Speaker 1: WMNH will rip the doubles.
Speaker 2: Fifty something years now, going up and smoke twenty thousand
days behind.
Speaker 3: It's just a couple more to do, and it's alright,
it's alright.
Speaker 2: Gotta have a little face.
Speaker 4: Could have seen it coming somewhere down the line, buried
in some double helics underneath ourselves a bat But it's alright.
Speaker 2: It's all right. Everything is in its leg.
Speaker 5: Seems so to me.
Speaker 6: Nothing could have changed.
Speaker 7: Seems so mad to me, nothing.
Speaker 6: Could have play.
Speaker 8: Hearts are feeling heavy, bodies get week, we will waste
away together, fade into that sweet rely, It's.
Speaker 2: All right, it's alright, gotta have a little space.
Speaker 7: Seems so clear to me.
Speaker 6: Nothing could have changed, so cud, nothing couldn't lay.
Speaker 2: Who's us on the mountain? All upon the road I've been.
Speaker 9: Reaching down to holding me up and bear this heavy though.
It's all right, it's all right, everything is in its place.
It's alright, it's all right.
Speaker 2: I'm an.
Speaker 5: Same So jeez, chang seems so hmmm.
Speaker 10: I really like that a lot. That it's called a
couple more to go. That is Ian Gallipo, who is
here with us alive in studio and We're gonna talk
in just a moment, but welcome back everybody. We have
entered our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed.
We are live from the studios of w m n
H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire,
and of course you can stream the show at Matt
connorton dot com slash Live. Today is Saturday, March first,
twenty twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table
present account of bar and we have Ian Gallipo here
with us. Welcome in. Oh, I can't hear you, and
I need to figure out why. Actually that's strange that
Mike should be on. Yeah, can you bounce over to
that that chair please. I don't know why that's not working.
That's weird. I'm not getting anything out of it. Okay,
let's we'll try We'll try that one. Oh, I can
hear you bet Yeah, yeah, awesome, excellently, you sound great. Yeah,
that's weird that that mic isn't working at all. That's
that's really strange. I'll have to look at it afterward.
But uh, so welcome. Uh your music has actually been
featured on the show before by the way we should say,
because you, of course are in the band Modern Fools.
Speaker 11: I am in the band Modern Fools.
Speaker 10: You were not here for the for the interview. But
but but so we have played your music before. I'm
gonna just that just that camera there too for people
watching online so they can see you. But no, but
I I love your I love I love Modern Fools,
but I love your solo stuff too. That is such
a great track. A couple more to go. Really really
like that. Where did you record that?
Speaker 11: It's entirely recorded at home?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 11: No kidding, Yeah, yeah, I've got a home studio set up.
Did the entire album in my in my studio room.
Speaker 10: Oh that's incredible. It sounds like it was done in
a million in a million dollars studio. It really does,
it really does. But it's you know, it's it's remarkable.
We talk a lot about uh technology, of course, as
we were as we were in the previous segment, and
you know, we live in a time where you can
really get an amazing recording out of a home studio.
I'm old enough to remember when your only real option
was I go to a studio and pay a lot
of money, or if you were gonna stay at home.
I don't know if you've ever seen one of those
little task scam recorded? Is that what you started on yet? Okay, okay,
So now though, I mean it's it's incredible what you
can do.
Speaker 11: And oh it's amazing. Yeah, I mean all of the
the DAW's I work in logic. But you know your
home studio setup, you can there are professional albums rights.
Whole first album was recorded in the basement. I didn't
know that Church is a home recording.
Speaker 10: Oh I didn't. I had no idea. I did not
know that. So do you do everything on the album?
Are you? Are you playing everything?
Speaker 11: And I play everything?
Speaker 10: Oh that's incredible.
Speaker 11: Drums, keyboards, guitars, bass.
Speaker 10: Yeah, oh that's fantastic. Good for you, Good for you.
And that makes it easier too, in the sense that
I mean, well, I mean it's not easier in the
sense that it's a lot of work, right, but but
you get to create your vision of what you wanted
to sound like without anybody kind of messing it up.
Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, Oh for sure. Yeah, it's it's it's an
interesting process, right, doing it all yourself. It was. I
had a release show this past weekend, right. The album
came out of the twenty second and I had a
release show with a full band, and it was so
cool to hear these songs come to life, like these
arrangements that I'd played one piece at a time. Yeah,
played by a five piece band with me was was
pretty special.
Speaker 10: Yeah. When when that happens, though, is it because obviously
it's great to hear them come alive, But is there
any part of you that is nervous about what if
they don't sound exactly like how I want? Or are
you able to just let that go and just enjoy?
Because in a sense, who is kind of an adventure?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 11: Who?
Speaker 10: How are these going to sound with other musicians playing
them with me?
Speaker 11: It's certainly an adventure. Yeah, And I trusted the musicians
I was working with. Yeah, I picked these five people
specifically because I trust their taste and their vision. Whether
they're going to play exactly the part that I wrote,
whatever they come up with modification of that, he's going
to be interesting.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Good. I didn't just find guys on Craigslist to play
the songs with, Like that would be nerve wrecking.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that would be, no doubt, no doubt, any members
of Modern Fools who played them with you.
Speaker 11: Yeah. One member of Modern Fools came, the guitarist John
who you met a few months ago. Okay, he came
and played and I played with those guys all the time. Yeah.
He specifically did not want the Ian Gallipo and the
Modern Fools release show, right, so I had to limit
limit the band to maybe one member.
Speaker 10: No, that makes sense, that makes sense. Who else were
other people that we would know from other bands who
played with you that for that show?
Speaker 11: Or you might know one name Ethan McBrien. He's the
frontman of the band Party of the Sun.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, I don't think we've ever had Party of
the Sun on the show, but I am familiar with
the band.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, okay, he played bass. Very cool bass player. Yeah,
for a band that doesn't have a bass player, he's
a fantastic bass player.
Speaker 10: Oh that's awesome. So what in terms of playing live
your solo material, what's what's the plan going forward? Do
you plan to do that again or or are you
planning to play out with your solo I mean, obviously
Modern Fools keeps you kind of busy too.
Speaker 11: Modern Fools keeps me plenty busy. Yeah, I play all
of these songs as a not all of the ones
on this album, but I'm a solo performer predominantly. Yeah,
this whole album is different for me. I composed all
these songs on piano, oh wow, which is not an
instrument that I normally play. Have been a guitar for
twenty years. I picked up piano a little bit during COVID. Yeah,
and writing on piano was different. So now I've adapted
most of these songs to work on guitar, which I'm
excited about sharing them in that way. Yeah. I don't
know how much band performance I'm going to do, just
because there's a lot of logistics. Right, Being in modern
fools is enough. Yeah, Band relationships are complicated. Yeah, and
I think the songs carry They're different, but it was
fun to do them with a band. For sure. I
absolutely would in the right context, but it's not something
I want to pursue, like we need to be playing
four or five shows a month. Yeah, band, it's too much.
Speaker 10: So your solo material, you're comfortable just you and a guitar,
I assume, or are you or do you ever bring
a keyboard?
Speaker 11: I never bring a keyboard. I anything that I've written
on a keyboard, I've figured out some way to play
it on guitar or not play it at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Are there songs that you've had to say this one
doesn't translate to guitar well enough, and I'm not going
to play this one, or you ever run into.
Speaker 11: That, or yeah, there are a couple on this don't work.
Speaker 10: Yeah, don't work in terms of does the vibe just
completely change.
Speaker 11: Or yeah, the vibe is too different, or I'm just
not technical enough to do exactly like I can do
something close usually, Yeah, but some of it's really dependent
on the bounce of a piano. Yeah, doing the same
chug on a guitar sounds right right different?
Speaker 10: That makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. Now, what about
the so on the album? What about the drums?
Speaker 11: Are those live drums or are they programmed or it's
all programmed or you know, it's all sampled. A lot
of it. I've played on a keyboard, yeah, as a drummer,
and then I've got to write an electronic drum set
that plugs in for me as well.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, great. Yeah, that's something that's changed a lot
too over the years. Technologically, the advances with that because
I like, I remember I remember being a kid and
having a keyboard with drum sounds on it, but they
they sounded so fake.
Speaker 11: Oh, they sound so fake.
Speaker 10: And then you know, and there were also these programmable
these standalone programmable Drumshe means that some of them, like
you could get a realistic sounding The problem with those,
again this is going back many years, but the problem
with those was you could get a really realistic sounding snare,
but the toms would always sound terrible and the symbols
would sound even worse. Yeah, But but now it's it's
remarkable what you can do.
Speaker 11: Oh, it's unbelievable. What maybe I mean? Uh, the guys
in my band were like, where'd you record these drums? Yeah, like, no, no,
there are a couple of obviously electronic pieces in there. Yeah,
but the ones that are acoustic are well sampled. Yeah,
they've got that full dynamic range and you really it's
hard to tell unless you know, not real drums.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, it's uh, that's a great compliment,
right when somebody says to you, hey, where you know,
where'd you record these drums? Yeah? That's great, that's great.
How is your is your approach to songwriting different as
a solo artist versus with Modern Fools, or because I
don't know if with solo stuff, is that all self
written or do you collaborate with other writers?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, great question. I love collaborating with people. Yeah, everything
on this record I wrote, and most of my co
writes in in my life have been for the other artist. Okay,
but there's a handful of songs that I wrote with
other people, that I've written with John from Modern Fools
that we that I play soul artists. As far as
Modern Fools, almost all of that is written by Josh,
the singer. I've I've tweaked some lyrics here and there,
but it's we're working towards collaborative writing. It's just a
it's a stretch anytime. There's a lot of vulnerability when
you write with somebody. Yes, and it's yeah, Josh and
I are working towards that.
Speaker 10: Yeah. No, that's very cool, that's very cool. How many? So,
how many songs have you recorded? Just as as Ian Gallipo,
Because from what I looked at on band camp, it
looks like you've you've got quite a bit of solo material.
Speaker 11: There's a decent amount of souloal, I think there's fifty
or so on on streaming.
Speaker 10: Oh that's even more than I realized. Wow, oh that's
quite a bit.
Speaker 11: There's two full albums, a couple of epe's, a bunch
of singles, there's there's this a good volume of of
solo material.
Speaker 10: Yeah when did you How long have you been writing
and recording solo material, because that's a lot of material.
I assume that's over a span of a few years. Anyway.
Speaker 11: That is the oldest stuff that's on any of the
streaming platforms is from twenty eighteen, Okay, so seven years.
There's a few other a couple of other albums that
are only on my band camp from before that first
solo album I think was twenty eleven. Oh okay, when
I was in a band called Honest Thieves for a
few years.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: We released an album in twenty fourteen, which is still
up on my band camp kind of a rock and
roll thing.
Speaker 10: Oh no, kidding, Okay, cool. I think I've heard of,
or maybe I just feel like I've heard of, Honest
Theves because that's such a cool name. That is a
cool name. But if the name is familiar, to me. Yeah,
so then, now, so how long have you been with
Modern Fools? That that that that hasn't been as long
as you've been doing the solo material, right, because.
Speaker 11: That's no, it has not. I joined up with Modern Fools.
It's been just over three years now, he's late twenty
twenty one, okay, And I started playing bass with those guys.
And I mean I've been playing with various members of
Modern Fools for a long time.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: That's always the you know, the rotating cast of any
of any music community, right, you know, I'm over and keen,
and so there's a degree of I've played with everybody
there to some degree. Yeah, but yeah, I've been playing
with the drummer of Modern Fools since high school cool
together with John the guitarist for twelve years now. He
was in Honest Thieves. Oh okay, so yeah, just a
rotating cast, but three and a half years or so
with Modern Fools, playing bass and singing the harmonies.
Speaker 10: Excellent, excellent. The songs that we're playing today are these
all from the latest release.
Speaker 11: Everything is from the latest release.
Speaker 10: And is that a I forgot? How is that a
full length or an EP full length? It's length Okay, Well,
was there anything that went into any anything specific that
went into that decision, you know, because obviously, again, we
live in a time where you've got so many different
options in terms of how you release music. Some people
just release singles, some people decide to do an EP,
some people decide to do a full album. Was there
was there any particular reason you decided to do a
full album. Do these songs have a sort of cohesive
connection to them or they do each other.
Speaker 11: Yeah. It started out I thought it was going to
be an EP. I thought I'd weed a couple of
the songs out as I as I went through, and
then I started going and I'm like, oh, I got
nine songs and maybe i could write there's one instrumental
piece that's again piano bassed. It was like, ten is
a nice even number. It feels like a full album. Yeah,
these all are are Coe said in that again, they're
the subset of songs that I've ever written on piano,
which was sort of unique. And as I dove into
them and worked on them, I found that that there's
just a lot of nostalgia built into this set of songs.
For whatever reason, writing on piano brings that out of me.
Being a dad brought that out of me a bit.
I've got two daughters at home. Yeah, and I was
never a nostalgic person, and I have kids, and now
I'm very aware of moments passing, Right, it gives you
that a different perspective. So these songs are all all
sort of looking backward in some degree. Some of them
are stories that are true for my life. Some of
them are borrowed from other people. Right. A couple More
to Go is about this older friend of mine watching
her fifty year marriage not fall apart, but watching her
partner pass and doing it with more dignity than I've
ever seen anyone do that. So anyway, it's not all sadness,
but it's all there's kind of this rose colored glasses
look backwards that that ties these songs together. Faited Pictures
is the title track, which isn't one that will listen
to today, but it kind of prompted the idea for
the album art of all these pictures of just my
photo album yeah, my family photo albums mashed together, and
so yeah, it's a it's a look back. It's reflective,
kind of just escaping from some of the turmoil. Of
the last couple of years backwards.
Speaker 10: Did you did you create the cover art yourself? I mean,
obviously that's your your photo albums, but did.
Speaker 11: You did oh very cool, too much, too much the Gallipo,
They did every single piece of it.
Speaker 10: No, I think that's fantastic. I think that's that's excellent.
We should play another track. What should we play next?
We just played a couple more to go to open
the segment, but I'd love to play another one.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's let's do only Ever Always only over a
second track on the album.
Speaker 10: What What should we know about this song?
Speaker 2: Any?
Speaker 10: Any? Any song?
Speaker 11: Is what Let's see? I wrote this. It was inspired
by a book that I was reading and it just
had this really beautiful love story that sort of creeps
up on you. The second Chance that I thought was
really beautiful, And part of this song actually came from
a prompt. I was in a songwriter's group and we
were doing weekly prompts last April, and because everything had
started to turn green, the prompt was used the word
green somewhere in your song, and it's snuck in there
in the chorus. This was the song written for that.
Speaker 10: I just have to say though, before we play the song.
This is one of those weird synchronicities. Jenny's heard me
talk about this. So this concept of writing prompts had
never really come upon the show before. But last night
I was on because there's a show here that Arizon
Friday nights at six pm called Granted State of Mind.
You might know. Do you know Rob Azevito? I met
Rob yet okay, yeah, and he has Pembroke City limits
and everything. But so I was here for that to
help Rob set up Mike's for a sound because Katie
Dobbins yeah, came in and played live sweet and the
subject of writing prompts came up. She was talking about
using using prompts, you know, to to help give her
ideas for songs. And I never really heard anyone talk
about it that way before. And and then you you
mentioned prompts. It's funny. Those moments are so interesting to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
but uh, all right, so let's give this a spin.
If you are just joining us, Ian Gallipo is here
with us in studio, and uh, this is great. This
is called only Ever Always.
Speaker 13: I was falling gently, settled in the silence of frozen dark,
an empty hibernation.
Speaker 14: You.
Speaker 13: We were there to catch me, drawn in by the
wildness of broken heart. Oh kind of patience.
Speaker 2: In your hands, my.
Speaker 5: World, in all the world, A light.
Speaker 3: Buzz on the branches over there like a side cornassy.
Speaker 4: It's capturing the light stall in the second chances and
light in your right.
Speaker 13: There's no wrong right, no more wrong or right. There's
only ever always, And running from the heartache certain in
the distance we had put behind the best could only
change us. Love was like an earthquake, overwhelming and escapable
and violent.
Speaker 2: So we let into cuz.
Speaker 15: In worlds and for everything, scream all the world.
Speaker 2: Light it's on the branches, and.
Speaker 13: Come back seas, capturing light stole in the second chances
and the moon night, And you're right. There's no wrong right,
no one wrong right, probably ever always is.
Speaker 10: I love the way that ends. I didn't even want
to talk over the end of it. That's so cool.
That's Ian Gallipo. Only ever always is the name of
the track. That's really nice. I love the I love
the choruses on these and the you know the obviously
you know you're how many? How many layers of vocals
are on like that a song? I'm such a recording nerd,
so I asked these weird, great weird questions. Probably nobody
else care how many layers of vocals, but I'm just
curious because it just sounds so good.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much. No, I love the recording nerd
conversations here. That song has got I think nine layers
of vocal. Okay, so it's it's like a four part harmony.
My wife is singing the highest right, the female voice,
he's got two parts, and then I'm doubling the lead
vocal and singing two underneath it. Okay, So it's like
a five part harmony with nine total voices layered in.
Speaker 10: Oh nice, Yeah, it sounds was that hard to get
that right? Like like the way you wanted it? Because
that's kind of complex working all that out, or maybe
it's not. Maybe, So I know, sometimes it can be
kind of instinctive when you're working out harmonies, but.
Speaker 11: I working at harmonies is like my favorite nerd thing
to do. Oh I love it. So it's a little tricky,
but it's a lot of fun. Like I do all
that most of the harmony arrangements for modern fools as well.
Right when I was singing with with Josh and when
we record together with two voices, it's always interesting, like
what what can we do that isn't just tight thirds? Right?
And so I know this is like music theory nerd stuff,
but yeah, it's complicated, but it's it's fun and I
love when I am recording and I have license to like, oh,
I can just fill this course up with a five
part gigantic thing.
Speaker 10: How long did it take to record the to record
the album?
Speaker 11: The album was over the course of maybe eight months. Okay, again,
all done at home, and it's it's the challenge in recording.
It is is always just finding the time, right. I
work full time and I've got children, so it's loud
in the house for most of the hours.
Speaker 10: Of the day. Did you do all the did you
do the mastering to yourself?
Speaker 11: Or did you say I had it mastered by a
guy named Jim Bergson who's over in Boston area. Okay, okay, yeah,
I record it. I did all of the mixing. It
was mastered separately.
Speaker 10: Excellent. Now, why Jim Jim Bergson is that his name?
Speaker 11: That's his name?
Speaker 10: How did how did you choose him? Because You've got
a lot of options. What what led you to work
with him.
Speaker 11: There are so many options. He and I had connected
via Instagram maybe last early last year, and he had
reached out a handful of times, just like, Hey, if
you've got any projects, just keep me in touch. I
really like your writing. I'd love to work with you.
And I've worked with a handful of other mastery engineers
who all did a great job. But I wanted to
give Jim a swing. He's a good guy and.
Speaker 10: He did a great job, did a great job, knocked
it out of the park. I would say, yeah, absolutely,
Oh that's very cool. That's very cool. Now what is
your Obviously you're always right, right, So I'm curious. Uh,
and this this hasn't been out that long, right then.
Speaker 11: Week a week's Saturday?
Speaker 10: What's that new? Okay, jeez, So do you plan to
I don't know if you're thinking this far ahead? Do
you plan Do you have another release already kind of
in mind or are you just kind of focused on
on this one in the moment or because you're probably
always writing, I'm sure you've got a lot of ideas.
Speaker 11: Always writing. Yeah, and yeah, I don't have a concrete,
certain set that I'm going to release. I've got another
single that I worked with an online producer to flesh
out is my first time ever just handing a song
over and being like, yeah, you do all the instruments. Oh,
and I'm really excited with how that came back. So
I'm gonna work with him on a handful of more songs.
But so that song is called on borrowed time, that'll
come out. I don't have a date, but certainly by
the by Memorial Day. Oh okay, I'm going to move
on from not move on from these songs quickly. But
I've got a backlog of like fifty more songs that
I think deserve release, and I'm thirty six. I can't
just wait forever to do this. So this is like
the year that I'm doing two full albums for sure. Wow,
at least another handful of singles on top of it.
Speaker 10: Oh, that's great, that's great. When you play live solo,
do you, I mean you obviously have a lot of
your own material to draw from. Do you also play
some covers or do you are you able to do
shows where you just play your own.
Speaker 11: Stuff or I predominantly play my own material. Good, there's
so much of it that, even like I've worked with
I play breweries and things like three hours. In that
three hours, right, there's a couple of ten minute breaks,
and I'm playing maybe five covers over the course of
three hours. Like it's it's mostly original music, which is
a way to do it. I don't know if it's
the best strategy, but it's the strategy that I choose.
Speaker 10: If it's working for you, working for you, yeah, I say,
run with it. That's great, that's great. I'm also curious
about influences I hear. I think a little bit of
Ben Folds.
Speaker 11: Maybe, Oh man, I love Ben Folks. Yeah, yeah, I
think he's an absolute genius.
Speaker 10: I also thought maybe I don't know so much on
that one. But the other one we played a little
bit James Taylor is that is he and.
Speaker 11: Your James Taylor is very much in my in my
wheelhouse as well.
Speaker 10: I think one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Personally,
James Taylor is incredible.
Speaker 11: Agreed. Yeah, And when he knocks it out of the park,
there's nobody better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, He's got some absolutely great songs. So certainly you've
picked two that I absolutely love. Other influences that you'd
certainly hear on this album the postal Service. Right, Ben
Gibbard death Cab for Cutie is another big influence.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that one never occurred to me, but now that
you mentioned it, I can hear it. Yeah, now as
you mentioned it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, other you know piano writers that I really look
up to. Randy Newman, Okay, someone I discovered not late
in life because I'm not an old man, but later, right,
I grew up and he was the Toy Story guy. Yeah,
it was You've got a friend in me. And and
then I was reading a Ben Folds interview whatever was
ten years ago, and he's he said Randy Newman was
one of his biggest influences. What am I sleeping on here?
And going deeper back into his discography, it was amazing,
you know the album's Little Criminals or or good old
boys like he's just incredible.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Any any Frank Zappa, No Frank Zappa, Okay, I got
to check out Frank Zappa. All my friends enjoy Frank Zappa.
And I've never done the deep dive into his catalog.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's it's it gets pretty pretty weird, but.
Speaker 11: But her mind weird.
Speaker 10: But he's yeah, yeah, most of us don't. If you know,
when we give it a chance, you know he's got
He's got some great stuff. I I was never a
big Frank Zappa fan myself, but a couple of years ago,
so I'm on a show on Friday Night's called Retrospection
Radio with Poul c and Paul's a huge Zappa fan,
and he's played some stuff on there. It's like, wow.
I remember when I was a kid, my parents were
into him, but I never got into him. But now,
you know, as an adult, you know, because you get
older and you appreciate stuff that maybe you heard when
you were a kid that you didn't connect with, but
now now you hear it and you go, oh, now
I get it. Now I understand what's great about this,
you know. And of course there's other stuff you might
hear that you liked when you were a kid where
you go, oh, I used to like that. That happens too.
But yeah, But and your your vocal style specifically, is
there anyone you you try to really emulate or who
influences you in terms of how you sing.
Speaker 11: Ah, that's a great question. Ben Folds would come back
up simply because he does not have like a conventionally
pretty voice. I never felt like I did either, and
so it was like a permission to just have a voice.
Or Ben Kueller is the same thing. Okay, like guys
who don't don't have that beautiful voice, right, I mean,
I worship Jeff Buckley. I will never sing like that.
It's never gonna happen. Or like, let's see Joe Cocker
amazing voice. You just heard the guy sing and be like,
what is wrong? But the performance is what makes it amazing.
And another one that I didn't realize until maybe a
couple of years ago, was is Tracy Chapman. Yeah, definitely.
I loved her albums when I was a kid. I
love her albums still, And I didn't realize that some
of my inflections were borrowed until I accidentally pitch shifted
my voice up on a recording that I was working on,
and I was like, oh, wow, I sound a bit
like Tracy Chapman if you pitch ship my voice up
a fifth.
Speaker 10: Oh that's interesting. Okay, yeah, yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Part of why I was curious to ask you that
question is your voice, Like, vocally, you don't remind me
of anyone specific, So it was curious what your influences were, which,
by the way, I mean that as a compliment because
it's you know, you're I think it's cool that you
sound you know, unique, you know, because some people, you know,
you can listen to and say, oh, they sound like
they sound like so and so. But to to not
be able to easily identify someone that you sound like,
I think it's cool, so and I think I think
it makes what you're doing even that much more interesting,
at least to someone like me really analyzes this stuff
like the nerd that I am, you know, I do
take that as very cool. Well, let's let's play another track.
Which one should we play next?
Speaker 11: Let's do uh, the one we kicked off the show
with here. What was that Getting dark?
Speaker 10: Getting Dark? Yeah, speaking of pitch shifting. So we'll play
this at the correct speed.
Speaker 11: Now, that would be great.
Speaker 10: Very cool if you are just joining us. Ian Gallipo
is here with us in studio, and this is called
Getting Dark.
Speaker 2: Countdown.
Speaker 13: Knowing you and I be worlds apart.
Speaker 3: Expectations were a couple of months at mold.
Speaker 2: We would do our level best, carry on.
Speaker 3: Firely, rumbling down below sky above on fours ands, getting dark,
the sky above.
Speaker 2: Falls, and getting dark.
Speaker 3: We made it farther than anybody ever forgot of home.
Speaker 2: Starlight fell this up so we could.
Speaker 3: Stab beyond the limits everybody said it would take.
Speaker 2: They're told we opened up the whole world to explore.
Speaker 3: Together, just a light on in the dark together, just
a light on in the dark, storm on the horizon.
Speaker 2: And all that you could do was walk.
Speaker 16: While I was overwhelmed, and there was nothing I could say.
But my bard is long, and it's getting dark. My
bader is long, and it's getting dark.
Speaker 2: We tried to hold on. The week's turned into months,
still out of range.
Speaker 3: Until that moment when you sang out yr goodbye.
Speaker 2: I was too far gone for you to hear me.
But the morning sun.
Speaker 3: Let the heart insight, A fineal pulse.
Speaker 2: A glam is the dark.
Speaker 15: A fineal pulse.
Speaker 3: A glamor in the dark, together, just to light on
in the dark. The sky aboven and it's skinning dark.
My bad is and it's skinning dark.
Speaker 10: That is getting dark. It's another one of those cool endings.
I really like that.
Speaker 11: A lot, thanks my sos. At the end, there is
that what that is?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, that's cool. I like that. That is Ian Gallipo,
who is here with us in the studio, and well,
the time does go quickly. But a couple of things.
So first of all, I want to make sure that
everyone knows where to find you online, how to keep
up with everything that you're doing, especially since I'm sure
there are people who have no idea how to spell Gallipo.
Speaker 11: I don't know. Sometimes I wouldn't blame them now, thanks Matt.
It's yeah, Ian Gallipo Music. I A n Ian Gallipo,
a bunch of extra vowels. It's French E A L,
I P E A U and music on let's See,
on Instagram, on TikTok, on YouTube, on Facebook, my website,
Ian Galipo Music dot com. You can find me in
all of those places. I'm most active on Instagram. But
wherever you know you're at, that's that's where I am.
Speaker 10: I was even misspelling your name the other day when
I was when I was doing a post for the
show today, I was I kept typing two l's, and
I kept having to correct myself because I think in
my mind the consonant to vowel ratio in your name
was throwing me Upas like you said, it's friends, there's
a lot of a lot of owels, so I kept
trying to I kept trying to raise the number of
consonants in your name. Anybody ever spell it wrong on
a poster or anything on a Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, who El's is the most common?
Speaker 2: Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Who El's is the most common? And flipping the the
e and the flipping the vowels at the end, au right,
it's like beautiful or whatever. But a eu a U
E like they just throw them in at the end.
I don't blame them, I can imagine. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 10: And and modern fools of course too. Where should people
go for modern fools?
Speaker 11: Modern fools and Modern fools music on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok,
modern fools music dot com.
Speaker 10: That's easy, that's nice, and that's much easy. I assume
modern fools has never been spelled wrong on a poster?
Speaker 11: Uh, not that I recall, it's never been like a.
Speaker 10: Z Yeah, yeah, right, that's good. That's good. And what
do you have? What do you have coming up to plug?
Speaker 11: Yeah? For sure? I'm playing tonight Atally over in Hancock,
New Hampshire. He's got an amazing venue over there, Like
Hancock is the quint essential small New England Town probably
even haven't even heard of it.
Speaker 10: It's I was going to say, I don't know where
Hancock is.
Speaker 11: It's sort of north of Peterborough, right between and Manchester.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's this old train station that they've converted, right
like the classic long thin building. The Hancock Depot is
a converted train station and they do a wonderful monthly
series I've heard.
Speaker 10: Okay, that sounds very familiar. I think when Eric was
on Temple Mountain, I think he talked about that place.
He probably plays there, he has played there, Okay, because
that sounds as soon as you mentioned train station. Yep.
Speaker 11: It's a wonderful vibe, really really great spot. So I'm
playing there tonight. That's at seven thirty. My next thing
near Manchester is just over a couple months out here,
April twenty sixth I'll be over here playing a great
north Aale works in the in the afternoon.
Speaker 10: Oh Bill, very good. Jenny and I are going to
be there later today. I don't know if you know
Jenny's Sun Jesse Coffee, but oh yeah, I know Jesse's great. Yeah,
he's playing there today, yeah, yeah, Small.
Speaker 11: World the Sweetheart. Yeah yeah, he's doing all the booking
over there now.
Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yeah, he's doing great. Yeah. So we're gonna
go see him play today. Yeah yeah, yeah today at
four pm. Yeah. So, oh didn't did I know why that?
I think I know why. The train station sounds familiar
to me too, didn't, Modern fools? Did did you guys
record a video there or something?
Speaker 11: We did? Yes, okay, that's that would that would so
we did, uh yeah, a live version basically of our
album recorded in that space videos for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool. Well, congratulations on the
album and everything that you're doing, and uh, it's great
to have you on. We'll definitely do this again in
the future, especially when you know it sounds like you've
got another single coming soon, so I do well, Uh,
we'll definitely we'll have you on for that, and that's
going to be separate from the album.
Speaker 11: I'll be separate.
Speaker 10: It'll be a completely separate thing. Yeah. Yeah, so we'll
we'll do this again soon and we will close out
with so we have one more to play here. Oh
I'm curious too. The So the title is Thoughts of
a Widowed Cartoonist.
Speaker 11: That's the title of the song.
Speaker 10: This this ass have a story behind it. I assume it's.
Speaker 11: So this song is fiction, okay, but it's it's as
silly as this. I wanted to write a song it was.
It came from a prompt. I wanted a song with
the word toothbrush in it because I thought that was weird. Yeah,
and I thought it would just be silly. And most
of the time, when I give myself a prompt that's silly,
it ends up being something very serious. Oh really, yeah,
so this is that. It's it's sort of this song.
It's the thoughts of a widow. For whatever reason, the
guy's a cartoonist. I don't know why. Okay, it's just
the imagery that came up as I was working through
the verses of this song. Okay, So I wanted a
song with a toothbrush in it, and I also wanted
a song with a bass drop in it. I've never
written something with that whoa whoa whoa nice you know,
electronic sound. I mashed those two things together, and this
is the song that came out. It's a little bit ridiculous,
but I think it's kind of cool.
Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely very cool. So we'll play that and
if you are listening live on Saturday. Stick around. We
have Becoming Human skyping in from Texas in the third hour.
But we will close out this segment with this. This
is called Thoughts of a Widowed Cartoonist and this is
Ian Gallipo and Ian, thank you again, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 13: Waiting on corner of the same under the mirror. I
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Speaker 12: Lets me pretend, lad, if you could see Wait, my
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Speaker 14: Boxed up in the comic thoughts.
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