Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. This is Matt Bonnard.
Speaker 2: The Novels.
Speaker 1: We are live from the studios of WMNH on this
Saturday morning, February twenty second, twenty twenty five. You know, Jenny,
it's kind of funny. We were talking earlier about Kendrick
Lamar in the track not Like Us. We got a
American radio premiere for a track called not the Same,
and this is UK artist John Denton. John Denton's going
to be joining us soon on the show, so we're
going to play this. This is the first time. He's
already making waves in the UK, but this is the
first time this track has ever been played on American radio.
This is the American radio premiere of the new John
Denton track. This is called not the Same.
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Speaker 4: The bottles are down, and then that's me.
Speaker 5: I'm from all of the site. People try to remoud
you how we're so lok go for water and all
our food.
Speaker 6: Every day.
Speaker 5: People fall abut the.
Speaker 3: Well see it all the time.
Speaker 5: But I don't care. I don't care.
Speaker 7: I don't care what I'll say because I'll do it
in my own work. I've nice people on the street.
Speaker 8: Sir, night you jill you to.
Speaker 7: I'm not al right down on the on the side.
We're all down and out. Oh everywhere the people said,
why oh why should I really check your this? Jo
Stover say that's a place where the storm goes down,
and don't go.
Speaker 4: Well, I won't know where we're at, but I'll.
Speaker 3: Be fine in my mind trying to make.
Speaker 9: All those word right.
Speaker 7: Ignore it on the outside once again.
Speaker 10: Me and I'll be in the back.
Speaker 4: Of her, just messing up about doing what I dont.
Speaker 5: I'm ask befu on the streets, and I kill used
to go home. I'm not a right down on the
other side of the folly.
Speaker 7: Oh that ring where we got you guys. But while
should I really check your this? Joe stop say.
Speaker 4: Last people in the STA said that killed us to go.
Speaker 7: Down on the other side with folly.
Speaker 6: We got chilled, so really kick kouss.
Speaker 4: Juice snop sa.
Speaker 6: Me me at the boardwalk over on Main Street. We
can walk downtown. Let's see who we may.
Speaker 9: Sitting in the summertime.
Speaker 3: On a local brew or class.
Speaker 6: Su high Now like a summer night in Maine, Just
another summer night in Maine, Just another summer night in May,
just another summer night in May. Yeah, just another summer
night and May. We can't sit back campire that we
made on the beach with a night like this. Nothing's
out of reach from the forest to the ocean, and
never seems the same. Nothing like summer night in May.
Just another summer night in May. Just another summer night
in May, Just another summer night in May.
Speaker 11: There is nothing like summer night in May, Kay, summer.
Speaker 3: Night May.
Speaker 5: Bad.
Speaker 1: That is cool. Welcome back, everybody. We are well in
our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed
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to ninety five point three FM. Today is Saturday, February
twenty two, twenty twenty five. Jenny is here of course
at the news table, present account of and let's see
let me get those mics up here. We have joined
us live in studio. The man who performed that song
by the way, another summer night in Maine, which is
very very new. Sean Manchester is here with us. We'll
test these mics out. How you doing, Sean, Yes, thank
you for having me. I can barely hear you, which
is why I need to turn this up.
Speaker 12: Check check.
Speaker 9: Oh there there we go.
Speaker 12: Yes, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love by the way. So that song we
played it during the first hour, Broke Man's Dream. Yeah,
that was the first song of yours that I listened
to and I just love it. That is that is
so cool. And uh, let me put the camera on
you for those watching online. Oh, actually, before we go
any further, let me put the camera back on me
for a second, because I want to show people for
those watching live, if you're watching on YouTube or Facebook
or LinkedIn or wherever. So, Sean, you brought us. Now
people will often bring us CDs and stuff like that.
You brought us. So these little, these little bags, I'm
gonna hold this up on camera.
Speaker 13: Yeah, little grab bag, little Sean manch grab bag. My
last name is Manchester, but yeah, you know.
Speaker 12: For stage purposes, it's easier for people to.
Speaker 14: Chant Sean Manch, Seawan Manchin. That makes Sewan Manchi. Yeah,
that makes sense. And in this so this is a
cool concept. You've got a USB drive with your album. Yes,
which is that song Another Summer Night in Maine. That's
where that that's where we pull that from. Yep, So
thank you for bringing that.
Speaker 13: And you get a little a little glow in the
dark three D printed Sean Manch key chain exactly. Yeah,
and that's actually a pick as well, say, very cool printed.
Speaker 12: Oh glow in the dark.
Speaker 1: Oh outstanding, yup, got a pick in there, a little
custom grab bag yeah, very cool, very cool, and and
also a sticker which is nice. Jenny loves stickers, so
as you can see from the per computer, definitely, so
you brought one for each of us. So thank you
very much, John, very welcome. That is that is very cool.
And I love that song broke Man's Stream and uh
you are I'm dying to hear you play live. You
want to strum that guitar a little for me and
we'll see, uh see see. Oh yeah that sounds nice, perfect,
that sounds nice. Pull that pull those other mics up
a little bit, make sure we got the cahone.
Speaker 13: Yeah, playing the drums with my feet while singing and
playing makes a nice full arrange.
Speaker 12: I like to have that little bit of rhythm with it.
Speaker 1: You are a one man band, Yeah, that's that's for sure.
Is it difficult to learn to do that? Or does
that come naturally? Because most people tap their foot anyway
when listening to music, So does that just kind of.
Speaker 13: That definitely helps you know a lot of times, if
I'm just practicing without any drums or anything, just tapping
my feet and I was I thought that was just
a natural way to keep time. Might as well add
some drums underneath the tappen and see how it goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 13: I'm left handed, although I play a right handed guitar,
So yeah, the ambidexterousness I'm sure helps with that independence instrument.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a theory that we're all ambidextrous. We just
don't know it. Because you learn to play a musical instrument,
you're using both your hands.
Speaker 13: You are exactly exactly Yeah, sometimes your feet.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly right, exactly. Yeah, especially like if you're a drummer,
you're using all four of your limbs and doing some
complex stuff and that.
Speaker 13: That helps you because I play, you know, piano, drums, bass,
the instrumentalist as well. That's what helps me record the
full band sound with a lot of those songs.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So on your studio tracks, is it all you?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 13: All me playing all my writing and nice all self
recorded and produced in my little shack and mane.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's fantastic, that's fantastic. Uh, what are you gonna
play for us?
Speaker 13: I'll start out with Broke Man's stream awesome.
Speaker 1: I love this song. Thank you, I love the song.
If you're just joining us, Sean Manchester is here with
us live in studio, A.
Speaker 6: Cat, sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday, trying to
do right?
Speaker 9: He going my way? Money suit tie?
Speaker 2: What can't I say?
Speaker 6: I'm living on Brooke Man's dreams, run on gas and
no won't last.
Speaker 9: A couple of gowns.
Speaker 2: Cat through the week, keep my head.
Speaker 9: And I anatn't knowing why when the fire's a running
down on me.
Speaker 6: I got sixteen bucks, gotta make it to Friday.
Speaker 9: And trying to do a righth ain't going my way?
Speaker 6: Money suit tight What can't I say, I'm living on
a broke man sixteen bucks and I'm making to Friday,
trying to.
Speaker 15: Do a right?
Speaker 9: Ain't going my way? Money so tight?
Speaker 3: What gen I say?
Speaker 6: I'm living on a broke man's dreams? Now I find
the sea that it ain't just a dream, making it
half him today? Now keep on knowing and okay, moving
shaw till it can finally say I half sixteen bucks
and I made it to Friday. I finally do the righth.
It went my way. Money's so tight?
Speaker 2: What can I say? I'm living a broke.
Speaker 6: Man's dream I've lived everything in between. You got sixteen bucks,
gotta make it to Friday, trying to do right? Ain't
doing my way? Money so tight? What can't I say?
I'm living on a broad man sixteen bucks? Would have
made it to Friday and finally did a right?
Speaker 9: It went my way? Money's not tight?
Speaker 6: What can't I say? I'm living a broad man's dreams
and now I've lived everything in between?
Speaker 1: Oh I do love that song.
Speaker 9: That was awful.
Speaker 1: I do love that song. If you're just what we do,
absolutely absolutely, if you're just joining us, Sean Manchester is
here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning,
and Sean, where are you from?
Speaker 16: So?
Speaker 12: Originally Massachusetts, Attleborough?
Speaker 13: Okay, you know I have family that's still lives down there,
but I currently live up in Clinton, Maine.
Speaker 1: Is it must be cold there, imagine?
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, tongues of snow these past couple of weeks.
But yeah, springs right around the corner.
Speaker 13: I mentioned to get into some of the springtime gardening
and all that. I live off grid in a little
tiny house, you know, all solar Oh, no kidding, Yeah,
because on main Street, which is convenient. I can walk
to everything I need if I need to, no kidding,
but enough in the woods that I have the privacy,
you know. Yeah, it's a good balance of that.
Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool. Are you Are you a minimalist?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I like, you know, to not keep it not
very materialistic, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I admire that a lot. That's that's very cool.
I mean life is simpler that way, right.
Speaker 13: Exactly, as long as I can go outside and enjoy
the sun and a hammock and have a campfire, yeah, guitar,
a couple of friends.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, that's the beauty of life right there.
Speaker 1: What's what's the scene like there as far as are
there a lot of places where you live to play.
Speaker 13: Or yeah, it's uh, you know, I did the cover
for a long time in the local bar kind of gigs,
and there's a lot of local breweries and yeah, you know,
so if you're trying to find somewhere to play, you
might have to travel a half an hour in pretty
much any direction.
Speaker 12: But you know, you can normally find a decent amount
of gigs.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I'm focusing a lot on the original songs now, okay,
and I'm gonna move more.
Speaker 12: Towards running my own shows.
Speaker 13: You know, rent a venue out and then do the
promotion and that sort of thing more on my own.
Speaker 1: Oh excellent, excellent. Do you do some of that now.
Speaker 13: Or just starting out? I've done it in the past,
just as kind of trial and or you know, half covers,
half originals and see who shows up and it turned
out pretty decent and hoping you know, the grab bags
they'll sweepen the deals. Yeah, the first ten people that come,
you know, get a gift bag or you know something
like that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and they'll be free shows. I'm just in it
for the music.
Speaker 1: So gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, So you do everything so on
the studio tracks, you do everything yourself.
Speaker 12: Yep.
Speaker 13: When all the mixing, mastering, no connuction. I use evis
online called Lander and that so I'm on Spotify. It
pushes it out to all Spotify, Apple Music, Facebook, all
that stuff.
Speaker 1: So okay, excellent. Some musicians hate having to do that part,
but you know the but you sound like you embrace it.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 13: I way back when I was younger, I was a programmer,
you know, web developer, that kind of thing.
Speaker 12: So I have a decent tech background.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and you know the arts c side, so I
kind of just use what I've learned from that in
business marketing and things, you know, and there you go,
added it to the music to you know, enhance the
hobby and just make it.
Speaker 12: Go a little bit further. It helps, Yeah, oh, I mean,
and I definitely enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it sounds like more than a hobby.
I mean, you know, it's definitely a passion. Yeah, and
you're accomplishing a lot with it, so that's great.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 13: It keeps me busy too, you know, always always something
to work on. And yep, then when you finish a
song or a video, it feels like you've gotten something done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, broke band stream is that? Is that based
on real life experience because it's it's very relatable.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I'm sure everyone can relate, you know, trying
to get to that Friday sixteen bucks in the account
and trying to make it there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, starting out saving up for the land,
and had had an old van down by the river,
nice you know, nineteen eighty two Chevy G twenty conversion van,
so I had everything, but yeah, my job paid for
you know a lot rent, so lot rent.
Speaker 12: It was a parking.
Speaker 13: Spot, you know, the van there, and started out from
there walking around to bars with my guitar and can
I play a couple songs and put a tip jar out?
Speaker 12: And from there blossomed into all of this fun stuff
going on now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, have you how long have you been
really focused on that part the music career?
Speaker 12: Probably about the last four four or five years.
Speaker 13: Yeah, say about that. You know, I have kids, so yeah,
spent a lot of time working on that. You know,
kids when they were younger, you know, take a little
bit more, yeah, changing diapers now that they're a little
bit more self sustaining, a little bit of time for
me yeah.
Speaker 1: Is it like living in a tiny house? Is that
a big adjustment or did that come naturally?
Speaker 13: I love it, you know, I have plenty of space, especially,
I mean the one that I built now has plenty
of space. The first couple of tiny houses, you know,
not a builder.
Speaker 1: Oh so it's not your first one, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 13: This one actually turned out really nice, you know. Okay,
it was a learning curve, the first couple of tiny houses,
trying to figure out how to build. I'm a musician,
not a carpenter, so yeah, but this one.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's so.
Speaker 1: You built these?
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 13: And I prefer it, you know, the tiny living, less
space to heat. Yeah, everything has a place.
Speaker 1: Ye so yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 12: I enjoyed it, well yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: How do the kids feel about it?
Speaker 13: They love it?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Well I got a frog pond too, so as long
as you can go outside and catch frogs in the
spring and summer, they love it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool. That's really cool. Do you want
to play another one?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm dying to hear more. If you're just joining us.
Sean Manchester is here with us, live in studio and
traveled quite far bit of a hall.
Speaker 12: Yeah, It was.
Speaker 13: About two and a half hours. Just a nice drive though,
watching the sun come up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, trees, Yeah, cute little city here too, Yeah, oh,
thank you, thank you.
Speaker 12: Wandered around for a little bit, driving and seeing all
the sights.
Speaker 13: Nice architects, a lot, a lot of mill buildings.
Speaker 12: Yep. This next song, the wind between us, I'll play
that one.
Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool. We have Sean Manchester here
with us, live in studio on this Saturday morning.
Speaker 12: You're on the program, and I do this one, just acoustic.
Speaker 17: Okay.
Speaker 9: I've seen the wind take it all the way, never
had a.
Speaker 6: Chance reason to stay, this envisible steam.
Speaker 2: I hear the whisper of the.
Speaker 9: Wind through the years distance, like Raleigh's fears.
Speaker 2: I wish we could stay.
Speaker 6: Toom left. The wind never come between us.
Speaker 2: We will never be same.
Speaker 5: Thing.
Speaker 6: Through your heart and tone for copy to writhe the.
Speaker 9: Winds of change.
Speaker 6: And Dick, it's hard to matter what You gotta find
the key to a tour like shut through away the us.
Come for a minute, come for today, but don't come
for long. Don't go to stay. Can't you hear me say?
Doom Let no wind never come between us?
Speaker 9: We will never be same.
Speaker 6: Through your heart and don't forget.
Speaker 9: Me do right though winds of.
Speaker 18: Change, I've seen the one who take it away.
Speaker 9: I've never had a change.
Speaker 6: Reason to say it decent isn't stay.
Speaker 9: Doom.
Speaker 6: Let the wind never come between us.
Speaker 3: Will never beat seen.
Speaker 6: Thing real hard and too for Cavy too, Rato wins.
Speaker 3: Love change.
Speaker 1: Hm, I love it. I love it. Sean Manchester here
with us live in studio. Yeah, I love your voice.
Did how did you learn to singer? You self taught
or did you take lessons.
Speaker 12: Or just all self taught?
Speaker 13: I mean, I think the earliest was when I was
three years old, singing Run Joey Run and Billy Don't
be a Heroes. Oh really, my mom had you know,
some home tapes, you know, yeah, Marching Ben came down
along Main Street. Yeah, early nineties or late eighties, Okay, okay, yeah,
But then you know, really took it on, you know,
in high school when I was probably seventeen Stary plays
and then a couple of Battle.
Speaker 12: Of the Bands and when those went.
Speaker 13: To Belfast Area High School okay, yeah, in Maine, and yeah,
so took it off from there though. I once I
got on stage for the first time doing that it
was all over from there, couldn't stay away.
Speaker 1: Do you do you ever? Have you ever played with
a band or has it always been a solo acoustic thing.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I've done a lot, you know, jammed with different friends,
had cover bands and stuff like that. And I do
intend on getting a bassist and a drummer eventually, Okay,
just probably sometime this summer kind of work on that.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, I've been doing the solo thing though a
couple of years. Yeah, a little bit easier logistically.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you don't have to check with anybody about
their schedule if you had live shows to play exactly,
all that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, you probably You
strike me as someone who's probably always writing.
Speaker 12: You have a lot of songs that you've written exactly.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I have a lot of stuff that I've recorded.
Speaker 20: You know.
Speaker 13: I like to just get it out of my mind
and get it all recorded so I have at least
some kind of demo and then I can come back
to it, tear the song apart, and you know, figure
out how I wrote it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So I'm always writing and picking and choosing what
I want to you know, publish, and what might need
a little bit more time.
Speaker 1: Doing all the mixing and mastering and everything. If you've
done it that way from the beginning, like all doing
all of it yourself. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. I enjoy it.
Speaker 13: And it's come a long way, that's for sure. I
listened to some of the stuff even just five years ago,
and I can tell it's come along really.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Someday maybe I'll release it as like a gag track
or something.
Speaker 1: Yea, here see you.
Speaker 13: Know it takes time to get there.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 13: Actually, yeah, so I had started. Must have been like
sixteen or seventeen. Yeah, yeah, I don't play it because
it's so this is again something.
Speaker 12: People haven't heard. Okay, I actually do remember it.
Speaker 1: So oh okay, dreams.
Speaker 6: Everything looks per it seems everything is word that now
I see.
Speaker 9: I'm the pain.
Speaker 6: I'm causing a dream of you and my heart ist puson.
I'm moving on with about you. I'm moving on because
you're run true. I'm moving on through this dark blue
called you, all right, I like seventeen sixteen seventeen, started
playing the guitar.
Speaker 13: That's why it's just.
Speaker 1: I'm GC and D I like it though. That's good.
Speaker 12: That's not a bad way to start write.
Speaker 13: Not a bad song for a first song.
Speaker 12: No, not, that's funny.
Speaker 13: I haven't thought about that song in a while.
Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah, yeah, no, I like it, I dig it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Who are some of your inspirations as far as songwriters
and performers.
Speaker 12: It's gotta be a lot of class rock. Yeah, I
like classic rock a lot.
Speaker 13: And then on the other side of things, I listened
to a lot of like the Jason Maraz, John Mayer,
you know, early two thousands kind of yeah, acoustic guys.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so a lot of that.
Speaker 13: But yeah, yeah, I'd say it's kind of a mix
of that the classic rock, you know.
Speaker 12: I like a lot of Led Zeppelin and yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is there anyone who who inspires you in terms
of because I love your voice, I mean, is there
anyone you try to emulate vocally or or or who
is uh influence?
Speaker 13: I'd say that like you know, Rob Thomas, that's another one.
A lot of like Matchbox twenty Yeah, you know those
kind of songs. Yeah, a lot of influence from that
kind of stuff too, like that soft rock.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but you've got there's a little bit of
a rawness though that you have that a guy like
Rob Thomas doesn't have. And I think that's what and
I like that. I think that's why I like your
voice so much. This, I don't know, there's a there's
just a little bit of a there's a little bit
of a rough edge to it that I that I
really love.
Speaker 13: That kind of that kind of crunch, which yeah, took
a little bit to be able to get, you know,
really a lot of clean singing, so I used to
do that, you know, very clean and crisp, but I
like that kind of little rasp or crunch, you know,
compression vocals. It comes from the like you know, I
want a rock you know, oh yeah, that kind of
stuff when you actually push yeah, you know, so I
like a lot of that, like heavy vocals.
Speaker 1: So yeah, because for a song like broke Man's Dream
that that really works well, yeah, that that vocal song
like that, Yeah, it gives it a little little bit
of that grit.
Speaker 13: I'd say honestly, a lot of it does come from
like Dio and that kind of like Holy.
Speaker 6: Diver, yeah with the last in line, Yeah like that
sort of Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, because if you can sing that stuff you can
sing anything right exactly.
Speaker 13: It makes it so I honestly have to like hold
back from doing it too much when I play acoustic
because I want to just go, you know, straight out
with it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you don't want to blow your voice out
of the process. Yeah that ever happened, like, especially with
this has been such a brutal cold and flu season.
You ever have that happened to where your voice goes
during the show or starts to.
Speaker 13: Yeah, definitely when I was doing the cover shows and
playing you know, two or three shows a weekend. Yeah,
by that ninth hour of singing, you know, in eighteen hours,
it's like, huh, I need a throat laws and drinking
honey straight from the jar just to soothe it all.
Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt. Is it challenging at all singing
this early in the day.
Speaker 13: You know, I thought about that on the way down.
I was like, I never really sing in the morning.
I mean, as long as I have some coffee to
warm my voice up, it's normally not too bad. Yeah,
that's for the listeners to decide.
Speaker 1: I get right, No, you sound great. You want to
play another one?
Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely, I'll do.
Speaker 21: Me.
Speaker 13: I'll do one called tell me it's more of a
softer song too.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Sean Manchester is here with us
live in studio.
Speaker 6: She said, tell me that you love me and I
won't go. It's coming down in flames. Please love me, no,
tell me it. Don't be too friend this time. Tell
me it'll long turn out all right. And I said,
dun't forgetbod I've told you.
Speaker 9: Due.
Speaker 6: Forget what I said through all of the years, in.
Speaker 9: The tears, how we've dropped.
Speaker 3: I will be there to me.
Speaker 2: Tell me that your.
Speaker 6: Love will never fade. Tell me that you always feel
the same. Tell me that I'm crazy when may Tell
me that you'll be there from me. And I said,
don't forget what I told you to forget what I
said through all of.
Speaker 3: The hears, sound, the tears.
Speaker 9: So we've jumped.
Speaker 3: Now we will be there till the end.
Speaker 6: Don't forget what I told you too, for Cat, I said,
do all of it hears and the tears out, we've dropped.
I will be there toov.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. That's my favorite. Oh
I love that. Yeah, that's really good. That's really good.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Sean Manchester is here with us live in studio on
the Saturday, if you're just joining us sounding great. By
the way, I'm envious of your your ability to whistle.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's something I can't. I can't do, which I guess
is unusual most people can't. I can't whistle well.
Speaker 12: And it's useful too, you know, because I want to
play some lead.
Speaker 13: I want to just you know, yeah, play a couple
of solos over stuff. But if I'm playing rhythm, I
can't really do that.
Speaker 1: So it kind of gives you an extra instrument.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I started to learn how to play harmonica and got
some of that head gear.
Speaker 12: Oh and it goes pretty good.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm adding that to the whole Thing's just one
more instrument.
Speaker 1: Do you do that live? The harmonica with the head
Gary do that? That always impresses me too, because it's
like you're because then you're literally you're playing two instruments
and actually if you're if you have the cone too, Yeah,
you're playing three instruments at once. You're really a one
man band.
Speaker 13: At that point gets you get out of breath sometimes,
you know, but it's worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder about the harmonica if that does that
kind of come naturally to some extent, because you are.
It's kind of like singing right well sense, and they're using.
Speaker 13: Your bractly and it's in key. Yeah, you know, harmonica,
you can't really play a wrong note as long as
you got the right harmonica for the song. Okay, okay,
it's like you have to you have to carry around
eight or you know, six or seven harmonicas. I didn't
know that each one is a different key.
Speaker 12: I didn't see.
Speaker 1: I'm so ignorant about that. I never knew that. Yeah,
so that makes sense though, now that I'm thinking about
it logically, I'm surprised I didn't realize that, because that
does make perfect.
Speaker 13: So they do have like one hundred whole harmonicas, but
do they impossible? Really, that's too much.
Speaker 12: To think about doing all of it at once.
Speaker 1: But yeah, oh that makes sense though, that makes sense.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, I like to use a loop pedal a lot,
where you know, just kind of the edge sheering sort
of thing, play play a rhythm and then play some
drums over it with the guitar, and yeah, it turns
out pretty good.
Speaker 12: I like that because that allows me to play the lead.
Speaker 13: Oh okay, so that way I can just pick up
a harmonica and not have to have it on that
on the head gear or just play a solo you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, is is that challenging when you're first starting
with the loop pedal or does that come pretty easy?
Speaker 13: It's definitely helped just with the experience as far as
recording and playing to a metronome as long as you
can keep that time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, so it came pretty naturally.
Speaker 1: And I guess if you're doing it live and you're
playing original music, it kind of doesn't matter if like
if you if something isn't if you're looking something that
maybe isn't quite what you intended, maybe you made a
little bit of a mistake, but it kind of doesn't
really matter, right because it's.
Speaker 13: Well and I prefer it that way.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 13: I recorded backing tracks of drums, bass and guitar so
that I could sing and play lead over it. Yeah,
and you know, hit play play through the song. But
it made it the same every time, Okay, so you
know I was kind of against that. Rather I have
it be dynamic, you know, and then if something cool happens,
if I add some little like weird rosta part to
one of my songs, right, you know, some kind of
cool riff, you know, it just makes it unique. Yeah, yeah,
I think that's something that, you know, maybe missing in
some music. You know, Like I enjoy just how dynamic
the loop pedal and the acoustic can be. I've been
in cover bands where if you mess up one note
on Sweet Child of Mind, everyone gives you a glare. Yeah,
you know, I'd rather.
Speaker 12: Have it be dynamic where yeah, still haven't just having fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something about cover bands I've always thought it
as interesting is that some people really do get like
they want to hear the songs exactly the way they were.
Speaker 12: And a lot of people play them well you know, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Which is cool and everything. But I kind of like
it when there's something a little different. You know, It's
like I already know how the original sounds, I want
to hear your interpretation of it, you know.
Speaker 9: What I mean.
Speaker 13: I like seeing those you know, acoustic bands, you know,
you have a couple guys of the Kahne and an
acoustic and a base just doing covers like not near
the Beach, that kind of thing, yeah, the summertime, and
that it's a completely different feel when you have that
kind of like acoustic band.
Speaker 1: Oh definitely, yeah, yeah, uhh we have time. You want
to play another one?
Speaker 12: Yeah, let me I'll do one called feed. Let me
just take this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, if you're just joining us, Sean Manchester is
here with us, playing live, sounding amazing, really enjoying this
a lot, Thank you very much.
Speaker 13: Absolutely, this one's not normally an acoustic but well, okay,
send it.
Speaker 12: What's it bound to be?
Speaker 6: Playfoolded and from the lies thout offending all this and
cutting our ties.
Speaker 9: Can't take it anymore.
Speaker 6: I won't handle it this time, trying to breakthrough, no
matter how.
Speaker 9: Hard to try.
Speaker 6: Everything that's tossed now, So Hi tried too many times
to tell you why I'm stove hardening too fad we
thout a fad.
Speaker 3: I'm starting to faith.
Speaker 6: Away, jem, it's coming in. I'm onto you taking in too,
cutting straight onto. My brain is fassing with the time,
and then this world will crumble down. Just roaming through
this hopeless tworison without a chance for rhyme, stodartening till.
Speaker 2: Bade with down of bad.
Speaker 3: Stodarting till bad.
Speaker 1: Way nice. Nice. That's called fade, Yes, yep, very cool.
Fade by Sean Manchester, who's here with us live in studio.
This guy got kind of a little bit of a
little bit of a grunge vibe there to that when
I like that, Yeah, yeah, it runs me a little
bit little bit nineties nineties, a lot.
Speaker 12: Of the early stuff.
Speaker 13: Well, so that's something I should have mentioned too, foo Fighters,
you know, I like uh, Nirvana and Foo Fighters, mostly
Dave Grohl being the multi instrumentalists. Oh yeah, I like
a lot of that post grunge kind of. So that's
one of the earlier songs that I wrote. So it
definitely has those grungy vibes to them.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your songs too, so I noticed that there there
are they all your songs are kind of shorter than
a lot of singer songwriters. Some some singer songwriters you
know we've had on the got like these six minute songs,
but yours are yours are kind of Yeah.
Speaker 13: I I normally, you know, if I have the loot pedal,
that helps to make it a little bit longer. Yeah,
but I like to keep them kind of short and
sweet to the point, so you know, stay along with
the song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ye of it. Well, it's that expression, don't boris
get to the chorus exactly exactly.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, so I do have a lot of
it's it's very like pop, you know, radio music, that's
very similar structure to that. Yeah, and you know, having
a band or the loop pedal makes it a lot
easier to do those intricacies because I have I love
doing the yeah that riff and like I can layer
it and the loop pedal makes it so much fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. How did you learn to play guitar? I
know you're vocally your self taught? What about what about guitar?
Speaker 12: Same, just self taught. Looked up tabs too.
Speaker 13: What is the first thing I played? Chili peppers? That's
another big influence. Oh really, sitting in my mom's basement
when I was sixteen and got the guitar for my
birthday or Christmas, one of those, Yeah, and I just
looked up the tabs, started going to town and then
the other one was shine down. Oh yeah, so just
learning the yeah, learning the tabs and went from there,
just kept with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, nice. Was that your because you're a multi
instrument was that your first instrument? Guitar? Did you start
on guitar?
Speaker 13: Yeah? Well, I mean i'd played piano, here and there,
just when I saw one messing around, you know, so
I had like, that's what kind of got it going,
just seeing how much fun it was, And oh, I
can create something out of nothing.
Speaker 1: That makes sense because I've heard so many music instructors
and teachers say that ideally, if you start on a keyboard,
that's the best way to start to learn, start to
learn the fundamentals, and train your brain.
Speaker 13: It makes it a lot easier to apply the music
theory just because all the notes are in order. So
then when you look at a guitar neck if you see, oh,
each frett is basically a key on the keyboard.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it helps for the visualization.
Speaker 13: Of it a lot. Yeah, I think that was the
biggest thing really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard a lot of instructors say
that that that's that's ideal.
Speaker 13: I'm going to get a piano this spring or summer.
Oh no, just got to find one of those ones
that people have that are free, that they you know,
like a full piano.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, kidding. I'm gonna have a little.
Speaker 13: Roof over my campfire pit so I can have you know,
a piano by the fire, keep it covered and do
some like you know, outdoor saloon campfire jams with my friends,
you know, have a couple of people on guitar or whatever, whoever.
Speaker 12: Shows up with.
Speaker 1: Oh, very cool and yeah.
Speaker 13: Whatever, make some fun jams. But I've always wanted an
outdoor piano like that. I couldn't really beat that. You know,
the sound of piano outside at night would be awesome.
Speaker 1: What do you do about that in the winter? You've
probably already researched it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I mean the piano is on its last leg.
So what happens in winter if it's restorable, if it's
some attitude tune junkie one that they're just going to
toss anyways, you know, Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter, right,
Maybe a bonfire for winter, Yeah, end up burning a
million dollar piano?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: You wanna you want to seek in one more? We
have We have time if you want to do one more,
and then.
Speaker 13: I'll do a fun one. Okay it's called generic love song. Okay,
now let me take these headphones off real quick, false
start tell you.
Speaker 12: Know it's live.
Speaker 2: H come on over and oh sar and age you
what do you like?
Speaker 9: What do you want to hear?
Speaker 6: A singing loud and me, your legs quiver, I'll lean
in close and.
Speaker 9: Whisper in your ear.
Speaker 6: You just know, a generic love song, just something that
I can sing.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 6: We you'll be off my sat list now we'll miss
sing thing. What's your name?
Speaker 9: Again? Sorry? My bad?
Speaker 6: You just another girl that I know won't last. But
let's single, wong and not fun.
Speaker 9: Tomorrow morning, this will be done.
Speaker 6: You just another generic laugh song, just something that I
care sing. In a week, you'll be off my setlist
and now will miss a single thing.
Speaker 3: It's a single thing. It's a single thing. We'll miss thing.
You just not a Janiaric love song.
Speaker 6: Just something that I can sing. You know, we kuby
off my sat list.
Speaker 2: No, miss a single thing.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. What a great track. That's great generic love
song by It's a.
Speaker 13: Little bit of a tongue in cheek song, right, Yeah,
it's the most I love all my songs.
Speaker 12: Can't be heartbreaking, you know, Yeah I'm broken?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's that is fun, have a little fun.
That's awesome. Thanks Sean. What should people know about how
to keep up with you online? Follow everything that you're doing?
Speaker 13: Yeah, if you search for Sean Manch you know Manchester
abbreviated just on Google, Facebook, Instagram, all those places I
keep up, YouTube, Spotify, so pretty much if you look
for me there, hopefully I'm there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are very googleable.
Speaker 12: Which is good.
Speaker 13: Yeah, definitely, that's that be it. A programmer back in
the day gives it handy, you know, search engine optimization,
that sort of stuff, so exactly.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and if anyone wants to look me up, I
appreciate it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And do you have anything this weekend that you're playing?
Got any shows you're planning you want to plug?
Speaker 13: Not anything? Right now, I'm going to start doing the
ones that I run, and you know, focus on quality
over quantity, you know, so I focus a lot on those.
But if they follow my uh Facebook, that's where I
definitely update the most, I'd say, And okay, make some
Facebook events and yeah, yeah, going to be booking hopefully fairs.
That's what I want to get into a lot of,
oh really, fares and events like that, kind of get
out of the bar scene with the covers and do
more of the summers, bigger summer events.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, summer is strugbly your busiest time.
Speaker 13: Right well, and the fair ground in Clinton is right.
Speaker 12: Up the road for me. Oh okay, I started to
become a part of the Lions Club.
Speaker 13: Hopefully that's a good play some of these songs.
Speaker 12: It would be a broke man's dream.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go, There you go. I
think we should end the segment with another track from
your studio, your studio album. I'll let you tell me,
I'll let you pick. That's a good Uh.
Speaker 12: I'm trying to think if there's one that I hadn't played.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you.
Speaker 13: Oh, there's a one called Survive that's a Survivor one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's why I hadn't played.
Speaker 13: I was trying to think of what was on there. Okay, yeah,
self recorded, and that one's also only about a week old.
Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.
Speaker 13: I've been doing a lot of writing and recording, getting
it out of my mind and getting it on the airways.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, that is excellent. Okay, yep, I've got
it here perfect. So we will close out the segment
with this. If you are listening live on Saturday, stick
around at the top of the are We've got brand
new the American radio premiere of Elijah Jenkins new track
Stay Tonight. And then immediately After that, we're going to
be talking to the guys from Iron Jaw about their
new album Cursed. They're going to be skyping in from Texas.
But we will close out this segment with Survive. This
is Sean Manchester and Sean thank you again.
Speaker 13: Thank you very much, and have a good day at Manchester.
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