December 13, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 6 (04:39):
I love it. That is the world radio premiere, the
brand new single from Down Boys. It is called to
whom it may concern, and we're going to talk to
these guys in just a second. Welcome everybody. We have
entered our number two newmarrow dose of Matt Connorton. Unleashed,
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New Hampshire. Today is, of course, Saturday, December thirteen, twenty
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twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table and
a little warmer in here. Now I've actually unzipped my coat. No,
it's not, it's fun. It's fine, it's starting, it's starting
to warm up. It's it's almost sixty degrees. Let's get
these mics on for these guys here. Welcome, gentlemen, Hey,
good morning, morning morning. Let's start in the corner there.
(05:24):
If each of you, Larry will start with you, if
you can tell us who you are, what you do
in the band pretty much.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I'm the man, Larry Williams.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
I played drums, all right, very good, Welcome Larry. I'm
the understudy to the man Jason Sullivan. Okay, yeah, sing
and play guitar okay, okay, And you.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Sir, I am John Clifford, bass player.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
All right, welcome John.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
And my name is Bruce and I play guitar and
I sing backups.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Bruce, I gotta get your hey, your mic up over here.
I'm sorry, no, no, worries that Mike's plugged into a
different board. Okay, say all that again, no worries.
Speaker 10 (06:01):
My name is Bruce and I play guitar and I
sing backups.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
All right, very good. Well, it's wonderful to have you
guys here.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Two of you have been on the show before, right, yes,
with day to attend and then, but you guys have
never been on before, right, Okay, just making sure because
sometimes I forget, like someone will. I've had this happen
where someone will be like, well, you know I was
on the show like ten years ago, and I'm like,
oh wow, it's hard to keep track. But no, I
love the new song, thank you. That just now that's
(06:29):
on all the streaming platforms and everything now.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
I assume yeah, it comes out today.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Excellent, excellent, Well congratulations on that. Now, you guys are
just you're just releasing singles at this point, right, there's
not an album.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Or an EP yet, just over a year old.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, it is a it is kind.
Speaker 11 (06:43):
Of a new project, right, most people are doing it
at this point. So yeah, that's where we're at.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yeah, yeah, what do you like do you think you're
going to do?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Do an EP?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Or an album eventually.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (06:52):
Yeah, we're working on plans now for a full album
and probably by I staid by the end of twenty
twenty six, oh something.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Oh okay, excellent, excellent. Nowhere where do you guys record?
Because everything sounds really good, but there's so many different
ways to do it.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You can go to a studio, you can do it
at home. You can what's the approach that you guys
take for recording different at home?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Right?
Speaker 10 (07:12):
Yeah, everything's been done at home, like we we took
a couple of different approaches. We tried some electronic kits
on the first couple of singles, and on this batch
with Toma May Concern and the next single that's coming
out after it. We use the live drums. But everything's
just basically, I bring my laptop to a space, we
set up mics or whatever and just do it to it.
It's all home home brewed.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's great. That's great. You did it
with that way with all three You've got three total now, right,
three songs that you totally you've you've recorded, Yeah, yep.
And how did so how did this come about? How
did down Boys? I mean, obviously you know two of
you guys play together in another band. But how did
how did this start?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I think I put this thing together.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
Band with those two guys, with Bruce and John. Yeah,
eventually he was going to be the singer and and
the band just dissolved right after that. Yeah, really work out.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I joined a lot of bands.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
When I joined a lot of bands, is I never
really liked the band, but I always find somebody or
two right. It's just like, oh man, I got to
get these two guys numbers right right, And it was
pretty much all three of these guys. And when the
band dissolved, I says, we get all do our own thing. Yeah,
do originals. That was more of a cover of thing. Yeah, yeah,
with it was kind of fifty to fifty. I think
(08:23):
when I joined it it was mostly covers though.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (08:27):
Yeah, So I just found these guys. I thought, you know,
very cute, but I mean they know they know how
to play all right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But the check claar right right, I head shot with.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
There was no competition. It was nice.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah, oh excellent. Did you guys play out a lot?
Are you playing a lot of shows? It looks like
you're right, Yeah, we've had a lot of shows.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
In this past year, and we've got a lot coming
up for twenty twenty six. So yeah, we found ourselves
surprisingly busy.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yeah, no, that's great, that's great. Is it hard to
juggle this with you know? Are you guys? Also? Do
you have other projects also outside of this or.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I have a total of three myself do Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
What else you have?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
So?
Speaker 12 (09:07):
I actually can't say anything yet, so unfortunately, Oh, there's
things in the works.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Asked to keep it down low until it's time to
announce it.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
This is my main priority, but I'm involved in two
other projects.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh, excellent, excellent. What about you, Jason?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yeah, I have an acoustic duo, soul Shine, and we
play out once a month. Nice kind of not anywhere
where it would overlap with you know what we're doing
now heatistically or anything like that. But yeah, stay active,
been in and out of bands and in the scene
for you know, the better part of a couple of decades.
So yeah, I was happy to get the call and
yeah and sit here and I think the work speaks
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for itself, and yeah, I think we're doing great. Absolutely
wanted to add to the tour thing that was going on.
You said, we're playing out. We're hitting like almost every
state in New England in the next like four months.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Good.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah, it's pretty cool, excellent. Do you guys have a
favorite place that you've played? Is there is there something
that stands out or anywhere in Manchester brilliant?
Speaker 11 (10:02):
I don't play place called Charlie. Still it's a great venue,
especially for new new bands, and yeah, yeah, really good
to us, And uh yeah, I think I do like
it that.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
I love Charlie too. Yeah, it's great sound, you know,
it's like you said, great people, So it's that's probably
been my favorite venue. We've played there a lot, so
uh yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
They gave us a chance, and uh, I don't know,
it just took off from there.
Speaker 11 (10:25):
They really liked us, and then we started getting other
gigs and then they started calling us.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Yeah, call them first. Yeah, and they've been calling us
ever since.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
He's going to be coming on Mike Hill. He's gonna
be He's gonna be on the show. So great, very soon,
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's a venue that
comes up a lot on the show. Everybody loves Charlie Soul.
Jenny and I haven't been there yet, but that's worth
the trip everything. Everything we hear about it amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Mike, Yeah, this sounds like a mad problem. Oops, it's amazing.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I really do want to get on the suck it out.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah yeah, absolutely absolutely. All right, So where does the
name come from? If it's is it is the origin
story of the name radio friendly or yeah? Okay, well
it depends when you ask.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
I mean, honestly, I don't even know. Any think we
do the down Boys song, So I don't know. It
just sounded cool, Yeah, sound cool. I think Jason is
the one who ended up with that. We all had
a bunch of names here there.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
We kind of all agreed on him. He's the biggest
guy in the band.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Right right, he gets his way.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Yeah, we all kind of didn't hate it. We got
the down Boys. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I don't know if we want to reveal the origin
story yet. Yeah, no, no, no, there's a bunch of
theories out there. I kind of want to let it,
let everybody, let everybody figure out. Yeah, all right, Larry's
got two shepherds and we practice it at his place,
so you know, he always says down Boys to his dogs.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Okay, that could be it could be one could be
one Okay, Okay.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
It could just be that it sounds like, you know,
we're down for anything or yeah, you know in the
eighties and the Warrant song and then cool cool guys, right, yeah, sure,
got down sort of.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
You see you see that video and it's like, I
don't know how cool they are, but you know what
I mean the choreography and difference. Yeah, oh I thought
that I actually like Warrant. I'm not even knocking the band,
but I remember the first time I saw the video
for Down Boys and they're they're all on their knees
moving in Unison, and I was like, this is a
little uh yeah, no choreography insurance isn't good enough. Yeah,
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and it's just to be clear, it's down Boys. It's
not the down Boys. Down Boys, just down Boys. Very good,
very good. And then so like this this song just
came out, you're already working on the next one, because
you guys probably have you know, you're all creative guys,
you probably have a lot of ideas.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
We've got a bunch of already done, so we're working
on recording them, not so much of working on the song.
So yeah, yeah, little tweaks here and there for the
recordings Yeah, comedies and stuff like that, which have really
really took off.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
I think the comedies in the standard great.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
Yeah, yeah, we've actually already got our next single, Spirits Disappear,
slated to come out in January.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Oh wonder this one gets some time to breathe and
get out there outstanding.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
Try to be a little bit ahead of the game
and try to do maybe every thirty forty five days
we'll put something new out.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
It's hard to know, right, I mean, it's hard to
know how how soon is too soon or you know,
or too long or it's exactly.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yeah, you we're at a good pace. We got seven
seven now, I think we got seven originals.
Speaker 11 (13:32):
Yeah, basically we wrote seven originals and then we instead
of gotting to ten or twelve, let's let's go back
and start recording when piece work.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Yeah, yeah, we got seven that will come out.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Okay, okay, not standing.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
You know, we ask people which onesda they want to
hear first? You know what I mean?
Speaker 11 (13:48):
Yeah, which one do you think? And these were some
of these were voted, right, I mean yeah, yeah, this.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
To whom we concern. It seems like when we played
this this song live, for some reason, a lot of
people resonate with to whom and make concern.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Almost everybody actually, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
It's funny though, like depending on who comes up to you, like,
someone will have a different song that they like of
our so it's like, oh I rel like this one,
and then another persons like, oh I really like this one.
But honestly, kind of the consensus has been to whom
I make concern has been a pretty a.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Lot of melodies and there's still a lot of rock
and roll guitar. You know, the drums are strong but
not crazy. You know, it's not Metallica by any means,
but isn't boring.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
I don't know, I love it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah, this is great, great track.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
Everybody's writing melodies anymore. Everybody's just like I know the
places we've everybody's screaming, Rellian just screaming. Everything's drum solos,
everything solo, solo solo.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Yeah, it's really hard to understand the music, although you
know the talent is that wow, those probably are those
and changes.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
Were insane and that's great sometimes, but sometimes you have
the audience and you just want to understand the song
to be able to dance to it and sing to
it and right right I love rock and roll by Jones.
Jet wasn't the hottest song in the world, but I mean,
once you hear it, you're singing it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That's absolutely true. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
The creativity in this band is off the charts. Like Uncharted,
our very last practice, we wrote two more really that
were there were pretty much skeletons that are gonna that
are gonna be built off of and things like that.
It's just like an unending conveyor belt of things that
were jamming out writing recording.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
So I wouldn't expect us to stop anytime.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
So yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent, Well we should play another one?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
What uh?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
What should we uh? Which one should we play next?
And then we'll we'll one of them will leave for
the end of the show, I mean the end of
the segment obviously, But which one should we play with now?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
At this point?
Speaker 9 (15:36):
How about My Kind of Animal?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Oh yeah, and this one we did a world premiere
for it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
When this.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Absolutely all right, let's give this a spand if you're
just joining us down, boys, U here with us in
studio and this track is called My Kind of Animal.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Pads not.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
One means young maidies, mister be so boy see the race.
Belive you by my sun night Joe, go off, you
can have a real good time. Wall You're crazy. I'm
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not here.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
You might coming.
Speaker 13 (16:55):
You're crazy, I'm not You're not going black dathing song.
(17:19):
You even brought your friend Younts.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What I've been stop all o the time?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Friend, I got strap shout my shot the soundful human times.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You can't tell me aoun. We haven't beat you in time.
You're crazy. I'm not me here. You're not leble you
crazy heav. I'm not here you ma Whoba, You're crazy.
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I'm not he here. Dom come that.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Crazy heavy among Hea You not coming?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You crazy? Am not do not coming? You crazy about baby?
You're not coming.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
There?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
It is That is my kind of animal. The band
is Down Boys, and we've got the guys from Down
Boys here in the studio with us. And uh, that's
a great track. We you know you heard it here
first we played that when that first came out, and
love it and now what what's what's that one?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Like, uh, is one of you a veterinarian or what
what's that song?
Speaker 12 (19:29):
So that one was actually born out of a jam
session up at Jason's place, either Bruce and I started
playing the riff. You know, we just kind of locked
onto it and said, all right, yeah, you know I
I kind of feel like it has kind of early
Aerosmith kind of. But one of these guys came up
with the idea, why don't we just take a few
examples of some personal adult history.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Got yeah, yeah, yeah, well well done, well done.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
But that one came about pretty easily out of the gym.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yeah yeah, is that? Is that how most of these happened?
Because that's what these songs feel like.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
They feel like some of them are that way, some
of them.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
These guys have these all three of these guys. Because
I'm the drummer, I don't have much, but I have
a lot to say. Guys either bring stuff to the table,
or just before a break, he starts doing something.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
I just can't help but put a beat to it.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Yeah, he has his.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Bass down, he's picking it back up, and then we
don't take a break. We end up just like jam
it to something.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
He comes up some kind of words, We record it,
and then next time we come in and go because
if he records it, like well, I'll remember what we
did because if you don't, you don't even remember something
when you're jamming, you know, you having fun.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
He puts words to it before you know what their songs.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
Yeah, not all of them, but I think a few
of this way, even like our genres, I think they're
all different, some of them. You know, you might be
like I kind to hear a little of this band
and that, sure, but not in all of every one
of them. We might hear something different, you know what
I mean. Yeah, I do not have to sound like
somebody today, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Do you guys have any like, is there anybody else
in the scene you kind of you know what happens organically,
you've kind of sort of teamed up with like for
shows like that you Is there anybody who play a
lot of shows.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
With the Mystic Angel? Yeah? Yeah, yeah they do because
it's convenient.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, cut up the drums once exactly. Yeah
that makes sense.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Yeah, thumbs down The.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Angel dumbs down. Nathan Hills getting a little.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Yeah, Nathan Hill's great. Yeah he's been on the show.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, great guy, absolutely, Yeah, I mean we've played
with everyone, Lone Wolf, James, I know, it's been down
Anthony from Perching Sin nice.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah, yeah, excellent, very vibrant scene. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, no,
it is incredible. You know, sometimes people will ask, like,
you know, Jenny does a book, and people will ask,
you know, where do you find all this talent to
come on the show. It's like, well, it's everywhere.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
Collectively, we all played everywhere. Yeah, he was covering for
Exception for a while, great great metal band. And this
guy's doing all our recording now yeah. Yeah, this guy's
writing lyrics. Well, those are all really hot at work,
and I just gap for them to put it together.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yeah yeah, I'll tell you where to show up. You guys,
do any if you made any music videos or anything
for any of these songs?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Not yet, we have that in the works year too.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah yeah, because you guys are all you're you're very photogenics.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
That's true. Yeah, I do have a face for reading.
I look like Alice Cooper a little. So yeah you
think that's cute.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
But I say the pictures of you, you know, because
most bands, you know, they just you know, kind of
stand there, just look at the camera, you know, But
you guys are you're very animated in your pictures.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
So you know, but it's an animated picture.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Well there you go. Somebody, somebody drew it and it looks.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Like one of them. I'm just kiping type.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
No, but I can just I can imagine. I can
imagine you guys do it. But but there is something
you might do as far as the video. Yeah, in
the words, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
I can't see why not. I mean, I think that
any video presence is kind of important for any band nowadays,
Like a lot of people use Instagram or Snapchat or
whatever and just getting stuff out there, even if it's
not like a full fledged video. But I do think
it would be cool to do a full video. I
don't know what song we would do it for, but hell,
it's doing for all of them.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
I don't really care.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really is important. It's funny because
like a lot of people who don't know, who don't
pay attention, think that music videos are dead, like because
they people have a perception that you know, once MTV,
you know, stop playing videos effectively more than more than
twenty years ago now, and VH one probably did as well,
that you know that that the art form of the
(23:48):
music video is dead. And what what people don't realize
is it's actually I think more important than ever because
of YouTube, you know, and what major artists who have, like,
you know, a gazillion dollars will actually put out. I
think I think Metallica did it, Beyonce has done it
where they'll were released an album and literally for every
single song on the album there's a video, a fully produced,
(24:08):
high budget video, and it's you know, it just goes
on social media and of course, but it helps fuel
the you know, the algorithms and and and sell and
sell the music and and it's really more more important
than ever, I think. You know, I think you're right.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
I think it's just a different medium now.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Yeah, exactly, it's it's changed. But but but a lot
of these videos too, you know, the like the big
budget ones. They look like something you might have seen
in the you know, in the the heyday of MTV,
you know. So yeah, people people like and it's easy,
like you can even make you can do something very
I've seen some really creative things that are actually very
(24:43):
low budget but end up being really impactful, you know,
as far as music videos. So yeah, there's really there's
really no limit to what you can do with the
technology now. So it's incredible.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
It's not everything, right, that's right.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
And I could buy I could buy you the best
guitar in the world, right, and this guy could play
the cheapest one, probably better.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Right, exactly, exactly. Now, what So what's kind of the
future trajectory for you guys? Do you think, like, do
you have do you have kind of a long term
plan or get rich?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
You know?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, at our day.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Jobs, you know, I don't know if there's really a plan.
We started this really just to have some fun.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (25:23):
Yeah, we were doing our thing, having a good time.
We'll go up to Charlie's every couple of weeks and yeah,
out of nowhere, it's just when are you guys playing again?
When are you guys putting stuff out? When are you
doing an album? We're like, oh, okay, now what do
we do?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
So, I mean we have a few plans for like
an album, maybe a video or two.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
We'll book some shows, but yeah, we're kind of just
here for the ride. Let's see where it takes. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Yeah, it'll be as surprise as you Yeah. Yeah, that's exciting.
I mean, you know, it's a good way to approach it,
I think. Yeah, yeah, And when when is your next show? Like,
do you guys have anything this weekend? Or when is
oh tonight? Where are you playing tonight?
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Right up the street here and Bad Burger. I guess
oh excellent comes down a new place now.
Speaker 12 (25:59):
Yeah, we're doing prais Christmas party with the bottom motion,
the bottom motive and thumbs down doors at eight.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
I think a ten dollars cover charge. Where cool Christmas costume?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You mad?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Jenny and I went to Bad Burger for the first
time to see Uh it was under the Horizon Vices Inc.
And uh plague Dad. Yeah, that was a fun show.
Oh yeah, I love them.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Does take place?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Yeah, see I took you there. That was not that
long ago. See speechless. Yeah, Florida, I drove. Yeah, we
took our We were trying to figure out like, uh,
(26:46):
we could just ask, but I would ruin the mystery
the uh the giant Bad Burger truck that sits there.
We were trying to figure out like does do the
owners have special permission from the city to just park
that there? Or do they just pay pay all the
parking every single day or just pay the ten dollars
parking ticket every day or whatever? Yeah, but I love that.
I love that John characterizing it is. Oh yeah, it's
(27:07):
it's perfect.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Yeah, but we need be having that parking space tonight.
But whatever.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's occupied twenty four seven, right.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
They seem to be a have a good strategy. You're
doing a good job. They were on the billboard and
the JumboTron on the way in we saw as well.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Oh nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. And
then so and then after this, because a lot of
bands kind of go into sort of a quasi hibernation
during the winter. Are you guys gonna gonna keep playing
shows through the winter or.
Speaker 12 (27:35):
What We're gonna keep going? We have the next week,
we're gonna be back up in Charlie still with day
to attend.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Excellent.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
If you check our website www.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
Doown Boys Rock dot com, we've already have January for
January through maybook for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Okay, excellent, excellent, outstanding. Who does the website, by the way,
that would be me, Oh, very good. I know it's
an odd question to be asked, but I do because
I like the website, and I'm a web site nerd,
and I see a lot of bad websites. I'm sure
you have as well.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Oh yeah, I'm sure this is one of them.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
No, no, no, no, that's why I bring it up.
I have no idea what I'm doing. No, it's a
good it's a good site. That's why I bring it up.
It's a good site. I see a lot of really
bad websites, and this is a good one.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
That's why.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
No, if I if I didn't like it, I wouldn't
have brought it up.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
I appreciate it. I just tried to keep it like
meat and potatoes, no frills.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
No, it's it's good. There's there's a good amount of information,
but it's not overkill, and the layout is nice and
it's no, it's good. Like I said, I know, it's
an odd thing to bring up, but I look, I
look at a lot of websites, and I see a
lot of musicians with really bad websites. So I like
this one.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
I do the website, and I do the social media.
Excellent in charge of most of the you know, music production. Okay, okay,
everybody just kind of fell into a cool role. Yeah, yeah,
it happened naturally.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Well that's nice too. And when when that happens naturally
when it's organic, when everybody just kind of finds their
you know, their their role like that, and uh no,
you guys are you guys are doing great. I think
you're gonna I think you're gonna have very successful twenty
twenty six. That's my prediction because you're you're definitely uh,
you're definitely on the right track. Anything we you know,
we'll we'll close out in a couple of minutes with
do it Again. But any anything we didn't talk about
(29:10):
that you want to make sure our listeners know about.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
Not that I can think of.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Just come out to our shows. I want to have
a couple of shoutouts maybe yeah, yeah to my mom. Uh,
hello to my mother, Hello to my family and friends
and everything, and uh yeah, thanks for thanks for having
us and tuning in and all that. We really appreciate
you guys.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Oh, speaking of tuning in, Tom Syrah Cusa is in
the chat room.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
Shout out to Jeff and Ed. Yeah yeah, boys, shout
out to Aaron.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
He's the bass player from DTA.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Tom said, a perfect opening song. Jason Sullivan has the
perfect blues voice and tone. Great tune fellas. Congratulations, Yeah, Yanks.
Very cool, very cool.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Sheila Russo from paper Jam is in the chat room,
says I know her. Absolutely, we love paper Jam.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Yeah, we were just featuring in November December.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Oh that's right, congratulations on that. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Sheila says, hey, guys,
I love the song totally, uh totally down for this.
I'll see what she did.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
I start trademarking this, right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Tom Syracusa said, down Boys baby, great new England rock
and roll band, and uh, Mike Hill is a great
human and a great soul. Yep, Mike's gonna be on
the show soon. Really looking forward to that. And he said,
love you guys, Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Tom's a great guy
and we love day to attend. They're they're a great
band too, so wonderful. So we'll so yeah, so go
(30:36):
to the website uh for uh yeah, uh down Boys
rock dot com right, yep, down Boys rock dot com
ye for everything. Yeah, down Boys was probably taken right
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
In some fashion.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Yeah, well I won't ask, uh what what you saw
when you investigated the domain.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Where the Down Boys can't go?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Right?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Right, where the Down Boys can't go? No, I like
spontaneous song parodies. Guys, thank you very much. I appreciate
all four of you coming in and thanks for having
us absolutely and we can close out the segment with
this track to do It Again? What what should we
know about this one? Any anything? Anything we should know
about that?
Speaker 10 (31:18):
So I think the song can't kind of came out
from an idea John had that has been kicking around
for a while and we've just kind of had different
iterations of it throughout you know, the history of us collectively,
and so yeah, I think we just kind of gave
the music to Jason, and.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Yeah, the first song might have been that metal thing
that's still not together yet.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
Yeah, yeah, I think that might have been the first
song we actually put together, right, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Oh wow, okay, all right, very cool, very cool. So
we're gonna give this a spin. This is called do
it Again. This is down boys and again. Guys, thank
you so much, Thank you, just.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Stubby shots, Giga wait for three.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Hours, Leader cool on the snore, she didn't sass me
the sauty.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
And then you while.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Why A.
Speaker 13 (32:46):
D be still long shoulder always been wrong, has gotten
that bar and A cant.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Wait to see the day she ser let my copy.
We think that like somebody comes down in my head
streaming no bud mud stud Stuart, come my.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Bl you sell ball, you can boffing bad.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
You have no boot.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Rookie sid zero and the ball.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Then you see.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
Why you.
Speaker 13 (33:57):
Y get it still around by shoulder as long has
got on.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And wait to see the day reel you turn now
playing my god side?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
What's say guys like sol le but you convertupid.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Up yet the struggle is reel is struggles go. You
feel like you're down and out and you can't catch
a break and see your goddamn life. You gotta pick
(34:50):
yourself up by the distress, put yourself back in the game.
No one's coming God, save yourself.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Love me.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
A ship is step from my shoulder.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
All these he is wrong, ass gut boutful, And then.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We just see the days with the whole.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Will you try to leam my cup site we'll dream
gunsight so hiw
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Which you constantly metel scream as homewor
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
My mind is myself with all these kinds of quinces.
Who is sim Johnsy his hair hel But.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm looking for light and a reason to.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Go on, want someone's handle hold and not feel some money.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
God knows something. That word not honey and good times
weed hair.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Had something that was said, stringy up time wall It's
sorry girl, looks like a straight potion the way Jesup
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passed snooks mother show just.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
How long miss Macks.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So I guess my time has come. That must be
fenn Lie.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right here, can ride homy.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's good? Gods up that burning on the body.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And to the time feed.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Just can't be content?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What time girl?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I love it. That is the world radio premiere, the
brand new single from Down Boys. It is called to
whom it may concern, and we're going to talk to
these guys in just a second. Welcome everybody. We have
entered our number two newmarrow dose of Matt Connorton. Unleashed,
and we are live from the studios of w m
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New Hampshire. Today is, of course, Saturday, December thirteen, twenty
(05:03):
twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table and
a little warmer in here. Now I've actually unzipped my coat. No,
it's not, it's fun. It's fine, it's starting, it's starting
to warm up. It's it's almost sixty degrees. Let's get
these mics on for these guys here. Welcome, gentlemen, Hey,
good morning, morning morning. Let's start in the corner there.
(05:24):
If each of you, Larry will start with you, if
you can tell us who you are, what you do
in the band pretty much.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
I'm the man, Larry Williams.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
I played drums, all right, very good, Welcome Larry. I'm
the understudy to the man Jason Sullivan. Okay, yeah, sing
and play guitar okay, okay, And you.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
Sir, I am John Clifford, bass player.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
All right, welcome John.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
And my name is Bruce and I play guitar and
I sing backups.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Bruce, I gotta get your hey, your mic up over here.
I'm sorry, no, no, worries that Mike's plugged into a
different board. Okay, say all that again, no worries.
Speaker 10 (06:01):
My name is Bruce and I play guitar and I
sing backups.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
All right, very good. Well, it's wonderful to have you
guys here.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Two of you have been on the show before, right, yes,
with day to attend and then, but you guys have
never been on before, right, Okay, just making sure because
sometimes I forget, like someone will. I've had this happen
where someone will be like, well, you know I was
on the show like ten years ago, and I'm like,
oh wow, it's hard to keep track. But no, I
love the new song, thank you. That just now that's
(06:29):
on all the streaming platforms and everything now.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
I assume yeah, it comes out today.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Excellent, excellent, Well congratulations on that. Now, you guys are
just you're just releasing singles at this point, right, there's
not an album.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Or an EP yet, just over a year old.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah, yeah, it is a it is kind.
Speaker 11 (06:43):
Of a new project, right, most people are doing it
at this point. So yeah, that's where we're at.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yeah, yeah, what do you like do you think you're
going to do?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Do an EP?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Or an album eventually.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (06:52):
Yeah, we're working on plans now for a full album
and probably by I staid by the end of twenty
twenty six, oh something.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Oh okay, excellent, excellent. Nowhere where do you guys record?
Because everything sounds really good, but there's so many different
ways to do it.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You can go to a studio, you can do it
at home. You can what's the approach that you guys
take for recording different at home?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
Right?
Speaker 10 (07:12):
Yeah, everything's been done at home, like we we took
a couple of different approaches. We tried some electronic kits
on the first couple of singles, and on this batch
with Toma May Concern and the next single that's coming
out after it. We use the live drums. But everything's
just basically, I bring my laptop to a space, we
set up mics or whatever and just do it to it.
It's all home home brewed.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's great. That's great. You did it
with that way with all three You've got three total now, right,
three songs that you totally you've you've recorded, Yeah, yep.
And how did so how did this come about? How
did down Boys? I mean, obviously you know two of
you guys play together in another band. But how did
how did this start?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I think I put this thing together.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
Band with those two guys, with Bruce and John. Yeah,
eventually he was going to be the singer and and
the band just dissolved right after that. Yeah, really work out.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I joined a lot of bands.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
When I joined a lot of bands, is I never
really liked the band, but I always find somebody or
two right. It's just like, oh man, I got to
get these two guys numbers right right, And it was
pretty much all three of these guys. And when the
band dissolved, I says, we get all do our own thing. Yeah,
do originals. That was more of a cover of thing. Yeah, yeah,
with it was kind of fifty to fifty. I think
(08:23):
when I joined it it was mostly covers though.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (08:27):
Yeah, So I just found these guys. I thought, you know,
very cute, but I mean they know they know how
to play all right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But the check claar right right, I head shot with.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
There was no competition. It was nice.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Yeah, oh excellent. Did you guys play out a lot?
Are you playing a lot of shows? It looks like
you're right, Yeah, we've had a lot of shows.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
In this past year, and we've got a lot coming
up for twenty twenty six. So yeah, we found ourselves
surprisingly busy.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yeah, no, that's great, that's great. Is it hard to
juggle this with you know? Are you guys? Also? Do
you have other projects also outside of this or.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
I have a total of three myself do Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
What else you have?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
So?
Speaker 12 (09:07):
I actually can't say anything yet, so unfortunately, Oh, there's
things in the works.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Asked to keep it down low until it's time to
announce it.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
This is my main priority, but I'm involved in two
other projects.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh, excellent, excellent. What about you, Jason?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yeah, I have an acoustic duo, soul Shine, and we
play out once a month. Nice kind of not anywhere
where it would overlap with you know what we're doing
now heatistically or anything like that. But yeah, stay active,
been in and out of bands and in the scene
for you know, the better part of a couple of decades.
So yeah, I was happy to get the call and
yeah and sit here and I think the work speaks
(09:43):
for itself, and yeah, I think we're doing great. Absolutely
wanted to add to the tour thing that was going on.
You said, we're playing out. We're hitting like almost every
state in New England in the next like four months.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Good.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah, it's pretty cool, excellent. Do you guys have a
favorite place that you've played? Is there is there something
that stands out or anywhere in Manchester brilliant?
Speaker 11 (10:02):
I don't play place called Charlie. Still it's a great venue,
especially for new new bands, and yeah, yeah, really good
to us, And uh yeah, I think I do like
it that.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
I love Charlie too. Yeah, it's great sound, you know,
it's like you said, great people, So it's that's probably
been my favorite venue. We've played there a lot, so
uh yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
They gave us a chance, and uh, I don't know,
it just took off from there.
Speaker 11 (10:25):
They really liked us, and then we started getting other
gigs and then they started calling us.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Yeah, call them first. Yeah, and they've been calling us
ever since.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
He's going to be coming on Mike Hill. He's gonna
be He's gonna be on the show. So great, very soon,
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's a venue that
comes up a lot on the show. Everybody loves Charlie Soul.
Jenny and I haven't been there yet, but that's worth
the trip everything. Everything we hear about it amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Mike, Yeah, this sounds like a mad problem. Oops, it's amazing.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
I really do want to get on the suck it out.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah yeah, absolutely absolutely. All right, So where does the
name come from? If it's is it is the origin
story of the name radio friendly or yeah? Okay, well
it depends when you ask.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
I mean, honestly, I don't even know. Any think we
do the down Boys song, So I don't know. It
just sounded cool, Yeah, sound cool. I think Jason is
the one who ended up with that. We all had
a bunch of names here there.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
We kind of all agreed on him. He's the biggest
guy in the band.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Right right, he gets his way.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Yeah, we all kind of didn't hate it. We got
the down Boys. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I don't know if we want to reveal the origin
story yet. Yeah, no, no, no, there's a bunch of
theories out there. I kind of want to let it,
let everybody, let everybody figure out. Yeah, all right, Larry's
got two shepherds and we practice it at his place,
so you know, he always says down Boys to his dogs.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Okay, that could be it could be one could be
one Okay, Okay.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
It could just be that it sounds like, you know,
we're down for anything or yeah, you know in the
eighties and the Warrant song and then cool cool guys, right, yeah, sure,
got down sort of.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
You see you see that video and it's like, I
don't know how cool they are, but you know what
I mean the choreography and difference. Yeah, oh I thought
that I actually like Warrant. I'm not even knocking the band,
but I remember the first time I saw the video
for Down Boys and they're they're all on their knees
moving in Unison, and I was like, this is a
little uh yeah, no choreography insurance isn't good enough. Yeah,
(12:36):
and it's just to be clear, it's down Boys. It's
not the down Boys. Down Boys, just down Boys. Very good,
very good. And then so like this this song just
came out, you're already working on the next one, because
you guys probably have you know, you're all creative guys,
you probably have a lot of ideas.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
We've got a bunch of already done, so we're working
on recording them, not so much of working on the song.
So yeah, yeah, little tweaks here and there for the
recordings Yeah, comedies and stuff like that, which have really
really took off.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
I think the comedies in the standard great.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
Yeah, yeah, we've actually already got our next single, Spirits Disappear,
slated to come out in January.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
Oh wonder this one gets some time to breathe and
get out there outstanding.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
Try to be a little bit ahead of the game
and try to do maybe every thirty forty five days
we'll put something new out.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
It's hard to know, right, I mean, it's hard to
know how how soon is too soon or you know,
or too long or it's exactly.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yeah, you we're at a good pace. We got seven
seven now, I think we got seven originals.
Speaker 11 (13:32):
Yeah, basically we wrote seven originals and then we instead
of gotting to ten or twelve, let's let's go back
and start recording when piece work.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Yeah, yeah, we got seven that will come out.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Okay, okay, not standing.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
You know, we ask people which onesda they want to
hear first? You know what I mean?
Speaker 11 (13:48):
Yeah, which one do you think? And these were some
of these were voted, right, I mean yeah, yeah, this.
Speaker 10 (13:54):
To whom we concern. It seems like when we played
this this song live, for some reason, a lot of
people resonate with to whom and make concern.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Almost everybody actually, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
It's funny though, like depending on who comes up to you, like,
someone will have a different song that they like of
our so it's like, oh I rel like this one,
and then another persons like, oh I really like this one.
But honestly, kind of the consensus has been to whom
I make concern has been a pretty a.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Lot of melodies and there's still a lot of rock
and roll guitar. You know, the drums are strong but
not crazy. You know, it's not Metallica by any means,
but isn't boring.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
I don't know, I love it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah, this is great, great track.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
Everybody's writing melodies anymore. Everybody's just like I know the
places we've everybody's screaming, Rellian just screaming. Everything's drum solos,
everything solo, solo solo.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Yeah, it's really hard to understand the music, although you
know the talent is that wow, those probably are those
and changes.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
Were insane and that's great sometimes, but sometimes you have
the audience and you just want to understand the song
to be able to dance to it and sing to
it and right right I love rock and roll by Jones.
Jet wasn't the hottest song in the world, but I mean,
once you hear it, you're singing it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
That's absolutely true. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
The creativity in this band is off the charts. Like Uncharted,
our very last practice, we wrote two more really that
were there were pretty much skeletons that are gonna that
are gonna be built off of and things like that.
It's just like an unending conveyor belt of things that
were jamming out writing recording.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
So I wouldn't expect us to stop anytime.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
So yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent, Well we should play another one?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
What uh?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
What should we uh? Which one should we play next?
And then we'll we'll one of them will leave for
the end of the show, I mean the end of
the segment obviously, But which one should we play with now?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
At this point?
Speaker 9 (15:36):
How about My Kind of Animal?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Oh yeah, and this one we did a world premiere
for it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
When this.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Absolutely all right, let's give this a spand if you're
just joining us down, boys, U here with us in
studio and this track is called My Kind of Animal.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Pads not.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
One means young maidies, mister be so boy see the race.
Belive you by my sun night Joe, go off, you
can have a real good time. Wall You're crazy. I'm
(16:51):
not here.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
You might coming.
Speaker 13 (16:55):
You're crazy, I'm not You're not going black dathing song.
(17:19):
You even brought your friend Younts.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What I've been stop all o the time?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Friend, I got strap shout my shot the soundful human times.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You can't tell me aoun. We haven't beat you in time.
You're crazy. I'm not me here. You're not leble you
crazy heav. I'm not here you ma Whoba, You're crazy.
(18:36):
I'm not he here. Dom come that.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Crazy heavy among Hea You not coming?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You crazy? Am not do not coming? You crazy about baby?
You're not coming.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
There?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
It is That is my kind of animal. The band
is Down Boys, and we've got the guys from Down
Boys here in the studio with us. And uh, that's
a great track. We you know you heard it here
first we played that when that first came out, and
love it and now what what's what's that one?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Like, uh, is one of you a veterinarian or what
what's that song?
Speaker 12 (19:29):
So that one was actually born out of a jam
session up at Jason's place, either Bruce and I started
playing the riff. You know, we just kind of locked
onto it and said, all right, yeah, you know I
I kind of feel like it has kind of early
Aerosmith kind of. But one of these guys came up
with the idea, why don't we just take a few
examples of some personal adult history.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Got yeah, yeah, yeah, well well done, well done.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
But that one came about pretty easily out of the gym.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yeah yeah, is that? Is that how most of these happened?
Because that's what these songs feel like.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
They feel like some of them are that way, some
of them.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
These guys have these all three of these guys. Because
I'm the drummer, I don't have much, but I have
a lot to say. Guys either bring stuff to the table,
or just before a break, he starts doing something.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
I just can't help but put a beat to it.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Yeah, he has his.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Bass down, he's picking it back up, and then we
don't take a break. We end up just like jam
it to something.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
He comes up some kind of words, We record it,
and then next time we come in and go because
if he records it, like well, I'll remember what we
did because if you don't, you don't even remember something
when you're jamming, you know, you having fun.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
He puts words to it before you know what their songs.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
Yeah, not all of them, but I think a few
of this way, even like our genres, I think they're
all different, some of them. You know, you might be
like I kind to hear a little of this band
and that, sure, but not in all of every one
of them. We might hear something different, you know what
I mean. Yeah, I do not have to sound like
somebody today, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Do you guys have any like, is there anybody else
in the scene you kind of you know what happens organically,
you've kind of sort of teamed up with like for
shows like that you Is there anybody who play a
lot of shows.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
With the Mystic Angel? Yeah? Yeah, yeah they do because
it's convenient.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah, cut up the drums once exactly. Yeah
that makes sense.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Yeah, thumbs down The.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Angel dumbs down. Nathan Hills getting a little.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Yeah, Nathan Hill's great. Yeah he's been on the show.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, great guy, absolutely, Yeah, I mean we've played
with everyone, Lone Wolf, James, I know, it's been down
Anthony from Perching Sin nice.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah, yeah, excellent, very vibrant scene. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, no,
it is incredible. You know, sometimes people will ask, like,
you know, Jenny does a book, and people will ask,
you know, where do you find all this talent to
come on the show. It's like, well, it's everywhere.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
Collectively, we all played everywhere. Yeah, he was covering for
Exception for a while, great great metal band. And this
guy's doing all our recording now yeah. Yeah, this guy's
writing lyrics. Well, those are all really hot at work,
and I just gap for them to put it together.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yeah yeah, I'll tell you where to show up. You guys,
do any if you made any music videos or anything
for any of these songs?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Not yet, we have that in the works year too.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah yeah, because you guys are all you're you're very photogenics.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
That's true. Yeah, I do have a face for reading.
I look like Alice Cooper a little. So yeah you
think that's cute.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
But I say the pictures of you, you know, because
most bands, you know, they just you know, kind of
stand there, just look at the camera, you know, But
you guys are you're very animated in your pictures.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
So you know, but it's an animated picture.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Well there you go. Somebody, somebody drew it and it looks.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Like one of them. I'm just kiping type.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
No, but I can just I can imagine. I can
imagine you guys do it. But but there is something
you might do as far as the video. Yeah, in
the words, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
I can't see why not. I mean, I think that
any video presence is kind of important for any band nowadays,
Like a lot of people use Instagram or Snapchat or
whatever and just getting stuff out there, even if it's
not like a full fledged video. But I do think
it would be cool to do a full video. I
don't know what song we would do it for, but hell,
it's doing for all of them.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
I don't really care.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really is important. It's funny because
like a lot of people who don't know, who don't
pay attention, think that music videos are dead, like because
they people have a perception that you know, once MTV,
you know, stop playing videos effectively more than more than
twenty years ago now, and VH one probably did as well,
that you know that that the art form of the
(23:48):
music video is dead. And what what people don't realize
is it's actually I think more important than ever because
of YouTube, you know, and what major artists who have, like,
you know, a gazillion dollars will actually put out. I
think I think Metallica did it, Beyonce has done it
where they'll were released an album and literally for every
single song on the album there's a video, a fully produced,
(24:08):
high budget video, and it's you know, it just goes
on social media and of course, but it helps fuel
the you know, the algorithms and and and sell and
sell the music and and it's really more more important
than ever, I think. You know, I think you're right.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
I think it's just a different medium now.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Yeah, exactly, it's it's changed. But but but a lot
of these videos too, you know, the like the big
budget ones. They look like something you might have seen
in the you know, in the the heyday of MTV,
you know. So yeah, people people like and it's easy,
like you can even make you can do something very
I've seen some really creative things that are actually very
(24:43):
low budget but end up being really impactful, you know,
as far as music videos. So yeah, there's really there's
really no limit to what you can do with the
technology now. So it's incredible.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
It's not everything, right, that's right.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
And I could buy I could buy you the best
guitar in the world, right, and this guy could play
the cheapest one, probably better.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Right, exactly, exactly. Now, what So what's kind of the
future trajectory for you guys? Do you think, like, do
you have do you have kind of a long term
plan or get rich?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
You know?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Yeah, at our day.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Jobs, you know, I don't know if there's really a plan.
We started this really just to have some fun.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (25:23):
Yeah, we were doing our thing, having a good time.
We'll go up to Charlie's every couple of weeks and yeah,
out of nowhere, it's just when are you guys playing again?
When are you guys putting stuff out? When are you
doing an album? We're like, oh, okay, now what do
we do?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
So, I mean we have a few plans for like
an album, maybe a video or two.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
We'll book some shows, but yeah, we're kind of just
here for the ride. Let's see where it takes. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Yeah, it'll be as surprise as you Yeah. Yeah, that's exciting.
I mean, you know, it's a good way to approach it,
I think. Yeah, yeah, And when when is your next show? Like,
do you guys have anything this weekend? Or when is
oh tonight? Where are you playing tonight?
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Right up the street here and Bad Burger. I guess
oh excellent comes down a new place now.
Speaker 12 (25:59):
Yeah, we're doing prais Christmas party with the bottom motion,
the bottom motive and thumbs down doors at eight.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
I think a ten dollars cover charge. Where cool Christmas costume?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You mad?
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Jenny and I went to Bad Burger for the first
time to see Uh it was under the Horizon Vices Inc.
And uh plague Dad. Yeah, that was a fun show.
Oh yeah, I love them.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
Does take place?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Yeah, see I took you there. That was not that
long ago. See speechless. Yeah, Florida, I drove. Yeah, we
took our We were trying to figure out like, uh,
(26:46):
we could just ask, but I would ruin the mystery
the uh the giant Bad Burger truck that sits there.
We were trying to figure out like does do the
owners have special permission from the city to just park
that there? Or do they just pay pay all the
parking every single day or just pay the ten dollars
parking ticket every day or whatever? Yeah, but I love that.
I love that John characterizing it is. Oh yeah, it's
(27:07):
it's perfect.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Yeah, but we need be having that parking space tonight.
But whatever.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's occupied twenty four seven, right.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
They seem to be a have a good strategy. You're
doing a good job. They were on the billboard and
the JumboTron on the way in we saw as well.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Oh nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. And
then so and then after this, because a lot of
bands kind of go into sort of a quasi hibernation
during the winter. Are you guys gonna gonna keep playing
shows through the winter or.
Speaker 12 (27:35):
What We're gonna keep going? We have the next week,
we're gonna be back up in Charlie still with day
to attend.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Excellent.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
If you check our website www.
Speaker 12 (27:42):
Doown Boys Rock dot com, we've already have January for
January through maybook for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Okay, excellent, excellent, outstanding. Who does the website, by the way,
that would be me, Oh, very good. I know it's
an odd question to be asked, but I do because
I like the website, and I'm a web site nerd,
and I see a lot of bad websites. I'm sure
you have as well.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Oh yeah, I'm sure this is one of them.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
No, no, no, no, that's why I bring it up.
I have no idea what I'm doing. No, it's a
good it's a good site. That's why I bring it up.
It's a good site. I see a lot of really
bad websites, and this is a good one.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
That's why.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
No, if I if I didn't like it, I wouldn't
have brought it up.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
I appreciate it. I just tried to keep it like
meat and potatoes, no frills.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
No, it's it's good. There's there's a good amount of information,
but it's not overkill, and the layout is nice and
it's no, it's good. Like I said, I know, it's
an odd thing to bring up, but I look, I
look at a lot of websites, and I see a
lot of musicians with really bad websites. So I like
this one.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
I do the website, and I do the social media.
Excellent in charge of most of the you know, music production. Okay, okay,
everybody just kind of fell into a cool role. Yeah, yeah,
it happened naturally.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Well that's nice too. And when when that happens naturally
when it's organic, when everybody just kind of finds their
you know, their their role like that, and uh no,
you guys are you guys are doing great. I think
you're gonna I think you're gonna have very successful twenty
twenty six. That's my prediction because you're you're definitely uh,
you're definitely on the right track. Anything we you know,
we'll we'll close out in a couple of minutes with
do it Again. But any anything we didn't talk about
(29:10):
that you want to make sure our listeners know about.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
Not that I can think of.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
Just come out to our shows. I want to have
a couple of shoutouts maybe yeah, yeah to my mom. Uh,
hello to my mother, Hello to my family and friends
and everything, and uh yeah, thanks for thanks for having
us and tuning in and all that. We really appreciate
you guys.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Oh, speaking of tuning in, Tom Syrah Cusa is in
the chat room.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
Shout out to Jeff and Ed. Yeah yeah, boys, shout
out to Aaron.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
He's the bass player from DTA.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Tom said, a perfect opening song. Jason Sullivan has the
perfect blues voice and tone. Great tune fellas. Congratulations, Yeah, Yanks.
Very cool, very cool.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Sheila Russo from paper Jam is in the chat room,
says I know her. Absolutely, we love paper Jam.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Yeah, we were just featuring in November December.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Oh that's right, congratulations on that. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Sheila says, hey, guys,
I love the song totally, uh totally down for this.
I'll see what she did.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
I start trademarking this, right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Tom Syracusa said, down Boys baby, great new England rock
and roll band, and uh, Mike Hill is a great
human and a great soul. Yep, Mike's gonna be on
the show soon. Really looking forward to that. And he said,
love you guys, Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Tom's a great guy
and we love day to attend. They're they're a great
band too, so wonderful. So we'll so yeah, so go
(30:36):
to the website uh for uh yeah, uh down Boys
rock dot com right, yep, down Boys rock dot com
ye for everything. Yeah, down Boys was probably taken right
Oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
In some fashion.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Yeah, well I won't ask, uh what what you saw
when you investigated the domain.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Where the Down Boys can't go?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Right?
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Right, where the Down Boys can't go? No, I like
spontaneous song parodies. Guys, thank you very much. I appreciate
all four of you coming in and thanks for having
us absolutely and we can close out the segment with
this track to do It Again? What what should we
know about this one? Any anything? Anything we should know
about that?
Speaker 10 (31:18):
So I think the song can't kind of came out
from an idea John had that has been kicking around
for a while and we've just kind of had different
iterations of it throughout you know, the history of us collectively,
and so yeah, I think we just kind of gave
the music to Jason, and.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Yeah, the first song might have been that metal thing
that's still not together yet.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
Yeah, yeah, I think that might have been the first
song we actually put together, right, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Oh wow, okay, all right, very cool, very cool. So
we're gonna give this a spin. This is called do
it Again. This is down boys and again. Guys, thank
you so much, Thank you, just.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Stubby shots, Giga wait for three.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Hours, Leader cool on the snore, she didn't sass me
the sauty.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
And then you while.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Why A.
Speaker 13 (32:46):
D be still long shoulder always been wrong, has gotten
that bar and A cant.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Wait to see the day she ser let my copy.
We think that like somebody comes down in my head
streaming no bud mud stud Stuart, come my.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Bl you sell ball, you can boffing bad.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
You have no boot.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Rookie sid zero and the ball.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Then you see.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
Why you.
Speaker 13 (33:57):
Y get it still around by shoulder as long has
got on.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And wait to see the day reel you turn now
playing my god side?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
What's say guys like sol le but you convertupid.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Up yet the struggle is reel is struggles go. You
feel like you're down and out and you can't catch
a break and see your goddamn life. You gotta pick
(34:50):
yourself up by the distress, put yourself back in the game.
No one's coming God, save yourself.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Love me.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
A ship is step from my shoulder.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
All these he is wrong, ass gut boutful, And then.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We just see the days with the whole.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Will you try to leam my cup site we'll dream
gunsight so hiw
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Which you constantly metel scream as homewor
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