liked the song, and it's
a kind of my experience with Catholicism and breaking away
from that.
Speaker 8: Oh interesting I was. I was raised Catholic, and I
think a lot of people can I haven't even where'd
you play it? Yeah, but I think a lot of
people can probably relate.
Speaker 6: You said a excuse me, you're gonna make it.
Speaker 8: I'm not sick, but I was sick and like this
cough just lingers forever.
Speaker 6: Ah think it likes to do that.
Speaker 8: Yes, but this is the first song you wrote.
Speaker 6: Not the first song I wrote. No, Oh, okay, that's
just of the songs I've released. It's probably the oldest.
Oh I got you the songs I released back in
like twenty seventeen. Oh okay, very very old. I have
notebooks and notebooks full of songs, but this is the
oldest one I'm probably recorded. So okay, okay, cool, you'll
you'll hear the angst?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, all right, I'll look forward to this. So
if you're just joining it, U Squizzy Lord is here
with us live in studio, and he's gonna play what's
what is the name of it?
Speaker 6: Dive dive all right, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 9: Ne mem man the tuck, I will find do wed
to stun.
Speaker 13: Fuck you, my Simpson.
Speaker 9: Make me you one refute everything that I've done while
you're drowning in your light. You wim a failed to
mask your spy. You say that I shouldn't on my place.
Scarce runs down my face.
Speaker 4: How could you believe it's.
Speaker 13: True that God send me to challenge you? Well that's
what you say, high um, you say that, high am.
Speaker 9: Build me up from ground the sky, break my wings,
holl earn to fly?
Speaker 13: Don't you half a one too?
Speaker 9: Whe they built mountains Aho, no flies.
Speaker 14: Just suit sata Let the wind say you when oh,
dive tie through the blessings sad in since time the
shadow in your mind call them friends, don't know?
Speaker 15: Then to save ti, don't ask why on your neck
with kilts and pain. Then left and the rain. Pray
for and holy one, not the one on that is gone.
As children learn to walk, It's seats some hearts.
Speaker 13: You talk all the words, not to say the prayer.
Speaker 9: I'll never pray, Save up bread and drink the wine.
Speaker 13: Sits he memorize your lines.
Speaker 7: No, I told you that I'm done, never meant to
hurt anyone.
Speaker 9: Build me up from crown to sky, break my wings
on the earth.
Speaker 12: Fly.
Speaker 13: Don't you have one toy?
Speaker 9: They built mountains Salhoun of this, just to time.
Speaker 7: Time, Let the water take you in a tive.
Speaker 2: Side, time for the blessing, send the sense and tell
the shadow in your mind you can't accept his.
Speaker 1: Hurt to you.
Speaker 13: Just save time. Time who outside?
Speaker 8: I love it? I love it, Quincy Raymond Is, I'm sorry,
Quincy Lauren dear slipped. There is here with us live
in studio. You know why that happened because I tagged
you on Facebook with the picture I just shared out.
But now, what a great song I had a feeling
I would find that relatable and enjoy that does, uh,
just out of curiosity obviously. So with that song, you
so you were raised, I assume in a Catholic family,
how do they does anyone in your family have they
ever said anything about Have they heard that song and
said anything about it?
Speaker 6: Or yeah, well what I used to hear from because
as a nanngsty teenager I did sing that up in
my bedroom and my father would hear me going dove
Die have dive, and he'd be like, are you saying
die die die? Like, oh, what is that song? You
kept singing? Yeah, the comments I've had from my family
since releasing it have mostly just been that ben that
it sounds angsty and they aren't wrong, Okay. I haven't
been confronted in any such way. I get along with
my family. We're on good terms, so you know, gotta
gotta poke the gotta poke the bear little at holidays
and such, right, Right.
Speaker 8: No one's threatened to have an official papal excommunication or anything.
Speaker 6: Not quite yet. I can't can't say I'm too concerned
about right, Yeah, yes, understood, but yeah, that one's uh,
it was a lot, but it was a lifetime ago. Also, Yeah,
you know everyone's experience is different there, but I was like,
someone might relate to this and hopefully it's a good
song for someone who's still in that.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, no, it's very very catchy. I like that
a lot. I like that a lot. Quincy Lord is
here with us and we're talking about the new album.
Oh so where does the You talked about the artwork,
But what about the title itself, A Bright Future.
Speaker 6: It's just the that's just I don't know where it
came to me. I've just been working on lyrics for
the song of Bright Future, which I don't believe ever
says that, But at some point I was thinking about
what the title should be and looking at the track
list and the other names, like all, what would be
a good title, and as that song was originally called
Faster Faster, which is something I repeat a lot throughout
the song, but it just had the right kind of
cynicism to me. Once we found a picture, I had
the idea for that, Yeah, that name to come out
and that song itself, by the way, the title track,
A Bright Future, I wrote that because my partner's fate.
One of her favorite genres of types of song is
really up eat songs. About the world ending. Yeah, so
like we will become silhouettes by the Shins. It's into
the World as we Know It by Rim obviously songs
like that. And she was getting ready for work one
day and I must have been a weekend because I
was home and uh, I was just following her around
one and just you know, making up words I heard
and You're like, I actually kind of like that. Let
me see if I can turn that into something.
Speaker 8: Yeah, oh that's cool.
Speaker 6: It's the goal was to write an upbeat song about
you know, world ending the fallout.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, I like it.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was trying to think of some more examples of Yeah,
it seems like there are quite a few. Yeah, you
mentioned the end of the world as we know at Rim.
What else does oh? You know one that nobody ever
thinks of is?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 8: Do you know the song Wake Me Up on Judgment
Day by Steve Winwood?
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no one remembers that one.
Speaker 6: But you did except me. Steve When would would be
very glad right now? Yes, yes, he's still alive, right,
Steve When would? As far as I know, I think
he still haven't talked to him in a while.
Speaker 8: Yeah, are there are there other themes or is there
a theme? I probably not to the album because you
mentioned that, you know, they've they've kind of come from.
Speaker 6: Absolute, absolute chaos. Yeah, it's all over the place. It's
no rhyme or reason throughout.
Speaker 8: But it is cohesive because, like I said, I listened
to the whole thing and I and I listened to
everything at once. I didn't, you know, It's not like
I listened to some and then listen more later. So
to me, it seemed really cohesive.
Speaker 6: Well, despite when they were written, at the very least
they were for the most part, they recorded or at
least mixed at the same time. Yeah, a couple of
songs that did start recording in like uh twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, it was just like, I'm not redoing this.
I'm just going to keep those files and yeah, I
sound the same. I'm sure it's gonna be fine, right right,
But uh no, it's not really theme. I mean, with
a Bright Future.
Speaker 10: It was just.
Speaker 6: The reason that that was like the strongest feeling is
why I guess I kept that as the title for
the album. Just you know, there's a lot of anxieties.
I think Monday is going to be an anxious day
for a lot of people. If you have no idea
what's going on in politics, you can figure it out.
But yeah, which, well there is that. But just a
lot of terrible things happening in the world at all times,
and general consciousness of that is enough to weigh on someone,
I think, and got to keep living life as in
the world we are and you know, yes, yes, hope
for the best.
Speaker 13: Boy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry, I started your political wheel turning here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, what you know, we used to do politics
on the show, and then we took that element.
Speaker 6: Out of the I didn't know you took it out
well out of the WM.
Speaker 8: And H version of the show. Now I only do
that online.
Speaker 6: But but but I am uh, you're gonna make it Matt.
Matt needs a little drink.
Speaker 8: I think that's what's causing my my cough is the
uh sense of dread and doom I feel. But anyway, well,
I do need a gulp of water.
Speaker 6: That's right, We're gonna We're just gonna play a little
waiting music.
Speaker 8: Well, that's right. Oh, I like that. That's nice to
help spring my stress level down too. It's very peppy.
You can make a song about the end of the
world out of that, sure could. But you can just
make it about Monday, although it is Martin Luther King
day to Monday. So that's positive.
Speaker 6: There you go.
Speaker 8: There's a It's weird though that these two things are
converging on the same day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they don't seem to go together.
Speaker 8: No, they really do not. They certainly do not.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but uh now that's that's the least we can
say about it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly now with the band, so with Sunset Electric,
I know them, yes, yes, so are you While you
were recording this album, did the band keep going or
did you guys take a break while you were doing this?
Speaker 6: I don't know the band kick guard. I did this
very slowly over this past year. There was like weeks
of focus and weeks I didn't touch it at all.
And that's some of it. That was just writing songs.
But no, we've been we've been playing. We have a
couple of shows coming up. We're gonna be at a
Huskies Pub and Wooster on the eighth and of February.
And we're around. But we have been working on a
new album also. We're in writing stages, but we're almost
done writing the next record and excellent, which you know.
Sometimes I would start a song intending it to be
for my solo thing, and I was like, ah, nah,
the band will like this one, and yeah, you know,
just bringing songs into them and seeing what sticks and
what they vibe would so yeah, but no, we've still
been going. We have a great time playing and practicing,
and yeah, it's a blast. I always look forward to
playing with the band. I like playing the solo shows too, Obviously,
it's a whole different experience. I can play soft stuff,
I can get more lyrical, but the energy is great
when the band's playing and people are clapping and singing
along and we're full of antics and jumping around and
messing with each other. It's it's always fun.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Now with the solo shows, do you do like
really long sets? You do like multi hour?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Usually? I mean I do a lot of breweries, and
actually today I'm playing at a seven Saws Brewing and
a Holden mass That's one of my favorite spots. But
I'm playing there a very long time. Yeah, like how long,
like before COVID, probably like twenty eighteen, I want to
say I started, which might be around when they opened.
I lived in Lemonster at the time, so it was
a lot closer. Yeah, so it made sense that I
found them and was going there. But uh, yeah, I've
been going there. I was there every Sunday or as
a duo with one of my bandmates for a good while.
But anyways, I'll be there. But yeah, it's like a
three hour set when I'm playing at a brewery, which
you know, I like to play my originals do a lot,
and people are very receptive to that.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Good.
Speaker 6: But I also, you know, play covers and make people happy.
Speaker 8: Sure.
Speaker 6: The best thing is when you play a cover a
song you know, but that's not popular, and people come,
I really like that's original of yours. Yeah, well you
picked the one that wasn't mine. But I understand I
love it too.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, No, it's funny when that happens because yeah,
you know, we've had a lot of guests over the
years who you know, they'll they'll do covers, but they'll
do something obscure and then people don't even know.
Speaker 6: It's just associated with them forever.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I was in a band where we years ago,
long time ago. I was in a band called My
Life Crisis, and we did a kiss cover. But we
did a song called Hate, which is from their most
obscure album that only the most diehard Kiss fans even
know about, and it sounded so much like everything else,
like all our originals that, yeah, nobody knew.
Speaker 6: You know, what did you do in the band?
Speaker 8: I was a bass player.
Speaker 6: How'd you like it?
Speaker 8: Do you still play? I haven't picked up a bass
in a long time, Yeah, but I used to be.
I was pretty active. At one point. I was in
three different bands at once and we were all doing
a lot of shows. But I never started a family
because obviously you can't do that if you have kids,
so I avoided that. But yeah, now I'm just too
busy with other things, so I haven't. I haven't played
in a long time, but sometimes I miss it and
then I remember all the work that goes into it,
and it's like, yeah, I don't miss it that much.
Speaker 6: Labor of love, I think they'd say.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. But the nice thing about what you're doing
when you do it solo acoustic, of course, that opens
up a lot of different places you can play, and like, like,
you have no shortage of opportunity. I'm sure as far
as where you play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can one one person can fit in wherever
exactlip side. If you haven't a bad day for your
voice or you're just all over to play, you have
no one to blame, like, oh no, the drummer was
the drummer was hammered that day. You can't blame the
drummer when it's just you, Like, no, that that was
just me not being perfect. Sorry, guys, Yeah, yeah, it's
been known to happen.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, if you're just joining us.
Speaker 6: Casey, Lord, Casey, what what am I doing, Quincy, Lord,
Matt's having a day.
Speaker 8: I am. I'm thinking about Monday.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna write it down for you next time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I'm thinking about Monday and I'm distracted.
Nothing nothing too terrible, we at least not the first day.
Nothing terrible will happen, I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Well the next day, I think there's some terrible plans week.
We should probably the.
Speaker 8: Next day, yeah, well we'll we'll enjoy the holiday. The
next day, well we'll be terrible. But uh, do you
want to you want to play another live one for us? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 8: Dying to hear another one? Let me uh get that
other mic back up there. That guitar sounds nice.
Speaker 6: Sure, I'm gonna play you.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: This was one of the songs I actually had released
already with Sunset Electric, but I released as an acoustic
version of this album because it's a lot of fun
and uh, I don't think I'm pretty sure to play
it last semes here it's called the Inn. Okay, Well, no,
we've we played the recording last time. That's it, okay,
but I want to play it, so we're going to
awesome answer. I know it's a guess. It's about feeling lost,
it's a it's run.
Speaker 3: Oh my, oh my, you're sat from my sore eyes.
Read your footprints from the dark. Come sit, bind up
one's light you in a dark place. We've all given
to desire with a blind leading the blind, and you're preaching.
Speaker 7: To the barn, said tell me where the car, Where
I can lay the bow?
Speaker 1: Where can lay my.
Speaker 13: Said shah, call.
Speaker 4: To the bow? Where can lemma bo?
Speaker 13: Wherelemma bone? Bone is my own night.
Speaker 10: Loma?
Speaker 7: Ohah see, you're not acusole through your ashes, through the wind,
losing long control.
Speaker 13: This back rang nights a signal, I'll tacon. You can
say night, but you can't see bodusn't see nothing. Oh
tell me where to go? Where I can let him
a bottle?
Speaker 4: Where can lem my bone?
Speaker 6: I said, bo shall go.
Speaker 1: To the roll?
Speaker 13: Where can a lemma bounce? Where Lama boats.
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 13: It cuts cold?
Speaker 4: Half nice? Has her her?
Speaker 13: You don't dropping the parts life. He's a truce, to
be sure.
Speaker 1: But I'm not.
Speaker 4: Coming up, be le.
Speaker 8: I do know.
Speaker 13: I'm searching.
Speaker 4: Go home.
Speaker 13: It's pleased to go on my own, on my home.
Speaker 6: What did gen meet?
Speaker 1: To this road?
Speaker 7: Where a Lamma bones? Why tell me where to go?
Where Calma problems? Mysa puble shack all to the ball?
Speaker 13: Waking Lama? Where my bone?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 4: My work Lemma?
Speaker 8: Oh that is cool. I really like that. Yeah, that
sounded great. If you're just joining us, we have Quincy
Lord here with us live in studio playing some tracks live,
and of course we're featuring songs from his new album,
A Bright Future and Refresh my Memory. Is it out
now or is it coming out?
Speaker 6: It is out now.
Speaker 8: I just came out on January first. Felt appropriate? Yeah, excellent.
So it's it's on all the streaming platforms.
Speaker 6: It is on all the streaming platforms as far as
I know. We had a little issue with Apple, but
it's live there now too. So for those who were
asking me about.
Speaker 8: It, Oh, what was the problem with Apple? I'm always
curious about this type of thing.
Speaker 6: I have no idea. It was just from the distributors,
just like, oh, delivery to iTunes and Apple failed, it said,
And I emailed them like six times and they got
back to me last night being like, oh it's fixed now,
and like, well thanks, oh okay, good good. Only took
him a couple of weeks. It could be worse.
Speaker 8: Busy distro Kid is that who you used?
Speaker 6: CD baby And I used to use distro Kid, but
it was a didn't end up being worth it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've heard that from from quite a few people.
Speaker 6: Well, it depends if you're someone that uh I friends
who just like you know, they'll have an idea and
they'll just knock out some recording, especially if it's like
house music or whatever. Yeah, just something like that where
they're or a tecto or whatever and they'll just you know,
upload a song at a time, and yeah, you know,
having a subscription, which is how district it works, and
you just upload all you want as opposed to per release,
then it's worth it for those people. But yeah, the
trouble is if you ever stop paying them to take
your music down, or you have to give them fifty
bucks per release, which is a lot of money.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, wow, are you doing physical CDs as well?
Speaker 6: Or I am? I think I have some with me.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, cool. Yeah, that's it's interesting how that's changed
over the years, because you know, when I first started
interviewing bands and you know it, it was a long
time ago. And just give you an idea of how
long ago it was when I first started. This was
before I was at WM andh like, guess wouldn't be
even Oh I should have turned that mic down. There
we go. So before I was at WM and h uh,
instead of sending me emailing me files, before people were
really comfortable with that, people would give me a CD
and the move was very often and this was typical.
Uh the CD wouldn't even be in a case. It
would be on a CDR and they would write on
it with sharpe what it was and they would hand
it to me on their finger. You know, it's no
case and you know, and then of course eventually people
got comfortable with just emailing tracks using Dropbox and services
like that, Google Drive and whatnot. And then so that stopped.
But also a lot of a lot of people just stopped,
you know, because there was this thought, well, everything's online
now and with Spotify and everything, there's no reason to
make CDs. And then and so it seems like for
a while, most of the guests I had, you know,
I would ask them, well, are you going to do
a physical CD? And they'd look at me like I
was nuts. And then now, over the past I don't know,
five or six years, probably you know, everybody's doing CDs again,
and some are even doing vinyl, which apparently is very expensive.
Speaker 6: But there's definitely a vinyl resurgence for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, well I think I think it was twenty
twenty two was the first year that vinyl actually outsold CDs.
Speaker 6: I did hear that? Yeah, Well, you know, the biggest
issue here is anyone buying a new car. For the
past five years, I'm guessing the vast majority don't have
CD players In the time I bought a new car
last year, I had to get rid of my old one,
and I went from having you know, a six CD
changer that I had all my favorites in, and you
know that one of those books that just has full
of little CDs. Oh yeah, you know, have a couple
hundred CDs in there. And you know, if you're driving
out in the boondogs and don't have service, you know,
didn't have to worry about having songs on my phone.
I could just you know, yes, And I like listening
to records start to bottom. A lot of people, yep,
don't like doing that, don't have the attention for it.
But I like to commit and see what's going on. Yeah,
but uh, you know, I've always liked doing CDs. It's
good to just have like a little a little something.
Speaker 8: Well that's the thing. You know, it's fun to listen
or it's fun to look at liner notes and the
artwork and everything that whole experience. I mean, that's you know,
when I was a kid, I always loved you know,
if I was really into an artist, I would actually
read everything that was in there, like like who their
manager was, you know, just everything. If I was really
into somebody, you know, like.
Speaker 6: Oh this guy played sex phone on that one song.
That's very interesting.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, because I could get obsessed if I still can.
But but it's cool that it you know that it
never went away.
Speaker 4: Even.
Speaker 8: Even cassettes. I think it was about five or six
years ago. I was on band camp dot com and
just looking for new artists in the area and I
found somebody who was making cassettes. And the first one
that I found I thought it was a fluke and
I was like, Oh, they're doing this kind of retro thing,
you know, is it like an pop band from mean
Steak College or something. And then I found more and
I'm like, oh my god, it's crazy.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's definitely a retro hipster kind of thing.
I mean, yeah, the only people I really usually see
selling cassettes are like folk punk slash crustpunk bands and
you know, very di y and indie people. I don't
see many eight tracks anymore.
Speaker 8: No eight tracks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my one my bandmate, and I'm in another band
called Pants to band that's largely the same members but
all in different rules as a Sunset, but our keyboardist,
Justin mcinness is the singer in Pants. It's all his
songs since Old Vibe. Anyways, he has the means to
record eight track really and he's he's dead set on,
you know, our next recording, just releasing a couple like that,
just to say we could that's fun. I do remember
seeing Cheap Trick like ten years ago and they had
just as a gag, released an eight track of their
new record at the time, just that they could say
they have the number one eight track in the world. Yeah, which, yeah,
I guess so also the only but yeah.
Speaker 8: I was in a band called The Jakes. This was
like twenty years ago, and we had a running joke
in the band that we were going to release like
a single, and of course.
Speaker 10: If we did.
Speaker 8: But if we did that today, you know, it would
kind of be almost normal. People would be like, oh,
that's cool retrothegue.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then be like, how do we use it
right exactly? The tracks also have the dumb thing where
they like flip over part way through and oh yeah,
sometimes in the middle of a song if they plan
it poorly, yeah, or the track list will be in
a different order than like on a CD or vinyl,
a different order of than name tended just so it fits, yeah,
and like that's that's not okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but yeah. It's interesting to see how the
technologies change and how things some things never go away.
You know, a lot of people have this impression that
vinyl went away and then it came back, but it
never actually went away.
Speaker 6: I mean, even it got cheap, is what happened, and
is not expensive again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly exactly. But even at its lowest EBB, you know,
all the major labels were still releasing by you know,
limited edition vinyl or whatnot.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it was always like a cool thing that bands.
It's just very expensive, so it's often inaccessible to smaller bands.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'm convinced, Uh, there's no statistical data to
prove this, but I'm sure that most people, probably the
vast majority of people who buy vinyl, don't even have
a record player, don't have anything to put it on.
They just buy it because, you know, if you're really
a fan. I'm talking about if you're buying like brand
new vinyl, not if you're going I mean, if you're
going to a record store and flipping through and buying
use you know, old vinyl, obviously you have something to
play it on, probably unless you're looking for something rare
just to have it. But I think most people who
buy new vinyl, they probably don't have anything to play
it on. They just if they're a fan of an artist.
Speaker 6: Right, it's just cool to have it. A lot of
people hang them on the walls. Yeah, exactly, they do
a lot of I don't know what to call it,
but you know, instead of just a plain black record,
it's like it will be like a cool splattered thing
or have all different colors in there and whatever process
they go through, but you know that to make it
pretty to look at, Yeah, exactly. The only time I
really buy a new one is some of the some
of my favorite bands that are smaller, Uh, you know,
I go and see them live and I like to
support them and buy their merch So that's when I'll
buy one, and I'll you know, i'll throw it on,
but in reality, i'll play it once or twice or
at home on a rainy day or something once in
a while. But yeah, it's you know, it's there's not
much reason for me to put on vinyl. You know,
I have an apartment. I don't have a great like
stats sound set up for it. It's not like I'm
blasting it through my favorite speakers or anything. So it's
like I see my worst speakers with the highest fidelity
recording I could have, and um and see how that goes.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we don't even have Jenny and I don't even
have a CD player at home. We have one here,
but I think the only one who ever uses it
to the best of my knowledge. I don't know if
you know Rob as a veto. He also show here
called Granted State of Mind Fridays at six.
Speaker 6: I don't. I haven't met him, but I've I've watched,
I've had some friends go on a show before.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, and he also owns Pembroke City Limits, which
everybody yeah yeah, yeah, So Rob actually will bring in
CDs and and he so I know this. I know
it works, but I've never I've never used it. But
but no, but people give us CDs and you know,
and it's nice to have them and and whatnot. But yeah,
but we have nothing at home to actually play them mine,
but but it's but it's nice to have them. I
was curious this occurred to me as you were playing
that song that was called bones.
Speaker 6: The inn oh, the end with two ends, at least
two ends. You can use more if you want.
Speaker 8: Where did I get bones?
Speaker 6: I do say bones a lot in a song.
Speaker 8: That's why. Okay, do you say the ends on the
song at all?
Speaker 6: I say the in a couple of times, but once
it's with one end, once it's with two ends.
Speaker 8: So right, so it's different.
Speaker 6: There's a total three ends across the ends.
Speaker 8: But I got you.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 8: I was curious what goes into your decision when you
when you write a song, whether it's something you should
keep for yourself or something maybe to use for Sunset Electric,
like you kind of have some criteria in your mind
or is it just a vibe thing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean sometimes I largely that last bit. Sometimes
I do go about writing a song and I haven't
with the band in mind, and I'll write it and
you know, the thing about what they're probably going to
come up with for their parts or how they'll react.
But yeah, what I've been doing. I'll backtrack a little.
So on the record we put out last year, Graffiti Hearts,
the majority of those songs I had written ahead of times,
some like years prior, so a lot of that was
me bringing completed songs to the band and then you know,
making some small adjustments. But sometimes I was a bit
of a jerk about this needs to stay like it is.
And yeah, so since you know those that album was
put out, everything I've done with the band, you know,
I've tried to bring them the songs before they're you know, completed,
you know, right, here's a verse, and of course here's
you know how far I got on day one of writing,
like with a spark, And then I'll bring it into
practice and be like, what do you guys think of this?
See if it sticks, see if they vibe with it,
and if it doesn't, you know, that's all I need
to know. And other times it's like a softer, gentler
song and it's clearly not going to be the right
vibe for them. So yeah, some mix of the two.
But it's usually apparent when I start writing it if
it will be something they'll like or not.
Speaker 8: Yeah, now do you have I mean obviously so you
went what is it fifteen.
Speaker 6: Tracks on this? Yeah, a few too many, fifteen five
or rereleased, so I'll call it like I see it
as like a grouping of ten like the album and
then extras.
Speaker 8: Yeah, do you have even more that you recorded that
you decided to leave out or maybe use on a
future release?
Speaker 6: I have many more that I have, you know, another
twenty songs I considered that I were old songs that
I considered putting on this, but we'll see, you know.
There there's another problems with Catholicism song that I was like, ah,
those would go well together. I'm like, maybe I'll spread
it out and just make sure that notion stays, you
know something, talk about it holidays.
Speaker 8: Was it hard to kind of because you have so
many songs? Was it hard to kind of pare it
down and make those were those hard to stay?
Speaker 6: So the it was less sad and more I wanted
this to be a quick thing. Yeah, not end up
being a quick thing because I couldn't. I kept being like, oh, well,
this song I half wrote, you know, maybe I could
just finish that and put it on, Like I'm not
gonna the band. It doesn't fit the band. Maybe I'll
just and then just you know, because I was doing
it alone, there was no one to tell me no, yeah,
or stop, or you have enough songs, or you don't
need to record the sixteen layers on that song. I'm like, yeah,
but I want to play the banjo. Who's going to
stop me me? No? Right, I want to play the banjo.
I want to play the mandolin. I'm gonna do them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so you play both. There's both banjo and mandolin.
Speaker 6: That's all you not as well as Yeah, I played
all of that on the album. I mean each is
only on one song. Okay, I do play those. I
mean I I think my cousin Josiah put it that
I there's a genre he'd call it of a guitar
players who pick up a banjo. Yeah, and then that's
very much what I am. I'm not a I don't
do the claw hammer the proper things. Mandolin. I'm probably
closer to doing it properly because it's the same motions
as far as the pick goes, different tuning and such.
But I like to dabble. I'm definitely better at guitar
than those. But I get to play guitar out and
every now and then I'll get a get the notion
to like, oh if I practiced mandolin, maybe I'll bring
it to my show today and do some songs on mandolin.
But I'm always like, I'll wait till I'm doing a
duo thing at some point and mess around with it then.
But I liked the excuse to play with different instruments
and just you.
Speaker 8: Know, I've never even picked up a mandolin, is it?
Speaker 6: They're not heavy? You could do it.
Speaker 8: I well, I hope, so I don't know the web
in coffin, I might. I don't know, I might not
have the strength.
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 8: Is it drastically different in terms of I mean, I
assume if you're a guitar player, you're ahead of the game, right,
But is it like how challenging is it to pick
up a not to pick up a mandolin?
Speaker 6: But semantics, well, I think from going from guitar to mandolin,
the easiest part is the fact that your strumming hand
is yeah, very familiar. So yeah, it's getting used to
tiny frets that you have to like it sence your
fingers on, and also just retraining your brain because our
guitar is tuned in force mostly and mandolin's violence whatever,
they're all tuned in fists. Yeah, so you just had
to be like, oh, yeah, the note not where I'm
not where I think it's going to be, and just
you know, learn shapes and patterns and your scales and yeah, interesting,
and then you're fine, how many strings on a man
to win eight West? It's four, but they're doubled like
a twelve string guitar would be Oh.
Speaker 8: I got ya, okay, okay, And what about the banjo
I've heard. I've heard people say that banjo isn't as
difficult to learn as one might think. But then again,
all the people i've heard say that are really good
at playing the banjo.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 6: Not being a proficient banjo player, I'll put it here.
You can coming as a guitar player especially, you can
come and you can make decent sounds on a banjo
and you can play it and make noise. A lot
of it's tuned. Sees me much like a guitar, except
with a very high string on the wrong side, which
you get used to. But if you're playing banjo like
a banjo player would like a blue grass player or
traditional player would, I think that requires a high level skill.
I think, you know, bluegrass players are some of the
most did musicians there are. I agree. Yeah, you just
have a focus. You just shred on it. There's no
drums to guide you all just have to lock in
together and you know, yeah, they go crazy. So I
think that's a high level, in my mind, is a
high level of talent. I'm always impressed by good U
banjo players. My friend Ross plays the banjo very well. Yeah, yeah,
I'm always it's awa it's always it's always fun to
see someone playing.
Speaker 8: You're just like wow, there's like yeah, yeah, I'm always
impressed by that. Yeah, absolutely, or even just being able
to fingerpick, just you know, just generally. I mean because
I you know, I'm a bass player and I play
with a pick most of the time. Even when even
playing bass, I.
Speaker 6: Don't have to tell anyone that it's okay, I use it.
Speaker 8: Everyone already knows. Paul McCartney does it.
Speaker 6: So I used to pick on the bass too. I've
played bass in the bands before and on this record,
I've played a lot of bass obviously, but uh, yeah,
I use a pick. It's easier.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: There was one track I actually I went to the
and you know, use my fingers because it's I wanted
it to be an upright bass, but I didn't have
an upright bass. It was too impatient to ask someone
else to play it or to go and borrow one
and get used to it. I'm like, I'm just gonna
roll my tone knobs back and use my fingers and
it will be fine.
Speaker 8: There you go. There. That's something I've never done either.
I've never played an upright bass.
Speaker 6: Bucket lists Matt bucket list.
Speaker 8: No, no, it looks it just looks so awkward to me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that one's a little harder to pick up. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Physically, yeah, it's heavy because it's big interesting. So you
so all that. So you do all the guitar and
the mandolin and the banjo on the album.
Speaker 6: And for the most part, I did have a Justin Feife,
who's my dear bandmate, he on the Sunset Electrics to
have them come in and like do acoustic versions of
his parts. Just I was like, you already know this,
Like let's do the thing. Yeah, but yeah, I you know,
I like being in my tower song and just recording
all the little bits and I could use a little
thing here. I record a lot more tracks than I
use And maybe I did too much here. Maybe I
need to calm down a little.
Speaker 8: And is the only other vocalist Cassidy is she the
only other one.
Speaker 6: Justin Fife also also sang on that. I think it's
just the two of them. Oh no, Justin McInnis also
did a few vocals. I had a lot on the
back of the album and on band camp. It's very
specific about who did what on what song, but a
lot of songs are just me.
Speaker 8: All these songs on the album, are these all songs
that you play live actively.
Speaker 6: Or just about There's there's one song that I haven't
done live i've yet, which is called so It Goes,
and it's you know I wrote.
Speaker 8: Is this one on Oh Turn It Back Up? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, just just because it's I wrote the song originally
intending it to be for the band because I just
had this fun like it was like a bass or
if I had like.
Speaker 10: Like that.
Speaker 6: Whatever, and I was like, oh, that's like a cool
groo we sing. I was like, and I was like
messing around on the drums and I was like, all right,
this could be a cool thing. But uh, I just
never had that next part that would make sense with
the band. And I picked it up one day and
you know, just start singing the next section and but anyways,
it's just I guess I just need to practice it.
Like it's a little bit of a throwaway song, but
I like listening to recording. It makes me happy.
Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, I try to came.
Speaker 6: And like it has this whole like kind of melancholy
feel to it as it goes, and you know, yeah,
it's one of my many songs about you know, mental
health and you know, just being a mess in general.
But but that's the only one I haven't really done live,
which I could probably practice and get there, but I've
just never had the like, this isn't the one I
want to show off really necessarily.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, like I like it for me, but right, no,
I like that is a I do like that riff.
It's got a nice groof to it. Yeah, Well, time
goes quickly. We are already approaching the top of the hour,
so I want to make sure we get one more
studio track, I'm sure, but before we do that, So
what do people need to know about? Where to keep
up with everything that you're doing? And the band too,
Soundset Electric.
Speaker 6: Yeah sure, So all all my social media's under Quincy
Lord Music. Quincy Lord Music. Quincy Lord was my name,
in case you missed that. Yeah, Sunset Electric Band is
where you can find all the band stuff. I post
most on Facebook because I resent social media in general
and can't commit to too many of them, and that's
the one that lets me make events. But you can
follow us there. I'm going to be at you were
talking to Eleanor earlier. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, So
I'm going to be playing at Terminus on Tuesday for
their whole shin dig that's going on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Jenny and I will be there for that.
Speaker 6: All awesome. I look forward to it. So I'll be
playing a lot of the album live and more awake
than so that will be a good time. Next week,
is it now? In two weeks we're going to be
on WMFO with Top Tufts Radio with the band on
the Town with Mikey d Yeah, yeah, excellent. Yeah. We
went on there in like twenty eighteen or nineteen or something,
so it's been a good while and Joel just made
us sound so good. We had these out of tune
drums and he just he made it all sound great. Yeah,
Tuesday at Terminus, Today's seven Saws and Holding and the band.
Next band show is going to be February eighth at
Husky's Pub, our favorite spot in Worcester.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, very cool, very cool, And we'll we'll end
with steam Town.
Speaker 6: I guess that's who should we do? We have time
for me to say a quick thing about it or
oh yeah, go ahead, yeah, absolutely so, just I'll be
quick a quick story with Steamtown. This is one of
the old songs E wrote A long time ago. Once
upon a time, it was me and I was driving
up and down each I kind of ran away and
was driving up and down the East Coast with a
couple of friends, sleeping in my nineteen ninety six Pontiac
rand Am And anyways, it was written as a letter
for me at the time to this girl I cared
about because I was I kind of ran away and
I was like, hey, I miss you. I wish you
wanted to come with us. She didn't, and like, you know,
just knowing it was kind of saying like I miss
you and I wish you were here, but also I'm
going to go do what I want. So it's kind
of me being a jerk with it. It seems a
little sweet. And in the beginning the song says, dear Simba,
because it's a it was written as a letter to her. Okay, okay,
a very long time ago. Sima's a dear friend who's
eleanor might have mentioned she helps out.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say that name came up earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, interesting,
such a small world.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Simba's how they wrote me into going and playing Tuesday.
Speaker 8: Gotcha, I gotcha, all right? Very cool, very cool. Well,
thank you so much, Quincy Lord, this has been wonderful.
Thank you for having me absolutely, and if you are
listening live on Saturday, if you miss any part of
today's show and will be up in just a little
bit at WM and hradio dot orgon at my website
Matt Connerton dot com. And don't forget Jencoffee dot com
if you want to keep up with everything Jenny's been doing.
She just got back from New York and the United
Healthcare protests there and so proud of her. She's doing great,
great things. And Jenny absolutely, and don't forget the open
house at New Hampshire Underground at Terminus Underground and Quincy
Lord will be there and Jesse what the hell was
his last name?
Speaker 6: Was?
Speaker 8: Somebody I don't know. I can't remember now. Eleanor said
a name of someone I'm not familiar with, but who's
also going to be performing there, Jesse something I can't
remember anyway, but check out New Hyptire Underground dot org
for more information on that. And thank you again to
Eleanor and Andre for coming in earlier, and of course
thank you to Nancy Manet and Quincy Lord. Thank you
again and we will thank you.
Speaker 6: We will leave you with this.
Speaker 8: This is called Steamtown from the new album A Bright Future.
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that kind.
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Speaker 4: No, we weren't going to leave.
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Speaker 4: Seemed tell me. Learned to catch right the first time
we'd have.
Speaker 1: Snag salt faces in our lives.
Speaker 4: They let us fall asleep with.
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Speaker 6: It was you couldn't come, know you one born went.
Speaker 5: The last suit corn all the sun When they're trying
to take me anywhere on the side shop, God, you
know I really don't on life.
Speaker 16: On the long runna fame time we learn to catch
a ride away from all the faces and the places
we despise.
Speaker 1: The tracks wear on our creating. We have story at nights,
but we can only follow on.
Speaker 4: So we go let cat same town. We learned to
catch run the first.
Speaker 16: Time we fell smiles on faces and our lives we
by le ballantly with our lanterns lit by the stars,
to dream about a ladder left, a girlfriends and a cause.
Speaker 4: We learned to cash or eye sales came in.
Speaker 1: The song I count if we ever met to get
going to want.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 6: No fire.
Speaker 4: Let a liar. Won't you run away.
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 4: Lollius thoughts come out of my hair. Let him with you.
Speaker 10: There transfers a specimens you men to me