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Speaker 3: I love that. I absolutely love that. That is called
being around, and that is Dave Strong, who we have
here with us live in studio. Let me get that
that mic up there. How's it going, Dave?
Speaker 6: What's up? How you doing good?
Speaker 3: I can hear you. Mike's working. That's all the that's
all the battle. Really nice if you're just joining us.
Of course. This is Matt Connorton unleased. We are live
from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three
FM and Glorious Manchester New I'mpshire here on this Saturday,
August thirty one, twenty twenty four, and Jenny is here
of course at the news table, and Dave Strong is
with us live in studio. He brought his guitar he's
gonna play for us. And you brought your friend Tyler.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's my son, Tyler.
Speaker 3: Well, that's your son. Hello. You don't look old enough
to have us really wow, that's incredible. Are you also
a musician? Tyler Goud? And pull that mic up?
Speaker 5: No, but I come from a musicians family.
Speaker 6: Okay, Tyler actually has done some of the artwork my
digital releases and stuff. I'll take he took a picture
and he makes like, you know, the things that go
on Spotify and Apple Music. Yeah that say what like
what I am? Says Dave Strong like being around on
he does that stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh, very cool. I can't do much of music, but
I can do like the art. Well, that's that's important.
I mean, that's a huge part of it, especially in
the era in which we live, you know, yeah, the
visual aspect of it. Also before we get rolling here
for those watching online, let me try to get this
on the camera here for those watching online. So Dave
brought so this is vinyl that we talk about vinyl
a lot on the show. So this is your self
titled album.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: When did this come out?
Speaker 6: I came out about a year and a half ago.
Speaker 3: Very cool.
Speaker 6: I'm working on releasing my second one soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, that one's going to get added to the office.
Yeah that's that's yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: I come bearing gifts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, no, that's very cool. Copyright now.
Oh is one of these a uh oh. One of
these is the Ramones cover, and one is yes, so
what so most of these are originals? Correct?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Eight of the ten are originals, okay, yep, one's a
Ramones song and one's Eddie Cochrane.
Speaker 3: Very cool, very cool. So thank you. Yeah, that's that's excellent.
And you brought uh you brought us pins too. Probably
can't see these as well on the camera, but no,
that's great, thank you. Yeah, this is and this was
released on Fameless Records.
Speaker 6: Yes, small little label out of Philly.
Speaker 3: Oh no kidding, how'd you? How'd you get connected with them?
Speaker 6: I've been playing music for a little bit now, and
I have pitched a few ideas to Tim who runs
the label in Philly, and you know, we just got
talking through social media and like he liked what I
was doing solo. Yeah goes. You know, now is a
good time to put it out, So I said, all right,
let's do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's awesome. And so I assume it's also available
on CD and yeah, that'd be weird to just do
a vinyl release.
Speaker 6: Streaming. Yeah, those ten songs are streaming, plus another ten
songs on like Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, deezer.
Speaker 3: All those Okay, is this your only full length album?
Cause I noticed just looking online, it looks like you
put out a lot of singles.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I do a lot of singles. So when I started,
I was doing just band camp singles and then like
like I said, my buddy was like, Yo, we can
maybe do a compilation like CD tape record maybe, And
that's how that happened. And that's the first ten songs
that I put out. And since I've just I've been
trying to be consistent with my singles. But but there
is a plan probably lee in December. Loosely December is
when the next ten songs will go off to press
to be like the Dave Strong second album or whatever.
I don't know the name of it. Yeah, yeah, it'll
be like a blue one or something. It would be cool.
And we almost sold out of those. I think we
pressed three hundred and we're about to sell out of
those and we're going to repress that one too, which
is really cool.
Speaker 3: No, that's amazing. Good for you, man, Good for you.
How do you Everyone always say it's this question, but
how do you describe your music for someone who's never
heard it? Because pretty eclectic stuff, Like I listened to
a lot of a lot of your music online in
addition to the tracks that you sent me, it's really
eclectic and hard to uh. I mean, I wouldn't know
what to tell somebody. Like if somebody said to me,
describe Dave Strong, I'd be like, I don't know. I mean,
there's definitely you know, there's a punk vibe there, but
but a song like uh or be Around, It's like,
I just love that so much. By the way, I
love the lyrics, you know.
Speaker 6: But I mean, how do you cover? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 6: It's a song?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Like how do you how do you describe your
music the people who've never heard it?
Speaker 6: Usually, so in general, I'll say it's like Green Day
meets Weezer meets the Ramones or something like. I'll i'll
kind of stereotype three popular bands that someone might have heard,
you know. But it depends on on who I'm hanging
out with. If if like a bunch of punk people
are like, what do you sound like, I'll be like,
I sound like I'm punk, I'm really punk, check me out.
Or if like my mom or her friends are like,
what what do you sound like, I'll be like, well,
I sound like the Beatles, like a little faster, or
like Eddie I do an Eddie Cochran song, which is
like from the fifties, you know, so like I'll be like, yeah,
maybe I'm like Geene Vincent on speed or something like that,
you know, because some of the songs have upright bass.
So I grew up listening to the Beach Boys and
Oldies and the Beatles. I love harmonies and stuff like that,
you know. And then then I got into like Nirvana
and Ramones, so I keep it rock and roll, but yeah,
like catchy poppy rock, I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And so now do you always or do you
usually play with a band or do you do a
lot of because I think you had mentioned too you
had recently done a solo show or last night you
had done a solo shower.
Speaker 6: Last night, I did a full band show at O'Brien
and that was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great room.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was great. There was a lot of people
at it too. It was cool. Parking stunk well yeah, yeah,
that are yeah, every supportive, great bands, really cool place.
But I try to play live with a band as
much as possible. If somebody asks me to play, I
always ask my band first. Yeah, but you know, my
drummer lives in Western mass My second guitarist lives in Connecticut, yeah,
and my bass player lives in Barrington. So we're all
like in different states.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, it's not like a as expensive or anything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we we are going to Germany too,
are Yeah, no kidding, I mean the big shows when
it matters. I mean I think every show matters. Yeah,
but when when push comes to shove and like it's
a Saturday night packed place, they're gonna be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah with me. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6: But I'm playing next Saturday night in Portland by myself
at spring Hill Tavern, Okay, And then I'm playing the
week after the fourteenth at Gino's in Portland with a
full band.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 6: So you never know, you never know what you're gonna get.
I like to I don't like to say no to shows.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So like if a show is on a Wednesday night
or something, it's gonna probably be just me right right,
It's like a Saturday night, you know, it's gonna probably
be the band.
Speaker 3: Portland's a great scene.
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that where you're because you're from Maine, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I live pretty close to Portland, maybe like thirty
minutes from Portland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, people who don't know. I mean, it's
it's kind of Portland's a lot like Boston. I feel
in of the scene and the diversity of it and
a lot of different kinds of music there. Do you play,
So are you playing? It sounds like you play a
lot every weekend. Do you have shows?
Speaker 6: I've been trying. Yeah, yeah, yep, it's been good.
Speaker 3: And then when you go to Germany, is the full
band going with you?
Speaker 6: Yes, a variation of the band. My buddy Bernie, who
plays bass for us, is going to stay home, but Lee,
who plays guitar. It's funny Lee plays drums on a
lot of this, a lot of the studio stuff. He's
like my right hand man almost when it comes to
this stuff. He doesn't play every show. Sometimes we play
a three piece, but he always helps out in the studio,
especially on this new album. He's gonna play bass in
Germany and my drummer Jared is gonna is gonna come
and play drums, so we'll do a three piece. Yea,
have a full band in Germany.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's nice that you have that kind of flexibility where
you can, you know, you can kind of just make
it work, you know, and change the configuration as you
go if you need to. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's stressful as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: How many?
Speaker 3: How many dates are you doing there?
Speaker 6: We're gonna be there for six days and I think
we're gonna play four of them.
Speaker 3: Okay. Have you been to Europe before?
Speaker 6: I have been. I've played with my friend Jeff before
over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: We flew in to Spain, played two or three shows
in like Madrid, leone wow, and then we flew to
Amsterdam and played Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Yeah so, and I
think that was like in eight days. We probably played
four or five shows and eight.
Speaker 3: Days wow, no kidding.
Speaker 6: That was about five years ago. That was really fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, very cool, very cool. Oh right before the
pandemic right before yeah yeah, yeah, good thing. It wasn't
four years ago you would have would have been able
to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now So okay, so I have to ask you this.
So you've got I've been dying to ask you this question.
You've got a brand new single that just came out,
which we're not going to play today. Now. We love
to play new stuff on the show. The only reason
we're not playing this is called I Hate Joe King's Roommate.
And the only reason we're not playing it. See, usually
I make a radio edit if a guest has something
and I want to play it, you know, And if
they don't have a radio edit, I'll make a radio edit.
I just go in, I reverse where all the swears are.
And I don't mind doing that. You know, it takes
me five minutes. I'm prety efficient at it. But I
was listening to this track, and by the way, I
love the song. It's a great song, but I thought
there's so much here there would have to be reversed
and it would kind of wreck the song. So I
was like, I don't just artistically, I don't think I
should mess with this one. But here's what I'm dying
to know. I want to know there has to be
a story behind this, right sure is? And who is
Joe King? And why is his roommate upset you? So
because I can't tell, Like, we learn a little bit
about Joe King's roommate from the song. We learned that
he's apparently a very upsetting person. But I don't know,
you will think, but I don't know exactly and I
don't know how about you can divulge, but I mean
I have to ask. I'm very curious. The song made
me very curious.
Speaker 6: All right, I'll be as forthcoming as I n be. Okay,
So I wrote that song with my friend Pete Curtis,
probably in like nineteen ninety seven. Oh, okay, nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: I was in high school and he we were in
a band called the Illegitimates. The Portsmouth punk scene was
kind of cool and going on. There was a place
called the Elvis Room. Oh yeah, that was one in
Portland too, honestly, but yep, it was. It was thriving.
There was great bands coming in and out of it.
And you know, he was in a band, I was
in a band, and we just ended up playing in
a band, yeah for a bit, and we with that song.
I hate Joking's roommate. So Joe King is the singer
of this band, the Queers. They're like a popular punk
band from New Hampshire. Yep, they tore everywhere. They're pretty
famous now. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean he's written songs
with like Joey Ramone, and you know he's played a lot.
He plays a lot. He makes money off of music
and he you know, I love the Queers. I was
listening to him on the way home last night. You know.
They were like one of the first punk bands I
ever listened to. In my eyes, they're like the Ramones
for me. Yeah. So I always looked up to Joe.
A couple of my friends played in his bands and stuff.
And Mitch, who is Joe King's roommate at the time,
he was like this. I don't know if he was
an army vet or if he was just like a
hippie type dude, but he had he always had like
a green long army coat and long orange chair. Scruffy dude.
To be honest, really nice, Like usually he was very polite.
He was like, hey man, how are you. That's all
you would say, or like hey man, you know right,
that's it. He wouldn't he wouldn't like try to get
in conversations. He wasn't mean or anything. And we were
just like always trying to hang out with Joe or
try to talk to Joe and this guy was here
and he'd be like, hey man, like we hate Joking's roommate. Yeah,
you know, he lived above Series Street in Portsmouth, Like
we thought we were the coolest people hanging out with
these guys. Yea, but that's pretty much the story. Man
in a nutshell?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So did he hear the song?
Speaker 6: Or Joe has? Joe has heard the song? I sent
him copy of it and we actually did a music
video and everything. He's not in it, but I mean,
he says he likes it. I don't know, he hasn't
reposted it or anything, but yeah, he knows about it.
And I don't know how to how would even get
a hold of Mitch or anything, right, but a couple
of people have asked me about it. Because Joe has
had tons of roommates.
Speaker 3: That's that gives you plausible deniability. Because if Mitch ever
turns up and he's like hey man, which which I
assume is how he would open the conversation, right, hey man,
kind of hurt my feelings. You can just say, Joe
King's had tons of roommates, why do you think it's
about you?
Speaker 6: As you talked about it on the air.
Speaker 3: But then you can say, well, yeah, but he's you know,
Mitch is a common name. He probably had. It was
probably somebody else named Mitch who was Joe King's roommate.
Why do you think it's about you? Don't be a narcissist, Mitch.
Speaker 6: Why is everything about you? Mitch?
Speaker 3: I hate you that ye see, so it all comes
full circle. Oh that's that's great. Okay, okay, yeah, I
was hoping there was a story. I was I was
actually afraid of asking you that it was going to
turn out to be some you know, the fictional thing
that you just made up to be funny. So I'm
glad there's an actual story.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's real, real life. It happened a long time ago.
But yeah, yeah, you know resentments.
Speaker 3: Oh that's great.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So here's what I think we should do. I'll play
another studio track, and then while that's playing, if you
want to grab your guitar, and then when we come
back from that, I'm dying here, you play live? Okay,
what should I? Uh, let's see, because you sent me
a few things. We played being Around, which again, I
just I love that song so much. That is so fun.
Speaker 6: One good reason sort of like that one. It's a
little kind of Kyle punky or h like I don't know,
I didn't want to say hicck punk, but like a
little more on the country punk side.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, we'll play that one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the twangy guitars. It's sort of like sort of
like being around the closest one to it at least.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, cool, So we'll give this a spin.
This is uh, this is Dave strung. This is called
One Good Reason. And then when we come back, Dave's
gonna play live for us. So check this out.
Speaker 4: Jesus wants to.
Speaker 5: Wait with me.
Speaker 4: All we have could do is by you go in
the met of therapy. I don't know I'm gonna make
it to the night. The buck, ain't get the let school,
and nothing.
Speaker 5: Ever turns out right.
Speaker 4: Make me one good reason? The house some mess tish
staff tell tall as I as Diane and join to
Bryan holds on every wall. Sometimes I wonder if it's
something I did.
Speaker 5: Yes, this as we.
Speaker 4: Roll, Amy want.
Speaker 7: To do me soon.
Speaker 4: I've been working every day trying to.
Speaker 1: Make a living year very getaway.
Speaker 4: Well when I get home with that, so I've been
just getting ride. I don't think you said she wants
away with me.
Speaker 5: All we ever do is fighting.
Speaker 4: You can win them into dymasphy.
Speaker 5: I don't know we're gonna make it to the night,
talks about getting kids at my school and nothing ever
turns out.
Speaker 10: Rise and me want to do.
Speaker 5: Me soon.
Speaker 6: And he won't do me.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, Dave, your songs are short, short,
to the point. That's right, that's right. If you're just
joining us, we have Dave Strong with us live in studio.
Dave's gonna play for us. I'm dying to hear you play.
So I'm gonna. I'm gonna this is a new one
that you're gonna do.
Speaker 6: Yep. This is my newest release. It's going to be
on in a seven inch EP that should be out
next month. Oh okay, there are three orders up for it,
but like you know, they should be in hand by
the beginning of October at the latest. Okay, it's called
I Hate Joking's Roommate. The the EP is called I
Hate Joking's Roommate. It will it'll have that song. It's funny.
I'll tell you a story about that after because it
was supposed to be a children's EP. Oh really yeah,
because the third song is called puddle Hop, which isn't
released yet and I wrote it for my kids. Oh
but the guy that put it out really like joking's
roommate and that's I mean, we're just talking about how
many swears were in that. So yeah, yeah, that through
the children's story right out of the window.
Speaker 3: Oh I can see where that would be a problem.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's kind of a good I mean, it'll
be three really awesome songs. This is probably one of
my favorite ones I've ever written. And you know, all right,
what a song about it? I want to hear it.
Speaker 3: Yes, here it goes.
Speaker 6: The song is called I want to know.
Speaker 7: If you could possibly leave the message and we'll get
back to you quickly.
Speaker 6: I want to know what's on your mid You come out?
Yes you did.
Speaker 7: When I saw you, I had to go back. There
was something that catches my eye. Want to know what's
on your MIDO come out? I see you win the
corner in the middle of the night. My heart catches
up because you're so out of sight.
Speaker 9: I know it.
Speaker 6: In the morning, it'll be all right. Hold it. Do
you wanna come over?
Speaker 7: The night I woke up, you wore over my shoulder
in I I'm so glad that I bothered stop on
that corner the night you were there.
Speaker 6: You come out.
Speaker 7: And I knew we'd be in the forever and nothing
can keep us from each other.
Speaker 6: Smile on your face tells me things.
Speaker 7: Your coogar come out.
Speaker 6: When I say you were in the corner in the
middle of the night, my heart catches up because you're
so out of sight.
Speaker 5: I know it.
Speaker 6: In the morning, it'll be all right or hot it?
Do you wanna come over than that? A rat?
Speaker 3: That's awesome, that's awesome. Thank you for playing that. If
you're just joining us, we have Joe Strong with us,
I'm sorry, Dave, Dave Strong, Dave Strong, I'm thinking of joke.
I'm in my mind I've created an amalgam of Joe
King and Dave Strong, I.
Speaker 6: Bet.
Speaker 3: But if you're just joining us, Dave Strong is here
with us, alive in studio on the Saturday morning on
Matt connorton Unleashed, and we're having a great time. Really,
really we should talk about, uh that track. One good
reason because you were telling us a little bit about
it off air, and those pretty interesting.
Speaker 6: You were.
Speaker 3: You were talking about how quickly it came together and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, So most of the songs on that record
right there are done by myself, my friend Uri, and
my friend Terry who plays upright bass and for this one,
it's gonna either be the first or second number on
the new record. And it was a whole It was
almost a full different band. I had my buddy Luke
was playing drums on it and Lenny Lashley was playing guitar.
And Lenny Lashley is like a famous Boston musician. I mean, yeah,
he's super cool. He plays in bands called Darkbuster and
the Street Dogs, And you know, it was it was cool.
I just recorded it up in New Hampshire and I
sent him the track and by the next day he
had all those awesome guitar riffs in there and stuff,
and you know, I I thought it was really cool
of him to do, you know, because yeah, he's a
really cool, established musician, a really human being, and you know,
he didn't have to play on my stuff, and it
was really awesome for him to do it.
Speaker 3: Were you surprised at the turnaround time on that, like
how quickly he got those back to here?
Speaker 6: That was pretty amazing. Yeah, I mean he's a true
professional for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, that's fantastic. Are there other people you've
worked with that you'd kind of put in that category
where you're like Wow, this is this is amazing. This
is one of my heroes.
Speaker 6: So far, I've I've worked with a couple of people.
Kurt Baker out of Spain. I mean he's actually from Portland, Maine.
He lives in Spain. Now he's on Wicked Cool Records,
which is like Little Steven Okay, yep, from Bruce Springsteen's
bands label.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in Spain now, that's a big move.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's doing really well. You know, he's put out
a bunch of records and you know he kills it
every time. But when he was in a band called
the Leftovers out of Portland, Maine, and then he got
signed to that guy from Bowling for Soup Jarrett Reddity
name the lead singer of Bowling for Soup and guitarists.
You know, Kurt Baker I kind of look up to
because he's from Maine. He's a local dude, down to earth.
He's a friend of mine now and he's just kind
of like done it. You know, he keeps doing it
and doing it good. He writes awesome songs and he
gets recognized for the awesome songs.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 6: Even though he's a friend, I still really look up
to him. You know, it's like a oh oh shoot
moment every time.
Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt. Where do you record?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 3: Sounds like you've recorded in a lot of different places.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't. I haven't found a place where, like
I can say, is gonna be my new spot? You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: But I I recorded that whole album that I gave
to you, the Dave Strong LP or whatever, the self
titled one. I recorded all ten of those songs at
the wood Shop in I don't even know. I don't
even know, like Kensington, New Hampshire is somewhere around there. Okay,
it's called the wood Shop Studio up there.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've heard of Kensington. Yeah, is it north.
Speaker 6: So it's sort of near like Haveril.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you know it's like on that It's like,
oh it's on the border.
Speaker 6: Get on four for a second. Yeah, Atkinson's exactly studios
in Atkinson.
Speaker 3: I know exactly where that is. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 6: So I've recorded those ten songs from that one, and
then I recorded two more like the one that we
just listened to, and I'm all these lips which is
are like Asoleine's cover. But Nirvana pretty much made it popular.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, those those two songs will probably be on my
next record. And I and I thought I had a
groove going there, but it seems like now that I
think about it, it was more like perfect for that
time and the band that I was playing with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like.
Speaker 6: So I just thought, maybe you know I'm doing a
new record, I'll move to a different place and check
it out like that. So we did four songs in Salem,
mass which we recorded with Tom Hamilton, who recorded Hate
Your Friends the Lemonheads first album. Yeah, and that's kind
of why we listened to being around. We were like,
we gotta do something with Tom, like even though he
didn't wasn't a part of engineering that song. Yeah, he
was a part of engineering one of my favorite records ever. Oh,
just Hate Your Friends by the Lemonheads. I love that.
I love Evan Dando and I love the Lemonheads. Yeah,
so I was like, I gotta I gotta somehow tie
this Lemonhead's connection in right right, And I recorded I'm
Late where I should go? That Lemonhead's being around the song.
I think that's it. Oh, and I Hate Mondays. I
did a song called I Hate Mondays okay, you know,
which is kind of like I Hate Joking's Roommate, every.
Speaker 3: Other words that Ford, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 6: I'm not that angry really, yeah, yeah, I just get
it out artistically, right.
Speaker 3: Well, that's I mean, that's the best way to do it. Yeah,
that's the best way to do it. Create something absolutely.
Do you have a favorite place that you've recorded.
Speaker 6: So far? They just keep getting better. I mean, so
the last three songs I Hate Joking's Roommate, puddle Hop
which isn't out yet, which I wrote, you know, it's
like a kids type song, and then I want to
know the one I just sang. I recorded up in
North Conway at my friend Ryan's house. It's like a
makeshift studio. They call it platypus. Okay, but yeah, it's
just like it's it's on his land. It's a garage,
you know that they've turned into a studio. It's like
the size of this room really cool, you know, just
a really chill type vibe, you know, and like, yeah,
so far that's been my favorite place. Okay, going back
with another band next weekend to record up there again.
Oh okay, So the plan is eventually I'll find my
home base right, you know, but until I'll keep trying
these awesome places and they keep getting better and better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's so
many options to record now and so many places. You know,
it's interesting too there it seems like there was a
point where people, you know, as technology evolves and becomes
more accessible to everybody, you know, people make all kinds
of predictions about what technology is going to start to
go away, or how things are going to change, or
and what technology is going to stick around. And like,
for example, vinyl records. You know, decades ago people said,
you know, CDs would be the end of vinyl, and
vinyl you know, still thrives. But with recording studios. You know,
I remember years ago people saying, now with all these
capabilities to just record on your own, recorded at home
and whatnot, you know, recording studios are going to go away.
But it didn't happen, and if anything, there's probably more
of them than there were ten years ago, because you know,
people like having all kinds of different options in terms
of how they create their music. You know, some some
people only want to be able to just do it
at home, plug everything in, use pro tools, use ant
modelers and all that, and you know, not have to
go to a studio. Some people thrive on being in
a studio and love and I find too, And I'm
curious if you're like this. A lot of the people
who seem to really thrive on being in a studio
as you appear to really like having that, you know,
like having an engineer, a recording engineer there who all
also very often, you know, it happens organically, becomes sort
of a de facto producer, you know, and they even
even though maybe that's not why you're there necessarily, but
they have input, they have ideas, and of course they
know how to get the best sound with their equipment.
Like do you find that and does that factor into
because you've recorded a lot of different places, does that
factor into your decisions on where to go?
Speaker 6: I you're exactly right with that. I mean, I've recorded
at this place in Waltham, mass called Willie Mammoth Studios.
I've heard of that a few times with my buddy Jeff,
who I went overseas with and played the Spain shows
and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
Speaker 6: The main producer in that, I mean, the one we
worked with, I don't know there's probably a couple of
people that run the board there. But I've worked with
them a couple of times now, Actually I think I did.
I did this documentary called Stick It to the Man
there where we did a live session. Yeah, I've worked
with a couple of times. It's Dave Minihan. Is his name.
He He's from that band the Neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: That name has come up on the show a bunch
of times.
Speaker 6: It's a rock star. Yeah, he's in the replacements now
and isn't Isn't he?
Speaker 3: Is he Kirk Minihan's brother.
Speaker 6: I don't know Kirk Minihan.
Speaker 3: The Kirk Minhan's a sports broadcaster from Boston. I think
they're related.
Speaker 6: You know, you could be right. I never even put
the connection together.
Speaker 3: But and even even if they're not brothers, they have
to be related something. Minihan's not a naming here all
the time. But I think I think that they're actually brothers.
But but but yeah, Dave Minahan, that name's come up
heavy America. I think mention them. I don't know if
you know them, Boston band. They've been on the show.
I think they I think that's the first interview where
I heard that name was from those guys I think
they recorded there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a it's a heck of a place, man,
It's he's so I think. So Rhino Records does this
like best of the New York Scene, best of like
you know Boston a compilation has the cars on it,
the real kids on it, and the neighborhoods is like
the first song on it, you know, yeah Mission Burma
like all those classic punk songs.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: So just that alone was like whoa. But but he
also adds a really cool like vibe to the room,
like he knows what what to what to look for.
You know. At first, I was kind of nervous meeting
him to tell you the truth, the human like us
and yeah, of course and they he does a lot
of real to reel you know, really like there's another guy.
There's Mike, Mike Mike Kennedy from the All American Rejects.
That's a huge band, huge famous band, and my buddy
just went and recorded with him speak you know you
you kind of I think a lot of people are
doing that now, you know on their part time, like
you get you go there for the talent and the
vibe been like you know, it's cool. It's a cool feel.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, it also makes sense too, I think if
you're you know, if you're in a big band like
all American rejects for example, you know a lot of
bands aren't. They're not touring as much now because it's
gotten so expensive to travel. So you know, to be
able to do something like that, you know, work with
other bands, whether it's whether it's at a recording studio,
building that or or or getting into some other aspect
of the music business that helps you know, younger up
and coming talent, you know it only which probably also
is very fulfilling for for a lot of these folks too,
to be able to do that, you know, to help
the next generations that are coming up, and you know,
once you know, once they've already got their fame, you know,
why not pass on that knowledge and experience and those resources.
But also too, it gives them something to do because
you know, like I said, I mean, who was it
that there was a band, a pretty big band recently
that actually canceled their tour because of low ticket sales
and they just said it's not what was it then?
They just said it's not it's not worth it. Whereas
it's not gonna we're not even gonna bother, you know. So,
I mean, I don't know if those guys are doing
anything to help help other bands, but but maybe they are.
But but it's great to make those connections.
Speaker 6: And it goes both ways too sometimes. I mean, like
as far as Dave Minihan was everything I expected and more.
That guy's like a top top shelf. Yeah, you know,
he knows his stuff and he's been in some of
the coolest bands. You know, like Billy Joe Armstrong from
Green Day did Coachella with the Replacements. He like hopped
on their tour. They didn't like ask him to do it.
He came up to them and was like can I play?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like.
Speaker 6: Imagine that. Yeah, you know, like, holy crap, the stories,
you know. But then I was like so stoked to
go work with Tom Hamilton because the Lemonheads connection and
the guy was sort of a mess, you know, like
really the songs came out great, Yeah, they took like
four or five months to finish. Yeah, you know, and
I'm not going to talk to or anything. I'm not
going to talk trash or anything.
Speaker 3: Sorry, We're we're on a delay. I caught it. I'm
not going to talk that but yeah.
Speaker 6: Sorry, but he he wasn't what I expected really, you know,
So that's what I meant. It goes both ways.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you work with your idols and you love it.
Sometimes you work with your idols and you learn a
little bit, you know, of humility and like you're not
exactly what you think they are. Yeah, and sometimes you
just you work with your friends. Yeah, and for you know,
you pay a lot of money to work with someone
that you don't know and you don't get what you want.
Or you pay almost nothing to work with one of
your best friends and you make something together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then someone else here is then like where
did you go? Oh you didn't go to a five
hundred dollars hour studio. You went to a twenty buck
an hour studio?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Can I go there? Sure? I'll call Ryan and see
if he can do it, you know. Yeah, that's what
it's about nowadays. For me, at least, I'm trying to
get the next I'm trying to make memories and make
music with like up and coming people, new people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. We should
clarify too, for anyone who's listening, who's confused? Obviously not
the same Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith. No, in case anyone thinks,
you know, there's probably a million.
Speaker 6: I thought it was him for the longest time. I
thought maybe when I walked into his house it would
be the bass player of Varus Smith.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how much I know you're You're probably going
there thinking I wonder if I ask him, will he
play the bass line of Sweet Emotion? Yeah, Tom Hamilton's
probably there's probably a million Tom Hamilton's out there. Those
are both such common names, Tom and Hamilton. But yeah,
well that's too bad that that he wasn't that great.
But you know, yeah, they say don't meet your heroes,
but then again, you know, some of your heroes turn
out to be pretty awesome, so you know, that's that's
the risk that you take. But but it sounds like
you've had a lot of positive experiences and got to
work with some great people. So that's awesome.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, have you have you I had moments along
the way where you just kind of go, I can't believe.
I can't believe I'm getting to do this and work
with this person and have this opportunity you ever kind
of just pinch yourself.
Speaker 6: And go, wow, absolutely. I mean there was a long
time that I thought I deserved it more than I did.
It's been very humbling lately. You know, I made a
lot of changes, and I think I'm on the right
path where I can acknowledge everything that's happening in a
good way. Good I've learned. Yeah, which is you know,
it's the light?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Was there was there anything specific that that kind
of caused that? Or is that more just a gradual
thing over time where you just kind of grow and evolve.
Speaker 6: And I mean I I guess I drank a little
too much when I was younger, and like, you know
that that might have put a stint on it. You
know I would, I'll put it like this, you know,
I thought, but I was entitled, you know, like, oh,
I know how to play the song you have? You
should really bring me. I'm on the record. You know
I deserve this, No like blah blah blah, instead of
you know, a hundred other people could be coming on
this right, you know, you brought me instead of one
hundred different people. I'm grateful, Like getting off the bus
and being like where's the bar? Instead of like how
can I help you carry something? Ye, just little things
like that that you know, thinking back at it now,
it's like, oh, just just do the next right thing
now and you'll be good. There you go, There you go,
last of the past, and the future is unknown.
Speaker 3: So yeah, exactly, exactly, No, I like that. Let's play
another track. Let's see we should play because we played,
we played being Around, and we played reason. Oh what's
this one?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I would? I really like this one.
Speaker 6: This is a cool pop song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's play this. If you are just joining us,
we have Dave Strong with us, uh here in studio,
and uh, let's see. Yeah, this is a good one.
This is a track called I would. We're gonna give
this a spin and then we're gonna come right back
and talk with Dave a little bit more. But here
we go. Oh here, we don't go. I made a mistake.
We're about to go. Here we go.
Speaker 5: Please, it's not true.
Speaker 4: Whatever do.
Speaker 5: You go back? And James, I.
Speaker 4: Would if I couldn't for you.
Speaker 5: I would if I could, and I would if everybody
says that I is saying maybe you and the rain,
but maybe I'm the one too. Well, if I could
go back and Jane byes for you.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 5: Would.
Speaker 4: If I could for you, I would.
Speaker 5: If I couldn't, and.
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 5: Use then if I because then if I because if
I if I.
Speaker 4: For you, I would, If I could for.
Speaker 5: You, I would. If I cut the man, then.
Speaker 3: That is I would. That is Dave Strong who is
here with us alive in studio on this Saturday morning.
And Dave, so you were saying off air something really
special about that track.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was one of the first songs I ever
recorded solo. I recorded all the parts myself on it,
of the drums, the bass, the guitar. I went to
the Atkinson studio well with my not myself. My daughter
came with me and she sang all the harmonies and
sang all the backups. So that's a real special one.
Little girl and I would are pretty much just me
and my daughter.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's really cool. That's really cool.
Speaker 6: Karra Strong shout out.
Speaker 3: Does she does she have music of her own too
that she's doing or what's her her kind of musical trajectory? Yeah?
Speaker 6: She She hasn't released anything yet. I know she will.
She's got a beautiful voice and she plays guitar really
well too.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, very good, Yeah, very good. We are the
time goes so quick. We are we're running out of time, Dave.
But before we run out of time and we I
do want to get this one last track and two
nights in jail to end the show today. But by
the way, is that based on any kind of a
true story?
Speaker 6: Not particularly, I plead the fifth.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's well. I didn't know if maybe Joe King's
roommate had done something to get you in trouble and
then you want because that would be a reason to
hate him.
Speaker 6: It's got it's got a teeny back story about a
scorn lover type deal. But next time we'll talk about it.
Speaker 3: Understood, understood. Do you have any shows? Are you playing
it all? This weekend?
Speaker 6: September seventh, I'm playing at spring Point Tavern in South Portland, Maine. Okay,
that's just me acoustic, but it will be really fun.
It's a great place, free parking, good food, it's in
a really it's right on the water. It's a beautiful spot.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: And then September fourteenth at Geno's in Portland, Maine.
Speaker 3: Full band excellent, excellent and uh Where should people go
to keep up with everything that you're doing online? Where's
the best place to go?
Speaker 6: I'm Butcherman, Dave at Instagram dot com. That's me, okay,
and then I'm Dave Strong Music and Dave Strong. Both
of those are on Facebook right now. Okay, those are
pretty much those have turned into my music.
Speaker 3: Yeah sites, you know, yeah, yeah, excellent.
Speaker 6: And the Spotify, Apple Music all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on all those streaming platforms. And the is
it an EP that the Joe King song is on?
Speaker 6: Yep, that's going to be a four song like forty
five record?
Speaker 3: Gotcha? Oh really? Okay?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Very cool? And when is that out?
Speaker 6: We pressed one hundred of them, We've sold probably like
thirty of them so far, and it should be out
probably the first day in October around pok pre sales
up right now at Critical Mass Records or you can
hit me up on Facebook or Instagram and I can
like get you one or something.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, excellent.
Speaker 6: I'll be selling them at shows soon and you know, yeah,
that'll be in hand hopefully by October.
Speaker 3: Oh very cool, very cool, awesome. Well, in a moment,
we'll play this track. But Dave, thank you so much
for coming in today, Thanks for having me. This has
been wonderful, and of course thank you to our friend
Charles Maddocks who joined us in the first hour. And Jenny,
you want to plug your website.
Speaker 8: Absolutely you can come check me out at Jencoffee dot com,
j E N N C O F f U I
dot com. And there's an actual in depth interview new
interview us up up right now. It's Spelfe from the
Midnight Creative Collector.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, definitely, definitely check that out absolutely absolutely, and
if you missed any part of today's show, it will
be up in just a little bit at WM and
Hradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com.
And we will leave you with this. Dave Strong, thank
you again so much. And uh, this is called Nights
in Jail.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
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