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New Hampshire. If you are listening live today is a Saturday,
January seventeen, twenty twenty six, and of course we are
if you are local in Manchester, please be careful if
you're out driving this morning. A little slippery out, but
at least it was when I was coming in, but
I did not expect snow, but it did snow overnight
and I completely forgot that it was in the forecast.
And I woke up and I looked outside and I said,
uh oh no, but it's not bad. We didn't get much,
but it's enough to be a nuisance. So if you
are driving this morning, please be careful. Let's see. So
we are of course live from WM and H ninety
five point three FM, and you can stream the show
from anywhere. Of course, go to Matt connorton dot com
slash live, as we do have a lot of listeners
online as well, and we've got a great show for
you today coming up in just a few minutes, we're
gonna do the world radio premiere of the new track
from Grim Rock called Cast a Shadow, and then we're
gonna be talking to grim he's gonna be joining us
via Microsoft Teams. And then later in the show we
have Adam Steglitic from the band ever Felt, who is
also going to be joining us online. But right now,
to open the show, we do have a world radio premiere.
This is the brand new single from Kenny Truon. It's
a little topical, shall we say, It's called We All
Saw the Same Thing, but you are going to be
hearing it here on the radio for the first time.
A wmn H ninety five point three FM exclusive. Matt
Connerton Unleashed presents the world radio premiere of the new
single from Kenny Truon Again. This is called we All
Saw the Same Thing.
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now exclusively on WM and H, Matt Connorton Unleash presents
the world radio premiere of the new single from grim Rock.
This is called Cast a Shadow.
Speaker 1: You are listening to WM and H.
Speaker 12: World premiere.
Speaker 13: A people lies in stood in mountains, were stand flood
over me in that maray. I don't min They'll be
bayed sometimes, but real live away today. I grow mores.
I'm just taking some of me. It cast a shadow,
the spectin sulling me. It cast a shadow, movie.
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no rain.
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of you O. The cracks on the phone and all
fake away. Not this taste for me? They cast a sadow.
It's grads in sound of Me.
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Speaker 2: Cast a saddle?
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Speaker 4: Sound me.
Speaker 2: A shadow? Well you heard it here first. That is
the world radio premiere of the new single from Grim
Rock that is called cast a Shadow. And by the way,
for those of you watching online, uh, you can see.
I've got my grim Rock shirt on that I wore
for the occasion. And let's see if we have Grim
on the line with us. Grim are you there? Yes,
I am, How are you hey? It's good to speak
with you. I love the new song. You know, we're
big fans here, of course, you know. We love that
sort of garage rock vibe. That's so cool. But I
think that's your best one. Yeah, that's my personal favorite
so far. I really like that song a lot.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I actually did this one in a
regular studio, you know, to give it a different effect,
you know than what I normally do.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, it's still it still captures that same
sort of vibe, but I did notice just sonically, it's
definitely an upgrade. Can you tell us about that because
and I'm curious to to. Obviously we've talked before, You've
been on the show a number of times, but for
listeners who might not have been familiar with you. You know,
I know from our previous conversations that your process used
to be, you know, you were kind of doing it
all DIY, but you did mention going to a studio
this time, and like I said, it's definitely an upgrade.
So yeah, tell us about that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, I did all my other tracks
at my home studio and the last ones I sent
out the Pine Box Studios in Connecticut done for g
R five. And I have a friend is named mister Bob.
He runs a Rhythmhouse studios in Shylo, Pennsylvania, about an
hour from my house, and I go. I used to
go to his open mics, you know, when I get chances,
you know, because he does them on Saturday nights and
he has a studio there and it's a really nice
set up and he's a really good person and he
actually got a physical set of drums, micd up there
and everything, and that was something I felt that I
was missing in all the other tracks. While the drums
sounded good, they weren't an analog set, you know what
I mean. Yeah, And that was one of the drivers.
You know, I wanted to go in there, do that,
get to clean up the vocals, you know, things like that,
and being he had that studio there and we've talked
about it. I couldn't tell you how many times we
talked about it. I finally committed to it. So I'll
be doing the whole album there.
Speaker 2: Oh, very good. So the whole album, So you're how many?
I mean, have you already started the album or obviously
this I assume this track is going to be on it, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be the first track. That one is first,
only because it bridges the gap between g R five
with like faded and abyss to bring it into a
familiar realm, and then I can expand from there. But
it's gonna be ten tracks in the end.
Speaker 2: Oh, very good, Very good. That's a big commitment. Ten tracks.
I'm always curious to know, because you know, we live
in an era where you've got so many different options
in terms of how you released music. You know, a
lot of artists will do an EP. Uh, some will
do a series of singles. It might eventually coalesce into
an EP or an album, kind of the inverse of
of what it was, at least when I was growing up,
where it was, you know, the album comes first and
then you release the singles. But uh, what what what
went into your decision to to do a ten song album.
Speaker 4: Well, I've wanted to do albums before and I come
up short on them, you know, with like Grim Rock
Radio it was like six tracks, yeah, like five officially
and that acoustic track, and you know, I kept going
and I was like, man, I really want to do
a whole album, and g R five was the closest
I had to do a whole album with eight tracks.
And I was like, you know what, I'm just going
to do it this time. I'm going all out, since
Ione has a studio time and you know tech, you know,
detect there to be able to make it sound you know,
better than what I had, and I'm just going to
go for it.
Speaker 2: Have you started? I mean obviously this track, I mean
technically you've started. If this track is going to be
on the album, But I mean, have you started working
on the other stuff yet or are you? Are you
demoing or where are you in the process?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 4: I have probably twenty five starter tracks to choose from
and through, and I have three of them that are
pretty close to completion, okay, And I plan on going
in I think the twenty third of February to record
track two and possibly track three depending on where I get.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, any kind of an et I mean, obviously
it's a big, Like I said, it's a big commitment.
Any kind of an eta on when the album might
be done and out.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know exactly. I'm hoping it'd be before Halloween, yeah, okay, Okay,
how it's kind of the target.
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? Now in doing it this way, uh and
again it is an upgrade certainly sonically, But is it is?
Is it hard? Kind of you know, you you do
let go a little bit of control right when you're
when you're used to doing so much of it with
your own process, because everyone has their own process, and
now you're you know, it is more collaborative when you're
going to a studio and doing it this way and
and and working with someone who can really. Obviously it's
advantageous you're working as someone who's bringing out your best sound.
But is it also hard to let go of some
of that control or because some people, For some people,
collaboration is very natural and and but some people kind
of struggle with it a little bit. I mean, how
was that for you?
Speaker 4: No, I'm fine with it, you know, And you know,
the advice he gave me when I was in for
the first session was valuable to me. You know, it
really helped me out with some certain things, you know,
things that I was just re loose with before. Yeah,
now I had I had to have a structure with it.
And you know, I'm thankful to have that kind of
guidance from somebody that has the experience.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's great. Did you know, like at that first session,
did you think, Okay, this is where I'm going to
do the album, this is this is what I need.
Speaker 4: Well, I planned on it before and okay, I just
I committed to it starting with this track.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? Now what was it that?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 11: It was?
Speaker 2: Is it Bob Bob Arthur's Is that the guy?
Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Now what was it? That caused you to
commit to working with him, because I assume, I mean
you probably talked to or maybe not. I don't know,
but you might have talked to some different engineers and
producers or like like why did you decide to work
with Bob?
Speaker 4: Actually I didn't talk to anybody else.
Speaker 12: Really.
Speaker 4: I've yeah, I've been at mister Bob's studio because I
can said he doesn't open mic on Saturday night. I've
been there a lot, like over the last couple of years,
and he even had me as a as a a
headliner for Halloween Show like two years ago or whatever.
And we've we've talked a lot. Yeah, and I have
a lot of a lot of respect for him, and
he's he's genuinely a really really awesome person, you know,
and it just it felt comfortable, felt natural, you know,
since I've talked to him so much, and like I said,
we were going to commit to before for g R five,
but things kind of changed over a little bit through
the course of it, and I figured now's the time,
you know, I have a first set of tracks, first
set of ideas. I want to get that polished sound.
Speaker 2: Do you plan to for the album? Do you plan
to redo any of your earlier work or is it
all going to be new stuff.
Speaker 4: It'll all be new stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, very cool, very cool. And you said you've got
you've got twenty five songs kind of you know, sort
of in the queue in your mind that you can
you can choose from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have I have about twenty five starters. Okay,
that could be possible for this track this, you know, album,
and I guess that I have two other ones ready ready,
pretty close to ready to go. Yeah, I should have
it finished up or you know, ready to record in February.
Speaker 2: So oh, outstanding, outstanding?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 2: Is there going to be kind of a theme to
the album? Is there something that's going to tie these
songs together? Or are you just kind of going with
with what sounds good to you, what you feel? I mean,
sometimes it's a feel thing, right, you know, songs just
feel right together. But sometimes there's there's a theme. What's
your approach there?
Speaker 4: No, this is more going to be like a feel
like g R five was. Yeah, when I put when
I put together g R five, you know, the first
track on the album is called Angry. I didn't do
that till absolute last, and I ended up making that
the first track on the album because I felt like
it was a heavy I got a real quick, you
know shot to the head opener, and you know, then
it just kind of graduated in and then then all
the songs kind of flowed and like got you know,
more advanced, more you know, like a more finished feeling
I think towards the end fading abyss, and I'm trying
to carry that over with this track and be on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Now what's the situation there as far
as playing live? Have you been playing a lot of shows?
Speaker 11: I have?
Speaker 4: I kind of I played all the way about November
first last year, Yeah, and I decided I was going
to focus on trying to get this new album, and
between the holidays and working whatever else, you know, kind
of everything kind of got delayed. But you know, I've
been working on it, and I was just I just
played a show in a local place, conners Will, Pennsylvania,
and I'm actually gonna play a second show there in March,
and I I have things lined up including come visiting you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're gonna be up our way. It'll be
great to meet you in person and get to see
you live actually in person. That'll be a that'll be amazing.
Now do we do? We know at this point exactly when? Oh, yeah,
it's May thirtieth, May thirtieth, okay, outstanding, outstanding, You're gonna
be playing at Terminus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I had sent out my feelers and I've gotten
I got a couple of different people saying, well, you'd
be better off doing this club because it's more year
genre of music, and ended up there, yeah, on referral,
and I got an email saying, yeah, we're good to go,
but it was from March thirtieth, and I was like,
send em back, and I just sent an email back.
I'm like, I really hope it's a typo. They're like
May thirtieth. I haven't heard anything back yet, but I'm
pretty sure they'll probably, I mean, if they email me once,
I'm sure they'll back again. Yeah. Yeah, excited about that,
you know, because it's a whole new environment to be in,
you know.
Speaker 2: Oh, Terminus is a wonderful place. Yeah. And we love
Eleanor and Andre good friends of ours, and Jenny and
I have known them for a long time. I've known jeez,
I think I've known them both for more than twenty
years now. Oh my god, I'm looking at my calendar
and March thirtieth is a Monday and May thirtieth is
a Saturday. So I think you're right. I think it
was a typo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 2: And so I'm pretty sure because they don't do shows
on Monday nights there. So if March thirtieth is a Monday, yeah,
I'm sure she meant May thirtieth. So but but good, good,
So yeah, Jenny and I are really looking forward to that.
So that's that's going to be wonderful. And then now,
so where are you again? For newer listeners who aren't
familiar with you, where in Pennsylvania are you?
Speaker 4: I'm right around the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the scene like there currently?
Speaker 4: The music scene, it's happening. Yeah, a lot of different
places to play, especially with original music, and certain ones
like the Green Beacon Gallery in Greensburg are really in
tune with that. You know. Mister Fiel's a great person.
He has a lot of original acts there, you know,
even if they're not even established. I did my first,
my very first show is grim Rock there, and boyd,
I film isn't really added, but he had me back
a whole bunch of times after that, so you know,
I'm very thankful for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, excellent. By the way, Let's see in the
chat room here, Jenny is in there. Of course, hello,
she's she's at home. She's not with me today because
we're gonna be going We're gonna be doing something later
that I'll I'll talk about later on the show. But
Katie Michelle is in the chat room and says, we
live grim Love. I do like the short albums, but
go big or go home.
Speaker 4: Right, that's that's tattoo baby. That's my album cover model.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh yes, okay, yep, yep. She was in
the she was in the chat room last time we talked.
I think, yeah, very good. Let's see we have Paul
some Maria the second.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know him. He's he does brown Sweel Screams.
He does like around the Halloween to I'm in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
He does a show that benefits the Brownswville Public Library.
And I've been I've played there for and I'm going
to play there this year as well.
Speaker 2: Oh, very good, very good. Yep, he says. A carnival
of Screams September twelve at September twelve, twenty twenty six,
at the Brownsville Free Public Library. Very good, and he
also said grim is the man.
Speaker 4: Well I appreciate that. I appreciate him too, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very nice, very nice. What So for people
looking for it, what Katie is on the cover of
what Again? G R five, the last album the GR
five Yep, yep, yep. I have that actually on the
wall in my podcast studio at home too, so people
people tuning into the podcast version of the show might
see the might see the album cover. But yeah, excellent, excellent.
So now in the local scene there too, like around Pittsburgh,
you must I know we've talked about this before, but
I mean you must really stand out right because well,
first of all, so your sound is not something that
a lot of people are doing. Again that's sort of
it's almost like a garage rock kind of vibe, but
a little dark and and but it's also visually, people
who have not seen you should go online and check
out what you're doing, because visually you really kind of
stand out right. And I assume there's no one in
the scene there who's doing quite what you're doing. And
what's especially interesting about it is if you you know,
I don't know if you've ever heard this comparison, but
I kind of almost you remind me a little bit
of King Diamond when I see you in your full
you know, in the makeup and everything. But but it's
but you don't sound like King Diamond obviously, So I'm
really curious about that. Like in the scene there, where
you are in your area, you must really stand out.
I assume there's no one doing anything like what you're doing.
Speaker 4: There's actually there's actually some bands around here that do
makeup and stuff. Are there things like that?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 4: There is thirteen of Call to one of them. There's
a band out of around the Cleveland area that does
it too. I see you now. I forgot their name again.
I've actually played with them at one of the shows
over in Cleveland and they're fantastic too. But like thirteen
O Call to Duo, you know. And so there's a
lot of solo and duo people in the area, and
there is a few that do you know, mass or
a makeup or something, you know what I mean. So
I don't completely stand out, But I think, like you said,
with what shocks people. Is they seeming they expect like
you know, slip knot you know, or something like that,
and they don't get that. But they don't you know.
But I've never had any issues with crowd with that,
you know, or anything like that, So I think it's
a good surprise for them.
Speaker 2: Now, that's got to be cool too, because you know,
you're you're I would imagine that when you're walking into
a situation where you know, you know, what people's perception
is when they see you and what they're expecting, and
then getting to surprise them, you know, and then having
it turn out to be a pleasant surprise because your
music is so good. I mean that must be very gratifying, right,
that must be that must be kind of Obviously getting
on stage and performing your songs is fun, but getting
to kind of surprise people like that, I mean that
must make it even more fun.
Speaker 4: I would imagine, Oh, it's great, you know, and I
make sure that, you know, interact with people and then
you know, like after after I do my sets and whatever,
I you know, I let people you know, hold my
guitar and two pictures with people and stuff like that,
and I think it gives them an extra value to
it too, you know, because it's personal and it's more personable.
It's not like your favorite big league band that it's
they're unaccessible, you know what I mean. And I get
a lot of gratification from that, more so than actually playing,
you know what I mean, to be able to connect
with people.
Speaker 2: You know, I think if I were, if I were
doing that, I don't know that I would have the
discipline to not be tempted to just be like like
before the show, meeting people before the show, just being
very like er it's just trying to be it's just
trying to be as dark as possible, you know. And
then you know, and then of course after the show,
being you know, just what like my normal self and
being friendly and everything, but just trying to be like,
like as dark as possible before the show, just so
they're extra surprised, you know what I mean. I don't know.
I think that would be fun.
Speaker 4: But then would be walking in, just walking in somewhere
you've never been before. Yeah, get all the looks and everything,
and I really you know, I try to feel the
feel the crowd out and I don't do much mingling
at the very beginning. Yeah, you know, but I know
you you know, we're the owner or whoever. Yeah, And
I think I think that gives a little bit of
a an element of they don't know what to expect.
And then I go on, then I go out, you
know and talk to people.
Speaker 2: So, right, does something change uh for you mentally when
you when you put up everything on and you're all,
you know, kind of in your in your character, so
to speak, if that's the right way to put it, Like,
do you feel different? I've often heard you know, my
my all time favorite band, regular listeners know this is Kiss,
And I've often heard like Geene Simmons talking about putting
on the makeup and just feeling like a completely different
entity almost, you know, like like do you experience anything
like that?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, I mean I feel like I'm a completely
different person. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's to me, it's
uncovered up and you don't know who I really am,
you know what I mean kind of thing you get
to I get to portray something maybe larger or greater
than I normally, would you know what I mean? Because
if I I mean, I do some I do some
like local open mics or whatever, sometimes not painted and
it just doesn't have the same effect. Yeah, you know
it is when I'm painted and I'm in front of people,
you know what I mean. So I get to open
up a little bit more and just be a little
bit more in a character, you know, more than anything.
Speaker 2: So so you do occasionally do shows where, like you said,
if it's an open mic, you're not you know, I
can see where it would be in a situation like that,
maybe you don't want to put everything on right.
Speaker 4: I mean, you go and you play like two or
three songs. I mean it's not you know, I mean,
I mean I probably should, but I usually don't when
it comes to something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, No, that's understandable. And then so when you
play live, what happens? Is it just you? Or do
you ever?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: Do you ever have anyone play with you? Do you
have a band? Or how does that work? What's what's
the uh sort of the the setup there for you?
Speaker 4: I'm all solo. I don't have a band. I have
backing tracks minus all guitars and all vocals. Yeah, that
way you know that I'm actually playing and singing because
you know, especially with the guitars, when it gets to
the lead solos and stuff. Everything falls out from behind
it because you know, on the recording you have the
backing guitar and I was playing the leads. Kind so
they can see that I'm really doing it, you know
what I mean. Yeah, I don't make sure you're talking
between or do something a little different so they can
see that I'm actually working it, you know what I mean.
Not just and I always joke around, you know, because
I'm in that costume, like you know, I had the band,
I put a spell on them and put them in
my you know player, you know what i mean kind
of thing.
Speaker 2: Yep, yepre are other musicians generally accepting of what you
do in terms of that, because you know, there was
a time when there was a little bit of a
stigma using technlogy to sort of almost create a live
band while you're playing, you know, But I feel like now,
you know, I mean, especially on this show, I'll tell you,
we've talked to so many people who just, you know,
they want to have a big sound, but they don't
want to deal with everything that goes into having a
band and having to coordinate things and rehearse with other
humans and everything, And it's just easier to do a
solo thing, but they don't necessarily want to just do
a solo acoustic singer songwriter thing either. They want to
have that band vibe. So I feel like, just broadly,
there's a lot less stigma attached to that than there
would have been at one time. But I'm curious how
how that's been for you. Does anyone ever give you
a hard time about doing what you do without a band?
Or are people generally accepting or not even so much
audience members but other musicians, How do people react to it?
Speaker 4: I've never had any problem with that, you know, And
I think it's a lot more, like you said, widely
accepted because of the day and age we're in. Because
had I did this twenty years ago, I would have
never got a show or I got canned on this age,
you know what I mean. Yeah, But I think now
the way everything is and everything's more streamlined and how
technology is more involved with it, you know, I think
it's a lot more acceptable. And I've never had, like
I said, any issues with any of the bands that
I've played with, whoever, if anything, you know, I'm an
easy quick tear out, you know, set up and tear down,
you know what. I mean, so given somebody else more time,
or I don't need as much time to do all
the stuff, you know what I mean, it's just sound check,
the backing tracks, sound check, the guitar, soundcheck, the microphone.
I'm ready to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's a great point too. Whoever is on
after you at these shows probably loves you because you
don't have, like, you don't have a drummer up there
with a full kit and who's gonna take, you know,
twenty minutes to tear down and all of that, and
you know, you're you're you're just you know, yours. It
sounds like yours is pretty easy, So that must be
nice for so. Actually, so a lot of musicians you
play with probably really appreciate you. They probably like being
on a show with you because, you know, because I
I don't do it anymore, but I used to play
in bands, and I just, you know, sometimes the frustration
of you know, when you're waiting to go on stage
with your band and the previous band is taken forever
to tear down, and it's like, oh, you know, but
but you obviously don't have that problem. I'm sure. I'm
sure a lot of bands appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I don't have a problem with that. A
lot of times too. They'll they'll be able to sit
their full kids up and everything, yep, while I'm putting
my stuff together, and they'll have it all ready to
go by the time I'm sound checked. Yeah, or at
least mostly all together. So the heavier equipment they're already
have wheeled up there, so they're they're a lot closer
to gets you know, sound check than they would if
I had people that had to tear down too. So
I'm sure they do appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt, no doubt. Does anything ever go wrong,
you know, because again when you're using technology. Obviously technology
enhances everything that we do, but with technology things can
go awry. Sometimes anything ever goes wrong in a live show.
Speaker 4: I have little quirks every once in a while, you know,
because of the backing tracks are on a tablet, I
don't have a way to actually physically like like a
footpetal or anything to start stopping. Oh okay, And plus
I have to go through and like if I have
a depending on the crowd how their mood is, I
might skip around. So sometimes I'll hit the button and
it won't shut off and it'll start the next track
by accident or yeah, you know, or I'll something will
happen like that. You know. I've had it to where
my tablet and I didn't realize this when I first
got my tablet. I had everything set up and I
went into a play I think it was Brandy's Basement
in Irwin, and the track played fine, but then it
kept repeating the first track, and I'm like, what the
heck's going on with this? And here I just all
I need to do is restart the tablet. Yeah, but
I ended up tearing down to give the next people,
you know, a thing until I could troubleshoot it, you
know what I mean. By the time I just I
borroted somebody's acoustic consisted a quick acoustic set, you know,
so it wouldn't be a waste of their time to
waste my night, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, oh that's cool. Yeah. How do sound guys
react to that?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 4: I think they are all right with that because my
I run through a d I box that can be
active or passive, so and I have an internal pre
amp in there too, so it will convert all that
stuff over and I can kind of give them what
kind of signal they want, just like you would for
a guitar amp. And I think it's a lot easier
to tailor with with the box that I got, you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, now, before before you were doing this project
grim Rock as you know, just a solo act, were
you in bands or what was what was your experience
leading up to leading up to the grim.
Speaker 4: Rock os and bands? A long time ago? I did
some you know, I played cover bands, I played you know,
original stuff.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 4: I actually went to a studio in Pittsburgh called Audiomation
Studio at one time to record tracks with the band
from a local area. You know, I've done all kind
of different things, and I just kind of gave it up.
And a buddy of mine, Mark Kushak, he actually brought
me out of musical retirement and I actually did a
small project with him called The Model with Cage right
before Grimrock, and actually the first three tracks from the
first Grimrock EP with the last three tracks that we
did together as the Model with Cage, So it kind
of rolled over, okay.
Speaker 2: And then what was it that caused you to start
the grim Rock project and to do it on your own?
I mean, were you just tired of you know. And again,
as someone who's been in bands, I know the struggles.
Were you tired of being in a band with other
people or did you just want to do something different
or what was kind of the genesis of Grimrock?
Speaker 4: Well, we kind of I kind of felt like the
music was good, but we couldn't get any traction at
all with it. Yeah, and about I don't know, it
was like fifteen months or so, we like plugged that.
It plugged out and plugged at and I eventually just
got frustrated with it, and I was like, look, I said,
I'm gonna take a break from this for a minute.
I'm gonna rebrand this whole thing, and then we're gonna
see what happens, you know what I mean. Yeah, And
I ended up and I ended up coming up with
the grim rock thing, And believe it or not, for
about eleven months, I was sending stickers out everywhere, selling
T shirts, sending bandanas out, all with a promise of music.
Like I didn't even have any music set up for
this yet for eleven months. And a buddy of mine,
Mike Susi, came over one day and he was like,
He's like, you have the greatest scam going on in
your life right now. He said, you're you know, you
got this band, you're promising this music, and you don't
even have to put it out there. People are still
buying your stuff. And then I got nervous, you know,
I was like, well, you know, I might put something
out and they're gonna be like let down, like it's
gonna stink or something. You know, but it really did.
It picked up a lot better that way, you know.
Speaker 2: So do you feel like that was that was an
advantage for when the music when you did start to
release music that you kind of you know, because that's
a long Excuse me, that's a long runway right to
getting to where you're actually putting out music the way
you did it by by so so early, already kind
of building the image and the marketing and the you know,
all all of that. I mean, that's a that's a
really interesting approach, and I didn't realize it. Again, you've
been on the show a number of times we've talked.
I didn't realize how far in advance you started really
sort of developing grim rock as a concept before you
actually started releasing music. That's really interesting, but it sounds
like it sounds like it worked out well for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was I was wanting to build
a brand, yeah, identity and something they can recognize. That
logo that's on a T shirt. People can see that
and it's different. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah,
when they look at they look at my picture and
they see the pain, it's different. Yeah, and they can
they can piece it all together.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot easier that way. But yeah,
it it took a long time for me to get to,
you know, releasing the first track to where we're at now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Now, So what's kind of the Obviously,
you know, we're gonna get to see you in May
at the end of May, and we're really looking forward
to that. What's kind of the the trajectory right now
leading up to that for you?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 2: I mean, what's your first priority is it? Is it
working on the album or are you still gonna be
playing a lot of shows while you're working on the album,
or what's what's kind of the short term trajectory for you.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be kind of a mixed bag. I got
I got some studio time scheduled and I'm gonna I'm
gonna work with that. I put in for some festivals,
you know, one in April that hope, hopefully i'll hear
back from that. I actually played two years ago and
I'm hoping I get to play again this year. And
I actually put him for a festival in Connecticut for July.
And just like a lot, there's like a lot of
places that I just kind of I got my feelers out,
and I think there's gonna be some repeat places, you know,
especially this year, especially with like mister Paul. You know,
it's Carnival of Screams and Stuf is gonna be a repeat.
I'm hoping to play Metal Fest in Cleveland, Ohio again
this year.
Speaker 2: Good. So, Yeah, festivals are the greatest thing you can do.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: We this comes up a lot on the show too.
It's like, uh because festivals not only does it get
give you a chance to get in front of an
audience that wouldn't otherwise see you. Uh So you know,
you get that remarkable exposure because you know, people who
have no idea about you will see you and and
you'll make a lot of new fans very quickly. But
also it's such a fantastic networking opportunity. You're going to
meet so many other artists and industry people and make
all kinds of connections, and you know, every time you
play a festival, so it's it's great that that you've
been doing them and that you're gonna do more. I mean,
that's really especially with what you do again, you know,
in terms of building a brand and and the visual
aspect of it. That's that's great. So I'm glad that
you've done festivals and then you're gonna be doing more
because I I think I think it's probably the single
the single best opportunity for an independent artist is to
get on as many festivals as possible. That's what I think.
I mean, there's so much value in that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there definitely is. I mean you get new
groups of people, different areas, like I'm trying to get
more East Coast, you know, exposure now what's coming out
your way and to the Connecticut one and some different places,
and you know, I'm hoping I get to go up
and down the East Coast a little bit this year
and just kind of broaden everything. And You're right, the festivals,
you know, it was the connections and the bands and stuff.
You know, you put on a pretty you put it
on a decent show, you know, and you might be
in that area again and another band like, oh you
can hit them up, and like, hey, I'm gonna be
in your area. You got anything right going on, you
might be able to piggyback off that or right, you know,
like in the case the case of Terminus, Hopefully you know,
when I when I play there, everything goes doesn't go
haywire with the electronics or anything, you know, or crazy,
and I put a good show on. The next time
I come up that way, hopefully maybe I can get
on another one again, you know. So and and and
I'm sure people will talk up there, you know, so
it'll get around and be like, oh this Grimrock guy,
you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so andus Terminus is a great place to play.
It's such a cool venue. And uh Andre does a
fantastic job with the sound. And you'll I think you'll uh,
I think you'll really enjoy it there. So, like I said,
we're looking forward to seeing you.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: Uh So, grim Where where should people go online? Speaking
of branding, where's the best place for people to go
online to keep up with everything that grim Rock is
doing and and to get your music of course.
Speaker 4: Well you can go to grimrocknroll dot com all spelled
out Grim rock and A and d roll dot com, okay,
and you can go to all my socials from there,
I mean there's a video preview from YouTube. You can
go to I have Apple Music, Spotify, I think Amazon
Music is on there. You can hit links for those
you can preview them on my website and then go
to wherever wherever you have a subscription to see what
my events. There's a shop on there you can get
t shirts or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, I got a press kid on there,
so you know, if anybody is listening that has something
out there, you can go check my press get out
there too as well.
Speaker 2: So outstanding, outstanding, well Grim, thank you so much. I
think we're gonna close the segment. You know, we did
play Cast a Shadow and always thrilled to be able
to do the radio premiere of it on the show
whenever you release something new. I think we're gonna close
out the segment with the first song of yours that
we ever played on the show that I still love.
Don't you such a great track. But for those of
you listening live, we will play If you missed it,
we will repeat in the second and third hour of
the show today. We will play cast a Shadow again
in the second and third hour. So if you missed
it in the first hour at the top of the show,
you will be able to hear it later. And of course,
obviously it's available. I assume it's on all the streaming
platforms too, right, not yet, not yet. Oh, so you've
you've got to hear it here? Ah, I love it. Yeah,
you got it.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, fantastic. Do you do you know? Do you have
a release date for when it's going to be on
the platforms yet?
Speaker 4: No, because I haven't even given it to the label yet.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, see this is even more exclusive than I realized.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, you got it. That's it. Oh, thank
you to get it to them, to get it to
them now.
Speaker 2: We love it. So when I say you heard it
here first, I'm not being hyperbolic. You you all are
literally hearing it here first. So that's wonderful. So you
know what I think I'm gonna do. I think I'm
gonna play don't You to end the segment. But then
I'm also gonna play cast a Shadow again right after
don't You, and then of course I will repeat it
in the second and third hour or two for our
live listeners who might have missed it. But uh, that's
that's wonderful. Thank you so much, and uh, grim Rock again,
thank you, my friend. It is wonderful to speak with you.
We will see you in May, and if you have
another single, we you know, we might have you back
on even before then, but uh, you know, time time
goes fast, that's for sure. But uh, we're gonna hit,
We're gonna hit don't You. But again, grim Rock, thank
you so much, my friend, and we'll talk to you soon,
I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I really appreciate being on and and
you know, being on your show, so absolutely see.
Speaker 2: You absolutely, oh same, same, all right, all right, take
care of grim all right, thank you, you got it?
Bye bye? All right. That is grim Rock from the
great state of Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh area. But he's
gonna be up our way at the end of a
and really looking forward to getting to meet him and
see him live. But let's play this track. This is
called Don't Sha. This is the first single of grim
Rock that we ever played on the show, and then
I think right after that, I'm also going to play
cast a Shadow again, which is very exclusive. You can't
get cast a Shadow by grim Rock anywhere at the moment,
but you can hear it right here on Matt Connorton
Unleashed here on WMNH ninety five point three FM. So
we're gonna play both of those, but we'll start with
don't You and then cast a Shadow, and there is
plenty more show to come. Don't Go Anywhere?
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Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 13: A young man.
Speaker 11: Me no.
Speaker 13: Ways?
Speaker 11: Tell me so you know what?
Speaker 4: Not read? How going.
Speaker 11: You go? You go.
Speaker 2: To God? That is don't You. That is the first
single from Grimrock that we ever played here on the show.
And right now, once again, we're gonna play the brand
new single. You cannot hear this anywhere else. This isn't
even on the streaming platforms yet. This is absolutely a
WMNH ninety five point three FM Matt Connorton Unleashed exclusive.
This is cast a Shadow, the brand new single from Grimrock.
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It is Saturday, January seventeen, twenty twenty six. We are
about to enter our number two New Marrow dose of
Matt Connorton Unleashed. We've got in a moment. We're gonna
play in fact, one of the tracks from the brand
new ever Felt album called Stirring to Wake. We're gonna
play this opening song called Epic One, and it is
an epic way to open the album. And then we're
gonna have Adam Steglitic from ever Felt joining us. I
think it's gonna be his third or fourth time on
the show, but he's gonna be joining us online. Can't
wait to talk to him. I love the album. I
listened to the whole thing. It's incredible. So wait to
le we hear this track. It's a very very strong opener,
so really cool. So we're gonna do that in just
a moment. I do want to also acknowledge a couple
of people in the chat room. EAZYG is in there, Hello, Easyg.
Jay Bellow from the band Chasing the Uh is in
the chat room. We love Jay, love that band. Maybe
we'll play some Chasing the Devil a little later in
the show. I'd love to play one of theirs. Can't
play the newest one until I get a radio edit
because it's there's a lot, there's a bad word in
it that I can't take. I can't edit it myself
without ruining the song. So if we get a radio
edit from those guys, we'll play it for you, but
I'll play one of their older ones. I love Chasing
the Devil, And we have Kenny truon in the Facebook
Live chat says good morning to Matt and Jenny. Kenny Truon.
We played his brand new single at the opening of
the show today and I will play it again later
in the show. It's called we All Saw What Happened
and it's it's so so good, very topical, shall we
say if you missed it. I did play it at
the open of the show today, but we'll play it again.
We'll play it again later on in the show. Definitely
worth another spin. Great great track. But right now we're
gonna play this. It's the opening track from the brand
new album from ever Felt called Stirring Awake. This is
called Epic one. And then at the end of this,
we're gonna talk with Adam Staglitic from the band ever Felt.
Really looking forward to to talking with him and getting
caught up. It's been a while, it's been at least
a couple of years, I think, since Adam has been
on the show with us. But check this out. This
is called Epic one.
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