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Speaker 3: Around me.
Speaker 4: All I see you with you near me?
Speaker 3: You who do you say too?
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Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: The around you.
Speaker 4: Shine in rather through all.
Speaker 7: The things you don't.
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Speaker 8: Ye beauty.
Speaker 4: I love you, follow the star so above you.
Speaker 2: You know me now, I know.
Speaker 3: So tell me show me somehow, take me away, go
away now.
Speaker 1: But there's beauty in an other world.
Speaker 2: You keep me here now, laid down my head.
Speaker 4: Don't say a way now, show.
Speaker 2: Me all there.
Speaker 6: Your well.
Speaker 9: I like that a lot. All I see Jason Oberstein
this little extra audio at the end. There I wasn't expected.
That is uh, that is really cool. We're gonna talk
with Jason in just a moment. He is here with
us in studio. Welcome everybody. If you are listening live
on Saturday, you have entered the third hour New Marrow
trace of Matt Connerton Unleashed. We are live from the
studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester,
New Hampshire. Jenny is here as well, of course at
the news table. Rus into the account of for yes,
and today is Saturday, February eight, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: It is, it is.
Speaker 9: Oh, it's a big day, Jenny. Before we go any further,
we should remind people about what's going on tonight. This
is the big people.
Speaker 10: Yes, we are going to be at the Mosaic Aren't
Collective this evening for their opening of the show Illusions
an Explanation, Exploitation, an Exploration of Optical Illusion and Anamorphic Surrealism,
black Light and three D R So come check it out.
The reception is this evening from four pm to eight
pm and they are located right here in the Queens
City at sixty six Anover Street, Sweet to one in
the Daily Mira Building.
Speaker 9: Yes, to see you there, looking forward to that. How
say hi to Matt and I absolutely absolutely and thank
you of course everyone who's joined us today on the show.
So far we had in the first hour Rivia all
the way from Liverpool skyping in and I really enjoyed
that conversation. And of course in the second hour we
had Kate Shimkey here along with Aaron and Nick from
the listening room at Prayers of Nature and Tyler all
good also and we seriously world premiered his new single,
his new single All Night Dreams, and he played live
for us. We put him on the spot, asked him
to play a second song because he just sounds so good.
The voice on that guy made us a voodoo doll.
That's incredible. It's adorable and it makes me smile. Yes, yes,
but uh, I'm gonna go ahead and bring that mic
up and we'll bring Jason Oberseein is here with us.
Good morning, Jason, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 11: How's it going good?
Speaker 9: Good, Welcome to the show. Uh really enjoyed that track
all I see. We were kind of talking off air
a little bit about I was commenting, how you know
it not everyone can can do what you do on
that song, nail in those harmonies and uh, it kind
of reminded me a little bit of Seay Dan, but
even more so like Crosby, Stills and Nash. And you
were saying how hard that is to pull off live?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think our live harmonies and colors weren't the best,
but you know, we did enough takes and we got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I gotta thank my dad for introducing me to CSN
senior year of high school. Oh No, get a huge
influence on me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, any any particular tracks or albums from
them that that really.
Speaker 11: The one that really caught my attention was carry One
off of the I think their first album. Yeah, it
really sounds like the voice of God, just like talking
to you.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there aren't. I'm trying to think who. I'm trying
to think of who is even you know, at that
level of notoriety, who is actually even comparable in terms
of being able to pull that off? I mean, I
mean the Beach Boys of course, you know they you know,
great harmonies there, that's really central to their sound. But
I'm trying to think who else can can do it
quite the way? I mean CSN, because not only could
they do those harmonies, but there was kind of a
uniqueness I think, Yeah, the.
Speaker 11: Way their voice is blended was yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: I think The Grateful Dead had some of that in
their studio records, yes, but not really in the same
way like in their live performance.
Speaker 9: Right right, agreed? Agreed? So that's is that what got
you started playing music or was that just what got
you interested in those doing those?
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's what got me interest in the harmonies. Yeah,
I've been playing music forever since I was ten. I
started on guitar lessons and you know, started with just
like Zeppelin and Rush and like classic rock and then
sort of agree to the more jammy, psychedelic, softer stuff
in college with Grateful.
Speaker 9: Dead and okay like that. Yeah, Okay, you've you know,
you set us a bunch of music and you're gonna
play something live for us today, which we really look
forward to you. But it looks like you so you've
you've done a lot of solo material and you've played
in a lot of bands.
Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, Yeah, I'd say like most of my identity
through the years has been just like random bands, especially
when I moved to Boston like three years ago. I'm
in like four bands at this point, a couple of
bands that I've dissolved unfortunately. But over this last year
I've been trying to like do more of my own thing,
you know, writing and like performing just me and my
acoustic which is still kind of new to me. But
I'm you know, trying to get out there more.
Speaker 9: Yeah, when you when you moved to Boston, was it
for college or no?
Speaker 11: It's right after college, right, Actually college, I moved out
of Boston to Saint Louis or College. Oh okay, I
came back for a job. Oh okay, yeah, and then
I just started playing as much music as I possibly could.
Speaker 9: So you grew up in Boston, you're from there originally, Yeah.
Speaker 11: From like a suburb of Boston, gotcha. I still kind
of felt new to the city when I moved in.
Oh I live in Cambridge now, okay yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, great music scene and uh and some great college
radio stations there too. I don't know if you've been
playing on college radio there at all, Like, uh, I
always say, you know. I also I work in I'm
a radio promoter, so clients hired me to send their
music to college stations, and I always talk about, uh whatever.
Anybody asked me, like, what's the best college radio station,
I would say w r S at Emerson because that's
I don't know if you've ever listened to w er S,
But it's like you wouldn't know necessarily that it was
a college station if you didn't know, because they are
so professional there and everything they do is perfect. It
sounds like like a commercial FM radio station in a
major market. You know, they've they've really uh, they've really
got it down. But but yeah, such a great, such
a great music scene in Boston. So that's a that's
a good place to be, Yeah, for sure. I mean
you mentioned, you know, being in four different bands at
one point. I wonder if you know how many other
cities you could really do that, and you know, Boston
it seems like it's the perfect place to be able.
Speaker 11: To do that, you know, Yeah, I mean New York
is a big one of New York.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely a lot.
Speaker 11: Of my music friends are moving to New York, which
I'm kind of sad about. But yeah, Boston's also really good, I.
Speaker 9: Think absolutely absolutely. Do you go to a lot of
live shows? Do you go to see a lot of
other bands.
Speaker 11: Or Yeah, every once in a while I go to
see some bands. I honestly just happen to see a
lot through the shows that I play because it's usually
I'm on a bill with like a couple other bands,
so I got to like hear a bunch of music
that way.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, very cool. Now you mentioned so you're more
focused on the solo stuff at this point.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm still focused on everything, but that's that's sort
of like the primary thing that's like blossoming in me.
Right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, is it easier in the sense that you know,
so I don't play anymore, but I used to play
in a lot of bands, but I never did anything
where it was just me, you know, solo. But I've
always kind of wondered it must be liberating in a
sense because you don't have to worry about like when
booking shows, you don't have to worry about anybody else's
schedule when you're doing a solo thing. And also if
you're doing a solo acoustic thing, it opens up opportunities
because you can play almost anywhere. You know, like when
you're in a band, there's a lot of places you
can't play. Some places only want a solo acoustic act.
But you probably, I would imagine, I mean, you can
book yourself a lot more places doing the solo thing
than you can with the bands that you play.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's true. I've also found that some places do
prefer bands, like certain breweries like that big sound.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's more attractive. But you're probably right on the whole. Yeah, Yeah,
it's certainly easier, like just deciding on songs and orchestrations,
like I can just do it all in my head. No,
there's nothing lost in communication.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 11: The art is like maybe more pure in a way,
but it's also very limiting, where like I can't really
take it to that like energy level yea that I
want it to. Yeah, it's it's a trade off and
that I'm getting used to.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Now, what bands are you? What bands are you
currently in?
Speaker 11: So the just to list them all off, Yeah, it's
a Flying Turtle. I'm in a band supporting the singer
songwriter Jill McCracken. Okay, I'm in a jam band called
Spoon Drift, and then I just started a new trio
which is sort of centered around my singer songwriter work,
which is called The Fourth Story.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, and why are you? Why do you have
so many projects going? Are you someone who do you
have to have a lot of different things happening to
be able to really feel like you're fully expressing yourself.
Speaker 11: Maybe maybe it's like the anxious person and me just
wanting to do as much as possible and you know,
not be a lazy person.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 11: It's also just good to like, like all the bands
are like different in a way, and you know, I
can express different parts of me and each band, So
that's important to me. But it's also just like, you know,
I've been in Boston for three years, and like I
try to keep the bands going, and then you know,
I get dragged into other projects and they kind of
just start accumulating and maybe next year I'll be in
five or six. Right at a certain point, it's not
going to work anymore, but.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, I was in three bands at
one point around here, and that it's it seemed like
a lot, but it was also you know, it got
a little tricky in terms of the higherarchy and in
terms of my own priorities, and you know, sometimes it's
hard to keep multiple things going when you know, I mean,
do you find yourself in a position where you have
to kind of prioritize, like like you have to say,
notice certain things that maybe one and certain opportunities that
one band has because another band is so busy, and
then you end up in kind of that position.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Sure, fortunately not too much. But uh, like a big
thing is the Summerville Porch Fest, which in the Boston areas,
like like a big thing. It's like in May, and
like like all of my bands want to play it.
Oh really, yeah, they can't do it with all of them,
right right, Yeah, well.
Speaker 9: You could in theory, right he I mean obviously if
you're not all playing at the same time.
Speaker 11: I've done that in the past. Especially there's like a
twelve twelve to two time slot and then the two
to four time slot, and I'm like, of course I
can do both of those. Yeah, and there's zero time
in between them, of course, right right. It gets tricky,
but yeah, yeah, I do my best.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: What do you find the most satisfying?
Speaker 11: Like, is it the solo stuff or I think right
now it's the band stuff really, just just because the
solo stuff is still new, I'm still sort of finding
my voice and finding my way. Yeah, but yeah, just
but anytime I'm performing is what I'm passionate about. It's
what I'm all about. Just like, yeah, controlling the sound
waves of a room and like people walking into me
and like it's you know, it's a very like deep
thing music. I think it's like special. It's like be
able to control that for someone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah absolutely. Do you prefer that to be
in the studio?
Speaker 11: Yeah, The studio is cool in its own way, but
it's also like you can get in your own head
and like doing takes, overtakes and stuff. Yeah, it's there's
something pure about doing it live. I also love improvisation.
That's sort of really the best thing about music for me.
So you sort of like get that more in the
live setting.
Speaker 9: Yeah, everything that you sent us, all the studio tracks,
they all sound amazing. Is there how do you record?
Is there a particular studio that you work with, or
maybe you do it. I mean we live in an
era where you know, you can record at home or
or I imagine various projects maybe record in different ways.
Speaker 11: They're all recorded different ways.
Speaker 9: Really.
Speaker 11: A couple of them we're done at like more professional studios,
a couple we're done at home. My solo record, Northern
Rails is like sort of my big project last year.
I have like a little tiny room in my house
where I have sound equipment and I did it all there.
Speaker 9: No kidding, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's cool that. You know,
I'm old enough to remember when your your only real
options were you either go to a studio and spend
a lot of money, or you know, you could record
at home with one of those uh those old aasskam
recorders and you know, but but now you there's so
many different ways you can do it, and there's so many.
It's interesting too, because even though you have more options
than ever, there's still more. There's still tons of recording
studios too, you know, because some people thought that there
was a point where recording studios would kind of start
to go away as people had more ability to record
at home or like you do with your solo stuff.
But actually I feel like there's more recording studios than ever.
And of course in Boston you've got some great I'm
curious what studios you've been to with your band projects,
because there's there's some great studios in Boston obviously.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've you know, I'm honestly not sure that the
one we did with Flying Turtle was like not a
great studio really like it was pretty good. Yeah, And
then the one we did with I only went to
one other professional studio and it was it was like
not in Boston. We sort of like drove away and
it was just like it was like a weird situation.
I'm curious now, Yeah, it was like it used to
I forget exactly the details, but it used to be
like a really big studio that they had like really
big names in there. And then it got converted to
like office space or something, and then they were like
revitalizing it, so we got a really cheap rate there
because they were just starting to like get up and
running again. But I forget the name of it, so
I can't really enlighten you.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, Sorry, when you said you drove away, I
thought maybe you went and looked at it and you
were like, let's get out.
Speaker 11: Oh no, no, we drove yeah, out of Boston.
Speaker 9: I got, oh, okay, that's what you've met. Okay. I
thought I thought there was maybe another story there, no
interesting story. But recording at home though, being able to
do that with your solo stuff, that must be nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I mean it was like really like I spent a
lot of time in there, so it was like kind
of like blowing my brains out sometimes really yeah. Yeah,
but I'm really really proud of the end product, and
you know, I like the experience overall.
Speaker 9: Now that that track, all I see is that from
Northern Rails.
Speaker 11: No, so that is from my college band Addicts, Okay,
and that's that's the first album I've ever been a
part of recording. It was mostly recorded by our bass
player Cole He had a whole setup in his basement.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, Yeah, Doug Addicts is the name of the band. Yeah, okay,
where where does the I mean obviously there's you.
Speaker 2: Know, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 11: It actually came from a like a band name generator online.
We like typed some words into it, two of which
were Doug, which was our lead singer. Oh okay, drug
because we were into drugs in college, right, and Doug Addicts.
And it's importantly it's not the Dug Addicts. Oh, just
Doug Addicts, because we're Doug Addicts and the people that
come to see us, they're also Doug. Like we're all
addicted to Doug.
Speaker 9: That makes sense. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 9: That's cool. Now that band is no longer active.
Speaker 11: Yeah that was just for college.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I gotcha. In Northern Rails. Is that a
full length or is it an EP?
Speaker 4: Or what?
Speaker 11: What's a full length album?
Speaker 9: Whole length album?
Speaker 11: I'm up for it.
Speaker 9: Why the decision to do that, because you know, a
lot of artists now, especially recently, it seems like in
the last few years, some artists only release singles or
they do the waterfall approach where they release singles that
eventually become an album, which is, you know, the inverse
of what it used to be where you release an
the singles. But but yeah, a lot of artists or
they'll do an EP. But I don't see as many
full length albums, at least not as much as I
used to. Why the decision to do a full length yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 11: Well what happened to me is I moved to Boston
for a software job.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I was there for about two years, and then at
a certain point, I just decided to quit because I
wanted to do more music, and so in my mind,
like I want it to be as you know, I'm
kind of like anxious about like being productive and like
making something of myself. So I'm like, all right, I
quit my job. I have this time. Now I'm going
to like stend it. I'm like gonna do like the
biggest thing I can imagine, which is just like a
full album. Yeah, that was sort of the decision.
Speaker 9: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's that's a great reason to
do it. Did you have any help, like or did
you do it all yourself?
Speaker 11: I did it all myself.
Speaker 9: Kidding.
Speaker 11: That's kind of the stick of the album. Like every
every sound you hear is recorded in that little room
or outside somewhere, I suppose, but yeah, it's all me
and I learned to mix and everything.
Speaker 9: And oh, good for you, good for you. Yeah, so
you really went for it. That's awesome. Where does the
name come from? Northern Rails?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I guess the album. The theme of the album
lyrically is sort of about like a call for adventure,
and it's vaguely trained themed. There's like little train references.
And then the title track, which which we have today
is called Northern Rails.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, well maybe we should uh, maybe we should
play that one next.
Speaker 11: Yeah, sounds good.
Speaker 9: Has this been played on the radio before once?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Who played it?
Speaker 11: I forget the station? It was in Portsmouth?
Speaker 9: Oh really?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Probably u W SCS. No, what's I know the station?
I know the station that probably played it. Is it
a station that plays a lot of a lot of
independent artist Yeah? Yeah, I want to say SCS, but
then I don't think that's right.
Speaker 11: That doesn't sound right to me. But I honestly forget.
I should remember. I feel bad about it.
Speaker 9: I know the station you mean though, Okay, it's not
that important, but I was scared I'm always curious anything
radio related, and very curious about Let's play that. Here's
what I think we should do. Let's play this. And
while we're doing that, if you want to grab your guitar,
and then when we come back from this, if you
want to play something live for us down here, you
play live. But uh so this is from and by
the way, how long has this been out? O?
Speaker 11: Northern Rails released at the end of August.
Speaker 9: Okay, half a year? Okay, oh so relatively new great
And this is the title track. All right, this is
Northern Rails. This is Jason over Stein. Check it out.
Speaker 3: When I was younger than I am today, the creature
told me to ride on out of the station. Started
off with everything. My mind was so at ease, but
the clear blue sky obscured the night of the light
from northern stars on distant trees. So I trained my summer.
Speaker 4: Mine to turn northward.
Speaker 3: At time, mountain rains snow intertwined, get lost in the climb,
and I train.
Speaker 5: All the time.
Speaker 3: Life didn't pass me by.
Speaker 4: Train and station.
Speaker 5: Train a mile mile.
Speaker 4: In the station.
Speaker 3: The miles are getting longer now, the years are shorter,
and the echos are getting louder. The winter starts to settle,
and my branches start to crack, and the fatal pin
beneath the skin keeps me lost and on the verge
of turning back. It's still a train my summer mind
to turn northward of time, mountain rain, snow intertwined, get
lost in the climb, and a train on the town.
Speaker 5: Life didn't pass me by, uh trip in the station.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll hear a word or two from someone mystic
that breaks me open and sparks the whole world of light.
And other times I feel the prickings in my spine
the roamas of a station I still wander and I've
kept so carefully.
Speaker 4: Out of mine.
Speaker 5: Hmmm.
Speaker 9: That is the South Battle track at Northern Rails from
Jason Overseain and I love that. We were kind of
talking off air about that, and I love that. You know,
you really hear that CSN harmony, and you hear it
right up front, you know, coming right out of the gate.
That's the first thing vocally that you hear. That's so good, dude,
love that, Love that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks Matt.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, Jason's got his guitar and what are you gonna
play for us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I'm gonna play a new tune. I had two new
ones coming in, and I just five seconds ago picked
the one I'm gonna plays, called Ultraviolet Maroon. It's the
most recent one I've written. It's on YouTube, but it's
not like recorded on Spotify or anything.
Speaker 9: So okay, very good, Jason Oberstein, live in studio.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 3: I am stuck in my ways again, twenty six years
honed my touch. Wildflowers billow upwards on a bright desert night.
Yellow maroon sharpens my mind for me. Pale bud breathing turquoise,
strumming my guitar.
Speaker 5: Hart this yarden.
Speaker 11: I know, deep in my.
Speaker 3: Soul, you.
Speaker 5: Show me more.
Speaker 3: And even when the stems and the petals start to
bury me down.
Speaker 5: Below, you show me more when you pay that.
Speaker 4: Notes.
Speaker 5: I've never sunk.
Speaker 3: Ultra by the move stray from the sun. I give
you someone like you show me what's true. I could
learn a lot from you. I could learn a lot
from you. Yeah, it's funny how the world goes, just
as it comes, sacred sand slipping through our toes below us,
And on this dim desert morning, I shine, sweet sweet
my noise in my ears again, a deep, deep, violet
Rose is warming my troubled heart. All these colors they flow,
but I can't let go. You show me more.
Speaker 5: When you play that too? Oh that too? Not side
never Sun?
Speaker 4: Won't you buy the maroon.
Speaker 5: Strayed from the Sun when you dance that way?
Speaker 3: The colors calm undone, don't you buy the maroon Shining
Light the Sun. I'll get you someone like you to
show me what's true. I could learn a lot from you.
I could learn a lot from you. Someday I'll comera,
I'll unlock that door, step inside myself.
Speaker 4: And see that color show. Yes, you show more, Yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Show me more when you play that tune. Note side
never Sun. Don't you buy the movie stray from the
Sun when you danced that way? Becaulors come, I'm done.
Don't you buy the movie Shot a Light the Sun?
Don't you buy the movie shot a Light the Sun?
Sad you one like you?
Speaker 3: Show me what's true. I can learn a lot from it.
I can learn a lot from you.
Speaker 5: Show me mom son, learn a lot from you.
Speaker 4: Show me more.
Speaker 5: Sockn learn a laugh from you. I can learn a
laugh from learn a laugh on you. When you danced
that with it sound learn a laugh from you.
Speaker 9: Oh that was so good. I love it. And that's
brand new. Yeah, brand new. Jason oberseein live in studio
with us if you are just joining us, said yeah,
that was so cool. Thank you for playing us awesome, absolutely, absolutely,
really really good. By the way, Judy Finn sent us
an instant message and says love your sound, Jason see
thanks absolutely. Also, Bags Ballin is in the chat says
rock On, great interview. Let's see Rob Dieon. Also in
the chat room, Rob hosts a show here at w
m n H through the stage door. So welcome Rob.
Let's see somebody. Oh, and Rocky Huber is in the
Facebook live chat. Rocky says, we need to interview Matt Connorton,
the artist. He has many hits. He's a humble guy.
I do have many hits. I'm kidding, I have no hits.
Trust me pretty good. So I think we should from there.
Why don't we? We'll play another studio track and it'll
give you a chance to to put your guitar away.
What should we But I'm gonna let you pick, Jason,
what should we play next? You've got all these different projects.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's let's do let's switch it up. Let's do something.
Let's see the one called Through, which is a project
of mine. It was just like a literally a two
week project of mine called Tuning the Western Wood.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 11: It was a duo between me and one of my
oldest friends, Jeremy Oh. We like decided to do this
little album together. We like locked ourselves in a house
for like two weeks and then out popped like thirteen
ish songs.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, and this is one of them. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a much lower production quality than so just
be ready for that.
Speaker 9: I like, well, I like the low fi. I think
it's kind of cool actually, so yeah, let's check this out. Okay,
this is Through.
Speaker 11: And what was the name of the project again, Tuning
the Western Wood.
Speaker 9: Tuning the Western Wood. Check it out.
Speaker 7: Can see, can see thou.
Speaker 4: Can see.
Speaker 3: Far away, flower booms for you, petals curl.
Speaker 4: In the morndo, the love passes through.
Speaker 3: Talk to me, lay me down long, lie to me,
let your tongue phone, your soft.
Speaker 4: Words stirring true. I can see through. I can see.
Speaker 3: Neath the sun, neath the chido, beneath the wind and
the mano. The earth sings silent tune otamized through your wind,
low colors, swirl.
Speaker 4: In the wind flow.
Speaker 6: In your soft gaze, grand blue. Take your veil, O, don.
Speaker 4: Take your smile and it's soft. Let your cool.
Speaker 2: See you.
Speaker 4: Can see, can seeze.
Speaker 9: I like that very much, absolutely, it is. Yeah, that
is called through from tuning the Western Wood. Did I
get away?
Speaker 11: Yes, so that name is like I mentioned Jeremy as
one of my oldest friends.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we were.
Speaker 11: We grew up together in our hometown of Westwood. Okay,
so kind of paying homage to that name.
Speaker 9: Oh, I got you, I got youa Westwood? Where is that?
Speaker 11: It's outside of Boston.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I've never even heard of it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, it's a small town.
Speaker 9: Okay, very good, very good. If you are just joining us,
Jason Overstein is here with us live in studio and
uh yeah, so that's so so obviously so it's the
two of you, it's it's the two of you on
vocals and are you both playing guitars? Yeah yeah, And
it was all done live. Yeah yeah, so the stick
of that out. That was sort of my first foray
into music production. And yeah, we still like four mics,
you know, two for vocals, two for guitars, and then
a rim mic and then yeah, each song on there
is like one continuous take, no overdobes or anything.
Speaker 11: Wow, that's kind of the stick.
Speaker 9: When you were they were able to nail them in
one take. No, most of them are.
Speaker 11: No, I would, but this always happens with recording projects.
For most of these songs, you know, we spent two
weeks together. Yeah, and so we were kind of like
writing orchestrating then recording as we were going. Yeah, most
of them were recorded on the very last day.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 11: I feel like the more you play them, the better
they get. And then yeah, I don't know, so I
feel some musicians like burn out from doing takes on
takes on takes. Oh yeah, personally, I feel like I
just get better and yeah, it's always the last take
for me.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, some musicians will will tell you something different.
I mean, everybody's different, obviously, but yeah, I've I've heard
some people say, you know, in the studio, if you're
doing if there comes a point where you know, you
get fatigued, if you're doing too many takes, and then
it you know, it might not be that you're not
playing as well or not singing as well, but there's
a point where maybe you feel like you lose a
little bit of the spontaneity of it that you might
be looking for. But but yeah, everybody's different. So now
that's Uh, do you have plans to release anything else
with him or or was that kind of a one.
Speaker 11: Time plans right now? It was kind of a one
time thing. But you know, we're still friends, we still
play together. So yeah, I've been trying to like play
show with him. Yeah, but he doesn't really perform out much.
Oh really, Okay, if you're listening, Jeremy, the onus is
on you. You got to you gotta come to Boston
and we got to book a show together.
Speaker 9: Yeah, come on, Jeremy, I want to hear that live.
That's that's really good. Yeah, really really good. Now what
h So are you playing out a lot now these days?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Sometimes sometimes in winter musicians hybernate, Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Uh yeah. I mean I have like all my projects,
and I feel like each project plays like once a month,
twice a month, and so for me, it ends up
being like an average of I like my schedule right
now is like an average of once a week for
the next couple of months, which is pretty good for me.
I'd like to play. I want to play as much
as possible, So yeah, I'm trying to book more. But
that's sort of how it is right now.
Speaker 9: Summer must be very busy for you because that's kind
of everyone's busiest time as far as it's busy.
Speaker 11: But also like some people are like out of town
on trips and stuff, so maybe it's harder to coordinate
with the bands. Yeah, yeah, there's a trade off there.
Speaker 9: But yeah, that's true. Now, are you playing anywhere this
weekend that we should mention?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so so two things. So the big thing for
me is I don't play too many like solo shows.
I'm trying to play more. But I actually have one
coming up this week. It's on Thursday. It's in Melrose.
They're sort of doing this like in or porch fist
kind of thing. Oh okay, Yeah, it's this community center
called Follow Your Art and yeah, I'm playing like an
hour long set there.
Speaker 9: Cool.
Speaker 11: You can find tickets on my website, just like Jason
Oberstein dot com. Yeah, and then if you can't make
it out to that tonight, I'm playing with the Jill
McCracken project and that's going to be at the Middle
East and uh, right in Central Square in game.
Speaker 9: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 11: That's somebody I've heard of, Jill McCracken.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I'm not not too familiar. Yeah.
Speaker 11: That radio station we mentioned.
Speaker 9: Earlier, that oh w W s c A inports.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was introduced to them because Jill. I was
there with Jill McCracken playing a set. Oh okay, yeah,
so maybe maybe you heard it there.
Speaker 9: Probably Yeah, yeah that makes sense. Well, by the way, too,
I was looking at your website. So you also give
a guitar lesson I do. Yeah, we should, Yeah, we
should plug that if people people want less Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Do you uh, do you work with a wide range
of students like you work with because a lot of
a lot of good teachers I've met, you know, some
only work with with beginners, and some work with people
who are more advanced but just want to kind of
you know, obviously, you know a lot of guitar players
they hit a certain level and then they get stuck
and they want to advance more, but maybe they get stuck.
I mean, do you work with a range of Yeah.
Speaker 11: I definitely work with a range of people. I'd say,
like my most like My most common student is like
an adult who's a beginner. Yeah, but I also work
with kids. I work with like older folks and yeah,
all levels.
Speaker 9: Yeah he me.
Speaker 11: Uh you can like visit my website, shoot me an
email which is on my website.
Speaker 9: Yeah anything, Yeah, Jason oversetin dot com. What I took
lessons When I was a kid, I started out on guitar,
but then I ended up switching to bass because unfortunately,
and it frustrates me about myself, but growing up, I
was one of those kind of lazy kids who if
I wasn't good at something quickly enough, I would give
up on it and just move on to another thing.
Speaker 11: I'm kind of like that, honestly.
Speaker 9: Really, you don't seem like it, you see, you seem
pretty pretty motivated.
Speaker 11: I'm motivated with the things I'm already getting.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, fair fair enough. But uh yeah, So I
wasn't progressing fast enough on guitar, so I got frustrated
and I sort of gave up. And then in high
school I picked up a bass and it was and
I know bass players hate when I say this, but
it was this was my experience. I'm just being honest.
I picked up a bass and I seem to have
a feel for it pretty quickly. And I remember thinking
to less strings and I don't have to know any chords.
I think I found my instrument, and it turned out
I did because I you know, I went on to
play in a bunch of bands and whatnot. But but
that was kind of my experience with it. Like I
I really struggled with theory and and uh, never really
did learn theory correctly. Fortunately, I have a good ear,
so I can, you know, like on the bass, I
can figure out a bassline and play it. But but yeah,
that was that was my experience with it. But I
did take I did take lessons from some good people.
But but that's that's cool though that Uh, like, like,
how many students are you working with at any one time?
Speaker 11: Yeah, right now I have like six or seven excellent.
I'm trying to expand to about like ten to twelve
I think would be a good number.
Speaker 9: Good good, yeah, good for you. Do you do you
work at uh, do you give lessons at a music
shop or do.
Speaker 13: You do that?
Speaker 9: St right?
Speaker 11: Well, So some people come to me just like my
living room, and then I go to some people sort
of depending on the location.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Oh that's really cool. Yeah, good for you. Good
for you. Geez. Do you ever think about working at
Berkeley or something?
Speaker 11: No, No, I don't know if I'm qualified.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, you might be. I don't know. I don't know. Well,
we are approaching the top of the hour and I
want to make sure we get one more studio track in.
But where is the best place for people to go online?
Jasonoverstin dot com.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so that's my way. I'd say the probably the
number one place is Instagram Jason dot Overstein, okay, on Instagram,
and then yeah, number two is Jasonoverstein dot com. And
from the website you can see my instagram. My YouTube
is linked there. But yeah, but that's pretty much it.
It's like my Instagram and you know, you can find
me on Spotify just type in my name Jason Overstein.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, excellent. Man, Uh, what should we close out the
segment with. I'll let you pick again.
Speaker 11: Oh, man, just just one more.
Speaker 9: Well I might be able to fit to and actually
go ahead and pick two.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's do the paper cup party.
Speaker 9: Paper cup party, okay.
Speaker 11: And then followed by Blue Mark Blues.
Speaker 9: Blue Mark Blues. Okay, so we will I'm gonna cue
those up. And while I'm doing that, Jenny, we should
remind everybody what we're doing.
Speaker 10: Later, we will be at the Mosaic Aren't Collective for
the opening of the Illusions.
Speaker 9: Yeestion collection.
Speaker 10: Join us tonight from four to eight pm at the
Daily Mirror building at sixty six Hanover Street, Sweep two
one here in the Queens City for the Mosaic are
Collective Illusions and Exploration and Optical Illusions, Anamorphic Surrealism, black
Lights and three dr Yes and for more on me
go to Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 4: J E N N co O F F E y
dot com.
Speaker 9: Yes, Yes, looking forward to that and congratulations again and
having one of your pieces chosen for that. Very proud Yes,
Mosaic Art Collective, and thank you everyone who joined us today.
Of course Rivia in the first hour and then in
the second hour we had Kate Shimkey along with Aaron
and Nick and Tyler all Good was here with us
and Jason. Thank you again man, you sound incredible. Thank
you for playing live for us. That was amazing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 9: Absolutely absolutely, it's wonderful. We will do this again in
the future. You're a busy guy, so I have no
doubt you'll have things to talk about in the future
as well. So, so this has been great and we'll
we'll close out with now paper Cup party?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 9: Uh one of the Which band is that?
Speaker 11: Yeah? So this is the Flying Turtle Band. This is
my first Boston.
Speaker 9: Band, your first Boston band, Okay.
Speaker 11: So it's like a danceable jam band. And I didn't
write this song, but it was written by our awesome
bass player, Okay, but it is a lot of nice
lead guitar on it.
Speaker 9: Okay, very cool. So we're gonna spin that and I'm
gonna try to fit in Blue Mark Blues too. And
which band is that?
Speaker 11: That's from Northern Rails. That's like a crowd favorite of mine. Oh,
very cool, feel like I had to play that on
the radio.
Speaker 9: Very cool. All right, So we're gonna spin and if
you missed any part of today's show, and we'll be
up in just a little bit at wmn hradio dot org,
a at my website Matt Connorton dot com. And that's
gonna do it for us for now. We will talk
to you a little bit later. Bye everybody.
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