Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and today
is Saturday, Saturday, December twentieth, twenty twenty five. We are
live from the studios of w n H ninety five
point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course,
he can stream the show anywhere from Matt connorton dot
com slash Live. So a little bit of an unusual opening.
We usually open with some music and then get into
the show, and today will be, for the most part
normal edition of the program. We do have some some
great guests lined up and one of them we're going
to be speaking to him just a couple of minutes. Actually,
he's already in Microsoft Teams, so I told him I
had to do something a little different to open the
show this morning, and he's very understanding. But the reason
I'm doing this opening this way is I just wanted
to say quickly, you know, thank you to everybody the
outpouring of love and support regarding If you don't know,
then a lot of you listening will know because you
if you follow me on social media, you're aware. But
for those of you listening who do not know or
who haven't seen it yet, my father passed away Martin Connorton.
He passed away on Thursday of this week. And you
know here we are because I did hear from people
asking me if I was still going to be on
Live this Saturday. But you know, I the only way
I know how to process grief is to stay busy
and keep going and try to keep as normal as
schedule as I can. But so that's that's how I
deal with it. But you know, this is I've always
been able to say I was very fortunate to still
have both my parents, and I can't say that anymore.
So it's it's hard, It's it's been a tough week.
Dad fought bravely for a couple of months. He was
at Mass General and I do take some solace again
and knowing that he was at one of the best
hospitals in the country, with one of the best cardiac wings,
one of the best cardiac units in the country, So
you know, if if they couldn't save him, no one could.
He had the best possible shot that he could have
anywhere at Mass General, but it was not to be.
But part of why I wanted to just mention it
on the show too, is because so many of you
who have been listeners of the show for a long time,
If if you came to the program recently, not so much.
But for those of you who have been with me
for a long time, you might have become familiar with
my dad. When the show used to be we had
a little bit of a different format, and we were
on weekday afternoons for years, many years, what was it,
six years, seven years? Maybe Dad was a frequent caller.
He would he would often call the show, and so
a lot of our listeners of the program got introduced
to him that way. I think he even called the
morning show once or twice, but he but he would
call my show on a somewhat regular basis, and so
a lot of our listeners got to know my dad.
Some listeners got to know him on social media or
a combination of or you know, got to know him
first on the show and then on social media and
and forged relationships with him. So a lot of you know,
it's like I said to Joe lar here at Manchester
Public Television sent me a very nice email, you know,
talking about how sorry he wants to hear about my
dad and and how how much he thought of him.
I don't think they had ever met, but you know,
he remembered my my dad calling into the show, and
you know, and I wrote back to Joe and I said, yeah,
I don't know if Dad realized just how largely he
loomed in our little radio universe here, but he did.
He did a lot of you got to know him
that way. So you know, I thought I should say something.
I'm not going to say too much right now because
I'm still emotionally trying to find my way through this.
I can tell you that I do intend to do
a when I'm ready, I'm going to do a podcast.
So just to quickly clarify, so there's another iteration of
this program that exists. You know. We do the radio version,
of course, every Saturday morning here at WM and H. Occasionally,
and it's only once in a while, but occasionally we
do a separate podcast only version that is strictly online
of the show. We call it MCUAF and I always
tell people, if you don't know what AF means, just
ask someone younger than you. But the purpose of this
other version of the show is just to kind of
do anything that anything that we want to do on
the show that doesn't necessarily fit the format of this
program that we do here at WM ANDH. We just
do it on the podcast version and kind of keep
that separate, and we only do those once in a while.
It's not often that a situation and like that comes up,
to be honest, but I want to do I'm going
to do a podcast version where I just talk about
my dad and just kind of say everything I want
want to tell you about my dad and his influence
on me and how he shaped me, and what he
was like to grow up with, et cetera, and you know,
and what our relationship was like in recent years. And
I just I just want to talk about my dad
and try to do that to honor him the best
way that I can. The reason though, that I want
to do it on that version of the show is
it just takes the pressure off of, you know, not
trying to schedule it, not trying to plan it. Because obviously,
with the radio show, we're here every Saturday nine am
to noon Eastern time, check social listings, as Polyic likes
to say. But with the podcast version of the show,
we can just do that whenever we want. We just
go online and do it and upload it and that's it.
So I don't want the pressure of committing to a
specific time. You know, Jenny does all the scheduling. I
don't want to say, Jenny, I want to I want
to do some sort of a tribute to my dad
on this Saturday in this segment, because what if what
if we do that, and what if we plan that
and then the day comes and I don't feel on
that day that I'm emotionally prepared to do it or
in the right headspace, et cetera. So what we're gonna
do is, instead, we're gonna do I'm going to do
a podcast of the show where I just talk about
my dad for you know. And again, by doing it
that way, there's no time constraints. It can be as
short or as long as I want to make it,
you know, and I'll just be able to speak very freely,
and you know, and I think that's I think that's
the best way to handle that, because I do have
a lot to say, and you know, my dad did
loom very large in my life, and I think that's
a I think that's a good way to honor him.
So I don't know when it's going to be. It
could be in a week. It could be in two weeks,
it could be later this weekend. I don't know. You know,
if you're interested in that, just kind of keep your
eyes and ears open for that. But there will be
a podcast version of the show where I just take
some time and talk about my dad. But in the meantime,
you know, we my my sister Lindsay and high Lindsay
if you if you hear this, Uh, she's she's been
amazing through this. She's really kind of taken the lead
in ways that I'm I certainly was not prepared for
in terms of, you know, navigating through what we have
to do next. Obviously there's some things that we have
to do. And but again, uh, there there will be
more more forthcoming. And I might address this to again
at the end of the show today, but uh, but
but I will, I will talk. Uh, I will talk
more at length in a in a separate a separate
podcast version of the show. So but again, I I
do want to say, I mean, I I was actually surprised,
to be honest, just that the outpouring of support and
uh and everything, and and I know a lot of
you felt very very strongly about my dad, and really
I don't know that he ever knew just how much
he influenced so many people, in touch the lives of
so many people. I hope that he did. I don't
know that he did. And on that that's a cheerful
way to open the show. Huh, sorry everybody, but no,
but I did want to say that, and thank you,
thank you for indulging me on that. There will be
more to come in the meantime. We do have a
great show for you. And right now we are going
to play the newest single from the band The Painting.
This is a great track called Scarlet. We did the
radio premiere for it here on the show recently, in fact.
And then at the end of the song, we're gonna
speak with Lewis Taylor from the band The Painting, and
then at the end of that we'll play another track
from the album. The album is called Before the Rain
and this is great. This is a great single. I
cannot wait to talk to Lewis. I really like this
band lot, but this is called scarlet Let.
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Speaker 1: What a great song that is? I love that. That
is called Scarlet. The band is the Painting, the album
is Before the Rain, And let's get Lewis in here.
Lewis Taylor is on the line with us via Microsoft Teams.
Hello Lewis, Hi there, how's it going?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 1: Good, Welcome to the show. I love that song. I
love that song so much. That is that is so good?
We play that, We played it when it first came out,
and and I still love it as much as I
I did. Listen to the entire album, by the way,
Before the Rain. I think the whole thing is great.
So I'm really happy to have you on the show today.
Speaker 6: Thank you, I'm really glad to be here.
Speaker 4: Excellent.
Speaker 6: Just before we go in it further, I went to
pass on condolences as well to yourself about your dad.
I lost my dad a couple of years ago, and
so I know what it's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I appreciate that very much. Yeah, it's it's
it's rough. It's yeah, it's it's Uh. I'm still I'm
still kind of processing it all. But I'm sorry to
hear that you lost your dad a couple of years ago.
But yeah, so you you know what, uh you know
what we're going through here. But no, I appreciate that
very much, No, no problem, but uh so happier subjects. So,
like I said, I love the band, and you guys
are from Glasgow? Is that correct?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're we're based in Glasgow. We're all all the
members are were you know, originally from different parts of Scotland,
but we're all based in Glasgow.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. And then how long has the band been around?
Speaker 6: Oh as this iteration of the band, maybe around the year.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
Speaker 6: Yeah, beforehand we were in A we were a different
band with a different name, but that will that will
changed about a year ago and we decided to change
name and change direction slightly with what kind of music
we played as well.
Speaker 1: So the Painting as an entity then is a is
a relatively new project, which is interesting because you've already
got you've already got a full album that like when
when you became when the band became The Painting Did
did you immediately start working on this album?
Speaker 6: I think at that point in time we didn't realize
it was going to be, you know, an album. I
think we had thoughts it might be maybe a couple
of singles or you know what, kind of a shorter release.
And by this time went on and we realized that
we are very prolific when it comes to writing songs,
and we we think it's mostly we find it easy,
but would be just it just comes quite naturally to
to just you know, to write, to write music. And
very quickly it became evident that we were you know,
we were having had a large batch of songs and
we decided, let's just record an album.
Speaker 1: It's cool when when it seems so natural and and
it kind of comes easy, right, because that's when you
know you've really got something. I mean, it's you know,
it's fine if you have to to really work at it,
that's that's okay too. But when you when as a band,
when when just the songwriting process, when these songs just
come together quickly, it's that's how you know you're really
onto something. I think when it's when it's just kind
of natural and organic. And and part of why I
was so curious about that too, is because it is
a full album because we live in a time as
you know, and you referenced it too, you you know,
you were talking about how you had to decide, you know,
are you going to do a full album or you
going to do singles or an EP or whatever. So yeah,
so to make the decision to do a full album,
that's a big undertaking right out of the gate, but
it sounds like it made a lot of sense given
your situation with the band.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're definitely very, very ambitious when it comes to
things like, you know, like recording an album or you know,
we don't do things by half measures. We always try to,
you know, elevate things and aim for something quite ambitious. Yeah, yeah,
and yeah, you're rightly, it's a bit. I think it's
quite a rare thing to be able to be with
another group of musicians and be able to come up
with things very very quickly and you know, efficiently. I
mean I've been in projects before where it would take
it could take you months to even write one song,
whereas we could write a song not easily. I mean, sure,
it does come with it, you know, roadblocks, but we
can write songs fairly quickly. So yeah, I think it's
quite a rare thing, and you know, it's it's always
a fun process with the rest of the band members.
Speaker 1: I think I neglected to mention too. So you're the
best player in the band. So I am myself a
bass player.
Speaker 6: So there we go.
Speaker 1: Bass players unite absolutely. How many how many people are
in the band? Is it a four piece?
Speaker 7: No, so.
Speaker 6: It's not became you know, kind of public knowledge. We
wear six six piece, but band well down to we're
now down to a five piece at this moment in time. Okay, yeah,
we we recently had someone exit the band, and I
won't go into it. It's it's not really you know,
there's no point going in to it as what it is.
But yeah, there we're Yeah, we are five members and
we're just continuing as normal. There's no you know, it's
not gonna mp US or anything in any way. We'll
just keep going.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now the album Before the Storm is there. I'm sorry,
before the Before the Rain rather is there? Oh, I
know why I was singing Storm. I was seen about
the song Waiting, which we're gonna play at the end
of the segment. But yeah, but is there any kind
of a theme, you know, lyrically, is there any kind
of a theme of the album. It's it's really cohesive.
It almost feels like there could be a theme, but
maybe not. I'm not sure. You tell us.
Speaker 6: This is this is the hard book because I'm probably
the wrong person task best as in Keaton, who is
the you know, the sega and letters as to the band.
But I think we all collectively agreed like when we
were you know, when we saw the Lytics and we
heard the Lytics, So it all kind of points to
can the new beginnings a lot of the time. Yeah,
And I think it's quite relevant obviously with regards to
I was becoming a new project and you know, coming
from the ashes of an old band basically, and I
know Keaden would make me talking about it as well.
But obviously you went through a breakup during this time
and then has now moved on to you know, a
new relationship and that's essentially what the song Scarlet's about
is new relationship. And so there's a lot of kind
of new beginnings is probably I think a quite a big,
you know theme within the album. Within the lyrics, I
think you're right as pretty cohesive, and I think it
was quite unintentional. I don't think it was it was
set out to be like that, but yeah, I think
when you and you know, in retrospect, if you were,
if I was to go back and listen to it,
or you know, listen to the lyrics, I could definitely
see that there's a lot of you know, and intertwined
kind of themes that makes sense basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's very I find overall, it's got a
vibe that is very you know, it's it's sort of
dreamy and light in a sense, but also hopeful. Yeah,
you know, it's it's gotta there's just a hopefulness to
the to the album that I really like. And also,
I wanted to ask you about the cover for Before
the Rain. It's appropriate for a band, uh called the
painting because it looks like a painting. But I'm I'm
and it's a you know, I encourage people to look
at it online. It's it's a really nice cover and
it's very I think it's classy to the way the
name of the band and the name of the album.
It's it's in the upper left corner, you know, kind
of kind of small, you know, big enough so you
can see it. Obviously it's you don't have to hunt
for it. But but but the way it's sort of
unintrusive in terms of of the uh, the rest of
the image of of what looks to be a painting.
But I'm curious about the artwork. I mean, is that
an actual painting that that's hanging somewhere and uh or
is it specifically for the album or where does that
come from?
Speaker 6: No, actually, it's actually a photograph really yeah, yeah, we
I think it's maybe slightly being added to to make
it kind of look more like a paint. And I'm
not entirely sure, but it certainly comes from a photograph
that we came across online and by photographer, and we
you know, we obviously spoke to the photographer and goal
permission to use it. But yeah, I understand where you're
coming from. It it does look like a.
Speaker 1: Painton, Yeah, it really does. It really does. Absolutely. What
was the so, what was the name of the band
that that pre pre dates the painting.
Speaker 6: It was Arcade State.
Speaker 1: Arcade State. Yeah, that's an that's an interesting name. That's
kind of cool and too random. And then and then so,
so how many how many members from that are in
the painting so.
Speaker 6: At this moment, and say just three three, so it
would be myself, Jordan the drummer, and Keetan who is
the guitarist and singer.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Now to end that project and then start
the painting. Was that was that difficult?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 1: Was there a lot of I'm especially curious because I've
been in situations like that. I don't play anymore. I
used to play in bands at this point at this one,
I'm more focused on on broadcasting and stuff. But I've
been in situations where it's like, in fact, I've been
in that exact situation where one band, You've got one
band and you're thinking about maybe making a new project
with some of the same people. So then it's like, well,
what do we do we just take what we have
and change direction, or or do we just say that's it,
We're going to do this whole new thing with this
new name. How much of the old thing gets brought
into the new thing and all the nuances of that.
So I'm really curious about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, to be honest, things then in particular, will
I think I think, and they kind of plan for
Keaton was to do this as almost like a kind
of a solo project. We'd all going into a long
story and we all didn't perhaps part way is quite
you know, it wasn't really amicable. It was quite. It
wasn't the most you know, it just ended quite abruptly
and will not fell out and hated each other or anything.
It wasn't like that. It just wasn't. Yeah, it just
looked like we were it was just over and that
was the end of it. And then Keran announced that
he wanted to start a new project. It would be
the Painting. He was the only member at that point.
I don't know if his plans were to you know,
get other members or do everything on his own. But eventually,
maybe after a week or so, he asked me to
come back and play bass for him, and then Jordan,
who is his brother, actually to play drums. And then
eventually it just got to the point where we were
just essentially a few members of our Kade state. And
then we started looking for a keyboard player and another
guitar player, and that's where Marta and Johnny came into
the equation. Yeah, and when it comes to the style
of music. Beforehand, we were more alternative rock. Maybe I
wouldn't say we weren't heavy, like kind of heavy music,
you know. It was more a little bit more abrasive
than what we are now, obviously, but we wanted to
lean more into the kind of pop aspect of things.
And I think all of us, like our one of
our biggest influences is the war on drugs, and we
wanted to kind of lean more into that as well,
a bit more of a kind of I guess I'm
trying to think about what you would define them as,
almost kind of Americana sort of music, yeah, and mixed
up with a kind of pop element. So I think
we're getting there. I think with the album Before the Rain,
that's only just the first step in our revolution and sound.
I think we're still writing now, like for future releases,
and I think with what we're writing, it's certainly evolving.
So yeah, yeah, it's been a long it's been a
very quick year, but also it feels like a very
long the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you guys have been busy. You've been doing
a lot. That's wonderful. I'm curious soon did any of
the material from Arcade state make it into the painting
or did you just start completely new?
Speaker 6: So we started completely fresh?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we actually I think even had a number of
songs that we could have carried over, you know, to
this project, but we just scraped them essentially. There might
there might be a little bits here in the early
a guitar lane or like a few lines of like
lytrics and things like that, but it's not you know,
it's not like a base of a song that's came
from the project. Everything is essentially new.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, What was that difficult? Because you know, song
some some songwriters will describe songs as being almost like
their children. It's hard to you know, it's hard to
leave them behind. That was that difficult at all, like
leaving all of that behind or did it just seem
like the natural thing to do or.
Speaker 6: What was that like? It definitely felt like the natural
thing to do. Good. But also we are quite cutthroat,
well we we we'll just scrap things and and just
move on. Obviously there'll be there'll be certain songs that
you they will miss from the old from the old band. Yeah, yeah,
none of it fits anymore. It really makes sense. So
I mean, I guess you could argue we could make
it fit, but I think we're quite content with the
direction we're heading. But no, I think we might be
a little bit of a kind of were entity there
where we're quite cutthroat. We don't mind. We'll just move
on and write something else.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, that's that's excellent. Good for you. And
then what's the live situation like for for you guys?
Are you playing a lot of live shows or so?
Speaker 6: There was a period of time when we were writing
the album we weren't really playing at all. It was
more just focused on the writing aspective things. But as
the years came to a close, like coming to a close,
we have played a few gigs recently. We played a
headline show in Glasgow in October and then another headline
show in Edinburgh in November. It was sorry, everything this
whole year is just a blur. Yeah, but yeah, so,
and we also played a kind of mini festival like
a day festival, indoor festival in Aberdeen as well. It
started December, so you know, we were quite busy coming
towards the end of the year and then moving into
next year. We've got quite a lot coming up We've
got a lot dates planned. We've got almost a small
mini tour of the UK planned as well, and yeah,
there's many other things in the works that hasn't you know,
it's not been announced jet, it's not being confirmed yet,
but there's a lot. Next year is gonna be really
really busy.
Speaker 1: Well, very good, good good. So in a moment, we're
going to play at the end of our our conversation,
we're going to play the track Waiting on the Storm.
What should people know about this one? This is one
because I had asked you, So we'll pull back the
curtain a little bit. I did ask you what you
wanted to what you wanted us to play at the
end of the at the end of the segment, and
I don't I mean, is this going to be the
next single or is this just one that that that
you're really proud of or what? What should we know
about this song before we play it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So this is an early single from the album
and the final single from the album. And this song
was actually written in I think maybe ten minutes. Wow,
it was a yeah, yeah, it was a very very
quick This is one of the occasions where we didn't
overthink it. We just played what failed Natural and this
is what came out?
Speaker 1: Wow, excellent, excellent. So before we let you go and
before we hit that song, what should be people know
about where to keep up with everything that you're doing
as a band. Where should people Where's the best place
to go online to keep up with the painting.
Speaker 6: Oh, I would say definitely on Instagram, instagrams that we
you know, where we are probably most active. You can
find us the Painting Official okay on Instagram, and yeah,
that's definitely the best place to keep up to date
with us.
Speaker 1: Outstanding, outstanding, Well, Lewis, I really appreciate you joining us
here today this morning or I don't know what what
time is it where you are, where you are, it's
probably afternoon, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's two theory to theory you. I'll forgive you you.
Speaker 1: It is indeed, it is indeed, No, but I do
very much appreciate you doing joining us. Like I said,
I listened to the full album and we've we've become
fast fans of the painting here. Really really like what
you're doing. So we'll definitely have to do this in
the future, and certainly once you have some new music,
we'll have you on or or you know, or anything
that you have coming up that's exciting. You know, we'd
love to have you back and we will definitely this again.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me and moving to
quietly come back on. It's been a pleasure, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1: All right, Lewis, thank you. We'll let you go. We're
gonna hit this track and we will talk to you soon.
Speaker 6: Take care, no problem, Thank you any much.
Speaker 1: You got it, Bye bye, all right. That is Lewis Taylor.
He is the bass player for the band The Painting.
And here's another great track, and this is going to
be the next single. You heard it here first, at
least on American radio. You're hearing it for the first time,
so I don't know if it's been played over there yet.
But this is from the album Before the Rain, and
the track is called Waiting on the Storm?
Speaker 4: Are you waiting story? You do to focus on the
stay off We're focusing guys, stay at shore, showing you
want you want the same info tradition, the state dispersion.
Don't speak to diff Chuck. We should shut the show.
Speaker 3: The cap.
Speaker 4: Show me then show me up.
Speaker 3: The captain.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a great song. That is so
good waiting on the Storm. The band is The Painting
and that is from their album Before the Rain. And
thank you again so much to Lewis Taylor for joining us,
the bass player from The Painting. Really enjoyed speaking with
him and we will definitely do it again in the future.
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December twentieth, twenty twenty five. I'm gonna do something so
I wanted to say something else about my dad. You know,
I spoke about my father who passed away on Thursday
at the top of the show, and you know, as
we go through the show and again I am going
to do a separate podcast where I just say a
lot of things all at once, but as things come
to me throughout the show today, as we have time
between segments, I might I might say a little bit
more here and there. And something that you know I
was singing about as we were playing that is, you know,
something really cool about my dad. And if you're a
longtime listener of the show, you've probably heard me say
this on the show. He always loved hearing new music.
People have a lot of people, you know, not musicians
don't fall into this generally, certainly, and that's who we
talked to on the show as musicians for the most part.
But there are some people, non musicians who who kind
of often get sort of locked into they only like
music from a certain time period, you know, the stereotypical
a person who like who has this. They kind of
go through life with this idea that all the good
music that was ever made was during their youth and
everything after that it's terrible, and they don't want to
hear anything else. And people kind of get stuck in
their era, and you know, you'll hear people say it
all the time. Oh, when I was a kid, music
was great. Now music is terrible, All the new music
is awful and whatnot. My dad was never like that,
all the way to the end. He loved hearing new music.
He was a big fan. I talked about this in
a social media post. He was a huge fan of
college radio. He lived on the Sea coast in Dover,
New Hampshire at the end, but for a long time
he lived on and he grew up on the seacoast actually,
but he loved to listen to w u n H,
the great college station at University of New Hampshire. He
loved that station because he got to hear a lot
of new stuff that you don't hear on mainstream commercial radio.
And he loved hearing new music. And you know, you
would not I always said, if you got into a
car with my dad, you would not hear on his
car radio. You wouldn't hear an oldies station or anything
like that. You you would hear you would hear a
probably college radio, because he loved hearing new music. And
that's something that when when this show, when the format
of the show changed here at w M and H,
when we went from afternoons to doing saturdays weekday afternoons
to Saturdays, we we took the you know, it became
much more focused on you know, we used to do
politics and other stuff, but when the show moved, we
became much more focused on sticking to music and interviewing
independent artists and other people in the industry as well.
In fact, in the second hour today, we're gonna have
Mike and Terry from Charlie Hill, which is a great
venue that features musicians from the area. But but so
people in the industry. But but you know, in the
independent side of things and the local side of things,
a lot of great local talent. And my father was
always very supportive of that, and because he really enjoyed
the guests that we would have on the show and
hearing their music, and he would often say that he
felt that we were in a golden age of music.
In other words, he was never like, oh, the music
the best music was when I was growing up. No,
he always he always told me, he said, we're in
a golden age of music right now because there's so
much of it. And he loved being able to explore
that online because the Internet has given us the ability
something we didn't have when I was a kid. Certainly
growing up. Don't get me wrong, I've fond memories of
going to a music store and flipping through albums and
flipping through CDs and finding new stuff and all that.
But but I wouldn't trade what we have now to
go back to that. Now. It's incredible. I can find
anything anytime I want to on the Internet. I can
find you know, whether I want to find something new
or whether I want to find something old that I
just feel like hearing. But he loved that and being
able to explore, you know, all all genres. You know,
he didn't. He certainly didn't limit himself that way either.
My dad even liked some hip hop, which might surprise
some of you, but he did. He loved Doctor Dre.
I'm not kidding, he really did. Just as an example,
he was a big Doctor Dre fan, so so he
was always so he was very supportive of what we
of what we were doing here, and and I think
I think he would have enjoyed, uh, I think he
would have enjoyed that band, the painting. I think he
really would have liked that. And I think he would
have liked to have heard that conversation. So the other
thing I'm gonna do, uh, kind of just in honor
of my dad, is I'm going to play a song
for you that is definitely not an indie artist. But
let me explain. So if you know me at all,
you probably know that my favorite band and it's part
of why I chose to wear this shirt today. My
favorite band, for those of you watching the video, my
favorite band of all time is Kiss and has been
since I was a kid and my dad Ad is
responsible for getting me in the Kiss. And my dad
wasn't like a diehard fan or anything, but he liked
He always liked Kiss. He was a fan. But here's
what happened. And you know, I'm kind of showing my
age here with this little anecdote, but this was the
beginning of my Kiss fandom. So I won't say what
year was, but you can figure it out. So the
single at the time was Tears Are Falling. It was
from the Kisses Asylum album. At this point, we were
well into the non makeup era of Kiss. They didn't
have the makeup at this point. They had already taken
it off a few years earlier. But Asylum had come
out and the single was Tears Are Falling, and the
video was in heavy rotation on MTV and after school
every day, of course, I would come home from school
and I would turn on MTV to see the newest
videos and everything that I that I you know, what
they were playing, and I loved tears Are Falling. Now
I had already kind of liked Kiss, you know, because
I remembered seeing the video for Heaven's on Fire from
the previous album Animalized. I remember seeing that on MTV,
and I remember hearing Lick It Up on the radio,
so I didn't really get it was already the end
of the non makeup era. By the time I even
started to take an interest in kiss, I completely missed
the original makeup era. But Tears Are Falling was the
song that really hooked me. And here's what happened. I
remember this like it was yesterday. I know people use
that as a cliche, but it's literally true. I was
in the living room after school the video for Tears
Are Falling was on. I loved the song. I was
fascinated by the video. So I'm sitting there very intently
focused on the television, and my dad comes home from work.
Now Again, like I said, my dad always loved new music.
So we never had that thing when I was growing up,
where you know, I'm listening to stuff that my parents
don't like and they're giving me a hard time about it.
Why are you listening to that? It was never like
that because my dad. You know, my dad loved Van Halen.
He loved the Sammy Hagar version of Van Halen as
much as I did. He was really into it, you know, So,
so he was always current, so, so we liked a
lot of the same stuff and a lot of the
same stuff. So my dad happens to come home while
the video for Tears Are Falling is on, and he
kind of walks into the living room. He kind of
pokes his head into the living room and he says, Maddie,
who is that? Who does this song? Is that Kiss?
And I said, yeah it is? And he said, oh,
I really like this song. And I said to him,
I said, yeah, me too. It's like my favorite song
right now. So apparently dad made a mental note of
that because for Christmas he got me that album. He
got me Asylum, the newest Kiss album at the time
that had you know that was the lead single, Tears
Are Falling. He got that for me for Christmas, and
I listened to it and I was hooked Asylum, by
the way. And I know some Kiss fans will agree,
some will disagree. I know Jeff Richards from Day to
A ten degrees with me on this because he commented
on it once online. Asylum is very underrated. It truly
one of the most underrated Kiss albums. It's a really,
really strong album, but Tears Are Falling is the only
really real hit from it. Although my favorite Kiss song
of all time also happens to be on that album
Who Wants to Be Lonely. I can listen to that
today and still love it as much as the first
time I heard it. But Tears Are Falling was the
song where again you know, I said that to my dad. Yeah,
that's like my favorite song now too, right now, that's
my favorite song. So he got me that album. I
was hooked. He was pretty into it as well, and
so my dad is respond If that moment hadn't happened,
who knows, maybe today Kiss would not be my favorite
band were it not for that moment and that exchange
with my dad. So we don't normally play anything like
this on this show because we are very focused on
independent music. But I'm gonna go ahead and play this
in honor of my dad and that memory. I'm going
to play Tears Are Falling by Kiss, and then after
that we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors. And
then when we come back in the second hour, we'll
have Mike and Terry from Charlie's Hill here with us
in the studio. I cannot wait to speak with them.
But here it is. This is a song that really
got it started for me. This is tears are falling
by kiss.
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of time left in this hour. Our guests are still
on their way our hour two guests. We've got Mike
and Terry coming from Charlie Hill. But we're gonna play
one more track from the Painting. They joined us, or
I should say he Lewis Taylor from the band. The
bass player from the band did join us earlier in
the hour. And since we can feed this, we can
squeeze this in. I don't know where I got feed
Since we can feed this in, that's a radio term
you've probably never heard, you know, feed this in. Since
we can squeeze this in, I'm gonna play this. This
is another track from their album Before the Rain. This
is probably my personal favorite. This is the title track.
This is Before the Rain. I really like this a lot.
Check this out. The band is the Painting.
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