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Now are you away? 73 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:14,919 Speaker 12: Because I've seen you with my dreams. Oh please do 74 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,000 I seen? 75 00:10:17,919 --> 00:10:48,759 Speaker 11: Set me free? God? 76 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,279 Speaker 14: This name. 77 00:10:51,919 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 15: Swimming against the side, the morning ring ring. 78 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,799 Speaker 1: Gray sis us wondering what. 79 00:11:02,799 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 16: Masked by the present, and you stayed everything and stopping 80 00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:13,240 it an even don't we as a. 81 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: That so being said, LI tells cap together. 82 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,519 Speaker 9: Then he said, it's not these things. Then I'll try 83 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:31,919 to stop the rays. Other things we have scenes. Do 84 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,919 you see the teams. 85 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 11: Go? 86 00:11:36,759 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: Please are class. 87 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 11: Seven scene. 88 00:11:51,960 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 15: See down at the ceiling. 89 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 12: You feel like it's all boom. 90 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 15: Three five those acevening. 91 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 3: They still there. 92 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 17: They know souning you went on Sason and this house 93 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,240 says they b. 94 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: Same t Leason got away your mess and no. 95 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:50,279 Speaker 11: Let said. 96 00:12:51,960 --> 00:13:55,039 Speaker 9: Seven free like the sea. 97 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:27,639 Speaker 18: Said. 98 00:13:27,799 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 16: Some say. 99 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,399 Speaker 9: Say Time. 100 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,519 Speaker 10: Say said. 101 00:13:53,159 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 11: Let's say. 102 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:16,759 Speaker 14: April Days of coming gone. Spring, rain is rolling on. 103 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 19: My heart breaks without a song. The road starts to wind. 104 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:30,279 They're funding water, or so they last. The end times 105 00:14:30,679 --> 00:14:37,559 are coming fast? Will peace get a chance? Who would 106 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:38,480 have known? 107 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:46,279 Speaker 14: I've been feeling, but something is wrong. 108 00:14:47,559 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 12: The voice in my head has been here forty. 109 00:14:55,159 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 20: One day I will get. 110 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,519 Speaker 12: To live laft again. 111 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 14: Laying in my hospital bed, the sun shine and all 112 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:23,879 my head. 113 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,519 Speaker 12: The doctor stopped by and said, they. 114 00:15:28,559 --> 00:15:30,799 Speaker 1: Know what's the cause. 115 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,399 Speaker 20: I've been feeling. 116 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,919 Speaker 12: Looks something is wrong. 117 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 20: The voice in my head has been here for too long. 118 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,559 Speaker 21: One day I will. 119 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 12: To live lath again. 120 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 14: I'm happy to be alive. The worst days are long behind. 121 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:22,200 He lived from all the time I spent in pain. 122 00:16:25,879 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: Been feeling. 123 00:16:28,399 --> 00:16:35,159 Speaker 12: Looks something is wrong. The voice in my head has 124 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:40,279 been here for two one day? 125 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: How kids. 126 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 12: Live love again? 127 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,799 Speaker 4: What a beautiful song? That is April Days by Mike Fraser. 128 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,079 And he is here with us, live in studio. We're 129 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:12,720 gonna talk with him, He's gonna play for us. This 130 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:15,119 is gonna be great. If you are just joining us. 131 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,960 This is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the 132 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:22,000 studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, 133 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,160 very wet, Rainy, Manchester, New Hampshire, of course also streaming live. 134 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:28,920 If you go to Matt connorton dot com slash live 135 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,759 you can find all your live streaming options, social media links, contact, 136 00:17:31,799 --> 00:17:36,319 infoshow archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, May tenth, 137 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:40,039 twenty twenty five, and I'm gonna bring that Mike up here, 138 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,119 and Mike Fraser is here. Hello, sir, Hello, We'll turn 139 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:44,880 you up a little here. 140 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 14: Make sure reel good to be here. 141 00:17:46,319 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 4: Sounds good, sounds good? All right, love that song April Days, 142 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,079 Thank You really good. Yeah, we played we played that 143 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,279 for the first time, maybe a couple months ago. I 144 00:17:55,319 --> 00:17:57,440 think Sweet you had first sent us a single and 145 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,960 Jenny and I met you at the Shaft Skiine. I 146 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:05,079 don't remember by time. It all becomes a blur, but 147 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,079 it was I remember it was cold. 148 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:08,559 Speaker 14: Yeah, it was November. 149 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 6: It was. 150 00:18:11,039 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 14: Towards the end. Well it's middle November of last year. Okay, 151 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:19,160 I think it was the eighteenth or something like that. Okay, 152 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,599 around then, yeah, and it was it was a little 153 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:23,359 chilly that day. 154 00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:27,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, you were playing there. Jesse Coffee, who is Jenny's Sun, 155 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,400 was playing that. Yeah, so that's that's the main reason 156 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,640 that we were there and we saw you and we 157 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,640 had to talk to you because we were just very impressed, 158 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,559 not only with your set but your story. You've you've 159 00:18:38,079 --> 00:18:40,160 you've been through some stuff, my friend, you have been 160 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,480 through some stuff. But and well we'll get into all 161 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,960 of that, I'm sure, but also you're you're not from here. 162 00:18:46,039 --> 00:18:47,000 You're on tour right now. 163 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, originally from My wife and I were from 164 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:53,440 the Shadow Valley from Winchester, Virginia, like our west of DC, Okay, 165 00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:56,160 and we live in Seattle now. We moved up to 166 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,519 the northwest in August of twenty two. But yeah, we're 167 00:19:00,519 --> 00:19:04,680 playing some shows around the Northeast and also getting neurology 168 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:12,279 appointments while I'm back in town. So you know, it's 169 00:19:12,319 --> 00:19:14,359 good to be back here though, and be able to 170 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,279 be on the road because I mean, I said last 171 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,319 night in Boston. The last time I played in Boston 172 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,519 was May of twenty twenty three. Yeah, and I'm usually 173 00:19:22,599 --> 00:19:24,799 up in the Northeast at least a couple of times 174 00:19:24,839 --> 00:19:28,319 a year, and you know, prior to moving to Seattle 175 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:34,000 even Yeah, and so last year really made that difficult. 176 00:19:35,039 --> 00:19:37,720 I'm glad we at least got to get to Manchester. Yeah, 177 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,880 but yeah, I mean happy to dive into that. 178 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 4: And where are you playing tonight? 179 00:19:44,079 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 14: We're playing at Tourists in North Adams tonight. 180 00:19:46,559 --> 00:19:46,839 Speaker 4: Okay. 181 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 14: Yeah, so it's been nice to get a little Northeast vibe. 182 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, because we'll. 183 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,599 Speaker 14: Be in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania tomorrow, and then we're coming back 184 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,559 up playing Queens and Jersey. Okay, so yeah, hitting some 185 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,119 spots I haven't been to in a while. 186 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 4: Oh and you brought us a beautiful vinyl record by 187 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,720 that way, Yeah, and uh, later I'll take a picture 188 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,240 of it and I'll post it later because I don't 189 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,839 have a camera on me. But but this is actually 190 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,240 maybe well actually maybe for those watching online, Oh, I 191 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,279 figured out a way I can show it. Sweet there 192 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,400 we go. If you're watching live, you can see Beautiful 193 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,880 April Days, the uh, the name of the album, and 194 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,079 of course the name of the song that we just played, 195 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:30,440 the great studio track. And yeah, absolutely absolutely I love 196 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,000 that this is Seattle, assume in the cover. 197 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, that's in the neighborhood we live in Ballard. 198 00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:38,079 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, right on Ballard. Ave. 199 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 12: Yeah. 200 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,839 Speaker 14: And you know, I showed that record to someone the 201 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,079 other day. I said, you know, it's really going for 202 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,880 that free wheeling vibe, same aesthetic. But and they were like, well, 203 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,640 you know, Dylan really screwed up not putting a cute 204 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,400 dog on the cover, so we put Conoli, our Boston 205 00:20:55,519 --> 00:20:56,480 terrier on with us. 206 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:56,799 Speaker 16: Oh. 207 00:20:57,039 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 14: Very yeah, she adds a vibe for sure. 208 00:20:59,759 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 4: Yeah. 209 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:00,559 Speaker 10: Yeah. 210 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 4: By the way, I'm always impressed with because you've got 211 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,839 the harmonica. Yeah yeah, and you've got what do you 212 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,559 call that that where that you put it in that 213 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,000 contraption harpholder, I guess okay, yeah, I'm always impressed with 214 00:21:13,079 --> 00:21:14,839 that because when you do that, you're playing guitar. You're 215 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,880 literally playing two instruments at once. So that always impresses me. Thanks. 216 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 14: Thanks. I mean I literally learned how to play along 217 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,319 to like any of the songs on Harvest and that 218 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:26,640 was like, all right, well. 219 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, is he your biggest influence? 220 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 14: Neilia, I'm being top for sure. Yeah. Well, which I 221 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,519 got a great story about which I'll dive into. Getting 222 00:21:36,519 --> 00:21:39,359 brain surgery here shortly. But what the surgeon told me 223 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,200 after surgery was a real ego boost for sure. Okay, okay, 224 00:21:43,279 --> 00:21:44,759 it involves Neil as well. 225 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 4: So for those of you just tuning in, because you 226 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:51,440 probably have not heard I'll talk about the brain surgery, 227 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,440 you probably haven't heard a guest say that before on 228 00:21:53,519 --> 00:21:56,359 this show. But like I said, so, if you're just 229 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,079 tuning in, not only do you want to keep listening 230 00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,599 for the music, but you want to hear Mike's story 231 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,119 because you have been through it. But yeah, you want 232 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,680 to play something to set us out. 233 00:22:04,839 --> 00:22:10,519 Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll start with this. So essentially, for two years, 234 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,880 I had been dealing with the worst mental health and 235 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,920 physical health crisis in my life. I didn't know what 236 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:23,039 was wrong with me for years. Found out on April 237 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,319 seventeenth of last year, I get admitted to the hospital 238 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,119 in Virginia when I was supposed to be on tour. 239 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,039 I had started going unconscious and I happened to be 240 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:36,440 at lunch with my doctor son in Virginia and he 241 00:22:36,519 --> 00:22:39,680 saw me go unconscious for about fifty seconds. His dad 242 00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:42,759 and his dad got me an MRI the next morning. 243 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:44,079 I would have been in the van all the way 244 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,480 to New Jersey to start the tour. I was going 245 00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:49,559 unconscious again before the MRI and I get admitted to 246 00:22:49,599 --> 00:22:53,599 the hospital. That day I get diagnosed with temporolo of epilepsy. 247 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,319 And the neurologist, this guy, doctor lyons, he looks at me, 248 00:22:59,319 --> 00:23:01,559 and he says, every single time you felt nauseous for 249 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,319 the last two years, and every single time a doctor 250 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,799 has told you you have really bad acid reflux, you've 251 00:23:07,839 --> 00:23:10,880 actually been seizing. And it usually usually happened when I 252 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,559 ate and I had a mass on my right timpoorlope 253 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:20,720 called cortical dysplasia, which I was a congenital defect that 254 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,720 I didn't know was there and took twenty nine years 255 00:23:24,759 --> 00:23:27,200 for them to find it and for two years of 256 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:32,200 countless seizures until I started going unconscious. Usually when it 257 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,440 would happen, I would I feel like I was getting 258 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,119 stabbed in the stomach. Oh my gosh, cruciatingly painful, and 259 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,920 it affected my mind tremendously. 260 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 4: Too, imagine. 261 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 14: So you know, years of dealing with that, you know, 262 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,279 I finally get this diagnosis, and it sure was some 263 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,640 good news for me in that regard, because I finally 264 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,480 knew what was wrong and So this first one off 265 00:23:53,559 --> 00:23:56,440 play I wrote about two weeks after the surgery, okay, 266 00:23:57,079 --> 00:23:58,720 and it's called What's wrong with Me? 267 00:23:59,039 --> 00:24:25,799 Speaker 8: All right, my darling, I've gone like the. 268 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:33,559 Speaker 18: Willow ma Lee's laid bath. 269 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,319 Speaker 12: And the cold. 270 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,799 Speaker 14: My heartaches from something I can't see it. 271 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,759 Speaker 12: My mind feels as. 272 00:24:54,279 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 14: Of control. My the darkness, it steals away my memory. 273 00:25:10,319 --> 00:25:10,839 Speaker 11: Give me. 274 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 14: A break from the pain. Medication has sah lends the melody, 275 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:58,079 and no one seems to understand him but me. I've 276 00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:11,680 wandered this world without answers, hiding my pain from those 277 00:26:12,319 --> 00:26:29,319 as I smile, though I am weary, always can put. 278 00:26:30,599 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 12: On a show. 279 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: That's right. 280 00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:41,799 Speaker 14: My darkness, it steals away my memory. 281 00:26:45,759 --> 00:26:46,279 Speaker 11: Give me. 282 00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:50,799 Speaker 12: A break from the pain. 283 00:26:54,759 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 14: Medication has sidles the melody. No one seems to understand. 284 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:20,079 Speaker 20: Me, and one day they will find what's wrong with. 285 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 16: Me? 286 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 3: They sure did. 287 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 4: Oh that is beautiful. Thanks Mike Fraser is here with 288 00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:36,920 us live in studio and uh no, that was great, 289 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,519 thank you. What so that was written obviously before they 290 00:27:40,599 --> 00:27:42,359 had a diagnosis. 291 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,519 Speaker 14: Yeah, well, no, that that was written. That was after 292 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:47,319 the diagnosis. 293 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 4: Oh okay, Yeah, that was the. 294 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 14: First one I finished after surgery. 295 00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 4: Oh okay, Yeah, that. 296 00:27:53,559 --> 00:27:56,559 Speaker 14: The the only song I wrote, well, like, I really 297 00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:59,359 finished beforehand while I was still in the hospital was 298 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,039 the title track April Days, which I'll finish. 299 00:28:01,799 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 16: With that one. 300 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 14: Yeah, but yeah that you know, for the first first 301 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,960 like week, I couldn't play guitar or really sing at all. Yeah, 302 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,680 which was scary for a minute for sure. I mean 303 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,279 I was also in unimaginable pain. I mean I didn't 304 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:22,279 sleep for like two and a half weeks. And you know, 305 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,519 from my case, you know, brain surgery was the best 306 00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:28,279 option because they also weren't sure if it was cancer 307 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:28,519 or not. 308 00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:32,279 Speaker 4: So oh okay, you know it until they went in. 309 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 14: I yeah, yeah, so they you know, while I'm sitting 310 00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:39,400 in the hospital on the seventeenth, the neurologist comes in. 311 00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:41,920 It's just my wife and him and I in there, 312 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:44,279 and uh, I had three seizures in front of him 313 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,200 right in that moment. He was watching it on the 314 00:28:48,279 --> 00:28:52,000 EG and he was seeing they were all coming from 315 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:55,279 that that mass. So he was confident it was that 316 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,240 what is what was causing it, right, But they weren't 317 00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:00,640 confident as if it was cancer or if it was 318 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,000 cortical dysplaysia. Okay, so you know, as I said, best 319 00:29:05,039 --> 00:29:06,680 option was to cut it out. And but for me, 320 00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:09,799 I mean I was like, yeah, that do it, no 321 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,400 matter what I mean, because in my mind it was like, well, 322 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,920 there's my way out, especially because of the way that 323 00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:16,920 affected me mentally. 324 00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 4: Oh, I can imagine that was that was to me. 325 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:21,519 Speaker 14: That was even worse the fact that you know, I 326 00:29:22,079 --> 00:29:24,440 couldn't even really I couldn't eat without having a seizure 327 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,960 at that point. Every time I ate, it happened. But 328 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,559 for me, it was like I was the most depressed 329 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,160 I'd ever been in my life. 330 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 331 00:29:32,839 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 14: And uh, I mean my wife saved my life at 332 00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:38,359 that point. A couple of days prior to getting the diagnosis, 333 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,400 I was on the ledge and she really saved my life. 334 00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:41,799 Speaker 1: Wow. 335 00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:46,319 Speaker 14: And you know, getting that diagnosis though, it was like, well, 336 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,519 this is my way out, you know, I know what 337 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:49,240 it is now. 338 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's frightening to hear that, right, But at 339 00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:54,359 the same time, it's like, at least now I know. 340 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 12: Yeah. 341 00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 14: I mean, I like, I I wasn't. It's weird, Like 342 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:00,400 I wasn't frighten by it. 343 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:00,759 Speaker 1: I was. 344 00:30:01,279 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 14: I was elated to know what it was, you know, 345 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,799 I was more frightened not knowing what that that was 346 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,279 really it because it had just been years of the 347 00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:13,319 misdiagnosis and then it just kept getting worse and worse. 348 00:30:14,359 --> 00:30:15,839 From what I understand, you know, that's kind of the 349 00:30:15,839 --> 00:30:17,839 way that epilepsy works. It's like a computer, it just 350 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,079 gets smart, like it upgrades. Especially so my mine was, 351 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,680 you know, it's just getting to the point where I 352 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,880 was going unconscious. So that's how I found it. But yeah, 353 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,519 it was, Uh, it was quite the time, to say 354 00:30:31,559 --> 00:30:33,559 the least. And then so I go through with the 355 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,599 surgery and then the like I said, the first week 356 00:30:37,799 --> 00:30:40,759 or so couldn't play at all, but then you know, 357 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:44,799 I had the rest of May and then June and July. 358 00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:49,079 Really I just wrote constantly, and uh, what was a 359 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,559 real trip was the way that after they took this 360 00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:56,599 mass out of my brain, I didn't realize how much 361 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,000 it had been affecting writing, you know, from I remember, 362 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,559 I remember it was really like the end of twenty 363 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:08,400 twenty three, I started noticing, you know, just how difficult 364 00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:10,960 it was to write. I mean I would sit down 365 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:15,599 and just play and play and play. Nothing like melodies 366 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,319 would come about, but just couldn't put the connection. 367 00:31:18,599 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 4: And at the time you probably thought it was writer's blocky. 368 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:21,599 Speaker 5: Yeah. 369 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,759 Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, you know, I was just like, well, 370 00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:24,960 I'm just working a lot. 371 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:25,519 Speaker 4: Yeah. 372 00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:31,039 Speaker 14: Also mentally I'm struggling. Physically, I'm struggle. I'm just like, 373 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,720 it's just probably a bunch of things at play here. 374 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,240 But it was crazy, like they you know, a couple 375 00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:39,839 of weeks after, I'd say, well, it was about it 376 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,200 was about a month or month and a half after surgery. 377 00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:47,119 I'm sitting down reading my wife's book, Steph Bruno. She's 378 00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:49,519 an author. She wrote this book called The Recipe for Yellow, 379 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,799 and I'm reading her novel and it was wild, Like 380 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:56,480 I flipped. I get like twenty pages in and I 381 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,079 was like, this is the fastest I've ever been able 382 00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:03,559 to read. And I remember texting the doctors. I was like, so, 383 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,319 before the surgery, you said my IQ might go up 384 00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:09,039 a little bit, which I was really having a field 385 00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:13,720 day with interesting. Yeah and uh but but that's what 386 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,200 I guess. You know, when I started writing again, it 387 00:32:16,319 --> 00:32:19,640 was just like the ease at which was pretty profound. 388 00:32:20,359 --> 00:32:20,559 Speaker 4: Yeah. 389 00:32:20,599 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 14: I was like, they literally removed a block a lot 390 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,519 in a lot of ways, and it just was easier 391 00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:28,720 to get in that flow state for sure of just 392 00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:32,119 like sitting down. Yeah, I would do this like admititay, 393 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,160 I do some yoga and then just like start ripping 394 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:34,759 through songs. 395 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:35,079 Speaker 12: Yeah. 396 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 14: It was It was sweet. It was definitely unlike any 397 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:42,200 writing experience I've had in the past. And you know it, 398 00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:44,680 like I think I wrote twenty songs for this record, 399 00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:48,079 but we recorded it four months after the surgery, so 400 00:32:48,079 --> 00:32:49,519 it was like twenty songs in four months. 401 00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:52,799 Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, it's pretty good. Yeah, and how 402 00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:55,880 did you record this? By the way, So so we. 403 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,319 Speaker 14: There's a studio house in Ballard in Seattle. Multiple bands 404 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,440 live at this house and it's been a banded house 405 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,799 since the nineties. So I'm always wondering, like, you. 406 00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:11,079 Speaker 4: Know, who's oh yeah there, especially. 407 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,279 Speaker 14: Being in Seattle and you know, being a big punk 408 00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:15,920 rock fan, I was always wondering, like, oh, no doubt, 409 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,440 I wonder who's walked through here. So I'm getting my tuner. 410 00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:24,720 But yeah, so I essentially I got a few of 411 00:33:24,759 --> 00:33:27,400 my friends from the East Coast, my buddy Samir, Matteo 412 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:30,920 and Mark they flew in from Jersey, and then I 413 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,920 had friends from Seattle just come in and play steel 414 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,359 and fiddle all sorts. Of different stuff. It was cool 415 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,440 like East Coast West Coast vibe. Yeah, but we tracked 416 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,599 it all live in the basement, really leaned into the 417 00:33:43,759 --> 00:33:46,200 after the gold Rush. Yeah, like I was saying, yeah, 418 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,440 and which does time to this story? After I got surgery, 419 00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:52,880 the surgeon comes. 420 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 12: In my room. 421 00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 14: I remember, right before I went out for the Antesia hit. 422 00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:01,160 He looks at me, uh, and he goes, well, hey, man, 423 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,000 are you gonna are you gonna listen to fish? Will 424 00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:06,799 you operate on my brain? Because I was told like 425 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,000 a couple of days before the surgery he was seeing 426 00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:10,000 fish at the sphere. 427 00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:10,760 Speaker 4: Oh no kidding. 428 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 14: I once again had a field day with that. I 429 00:34:14,039 --> 00:34:16,960 mean I was telling everyone like, yo, a fishhead's operating 430 00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:21,639 on me or what that's gonna be? Like, right, I 431 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,079 wonder what's gonna go down. Well, right before I the 432 00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,239 Antesia hits, I look at him and like, yeah, you're 433 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,159 gonna listen to some fish. He was like, actually no, 434 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,039 I was wondering if you were on Spotify I was 435 00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:34,760 gonna play your music? And I was like, oh, yeah 436 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,760 I am, and then I went unconscious. 437 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:37,159 Speaker 4: Yeah. 438 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,639 Speaker 14: But so he comes in my room after the surgery 439 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,079 and he's like congrats, Mike, I got everything. He gave 440 00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:46,920 me a fist bump and he goes, uhcause, just so 441 00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:48,559 you know, while I was operating on your brain, I 442 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:51,039 was listening to music the whole time. I really like it. 443 00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:54,159 You sound like Neil Young. Oh that's cool, that's cool, 444 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,199 which my wife was like, yeah, of course he loved 445 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:57,639 hearing that. 446 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:58,599 Speaker 4: Yeah, but. 447 00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:04,320 Speaker 14: Yeah, I so yeah, I really leaned into that, you know, 448 00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:06,599 after the goal versus. I love the way that he 449 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,360 made that record at that because it was his house 450 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,719 and to pang A Canyon. Yeah, we really went for 451 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:15,199 that feel. 452 00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 6: Yeah. 453 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 4: Sure, no, I think you achieved it. Absolutely appreciate that. 454 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 14: But yeah, woman, just roll a couple more. 455 00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:25,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's do it. I'm down here more. 456 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,559 Speaker 14: Well, you know, the one I there was like, yeah, 457 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,440 the like I said, wrote a bunch of songs for it. 458 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,239 One in particular was that it was just really profound 459 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,599 out all came about. It was the first time I 460 00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:43,239 ever had like a dream about like melody and lyrics. Okay, 461 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,760 that never happened to me before. And every time I 462 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,039 saw an interview of a songwriter talking about that, I 463 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,440 was like, no, way right, people just say that for 464 00:35:52,559 --> 00:35:57,719 interviews right right, it does sound good, but it finally happened. 465 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,599 So so, uh, I wake up immediately like on my phone, 466 00:36:02,639 --> 00:36:06,880 recorded just this melody. Uh, And I had this line 467 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,000 imagine a world without Empires, and I you know, I 468 00:36:12,079 --> 00:36:14,039 got the I got the melody for it. I just 469 00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:16,840 lay it down real quick, just immediately wake up, sing 470 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,360 it and wrote, got up, wrote the lyrics for it 471 00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:22,800 in like twenty minutes. 472 00:36:23,199 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 4: Nice. 473 00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 14: And but then I quickly was like, well, Imagine might 474 00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:30,679 be a little leading, a little too into John Lennon there, 475 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,280 so I didn't want to rip off too much. So 476 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,639 then it switched it to Envision, Okay, okay, yeah, So 477 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,239 so that you know, that was like the first time 478 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,440 that had ever happened for me, which was real cool 479 00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:47,199 to say the least. And and that you know that 480 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,960 like the I think the overarching theme of the record, 481 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,800 you know, it's not just like an epilepsy brain surgery record. 482 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,440 I think it is this concept of like healing, yeah, 483 00:36:58,679 --> 00:37:02,840 just in general and not even just like me any person. 484 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,119 And also the planet. That's that's the big thing, And 485 00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:08,400 that was that was the big thing about this song too. 486 00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:11,360 It's just this idea of like, well if we stop 487 00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:14,000 building bombs and build a better future, you know. And 488 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,760 like last night, I tried this vibe where I told 489 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,000 everybody close their eyes, take a deep breath. You know, 490 00:37:22,159 --> 00:37:25,920 picture the children of Palestine are free. There's no more 491 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,920 bombs being dropped. People have you know, clean soil, clean 492 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,679 air to drink, clean clean, clean air to breathe, clean 493 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,000 air to drink. And that was kind of the whole 494 00:37:35,079 --> 00:37:37,440 idea of this song. It's just like what it would 495 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,559 be like if we stop building bombs, right, So it 496 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,960 seems like, why, you know, shouldn't be that crazy of 497 00:37:44,039 --> 00:37:47,719 a concept, right exactly, But that, yeah, that's what this 498 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,280 one was. Vib I'm we do rip that one? 499 00:37:49,519 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 4: Yeah please, yeah, hear it. 500 00:37:52,519 --> 00:37:55,840 Speaker 14: Let me tune up a little bit, but yeah, you know, 501 00:37:56,079 --> 00:37:59,639 just to have the like the melody, and of course 502 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,320 you know it's still kind of that like classic folky melody. 503 00:38:03,599 --> 00:38:05,800 So now it wasn't like I woke up with some life, 504 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:13,320 right right, but you know, just to have that happen 505 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:14,320 was pretty cool. 506 00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:18,079 Speaker 4: If you're just joining us, Mike Fraser is here with 507 00:38:18,199 --> 00:38:19,400 us live in studio. 508 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:22,159 Speaker 16: All right. 509 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 14: This one's called World Without Empires. Imagine what that could 510 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:40,320 be like? Vision a world without Empires, where people can 511 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:48,159 live without fear of tyrants bombing their city, destroying what 512 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:55,840 they hold dear. One day, it won't be too crazy 513 00:38:57,119 --> 00:39:04,239 to think of how it could be our world without empires, 514 00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:14,880 living harmonious sleep. Well, the Earth is finally saved. The 515 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:23,480 walls are crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll 516 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:51,199 happen somehow. Vision a world without Empires. The wars would 517 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:58,480 be obsolete. Why would you build an army if killing 518 00:39:59,119 --> 00:40:07,599 wasn't in me? Well, the Earth is finally saved, the 519 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:16,159 walls all crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll 520 00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:42,880 happen somehow. Well, the Earth is finally saved, the walls 521 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:55,840 all crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll happen somehow. Yeah, 522 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,000 I'm sure it'll happen somehow. 523 00:41:06,639 --> 00:41:11,679 Speaker 4: Oh that is beautiful, Absolutely beautiful. If you're yeah, I 524 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,079 hope so, huh If you're just joining us, Mike Fraser 525 00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:20,400 is here with us, alive in studio and that's on 526 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:28,960 April days, I assume, right, Yeah, yeah, that definitely captures 527 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,360 that Neil young vibe. Who your going? 528 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:31,320 Speaker 14: Thanks? 529 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,719 Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, We don't have a ton of time. You 530 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:36,519 want to play another one. 531 00:41:36,679 --> 00:41:38,760 Speaker 14: Yeah, you want to finish with the April Days. 532 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,840 Speaker 4: You want to well, okay, well we're finishing with that one. 533 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,039 We don't have to rush quite yet. 534 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,440 Speaker 14: But uh yeah, I could do. I could do one 535 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:49,800 from Secrets of Atlantis. 536 00:41:50,039 --> 00:41:52,599 Speaker 4: Okay, I just selfishly want to hear you play more. 537 00:41:52,639 --> 00:41:53,440 You sound so good man. 538 00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:54,920 Speaker 14: Thanks you really do you really do? 539 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:56,079 Speaker 4: Absolutely? 540 00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:56,559 Speaker 16: Thank you? 541 00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,800 Speaker 14: Well, yeah, well I I'll do. I'll do love you forever. 542 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,800 That one's uh so, Secrets of Atlanta's was a record 543 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,360 I made during the pandemic, record like three records in 544 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,760 those few years, and I put this one out April 545 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,800 twenty sixth of last year. Surgery was April twenty fifth, 546 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:20,039 excuse me, so surgery was not planned, record was still planned, 547 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:25,639 records still was released. And Steph took this photo of 548 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,360 me with the bandage on my head holding the LP 549 00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:30,400 like half awake in the bed. 550 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:36,320 Speaker 4: Like oh okayd wow, but this one, you know. 551 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,320 Speaker 14: So there's a little bit of a dare I say, 552 00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:42,559 friendly competition between Steph and I when it comes to writing. 553 00:42:43,199 --> 00:42:46,400 Unbelievable writer, and that was made really apparent when we 554 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,199 got married, especially during our vowels. You know, I was 555 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,679 like all right, I'm gonna blow everyone away here I 556 00:42:53,199 --> 00:42:56,119 write these really, I'm like, we get married under the 557 00:42:56,159 --> 00:42:59,639 Redwoods in Santa Cruz. So picture that we're under the 558 00:42:59,679 --> 00:43:03,840 red It's a bunch of people sitting. It's this beautiful backdrop, 559 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,239 and the place is losing it. I mean, everyone's crying 560 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,000 their eyes out. The redwoods themselves are crying. I mean, 561 00:43:10,079 --> 00:43:12,880 the place is going nuts. Then Steph reads hers and 562 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,480 not only does everyone cry, but they also laughed. And 563 00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:18,559 that's when I knew I should have added one joke. 564 00:43:18,599 --> 00:43:21,519 Because she she ends hers with everyone here knows the 565 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:25,440 best songs. The ones you write about medn't top that one. 566 00:43:26,199 --> 00:43:29,960 So she writes this book, The Recipe for Yellow, which 567 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,440 is about four generations of women living together in house 568 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,880 in Virginia, very timely with Mother's Day tomorrow. So I 569 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,679 wrote this one about her cosmic relationship with her grandma, 570 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,960 who passed away visits her in her dreams. That's so 571 00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:48,280 this one's all right. I have to hold the guitar 572 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,159 this way. There's like a loose bracing in it. 573 00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:02,360 Speaker 4: Here it are okay, Yeah, it sounds great. 574 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:19,920 Speaker 14: Yeah, the cosmic wonders around you, the violid aura of. 575 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:33,679 Speaker 18: J gateways to endless evotion, a place where there is 576 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,039 no pay. 577 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:47,800 Speaker 22: I wanna love you for ever, but I know time. 578 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:48,760 Speaker 8: Is a line. 579 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,039 Speaker 14: I know we'll be back to get. 580 00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,480 Speaker 8: Next live. 581 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,159 Speaker 14: Vibrations from their demention. 582 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:28,960 Speaker 23: They've visit me in my dream, leave me behind my 583 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,760 earthly body. 584 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:43,039 Speaker 22: And travel with you in p he. I wanna love 585 00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:51,239 you forever, but I know time is a live. 586 00:45:55,519 --> 00:45:58,559 Speaker 12: I know we'll be back to get. 587 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:01,360 Speaker 14: Next. 588 00:46:01,599 --> 00:46:01,639 Speaker 1: Lo. 589 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:25,280 Speaker 20: I wanna love you forever, but I know time. 590 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:26,199 Speaker 12: Is a live. 591 00:46:30,599 --> 00:46:38,559 Speaker 24: I know we'll be back to againther. I know we'll 592 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:47,920 be back to againther. I know we'll be back to again. 593 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:50,840 Speaker 8: Next li. 594 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:57,039 Speaker 1: O. 595 00:46:57,199 --> 00:46:58,960 Speaker 4: It's beautiful and I know I keep saying the same 596 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,119 thing after every song, but they are their beautiful son. 597 00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:05,119 Thank you. I appreciate that absolutely. If you're just joining us, 598 00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:08,039 Mike Frasier is here with us live in studio on 599 00:47:08,199 --> 00:47:12,199 this Saturday morning. Hey, before we uh, before we head tour, 600 00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,159 because I know you want to finish with April days. Yeah, 601 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,159 I want to remind people where you're gonna be tonight. 602 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,679 Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll be over in North Adams tonight at Tourists Okay, Planet. 603 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,159 Speaker 4: Eight excellent, excellent, Yes, and then uh, and then from there, 604 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:25,119 where do you go from there? 605 00:47:25,199 --> 00:47:29,400 Speaker 14: Pennsylvany, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania tomorrow okay, place called the record shop okay. 606 00:47:29,679 --> 00:47:31,800 And then we'll be home for a little bit. Uh, 607 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,199 gotta get a could get an EG and then uh, 608 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,400 I'll go back up the Northeast. I got a couple 609 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,119 more shows and some shows in Virginia. 610 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:40,880 Speaker 4: So okay. 611 00:47:41,159 --> 00:47:44,119 Speaker 14: Trying to get back to Manchester in the fall, for sure. Yeah, yeah, 612 00:47:44,119 --> 00:47:47,599 I hope so good time to be here for sure. Yeah, absolutely, yes, 613 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:48,920 we'll be back for sure. 614 00:47:49,039 --> 00:47:50,960 Speaker 4: Where should people go online to? Where's the best place 615 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,440 to go to keep up with everything that you're doing? 616 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,679 Speaker 14: Mike Fraser via mainly on Instagram is the one I'm 617 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,920 probably most active on, okay, uh, the one that I 618 00:47:59,159 --> 00:48:03,880 remember to update regularly, gotcha, Yeah, that's probably the best one. 619 00:48:04,519 --> 00:48:07,440 Or Geneva Records dot Com. Oh okay, yeah, I started 620 00:48:07,599 --> 00:48:11,119 a record label back in twenty fifteen to put out 621 00:48:11,199 --> 00:48:13,880 my friends. Oh, just use it to put out my 622 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:14,519 own records. 623 00:48:14,599 --> 00:48:17,480 Speaker 4: Oh, no kidding? Yeah, so oh very cool. Yeah I 624 00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:19,639 have to check that out. Yeah, yeah, for sure, very 625 00:48:19,679 --> 00:48:20,320 curious about that. 626 00:48:20,599 --> 00:48:22,280 Speaker 14: Thanks. Got Steph's book on there too? 627 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:22,960 Speaker 4: Oh nice? 628 00:48:23,079 --> 00:48:25,719 Speaker 14: Yes, and What's what's the book called the Recipe for Yellow? 629 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:26,639 Speaker 4: The Recipe for Yellow? 630 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,159 Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, yeah, perfect time to pick that up before. 631 00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:30,719 It's a good Mother's Day gift for sure. 632 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:35,000 Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, all right, Mike Fraser live in studio. He's 633 00:48:35,039 --> 00:48:37,039 gonna play April Days for us. 634 00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:38,480 Speaker 12: Thanks. 635 00:48:38,639 --> 00:48:41,960 Speaker 14: Yeah, I figured, you know, and with this one, because 636 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,360 you know, like I said, this was the U. This 637 00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:49,719 was really the only song I finished before surgery. Oh okay, 638 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,360 you know, I'm if you picture this, I'm laying in 639 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,840 my hospital bed. I got the eg on my head 640 00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:01,079 and uh got the ek geo in my heart. And 641 00:49:01,519 --> 00:49:03,159 they were kind enough to let me have the guitar 642 00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,159 in the room so my friends would come down and visit. 643 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,599 One in particular, my buddy Mark Masefield. He brought his 644 00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,599 accordion to my room and yeah, he'd play well, I 645 00:49:11,679 --> 00:49:15,039 got my blood drunk. Oh wow, he was playing take 646 00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:15,920 me out to the ball game. 647 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:18,480 Speaker 4: That's funny. 648 00:49:19,119 --> 00:49:22,119 Speaker 14: But but yeah, I this was one. Like you know, 649 00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:25,519 I had the melody too before I got admitted, and 650 00:49:25,639 --> 00:49:28,480 I was just you know, kind of putting it all 651 00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:30,480 together with him while I was well, I was a 652 00:49:30,519 --> 00:49:35,000 waiting and yeah, this is like I think The overarching 653 00:49:35,079 --> 00:49:38,360 idea is like healing. Like I said, the mind, the earth, 654 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,280 your everything. Yeah, and I'll do the I'm gonna heal 655 00:49:43,639 --> 00:49:45,800 thing to finish. So anybody out there listening, you can 656 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,039 sing along to It's real, It's real, easy, all right? 657 00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:56,920 Speaker 12: Can you hear that? 658 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:57,320 Speaker 17: All right? 659 00:49:58,559 --> 00:49:59,360 Speaker 4: That sounds great? 660 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:10,280 Speaker 14: April days if coming gone. Spring, rain is rolling on. 661 00:50:11,079 --> 00:50:16,719 My heart breaks without a song. The road starts to wind. 662 00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:24,360 They're funding war so they last been. Times are coming fast? 663 00:50:25,199 --> 00:50:28,000 Will peace get a chance? 664 00:50:28,599 --> 00:50:30,639 Speaker 12: Who would have known? 665 00:50:32,079 --> 00:50:39,519 Speaker 14: I've been feeling like something is wrong. The voice in 666 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:46,280 my head has been here for too long. One day 667 00:50:47,519 --> 00:51:08,360 I will get to live live again. Laying in my 668 00:51:08,679 --> 00:51:14,519 hospital bed, the sun shining on my head, the doctor 669 00:51:14,679 --> 00:51:23,599 stopped bye, said they know what's the cause. I've been feeling. 670 00:51:24,039 --> 00:51:30,199 Speaker 20: Like something is wrong. The voice in my head has 671 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,000 been here for too long. 672 00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:56,119 Speaker 14: One day I will get to live life again. I'm 673 00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:02,119 happy to be alive. The worst days are long behind, 674 00:52:03,039 --> 00:52:12,519 healing from all the time spent in pain. I've been 675 00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:17,159 feeling like something is wrong. 676 00:52:18,199 --> 00:52:23,880 Speaker 21: The voice in my head has been here for too long. 677 00:52:25,199 --> 00:52:32,320 One day I will get to live life with him. 678 00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,239 Speaker 14: All right, we'll do that. We'll do this sing long 679 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:53,559 while so I should know too. I'm a year seizure 680 00:52:53,639 --> 00:52:57,400 free as of the that's four twenty and so it 681 00:52:57,519 --> 00:53:03,360 was real good getting back up to the Northeast. But yeah, 682 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,960 here's here's the singalong song. So I wrote this one 683 00:53:06,199 --> 00:53:08,239 just really to sing in my head while I walked around. 684 00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,880 But we'll do the singalong part too. So here's what 685 00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:16,440 Here's what I say. Anybody out there listen. I'm gonna heal. 686 00:53:17,679 --> 00:53:24,760 I'm going to heal. I'm gonna heal my mind. I'm 687 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:30,440 going to heal. I'm going to heal. I'm gonna heal 688 00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:36,320 my mind. We're gonna heal. This is the part. We're 689 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:41,400 gona heal. We're gonna heal our mind. We singing together. 690 00:53:41,559 --> 00:53:48,199 Come on, we're gona heal. We're gona heal. We're gonna 691 00:53:48,400 --> 00:54:09,159 heal our minds. Everybody out there, if you're out there, 692 00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:11,119 we're gone heal. 693 00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:13,480 Speaker 12: We're going to heal. 694 00:54:14,559 --> 00:54:20,599 Speaker 14: We're gonna heal our minds. One more, We're going heal. 695 00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:27,639 We're going to heal. We're gonna heal ourmids. 696 00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:36,920 Speaker 20: I want to be jo just fine, all. 697 00:54:34,199 --> 00:54:37,800 Speaker 4: Right, Oh, Mike Fraser, thank you so much, my friend. 698 00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,440 Thank you, thank you so much and having me. How 699 00:54:40,519 --> 00:54:43,880 many dates left on the tour? We got five more shows, 700 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:48,119 five more shows. Awesome, awesome. Well, the next time you're 701 00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,039 out on tour and you're coming this way, we're gonna 702 00:54:50,079 --> 00:54:50,639 have to have you back. 703 00:54:50,679 --> 00:54:51,960 Speaker 14: I would love to be back. 704 00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:53,840 Speaker 4: This is This has been wonderful. 705 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,519 Speaker 14: Thanks to start in the morning. 706 00:54:55,639 --> 00:54:58,599 Speaker 4: For sure, You're probably not used to sing this early. 707 00:54:58,679 --> 00:55:02,000 Speaker 14: Hu, I've been getting a good routine, like I'll wake up. 708 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,239 I've been starting awake early because STEP's a substitute teacher too, 709 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,039 so I'll wake up, make her breakfast, and then I'm like, 710 00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:09,360 all right, well I'm up. I may as well, you know, yeah, 711 00:55:09,519 --> 00:55:13,440 start my day nice, yes, yes, all. 712 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,320 Speaker 4: Right, Well, thank you Mike, and of course if you 713 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,079 missed any part of today's show, it will be up 714 00:55:17,119 --> 00:55:19,760 in just a little bit at wmn hradio dot org 715 00:55:20,079 --> 00:55:22,320 and of course my website Matt connorton dot com. And 716 00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,480 thank you of course to uh we had awaiting Abigail earlier. 717 00:55:25,679 --> 00:55:28,559 And then of course Trall great band from Portland, Maine, 718 00:55:28,679 --> 00:55:32,199 and last but certainly not least, Mike Frasier from from 719 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:36,559 Seattle and early on tour. Yeah, yeah, exactly, well, yeah, 720 00:55:36,559 --> 00:55:38,440 you're on the road, you're kind of from everywhere, right, 721 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,880 all right, you absolutely that's gonna do it for us. 722 00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:43,159 Speaker 16: For now. 723 00:55:43,199 --> 00:55:45,400 Speaker 4: We'll talk to you a little bit later. Bye, everybody, Bye, 724 00:55:46,679 --> 00:55:47,000 all right. 725 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:54,639 Speaker 13: Just can't forget all the places where we've been, man, 726 00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,639 I just get a rays all the things out we 727 00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:04,760 have seen. Now you away, because I'll see you with 728 00:56:05,079 --> 00:56:08,960 my dreams. Oh please not. 729 00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:10,199 Speaker 11: I see. 730 00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:47,920 Speaker 15: Seven dear friends, god fish snads swimming against the side, 731 00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:55,480 the morning ring swinging green fans us loder and white. 732 00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:04,719 Speaker 16: Mass by the grease and be everything something. It's an even, 733 00:57:05,039 --> 00:57:05,599 don't we a. 734 00:57:08,079 --> 00:57:10,559 Speaker 1: Sothing? Said last tell us. 735 00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:18,800 Speaker 9: Then he said it's like these things, then says some 736 00:57:19,119 --> 00:57:28,840 things we have seen the say the teams. 737 00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,679 Speaker 11: Don't please a passing. 738 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,920 Speaker 9: Seven ths mess. 739 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:55,440 Speaker 1: Seen standing around the ceiling. 740 00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:03,280 Speaker 15: You feel like it's able mm hm three bios of sevening. 741 00:58:04,519 --> 00:58:05,480 Speaker 1: It's still there. 742 00:58:05,679 --> 00:58:11,760 Speaker 17: They don't sun you ways n the season and this 743 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:18,119 house saynsday bout saying. 744 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:20,800 Speaker 16: He leave got away your mess and no. 745 00:58:32,320 --> 00:59:37,880 Speaker 9: Se seven free said said say. 746 00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:43,519 Speaker 1: You say say said