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Speaker 7: I've had that song stuck in my head for a
Speaker 7: solid week now that is not coming back. By day
Speaker 7: to attend who were here with us last week, and
Speaker 7: there's a very specific reason why we played that this morning,
Speaker 7: which we'll get to in a moment. We have some
Speaker 7: great guests who are going to we're going to introduce
Speaker 7: shortly and to open today's show. This week's show, I
Speaker 7: should say, we had, of course the brand new single
Speaker 7: from Hope the Rapper. As we are in week seven
Speaker 7: of our new Hope the Rapper world radio premiere of
Speaker 7: these new singles from our friend Hope the Rapper, and
Speaker 7: this one was a collaboration with Osokwabunga called Water to
Speaker 7: open up. Matt Connorton unleashed on this Saturday morning, July
Speaker 7: twenty seven, twenty twenty four and here on WMNH ninety
Speaker 7: five point three FM, and I am not alone.
Speaker 11: Jenny guests, Good morning Sunshine.
Speaker 7: Yes, Jenny is here at the news tablet unaccounted for
Speaker 7: good morning, good morning, and we have joining us live
Speaker 7: in studio. And these fine people were spoken about last
Speaker 7: week by the band because we had day to attend
Speaker 7: here with us in the first hour, and now they
Speaker 7: are joining us and we get to speak with them
Speaker 7: live on the air. We have Sheila and Tony Russo
Speaker 7: from Paper Jam Magazine.
Speaker 4: Welcome you here.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, so, yes, it is uh and by the way,
Speaker 7: so you brought us this is cool. I should hold
Speaker 7: this up for people watching online the uh the Girls
Speaker 7: Rock edition of Paper Jam Magazine. And for those of
Speaker 7: you who don't know, so this is a publication, Well
Speaker 7: tell us some tell us a bit about this.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: How long has Paper Jam existed?
Speaker 4: We're in our third year.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're coming up on our third year, about two
Speaker 12: and a half years.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay. And of course the way we met was
Speaker 7: through day to Attend because they were our guests in
Speaker 7: the first hour last week. And they're on the current
Speaker 7: the cover of the current edition.
Speaker 12: Yes, they are our cover story for this new issue.
Speaker 7: Yes, and they are in the chat room as well.
Speaker 7: So in fact, I think it was Tom Sirahcuso was saying,
Speaker 7: if I'm saying his last name correctly, out that I
Speaker 7: have great taste in music. I assume because I played
Speaker 7: the Day to Itchell, Well.
Speaker 12: You made you definitely made my morning starting with that
Speaker 12: song because I'm a.
Speaker 7: Huge fan of dates with Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 7: We were talking about that off air. Is it the
Speaker 7: CD release party is on your birthday? Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah, happy birthday to me. Their their new album, World
Speaker 12: of Zen Falling Awake, is going.
Speaker 11: To be available on August thirt Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We played a bunch of their tracks for the first
Speaker 7: time on the radio when they were here last week.
Speaker 7: And no, those guys are those guys are absolutely amazing.
Speaker 7: I do want to say make sure we say hello
Speaker 7: to everybody in the Facebook live chat because, like I said,
Speaker 7: you do have some some fans in there.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 7: Jeff Richards from Day to Attend in the chat room
Speaker 7: says Hi, Sheila and Tony uh and good morning. We
Speaker 7: love paper Jam, they say. Tom Syracusa says paper Jam
Speaker 7: in the house, let's see Oh and Anthony Nicastro from Purging.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Perging Sand another great great band.
Speaker 7: Yeah they were. They were our guests last week in
Speaker 7: the second hour.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I believe they just opened up for God smack
Speaker 12: and flat black, right, I believe.
Speaker 7: So, yeah, that's a that's a big show. Yeah, good,
Speaker 7: good for them, they've been around a while. Miriam Banishad
Speaker 7: joins us in the Facebook clas chat. She's also gonna
Speaker 7: be joining us today. Later in the show, she says,
Speaker 7: excellent song, I assume, referring to not coming back. Yeah, that,
Speaker 7: like I said, that's been stuck in my head for
Speaker 7: the past week. So I'm glad I had a good
Speaker 7: excuse to play it again on the show this morning.
Speaker 7: Let's see. Melanie La Liberty, one of our great friends
Speaker 7: from the state of Vermont, joins us in the chat room.
Speaker 7: Daniel Syracusa says, love day to attend seeing them in
Speaker 7: drake It at the boat tonight. Oh yeah, they were
Speaker 7: talking about that show. Oh that must be Tom's brother.
Speaker 7: Let's see. So make sure we didn't miss anybody in here.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so good morning everyone who's joining us? And yeah,
Speaker 7: so so Paper Jam. So it's been around for three years,
Speaker 7: you said two and a half two and a half years, okay,
Speaker 7: and it's gone through a bit of a transformation, right
Speaker 7: because now so it had been uh, strictly paper but
Speaker 7: now it's also a digital magazine publication.
Speaker 12: That's that's brand new as of about two weeks ago.
Speaker 7: Okay, we decided to do a digital.
Speaker 12: Version version because a lot of people were asking for it. Yeah,
Speaker 12: and uh so we took some time to think about
Speaker 12: it and to make the decision. And I'm very happy
Speaker 12: with the response that we received when people realized they
Speaker 12: could click the link, click and read the digital version.
Speaker 12: But the paper copies are definitely not going away, right, No.
Speaker 4: No, no, We'll definitely keep the papers.
Speaker 11: That's what we're.
Speaker 4: About, hence the name.
Speaker 12: So now you can choose.
Speaker 11: Now you can choose.
Speaker 12: You can get your paper copy or you can going
Speaker 12: forward read a digital version.
Speaker 7: So and by the way, so I suggest people check
Speaker 7: out paper jam magazine dot com. I'm looking at it
Speaker 7: right now. And we were talking off air. I was
Speaker 7: complimenting Sheila on her web design because I love the website.
Speaker 7: It looks really good. And I'm a web design nerd
Speaker 7: and I'm very critical of websites and I see a
Speaker 7: lot of websites that aren't great, but this one's really good,
Speaker 7: and like I said, it's perfect for what you're doing.
Speaker 7: So I suggest everyone check it out now on the
Speaker 7: website are all the back issues on the website. They
Speaker 7: are Oh wow, okay, that must have taken a while
Speaker 7: to that must have been a lot of work, I
Speaker 7: would imagine to get all of that. It was a
Speaker 7: lot of work. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. But so the paper
Speaker 7: version is not going away. No, Now that's what's interesting
Speaker 7: about that. So I'm really curious about that. So when
Speaker 7: you decided to start paper Jam, and obviously, as you said,
Speaker 7: it's called so the name, it's called that because it's
Speaker 7: a paper publication, did anybody did anyone try to talk
Speaker 7: you out of it? And the reason I ask that
Speaker 7: is because we live in an era where everything is
Speaker 7: where everything is digital, and a lot of publications like
Speaker 7: newspapers and a lot of magazines over the years, over
Speaker 7: the past twenty years have been gradually going away because
Speaker 7: they didn't find it to be a sustainable model, and
Speaker 7: some of them went away, you know, some of those
Speaker 7: companies have gone away completely. A lot of them now
Speaker 7: are strictly online. So I mean, did anyone say to you, wow, what?
Speaker 7: Because honestly, like, if I knew you before you started this,
Speaker 7: I probably and you talk to me about it, I
Speaker 7: probably would have been like, I don't know, I would
Speaker 7: have been skeptical, you know what I mean, just as
Speaker 7: a business person, you took the risk and you've obviously
Speaker 7: made it work. This is a success and it's very
Speaker 7: impressive by the way, and this and I was talking
Speaker 7: too about when Day to Attend was here and I'm
Speaker 7: I'm kind of flipping through the issue that they were
Speaker 7: they were in and I'm like, wow, this is really
Speaker 7: there's a lot here.
Speaker 11: There's a lot.
Speaker 12: It's always jam packed.
Speaker 7: So you've you've really made this work. But did anyone
Speaker 7: I mean, I assume you had people who are skeptical,
Speaker 7: people who are doubters, and you had to kind of
Speaker 7: believe it or not.
Speaker 12: What's so interesting is maybe that worked in our favor.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 12: Paper publications went away because do you recall the era
Speaker 12: of zines. Oh yeah, I remember seeing.
Speaker 7: Where the whole idea, that's where the whole idea came from.
Speaker 13: I used to live in Massachusetts and I was you know,
Speaker 13: I played in bands my whole life, and there was
Speaker 13: a couple of scenes like the noise and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: It was like a big deal if your band got
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and it's you know, something I still have to
Speaker 13: stack and show you know my niece's nephews. I'm like, oh, look,
Speaker 13: I was actually in a magazine.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like you could walk into any
Speaker 7: any music venue and see stacks of different.
Speaker 4: All the different ones. Yeah yeah, and they went away
Speaker 4: just like you said.
Speaker 13: And so one night she lives an English major and
Speaker 13: I'm like, listen, this is after a gig, is like
Speaker 13: two thirty in the morning. In the morning, I'm like,
Speaker 13: you know, scenes used to be a big deal. It's
Speaker 13: too bad that we have such a great music scene
Speaker 13: and that doesn't exist anymore. Right, It's like, we should
Speaker 13: start our own magazine. And Tony, you love English and
Speaker 13: you love music.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Tony gets all the credit for coming up with
Speaker 12: the idea. So this is the true story, right Tony.
Speaker 12: So the next day I woke up, woke up and
Speaker 12: I had already been to Staples and it had made
Speaker 12: a mock up.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and it's been like six hours he already
Speaker 4: had one.
Speaker 12: And so what's so interesting? And so to answer your question,
Speaker 12: did anyone try to talk us out of it or
Speaker 12: encourage us to go a different route. No, in fact,
Speaker 12: it caught on quickly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had actually a lot of support, good and
Speaker 4: so and.
Speaker 12: So we tend to say that we're old school in
Speaker 12: a lot of ways, and so we liked the idea
Speaker 12: of bringing back zines but making it more modern. Yeah,
Speaker 12: and so, so everyone was really encouraging right from the beginning.
Speaker 12: So maybe the fact that paper publications went away worked
Speaker 12: in our favorite because here they were coming back and
Speaker 12: people were really digging it.
Speaker 7: There there was it was like there was a void
Speaker 7: that needed to be filled.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no one was doing it, and and and so
Speaker 12: it was working out great, and we didn't it's not
Speaker 12: really like a business per se.
Speaker 4: It's we don't make money from it, yea. And to
Speaker 4: make money from it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: The idea was just to give some support and recognition
Speaker 13: to UHW the local band.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 13: All the bands that you meet and talk to and
Speaker 13: many many more. They're all just real nice guys. So
Speaker 13: the idea was just sort of give back a little bit.
Speaker 13: You know, I play in bands, so I know what
Speaker 13: it's like.
Speaker 7: You know, do you play earlier?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm in two bands.
Speaker 7: Oh what what bands?
Speaker 13: I'm in the on Peg band out of Rochester, and
Speaker 13: I'm in a band called p S out of Altam
Speaker 13: Oh cool.
Speaker 7: Cool, excellent, excellent. Yeah, so this is now when it
Speaker 7: when it started, was the first issue like this where.
Speaker 12: No, it was very different. I brought to Coveted first
Speaker 12: issue to.
Speaker 7: Show you, oh yeah yeah for for those watching online,
Speaker 7: if you're watching on Facebook.
Speaker 11: Made it staples and.
Speaker 12: I hand stapled it at my kitchen table and put
Speaker 12: them around town. This was how it started. Eight pages.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 12: I had five hundred copies made and I hand stapled
Speaker 12: them at my kitchen table and then I drove them
Speaker 12: around town. And that's how it started. The Coveted first issue,
Speaker 12: and it features our friend Wendy gagnin Poor who says,
Speaker 12: meet the singer in three bands, But Wendy's in three bands,
Speaker 12: so I asked her to be on our first cover
Speaker 12: and it took off from there. So eight pages turned
Speaker 12: into twelve, and twelve turned into sixteen. So I decided
Speaker 12: I couldn't hand staple that many cops anymore. So I
Speaker 12: found a local printer right in Rochester, who are fabulous,
Speaker 12: and so the magazines are now printed by Lilac City
Speaker 12: Printing in Rochester and they hate.
Speaker 7: The name and and they gave us paper jam. Yeah,
Speaker 7: a printer nightmare.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was it was really funny because the printer
Speaker 12: took us back and showed us this giant machine that
Speaker 12: they print the magazines on and they said, we we
Speaker 12: we really hate it when we get a paper jam.
Speaker 12: It was really funny. But anyway, so it kept expanding
Speaker 12: and expanding, and actually it.
Speaker 4: Started out quarterly.
Speaker 13: It was the idea oh okay, and within I think
Speaker 13: the second issue, if there was so much clamor that,
Speaker 13: we were like, okay, we have to at least go
Speaker 13: BI monthly. Yeah, And so we've been BI monthly ever since.
Speaker 13: So it's just been getting bigger more and.
Speaker 11: We love it. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: That's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Do you ever do you ever have moments where
Speaker 7: you go, wow, this is uh, this is a lot
Speaker 7: of work, Like I mean I assume, I mean, do
Speaker 7: you have do you have help with or do you
Speaker 7: do this all yourselves?
Speaker 4: That's all Sheila. Oh that's Sheila. I'm like a musical consultant.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's and she does all the really heavy living.
Speaker 12: I say, Tony, what what type of gear? Did he say?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 12: He plays that that helps me with that. So yeah,
Speaker 12: it's all me for now. I could really use some staff. Yeah, busy,
Speaker 12: but I'm not complaining. It's it's been a great thing
Speaker 12: and we have one of the best music communities.
Speaker 4: And it's really it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 12: Because it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 13: We have these bands come over the house. We had
Speaker 13: our basement down on my band practice of the a
Speaker 13: full practice space. Yeah, so they come over, we have
Speaker 13: our interview with them. A lot of times they'll play
Speaker 13: we you know, talk guitars and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 13: But it's just great to meet all the people. And
Speaker 13: we always spend a few hours with them. Yeah, it's always.
Speaker 4: A good time.
Speaker 12: So usually Sunday's is paper jam interview day, Okay, So
Speaker 12: Sunday we'll prepare. We finished our basement. We call it
Speaker 12: the R and R Lounge, right Russo and Russo and
Speaker 12: so you know, it kind of looks like a little
Speaker 12: pub down there with a live jam space. So we
Speaker 12: usually an interview, you know, the when the band arrives,
Speaker 12: we greet them outside, we bring them in and we
Speaker 12: have some food and snacks. We give them a little
Speaker 12: tour of the guitar lounge.
Speaker 7: And then I have a guitar room, okay, and then
Speaker 7: we start with.
Speaker 12: The interview and when we start with like a speed
Speaker 12: round and we have some fun and there's usually a
Speaker 12: lot of laughs.
Speaker 11: Great time.
Speaker 7: So what's your process for the interview? Do you record it?
Speaker 7: Do you record audio of it and then take it?
Speaker 12: And I actually literally type, I type while they answer. Yeah,
Speaker 12: I do, I type.
Speaker 4: Super fast fast.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 12: I do type their answers as they're oka bring the
Speaker 12: questions and and then so I have not recorded any
Speaker 12: of the interviews. However, that road we're gonna we're going
Speaker 12: to start zoom interviews. On August eighteenth, we have our
Speaker 12: first zoom interview. Because what happens is some of the
Speaker 12: bands who want to be in paper Gam live two
Speaker 12: or more hours away in New Hampshire. Yeah uh, and
Speaker 12: so I don't expect everyone to travel that far. So
Speaker 12: I decided to start zoom interviews and that comes with
Speaker 12: the capability of recording. So then that's when I'll start recording.
Speaker 7: Okay, and then when you do that, will you will
Speaker 7: you post uh the video of that as kind of like, uh.
Speaker 12: I hadn't thought I hadn't thought that far.
Speaker 4: Excerpts, Yeah, excerpts.
Speaker 12: I think that'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 13: Because there's always this this inevitably somebody say something, Oh,
Speaker 13: don't put that in don't put that.
Speaker 4: In there, right right.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we have this running joke that everybody says, strike
Speaker 12: that from the record, don't put that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because I'm you know, I'm thinking that'd be a good,
Speaker 7: you know, a good teaser to get you know, before
Speaker 7: the issue comes out, little little clips on YouTube, Facebook,
Speaker 7: and yeah.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, and so some of the bands play when they
Speaker 12: come to their interview in our in our jam space
Speaker 12: and some don't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but we love it either way.
Speaker 12: Everyone who comes, any band who comes as welcome to
Speaker 12: play a few songs.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, sometimes we'll put some of that up.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh that's amazing. Yeah, that's that's that's fantastic. Now,
Speaker 7: So what is the criteria in terms of artists who
Speaker 7: are in paper Jam? Do you do you focus on
Speaker 7: New Hampshire or is it water.
Speaker 13: New Hampshire. We started out just trying to keep a local,
Speaker 13: local air like Rochester Dover. Yeah, yeah, because we didn't
Speaker 13: you know, we don't have that much money to pay
Speaker 13: for you know, a million pages and it's a lot
Speaker 13: of work. So we started out that way and as
Speaker 13: it's grown, more and more people from further away are
Speaker 13: getting into it. The whole idea though, is that there
Speaker 13: is we support any and all music, you know what
Speaker 13: I mean, There are no I don't care if it's
Speaker 13: your first day playing guitar or you've been playing for years.
Speaker 4: So all level of music it is or it doesn't matter.
Speaker 12: And it doesn't matter if your country, pop, jazz, all levels,
Speaker 12: it's all inclusive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who is just to support everybody.
Speaker 12: We are getting contacted by bands outside of New Hampshire.
Speaker 12: That's maybe been one of the more difficult parts is
Speaker 12: I don't want to say no to anybody. But at
Speaker 12: the same time, there are so many local bands that
Speaker 12: I still are on our list. So I have a
Speaker 12: list called bands in Line. Unfortunately there is a waiting
Speaker 12: list and we're full through much of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So so the bands have been roll patient and understanding
Speaker 12: that they have to wait in a little bit of
Speaker 12: a line.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So that's a good problem to have, yeah, I think.
Speaker 12: But but when I start hearing from bands in other states,
Speaker 12: that's when I have to kind of think about New
Speaker 12: Hampshire based for now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, because that's only gonna obviously, as you you know,
Speaker 7: as you continue to grow. Uh, that'll that will probably
Speaker 7: continue to intensify. I would right, and especially now with
Speaker 7: the website too, you're gonna be probably probably already are
Speaker 7: hearing from a lot more.
Speaker 12: Yes, it's a very busy mail box.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: One of the things that Sheila came up with, because
Speaker 13: we can't have all these bands from everywhere at this point,
Speaker 13: is it if they contact us and we can't necessarily
Speaker 13: put them in she does like a spotlight special on
Speaker 13: the website and put something together for an advertisement something.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I put together a little video for them, pop
Speaker 12: it up on our Facebook page. Yeah, so that they
Speaker 12: had a bit so that they can be have a
Speaker 12: spotlight but not necessarily end up in the pages of
Speaker 12: the magazine.
Speaker 7: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: That was my way of sort of like not not
Speaker 12: saying no, yeah, no.
Speaker 7: That's good. That's good. And tell me about getting on
Speaker 7: the cover, like is there in terms of who gets
Speaker 7: on the cover, Like what is the decision making process there?
Speaker 7: And is there a criteria like like when you put
Speaker 7: like obviously day to attend, you know, they certainly deserve
Speaker 7: to be on the cover, And yes they do. I'm
Speaker 7: so glad that you did that, but and I know
Speaker 7: they are too, because they you know, they speak very
Speaker 7: highly of Paper Jam and and what you're doing. But like,
Speaker 7: how does that work getting on the cover?
Speaker 12: Getting on the cover? I think people believe it's because
Speaker 12: we personally love that band the most, or that we
Speaker 12: think they're better, or when in fact, it has not
Speaker 12: very little to.
Speaker 1: Do with that.
Speaker 12: It has something to do with that because y'all know
Speaker 12: I love Day to Attend. They're going on the cover. Yeah,
Speaker 12: but all of the bands that have been on the cover,
Speaker 12: and all of the bands that have been in the
Speaker 12: pages of Paper Gym, they're all equal to us. We
Speaker 12: don't play favorites. Yeah, it's it actually boils down to
Speaker 12: mostly timing. Who who reached out first and I said, oh,
Speaker 12: I don't have anyone for my cover next month. Uh,
Speaker 12: And it's a band that draws a big crowd, big following.
Speaker 4: Another thing factor is if they have like a CD
Speaker 4: just coming out.
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, so if you've got a CD coming out,
Speaker 12: or if you signed a you know, we had one
Speaker 12: band who signed a production deal and they're on our cover.
Speaker 12: Vigil great metal band.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, great guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah. Craig and those guys on the show. He
Speaker 7: hasn't been on for a very long time, but he's yeah,
Speaker 7: he's been one.
Speaker 12: So really it's about timing who contacts us first. If
Speaker 12: you know, if you contact me in January, I'm not
Speaker 12: going to make you wait.
Speaker 11: You know you you got in first.
Speaker 12: So it's a combination of timing, what's what's new, what's
Speaker 12: in the news for you, what can we report on,
Speaker 12: and also you know, who's Who's Who's a big band. Yeah,
Speaker 12: but some of the other bands that have been in
Speaker 12: the not on the cover are also cover worthy. And
Speaker 12: we we had a saying where we're like, there's only
Speaker 12: one cover and there's so many bands.
Speaker 7: Well I'm curious, I mean, is it ever a hard decision?
Speaker 12: It is a hard decision bands like Middleman or Standard
Speaker 12: Tuning or you know, bands like you know, they're fantastic
Speaker 12: and we just only have one cover.
Speaker 7: So yeah.
Speaker 13: Sometimes too, what we'll try and do is whether it's
Speaker 13: the issue, if it's a different issues, before they're going
Speaker 13: to be in it. Sometimes we'll give them the back cover.
Speaker 13: Oh okay, so you know it's not the cover, but
Speaker 13: it's the cover. So or if we're going to tease something,
Speaker 13: you know, like a band coming in the next issue,
Speaker 13: or we might put that on the back cover or
Speaker 13: something like that.
Speaker 12: So on the on the back cover of our Data
Speaker 12: to Attend issue, you'll see it has a Cathedral tribute
Speaker 12: to van Halen. Okay, so they're next on our cover.
Speaker 7: Oh cool.
Speaker 12: So so they're they're a great band.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great tar player and the bass player is super cool.
Speaker 12: They're called Cathedral Cathedral attribute to the music of Van Halen.
Speaker 12: Fantastic okay, featuring Tyler Morris doing all that Eddie van
Speaker 12: halenk He's fantastic.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so we're looking forward to that one.
Speaker 7: Very cool, very cool. And how many of these? So
Speaker 7: you've got this this Girl's Rock where you know, obviously
Speaker 7: you've got a montage of female musicians on the cover.
Speaker 7: So it's a special edition. Have you done more than
Speaker 7: one of these special editions where instead of you know,
Speaker 7: just putting one artist.
Speaker 12: Where you that's the only one so far. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 12: that was a very popular issue.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 12: We'd afford actually saw the Girl's Rock issue. Yeah, we
Speaker 12: had a friend bringing bring it to the lead a
Speaker 12: forge and I have a picture of her looking at it.
Speaker 12: And then we've also had Zach Wilde read paper jam
Speaker 12: and sign it for us. Yeah, that was a fun moment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were talking about that off air. He gave
Speaker 7: you some he gave you some some meritles because you know,
Speaker 7: because congratulations, it's been what eight months? Yeah? Thanks, less
Speaker 7: than a year, it's still new, right, Yeah? Yeah, can
Speaker 7: you can you tell us what he told you? Or
Speaker 7: is that not appropriate for radio?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 12: Actually, Tony, we love the story, so I'm sure would
Speaker 12: be happy to tell you what Zach told us.
Speaker 13: Okay, he basically said, just use the word I'm sorry.
Speaker 13: You ready to say I'm sorry, right, you know, like
Speaker 13: my wife's never going to leave it, so I just
Speaker 13: say I'm sorry.
Speaker 12: It was really funny about it.
Speaker 4: It was hlarious.
Speaker 13: And then he's like, so you say you're sorry, and
Speaker 13: then just say you want to go get some coffee,
Speaker 13: and you know, you go and just you know that
Speaker 13: that's whatever problem it is to roll off your back,
Speaker 13: right right.
Speaker 12: It's basically and he said, go go have a go
Speaker 12: have a coffee and move on.
Speaker 4: And he wrote that all.
Speaker 12: He wrote it on the guitar case.
Speaker 4: Which is funny because we've actually used the advice.
Speaker 12: Yeah something, Yeah, you want to have a cup of
Speaker 12: coffee and I go yes, and then we're good and
Speaker 12: then we say thank you Zach wild.
Speaker 7: Yes, he's a really nice guy though, that's what I've heard. Yeah, wait,
Speaker 7: well Jenny, you met you met Zach Wilde right.
Speaker 11: With yes, right here in Manchester. Yeah, when he was six,
Speaker 11: His sixteenth.
Speaker 14: Birthday present was surprise tickets to VIP tickets to the
Speaker 14: Black Label Society concert here in Manchester.
Speaker 11: It was awesome, awesome, he told Jesse. I was really then.
Speaker 11: He had a really cool mom, so I was like
Speaker 11: really excited about that.
Speaker 7: When they were at it. Mustn't it was Silver Rizing
Speaker 7: Center then, right was that? Yeah? Snow? Yeah?
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, no, it wasn't snow back then, Yeah, back
Speaker 14: then listen. But it was an amazing concert. It was
Speaker 14: an amazing it was. It was definitely worth it, hundred percent.
Speaker 14: And I think the money from the VIP was going
Speaker 14: to a children's hospital or something like that.
Speaker 11: It wasn't.
Speaker 14: The band wasn't keeping it. It was all getting donated.
Speaker 14: I'm not surprised by Yeah, no, it doesn't surprise me
Speaker 14: at all either. But that made it even more sweet
Speaker 14: to do the VIP, knowing whether one he was going
Speaker 14: oh yeah, yeah, No, it was an incredible concert.
Speaker 11: Definitely great memory. I still wear my T shirt.
Speaker 7: Now. So Tony, I'm curious when when you're you know,
Speaker 7: obviously you're in a couple of bands. I assume you're
Speaker 7: out playing a lot of shows. Do do do people
Speaker 7: from other bands ever try to kind of lean on you, like, hey,
Speaker 7: get us into Paper Jam, Oh, get us on the cover.
Speaker 13: We want to be on the cover, Like, oh yeah
Speaker 13: all the time, and the answer is always yes, we'll
Speaker 13: get you in there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Well I don't know exactly when, but yeah, we don't
Speaker 13: really say no to anybody. And it's just again about
Speaker 13: our timing. That one of the coolest parts for me
Speaker 13: about all this is that, you know, meeting all these
Speaker 13: guys from all these different bands. You know, I'm one
Speaker 13: of them. Yeah, And so we go out, we see them,
Speaker 13: these bands play, We get to meet every buddy. But
Speaker 13: then I see faces that from the other band's showing
Speaker 13: up see me play, which is always you know, it's
Speaker 13: it's again comes back to just an awesome community. So
Speaker 13: but it's really cool when I see people that I've
Speaker 13: met through Paper Jam out in the crowd.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, you get to see me play now. Cool. Thanks.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 12: You know what else is really cool is when Tony's
Speaker 12: playing a show, or we go to a show and
Speaker 12: we look out in the crowd and there's always a
Speaker 12: handful of people in a paper Jam shirt or a
Speaker 12: paper Jam hat or or they're walking around picking up
Speaker 12: the issue because we leave them at the music venues.
Speaker 12: Like usually when we go to see a show, we
Speaker 12: bring copies with us. The venues are so so gracious
Speaker 12: and cool to let us put them there, and so
Speaker 12: we have a lot of drop sites around, but I
Speaker 12: definitely like the music venues, and so we bring copies
Speaker 12: and see these strangers wearing a shirt or reading the magazine,
Speaker 12: and it's a pretty good feeling. And then the next thing,
Speaker 12: you know, you see them at you see them again,
Speaker 12: and I don't know, We've met so many great people
Speaker 12: through this.
Speaker 13: It's Oh, it's hilarious because some of the people will
Speaker 13: send pictures. Oh I'm in Mexico at the beach and where.
Speaker 7: They're wearing their paper Oh yeah, yeah, we have this.
Speaker 4: We have around the world, the paper.
Speaker 12: We have this thing whereas where is paper Jam. So
Speaker 12: when they when they travel they send me a pic
Speaker 12: in their shirts and tell me where they're where they're from,
Speaker 12: somewhere in the world.
Speaker 7: Very cool, kind of fun, very cool. How do people
Speaker 7: get the shirts? Do they order them online or you can?
Speaker 12: We have men's and ladies shirts and just got some
Speaker 12: tank tops and yeah, stickers and yeah we have stickers,
Speaker 12: key change, all kinds of merch and how many.
Speaker 7: How many drop locations do you have? I assume that's
Speaker 7: grown over this, It has grown.
Speaker 12: I think we started with like, you know, six seventy
Speaker 12: eight and now I believe there's over thirty and I think,
Speaker 12: you know, definitely want to give a shout out to
Speaker 12: a friend of ours named Jim. Jim Antonino. He came
Speaker 12: into the paper Jam circle and has really been you
Speaker 12: and super supportive and helping us get ads. So we
Speaker 12: weren't selling ads the first year and a half too.
Speaker 12: This is also kind of recent. Jim has been very
Speaker 12: helpful in helping us sell ads and find new locations
Speaker 12: to put Paper Jam magazine excellent and we appreciate him
Speaker 12: very right. Yeah, so I was sort of sticking to
Speaker 12: you know, it's a hobby. You know, I'm not trying
Speaker 12: to make money. I'm just trying to, you know, help
Speaker 12: the bands get some recognition that they deserve. And then
Speaker 12: Jim came and said, you have a really good model
Speaker 12: going here. Let me see where we can take this.
Speaker 12: And so he has helped us so much. I appreciate you,
Speaker 12: Jim very much. And so we've sold a few ads.
Speaker 4: And we're just I have to give this a shut
Speaker 4: out to us. Got a big hit guitars as well,
Speaker 4: he was one of the first.
Speaker 12: Got a big hit guitars.
Speaker 4: Awesome guitar.
Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, real nice stuff. He's got the whole range.
Speaker 13: But he's got some real nice high end excellent.
Speaker 12: So even though it's just us in one sense, it's
Speaker 12: really not just us because we've had help along the way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's outstanding. By the way, Jay Bellow, who
Speaker 7: I'm sure you all know from Chasing the Devil. Uh,
Speaker 7: he's in the chat room. He says, thank you all
Speaker 7: so much for what you do for local music and musicians.
Speaker 4: Thank you very nice.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Jeff Richards, of course from day to attend, says Black
Speaker 7: Label played Chantillies in Manchester once with Robert on bass,
Speaker 7: who is in Metallica.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, wow, they played Wow.
Speaker 7: I remember I remember going to a lot of shows
Speaker 7: back in the day at Chantillies, That's for sure. That
Speaker 7: must have been when black label society was just starting out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would have been way back.
Speaker 7: I had to be way back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, early two thousands probably.
Speaker 7: I still remember the first time I ever saw Zach
Speaker 7: Wild when he was I think it was in the
Speaker 7: Ozzie's No More Tears video.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he looked very different then he looks. That's love
Speaker 4: with Yeah More Tears era.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: The Theodore of Madness tour at the Orphan okay, this one,
Speaker 13: and it was a small location, it's actual and I
Speaker 13: was just starting to play the guitar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he just absolutely floored me. Yeah, like I
Speaker 4: want to I want to do that. Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 4: I've never looked back. I've been obsessed with the guitar
Speaker 4: ever since.
Speaker 7: Oh no kidding. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Tom Siracusa from uh of course out dat to Attend
Speaker 7: says paper Jam supports young musicians as well. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 7: grim Rock is in the Facebook live chat our friend
Speaker 7: from Pennsylvania by the way, so in the coming up
Speaker 7: in the third hour. So uh, he sends us a
Speaker 7: lot of cool stuff and we have not opened this
Speaker 7: package yet, but this package here that I'm holding we're
Speaker 7: going to oh, this is from Grim, from our friend
Speaker 7: Grim Rock and Pa, and we're going to open that
Speaker 7: in the Uh. I mean we know what it is,
Speaker 7: right I do. I mean it's it's obviously I assume
Speaker 7: it's a CD.
Speaker 11: I know you know, you know what it is, but
Speaker 11: I'm not telling you.
Speaker 7: And we're going to open that up today and the
Speaker 7: third hour live on the air. So looking forward to that.
Speaker 7: But no, he's amazing. But uh, and he says, Hey, hey, Hope,
Speaker 7: everyone's day rock.
Speaker 14: I have Grim stickers along with my Data Attend stickers. Yes,
Speaker 14: and I'm wearing a Data to Attend T shirt.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's yes, she is.
Speaker 11: Jen.
Speaker 12: I really wish I brought you paper jam stickers. I'm
Speaker 12: going to send you some.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, stickers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Jenny loves the stickers. Yeah, you can see on
Speaker 7: if you're watching live on Facebook, you can see Jenny's.
Speaker 14: That's just one part of my laptop. They're on the
Speaker 14: bottom too. Yeah, they're on everything. I'm a sticker.
Speaker 7: Jenny's got a lot of stickers.
Speaker 14: Jesse inherited that from me too. He's he's now stickering
Speaker 14: up his guitar case. Oh okay, on a mission.
Speaker 12: Speaking of stickers. When the bands come for their interviews,
Speaker 12: they bring so much merch and they're so generous, and
Speaker 12: so we too ended up with a large pile of
Speaker 12: band stickers, which we love. I was trying to think
Speaker 12: what to do with them. So we went out and
Speaker 12: we bought like this huge poster board and we made
Speaker 12: like a all of stickers. Great, so we filled it
Speaker 12: so I got to start a new one. But they
Speaker 12: bring us all kinds of great, great thing CD shirts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and.
Speaker 11: It's fantastic.
Speaker 7: We used to have something like that in the old
Speaker 7: studio because we've we've only been here when did we
Speaker 7: move here October November of last year. But when we
Speaker 7: were in our when W. M and H was on
Speaker 7: our Elm Street location, we had a wall where you know,
Speaker 7: you could put stickers sign it. But uh, but now
Speaker 7: that we're in this nice new place, is really not
Speaker 7: not a place for that. You know, if somebody pulled
Speaker 7: out a sharpie and signed the wall here, I'd get fired.
Speaker 7: But we but we had a Yeah, we had a
Speaker 7: really cool thing where you know, you could do that,
Speaker 7: But no, that's a great idea though.
Speaker 13: The Rochester Opera House is cool about that. In the
Speaker 13: back back part of the stage. Yeah, all the bands
Speaker 13: that have played there get to sign it. Yeah right, Yeah,
Speaker 13: And a lot of the venues will have something like that. Yes,
Speaker 13: you know, we'll have a sticker.
Speaker 4: You know, it's always a fight bands again, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: put my sticker over there.
Speaker 7: I used to see that a lot in Boston, like
Speaker 7: when I was really active promoting live shows. I would
Speaker 7: see that at a lot of the Boston venues, and
Speaker 7: I'm sure a lot of them still have it where
Speaker 7: it just you know, just covered in stickers, you know,
Speaker 7: going back decades, you know, and you could kind of
Speaker 7: you could kind of look at it and try to
Speaker 7: pick out Oh wow, I remember that band, and I
Speaker 7: remember that.
Speaker 4: You remember Sarah Morgan's cove in Worster.
Speaker 7: Sounds familiar.
Speaker 13: Yeah, they're paying the fameous the Rolling Stones played there
Speaker 13: once and the Anyways it was.
Speaker 4: It was a cool place. It's gone now, like many
Speaker 4: of them, unfortunately.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but yeah, Middle East Ts, all those places, they
Speaker 13: all had stuff like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of places come and go.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 7: So do you ever feature anyone, or have you ever
Speaker 7: featured anyone in the publication who's not necessarily a musician
Speaker 7: but is doing something else, like maybe someone who owns
Speaker 7: the venue.
Speaker 12: Or yeah, that's a great question. We actually, in addition
Speaker 12: to UH band interviews, we also have spotlight articles. Okay,
Speaker 12: and there's a web site for female drummers called Drummer
Speaker 12: Girls United. I think it has about seven thousand female
Speaker 12: drummer members and from that site, I have interviewed separately
Speaker 12: three female drummers, so we did spotlight on them, and
Speaker 12: then we've also done a spotlight on a few venues
Speaker 12: that feature live music and I love to do spotlight articles.
Speaker 12: In the next issue, there'll be one with Scott from
Speaker 12: Big Hit Guitars that we mentioned previously, spotlight his new
Speaker 12: guitar shop. Because it's fantastic. It's bad for me because
Speaker 12: we tried the magazine. We try to include band interviews,
Speaker 12: and then we try to include some music related articles,
Speaker 12: maybe about gear or how to promote your CD, songwriting lyrics,
Speaker 12: that kind of thing, and then we have the spotlight articles,
Speaker 12: which are generally shorter, and then we also add in
Speaker 12: some jokes and some trivi in some fun stuff and
Speaker 12: seem to like hitting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's a good time. Do you have do
Speaker 7: you have a number of is? Like is there a
Speaker 7: number of artists that you try to have in every
Speaker 7: Is there like a minimum threshold of artists that you
Speaker 7: try to have in each issue?
Speaker 12: Yes, started with two per issue, and it went and
Speaker 12: it went to three, and now in this day to
Speaker 12: attend issue there's four bands. Yeah, but we did four
Speaker 12: full interviews. Yeah, And when it comes to the interviews,
Speaker 12: we try to find an angle. When the band arrives
Speaker 12: and we get situated, I let them know, like, as
Speaker 12: we talk through this interview, I need to find an
Speaker 12: angle for your band, because otherwise it's all going to
Speaker 12: sound the same, right, So I often ask tell me
Speaker 12: about your background, what's your experience, how'd you learn to
Speaker 12: play music? Or I'll say, uh, what venues have you played?
Speaker 12: Or who influenced you? All of those questions are often
Speaker 12: the same for every band, but it would all start
Speaker 12: to sound like if we didn't find an angle, right,
Speaker 12: And luckily there always seems to be one, which is
Speaker 12: some band is you know, one band's coming out with
Speaker 12: a new album, or one band is brand new on
Speaker 12: the scene and they're trying to make a name for themselves.
Speaker 12: That's their angle. The new band on the scene, or
Speaker 12: there's a band that's, you know, all females, or there's
Speaker 12: a band that's made up of teenagers, like a band
Speaker 12: we featured in the Day to Attend issue. Tom Syracuse'
Speaker 12: daughter Hannah Rose is fifteen and she's a fabulous drummer
Speaker 12: and she's in bands, and so we featured her in
Speaker 12: there as well. So we try to find the angle
Speaker 12: so it all doesn't sound the same. Hopefully it's working.
Speaker 7: Do you have prior experience interviewing or working in PR
Speaker 7: because what you just said, not everyone knows that. And
Speaker 7: it's evidence that not everyone knows that because you'll see
Speaker 7: a lot of people who do interviews who do They
Speaker 7: just ask the same old questions, where you from?
Speaker 11: Where are you from?
Speaker 7: What kind of music do you play?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 7: So so to know that, I mean, is that just
Speaker 7: something you knew instinctively or do you have prior experience.
Speaker 12: I don't have prior experience in interviewing or or anything
Speaker 12: like that. But but I've always been a writer, okay,
Speaker 12: and so I I have a book of short stories
Speaker 12: of written novels. Like I I've always been a writer.
Speaker 12: So I think from that I learned some.
Speaker 7: Of that some of you know, yeah, because it was obvious,
Speaker 7: like looking like looking at the day to Attend article,
Speaker 7: it was like, okay, you you know how to interview,
Speaker 7: because not everyone does, a lot of people try and
Speaker 7: they don't really know how to do it.
Speaker 4: Does a great job.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I'm just sort of like the comedic value,
Speaker 13: you know, comedic value to the whole thing right right.
Speaker 12: Now, another part of another thing put out the snacks.
Speaker 7: Oh, somebody asked you.
Speaker 6: So. So.
Speaker 12: Another thing that's interesting about the articles is that some
Speaker 12: of them are written in a question and answer format,
Speaker 12: and other articles are written, you know, just straight out
Speaker 12: like about the band versus questioning answer and so someone
Speaker 12: asked me one time, like, how do you decide, you know,
Speaker 12: and I just said, it depends on the feel of
Speaker 12: the band, what we're going to talk about. Some bands
Speaker 12: feel more like a question and answer type interview. I
Speaker 12: can't really say why. It just it's a feeling and
Speaker 12: it depends on the angle we want to talk about.
Speaker 12: So and then I love to get the poll quotes.
Speaker 12: I call them the poll quotes are inevitably, someone during
Speaker 12: the interview will say something profound or interesting that stands
Speaker 12: out to me, and I'll make a little note like
Speaker 12: this would make a great poll quote, and then as
Speaker 12: you flip through the pages of paper Jam, you'll see
Speaker 12: a lot of that, like you'll see a band member's
Speaker 12: photo and then usually like a great quote that they
Speaker 12: gave us. And so I'm kind of fortunate because the
Speaker 12: bands make it easy for us. They have so much
Speaker 12: to say and they're great.
Speaker 7: Is there anyone who's really surprised you? I mean, I'm
Speaker 7: sure there are, Like who you interviewed them and they
Speaker 7: wound up being way more interesting than you expected, Like
Speaker 7: they just had a backstory that really maybe when in
Speaker 7: a direction you weren't expecting.
Speaker 13: All the time, almost every time, really some sort of
Speaker 13: surprise that you, like, even Day two attend those guys
Speaker 13: again wickednized guys, but they all pulled.
Speaker 4: Together from all these different situations they were in over
Speaker 4: a long period of time.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and you know, it's just but almost every band
Speaker 13: gives us some sort of we didn't expect that, which
Speaker 13: is really cool. Yeah, and you find out somebody was like, oh,
Speaker 13: I was an opera singer. I didn't didn't see that
Speaker 13: one coming right right right, you know, and stuff like that.
Speaker 13: So it's always it's always an interesting time and.
Speaker 7: Isn't that one of them? Like I feel like for
Speaker 7: me as as someone who interviews people, that's like one
Speaker 7: of the best things I love when somebody says something
Speaker 7: to me I completely wasn't expecting, or they reveal something
Speaker 7: about that just like, wow, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 7: That just makes it so much more rewarding, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean.
Speaker 12: I'll have to say that one of the questions I
Speaker 12: like to ask is do you have any hobbies or
Speaker 12: interests outside of music? Because they're all here to talk
Speaker 12: about their instruments and their music and experience. But sometimes
Speaker 12: I'm just curious to know what do you like to
Speaker 12: do when you're not doing music? And that's where it
Speaker 12: really gets interesting because you find out that, you know,
Speaker 12: some people are a professional chef or some people mm A, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 12: and so and so it's been really interesting to hear
Speaker 12: what they like to do outside of music. Yeah, really
Speaker 12: get to know and that that surprises me. Sometimes. We
Speaker 12: had one we had one band member who told me
Speaker 12: he's made over five hundred or eight hundred I forget,
Speaker 12: a very high number of skydive jumps.
Speaker 7: Kidding.
Speaker 12: That was that was Scott I think from from Stiletto Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, you know what I think is smart too about
Speaker 7: your approaches. It kind of I think it probably uh
Speaker 7: snaps them out of because I I mean, I can
Speaker 7: kind of tell, and I'm sure you can too, when
Speaker 7: someone comes into an interview and they're sort of they
Speaker 7: have an expectation of what they're going to be asked,
Speaker 7: and they've kind of already done the interview in their
Speaker 7: own mind, you know, So it's not you know some musicians.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know from my experience, sometimes I'll interview
Speaker 7: someone and they seem really spontaneous and like they're fully engaged,
Speaker 7: and some people, you know, you can kind of tell where,
Speaker 7: like I said, they've already done the interview in their brain. Yeah,
Speaker 7: they're just kind of giving you the answers to the
Speaker 7: questions that they're already expecting to hear. So if you
Speaker 7: can pull them out of their shell by asking them
Speaker 7: something sort of outside of that, yeah, that's a great technique.
Speaker 12: We start with the speed round. We just throw out
Speaker 12: questions and really just to break the ice, we say
Speaker 12: like meganex or Metallica, cats are dogs, you know, Bendor Gibson,
Speaker 12: and and then and then mountains or lakes, you know,
Speaker 12: and you know, and then once we get.
Speaker 13: Through the.
Speaker 4: Tattoos are piercings.
Speaker 7: You know, Jeff from day to attend says in the chat,
Speaker 7: it's amazing how Sheila compiles all that info into the
Speaker 7: amazing articles.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 7: How long does that take? I mean, it probably varies
Speaker 7: wildly from one to the next, but I mean.
Speaker 12: It takes a long time. Yeah, it's pretty much a
Speaker 12: full time job outside of my regular full time.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the second month, because we have two months, just
Speaker 13: two months to do it. Yeah, and so trying to
Speaker 13: get all the interviews in inevitably a lot of the
Speaker 13: interviews happened in the second month. So the last two
Speaker 13: three weeks of that month, it's like it was like, yeah,
Speaker 13: work on it, and she's always the computer and you know,
Speaker 13: just busting a cute little bum there to uh to
Speaker 13: finish it up.
Speaker 7: Does it come out the same day of the month.
Speaker 12: It comes out at the beginning of you know, it's
Speaker 12: bi monthly, so it'll come out early in the in
Speaker 12: the new month, Okay, but it's not always the same day. Yeah,
Speaker 12: you know, I don't think the printers open on the weekend,
Speaker 12: so sometimes we have to wait till Monday.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and then of course driving it around and we
Speaker 13: both have day job, so yeah, you know, just trying
Speaker 13: to find the time to go distribute it and so forth.
Speaker 4: So usually within a few days beginning of the month. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Another thing that we do that people may not realize
Speaker 12: is that once the issue's done, so to speak, I always,
Speaker 12: I always do proofs from the printer. So I go
Speaker 12: pick up a black and white and a color proof
Speaker 12: and I go over it page by page to make
Speaker 12: sure that the colors translate well. Yeah, and it looks
Speaker 12: good in black and white, looks good in color. Make
Speaker 12: sure there's no spelling mistakes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: And as a grammar nazi, I really have made typos before,
Speaker 12: and I didn't sleep for a week because I just
Speaker 12: don't want to make typos in my magazine.
Speaker 11: But it happens.
Speaker 12: We're all human. Yeah, But I try to go through
Speaker 12: it and check the colors and the layout and make
Speaker 12: sure it's all looking good. And before we hit what
Speaker 12: I call the go button. But once I look at
Speaker 12: the proofs, then we hit the go button, and then
Speaker 12: and then the printer does their thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know what you mean, Grammar. I'm the same way, right,
Speaker 7: You're the same way. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think I did one issue where I said
Speaker 12: something about metal mayhem and I misspelled mayhem and I
Speaker 12: didn't catch it, and it still bothers.
Speaker 7: Me because I would be I would be the same
Speaker 7: way in that situation. Like I I even I'm I mean,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm at the point where I'm horrified if I
Speaker 7: see something I posted on social media and I realized
Speaker 7: i'mspelled something. Yeah, but I'll go back and corrected, And
Speaker 7: most people wouldn't bother because it's just social media. But yeah,
Speaker 7: are you Yeah? Yeah, yeah, very cool. Oh we should
Speaker 7: mention too, so if you're is it everyone who's in
Speaker 7: the magazine gets a color.
Speaker 4: Copy or yeah?
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, ever is we we print in black and
Speaker 12: white for our paper copies all over the community, but
Speaker 12: we always print full color copies for everyone who gets
Speaker 12: in the in the magazine.
Speaker 4: Okay, so everybody and everybody, everybody.
Speaker 12: Each member gets a color copy.
Speaker 7: Oh, very cool, that's really cool. Yeah. Yeah. Tom Russo,
Speaker 7: who was also here with us last week, a very
Speaker 7: talented musician. He says, I'd love to get in your publication.
Speaker 7: This sounds great, do you know, Tom, I don't sing
Speaker 7: a songwriter really I know the name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know the name.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's he's uh, he's amazing.
Speaker 4: We can get you in there. Just go ahead and
Speaker 4: get you in. Yeah, contact us.
Speaker 7: What's the best way for Should they contact you through
Speaker 7: the website or on social media?
Speaker 12: What's the best way is our email box? It's uh,
Speaker 12: it's paper Jam, Underscore mag m a g at yahoo
Speaker 12: dot com. So paper Jam Underscore mag y at yahoo
Speaker 12: dot com. Okay, and just tell tell us a little
Speaker 12: bit about who you are and your band, and you know,
Speaker 12: it doesn't have to be just a band to be
Speaker 12: solo musicians. Yeah, yeah, we'll do that too. So if
Speaker 12: you'd like to be in paper Jam, just send us
Speaker 12: an email and tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 12: A lot of times people will send links so we
Speaker 12: can listen to their music and we can go from there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Again, there is a bit of a waiting line. Yeah,
Speaker 12: so if you don't if you don't mind waiting a
Speaker 12: little bit, but we can.
Speaker 11: Make it happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's amazing how patient a lot of these bands are.
Speaker 7: Sure sure is there?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 13: Or some of them will be like I do want
Speaker 13: to be on the cover, and we're like, well, it's
Speaker 13: going to be like eight months yeah before that's okay, yeah,
Speaker 13: oh wait, yeah, you know, and they do and it's
Speaker 13: you know, it's great.
Speaker 4: It's every really is supportive of it.
Speaker 12: And it's a nice mix too, because we have cover bands,
Speaker 12: we have original bands, and then we have tribute bands.
Speaker 12: So we've done all three and and so it's a.
Speaker 11: Nice mix there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, outstanding, bless you, I think, did Jesus see it?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Our allergies have been well I have allergies. I don't
Speaker 7: know what your issues.
Speaker 11: I'm allergic to you.
Speaker 7: Yes, that must be what it is.
Speaker 4: That must be.
Speaker 7: Oh and before we run out of time. The time
Speaker 7: goes so quickly, it's already approaching the top of the hour.
Speaker 7: But what what do you have or do you know yet?
Speaker 7: What's what's in store for the next issue? Obviously Day
Speaker 7: to Attend is on the cover, on.
Speaker 12: The cover of this one yet but for next time
Speaker 12: we have Cathedral Okay, the van Halen Tribute amazing van
Speaker 12: Halen ban Yeah, amazing, But it's our friend Kirk bartholomewn
Speaker 12: awesome Kirk and Tyler Morris. We're looking at a band
Speaker 12: called down by ten, a band called dumpster Fire, I.
Speaker 7: Think, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: Do you love that? And we're looking at Scott at
Speaker 12: Big Hit Guitars for a nice spotlight article and lots.
Speaker 7: More excellent excellent, And who else is in the current
Speaker 7: one too? For obviously day to Aten is on the cover.
Speaker 7: Who else do you have in the current issue?
Speaker 12: We have Standard Tuning, great cover band, and Sea Rock
Speaker 12: and Tainted Hearts. So Sea Rock is a band, a
Speaker 12: local cover band that came and they gave us a
Speaker 12: very memorable interview because they were hilarious and made us
Speaker 12: laugh for a two hours.
Speaker 11: That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 12: They just great. And Tainted Hearts is the young teen
Speaker 12: band that they range in age from from fifteen to seventeen.
Speaker 12: And that's who's in the current I.
Speaker 7: Think their name has come up on the show recently.
Speaker 7: I don't remember why.
Speaker 12: But Painted Hearts is Tom syracusea of Day to Attend.
Speaker 12: That's his daughter, Okay.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's why. Yeah, so Tom must have mentioned that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so we were just for Tom.
Speaker 4: Guns and Roses are awesome.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go, don't we all do? Who does
Speaker 7: I mean or everybody? I mean, they're one of those
Speaker 7: bands I mean, who doesn't I mean everybody either loves
Speaker 7: them or at least likes them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You very rarely hear anyone say I don't like Guns
Speaker 7: and Roses.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know if that's ever happened.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's somebody somewhere, but
Speaker 7: it's it's unusual. Like my my favorite band is Kiss,
Speaker 7: but there are a lot of Kiss haters, Like there
Speaker 7: are a lot of people who will tell you they
Speaker 7: don't like Kiss. But uh, no, guns and Roses. I
Speaker 7: don't know anyone who Jenny Guns and Roses.
Speaker 11: Not particularly you.
Speaker 7: You don't particularly like them. Yeah, see we found somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you don't hate them, though, do you?
Speaker 11: I don't hate any musician.
Speaker 7: Okay, do you dislike them?
Speaker 11: I'm not particularly fond of their music.
Speaker 12: No, Well, then I.
Speaker 4: Guess I can't say that next time.
Speaker 7: I guess not.
Speaker 11: You didn't ask me until now. Do you ever hear
Speaker 11: me play them?
Speaker 7: Actually?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 11: Never in all our years, like a decade.
Speaker 7: Never? Oh, Tattoo Babbel, But I don't know how to
Speaker 7: pronounce the last name is in the chat uh and
Speaker 7: says uh tattoo in the house and uh, I have
Speaker 7: definitely heard. But you got to have old g and
Speaker 7: r oh, that's true. Yeah, people do people do? Uh
Speaker 7: yeah yeah yeah, kind of like metallic yeah yeah. Oh
Speaker 7: and Jeff Richard says, I kiss rules, Matt you Rock,
Speaker 7: thank you. Oh it's baby, tattoo baby is how you
Speaker 7: pronounce that? Apparently? Okay? Oh I see? Oh I thought
Speaker 7: that was it's two eyes not I l okay? Is
Speaker 7: that someone you guys know?
Speaker 12: I don't recognize?
Speaker 7: Okay, well, welcome to the show. Tattoo. Oh it's someone
Speaker 7: Grimrock notes, I see, okay, gotcha. Grim Rock was asking
Speaker 7: if you're just Yeah. Grimrock is in Pennsylvania, so he
Speaker 7: obviously isn't someone you would necessarily want for Paper Jam,
Speaker 7: but we.
Speaker 4: Could spotlight it though.
Speaker 7: Oh there you go. Yeah yeah yeah, so get in
Speaker 7: touch on Grimrock. Yeah yeah, he's grim Rock is amazing.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, tattoo Baby is Grimrock's cover model? Gotcha?
Speaker 4: Gotcha?
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, we are out of time. Remind us again,
Speaker 7: where should people go online? The website and anything else
Speaker 7: people should know about paper Jam.
Speaker 12: Well, the website is paper Jam Magazine dot com. So
Speaker 12: if you want to look at some back issues, I'll
Speaker 12: send it to you mail order. I think it's only
Speaker 12: four bucks. Yeah, to order a back issue. Okay, and
Speaker 12: the email is paper Jam Underscore mag at Yahoo dot com.
Speaker 4: Okay, And of course we're on Facebook as well.
Speaker 12: And we're on Facebook as paper Jam the music mag
Speaker 12: for local bands and fans.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, outstanding, Sheila and Tony, thank you both so much.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 7: This has been wonderful. We'll have to do it again
Speaker 7: in the future. I love what you're doing, very very cool.
Speaker 7: And we'll actually end this segment. Of course. If you're
Speaker 7: listening live on Saturday morning, stick around. We got plenty
Speaker 7: more show coming for you. But we'll end our segment
Speaker 7: with Ghosts Inside, another great track from Day to a
Speaker 7: Song and of course Day to Attend on the cover
Speaker 7: of the current issue of paper Jam magazine. And this
Speaker 7: is another great track. This is called ghost Inside. To
Speaker 7: the eaves of the Blue Sky.
Speaker 9: It's in the clashes down on you.
Speaker 6: You may believe that nothing you can do, because your
Speaker 6: arms into the sky comes.
Speaker 2: If it's true, you'll know the warm thing that I
Speaker 2: was always there for you.
Speaker 6: Memories start to practice and got Marrich just keeps on
Speaker 6: calm and back them. Misconn turns too sweet and then
Speaker 6: and knocks you up.
Speaker 2: Dorfy, it's your ghost inside. It can run with and how,
Speaker 2: but you cannot escarce lost in those I can from way.
Speaker 6: It's the Colston side of temper. I still can't find mine.
Speaker 6: I'm blind didn't come right, used to go still side out,
Speaker 6: canting and.
Speaker 2: Said come out, come out, come out, come out and
Speaker 2: say say if it's true you knows the one thing
Speaker 2: now was.
Speaker 6: Always there for you, memories, the two practice and not
Speaker 6: Marrich's kids on coming back.
Speaker 12: Then, I'm this.
Speaker 2: Can turn too sweet and many knocks you up. Door beat,
Speaker 2: here's your ghost inside. You can run, you can have,
Speaker 2: but you cannot stay lost in No, I can't find way.
Speaker 6: Here's the ghost in side of Campero.
Speaker 9: I still can't find the way.
Speaker 2: A blinded father man, here's the ghost