Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-3-26

0:00 Speaker 1: You are listening to WMNH 95.3.

0:07 Speaker 2: The commander to the supreme leader, Mezzo Caviglione.

1:01 Speaker 3: I was waiting at the bus stop Thinking you would be along We made plans in the moonlight.

1:24 Speaker 4: You said I was your shooting.

1:26 Speaker 5: Star You played all of.

1:31 Speaker 6: My heart strings You made me believe in.

1:36 Speaker 3: Love You bought a ticket for one. I knew that we'd never last.

2:44 Speaker 6: True love will you ever find me i'm on the.

2:49 Speaker 5: Streets all alone.

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3:35 Speaker 7: That is Ricky Mapleton, the great Ricky Mapleton. That is called In the Moonlight. And Ricky Mapleton is here with us. We're going to talk with him in just a moment.

3:49 Speaker 8: But welcome, everybody.

3:50 Speaker 9: Here we go.

3:51 Speaker 7: It is that time again. Matt Connerton Unleashed.

3:54 Speaker 8: And we are.

3:54 Speaker 7: Live from the studios of WMNH 95.3 FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to our new site, mattconnertonunleashed.com. For all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etc., etc.

4:12 Speaker 8: Today is Saturday, October.

4:16 Speaker 7: 3rd, 2026. And welcome back, Ricky Mapleton.

4:20 Speaker 10: Thank you.

4:21 Speaker 7: What is it, Six Timers Club now?

4:23 Speaker 10: I believe so, sir. I was reminiscing about that last night, thinking how many years I've been coming on the show now.

4:29 Speaker 11: Yes.

4:30 Speaker 10: It seems like only yesterday that I came on the first time.

4:33 Speaker 8: We were worried, or you were worried. I knew you'd find a way to get here. But, of course, there's the big race.

4:38 Speaker 7: Actually, if I put the camera on, for those watching online, if I put on that camera, you can see on the big screen in back of me, wow, there's a lot of people. It looks like some people are running this particular race. I believe it's a 5K in Halloween costumes. I see a pumpkin, a running pumpkin. You never expect to see that.

4:59 Speaker 8: That's crazy.

5:00 Speaker 12: Look at that.

5:01 Speaker 10: There's just masses of people running down. What is that? Is that Canal Street? What are they heading up?

5:08 Speaker 7: I just hope I'm not mistaken and this is an actual 5K and these people aren't running away from something terrible that's happening that we should know about.

5:16 Speaker 10: If you put some sort of apocalypse. What's the word I'm talking about?

5:20 Speaker 8: Apocalyptic?

5:21 Speaker 10: Yes, that word, Matt.

5:22 Speaker 8: Thank you.

5:23 Speaker 13: Yes.

5:23 Speaker 10: It would look like they would be running from Godzilla or some sort of... Matt, what's your thoughts on running long distances?

5:35 Speaker 7: Oh, I like to run.

5:36 Speaker 8: Really?

5:37 Speaker 7: Yes, I'm a big fan, actually.

5:38 Speaker 10: It looks like there may be a sale at one of our local distributors.

5:42 Speaker 8: That could be.

5:44 Speaker 7: I don't know.

5:44 Speaker 10: There's a lot could be going on there. This is just amazing to sit here and watch these people running... On the Matt Connaughton radio broadcast.

5:52 Speaker 14: I know.

5:52 Speaker 10: Wow.

5:52 Speaker 8: It is amazing. Well, I should mention.

5:54 Speaker 10: It is kind of distracting, but it's really cool. Yeah, yeah.

5:57 Speaker 7: Our very own Kyle Heavey, who, of course, hosts Off the Mark Sports here at WMNH. He is in the race today, so we might see him this morning. Perhaps he'll pop in, but he is running in this race.

6:10 Speaker 10: There's somebody with another pumpkin. There's two pumpkin runners right there.

6:15 Speaker 15: Yeah.

6:15 Speaker 10: They're more walking than running. Does it matter?

6:18 Speaker 8: I've never seen a pumpkin with legs.

6:21 Speaker 10: It's only on the Matt Connaughton radio broadcast. Can you have this play-by-play? Why isn't there an actual play-by-play? I mean, me and you, we could do the whole thing on this right here.

6:33 Speaker 2: Yeah.

6:34 Speaker 8: Oh, I see a dog.

6:35 Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know if we really could. Well, I think you overestimate our abilities to do that.

6:41 Speaker 10: Okay, fair enough. Thanks for grounding me.

6:44 Speaker 7: Okay, so however, interestingly enough, you are trying to get a job in radio.

6:49 Speaker 8: If I'm not mistaken.

6:50 Speaker 16: Yes, I am.

6:51 Speaker 7: You've sent us a clip, a bit of an audition, if you will. And by the way, a great time to get into radio because it is an ever-expanding industry.

6:59 Speaker 10: Well, thank you for trying to get me, my foot in the proverbial door.

7:05 Speaker 13: Yes.

7:06 Speaker 10: I am living out one of my. Dreams, one of my bucket list, by continuing to be creative, Matt, just like you.

7:15 Speaker 8: Yes, yes.

7:16 Speaker 10: I think that's really the message that I'm trying to portray or give out.

7:22 Speaker 7: If the radio thing doesn't work out, you can always just do a podcast because everyone does a podcast now.

7:27 Speaker 12: No, no.

7:27 Speaker 8: You've never had a podcast?

7:29 Speaker 18: No.

7:29 Speaker 7: You will at some point.

7:31 Speaker 10: Well, isn't this kind of a podcast?

7:32 Speaker 7: It's legally required.

7:33 Speaker 8: Well, it is. It is. I mean, we're a radio show. We're on a live radio station. However.

7:38 Speaker 10: But what's the difference?

7:39 Speaker 7: However, we're also streaming. You know, that is kind of how I think of it, because everything's sort of congealed into one thing now.

7:45 Speaker 8: It's all content.

7:46 Speaker 7: Because while we are broadcasting on the FM radio here in Manchester, we are also streaming. And then, of course, after the live show is over, you can get the show as a podcast, downloadable and streamable and all of that. So it's both. Everything is both now. Everything is all things. And all things are everything.

8:04 Speaker 19: Wow.

8:05 Speaker 8: You like that?

8:06 Speaker 10: You are a linguistic phenomenon.

8:09 Speaker 8: I'm going to put that in a song.

8:10 Speaker 10: Your semantics are beyond reproach.

8:12 Speaker 7: Everything is all things and all things are everything. I think that would look great on a bumper sticker.

8:16 Speaker 10: I think we can write a song about that today.

8:18 Speaker 8: Maybe we could.

8:19 Speaker 10: Maybe we can't, though. Maybe we're overreaching. What did you say? Overreaching our.

8:23 Speaker 7: Overestimating our abilities?

8:25 Speaker 13: Yes.

8:25 Speaker 10: That's a nice blues song, too.

8:27 Speaker 8: Well, we should.

8:27 Speaker 10: Oh, wait a minute. Looking at the thing, somebody there is listening to a skeleton.

8:31 Speaker 8: Is that a ghost?

8:32 Speaker 10: I don't know what's going on. Some sort of ghost has just taken the lead.

8:36 Speaker 8: Wow.

8:37 Speaker 20: Wow.

8:38 Speaker 10: Wow.

8:38 Speaker 18: Okay.

8:40 Speaker 7: I think probably having a run like this, an event like this so close to Halloween might be dangerous because we're mixing all kinds of things.

8:47 Speaker 10: Okay. We seem to have some babies doing very well on the walkers. They seem to be rallying to get into the second place position.

8:55 Speaker 21: Wow.

8:56 Speaker 8: That's a lot of people.

8:57 Speaker 10: Oh, there's two fast pumpkins right there.

9:00 Speaker 8: Two what?

9:00 Speaker 13: Oh.

9:01 Speaker 10: Two pumpkins?

9:01 Speaker 8: I thought you said two fast punks.

9:04 Speaker 10: So for those, Matt, wow, yeah. Could I intervene here for a second? Sure. I have sponsors today.

9:14 Speaker 8: You do?

9:15 Speaker 10: Yes, and I would like to make a shout out to my sponsors, a garage sale that is happening in Golfstown, New Hampshire on Frost Street across from Hannaford.

9:24 Speaker 22: Uh-huh.

9:26 Speaker 10: I was supposed to be there today.

9:28 Speaker 8: Oh.

9:29 Speaker 10: And then it got, well, the garage sale was actually supposed to be last week. Then we had the rain, so we moved it to this week. And I said, oh, my little iCal, which I'm actually using now.

9:41 Speaker 8: Okay.

9:41 Speaker 10: Good for me, right?

9:42 Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

9:42 Speaker 10: Big step, big step. And I noticed it was two blue dots on today. Okay.

9:47 Speaker 8: Okay.

9:48 Speaker 10: And nervously, I opened it up and I'm, oh no, I'm on Matt Connaughton in the yard sale. So that left quite a dilemma. So I want to say hello to people at the yard sale today. I told them about it.

10:00 Speaker 13: This.

10:00 Speaker 10: They should be listening right now. And if anybody goes to the yard sale today, you can get... 75% off. No, I'm Matt. You know what? I'm going 85% off anything on my table.

10:14 Speaker 8: Wow.

10:15 Speaker 10: Oh boy. I shouldn't say that. Cause I got a couple of $ 20 items there. Oh boy.

10:19 Speaker 23: Okay.

10:19 Speaker 18: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

10:21 Speaker 8: A couple of bucks for him now.

10:22 Speaker 10: I would like to screwed. No, no, no. I, this is good. I want to say hello to everybody at the yard sale right now.

10:27 Speaker 8: Okay.

10:27 Speaker 10: And I thought they were kind of, kind of fun. I'm actually talking to, hopefully they're listening.

10:31 Speaker 8: Yeah.

10:32 Speaker 10: Cause I brought this stuff over yesterday.

10:34 Speaker 14: Yeah.

10:35 Speaker 10: Sorry, I'm going off on a tangent.

10:36 Speaker 8: It's quite all right. It's a big event.

10:38 Speaker 10: Well, not as big as me hanging out with Matt Connick and why I'm watching people. Oh, it seems to be.

10:47 Speaker 7: Okay, the guy with the bike is cheating. That's cheating.

10:50 Speaker 10: He's going the wrong way, too.

10:52 Speaker 7: That cop saw him, too. The cop saw it. That's probably why he's going the other way. The cop probably said, you can't use a bike.

10:58 Speaker 10: That was the guy that was telling me I couldn't park in the studio because I came in the wrong way.

11:03 Speaker 18: Oh, yeah.

11:03 Speaker 10: Because I got hit traffic on the way here because of this.

11:07 Speaker 8: Yeah.

11:07 Speaker 10: Oh, wait a minute. We have a few... Okay, let's focus. Let's focus.

11:10 Speaker 7: Had to do that before. Well, so you have a bit of a... Should we call this an audition tape?

11:14 Speaker 13: Yes.

11:15 Speaker 7: You've got a demo.

11:16 Speaker 12: Yes, thank you.

11:16 Speaker 8: Or a sizzle reel, you could call it. A sizzle reel.

11:20 Speaker 10: I've never heard that before.

11:21 Speaker 18: Yes, yes.

11:23 Speaker 10: I'm too old to sizzle my phone.

11:25 Speaker 7: That's an industry term. So let's listen to this.

11:29 Speaker 24: Okay.

11:29 Speaker 8: And if I'm not.

11:31 Speaker 10: And Mike, could you give me your honest professional opinion?

11:34 Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.

11:35 Speaker 10: And for those listening out there, if you know anybody that is looking for anybody to do voiceovers, which I just recently worked for something called Bad Backyard Wrestling.

11:46 Speaker 8: Really?

11:47 Speaker 10: They actually used me as a client. I actually made some... Are you familiar with Bad Backyard Wrestling? No.

11:53 Speaker 7: I mean, I've seen Backyard Wrestling that's very bad on YouTube.

11:57 Speaker 10: Well, it's called Bad Backyard Wrestling.

11:59 Speaker 8: Okay.

12:00 Speaker 10: And I was contacted through a friend who makes independent movies. And he said, hey, why don't you get a code of Ricky Mapleton? He does background music and some is maybe... So, when it comes to shove... How are we without bad backyard wrestling? How did I get to that point? Help me, Matt. Where are we?

12:20 Speaker 8: Well, I don't know.

12:21 Speaker 7: I mean, are they going to... Will you have to be... Will you be an actual backyard wrestler? Will you be put.

12:26 Speaker 8: Through a table?

12:26 Speaker 13: No, no, no, no.

12:27 Speaker 10: They took some of my music.

12:29 Speaker 8: Oh, I understand.

12:29 Speaker 10: And they put it in back of why the scenes were running.

12:32 Speaker 8: So you're not going to be.

12:34 Speaker 7: Like, you're not going to be taking a barbed wire bat to the head or anything.

12:37 Speaker 10: I've taken enough earlier in my life.

12:39 Speaker 18: Understood.

12:40 Speaker 10: I've given that up.

12:41 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah.

12:41 Speaker 10: And now I am fortunate enough to actually have somebody that actually... gave me a few dollars to put some of their music in back of it, and I was shocked.

12:52 Speaker 8: Wow.

12:53 Speaker 10: So if anybody... Okay. Anyways, enough about me. Let's talk about me.

12:57 Speaker 13: Go.

12:57 Speaker 8: So we have this clip, this demo clip, and then this goes into a song?

13:02 Speaker 13: Yes.

13:03 Speaker 10: So, yes. One of my... Something that has traction. Is that the right word I should be using?

13:08 Speaker 8: Traction?

13:09 Speaker 10: Traction in... The music that I put out to try to make people feel good and keep me busy.

13:14 Speaker 8: Oh, okay.

13:15 Speaker 10: I did a whole album last year about donuts.

13:18 Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

13:19 Speaker 10: And I love.

13:20 Speaker 8: Oh, you should get Bill's Donuts to be a sponsor.

13:24 Speaker 13: Oh.

13:24 Speaker 7: At the corner of Elm and Varney.

13:26 Speaker 25: Really?

13:26 Speaker 7: Yeah, we have a.

13:28 Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, right here. Yeah, see? Oh, okay. Bill's Donuts, yeah, you should contact them.

13:33 Speaker 10: Bill, are you listening?

13:35 Speaker 7: Bill Duncan, he always listens.

13:36 Speaker 10: Bill Duncan?

13:37 Speaker 13: Yeah.

13:38 Speaker 7: He calls into the morning show sometimes.

13:40 Speaker 10: Could you relate? I'll give you, what do you get, 10%? If you're my agent?

13:44 Speaker 8: I can't discuss that publicly.

13:45 Speaker 10: Okay, I'll give you 50%. That's poor traction. Matt, I will give you something free at the yard sale today.

13:52 Speaker 8: Ooh.

13:52 Speaker 10: If you can line me up.

13:53 Speaker 18: My God.

13:54 Speaker 10: Should I go to Bill's Donuts on the way home?

13:56 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah.

13:56 Speaker 8: I'm supposed to bring something home today.

13:57 Speaker 7: Elm and Varney, I think.

13:58 Speaker 8: It's right on the corner.

13:59 Speaker 11: No.

14:00 Speaker 10: How is this going to affect the.

14:01 Speaker 8: You won't be able to get there today because of the race.

14:03 Speaker 13: See?

14:04 Speaker 8: You'll have to go tomorrow.

14:06 Speaker 10: Yeah, so donuts. Let's talk about donuts.

14:08 Speaker 8: All right.

14:09 Speaker 7: So the album is about donuts.

14:12 Speaker 10: Trouble at the Donut Shop.

14:12 Speaker 8: Trouble at the Donut Shop.

14:13 Speaker 10: 24 donuts, 24 songs celebrating the donut.

14:17 Speaker 8: Okay.

14:17 Speaker 10: And that was made last year. I get a lot of fun feedback from it. I think they're super fun. So this is my audition tape, so I wrapped it around the Donut Shop.

14:27 Speaker 8: Okay.

14:28 Speaker 10: Introducing that. And I said, let's send it over to Matt last night when I was trying to figure out what to bring here today.

14:36 Speaker 9: Okay.

14:36 Speaker 10: And so these two things sort of wrap around the announcer thing that I did.

14:41 Speaker 8: Yeah.

14:41 Speaker 10: And then if we could just play maybe a couple, maybe 30 seconds or so.

14:47 Speaker 8: Okay.

14:47 Speaker 10: Of each of those two songs.

14:50 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.

14:50 Speaker 7: Trouble at the Donut Shop and then what's the other one?

14:53 Speaker 10: The Donut Shop list. Trouble at the Donut Shop is about how the... cd concept began i went to a donut shop uh and uh they.

15:04 Speaker 7: Were sold out yeah that would never happen to bill's donuts.

15:07 Speaker 10: And i you bill would want that to happen yeah.

15:10 Speaker 8: But i mean he's always got plenty of donuts.

15:12 Speaker 10: Well then why when i went to this particular donut.

15:14 Speaker 8: Shop they were out they didn't have plenty of donuts.

15:17 Speaker 10: And as i was leaving there as i was leaving there i heard in my head Trouble at the donut shop, trouble, trouble. And this is the story embellished of what happens.

15:28 Speaker 26: Oh, okay.

15:28 Speaker 10: If you want to run all the way through that song, there is a story, but it's about two minutes long.

15:33 Speaker 7: Two minutes is, I do want to hear the story.

15:35 Speaker 10: Okay, and then the other one is a list of donuts. I want to make a shout out to this guy I've been kind of, i'm working on some music with uh his name is eyedrop okay and he's kind of what do you say new on the scene if you would but he's into rap oh and he's very cool and he worked on this is one of the first projects i worked on this was the donut list song so you hear this guy called eyedrop and i'm kind of moving i'm trying not moving into but experimenting a little bit more with I don't know, chillin' rap vibe.

16:09 Speaker 10: Faith No More meets Ricky Mapleton meets the universe. Sure, sure.

16:15 Speaker 8: So there we go.

16:16 Speaker 10: Would you mind running the demo?

16:18 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Okay, here it is. I'll give you my honest critique, and then we'll go from this right into the song.

16:26 Speaker 8: Okay, here we go.

16:27 Speaker 10: Here's the kid, the cat, the whiz, the ass.

16:29 Speaker 27: I think I'm not going to have a heart attack.

16:32 Speaker 10: We have a beautiful, beautiful day, and we're on a double play as we're going to play two songs from Ricky Mapleton featuring this guy's favorite thing and probably yours, the donut. So let's do a twofer. First, we're going to hear Trouble at the Donut Shop, and then we're going to jump into Donut Shop List. This is Announcer Guy on the Matt Connaughton Radio Broadcast.

16:56 Speaker 7: By the way, I do like that you say you're not going to have a heart attack.

16:58 Speaker 8: I like the optimism.

17:00 Speaker 7: Oh, and there's more.

17:02 Speaker 10: In the interest of time and possible boredom, we'll be doing short attention span or less is more radio playing just short bits from the following songs. And don't forget to go down to the fabulous garage show on Frost Street today in lovely Gulftown, New Hampshire. Tell them I sent you. Get anything there for 85% off. Did you call it Golfstown?

17:29 Speaker 8: How about something sweet?

17:50 Speaker 19: That would be such a treat. When I saw it, I couldn't believe my eyes. I almost began to cry.

18:01 Speaker 28: Trouble at the donut shop. Trouble at the donut shop. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble at the donut shop.

18:09 Speaker 19: There was a line around the block. I barely could handle the shock.

18:17 Speaker 5: I had to walk.

18:19 Speaker 19: Walk away to keep my mind okay. But when I got back to the shop, the sign said stop.

18:31 Speaker 4: We're sold out now.

18:33 Speaker 28: Trouble at the donut shop. Trouble at the donut shop.

18:37 Speaker 5: Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble.

18:39 Speaker 29: At the donut shop.

18:41 Speaker 19: I stormed into the shop to see the reality.

18:49 Speaker 4: They said, we're really sold out.

18:52 Speaker 19: I said, what about the donuts right there? She said, those donuts are not for sale. But I grabbed them and ran out the door.

19:04 Speaker 28: Trouble at the donut shop. Trouble at the donut shop. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble at the donut shop.

19:12 Speaker 19: Next thing I know, I was getting arrested for stealing.

19:17 Speaker 4: The donut from the donut shop.

19:21 Speaker 19: I was so, so embarrassed, but I had a donut in my jacket, ate it in the way to jail.

19:38 Speaker 7: So is this a true story?

19:40 Speaker 13: Yes.

19:41 Speaker 10: What do we call it? Autobiographical?

19:43 Speaker 18: Yes, yes.

19:44 Speaker 10: So this happened to me when I went to a donut shop.

19:47 Speaker 8: Okay.

19:48 Speaker 10: Oh, I love the way I've had a play in the back. yeah uh yeah it happened it's a true story it's embellished i did not get arrested but i did i walked into the donut shop and they had those white paper plate yeah stuck on there and it said we're sold out and i went.

20:07 Speaker 8: The indignity.

20:08 Speaker 7: That could even happen in America.

20:11 Speaker 10: Well, now, if I want to go to that particular donut shop, I've learned my lesson. You have to, if I can't remember where I'm saying this, but you have to go online before 8 o'clock, put in your order, and then it's easy in, easy out. Or you could take the risk of going there, and sometimes there's a line. Should we give them a plug?

20:33 Speaker 8: The donut shop?

20:34 Speaker 10: The donut shop that this song is related to?

20:36 Speaker 8: If you want to.

20:37 Speaker 10: I don't know. Will they get mad? I mean, they're fantastic donuts.

20:40 Speaker 8: Why would they get mad?

20:41 Speaker 10: It's New Hampshire Donut Company in Bedford?

20:44 Speaker 23: Okay.

20:45 Speaker 8: Oh, right, right. You mentioned that before.

20:46 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah. So I have been back there since. And where I work, they were so kind enough to give us donuts one day. And they were from the New Hampshire Donut Company. So I learned from them that I went there that weekend. And trouble at the donut shop came about.

21:03 Speaker 6: Okay.

21:03 Speaker 10: Very good.

21:04 Speaker 13: Yeah.

21:04 Speaker 30: All right.

21:04 Speaker 8: And then we've got the next one.

21:06 Speaker 13: Yes.

21:06 Speaker 10: And this is with that cat. This guy, Eyedrop, who I've been working with.

21:11 Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.

21:12 Speaker 10: And this is one of our first kind of endeavors that when we first got together, I was working on this. He listened to it. He said, you're out of your freaking mind.

21:20 Speaker 7: I use Eyedrops for my pigmentary glaucoma. It's a small world.

21:24 Speaker 8: It's like I know him. All right.

21:28 Speaker 7: Should we play the song?

21:29 Speaker 10: Let's play a little bit of it.

21:30 Speaker 7: All right.

21:30 Speaker 9: All right.

21:30 Speaker 31: Almond filled, Andre's mints, apple filled, apple crumb, apple fritter, baked.

21:35 Speaker 10: Glaze, banana cream, banana nut, bear.

21:38 Speaker 31: Crawler, black forest, blueberry cake, blueberry crumble, Boston cream, boxing batter, buttermilk, butterscotch, cannoli.

21:45 Speaker 17: Donut, caramel donut.

21:46 Speaker 31: Caramel dutch, caramel glazed, carrot cake, cherry filled, cocoa, cocoa peanut butter, chocolate donut, chocolate chip, chocolate glazed, chocolate frosted, chocolate donut, chocolate sprinkles, and a churro.

21:59 Speaker 5: Do it, do it, do it. I do it and then.

22:01 Speaker 10: You do it.

22:02 Speaker 8: Well, that's my list.

22:03 Speaker 10: Keep that rolling. Keep that rolling for a second. This is eye drop right now. Oh, oh.

22:06 Speaker 12: Scoot it, scoot it, scoot it. No moving, no undoing.

22:09 Speaker 4: I see bloopin', bloopin', bloopin'. I'm doing it and.

22:12 Speaker 12: Then I'm losing it.

22:13 Speaker 29: Biking onto feeling like.

22:14 Speaker 7: Kendrick and All those donuts, though, you might end up with, you eat all those, you might end up with diabetes, or as.

22:20 Speaker 10: Wilford Brimley used to say, diabetes. Matt, much like yourself, I'm down 35 pounds.

22:25 Speaker 25: Are you?

22:26 Speaker 10: Yeah, you're, well, not that you checked me out when I came in two years ago, but I was a little heavier then.

22:32 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.

22:33 Speaker 10: Just say, yeah, you look great. You look great. And you've lost some weight too.

22:37 Speaker 8: Have I?

22:37 Speaker 13: Yeah.

22:38 Speaker 8: Well, you know, I've been working out quite a bit.

22:40 Speaker 13: I don't know.

22:40 Speaker 8: I've only lost 34 pounds.

22:42 Speaker 10: Well, we're in the same thing.

22:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.

22:44 Speaker 10: We're trying to get better. We're trying to.

22:46 Speaker 8: Yeah.

22:46 Speaker 10: So going to a donut shop every day, probably not the greatest idea. What's your thoughts on gluten-free or what's the other one they have? They do make them, the gluten-free donuts. They're a little smaller, I notice.

23:01 Speaker 32: Yeah.

23:02 Speaker 8: I don't know.

23:03 Speaker 7: I just don't eat sweets anymore.

23:04 Speaker 10: They do have a gluten-free vegan donut.

23:08 Speaker 8: They do?

23:08 Speaker 13: Yeah.

23:09 Speaker 8: Oh, listen.

23:09 Speaker 7: Okay, how many donuts are in the song?

23:26 Speaker 10: I do not know.

23:27 Speaker 8: Because there's got to be, what, at least 50, right? Maybe more? I don't know.

23:33 Speaker 10: I do not know, man.

23:34 Speaker 7: Did you go online and find a list of donuts?

23:36 Speaker 13: Yes. Oh. Oh.

23:39 Speaker 10: Well, first I wrote out. Okay, got that out. Stop that out. I must have been all on sugar when I started trying to go solo. What do they call it?

23:49 Speaker 8: Acapella? Acapella, yeah.

23:50 Speaker 12: Is that right?

23:51 Speaker 10: Without music? I try to use every effect in the world to try to sound halfway through.

23:56 Speaker 8: Oh, no, I think it's a great song. I'm just very unhealthy.

24:02 Speaker 10: Well, did you have the gluten-free, sugar-free? It tastes like a brick almost. What's the sense? If you're going to go in for a donut, go in for a donut.

24:12 Speaker 8: Am I right? Yeah.

24:14 Speaker 7: I mean, again, I would counsel.

24:16 Speaker 10: But since you live in a healthy lifestyle like I kind of am.

24:20 Speaker 7: I would counsel people to just not eat donuts.

24:21 Speaker 25: Yes.

24:22 Speaker 8: But that's me. No, no, no.

24:24 Speaker 10: I agree 100% with you.

24:25 Speaker 8: 100%.

24:26 Speaker 10: It's a lifestyle change almost, right? As far as trying to eat healthy?

24:30 Speaker 7: For some people. For me, cutting out sugar was easy. I just said, I'm done with it.

24:34 Speaker 10: No, that's my dump.

24:37 Speaker 8: Yeah.

24:37 Speaker 7: For most people, that's the case.

24:39 Speaker 8: That is the case.

24:40 Speaker 10: I'm okay. I can do without chips and I can do without Doritos and I can do without this and that and junk food in general.

24:47 Speaker 8: That's good.

24:49 Speaker 10: But do I get a Hershey bar in the fridge in the back corner knowing it's there? Is that okay to have a little.

24:57 Speaker 7: Everything in moderation, including moderation.

24:59 Speaker 8: Who said that? I can't remember.

25:00 Speaker 10: I believe that was Plato or Socrates.

25:04 Speaker 8: One of them. Confucius, I don't know. Or some actor. That's a line from a movie.

25:09 Speaker 13: Oh, really?

25:09 Speaker 8: Oh, what's this?

25:11 Speaker 10: This is Howard Notell.

25:13 Speaker 27: Do you think for one second the audacity of people to jump over a child during a baseball game to get a foul ball is a travesty? This has been happening all over America. the sports world, and especially at Major League Baseball. Fans, you should be ashamed of yourself.

25:40 Speaker 10: So I am honored as a prestigious announcer to give to you the song Foul Ball.

25:57 Speaker 33: The ball goes back.

25:59 Speaker 4: People stand up.

26:00 Speaker 21: Don't miss the call for the foul ball.

26:04 Speaker 10: The batter hits it back.

26:05 Speaker 7: Fans shout it out.

26:12 Speaker 34: Here it comes. Put up your thumbs. It's all just for fun. Kids' eyes get big. As the ball falls,

26:29 Speaker 34: the grown adult reaches over them all.

26:33 Speaker 4: The ball goes back. People stand up.

26:36 Speaker 21: Don't miss the call for the foul ball.

26:39 Speaker 4: The ball goes back. People stand up.

26:43 Speaker 21: Don't miss the call for the foul ball.

26:47 Speaker 10: What were they thinking?

26:51 Speaker 4: Taking the ball from those kids.

26:54 Speaker 10: But here comes another one.

26:56 Speaker 11: Hopefully the kids won't get overrun. But here comes that grown adult. He runs for the ball. Like a giant snowplow. He knocks over them all.

27:15 Speaker 4: Ball goes back. People stand up. Don't miss the call.

27:20 Speaker 21: For the foul ball.

27:22 Speaker 8: Ball goes back.

27:24 Speaker 4: People stand up. Don't miss the.

27:26 Speaker 21: Call for the foul ball.

27:29 Speaker 35: There seems to be some sort of commotion over there.

27:33 Speaker 27: Section 17 and the foul ball.

27:37 Speaker 10: It seems that security.

27:39 Speaker 35: Is forcibly removing the fan who knocked over those precious young kids last inning and then just did it again, causing a lot of controversy, some hurt feelings in the dreams of those children crushed by that grown adult.

27:58 Speaker 5: Ball goes back.

28:00 Speaker 4: People stand up.

28:01 Speaker 21: Don't miss the call for the foul ball.

28:06 Speaker 8: Oh my goodness.

28:07 Speaker 10: That's off of screamo sports songs. Part two, part of the Ricky Mapleton solo production universe of imagination productions.

28:15 Speaker 8: There's a part two.

28:17 Speaker 10: There's well, you know, I'm not trying to, well, yeah. Let's, can we talk about me?

28:23 Speaker 13: Yeah. Um, yeah.

28:24 Speaker 7: While you're here, why not?

28:28 Speaker 8: I guess.

28:30 Speaker 10: Um, yeah. So thank you.

28:34 Speaker 13: Sure.

28:35 Speaker 10: Um, so, um, The moniker that I promote is Silly Road Productions.

28:42 Speaker 8: Yes.

28:43 Speaker 10: And under that moniker, we have several artists that I put out music on. Okay. One of it, which seems to be my most popular, is the Screamo sports songs.

28:54 Speaker 8: Yes.

28:55 Speaker 10: So I put out Screamo sports songs one, and it got some halfway decent listens.

29:00 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.

29:02 Speaker 10: It was like, wow. So then I got with my... collaborator or one of them and said, let's do screamo sports songs too.

29:11 Speaker 8: Yeah.

29:12 Speaker 10: And people seem really seem to like it.

29:14 Speaker 8: Okay.

29:15 Speaker 10: You know, it's fun, fun stuff, celebrating sports throughout the Northeast.

29:21 Speaker 8: Or the universe or the universe. That's right.

29:23 Speaker 13: Yeah.

29:23 Speaker 10: So I kind of make fun of sports, but I kind of admire sports. I like this. I like there's a lot. There's a, it's, uh, We're watching, oh, we're watching, it looks like the marathon is over. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't i do have a song called cross country that's not on this list but oh i'm screaming sports songs part one anyways could we play what do you want to play uh want to hear it's a little more screamo sure yeah so let's go to announcer guy introduces hockey fight.

29:51 Speaker 7: I feel like you weren't supposed to say, let's play announcer guy.

29:57 Speaker 10: Oh, we have a call. So, you know, we're suspending this. Oh, I lost the whole Andy Kaufman thing I'm going after, right?

30:05 Speaker 13: So....

30:07 Speaker 10: So anyway.

30:08 Speaker 9: So anyway.

30:08 Speaker 10: Welcome to my universe, Matt. I'm glad you could come along and the listeners. And by the way, hello again to the yard sale at Frost Street in Golfstown, New Hampshire. I hope the yard sale is going great. Again, hello to people. And you over there at the yard sale, I see you looking on table three. You can have that for free.

30:28 Speaker 12: No, no.

30:29 Speaker 10: You can have that. Hi, guys, at the yard sale.

30:32 Speaker 13: Anyways.

30:33 Speaker 8: I don't actually have a.

30:34 Speaker 10: You don't have a noncer guy?

30:36 Speaker 7: I do, but I don't seem to have the actual song.

30:38 Speaker 10: It says a noncer guy? And then Hockey Fight Song, number 11.

30:43 Speaker 8: I don't have.

30:44 Speaker 7: Oh, there it is.

30:45 Speaker 8: There it is. Okay.

30:46 Speaker 9: Okay.

30:46 Speaker 8: It just looked weird.

30:47 Speaker 10: Can we do announcer guy and then a little hockey fight song?

30:50 Speaker 12: Yes.

30:51 Speaker 13: Yes.

30:51 Speaker 7: So your audition continues.

30:53 Speaker 10: Okay.

30:54 Speaker 8: So here it is.

30:54 Speaker 7: Announcer guys, which is you, obviously, right? This is you trying to get that sweet radio job.

30:59 Speaker 10: Yes, sir.

31:00 Speaker 7: Tons of money in radio. I don't blame you.

31:02 Speaker 8: You're going to be rich.

31:03 Speaker 10: I hope so.

31:03 Speaker 8: All right. Here we go.

31:04 Speaker 7: Let's check it out.

31:06 Speaker 36: From the Matt Connaughton Studios in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. I am proud to be on the Matt Connerton broadcast. And let me just say that Matt Connerton looks spectacular today. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, the premiere song from the band Screamo.

31:43 Speaker 37: The internationally known song about one of the greatest sports in all entertainment, ladies and gentlemen, Hockey Fight!

32:05 Speaker 3: Five minutes for fighting your hockey body. Five minutes for fighting.

32:11 Speaker 5: Your hockey body.

32:12 Speaker 3: Five minutes for fighting your hockey body.

32:20 Speaker 2: I went to a hockey game and a fight broke out. They let them fight till they hit the ice.

32:34 Speaker 38: The gloves dropped.

32:35 Speaker 25: The fish swung.

32:37 Speaker 19: They both got their bell rung.

32:41 Speaker 27: The crowd went crazy.

32:43 Speaker 2: Even the babies.

32:45 Speaker 34: They went to the penalty box.

32:48 Speaker 8: Five minutes for fighting.

32:50 Speaker 5: Hockey party.

32:51 Speaker 7: Wow. All right, I don't know anything about hockey because I don't know anything about sports. When you say five minutes for fighting, do you mean the fight lasts five minutes?

32:58 Speaker 13: No.

32:59 Speaker 10: Usually, if you fight in hockey, which is unbelievable, they let you fight in hockey until you hit the ice in the pros.

33:07 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:07 Speaker 10: The fans love it.

33:08 Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.

33:09 Speaker 10: What a country.

33:10 Speaker 8: Well, it's like auto racing, right?

33:12 Speaker 10: So then after you fight somebody, then you get five minutes for fighting in the penalty box.

33:17 Speaker 8: Okay.

33:18 Speaker 10: So it's five minutes for fighting, hockey five minutes.

33:21 Speaker 7: Okay, I'm not even kidding when I say this. I finally, after what, 20 years of this band existing, I finally know where the name Five for Fighting comes from. You know the band Five for Fighting?

33:34 Speaker 13: No.

33:34 Speaker 7: I think they had one big hit, that song, Over My Head.

33:38 Speaker 10: I would dream about having one big hit.

33:40 Speaker 8: Now I know where the name comes from, Five for Fighting. I never knew.

33:43 Speaker 10: Oh, does the song talk about hockey?

33:46 Speaker 7: No, the song Over My Head, it's a relationship song.

33:50 Speaker 8: But now I know where the band name comes from.

33:52 Speaker 10: But there you go. This is available on Screamer Sports on Spark, too.

33:57 Speaker 8: And hello to.

33:58 Speaker 10: So let's move on. Can we? Can we?

34:01 Speaker 8: We have a call. No way. Yeah, we can.

34:04 Speaker 7: Let's see who's online. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed.

34:07 Speaker 8: Who's this?

34:08 Speaker 10: Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt Connerton.

34:10 Speaker 13: Ooh. Oh.

34:12 Speaker 10: You look as fabulous as ever, Matt.

34:14 Speaker 8: Thank you.

34:15 Speaker 26: This is English-y longtime call-up. Oh, let me just say that seeing you brightens.

34:23 Speaker 8: My day, Matt Connaughton.

34:25 Speaker 13: Wow.

34:26 Speaker 25: Oh, you're fabulous and wonderful.

34:29 Speaker 12: Oh, not to take.

34:31 Speaker 10: Anything away from you, Ricky Mapleton.

34:33 Speaker 8: Well, thank you.

34:34 Speaker 25: So I am.

34:36 Speaker 26: Going to go to a garage sale today on Frost Street in lovely Gulfstown, New Hampshire.

34:45 Speaker 12: I hope I see everybody there.

34:48 Speaker 26: Ooh, and if you do see me there, make sure you get your 50% off coupon that I have just because you heard me on the spectacular Matt Connaughton show.

35:01 Speaker 12: Ooh, Matt, ooh, I'll let you get on with your program.

35:05 Speaker 33: Mmm.

35:06 Speaker 39: Wow.

35:07 Speaker 8: Bye-bye.

35:08 Speaker 10: Bye-bye, Englishie. Thanks for calling.

35:09 Speaker 8: My goodness. Certainly not all British women sound like that. I don't know.

35:14 Speaker 10: That sounded like Mrs. Doubtfire a little.

35:16 Speaker 13: Right?

35:16 Speaker 7: Oh, was that, uh, yeah, I don't know. She did sound like she had a cake on her face.

35:22 Speaker 10: I don't, she's called him before.

35:23 Speaker 8: She has.

35:25 Speaker 10: She called into my show many times.

35:26 Speaker 40: Yes.

35:27 Speaker 13: Yes.

35:27 Speaker 10: I have a, I have maybe five loyal listeners right now.

35:30 Speaker 13: Oh, wow.

35:31 Speaker 8: That's pretty good. That's great.

35:32 Speaker 10: Um, can we, can I go back and talk about, I dropped for a little bit?

35:35 Speaker 23: Oh, of course.

35:35 Speaker 3: Yeah.

35:35 Speaker 10: So this, so this guy, I drop, I've been working with, uh, Do you have number 12 or number 14?

35:46 Speaker 8: Let's see here.

35:47 Speaker 10: Can You Hear Me or Rock Doesn't Lie?

35:50 Speaker 8: I have both of those.

35:53 Speaker 10: Okay. Can we play a little bit? So what is this? This is my new. Oh, can I be all cool?

35:58 Speaker 4: Yeah.

35:59 Speaker 8: My new release.

36:00 Speaker 13: Oh, wow.

36:00 Speaker 10: It's called Rock Don't Lie. I Dance Like I Got Two Left Feet. is the name of my new collection. And I worked with this guy, iDrop, on like four or five of the songs on it. And I just want to, I'm kind of, you know, I always try something new and I really, I kind of dig what's going on here. So big shout out to iDrop. He's available on YouTube and he's really cool. And it's a little shift in where I usually go, but can you play a little bit of 12? Can you hear me?

36:29 Speaker 11: Uh, yeah.

36:30 Speaker 7: So you mentioned, so these are, these are new. These are from your new release, new.

36:33 Speaker 10: Release called I dance. Like I got two left feet. Oh, um, the rock doesn't lie. There's a, this is a dancing chicken on the front cover.

36:40 Speaker 12: Yeah.

36:41 Speaker 10: Uh, and it's a lot of, it's, uh, same, but new, but different, you know, always trying something to entertain.

36:47 Speaker 8: The, entertain myself. You want me to play that one first?

36:50 Speaker 17: Yeah.

36:50 Speaker 10: This is a little, can't you hear me? And this is eyedrop with.

36:52 Speaker 8: Oh, can you hear me? You want me to play that one?

36:54 Speaker 12: Okay.

36:55 Speaker 8: And this is a world premiere.

36:57 Speaker 10: Yes.

36:57 Speaker 8: I think you deserve the world premiere bumper.

37:00 Speaker 29: You are listening to WMNH 95.3.

37:01 Speaker 5: World premiere. Do you hear me?

37:18 Speaker 29: I hear you too.

37:24 Speaker 12: Yeah.

37:27 Speaker 22: I won't let you get away from me. I remember every word that you say to me. And then lately, I've been patiently waiting for the day that you lay with me. We would have a good time, make a brand new song. Cause I love your vocals and I love your lines. I'm in my prime and I do not mind if you take me away to the end of time. Do you hear me?

37:49 Speaker 4: I listen to you.

37:51 Speaker 22: You don't listen to me. And what I'm going through doesn't matter to you.

37:58 Speaker 10: I'm just mad at the truth.

38:01 Speaker 29: I go right at the.

38:02 Speaker 22: Booth when I talk about you got me on a limestone slab.

38:07 Speaker 18: I'm face down.

38:08 Speaker 9: When I break down.

38:10 Speaker 22: I'm nobody in a brand new town. And I'm looking around, but my girl ain't found. I look left, right, up, and down. Life feels gray like the rainstorm clouds. Rain starts falling and I just might drown. Cause I'm up to my neck, but you're up most proud. Yeah.

38:28 Speaker 25: Yeah.

38:31 Speaker 13: Yeah.

38:31 Speaker 10: Saw my baby just the other day. I said, hey, baby, baby, now what do you say?

38:35 Speaker 8: She said, I'm Yeah, I like it.

38:37 Speaker 13: Yeah? Cool?

38:38 Speaker 8: Cool vibe? Yeah, yeah. I like this eyedrop.

38:42 Speaker 10: Yeah, very cool. Yeah, he's... It's good to work with different artists, you know?

38:47 Speaker 12: Yeah.

38:48 Speaker 10: I got my little core of people that I work with. Eyedrop, I've known for a good couple years, and we just started to get together a couple months ago, maybe?

38:54 Speaker 13: So... Wow.

38:59 Speaker 10: Isn't that just so... Whoa.

39:00 Speaker 8: Just hearing him lowers my eye pressure.

39:02 Speaker 10: That's his gig, man.

39:04 Speaker 19: Mm-hmm.

39:04 Speaker 10: I drop his chillin'. Be chillin', as they say.

39:06 Speaker 18: Yes.

39:07 Speaker 10: And it's just... That kind of gives you a chill, right?

39:09 Speaker 22: A little?

39:10 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah.

39:10 Speaker 12: Kind of?

39:11 Speaker 10: That's hard to find in music, that music. I get a chill listening to it.

39:15 Speaker 12: Yeah.

39:16 Speaker 10: And I've worked with this for a long time. But anyway, so... The, uh... The, the.

39:23 Speaker 12: Um.

39:26 Speaker 10: The song, Rock Doesn't Lie, this is kind of, if you want to play it.

39:30 Speaker 8: Is this also with him?

39:31 Speaker 41: Yes.

39:31 Speaker 12: Oh, okay.

39:32 Speaker 10: Yeah, I did four songs with him. The other two didn't come over, it looks like.

39:35 Speaker 12: Oh, okay.

39:35 Speaker 10: Let's play it. Can we play a little bit from Rock Doesn't Lie? The name of the new collection is called I Dance And I Got Two Left Feet, Rock Doesn't Lie.

39:47 Speaker 13: Okay.

39:47 Speaker 23: Okay.

39:48 Speaker 10: So this is a pretty long song, but let's just play a little taste of it, please.

39:53 Speaker 8: All right.

39:53 Speaker 10: This is with eyedrop as well. A little heavier.

39:58 Speaker 19: Rock don't lie.

39:59 Speaker 4: Rock don't lie.

40:01 Speaker 6: Rock don't lie. Rock don't lie.

40:04 Speaker 42: Rock don't lie.

40:06 Speaker 5: Rock don't lie. Rock don't lie.

40:10 Speaker 22: Yeah, I'm not a rock star, closer to a rapper. Eating Pop-Tarts, taking off the wrapper. In the rafters, I'm a raptor. Cause I'm not smart, spitting heat, this rap burns. If you can see me, then I must be getting clear. I've been nearer to my fear, now it's appearing in the mirror. I ain't past it, but the pressure getting to me.

40:32 Speaker 4: Make a diamond, I know.

40:33 Speaker 22: It's corny, and it's been said about a hundred times.

40:36 Speaker 25: And now I'm writing on.

40:37 Speaker 22: These beats like there ain't nothing left to lose. And there ain't no other reason, except I do it because I choose to. I'll fight for this until my body covered up in bruises.

40:46 Speaker 4: It's a battle.

40:47 Speaker 25: I'ma have my way, I'll never lose.

40:49 Speaker 22: I've been locking in, been making 50 songs in just a week, and now it seems I've entered my own peak. I'm 50-50 Greek and French-Canadian, and now American.

41:01 Speaker 4: I'm from the East.

41:08 Speaker 18: Wow.

41:08 Speaker 8: I like it.

41:09 Speaker 12: Epic.

41:10 Speaker 8: I like it.

41:11 Speaker 10: That's a little out of iDrop's pocket.

41:14 Speaker 14: Yeah.

41:15 Speaker 10: So when he came over and we started working on stuff, I'm more into 150, 175 beats per minute.

41:23 Speaker 8: Yeah.

41:23 Speaker 10: He's probably... Not his pocket, but his vibe is more 100 beats per minute.

41:29 Speaker 13: Okay.

41:29 Speaker 10: That other song we played.

41:30 Speaker 8: Yeah.

41:32 Speaker 10: Yeah, so... This goes on for a while. It's just kind of like my attempt at my rock anthem.

41:37 Speaker 25: Rock, don't lie.

41:38 Speaker 8: Right, right.

41:39 Speaker 10: Matt, how much time we got?

41:41 Speaker 7: We got. The hour grows late, but we still have a little bit of time.

41:48 Speaker 10: So can I maybe... I've been playing.

41:55 Speaker 7: Yeah, go ahead.

41:58 Speaker 8: I'll fade that out.

41:59 Speaker 10: It's so good.

42:00 Speaker 5: Oh, no, it is.

42:01 Speaker 10: I don't want to say it's so good. It's just fun.

42:03 Speaker 13: No, it is.

42:04 Speaker 8: It is good. It is good.

42:05 Speaker 7: You should be proud of it.

42:08 Speaker 10: Okay, so my new thing I've been playing around with a little bit is this harmonica.

42:16 Speaker 8: Okay.

42:18 Speaker 10: I would say I'm at a junior high level.

42:21 Speaker 8: Okay. So you can play like David Lee Roth plays harmonica?

42:25 Speaker 13: Okay.

42:25 Speaker 8: Like that?

42:26 Speaker 10: Okay. So, Matt, I would like to make up a song with you right now.

42:33 Speaker 8: Really?

42:34 Speaker 10: Okay.

42:34 Speaker 13: Okay.

42:35 Speaker 10: So do you see that track on there that says harmonica?

42:38 Speaker 7: Yeah, I've got to load it up.

42:39 Speaker 10: Okay. This is called a, I believe the newer cool kids call this a beat song.

42:45 Speaker 13: Okay.

42:45 Speaker 10: Have you heard of Beats?

42:46 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. That's what the young people say.

42:48 Speaker 10: Well, do you know there's a whole universe of Beats? Like the Beats star or Beats. There's a whole thing and people buy Beats and they sing over the Beats.

42:58 Speaker 12: Oh, yeah.

42:59 Speaker 19: Yep.

42:59 Speaker 9: Which bloom.

43:00 Speaker 8: Licensing Beats.

43:01 Speaker 11: Yeah.

43:03 Speaker 12: Yeah.

43:03 Speaker 10: But you can't. I just found it fascinating. Yeah. And iDrop kind of turned me on to what Beats are. I'm like, what?

43:11 Speaker 12: Yeah.

43:11 Speaker 10: So people are releasing stuff. Just beats?

43:15 Speaker 8: Yeah.

43:16 Speaker 10: And so a lot of artists are using beats, paying for the beats through this platform, and then putting vocals over it.

43:26 Speaker 43: Yeah.

43:27 Speaker 10: What does Ricky Mapleton say? Wow. I'm going to start making some beats. Now, my beats are a lot different than the beats that are... No, I don't say different, but just... What do they call them? Soundscapes?

43:39 Speaker 8: Soundscapes? That's a good word. I've heard the term soundscape before.

43:42 Speaker 10: So I picked up the harmonica one night. I've been playing around a little bit with the harmonica. If this is... Well, never mind. I'm not going to... If this is horrible, I just would like to try.

43:55 Speaker 13: Okay.

43:55 Speaker 10: I'd like to try this, and we're going to talk about what happened here today. And Matt, this is totally... A lot of my stuff, as you guys know, listening is planned out and fabricated, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is live. I have, I didn't talk to Matt about this. So sink or swim, we're going to try to.

44:15 Speaker 7: So just so we're clear. So we're going to play this beat that you made.

44:17 Speaker 37: Yes.

44:18 Speaker 10: It has harmonica in it. It has drums. It has my beautiful Fender Precision, which I love so much. I wish I could play it.

44:24 Speaker 16: Anyways.

44:25 Speaker 13: Yeah.

44:25 Speaker 10: So it's drums, bass. I'm going to play over it.

44:29 Speaker 13: Okay.

44:29 Speaker 10: With the harmonica, stopping it and maybe trying to do some words with Matt Connerton.

44:34 Speaker 8: Wow.

44:35 Speaker 13: Wow. Okay.

44:36 Speaker 8: Okay. All right. Are you ready?

44:38 Speaker 10: I don't... Give me.

44:41 Speaker 8: Ready?

44:42 Speaker 10: Hang on. Okay.

44:44 Speaker 8: You're in tune?

44:45 Speaker 13: Wow.

44:46 Speaker 10: Harmonica's weird, man.

44:47 Speaker 8: All right.

44:48 Speaker 10: But I think I have a little knack for it. I think. Okay.

44:52 Speaker 8: In my mind, I'm... I don't know.

44:57 Speaker 10: Okay. Let's just get Matt. Say, come on, Ricky. You can do this.

45:01 Speaker 8: Come on, Ricky.

45:01 Speaker 7: You can do this.

45:02 Speaker 10: This is called the Matt Connerton song.

45:05 Speaker 13: Oh, wow.

45:06 Speaker 10: World premiere. Never been done before. This is it. This is real stuff. So this is actual creativity in the moment.

45:16 Speaker 7: Oh, this is a world premiere.

45:17 Speaker 8: Hold on.

45:17 Speaker 10: Well, you are listening to WMNH 95.3.

45:19 Speaker 4: World premiere.

45:26 Speaker 10: So this song, ladies and gentlemen, is off a reel. It's not out yet, but I'm playing the harmonica over the harmonica and drums and a bass line. Then I'm going to stop, and I'm going to try to sing and go back and forth with the harmonica, talking about Matt Connerton. Okay. Okay, how's that sound?

45:46 Speaker 8: Sounds great.

45:47 Speaker 10: Okay, let's rock.

45:48 Speaker 8: All right, here we go.

45:53 Speaker 29: Thank you.

46:30 Speaker 30: I'm on the Matt Connaughton Show I'm on the Matt Connaughton Show He's so good, Matt Connaughton I love being on the Matt Connaughton Show Come on!

46:43 Speaker 5: I'm on the Matt Connaughton.

46:51 Speaker 17: Show Matt Connaughton, he's a real cool dude Has honors on every Saturday He's really promoting the arts I love Matt Connaughton Ah, I love Matt Connaughton I love Matt Connaughton.

47:17 Speaker 10: Come on.

47:32 Speaker 24: Matt Connaughton, he's so cool. He ain't nobody's fool. Matt Connaughton, he's out of sight. He's looking so good.

47:44 Speaker 10: Matt Connaughton. Matt Connaughton.

47:51 Speaker 25: Matt Connaughton. Mad Connerton.

47:56 Speaker 44: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

47:58 Speaker 10: Mad Connerton.

48:18 Speaker 45: Matt Connaughton, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. He's cool like gravy, smooth like cream. He likes his oatmeal with blueberries. He's not eating donuts.

48:31 Speaker 10: Anymore, no, no, no. Matt Connaughton broadcast.

48:39 Speaker 8: Wow, that was something. That was something.

48:42 Speaker 10: It was something already.

48:44 Speaker 8: And I'll tell you, too, of.

48:45 Speaker 7: All the harmonica-based songs that I've ever heard, that was by far the most recent.

48:49 Speaker 10: How many harmonica-based songs have you heard?

48:51 Speaker 8: I don't know.

48:52 Speaker 10: Probably not.

48:53 Speaker 8: I'm thinking.

48:54 Speaker 10: Wow.

48:55 Speaker 39: Okay.

48:56 Speaker 10: Wow.

48:57 Speaker 18: Wow.

48:58 Speaker 8: No, that was excellent. Thank you. That was wonderful.

49:00 Speaker 10: That was wonderful.

49:01 Speaker 8: I appreciate that. I appreciate the song.

49:03 Speaker 13: Wow.

49:04 Speaker 4: Okay.

49:05 Speaker 13: Wow.

49:05 Speaker 8: Thank you.

49:06 Speaker 10: That was.

49:07 Speaker 35: Wow.

49:08 Speaker 12: Okay. I feel.

49:09 Speaker 10: Okay.

49:10 Speaker 27: Okay.

49:10 Speaker 10: I need to take a breath. Yeah, yeah.

49:13 Speaker 7: Well, you know, there's a lot of, uh, you know, you've really got to have your, uh, your lungs, your lungs have to be in good shape.

49:19 Speaker 10: I really try to zone in on the, on the whole thing.

49:22 Speaker 8: Yes. Yes.

49:23 Speaker 13: Wow.

49:24 Speaker 12: Wow.

49:24 Speaker 7: Well, we are, uh, so Ricky, we are running out of time. So, you know, we will play a song to close out the segment, of course.

49:33 Speaker 10: But, uh, what do you, what, what, what gets your, uh, What gets your interest from what we have left here? Bet, bet, bet is good.

49:40 Speaker 7: Oh, you had mentioned that to me off air, too, that you wanted to make sure we got that one in. Maybe we should end with that.

49:46 Speaker 25: Okay, sure.

49:47 Speaker 13: You want?

49:47 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah. There's some other songs on there. There's a song called Chair Song, Air Fryer Song, off, which is kind of more simple, more simplistic, rough, but people are listening to it. You know, you don't have to make a Bohemian Rhapsody to make people dig your music. I sort of kind of found out recently.

50:06 Speaker 12: Right.

50:06 Speaker 10: I mean, you can make this beautiful, complex work of art and it sounds wonderful. People are going to listen to. They don't care. I mean, not that they don't care. People just want to hear what makes them like. It doesn't have to be much like the chair song, air fryer song, and bet, bet, bet.

50:23 Speaker 18: Okay.

50:24 Speaker 7: Bet, bet, bet is probably relevant too because if the radio thing doesn't work out that you've been auditioning for and you do get into podcasting, you're going to want a good sports betting sponsor.

50:35 Speaker 10: Let's go.

50:36 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. There you go.

50:38 Speaker 7: But before we do that, where should people go online to keep up?

50:41 Speaker 8: Everywhere. Everywhere.

50:42 Speaker 10: YouTube, Amazon, all your major platforms.

50:48 Speaker 13: Yes.

50:48 Speaker 10: You can find the Ricky Mapleton Galaxy of Stars.

50:51 Speaker 11: Yes.

50:51 Speaker 10: Do you know what that's from? The Ricky Mapleton Galaxies. Remember the song? The thing you do?

50:56 Speaker 12: Familiar.

50:56 Speaker 10: Remember the movie?

50:58 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.

50:59 Speaker 10: You will play something from blah, blah, blah, Galaxy of Stars.

51:03 Speaker 13: Ah.

51:04 Speaker 8: Do you remember that movie? Yes, I do remember that, yeah.

51:06 Speaker 10: Okay, sorry. I'm losing track.

51:07 Speaker 8: No, it's a great film.

51:08 Speaker 10: Oh, my God.

51:09 Speaker 8: Great film.

51:10 Speaker 10: Yeah, fantastic.

51:11 Speaker 8: Absolutely. Absolutely.

51:13 Speaker 10: There's an extended version of that where it talks more about Tom Hanks, the manager, Oh, really? More digs into that. His side of his reality.

51:23 Speaker 8: Oh, okay. Yeah, okay.

51:24 Speaker 10: So, Bet, Bet, Bet. Here's a warning song. Don't bet if you can't afford to. But you can bet on anything now, right, Matt?

51:31 Speaker 8: Oh, my God, yeah.

51:32 Speaker 10: So that's what this song's about. You can bet on anything. And this was the inspiration for Screamo Sports Songs Part 1, Bet, Bet, Bet.

51:39 Speaker 8: All right, here it is.

51:41 Speaker 10: Was that a good intro?

51:42 Speaker 8: Absolutely. That was excellent. You're hired. Yay!

51:45 Speaker 7: The great Ricky Mapleton.

51:46 Speaker 8: Here it is. Bet, Bet, Bet.

51:48 Speaker 5: Fishy, fishy, hook, hook.

51:49 Speaker 4: Fishy, fishy, hook, hook.

51:51 Speaker 25: Fishy, fishy, hook, hook.

51:53 Speaker 29: We love fishing.

51:57 Speaker 8: That is not it.

51:58 Speaker 10: No, maybe I... Yeah, that's what it's labeled. There's one on seven and there's one on nine. That was a good song. That was called Fishy, Fishy.

52:05 Speaker 8: Hook, Hook. Oh, you're right.

52:07 Speaker 7: Nine is also labeled Bet, Bet, Bet.

52:08 Speaker 10: Okay, my mistake.

52:10 Speaker 25: Me bad.

52:11 Speaker 10: Hey, you know, there you go.

52:12 Speaker 7: With apologies to... But that was.

52:14 Speaker 10: Called Fishy, Fishy, Hook, Hook.

52:16 Speaker 7: That sounds like a good one, too. So with apologies to Polymarket or any other potential future sponsors.

52:22 Speaker 8: All right, here it is. Bet, bet, bet. Ricky Mapleton.

52:24 Speaker 4: Football, you bet.

52:28 Speaker 5: Baseball, you bet. Hockey, you bet.

52:34 Speaker 6: You can even bet on sumo wrestling.

52:37 Speaker 4: Basketball, you bet.

52:40 Speaker 25: Soccer, you bet.

52:44 Speaker 5: Golf, you bet.

52:47 Speaker 3: You can even bet on French Swing Handball!

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52:54 Speaker 46: Robin, prop bet, future bet, box bet, hedge bet, double trend, trifecta, push, bet, on the underdog ping pong!

53:05 Speaker 5: You bet! Tennis!

53:07 Speaker 8: You bet!

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53:10 Speaker 27: You bet!

53:12 Speaker 10: You can even bet on.

53:14 Speaker 25: The National Lacrosse League!

53:17 Speaker 12: You bet.

53:20 Speaker 47: You bet.

53:21 Speaker 5: You bet. Bet, bet, bet.

53:30 Speaker 10: They scored the winning touchdown.

53:32 Speaker 13: Bet, bet, bet.

53:33 Speaker 21: There's a flag.

53:34 Speaker 25: On the field. Bet, bet, bet.

53:36 Speaker 4: It doesn't count.

53:38 Speaker 12: Don't go and.

53:39 Speaker 5: Bet your life away. You bet.

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1:00:51 Speaker 16: There's a house on my block.

1:01:18 Speaker 41: That's abandoned and cold Folks moved out of it a long time ago And they took all their things And they never came back Looks like it's haunted With the windows all cracked And everyone calls it the house The house where nobody lives.

1:02:09 Speaker 4: Once it held laughter.

1:02:14 Speaker 15: Once it held dreams Did they throw it away? Did they know what it means? Did someone's heart break? Or did someone do somebody wrong?

1:02:45 Speaker 4: Well, the paint was all cracked. It peeled off the wood.

1:02:56 Speaker 4: Papers were stacked.

1:02:59 Speaker 41: On the porch where I stood And the weeds had.

1:03:06 Speaker 44: All grown Just as high as the door There were birds.

1:03:15 Speaker 53: In the chimney And an old chest of drawers Looks like no one will ever come back.

1:03:29 Speaker 4: To the house.

1:03:30 Speaker 15: Where nobody lives.

1:03:41 Speaker 41: Once it held laughter Once it held dreams Did.

1:03:49 Speaker 15: They throw it away? Do they know what it means?

1:04:01 Speaker 4: Did someone's heart break?

1:04:05 Speaker 15: But it's someone, do somebody wrong. So if you find someone, someone to have, someone to hold.

1:04:26 Speaker 4: Don't trade it. for silver oh.

1:04:31 Speaker 54: Don't trade it for gold I have all of life's treasures and they're fine and.

1:04:42 Speaker 55: They're good they remind me that houses are just made of wood.

1:04:53 Speaker 4: What makes me A house grand.

1:04:58 Speaker 15: Oh, it ain't the roof or the doors.

1:05:03 Speaker 56: If there's love in a house, it's a palace. for sure without love it ain't nothing but a house a house where nobody lives without love It ain't nothing but a house, a house where nobody lives.

1:06:00 Speaker 8: Oh, that is amazing.

1:06:01 Speaker 7: House where nobody lives. That is Eddie scholar, uh, performing the song, uh, by Tom, uh, Tom waits. And, um, that's from the new EP blind love. And we've got Eddie scholar joining us via restream.

1:06:13 Speaker 8: Eddie, are you there?

1:06:15 Speaker 29: Yeah, I'm here.

1:06:16 Speaker 7: Hey, welcome to the show. I love that. I love your voice though. Your performance on that is, uh, is just incredible. So congratulations on that. And we'll, um, we'll play another track from the EP at the end of our conversation, but, uh, great to have you on the show today. I've been looking forward to talking to you. And, uh, I like, and I, I love, you know, I listen to all four tracks and, um, I love the EP, um, blind love, of course, uh, your covers of, of these Tom Waits songs. And, um, I'll ask you the obvious question first, uh, what inspired you to do this, to make this EP?

1:06:46 Speaker 29: Uh, well, I, I am a songwriter, but I've never really been prolific. And, uh, when I have periods of writer's block, it's when I still have a desire to create something and to perform for people. So I've gone in and out of periods where I've written songs and then where I've done more covers. And also I've learned as I've gotten older to really trust my instincts. So when I was younger, I'd get crazy ideas and I didn't always follow them. But as I got older, sometimes I would go where the spark was.

1:07:24 Speaker 29: And it doesn't mean everything, you know, not everything's successful or works out, but I've learned to trust my instincts more. And I just got this idea. I've always admired Tom Waits, but I can't say that I was a fanatic, but I bought many of his albums and CDs over the years. And this idea came to me to check out his songs, maybe his songs. I didn't have anybody else in mind. It just came to me as Tom Waits. So I went on streaming and I just randomly picked a song. This is the truth. I just closed my eyes and pointed and it was Grapefruit Moon, which I was not familiar with from his debut album, Closing Time.

1:08:10 Speaker 29: And I wanted to see if I could just sing along. And not knowing the song, I pulled up the lyrics and just started to sing along. And I realized, because I was afraid with his approach and his wonderful performance and the way he presents the characters in his songs and the stories with the gravelly voice, I really was wondering, is this something I could even attempt to do in my smooth crooner kind of a voice? And I sang along to Great Moon and within the first verse of singing, I realized, oh yeah, I can do this.

1:08:46 Speaker 29: I just felt it. I just felt the lyric and the melody So then I quickly pulled together, there's a lot of songs of his that are more avant-garde and that I I knew I couldn't really enhance with my approach so I wanted to I made a list of 70 songs I went through his entire vast his vast catalog and I made a list of 70 songs that I realized I could probably do okay with um based on lyric and melody and and that and then I out of that narrowed it down to 20 for a live show and, and then, um, pull the, pull the EP together.

1:09:24 Speaker 29: So it really was without a lot of deep thought. Why am I doing Tom Waits and these songs? It came together very quickly. And as I said before, I'll get an idea like a, like a bolt of lightning and I now just follow it. I just follow it and hope so far, luckily this seems to be, um, well received. I've done a few live shows and the audience seemed to really like it. So, and I was very apprehensive on a year ago, I debuted the show before we recorded the EP. And I really was apprehensive about how people would, you know, there's true weights fanatics out there and maybe it wouldn't be taken seriously, but it went over really well.

1:10:10 Speaker 29: And people seem to understand that, I was really doing a tribute to his songwriting and not a tribute to his performance and in no way trying to do an imitation because that would fail. But in honoring the songwriting and bringing attention to it, I think I'm doing a service actually, because what I found is that people in the audience have told me they're really not familiar with his material. With someone like me singing the songs and presenting it, I'm actually educating people about his artistry.

1:10:48 Speaker 29: The response I've gotten from friends and fans or whatever is, oh, he has that gravelly voice. They know him as a performer, but I don't think they really know the songs. When I perform Jersey Girl, there's a lot of people who still think that Springsteen.

1:11:06 Speaker 8: Wrote it because he made it.

1:11:08 Speaker 29: You know, he it's familiar, it's familiar with Springsteen's version.

1:11:12 Speaker 13: Right.

1:11:13 Speaker 29: Downtown train hit was a big hit for Rod Stewart. And of course, old 55 was a big hit for the Eagles. So I don't think a lot of people identify even the, the mainstream hits with Tom Waits writing them, um, let alone all of the deep cuts, you know? So anyway, that makes it really challenging and interesting. Um, uh, project for me, you know, so.

1:11:42 Speaker 7: But to get, to get to that final four, because you said that the process of picking the songs actually, you know, came, came quickly and it sounds like it was fairly intuitive, but to get to that final four for the EP, I mean, that must've been somewhat of a challenge, right? You started at what, 70 you said was your original list. And then you get down to that, that final four. I mean, how, how hard was that part?

1:12:03 Speaker 29: I'm going to be really honest. It, it, surprisingly was not difficult. Again, it came very quick. I've never had this in my life where things come together this quickly. I usually I'm the type of person that ruminates a lot. I lose a lot of sleep. I have to sleep on things, lose sleep for many nights, you know, before this, I didn't have that with any aspect of taking on this Tom Waits project at all. So the four songs I was looking at my list of 20 that we narrowed down the live show was about 20 songs.

1:12:37 Speaker 29: And my wife really wanted me to cover Blind Love from his Rain Dogs album. And she really thought I would do well with Blind Love. And I didn't feel it at first. It has a country vibe on the original record. And I'm not much of a guitar player, but I'll use the guitar just to kind of work out arrangements. And I slowed it down a little bit. And I wiped out the country vibe. It gave it a little bit more of a slow vibe. indie rock feel. And when I was singing it, suddenly I felt the story. I was able to feel honest in presenting the song.

1:13:16 Speaker 29: So then that, you know, I was won over by that song. Downtown Train, I really wanted to give one song on the EP that people would know.

1:13:24 Speaker 8: Yeah.

1:13:25 Speaker 29: Throw them a bone. You know, people like something familiar. So I chose Downtown Train. But even that, I was a little apprehensive at first because it's so identified with Rod Stewart. But then with the guitar, I slowed it down and was crooning over it. And it started to feel like me. It felt real. I could sing it and do justice. House Where Nobody Lives that you just played. I think it's my favorite song of his from his Mule Variations albums. I remember when the album came out, I really loved that song.

1:14:02 Speaker 29: And honestly, I don't know. I would assume many people are, but I've always been fascinated by abandoned homes. If I'm driving or walking by and, you know, you just see broken windows and overgrown weeds and, or boarded up windows, I really stop. And I've taken pictures of them over the years and, fascinated by the stories that what, what, like what happened there, you know, like where did the people go? What was going on in their lives? How did it end up like this? I find it real. There's a sadness about it, but I'm really intrigued by, by abandoned homes and I still am.

1:14:41 Speaker 29: So that song that was, you know, kind of a no brainer. And then you can never hold back spring, just incredibly beautiful. And I really haven't, found anybody that knew that song. Um, it just was beautiful and beautiful to sing it. And, you know, he himself has covered Frank Sinatra's young at heart. And I found, I thought that this song was on that caliber of like a classic jazz pop ballad.

1:15:15 Speaker 13: Yeah.

1:15:16 Speaker 29: And, uh, you know, as, as like a young at heart. And then I realized he had actually covered young at heart. His The two songs have nothing to do with each other, but I felt like it could live in that caliber of a song. But it needed awareness. I don't think anybody knows it. So, I mean, honestly, very easy. I didn't sweat over the choice. And I had the same kind of experience with choosing the studio. You may not believe this, but it's the truth. I live in Jersey City, New Jersey, and there's a lot of great studios in New Jersey, recording studios in Brooklyn, Manhattan.

1:15:55 Speaker 29: I got this idea, came to me. I have no idea, but I wanted to record in a barn in upstate New York. I really don't know. Maybe I saw somebody else had done it. I don't know in my consciousness where the idea came from. Anyway, I Googled Recording studio in a barn in upstate New York. And the first thing that came up was a studio called the chicken shack in upstate New York. And I went to the website. I got a great feel from the website photos, the producer owner, Nick Kinsey. I looked up his work and I connected with his aesthetic.

1:16:34 Speaker 29: And I knew immediately that I wanted his aesthetic on, on this and his own, one of his own, projects as an artist is called Connie and the Cunninghams. And I really love that album. And, um, we did a zoom call and we related quickly. I didn't say much about what I was trying to do. Yeah. Kind of, I knew I wanted a slow meditative vibe and atmospheric, and I didn't want him to, um, produce it too straight. I wanted him to put his aesthetic on it and, That's why there's some quirky sounds in that track he just played.

1:17:12 Speaker 8: Yeah.

1:17:14 Speaker 29: So he was the right person in the right studio, but I think I chose it within 90 seconds on Googling, you know, recording in a barn and it's called the chicken shack. And ironically, I've read that Tom Waits has recorded on the West coast in California. There's a studio that was also built out of originally like a chicken coop barn or something. So, That was an interesting coincidence.

1:17:42 Speaker 7: Yeah, I was reading that Tom Waits actually recorded mule variations, which you referred to earlier, at a chicken shack, which is interesting, or a former chicken ranch. Yeah, there's a certain, I mean, it's almost like the, you know, if you believe in this, it sounds like through all of this, through every step of this project, the universe has kind of guided you and things have come together sort of intuitively. You know, you talked about, and I can relate to this, you talked about ruminating a lot, losing sleep over things, but this has all been so, you know, just like, you know, one thing to the next to the next and it's all, you know, like you said, you just kind of had this idea that you wanted to record in a barn in upstate New York and then, but you weren't sure why, you just felt like that's what you wanted to do and it made sense and, you know, and then it all, that's how it all unfolds and there's almost a destiny to it.

1:18:33 Speaker 29: Yeah, absolutely. And again, I, yeah, I've never really, I didn't have to sweat over any detail, but I really did. As I was saying before, I've lost a lot of sleep over the years. Like, is this the right, am I in the right place? Am I, are the musicians? the right players for me?

1:18:51 Speaker 12: Yeah.

1:18:51 Speaker 29: They're the right chemistry. It's very difficult. And this time, even the musicians that the crew that I brought in was so, was great because first of all, I, my son is a brilliant guitarist and musician and songwriter and performer. And, He's married now. We don't spend a lot of, you know, that kind of time together. But I brought him up to the studio. So we had a great time. He did the guitar. Jeremy Chatzky played upright bass. And I've known him for at least 20 years because I'm a guest singer with a tribute show in New York called The Losers Lounge.

1:19:29 Speaker 29: And he's the bass player. And he's played on Bruce Springsteen's records and with a lot of big people.

1:19:35 Speaker 4: Oh, wow.

1:19:36 Speaker 29: He's had a great time. He has an amazing reputation, but deservingly so. He's just great, and he's got a wonderful chemistry, great person to be around. Nick Kinsey, the producer, also plays. He's a drummer, and he's worked with a lot of people like M. Ward, and he also played some keyboards on it.

1:19:59 Speaker 8: Okay.

1:19:59 Speaker 29: And then for the You Can Never Hold Back Spring, There's horns on the original track, but I wanted accordion. And I met this wonderful artist, performer, plays accordion, Ryder Cooley. And I've seen her band, which is a very cool band called the Dust Bowl Fairies. And I knew she lived upstate New York. So I was thrilled that she agreed to come to the studio and lend some accordion to that track. And it was recorded live, too, which was a first for me. I never sang live. live with a band in the same room, and that was a whole different kind of experience.

1:20:39 Speaker 7: That's an important detail, too, because there's no overdubs on the album, right? There's no vocal overdubs. It's what you hear is what happened, correct?

1:20:47 Speaker 29: Yeah. The first day was supposed to be scratch vocals for me, and the band would play live. There were some overdubs, a few, of guitar the next day and some keyboard stuff the next day, but basically the band played live in the same room together. And I was singing scratch vocals. In fact, I didn't even wear headphones because the band was kind of a quiet recording. We were all in the same room. And I just sang into a mic and didn't think the vocals were keepers. I was supposed to do my hard labor the second day when everyone else was home.

1:21:28 Speaker 29: And I know what that's like. That can be grueling because... you know, they like the first half of a line and they want you to re-sing the second half of a line. It can be grueling work, very taxing and tedious.

1:21:41 Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.

1:21:43 Speaker 29: But when we went in the next day to record the real vocals, we were listening back. I think I tried to sing on something and Nick and I realized that I wasn't going to do any better than I did the day before. The emotion was there.

1:22:00 Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.

1:22:01 Speaker 29: And maybe there was something about not having the pressure of it being a real vocal, but we used the scratch vocals became the real deal. So I didn't punch anything. I didn't have to fix anything.

1:22:13 Speaker 8: Yeah.

1:22:14 Speaker 29: So that was a lucky break, which meant that we got to mix sooner. So, you know, the project went a little faster than planned.

1:22:24 Speaker 8: That can happen, though, sometimes, too.

1:22:25 Speaker 7: You know, you'll hear artists tell stories about how they have a demo for a song, and they go into the studio and they end up using, you know, maybe the, I mean, I can think of examples where an entire demo has ended up, you know, after being, you know, properly mixed and so forth on an album because what they were trying to do in the studio couldn't capture the magic of the original demo. So it's interesting. But again, that's another example, right, of just this whole thing just seems to just seems to have been really intuitive for you.

1:22:55 Speaker 7: And so how long, so this EP obviously went pretty quick, like in terms of the recording sessions, how, how long did that take total in terms of days?

1:23:08 Speaker 29: We recorded for a day and a half in, in April. I went, I went in on my birthday as a birthday gift to myself to record. The second day, you know, we just did some, quick over once i once we realized i didn't have to sing and boy was i relieved i could just relax then yeah my my son did a couple of guitar overdubs and then nick added um some quirky keyboard things he has a very cool vintage organ from the 70s called it i think it's called i don't want to say it wrong an octagon and that's what that's what made some of those real quirky sounds at the beginning and end of the last track you really hear it okay something some, some good gospel-y, you know, key parts.

1:23:54 Speaker 13: Yeah.

1:23:55 Speaker 29: So yeah, it was pretty, it was a quick process. And by the afternoon we were mixing and I couldn't believe it. That wasn't supposed to happen.

1:24:01 Speaker 8: That's incredible. That's incredible.

1:24:03 Speaker 29: I can tell you just something else quickly, if you want.

1:24:07 Speaker 10: Sure.

1:24:07 Speaker 29: There's, there's a couple of parallels between with Tom Waits, a couple of coincidental stories, but the main one, and I told this in my show, is believe it or not, both of us, Tom Waits and I, we've both married women that were from Chicago, but we both coincidentally met them in New Jersey. Hence, he wrote Jersey Girl, inspired by his future wife, Kathleen Brennan, who now co-writes a lot of songs with him. And anyway, when my wife went to undergrad at University of, Madison, Wisconsin. So she was home in Chicago.

1:24:53 Speaker 29: She was, she boarded a bus, sat down next to a woman. She was going from Chicago back to Madison, Wisconsin. She was sitting next to this woman who said that she was going to Madison to see Tom Waits concert. And Janice, who was, you know, I didn't know her then. She said, oh, I'm going back to school in Madison, but I'm also going tonight to the Tom Waits concert. And Kathleen said to her, I'm going to marry that man. So they rode a bus. They rode a bus together from Chicago to Madison. And then she didn't see her.

1:25:29 Speaker 29: She didn't see her again, except at the end of the concert. She saw her on the side of the stage after the show run up and give him a hug or something. I just thought that was very odd. coincidental story.

1:25:40 Speaker 8: That is, that is pretty cool though. That's wild. That is wild. By the way.

1:25:45 Speaker 7: So getting to play with your son, your son's on the, uh, on the album. Have you worked with him before prior to making this EP EP? I should say to be precise, but had you worked with him before?

1:25:56 Speaker 29: Well, musically, um, very little we've done. We've done, um, we duetted once at this loser's lounge tribute in New York.

1:26:06 Speaker 8: Okay.

1:26:08 Speaker 29: Um, he's actually produced, he has his own studio and he's produced my vocals on some recordings, especially during the pandemic. And so, but we, we didn't, we didn't do something like this where it was a two day project. And we, we really had a good time after the first night of session, we went out into town and went to dinner and then the morning went out for breakfast and it was up in, you know, farmland. So we, we got a nice, some good, fresh country air the morning of the second day. So I think this was the first time we spent this much intensive time together doing a project, although it was very relaxed.

1:26:52 Speaker 29: And then when he, and when he was a teenager, I helped him sort of being like a, a dad manager, whatever you want to call that. And so, you know, he was a, a, musician when he was a teenager so um i kind of guided him through some things yeah yeah other than that no this was this was this was a great experience for us because as i said he's he's he tours.

1:27:18 Speaker 8: A lot he's on the road okay a lot of.

1:27:20 Speaker 29: Projects producing and then he's he just got married last year so for us to spend two days together like that was was really nice oh.

1:27:28 Speaker 8: I can imagine I can imagine.

1:27:30 Speaker 7: I do want to circle back to, uh, just briefly, um, to, uh, the house where nobody lives, because you had talked about, you know, abandoned homes and being kind of fascinated by that. And I know what you mean, because I I'll look to, you know, if I see one, I'll always, I'll have some of those same thoughts, you know, curious about it and how it got that way and who lived there and whatnot. But we should mention the video for it, the lyric video. There's a lot of footage that goes with what you described in the video of these homes.

1:27:58 Speaker 7: And I'm curious about where that imagery came from, if that's footage or pictures that you took.

1:28:05 Speaker 8: Or did you have help with that? Did somebody else make that?

1:28:09 Speaker 7: Um, because it really does, um, you know, watching the lyric video and hearing the song with it really does kind of, um, kind of take you there for lack of a better way of putting it. Um, but, uh, I'm curious about the video.

1:28:25 Speaker 29: I really appreciate that. Um, I don't think You're the first person who has mentioned the video and appreciated it. I i i love it actually but um it seems it seems overlooked the track seems to be the main the main um point of interest so i knew i didn't want to have a performing um video i wanted a lyric video so i could show the houses so my wife and I drove around in our area and there are a number of buildings with, you know, windows boarded up or broken windows and overgrown weeds and.

1:28:59 Speaker 18: All of that.

1:29:00 Speaker 29: But here it's a lot more congested. So the houses are close. So you might have an abandoned home, but you've got two, two homes on either side that are, that, that are not abandoned. And it was hard to visually just focus on the one home without getting without, cause they couldn't get far enough back. Um, And there was people in cars all the time. So I did take some footage myself, but I didn't use it in the video. Online, I found this site. I think it's Exploring Urban. Oh, my gosh. Now I forget the name.

1:29:37 Speaker 29: But it's a link on my YouTube video for the song. This guy, Cappy, down south, he shoots abandoned homes and mansions. And his footage is very sharp. and detailed, and he shoots all around the outside of the home and the property, but he also goes in these buildings that are often, the doors are just open, they're abandoned, and he goes in and shoots very interesting footage, because many of these abandoned homes, and he knows the story of some of them, some of them were owned by doctors and families, sometimes all the furniture is there, and you know, from years of the roof not being fixed, there might've been water and leaks and there's mold growing or, you know, ceilings have fallen, but there's the sofas and it's all from over the decades.

1:30:25 Speaker 29: You can sort of see the 1960s furniture or earlier or the seventies. And some of them have even the dining room table is set up with wine glasses and China where, but the people are long gone. Anyway, I reached out to him and asked if there was any way I could appropriate his footage for this video. And I didn't know if he'd give me permission or not. On his YouTube channel, he has 600 homes that he has shot.

1:30:54 Speaker 8: Oh, wow.

1:30:56 Speaker 29: Beautiful, incredible videos.

1:30:57 Speaker 13: It's fascinating.

1:30:58 Speaker 29: And he said, go for it, man. And that was it. It was that easy. So I reshot through a vintage film app. his footage because I didn't, I wanted it to be blurred out like a dream. And I made it more abstract and desaturated, washed out, a little bit blurred so that you get the, you were able to get it, you get the vibe and feel of abandoned homes and overgrown weeds and broken windows without all of the crisp detail that's in his actual footage. So I was lucky to just appropriate it. And of course, down South, these mansions, They're on huge property.

1:31:39 Speaker 29: So he was able to get great footage without cars and people walking in front or neighboring houses close by. So that's why his footage, original footage, was appropriate for me to do that. But I wanted to make it dreamy and abstract and then put the lyrics over. So I appreciate what you said very much because I like the way the video turned out. I just haven't heard anybody else other than you comment on it.

1:32:08 Speaker 8: Oh, okay. Oh, you're welcome.

1:32:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, I encourage people to check it out. It's really cool, and I do like the aesthetic. And it absolutely works for the song, no.

1:32:18 Speaker 8: Doubt about it.

1:32:20 Speaker 7: Eddie Scholar, this has been wonderful. Thank you for joining us today.

1:32:24 Speaker 8: In a moment.

1:32:26 Speaker 7: When we wrap up, I think I'm going to play Downtown Train. I really love that one. Also, of course, from the EP.

1:32:34 Speaker 8: Blind Love.

1:32:35 Speaker 7: And this, of course, you know, it's funny, too, because you mentioned people might not necessarily know. Some people might not know that it was originally a Tom Waits song. I remember hearing it when I was a kid. you know, Rod Stewart's version and having no clue. Well, I was a kid, but you know, just having no clue that it was a cover, um, as, as is, uh, as is often the case with songs like that. But, um, but we'll, we'll probably close out with that. But, um, where's the best place for people to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing, whether it's, uh, anything related to this project or anything else that you're doing musically shows that you have coming up, et cetera, where should people go online?

1:33:10 Speaker 29: Absolutely. So my website is eddyskuller.com and I'm also on Facebook and Instagram. So, you know, and all, all of my music is on all of the all the streaming sites, Spotify and Apple and what have you. So wherever anybody wants to reach out and you know, and if you hear it and you like it, like shoot me a message or something. I'd love to hear from people.

1:33:37 Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

1:33:39 Speaker 7: Well, listen, I'm sure you're going to have more music in the future. So we will definitely have you back. We'll do this again. But Eddie Scholar, thank you so much for joining us today.

1:33:48 Speaker 29: Matt, thank you so much. I really enjoyed it.

1:33:50 Speaker 8: Oh, thank you. Me too.

1:33:51 Speaker 13: All right.

1:33:51 Speaker 8: We'll talk soon. Take care. Bye-bye.

1:33:55 Speaker 7: All right, there goes the great Eddie Sculler. Be sure to check out the new EP, Blind Love. It is amazing. And we're going to close out the segment with another song from that. And again, you know, some of you, you know, if you're a Tom Waits fan, you might know the original or you might remember the Rod Stewart version, which was, geez, what would that have been?

1:34:15 Speaker 8: Late 80s, maybe? But check this out.

1:34:19 Speaker 7: I really like Eddie Scholar's version of this song, personally. This is called Downtown Train from Blind Love.

1:34:40 Speaker 41: Outside another yellow moon.

1:34:47 Speaker 4: Punched a hole in the.

1:34:49 Speaker 41: Nighttime I climb through the window.

1:34:55 Speaker 4: And down to the street.

1:35:00 Speaker 41: I'm shining like a new dime.

1:35:05 Speaker 4: The downtown trains are.

1:35:08 Speaker 41: Full With all those Brooklyn girls They try so hard to break out of their little worlds. You wave your hand and they scatter like crows. They have nothing that'll ever capture your heart. They're like thorns without the rose.

1:35:43 Speaker 41: Be careful of them in the dark Oh, if I was the one You chose to be your only one Oh, baby.

1:36:00 Speaker 4: Can't you hear me now?

1:36:03 Speaker 41: Can't you hear me now?

1:36:06 Speaker 4: Will I see you tonight?

1:36:12 Speaker 20: On a downtown train.

1:36:20 Speaker 4: Every night it's.

1:36:23 Speaker 57: Just the same But you leave me lonely Well I know your window and I know it's late.

1:36:38 Speaker 41: I know your stairs and your doorway I walk down your street.

1:36:46 Speaker 4: And past your gate.

1:36:50 Speaker 41: I stand by the light at the four-way You watch them as they fall Oh baby, they all have heart attacks ¶.

1:37:38 Speaker 4: Will I see you tonight ¶ ¶.

1:37:43 Speaker 20: On a downtown train ¶ ¶ All of my dreams, they fall like rain ¶ ¶ Oh, baby, on a downtown train ¶ On a downtown train On a downtown train.

1:38:10 Speaker 58: On a downtown train On a downtown train.

1:38:29 Speaker 7: That is Eddie Schuller's cover of Downtown Train. I'm going to sneak in one more, actually, from the Eddie Schuller's EP, Blind Love, because I love it so much. Let's play the title track. Again, this is Blind Love performed by Eddie Schuller. His new EP, Blind Love, of course, a tribute to Tom Waits. All four tracks, Tom Waits songs. But check this out. Eddie Sculler, Blind Love.

1:38:58 Speaker 6: Now you're gone.

1:39:14 Speaker 44: It's hotels and whiskey and sad-loved dames.

1:39:24 Speaker 15: I don't care if they miss me I never remember their names They say if you get far enough away

1:39:41 Speaker 15: You'll be on your way back home.

1:39:48 Speaker 4: Well, I'm at the station.

1:39:51 Speaker 15: And I can't get on the train. Must be blind love Only kind of love is stone blind love Blind love Only kind of love is stone blind love.

1:40:22 Speaker 5: With your blind love.

1:40:30 Speaker 44: Oh, your blind love Stone blind love With your stone blind love.

1:40:48 Speaker 4: Now the streets are turning blue.

1:40:51 Speaker 41: The dogs are barking and the night has come.

1:40:58 Speaker 59: ¶ There are tears that are falling ¶ From your blue eyes now ¶.

1:41:13 Speaker 14: And I wonder where you are ¶ And I whisper your name ¶ Only way to find you is if I close my eyes.

1:41:37 Speaker 60: Find you with my blind love Only kind of love is stone blind love Only kind of love is stone blind love.

1:41:55 Speaker 41: Only kind of love is storm blind love.

1:42:01 Speaker 60: With your blind love.

1:42:07 Speaker 15: Only kind of love is storm blind love.

1:42:19 Speaker 4: With your stone-blind.

1:42:25 Speaker 13: Love.

1:42:25 Speaker 44: Stone-blind love.

1:42:39 Speaker 7: That is Eddie Sculler. The new EP is called Blind Love. all Tom Waits songs, and he does an incredible job on those. And I really enjoyed having him on the show. We'll definitely do it again in the future as he's releasing new music. And it's cool, too, that he got to, you know, he has his son on the EP. That's got to be a kick. We actually will fit in one more because You Can Never Hold Back Spring. It's kind of a short song. It's only about two and a half minutes, but we're going to play that in a moment, too, as we get ready.

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1:44:47 Speaker 7: One more track from Eddie Scholar's EP, Blind Love. This is You Can Never Hold Back Spring.

1:45:03 Speaker 41: You can never hold back spring.

1:45:10 Speaker 4: You can be sure.

1:45:13 Speaker 41: I will never stop believing The blushing rose that will climb Spring ahead or fall behind Winter dreams, the same dreams ¶ Every time ¶ Baby, you can never hold back spring ¶.

1:45:52 Speaker 15: And even though you've lost your way ¶ The world is dreaming ¶ Dreaming of spring ¶.

1:46:11 Speaker 61: So close your eyes, open your heart to the one who's.

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1:46:26 Speaker 15: And you can never hold back spring. Remember everything that spring can bring.

1:46:40 Speaker 5: Baby you can never hold back spring.

1:46:43 Speaker 15: Baby you can never hold back spring.

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1:57:10 Speaker 62: We'll keep turning, turn your head around When the sky starts falling, don't turn you upside down Round and round the answers.

1:57:20 Speaker 25: Go, got it all figured.

1:57:21 Speaker 47: Out this time Run it, son, run your head, blending the perfect crime When you break it.

1:57:29 Speaker 25: Down, is it really real?

1:57:32 Speaker 47: Is it all just passing by? What's it all come down to? What's true and what's unreal?

1:57:41 Speaker 25: Is it rain or this.

1:57:42 Speaker 5: Or that or just another turn around the wheel?

1:58:00 Speaker 47: Keeps pressing, don't it?

1:58:01 Speaker 6: Running in and out.

1:58:03 Speaker 13: Of your mind.

1:58:03 Speaker 5: Questions turn to questions.

1:58:00 Speaker 4: We'll be right back.

1:58:27 Speaker 47: Is it all just passing by?

1:58:32 Speaker 25: What's it all come down to? What's true and what's unreal?

1:58:36 Speaker 5: Is it really this or that?

1:58:38 Speaker 25: Or just a drummer turned around the wheel?

1:58:56 Speaker 5: Thank you.

2:00:17 Speaker 13: Thank you.

2:00:49 Speaker 25: What's it all come down to? What's true and what's unreal? Is it real or real?

2:01:00 Speaker 6: Another day around the wheel guitar solo.

2:01:32 Speaker 5: Thank you.

2:02:11 Speaker 18: I love it.

2:02:12 Speaker 7: 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.

2:02:42 Speaker 7: 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.

2:02:58 Speaker 13: Hey, Matt.

2:02:59 Speaker 8: Drew Arthur, so.

2:03:01 Speaker 63: 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.

2:03:10 Speaker 25: Gotcha.

2:03:10 Speaker 7: Okay.

2:03:11 Speaker 8: All right. And you, sir? Rob McAlpine.

2:03:13 Speaker 10: I am the drummer in the band.

2:03:15 Speaker 8: Okay. Welcome, Rob.

2:03:16 Speaker 10: Okay.

2:03:16 Speaker 7: 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. I'm Ben Perez, and I play percussion, congas, and a variety of hand percussions.

2:03:28 Speaker 8: Okay, welcome, Ben. And you, sir?

2:03:31 Speaker 33: Eric McIntyre. I'm the Jackie Moon of the band. The bass player, vocals, and kind of band leader.

2:03:39 Speaker 7: So explain that reference, Jackie Moon. Oh, Drew, what's the name of that movie?

2:03:45 Speaker 8: It's a Will Ferrell movie. Hold on.

2:03:50 Speaker 12: It's a Will Ferrell movie. semi-pro.

2:03:53 Speaker 63: In which case, Will Ferrell is the manager, he is the promoter, he's the owner of the band and of the team, and he is also the star player.

2:04:05 Speaker 33: Which I am not.

2:04:06 Speaker 8: That's one of the few Will Ferrell movies I haven't seen.

2:04:09 Speaker 33: Oh, you've got to check that one out. It's almost as good as Blades of Glory.

2:04:13 Speaker 8: Oh, really? Blades of Glory, I see.

2:04:15 Speaker 7: I love Blades of Glory. And you, sir, in the corner here.

2:04:17 Speaker 39: Yeah, it's Chris Volpe.

2:04:19 Speaker 64: 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.

2:04:30 Speaker 8: Okay, all right.

2:04:30 Speaker 7: Very good, very good. Well, welcome, guys. So this is your second or third time on the show?

2:04:36 Speaker 33: This is the second time.

2:04:37 Speaker 8: Second time.

2:04:38 Speaker 19: Yep.

2:04:39 Speaker 8: And actually, it.

2:04:40 Speaker 33: Looks like we might have a special guest showing up a little bit late, Matt.

2:04:44 Speaker 8: Well, you know, as Jenny always says, musicians.

2:04:48 Speaker 33: 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.

2:04:56 Speaker 12: I think it's daylight savings time, isn't it?

2:04:58 Speaker 8: Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

2:04:59 Speaker 33: I tried to use that excuse once being late, but actually it was spring ahead.

2:05:03 Speaker 25: Right, right.

2:05:04 Speaker 39: So I'm like, Joe.

2:05:05 Speaker 33: that doesn't work.

2:05:06 Speaker 10: Yeah.

2:05:06 Speaker 8: Fallback spring ahead.

2:05:07 Speaker 33: That's right.

2:05:10 Speaker 8: Oh, okay.

2:05:11 Speaker 59: He's not here.

2:05:12 Speaker 8: I thought I heard somebody.

2:05:13 Speaker 10: Yeah, I did too.

2:05:13 Speaker 39: I saw him run.

2:05:15 Speaker 7: 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.

2:05:24 Speaker 8: Um, All right.

2:05:24 Speaker 7: Well, so what's, what's been going on with jam Demick since you were last year?

2:05:28 Speaker 8: Cause it's been, it's been over a year, right? I feel like it's, it's.

2:05:31 Speaker 33: Been about, yeah, a little over a year. I think we were in last September, I think.

2:05:35 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:05:36 Speaker 33: Was the last August.

2:05:36 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:05:37 Speaker 33: 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.

2:05:52 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:05:52 Speaker 33: 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.

2:06:13 Speaker 7: Pretty common in this part of the country, I think, yeah.

2:06:15 Speaker 33: 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.

2:06:21 Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.

2:06:22 Speaker 33: But it's also an opportunity to sit back and, you know, Chris is really kind of our lead songwriter.

2:06:27 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:06:28 Speaker 33: For the most part. He's just, he's got better lyrics and there's just a yin-yang there.

2:06:33 Speaker 13: Really?

2:06:33 Speaker 33: But he's really the guy that has a lot of inspiration there.

2:06:36 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:06:36 Speaker 33: Does a lot of like memo, voice memo recordings.

2:06:39 Speaker 8: Oh, really?

2:06:39 Speaker 33: Oh, let me get this, let me get this little sequence down and then he'll bring it to the band.

2:06:43 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:06:44 Speaker 33: 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.

2:07:09 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:07:10 Speaker 33: So we embraced that opportunity and they actually ended up bringing a film crew up to Big Bear.

2:07:17 Speaker 8: Oh, really?

2:07:18 Speaker 33: 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.

2:07:29 Speaker 8: No doubt.

2:07:30 Speaker 33: And then, of course, we've got a couple new venues this year.

2:07:33 Speaker 13: Okay.

2:07:33 Speaker 33: So we play Tuscan Village. which um you're playing there today right playing there this afternoon yeah we're going to be setting setting up around four and we'll be going on at six o'clock okay until nine 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 okay okay let me break right there so we can i guess you can introduce joe.

2:07:55 Speaker 7: So uh joe from jam demicus here were you here last time i think i think you were oh go ahead and pull that mic right up and with those mics you got to talk directly into them they're very uh very omni-directional so uh Or unidirectional, rather.

2:08:09 Speaker 8: Welcome, Joe.

2:08:09 Speaker 13: Thanks.

2:08:10 Speaker 8: Welcome back.

2:08:11 Speaker 12: I'm usually stylishly late.

2:08:14 Speaker 33: He's the professional musician in the band, as you can tell.

2:08:16 Speaker 13: Right, right.

2:08:19 Speaker 8: Well, welcome. So it's good to have you here. So what time is the show at Tuscan Village?

2:08:23 Speaker 33: Six o'clock.

2:08:24 Speaker 8: Six o'clock.

2:08:24 Speaker 33: Yep, and it's a free show. Great family event. It's a great spot. Have you ever been there before?

2:08:28 Speaker 13: No.

2:08:29 Speaker 8: I have. Can you just get a little closer to that mic, actually? Oh, sure.

2:08:31 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:08:32 Speaker 9: Yeah.

2:08:32 Speaker 33: So it's a great place. It's, you know, a lot of people in the crowd. It's really nice. It's kind of a good family opportunity, you know, as well for the kids and mom and dad to come on out.

2:08:43 Speaker 13: Excellent.

2:08:43 Speaker 33: We play a variety of, you know, genres. So you could hear some reggae tonight, some jam band stuff, some Grateful Dead, some Phish.

2:08:51 Speaker 16: Yep.

2:08:52 Speaker 33: Some traffic, all kinds.

2:08:53 Speaker 10: Of good stuff.

2:08:53 Speaker 8: Maybe a little Led Zeppelin.

2:08:54 Speaker 33: Yeah, a little Led Zeppelin.

2:08:55 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:08:57 Speaker 33: And then some originals, of course.

2:08:58 Speaker 7: Oh, of course, yeah, yeah. You mentioned Big Bear, so for those who don't know, what is Big Bear?

2:09:02 Speaker 33: Yeah, Big Bear Lodge really is a venue that just kind of came back into focus. It was back in the 60s and 70s and 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. And then it kind of went silent after the ski area closed.

2:09:30 Speaker 12: Oh, yeah.

2:09:31 Speaker 33: You know, Joe had played there a bunch, you know, what, in 2000s, maybe?

2:09:35 Speaker 12: Even the 90s.

2:09:36 Speaker 33: 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.

2:09:45 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:09:45 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:09:45 Speaker 33: Once it goes to bingo, you know. That's when the Andres Institute of Art kind of took over and was doing bingo for charitable gaming because they're a nonprofit.

2:09:55 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:09:55 Speaker 33: And then, you know, I got involved with the band playing there doing a benefit show. And as the president says, I never left. We brought our PA in because they really had just not the greatest equipment. And I let them use the band's PA when we weren't gigging for concerts.

2:10:11 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:10:12 Speaker 33: Brought my mixer in. Then I started running sound for them. And then I started to build the 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.

2:10:26 Speaker 13: Right.

2:10:27 Speaker 24: Right.

2:10:27 Speaker 33: So it fits in perfectly. And it's the, the venue's coming back like crazy. I mean, we've had Tom Rush was there. He's iconic folk guy. He was on the festival express train.

2:10:38 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:10:39 Speaker 33: Like man, some of the stories.

2:10:41 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:10:42 Speaker 33: But you know, 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.

2:11:01 Speaker 13: Right, right.

2:11:02 Speaker 33: And it's all volunteer.

2:11:04 Speaker 13: Right.

2:11:04 Speaker 33: It's in my heart, 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.

2:11:12 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:11:13 Speaker 33: And it's just such a great– it's great for us.

2:11:16 Speaker 8: It's a great space. Yeah.

2:11:18 Speaker 7: No, it sounds– yeah. You were saying a lot about it, too, the last time you were here. It sounds like it's really just grown.

2:11:23 Speaker 33: It's 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.

2:11:35 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:11:36 Speaker 37: Right.

2:11:36 Speaker 33: So, you know, there's some big money going out to the big name bands.

2:11:39 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:11:41 Speaker 33: 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.

2:11:53 Speaker 8: No kidding.

2:11:54 Speaker 33: So that was us and the Mighty Colors, our brothers, the Mighty Colors. They're a bunch of great guys.

2:11:57 Speaker 8: Oh, that's awesome.

2:11:58 Speaker 33: Really love that band.

2:11:59 Speaker 12: Excellent.

2:11:59 Speaker 33: Good to have them on the show.

2:12:00 Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, you did send me a couple of recommendations, and we'll follow up on those for sure. Definitely.

2:12:07 Speaker 7: Now, the current incarnation of the band, is it the same that it was the last time you were here? 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?

2:12:18 Speaker 8: Sure, yeah.

2:12:19 Speaker 63: 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.

2:12:33 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:12:34 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:12:34 Speaker 8: Okay. So prior to that, it was a five piece.

2:12:36 Speaker 11: Yeah.

2:12:37 Speaker 13: Okay.

2:12:37 Speaker 37: Yeah.

2:12:37 Speaker 30: Okay.

2:12:38 Speaker 8: Excellent.

2:12:39 Speaker 7: So is everyone who's in this room, is everyone on the studio tracks?

2:12:45 Speaker 8: Because these are all new, right? Are these new?

2:12:47 Speaker 33: 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.

2:12:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, started working with the group in May. In May, okay.

2:13:02 Speaker 7: We should talk about, because we already played it, but we should talk about.

2:13:09 Speaker 8: 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? I think 2025, right? Yeah, it was probably.

2:13:18 Speaker 33: Recorded in, I don't know, maybe April, May, I think we recorded all four of those.

2:13:24 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:13:25 Speaker 33: 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 decided to release it on 12-31. because it's the turn of the wheel, turn of the year.

2:13:39 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah.

2:13:40 Speaker 33: It's kind of a, you know, we figured we planned them all out like that.

2:13:44 Speaker 12: Right.

2:13:44 Speaker 33: 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.

2:13:53 Speaker 8: Right, right.

2:13:54 Speaker 33: So, yeah, it's, I think, again, Chris wrote that one. I really like that song.

2:13:58 Speaker 32: Yeah.

2:13:59 Speaker 33: And then Rob's drumming in it with the nice sharp ending.

2:14:02 Speaker 2: Yeah.

2:14:03 Speaker 33: There's something great about that.

2:14:04 Speaker 7: What was the inspiration for that song, Chris? I really like that track a lot.

2:14:09 Speaker 64: Just the feeling of time passing and things coming around again. It's not a relationship song.

2:14:21 Speaker 39: It's more just like a kind of in your head kind of song.

2:14:24 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:14:25 Speaker 8: No, I like it a lot. I like all four of these.

2:14:28 Speaker 7: 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?

2:14:37 Speaker 8: I'll let you pick.

2:14:38 Speaker 33: I think Keep Us Satisfied is pretty hot.

2:14:40 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. I like that one. It's a good song.

2:14:42 Speaker 33: And that was just recently recorded at Dream Track Studios in Milford, which is a brand new studio.

2:14:47 Speaker 39: Oh.

2:14:49 Speaker 33: We were actually the first band to track there. so that's pretty great yeah Gary's a good friend of mine and he's also 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 Studio Metronome and Oak Hill Music to help consult to work with WHB Concert and Productions out in Hampton and they did Club Casino and the Portsmouth Music Hall they do all the professional PA stuff there so they came in and and built the system for us.

2:15:22 Speaker 33: And honestly, the room sounds is one of the best sounding rooms I've ever been in, in this area. It's, it's all wood open beam. It sounds incredible. 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.

2:15:37 Speaker 12: Okay.

2:15:38 Speaker 8: All right.

2:15:38 Speaker 12: Lighting too.

2:15:39 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:15:40 Speaker 33: 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.

2:15:48 Speaker 8: Uh, No kidding.

2:15:49 Speaker 33: 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.

2:16:05 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:16:05 Speaker 33: 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.

2:16:15 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:16:16 Speaker 33: 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.

2:16:22 Speaker 8: And you know what?

2:16:23 Speaker 33: The cool thing is they all work together. They all have their own niche. And we're not really, we're just networking. And these people help us, we help them, and it's really a great community.

2:16:33 Speaker 7: As a side note, it's cool that all these places still exist because, you know, 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. You know, 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, you know, to really record and engineer and produce something great.

2:16:55 Speaker 10: Yeah.

2:16:56 Speaker 33: 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 listened the whole week and then make improvements the next practice. Um, It's really nice to be able to master my own stuff or mix it, but it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the guy with the professional pro tools and the plug-ins that really knows it.

2:17:27 Speaker 63: And at Gary's studio, Dream Trax, one of the things for me, I got to play with a $ 10, 000 microphone, right?

2:17:34 Speaker 13: Nice.

2:17:34 Speaker 10: To your point, though, with each one of these different studios.

2:17:40 Speaker 63: You get a different opportunity to create something that you wouldn't normally.

2:17:44 Speaker 9: So Joe's trying out different equipment.

2:17:46 Speaker 10: I'm getting different microphones than I'm used to usually using.

2:17:49 Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.

2:17:50 Speaker 63: And going from there and really just seeing what does the space provide for and what we can do there.

2:17:54 Speaker 10: So, yeah, it's been pretty fun.

2:17:55 Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

2:17:57 Speaker 7: Well, let's give this a spin. This is another great track. So this was done at Dream Trax. And, oh, this is Keep Us Satisfied.

2:18:06 Speaker 33: Yeah, and just a little note on this one. This was actually, we just recorded this last week. I think it was on the 20th of September.

2:18:12 Speaker 38: Okay.

2:18:12 Speaker 8: Well, this one really is fresh.

2:18:14 Speaker 33: 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.

2:18:31 Speaker 8: Absolutely.

2:18:32 Speaker 7: No, I appreciate that. All right, let's give this a spin. This is Keep Us Satisfied, and this is Jamdemic.

2:18:39 Speaker 6: Guitar solo So I can get no satisfaction guitar solo.

2:19:08 Speaker 25: Because the world won't.

2:19:09 Speaker 5: Let you be.

2:19:12 Speaker 25: I've had the opposite reaction. We got all we'll ever need.

2:19:21 Speaker 47: To build a better world together in the sweet by and by. In the middle of the world.

2:19:35 Speaker 6: Together Keep us satisfied guitar.

2:19:40 Speaker 25: Solo Maybe we need to tear it all down.

2:19:57 Speaker 47: Maybe it gets a little rough Maybe.

2:20:02 Speaker 25: The old must die before the new can be bold Oh, but will it be enough?

2:20:09 Speaker 47: We'll build a better world together In the sweet by and by guitar.

2:20:16 Speaker 9: Solo Keep us satisfied.

2:20:24 Speaker 5: Keep us satisfied.

2:20:26 Speaker 25: Keep us satisfied.

2:20:56 Speaker 5: We'll be right back.

2:21:30 Speaker 25: Sure can get enough satisfaction.

2:21:33 Speaker 47: Cause the world won't let us be Got.

2:21:39 Speaker 25: The opposite reaction We got all we'll.

2:21:45 Speaker 5: Ever need ¶ To.

2:21:49 Speaker 47: Build a better world together ¶ ¶ In the sweet body.

2:21:53 Speaker 6: Of mine ¶ ¶ Build.

2:21:56 Speaker 47: A better world together ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied.

2:22:06 Speaker 6: ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied ¶ ¶ Keep us satisfied ¶.

2:22:36 Speaker 10: Thank you.

2:23:17 Speaker 6: Guitar solo Keep us satisfied guitar solo Keep us satisfied guitar.

2:23:29 Speaker 8: Solo All right, that is Keep Us Satisfied.

2:23:55 Speaker 7: 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?

2:24:04 Speaker 8: That's the one that you wrote, right?

2:24:05 Speaker 64: Yeah, I wrote that song. So the lyrics are kind of about this perennial dissatisfaction we all have with life as it is, right?

2:24:17 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:24:18 Speaker 64: So the idea is can we come together and build a better world than this if we're dissatisfied you know can we can we can we make the world a better place yeah 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 okay the dead use it a couple times it generally means like the afterlife but so this is kind of like can we do it In our imaginations.

2:24:51 Speaker 39: Can we imagine something better?

2:24:53 Speaker 8: Yeah, I like that. I like that. It's a good positive message.

2:24:58 Speaker 7: We're also talking off-air about, Eric, you were talking about, and I know we talked about this too 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.

2:25:16 Speaker 3: Yeah.

2:25:16 Speaker 33: I think when, you know, when we first started, our goal was kind of, uh, we wanted to play a lot of dead songs, right. Cause Chris loves the dead. And I really admired him as a musician. Um, 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.

2:25:44 Speaker 33: Um, And it fell into place, but then it's like, how do we get the word out, right? How do you promote? How do you do all these things? And luckily, my background is marketing and sales through my corporate career. And I'm like, guys, let me start to figure this out. So initially, I started to apply SEO. We got jamdemic.com, which is amazing, net.net, and jamdemicband 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.

2:26:21 Speaker 33: And then I think we're really the first band around to do a Google business page 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 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.

2:26:55 Speaker 12: Yeah.

2:26:57 Speaker 33: 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.

2:27:09 Speaker 12: Yeah.

2:27:10 Speaker 33: You know, it's a lot of work for us.

2:27:12 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:27:12 Speaker 33: But, you know, 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.

2:27:23 Speaker 8: Right, right.

2:27:24 Speaker 33: But we bring a great show.

2:27:26 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:27:26 Speaker 33: And, you know, 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.

2:27:34 Speaker 13: Oh, yeah?

2:27:34 Speaker 33: They gave one to every person. There was tickets for them to, like, you know, for the park to get into the wedding.

2:27:39 Speaker 11: It was really cool.

2:27:40 Speaker 33: Cool oh wow it was a great theme and they actually ended up giving us a couple cabins or cabin we could all stay over yeah um they got.

2:27:47 Speaker 12: A campground on the lake.

2:27:48 Speaker 33: Yeah they rented this huge boy scout campground yeah and it was all us professional kitchen and all that it was it was it was epic yeah um and i think that was our first wedding experience and then now we just did another one two weeks ago excellent and that was phenomenal got to play with a bunch of other professional musicians yeah a lot of fun yeah 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.

2:28:20 Speaker 33: 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.

2:28:43 Speaker 13: Right.

2:28:43 Speaker 26: Right.

2:28:43 Speaker 33: But yet we can still also do what two hours of dead.

2:28:47 Speaker 7: Um, I want to circling back to the SEO stuff you mentioned, uh, cause I think you had said in an email about, um, uh, fishermen.

2:28:54 Speaker 8: That's how that came about, right?

2:28:56 Speaker 11: Yeah.

2:28:56 Speaker 33: They found us. So if you type in chap GPT, this, any of those iterations of those keywords, jam band or anything to do with jam, jam band, classic rock band or anything near me will pop up.

2:29:07 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:29:07 Speaker 33: And they kept saying, you guys just kept popping up everywhere that we asked and, you know, Gemini or any one of those AI engines, it's going to feed us back.

2:29:16 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:29:16 Speaker 33: And it's tremendous. And we, of course, you've got to keep up. There's an engine, you've got to feed the engine, right? You've got to put, you've got to put content on YouTube and you've got to put SEO terms in there.

2:29:25 Speaker 13: Right.

2:29:26 Speaker 33: 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.

2:29:33 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:29:34 Speaker 10: Always.

2:29:34 Speaker 11: Yeah.

2:29:34 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:29:35 Speaker 33: 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.

2:29:43 Speaker 13: Yes.

2:29:43 Speaker 33: And that's what then feeds the beast. Next thing you know, you're an AI answer.

2:29:48 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. No, that's incredible. That's incredible.

2:29:50 Speaker 7: Do you find, I mean, when you talk to other musicians about this. Or do you talk to other musicians about this?

2:29:57 Speaker 33: Well, you know, it's funny. Andre's Institute is keep telling me that I should host a class on this for musicians. You know, Jamdemic's lucky or I'm lucky that I have this background.

2:30:07 Speaker 13: Right.

2:30:07 Speaker 33: If I didn't, we'd be like most other bands, which don't really know how to do this.

2:30:13 Speaker 13: Right.

2:30:13 Speaker 33: And I think having this knowledge, maybe if they're listening to this interview right now, take this advice.

2:30:19 Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.

2:30:20 Speaker 33: 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. 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.

2:30:47 Speaker 33: That's not Instagram. That's not on our website. That's not on the YouTube videos.

2:30:51 Speaker 43: Right.

2:30:51 Speaker 33: 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 on 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.

2:31:08 Speaker 7: It's easy to forget, too, that SoundCloud is there. It's one of those ones you kind.

2:31:12 Speaker 8: Of forget about.

2:31:13 Speaker 33: It's kind of turning into the MySpace.

2:31:14 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. My space is, is it coming back?

2:31:17 Speaker 33: That's what I heard.

2:31:18 Speaker 8: I keep hearing that, but also my space.

2:31:21 Speaker 7: Well, you probably know this, but my space, if you've ever had a page on my space, 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 my space. It doesn't matter if it's your page. they've just made it impossible. So if there's something embarrassing from a long time ago on MySpace, it's still there.

2:31:42 Speaker 8: Just be aware of that.

2:31:43 Speaker 33: Thanks for telling me. I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight.

2:31:47 Speaker 8: It's definitely still there. We should play another one of these great studio tracks. Where should we go next?

2:31:54 Speaker 33: 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. We had an 11-person film crew in there.

2:32:05 Speaker 13: Wow.

2:32:06 Speaker 33: Yeah, it was crazy.

2:32:08 Speaker 8: Where can people find that?

2:32:10 Speaker 33: 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. If you go under the rock icon, Joe and I are hand models in that one. So you can just see us playing the bass and guitar. Corporate runs pretty slow sometimes. So we're just waiting for them to start releasing all this stuff. We're still promoting the product.

2:32:34 Speaker 12: Great equipment. Fishman's, I've always used them for many years.

2:32:37 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:32:37 Speaker 12: And, you know, wonderful pickup.

2:32:39 Speaker 43: And for doing this, they gave us two of this new product, and it's head and.

2:32:45 Speaker 12: Shoulders above the other things that I've used.

2:32:47 Speaker 8: No kidding.

2:32:48 Speaker 53: Yeah.

2:32:48 Speaker 12: As far as the acoustic pickups.

2:32:50 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:32:50 Speaker 23: Yeah.

2:32:51 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:32:51 Speaker 12: Excellent.

2:32:52 Speaker 33: 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?

2:33:03 Speaker 12: It's, it goes into the sound hole of the acoustic. Okay. And it mounts in there and it's a, I've always liked it.

2:33:10 Speaker 43: It's more of a, you know, instead of having either, you know, Paisio pickup that just has more of a nasally sound and kind of been the standard for years, but Fishman just, um, just has a beautiful, um, sound to it. And, um, it doesn't feedback like some acoustics and, um, it just, it also takes guitar pedals. So I can step on a fuzz box if I want to learn a lot, like a wah pedal. And so it kind of sound a little bit electric if it's used to, but it's, um, and it has another switch so you can have different voicings with it.

2:33:42 Speaker 12: And, um, they're, they're out.

2:33:43 Speaker 5: Of, um, Andover.

2:33:45 Speaker 12: Andover.

2:33:45 Speaker 33: Yeah, so they're right down the road.

2:33:47 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:33:48 Speaker 33: Which is pretty amazing.

2:33:49 Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah.

2:33:50 Speaker 33: 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, you know, some design things that we thought they could fix.

2:33:59 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:33:59 Speaker 33: That could be a little bit better.

2:34:01 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:34:02 Speaker 33: Anyway, I'll let you get to the track.

2:34:03 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah.

2:34:04 Speaker 8: Let's give this a spin. This is Let It Roll, and the band is Jamdemic.

2:34:30 Speaker 25: Thank you.

2:35:08 Speaker 5: Hanging around You're feeling oh so right Searching high and low For the special one tonight Little devil.

2:35:22 Speaker 40: 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 Enough so you don't fall Let it roll.

2:35:41 Speaker 42: You gotta live your life Let it roll Gonna.

2:35:46 Speaker 40: Make him mine tonight He stumbles, baby, life gets in the way Climb forward if.

2:35:55 Speaker 5: He loves you.

2:35:58 Speaker 42: Sometimes you have to roll on in the hay Keep on keeping on until they're dying today.

2:36:06 Speaker 25: Let it roll. Listen to it all.

2:36:10 Speaker 5: Let it roll.

2:36:13 Speaker 40: Enough so you don't fall.

2:36:15 Speaker 5: Let it roll.

2:36:17 Speaker 7: You've got to live your life.

2:36:19 Speaker 8: Let it roll. Gonna make it by the night.

2:36:53 Speaker 5: Thank you.

2:37:39 Speaker 42: Gotta live it, baby, it is what it is. Some people trying to make your life their business.

2:37:47 Speaker 5: They get it all, they ain't seeing it out loud.

2:37:52 Speaker 42: Live your life right now and hang your head up high.

2:37:56 Speaker 5: Let it roll.

2:37:59 Speaker 25: Listen to it all. Let it roll.

2:38:03 Speaker 42: No, so you don't fall. I'm gonna make it mine tonight. Let it roll. Listen to it all.

2:38:19 Speaker 5: Let it roll.

2:38:22 Speaker 25: Stumble your phone.

2:38:24 Speaker 5: Let it roll.

2:38:26 Speaker 42: You gotta live your life.

2:38:29 Speaker 5: Let it roll. Gonna make it mine tonight. Tonight. Tonight.

2:38:52 Speaker 8: So good.

2:38:52 Speaker 7: That is Let It Roll.

2:38:53 Speaker 8: The band is Jamdemic.

2:38:55 Speaker 7: 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?

2:39:06 Speaker 33: Yeah, that was done during the Fishman shoot. that we did in March. And that was, again, live, so there was no vocal overdubs. It was cleaned up a little bit and remastered, but it's one of those live cuts.

2:39:21 Speaker 7: Have you guys ever just thought about recording a live album or a live EP, just do the whole thing live?

2:39:27 Speaker 12: That'd be cool.

2:39:28 Speaker 8: Because, I mean, I think it would work. I mean, that sounded great.

2:39:33 Speaker 33: Yeah, I appreciate it.

2:39:33 Speaker 39: I'm sure we'll do that at some point.

2:39:36 Speaker 8: Yeah, you should.

2:39:36 Speaker 33: 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.

2:39:46 Speaker 33: 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.

2:39:52 Speaker 12: Matt's read my mind.

2:39:54 Speaker 63: 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.

2:40:14 Speaker 10: Yeah. And a mind if they sit in and we.

2:40:16 Speaker 8: Got five great tracks with them with a lot.

2:40:19 Speaker 63: Of 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.

2:40:33 Speaker 8: Yeah. Hell yeah.

2:40:35 Speaker 33: Yeah, two of those tracks that we just put on YouTube that people can listen to.

2:40:39 Speaker 10: Oh, okay.

2:40:39 Speaker 33: Yeah, so they're up on our YouTube, which is YouTube.com slash Jamdemic. Nice and easy.

2:40:45 Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

2:40:48 Speaker 7: 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? Yeah, in Salem, New Hampshire.

2:41:01 Speaker 12: Okay.

2:41:01 Speaker 33: And it's a free show.

2:41:02 Speaker 12: Outside.

2:41:03 Speaker 33: Yeah, outside, 6 p.m.

2:41:05 Speaker 12: Excellent.

2:41:06 Speaker 10: Should be beautiful weather.

2:41:07 Speaker 7: Yeah, we seem to be having one last little blast of summer-ish weather before the.

2:41:15 Speaker 8: Before it gets cold.

2:41:15 Speaker 33: Bring a sweatshirt. It might get a little chilly after 8 o'clock.

2:41:18 Speaker 8: Once the sun goes down, yeah.

2:41:20 Speaker 33: It should be nice.

2:41:20 Speaker 12: If you get those outdoor fireplaces too, you can sit around.

2:41:23 Speaker 33: 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.

2:41:32 Speaker 8: Kids can run around.

2:41:34 Speaker 33: Shopping, Italian market.

2:41:36 Speaker 43: I think every shopping mall should be like this because it's like a beautiful courtyard.

2:41:40 Speaker 12: It feels like a place to be and it's like cultural. It's just honorable. Like a little lake?

2:41:45 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's Lake Park.

2:41:47 Speaker 13: L.L. Bean.

2:41:48 Speaker 12: Great place for family. Canoes in there.

2:41:50 Speaker 11: Yeah.

2:41:50 Speaker 12: That's great.

2:41:51 Speaker 7: 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.

2:42:00 Speaker 33: You know, we really like playing at the Range up in Mason. At least I do.

2:42:05 Speaker 13: Okay.

2:42:05 Speaker 33: 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.

2:42:13 Speaker 12: Okay.

2:42:14 Speaker 33: It's just a great place. Unfortunately, we've been rained out or weathered out the past three gigs we've had.

2:42:19 Speaker 8: Oh my God.

2:42:20 Speaker 16: Really?

2:42:20 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:42:21 Speaker 33: 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 of shows up there next year. That's going to be one of the venues we definitely will always try to hit.

2:42:34 Speaker 8: Right.

2:42:35 Speaker 33: Um, 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. 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 Portland.

2:42:53 Speaker 63: A friend of mine just reopened Lenny's Club up in Portland. And so we'd like to get up there, do some more stuff on the Seacoast this year, expand out a little bit.

2:43:02 Speaker 13: Yeah. Oh, very cool.

2:43:03 Speaker 33: Yeah, and I think we want to get down south a little bit more, kind of north towards Boston.

2:43:06 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:43:07 Speaker 33: 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.

2:43:16 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:43:17 Speaker 33: 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.

2:43:22 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:43:22 Speaker 33: 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.

2:43:31 Speaker 12: Super group.

2:43:32 Speaker 8: A super group.

2:43:33 Speaker 33: Yeah, 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.

2:43:40 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.

2:43:41 Speaker 33: It's a lot of fun.

2:43:42 Speaker 8: No doubt. Is there a particular band that you guys cover more than any other?

2:43:46 Speaker 12: Is there a particular?

2:43:47 Speaker 33: Probably the Dead.

2:43:48 Speaker 63: Probably Dead first and then Zeppelin Stones.

2:43:52 Speaker 33: Zeppelin Stones, Fish, and Traffic. We do a lot of Traffic songs. Three or four Traffic songs. We do Medicated Goo, which is a new one. Light Up or Leave Me Alone.

2:44:02 Speaker 13: Mr.

2:44:02 Speaker 12: Fantasy.

2:44:03 Speaker 20: Mr.

2:44:03 Speaker 33: Fantasy.

2:44:04 Speaker 19: Oh, wow.

2:44:06 Speaker 33: And I'm sure there's another one somewhere in there. But I think we'll be playing Medicated Goo this afternoon. I think that's on our predefined set list, but we'll see.

2:44:14 Speaker 8: How does, how does that work with the set list? Cause obviously you guys know a lot of songs.

2:44:17 Speaker 33: I mean, do you kind of, we have almost 200 in our catalog and we're adding, we add 20 more every year.

2:44:24 Speaker 13: Wow.

2:44:24 Speaker 8: Do you write it out?

2:44:25 Speaker 33: That's originals.

2:44:26 Speaker 8: You write it out or do you just feel your way through it?

2:44:28 Speaker 33: Feel our way through it. We get inspirations. People bring in stuff. Hey, I will listen to this or I'll send her something around. Chris will send around YouTube. We have, you know, it's just consistently talking about it.

2:44:38 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:44:39 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:44:39 Speaker 64: Um, but again, uh, the, technology guru over here. We're doing a lot of this through shared docs online and stuff like that, Google Drive. So we have everything centralized in the cloud.

2:44:51 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's good. You got to be organized, right?

2:44:54 Speaker 33: 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. Always want more material so you can dive in in case you find yourself... you know, it's 50 minutes in and we're out of material.

2:45:12 Speaker 25: Right.

2:45:12 Speaker 33: 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.

2:45:23 Speaker 23: Yeah.

2:45:23 Speaker 33: All multi-track remixed. So we can go and say, hey, here's, I can pull out, let's say, a version of Fearless because we do Fearless by Pink Floyd.

2:45:30 Speaker 22: Okay.

2:45:30 Speaker 33: And I'll pull out a version, you know, 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, you know, 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, for the list. 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.

2:46:00 Speaker 33: We're also really love mashups. We've been doing a lot of mashups. So we'll do Led Zeppelin dazed and confused and, the first couple of verses, and then we go into 25 or 64.

2:46:10 Speaker 53: Yeah.

2:46:10 Speaker 33: It fits perfectly. And then we fade back out of that back into days and confused. And we're talking about other, other mashups, kind of like an Umphreys McGee type of deal.

2:46:19 Speaker 12: Yeah.

2:46:19 Speaker 33: Um, that's what really gave them some fame. And just always coming up with different ideas.

2:46:24 Speaker 7: Do those ever happen by sort of by accident or do you plan them? Like, cause I can, I can imagine you guys like jamming on something and you kind of just organically go into something else and be like, he.

2:46:34 Speaker 33: Pulls out stuff that, and then it gives us inspiration.

2:46:37 Speaker 1: Really?

2:46:38 Speaker 33: Chris will play, you know, come in when we're warming up before practice and he'll play a line from, you know, uh, a Zeppelin tune. I'll be like, Oh wow.

2:46:45 Speaker 28: Yeah.

2:46:45 Speaker 64: What's really fun though is sometimes when we're, if we're jamming, um, you, you might remember like, a song that fits the chords that we're playing just randomly and start singing that.

2:46:56 Speaker 39: And, you know, that's how some mashups happen.

2:46:59 Speaker 33: Yeah, like with rock and roll, right? Tell them about that. 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.

2:47:09 Speaker 64: Yeah, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed's song, rock and roll. And one of his refrains is, and it was all right in that song.

2:47:19 Speaker 39: And it was all right.

2:47:21 Speaker 64: And the last jam that we do on that, I just started thinking about that Stevie Wonder song.

2:47:30 Speaker 39: What's the name of that song? Everything's All Right. Yeah, Everything's All Right.

2:47:33 Speaker 8: Hey, man.

2:47:34 Speaker 64: Everything is all right and it just kind of it just like suggested like oh hey i could actually fit that those lyrics also onto this discord series that we're doing it sounds exactly like it no kidding so you know yeah so.

2:47:46 Speaker 63: 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 the actual.

2:47:54 Speaker 39: Song so we'll start weaving that in yeah we.

2:47:56 Speaker 7: Love that yeah yeah 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?

2:48:12 Speaker 33: Yeah, you can go to jamdemic.com, facebook.com, jamdemicyoutube.com. 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 this will 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 what third gig with us yeah yeah oh wow excellent it's uh You know, it's exciting, and we love playing.

2:48:46 Speaker 33: Yeah, it's all weekend, and then we're playing later that evening. We're playing a private party right downtown Milford as well.

2:48:52 Speaker 12: Okay.

2:48:53 Speaker 33: 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.

2:49:00 Speaker 12: Okay, okay.

2:49:01 Speaker 7: Isn't it interesting how this little town called Milford... It's kind of like the center of the universe for musicians.

2:49:06 Speaker 9: It really is.

2:49:07 Speaker 33: 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.

2:49:18 Speaker 8: It's weird, though, isn't it?

2:49:19 Speaker 12: It is weird.

2:49:20 Speaker 33: But there's a lot of great little live music places there.

2:49:24 Speaker 12: Since the 70s or earlier.

2:49:26 Speaker 23: Really?

2:49:27 Speaker 8: It's always been the case? Yeah.

2:49:29 Speaker 12: My parents used to go see bands in Milford. No kidding. Yeah, it's kind of weird. A little oasis of music. Yeah.

2:49:36 Speaker 33: Yeah, what was it? Like the Colonel Shepherds, and then there was Elisha's.

2:49:39 Speaker 12: The White Horse.

2:49:40 Speaker 33: The White Horse.

2:49:40 Speaker 8: Okay.

2:49:42 Speaker 33: All cool places to see live music back in the day.

2:49:45 Speaker 13: Wow.

2:49:45 Speaker 33: And I think that's really what built it up.

2:49:48 Speaker 8: See, I didn't even know that.

2:49:49 Speaker 7: 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.

2:49:55 Speaker 8: We're playing Milford. We're playing Milford. It's like, my God, what's Milford?

2:49:59 Speaker 7: 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.

2:50:08 Speaker 8: That's awesome.

2:50:08 Speaker 33: Yeah, it's not far from Hollis either, which is our home base.

2:50:11 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.

2:50:11 Speaker 33: So there's really no nightclub or anything we can play in our hometown. So Big Bear's pretty close.

2:50:17 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:50:17 Speaker 33: And Wilford'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.

2:50:24 Speaker 8: Yeah, we played a lot in Westford.

2:50:26 Speaker 41: Really?

2:50:27 Speaker 13: Yeah.

2:50:27 Speaker 10: We did the Tiki Bar.

2:50:28 Speaker 33: Yeah, and the Tiki Bar at Neshoba Valley we play in Westford.

2:50:32 Speaker 8: Yeah.

2:50:32 Speaker 33: That's a fun gig, too.

2:50:34 Speaker 30: Okay.

2:50:35 Speaker 8: All right.

2:50:35 Speaker 18: Well, very good.

2:50:36 Speaker 7: Well, guys, I want to thank you, all six of you, for joining us today. This has been wonderful. Thanks for having us.

2:50:40 Speaker 8: Absolutely. Definitely. Thanks, Matt. You got it. We're going to close out with a blink of an eye.

2:50:44 Speaker 7: Anything we should know about this, too, before we play it?

2:50:46 Speaker 39: It's our most psychedelic song.

2:50:48 Speaker 8: Yeah? All right. All right.

2:50:50 Speaker 39: I'm trying to push this in that direction.

2:50:51 Speaker 8: Okay. Secretly.

2:50:52 Speaker 39: Don't tell the guys.

2:50:54 Speaker 7: 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 Schuller in the second hour. If you missed 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.

2:51:16 Speaker 8: Blink of an eye. The band is Jamdemic. Guys, thanks.

2:51:20 Speaker 12: All right.

2:51:21 Speaker 13: Cheers.

2:52:05 Speaker 62: Blessing the sun, burning in time.

2:52:13 Speaker 47: Oh, no land of none, be all and all right.

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2:52:57 Speaker 6: Sideways we slide, between.

2:53:01 Speaker 25: The now and old times.

2:53:06 Speaker 47: Grabbing a stone, let's fence be your guide.

2:53:14 Speaker 6: Come then you know, time is alive.

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2:57:51 Speaker 4: I do what I want because I can.

2:57:56 Speaker 2: All right, back to the radio show now.

2:58:01 Speaker 8: All the best, Jerry.

2:58:02 Speaker 25: Jerry.

2:58:17 Speaker 5: Guitar solo.

2:58:51 Speaker 9: This is Caleb Dyer, organist for Crankin' Wagon, and you're listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on WMNH Radio 95.3 FM. We're back from the break.

2:58:59 Speaker 28: Matt Connerton Unleashed.