Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-3-26 hour 3

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2:56 Speaker 12: Thank you. We'll keep turning, turn your head around.

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3:37 Speaker 5: Round and round your head, planning the perfect crime. But when you break it down, is it really real? Is it all just passing by?

3:51 Speaker 11: What's it all come down to?

3:53 Speaker 9: What's true and what's unreal?

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4:04 Speaker 12: Guitar solo Is it really real?

4:18 Speaker 4: Is it all just passing by.

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6:34 Speaker 13: We'll keep turning, turn your head around When the scouts on the front go to turn you upside down Round and round the axis go, got it all figured out this time Run and circle round your head, letting.

6:52 Speaker 12: The butt be crying But.

6:55 Speaker 11: When you break it down, is it really real? Is it all.

7:00 Speaker 5: Just passing by? What's it all come down to? What's true and what's unreal?

7:13 Speaker 3: Another turn around the wheel.

7:20 Speaker 12: Guitar solo guitar solo.

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8:26 Speaker 2: That is Turn of the Wheel. The band is Jamdemic. And we've got the guys in the studio with us. We're going to talk with them in just a moment. But welcome, everybody. We have entered our number three, Numero Trace of Matt Connerton, Unleashed. And we are live from the studios of WMNH, 95.3 FM and Glorious. Manchester, New Hampshire. And of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to our new site, mattconnertonunleashed.com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

8:57 Speaker 2: Today is a Saturday, October 3rd, 2026. And let me get those mics up here. We got everybody here. Let's do this as is our custom. Let's start in the corner here. We'll start with you. Tell us who you are and what you do in the band.

9:13 Speaker 12: Hey, Matt.

9:13 Speaker 2: Drew Arthur, so.

9:15 Speaker 7: I am what I refer to as the saxophonics guy in Jamdomic, and I'm happy to get into more of that as we go forward, but traditionally just play the alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones.

9:25 Speaker 2: Gotcha, okay. All right, and you, sir? Rob McAlpine.

9:28 Speaker 3: I am the drummer in the band.

9:29 Speaker 2: Okay, welcome, Rob. Okay, now this is where it gets tricky, because I'm going to have to kind of adjust the mic as we go here. So go ahead and tell us who you are.

9:38 Speaker 4: I'm Ben Perez, and I play percussion, congas, and a variety of hand percussion instruments.

9:43 Speaker 2: Okay, welcome, Ben. And you, sir?

9:46 Speaker 4: Eric McIntyre. I'm the Jackie Moon of the band. The bass player, vocals, and kind of band leader.

9:54 Speaker 2: So explain that reference, Jackie Moon.

9:57 Speaker 4: Oh, Drew, what's the name of that movie?

9:59 Speaker 2: So, it's Will Ferrell, but, oh, hold on. Oh, It's a Will Ferrell movie, semi-pro. Semi-pro, yeah.

10:08 Speaker 7: Oh, okay.

10:09 Speaker 2: In which case, Will Ferrell is the manager. He is the promoter.

10:13 Speaker 7: He's the owner of the band and of the team, and he is also the star player.

10:20 Speaker 4: Which I am not.

10:21 Speaker 2: That's one of the few Will Ferrell movies I haven't seen.

10:23 Speaker 6: Okay.

10:24 Speaker 4: Oh, you've got to check that one out.

10:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

10:26 Speaker 4: It's almost as good as Blades of Glory.

10:28 Speaker 5: Oh, really?

10:28 Speaker 8: Yeah.

10:28 Speaker 2: Blades of Glory, I see. I love Blades of Glory. And you, sir, in the corner here.

10:32 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's Chris Volpe.

10:33 Speaker 14: I'm the keyboard player at the moment, though I've played guitar sometimes, and I play harp, and I've done a little backup duty on bass once or twice.

10:44 Speaker 2: Okay, all right. Very good, very good. Well, welcome, guys. So this is your second or third time on the show?

10:51 Speaker 4: This is the second time.

10:52 Speaker 2: Second time.

10:53 Speaker 12: Yep.

10:54 Speaker 2: And actually, it.

10:55 Speaker 4: Looks like we might have a special guest showing up a little bit late, Matt.

10:59 Speaker 2: Well, you know, as Jenny always says, musicians.

11:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's exactly what my reference was going to be. Joe is still learning how to program his alarm clock, but he can play the guitar like nobody's business.

11:11 Speaker 2: I think it's daylight savings time, isn't it?

11:13 Speaker 1: Yeah.

11:13 Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah. I tried to use that excuse once being late, but actually it was spring ahead.

11:18 Speaker 12: Right, right.

11:18 Speaker 6: So I'm like, Joe.

11:20 Speaker 4: that doesn't work.

11:21 Speaker 8: Yeah.

11:21 Speaker 2: Fallback spring ahead. That's right. Oh, okay.

11:26 Speaker 6: He's not here.

11:26 Speaker 2: I thought I heard somebody.

11:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, I did too.

11:28 Speaker 6: I saw him run.

11:30 Speaker 2: Oh, Oh, well, somebody in the building. I wonder if Kyle Heavey is here. He was running the race this morning. Uh, Kyle Heavey, he hosts a show here off the mark sports.

11:38 Speaker 3: Um, All right.

11:39 Speaker 2: Well, so what's, what's been going on with jam Demick since you were last year? Cause it's been, it's been over a year, right?

11:44 Speaker 4: I feel like it's, it's been about, yeah, a little over a year. I think we were in last September, I think.

11:50 Speaker 3: Okay.

11:50 Speaker 4: It was the last August.

11:51 Speaker 2: Yeah.

11:52 Speaker 4: So a little over a year, lots have been going on. We've, um, had a really tremendous end of 2025. Um, I think we released two new songs, one of which you just played, uh, turn of the wheel by Chris, Chris Volpe, our key player.

12:06 Speaker 2: Okay.

12:07 Speaker 4: Um, And then, so what we also released Keep Us Satisfied just shortly after we left your station. And then 2026 has just taken off. We started writing a bunch of new songs through the winter. It's typically we kind of, we don't like to gig as much in the winter, right? It's not as much fun as the outdoor parties and festivals.

12:28 Speaker 2: Pretty common in this part of the country, I think, yeah.

12:30 Speaker 4: Yeah, and so, you know, we try to get one or two in there to keep fresh because it's totally different when you're gigging regularly.

12:36 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.

12:37 Speaker 4: But it's also an opportunity to sit back and, you know, Chris is really kind of our lead songwriter.

12:42 Speaker 2: Okay.

12:43 Speaker 4: For the most part. He's just, he's got better lyrics and there's just a yin-yang there.

12:47 Speaker 7: Really?

12:48 Speaker 4: But he's really the guy that has a lot of inspiration there.

12:51 Speaker 3: Okay.

12:51 Speaker 4: Does a lot of like memo, voice memo recordings.

12:53 Speaker 2: Oh, really?

12:54 Speaker 4: Oh, let me get this, let me get this little sequence down and then he'll bring it to the band.

12:58 Speaker 2: Yeah.

12:58 Speaker 4: You know, some of it we'll punt, some we'll accept, but 2026, this year has been amazing. We got a call in, I think it was February, early, early March from the company Fishman Transducers who makes, you know, amps and PAs and pedals and pickups. And they wanted us to help promote with original music, their, rock icon pickup for acoustic. So we embraced that opportunity and they actually ended up bringing a film crew up to Big Bear for the day and paid us a handsome salary for the day and got a bunch of footage and we recorded a bunch of music and just it was a great start to the year.

13:44 Speaker 2: No doubt.

13:45 Speaker 4: And then of course we've got a couple new venues this year. So we play Tuscan Village You're playing there today, right? Playing there this afternoon, yeah. We're going to be setting up around 4, and we'll be going on at 6 o'clock until 9 o'clock tonight. So very much like that's a great new venue for us, great exposure, and we're branching out further to the seacoast.

14:06 Speaker 2: Okay, okay.

14:07 Speaker 4: Let me break right there so I guess you can introduce Joe.

14:10 Speaker 2: So Joe from Jamdemic is here. Were you here last time?

14:13 Speaker 13: Yeah, I was.

14:13 Speaker 2: I think you were. Oh, go ahead and pull that mic right up.

14:15 Speaker 9: All right.

14:16 Speaker 2: And with those mics, you've got to talk directly into them. They're very omnidirectional. Or unidirectional, rather. Welcome, Joe.

14:24 Speaker 3: Thanks.

14:25 Speaker 2: Welcome back.

14:25 Speaker 6: I'm usually stylishly late.

14:29 Speaker 4: He's the professional musician in the band, as you can tell.

14:31 Speaker 8: Right, right.

14:34 Speaker 6: Well, welcome.

14:34 Speaker 2: So it's good to have you here. So what time is the show at Tuscan Village?

14:38 Speaker 4: Six o'clock.

14:38 Speaker 2: Six o'clock.

14:39 Speaker 7: Yep.

14:39 Speaker 4: And it's a free show. Great family event. It's a great spot. Have you ever been there before?

14:44 Speaker 2: I have. Can you just get a little closer to that mic, actually?

14:46 Speaker 8: Oh, sure.

14:46 Speaker 13: Yeah.

14:46 Speaker 8: Yeah.

14:47 Speaker 4: So it's a great place. It's a lot of people in the crowd. It's really nice. It's kind of a good family opportunity as well for the kids and mom and dad to come on out.

14:57 Speaker 12: Excellent.

14:58 Speaker 4: We play a variety of You know, genres. So you could hear some reggae tonight, some jam band stuff, some Grateful Dead, some Phish.

15:06 Speaker 2: Yeah.

15:06 Speaker 4: Some traffic.

15:08 Speaker 2: Maybe a little Led Zeppelin.

15:09 Speaker 4: Yeah, a little Led Zeppelin.

15:10 Speaker 2: Yeah.

15:11 Speaker 4: And then some originals, of course.

15:13 Speaker 2: Oh, of course. Yeah, yeah. You mentioned Big Bear. So for those who don't know, what is Big Bear?

15:17 Speaker 4: Yeah, Big Bear Lodge really is a venue that just kind of came back into focus. It was back in the 60s and 70s. In the 80s, they played pretty much music there. It was one of the hottest live music venues anywhere in southern New Hampshire, northern Mass area. Kind of what the Bull Run is in Shirley is what Big Bear used to be.

15:40 Speaker 3: Okay.

15:40 Speaker 4: And then it kind of went silent after the ski area closed.

15:45 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.

15:45 Speaker 4: You know, Joe had played there a bunch, you know, what, in the 2000s? Even the 90s. In the 90s. So, you know, even after the ski area was closed, they still did live music for a little while. Then it turned into country dance and it turned into bingo.

16:00 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:01 Speaker 4: And that's when the bingo, you know, that's when the Andre's Institute of Art kind of took over and was doing bingo for charitable gaming because they're a nonprofit.

16:09 Speaker 2: Yeah.

16:10 Speaker 4: And then, you know, I got involved with the band playing there doing a benefit show. And as the president says, I never left. I kind of, we brought our PA in cause they really had just not the greatest equipment. And I let them use the band's PA when we weren't gigging for concerts.

16:26 Speaker 3: Yeah.

16:26 Speaker 4: Um, brought my mixer in and I started running sound for them. Um, and then I started to build a team, build the room out. And of course that was all with big help from Andre's and their board of directors realizing that this was a good opportunity to help make some money. And also it's an art.

16:41 Speaker 8: Right.

16:42 Speaker 4: Right. So it fits in perfectly. And it's the, the venue's coming back like crazy. I mean, we've had, uh, Tom Rush was there. He's an iconic folk guy. He was on the Festival Express train. Man, some of the stories. But Bobby Rush, which no relation, but he's a world-class blues musician. We got Ronnie Earl coming. Just a ton of stuff. So I've been involved in the booking from the stage and the sound, the lighting, the promotion. Pretty much what I do for the band, I do for Big Bear Lodge. Right, right.

17:17 Speaker 4: And it's all volunteer.

17:18 Speaker 15: Right.

17:19 Speaker 4: It's in my heart.

17:20 Speaker 3: Yeah.

17:20 Speaker 4: And I think the community is really embracing. And as these guys have seen, we're the resident band there, so we practice there every week.

17:27 Speaker 6: Yeah.

17:27 Speaker 4: And it's just such a great– it's great for us.

17:31 Speaker 2: It's a great space. Yeah. No, it sounds– yeah. We were saying a lot about it, too, the last time you were here. It sounds like it's really just grown– It's.

17:38 Speaker 4: Blown up and it's continuing to blow up, you know, and it's good for the nonprofit. We're really trying to make some money there. So it's every ticket sold, all the profits go to them. We pay the bands fair market value very fairly.

17:50 Speaker 6: Yeah.

17:51 Speaker 7: Right.

17:51 Speaker 4: So, you know, there's some big money going out to the big name bands.

17:54 Speaker 6: Yeah.

17:55 Speaker 4: But and we also pay local bands very fairly. I think we're the only band that plays there regularly for free. And that's great, because our concert that we held last year made the most money out of any concert they've ever had.

18:08 Speaker 2: No kidding.

18:08 Speaker 4: So that was us and the Mighty Colors, our brothers, the Mighty Colors. They're a bunch of great guys.

18:12 Speaker 6: Oh, that's awesome.

18:13 Speaker 4: Really love that band.

18:14 Speaker 6: Excellent.

18:14 Speaker 4: Good to have them on the show.

18:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, you did send me a couple of recommendations, and we'll follow up on those for sure.

18:20 Speaker 4: Definitely.

18:22 Speaker 2: Now, the current incarnation of the band, is it the same that it was the last time you were here?

18:26 Speaker 4: No.

18:27 Speaker 2: Or has there been any change? Because with six guys, I would imagine there's change. Yeah, Drew, why don't you go ahead and elaborate on this?

18:33 Speaker 3: Sure, yeah.

18:34 Speaker 7: Well, so, I mean, as a core group, we've been together for well over now four years. And this year we had Ben Perez join us on the percussion. So it's been a really good additional flavor to the mix.

18:48 Speaker 2: Okay.

18:49 Speaker 7: Yeah.

18:49 Speaker 3: Okay.

18:49 Speaker 2: So prior to that, it was a five piece. Yeah.

18:51 Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.

18:52 Speaker 12: Yeah.

18:52 Speaker 3: Okay.

18:53 Speaker 2: Excellent. And then is, so is everyone who's in this room, is everyone on these, on the studio tracks that you, cause these are all new, right? Are these new?

19:02 Speaker 4: As of late 2025, they are all new, yeah. So Ben, I don't think, was on any one of the cuts yet because he just recently joined us back in May. Yeah, started working with the group in May.

19:13 Speaker 2: In May, okay. We should talk about, because we already played it, but we should talk about... Oh, Turn of the Wheel, that's what we opened with. Yeah, that's one of the ones that was recorded recently, right? Or fairly recently?

19:30 Speaker 6: 25, right?

19:32 Speaker 4: Yeah, I recorded in, I don't know, maybe April, May, I think we recorded all four of those.

19:39 Speaker 2: Okay.

19:40 Speaker 4: And then, of course, we needed to master, and then we didn't want to release them all at once. We kind of wanted to span them out. So I think, ironically, Turn of the Wheel and that title, we released it. to release it on 12-31. Because it's Turn of the Wheel, Turn of the Year.

19:54 Speaker 2: It's kind of.

19:55 Speaker 4: A, you know, we figured we planned them all out like that.

19:59 Speaker 2: Right.

19:59 Speaker 4: And obviously, once you submit them, it takes two months or something for them to get, you know, actually show up on Spotify and Apple Music and everywhere else.

20:07 Speaker 3: Right, right.

20:09 Speaker 4: So, yeah, it's, I think, again, Chris wrote that one. I really like that song.

20:13 Speaker 6: Yeah.

20:13 Speaker 4: And then Rob's drumming in it with the nice sharp ending.

20:17 Speaker 10: Yeah.

20:17 Speaker 4: There's something great about that.

20:19 Speaker 2: What was the inspiration for that song, Chris? I really like that track a lot.

20:24 Speaker 14: Just the feeling of time, you know, passing and things coming around again.

20:32 Speaker 6: Kind of just, it's not a relationship song.

20:35 Speaker 2: Right.

20:35 Speaker 6: It's more just like a kind of in your head kind of song.

20:39 Speaker 9: Yeah.

20:40 Speaker 2: No, I like it a lot. I like all four of these. We should play, well, if you're just joining us, Jam Demick is here with us live in studio. We should play another one of these studio tracks. Eric, of the ones you sent, which one should we go with next? I'll let you pick.

20:53 Speaker 4: I think Keep Us Satisfied is pretty hot.

20:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

20:56 Speaker 6: I like that one.

20:56 Speaker 2: It's a good song.

20:57 Speaker 4: And that was just recently recorded at DreamTrack Studios in Milford, which is a brand new studio.

21:02 Speaker 10: Oh, okay.

21:03 Speaker 4: He, he, we were actually the first band to track there. So that's pretty great.

21:07 Speaker 1: Yeah.

21:08 Speaker 4: Uh, Gary's a good friend of mine and he's also, uh, our leading sponsor at big bear lodge. So he gave us a $ 25, 000 check last year to buy a professional PA. And then we got Jay Frigoletto from a studio metronome and Oak Hill music to help consult, to work with, um, WHB concert and productions out in Hampton.

21:28 Speaker 2: Okay.

21:28 Speaker 4: Um, and they did club casino and, uh, The Portsmouth Music Hall, they do all the professional PA stuff there. So they came in and built the system for us. And honestly, the room sounds is one of the best sounding rooms I've ever been in in this area. It's all wood, open beam.

21:43 Speaker 8: Really?

21:44 Speaker 4: It sounds incredible.

21:44 Speaker 2: Oh, I can't imagine.

21:45 Speaker 4: And the new PA, you know, of course, 25 grand buys you a pretty nice PA system. So we got a top-of-the-line RCF, really nice stuff.

21:52 Speaker 2: Okay.

21:53 Speaker 3: All right.

21:53 Speaker 6: Nice lighting, too.

21:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, all new lighting as well, and that was also donated, another $ 6, 000 donated by Studio Metronome, Jay Frigoletto, Oak Hill Music, and Metronome Studios, and Ben Chandler, who's the principal over there. Beautiful studio as well. So they all have their niche, and I think we're the first band that's worked with all three of those studios, so those guys actually mastered another track that we got coming up, hopefully called Let It Roll, and that was done during the Fishman Tapes, we call it.

22:20 Speaker 4: So that day we recorded live, and that was... You know, there was not overdubbed vocals or anything. It's a live cut. So that was remastered over at Studio Metronome.

22:30 Speaker 2: Okay.

22:31 Speaker 4: And Jay Frigoletto did that. So it's cool that I think we're the only band in the area that's worked with all three of these studios. That's great. And you know what? The cool thing is they all work together. They all have their own niche.

22:40 Speaker 2: Yeah.

22:41 Speaker 4: And we're not really, we're just networking. And these people help us. We help them. And it's really a great community.

22:48 Speaker 2: As a side note, it's cool that all these places still exist because there was a time, like 20 years ago, people were saying, oh, recording studios are going to go away because everybody can just record at home now. And you can record at home now. There's many different ways you can record. But recording studios are still also continuing to thrive because the people who work there obviously have the expertise to really record and engineer and produce something great.

23:10 Speaker 8: Yeah.

23:11 Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's funny. I got Reaper at home and I can mix my own stuff. And typically we record every practice multi-track. And then I go home late night or early morning the next day. We mix it all up and then we make it available on Google Drive for everybody to listen the next day. And we listen the whole week and then make improvements the next practice. It's just, it's really nice to be able to master my own stuff or mix it. But there's no, it doesn't sound anywhere near as good. as the guy with the professional pro tools and the plug-ins that really knows it.

23:42 Speaker 7: And at Gary's studio, Dream Trax, you know, one of the things for me, I got to play with a $ 10, 000 microphone, right? So each one of these, to your point, though, with each one of these different studios, you know, you get a different opportunity to create something that you wouldn't normally. So, you know, Joe's trying out different equipment.

24:01 Speaker 2: I'm getting different microphones.

24:02 Speaker 3: Than I'm used to usually using.

24:04 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.

24:05 Speaker 7: And going from there and really just seeing what does the space provide for and what we can do there.

24:09 Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's been pretty fun. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well, let's give this a spin. This is another great track. So this was done at Dream Trax. Oh, this is Keep Us Satisfied.

24:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, and just a little note on this one. This was actually, we just recorded this last week, right? I think it was on the 20th of September.

24:27 Speaker 7: Okay.

24:27 Speaker 6: Well, this one really is fresh.

24:29 Speaker 4: Yeah, and so in order to get some radio play for you, we figured, all right, let's do a quick mix and master. the vocals still need to be overdubbed. There'll still need to be some guitar overdubs. But overall, I think it's got some meat on the bone. I wanted to make sure you got it.

24:46 Speaker 2: Absolutely. No, I appreciate that. All right, let's give this a spin. This is Keep Us Satisfied, and this is Jamdemic.

24:58 Speaker 12: So I can't get enough satisfaction.

25:23 Speaker 6: Because the world won't.

25:24 Speaker 11: Let you be.

25:26 Speaker 9: I've had the opposite reaction. We got all we'll ever need.

25:37 Speaker 2: Build a better world together in the.

25:39 Speaker 11: Sweet by and by.

25:46 Speaker 5: There's a better world.

25:50 Speaker 12: Together to keep us satisfied guitar.

25:55 Speaker 9: Solo Maybe we need to tear it all down.

26:12 Speaker 6: Maybe it gets a.

26:13 Speaker 5: Little rough Maybe the old must die before the new can.

26:19 Speaker 3: Be bold.

26:21 Speaker 9: Oh, but will it be enough?

26:26 Speaker 11: Build a better world together In the sweet bye-bye Build

26:34 Speaker 11: a better world.

26:35 Speaker 2: Together Keep us satisfied.

26:38 Speaker 9: Keep us satisfied. Keep us satisfied.

27:11 Speaker 3: Thank you.

27:45 Speaker 5: Say you're getting no satisfaction Cause the.

27:50 Speaker 11: World won't let us be.

27:54 Speaker 6: Got the opposite reaction.

27:58 Speaker 3: We got all we'll.

28:00 Speaker 2: Ever need ¶.

28:03 Speaker 11: To build a better world together ¶ ¶ In the swoop by the by.

28:08 Speaker 12: ¶ ¶ Build a better.

28:13 Speaker 14: World together ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied.

28:16 Speaker 11: ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied ¶.

28:51 Speaker 15: Thank you.

29:32 Speaker 4: Thank you.

29:30 Speaker 12: Keep us satisfied Keep us.

29:35 Speaker 8: Satisfied All right, that is Keep Us Satisfied.

30:10 Speaker 2: The band is Jamdemic, and we've got Jamdemic here with us live in studio. And Chris, do you want to tell us about that song? That's one that you wrote, right?

30:20 Speaker 6: Yeah, I wrote that song. So the lyrics are kind of about this perennial.

30:28 Speaker 14: you know, dissatisfaction we all have with, with life as it is.

30:32 Speaker 13: Right.

30:32 Speaker 2: Yeah.

30:33 Speaker 14: So the idea is to, can we, can we come together, um, and build a better world, uh, than this? If we're dissatisfied, you know, can we, can we, can we make the world a better place?

30:43 Speaker 3: Yeah.

30:44 Speaker 14: If that's, that's where it goes. Um, can we build a better, better world together in the sweet by and by? Uh, so sweet by and by is an old, old folk, uh, um, phrase.

30:56 Speaker 3: Okay.

30:57 Speaker 14: Um, The dead use it a couple of times. It generally means like the afterlife. But so this is kind of like, can we do it in our imaginations? Can we imagine something better?

31:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. I like that. It's a good, good, positive message. We're also talking off air about Eric. You were talking about, you know, and I know we talked about this to the last time you were here. But if you want to expand on it, the importance of SEO and digital marketing and all that that you do for the band. And you were saying some things that are pretty impressive in terms of what you've been able to do with that.

31:31 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think when we first started, our goal was kind of, we wanted to play a lot of dead songs, right? Because Chris loves the dead. And I really admired him as a musician. He was much more advanced than I was when we started. And then it kind of came into jam and then we started to figure out what, what name we're going to have and all that stuff. And then, um, since it was during COVID, we picked jam Demick because we're, you want to be a jam band or that was our aspirations. Um, and it fell into place, but then it's like, how do we get the word out?

32:03 Speaker 13: Right.

32:03 Speaker 4: How do we get, how do you promote, how do you do all these things? And luckily my background is marketing and sales through my corporate career. Um, and, I'm like, guys, let me start to figure this out. So initially, I started to apply SEO. We got jamdemic.com, which was amazing. Net and. net and jamdemic band is our Instagram name. So we had to grab that. com, which forwards to jamdemic.com. And then it was all about, all right, let me just focus on the website and SEO. And then I think we're really the first band around to do a Google business page.

32:40 Speaker 2: Okay.

32:40 Speaker 4: And Google business, you know, you have to have an address, but people type in rock band in New Hampshire, jam band, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, classic rock, classic rock band near me. We own all of those keywords and we track, I track them in an application and it's, it's incredibly popular. We get three or four phone calls a week asking us to play private events, weddings, parties, And as I said, we book up in February with 15 gigs.

33:10 Speaker 2: Yeah.

33:12 Speaker 4: And I think our goal is next year we're going to kind of limit that a little bit and play the choices venues that we have on our list now and then really try to do more private parties because they're way more fun. Weddings are way more fun. Yeah. You know, it's a lot of work for us.

33:27 Speaker 9: Yeah.

33:27 Speaker 4: But also there's rewards in it for money as well. Like if we're traveling to Vermont, you've got to get hospitality. We've got to get rooms and it's gas and travel time. All that is part of the bill.

33:38 Speaker 2: Right, right.

33:39 Speaker 4: But we bring a great show.

33:40 Speaker 6: Yeah.

33:41 Speaker 4: And some people want to do what Classic Rock Weddings, we did one two years ago. It was a festival-style wedding. We did band posters for it.

33:49 Speaker 13: Oh, yeah?

33:49 Speaker 4: They gave one to every person. There was tickets for the park to get into the wedding.

33:54 Speaker 2: It was really cool.

33:55 Speaker 8: Oh, wow.

33:55 Speaker 4: It was a great theme, and they actually ended up giving us a couple cabins. We could all stay over.

34:00 Speaker 2: Yeah.

34:01 Speaker 6: They got a campground on the lake.

34:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, they rented this huge Boy Scout tent.

34:06 Speaker 5: Yeah.

34:07 Speaker 4: And it was all us, professional kitchen and all that. It was epic.

34:11 Speaker 2: Yeah.

34:12 Speaker 4: And I think that was our first wedding experience. And then now we just did another one two weeks ago.

34:17 Speaker 2: Excellent.

34:17 Speaker 4: And that was phenomenal. Got to play with a bunch of other professional musicians.

34:21 Speaker 5: Yeah.

34:21 Speaker 4: A lot of fun.

34:22 Speaker 6: Yeah.

34:23 Speaker 4: You know, a lot of fun. But we typically do tailored set lists for them. They want to do a little bit of disco or something like that. We have some jamified, you know, KC and the Sunshine Band stuff we can whip out. We've got some Jimmy Buffett. We've got some sweet Chris Stapleton songs. We're not just in-your-face rock and roll jam. We can play some Eagles and stuff like that because we all like that classic rock or classic country rock or any of that. We can easily... flow in whichever way that the client wants us to.

34:57 Speaker 8: Right, right.

34:58 Speaker 4: But yet we can still also do, what, two hours of dead.

35:03 Speaker 2: I want to, circling back to the SEO stuff, you mentioned, because I think you had said in an email about Fishman. That's how that came about, right?

35:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, they found us. So if you type in chap GPT, any of those iterations of those keywords, jam band, anything to do with jam band, classic rock band, or anything near me will pop up.

35:21 Speaker 6: Yeah.

35:22 Speaker 4: And they kept saying, you guys just kept popping up everywhere that we asked and Gemini or any one of those AI engines, it's going to feed us back. And it's tremendous. And of course, you've got to keep up. You've got to feed the engine. You've got to put content on YouTube and you've got to put SEO terms in there. You've got to do your Google business page because that puts you, no matter how your website is placed, if you have a Google business, it always injects you first.

35:49 Speaker 2: Always.

35:50 Speaker 4: So I think All of those things, and you have to have a website, and you've got to update, and they all... Those keywords have to be thought about on everything.

35:58 Speaker 15: Yes.

35:58 Speaker 4: And that's what then feeds the beast. Next thing you know, you're an AI answer.

36:02 Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.

36:03 Speaker 2: No, that's incredible. That's incredible. Do you find... I mean... when you talk to other musicians about this or do, or do you talk to other musicians about this?

36:12 Speaker 8: It's funny.

36:13 Speaker 4: Andre's Institute is keep telling me that I should host a class on this for musicians, you know, jam Demick's lucky or I'm lucky that I have this background. If I didn't would be like most other bands, which don't really know how to do this. And I think having this knowledge, maybe if they're listening to this interview right now, take this advice. Um, I run a business called DigiSearch Pro out of Hollis, out of my house. And so I do digital marketing and SEO and Google business. And I help out some other bands.

36:44 Speaker 4: And I'm not always charging them, right? My friends, I'll totally hook you up and help you out and try to teach you this methodology. It works. The proof's in the pudding. I send these guys stats all the time. Just last week in the last seven days on Facebook, I think we've had 8,000, 9,000 views. So like we're getting a thousand and that's just on Facebook. That's not Instagram. That's not on our website. That's not on YouTube videos.

37:05 Speaker 15: Right.

37:06 Speaker 4: You got to put out halfway decent content. You got to have pride in your stuff. And We just recently cleaned out our SoundCloud because there was a bunch of old stuff up there. You don't want to have that laying around if there's some bad notes or something when you thought it was okay back then. We live to a higher standard now.

37:23 Speaker 2: It's easy to forget, too, that SoundCloud is there. It's one of those ones you kind of forget about.

37:27 Speaker 4: It's kind of turning into the MySpace.

37:29 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.

37:30 Speaker 2: MySpace is.

37:31 Speaker 4: Is it coming back? That's what I heard.

37:33 Speaker 2: I keep hearing that. But also, MySpace... Well, you probably know this, but MySpace, if you've ever had a page on MySpace... it's still there. Like you can't, I've had people tell me, I've never tried, but I've had people tell me this. Like you can't delete a page on MySpace. It doesn't matter if it's your page. Like they've just made it impossible. So if there's something like embarrassing from a long time ago on MySpace, it's still there. Just be aware of that.

37:58 Speaker 4: Thanks for telling me. I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight.

38:02 Speaker 2: It's definitely still there. We should play another, another one of these great studio tracks. Where should we go next?

38:09 Speaker 4: I think Let It Roll from the Fishman tapes would probably be a good one. So that was recorded live March 26th, I think, at Big Bear Lodge.

38:17 Speaker 2: Okay.

38:17 Speaker 4: We had like an 11-person film crew in there.

38:20 Speaker 3: Wow.

38:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crazy.

38:23 Speaker 2: Where can people find that?

38:25 Speaker 4: Well, that's the ironic thing right now. We're still waiting for them to release everything. There's some pictures of us on the page. Um, if you go under the rock icon, it's actually a work. Joe and I are hand models in that one. So you can just see, you can just see us playing the bass and guitar. Um, corporate runs pretty slow sometimes. Right. So we're just waiting for them to start releasing all this stuff. We're still promoting the product.

38:49 Speaker 15: Um, you know, I've always used them for many years.

38:52 Speaker 2: Yeah.

38:52 Speaker 15: And, uh, you know, wonderful pickup and, for doing this, they gave us two of this new product and it's, it's, it's head and shoulders above what, what the other things that I've used.

39:02 Speaker 2: No kidding. Yeah.

39:03 Speaker 6: As far as the acoustic pickups.

39:05 Speaker 12: Okay.

39:05 Speaker 2: Okay. Excellent.

39:06 Speaker 4: And yeah, they wanted us to do what two different songs in the two different voices of the pickup as well. So there's really, yeah. So there's two voicing styles in the acoustic pickup and it's a really, why don't you explain how it goes in there?

39:17 Speaker 15: It's, it goes into the sound hole of the acoustic.

39:21 Speaker 2: Okay.

39:21 Speaker 15: And it mounts in there and, I've always liked it. It's more of a, you know, instead of having either, you know, a Paisio. pickup that just has more of a nasally sound and yeah kind of been the standard for years but Fishman just just has a beautiful sound to it and doesn't feedback like some acoustics and it just it also takes guitar pedals so I can step on a fuzz box if I want to or like a wah pedal and so it kind of sounds a little bit Electric, if it's used to. And it has another switch so you can have different voicings with it.

39:57 Speaker 15: And they're out of Cambridge?

40:00 Speaker 12: Andover.

40:00 Speaker 13: Andover.

40:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're right down the road.

40:02 Speaker 2: Okay.

40:03 Speaker 4: Which is pretty amazing.

40:04 Speaker 7: Yeah.

40:04 Speaker 9: Yeah.

40:05 Speaker 4: They didn't give us a PA system or anything. I was kind of hoping for that. One thing, we did give them some product review, some design things that we thought they could fix that could be a little bit better. Anyway, I'll let you get to the track.

40:18 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah.

40:19 Speaker 2: Let's give this a spin. This is Let It Roll, and the band is Jamdemic.

40:38 Speaker 9: Thank you.

41:25 Speaker 10: Hanging around, you're feeling oh so right Searching high and low for the special one tonight Little devil told me go and have some fun Little angel said please don't hurt no one Let it roll, listen to it all Let it roll.

41:51 Speaker 1: Enough so you don't fall Let it roll.

41:56 Speaker 4: You gotta live your life Let.

41:58 Speaker 2: It roll Gonna make it Monday night.

42:03 Speaker 10: He stumbles, baby, life gets in the way Flyin' forward if.

42:09 Speaker 9: You love him, say.

42:12 Speaker 4: Sometimes you have to roll.

42:15 Speaker 1: On in the hay Keep on keeping on until they're dying today.

42:20 Speaker 3: Let it roll.

42:23 Speaker 4: Listen to it all.

42:25 Speaker 12: Let it roll.

42:27 Speaker 4: Enough so you don't fall.

42:29 Speaker 11: Let it roll.

42:32 Speaker 3: You've got to live your life.

42:34 Speaker 4: Let it roll. Gonna make it by the night.

43:09 Speaker 12: Guitar solo guitar solo.

43:54 Speaker 1: Gotta live it, baby, it is what it is. Some people trying to make your life their business.

44:02 Speaker 12: Forget it all, they ain't saying it out loud.

44:07 Speaker 10: Live your life right now and hang your head up high.

44:11 Speaker 9: Let it roll.

44:12 Speaker 12: Listen to it all.

44:15 Speaker 3: Let it roll.

44:16 Speaker 12: And you know so you don't fall.

44:19 Speaker 5: Let it roll.

44:27 Speaker 1: Gonna make it mine tonight Let it roll.

44:32 Speaker 4: Listen to it all.

44:34 Speaker 12: Let it roll Stumble your phone Let it roll You gotta live your life Let it.

44:46 Speaker 4: Roll Gonna make.

44:48 Speaker 12: It mine tonight Now.

44:51 Speaker 2: Now So good. That is Let It Roll. The band is Jamdemic. And we have Jamdemic here with us live in studio this week. And no, I love that. That sounds really good. And so that was recorded at Big Bear?

45:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was done during the Fishman shoot.

45:23 Speaker 2: Okay.

45:23 Speaker 4: That we did in March.

45:24 Speaker 2: Okay.

45:25 Speaker 4: And that was, again, live, so there was no vocal overdubs.

45:28 Speaker 12: Okay.

45:28 Speaker 4: You know, it was cleaned up a little bit and remastered, but, you know, it's one of those live cuts.

45:36 Speaker 2: Have you guys ever just thought about recording a live album or a live EP, just do the whole thing live?

45:42 Speaker 6: That'd be cool.

45:43 Speaker 2: Because, I mean, I think it would work. I mean, it sounds, you know, that sounded great.

45:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate it.

45:48 Speaker 6: I'm able to do that at some point.

45:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, you should.

45:51 Speaker 4: It's just a lot of logistics. And if we did it, we'd probably do it during the winter and invite all our friends and have a big old party with it.

46:01 Speaker 4: We love playing with the Mighty Colors. Those guys are a lot of fun. So maybe we'd have them do an album too or something.

46:07 Speaker 7: Matt's read my mind. I keep saying we have big bear space. Even just the wedding we did two weekends ago, they contacted Eric. what about a couple of weeks before said, Oh, by the way, we have a couple of really great musicians coming to the wedding. One is a professional mandolin player. The other is a, an old blues, a blues guy named RB stone.

46:29 Speaker 6: Yeah.

46:29 Speaker 2: And, uh, mind if they sit in and we got five great tracks with them with a lot of.

46:34 Speaker 7: Different voices in their space to open up, let the mandolin really come in. And obviously having another guitar player with Joe for him to riff back and forth with. And so you could just see even just doing a five, five song release, you know, you know, you know, Live from Big Bear.

46:48 Speaker 2: Yeah. Hell yeah.

46:50 Speaker 4: Yeah, two of those tracks that we just put on YouTube that people can listen to.

46:54 Speaker 2: Oh, okay.

46:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, so they're up on our YouTube, which is YouTube.com slash Jamdemic. Nice and easy.

47:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So what's kind of the... So you've got... Well, we should mention the show today. For people listening live on Saturday, we should remind people who are just joining us. Of course, Jamdemic is here with us in the studio. You guys are playing today at Tuscan Village, correct?

47:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, in Salem, New Hampshire.

47:16 Speaker 5: Okay.

47:16 Speaker 4: And it's a free show.

47:17 Speaker 2: Outside.

47:18 Speaker 4: Yeah, outside, 6 p.m.

47:20 Speaker 12: Excellent.

47:21 Speaker 2: Should be beautiful weather. Yeah, we seem to be having one last little blast of summer-ish weather before the... Before it gets cold.

47:30 Speaker 4: Bring a sweatshirt. It might get a little chilly after 8 o'clock.

47:33 Speaker 2: Once the sun goes down, yeah.

47:35 Speaker 4: It should be nice.

47:35 Speaker 6: If you get those outdoor fireplaces too, you can sit around.

47:38 Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Yeah, and there's that Sam Adams beer garden right there. It's really a pretty idyllic place. Yeah, cornhole you can play.

47:47 Speaker 2: Kids can run around.

47:49 Speaker 4: Shopping, Italian market.

47:51 Speaker 15: I think every shopping mall should be like this because it's like a beautiful courtyard.

47:54 Speaker 6: It feels like a place to be. It's like cultural. It's just honorable.

47:59 Speaker 2: Like a little lake? Yeah, it's Lake Park.

48:02 Speaker 9: L.L.

48:02 Speaker 15: Bean.

48:03 Speaker 2: Let's test the canoes in there. Yeah.

48:06 Speaker 6: That's great.

48:06 Speaker 2: Do you guys have a favorite other than Big Bear? Do you guys have a favorite place to play? Is there some place that really, again, obviously Big Bear would be number one, I'm sure.

48:15 Speaker 4: You know, we really like playing at the Range up in Mason. At least I do.

48:19 Speaker 8: Okay.

48:20 Speaker 4: Because it's just, that place is so great. It's an outdoor venue. You know, she's only open from April to October usually.

48:28 Speaker 15: Okay.

48:28 Speaker 4: It's just a great place. Unfortunately, we've been rained out or weathered out the past three gigs we've had.

48:34 Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Really?

48:35 Speaker 4: Yeah. It's been really disappointing. And it's just, you know, Mother Nature just unfortunately dealt us a card. So we keep talking, Nicole. We're going to book another couple shows up there next year. That's going to be one of the venues we definitely will always try to hit.

48:49 Speaker 2: Right.

48:50 Speaker 4: And then every couple of years we'll go back to Panucci's, which gave us our first opportunity. And we love playing downtown in Nashua.

48:55 Speaker 6: Yeah.

48:56 Speaker 4: But, you know, Panucci's, if you're listening, we want to play the Concord location sometime soon. And then we have plans to branch out, what, Portland? We want to get up to Lenny's up in outside of Portland.

49:08 Speaker 7: A friend of mine just reopened Lenny's Club up in Portland.

49:12 Speaker 6: And so we'd.

49:12 Speaker 7: Like to get up there, do some more stuff on the seacoast.

49:15 Speaker 6: This next year, expand out a little bit.

49:17 Speaker 2: Yeah.

49:17 Speaker 4: And I think we want to get down south a little bit more, kind of north towards Boston. And Tuscan Village helps us break out a little bit more towards the seacoast. And obviously, you know, playing somewhere at the seacoast out there, we'd love to do the Seafood Festival.

49:31 Speaker 2: Okay.

49:32 Speaker 4: Get involved in that. So I think I'll probably be reaching out to them shortly to see if we can get on that ticket. We love those outdoor festivals, outdoor old home days. Joe and Chris just played at old home days. The whole band wasn't available, so those guys kind of formed a super group. They were really good. They played Zeppelin Fool in the Rain, and I was just in love with it. So I think we're going to pull that song in. We love our Led Zeppelin. It's a lot of fun.

49:57 Speaker 2: No doubt. Is there a particular band that you guys cover more than any other? Is there a particular... Probably the Dead. Probably the Dead. Probably Dead first, and then.

50:05 Speaker 4: And then Fish.

50:06 Speaker 2: Zeppelin Stones.

50:07 Speaker 4: Zeppelin Stones, Fish.

50:09 Speaker 3: Yeah.

50:10 Speaker 4: And Traffic. We do a lot of Traffic songs.

50:12 Speaker 2: Oh, okay.

50:12 Speaker 4: Three or four Traffic songs. We do Medicated Goo, which is a new one. Okay. Light Up or Leave Me Alone. Fantasy.

50:18 Speaker 12: Mr.

50:18 Speaker 4: Fantasy.

50:19 Speaker 2: Oh, wow.

50:21 Speaker 4: And I'm sure there's another one somewhere in there.

50:23 Speaker 11: Yeah.

50:23 Speaker 4: But I think we'll be playing Medicated Goo this afternoon.

50:25 Speaker 12: Okay.

50:25 Speaker 4: I think that's on our predefined set list, but we'll see.

50:29 Speaker 2: How does that work with the set list? Because obviously you guys know a lot of songs. I mean, do you kind of.

50:33 Speaker 4: We have almost 200 in our catalog. And we're adding, we add 20 more every year.

50:39 Speaker 5: Wow.

50:39 Speaker 2: Do you write it out?

50:40 Speaker 4: Plus originals.

50:41 Speaker 2: Do you write it out or do you just feel your way through it?

50:43 Speaker 4: Feel our way through it. We get inspirations. People bring in stuff. Hey, how about listen to this? Or I'll send something around. Chris will send around YouTube. We have, you know, it's just consistently talking about it. Yeah.

50:54 Speaker 2: Yeah.

50:54 Speaker 14: But again, the technology guru over here, we're doing a lot of this through like shared docs online and stuff like that.

51:01 Speaker 6: Google Drive. So we have everything centralized in the cloud.

51:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. You've got to be organized, right?

51:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, we also share set lists. So we'll talk about the set list. Drew and Ben have been helping out quite a bit of organization flow. And if we need to, we have a bunch of extras, obviously. You always want more material so you can dive in in case you find yourself, oh, it's 50 minutes in and we're out of material. So just getting that, keeping track of all the songs, their length, So we can go back all the way three years on Google Drive and play any one of our practices, and almost every one of our gigs have been recorded, all multi-track remixed.

51:39 Speaker 4: So we can go and say, hey, I can pull out, let's say, a version of Fearless, because we do Fearless by Pink Floyd, and I'll pull out a version. If we don't play it for a year, things get a little bit weird. It's almost like riding a bike, but the sound's different. So we can pull out an old reference track that we really liked and listen to that and Then we can also look at the time, and then I'll take the last three recordings of that and average that out, and then put that in the spreadsheet for the list.

52:06 Speaker 4: And then it's either do you jam a little bit more, do you not. It helps us keep the list a little shorter, more jammy, more weaving in and out of stuff. We also really love mashups. We've been doing a lot of mashups.

52:17 Speaker 2: Oh, no kidding.

52:18 Speaker 4: So we'll do Led Zeppelin, Dazed and Confused, the first couple verses, and then we go into 25 or 624. It fits perfectly. And then we fade back out of that back into Days of Confused. And we're talking about other mashups. Kind of like an Umphreys McGee type of deal. That's what really gave them some fame. Just always coming up with different ideas.

52:39 Speaker 2: Do those ever happen sort of by accident? Or do you plan them? Because I can imagine you guys jamming on something and you kind of just organically go into something else.

52:48 Speaker 4: He pulls out stuff that... And then it gives us inspiration.

52:52 Speaker 9: Really?

52:52 Speaker 4: Or Chris will play, you know, come in when we're warming up before practice and he'll play a line from, you know, a Zeppelin tune.

52:58 Speaker 8: I'll be like, oh, wow.

52:59 Speaker 10: Yeah.

52:59 Speaker 14: You know what's really fun, though, is sometimes when we're, if we're jamming, you might remember, like, a song that fits the chords that we're playing just randomly.

53:09 Speaker 13: Right.

53:09 Speaker 6: And you start singing that and, you know, that's how, that's awesome. mashups happen.

53:14 Speaker 4: Yeah, like with rock and roll, right? Tell them about that. What do you, what do you put into there? Like when we were at the end of rock and roll, there's a little mashup of something that you do with some lyrical mashup.

53:22 Speaker 6: Velvet Underground.

53:24 Speaker 14: Yeah, Velvet Underground, uh, Lou Reed song, rock and roll. And, uh, one of his refrains is, um, and it was all right in that song. And it was all right. Uh, and it, the, the, the last jam that we do on that, I just started thinking about that Stevie Wonder song, um, what's.

53:45 Speaker 6: The name of that song? Everything's Alright. Yeah, Everything's Alright. Everything's alright.

53:50 Speaker 14: And it just kind of, it just like suggested like, oh, hey, I could actually fit that, those lyrics also onto this this chord series that we're doing, it sounds exactly like it.

53:59 Speaker 2: No kidding.

54:00 Speaker 6: So, you know, yeah.

54:01 Speaker 7: So he screams, he all of a sudden just, you know, goes into that one time while we're playing it. Next, next thing I know, you know, I'm like, okay, well now I got the horn part from that.

54:08 Speaker 2: The actual song.

54:09 Speaker 6: So we'll start weaving that in.

54:10 Speaker 8: Yeah.

54:11 Speaker 2: We, we love that.

54:12 Speaker 5: Yeah.

54:13 Speaker 2: Oh, very cool. Very cool. Well, guys, this has been wonderful. Before we run out of time, because I do want to make sure we get this last track in, but where's the best place to go? And, of course, we've talked about this a lot, but where should people go online to keep up with everything that Jamdemic is doing?

54:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go to jamdemic.com, facebook.com, jamdemicyoutube, dot com slash jamdemic you just type that name and you'll find us exactly and then we're playing at the milford pumpkin fest next weekend uh that's a definitely going to be a fun gig so that's a free um festival music festival event downtown milford new hampshire okay be our fourth year fourth year playing it um and we're on the oval stage at 12 15 p.m and we got uh ben's going to be with us um for a third gig with us yeah yeah oh wow excellent it's uh You know, it's exciting, and we love playing.

55:02 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all weekend, and then we're playing later that evening. We're playing a private party right downtown Milford as well.

55:07 Speaker 3: Okay.

55:07 Speaker 4: And a big shout-out to Boardhouse Productions for running all the sound at the festival, and that's actually where we recorded some of these tracks as well.

55:15 Speaker 2: Okay, okay. Isn't it interesting how this little town called Milford... It's kind of like the center of the universe for musicians.

55:21 Speaker 4: It really is. And actually, Big Bear is fortunate that we're right next door in Brookline, New Hampshire. So we're not far away from Milford. And that has helped. Milford really is the epicenter of music in New Hampshire.

55:33 Speaker 2: It's weird, though, isn't it?

55:34 Speaker 3: It is weird.

55:35 Speaker 4: But there's a lot of great little live music places there. Like since the 70s or earlier.

55:41 Speaker 2: Really? It's always been the case? Yeah.

55:44 Speaker 15: My parents used to go see bands in Milford.

55:46 Speaker 2: No kidding.

55:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of weird.

55:48 Speaker 2: A little oasis of music. Yeah.

55:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, what was it? Like the Colonel Shepherds, and then there was Elisha's.

55:54 Speaker 2: The White Horse.

55:55 Speaker 4: The White Horse.

55:56 Speaker 3: Okay.

55:57 Speaker 4: All cool places to see live music back in the day.

55:59 Speaker 13: Wow.

56:00 Speaker 4: And I think that's really what built it up.

56:03 Speaker 2: See, I didn't even know that. I just noticed about, you know, I don't know, five or six years ago, maybe a little more. It's like everybody on the show is they're like, oh, yeah, we're playing Milford. We're playing Milford. We're playing Milford. It's like, my God, what's Milford? Yeah, like I was like, Milford, I feel like I've driven through it. I'm not even sure exactly where it is. But yeah, it's just wild. But it's cool, though.

56:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not far from Hollis either, which is our home base. So there's really no nightclub or anything we can play in our hometown. So Big Bear's pretty close, and Alford's real close. And, you know, we played Kimball Farm this year down in Westford, and we played a nonprofit, Rowden Bush Center down in Rock Party.

56:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, we played a lot in Westford.

56:41 Speaker 4: Really? Yeah.

56:42 Speaker 2: We did the Tiki Bar.

56:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Tiki Bar at Neshoba Valley we play in Westford.

56:46 Speaker 2: Yeah.

56:47 Speaker 4: That's a fun gig too.

56:47 Speaker 13: Okay.

56:48 Speaker 6: Yeah.

56:50 Speaker 2: All right.

56:50 Speaker 3: Well, very good.

56:51 Speaker 2: Well, guys, I want to thank you, all six of you, for joining us today. This has been wonderful. Thanks for having us. Absolutely.

56:55 Speaker 3: Definitely.

56:56 Speaker 12: Thanks, Matt.

56:56 Speaker 2: You got it. We're going to close out with a blink of an eye. Anything we should know about this, too, before we play it?

57:01 Speaker 6: It's our most psychedelic song.

57:03 Speaker 2: Yeah? All right. All right.

57:05 Speaker 6: I'm trying to push this in that direction. Okay.

57:07 Speaker 4: Secretly.

57:07 Speaker 6: Don't tell the guys.

57:08 Speaker 2: All right. We'll close out with this. Thank you, guys, again. And thank you to everyone who joined us today. Of course, we had Ricky Mapleton in the first hour and Eddie Sculler. in the second hour. If you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at WMNHradio.org. And, of course, at my website, MattConnerton.com. And our new site, MattConnertonUnleashed.com. And we will leave you with this. Blink of an eye. The band is Jamdemic. Guys, thanks.

57:35 Speaker 6: All right.

57:35 Speaker 3: Cheers.

58:19 Speaker 6: Blessing the sun, burning in time.

58:28 Speaker 9: Oh, no land of none, be all and all right.

58:33 Speaker 12: Arriving he goes.

59:12 Speaker 13: Sideways we slide, between the now and old times. Revenue's done, let's be your guide. Come then you know, time is a lie.

59:34 Speaker 3: Step inside and you're gone

59:37 Speaker 2: In the blink of an eye.