Speaker 1: All right. That is Midnight Possession and the band is
Speaker 1: called a Nightmare and there's a reason we're playing that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna tell you about it in just a moment.
Speaker 1: But welcome everybody. We have entered our number two Newmarrow
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Speaker 1: just want to say hello to a couple people in
Speaker 1: the chat room. Loud Entertainment is in there as well
Speaker 1: as Awaiting Abigail, a great band from Texas we've had
Speaker 1: on the show and Loud Entertainment saying Awaiting Abigail we
Speaker 1: want you back, so hopefully they'll be touring again in
Speaker 1: our area, but that would be wonderful. But so welcome everyone,
Speaker 1: and of course Jenny is here at the news table.
Speaker 2: Presents and accounted for and right for a change, for
Speaker 2: a change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been been a long time and we have
Speaker 1: with us also has been a long time for this individual.
Speaker 1: Echo Ray the rock and Redhead is here. Hello, welcome back.
Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, what's up? Music freaks?
Speaker 1: And you brought us that band, the Midnight Possession there,
Speaker 1: that's that song nightmare.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely hailing from Central May and Midnight Possession is
Speaker 2: tearing up the scene right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll have to check out more of their stuff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. And you brought you brought
Speaker 1: a guest with you?
Speaker 2: I did. I brought my sister, my sidekick, Mary with me.
Speaker 1: Welcome Mary. Hello, Hello, Hello, and uh so what are
Speaker 1: uh oh we should talk about too, because you've got
Speaker 1: something behind you there For those of you who are
Speaker 1: watching on whether you're watching on Facebook or one of
Speaker 1: our social media channels, what is what is that? What
Speaker 1: are you? You're in town for this? Uh oh no.
Speaker 2: This is this. This is just my logo with the
Speaker 2: rock and Redhead song.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, okay, that's just my show. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, but you were talking about the
Speaker 1: what were you telling us off.
Speaker 2: For this afternoon? Yeah, yeah, so this afternoon. My sister
Speaker 2: and I are actually in town today for the Carnival
Speaker 2: of Sins, which is up in Effingham, New Hampshire. Okay,
Speaker 2: and it's just a wild party up there today. We've
Speaker 2: got music from Actually I can pull it up real
Speaker 2: quick because I don't want to miss anybody. Our good
Speaker 2: friend's Lethal Creed. I'll start off with those guys. They're
Speaker 2: going to be up there coming up about what three,
Speaker 2: three thirty four o'clock. I think they said, very good.
Speaker 1: We have a track of theirs we're going to play later.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're super excited for that. We also have Hollo
Speaker 2: Virture is going to be playing there, okay, and a
Speaker 2: slew of other musicians too. It's it's going to be
Speaker 2: a killer show. We were at the after party last
Speaker 2: night and it's a pretty wild time.
Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. By the way, for anyone who for anyone
Speaker 1: listening online who is not from the area, Yes, we
Speaker 1: really do have a place in New Hampshire called Effingham.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I saw that name and I said, who would have
Speaker 2: a town called Effingham? Isn't a great New Hampshire wood?
Speaker 2: And I'm absolutely here for it always, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I always love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so tell us about So what have you been
Speaker 1: up to because obviously, I mean it's probably been at
Speaker 1: least a year, right since you've been on the place.
Speaker 2: That Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's been a lot going on.
Speaker 2: If you've been following me on the socials, you should
Speaker 2: know by now that I am relocating out west to Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's going to be a huge step. I've
Speaker 2: never lived more than thirty miles from my hometown Digs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so three thousand, one hundred and forty four miles from
Speaker 2: my doorstep to my new doorstep. It's it's invigorating, all right,
Speaker 2: all right, Yeah, got an opportunity out there, so I
Speaker 2: just want to go out and see what I can see,
Speaker 2: do what I can do, and yeah, maybe there's an
Speaker 2: opportunity to bring some New England bands that way. Sure, sure,
Speaker 2: see what we can set up.
Speaker 1: So why why are you going tell us about it?
Speaker 2: Why not? Why not? I mean, well, so the the
Speaker 2: opportunity came Breezy Brie you may know from Signals to
Speaker 2: Noise formally and now is in tantric. Oh, here goes that.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mary, that's why she's the assistant. She's keeping me
Speaker 2: right up. Yes, yes, so Breezy Brie called me up
Speaker 2: and she found a really good deal on a very
Speaker 2: good apartment that's right in the Upper east Side Hills
Speaker 2: of Hollywood. Okay, and it just seems ridiculous for me
Speaker 2: not to go following the dreams.
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: Uh so do you plan to do like what you're
Speaker 1: doing here? Do you plan to do that out there?
Speaker 1: Is that the Is that the idea?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely so. There's gonna be hopefully getting back into doing
Speaker 2: some of the merch stuff that I do. I'm also
Speaker 2: looking to dive a little bit deeper into the tour scene,
Speaker 2: do like some more tour management kind of stuff, maybe
Speaker 2: some social media stuff. I really want to amp up
Speaker 2: my own socials and really start going above and beyond
Speaker 2: kicking it up a notch, right yeah, right. The whole
Speaker 2: idea of my brand is to connect the fans with
Speaker 2: the bands, so I just want to find a broader
Speaker 2: base to do that. New England is so small and
Speaker 2: I've reached just about everybody I can around here, so
Speaker 2: it's time to go out.
Speaker 1: Wow, Now, do you how do you envision this? Like,
Speaker 1: do you think you're gonna go out there and stay there?
Speaker 1: Or do you think you're gonna go out there for
Speaker 1: a while and like or do you know? Do you
Speaker 1: have any idea?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be completely honest, I have no idea. I
Speaker 2: have absolutely no idea, and I'm just gonna kind of
Speaker 2: wing it as I go because that's what I do.
Speaker 2: I have a pretty decent plan set up with just
Speaker 2: what I do on the side, not just the rock
Speaker 2: and redhead stuff, but my own skills that I use
Speaker 2: day to day stuff. So you know, there's definitely income
Speaker 2: to be made, and I think there's more income to
Speaker 2: be made in the bigger cities. Yeah, So I just
Speaker 2: want to give it a try. Like I said, I've
Speaker 2: never lived anywhere but thirty miles from where I was born,
Speaker 2: so there's more to see.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: You'll probably enjoy the winter there, would imagine.
Speaker 2: I think. So it's the summer. I'm a little nervous
Speaker 2: about this. Redhead doesn't do hot summers very well.
Speaker 1: True redheads tend to burn. Yeah, so uh, when when
Speaker 1: do you go? When does this happen?
Speaker 2: So right now, I'm just working on some technicalities with
Speaker 2: my vehicle because I do plan on driving out there,
Speaker 2: and the vehicle needs a lot of work before I
Speaker 2: can make that happen. Okay, but we're going to get
Speaker 2: that in the shop in the next couple of weeks
Speaker 2: and I'm hoping the beginning of September will be the departure.
Speaker 1: Wow, no kidding? Yeah, okay, yeah, are you Are you
Speaker 1: renting a U haul or are you just cramming everything
Speaker 1: in the vehicle?
Speaker 2: Cramming everything right in my little Rock and redmobile? See
Speaker 2: me with all the local New England stickers driving around.
Speaker 2: I even have the Rock and redhead and paint marker
Speaker 2: on the back of it right now, so you can't
Speaker 2: miss me. Okay, But yeah, we're taking it, and I
Speaker 2: do hope to be bringing uh bringing my my travels
Speaker 2: live on the air too, so popping in and I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm going to make maybe a podcast
Speaker 2: kind of deal or something with it, but you'll be
Speaker 2: seeing me out there. It's going to be fun. No.
Speaker 1: Has this always been kind of a long term plan
Speaker 1: of yours?
Speaker 2: No, not at all. Not even. I mean, what six
Speaker 2: months ago, I never would have even imagined that this
Speaker 2: would have been a thing. But I don't know, the
Speaker 2: stars just started lining up and things just started kind
Speaker 2: of moving into place. And then when Breezy came to
Speaker 2: me and asked me if I'd be interested in possibly
Speaker 2: rooming with her, it just seemed ridiculous for me to
Speaker 2: try to tell her no, right, So I was like, absolutely,
Speaker 2: let's let's do this, right, let me get my ducks
Speaker 2: in line, and I'll see you in a couple of months.
Speaker 1: She's someone you've known for a long time. It take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We've go back a few years together.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, because you know, obviously you want
Speaker 1: to do this with someone you trust, right, this is
Speaker 1: a big yes.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: So she used to be in Signal to Noise and
Speaker 1: now she's in Tantrick.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: What is she doing in Tantric?
Speaker 2: She plays bass? Okay, yeah, yeah. She also does a
Speaker 2: lot of the tour management and stuff like that behind
Speaker 2: the scenes too. She's killing it out there right now.
Speaker 1: Is Opus still playing drums?
Speaker 3: And no?
Speaker 2: He did a couple spin off shows while they were
Speaker 2: bouncing around in this area.
Speaker 1: But okay, it's off.
Speaker 2: I think he's actually he's doing Dead Wednesday now.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah yeah, oh very good, very good. So, uh,
Speaker 1: by the way, are you the one who brought us
Speaker 1: Lone Wolf James?
Speaker 2: That's me.
Speaker 1: They come from here. Yeah, yeah, I really like them
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: That was me.
Speaker 1: I was trying to I was trying to remember, just
Speaker 1: uh a little bit ago. Who else, who else you
Speaker 1: brought to us, because I know you brought a few
Speaker 1: bands to us, but I know Lone Wolf James was one.
Speaker 2: Of them if you remember, right. Actually, Dark Rain, oh
Speaker 2: Dark Rock me to you.
Speaker 1: That's how we met originally, Yeah, that's right at the
Speaker 1: old studio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, d N and then I did a second interview
Speaker 2: I think it was just me, and then one with
Speaker 2: Dark Rain again and then Lone Wolf James.
Speaker 1: Okay, Dark Rain, are they still active?
Speaker 2: Absolutely fact, we've gotten awesome. It's going to be the
Speaker 2: sixteenth annual Dark Grain Barbecue is next weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh really yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's a big shindig up at Dudley's house
Speaker 2: in wiscast at Maine. Okay, all kinds of people show up.
Speaker 2: I've been going like I don't know, something like five
Speaker 2: or six years running minus cove it, of course, but
Speaker 2: it's a big family reunion. You know, we've got four
Speaker 2: feet out. It was one of my hometown bros. I've
Speaker 2: been with them since the beginning and they're always at
Speaker 2: that shin dig, so we'll all be there together. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be awesome. Okay, And I'm actually I am seeing
Speaker 2: that gig too.
Speaker 1: Oh you are? Yeah? Yeah, Now you mentioned so you've
Speaker 1: done tour managing.
Speaker 2: Uh not really, I kind of so I kind of
Speaker 2: work my way around the band as like a band
Speaker 2: assistant or band aid, if you will, just kind of
Speaker 2: make myself available with all the little odds and ends
Speaker 2: that they may have forgotten and if they need hand
Speaker 2: pulling stuff in, loading in out, whatever. I like to
Speaker 2: make myself available and have some extra knickknacks on hands
Speaker 2: for forgotten stuff, batteries, towels, whatever, right, right, So I
Speaker 2: keep a full supply of all of that in my
Speaker 2: gig bag, and of course all my merch stuff, and
Speaker 2: I just travel around and make myself as useful as possible.
Speaker 2: But I'm hoping to do that. I want to get
Speaker 2: into tour management. Okay, that's kind of my my goal.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, what are like when you're when you're helping bands, like,
Speaker 1: what are what are some things that come up that
Speaker 1: might surprise people like people people who've never been in
Speaker 1: a band or have never been in the industry at all,
Speaker 1: Like what what might surprise them to know that a
Speaker 1: band might need and might need help with.
Speaker 2: Everything. Yeah, that's such a wide spectrum question, though. I
Speaker 2: mean there's there's all kinds of ins and outs, and
Speaker 2: there's I mean, anything can go wrong at a show
Speaker 2: at any given time, you know, I see cables go
Speaker 2: bad and batteries wear out, and there's all kinds of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: fans moshing like people that just want to get up
Speaker 2: on stage and dance, like it's not your time to
Speaker 2: be up there, right, stand down, right. But yeah, there's
Speaker 2: there's all kinds of stuff that goes on behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I'm allowed to talk about
Speaker 2: some of it. Okay, well, fair enough, you know what
Speaker 2: happens backstage?
Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah, sure, sure? So have you informed everyone that
Speaker 1: you're leaving?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yes, everybody's aware I'm out. There's a live
Speaker 2: video if you scroll long enough on my Facebook profile,
Speaker 2: you'll find a live video where I sit down for
Speaker 2: about twenty minutes and very tearfully, I'd tell everybody that
Speaker 2: I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: And because it would have been funny if you brought
Speaker 1: your sister here and I hadn't told her any of
Speaker 1: those since she was learned a live out the air,
Speaker 1: that would have been hilarious.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, ready, No, I actually found out about my
Speaker 2: paternity over the live radio. So that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, all right, tell us that story.
Speaker 2: Oh, my parents got married live on Deaf Leopard show
Speaker 2: or live at a Deaf Leppard concert or UBLM hosted
Speaker 2: the show. Okay, and they did a bachelor bachelorette party
Speaker 2: for my parents on the morning show the day of
Speaker 2: this of the wedding. Oh really, mister guest caller calls
Speaker 2: up and tells everybody exactly who my father was. But
Speaker 2: it had been kept a secret because oh it was
Speaker 2: under an affair. Oh okay, so nobody in my family
Speaker 2: had known, and we're all looking around the table like
Speaker 2: wait what who what?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, oh no kidding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was it was all. Everything's great though.
Speaker 2: I ended up with the better of the two.
Speaker 1: Fathers, so that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it was fun.
Speaker 1: That's the most supporting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and the Deaf Leopard Show was amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, wow. When was that two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and two thousand. It was a day after Valentine's
Speaker 2: Day in two thousand. Okay, yeah that was awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 2: My mom went a contest on as I said, w BILLM.
Speaker 2: She came up with this gimmick as to why her
Speaker 2: and my father should be married.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what the lines were, but yeah, she
Speaker 2: won the contest hands down.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: After eighteen years of courtship, they finally tied the knot okay, okay,
Speaker 2: in front of four thousand people.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's school, that's school where.
Speaker 2: H Well it was that? The civic said, Well, it
Speaker 2: used to be called the Civic Center in Portland. Okay,
Speaker 2: now cross Cross Arena. Oh okay, he gets a Crust
Speaker 2: and Crust insurance now.
Speaker 1: Oh okay. Was it the Cumberland County Civic Center before one? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one? Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha. Well, we should play
Speaker 1: another track because you sent us some good stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: curious to play. Oh, they just followed me too on
Speaker 1: social media lethal creed.
Speaker 2: Oh those guys are killing it.
Speaker 1: Tell us about them before we play this track. In
Speaker 1: decent exposure.
Speaker 2: So I love these cats so hard. We met a
Speaker 2: couple few years ago. They came in and did one
Speaker 2: of my birthday bashes, and I actually, even before the
Speaker 2: birthday bash, I found them doing a gig with four
Speaker 2: feet out and they just blew my socks away. Killer
Speaker 2: thrash metal. They go back all the way to nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Yes, And currently the lineup is three dudes, three generations.
Speaker 2: You have Jacob the son on bass, Jamie is playing
Speaker 2: drums and singing the lead vocals, and the father and
Speaker 2: Mike grandpa is thrashing that guitar and they just are
Speaker 2: absolutely insane. Just recently, within like the last year or so,
Speaker 2: they've actually gone through their whole catalog and remastered, remixed everything,
Speaker 2: so you can go to all the all the platforms
Speaker 2: and listen to anything all the way back to eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty killer. Jez Yeah, Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Where they're from.
Speaker 2: They are from southern Maine, Okay, yeah, they're like Shapley
Speaker 2: West Newfield kind of area. Yeah. They do the Monsters
Speaker 2: Ball every year in that area, which has been a
Speaker 2: big shin dig. So that's that's held usually, right, around
Speaker 2: the middle of the middle weekend of July and is
Speaker 2: also a killer party. And they're just they're just a
Speaker 2: solid group of dudes. Yeah, they really are. And their
Speaker 2: lady I got to give a shout out to their lady, Heather.
Speaker 2: She's kind of like the band hen and she handles
Speaker 2: all of them and all of the socials and all
Speaker 2: of the tour mom backstage everything stuff, and she slays it. Okay,
Speaker 2: love that girl, all right, but I think we have
Speaker 2: is it indecent exposure for them?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this is gonna this is gonna melt some faces.
Speaker 1: All right, let's give this a spin. Echo ray of
Speaker 1: the rock and Redhead is here and this is called
Speaker 1: this is indecent exposure and the band is lethal Creed.
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Speaker 1: That is indecent. Exposure of the band is lethal creed
Speaker 1: as brought to us by Echo Ray the Rock and Redhead.
Speaker 1: Who is here with us today on the program. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned they're playing the they're playing the Carnival of Sins.
Speaker 2: They are, they're up this afternoon. I think they're third
Speaker 2: on to play today, right around three thirty four o'clock.
Speaker 1: Oh very good, Yes, very good. We are.
Speaker 2: My sister and I were just saying we're super excited
Speaker 2: to see them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh I can imagine, Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Oh we
Speaker 1: should say hello to just quickly an old an old
Speaker 1: friend of ours, Jenny. Isaac Banks is in the chat room.
Speaker 2: Hello Isaac, good morning, Sunshine.
Speaker 1: Says good morning, hashtag Matt and hashtag Jen. How are
Speaker 1: you doing this morning? I am hashtag beautiful. Well, I
Speaker 1: will say, who are these guys? Hi, Abigail, good morning
Speaker 1: saying hello to awaiting Abigail the band, Hi, ladies, awesome song.
Speaker 1: Hi hashtag Jen Coffee. Also, I am knowing as my nickname,
Speaker 1: iikeman Breezy, replying to Jen Coffee, Jen Coffee, Who are
Speaker 1: the ladies? Are they in a band? I will be
Speaker 1: right back. Hashtag Matt and hashtag Jen, I'm back hashtag
Speaker 1: Jen and hashtag Matt high, hashtag mom, hashtag Rock and
Speaker 1: Redheads of Abigail So I Quin Breezy. Isaac Bank's a
Speaker 1: bit confused. He thinks you're Abigail apparently, but you are not.
Speaker 2: I am not. I am Echo Ray the Rock and Redhead.
Speaker 1: Awaiting Abigail of course, a great band from Texas, who
Speaker 1: who we've had on the show. But and Jenny, you
Speaker 1: also said in the chat shout out to Juliana Cuts
Speaker 1: from Denver, Colorado. Oh very good, very good, and oh
Speaker 1: Midnight Possession is in the chat room and says so
Speaker 1: cool to hear us on the radio. Good morning. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We did open with the track from Midnight Possession Nightmare,
Speaker 1: really really good stuff like that. A lot ope sepsis
Speaker 1: is in the chat and says Matt Connor rocks hashtag
Speaker 1: you guys are awesome, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was recently on The Stepsist Show with Lexi
Speaker 1: and of course Will and had a great, great time
Speaker 1: on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I cut some of that, Oh did you Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did? I did. Yeah, Yeah, it was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. They do a good show because they do
Speaker 1: a lot of music industry stuff too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to give a shout out to a waiting Abigail. Also,
Speaker 2: they recently followed me and I you know, came into
Speaker 2: my radar, so I was checking them out and I
Speaker 2: I'm really excited to hear more from them. They sound amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. They played a show in Massachusetts. The
Speaker 1: name of the venue escapes me. I'd never been there before,
Speaker 1: but you know, because they're from Texas, but they were
Speaker 1: touring up here. So it's great. I actually got to
Speaker 1: got to see them and meet them that night, because otherwise,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what I got to see
Speaker 1: them live, you know. But but no, they're they're doing great.
Speaker 1: They're doing great. Who have you been, like, who are
Speaker 1: some of the bands that you've worked with recently?
Speaker 2: So so my biggest thing recently that I did was
Speaker 2: Brett Michaels show back in nuh May. That was in May,
Speaker 2: and that was just absolutely amazing. Did two nights and
Speaker 2: the second night was sold out, the first night was
Speaker 2: almost sold out, and just what an incredible experience working
Speaker 2: a show like that.
Speaker 1: Where was that?
Speaker 2: That was at the Hampton Ballroom, so that was awesome.
Speaker 2: I've also done a show with Sebastian Bach, got to
Speaker 2: meet him personally. Super nice guy. Don't believe all the hype.
Speaker 2: More recently on the local scene, I recently came off
Speaker 2: doing the the the Wyndom Tattoo Appreciation Barbecue Party that
Speaker 2: was an annual event. This was a quarter century mark
Speaker 2: this year and possibly his last one. But I was
Speaker 2: really honored. He asked me to come back and MC
Speaker 2: for the second year in a row. Oh excellent, and
Speaker 2: we had a killer time. I even had Mary with me,
Speaker 2: so she came to help me do my merch sales
Speaker 2: and stuff because I was I was bouncing around doing
Speaker 2: everything else. They had listed it as my farewell sendoff party. Okay,
Speaker 2: things got busy pretty quick.
Speaker 1: I can imagine. I can imagine. It's interesting you mentioned
Speaker 1: Brett Michaels because, as I'm sure you're aware, poison was
Speaker 1: in the news not that long ago. Because this was
Speaker 1: supposed to be their fortieth anniversary, fourtieth anniversary fortieth anniversary
Speaker 1: tour this year, and then I guess it all fell
Speaker 1: apart because supposedly Brett Michaels wanted more money than the
Speaker 1: other three guys. I guess he does enough. While you
Speaker 1: were there, you would know. I mean, he does such
Speaker 1: strong business just as a solo act, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: as a band with him, but you know he didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily need that that fortieth anniversary tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think he's really like kind of take
Speaker 2: it or leave it. It's it's not going to break
Speaker 2: his career at this point, right right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Does he you like when he plays live? Is
Speaker 1: it all Poison songs or does he do any He
Speaker 1: doesn't do any solo stuff.
Speaker 2: It was pretty much all poised. I think it was
Speaker 2: all poison. There might have been one or two that
Speaker 2: were sprinkled in that weren't, but I'm pretty sure it
Speaker 2: was all poison.
Speaker 1: Does he open with because I've seen Poison a few
Speaker 1: times and they always open with look what the Cat tragged?
Speaker 1: And like always.
Speaker 2: I might be wrong, but I think so he opened
Speaker 2: with that. Yeah, yeah, I could be mistaken, Please don't
Speaker 2: quote me. Yeah that does sound like the tracks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is a.
Speaker 2: Very predictable kind of guy. I think you almost know
Speaker 2: what's coming out of him.
Speaker 1: Right right. I met him once. I was backstage at
Speaker 1: a Poison show. This was when they played and again
Speaker 1: this was a long time ago. They played Meadowbrook and
Speaker 1: I was working for a promoter. It's funny, this is
Speaker 1: the second time has come up on the show today.
Speaker 1: I never talked about the promoter that I worked for,
Speaker 1: but back then, but yeah, Joe Fletcher at that time
Speaker 1: was Big World Productions, so he was He did all
Speaker 1: the shows at Metalbrook during that period. And so I
Speaker 1: got to meet Brett and he I remember I was
Speaker 1: wearing a you know, we kind of bonded just because
Speaker 1: I was wearing a Kiss shirt and that's you know,
Speaker 1: we share the same favorite band. So he complimented me
Speaker 1: on my shirt of it. Yeah yeah, really nice guy.
Speaker 2: That's actually how I met Sebastian Book.
Speaker 1: Oh is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was running away from an embarrassing situation and
Speaker 2: he happened to catch me wearing his T shirt and
Speaker 2: it just so happened that he had just launched that
Speaker 2: line that night, and I was the first person that
Speaker 2: he had seen wearing it. Oh really, So he stops
Speaker 2: me dead in my tracks and he's like, hey, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, come back here, I want to see that.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, so I go running back to
Speaker 2: show him.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was very memorable.
Speaker 1: So what was the embarrassing situation?
Speaker 2: I walked in on the bass player having a pee?
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, oh oops, yeah, Well he should have locked
Speaker 1: the door.
Speaker 2: Well the door wasn't even closed. Oh the door wasn't
Speaker 2: even close.
Speaker 1: It's not even remotely your fault.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. But it didn't stop the embarrassment
Speaker 2: for coming through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so some people just don't I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times over the course of my life I've walked,
Speaker 1: like been like in gone into a public restroom where
Speaker 1: it's you know, a single occupancy, but for some reason
Speaker 1: the person using I know this is a total sidetrack,
Speaker 1: but it's just a pet peeve I've had where, you know,
Speaker 1: the person using the restroom doesn't lock the door even
Speaker 1: though there's a lock on the door, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I walk it and it's like oh sorry, and
Speaker 1: and inevitably they always will turn and look at me
Speaker 1: like I'm the jerk, you know, because I didn't you
Speaker 1: kind of censored yourself, like enough of it came out.
Speaker 2: My brain was about a split sticking too late on
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: No, but you're right though. They always they do they
Speaker 1: they They'll turn and glare at me like I'm the jerk.
Speaker 1: It's like, you should lock the door.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's absolutely not hard. Yeah, the door
Speaker 2: wasn't even I was. I was in the reflection of
Speaker 2: the window, trying to fix my hair and makeup, waiting
Speaker 2: for the meet and greet to take place, and yeah,
Speaker 2: one of the guys in the band is like, there's
Speaker 2: a bathroom right down there. Why don't you just go
Speaker 2: down there and fix your makeup. I'm like, that's a
Speaker 2: great idea, right. The door cracked. It was cracked about
Speaker 2: six inches open, so I just went to fling it
Speaker 2: open a little bit more. Yeah, and there's the bass
Speaker 2: player holding it out, and I'm like, oh okay. And
Speaker 2: I turn around and go run down the hallway all embarrassed,
Speaker 2: and then I hear that iconic voice come out from
Speaker 2: behind me. Yeah, hey, nice shirt, stop me dead in
Speaker 2: my tracks. Yeah, hey, wait a minute, come back here.
Speaker 2: I want to see that. So I spin right around.
Speaker 2: I go into the dressing room and go find him
Speaker 2: and yeah, to my surprise, the man was clad in
Speaker 2: nothing but a towel.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Well every high school girls fantasy lived out right there,
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. You're welcome, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, very good, yeah, very good.
Speaker 2: Untimes. Yeah yeah, local bands though, let's list local bands
Speaker 2: have been so many. Scarecrow Hill's been hitting up the
Speaker 2: scene like Crazy.
Speaker 1: Lowly got a new album they do, Yes.
Speaker 2: Loving that Hello Virtue. We're going to catch them later
Speaker 2: today at the Carnival of Sins. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: check them out. Four Feet Out is killing it right now.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be joining Lethal Creed, so they'll be at
Speaker 2: Dark Grains Barbecue next weekend as well. But the weekend
Speaker 2: after that, the twenty second, they're going to be in
Speaker 2: Brunswick at the Social Goose with Lethal Creed and three FD,
Speaker 2: who is also killing it out there right now. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be celebrating Jamie and Paul's birthday that night, so
Speaker 2: we're super excited for that little family reunion. And that's
Speaker 2: probably gonna be my last gig before I take off.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've said it online now, so I think that
Speaker 2: makes it official.
Speaker 1: Right, right? Absolutely, Well, we should plan others. So you
Speaker 1: sent us this, Now, this is interesting because this is
Speaker 1: under the horizon. You've been on the show many times.
Speaker 1: Love them.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was just gonna name drop them too.
Speaker 1: But this is so you've got this one of my
Speaker 1: personal favorites.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, love them. I found them out on the road.
Speaker 2: I don't remember if it was last year or the
Speaker 2: year prior, but the they just blew my socks right
Speaker 2: off and I had to know more about them and
Speaker 2: where they were. So I've been following them ever since
Speaker 2: and they have taken the scene by storm. They're popping
Speaker 2: up everywhere, and I mean they really have like the
Speaker 2: it factor if you will, you know. I mean, they've
Speaker 2: got the stage presence, they have the workmanship, the ethic.
Speaker 2: They an ethic that you don't even see out of
Speaker 2: young kids these age anymore, which I absolutely love, absolutely,
Speaker 2: But they're out there just killing it and I am
Speaker 2: so here for it.
Speaker 1: But this is what we've got here. So this is
Speaker 1: an unmastered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a special treat that we were given
Speaker 2: by them this weekend. It is an unmastered first sneak
Speaker 2: peek released. They are planning on having it on their
Speaker 2: upcoming album. I did put some notes down because I
Speaker 2: didn't want to miss Okay, So the Gospel of October
Speaker 2: is the name of the album and that is set
Speaker 2: to drop, if you can guess, in October. So I'm
Speaker 2: super excited to hear that because that's going to be crazy.
Speaker 2: But this is a little unmastered version of Angel of Mercy.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be the first single that they drop when
Speaker 2: they do release it, hopefully in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Try looking on all of their socials to find out more.
Speaker 1: So I know we're playing this.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think they're even tuned in right now, Okay.
Speaker 1: Go yeah, yeah, all right here it is unmastered. This
Speaker 1: is uh Angel of Mercy from under the Horizon? You crazy?
Speaker 1: You want to take a bay when you know going around?
Speaker 2: Can you come stop?
Speaker 3: Came out? Do you have you.
Speaker 2: Come home?
Speaker 1: My lest you by all I say?
Speaker 3: You don't.
Speaker 5: Say guys, wes you.
Speaker 1: You cannot pull.
Speaker 5: Time shopping.
Speaker 2: Sounds.
Speaker 3: Let it's not.
Speaker 1: You as my time friend.
Speaker 2: I'm not with you.
Speaker 1: Talk h there. It is a little sneak peak for you, unmastered.
Speaker 1: That is Angel of Mercy from Under the Horizon and
Speaker 1: that's gonna be coming up and uh Echo Rays here
Speaker 1: the Rock and Redhead and you said it's gonna be
Speaker 1: uh October. The Gospel of October is.
Speaker 2: The Gospel October is set to drop in October.
Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool that you.
Speaker 2: Can catch them before that though, if you had to
Speaker 2: spare time recreation on the fourteenth. Yeah, and then also
Speaker 2: on the sixteenth, they're going to be at Platinum City
Speaker 2: Gaming with Scarecrow Hill, Hand of the Tribe Dead by
Speaker 2: Wednesday and Major Moment.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a killer lineup.
Speaker 1: That's a big show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: So we're excited for them. I love them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I told them, if they keep doing what they're doing,
Speaker 2: I have no doubt we'll be Rebinolo's in La together.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh that's that's great. Oh you asked me off
Speaker 1: air about loud Entertainment. They're in the chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dig those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're seeing them everywhere, are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they've been very very busy absolutely well. Of course,
Speaker 1: Baboo just passed away.
Speaker 2: He was tragic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, I know he'd
Speaker 1: been and I never get you know, he'd been on
Speaker 1: the show. I never got to know him very well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'd see him at shows, and of course
Speaker 1: he was on the show show with us once, I think,
Speaker 1: but interesting guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I had hosted an Ozzy Osbourne tribute show back
Speaker 2: in September, right after his passing, and uh, one of
Speaker 2: my one of our mutual friends, had connected us, like,
Speaker 2: your your passion for Ozzie, you two should know each other. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so we've kind of been facebooking back and forth
Speaker 2: a little bit here and there because we both run
Speaker 2: in the same circles. But we never met. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I was really sad to hear of his passing because
Speaker 2: we never did get that chance. And I was hoping
Speaker 2: to because he was a really rad dude from everything
Speaker 2: I could tell.
Speaker 1: Right right, So what's uh? Oh by the way, oh,
Speaker 1: Isaac Banks and the Facebook chat says sepsis, hope you
Speaker 1: see my videos of me Ikeman Breezy on YouTube, and uh,
Speaker 1: Isaac says, hashtag ladies check out Ikeman Breezy my videos
Speaker 1: on YouTube. I hope you'll check out Ikman Breezy.
Speaker 2: We'll check out Iikman Breezy.
Speaker 1: Oh it's something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Iikeman Breezy. Make sure you give Echo Ray
Speaker 2: the Rock and Redhead a follow to.
Speaker 1: There you Go, There you Go. So what's uh? So
Speaker 1: are you going to try to get I assume you're
Speaker 1: going to try to get as many shows as you
Speaker 1: can before you head out to California.
Speaker 2: Not really. I'm kind of winding it down now, are you. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I gotta slow down a little bit because I'm too
Speaker 2: busy just trying to get this move to go through.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things to close out and cancel out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's busy. Yeah, So I'm winding down.
Speaker 2: I've got I think there's a show pretty much every
Speaker 2: weekend right up into September. Yeah, and then that's that's
Speaker 2: about it. And I also do DJ gigging too. A
Speaker 2: lot of people don't really know that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's my friend Dudley who is also in Dark Rain.
Speaker 2: He runs the rain Maker Enterprise as well and does
Speaker 2: some DJing stuff, and he's asked me to come in
Speaker 2: and do some DJ gigs with him.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, And I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: It's it's so fun crashing Pole's wedding. I love to
Speaker 2: I love to celebrate love. That's so much fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so he's been kind of picking me up and putting
Speaker 2: me in little places where he can between now and then,
Speaker 2: just to make the extra money to get out to
Speaker 2: LA with. It's my understanding. LA is a very expensive city,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I'm gonna learn real.
Speaker 1: Quick in a very expensive state.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I'm just making all the money I
Speaker 2: can before I head out. But I am trying to
Speaker 2: slow down the rock and Redhead a little bit right now,
Speaker 2: just just so that I can breathe and make sure
Speaker 2: that all my ducks are lined up properly for this move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Where should people go online
Speaker 1: to keep up with everything that you're doing?
Speaker 2: So I have two Facebook profiles. My my my personal
Speaker 2: page is the most predominant one where I do most
Speaker 2: of my access, and it's just simply echo ray e
Speaker 2: c h O Did I smell my own yes? E
Speaker 2: c h O r A. My grandmother always told me
Speaker 2: I really need to slow down and talking and I
Speaker 2: always talk too fast, and she's not wrong. Or you
Speaker 2: could also find me echo ray the Rocking Redhead. And
Speaker 2: that is on all of the socials Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Twitter,
Speaker 2: It's not called Twitter anymore. That shows you how old
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 1: No, a lot of people still call it Twitter. It's
Speaker 1: out of habit cool, all right, Yeah, I wouldn't worry
Speaker 1: about that, all right. I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but just look up Echo Ray the Rock and
Speaker 2: Redhead and you can find me out there for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I do have a YouTube page, but there's nothing on
Speaker 2: it yet, just simply because when I actually do launch it,
Speaker 2: I want to launch it with like a special formulized
Speaker 2: kind of plan, and I haven't quite figured out what
Speaker 2: that is yet. Okay, So if anybody has any ideas,
Speaker 2: let me know, right right.
Speaker 1: Very good. Do you want to also remind people what's
Speaker 1: going on today for people listening live?
Speaker 2: Absolutely so today. I dragged my sister out of the
Speaker 2: house today for last night. Actually, we've been camping out
Speaker 2: since last night at the Carnival of Sin. It is
Speaker 2: in Effingham, New Hampshire. There is a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: wild stuff going on. We've got lethal creatives. We've mentioned
Speaker 2: several times my one of my personal favorites. Those guys
Speaker 2: are going to be up.
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 2: Fill in some time for me here. I can't find
Speaker 2: the list here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well here. I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you something even more to think about, because I think
Speaker 1: we should close with a Lone Wolf James song. But
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you to pick one, So now
Speaker 1: you have two things to think about it once, see,
Speaker 1: because I've got a bunch of them here, you do.
Speaker 1: I've got a whole album's worth here. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if, if, if you have one that that you
Speaker 1: would prefer to close the segment.
Speaker 2: Let's go with a classic. Okay, Cradle to Grave.
Speaker 1: Cradle to Grave. I figures that's not one of the
Speaker 1: ones I have.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, that's the most viewed one on YouTube.
Speaker 2: And you don't have that one.
Speaker 1: That's not one of the ones I have.
Speaker 2: What do you got?
Speaker 1: I got first Breath forty five? Here here comes the
Speaker 1: pain hypertension to hypertension, hypertension. Okay, so I'll get that
Speaker 1: loaded up. And what are you looking for again? Over there?
Speaker 2: I'm looking for line up for this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Oh for Carnival of Sin Yeah in Effingham, which is
Speaker 1: fun to say. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, far, what's that?
Speaker 2: It was about an hour and a half here? Oh okay,
Speaker 2: is that right? Mary?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh, Mary's got something for you there.
Speaker 2: No, I need the list.
Speaker 1: Oh but yeah, if you are just joining us, we've
Speaker 1: got the rock and Redhead Echo Ray here with us
Speaker 1: live in studio.
Speaker 2: We are rocking it today where we've got Under the
Speaker 2: Horizon and Lethal Creed and Midnight Possession in the house today.
Speaker 2: And it would just be so much easier to fans
Speaker 2: could just post it right at the top of the page,
Speaker 2: right right, this is what's happening.
Speaker 1: Today, right pin that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, if I could just find the event, I think.
Speaker 1: But is this oh you found it? Is it a
Speaker 1: multi day thing?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: It started last night. Okay, people were putting their tents
Speaker 2: up pretty pretty what like three o'clock in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: I guess they started putting this stuff up. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 1: Heather.
Speaker 2: My girl, Heather, she's got my back. She just sent
Speaker 2: me a screenshot of the list. So this is this
Speaker 2: is the same woman that I said was the band
Speaker 2: hen for Lethal Creed and she's got me covered too.
Speaker 2: So I love that woman so much. You better be
Speaker 2: prepared for those ultimate squeezes today, Heather. All right, So
Speaker 2: music starts at two o'clock this afternoon, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: kick it off with Horsefly Gulch.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah we got to Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: We checked them out at the barbecue that we did
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago in Casco. Stellar dudes all
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: Around, even on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, absolutely, Heart Divided, Lethal Creed Ta Shane, Dawn
Speaker 2: of End Oceans, and Ghost Haulo Virtue Creating a Sinner.
Speaker 2: I'm a little hesitant in saying this, but I do
Speaker 2: have the headliner listed as Slay the Giants.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The only reason I'm hesitant is because I heard whispers
Speaker 2: last night that they may have had to pull out.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I don't want to confirm or deny that,
Speaker 2: so please take that with a grain of salt, everybody, Okay,
Speaker 2: but that that's the lineup that I have currently as
Speaker 2: of right now, Okay, and it's stacked, and I'm super excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. People camp out at that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah. She and I camped, doubt.
Speaker 1: That's something I've never done, is camping. I'm terrified of
Speaker 1: deer ticks.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, you get the
Speaker 2: bugs bury and stuff for that.
Speaker 1: It's really it's a big problem in the Northeast, but
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: It can be. I haven't had a single tick on
Speaker 2: me yet this year. That's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've also been dosing up on the on the bugs Bury.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, that's very smart, very smart. Yeah, they're bad.
Speaker 1: This year. I got a bitten by a some sort
Speaker 1: of beetle recently landed on my neck. Oh and uh
Speaker 1: and I don't even know why it happened. And apparently
Speaker 1: they don't sting. They don't have stingers. They literally bite you.
Speaker 1: It was horrifying.
Speaker 2: It is horrifying. I wouldn't want that at all.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't in the woods or anything, but uh,
Speaker 1: it just happened. Yeah, very very strange. But uh, Echo
Speaker 1: Ray the Rock and Redhead, thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 2: Us, my absolute honor. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, we'll close out with this. What should
Speaker 1: we know about Lone Wolf James. You want to give
Speaker 1: them a plug before we play this track Hypertension. They
Speaker 1: were on the show, but if you want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm lone Wolf James has some shows coming up.
Speaker 2: I'm not really in the loop as much as I'd
Speaker 2: like to be, to be perfectly honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: He's just recently joined up with a with a wrestling deal.
Speaker 2: So he's going to be doing some some wrestling shows.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I there there was some miscommunication and
Speaker 2: some misunderstanding between when I was leaving and me. Ways.
Speaker 2: Oh so things kind of shifted dramatically and unexpectedly. Okay,
Speaker 2: so I'm a little out of the loop with them.
Speaker 2: But yeah, stellar group of dudes. I love them with
Speaker 2: all of my heart. They're my brothers. And Hypertension personally
Speaker 2: is one of my all time personal favorites.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Gary used to dedicate that one to me personally almost
Speaker 2: every night he played it.
Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Oh wow, love that one. Oh, very cool,
Speaker 1: very cool. So we'll close out the segment with this,
Speaker 1: and uh, if you are listening live on Saturday, stick around.
Speaker 1: We've got Lou Antonucci coming up in the third hour.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play live for us. But Echo, Ray the
Speaker 1: Rock and Redhead, thank you so much, my pleasure, Thank you,