Speaker 1: I've had that song stuck in my head for a
Speaker 1: solid week now. That is not coming back by Day
Speaker 1: to Attend who were here with us last week, and
Speaker 1: there's a very specific reason why we played that. And
Speaker 1: we have joining us live in studio. And these fine
Speaker 1: people were spoken about last week by the band because
Speaker 1: we had Day to Attend here with us in the
Speaker 1: first hour, and now they are joining us and we
Speaker 1: get to speak with them live on the air. We
Speaker 1: have Sheila and Tony Russo from Paper Jam Magazine.
Speaker 2: Welcome, thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you to here.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, and by the way, so you brought us this
Speaker 1: is cool. I should hold this up for people watching online,
Speaker 1: the Girls Rock edition of Paper Jam Magazine. And for
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, so this is a publication,
Speaker 1: Well tell us some tell us a bit about this.
Speaker 1: How long has Paper Jam existed.
Speaker 2: We're in our third year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're coming up on our third year, about two
Speaker 3: and a half years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And of course the way we met was through Day
Speaker 1: to Attend because they were our guests in the first
Speaker 1: hour last week, and they're on the current the cover
Speaker 1: of the current edition.
Speaker 3: Yes, they are our cover story for this new issue.
Speaker 1: Yes, and they are in the chat room as well.
Speaker 1: So in fact, I think it was Tom Sarahcuso was saying,
Speaker 1: if I'm saying his last name correctly, out that I
Speaker 1: have great taste in music, assume because I played the
Speaker 1: Day to well.
Speaker 3: You made you definitely made my morning starting off with
Speaker 3: that song because I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 1: Of dates with Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. We were
Speaker 1: talking about that off air. Is it the CD release
Speaker 1: party is on your birthday?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Happy Birthday to me. Is their their new
Speaker 3: album World of Zen Falling Awake is going to be
Speaker 3: available on August thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We played a bunch of their tracks for the first
Speaker 1: time on the radio when they were here last week,
Speaker 1: and uh no, those guys are those guys are absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: I do want to say make sure we say hello
Speaker 1: to everybody in the Facebook live chat, because, like I said,
Speaker 1: you do have some some fans in there.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Jeff Richards from Day to Attend in the chatroom says Hi,
Speaker 1: Sheila and Tony uh and good morning. We love paper Jam,
Speaker 1: they say. Tom Syracusa says paper Jam in the house,
Speaker 1: Let's see oh And Anthony Nicastro from Purging.
Speaker 3: Perging Sand another great, great band. I believe they just
Speaker 3: opened up for Godsmack and Flat Black.
Speaker 2: Right, I believe.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's a that's a big show. Yeah, good,
Speaker 1: good for them. They've been around a while. Miriam Banishad
Speaker 1: joins us in the Facebook. She says, excellent song, I assume,
Speaker 1: referring to not coming Back. Yeah, that, like I said,
Speaker 1: that's been stuck in my head for the past week.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad I had a good excuse to play
Speaker 1: it again on the show this morning. Melanie La Liberty,
Speaker 1: one of our great friends from the state of Vermont,
Speaker 1: joins us in the chat room. Daniel Syracusa says, love
Speaker 1: day to attend seeing them in drake It at the
Speaker 1: boat tonight. Oh yeah, they were talking about that show.
Speaker 1: Oh that must be Tom's brother.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so Paper Jam So it's been around for three years,
Speaker 1: you said two and a half two and a half years, okay,
Speaker 1: and it's gone through a bit of a transformation, right
Speaker 1: because now so it had been uh, strictly paper, but
Speaker 1: now it's also a digital magazine publication.
Speaker 3: That's that's brand new as of about two weeks ago. Okay,
Speaker 3: we decided to do a digital version version because a
Speaker 3: lot of people were asking for it. Yeah and uh
Speaker 3: so we took some time to think about it and
Speaker 3: to make the decision. And I'm very happy with the
Speaker 3: response that we received when people realized they could click
Speaker 3: the link, click and read the digital version. But the
Speaker 3: paper copies are definitely not going away, right.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, We'll definitely keep the papers.
Speaker 4: That's what we're about, hence the name.
Speaker 3: So now you can choose. Now you can choose. You
Speaker 3: can get your paper copy or you can going forward
Speaker 3: read a digital version.
Speaker 1: So and by the way, so I suggest people check
Speaker 1: out paper jam magazine dot com. I'm looking at it
Speaker 1: right now. And we were talking off air. I was
Speaker 1: a compliment Sheila on her web design because I love
Speaker 1: the website. It looks really good. And I'm a web
Speaker 1: design nerd and I'm very critical of websites and I
Speaker 1: see a lot of websites that aren't great. But this
Speaker 1: one's really good, and like I said, it's perfect for
Speaker 1: what you're doing. So I suggest everyone check it out
Speaker 1: now on the website are all the back issues on
Speaker 1: the website. They are Oh wow, Okay, that must have
Speaker 1: taken a while to that must have been a lot
Speaker 1: of work, I would imagine to get all of that,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of work. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. But
Speaker 1: so the paper version is not going away.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Now that's what's interesting about that. So I'm really curious
Speaker 1: about that. So when you decided to start Paper Jam,
Speaker 1: and obviously, as you said, it's it's called so the name,
Speaker 1: it's called that because it's a paper publication, did anybody
Speaker 1: did anyone try to talk you out of it? And
Speaker 1: the reason I ask that is because we live in
Speaker 1: an era where everything is where everything is digital, and
Speaker 1: a lot of publications like newspapers and a lot of
Speaker 1: magazines over the years, over the past twenty years, have
Speaker 1: have been gradually going away because they didn't find it
Speaker 1: to be a sustainable model, and some of them went away,
Speaker 1: you know, some of those companies have gone away completely.
Speaker 1: A lot of them now are strictly online. So I mean,
Speaker 1: did anyone say to you, wow, what? Because honestly, like,
Speaker 1: if I knew you before you started this, I probably
Speaker 1: and you talk to me about it, I probably would
Speaker 1: have been like, I don't know, I would have been skeptical,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, just as a business person,
Speaker 1: you took the risk and you've obviously made it work.
Speaker 1: This is a success, and it's very impressive by the way,
Speaker 1: And I was talking too about when Day to Attend
Speaker 1: was here, and I'm I'm kind of flipping through the
Speaker 1: issue that they were in, and I'm like, wow, this
Speaker 1: is really there's a lot here, There's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's always jam packed.
Speaker 1: So you've you've really made this work. But did anyone.
Speaker 1: I mean, I assume you had people who are skeptical,
Speaker 1: people who are doubters, and you had to kind.
Speaker 3: Of believe it or not. What's so interesting is maybe
Speaker 3: that worked in our favor. Ye paper publications went away
Speaker 3: because do you recall the era of of zines, Remember.
Speaker 2: Zes where the whole idea.
Speaker 3: That's where the whole idea came from.
Speaker 5: I used to live in Massachusetts and I was you know,
Speaker 5: I played in bands my whole life, and there was
Speaker 5: a couple of scenes like the noise and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It was like a big deal if your band got
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and it's you know something I still have
Speaker 5: to the stack and show, you know, my niece's and nephews.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, look, I was actually in a magazine.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like you could walk into any
Speaker 1: any music venue and see stacks of.
Speaker 5: Different all the different ones. Yeah, yeah, and they went
Speaker 5: away just like you said. And so one night she
Speaker 5: was an English major and I'm like, listen, this is
Speaker 5: after a gig, is like two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3: In the morning.
Speaker 5: I'm like, you know, scenes used to be a big deal.
Speaker 5: It's too bad that we have such a great music
Speaker 5: scene and that doesn't exist anymore. Right, It's like we
Speaker 5: should start our own magazine. And Tony, you love English
Speaker 5: and you love music.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tony gets all the credit for coming up with
Speaker 3: the idea. So this is the true story, right Tony.
Speaker 3: So the next day I woke up, he woke up,
Speaker 3: and I had already been to Staples and it made.
Speaker 1: A mock up.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and in like six hours he already had one.
Speaker 3: And so what's so interesting? And So, to answer your question,
Speaker 3: did anyone try to talk us out of it or
Speaker 3: encourage us to go a different route? No, in fact,
Speaker 3: it caught on quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We had actually a lot of support, good.
Speaker 3: And so and so we tend to say that we're
Speaker 3: old school in a lot of ways, and so we
Speaker 3: liked the idea of bringing back zines, but making it
Speaker 3: more modern. Yeah, and so so everyone was really encouraging
Speaker 3: right from the beginning. So maybe the fact that paper
Speaker 3: publications went away worked in our favorite because here they
Speaker 3: were coming back and people were really digging it.
Speaker 1: There was it was like there was a void that
Speaker 1: needed to be filled. Yeah, no one was doing it.
Speaker 3: And and and so it was working out great.
Speaker 2: And we did.
Speaker 5: It's not really like a business per se, it's we
Speaker 5: don't make money from it, yeah, and to make money
Speaker 5: from it, yeah, the idea was just to give some
Speaker 5: support and recognition.
Speaker 3: To the local band.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It really is.
Speaker 5: All the bands that you meet and talk to and
Speaker 5: many many more, they're all just real nice guys. So
Speaker 5: the idea was just sort of give back a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, I play in bands, so I know what
Speaker 5: it's like.
Speaker 1: You know, do you play earlier?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm in two bands.
Speaker 1: Oh what what bands?
Speaker 5: I'm in the on Peg band out of Rochester and
Speaker 5: I'm in a band called p S out of Altam.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, cool, excellent, excellent. Yeah, so this is now
Speaker 1: when it when it started, was the first issue like
Speaker 1: this where.
Speaker 3: No, it was very different, brought to Coveted first to
Speaker 3: show you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, for for those watching online, if you're
Speaker 1: watching on Facebook.
Speaker 3: Made it staples and I hand stapled it at my
Speaker 3: kitchen table and put them around town. This was how
Speaker 3: it started.
Speaker 4: Eight pages.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: I had five hundred copies made and I hand stapled
Speaker 3: them at my kitchen table and then I drove them
Speaker 3: around and that's how it started. The coveted first issue
Speaker 3: and it features our friend Wendy Gagnan Poor who says,
Speaker 3: meet the singer in three bands. But Wendy's in three bands,
Speaker 3: so I asked her to be on our first cover
Speaker 3: and it took off from there. So eight pages turned
Speaker 3: into twelve, and twelve turned into sixteen. So I decided
Speaker 3: I couldn't handstaple that many cops anymore. So I found
Speaker 3: a local printer right in Rochester, who are fabulous, and
Speaker 3: so the magazines are now printed by Lilac City Printing
Speaker 3: in Rochester.
Speaker 2: And they hate the name and and they gave.
Speaker 1: Us the paper jam. Yeah, a printer's nightmare. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was really funny because the printer took us back
Speaker 3: and showed us this giant machine that they print the
Speaker 3: magazines on, and they said, we we we really hate
Speaker 3: it when we get a paper jam. It was really funny.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so it kept expanding and expanding, and.
Speaker 5: Actually it started out quarter it was the idea oh okay,
Speaker 5: and within I think the second issue if there was
Speaker 5: so much clamor that, we were like, okay, we have
Speaker 5: to at least go bi monthly. Yeah, and so we've
Speaker 5: been bi monthly ever since. So it's just been on
Speaker 5: getting bigger more and.
Speaker 4: We love it.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Do you ever do you ever
Speaker 1: have moments where you go, wow, this is uh, this
Speaker 1: is a lot of work, Like I mean, I assume,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you have do you have help with
Speaker 1: or do you do this all yourselves?
Speaker 5: That's all Sheila. Oh that's Sheila. I'm like a musical consultant. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's and she does all the really heavy living.
Speaker 3: I say, Tony, what what type of gear? Did he
Speaker 3: say that he plays? And that helps me with that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's all me for now. I could really
Speaker 3: use some staff. Yeah, but I'm not complaining. It's it's
Speaker 3: been a great thing and we have one of the
Speaker 3: best music communities and it's really.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of fun because it's really a lot
Speaker 5: of fun. We have these bands come over the house.
Speaker 5: We had our basement don on my band practice, so
Speaker 5: it's a full practice space. Yeah, so they come over,
Speaker 5: we have our interview with them. A lot of times
Speaker 5: they'll play we you know, talk guitars and all that
Speaker 5: kind of stuff. But it's just great to meet all
Speaker 5: the people and we always spend a few hours with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always a good time.
Speaker 3: So usually Sunday's is paper jam interview day, Okay, So
Speaker 3: Sunday we'll prepare. We finished our basement. We call it
Speaker 3: the R and R Lounge, right, Russo and Russo and
Speaker 3: so you know, it kind of looks like a little
Speaker 3: pub down there with a live jam space. So we
Speaker 3: usually an interview, you know, the when the band arrives,
Speaker 3: we greet them outside, we bring them in and we
Speaker 3: have some food and snacks. We give them a little
Speaker 3: tour of the guitar lounge.
Speaker 2: And then I have a guitar room.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then we start with the interview. And when
Speaker 3: we start with like a speed round and we have
Speaker 3: some fun and there's usually a lot of laughs, great time.
Speaker 1: So what's your process for the interview? Do you do
Speaker 1: you record it? Do you record audio of it?
Speaker 3: And then I actually literally type, I type while they answer, kidd,
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I type super fast fast?
Speaker 3: Yet I do type their answers as they're okayring the
Speaker 3: questions and and then so I have not recorded any
Speaker 3: of the interviews. However, that road we're gonna We're going
Speaker 3: to start zoom interviews. On August eighteenth, we have our
Speaker 3: first zoom interview. Because what happens is some of the
Speaker 3: bands who want to be in paper Gam live two
Speaker 3: or more hours away in New Hampshire. Yea uh, and
Speaker 3: so I don't expect everyone to travel that far. So
Speaker 3: I decided to start zoom interviews, and that comes with
Speaker 3: the capability of recording. So then that's when I'll start recording.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then when you do that, will you will
Speaker 1: you post uh the video of that as kind of like, uh.
Speaker 3: I hadn't thought I hadn't thought that far ahead. Yeah, expertly.
Speaker 3: I think that'd be a lot of fun because.
Speaker 5: Is always the inevitably somebody say something, Oh, don't put
Speaker 5: that in don't put that.
Speaker 2: In there right right?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We have this running joke that everybody says, strike that
Speaker 3: from the record don't.
Speaker 1: Put that, yeah, because I'm you know, I'm thinking that'd
Speaker 1: be a good you know, a good teaser to get
Speaker 1: you know, before the issue comes out. Put little little
Speaker 1: clips on YouTube, Facebook and yeah, absolutely, And.
Speaker 3: So some of the bands play when they come to
Speaker 3: their interview in our in our jam space and some don't. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but we love it either way. Everyone who comes, any
Speaker 3: band who comes as welcome to play a few songs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and sometimes we'll put some of that up yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So oh that's amazing. Yeah, that's that's that's fantastic. Now,
Speaker 1: So what is the criteria in terms of artists who
Speaker 1: are in Paper Jam? Do you do you focus on
Speaker 1: New Hampshire or is it is.
Speaker 2: New Hampshire.
Speaker 5: We started out just trying to keep a local local
Speaker 5: are like Rochester, Dover.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, because we didn't you know.
Speaker 5: We don't have that much money to pay for you know,
Speaker 5: a million pages and it's a lot of work. So
Speaker 5: we started out that way and as it's grown, more
Speaker 5: and more people from further away are getting into it.
Speaker 5: The whole idea though, is that there is we support
Speaker 5: any and all music, you know what I mean, There
Speaker 5: are no I don't care if it's your first day
Speaker 5: playing guitar, or you've been playing for years, So all
Speaker 5: level of music it is or it doesn't matter, and it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter if your country, pop, jazz, all levels, it's
Speaker 3: all inclusive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who is just to support everybody.
Speaker 3: We are getting contacted by bands outside of New Hampshire's
Speaker 3: maybe been one of the more difficult parts is I
Speaker 3: don't want to say no to anybody. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, there are so many local bands that I
Speaker 3: still are on our list. So I have a list
Speaker 3: called bands in Line. Unfortunately there is a waiting list
Speaker 3: and we're full through much of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so the bands have been roll patient and
Speaker 3: understanding that they have to wait in a little bit
Speaker 3: of a line.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's a good problem to have, yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: But when I start hearing from bands in other states,
Speaker 3: that's when I have to kind of think about New
Speaker 3: Hampshire based for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because that's only gonna obviously as you you know,
Speaker 1: as you continue to grow, Uh, that'll that'll probably continue
Speaker 1: to intensify, I would, right, and especially now with the
Speaker 1: website too, you're gonna be probably probably already are hearing
Speaker 1: from a lot more.
Speaker 3: Yeap, Yes, it's a very busy mail box.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 5: One of the things that Sheila came up with, because
Speaker 5: we can't have all these bands from everywhere at this point,
Speaker 5: is that if they contact us and we can't necessarily
Speaker 5: put them in, she does like a spotlight special on
Speaker 5: the website and put something together for an advertisement something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I put.
Speaker 3: Together a little video for them that way, pop it
Speaker 3: up on our Facebook page so that they had a
Speaker 3: bit so that they can be have a spotlight but
Speaker 3: not necessarily end up in the pages of the magazine.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That was my way of sort of like not saying.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, no, that's good. That's good. And tell me
Speaker 1: about getting on the cover, Like is there in terms
Speaker 1: of who gets on the cover, Like what is the
Speaker 1: decision making process there? And is there a criteria like
Speaker 1: when you put like obviously day to attend, you know,
Speaker 1: they certainly deserve to be on the cover. And yes
Speaker 1: they do. I'm so glad that you did that. But
Speaker 1: and I know they are too, because they you know,
Speaker 1: they speak very highly of paper jam and and what
Speaker 1: you're doing. But like, how does that work? Getting on
Speaker 1: the cover?
Speaker 3: Getting on the cover. I think people believe it's because
Speaker 3: we personally love that band the most, or that we
Speaker 3: think they're better, or when in fact, it has not
Speaker 3: very little to do with that. It has something to
Speaker 3: do with that, because y'all know I love Day two Tense.
Speaker 3: They're going on the cover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But all of.
Speaker 3: The bands that have been on the cover, and all
Speaker 3: of the bands that have been in the pages of
Speaker 3: Paper Gym, they're all equal to us. We don't play favorites. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it actually boils down to mostly timing. Who who
Speaker 3: reached out first, right, and I said, oh, I don't
Speaker 3: have anyone for my cover next month. Uh, And it's
Speaker 3: a band that draws a big crowd, big following.
Speaker 5: Another thing factor is if they have like a CD
Speaker 5: just coming out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 3: If you've got a CD coming out, or if you
Speaker 3: signed a you know, we had one band who signed
Speaker 3: a production deal and they're on our cover. Vigil great
Speaker 3: metal band.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, great guy. Yeah yeah. Craig and those
Speaker 1: guys on the show. He hasn't been on for a
Speaker 1: very long time, but he's yeah, he's been on. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So really it's about timing. Who contacts us first. If
Speaker 3: you know, if you contact me in January, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to make you wait. You know you you got
Speaker 3: in first. So it's a combination of timing, what's what's new,
Speaker 3: what's in the news for you, what can we report on?
Speaker 3: And also you know, who's Who's Who's a big band yea,
Speaker 3: but some of the other bands that have been in
Speaker 3: the not on the cover are also cover worthy, And
Speaker 3: we we had a saying where we're like, there's only
Speaker 3: one cover and there's so many bands.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm curious, I mean, is it ever a hard decision?
Speaker 3: It is a hard decision bands like Middleman or Standard
Speaker 3: Tuning or you know, bands like you know, they're fantastic
Speaker 3: and we only have one cover.
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 5: Sometimes too, what we'll try and do is whether it's
Speaker 5: the issue, if it's a different issue before they're going
Speaker 5: to be in it. Sometimes we'll give them the back cover.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so you know it's not the cover, but
Speaker 5: it's cover. So or if we're going to tease something,
Speaker 5: you know, like a band coming in the next issue,
Speaker 5: or we might put that on the back cover or
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 3: So on the on the back cover of our day
Speaker 3: to attend issue, you'll see it has Cathedral tribute to
Speaker 3: Van Halen. Okay, so they're next on our cover.
Speaker 1: Oh cool.
Speaker 3: So so they're they're a great band.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great gitar player, the bass player is super cool.
Speaker 1: They're called Cathedral.
Speaker 3: Cathedral attribute to the music of Van Halen. Fantastic Okay,
Speaker 3: featuring Tyler Morris doing all that Eddie van halenk He's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're looking forward to that one.
Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool. And how many of these? So
Speaker 1: you've got this this Girl's Rock where you know, obviously
Speaker 1: you've got a montage of of female musicians on the cover,
Speaker 1: so it's a special edition. Have you done more than
Speaker 1: one of these special editions where instead of you know,
Speaker 1: just putting one artist, where you that's.
Speaker 3: The only one so far?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That was a very popular issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 3: We'd Afford actually saw the Girl's Rock issue. Yes, we
Speaker 3: had a friend bring bring it to the Lead Afford
Speaker 3: show and I have a picture of her looking at it.
Speaker 3: And then we've also had Zach Wilde read paper jam
Speaker 3: and sign it for us. Yeah, that was a fun moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking about that off air. He gave
Speaker 1: you some. He gave you some some meritles because you know,
Speaker 1: because congratulations, it's been what eight months? Yeah? Thanks, less
Speaker 1: than a year, it's still new, right, yeah? Yeah? Can
Speaker 1: you can you tell us what he told you? Or
Speaker 1: is that not appropriate for radio?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Actually, Tony, we love the story, so I'm sure would
Speaker 3: be happy to tell you.
Speaker 4: What Zach told us.
Speaker 5: Okay, He basically said, just use the word i'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Be ready to say i'm sorry, right, you know, like
Speaker 5: my wife's never going to leave it, so I just
Speaker 5: say I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: It was really funny about it.
Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
Speaker 5: And then he's like, so you say you're sorry, and
Speaker 5: then just say do you want to go get some coffee?
Speaker 5: And you know, you go and just you know, that's
Speaker 5: whatever problem it is to roll off your back right right.
Speaker 3: Basically, and he said, go go have a coffee, move on,
Speaker 3: have a happy life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he wrote that all.
Speaker 3: He wrote it on the guitar case.
Speaker 2: Which is funny because we've actually used the advice.
Speaker 5: Yeah something, Yeah.
Speaker 3: You want to have a cup of coffee? And I
Speaker 3: go yes, and then we're good and then we say
Speaker 3: thank you Zach Wild.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's a really nice guy though, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, well Jenny, you met you met Zach.
Speaker 4: Wild right with yes, right here in Manchester. Yeah, when
Speaker 4: he was six, his sixteenth.
Speaker 6: Birthday present was surprise tickets to VIP tickets to the
Speaker 6: Black Label Society concert here in Manchester.
Speaker 4: It was awesome. Yeah, awesome, he told Jesse. I was
Speaker 4: really then.
Speaker 6: He had a really cool mom, so I was like
Speaker 6: really excited about that.
Speaker 1: When they were at it mustn't it was soil the
Speaker 1: Rizing Center then, right was that yeah? Snow? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, no, it wasn't snow back then, yeah, back then, listen,
Speaker 6: but it was an amazing concert. It was an amazing
Speaker 6: it was. It was definitely worth it a hundred percent.
Speaker 6: And I think the money from the VIP was going
Speaker 6: to a children's hospital or something like that.
Speaker 4: It wasn't. The band wasn't keeping it. It was all
Speaker 4: getting donated.
Speaker 6: I'm not surprised by Yeah, no, it doesn't surprise me
Speaker 6: at all either.
Speaker 4: But that made it even more sweet to do the VIP, knowing.
Speaker 6: Where the when he was going. Oh yeah, yeah no.
Speaker 6: It was an incredible concert. Definitely great memory. I still
Speaker 6: wear my t shirt.
Speaker 1: Now, So Tony, I'm curious when when you're you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you're in a couple of bands. I assume you're
Speaker 1: out playing a lot of shows. Do do do people
Speaker 1: from other bands ever try to kind of lean on you, like, hey,
Speaker 1: get us into Paper Jam, Oh yeah, get us on
Speaker 1: the cover. We want to be on the cover, like.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, all the time, and the answer is always yes,
Speaker 5: we'll get you in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I don't know exactly when, but yeah.
Speaker 5: We don't really say no to anybody, and it's just
Speaker 5: again a matter of timing that. One of the coolest
Speaker 5: parts for me about all this is that, you know,
Speaker 5: meeting all these guys from all these different bands.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm one of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so we out, we see them, these bands play,
Speaker 5: We get to meet everybody. But then I see faces
Speaker 5: that from the other band's showing up see me play,
Speaker 5: which is always you know, it's it's again comes back
Speaker 5: to just an awesome community. But it's really cool when
Speaker 5: I see people that I've met through Paper Jam out
Speaker 5: in the crowd, I'm like, oh, you get to see
Speaker 5: me play now?
Speaker 2: Cool? Thanks? You know.
Speaker 1: You know what else is.
Speaker 3: Really cool is when Tony's playing a show or we
Speaker 3: go to a show and we look out in the
Speaker 3: crowd and there's always a handful of people in a
Speaker 3: paper Jam shirt or a paper Jam hat, or or
Speaker 3: they're walking around picking up the issue because we leave
Speaker 3: them at the music venues. Usually when we go to
Speaker 3: see a show, we bring copies with us.
Speaker 4: The venues are so.
Speaker 3: So cool, gracious and cool to let us put them there,
Speaker 3: and so we have a lot of drop sites around,
Speaker 3: but I definitely like the music venues, and so we
Speaker 3: bring copies and see these strangers wearing a shirt or
Speaker 3: reading the magazine, and it's a pretty good feeling. And
Speaker 3: then the next thing you know, you see them at
Speaker 3: you see him again, and I don't know, We've met
Speaker 3: so many great people through this.
Speaker 5: It's oh, it's hilarious because some of the people will
Speaker 5: send pictures, Oh, I'm in Mexico at the beach and
Speaker 5: where they're wearing their paper.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, we have this we have around the world,
Speaker 3: the paper We have this thing whereas where is paper Jam.
Speaker 3: So when they when they travel, they send me a
Speaker 3: pic in their shirts and tell me where they're where
Speaker 3: they're from, somewhere in the world.
Speaker 1: Very cool, kind of fun, very cool. How do people
Speaker 1: get the shirts. Do they order them online or you can?
Speaker 3: We have men's and ladies shirts, and just got some tank.
Speaker 2: Tops and yeah, stickers and.
Speaker 3: Yeah we have stickers, key change all kinds of merch and.
Speaker 1: How many how many drop locations do you have? I
Speaker 1: assume that's grown over this, it has grown.
Speaker 3: I think we started with like, you know, six seven, eight,
Speaker 3: and now I believe there's over thirty. And I think,
Speaker 3: you know, definitely want to give a shout out to
Speaker 3: a friend of ours named Jim. Jim Antonino. He came
Speaker 3: into the Paper Jam circle and has really been huge
Speaker 3: and super supportive and helping us get ads. So we
Speaker 3: weren't selling ads the first year and a half too.
Speaker 3: This is also kind of recent. Jim has been very
Speaker 3: helpful in helping us sell ads and find new locations
Speaker 3: to put Paper Jam magazine excellent and we appreciate him
Speaker 3: very Yeah, so I was sort of sticking to you know,
Speaker 3: it's a hobby. You know, I'm not trying to make money.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to, you know, help the bands get
Speaker 3: some recognition that they deserve. And then Jim came and said,
Speaker 3: you have a really good model going here. Let me
Speaker 3: see where we can take this, and so he has
Speaker 3: helped us so much. I appreciate you, Jim very much.
Speaker 3: And so we've sold a few ads and we're.
Speaker 5: Just I have to give this a shout out to us.
Speaker 5: Got a big hit guitars as well, he was one
Speaker 5: of the first.
Speaker 3: Got a big hit guitars. Awesome guitar.
Speaker 2: Okay, real nice stuff.
Speaker 5: He's got the whole range, but he's got some real
Speaker 5: nice high end excellent.
Speaker 3: So even though it's just us in one sense, it's
Speaker 3: really not just us because we've had help along the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's outstanding. By the way, Jay Bellow, who
Speaker 1: I'm sure you all know from Chasing the Devil, he's
Speaker 1: in the chat room. He says, thank you all so
Speaker 1: much for what you do for local music and musicians.
Speaker 2: Thank you very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Jeff Richards, of course from day to attend, says
Speaker 1: black Label played Chantillies in Manchester once with Robert on bass,
Speaker 1: who is in Metallica.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, wow, they played. Wow.
Speaker 1: I remember I remember going to a lot of shows
Speaker 1: back in the day of Chantillies, that's for sure. That
Speaker 1: must have been when black label society was just starting out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that would have been way back.
Speaker 1: I had to be way back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, early two thousands probably.
Speaker 1: I still remember the first time I ever saw Zach
Speaker 1: Wild when he was I think it was in the
Speaker 1: Ozzie's No More Tears video. Yeah, he was very different then.
Speaker 2: He looks very that's I fell in love with. Yeah
Speaker 2: More Tears era.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Theodore of Madness tour at the Orphean okay,
Speaker 5: this one, and it was you know, a small locations actual.
Speaker 5: I was just starting to play the guitar. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: he just absolutely floored me. Yeah, like I want to
Speaker 5: I want to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I've never looked back. I've been obsessed with
Speaker 5: the guitar ever since.
Speaker 2: Oh no kidding, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Tom Siracusa from uh of course out dat to attend,
Speaker 1: says paper Jam supports young musicians as well.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, grim Rock is.
Speaker 1: In the Facebook live chat, our friend from Pennsylvania by
Speaker 1: the way, so in the coming up in the third hour. So, uh,
Speaker 1: he sends us a lot of cool stuff. And we
Speaker 1: have not opened this package yet. But this package here
Speaker 1: that I'm holding, we're going to oh this is from
Speaker 1: Grim from our friend Grim Rock and Pa, and we're
Speaker 1: going to open that in the Uh, I mean we
Speaker 1: know what it is, right, I do. I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's obviously I assume it's a CD.
Speaker 4: I know you know you know what it is, but
Speaker 4: I'm not telling you.
Speaker 1: And we're going to open that up today and the
Speaker 1: third hour live on the air, So looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: He but no, he's amazing. But and he says, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: hope everyone's day rocks.
Speaker 6: I have grim stickers along with my data Aten stickers. Yes,
Speaker 6: and I'm wearing a Data to Attend T shirt.
Speaker 1: Yes that's true. Yes she is. Jen.
Speaker 3: I really wish I brought you paper jam stickers. I'm
Speaker 3: going to send you some.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I love stickers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jenny loves the stickers.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You can see on if you're watching live on Facebook,
Speaker 1: you can see Jenny's.
Speaker 6: That's just one part of my laptop. They're on the
Speaker 6: bottom too. Yeah, they're on everything. I'm a sticker.
Speaker 1: Jenny's got a lot of stickers.
Speaker 6: Jesse, he inherited that from me too. He's he's now
Speaker 6: stickering up his guitar case.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, on a mission.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the stickers, when the bands come for their interviews,
Speaker 3: they bring so much merch and they're so generous and
Speaker 3: so we too ended up with a large pile of
Speaker 3: band stickers, which we love. I was trying to think
Speaker 3: what to do with them. So we went out and
Speaker 3: we bought like this huge poster board and we made
Speaker 3: like a wall of stickers that great, so we filled it,
Speaker 3: so I got to start a new one. But they
Speaker 3: bring us all kinds of great, great thing CD shirts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 4: It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: We used to have something like that in the old
Speaker 1: studio because we've we've only been here when did we
Speaker 1: move here October November of last year. But when we
Speaker 1: were in our when W. M and H was on
Speaker 1: our Elm Street location, we had a wall where you know,
Speaker 1: you could put stickers sign it and but uh, but
Speaker 1: now that we're in this nice new place, is really
Speaker 1: not not a place for that. You know, if somebody
Speaker 1: pulled out a sharpie and signed the wall here, I'd
Speaker 1: get fired. But we but we had a Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had a really cool thing where you know, you could
Speaker 1: do that. But no, that's a great idea though.
Speaker 5: The Rochester Opera House is cool about that in the
Speaker 5: back back part of the stage. Yeah, all the bands
Speaker 5: that have played there get to sign it. Yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: and a lot of the venues will have something like that. Yes,
Speaker 5: you know, we'll have a sticker, you know. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: stick it's always a fight bands again.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put my sticker over there.
Speaker 1: I used to see that a lot in Boston, like
Speaker 1: when I was really active promoting live shows. I would
Speaker 1: see that at a lot of the Boston venues, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of them still have it where
Speaker 1: it just you know, just covered in stickers, you know,
Speaker 1: going back decades, you know, and you could kind of
Speaker 1: you could kind of look at it and try to
Speaker 1: pick out Oh wow, I remember that band, and I
Speaker 1: remember that.
Speaker 2: Do you remember Sarah Morgan's cove inster.
Speaker 1: It sounds familiar.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're playing the fameous The Rolling Stones played there
Speaker 5: once and Narrow anyways, it was.
Speaker 2: It was a cool place. It's gone now, like many
Speaker 2: of them unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, Middle East Ts, all those places, they
Speaker 5: all had stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of places come and go. Now. So
Speaker 1: do you ever feature anyone, or have you ever featured
Speaker 1: anyone in the publication who's not necessarily a musician but
Speaker 1: is doing something else, like maybe someone who owns the
Speaker 1: venue or.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question. We actually, in addition to
Speaker 3: UH band interviews, we also spotlight articles and there's a
Speaker 3: website for female drummers called Drummer Girls United. I think
Speaker 3: it has about seven thousand female drummer members and from
Speaker 3: that site, I have interviewed separately three female drummers, so
Speaker 3: we did spotlight on them, and then we've also done
Speaker 3: a spotlight on a few venues that feature live music,
Speaker 3: and I love to do spotlight articles. In the next issue,
Speaker 3: there'll be one with Scott from Big Hit Guitars that
Speaker 3: we mentioned previously, spotlight his new guitar shop. Because it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's bad for me because it's too.
Speaker 3: We tried the magazine. We try to include band interviews,
Speaker 3: and then we try to include some music related articles,
Speaker 3: maybe about gear or how to promote your CD, songwriting lyrics,
Speaker 3: that kind of thing, and then we have the spotlight articles,
Speaker 3: which are generally shorter, and then we also add in
Speaker 3: some jokes and some trivia and some fun stuff and seem.
Speaker 4: To like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker 1: Do you have do you have a number of is like,
Speaker 1: is there a number of artists that you try to
Speaker 1: have in every is there like a minimum threshold of
Speaker 1: artists that you try to have in each issue.
Speaker 3: They started with two per issue, and it went and
Speaker 3: it went to three, and now in this day to
Speaker 3: attend issue there's four bands. Yeah, but we did four
Speaker 3: full interviews. Yeah, And when it comes to the interviews,
Speaker 3: we try to find an angle. When the band arrives
Speaker 3: and we get situated, I let them know, like, as
Speaker 3: we talk through this interview, I need to find an
Speaker 3: angle for your band, because otherwise it's all going to
Speaker 3: sound the same, right, So I often ask tell me
Speaker 3: about your background, what's your experience, how'd you learn to
Speaker 3: play music?
Speaker 4: Or I'll say, uh, what venues.
Speaker 1: Have you played?
Speaker 3: Or who influenced you? All of those questions are often
Speaker 3: the same for every band, but it would all start
Speaker 3: to sound alike if we didn't find an angle, right,
Speaker 3: And luckily there always seems to be one, which is
Speaker 3: some band is you know, one band's coming out with
Speaker 3: a new album, or one band is brand new on
Speaker 3: the scene and they're trying to make a name for themselves.
Speaker 3: That's their angle, the new band on the scene. Or
Speaker 3: there's a band that's you know, all females, or there's
Speaker 3: a band that's made up of teenagers, like a band
Speaker 3: we featured in the Day to Attend issue. Tom Syracuse's daughter,
Speaker 3: Hannah Rose, is fifteen and she's a fabulous drummer and
Speaker 3: she's in bands, and so we featured her in there
Speaker 3: as well. So we try to find the angle so
Speaker 3: that it all doesn't sound the same. Hopefully it's working.
Speaker 1: Do you have prior experience interviewing or working in pr
Speaker 1: because what you just said, not everyone knows that. And
Speaker 1: it's evidence that not everyone knows that because you'll see
Speaker 1: a lot of people who do interviews who do that
Speaker 1: just asked the same old questions where are you from?
Speaker 3: Yeah, where are you from?
Speaker 1: What kind of music do you play? You know? So
Speaker 1: so to know that, I mean, is that just something
Speaker 1: you knew instinctively or do you have prior experience?
Speaker 3: I don't have prior experience in interviewing or or anything
Speaker 3: like that. But but I've always been a writer, okay,
Speaker 3: and so I like, I have a book of short
Speaker 3: stories of written novels, Like I I've always been a writer.
Speaker 3: So I think from that I learned some of that
Speaker 3: some of you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because it was obvious, like looking like looking at the
Speaker 1: day to attend article. It was like, okay, you know
Speaker 1: how to interview because not everyone does, a lot of
Speaker 1: people try and they don't really know how to do it.
Speaker 2: Does a great job.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I'm just sort of like the comedic value,
Speaker 5: you know, comedic value to the whole.
Speaker 1: Thing right right.
Speaker 3: Now, another part of another thing put out the snacks, Well,
Speaker 3: somebody asked you.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Another thing that interesting about the articles is that some
Speaker 3: of them are written in a question and answer format,
Speaker 3: and other articles are written, you know, just straight out
Speaker 3: like about the band versus questioning and so someone asked
Speaker 3: me one time, like, how do you decide you know,
Speaker 3: and I just said, it depends on the feel of
Speaker 3: the band, what we're going to talk about. Some bands
Speaker 3: feel more like a question and answer type interview. I
Speaker 3: can't really say why.
Speaker 2: It just it's a.
Speaker 3: Feeling and it depends on the angle we want to
Speaker 3: talk about. So, and then I love to get the
Speaker 3: poll quotes. I call them. The poll quotes are inevitably,
Speaker 3: someone during the interview will say something profound or interesting
Speaker 3: that stands out to me, and I'll make a little
Speaker 3: note like this would make a great poll quote. And
Speaker 3: then as you flip through the pages of paper Jam
Speaker 3: you'll see a lot of that, Like you'll see a
Speaker 3: band member's photo and then usually like a great quote
Speaker 3: that they gave us. And so I'm kind of fortunate
Speaker 3: because the band make it easy for us. They have
Speaker 3: so much to say and and they're great.
Speaker 1: Is there anyone who's really surprised you? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there are, like who you interviewed them and they
Speaker 1: wound up being way more interesting than you expected, Like
Speaker 1: they just had a backstory that really maybe when in
Speaker 1: a direction you weren't.
Speaker 5: Expect all the time, Almost every time, really some sort
Speaker 5: of surprise that you like, even day two attend those
Speaker 5: guys again wickednized guys, but they all pulled together from
Speaker 5: all these different situations they were in over a long
Speaker 5: period of time. And you know, it's just but almost
Speaker 5: every band gives us some sort of we didn't expect that,
Speaker 5: which is really cool. Yeah, and you find out somebody
Speaker 5: was like, oh, I was an opera singer. I didn't
Speaker 5: didn't see that one coming right right right, you know,
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. So it's always it's always an
Speaker 5: interesting time.
Speaker 1: And isn't that one of them? Like I feel like
Speaker 1: for me as as someone who interviews people. That's like
Speaker 1: one of the best things I love when somebody says
Speaker 1: something to me I complete he wasn't expecting, or they
Speaker 1: reveal something about me that just like, wow, I didn't
Speaker 1: see that coming. That just makes it so much more rewarding,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I'll have to say that one of the questions I
Speaker 3: like to ask is do you have any hobbies or
Speaker 3: interests outside of music? Because they're all here to talk
Speaker 3: about their instruments and their music and experience. But sometimes
Speaker 3: I'm just curious to know what do you like to
Speaker 3: do when you're not doing music. And that's where it
Speaker 3: really gets interesting because you find out that, you know,
Speaker 3: some people are a professional chef or some people mm a, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and so and so it's been really interesting to hear
Speaker 3: what they like to do outside of music. Yeah, to
Speaker 3: really get to know them, and that that surprises me. Sometimes.
Speaker 3: We had one we had one band member who told
Speaker 3: me he's made over five hundred or eight hundred I
Speaker 3: forget a very high number of sky dive jumps.
Speaker 1: Kidding.
Speaker 3: That was uh, that was Scott I think from from Stiletto.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what I think is R two about
Speaker 1: your approaches. It kind of I think it probably uh
Speaker 1: snaps them out of because I I mean, I can
Speaker 1: kind of tell, and I'm sure you can too, when
Speaker 1: someone comes into an interview and they're sort of they
Speaker 1: have an expectation of what they're going to be asked,
Speaker 1: and they've kind of already done the interview in their
Speaker 1: own mind, you know, So it's not you know some musicians.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know from my experience sometimes I'll interview
Speaker 1: someone and they seem really spontaneous and like they're fully engaged.
Speaker 1: And some people, you know, you can kind of tell
Speaker 1: where like I said, they've already done the interview in
Speaker 1: their brain. Yeah, they're just kind of giving you the
Speaker 1: answers to the questions that they're already expecting to hear.
Speaker 1: So if you can pull them out of their shell
Speaker 1: by asking them something sort of outside of that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great technique.
Speaker 3: We start with the speed round. We just throw out
Speaker 3: questions and just to break the ice, we say like
Speaker 3: Megan X or Metallica, cats are dogs, you know, Bendor Gibson,
Speaker 3: and and then and then mountains or lakes.
Speaker 2: You know, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and then once we get through.
Speaker 2: Tattoos are piercings.
Speaker 1: You know, Jeff from day to attend says in the chat,
Speaker 1: it's amazing how Sheila compiles all that info into the
Speaker 1: amazing articles.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 1: How long does that take? I mean it probably varies
Speaker 1: wildly from one to the next, but I mean.
Speaker 3: It takes a long time. Yeah, it's pretty much a
Speaker 3: full time job outside of my regular full time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the second month because we have two months, just
Speaker 5: two months.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so trying to get all the interviews, and
Speaker 5: inevitably a lot of the interviews happened in the second month,
Speaker 5: So the last two three weeks of that month, it's
Speaker 5: like was like, yeah, work on it, and she's always
Speaker 5: the computer and you know, just busting a cute little
Speaker 5: bum there to uh to finish it up.
Speaker 1: Does it come out the same day of the month.
Speaker 3: It comes out at the beginning of you know, it's
Speaker 3: bi monthly, so it'll come out early in the in
Speaker 3: the new month, Okay, but it's not always the same day. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't think the printers open on the weekend,
Speaker 3: so sometimes we have to wait till Monday.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Then of course driving it around and we both have
Speaker 5: day jobs, so yeah, you know, just trying to find
Speaker 5: the time to go distribute it and so forth. So
Speaker 5: usually within a few days of the beginning of the month.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Another thing that we do that people may not realize
Speaker 3: is that once the issue's done, so to speak, I always,
Speaker 3: I always do proofs from the printer. So I go
Speaker 3: pick up a black and white and a color proof,
Speaker 3: and I go over it page by page to make
Speaker 3: sure that the colors translate well. Yeah, and it looks
Speaker 3: good in black and white, looks good in color. Make
Speaker 3: sure there's no spelling mistakes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And as a grammar nazi, I really have made typos before,
Speaker 3: and I didn't sleep for a week because I just
Speaker 3: don't want to make typos in my magazine. But it happens.
Speaker 3: We're all human. Yeah, But I try to go through
Speaker 3: it and check the colors and the layout and make
Speaker 3: sure it's all looking good, and before we hit what
Speaker 3: I call the go button. But once I look at
Speaker 3: the proofs, then we hit the go button and and
Speaker 3: and then the printer does their thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you mean about grammar. I'm the
Speaker 1: same way, right, You're the same way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I think I did one issue where I
Speaker 3: said something about metal mayhem and I misspelled mayhem and
Speaker 3: I didn't catch it, and it still bothers me.
Speaker 1: I would be I would be the same way in
Speaker 1: that situation, Like I I even I'm I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm at the point where I'm horrified if I see
Speaker 1: something I posted on social media and I realize I'm
Speaker 1: expelled something. Yeah, and I'll go back and corrected, And
Speaker 1: most people wouldn't bother because it's just social media. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: very cool. Oh we should mention too, So if you're
Speaker 1: is it everyone who's in the magazine gets a color
Speaker 1: copy or yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, e is. We we print in black and white
Speaker 3: for our paper copies all over the community, but we
Speaker 3: always print full color copies for everyone who gets in
Speaker 3: the in the magazine.
Speaker 2: Okay, so everybody and everybody, every bandits in.
Speaker 3: Everybody in, each member gets a color copy.
Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, that's really cool. Yeah yeah. Tom Russo,
Speaker 1: who was also here with us last week, a very
Speaker 1: talented musician, He says, I'd love to get in your publication.
Speaker 1: This sounds great. Do you know, Tom, I don't sing
Speaker 1: a songwriter, really.
Speaker 2: I know the name. Yeah, yeah, I know the name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's uh, he's amazing.
Speaker 2: We can get you in there.
Speaker 4: Just go ahead and get you in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, contact us.
Speaker 1: What's the best way for should they contact you through
Speaker 1: the website or on social media?
Speaker 3: What's the best way is our email box? It's uh,
Speaker 3: it's paper Jam Underscore mag m a g at yahoo
Speaker 3: dot com. So paper Jam Underscore mag at yahoo dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay, and just.
Speaker 3: Tell tell us a little bit about who you are
Speaker 3: and your band, and you know, it doesn't have to
Speaker 3: be just a band, could be solo musicians. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would do that too. So if you'd like to
Speaker 3: be in Paper Jam, just send us an email and
Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 1: A lot of.
Speaker 3: Times people will send links so we can listen to
Speaker 3: the music and we can go from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Again, there is a bit of a waiting line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so if you don't if you don't mind waiting a
Speaker 3: little bit, but we can make it happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's amazing how patient a lot of these bands
Speaker 2: are sure sure is this? You know? Or some of
Speaker 2: them will be like I do want to be on
Speaker 2: the cover, and we're like, well.
Speaker 5: It's going to be like eight months yeah before that's okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: oh wait, yeah, you know, and they do and it's
Speaker 5: you know, it's great.
Speaker 2: It's every really is supportive of it.
Speaker 3: And it's a nice mix too because we have cover bands,
Speaker 3: we have original bands, and then we have tribute bands.
Speaker 3: So we've done all three and and so it's a
Speaker 3: nice mix there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, outstanding, bless you, I think, did Jesus sneeze? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Our allergies have been well, I have allergies. I don't
Speaker 1: know what your issue.
Speaker 4: I'm allergic to you.
Speaker 1: Yes, that must be what it is. That must be.
Speaker 1: Oh and before we run out of time. The time
Speaker 1: goes so quickly, it's already approaching the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: But what what do you have or do you know yet?
Speaker 1: What's what's in store for the next issue? Obviously Day
Speaker 1: two attend is on the cover.
Speaker 3: On the cover of this one yet but for next
Speaker 3: time we have Cathedral okay, the Van Halen Tribute amazing,
Speaker 3: Van Hallen Band amazing with our friend Kirk bartholomewn Kirk
Speaker 3: and Tyler Morris. We're looking at a band called down
Speaker 3: by ten, a band called dumpster Fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, you love that.
Speaker 3: And we're looking at Scott at Big Hit Guitars for
Speaker 3: a nice spotlight article and lots.
Speaker 1: More excellent, excellent, And who else is in the current
Speaker 1: one too? For obviously Day to A ten is on
Speaker 1: the cover. Who else you have in the current issue?
Speaker 3: We have Standard Tuning, great cover band and Sea Rock
Speaker 3: and Tainted Hearts. So Sea Rock is a band, a
Speaker 3: local cover band that came and they gave us a
Speaker 3: very memorable interview because they were hilarious and made us
Speaker 3: laugh for two hours.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: They just they just great. And Tainted Hearts is the
Speaker 3: young teen band that they range in age from fifteen
Speaker 3: to seventeen. And that's who's in the current is.
Speaker 1: I think their name has come up on the show recently.
Speaker 1: I don't remember why.
Speaker 3: But Tainted Hearts is Tom syracusea of Day to Attend.
Speaker 4: That's his daughter.
Speaker 1: Oh yakay, okay, that's why. Yeah, so Tom must have
Speaker 1: mentioned that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so we were happy just for Tom.
Speaker 2: Guns and Roses are awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: He loves Oh don't we all? I do? Who does?
Speaker 1: Or everybody? I mean they're one of those bands, I
Speaker 1: mean who doesn't I mean everybody either loves them? Or
Speaker 1: at least likes them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You very rarely hear anyone say I don't like Guns
Speaker 1: n' Roses.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know if that's ever happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's somebody somewhere, but
Speaker 1: it's it's unusual. Like my my favorite band is Kiss,
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of Kiss haters, Like there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who will tell you they
Speaker 1: don't like Kiss. But uh no, guns and Roses. I
Speaker 1: don't know anyone who Jenny, guns and.
Speaker 4: Roses, not particularly you.
Speaker 1: You don't particularly like them? Yeah, see we found somebody on.
Speaker 2: She hates them either.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you don't hate them, though, do you?
Speaker 4: I don't hate any musicians.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you dislike them?
Speaker 4: I'm not particularly fond of their music.
Speaker 5: No, Well, then I guess I can't say that next time.
Speaker 1: I guess not.
Speaker 4: Jenny, you didn't ask me until now. Do you ever
Speaker 4: hear me play them?
Speaker 1: Actually? No?
Speaker 4: Never in all our years, like a decade.
Speaker 1: Never. Oh, and Jeff Richard says that Kiss rules. Matt
Speaker 1: you rock, thank you. Yeah, we are out of time.
Speaker 1: Remind us again, where should people go online? The website
Speaker 1: and anything else people should know about paper Jam.
Speaker 3: Well, the website is paper Jam Magazine dot com. So
Speaker 3: if you want to look at some back issues, I'll
Speaker 3: send it to you mail order. I think it's only
Speaker 3: four bucks, yeah, to order a back issue, okay, And
Speaker 3: the email is paper Jam Underscore mag at yahoo dot com.
Speaker 2: Okay. And of course we're on Facebook as well.
Speaker 3: And we're on Facebook as paper Jam the music mag
Speaker 3: for local bands and fans.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, outstanding, Sheila and Tony, thank you both so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: This has been wonderful. We'll have to do it again
Speaker 1: in the future. I love what you're doing, very very cool.
Speaker 1: And we'll actually end this segment with Ghosts Inside, another
Speaker 1: great track from Day to a Song, and of course
Speaker 1: Day to Attend is on the cover of the current
Speaker 1: issue of paper Jam Magazine. And this is another great track.
Speaker 1: This is called ghost Inside.