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your fall that stop so so I know when I
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Speaker 3: To tell last wave and calling you man, I got
I'm not cast so and you fin tell come from.
Speaker 5: God.
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Speaker 5: Up Yeah.
Speaker 1: Night it up, notting up.
Speaker 5: Lit up.
Speaker 4: That is lighted up.
Speaker 6: The brand new single from Chasing the Devil, and today's
the world radio premiere of that track here at w
m n H on matt Connorton on le and those
guys are on tour right now, by the way, they
are and as we speak they are in Kentucky and
then they're off to Texas and they're going all over
the place. But they'll be back in New Hampshire on
August twentieth at Wally's in Hampton Beach and then they
go back out they head out to Ohio after that,
so they're going all over the place. They're on the
Lifestyles of the Rich and Blameless tour. They've got there
with shim anything but Human and shallow Side. So congratulations
to those guys and love the new track again that
is lighted up, that is available now on the streaming
platforms and you can hear it here on the radio.
So very happy to do the premiere for that. And
Jenny is here of course at the news table.
Speaker 7: Resent in accounted for and.
Speaker 6: We should mention we were talking about the upcoming event
at Mosaic.
Speaker 7: Yes, the Mosaic Aren't Collective has an upcoming exhibit starting
on October seventh, running until November first, the Spellbound Exhibit.
I am proud to have a couple of my own
pieces in there. You can attend the opening reception on
October two from four to eight pm. They are located
right here in the Queens City at sixty six an
Over Street, Sweet two oh one. You've got to check
out this lovely venue. And if you are an artist,
they are right now accepting submissions for the jury show
Small Wonders miniature art show that'll take place from November
eighth until December twenty second. You can apply now, so
go to Mosaic Artcollective dot com.
Speaker 4: Very good, very good, and congratulations, thank you. I'm proud.
Speaker 7: This is the first time I've ever had two pieces
in a jury show.
Speaker 4: Okay ever, yeah, so yeah, I'm like super proud.
Speaker 7: That was like an achievement I was going for to
get more than one painting into a show.
Speaker 6: Well what's now, So tell me the difference between that,
because at the Midnight Creatives Collective had you had quite
a few paintings.
Speaker 7: Midnight Creatives Collective actually does a thing with a highlight artists,
so they invite an artist to come in and your
work stays up for the entire month. Yeah, you can
also run an event if you want to do something
like do some kind of an art class or something,
which I'm not quite there yet, but I was very
proud to have twelve of my darkest pieces on display
there for the entire month of August.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So they always have different artists coming in. You get
to hear a lot of great music on top of
all of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So we've got a couple of really that one's
in Nashville, so we have really great galleries here. Highlighting
local work and getting into a Drury show is always
special for any artist. So I invite you to submit
your work and don't let the submission charge of ten
dollars be a.
Speaker 4: Stop for you.
Speaker 7: There are scholarships available to those who want to enter
their art into one of these shows.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, very good, very good. Well, speaking of the
Midnight Creatives Collective and Terminus and Events, big show coming
up there October nineteenth, that we've been talking about a
lot today because Able Blood. Our first hour guests are
on that show, and of course our second hour we
had Dan from the band Horror, and now we've entered
our third hour numerow Trace here on Matt Connorton unleashed,
and we've got Dennis and Sean from the band The
Gray Curtain. Welcome guys. Good good, Oh, why can't I
hear you? I can't hear you, Sean. I don't know why.
Speaker 4: Keep talking, oh, Nicol difficulties. That might mean too, that
mic was working earlier. Keep talking shut Live Radio.
Speaker 6: No, it's not, it's probably uh probably me. Yeah, I
can't find you. Oh wait, I think I I think
I might have figured it out. Never mind, Jenny, I think.
Speaker 4: Oh there he is found you? All right? Very good?
I always the bass player. I think I lost you again?
Really well?
Speaker 7: Wait, is there a gumbling in the microphone?
Speaker 4: There might be? This is weird. I just want to
watch a movie. I found you again, the first one.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I'm not going to touch anything else, and
hopefully we don't lose you again.
Speaker 4: All right. It's funny.
Speaker 6: I said that mic never fails us, and then I
have a problem with it. That's funny anyway, Well, Live
Radio you jinks it, I know apparently I did. Jenny
warns me about that too. She's like, don't, she says,
don't jinx it.
Speaker 4: Get your fault. It is it is. That's fine. Rest
of the day.
Speaker 7: Told you not to go there.
Speaker 6: Well, guys, welcome, We're I'm looking forward to talking to you,
and we're going to play some of your tracks too.
But yeah, tell us about your band, The Gray Curtain, Oh.
Speaker 4: Well started.
Speaker 8: I started the band in twenty fourteen. Basically I put
out a couple of songs just me and an acoustic guitar,
and there was a Battle of the band's online Battle
of the Bands over Foxwoods and I ended up placing
fourth out of like like.
Speaker 4: One hundred and eighty nine bands. Yeah, which was just
mind boggling. So it was you just submitted, you just
how to submit your music. That's that's all I did.
Speaker 8: Okay, So they called me up and said, yeah, we're
going to do a live Battle of the Bands over Foxwoods,
you know in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: You know, we'll see you, you and your band there.
Speaker 8: I hung up the phone all excited, and then I went, wait,
I need a band.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it you know, it'sok a few days to
get a few guys in on the project. Unfortunately, everyone
that was part of the band at that point of
all coming gone you know, done, uh, you know, gone
on to do their own things. Sean has been a
close friend of the band for many years doing his
own band in Man Okay, but recently, over the last
two years or so, I've needed new bandmates and Sean
was the first person I called, And we're actually currently
looking for you board player, synth player. But you know,
we're trying out drummers currently because as you mentioned, the
Terminus show on the nineteenth, we're going to be saying
goodbye to the drummer we currently have Joe Soferano Okay,
mainly because he's just in way too many projects. He's
in the Megans, who are going to be playing the
show with us, He's in Guello. I think he's I
can't remember if he's full time or part time with
Rags to Stitches, but you know he's he's in a
lot of other projects, and with the amount of shows
that we're planning on doing, it was just it was
better if he bowed out.
Speaker 6: It's funny because that comes up, This subject specifically comes
up all the time on the show. Every drummer is
in like ten different bands.
Speaker 8: They gotta be Yeah, they're They're a rare resource in
this area right now.
Speaker 6: Well, my theory is and longtime listeners have heard me
say this a thousand times. But you know, when you're
growing up and you first become interested in playing a
musical instrument, you go to have the conversation with your
parents about what you're gonna play.
Speaker 4: If it's if.
Speaker 6: It's the drums or the tuba, they're going to try
to talk you out of it. Oh yeah, absolutely, So
that's my theory because yeah, every drummer is in you know,
ten different bands.
Speaker 8: Yeah, my dad was a drummer, so it's you know,
he knows what it's like to stretch himself thin in
like multiple projects. But yeah, basically the band was started
by me. Just I started writing stories and basing my
music around these stories. Henry Miller said the best way
to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.
So I did that with all my hurts, habits, hang ups,
all my bullies, all my traumas PTSD, my depression, my nightmares,
my addictions, and made all of these feelings, all of
these past characters and whatnot in my life into citizens
of this cursed town.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can't leave.
Speaker 8: And all of our music is based around the people
and events that happen in this town.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, something we talk about a lot on the show.
It comes up quite a bit. In fact, it came
up with Dan from the band Horror in the last hour.
Is talking about, you know, taking problems and doing something
creative with them, whether it be you know, and I
get you know, I'm someone who struggles with depression, so
I can certainly relate to that aspect of it. But
taking you know, whether it's that, whether it's some sort
of trauma, whatever it is, you know, taking these things
that happened to us, but then doing something creative with them,
actually making something out of them that other.
Speaker 4: People can then relate to and enjoy. You know. I
think that's the best therapy that there is. Really, That's
exactly what I say.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Whenever I get off stage, you know, people will approach
me and tell me how, you know, my songs are
helping them in some way through their depression. And we
played a show in Maine recently and a young woman,
I won't go into details on her name or anything,
but a young woman approached me and told me how
she had had been thinking about ending her life and
she felt very sorry.
Speaker 4: She felt very.
Speaker 8: Attached to a couple of our songs and made her
feel better. Really, that is basically the key element of
what I try to do. I try to help people
who feel like I feel, think how I think, feel
better and try to make it through the day just
a little easier. Yes day, Yeah so I but I
say it all the time. It's like this is the
best form of therapy there is absolutely was that?
Speaker 4: Was that your goal from the beginning or going? It
kind of become that the gray curtain.
Speaker 8: Yes, I've been in fourteen bands and a wow, yeah, well.
Speaker 4: Wait do you also play drums? Is that what I play?
Speaker 8: I play percussion, but not as well as past members
of this band. I played bass, but not as well
as past members of this band and present members of
this band. But but now, I come from a long
line of musicians, all of my My uncle Smokey used
to play in his own band, Smoking and the Rangers
in the Irish Club in Putnam. It's no longer there,
but he got me on stage at five years old
singing Frosty the Snowman at a at a Christmas event,
and I got hooked ever since. You know chamber choir,
church choir, you know school chorus, state competitions, voice lessons.
Speaker 4: I was just give me all of it.
Speaker 8: And you know, growing up in high school, you know,
as I mentioned, I was, I was a victim of
a lot of bullying and whatnot. I was told that
my singing wasn't good enough to be in a in
a band. Really, so I uh I started playing bass.
My uncle Bob uh taught me, uh some basics and
once I got those down, he was like, you're ready
to go. Just do your thing, you know, because he
was playing country and I'm trying to do like Les
Claypool stuff, you know, and so he was just like,
you're good, You're good, you know, just just keep doing
what you're doing.
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, I basically, uh.
Speaker 6: Who who told you weren't good enough to sing?
Speaker 8: Was it a teacher or no? No, none of my teachers.
So shout out to Michael Adam Kerns. He he he
kept pushing me. Oh I would you know, I was
like tormented so much in in school. I would take
my lunch into the course room and just sit by myself.
Really Oh yeah, yeah, believe me.
Speaker 4: I could.
Speaker 8: I could sit here for hours telling you about this stuff.
But uh no, it was you know, my peers, you know,
kids that you know that I would it.
Speaker 4: Was part it sounds like it was part of the bullying.
It really, it really was.
Speaker 8: But from that I got to say, if it wasn't
for those experiences, I don't think I'm sitting here now
talking to you about this because a lot of the
characters are based on things like that, being told that
I wasn't good enough, being told that my sound wasn't metal.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, you.
Speaker 8: Know, even now we're nominated for a New England Music
Award for Best hard Rock and Metal, and I'm still
getting from my peers that we're not a metal band.
We shouldn't be, And it's like, you know what, You're right,
We're not a metal band.
Speaker 4: You know. We we like to do a little bit
of metal.
Speaker 8: We like to do a little bit of rock, we
like to do a little bit of jazz, we like
to do a little bit of swing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: It basically depends on the character in the story that
that song pertains, But yeah, it's it's really difficul goal
because you want people to be connected and you want
people to to help each other, especially in this scene,
you know, between all the states in New England. But uh,
it's it's really tough sometimes because it doesn't feel like
that's the case and in a lot of a lot
of instances.
Speaker 4: But well, you're doing something unique too.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I can't think of anyone who
sounds quite like you guys, which is awesome, which I love.
And I'm curious, Sean, is this the most unique project
you've ever been a part of?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Probably, I would have to say so.
Speaker 9: You know, I've been, like, like you mentioned before, I
was in a band Inman before that was kind of
more of a you know, a straight forward modernized grunge band,
where I feel like the stuff we're playing in this
is definitely a.
Speaker 4: Little more uh, a little more.
Speaker 9: Difficult to, like you said, find someone who sounds quite
like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh, And I feel like there's a lot of different
influences that go into the sound, so there's it's really
easy to have a.
Speaker 4: Lot of fun with it. You know.
Speaker 9: It's definitely definitely doesn't get redundant any at any point.
Speaker 6: Right right, Yeah, absolutely, Well we should play something now,
you uh, what should because you had you would suggested
in your email a few songs. Is there one that
you're pushing as a single.
Speaker 8: Well, uh, the first album, Shadow of a Man, A
lot of people like the opening. Yeah, the second album,
we didn't get a chance to, uh to really play
all that much before the mass outing of the the
the members I had, right.
Speaker 9: So we could we could do the title track from
that album.
Speaker 4: Then oh the Floors, Yeah, the floors, that was that
was one of the ones you'd suggested.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, oh no, that wasn't one of the
Oh no, that was. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm you know
what in my mind, I'm I'm conflating the uh, the
uh album with the song.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, yeah, so we'll, uh, let's go with that. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I really like this one a lot, and then we'll,
uh we'll talk about it a little bit after. But so,
uh yeah, let's give this a spin. This is really interesting.
Check this out the Gray Curtain and the song is
called the Florist.
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Speaker 6: Hm.
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I feed it myself.
Speaker 5: What is I gotta be formal? Suppose trust to tell
you what some free you y'all heart being resently so.
Speaker 10: What fus from your mother Street deep.
Speaker 5: To the punch con.
Speaker 3: I over.
Speaker 5: No, So cool, sweet to up.
Speaker 1: To the punch, Blood boars, I'm.
Speaker 10: Rusting, trusted, trusted into this corner, your rusting seas pile the.
Speaker 5: Car and then you ride. I shall to you.
Speaker 10: I'm not sweet, told you your heart beat roncidly oil bor.
Speaker 5: What my present? Realm? Sup your bow man speaking.
Speaker 1: To metricle.
Speaker 5: No, it's no soup, you're a sweet I'm too too
much of about one bottle.
Speaker 1: The skin.
Speaker 3: Ships one more time?
Speaker 10: Swing the run here your hearty roadway spoiled or.
Speaker 5: A march.
Speaker 1: About most of it?
Speaker 6: That is the florist the Gray Curtain here with us
in studio. We've got a couple of the guys from
the band here with us, and uh wow, that's a
great song. Uh if you are just joining us, of course.
This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we're live from the
studios of w M n H ninety five point three
f M. And today our guests have been, uh some
of the people who are going to be performing at
uh at a great event coming up at Terminus in
Nashua on October nineteenth. And we talked to Abel Blood
earlier and Dan from Horror and now we've got the
Gray Curtain here and.
Speaker 4: What can you tell us about that song?
Speaker 8: Well, the song and the album are based around a
elderly floorist from the town of Apathy. All of the
Gray Curtain albums are going to be around based around
citizens of the town of Apathy. The character in question
is a man named Serge Colin. He loses his wife
to cancer and he develops. He finds this plant in
the basement of his now dilapidated flower shop. He sells
everything to try to get his wife some treatment, and
she ends up passing away anyway, and he goes down
to the basement this flower shop and finds this this
plant actually exists in real life. It's oh, it's called
a double's trumpet. And he gets the the oil of
the of the plant uh ingested into his body. And
when when that happens again, I r l in real life,
you hallucinate, you see like nightmares in real life, and.
Speaker 4: It hurt it.
Speaker 8: Uh, it hurts your your ability to breathe, it hurts
your ability to function.
Speaker 4: I think I've actually heard of this.
Speaker 8: And he ends up hearing the voice of his dead
wife telling him that if he plants the women of
the town into the ground like seeds, she will blossom
like a flower from the earth and they will be
together again. And the entire album is about his quest
to get his wife back by doing this. It's uh,
it's one for the kids.
Speaker 6: Yeah, now this and is this also being written as
a as a full story.
Speaker 4: Yes it is. Yeah, we are currently I'm currently working
on a series of graphic novels. Oh.
Speaker 8: It's taken me forever to do because I at first,
I was doing it on paper, just you know, pencil
drawings and whatnot, and I was able to get like
four comics done. Now I'm doing everything again on tablet
and it you know, I'm I'm investing a lot in
getting you know, the color schemes and things like that.
And then on top of that, I'm working with my
partner April on getting a script for the entire twenty
chapter storyline of the Town of Apathy finished and possibly
if we can get it picked up to make it
an actual show. Wow, we're about April. What will be
two hundred and eight pages in Okay, yeah, two.
Speaker 4: Hundred and eight of I mean, how much do you
do you think it'll end up being? We any idea?
Speaker 8: Probably three hundred and fifteen pages, I think is what
we're going to stop at, because then you've got about
nine episodes.
Speaker 6: Okay, so you figure you're about two thirds of the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
well that's that's a lot. No, that's great though, that's
that's a great Uh, that's a great undertaking.
Speaker 8: And the you know, the Florist storyline is part of that,
that script and I've already got excuse me, about twenty
thirty pages or so of the of the graphic novel
for The Florist and Shadow of a Man, the first
the first album completed.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I was curious to ask you about that too,
because we're gonna play I like this track, the opening
that well, we'll play in a couple of minutes. But
I'm curious about Shadow of a Man and does this
also have a like The Florist?
Speaker 4: Does this also kind of have its own story? Oh?
They all do?
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 8: Shadow of a Man is more autobiographical. However, in twenty twelve,
I went through a downward spiral where I attempted suicide.
I was caught, but I based Shadow of a Man
on what happened to me during that time. I lost
the love of my life. She is currently not speaking
to me because of the man that I was back then,
rightfully so, and I based the character Nathan Knoth on me.
His name originally was going to be Nough Guile, but
I thought that was a little on the nose because
that's my last name backwards.
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding, but.
Speaker 8: But yeah, the album takes place in the last day
and a half of Nathan's life.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, let's what should we know about this song.
I'm gonna play the opening, and I think we should
know about this specifically.
Speaker 8: The opening takes place, well, I wrote the opening before
I even had like an idea of like the storyline
or anything like that.
Speaker 4: It was basically my.
Speaker 8: Acceptance that I have a rare form of cancer, and
I know that my timeline is not as long as
a lot of other people. So I wrote the opening
as a way to kind of come to terms with
seeing the light and knowing that as much as I fight,
one day, this is going to end.
Speaker 4: So I have to enjoy what I have while I
have it. And the opening, as.
Speaker 8: Far as the storyline, takes place right around the end
of the story where Nathan is accepting death.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, so let's give this a listen. This
is songs called the opening. This is from the album
Shadow of a Man by the Gray Curtain.
Speaker 5: By Walk.
Speaker 1: Of Shadow.
Speaker 5: But I got a little.
Speaker 12: Guy in my care and my rage, my god, this
will be so bad.
Speaker 1: Honestly willing, and it's trying all night, so shuck.
Speaker 5: There's any reason that I am still a.
Speaker 3: Lot, a lot, a lot.
Speaker 5: Lot walk.
Speaker 1: I'll be old.
Speaker 4: Across my un my city again by.
Speaker 1: Like the waiting despy.
Speaker 5: Oh accord in bs of.
Speaker 1: My singing, see.
Speaker 10: I climb on the mountains on Dauntess where the green
iry line and rocking board ragil died cracky instead one
of five lines of wenzy women.
Speaker 13: It's a man on the round don sis a very reason.
Speaker 5: That I just don't know, oh my ride on the Don.
But when I say by.
Speaker 3: A girl when there's.
Speaker 5: One all.
Speaker 10: But will never mus says say.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: That is the opening from the album Shadow of a
Man by the Gray Curtain, And uh we have Dennis
and Sean Uh from the Gray Curtain here with us
alive in studio this morning, and uh wow, that's that's
pretty epic. As we're listening to that, Dennis, I'm curious
to know more about your your singing, and where do
you take influences from in terms of your vocal approach.
Speaker 8: Well, growing up, I was kind of bombarded with old
school country, No Show Jones, Patsy Kline, Roy Orbison. So
thus a lot of my lyrical content is sad by nature,
as theirs were. But then as I got older, I
started finding my own influences in soul music and jazz
and blues. And then as I became a teenager, I
started listening to metal more often. But really I started
getting into the kind of stuff that I'm doing currently
because of things like Rocky Horror Picture Show. You know,
the first time I the first time I saw Meatloaf,
I was enamored. I wanted to know everything there was
to know about this guy from Bad Out of Hell one, two,
even three. You know a lot of people don't talk
about three, but that's a good album.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: I enjoy musicians who wear their heart on their sleeve
when they're on stage, or you know, just when they're
writing a song. They're trying too not so much make
you dance or make you feel happy or anything. They're
trying to invoke an emotion. Former band member of the
Gray Curtain actually got me into Stephen Wilson from Porcupine Tree, which, yeah,
which is one of Sean's favorite bands.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: First time I saw Stephen Wilson perform, he did the
song called Routine, and I could actually feel my heart
get just ripped out of my chest. And a lot
of people don't go to a show, you know, wanting that,
but I do.
Speaker 4: I want to. I want to feel an experience when
and I go to a show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So, and and that's where my where I take a
lot of my influence from, uh, you know, seeing Rent
on Broadway, you know, uh, and then the very next
day going to see you know, Metallica play at Woodstock
ninety nine. You know. I it's basically like those two
things are what makes uh makes the Great Curtain? Yeah,
you know that heavy edge with the emotional baggage.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
Speaker 6: Did your approach change it all between these two albums,
I mean, obviously they have different themes to them, but.
Speaker 8: Well, my my old band members did did all the recording,
did all the mixing.
Speaker 4: Uh, so you know, all of the.
Speaker 8: Ah, what's the word I'm looking for? All all of
the kudos goes to them for the way that these
albums sound as far as production, but it's far as approach. Yeah,
we the first album, we basically went into it like
we need to get this sound out there. A lot
of people are asking for some sort of hard copy,
and by the time we got to the second album,
nobody listens to a hard copy anymore, you know. So
we only got maybe like fifty copies of the second
album and we were like throwing them around at people.
Speaker 4: A lot of people just.
Speaker 8: Listen to our streaming sure today. But the approach was basically,
just like with the characters. The first album was very melodramatic,
very dark, very Ecker Allen Poe. The second is very
horror movie. It's very it's very John Carpenter, it's very
you know, Stephen King. And that's what we try to do,
you know, as far as like what I try to
do when I'm developing a story. The one that we're
currently working on is about two killers and they both
have two lists that they have to complete. The main
protagonist antagonist excuse me, the main antagonist of the story
basically allows one of them to go free of this
town that they can that no one in the town
can escape. And the first killer that can complete their
list of ten is allowed to leave the town no
strings attached. So we're a you know, we're able to
take from that brief description of the storyline and go, okay, well,
what kind of album is this going to be? Yeah,
you know, what kind of songs are we going to
put together for this? And and this is going to
be more of like an action type of I don't
want to say, gory type of thing, but a lot
more intense album than the other two.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, will you be recording? Well? Where did you
record the newest one?
Speaker 8: In my former drummer's house. He had a recording studio
in the basement of his house, and we, uh and
we mixed in the sun room like a sun porch.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh so you see you did the entire album there, yep, yeah, okay,
the whole thing was was homemade.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we didn't have to go to a studio. Obviously
with this next batch of songs, not going to.
Speaker 4: Be the case.
Speaker 8: But but you know, and and the worst part too,
is like I still love those guys, you know, I
I've got I got nothing nothing but love for everybody,
every single person that has helped me along through this ride.
Present and past has you know, has made the spand better.
Speaker 4: So I've.
Speaker 8: Like I I will never say a ill will word
ill word towards any member that you know. Was we
were just talking during the during the opening of past members,
people that I wish we're still in this band, people
that I understand why they left.
Speaker 4: But as far as you know, where we're.
Speaker 8: Gonna go, as far as uh like recording in the future,
you know who knows, you know who knows.
Speaker 4: I was obviously gonna have to go to a studio,
but you've got plenty of options, that's the good news. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I keep hearing people tell me, you know, oh
you should go here, you should go here, you should
go here. But you know, right right now we're still
in Like I think we've only got like seven songs,
and I want this thing to be you know, it's
kind of a moot thing to say nowadays, with physical
copies being you know, the thing of the past.
Speaker 4: I guess which makes me sad.
Speaker 6: What one of the a lot of our guests are
still putting out, you know, physical copies of CDs. But
but I think my theory though, is I think most
most of those never actually get played. It's just if
you're really a fan of somebody, it's nice. You know,
same thing with vinyl, Yeah, I mean vinyl. I think
now vinyl is.
Speaker 4: Out selling CDs. Yeah, but if you buy it, if
you buy.
Speaker 6: Somebody's vinyl, a brand new vinyl in the package and
probably you know, most people I'm sure never even open it.
They just it's because they're such a big fan of
that artist. It's cool to have the vinyl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Ye kind of collected, but yeah, you.
Speaker 8: You explained it a lot better than I did, where
it's like, yeah, people are still collecting it.
Speaker 4: I still have CDs, I still have tapes. Yeah.
Speaker 8: One of our main crew guys, his name is Fully,
shout out to Fully. His wall is nothing but cassette tapes.
You know, he's got vinyl for days. Yeah, and you know,
it's just like what you said, you know, if you
appreciate it, then you know you will you will buy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but what we're trying to, well, what I'm.
Speaker 8: Hoping to pitch and what the guys hopefully will go
along with, is a double album, really one one album's
worth of material.
Speaker 4: For each killer. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, So I'm hoping, hoping that we can get
that get that out there within the next couple of years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, oh that's a that's a great concept. I
can relate to what you were saying about meat Loaf,
by the way, because I was I was such a
big fan growing up. I actually have his non or
I did. I don't know where they are now. I
don't really keep any speaking of physical copies, I really
don't keep physical copies of anything anymore. But but I
I always bought his non bad Out of Hell albums too,
you know, like Whine before I Stop and uh, what's
the uh? I can't even remember the titles now, it's
been so long, but yeah, I actually that's A friend
of mine joked with me once because I had, you know,
I had all these obscure albums of meat Loaf that
nobody else cared about because they didn't have that out
of Helmet title. And yeah, friend of mine said, you know,
he probably knows you, like like like he probably knows
who you are, because you're the one guy who actually
bought these other CDs. Like if you ever met him,
he'd be like, hey, I know you. I heard about you.
They told me you were real, but I didn't think
you were. Eleanor in the chat room says CDs are
totally in. Uh we still use super dupes in uh
in Salem, Salem, New Hampshire. Shout out to Bruce Bannett.
Speaker 4: Oh there you go.
Speaker 6: So yeah, so there's an option for you if you
decide to Uh. Yes, Spelfie was saying too, she's still
buy CDs.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, And I knew like the way that I
worded it, we were probably going to get people going, hey,
wait a second, I'm not saying that CDs aren't awesome. Yeah, yeah,
I'm just saying that, you know, it just seems like
people don't really buy them anymore. Like when we go
to play shows, you know a lot of people will ask, oh,
are you guys on Spotify or you guys on Apple?
Speaker 6: That's the most important thing to be on the streaming platforms? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: But don't get me wrong.
Speaker 8: Every show we play, we have copies of the floorst
we have copies of Shadow of a Man, we have
the T shirts.
Speaker 4: We have you know, great Hurt in the Flame Throw
kids love that one. Oh yeah, well I bet Eleanor's
excited to see that at Terminus. Just kidding. Yeah, we're
not bringing Pyro. Actually, well you know what they survived,
Green Jello. So yeah, yeah, that's a mess. I had,
I had to I had.
Speaker 6: I was there on Tuesday of this week for a
meeting with Eleanor, and I asked her because actually Jenny
is the one who kind of put that ball in
motion as far as booking Green Jellow there.
Speaker 4: But I asked asked me for a venue. Yeah, yeah,
because we.
Speaker 6: We when they were in town, we had them on
the show. And but I asked Eleanor, I said, uh,
did anything get broken that night? I was just curious,
But I apparently nothing did so at least at least
nothing important, So that's good.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was a that was a hell of
a night. But but yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 6: We should remind people, of course October nineteenth, you're going
to be there, yep, at Terminus also with we had
able Blood in the first hour, they're going to be there.
And Horror is also going to be there at that show.
Who was here with us in the second hour. Also,
do you still have in front of you, Jenny. I'm
kind of doing this for memory deed. Harrison of course
will be there October nineteenth, Thenagans.
Speaker 8: Ye, Joe's Joe from the Nigans is going to be
playing double duty with us and the Megans.
Speaker 5: Oh very cool.
Speaker 4: It's going to be his last show with us, unfortunately.
Speaker 7: And they're going to have a haunted house.
Speaker 4: Yeah you heard about that.
Speaker 6: Oh, here, here we go, I find it. Oh oh,
Questing Beast, that's who I was forgetting. I love that name,
Questing Beast. I just think that's a cool name. So yeah,
So that's gonna be a big night October nineteenth at
Terminus in Nashua. So, and of course we'll we'll definitely
be reminding you all of that as it gets closer.
Speaker 4: But guys, we are.
Speaker 6: I want to get one more song and it's a
long one, so we will we'll begin to wrap up.
But what should people know about? Where to follow you
guys online?
Speaker 4: How to keep up with every thing that you're doing.
Speaker 8: Uh, basically, we're on Facebook. Basically type in the gray curtain.
It'll either show you pictures of curtains or it'll show
you us. But yeah, we're on Spotify, Apple Music, We're
on band Camp, We're on YouTube. Just type in the
gray curtain and it'll take you to one of one
of our pages. We're also on Facebook, Instagram, all of
the streamings, all of the social media's.
Speaker 14: Yeah, very good.
Speaker 4: Oh and we should tell people too.
Speaker 1: It is g R e Y. Yeah.
Speaker 4: A lot of people get that confused too, Yeah, g
R e Y.
Speaker 14: Yes.
Speaker 4: Does the name ever get spelled wrong?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the time, all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: You know, I work for meals on wheels, and like
people find out that I'm in a band, They're like
typing it in.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, we can't find you. I'm like, oh,
it's it's e E why. Yeah, all right, well, very good.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you guys so much. We are going to
play one more track to close out in just a moment.
Thank you to everybody who joined us today on this Saturday.
And Jenny, you want to plug.
Speaker 4: Your website absolutely.
Speaker 7: You can go to Gencoffee dot com j E N
N c O F f Ey dot com. Check out
the blog and you can find my report on the
White House Medical Dead event, as well as information on Spellbound,
the next Mosaic Art collective show.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, very good. So we'll close out with this song.
Speaker 6: Like I said, it's a long one, but this clip
the Stitch from the album of the Florist by the
Gray Curtain, and what should we know about this before
we play it.
Speaker 8: This takes place in the part of the story where
Surge the Florist starts seeing and hearing, excuse me, seeing
and hearing his dead wife telling him what he needs
to do to get her back.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, very good. So we're going to close
out with this.
Speaker 6: If you miss any part of today's show it we'll
be up in just a little bit at w m
n H radio dot org at my website Matt Connorton
dot com.
Speaker 4: And uh yes, we will leave you with this. This
is clip the Stitch. The band is the Gray Curtain,
and thanks everybody. We'll talk to y'all a little bit later.
Speaker 15: M m m hm.
Speaker 10: Over my past until the top, heavy burden in my
pride and help read me while I thought the guy
is tame to be my talking rot. My father's the
lid my father.
Speaker 5: If you want.
Speaker 1: I should out, don't, I shall go lit u s get.
Speaker 5: Don't think it's.
Speaker 15: Still see to see.
Speaker 12: Too well, think it's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I'm going yet, but make it.
Speaker 10: Think this still the stray people distresses in the spy SHOs.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's kind of funny, all me d.
Speaker 5: And didn't thinking leave me?
Speaker 16: Still, I'll clip the stitu me on distresses and the
spy of you the listen.
Speaker 5: Bother my last mistakes. I'm begging to repardon and dollow me.
Speaker 13: If the monkey and the state don my law an
welcome to the lad something there shout, I shall.
Speaker 5: Ask me, I shove out to my hole.
Speaker 17: Aga still listen to the sun.
Speaker 18: She said.
Speaker 5: This time.
Speaker 4: Over think, it's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: It's a sali hide.
Speaker 5: Didn't get the mad completely.
Speaker 1: Still, how couldn't this the true.
Speaker 5: Down the rops in this time a moment.
Speaker 11: On the monos, the suns, the door, same bi card and.
Speaker 5: Now she's gone.
Speaker 10: On the b on the joy if the summons the
thought and not card, and now she's gone.
Speaker 5: God away is.
Speaker 3: The challenge just to speak of the.
Speaker 5: Lodes world, Lord Afrek at the.
Speaker 10: Challenge, just to speak of the lodest world. Well, she said,
we've always been together.
Speaker 1: She lied, she said, oh woking for whatever bore she died.
Speaker 4: She said, she said she said that she would never
leave me.
Speaker 1: She said, she said, she said I love.
Speaker 4: Would never die.
Speaker 17: She said, she said, she said that she.
Speaker 5: Would never leave me. She said, she said, she said
I would never die.
Speaker 16: She said, she said, she said that she would never leave.
She said, she said, she said, O love never die.
She said, she said, she said that she would never leave.
Speaker 1: She said, she said, she said, R.
Speaker 5: Dies dies.
Speaker 11: And love what the momola, the serments, the noise and
bart he had, And now she's gone, gone, gone the umma,
the silent, the noise and pie he had.
Speaker 5: And now she's gone. To save a head, I have
a little more. Will I ride my nfty man? Will
I die?
Speaker 1: I shall do? I shall god s leave.
Speaker 5: I shall not lift till I see them again.
Speaker 1: I shall do. I shall not.
Speaker 5: I shall until the well again.
Speaker 1: I shall not. I shall not so leave.
Speaker 5: I shall not left to my horse again.
Speaker 1: Again.
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