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mold me. It could be so right to the It

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could be so right to that. It could be so

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right that.

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Speaker 1: It could be so.

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Speaker 1: Looking to your eyes, shall subra.

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Speaker 2: I just found a fall, the speed, the dream money,

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your rods do that.

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Speaker 1: I know we could die away.

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Speaker 2: Oh that day you may the same. It could be

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so back to the It could be so back to the.

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Speaker 1: It could be to it could be soon.

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Speaker 4: To the.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what you do me to me?

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Speaker 2: I'm so searching you see you bring me higher a

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mon bier, My is higher. I've gone awad on benea.

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Speaker 1: Open up your heart with me to.

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Speaker 2: I just want to lift you want and show you

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all the stars tonight.

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Speaker 1: When all this is gone away, I know that you

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would all save. It could be so that.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's nice. That is called tonight and that is

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moonlight ride. And we are going to speak with uh,

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speak with these fine folks in just a moment. If

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be here with you on this Saturday. I hope you

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are enjoying the program, and we've got let's see Jesse

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and Michelle from Moonlight Ride. Hello, welcome, Hey, how are

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you doing good? Good are you both?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 6: You're Jesse Johnson. Correct, are you Michelle Johnson? No, not yet,

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not yet? Interesting? Why is there? Are there a wedding

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bell or or are you hinting at something?

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Speaker 7: We just got engaged a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 6: Congratulations. Well that's wonderful, so we're breaking news here in

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the interview. Very well, congratulations on that. So Moonlight Ride,

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of course, is a project that you do together. So Michelle,

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you hear keyboard?

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Speaker 4: That's me?

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Speaker 6: Okay, okay, very good. And Jesse, what do you do?

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Speaker 4: Pretty much? Everything else?

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Speaker 6: Everything else?

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Speaker 4: I started out as a bass player, oh you did, okay,

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as you are, and over the years have started playing

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guitar and delved into singing myself. And yeah, I've been

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when she and I met, she had hinted around that

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she played music too, and I'm like, well, what a

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Speaker 6: The relationship started first? So yeah, okay, well.

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band called Full Throttle. We were playing, you know, the

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what a better thing to do during these times than

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that's cool and uh so and it's interesting too. So

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company finds you, right, and you know, you go through

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everything and the first big you know, because I'm old

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life in general. I don't I don't know if either

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information and encyclopedias, you know what I mean. It's like

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another world, like like like I grew up in an

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alternate universe, but now I'm here in this one. That's

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social media, like I see people my age and younger

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vinyl or flipping through the CDs and finding stuff. That's

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all cool, great memories. But now like I can, I

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getting a YouTube account, making videos and using that to

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right attitude about it, because, like I said, there's some

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a specific guest who's been on the show, and I

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because they're good people, but that my conversation with them,

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there was a lot of in their minds it was

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if you embrace that, like you said, there are so

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many more opportunities. There's no way we could reach the

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people that were reaching today in the past.

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Speaker 6: M Yeah, absolutely, on so the so these songs, these

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were all recorded at home.

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Speaker 4: They were they were there's songs that I had written

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Speaker 4: Actually, it's funny that you mentioned the four track demo

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because that's where they started years ago on a task

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him four track that I had recorded and I threw

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them on a shelf because I've been through all different

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bands and situations over the years that I just kind

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of recorded them and forgot about them. And then when

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Michelle and I put this project Moonlight Ride together, it

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kind of picked up where my last cover band I

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was telling you about, Full Throttle, left off, and we

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were playing music for ourselves and for our friends because

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there wasn't anything else to do with COVID. And then

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we started getting some local gigs playing around in Hudson

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and up and hooks it, and we were asked to

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play by our work, the hospital, to do their Christmas parties.

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move on. And we've played their graduations and whatnot and

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done some of the shows with the covers. Well, meanwhile,

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I found these songs that I had written and thrown

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on a shelf and Michelle and I were talking and

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we're like, well, why don't we record them? And so

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we bought the stuff to make a home studio and

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put this together kind of on a whim. And then

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Michelle said to me, well, maybe we should do something

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with these songs because they're pretty good, and I'm like,

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you think so? So we put the CD together and

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as she said, we learned how to navigate YouTube and

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we're making videos. We're currently working on our second video

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right now for the second song in the CD called

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down in a Hole, which is a little bit heavier

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than Tonight, and I sing that one. So if we

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go to music break, maybe we can play that song.

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Speaker 6: Why don't we play it now?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like this one a lot. If

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you are just joining us, we have Jesse and Michelle

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from Moonlight Ride here with us, live and studio, and yeah, we'll.

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Speaker 4: Play let's play that one next, Down in a Hole?

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Down in a Hole?

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Speaker 6: Is there a story behind this one? I guess They're all.

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Speaker 4: Just little experiences, life experiences that I've had. And yeah,

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kind of you know, as we weave our way through

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writing songs and making songs, just yeah, kind of life experiences.

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I guess yeah, we all go through different things.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely all right, hear it is down in a hole,

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this is moonlight ride.

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Speaker 4: There was a time.

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Speaker 8: It was a time let's sell on lagoon. I had

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no love, I had no one. Two would come out.

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Speaker 1: It was a boy.

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Speaker 8: I needed time and time be groove to love weed

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certain things too broon.

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Speaker 2: Down in a hole.

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Speaker 5: I'm feeling down. I'm sick and so low, feel out

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of control.

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Speaker 9: I'm feeling down a feeling and so low and insane.

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Speaker 5: I'm feeling love and love and bumping upside down.

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Speaker 1: Don't feel letting know put down past my time.

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Speaker 10: I'll looking down and stand every lid, going upside down,

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speaking rounding around like a man around.

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Speaker 8: Down in a hole.

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Speaker 5: I'm feeling down, up, sinking, so low, feel out of control.

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Speaker 9: I'm feeling down and feeling so low.

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Speaker 8: Please help me, please, I'm begging you down the body

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s up.

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Speaker 1: With my hands.

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Speaker 8: Spinning rounding around a mine my brain to kick it

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down again, back.

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Speaker 1: Into a hole.

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Speaker 5: Down in a hole, I'm feeling down of sink and

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so low, feel a lot of control. I'm feeling down

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and feeling it's so low, down in a hole, I'm

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feeling down of sinking so low, feel a lot of control.

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Speaker 9: I'm feeling down. I feeling it's so low, down in

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a hole.

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Speaker 6: That is down in a hole. That is Moonlight Ride.

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And we have a Jesse and Michelle from Moonlight Ride

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here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning.

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But so we're talking off air while as long as plained,

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and Jesse revealed something fascinating. Jesse Johnson the original bass

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player for Malia Ridge. Oh I did. I'm sorry your

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mic isn't I'm sorry. There we go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I had a mutual friend. His name is

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jim Corey, who's the lead one of the lead guitarists

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of maliar Age. Tony Nichols is kind of the main guy.

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Malia Rage was his project. He's also lead guitarist and

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the main songwriter. But I knew Jimmy from high school

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and over the years got a call from him saying, hey,

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we need a bass player. You want to try out

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for our band? And I went down and did it.

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And at the time I wasn't really into metal metal.

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I was in the Aerosmith Judas Priest Alice Koopa, which

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this is the late eighties, So yeah, I mean that

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was kind of metal for its time, but bands like

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Megadeth Metallica were up and coming and becoming popular in

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those days, and that's kind of where Malia Age was.

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And yeah, we got lucky enough to get signed to

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Epic Records. We did a few albums for Epic and

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some videos that were on the head Banger's Ball on MTV.

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They were they were in the rotation there for a while,

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and we had some success for for quite a while,

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and then grunge came in and really threw a monkey

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wrench in the music scene, which changed metal a lot

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and stuff. But yeah, Malia, they had some really good

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success with me and without me. After I left the band,

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they continued on for quite a while and had Silly

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Earner from god Smack. He played on a couple of

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CDs and played drums. He wasn't singing then, yeah, and yeah, yeah,

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and yeah, the band kept going and actually still is

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kind of active. I'm still friends with the guys and

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and see Jimmy from time to time, and yeah, have

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been in and out of the band, and wow.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's pretty cool. What was the biggest video that

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that you were in when you were in Malai.

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Speaker 4: Rage. Well, two videos were really popular on MTV for

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a while. The first album, which was called Kill to Survive,

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had a song called the Beginning of the End which

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was played quite a bit. And then our second studio album,

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Solitary Solitude, had a song called the Witching that that

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got a lot of airplay. That was a fun video

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doing that one.

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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, well I rage on tour with Gang Green

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February thirteenth. I pulled up a video and it's like

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this thing scrolling over the video for the Beginning of

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the End as a song. That's wild. Yeah, because I

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remember Malira, because I.

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Speaker 4: Used to watch a Big Ball of course, Yeah, of course,

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I mean that that was the play the place to

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catch all the new music at the time. You know,

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MTV was huge then, and yeah, yeah, and the Headbanger's

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Ball was a big thing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We toured with Gangreen, and we toured with Metal Church

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if you know who Medal Church is. Yeah, of course, yeah,

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of course, did a lot of small tours and small

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shows going through New York with bands like Testament and

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Suicidal Tendencies and yeah, stuff like that.

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Speaker 6: I see you in the video, but I can't although

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I can't actually tell it to you because your hair

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is in your face. Yeah my hair was a lot

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longer than Yeah, yeah, mine too, I can relate to that.

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But yeah, wow, that's that's really cool. That's really cool.

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So so you guys were Yeah, so you guys were

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doing pretty well and and then, like you said, grunge

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came in and it changed everything because this is more

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I mean, it's heavy, it's not hair metal, no, no,

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but but but really it wasn't just because when people

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talk about grunge coming in, you know, it didn't just

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kill hair metal. It affected anybody that wasn't that wasn't alternative.

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Speaker 4: Right and absolutely yeah, absolutely yeah.

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Speaker 6: So it affected you guys, but probably not as much,

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right like the like because the hair metal bands all

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of a sudden, we're not.

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Speaker 4: Cool, yeah, warrant poised in all the you.

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Speaker 6: Know, rat whereas bands like Malayah Rage, I would argue,

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we're still cool, but suddenly not as cool, just not

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as prominent.

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Speaker 4: I would say, definitely cool.

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Speaker 6: We were always cool, yeah, but you know what I mean,

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But just in terms of in terms of public perception,

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in terms of what people were listening to, what the

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kids were listening to Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know, you know, as we know over the years,

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music has changed that. I mean, yeah, you had the

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thirties and the forties that were the swing generation, and

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then the fifties rock and roll. Now you hit the

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eighties and you kind of get this pop rock. Yeah,

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and today, as we were talking, you know how music

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has changed. Now we're kind of all over the place

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because of the way music is marketed these days, you know. Yeah,

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and going back to our conversation earlier, you and I

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when we were off air, that kind of reflects why

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our CD, Michelle and Mine Moonlight Ride is it's also

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all over the place. The first song you played tonight

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was kind of a pop ballad. Down in a Hole

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is a little bit heavier. We have some songs on

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their Live for Today that's a little bit heavier, and

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then we have baby Come with Me that's kind of

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Beatles Beach Beach Boys influenced with the handclapping and the

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bop duop type stuff. So yeah, yeah, you know, music

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over the years has changed, and again that is kind

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of reflected in what we're doing here. We're kind of

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hard to nail down as far as when people ask us, well,

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what's your CD about. You know, it's all over the place,

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and I hope that's a good thing.

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Speaker 6: Like I think. So, you know, some people like.

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Speaker 4: One genre of music and one genre only, and I.

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Speaker 6: Don't trust those people. I don't people only like one thing.

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It's like there's something wrong with them. Well you know

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what I mean, Like there's something defective in a person

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who only likes one thing. Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you totally, and that's kind of I

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We're all over the place. When I was talking to

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Michelle while we were creating this CD, you know, I

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was like, oh, how is this going to do because

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it's so diverse, And she thought, if I'm not mistaken,

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that it was a good thing.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely yeah. I think most of us

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enjoy multiple genres.

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Speaker 6: Oh absolutely yeah. Of course. Of course, I'm curious about

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your musical background, Michelle, did you I mean, I assume

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you weren't a bass player in a famous band prior

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to prior.

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Speaker 3: To this, But yeah, I would say my story is

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completely different. I think I'm a more typical kid who

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maybe was in high school band I played the French horn. Yeah,

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I went to college for something completely unrelated, But I

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was in the choral society. Yeah, then you know, started family,

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And then my neighbor talked to me about.

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Speaker 7: Barbershop. I was in a barbershop group for a.

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Speaker 6: While, you were, I was. That's interesting because I've always

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my perception has always been that that's probably very challenging

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to do, I would think, because it's one this is

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just my perception. I've never done anything like that, but

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I I would imagine, well, like myself, like, I'm not

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a good singer, except I'm not a bad harmony singer.

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I can kind of find the octavan lock in, but

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I can't sing on my own. I get lost. But

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what if you're doing if you're doing that, if you're

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doing barbershop, like, you've not only got to be able

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to pull off harmonies, you've got to be able to

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do it flawlessly. That's my perception. It's like being an

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air traffic controller. You have to be perfect. You can't

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make any mistakes. Am I right about that?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: I think you have to be somewhat precise because you're

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singing along with someone, and if you're not right on,

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there's that weird.

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00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, like you can't be off at all with that

476
00:30:05,319 --> 00:30:07,319
is my perception.

477
00:30:07,799 --> 00:30:08,799
Speaker 7: I think I agree with that.

478
00:30:09,119 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, there's no room for error. So I mean

479
00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:14,559
that is that challenging to do? Or maybe it can.

480
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 3: I think you're in a high school band and I'm

481
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,279
in the French horn section and we don't all play

482
00:30:20,359 --> 00:30:23,880
the same notes. Yeah, so you're already hearing some harmonies there.

483
00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:26,359
Speaker 6: So your brain's already trained right to do that. Okay,

484
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,720
that makes sense. That makes sense.

485
00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 3: And then for singing, it's a nice challenge because when

486
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,960
you get it very rewarding.

487
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, how long did you

488
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:35,000
do that?

489
00:30:35,119 --> 00:30:36,799
Speaker 7: For just a couple of years.

490
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 3: But after that, whenever I hear a song on the radio,

491
00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:42,680
I try to find the harmony and so on with

492
00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:44,680
the harmony, and I find that very enjoyable.

493
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:50,039
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh that's cool. That's cool. Now, So the Jesse

494
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,319
the songs are all. Did you write all these that

495
00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:55,240
you've recorded so far? Yeah?

496
00:30:55,319 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I said, I kind of wrote them years

497
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,839
ago and threw them on a shelf and forgot about him,

498
00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:02,799
and then pulled them out and started listening to them.

499
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,759
And of course we revamped them because when I wrote them,

500
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,160
I didn't know someone who sang as well as Michelle. Yeah,

501
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,559
and I leave a lot of the harmony work and

502
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,400
all that to her. I just kind of put down

503
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,000
my pots and I say, here you go, and she

504
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,000
goes into the room like a mad scientist and starts

505
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,079
playing on a piano and finding all these different harmonies

506
00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:26,640
and notes. And when you listen to the CD, you'll

507
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,640
realize that a lot of the harmonies and backing vocals

508
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,000
are all her.

509
00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, oh, very cool, very cool.

510
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 4: And of course when I wrote the songs, they didn't

511
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,079
have piano either, so yeah, it's great having her to

512
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,200
collaborate with and put her touches on these songs. So

513
00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:46,440
they're kind of getting revamped as well.

514
00:31:46,759 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, oh excellent. Yeah. We were also talking off

515
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,079
her a little bit about when you play out. So

516
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,519
right now it's just the two of you when you

517
00:31:53,599 --> 00:31:58,319
play out, but you've thought about adding additional musicians, right,

518
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,440
But then that becomes is it worth it to do that?

519
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 4: Well, you've been in band yourself, Matt, and you know,

520
00:32:05,599 --> 00:32:09,680
the more people that are involved, sometimes it gets complicated.

521
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,079
Speaker 6: Yes.

522
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 3: So we were really impressed listening to your guests just

523
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,720
before us and how they managed with just the two

524
00:32:16,759 --> 00:32:19,799
of them to get out there and have a full

525
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,119
sounding band and experience.

526
00:32:23,559 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 6: I think in their case though, if I understood correctly,

527
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,799
with Andre and Sasha, it sounds like they have other

528
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,759
band members live, but just but they can do because

529
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:36,000
I think I can't wait to have them in studio

530
00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:37,839
and sit down with them because I want to know

531
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,839
everything about I mean that you know, they're originally from

532
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,640
Russia and everything. I just want to know everything about them.

533
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,960
But it sounded like because I thought Andre said something

534
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,359
about having a live drummer who plays on pads, but

535
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:55,599
but but he aments it. Yeah, correct, Yeah, I want

536
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,079
to see what their live setup is like, that's really

537
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:58,880
interesting to me.

538
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:00,599
Speaker 4: They out did great.

539
00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 6: But in a sense though, but it's not actually drastically

540
00:33:03,519 --> 00:33:05,559
different from what you're doing, right because you've got when

541
00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:08,480
you live, do you have the do you have those

542
00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:12,319
electronic drums playing machine? Use a drum machine live? Yeah,

543
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,559
so actually it is kind of the same same idea. Yeah, yeah,

544
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,000
but yeah, when you when you start adding people, yeah,

545
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,839
it doesn't get complicated. Then you got to work around

546
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,960
everyone's schedules and you know, like right now, if you

547
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,160
get an offer for a show, you know, it's just

548
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,119
you just decide to get together. But then you know,

549
00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:33,160
you have a whole band that you got to check

550
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,599
with everybody. And that's one of the things I don't

551
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,519
miss about playing in bands. It's like you get to

552
00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:40,720
check with everybody and then somebody says, oh, yeah, I

553
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,720
can do it, and then they tell you, oh no,

554
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,079
actually I was wrong, I can't do that show right. Yeah,

555
00:33:47,039 --> 00:33:47,759
that sucks.

556
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 4: So with that, we're we're trying to figure out too,

557
00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:56,640
where like do we just pursue the original music or

558
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,039
do we do our cover shows and mix it with

559
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,960
the original must I don't know. We're pretty open minded,

560
00:34:03,119 --> 00:34:06,359
so yeah, whenever comes along comes along.

561
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 6: I guess do you know a lot of covers together.

562
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:09,679
Speaker 1: That you've played?

563
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, we have quite a few.

564
00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:15,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, we probably have about fifty songs ranging from the

565
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,639
early sixties to modern time. And of course, just being

566
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,519
the two of us, we have to be very selective.

567
00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:24,719
What is going to work for two people, you know, piano,

568
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,599
guitar and just two vocals, and using the tracks that

569
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,159
we use to play along with us so that we

570
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,920
can sound full, you know.

571
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:38,519
Speaker 6: Yeah, is it important to you with the studio tracks?

572
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,119
Is it important to you to replicate them as close

573
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:45,519
as possible live or do you kind of approach it

574
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:48,280
more like, well, it's live, it might sound a little

575
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,400
a little more stripped down, but that's okay. Or yeah,

576
00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:53,920
I think live we are a.

577
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,559
Speaker 4: Little more stripped down because we're not layering all kinds

578
00:34:57,599 --> 00:35:01,559
of stuff. We want to sound as authentic as we can.

579
00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, guess that's probably better, right, because you know, because

580
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:11,440
a lot of bands, bands or duos or even solo artists.

581
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,800
But I think it's it's I think it's more of

582
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,000
a band thing than anything. They're very and don't get

583
00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:17,679
me wrong, I respect this, but a lot of bands

584
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,079
are very committed to this idea. Maybe Malaia Rage was

585
00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:22,079
like this. I don't know that. You know, whatever we

586
00:35:22,159 --> 00:35:23,719
do on the record, we have to be able to

587
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:29,320
replicate that live. And just a random example, Queen's Reich.

588
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,159
I remember the first time I ever saw Queen's Reich

589
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,199
live and I went with a friend and his great

590
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:33,840
show and everything.

591
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:34,159
Speaker 3: It was.

592
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 6: It's kind of at the height, actually at their peak.

593
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,679
So on the Operation Mind Crime tour, I think, uh

594
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,000
oh no, it was on the Empire's tour. Maybe I'm

595
00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:48,440
not sure. It's all a blur, but the point is

596
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,840
I remember saying to my friend, Wow, they sound great,

597
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,400
great show and everything, but they're they're very precise, like

598
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,559
they're playing everything exactly the way it is on the record.

599
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:04,760
And I understand why some bands do that, but I

600
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,679
also think it's kind of cool if maybe not everything

601
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,440
is exactly the way it is on the record, if

602
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,280
maybe live it is a little more, especially when it's

603
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,960
a band where maybe they've they've recorded something that's really

604
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:22,159
sophisticated and complex, and then they go out and play

605
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,679
and you know, maybe they're a band that doesn't usually

606
00:36:25,679 --> 00:36:27,760
have any synthesizer, but they have this one song that

607
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,840
has synth, so then they have to decide, well, when

608
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,599
we play this live, what do we do? And if

609
00:36:31,599 --> 00:36:33,639
they decide to just ditch the synth and turn up

610
00:36:33,639 --> 00:36:37,760
the guitars, personally, I'm all for that. Great. Yeah, it's

611
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,000
gonna sound louder and heavier and more raw live than

612
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,760
it does on the record. Cool. I want to hear

613
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,639
how it sounds live. I'm excited to hear how it

614
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,679
sounds live. I don't need it to sound like it

615
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,159
does on the record, you know what I mean. But

616
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,519
I also know but some people are like, no, no,

617
00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:51,440
we have to be able to replicate what's on the record,

618
00:36:51,519 --> 00:36:52,360
or we can't do it live.

619
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think both ways are good. I

620
00:36:57,159 --> 00:36:59,760
think it's great when a band can go out there

621
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:03,280
like Queenswick for example. We just saw Jeff Tait not

622
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:03,920
too long ago.

623
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,119
Speaker 6: Oh ok at the Tupelo Yeah yeah, yeah, he was great.

624
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's it's nice when they can get out

625
00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:12,079
there and they just kick it. They do it like

626
00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:15,519
on the album. But I also like it when bands

627
00:37:15,639 --> 00:37:18,000
changed things up. And it's kind of the approach that

628
00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:21,679
we take where I'm sure you remember the MTV unplug

629
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,960
shows that a billion bands did.

630
00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:25,119
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's.

631
00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:28,039
Speaker 4: Kind of how Michelle and I approach our live shows.

632
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:31,000
It's more of a stripped down acoustic you know, we

633
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:34,480
try to really make the vocals stand out. Of course,

634
00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:38,960
her harmonizing and her harmonies are great, which really makes

635
00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:41,639
this a lot easier. But we kind of take our

636
00:37:41,679 --> 00:37:43,800
show and it's a little more of a stripped down

637
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:44,880
show live.

638
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh that's cool, that's cool. Are all the are

639
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,679
all the songs that you've recorded? Do you do you

640
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,519
do all those live? Or does it depend on how

641
00:37:53,599 --> 00:37:56,440
much time you have in the set or we've actually.

642
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 4: Taken a small hiatus from gigging live so we could

643
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,960
work on this. Yeah, so we don't have any live shows,

644
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,159
and most of the stuff we've done in the past

645
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,320
has all been the cover work that we were telling

646
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,239
you about. And yeah, since we started recording this and

647
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,400
working on videos, it's so much work met oh yeah

648
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,119
to get the videos and every hours and hours that

649
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,960
we kind of took a little break from playing live

650
00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:21,119
so we could get this out. Yeah, get it up

651
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:23,760
onto YouTube, get it on streaming. We're trying to work

652
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,199
on getting Spotify going. I mean, you know, this is

653
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,719
all new to us, so yeah, we're learning it as

654
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,519
we go. It's exciting though, too, right, that part of it.

655
00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:34,920
Some people get intimidated by that part of it, all

656
00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:37,599
the learning. But I get the impression this is just

657
00:38:37,679 --> 00:38:38,000
the vibe.

658
00:38:38,039 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 6: I'm getting that that you're both kind of excited about

659
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,119
learning and really embracing that part. Instead of just saying, oh,

660
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,440
this is too much, is overwhelming. It sounds like you're saying, well, yeah,

661
00:38:48,519 --> 00:38:51,119
it's a lot, but we're here for it. We want

662
00:38:51,159 --> 00:38:51,480
to do this.

663
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:52,599
Speaker 7: Yeah learn.

664
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:58,199
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's good because some people. The thing

665
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,320
is that I tell because a lot of it industry.

666
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,199
People listen to the show, and what I say all

667
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:08,079
the time is all of these tools they're designed, like Spotify,

668
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:10,400
for example, they're designed for you to be able to learn.

669
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,840
So because some people you know, especially you know people

670
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,719
who you know like my age or even people younger

671
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,920
than me, will get or like the people I referred

672
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,360
to earlier, who kind of were existing like twenty years ago,

673
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,360
but trying to apply twenty years ago to today, they

674
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,719
get discouraged because they think, oh, this is too complicated,

675
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,119
I can't learn it. And the only reason they can't

676
00:39:33,159 --> 00:39:35,400
learn it is because they've told themselves they can't learn it.

677
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,119
And if they just tried to learn it, they could

678
00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:40,280
because these things are designed for you to be able

679
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,639
to learn. Spotify is designed for you to be able

680
00:39:42,679 --> 00:39:45,000
to learn how to use Spotify to promote your music.

681
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,159
That's literally what it's there for. And and but but

682
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,360
people kind of psych themselves out, you know. It's like

683
00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:53,800
it's kind of it's technophobia, but it's a it's a

684
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,920
different kind. It's like, you know, I geez, I mean,

685
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,119
I remember when I was when I was in high school.

686
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,480
This this is when I first observed this. I had

687
00:40:01,519 --> 00:40:03,440
a retail job, and I had to. I was good

688
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,719
at training people, so that even though I was I

689
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,199
was in high school, I was just a kid. But

690
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,400
they let me train other people on the cash register.

691
00:40:10,079 --> 00:40:13,800
And sometimes someone who had never worked a cash register before,

692
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,760
and you know, usually an older person, they'd be very intimidated,

693
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:21,519
just terrified of running a cash register, you know, which

694
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,840
seems like the easiest thing in the world. But the

695
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,079
only reason it was frightening to them was because they

696
00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:29,639
told themselves it was hard. They had already determined in

697
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:31,599
their brain this is hard, I can't do it, and

698
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,440
it's like, just do it and oh and then it's like, oh,

699
00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:36,440
this is actually pretty easy. Well y, I no kidding.

700
00:40:37,199 --> 00:40:39,480
It's designed to be easy. It's designed for anyone to

701
00:40:39,559 --> 00:40:42,360
be able to do this. So anyway, I say all

702
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,199
that to say, I think you have the right approach,

703
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,480
on the right idea, and I wish more people had

704
00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:48,719
that idea, you know. I mean, it's one thing for

705
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,480
you know, a twenty year old kid who grew up

706
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,239
with the internet. It all seems easy to them, not

707
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,159
because they're smarter, but because they grew up with it.

708
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,519
So to them it's easy. But to people like us

709
00:40:59,519 --> 00:41:01,199
who didn't up with it. Like I said, you know,

710
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,639
you can really trap yourself into thinking it's hard. It's

711
00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:05,159
not hard.

712
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,039
Speaker 3: There's a lot of resources out there to learn. Yeah,

713
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,119
you can look up a lot of things that help

714
00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:11,079
you step by step.

715
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 6: Absolutely.

716
00:41:12,039 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 4: Yeah.

717
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 6: I mean that's what you YouTube. You can learn anything

718
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,920
you have to do. There's a million different YouTube tutorials

719
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,800
on a million different things you can you can learn

720
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:20,199
any of this.

721
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:20,599
Speaker 10: Yeah.

722
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:23,079
Speaker 6: And then once you've learned it, then you have control.

723
00:41:23,519 --> 00:41:26,480
You have control over your music, yes, and how it's

724
00:41:26,559 --> 00:41:29,280
marketed and what you do with it now it's distributed,

725
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:29,920
all of it.

726
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 4: Yeah. And this goes back to earlier in our conversation

727
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,719
where we were saying, you know, the music industry has changed,

728
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:40,639
and if you can embrace the change and learn from

729
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:44,559
it and do this Because we started with you know, okay,

730
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:46,559
we have to build a home studio. We have to

731
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:48,760
learn how to do this, and we've done it, and

732
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,800
then we started learning like we have to create a

733
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,159
video and put it up on YouTube so people can

734
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,679
see this stuff. And we started with Facebook actually yeah,

735
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,679
and we have a Facebook page moon Light Ride for

736
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,440
you guys that are listening, and we have a YouTube

737
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,679
page Moonlight Ride, yep. And you know, we had to

738
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,639
learn all of these skills, and we've done it and

739
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,960
it's been very time consuming, which is why we said

740
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,679
to you a few minutes ago, Matt, that we kind

741
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,559
of took a little break from playing live so we

742
00:42:17,639 --> 00:42:21,760
could get this music out there in many different ways,

743
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,480
in many different places. And then once we get it

744
00:42:25,559 --> 00:42:28,519
all out there and people start learning who we are,

745
00:42:29,159 --> 00:42:31,239
then we figured, well, okay, we'll go back out and

746
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,960
start doing some live shows and promoting our original music,

747
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,280
because we started out as a cover band really, the

748
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,519
two of us, you know, yeah, we did. Yeah.

749
00:42:40,039 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 6: How long were you playing out before you decided to

750
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,760
dig into the original material? Oh?

751
00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 4: Three years? Four years?

752
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 6: Wow, that's what I was thinking a while.

753
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean we weren't doing a lot

754
00:42:51,559 --> 00:42:54,079
of shows because we work full time jobs and yeah,

755
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,159
we have lives, and so we were playing you know,

756
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,519
here and there once a month or whatever, just doing gigs,

757
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,519
and then, like I said, I kind of accidentally came

758
00:43:02,559 --> 00:43:05,920
across these songs that were on cassette on a shelf

759
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,039
and we started talking and working on this and saying, hey,

760
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,920
let's do this, you know, let's let's see what happens.

761
00:43:13,199 --> 00:43:14,039
Speaker 7: It's very exciting.

762
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, that is very very cool. Well, let's let's

763
00:43:17,519 --> 00:43:19,960
get the time goes quickly. But let's play another track.

764
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:22,639
I'll let you, I'll let you all pick.

765
00:43:23,519 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 4: Oh, you pick one, Michelle about one that we both

766
00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:26,880
sing on.

767
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,199
Speaker 6: Oh, that'd be cool.

768
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 4: You want to go with is it baby come with Me?

769
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,559
Is that the one that has it's it's kind of

770
00:43:33,599 --> 00:43:34,400
a poppy song.

771
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 7: I mean, don't hold back?

772
00:43:39,559 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 4: I think is okay?

773
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,679
Speaker 7: Don't hold bah?

774
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yes, I've forgotten the names of my own stars.

775
00:43:47,119 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 6: It happens. You write a lot of songs. That happens. Yeah,

776
00:43:50,679 --> 00:43:52,000
all right, so we're gonna you want to go with

777
00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:52,920
that one? Don't hold back?

778
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 2: Sure? Please?

779
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,519
Speaker 6: And uh I got that loaded up. Okay, if you're

780
00:43:57,559 --> 00:43:59,440
just joining us, we've got Moonlight Ride here with us

781
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,360
in studio, and let's give this a spin. This is

782
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:03,480
called Don't hold Back.

783
00:44:10,679 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm. When I think about you, I didn't I

784
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,039
live without you.

785
00:44:40,159 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 11: These days are series and the day I found you

786
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,280
to see my life surround you.

787
00:44:54,440 --> 00:45:10,079
Speaker 1: A new be by. If you're in sweet button of my.

788
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 2: Longing body, I'm don't you ever go away? I want

789
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,159
you for my own own the water be on long home.

790
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 8: Don't you tell me what you.

791
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:44,159
Speaker 11: Want?

792
00:45:44,199 --> 00:45:46,159
Speaker 1: You say on my other.

793
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: Until the end of time, send my si sadly.

794
00:45:58,199 --> 00:45:59,559
Speaker 1: Did you give my hug?

795
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 4: Or you.

796
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:15,079
Speaker 12: Feeling when you spied? My arms are reaching for you?

797
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,880
Will you be my guiding glad?

798
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:32,519
Speaker 3: But you want you up by want you up, but.

799
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: You want to upd but you want du up that

800
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:47,639
you want doup but want du up but you want

801
00:46:47,800 --> 00:47:00,599
to up do but you want you up bast Now

802
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,320
the time has stopped up.

803
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 2: You said to be the on My love is goway.

804
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:19,840
I'm trying to restraint, IM trying to ref.

805
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:23,199
Speaker 1: Holding him back.

806
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 9: Un be.

807
00:47:29,159 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 2: I can't resist though the cloudy way stunning yet stronger

808
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,559
I could, feeling off my bed.

809
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:12,519
Speaker 4: Very nice. Oh oh, there's a little trou cool.

810
00:48:12,599 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 6: I came in a little little quick there as a

811
00:48:14,559 --> 00:48:18,320
radio guy. That's a no no, well not necessarily because

812
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,199
there was no vocal there at the end, So I guess,

813
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,159
I guess I'm all right. Very nice, so very nice.

814
00:48:24,199 --> 00:48:26,239
That's called don't hold back if you are just joining us.

815
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,920
We have Jesse and Michelle from Moonlight Ride here with

816
00:48:29,079 --> 00:48:33,599
us in studio, and yeah, we were kind of talking. Uh,

817
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,960
we were talking off their about the music video which

818
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:37,800
I'm gonna check out later for what was the song

819
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,559
again Tonight Tonight and all the work that that is.

820
00:48:41,639 --> 00:48:44,159
And you know, that's another interesting thing that's kind of changed,

821
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,159
but not in the way that some people think. Because

822
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,559
with music videos, a lot of people people who uh

823
00:48:50,119 --> 00:48:54,400
don't know, they they assume that music videos are dead because,

824
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,400
you know, because MTV doesn't really play them anymore and whatnot,

825
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,880
and VH one probably doesn't either. But but in reality,

826
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,519
there's more music videos than ever on YouTube. You know,

827
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,280
everybody does a music video now, and some major label

828
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,880
artists who have, of course, you know, gazillions of dollars

829
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,440
will you know, they've got an album and they'll make

830
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,000
a video for every album. You know, Metallica has done that,

831
00:49:13,159 --> 00:49:15,920
Beyonce has done that. So really, I would argue music

832
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,920
videos are more more important than ever.

833
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 3: I think we get a better response on Facebook when

834
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,800
we first start, when we put our first video out.

835
00:49:25,079 --> 00:49:28,599
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I believe it, no doubt, Yeah yeah yeah.

836
00:49:28,679 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 4: And we have put our entire album on YouTube as songs,

837
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,000
you know, just yeah, it's got the album cover on it.

838
00:49:37,159 --> 00:49:40,400
And but we made when we made the video for

839
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,320
the song Tonight, I think it's much more interesting for

840
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,039
people to watch, so I think hopefully we'll catch people's attentions.

841
00:49:47,039 --> 00:49:49,159
So if you guys are listening to us, type in

842
00:49:49,679 --> 00:49:53,119
tonight Moonlight Ride and you can see our video.

843
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:58,079
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, excellent. And you said, did you start working

844
00:49:58,119 --> 00:49:59,880
on the next one or you're planning to or we did.

845
00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 7: We started working on Down in a Hole, Okay, do.

846
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 6: You have any kind of an eta on that?

847
00:50:04,599 --> 00:50:07,639
Speaker 4: Or we're hoping within the next couple of weeks that

848
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:08,920
will be finished and out.

849
00:50:09,079 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, very good.

850
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,280
Speaker 4: It spends on how much time Michelle wants to put it.

851
00:50:13,079 --> 00:50:16,599
She also is doing a lot of the videography for us.

852
00:50:16,679 --> 00:50:19,639
It's she she does a lot in this project that

853
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:24,000
kind of doesn't get a showed as much or talked about.

854
00:50:24,119 --> 00:50:26,639
But like I said, she she does all the harmonies

855
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,199
and all the piano work, and she's done a lot

856
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,800
of the research getting us on YouTube and putting the

857
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,360
video together and making the video. So I commend her

858
00:50:35,679 --> 00:50:39,360
tremendously and really appreciate all of her work and hard

859
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,599
work that she does to get help me get this

860
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:42,159
music out.

861
00:50:42,199 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 7: Well, we're trying to get up with the times.

862
00:50:44,079 --> 00:50:47,639
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, yeah, excellent, excellent. No, I think you're

863
00:50:47,679 --> 00:50:50,480
on the I think you're on the right path. We

864
00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:54,000
should we gotta, we gotta wrap up in a in

865
00:50:54,079 --> 00:50:57,119
a moment. What should we What should we close out with? Uh?

866
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,679
What we'll close out our conversation.

867
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,199
Speaker 2: With h what?

868
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 6: We played a couple pop songs? What's the heavier one?

869
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,199
Speaker 4: Let me hold on? Let me put grab the CD

870
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,039
so I can see the title tracks. Like I said,

871
00:51:09,039 --> 00:51:10,960
I kind of forget the names of our own songs.

872
00:51:11,639 --> 00:51:12,960
We're doing so much right now.

873
00:51:13,119 --> 00:51:15,119
Speaker 6: Oh who did the cover art? By the way on

874
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,599
the CD. That's a combination of the two of us.

875
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,519
Oh cool, Okay, what do you think shell to me?

876
00:51:20,639 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 4: Maybe?

877
00:51:21,079 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a great song.

878
00:51:22,039 --> 00:51:24,519
Speaker 4: Okay, this one's a little bit heavier. This is probably,

879
00:51:25,519 --> 00:51:27,760
you know, a little bit more rocking.

880
00:51:28,039 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 6: Okay, So we'll play that in a moment. I just

881
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,800
wanted to have it ready. But before we do that,

882
00:51:32,119 --> 00:51:34,960
So where should people go online to keep up with

883
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,159
with everything that you're doing, with everything Moonlight Ride is

884
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:39,760
doing well?

885
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 3: We definitely have our Facebook page. That's where we started out,

886
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,800
so it's Moonlight Ride, and then where we started our

887
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:51,920
YouTube channel, a few weeks ago. It's Moonlight Ride twenty

888
00:51:52,039 --> 00:51:55,920
twenty five. We have the album up there, like Jesse said,

889
00:51:56,159 --> 00:51:58,960
we have the video up there. We hope to put

890
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,440
our new video on there in a few weeks. So

891
00:52:02,639 --> 00:52:04,639
that's Those are all great places to find us.

892
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 6: Excellent, excellent.

893
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 3: We're definitely looking into expanding. We're going to be researching

894
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,559
Spotify and how to do that, so look for us

895
00:52:14,639 --> 00:52:15,079
there soon.

896
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:15,599
Speaker 6: Yeah.

897
00:52:15,679 --> 00:52:18,079
Speaker 4: You hit us up on Facebook though, and let us know.

898
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,519
If you like what we're doing and you want a CD,

899
00:52:21,199 --> 00:52:25,159
contact us because we've been getting our CDs a physical

900
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,079
copy for people if they like one. That way, it's

901
00:52:28,119 --> 00:52:30,320
an easy way to contact us, So hit us up

902
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:31,639
on you on Facebook.

903
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,079
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's cool too that you're doing physical CDs. Actually,

904
00:52:35,079 --> 00:52:36,480
I think we had talked about that off air too.

905
00:52:36,519 --> 00:52:38,159
You love CDs. You've got a huge collection.

906
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,199
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh yeah. I'm the type of guy who

907
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,320
I like, I like the artwork, I like, you know,

908
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,360
the old days of the albums. We open them up

909
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,719
and you get these double albums with pictures and the

910
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,039
credits of who played on it and all that stuff.

911
00:52:51,079 --> 00:52:52,840
So we tried to do that with our CD as well.

912
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,119
And yeah, we have a copy for you and Jen too.

913
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you, thank you. Yeah. I've noticed over the

914
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:00,960
past five or six years, see have really come back

915
00:53:01,039 --> 00:53:03,559
as far as you know, artists releasing CDs. I was

916
00:53:03,599 --> 00:53:06,480
surprised when I was talking to in the first hour

917
00:53:06,599 --> 00:53:10,079
Killing Flaw and I mentioned that, you know, they're from Australia,

918
00:53:10,119 --> 00:53:12,840
and I guess in Australia nobody cares about CDs anymore.

919
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,360
But that's one of the things that's interesting too over

920
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,599
the years, to see how technology changes and what technologies

921
00:53:18,679 --> 00:53:22,480
go away, what technologies hang around, what technologies kind of

922
00:53:22,519 --> 00:53:23,840
go away but kind of come back.

923
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:24,039
Speaker 3: You know.

924
00:53:24,679 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems like vinyl has a huge resurgence.

925
00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and it never really went away. But I

926
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,039
think I want to say it was either twenty twenty

927
00:53:33,079 --> 00:53:35,519
two or twenty twenty three was the first year on

928
00:53:35,679 --> 00:53:39,559
record since CDs came out that vinyl actually outsold CDs.

929
00:53:40,039 --> 00:53:42,920
Oh is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Vinyl is here.

930
00:53:43,079 --> 00:53:45,719
But my theory though, is that most I don't know

931
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,000
if it's most people, but who knows, But I think

932
00:53:48,039 --> 00:53:50,440
there's probably a large percentage of people who buy vinyl

933
00:53:50,559 --> 00:53:53,239
who never actually open it, just buy it because if

934
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,039
you're really into an artist and you just you know,

935
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,400
I mean, we actually have a record player here in

936
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,239
the studio because one of the one of the other hosts,

937
00:53:59,639 --> 00:54:01,320
one of the their host brought it in. And we

938
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,199
do have a CD player that I've never used, but

939
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,360
Rob as a Vito, who host granted State of Mind here,

940
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,239
he uses it. But but yeah, vinyl is uh like,

941
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:10,760
if you're really into an artist and you just want

942
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:12,360
to support him, it's cool to have and you know,

943
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,400
you can mount the cover on your wall or something

944
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,119
or do whatever with it, you know. But but no,

945
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,440
but thank you for bringing us a CD. That's very nice.

946
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:23,039
Thank you for having us. Absolutely absolutely we will do

947
00:54:23,119 --> 00:54:24,960
it again in the future as you're releasing new music

948
00:54:25,039 --> 00:54:27,480
and we'll definitely do that. And uh so we're going

949
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to play that track in a moment shelter me and

950
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thank you everyone who joined us today. Of course, we

951
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had a very busy show killing Flaw from Australia, and

952
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then we had Ryan Redwood from the UK his great

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track Tomorrow, such a great single. We had Major Moment

954
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from Boston and really looking forward to having them on

955
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for a full conversation, and of course we finish off

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today with the Moonlight Ride, and thank you both so much.

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If you miss any part of today's show it we'll

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be up in just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot

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organ in my website Mattconnerton dot com. And Jenny's not

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here this week, but she'll be back soon, but visit

961
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her website Jencoffee dot com. She is always up to

962
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a lot of great, very positive stuff. Very proud of her.

963
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And she was actually just on a It's on her website.

964
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I'm also gonna put it on YouTube. But she was

965
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on Bob Henley's radio show again in New York City.

966
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She didn't go there for it, she called in, but

967
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she was on that show for a segment talking about

968
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healthcare and the health insurance industry that just went up.

969
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That was yesterday. I think was the interview or was

970
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it the day before, but it just went up yesterday. Anyway,

971
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it's online, it's available, it's on her website, and so

972
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check that out. And we will leave you with this.

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This is shelter me, This is Moonlight Ride.

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Speaker 1: You to me tis a child? Think holm in this spill?

975
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Your spill is good?

976
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,119
Speaker 9: How tired about half Diner?

977
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Speaker 1: Loose? How found Dad? Go right the blue, Help it be?

978
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Shall it be.

979
00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 6: With me?

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00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:14,079
Speaker 13: If it's please release, if it's so weak, nocturnal care,

981
00:57:15,039 --> 00:57:18,360
You'll never think, Just be willing.

982
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 8: A page, just lost a fight, the dust proroted run.

983
00:57:46,519 --> 00:57:55,679
You'ly can still your seva choice without a sound?

984
00:57:56,079 --> 00:57:57,639
Speaker 10: My heads a time?

985
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,559
Speaker 9: How could boot comes?

986
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: Living high child and route you feel my head comfort

987
00:58:20,119 --> 00:58:28,079
be sheltered, be the help of bee, give me, please,

988
00:58:29,159 --> 00:58:32,119
please your leads. I feel so weird.

989
00:58:36,679 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 10: Nocturnal cad You're never there, Just be waiting. I rageous lust.

990
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,519
I back the dust prooted rod?

991
00:59:09,079 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 4: What did I do?

992
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:12,239
Speaker 8: What did you know?

993
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:17,599
Speaker 3: Did this?

994
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 5: Can't I need to know?

995
00:59:24,559 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 9: I just can't speak of it today. I can't see

996
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the fire with the single