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on a cold winterss morning.
Speaker 11: Welcome everybody, Here we go.
Speaker 10: We are into our number two you narrow dose of
Matt unleashed, our first show of twenty twenty five. Today
is Saturday, January fourth, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here
as well, of course at the news table.
Speaker 4: President that account of for and we have joining us a.
Speaker 10: Live in studio. And again, if you are just joining us,
forgive my voice. I'm still recovering from my recent sound kit.
Speaker 11: I don't think it does.
Speaker 10: I'm very frustrated my cracking voice, but so recovering again,
still recovering from my recent asthma incident.
Speaker 11: But we have joining us alive in studio. The guys
from Scarecrow Hill are here. How are you guys?
Speaker 8: Welcome, Hello, hello, hello, thank you for having us.
Speaker 10: Absolutely I'm excited to talk to you. I really love
your sound. As we were talking off air, and that
track is great? Is that the uh now that's from
the new album of course at Death in the Family. Yes, excellent.
So why don't we We'll start in the corner here,
and if we could just go around the room and
you can each tell us who you are, what you
do in the band, any other pertinent information. Tyler, I
sing okay, Joe lead guitar player, okay, I am Brendan,
And I am the drummer.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm Joe.
Speaker 11: I'm the bass player okay. And is it just the
four of you?
Speaker 8: No, we actually dominate our rhythm. Guitar player couldn't be
with us, okay, okay, gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, you guys have
a big sound.
Speaker 10: You know what I like about that track too, Like
you're not in any hurry to get to the end
of it, you know what I mean, Like like that
riff just keeps going for a while. And I think
that because I think that's kind of a lost thing,
Like I don't hear a lot of bit I feel
like we live in a time where a lot of
bands it's like, you know, I don't know if it's
because everybody thinks that people have short attention spans or whatever.
But it's like, Okay, a couple of choruses and we'll
end it or will fade it out. But you guys
kind of take your time with it and groove on
that for a while. And I just think that's really cool.
Speaker 8: We had had a lot of fun coming up with
that ending, and we loved the riffs that they did,
so we wanted to kind of stretch that out.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, no, that's really cool. How long has Scarecrow Hill.
Scarecrow Hill been around.
Speaker 8: Three for what matters, since twenty eighteen, okay.
Speaker 11: Okay, But there was a version of the band that
existed before that.
Speaker 8: There was Joel and I started the band in two
thousand and three, okay, okay. We went till about twenty fourteen,
and then we had split up, and then at the
end of twenty eighteen beginning of twenty nineteen, we got
back together with these guys.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, now what caused the return.
Speaker 8: Brendan and Joe Okay, we met them and the way
they played the music, we were just like, we need
to do this again.
Speaker 10: When when the band ended the first time, after you said,
what about a ten year run? Yeah, the first time,
did you always kind of know that it would be
back some day or was it like, no, that's it.
Speaker 8: I think we kind of secretly hoped, but we didn't
really know what was going to happen either way.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, So everything on the new album is the
current lineup, the five of you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 10: Yeah, because I was pretty sure because when when Jenny,
you know, Jenny does all the booking for the show,
and when she mentioned Scarecrow Hill, I was like, that's
a familiar name from like I think back when I
was still playing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but but I wasn't one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 10: And then when I saw online it looked you know,
I saw the new album, and then I I didn't, like,
I didn't find.
Speaker 11: Does the old material does that survive? Like does or
have you left that kind of in that other era.
Speaker 8: We've tried pretty hard to get rid of that. Yeah, Yeah,
there's a there's still one record out there from like
twenty twelve. We're pretty alright with that still being around.
But oh okay, yeah, everything else I worked pretty hard
to its quiet as much as possible.
Speaker 10: No kidding, so like actively suppressive, like you don't even
want oh no kidding. Interesting why is that, Like, do
you just feel that the sound has evolved so much?
Speaker 8: And yeah, just everything about the band like I, like
I said, it's when Joel and Dom and I came
back to the band and we hooked up with Joe
and Brenda here, it was just like we didn't care
about the past anymore. It's this, this is our band.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, when you I've been in situations like I
don't play anymore. I used to be in a bunch
of bands, and I've been in situations where, you know,
maybe there'd been some sort of a transformation and an evolution,
and then there's that that inevitable conversation about do we change.
Speaker 11: The name or and and I always I remember I
was in a specific band.
Speaker 10: I was in a band called My Life Crisis, and
I remember actually having that argument with you know, when
we had a big shift in personnel, and uh, the
guys kind of wanted to, oh, let's you know, our
sound kind of change, let's change the name. And I
fought for keeping the name because I was like, well, look,
people know us as this. I understand it's a different
band kind of, but we've built up this name, not
you know, not that we ever got anywhere big or anything.
But I but I felt there was value in our name,
Like was that was that a conversation amongst you guys
do we do we be Scarecrow Hill or or do
we do something?
Speaker 11: Or do we be something new?
Speaker 8: I don't think we ever even discussed it really really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah it scare Hill.
Speaker 13: It was kind of like such a long standing name
and entity for for Tie. Yeah, and Tie being kind
of our fearless leader. That's like we go as he goes.
Speaker 11: Yeah. No, and that makes sense.
Speaker 10: I mean you've got you know, you've got equity in that,
you know. So, and like I said, I I remembered it.
It was familiar to me when Jenny mentioned, I thought
you guys had been around for a while. So no,
So I think that makes sense. We're gonna We're gonna
play something a little bit later. That's really really interesting
in terms of uh, there's there's a bit of a surprise,
well a couple of surprises.
Speaker 11: On the track.
Speaker 10: But I'm curious about how you describe your sound because
you're I mean, obviously, you know you kind of fit
in the metal genre broadly, but of course you have
all these subgenres and whatnot. But but your your approach,
especially from what I was reading online, your your approach
is a little bit different in terms of You're not
My impression is you're not trying to You're not You're
not trying to be one specific thing. You know, You're
You're You're Yeah, exactly exactly, you know, because most metal
bands do try to be one specific thing. But has
that always been your approach to kind of be open
to different influences And.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, I think absolutely, because when you've got
you know, five personalities and five sets of influences and
five musical directions that everybody wants to go, I think
you kind of have to have the open air for
that to happen. And yeah, I'm I'm like the least
metal guy in the world. Man, I like the Beatles
and Tech nine, you know what I mean like that,
So these guys like teach me a lot about the
metal genre and the metal community, and we've all kind
of had to work together, and it just makes it
so that, you know, when Joe puts his stamp on
something and then Dominic comes in and Joe and it
just it is so many sounds. Yeah, it makes it
cool for.
Speaker 11: Us yeah, does that happen.
Speaker 10: I assume that happens kind of organically, right, It sounds
like it like you don't like you don't say, you know,
we need to try to shove this other influence into
this song, but it just kind of happened.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I think it kind of depends, like the way when
I'm writing, a lot of the time, I'll be inspired
by like a particular song, or like an idea that
exists in a song. Sometimes I'll take that as a
starting point and kind of like build a demo around
that idea. But like the inspiration comes from so many
different directions sometimes that like to not have to pigeonhole
into like we have to sound like such and such,
it's it's kind of freeing in terms of inspirational direction.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Your live show too, I
would imagine it's pretty energetic, you know, to match.
Speaker 13: Your Yeah, it's a lot of fun, you know, it's yeah,
I'll just leave it at that, trying to keep it
radio friendly, but yeah, we have a lot of fun,
and we try to keep it very high energy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 8: The live show too, I think is very very organic.
It's we don't there's no choreograph or anything like that.
We just kind of go into it knowing that we
were with our team, Like we just see what happens. Yeah,
start to rock out, man, like a little bit of
old school in the new school.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10: When you guys play out, do you do you have
opportunities to play with bands that you played.
Speaker 8: With like way back in the day or shockingly yes, I.
Speaker 10: Suspected as much because I can tell you just doing this,
I'll while we've had guests on the show or or
talk to people about coming on to I'm like I
didn't even know.
Speaker 11: Wow, Like I remember doing shows with them like twenty
years ago and there and they're back. That's really cool.
Like who are some of the bands that you guys
get to play with that you played with back then?
Speaker 8: So a lot of times it might not even be
necessarily be a whole band, but like even just last
night we got to play over here at the Shaskiing,
which what a great little room. That was a lot
of fun. Oh yeah I love them, yeah, oh yeah,
what a great place. And but so Rags the Stitches
shout out to our boys from New Hampshire. Uh, they
put the show on nice and their their bass player
is a guy that we have been playing with in
different bands. I mean since me and Joel were kids,
Like we we grew up playing shows with this guy.
And yeah, he's still out there doing a whistle out.
They're doing it twenty years later. So like it's there's
a lot of that. A lot of bands unfortunately don't
stay around as long, but right the musicians do, and
we'll we'll get out there and get to see this guy. Oh,
he used to be in this band that we toured
with and that that stuff's a lot of fun. It's
really cool.
Speaker 11: Oh, that's really cool. Did we have Rex's stitches? Did
we have them on you remember? I feel like we did.
Speaker 4: I'm not positive.
Speaker 11: I'd have to go back and look. I think we
might have.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: If not, you should, yeah definitely if you haven't, or.
Speaker 10: Or the name has come up on this show, maybe
that might be the name might have come up on
the show before. Yeah, are you guys playing out a lot?
Speaker 8: Or yeah? Yeah, we've been very very busy.
Speaker 11: Good, very nice, excellent, excellent? And how long has this
album been out? This is this is pretty new right.
Speaker 12: Uh yeah, July August something like that, less than a year.
More than a month.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, cool? Where do you record?
Speaker 8: We do it?
Speaker 10: You know, that's awesome because it sounds like I'm always curious,
you know, because we live in a time where you've
got so many different options in terms of how you record,
and there's so many great studios around, but you can
also do it yourself and it sounds like it was
recorded in a million dollar studio, you know. Thanks, So
it's really impressive, Like like, do you have a home studio?
Does one of you have a home studio set up
or what's what's the approach?
Speaker 13: We kind of each of us has our own little
setup at home where well, we'll do some demos, but
when it comes time to like actually cut the final thing,
we have a decent setup at the band, like our
practice space where we track everything in and then once
that's all done, we take it to our guy Joe Clapp,
who's got like a really nice professional studio and he
mixes it and masters it for us.
Speaker 11: Oh fantas as Okay, Yeah, it's cool that that you're
able to do it that way.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm old enough to remember, and some of
you might be when you know your only options were
really you know like you could.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you can record demos at home on your.
Speaker 10: Task and you know, and then but then, yeah, then
go spend a ton of money in a studio to
do everything there.
Speaker 13: And me and Brennan were joking on the way over
here because we rode together and we're a couple of
years younger than the rest of the guys in the band. Yeah,
we were joking about I I had mentioned before how
one of the early scarecrow Hill demos was done on
an answering machine. How far it's come in the way
that you can get like really high quality recordings at
home for like a pretty relatively affordable price compared to
even like five or ten years ago, where it was
the barrier to entry was so high.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Oh that's funny though, the answering machine.
That makes sense.
Speaker 8: I'm going to the public library and running off covers
for the cassette tapes Dublin, No kidding, it was, you know,
there was no distribution around here that anybody can afford
or anything back, right exactly exactly. If you knew a
band that had CDs, they were like big times yea, even.
Speaker 11: Over the course of the years just.
Speaker 10: Doing this well I've I've been at w M n
H for it'll be eight years in April, but I've
been interviewing bands for a lot longer. And we were
talking talking to somebody last week on the show about
how when I first started doing this, like bands would
usually show up with a CD.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 10: Now, of course you can just email everything, but and
the move was was very often it would be, you know,
just like a CDR with sharpie written on it. You know,
these are the songs we want to feature on the show.
And they they'd handed to me on their finger. It
wouldn't even be in a case. And yeah, those were
those were the days. Yeah, we actually have I don't
use it, but we we do have a functioning CD play.
Speaker 8: Here's awesome.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 11: One of the guys, Rob, I don't know if you
know Rob as a veto.
Speaker 10: He owes a show here called Granted State of Mind
and he uses occasionally, but but he's kind of old
school with that.
Speaker 11: But the new album is it available on CD or
is it only on streaming platforms?
Speaker 8: This one is only on streaming platforms. We have three
other records that we take physical copies out on the
road with us but this is the one we wanted
to try just just to see first. Yeah, how it
did is digital only, and figured maybe if if it
keeps doing as well as it's doing, we'll probably end
up doing some physical copies.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I want to play. So I surprise you
guys with this.
Speaker 10: I made a radio edit of this track that Little
Voice featuring Adam Ramie partly well. So a couple things
about it that that really grabbed me. One is I
just find the subject very relatable, you know, talking about
that that little voice that so many of us have
in our heads that tries to kind of drag us
down and tell us a lot of negative things, negative
so talk and all that. So I think a lot
of people can really relate to the lyrics. The other
thing that's really interesting to me is what's going on
in the chorus, which is very unusual and it's it's cool.
I was like, what, oh, that's interesting and it's got
and and tell me about uh but we'll talk about
that part after we play it. But tell me tell
me too about Adam Raymie.
Speaker 8: Adam. Adam is amazing.
Speaker 14: So.
Speaker 8: Adam is one of the vocalists for the band Dropout Kings, okay,
and he's said the range that this man has where
he can you know, he does the dirty vocals, screaming stuff.
He does these absolutely beautiful, powerful lead vocals. And then
we had, uh, we've done a few shows together over
the years, and we had talked a few times about
doing a track. So when I sent him this, he said, well,
you know, what are you going to do with it?
I said, we trust you, like you know your your
range is ridiculous. And this was the last thing we
were expecting. Yeah, said, we were like, wow, this is
all right, Like he went different with this and we
were super excited about it. But he's just one of
those guys that he can do anything, and he's so
much fun to work with on this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 10: So this is of course from the new album, but
Death of the Family will give this a spind uh.
This is called that Little Voice featuring Adam Raby and
this is Scarecrow Hill.
Speaker 4: Spots. And I got this voice up inside of my
head side of me. I should beating my bloody I'm one.
Speaker 3: I should ever reclady, who's ever reason God'll taking another
thing problem me? You just can't just stand on a
plattlefield but I keep telling you want of my boots
have been money. The biggest surprise of my entire life
is still that I managed to walk in my twenties,
no matter how hard that I'm working, no matter how
much I have risen apaw, Why here these whistles ada.
Speaker 4: In my ear telling me that my best is a
lucky enough.
Speaker 3: So I keep pushing and fighting them, sucking this hole
and everybody should jack When I dug, then he tell
me a lot in voices.
Speaker 4: They tell me that I should just quitn't give up.
Speaker 1: I swear to God sometimes in my head all I
hear where.
Speaker 4: The ghost of my past to tell you? If there's
no said, why it doesn't exist?
Speaker 3: When you're heart my God, every day my brain you're
telling let me define When my muther on some day
stopped me in the back, I feel my whole.
Speaker 1: I'm just doing a new circles because I'm a pree
Ready when they are changed.
Speaker 14: Charles since arth So splint suits.
Speaker 2: It's flats sas d.
Speaker 14: Charles So spl suits.
Speaker 2: That's my team.
Speaker 7: Stud.
Speaker 3: I got these voices inside of my head telling me
I can never be saved. And if I keep talking,
and if I keep trying, I'm gonna find myself in
the inner of the grave. But that's okay, because I
got another one telling me nobody cares any weighing if
I got tomorrow, they don't bring no sorrow.
Speaker 4: No one will even remember my name.
Speaker 3: I ever taught ness is side to me that I
have never been able to fight. And he keeps telling me,
yet there's some mattic. There's nothing that I have but
to will be right. I hear real voices, I telling
me I don't deserve happiness of my largess I personal
even out into the world, and it's making your rhind
of of living the night.
Speaker 4: I got the voice in the back of my mind
telling me that I'll never be I got the voice.
Speaker 1: In the back of my mind, and I had got
something of my stris free jing my mind keep telling
me everything out.
Speaker 4: I was barely hanging by his stitch.
Speaker 1: I spent my whole I just been in his sutcase
trying to catch him.
Speaker 2: While it's in the show Truce, so.
Speaker 14: Shoes the flice, young man, sasay.
Speaker 2: Choices, so.
Speaker 5: Te this fight man SATs.
Speaker 15: Day food, these little voices and screaming the meat that
I'm not the one you really blaunch.
Speaker 4: I remember the way that you whooked at me in
the beginning. I hate that it's gone. The truth of
the matter is this.
Speaker 3: Sporable situation is going on too wrong. I wish that
somebody had to make I told me I was losing
my sulf before I was lost. I get the toist
in my head telling me that the shadows I'm seeing
no rail. My brain is almost by you in my
heart because I cannot trust what I feel. I keep
the weight on my shoulders to myself, the same way
the weight on my hippos can zeal. Sometimes I get
in the proof and I met it all all, but
you know I'm rinking the seal.
Speaker 4: I get the voice in the back of my mind
and we're.
Speaker 5: Trying to killing it shot.
Speaker 4: I get the voice in the back of my mind,
and I hate that.
Speaker 1: Mother of great game my brain. You're telling me y'all
that I have to refoward to its more regrets. I said,
I'm a whole. I've just been in the sert because
because I can't get the coulf out of my ship.
Speaker 14: No choruses shoes shoes.
Speaker 2: I got a let up by.
Speaker 5: My head. I have got a nice ship that try.
Speaker 1: You don't even recognize this man.
Speaker 2: Cough, guy had shot up.
Speaker 5: I had a let up by so many voices in
my head. It's not a guy.
Speaker 2: I would shut up.
Speaker 8: I don't got that.
Speaker 2: Try this gag.
Speaker 10: That is that little voice featuring Adam Raimi and the
band is a Scarecrow Hill with us in the studio
this morning.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so tell me about that, guys, tell me about
that chorus, like, because that was was that something Adam did?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, we did that, Yeah, we did. We had
sent him the basic demo with the track and I
hadn't even laid my vocals yet. Yeah, like he had
just you know, what do you want to do it?
So we trust you man, Like obviously we're fans and
we know the things you're capable of. And yeah, he
sent that back and he was like, you know, I
hope you dig it. He's like, because I love this.
He's like, I think it's one of one of my
favorite features I've done. And I was so taken back
by it. I was like, wow, I'm going to rewrite
everything I had because like I need my stuff to
be cooler. Now.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, so that caused you to read your part?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, Yeah, yeah, the chorus is I think we were
talking about it off air. It's like nothing I've ever heard.
It's it's it's it's such a unique sound.
Speaker 11: And uh now, Joe, you were saying too, so what
do you the genre that.
Speaker 8: That you call?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 13: Yeah, so we were talking about genre before. I think
if if for Scarecrow Hill, if you were kind of
to nail it down to something, we kind of used
the tagline hip hop death rock.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 13: So Ty especially has a lot of like hip hop influences.
So you know, in a song like that, you can
hear the rapping and that. That's a lot of the
songs that we do have a lot of like hip
hop influence to it. So we try to have like,
you know, a groove and a bounce to a lot
of you know, while it might be a heavy riff,
you know, it can be broken down into a groove
that grooves.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, no, well put yeah, no that makes sense
to me. No, that's that's a great Do you play
that live or is it hard to do without?
Speaker 8: Uh we we haven't.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we haven't played that one live.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no, that's that's really good.
Speaker 10: Also another track maybe we'll play it at the end
of if we have time, But you do a cover
on this that I that I really like on the
new album, of course we should mention again a death
in the family.
Speaker 11: We're in this together now.
Speaker 10: And I remember looking at the track list and I
was like, I wonder if that's an original or if
that's a nine Inch Nails cover. And I listened to it,
and uh, man, you sing the hell out of that,
thank you. Yeah, It's really like there's there's an emotion
to it. There's almost like a like a desperation that
comes across in your vocal. I don't know if that's
what you're going for, probably, but.
Speaker 8: I mean it, it happens. I've I've actually heard that
several times about several songs that we do. Yeah, which
I think is I take that as as a pretty
huge compliment because I've never been one of those guys
that can like just sing a cover song. Yeah, it's
gotta be something that really resonates with me. It's got
to be something that like means something.
Speaker 11: Yeah. No, I was playing it, it was like, Wow,
you know, I really really feel this. You know, was
that challenging to sing?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I mean yes, and no, it's uh, yes, in
the fact that like it. It's you know, it's pretty
up there and it's a hard song in general. But yeah, personally,
Trent Reznor has been like one of my biggest vocal
influences ever. Yeah, and I've been singing that song for
as long as I can remember. Yeah, when I finally
get to get into the booth with it, and I
was like, wow, all right, like this is this is
gonna be awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, No, I came out great. It came out great.
Speaker 10: Is there any kind of a theme to the album?
I mean, you know, it's got a pretty ominous title
of Death in the Family. I'm curious about does the
title have any meaning specifically and is there a theme
to this?
Speaker 8: To this album, we had gone through a small lineup change.
We had so since twenty eighteen, we did a trilogy
of records not Dead Yet, Never Say Die and Until
Death and that was our It's just kind of about
everything that was going on at the time, and as
well as kind of like a not necessarily a promise
or an oath or something, but something that we did
for each other, like this, this is it, this is
what we're going to do. Yeah, And we for a
while we're a six member band in that fizzled away
and that became a death in the family as a
way to just kind of put closure on that chapter.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, and.
Speaker 8: Then the things that we we have come in now
are moving on to the next chapter.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 8: So this band was a six piece at one point. Yeah,
for wow, what did the other member do? The little percussion,
some backup vocals. It's kind of an auxiliary, remember, yeah,
which which was fun. It was a it was a
great thing to have. But I think all it really
did was just kind of solidify our five member band
and yeah, kind approved to us that we didn't necessarily
need anybody else there.
Speaker 10: With us, right right, Yeah, I mean, I know from
my own experience, it's it's hard. It can be hard enough,
you know, like with a five piece or even a
four piece, it can be hard enough trying to work
with everyone's schedules and everyone's you know, everyone's got lives
and and you know, and trying to book shows and everything.
Speaker 11: So I can only imagine with a six piece what
that was like.
Speaker 10: Some of the it's funny, uh, you know, we have
a lot of singer songwriters on the show, and very
often there are people who used to play in bands
who you know, got they get to a point where
it's it's it just becomes too much to manage. So
then they decide to do their own thing, you know,
and and just and not have to deal with all
the Somebody somebody said to me, I forget who it
was who said it on the show, that being in
a band with four other people is like being in
four relationships. It's like is like or is like being
in a relationship with four other people who are all
in a relationship with four other people.
Speaker 12: That is true.
Speaker 10: I wish I could remember who said it so I
could give them credit. But I thought it was a
great I thought it was a great insight. But you
guys have a lot going on with you know, you're
you're playing a lot, and I mean, is it hard
to is it hard to manage all that with with
with a five piece band?
Speaker 8: Or I think it would be more difficult if we
weren't as tight knit. Yeah, But the fact that you know,
like these this is we're a team. Yeah, and we
worked very hard to make sure that you know, maybe
we can't grab every opportunity like today with Dominic not
being able to be here, but Dominic also very much
understood and you know, you know, you guys go do this.
I have to do some other things right now. Yeah,
And that's usually the way it always goes, is we
work very hard to make sure that it's amicable for
everyone and that we're amicable to everything. Might not be
a show. Joe's crazy about playing, but he you know,
he believes in his band and he's here for his band,
so we can make that work right.
Speaker 13: And I think another thing too is that you know,
I've been in bands before where and you know, it's
just like ty said, with a team dynamic on like
a sports team or in a lot of situations, there's
you know, leadership and there's not followers, but like people
who look up to the leader. And Tye being the leader,
he does the booking, he has the majority of the connections,
and he kind of sets the schedule for us. We've
all kind of committed Sunday, you know, Sunday afternoons is
band day. That's when we get together, that's when we practice,
we talk about band business, and then we've got a
group calendar that you know, if there's a date that
anybody can't do something, we put it in the group
calendar and then other than that.
Speaker 12: It's basically free reign.
Speaker 13: Yeah, time knows to you know, he does right by
us and not booking something that's gonna totally you.
Speaker 12: Know, derail derail everybody's.
Speaker 13: Lives because you know, as much as we'd all love
to be the full time touring bands and everything, it's
it's so hard to get to that level.
Speaker 12: So yeah, we get day jobs.
Speaker 11: Yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 10: Do you guys like, how how far do you go
in terms of when you're playing shows, Like you said,
you're playing a lot.
Speaker 11: You get out of New England, do you go?
Speaker 8: We'll go wherever we'll have us. Yeah, we just we
want to get out to as many people as possible
with We love new venues, we love new bands, we
love all the things that we were very lucky enough
to get to do. So anywhere that will have us,
we are we are glad to go.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Where does the name come from, by
the way, Scarecrow Hill.
Speaker 8: So that we have been we have ended this question
for so long, So Scarecrow It was actually when when
we were very first trying to start this band, we
had had a different name and everything, and we had
written kind of like this mission statement. It was like
partial lyrics, partial, just eighteen year old bravado. And yeah,
we had used the term scarecrow hill as a metaphor
because you know, scarecrows are they're they're warning. It's like
to stay away from somewhere. It's to keep you out
of something, and hills are like steep and hard decline,
and so we used scarecrow Hill as a metaphor of like,
we need to get past a scarecrow hill into the
music business. Yeah, and it's actually my mom looked at
us and was like, that's your band name, Like, that's
that's what your band name should be. Yeah, we're all right,
we'll give it a shot. It's different.
Speaker 11: Yeah, right, And it's speaking of moms, high moms. Yes,
time moms. What was what was the Do you want
to say.
Speaker 8: What the name was before you say we were called
standing Room?
Speaker 10: Because I love hearing about rejected band names the standing Room?
Why why didn't you? Why didn't you stick with that?
Speaker 8: Honestly, just like I said when she was like, scarecrow
Hill is a better band name. It does sound kind
of cool.
Speaker 11: Actually, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do think it's a better
name than standing room.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 10: Well let's oh boy, my voice is cracking. Let's do this,
which is the perfect time to do this because we
were talking about it. Let's play uh, let's play wearing
this together now. I just I'm so amazed by this. Now,
Who's because obviously this this is not the full band
on this track, So who else is playing?
Speaker 11: Who else is doing what.
Speaker 8: On this cloud? Yeah? So myself and our our other producer,
Joe Clap, did a lot of stuff, and then there
was a lady that we had reached out to a
couple of years back actually to get some of the
original piano pieces, and we just kind of combined everything
and then he and I sat in the booth and
did a lot a lot of additional piano and the
strings and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 10: And yeah, no, it's really impressive. I'm eager to play it.
Let's give this a listen if you're just joining us.
Scarecrow Hill is with us here in studio this morning,
and this is their cover of nine Inch Nails.
Speaker 11: This is called We're in This Together now.
Speaker 7: H m hm.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 5: Hm ah.
Speaker 2: Be jim.
Speaker 1: Him possibles holding up.
Speaker 2: To when where.
Speaker 16: Everything seems mad more virtue all you lose, all you used.
Speaker 2: And beating up, watching face as if for.
Speaker 5: Don't the pass we have jo.
Speaker 2: Jo mad.
Speaker 4: We're at least a gather.
Speaker 2: Not then stoppers Bulliam. We get through some.
Speaker 5: Yeah in May and the world of breaking Hi.
Speaker 2: N tell the very end of man.
Speaker 5: Until the very end of you.
Speaker 16: Who wakes on the sound does appeal about the skin
they'd pick in They fall trying.
Speaker 2: To get the vegus in.
Speaker 17: Whether they're gonna kill what we found, well, they're gonna
hate what they fear.
Speaker 8: Well, they're gonna make it go away, while they're gonna.
Speaker 4: Make it disappear.
Speaker 7: The father.
Speaker 4: I fall on the side you as lost as I
guess I.
Speaker 17: Will find you the tea bottle warm dom inside you.
Speaker 2: Rather endeavor.
Speaker 5: I am a bard of jol.
Speaker 17: May we're released in Johann. No they can stop us
now we will make it jos.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 17: If the wilch of Brankin Hi, the telor very and
the man. Until the very end of.
Speaker 18: All that we were is gone, we have to folk gone.
All that we were is gone.
Speaker 14: We have to hold on.
Speaker 4: Without all hobbies gone.
Speaker 12: We had to hold on.
Speaker 1: All that we weres gone, but we gain all time.
Speaker 17: Join man wearing this togethern.
Speaker 5: No that can stop us.
Speaker 2: Now we will make it through some time.
Speaker 17: Join many in and out of everything, you know, the
cleaning on the jack, nothing else we tell anything.
Speaker 5: H h.
Speaker 11: That's so good.
Speaker 10: I didn't even want to talk over that slow fade
at the end. I was like, no, I got to
give that a few more seconds. That's intense.
Speaker 11: That is so good. Scarecrow Hill is here with us
in studio if you are.
Speaker 10: Just joining us, and that is their cover of We're
in This Together Now by Nine Inch Nails and yeah, great,
great job on that.
Speaker 11: What do you guys, uh, what do you guys have
coming up?
Speaker 10: In terms of are you are you already working on
material for I know this album just came out, but
you know, you strike me as guys who probably have
a lot of ideas, probably already working on some new stuff.
Speaker 8: We're pretty much constantly anytime we put anything out, we'll
give it a few months and really hone in on
the live part of the show and things that we
gotta do. But I think genuinely we enjoy writing together
so much that we just we never stopped it. Yeah,
we we just came finished and started polishing a new
track a week ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Well, that's like the exciting part because I'm speaking for myself,
I'm kind of the impatient type. So pretty much even
before we put an album out, we're already kind of
looking at the next next new material that we're going
to be writing, and we're looking at ways, really how
one we can improve into how we can I'm just
moving forward, but what we can do to evolve our sound,
which you know, I think it's awesome, and.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of a lot of time. There's enough time.
Speaker 13: But between when you're done writing a batch of songs
for a record and the time that that comes out,
that between that you're already I mean personally, sometimes I
get a little fatigued from like the writing and recording process.
So like to have like maybe even just like a
month to kind of like forget about it is good. Yeah,
But even still, like once we're done with the writing
and recording, even before the next one comes out, it's
a lot of the time it's already creative juices are
flowing for the next thing.
Speaker 19: Yeah, no doubt exactly, And honestly, it comes to the
most random times. I always joke around like some of
the best ideas coming to me in the shower of all. Yeah,
and you know, if that's the case, it could be
a day after we put out the new album and
already putting down new ideas. Sometimes you're listening to the
final mix of the album and you're like, oh, a really.
Speaker 11: Good idea, you know.
Speaker 19: All right, Yeah, it's always an evolving process. And that's
the thing I think I love most about it.
Speaker 12: I think we do. I shouldn't even speak for myself,
we all do.
Speaker 10: Any of the songs that you guys are working on
d end up playing them out live before before they've
been recorded.
Speaker 11: Usually them, Yeah, no, but sometimes yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, there's usually like if we put out a record
that I mean, the first three of the tri that
trilogy that was that I was talking about earlier was
the start of that was the beginning of this iteration
of the lineup. So since then there was always like
one or two or three that were like the ones
that we knew were would go over well live and
those were always the ones that we took out and
played first before anything came out.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah that makes sense, that makes sense.
Speaker 10: And then uh, so so, even though obviously we're in winter,
a lot of bands kind of slowed down with the
live shows, but it sounds like, are you guys going
to be continuing to play through the winter?
Speaker 8: Uh? Yeah, so we've got we've got a few more
this month, and then we're actually we're taking our first
break from live shows in almost three years. Wow. We're
taking the month of February to kind of go home
and reassess and rehune in on some things and and
get some things lined back up. But then I mean, right,
the first week in March, we're right back at it.
We're back out of there.
Speaker 11: So excellent.
Speaker 8: Nice to have a little time off, but I'm glad
it's the shortest month.
Speaker 11: Right right, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 10: Well, it seems like you have a lot of momentum
and uh, you know, like I said, the album is great.
And then, by the way, do you guys do any
covers live other than I don't, like, I don't know really,
I'm just all I was curious. I always say you
can kind of tell tell a little bit about a
band's influences by the covers that they do. But you
guys have such an interesting sound and such a disparate
influences anyway, that which I think is really cool. Is
there anybody in the scene, by the way, that you
play a lot of shows with? You know, sometimes it
happens organically, you just end up sort of teaming up
unofficially with bands and like like like.
Speaker 4: Who who who around here?
Speaker 11: Do you guys play a lot with?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, like, like we said, we get Rags
of Stitches right here in New Hampshire.
Speaker 10: Oh, I finally remembered. Now why Jenny, you know why
that Dave is so familiar. We saw them at a
Spelfy fest.
Speaker 11: Rags of Stitches was there. That's why. Okay, so yeah,
we will get them on. I'm sorry, I mean but yeah,
so you.
Speaker 8: Know we love those and I mean there's fear of
the Masses out of Connecticut or you know, good Buddies
of ours that we play with a lot.
Speaker 11: That's a name I've heard.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're They're phenomenal.
Speaker 12: The Great Curtain. Shout out the Great Curtain.
Speaker 11: Oh I love we had the Great Curtain on the show.
Great band.
Speaker 12: Yeah, great band.
Speaker 11: Dennis Layton is.
Speaker 12: Great, one of the one of the greatest humans you
will ever meet.
Speaker 10: Oh, he's awesome and another guy who too, like really
tries to do something different, yes, like really unique.
Speaker 11: Oh love love that band.
Speaker 13: You cannot say that he is not one hundred percent
himself when he's doing what he's doing. He's not trying
to be anything else other than that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8: It's one of the things that we all really seem
to love and enjoy about the New England scene is uh,
there isn't a whole lot of competition going on like
in some scenes around. It's much more of a teamwork
thing that a lot of bands that are friends, a
lot of bands.
Speaker 12: Yes, yeah, Rising Tide lifts all ships.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: And we'll go play this show, you know, down in
the middle of nowhere, Connecticut, and there's ten bands on
the bill and eight of them are bands that we've
played twenty five shows with. Yeah, I me and guys
that we're like genuinely looking forward to seeing. Right. It
makes it a lot of fun, It makes it very cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I always feel like, you know, music is very much
people are supportive of each other. I always kind of
contrast it with stand up comedy because I listen to
some podcasts where you know, you've got these stand up
comics who talk about about that industry, and my impression
is that in stand up comedy everyone is very cutthroat
and everyone kind of secretly hates each other. And I
feel like music is the opposite of that. Like in music,
I mean, don't get me wrong, there are sharks and
there are cutthroat people in the music industry too, obviously,
but I think generally musicians to really support each other,
try to support each other and uplift everybody. So I
so I think that's that's really cool. And then do
you guys, what do you guys have coming up? Do
you have any shows this weekend that you're playing that
you want to plug?
Speaker 8: We have, so on January fifteenth, we're actually at the
Worcester Palladium with Dropout Kings and the Browning Okay, which
we're very much looking forward to. Excellent, And then yeah,
we get gosh And on the seventeenth, we're in our hometown,
which is a rare thing but an awesome thing. We
love getting to play there.
Speaker 11: Where is that?
Speaker 8: That's at a place called the New World Tavern in Plymouth, mass.
Speaker 13: Excellent, one of the coolest venues in that section of Massachusetts. Yeah,
for sure, it's like a very like when you go
in the front, it's a very unassuming tavern looking place,
but you go down this little hallway to the back
and there's probably like a two hundred person venue with
a nice stage sound set up.
Speaker 12: It's it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 8: They treat us very well.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Well, guys, the time goes
so quick.
Speaker 10: We're already approaching the top of the hour and I
am going to play to end the segment this track
Wasting Time.
Speaker 11: Another great, great song.
Speaker 10: I really like this one a lot from the new
album of Death in the Family from Scarecrow Hill. But
before we let you go to what should our listeners
know about where to keep up with everything that you're
doing online?
Speaker 11: Where's the best place to go?
Speaker 8: I mean, just like anybody else man where we have
the Instagram, Facebook, any anywhere there's a band begging for attention,
We're on there.
Speaker 12: You go, there, you go?
Speaker 11: All right, guys, thank you so much.
Speaker 10: If you are listening live on Saturday morning, we've got
let's see.
Speaker 11: Oh I'm sorry, who do we have? It's oh slim
slim volume. Sorry, good blanking.
Speaker 4: You turned me off again, didn't you?
Speaker 10: I did, I think, well, I have an excuse now
because of the asthma. The oxygen's not getting to my brain.
So slim volume is coming up next if you are
listening live on Saturday. But we're going to end this
hour with another great track from Scarecrow Hill from the
album of Death in the Family.
Speaker 11: This is called wasting Time. And guys, thank you again.
This has been thank you for having me.
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