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Speaker 6: Rack your right bass like cats.
Speaker 7: It's gotta be so great, the perfect fate to the
amusement park ride brother Coasters till it's dark.
Speaker 8: When you took me too, suit, That is why I
feel for you.
Speaker 2: It feels so bright.
Speaker 7: What a perfect night, so great, the perfect day, it's
so great, The perfect day.
Speaker 5: It's so great, The perfect day with you.
Speaker 8: Now with your second day, you bet'll gonna leave.
Speaker 7: I won't be late or coming to your house at
eight playing chest will be checkmate.
Speaker 5: Nice to night.
Speaker 8: I think I'm ready to ask you to go Staddy,
And feels so bright.
Speaker 7: What a perfect night, so great, the perfect day, it's
so great, The perfect day, it's so great, The perfect
day with.
Speaker 9: You, It is so bright, What pur big nights so great?
Speaker 7: The perfect day It's so great, the perfect day, it's
so great, the perfect day with.
Speaker 8: The perfect day with you, the perfect ka with you.
Speaker 4: That is quite catchy. That is Brian Blanski. That is
called the Perfect Date. And this is Matt Connorton Unleashed
and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety
five point three FM, Inglorious of Manchester, New Hampshire. Today
is October twelve, twenty twenty four, and Jenny is here,
of course at the news table, and we have Brian
here with us. Let's see if that mike is working. Brian,
how are you?
Speaker 8: Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 10: I'm doing well? How about yourself?
Speaker 4: There we go, now I can hear you all right,
Brian is So we were talking off air about I
was trying to figure out if I was saying your
name correctly, and so it turns out I wasn't, but
I was because so you professionally you go by Brian Blansky. Yes,
but the way I was saying it, Biolanski is actually the.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's how you say it correctly in Poland, and
it is a Polish name. So I'm doing the Midwestern
americanized accent version.
Speaker 4: Well fair enough, but we do have listeners in Poland.
I believe.
Speaker 8: Awesome.
Speaker 4: I made that up, but it's nice to think we do.
I mean, it's the internet.
Speaker 10: Well, I definitely promoted this show on my social media
pages and do have quite a few followers in Poland.
So hopefully, hopefully now there are some listeners there if
there weren't before.
Speaker 4: There you go, there you go. Yeah, you're on a
big national tour, right or you're going everywhere yet?
Speaker 10: Well this fall it is a Midwest, East Coast and
Canada tour. I actually just got back from Edmondston, New Brunswick,
playing a show up there last night. Okay, so so yeah, yeah,
all over the place, just trying to promote the new
album Brian's Super Happy Fun Time for.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, no, I love it. It's very very catchy
stuff fun songs. Didn't have to make any radio edits,
which is nice.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, you know, I always try to be polite
to the to my my friends in the radio there,
make everything FCC friendly.
Speaker 4: Where are you from.
Speaker 10: I am from Charlotte, North Carolina. That's my home.
Speaker 8: We have listeners there, we do, we do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 10: Listen, yes, yes, excellent, All right, well, hello Charlotte listeners
and that is.
Speaker 4: A that is a verifiable fact. So is that where
you currently live?
Speaker 10: That is my home base? Yeah, so though saying I
live there is is kind of a stretch. I'm there
maybe a few weeks out of the year. The rest
of the time, I'm just traveling across the country, And
like we were talking off the air, did a europe
tour early this year too, So yeah, I spend most
of my time traveling and playing music. But yeah, I
do call Charlotte home at the end of the day
for a few weeks at least.
Speaker 4: How long have you been doing this full time touring?
Speaker 10: Twenty twelve is when I made the big plunge and
decided to go from being a part timer like weekend
Warrior to just kind of being a nomad and kind
of living on the road more or less.
Speaker 4: Was it scary at first?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's still scary.
Speaker 4: It's still yeah, especially at first.
Speaker 10: I mean, you get used to a lot of aspects
of it, and honestly, the aspect of not doing it
is scarier to me than all the things that folks
might consider scary about being on the road. But yeah,
you get used to it and it's great. It's a
lot of hard work, but it's a lot of fun too.
Speaker 4: Have you been touring steadily since twenty twelve? So actually
the pandemic probably we know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we know.
Speaker 10: There was a little break for that, and I actually
have been touring steadily since things reopened from COVID. Pre COVID,
it would get to see, I've gotten better about the
business aspect. At first in twenty twelve, I'd be on
tour for like nine months, run out of money, have
to work a couple months at my old job, and
then go on tour another seven months. You know, Yeah,
it depends, you know, But lately, you know, I think
I've made every financial mistake there was to make as
being a traveling musician. So now I, like, you know,
know how to weather the storm, if you know, some
years are better than others. Sure, but but yeah, yeah,
since since things reopened after COVID, this is this has
been it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're making it work, certainly, and that's great.
Speaker 10: Good for you, Thank you, Good for you.
Speaker 4: Well do you want to play something live for us?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, yeah, sure, I'm going to do a song from
my last album, Brian's Super Happy Fun Time three, the
predecessor to the new one, and this song is called
rock the Library. It's a song about how I hang
out in the libraries all day before my shows because
it's a great place to get some work done, hang
out for free, and even every once in a while,
have a chance to read a book.
Speaker 7: There you go, all right, well, honey, I know what
you need. I like to write and you like to read,
or really like the way you look? Are you gonna
check out my library book? Because I'm your host. We're
the most rocking libraries coast to coast and I ten,
I twenty, I.
Speaker 8: Thirty and forty A fifty, I sixty, I seventy eighty.
Speaker 7: I love you, baby, don't even maybe you're hot of
than Nashville tatos of gravy.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm your hosts Hey, okay, rocking.
Speaker 7: Libraries, you will say, yeah, you look so cute in
your glasses studying for college classes no fills only passes
sweeter than Alla Fami molasses.
Speaker 8: I'm your host. We're the most rocking li libraries coast
to coast.
Speaker 10: And I ten, I twenty, I thirty.
Speaker 8: Eight, forty A fifty, I sixty, I seventy eighty.
Speaker 7: I love you, baby, don't mean maybe your heart of
than mash potatoes and gravy. Well, I'm your host Aoka
rocking libraries.
Speaker 5: You will say, have.
Speaker 12: Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock the library.
Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock the library.
Speaker 8: I'm your host, Aoka rocking libraries.
Speaker 7: You will say, yeah, honey, I know what I need.
I like a girl that likes to read. Come on, baby,
I'm no fool. I know that the library is cool.
And I'm your host.
Speaker 8: We're the most rocking libraries coast to coast.
Speaker 7: And I ten, I twenty, I thirty eight, forty A fifty,
I sixty, I seventy eighty. I love you, baby, don't
even maybe your heart of damp mash.
Speaker 8: For tata's and gravy. And I'm your hosts AOK rocking
the libraries.
Speaker 10: You will say, yeah, rock rock rock.
Speaker 12: The library, Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock
the library.
Speaker 8: A rock rock rock the library. I'm your host, a
OK rocking the libraries. You wus say, very nice, that
was awesome.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 8: Thanks y'all, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Brian Blanski is here with us live in studio. If
you're just joining us and uh, yeah, libraries are do
you have you found that there aren't as many as
there used to be.
Speaker 10: Oh no, there seem to be plenty of libraries. The
only thing I've noticed it was, well, you know, a
lot of them are not open for as many hours.
Yeahs as they used to be. A lot of the
public libraries are closed on Sundays, which but you know, honestly,
I also do a university libraries a lot too, because
they're often like open till late at night. So like,
if I have an early show, I stopped by college library,
pull out my laptop and you know, start sending emails,
took book and promote shows. That's pretty much how I
keep things going.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Well, now do you have a because a
lot of the people who listen to the show are
musicians or people who are aspiring to do what you do, Like,
do you have advice for maybe somebody who's just starting
out who wants to be able to do what you
do in terms of touring nationally, hitting the road. You
know you mentioned mistakes that you made, especially you know
earlier early in your career.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, my advice to anyone that wants to you know,
do music full time.
Speaker 4: Just pretty much it's all I do.
Speaker 10: More or less. You know, if I'm not driving city
to city or playing shows, I'm just I'm on my laptop,
laptop promoting and booking shows. So I literally, you know,
don't have a lot of downtime. And yeah, I just
spend all my time just you know, working hard at it.
And whatever you focus on, I thinking, if it's music
or anything, if you devote your entire focus to whatever
your goals are, then I mean it's bound to happen,
like you know, little by little. And my other advice is,
do not let any rejections or anybody who you know
saying something mean about your music or about you as
a person. Don't let that deter you because a lot
of the times the people are probably just jealous. So yeah,
don't let any of that stuff bother you. And just
work hard and keep a positive attitude and you know,
stay calm when challenges arise. That's my advice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, thank you. Yeah, I think that that too
kind of gels with what you know. In the first hour,
our guest six Minds Combined, who's kind of an alternative
hip hop artist from the area. He said something similar
about you know, really keeping positive and not you know,
not letting rejection or criticism affect you. But but he
talked about how, you know, the way he really got
into his career was he had gotten into some trouble
a long time ago and he ended up having to
do community service. And he had to do community service
with a place called Positive Street Art, which is where
he met someone with whom he collaborates with musically and
so forth. And it's just kind of snowballed from there,
and how approaching it. He talked about how approaching everything
positively really enables him to have the career that he
has now.
Speaker 10: And that's the truth. And I think you know that,
like like it's true in anything you do that if
you stay positive and you treat people the way you
want to be treated. I mean, I know there's a
lot of people in you know, the music business and
in any business that you know, we'll try to get
ahead at the expense of other people. But and that
might work for the short term, but in the long term,
I think, you know, in karmically and and just also
you know, people talk, so when people do rude things
or treat people poorly, I mean it's a small world.
It's much smaller than you'd expect.
Speaker 4: The Internet has made it very small indeed. Indeed, yeah, yeah, no,
I think you bring up a good point about how
you treat people, because it's so much of it is
about building relationships and having a strong reputation, you know,
because yeah, you know, people talk and well, it's quite true.
Speaker 10: And one thing I've seen in shows where I'm playing
with other musical acts and maybe some that are, you know,
more famous than I am, but I've seen a lot
of musicians treat their fans poorly, like they can't be
bothered with them, and that just always boggled my mind.
I'm like these people that like, like, your music is
the reason why you're doing what you're doing. So anytime,
like somebody you know, tries to reach out to me
and express that they like my music, I try my
best to express my appreciation for them, because if it
wasn't for those people, I wouldn't be doing what I'm
doing right right.
Speaker 4: Exactly how many do you have any idea how many
songs you've written? It looks like from what I see online,
it looks like you've written quite a few.
Speaker 10: Exactly one hundred and eighty published songs.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 10: Yes, Before I was a solo artist. I had a
band for many years, so most of those songs are
the old band. I still play a few of those
old band songs here and there in in my live sets.
But yeah, one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 4: And you've probably written I imagine you strike me as
someone who writes a lot. You've probably written a lot
that you haven't even recorded yet.
Speaker 10: I would think, well, yeah, it's it's funny you mentioned that,
because Brian's super happy. Fun time for the new album.
It just came out last month, and as soon as
I was done recording the album this summer, I just
got a like a flood of new song ideas. I'm like,
that always happens too. I'm like, oh, man, why could
have I wrote this one before the album and put
it on this album? But yeah, I definitely have almost
the whole next album written whenever, whenever I find the time,
in the in the need to record it, you know,
it's definitely I've got the songs all set.
Speaker 4: Where do you record?
Speaker 10: So most of my songs I record in Charlotte. There's
a studio called Catalyst Recording, and my producer Rob Tavlion
down there and we've been working together for almost twenty
years since the old days with my old band, and
he does a great job. I always like to say
he's like the George Martin of the Southeast United States.
He's great. I mean, he collaborates, he plays percussion on
a lot of the songs on the albums. And this
last album actually I did the whole thing at his studio.
It was a better year financially because sometimes I just
do the radio singles, like the standout tracks at his
studio and then I'll self record the rest of the
album in my home studio. But this year treated me okay,
So I actually got to do the whole album at
Rob's studio.
Speaker 4: Oh outstanding.
Speaker 10: Neat, Yeah, it was a neat.
Speaker 4: What was the band that you were in? What did
what did you guys sound like?
Speaker 10: So the band was called Anguish with a W A
G wish and it was punk rock slash hard rock.
Speaker 8: Oh kind of band?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, so I definitely did like a one to
eighty as far as like the lyrical themes, like you know,
now it's Brian super happy fun time, whereas like you know,
the old band was more like angry, screaming punk rock
songs and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so.
Speaker 10: Actually the final album as a band I got to
do with the late great Steve Albini back in twenty sixteen,
no kidding, and that was so yeah, he was. He
was a great guy too. I mean he did so
much for independent music and he was really pleasant guy
to work with. He was just ultra professional, had a
lot of input and ideas for a lot of the
songs we recorded there. So it was a great way
for me to like end that chapter of my life,
to get to something a dream I'd always had. Is
my favorite engineer by far.
Speaker 4: That's fantastic that you got to work with Steve Albini.
That's great. He's just past.
Speaker 10: It was a couple of years ago, right, it was
earlier this year.
Speaker 5: Actually, oh it was earlier this year. Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow. And then so after that, so the band was
that after having that experience, was that kind of like, well,
there's nowhere else to go with this or.
Speaker 10: Well, actually what it was? You know, I mentioned I've
been touring live since twenty twelve, and you know it
was like half and half band and solo because basically
I'd set up tours as my band, but bandmates would
just like flake out halfway through the tour because the
living life on the road at the level that I
do it, it can be a little grueling and it's
not for everybody. So basically, band members would quit and
I'd be left like just showing up to the places
alone with my acoustic guitar, like, yeah, my band bailed
on me, but I'm here. I still want to play.
And I just got the epiphany. I was like, you know,
why don't I just do this right?
Speaker 4: You know, right?
Speaker 10: And it's it's been a lot easier logistically since I
just started being a solo artist. Yeah, and then of
course on the albums, I'm I'm doing the instruments, like
the track we played to start the show, I'm doing drums, bass,
lead guitars. So I still get to kind of have
fun in the studio, like like I'm a full band,
laying each track down one at a time Paul McCartney style.
Uh but uh but yeah, when I'm live, this is
this is what I do. I got my acoustic guitar
and i'ms singing and playing my songs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard with you know, I've been in bands
and somebody I forget who it was now. Somebody on
the show described describe the challenge of it, you know,
in terms of scheduling and all of it. It's like
being like if you're in a band with three other people.
It's like it's like being in a it's like being
in three separate relationships, and those with with people who
are all in three separate relationships.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's it's just it's it's hard. It's really hard.
Speaker 10: It's so hard. And it's sad too because the last
incarnation of my band, we were just a two piece.
It was just me and a drummer. But still it
was just uh, you know, like I said, it's more
like you know, sleeping in a vehicle and you know,
not you know, dealing with all the you know, pressures
of the road. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's
a fun time too, but there's a lot of things
that I think, you know, quote unquote normal people might
might find just they could you know, deal with it
on a daily basis. Yeah, so so yeah, But but
you know what you said was one hundred percent true, Like,
you know, trying to you know, manage all the schedules
and it is it's like it's like being in a
family and being or being like in a relationship. So
it's tricky. I mean, and uh, a lot of my
ex bandmates are are still like very supportive come to
my shows when I'm around in Charlotte. So yeah, definitely
like not you know, a lot of amicable breakups, just
kind of like hey, Brian, I just can't do this,
not not like you know, yeah, like I can't stand you.
Speaker 4: Well that's good. Is the material that you recorded with
Anguish is that still available online?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, accidentally, because I didn't understand
how all the digital distribution worked at the time, my
first solo album is actually under the old band, which
is yeah, I like, little mistake on my party, I said,
I think I made every mistake. I was like, oh,
I didn't know. I had to create a brand new
uh you know, identity online for my new uh my
new projects. So so yeah, but yeah, all that stuff
if anybody wants to, uh see it, but I will
warn anybody that that stuff is not family friendly, like
the Brian super happy fun stuff. So just a fair
warning to anyone because there's a lot of like younger,
younger listeners.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 10: These days, I've been playing a lot of shows at
things like you know, churches and schools and and things
like that. So definitely, I just like to say parental
advisory for the the earlier stuff. There's there's some clean stuff,
but yeah, a lot of it was punk rocks. So yeah,
it's enough said. I guess understood, understand. Well, do you
want to play another one for us? I'd love to
hear another song.
Speaker 4: Absolutely sure.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna just do one more from the last album,
and this one is called Baby I'm your super Mario.
Speaker 4: All right, Brian Blanski live in studio with us.
Speaker 7: Baby, I'm your super Mario. Oh yeah, your super Mario.
Speaker 2: Give me a try.
Speaker 8: You won't be Sorrio.
Speaker 10: Oh no, you won't be Sorrio.
Speaker 7: I'm getting big, I'm getting super I'm gonna save you
from King Cooper. You're gonna be my Princess Peach. The
Level eight Castle is in my reach. Baby, I'm your
Supoo Mario. Oh yeah, your super Boo Mario. You just
stay away from Warrio. Oh no, don't go with Warrio.
You're gonna be my Princess Peach. To Level eight Castle
is in my reach. Will All my dreams have come
true except the one where I save you, Where I
save you, because all my dreams have come true except
the one where I save you.
Speaker 8: I just wanna be your guy. We have a souper
halpy fun time.
Speaker 5: Feed it.
Speaker 7: I'm your super Mario. Fad it, I'm your super Mario.
Speaker 5: Fad it.
Speaker 7: I'm your super Mario.
Speaker 8: Fabe I'm your super Mario.
Speaker 4: Now, Ryan Blansky live in studio with us here on
this Saturday morning on Matt connorton Unleashed. Yeah, I'll tell
you if if you're gonna write a song about a
video game, it makes sense to do that one because
it's timeless. Yeah you know what I mean, Like like
Super Mario goes back to when I was a kid.
Oh yeah, me at me too.
Speaker 10: And ironically that when that song came out on my
my last album last year, I had no idea there
was a Super Mario movie coming out, and it actually
came out just about the same month that the movie
came out. I was like, oh, really, what a coincidence,
But it worked out. I think that's the most popular
song as far as the digital streaming sites go, which
is which is kind of neat. I like it, and
once again, you know, yeah, I used to love playing
video games as a kid. Not a lot of time
to play video games now with the organizing, you know,
three hundred shows a year, So instead I write, write
and play songs about him instead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, and video games can
be highly addictive too, so probably better.
Speaker 8: No doubt.
Speaker 10: Well, you know what, I love video games, and I
feel like the fact that I was so into them
when I was a kid has like really helped me,
you know, with with my booking and my promoting, like
you know, surfing the internet trying to find you know,
radio TV stations and venues, like at the faster I
can find their emails, I'm like, it's kind of like,
you know, jumping out of the way of the Koopa
Troopa and Super Mario. Is are you fast enough to
do that? Are you fast enough to find the right
place before another band books it? Kind of thing right? Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, that makes sense. That makes sense in your experience,
you know, because again you were started touring in twenty twelve,
and then of course, you know, the pandemic kind of
caused that break and then and then you got back out.
Is is touring different post pandemic in terms of like
I hear people complain that some venues have closed and
you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 10: You know, Yes, I think if I'm not mistaken, and
I could be wrong about this, but I believe that,
like you know, pre COVID that I think one third,
close to one third of all venues in the US
closed down. Now there are new ones popping up to
which is great, but yes, sadly, I mean venues that
I'd played at for years and years that I had
great relationships with went out of business because they just
could not weather the storm. I mean, you know, the
COVID thing. Really it killed a lot of venues, which
is sad. But you know what, like I said earlier
about the advice, you know, I mean, there's you just
keep going. There's a well, like I said, I've started
playing a lot of places that a lot of musicians
don't even think about playing, like schools, homeless shelters, hospitals.
So you know, there's and I think a lot of
musicians probably don't want to play those kinds of places
for whatever reason. But to me, those are some of
the most fun shows and some of the most appreciative
audiences at places that don't typically get musicians.
Speaker 4: No, that makes sense. Is there a particular place or
type of place that you've played that really kind of
surprised you where you you it ended up being a
better experience than you thought, you know.
Speaker 10: And it's funny. I have a song where I list
off all the different interesting places. Yes, I've played grocery stores.
I played a laundromat once, you know, a dentist office
waiting room in Mexico. I was able to get a
play for the people waiting to get their dental work
done and got a discount for doing the concert, So
that was kind of Yeah. And to me, like the
more unique of a place, like, the more fun it is.
And like I said, I've been having a lot of fun,
you know, doing doing the shows at like homeless shelters
and hospitals and rehabilitation centers, just you know, trying to
think about people in the population that that, Like I said,
a lot of musicians don't think about playing for them,
and I like to you know, I like to, uh
to do those kind of shows.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's awesome. And while you're while you're on
the road, do you do you primarily do shows by
yourself or do you have anybody you team up.
Speaker 10: With or anybody with mostly it's so when I'm traveling,
it's just me in my car going city to city.
Most of my shows are me just performing on my
own and I you know, my concerts can be anywhere
from like an hour and a half, two hours to
uh I've done up to five hours. Really a five
hour concert. A few of those, Yeah, those are few
and far between, but I have done a couple of them.
Sometimes I do play shows where I'm playing a shorter
set and there's other musicians or bands on the bill
with me, but uh, typically it's I'm doing the longer
concerts where it's just me.
Speaker 4: Wow, no kidding. You've done shows was five hours?
Speaker 10: Five hours? Yeah, one in one in New Mexico and
one in Wyoming.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's like Springsteen in the eighties, you do those
five hour shows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 10: It was uh yeah, there's something else and but yeah,
I love a challenge, so you know when they were uh,
one of the venues was like, hey, are our next
band canceled? Can you just play five hours instead of
two and a half. I was like, I'm on it.
Speaker 4: Wow, wow, no kidding. I hope they paid you for it.
Speaker 10: I did get paid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, which was a great part.
Speaker 10: That's definitely a great part of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. Well you want to you want to
play another live one for us?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, I'll uh you know this next song that I'm
gonna carry on with here. This is one from the
brand new album uh Brian, Super Happy Fun Time four
and uh this is a little bit more of a
like a serious song. I guess it's it's my version
of a we are the World uh kind of song
about how I wish everyone in the world would get
together or get along better.
Speaker 8: You've gotta give a little love and you get a
little love. So what are you.
Speaker 5: Thinking of.
Speaker 8: Commands from heaven above?
Speaker 11: You've gotta give a little love. Well, I don't think
that it's too late. Things in our world could be great.
Speaker 7: Well, if we pray for peace, the wars, in hunger,
all mesies.
Speaker 8: You gotta give a little love.
Speaker 5: And you get a little love.
Speaker 8: So what are you thinking of.
Speaker 7: Commands from heaven above?
Speaker 8: You've gotta give a little love.
Speaker 10: I know we can do it.
Speaker 8: Let's put all my suit with sisters and brothers, be
good to each other.
Speaker 10: I know we can do it.
Speaker 13: Let's put on my suit and make the world a
better place, a better place for every one.
Speaker 8: You gotta give a little love and you get a
little love. What are you thinking of commands from having above?
You gotta give a little love.
Speaker 4: I like that, Thank you. That's something we could we
could all use, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, give a little love from the new album there.
It's it gets tricky too because most people know me
for my my happy go lucky like semi silly songs.
So but I felt, like, you know, doing a serious
song here and there is okay.
Speaker 4: No, I think, uh and very appropriate.
Speaker 10: I think thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. If you are just joining us on the Saturday morning,
we have Brian Bolanski here with us live in studio.
Where do you now? Where do you go from here? Brian?
Because you said so your last show was in Canada?
Speaker 10: Is that right?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Last night played in Edmundston, New Brunswick.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 10: After I leave the show here, I am headed to Swansea,
New Hampshire, where I will be playing at the West
La Beer Company today from three pm to six pm.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, okay, very cool, very cool.
Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, and it's it's great to be back in
New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: How much of the how much of the country have
you like, do you keep track of how many states
you've played it?
Speaker 10: Oh, yes, that's something uh that it is a matter
of fact. I list them all out in the bio.
It's been forty nine states and twenty five countries abroad
that I've performed in.
Speaker 4: Wow, what's the one state you haven't hit?
Speaker 10: Alaska?
Speaker 4: Alaska.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but they're they're not going to get away from
me forever. I'll eventually get there. They're they're they're in
my sights.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How many times? Like how many times have you gone
overseas to do tours?
Speaker 10: So this this year would have been my fifth time
going overseas to uh to Europe.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 10: And I've done one Central American and one Asian tour
in the past, and I'd love to uh love to
get back to Asia and Central America was was pre COVID,
So I'd love to get back to both those places.
And you know, I've still still got Australia and Africa
and South America and you know, to to get to
and then finally Antarctica eventually. Okay, So yeah, yeah, that's
my my life stream is to perform in all seven continents. Well,
still here.
Speaker 4: Do the challenges they come with touring and change when
you go like Central America or is it all I mean?
Or is it the same challenges but just more severe?
Shall we say?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 10: You know, it's kind of the same. Like Luckily, well
Central America. I'm not great speaking Spanish, but I'm a
little bit better at Spanish than any other language.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know I think language well, Luckily.
Speaker 10: A lot of people abroad speak English is a second language,
so that between that and me, I always try to
learn at least a little bit of every country I
go to. That got a little trickier when I was
in places like Finland and Latvia, and even like Poland
was really tricky. French and Italian and German a little
bit easier, a little bit closer to English. But but yeah,
I always make sure I sing in English. But when
I'm talking to the audience in between songs, I always
learn how to say. This next song is from my
my last album. As a matter of fact, yesterday in
New Brunswick, I was in a French speaking part of
the province there, so I got to practice my French
again last night speaking to the audience there. But you know,
same kind of challenges. I just do a lot of
online research and find venues, and after I get my
venues booked, I try to find you know, radio newspapers
and stuff to promote the shows and uh and yeah, yeah,
it's just it's a labor love, a lot of a
lot of hours spent.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wow. What what was the most challenging place that you've
played geographically?
Speaker 10: Oh, I would have to say Thailand when I was there,
just it was it was trickier to find venues there. Luckily,
I had kind of like boots on the ground. I
had some friends that lived in Thailand and and they
were the ones that helped me book the majority of
my shows in Thailand, So it would have been a
lot more challenging of I didn't have friends already there
kind of like you know, going to places like in
person and and you know talking me up to different
music venues. So so that was kind of challenging. But
it was also probably one of the most fun countries
abroad really just because it was you know, such a
different culture and uh, and the people there were so friendly,
so amazing, and great food too.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's awesome. That's awesome. You want to play
another one?
Speaker 8: Sure?
Speaker 10: Absolutely? So this next song that I'll carry on with.
This is from my album two albums ago, Brian's Super
Happy Fun Time Too, and this was the main single
from that album. It's called Elf Girlfriend.
Speaker 17: She's an elf in the woods and she's magic. If
she turned be away, it be tragic. I feel that
God known her for years, really like her point of years.
Speaker 8: She's an oath in the woods.
Speaker 17: I discovered she's an oe. Now I think I'm gonna
love her. I know she lives inside a tree. That's
really came with me.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm so intrigued, and I never knew.
Speaker 5: That she exists.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it's true because my life was bad, but
now it's cool. Well, I don't what I gotta do.
Speaker 17: She's an oath in the woods and she's magic, and
she turned me away, it be tragic.
Speaker 7: I feel like.
Speaker 17: God known her for years, really like her pointy years.
Speaker 8: She's an out prettier than Princess El. I'm quasi modo.
She's as moral. I know she lives inside a tree.
That's really okay with me. She's my elf. She's my
elf golfriend.
Speaker 5: She's my elf.
Speaker 8: She's my elf gouffriend. She's my elf, she's my.
Speaker 17: Health goffriend girlfriend.
Speaker 8: Dum very nice, very nice, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Did you meet an actual elf in the woods? H?
Speaker 10: No, that songs it is a fairy tale.
Speaker 4: Okay, that did not.
Speaker 10: Actually, even though most of my songs are actually you know,
I'm singing them all from my own perspective, so that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Actually, when COVID hit in twenty twenty and nobody was
sure if things were going to open soon or not,
of course they wind it up. Not so I spent
many months camping in national forests, and I like to
do a lot of research on anything I'm doing, and
I kept researching that a lot of people would see
supernatural creatures in the national forests, and some of them,
most of almost all of them were like bigfoot sasquatch,
scary threatening things. And then you'd hear a few people
talk about like the pixies and fairies and like the
more benevolent kind of creatures. And I've always been a
fan of supernatural stuff, so I was like, well, let
me do a song about, you know, instead of like
a big scary bigfoot, if there was like a benevolent
creature in the woods. So yeah, fit little fairy tale
song there. When I was bored in the woods for
three months dur the COVID quarantine.
Speaker 4: Oh very cool. Do you remember the first song.
Speaker 5: You ever wrote?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 10: I do, actually, yes, I do, Uh, the first good one,
you know. I guess there was like some proto songs.
Speaker 1: But but yes, I I actually do.
Speaker 10: I you know, used to write them all down in
notebooks and and yeah, that's a very good question. I
actually do remember, what I think, at least the first
one that that you know was written down and and everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely did it? Did it survive or did you leave?
Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, I had resurrected it and
put it on the very first Brian super happy fun time.
Oh cool, Yeah, you know, and it's funny too a
lot of times, you know, when I release music, I
like to release albums. I know a lot of musicians.
I guess I'm old fashioned that way. A lot of
musicians these days just like to do singles and EPs.
But uh, I don't know from from what I hear,
you know, albums are still the way to go, because
I look at albums kind of like a painting, and
one song is like, you know, one thing in the pa,
like one of the tree in the landscape painting or whatever.
So I like to do that, and a lot of
times I'll go back to like my really early songs,
and you know, when I'm trying to, you know, I'm like, oh,
I need I need three more songs for this album.
I'm like, wait a minute, right, that part of that
song was good, This part of this song was good.
So sometimes I frankenstein songs together too. Yeah, yeah, but
it did survive. Yeah.
Speaker 4: A subject that comes up a lot on the show is,
you know, because we live in a time where there's
so many different strategies you can use for releasing music,
and you know, some artists just do EPs, or some
just do singles, or or some of our guests that
we've had in recent years, their strategy is to release
a series of singles that eventually become an album, kind
of the inverse right of what we're used to traditionally.
Speaker 10: But indeed, and I've done that before in the past,
and yeah, there's no wrong way to do things. Of course,
what I've been doing. As a matter of fact, last year,
I put out the album full album Brian's Super Happy
Fun Time three, but I also out an EP of
all non album tracks. I'm a big Beatles fanatic, and
one thing I loved about them is that their EPs
and their singles were almost always things that were not
on their albums. They like they wanted to make sure
their their customers were getting their you know, getting their
money's worth.
Speaker 4: So that's something I do.
Speaker 10: If I ever do an EP or a single, I
try to make sure that it's not something that you
can just get on the album and make your fans
buy something twice, right, thing, right, So that's something I
tried to do too.
Speaker 4: That's like a British thing. I feel it is, because
you know a lot of yeah, a lot of British
artists would do that, not not even necessarily then, but
even in more recent years like Oasis when what went
well of course, if Jesus was back in the nineties
now when Oasis first got big, seems like more recent,
but I noticed, uh, they right from the beginning did that.
Like one of my favorite Oasis song, which happens to
be Acquiesce, was originally the B side. You know, it
eventually came out on the Best Of album, but it
was originally a B side that was not not released
on an album.
Speaker 10: No kidding, you know, and I'm and yeah for me
like Nirvana another one of my big, big inspirations, and
I loved like to me that was like just the
best thing, getting a single with a B side that
you could not get anywhere else, and me like, this
is the best song. Why is it just on the
B side to the single? It seems like the B
sides are always the best songs.
Speaker 5: We should uh.
Speaker 4: So we're running out of time. I'd love to get
you to play one one more, but before we do that,
I want to make sure our listeners know too where
to go online to keep up with everything that you're
doing if they want to follow you on tour. You know,
obviously we're local here in Manchester, but we have a
lot of listeners online in other parts of the country
who might you know you might be coming to their area.
So I want to make sure everybody knows exactly where
to find Brian Blanski.
Speaker 10: Great, thank you and.
Speaker 5: Uh and yeah.
Speaker 10: The way to find me online The best way is
my official website, Brian's Super Happy Fun Time dot com
and that is Brian with a Y. And from Brian's
Super Happy Funtime dot com you can find everything. My
tour schedule, links to you know, music streaming sites, the
YouTube channel, all the social media platforms, so it's a
great one stop shop and all the links to anything
else you might like to consume music on or right
there on Briansuper Happy Funtime dot com.
Speaker 4: Excellent. Looks like you've got tour day. It's going all
the way like for the next year.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, well that's the thing Europe next year.
Speaker 4: You see Europe.
Speaker 10: They booked, They booked pretty far in advance, so yeah,
there's stuff going all the way up to next September.
So yeah, yeah, I said it's good to stay busy.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, Yeah. You want to play one more.
Speaker 10: For us, absolutely well, I'll do one song from the
original Brian Super Happy Fun Time album Brian Super Happy
fun Time one.
Speaker 8: All right, love you once, love you twice, Love you more.
Speaker 17: Damn Being's rice, my bat m, my pretty baby, my
little lead at, my pretty baby, love you up.
Speaker 8: Love you down, God, love you where I found.
Speaker 17: My baby there, my pretty bay, there, my little lead,
my pretty baby, damn.
Speaker 8: Love you here, love you that God.
Speaker 17: I love you everywhere, my beave in, my pretty baby,
my little leader, my pretty bad at, Love you watch,
love you twice, Love you mo damps, Rice Bope, my
pretty beeve, my little lead, my pretty bee, my little lead,
my pretty beeted you.
Speaker 4: Very nice, very nice.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Brian Blansky live in studio with us, and uh now
this is this has been wonderful Brian. We really appreciate
your coming in before we run out of time too, Jenny,
I want to make sure we remind people because it's
a big day. What uh what what what we're doing?
Speaker 16: Later this afternoon we are going to be at the
Mosaic Our Collective right here in the Queens City were
the opening of Spellbown. Yes, I am proud to have
two paintings in this show and we will be there
this afternoon now. The opening is from four to eight pm.
You can join us at sixty six in Street Sweet
two or one here in the Queens City.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and your website you should plug that too.
Speaker 16: You can check me out and find out what I'm
up to at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N
co o f f Ey dot com.
Speaker 4: And you also wanted to mention something about pink Tober.
Speaker 16: Yes, my annual appeal. It is pink Tober and they
pink it up and they forget our boys. Remember men
can get breast cancer too. One out of one hundred
new cases is a man, and we need to stop
pinking it up and remember pink and blue because boys
can get breast cancer too.
Speaker 4: All right, well said, well said, Well, thank you, Thank
you to everybody who joined us today. Of course we
had Rick everhard A better known as Six Minds combined
in the first hour. Second hour we had Gary Smith
and Brian Bolanski again. Wonderful to have you on, sir,
Thank you.
Speaker 8: So much for having me. I had a great time
talking with you all.
Speaker 4: Safe travels out on the road, and I'm gonna put
you on the spot here. I'm gonna play one more
studio track from Brian super Happy fun time for what
would you like me to play? What would be a
good choice to to close out? O?
Speaker 10: Uh, let's go ahead and do uh your Pretty Face,
the final song on the album.
Speaker 4: You're Pretty Face. All right, I like it. Well, we'll
go with that, and uh, everybody, if you miss any
part of today's show, it will be up in just
a little bit at wmnhradio dot org, at my website
Matt Connorton dot com. And uh, we'll talk at y'all
a little bit later, Bye everybody, bye, oh sorry, here
we go.
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over the place, like.
Speaker 9: You, pretty mine.
Speaker 8: Oh I you think about you all the time.
Speaker 5: Never be the same.
Speaker 8: You look so pretty in the refall game, exception to
the rule.
Speaker 5: You look so pretty in the swimming pool.
Speaker 8: Baby, I'm George Crazy.
Speaker 3: Nobody's come on back when I'm coming under the back.
Speaker 5: Who's gonna creep my room?
Speaker 3: When I'm getting the temple to baby? Baby, I'm George Crazy.
Speaker 2: Uh oh.
Speaker 3: Baby, oh.
Speaker 5: Baby, oh creebe oh.
Speaker 3: Oh baby, nobody's got my back?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm coming under tack.
Speaker 8: Who's your creamonder? Well in the test?
Speaker 3: Polty baby, baby, I'm Josh Crazy.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 18: I broke, but I'm not broken. Broken, don't breaking. I
left the gun smoking. My blood runs open scars, don't
heal right?
Speaker 3: Right?
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for luck, but the deal's light. Falling like a steel pipe,
I fall hard through a skylight window covered in glass shards.
Too much dancing with the devil left my ass chard
into the road. Asked my maker to make it in
less painful instead, an angel came and sang me songs
until I fell asleep, helped me get up. Instead of
rain clouds, there was a rainbow. So I crawled till
I could walk. Now, I let this guitar weak.
Speaker 15: As I lay dying, as I lay dying, As I
lay dying, as I laid dying, But it.
Speaker 19: All falls down, and the ground starts quaking, and my
soul of wickeds, and the sky starts breaking, and the
eyes are watch and the time I've taken is not
be given living these times we seem to bind. Prize
ribbons were driven from riches and sinning. And this isn't
why we live in this prison. This inim envision, it's
like an incision, like if I get in. Prescriptions seem
to make us painfree, but mainly remind us that we
isn't in fame.
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Speaker 8: The real truth thighs in this here book.
Speaker 5: There's no fearing.
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lies are bearing disguise. I taste the tears rolling down
their cheeks, kiss them away, keep loves so deep, I said,
no more tears.
Speaker 2: I just let this guitarla weep as I they dying.
That's how they dying.
Speaker 5: That's how they dying.
Speaker 19: That's how they dying.
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