Speaker 1: Maybe at the boardwalk over on Main Street. We can
walk downtown. Let's see who we may sitting in.
Speaker 2: The summertime on a local brewer class some.
Speaker 1: High Not like a summer night and Maine, just another.
Speaker 2: Summer night and May.
Speaker 1: Just another summer night in May. Just another summer night
in May. Yet another summer night. And may we sit
back campfire that we made on the beach with a
or not like this. Nothing's out of reach from the
doors to the ocean and never seems the same. Nothing
like summer night in May. Yeah, just another summer night
in May. Just Ano, summer night in May. Just Ano
summer night in May. This nothing like summer night in May.
Speaker 3: Of gay, summer night mad.
Speaker 4: Just to know summer that is cool.
Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody. We are well in our number two
New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are
live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point
three FM, Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can
also stream the show online. For all your streaming options,
just go to Matt connorton dot com slash live to
find out how you can stream and interact with the show,
and of course, if you are in Manchester, New Hampshire,
you can listen on your FM dial go to ninety
five point three FM. Today is Saturday, February twenty two,
twenty twenty five. Jenny is here, of course, at the
news table, present account of and let's see let me
get those mics up here. We have joined us live
in studio. The man who performed that song by the way,
another summer night in Maine, which is very very new
Sean Manchester is here with us. We'll test these mics out.
How you doing, Sean, Yes, thank you for having me.
I can barely hear you, which is why I need
to turn this up.
Speaker 6: Check chow.
Speaker 4: Oh there we go.
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I love by the way.
Speaker 5: So that song we played it during the first hour,
Broke Man's Dream. Yeah, that was the first song of
yours that I listened to and I just love it.
Speaker 4: That is that is so cool?
Speaker 5: And uh, let me put the camera on you for
those watching online. Oh, actually, before we go any further,
let me put the camera back on me for a second,
because I want to show people for those watching live.
If you're watching on YouTube or Facebook or LinkedIn or wherever.
So Sean, you brought us. Now people will often bring
us CDs and stuff like that. You brought us. So
these little, these little bags. I'm gonna hold this up
on camera.
Speaker 7: Yeah, little grab bag, little Sean Manch grab bag. My
last name is Manchester. But yeah, you know, for stage purposes,
it's easier for people to chant Sean Manch, Sewan Manchell.
That makes Sean Manchell. Yeah, that makes sense. And in
this so this is a cool concept. You've got a
USB drive with your album, Yes, which is that song
Another Summer Night in Maine.
Speaker 5: That's where that that's where we pulled that from. Yep,
so thank you for bringing that. And you got a little.
Speaker 6: Little in the dark three D printed Sean Manch key
chain exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is.
Speaker 7: And that's actually a pick as well, saying very cool
D printed, oh glow in the dark.
Speaker 4: Oh outstanding. Yep, got a pick in there.
Speaker 6: A little custom grab bag.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very cool, very cool and h and also a
sticker which is nice. Jenny love stickers. So as you
can see from the computer, definitely, so you brought one
for each of us. So thank you very much, John,
very welcome. That is that is very cool. And I
love that song broke Man's Stream and uh you are
I'm dying to hear you play live. Do you want
to strum that guitar a little for me and we'll
see yuh and see see.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that sounds nice. Perfect, that sounds nice.
Speaker 5: Pull that, Pull those other mics up a little bit,
make sure we got the cahone.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Playing the drums with my feet while singing and playing
makes a nice full arrangement.
Speaker 6: I like to have that a little bit of rhythm
with it.
Speaker 5: You are a one man band, Yeah, that's that's for.
Is it difficult to learn to do that? Or does
that come naturally? Because most people tap their foot anyway
when listening to music?
Speaker 7: So does that just kind of that definitely helps you
know a lot of times if I'm just practicing without
any drums or anything, just tapping my feet and I
was I thought that was just a natural way to
keep time. Might as well add some drums underneath the
tappen and see how it goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 7: I'm left handed, although I play a right handed guitar,
so yeah, the ambidexterousness.
Speaker 6: I'm sure helps with that independence.
Speaker 5: For instrument I have a theory that we're all ambidextrous.
We just don't know it. Because you learn to play
a musical instrument, you're using both your hands are exactly
exactly yeah, sometimes your feet yeah exactly right, exactly yeah,
especially like if you're a drummer, you're using all four
of your limbs and doing some complex stuff, and that.
Speaker 6: That helps you.
Speaker 7: Because I play, you know, piano, drums, bass, the instrumentalists
as well. That's what helps me record the full band
sound with a lot of those songs.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, So on your studio tracks, is it all you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: All me playing all my writing and nice all self
recorded and produced in my little shack and mane.
Speaker 4: Oh that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Uh, what are you gonna
play for us?
Speaker 6: I'll start out with broke Man's stream Awesome.
Speaker 5: I love this song.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I love the song. If you're just joining us, Sean
Manchester is here with us live in studio.
Speaker 1: A cat sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday, trying
to do right. He going my way money suit. What
can't I say? I'm living on a brooke Man's dreams
running on gas and no, won't blast a couple of counts.
Get through the week, keep my head and high an
atone noon while I win the fives running down on me.
I got sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday. They
trying to do a right, ain't going my way? Money
suit tight? What can't I say? I'm living on a
broke man sixteen bucks and I'm making Friday trying to
do a right. Ain't going my way? Money so tight?
What can I say? I'm living on a broke man's dreams?
Now I find the sea that it ain't just a dream,
making it half en today? Now keep on now and okay,
moving shaw till I can final, Liz say a half
sixteen bucks and I made it to Friday. I finally
do the right. It went my way. Money's out tight.
What can I say? I'm living a broke man's dreams.
Speaker 2: I've lived everything in between.
Speaker 1: We got sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday, trying
to do right, ain't doing my way? Money so tight?
What can't I say? I'm living on a broad man.
Sixteen bucks? Would have made it to Friday? I finally
did a right, It went my way. Money's not tight.
What can't I say? I'm living a broad man's dreams
and now I've lived everything in between.
Speaker 4: Oh I do love that song.
Speaker 1: That was awful.
Speaker 4: I do love that song.
Speaker 5: You're what we do absolutely absolutely if you're just joining us.
Sean Manchester is here with us live in studio on
this this Saturday morning.
Speaker 4: And Sean, where are you from?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 6: Originally Massachusetts? Attleborough?
Speaker 7: Okay, you know a family that still lives down there,
but I currently live up in Clinton, Maine.
Speaker 4: Is it must be cold there? Imagine?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, tongues of snow these past couple of weeks.
But yeah, springs right around the corner.
Speaker 7: I mentioned to get into some of the springtime gardening
and all that. I live off grid in a little
tiny house, you know, all solar.
Speaker 5: Oh no kidding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's on Main Street, which is convenient. I can
walk to everything I need if I need to, no kidding,
but enough in the woods that I have the privacy,
you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It's a good balance of that.
Speaker 5: Oh that's really cool. Are you Are you a minimalist?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I like, you know, to not keep it not very materialistic,
you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I admire that a lot. That's that's very cool.
I mean life is simpler that way, right.
Speaker 7: Exactly, as long as I can go outside and enjoy
the sun and a hammock and have a campfire, yeah, guitar,
a couple of friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 6: Beauty of life right there.
Speaker 5: What's what's the scene like there as far as are
there a lot of places where you live to play
or yeah?
Speaker 7: It's uh, you know, I did the cover songs for
a long time in the local bar kind of gigs,
and there's a a lot of local breweries and yeah,
you know, so if you're trying to find somewhere to play,
you might have to travel a half an hour in
pretty much any direction, but you know, you can normally
find a decent amount of gigs. Yeah, I'm focusing a
lot on the original songs now, and I'm gonna move
more towards running my own shows. You know, rent a
venue out and then do the promotion and that sort
of thing more on my own.
Speaker 4: Oh excellent, excellent. Do you do some of that now
or just starting out?
Speaker 7: I've done it in the past just as kind of
trial and er, you know, half covers, half originals and
see who shows up, and it turned out pretty decent
and hoping you know, the grab bags, they'll sweeten the deals. Yeah,
the first ten people that come, you know, get a
gift bag or you know something like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they'll be free shows. I'm just in it
for the music, so.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So you do everything, So I have the studio tracks,
you do everything yourself.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 7: When all the mixing, mastering, no conduction. I use a
service online called Lander and that so I'm on Spotify.
It pushes it out to all Spotify, Apple Music, Facebook,
all that stuff.
Speaker 5: So okay, excellent. Some musicians hate having to do that part.
But you know the but you sound like you embrace it. Well.
Speaker 7: I way back when I was younger, I was a programmer,
you know, web developer, that kind of thing.
Speaker 6: So I have a decent tech background.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know the arts side, so I kind
of just use what I've learned from that in business
marketing and things, you know, and there you go, added
it to the music to you know, enhance the hobby
and just make it go a little bit further.
Speaker 6: It helps. Yeah, Oh, I mean, and I definitely enjoy it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean it sounds like more than a hobby.
I mean, you know, it's definitely a passion. Yeah, and
you're accomplishing a lot with it, so that's great.
Speaker 7: It keeps me busy too, you know, always always something
to work on. And ye then when you finish a
song or a video, it feels like you've gotten something done.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Broke Band's stream is that? Is that based on real
life experience? Because it's very relatable.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I'm sure everyone can relate, you know, trying
to get to that Friday was sixteen bucks in the
account and trying to make it there. Yeah, you know,
starting out saving up for the land and had an
old van down by the river, nice you know, nineteen
eighty two Chevy G twenty conversion van, so I had everything,
but yeah, my job paid for you know, a lot rent,
so a lot rent. It was a parking spot the
van there, and started out from there walking around to
bars with my guitar and can I play a couple
songs and put a tip jar out? And from there
blossomed into all of this fun stuff going on now.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, have you how long have you been
really focused on that part the music career?
Speaker 6: Probably about the last four four or five years. Yeah,
I say about that.
Speaker 7: You know, I have kids, so yeah, spent a lot
of time working on that. You know, kids when they
were younger, you know, take a little bit more attention
changing diapers now that they're a little bit more self sustaining,
little bit of time for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Is it like living in a tiny house? Is that
a big adjustment or did that come naturally?
Speaker 7: I love it, you know, I have plenty of space, especially,
I mean the one that I built now has plenty
of space. The first couple of tiny houses, you know,
not a builder.
Speaker 5: Oh so it's not your first one, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: This one actually turned out really nice, you know. Okay,
it was a learning curve, the first couple of tiny houses,
trying to figure out how to build. I'm a musician,
not a carpenter. So yeah, but this one. Yeah, it's
so you built these oh yeah yeah wow. And I
prefer it, you know, the tiny living, less space to heat. Yeah,
everything has a place.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 6: I enjoy it.
Speaker 5: Well yeah yeah, yeah. How do the kids feel about it?
Speaker 6: They love it?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well I got a frog pond too, so as long
as you can go outside and catch frogs in the
spring and summer, they love it.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's really cool.
Speaker 5: That's really cool.
Speaker 4: Do you want to play another one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm dying to hear more if you're just joining us.
Sean Manchester is with us live in studio and traveled
quite far but of a hall.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was about two and a half hours. Just a
nice drive though, watching the sun come up.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Trees, yeah, cute little city here too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: Wandering around for a little bit, driving and seeing all
the sights, nice.
Speaker 5: Architects, a lot of mill buildings.
Speaker 6: Yep. This next song, the wind between us, I'll play
that one.
Speaker 5: Oh, very cool, very cool. We have Sean Manchester here
with us, live in studio on this Saturday morning.
Speaker 7: You're on the program and a jew This one just acoustic, okay.
Speaker 1: I've seen the wind take it all the way, never
had a chance of reason to stay this enviasible stay.
I hear the whisper of the wind through the years distance,
like Raleigh's fears, I wish we could stay toom left.
The wind never come between us. We'll never be seen
through your heart and tone for copy to writhe the
winds of change and Dick, it's hard to man to
watch you gotta find the key to a toil like
shut through away the past. Come for a minute, come
for it, but don't come long, don't go to stay.
Can't you hear me say? Do have no wind ever
come between us? We will never be same through your
heart and don't forecat me. Don't ride though wins of change.
Speaker 2: I've seen the word you take it away. I've never
had changed reason to say it.
Speaker 1: This isn't b stay. Don't let the wind ever come
between us. Will never beat sing thing real hard and
too for cavy too rathmins.
Speaker 5: Love change, m I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: Sean Manchester here with us live in studio. Yeah, I
love your voice. Did how did you learn to singer?
You self taught or did you take lessons or.
Speaker 6: Just all self taught?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think the earliest was when I was
three years old, singing Run Joey Run and Billy don't
be a Heroes. Oh really, my mom had you know
some home tapes, you know, yeah, Marching Ben came down
along Main Street. Yeah, early nineties or late eighties, okay, okay, yeah,
but then you know really took it on, you know,
in high school when I was probably seventeen, started playing,
and then a couple of Battle of the Bands and
when those went to.
Speaker 6: Bed Fast Area High School Okay, yeah, up.
Speaker 7: In Maine, and yeah, so took off from there though.
I once I got on stage for the first time
doing that, it was all over from there.
Speaker 6: Couldn't stay away.
Speaker 4: Do you do you ever?
Speaker 5: Have you ever played with a band or has it
always been a solo acoustic thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've done a lot, you know, jammed with different friends,
had cover bands and stuff like that, and I do
intend on getting a bassist and a drummer eventually, Okay,
just probably sometime this summer kind of work on that. Oh.
Speaker 6: Ok, I've been doing the solo thing though a couple
of years. Yeah, a little bit easier logistically.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you don't.
Speaker 5: Have to check with anybody about their schedule if you
had live shows to play exactly, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah,
you probably. You strike me as someone who's probably always writing.
You have a lot of songs that you've.
Speaker 6: Written, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I have a lot of stuff that I've recorded, you know,
I like to just get it out of my mind
and get it all recorded, So I have at least
some kind of demo and then I can come back
to it, tear the song apart, and you know, figure
out how I wrote it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I'm always writing, picking and choosing what I
want to you know, publish, and what might need a
little bit more time.
Speaker 5: Doing all the mixing and mastering and everything. If you've
done it that way from the beginning, like all doing
all of it yourself, Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I enjoy it. And it's come a long way, that's
for sure. I listened to some of the stuff even
just five years ago, and I can tell it's come.
Speaker 1: Along with really.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Someday maybe I'll release it as like a gag track
or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: See, you know it takes time to get there.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 7: M Actually, I so I had started. Must have been
like sixteen or seventeen. Yeah, I don't play it because
it's so this is again something.
Speaker 6: People haven't heard. Okay, I actually do remember it.
Speaker 4: So oh okay.
Speaker 1: In dreams, everything looks perfect. It seems everything word now
I see on the pain im causin a dream of you,
and my heart is pauson. I'm moving on weir about you.
I'm moving on because you're run true. I'm moving on.
Speaker 2: Through this dark blue called you all.
Speaker 7: I like seventeen sixteen seventeen started playing the guitar.
Speaker 6: That's why it's just I'm GC and D.
Speaker 4: I like it though. That's good. That's not a bad way.
Speaker 6: To start write. Not a bad song for a first song, No,
not bad at all. That's funny. I haven't thought about
that song in a while.
Speaker 5: Oh really?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I like it.
Speaker 5: I dig it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Who are some of your inspirations as far as songwriters
and performers.
Speaker 7: It's gotta be a lot of classic rock, yeah, I
like classic rock a lot. And then on the other
side of things, I listened to a lot of like
the Jason Moraz, John Mayer, you know, early two thousands
kind of yeah.
Speaker 6: Acoustic guys. Yeah, so a lot of that.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, I'd say it's kind of a mix
of that, the classic rock, you know.
Speaker 6: I like a lot of Led Zeppelin and yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Is there anyone who who inspires you in terms
of because I love your voice, I mean, is there
anyone you try to emulate vocally or or or who
is uh influence?
Speaker 6: I'd say that, like, you know, Rob Thomas. That's another one.
Speaker 7: A lot of like Matchbox twenty, Yeah, you know those
kind of songs. Yeah, A lot of influence from that
kind of stuff too, like that soft rock.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but you've got there's a little bit of
a rawness though that you have that a guy like
Rob Thomas doesn't have. And I think that's what and
I like that. I think that's why I like your
voice so much. This, I don't know, there's a there's
just a little bit of a there's a little bit
of a rough edge to it that I that I
really love.
Speaker 7: That kind of that kind of crunch, which yeah, took
a little bit to be able to get.
Speaker 4: You know, really a lot.
Speaker 7: Of clean singing, so I you to do that, you know,
very clean and crisp, but I like that kind of
little rasp or crunch, you know, compression vocals.
Speaker 6: It comes from the like, you know, I want a
rock you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 7: Kind of stuff when you actually push yeah you know,
So I like a lot of that, like heavy vocals.
Speaker 5: So yeah, because for a song like broke Man's Dream,
that that really works well, yeah, that that vocal song
like that, Yeah, it gives it a little little bit
of that grit.
Speaker 7: I'd say, honestly, a lot of it does come from
like Dio and that kind of like Holy Diver, Yeah,
with the last in line, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Like that sort of.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, because if you can sing that stuff, you can
sing anything right exactly.
Speaker 7: It makes it so I honestly have to like hold
back from doing it too much when I play acoustic
because I want to just go, you know, straight out
with it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you don't want to blow your voice out
of the process.
Speaker 5: Yeah that ever happened, like, especially with this has been
such a brutal cold and flu season. You ever heard
have that happened to where your voice goes during the
show or starts.
Speaker 6: To Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 7: When I was doing the shows and playing you know,
two or three shows a weekend. Yeah, by that ninth
hour of singing, you know, in eighteen hours, it's like, huh,
I need a throat laws and drinking honey straight from
the jar just to soothe it all.
Speaker 4: No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Is it challenging at all singing this early in the day.
Speaker 6: You know, I thought about that on the way down.
I was like, I never really sing in the morning.
Speaker 7: I mean, as long as I have some coffee to
warm my voice up. It's normally not too bad. Yeah,
that's for the listeners to decide.
Speaker 5: I get right.
Speaker 4: No, you sound great. You want to play another one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, I'll do.
Speaker 1: Me.
Speaker 7: I'll do one called tell me. It's more of a
softer song too.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, Sean Manchester is here with us
live in studio.
Speaker 1: She said, tell me that you'll love me and I
won't go if it's going down in flames, please love me. No,
tell me it'll be too friend this time. Tell me
it'll all turn out all right. And I said, dune't
forget Wood. I've told you, dude, for Catwood. I've said
through all of the years, in the years how we've dropped,
I will be there to me. Tell me that your
love will never fade. Tell me that you always feel
the same. Tell me that I'm crazy when Maddy tell.
Speaker 3: Me that you'll be there from me. And I said,
don't forget what I told you. To forget what I
said through all.
Speaker 1: I be hear sound it's here, so we've jumped. Now
we will be there till the air. Don't forget what
I told you. Don't forget what I said. Do all
of it heres and the tears out we've dropped. I
will be there to.
Speaker 4: The I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it. That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really good. That's really good.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Sean Manchester is here with us live in studio on
the Saturday. If you're just joining us sounding great. By
the way, I'm envious of your your ability to whistle.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: That's something I can't. I can't do, which I guess
is unusual. Most people can't. I can't whistle well.
Speaker 6: And it's useful too, you know, because I want to
play some lead. I want to just you know, yeah.
Speaker 7: Play a couple of solos over stuff. But if I'm
playing rhythm, I can't really do that.
Speaker 4: So it kind of gives you an extra instrument.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I started to learn how to play harmonica and got
some of that headgear. Oh, and it goes pretty good. Yeah,
I'm adding that to the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 6: Just one more instrument.
Speaker 4: Do you do that? Live? The harmonica with the head
Gary do that?
Speaker 5: That always impresses me too, because it's like you're because
then you're a literally you're playing two instruments. And actually
if you're if you have the cone too. Yeah, you're
playing three instruments at once. You're really a one man
band at that point.
Speaker 6: Gets you get out of breath sometimes, you know, but
it's worth it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder about the harmonica if that does that
kind of come naturally to some extent because you are
it's kind of like singing right well sense and you're using.
Speaker 6: Your bractly and it's in key.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, harmonica, you can't really play a wrong
note as long as you got the right harmonica for
the song. Okay, okay, it's like you have to you
have to carry around eight or you know, six or
seven harmonicas.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, each one is a different key. I didn't see.
Speaker 4: I'm so ignorant about that. I never knew that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that makes sense though, now that I'm thinking
about it logically, I'm surprised I didn't realize that, because
that does make perfect.
Speaker 7: So they do have like one hundred hole harmonicas, but
do they impossible?
Speaker 6: That's too much to think about all of it at once.
Speaker 5: But yeah, oh that makes sense though, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like to use a loop pedal a lot,
where you know, just kind of.
Speaker 6: The EDG sheering sort of thing.
Speaker 7: Play play a rhythm and then play some drums over
it with the guitar, and yeah, it turns out pretty good.
I like that because that allows me to play the lead.
Oh okay, so that way I can just pick up
a harmonica and not have to have it on that
on the head gear, or just play a solo.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is is that challenging when you're first starting with
the loop pedal or does that come pretty easy?
Speaker 7: It's definitely helped just with the experience as far as
recording and playing to a metronome as long as you
can keep that time. Yeah, you know, so it came
pretty naturally.
Speaker 5: And I guess if you're doing it live and you're
playing original music, it kind of doesn't matter if like
if you if something isn't if you're looking something that
maybe isn't quite what you intended, maybe you made a
little bit of a mistake, but it kind of doesn't
really matter, right because it's well.
Speaker 6: And I prefer it that way. You know.
Speaker 7: I had recorded backing tracks of drums, bass and guitar
so that I could sing and play lead over it
and you know, hit play play through the song. It
made it the same every time. Okay, so you know
I was kind of against that. Rather I have it
be dynamic, you know, and then if something cool happens,
if I add some little like weird rosta part to
one of my songs, right, you know, some kind.
Speaker 6: Of cool riff, you know, it just makes it unique.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 7: Something that, you know, maybe missing in some music. You know,
Like I enjoy just how dynamic and the loop pedal
and the acoustic can be. I've been in cover bands
where if you mess up one note on Sweet Child
of Mind, everyone gives you a glare. Yeah, I'd rather
have it be dynamic where yeah still haven't just having fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's something about cover bands I've always thought it
as interesting, is that some people really do get like
they want to hear the songs exactly the way they were.
Speaker 7: And a lot of people play them well you know, yeah,
but which is cool and everything.
Speaker 5: But I kind of like it when there's something a
little different. You know, It's like I already know how
the original sounds, I want to hear your interpretation of it,
you know.
Speaker 6: What I mean exactly.
Speaker 7: I like seeing those you know, acoustic bands, you know,
you have a couple of guys of the kahone and
acoustic and a base just doing covers like.
Speaker 6: Near the beach, that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the summertime and that it's a completely different feel
when you have that kind of like acoustic band.
Speaker 4: Oh definitely, yeah, yeah, uh oh we have time.
Speaker 5: You want to play another one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, let me I'll do one called feed Let me
just take us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, if you're just joining us. Sean Manchester is
here with us, playing live, sounding amazing, really enjoying this
a lot.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, this one's not normally an acoustic, but well, okay
send it.
Speaker 1: Who's it bound to be play folded? Or was hiding
from the lies? The thought defending all this and cutting
our ties. Can't take it anymore. I won't handle in
this time trying to breakthrough, no matter how hard to try.
Everything that tossed so Hi, try too many times to
tell you why I'm stove hardening tipad.
Speaker 3: We thout of bad, I'm stodarding till bad.
Speaker 1: Away. Jem it's coming in. I'm onto you taking in too,
cutting straight on though. My brain is passing with the time,
and then this world will crumble down. Rooming through this
hopeless Tamerson without a chance.
Speaker 3: For rhyme, stodhartening Jim bade We down of bad stodarting,
Jim bade Way.
Speaker 4: Nice. Nice.
Speaker 5: That's called fade, Yes, yep, very cool fade by Sean
Manchester who's here with us live in studio. That's guy
got kind of a little bit of a little bit
of a grunge.
Speaker 4: Job vibe there to that one.
Speaker 5: I like that. Yeah, yeah, it runs me a little bit,
a little bit nineties nineties, a lot.
Speaker 7: Of the early stuff. Well, so that's something I should
have mentioned too. Foo Fighters, you know, I like uh,
Nirvana and Foo Fighters, mostly Dave Grohl being the multi instrumentalists.
Oh yeah, I like a lot of that post grunge
kind of. So that's one of the earlier songs that
I wrote. So it definitely has those grungy vibes to them. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, your songs too, So I noticed that there there
are they all. Your songs are kind of shorter than
a lot of singer songwriters. Some some some singer songwriters
you know we've had on the the got like these
six minute songs, but yours are yours are kind of.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I I normally you know, if I have the
loop pedal, that helps to make it a little bit longer. Yeah,
but I like to keep them kind of short and
sweet to the point, so you know, stay along with
the song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, live of it.
Speaker 5: Well, it's that expression, don't boris get to the chorus exactly?
Speaker 6: Exactly?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, so I do have a lot of
it's it's very like pop, you know, radio music that's
very similar structure to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And you know, having a band or the loop pedal
makes it a lot easier to do those intricacies because
I have I love.
Speaker 6: Doing the.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that riff and like I can layer it, and
the loop pedal makes it so much fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, How did you learn to play guitar? I know
you're vocally your self taught? What about what about guitar?
Speaker 6: Same just self taught. Looked up tabs too. What is
the first thing I played? Chili peppers? That's another big influence.
Speaker 4: Oh, really, sitting in.
Speaker 7: My mom's basement when I was sixteen and got the
guitar for my birthday or Christmas, one.
Speaker 6: Of those, Yeah, and just looked up the tabs started
going to town and then the other one was shine down.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, so just learning the yeah, learning the
tabs and went from there, just kept with it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah nice. Was that your because you're a multi instrumentalist.
Was that your first instrument guitar? Did you start on guitar?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean I played piano here and there
just when I saw one messing around, you know, so
I had like, that's what kind of got it going,
just seeing how much fun it was, and oh I
can create something out of nothing.
Speaker 5: That makes sense because I've heard so many music instructors
and teachers say that ideally, Uh, if you start on
a keyboard, that's the best way to start to learn,
start to learn the fundamentals, and train your brain.
Speaker 7: It makes it a lot easier to apply the music theory,
just because all the notes are in order. So then
when you look at a guitar neck, if you see, oh,
each fret is basically a key on the keyboard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, helps for the visualization of it a lot. Yeah,
I think that was the biggest thing really.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, I've heard a lot of instructors say
that that that's that's ideal.
Speaker 6: I'm going to get a piano this spring or summer.
Speaker 7: Oh no, canna find one of those ones that people
have that are free, that they you know.
Speaker 4: Like a full piano.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh kidding.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna have a little uh roof over my campfire
pit so I can have you know, a piano by
the fire. We keep it covered and do some like
you know, outdoor saloon campfire jams with my friends. You know,
have a couple of people on guitar or whatever whoever.
Speaker 6: Shows up with. Oh very cool and yeah whatever, make
some fun jams.
Speaker 7: But I've always wanted an outdoor piano like that. I
couldn't really beat that. You know, the sound of piano
outside at night would be yeah awesome.
Speaker 5: What do you do about that in the winter? You've
probably already researched it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean the piano is on its last leg.
So what happens in winter? If it's restorable, if it's
some attitude tune junkie one that they're just going to
toss anyways, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter, right.
Speaker 7: Maybe a bonfire for winter, Yeah, end up burning a
million dollar piano.
Speaker 4: You wanna you want to seek in one more?
Speaker 5: We have we have time.
Speaker 4: If you want to do one.
Speaker 7: More than I'll do a fun one. Okay it's called
a generic love song. Okay, now let me take these
headphones off real quick false start, tell you know.
Speaker 2: It's live, Come on over and our sarenage you.
Speaker 6: What do you like?
Speaker 1: What do you want to hear? I'll singing loud, make
your legs quiver. I'll lean in close and whisper in
your ear. You just not a generic love song, just
something that I can sing. You know we You'll be
off my sat list and now we'll miss sing thing?
Speaker 2: What's your name again?
Speaker 1: Sorry? My bad? You just another girl that I know
won't mass but let's single wrong enough fun tomorrow morning,
this will be done. You just another generic lap song,
Just something that I can sing. In a week, you'll
be off my setlist and now will miss a single thing.
It's a single thing. It's a single thing. Won't miss thing.
You just another married love song. Just something that I
can sing. You know we quby off my set list?
Now miss a single thing.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. What a great track. That's great generic love
song by.
Speaker 7: It's a little bit of a tongue in cheek song,
but right, yeah, it's the most love all my songs
can't be heartbreaking, you know, Yeah, broken.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, that's that is fun.
Speaker 6: Have a little fun.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. Thanks Sean.
Speaker 5: What should people know about how to keep up with
you online? Follow everything that you're doing?
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you search for Sean Manch you know, Manchester
abbreviated just on Google, Facebook, Instagram, all those places I
keep up, YouTube, Spotify, so pretty much if you look
for me there, hopefully I'm there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you are very googleable.
Speaker 6: Which is good. Yeah, definitely, that's that.
Speaker 7: Uh be it a programmer back in the day, gems
it handy, you know, search engine optimization, that sort of stuff,
so exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and if anyone wants to look me up, I
appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And do you have anything this weekend that you're playing?
Got any shows your plan you want to plug?
Speaker 6: Not anything?
Speaker 7: Right now, I'm going to start doing the ones that
I run, and you know, focus on quality over quantity,
you know, so focus a lot on those. But if
they follow my uh Facebook, that's where I definitely update
the most, I'd say, And okay, make some Facebook events
and yeah, yeah, I'm going to be booking hopefully fairs.
That's what I want to get into a lot of
oh really, fares and events like that kind of get
out of the bar scene with the covers.
Speaker 6: And do more of the summer, bigger summer events.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, summer is probably your busiest time.
Speaker 6: Right well, and the fair Ground in Clinton is right
up the road for me. Oh okay, started to become
a part of the Lions Club.
Speaker 7: Hopefully that's a good play some of these songs. It
would be a broke man's dream.
Speaker 4: There you go, There you go, there you go.
Speaker 5: I think we should end the segment with another track
from your studio, your studio album. I'll let you tell me,
I'll let you pick. That's a good h.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to think if there's one that I hadn't.
Speaker 5: Played, Yeah, did you.
Speaker 6: Oh, there's one called Survive that's a Survivor one. Yeah. Yeah,
that's why that I hadn't played. I was trying to
think of what was on there.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, self recorded, and that one's also only about
a week old.
Speaker 5: Oh no, kidding.
Speaker 7: Been doing a lot of writing and recording, getting it
out of my mind and getting it on the airways.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that is excellent.
Speaker 5: Okay, yep, I've got it here perfect. So we will
close out the segment with this. If you are listening
live on Saturday, stick around. At the top of the hour,
We've got brand new the American radio premiere of Elijah
Jenkins' new track State. And then immediately after that we're
gonna be talking to the guys from Iron Jaw about
their new album Cursed. They're going to be skyping in
from Texas. But we will close out this segment with Survive.
This is Sean Manchester and Sean thank you again.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, and have a good day at Manchester.
Speaker 2: Have you laid alone?
Speaker 1: And monstars go out to everyone leave you stricken by.
Speaker 2: The town goney is sure line.
Speaker 1: The waves ever received as the moon blows harder and
brings it to your knees. We tried.
Speaker 3: To stay alive to know he can't just to survive.
We try to stay alive to you know he cancious
to survive.
Speaker 1: When you feel a change that awen on your mind,
the teat of your endeavors.
Speaker 8: Howe Gior teams changing with you, purpose, tearing down lies,
rooming with team and haunt you in the night.
Speaker 7: We tried.
Speaker 1: To stay alive to we know we canscious to survive.
Speaker 3: We try.
Speaker 1: Stay alive till They know we can't just still survive.
We can't to stay live. You know, we can't just
to survive.
Speaker 3: We try to stay alive, to know we can't just
to survive.