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Unsigned518 - Episode 121 - Glass Pony · Unsigned518

• 0:01
  Speaker A: He was born on a Saturday in 73 he loves hard cry music. Finding the 13 cabin in the dazzle jazz on the beast guitar with a short wind radio back his motherfucking Andy scolding look at motherfucker cause here he.
• 0:21
  Speaker B: Comes Andy scrolling his army welcome to unsigned 518. I am here with glass Pony. How's it going, everybody?
• 0:32
  Speaker C: It's going good.
• 0:34
  Speaker B: So I guess what we'll do is we'll start by going around the room and introducing yourself and what you do in the band.
• 0:42
  Speaker D: My name's Jeff Picarazzi on bass.
• 0:45
  Speaker C: Yep.
• 0:46
  Speaker D: I play bass in the band, and I sing sometimes.
• 0:50
  Speaker E: I'm Eddie hoteling. I sing and play guitar.
• 0:53
  Speaker F: I'm Shanda. I play drums, and I also do some vocals.
• 0:57
  Speaker C: I am Greg Pitts. I play guitar, and I also do some vocals sometimes.
• 1:02
  Speaker B: Perfect. So before we got rolling, we were saying that we wanted to go back and tell the story about how glass pony came to where you are today, in your own words, in your own style or whatever, but I don't know who wants to take the lead, but kind of go back and give the origin story, so to speak.
• 1:22
  Speaker C: I got it. So the story of glass pony kind of starts Way Back at a place called Blue Sky Studios in Del Mar. It's a recording studio lesson. What do you call a place? Facility. Yeah. I was like, what do you call that? And a music store. And I worked there. Eddie worked there. ShAnDa's aunt and uncle own it. Worked there. Yeah. So that's kind of how we all met. JEFf was taking lessons there years and years ago. Yeah. So blue sky is kind of the incubator for glass pony, I guess, maybe. And so there was an event called Pig Jam that Scott and Heather, the Owners of blue sky, would put on. It's kind of like a barbecue music day event. They'd have bands, and then there'd be, like, an open mic jam thing afterwards. And I don't really know how or why, but we kind of. Shandon, EdDie and I decided to play.
• 2:28
  Speaker F: Yeah, I was really dRunk. THat's why I decided to play.
• 2:31
  Speaker E: Yeah, it was really late when we played.
• 2:33
  Speaker C: It was super late. But I mean, even, like, why did we decide to play that year? Like, you know what I mean? Like. Cause we all. I don't remember.
• 2:41
  Speaker F: We started playing drums, like, the year before that, probably.
• 2:44
  Speaker C: Okay.
• 2:47
  Speaker B: So what year would this be then?
• 2:49
  Speaker C: Like 2017, I think. I think it was July of 2017. So the three of us, we played and had a great time. There was other people, like Ted Gray was there. I think Rob Ballou was playing Charlie, you know, just kind of all these people around the blue sky scene, and we all had a great time, and it went really, really well. And we were like, we all have music. We're all playing. This is stupid. We should play music. Like, we should have a band. And so we kind of, I don't know, talked about stuff, and we ended up doing an open mic at swifties. My buddy Nick kind of filled in on bass and helped us get off the ground, and we played the open mic, and we didn't even have a name or anything, but Brian Mangini, who teaches at blue sky and plays in the ominous seapods and, you know, raisin head and deadbeats and everybody. So he. His nickname is called the Dark Horse in the Seapods. And we didn't have a name at the open mic, and he, like, introduced us after we were done and called us dark pony. Cause I guess the pony is, you know, like, the lower generation of the horse, I guess, kind of thing.
• 3:57
  Speaker E: We had come up with that dark pony.
• 4:00
  Speaker C: Oh, really? I thought he just called us that.
• 4:02
  Speaker E: No. Oh, we came up with it. It was based off of his nickname.
• 4:06
  Speaker C: Oh, see, I thought he gave us that because we didn't have a name.
• 4:09
  Speaker E: No.
• 4:10
  Speaker C: Oh. Huh? Okay.
• 4:12
  Speaker E: No.
• 4:13
  Speaker C: Oh, I don't remember that at all. Oh, wow. Okay. So, anyway, we know we played. It was great. We played a few shows, you know, with my buddy Nick, and he, you know, we're all fish guys, and Nick really isn't. So it, you know, didn't really. It wasn't really his bag. And so we were thinking, hmm, well, we don't want to stop, but we need a bass player. And we knew Jeff from taking lessons at blue sky and just the shows. Yeah.
• 4:40
  Speaker E: And just being friends. Yeah.
• 4:42
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
• 4:43
  Speaker F: The whole get up, we worked road crew together. He did sound. Eddie did sound for the band, and then we all did road crew, the rest, the other three of us. So we were closer because of that, probably. That's how I think we really probably got to know each other well.
• 4:57
  Speaker D: Yeah.
• 4:58
  Speaker F: Spending time together.
• 4:59
  Speaker D: And. And, like, exactly a year later, the next pig jam in 2018 was our first gig.
• 5:07
  Speaker E: Right. With Jeff.
• 5:08
  Speaker A: With me.
• 5:09
  Speaker C: Yeah. Right, right.
• 5:11
  Speaker D: And then, like, after that was now, we were glass pony after that. Right after, like, that first pig jam. So from 2017 to 2018, almost, like, exactly a year later.
• 5:25
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 5:27
  Speaker E: Jeff wasn't a bass player. Jeff's just a good musician. He's a guitar player and, you know, a cool guy, and we were like, we corrupted him. Yeah.
• 5:35
  Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, my God. That's a funny story, too, because, like, we were all talking, like, okay, well, how do we ask him? And we were trying to, like, become more friendly, I guess, and, like, get him more in the social circle of our lives. And we were like, jeff, you have to come over to Eddie's house. But we didn't tell you why.
• 5:53
  Speaker F: It was like we were staging an intervention for somebody we didn't even know. Like, we're like, he didn't know why he was coming there. And we're all just sitting there around the room, like, looking at him.
• 6:02
  Speaker D: When he got in, it was, like, a little intense, but it didn't need to be. But I don't know.
• 6:09
  Speaker B: Not to sidetrack, but that's exactly how our guitarist, Ryan joined the band. We decided to add rhythm guitars to shortwave radio band, and John, our drummer, knew Ryan and jammed with him, and he lived down the street, and he just texted him and he goes, hey, do you know, I didn't even know him. I had met him once. And he goes, hey, do you know where Andy lives? And he's like, yeah. And he goes, can you meet me here in, like, ten minutes? And he goes, okay. And he walks in the room, and the rest of the band are all sitting there, hi, will you join our band? And he just goes, okay. And that's how it's the same. Like, I love that.
• 6:46
  Speaker E: That's a real personal thing. You know, we're asking you to join our family, right.
• 6:50
  Speaker B: And that was the thing. Like, it was like, as long as I know that this person is good, like, you know, I'm like, yeah, I'm sure you could play guitar, it's fine, but I know. I know John vouches for you, and I like him. So that was 2018, and now it's, like, solidified. So did you, like, start hitting original songs, like, right out of the gate and recording and hitting shows?
• 7:15
  Speaker E: Like, yeah, pretty much. We, when it was just three of us and Nick, we had a few covers that we started with, but we already had some original stuff. I mean, I've been writing music for. Since high school, so I've always had original music.
• 7:30
  Speaker C: Maybe had four songs. I think we had. Well, portraits was the first song, then Stardust was the second one.
• 7:36
  Speaker E: Grover's.
• 7:36
  Speaker C: Grover's. And maybe Maximus was probably the fourth one.
• 7:39
  Speaker D: Those. Yeah, those were the songs that. Those were the songs, like, I needed to learn immediately were those four. And then brown eyed women. Yeah, and, like, walk away and too close. Yeah, and too close was one.
• 7:53
  Speaker C: Did we have that already?
• 7:55
  Speaker D: It was, like, very early on. I'm like, oh, my God, this song is so sick. I love this song.
• 7:59
  Speaker F: Yeah. But majority of that's originals already off the bat, so we were just focused on that.
• 8:03
  Speaker D: It was pretty much, like all of album one, I think.
• 8:07
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:08
  Speaker D: And then you threw that other tune.
• 8:10
  Speaker C: Bali Golly was probably the next one, maybe.
• 8:12
  Speaker D: Yeah, that was early, too.
• 8:14
  Speaker C: Yep.
• 8:15
  Speaker D: But I feel like that's when, like, I, like, we helped write that together because I'm like, we got a jam.
• 8:20
  Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, actually, that's a funny story, though, too, because I think we jammed that with TP in the basement first, because you, Betty, you came up with the guitar melody on vocals first, I think when we were just playing around or something like that.
• 8:33
  Speaker E: Yeah, I came up with that on my own because you had the groove. We had it. You showed it to me on my porch, and we had a recording of it, and I was trying to figure out a melody. It took forever.
• 8:45
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 8:46
  Speaker E: And then eventually came up with that melody.
• 8:48
  Speaker C: Right. We had a jam with TP, though, in the basement. I remember that on that song. Yeah. Yeah. Because you were playing the guitar part. There weren't any lyrics yet. Or maybe. Okay, so maybe I have my memory backwards. You definitely were playing it.
• 9:01
  Speaker E: I don't know. Yeah, it's a long time ago. Yeah.
• 9:05
  Speaker B: And then. So where were, like, some of the first. You know. Cause obviously, like, when a band comes together and, like, you've had your first gigs, you've got original tunes. Like, where were some of the first places that you started playing at to, like, build the momentum? The low beat.
• 9:19
  Speaker A: Right.
• 9:19
  Speaker F: The low beat in Albany, Howard's place. His second place, Lark Tavern, was like. Yeah, the first gigs. That was our first live gig.
• 9:29
  Speaker E: Yeah. Other than swifties, that was before Jeff. Right.
• 9:36
  Speaker C: Because we did the Deadbeats thing, too.
• 9:37
  Speaker E: Yeah, I think the Deadbeats thing was our first thing.
• 9:39
  Speaker C: Yeah, I think you're right.
• 9:40
  Speaker E: So the Deadbeats let us play during their separate. They did a weekly thing at the low beat for years.
• 9:46
  Speaker B: Right.
• 9:48
  Speaker E: And one week, they let us do a thing during their separates. We played, like, four or five songs or something like that. That was the jeff, that might have been our first, you know, club thing together.
• 10:00
  Speaker B: Sweet. And then recording wise, you know, and again, I said, I don't really do research. Like, I don't. I don't do the research. So this is genuine, quite, like, how much material do you have recorded? And, like, you know, full lengths.
• 10:15
  Speaker E: Yeah, we have three full length albums. The first one and the second one.
• 10:21
  Speaker C: And the third one.
• 10:22
  Speaker E: Yeah, we have all three.
• 10:25
  Speaker F: All three are full length.
• 10:29
  Speaker C: The first, 120. 19.
• 10:32
  Speaker E: Yeah, maybe.
• 10:34
  Speaker C: Yeah, I think that sounds.
• 10:35
  Speaker E: Or 18.
• 10:36
  Speaker D: Yeah, it might be 18. Eddie recorded it, produced it, mixed it, did all of. All of it for the first album. Second album.
• 10:44
  Speaker C: Yeah, the first all himself.
• 10:46
  Speaker E: Well, us. Yeah, the first one we did in my. Well, our rehearsal space now, which is just my living room. Yeah, we recorded the whole thing just there. That was fun. The second one we sort of did the same way, but it was during COVID my sister lives down in Westchester, and we decided just to go down there. She's got this. She's got a couple weird spaces in her house that are cool for recording. And they let us just hang there for the week. So we went down for a week, got all the basics done, a lot of other stuff. That was a lot of fun. And then. Yeah, we produced and mixed that one on our own as well. It's a lot of work.
• 11:31
  Speaker C: Yeah. And the newest one, the third one, we went to White Lake in Colony, white Lake music in post with Brett Porter engineering. And we're actually in the middle of working on a new four song ep there also. So we got a new thing coming. No real release time, but going. Making the jump up to, you know, a big, you know, real nice studio had, like. Was.
• 11:57
  Speaker B: Yeah, I had never. I went there maybe, like six weeks ago. We're down there recording something.
• 12:06
  Speaker C: Oh, cool.
• 12:06
  Speaker E: Yeah, we were there right after them, I think.
• 12:08
  Speaker C: Oh, were we really?
• 12:10
  Speaker B: And I mean, and I mentioned it on one episode, like, I felt so fucking out of place when I walked in there. I'm like, I am not cool enough to even be. To even be in this lobby. Like, what is going on?
• 12:22
  Speaker E: That's a beautiful.
• 12:23
  Speaker B: They were taking me around to all the rooms. Like, my jaw was on the floor. Yeah, it is a beautiful. So that must have been a. That's a quite.
• 12:34
  Speaker C: Yeah, we were very experience. Well, and we were very, very lucky and blessed because we. We got to do two songs from the third album for free because we won the 2021 Nip Town battle. The bands march madness thing.
• 12:47
  Speaker E: One of them.
• 12:48
  Speaker C: Yeah, I think it was the Nipper town.
• 12:49
  Speaker B: We were in the final four. I think it was that year. That short radio band was in the final four.
• 12:55
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 12:55
  Speaker E: Okay.
• 12:55
  Speaker C: I think so.
• 12:55
  Speaker E: Was it that year?
• 12:56
  Speaker B: We got bumped, but, yeah, whatever it was, it was still fun.
• 12:59
  Speaker E: Yeah.
• 13:00
  Speaker B: Yeah, it's fun, but, yeah, that. It was. That. That was the prize, like, what? And was the prize, like, just a number of hours and how much you can.
• 13:09
  Speaker C: That sounds, right.
• 13:10
  Speaker E: Three days. And so we had two songs. We wanted to do one, like, full song, and then one that was more of an instrumental. So we were like, we can probably get these three done in or these two done in three days.
• 13:18
  Speaker C: Yep.
• 13:19
  Speaker E: And we did. Yeah, they came out great. And we're like, let's just finish the album here.
• 13:23
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
• 13:23
  Speaker B: What if.
• 13:24
  Speaker C: I mean, I'm so glad we did, because we actually. So we're doing that album on vinyl now, too, and the test presses have just come back, and we had it mastered for vinyl, and it's. It's, like, messed up how. Yeah, dude. It's, like, jaw dropping how good it sounds.
• 13:40
  Speaker D: It's huge.
• 13:41
  Speaker B: And so we'll. We'll keep that. You know, we'll put a pin in the. In the vinyl, because I want to talk about that and where people can get it and whatnot, but I think right now we should probably listen to a song.
• 13:52
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 13:52
  Speaker B: So did we have. Have one in mind that we wanted to start with?
• 13:55
  Speaker C: Let's do bottom of the ocean.
• 13:56
  Speaker E: Ocean. So, yeah, this. This is the song. That is the first song we did at White Lake.
• 14:04
  Speaker C: It was just. We were nominated for song of the year with it at the eddies, too, like, two weeks ago. We didn't win, but it was cool to be included with, like, sawyer Fredericks, you know, voice, and Angelina Valenti, who won, who's great.
• 14:18
  Speaker B: I think she won every category.
• 14:20
  Speaker E: Oh, really?
• 14:21
  Speaker C: She's great.
• 14:25
  Speaker B: All right, so let's listen to the bottom of the ocean glass pony, and then we'll be right back.
• 14:45
  Speaker A: I'm at the bottom of the ocean and the ocean's fill with time I see the bottom of the boat as they're passing me by and they've got no idea I'm down here I said I like it that way but at the bottom of the ocean it doesn't matter what you say is it the bottom of the ocean or just another day? I don't know how long I've been down here no longer counting the days I'm not sure why I ever started thinking of time that way cause at the bottom of the ocean it's just another day there's a lot to learn down here but I sure miss the sun when I'll make it back to shore and see what it's become see what washed away after the flood all.
• 18:53
  Speaker B: Right, so that was bottom of the ocean, glass pony, and that was off washed away, which is the latest album. And that was, you had mentioned nominated for song. Was it song of the year or album of the year at the Eddies?
• 19:06
  Speaker E: Yeah, it was record of the year. Song of the year, right?
• 19:08
  Speaker C: Yeah. That's awesome.
• 19:09
  Speaker B: I mean, even, you know, like you said, even to be nominated. Fucking amazing.
• 19:12
  Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker B: Like, that's such a cool. And, you know, at the Eddies this year, I didn't stay for much of the ceremony because I don't know if I. How I mentioned I wake up very early in the morning. So, like, come 730 and I'm an hour drive away from Schenectady. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go home. But, you know, I heard all about it. But, like, being in that room before the show and seeing everybody and, you know, like we were saying before we got rolling, I was like, I couldn't remember if we'd actually met or if I just recognized you all from, you know, Eddie's is a cool thing for the area, but. So three albums. That's the first single off the latest album. And I think I heard you mentioned something about. There was a video.
• 20:01
  Speaker C: Yeah. So our good friend Zach Raddock, who takes tons of incredible pictures for everybody all over the area, he made a cool little lyric music video for us for it. You can find that on YouTube. It's funny. I've known Zack for so long because we're both bowlers. Zach is better than me.
• 20:23
  Speaker E: Dude.
• 20:23
  Speaker C: Zach is ridiculous at bowling. That dude averages, like, 240. Like, he's crazy good at blowing.
• 20:29
  Speaker B: I average, like a 110.
• 20:31
  Speaker E: Yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker B: Well, actually, maybe average is a strong word. I have hit 110 before.
• 20:40
  Speaker C: Right, right. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. You know, he takes pictures for us, and it's great. He's a great friend. Huge stalwart of the scene, but, yeah. So it's the first song on the latest album. The album came out almost a year ago, but we're doing vinyl now. Finally. I have some friends who run a pressing company and a record label over in Europe. They're in Belgium, and so we're having it done there. We had it mastered by mystery room mastering. Who? This dude? Justin did an incredible job. He's worked on project with Shania Twain, Rufus Wainwright. The list of his stuff that he's helped out with is crazy. On the website, we got the test presses in. They sound amazing. You can pick it up right now. On Bandcamp, we're doing preorders. We had done a limited run of 25 with an alternate screen printed cover that is sold out. We're keeping a couple copies for shows. When they finally land. But, yeah, you can order at Bandcamp. They should hopefully be here by our next show. Cool.
• 21:50
  Speaker B: And I'll link the Bandcamp link on the show page so that people can easily find it.
• 21:57
  Speaker E: Thank you.
• 21:57
  Speaker C: We also just released. So we started a yearly, kind of, like, live compilation album last year. What do we call it? Best in show, I think is what we call it. So we multi track all of our shows, and then at the end of the year, we kind of comb through them and figure out what was really good, and then we kind of put them all together. You can get that on Bandcamp, too. It's pay what you want. We just want people to listen. It's a labor of love. Takes a lot of work to go through and mix multi track stuff. Eddie does a lot of it. We have a good friend, Ryan Rafferty, who's a friend of Jeff's, who's been helping us out on the production and pa live sound front a bit. So that's new. Sounds great. We got a lot of great jams from all over. Stuff from, like, Syracuse, Oyana.
• 22:47
  Speaker E: Some local ones. Yeah, this is the second one that we've done.
• 22:51
  Speaker C: Second one.
• 22:52
  Speaker E: We put one out last year as well.
• 22:53
  Speaker C: Yep, yep. Just getting cool stuff, you know, people listen to.
• 22:57
  Speaker B: Yeah, I love that.
• 22:58
  Speaker C: And some of those jams are incredible. You know, I go back and be like, holy crap, I don't remember playing any of that. And, like, this is awesome. I don't know where that came from.
• 23:09
  Speaker B: Yeah, that is a good, like, multi tracking every show is such a. I don't want to say luxury because, I mean, it can be done, but, like, it's. When you have it, you'll appreciate that you did it, but it's got to be a lot of work setting. It's a lot of work for every show. Right?
• 23:26
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker B: Like, so that's why luxury is not a. Yeah, not the right word.
• 23:30
  Speaker C: Right, right. And, like, we have cameras. We record video of every show. And, you know, when we have time, we'll go back and make a multi cam edit with the soundboard audio, you know, just to give people a lot of work.
• 23:40
  Speaker E: Yeah, we've got a pretty good system. Getting all the material is easy. It's combing through it afterwards that we never have the time for.
• 23:49
  Speaker B: Yeah, that's kind of my day job is combing through. I'm a social media manager, so, like, all that stuff, that's, like, what I do for a day job. So to me, I'm like, so much. That actually sounds lovely, you know? Yeah, I'll do that shit all day, literally. So you have new album. You said you were working on an ep, and is that, like, super early stages, or is that, like, where we at with that middle?
• 24:18
  Speaker E: Yeah, it's middle ish.
• 24:20
  Speaker C: So we just did a bunch of the final guitar overdubs. Guitars are almost done. Drums are almost.
• 24:28
  Speaker E: Drums are done.
• 24:29
  Speaker C: I think drums and bass are done. Yeah, we just. We're talking about moonshine stuff a little bit, so I don't know where we landed on that, but, yeah, we got to do. I don't know if we're going to redo the vocals. We got, you know, our friend Brian Mangini did organ on the last album. He came in and played, you know, a Hammond through a Leslie, and it sounds nice, dude. Yeah, it's like the magic element that ties everything together.
• 24:54
  Speaker B: And he's. He's. That name sounds familiar. He's.
• 24:58
  Speaker C: He plays with the ominous seapods. He's their keyboard player raising that. He teaches at blue sky. He, like, runs the Swifties booking the deadbeats.
• 25:07
  Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say. Cause that name sounded very familiar.
• 25:12
  Speaker E: He's. I mean, he's just the guy. Yeah, he's been in this scene forever, and he's just incredible.
• 25:18
  Speaker B: Nice. That's awesome. So, anyway, that's, you say mid stage. There's no. Obviously no release dates if there's.
• 25:26
  Speaker E: Yeah, we're still in the middle of it.
• 25:28
  Speaker C: All right.
• 25:29
  Speaker E: Right.
• 25:29
  Speaker C: Yeah, we'll have to figure out when we want to go back and do more. Yeah, we just spent a couple days.
• 25:37
  Speaker B: Two weeks ago last week.
• 25:40
  Speaker E: Yeah, Greg and I went in. Big guitars.
• 25:42
  Speaker C: Yep. Yeah, it sounded so good already. Like, once we put the more polished guitar stuff on top of, like, you know, what we already have because we tracked it live. So he sent us the mixes of, like, the live raw, taken. Like, it's good. But when you can spend the time and play more intentional stuff and, you know, spend some time with the parts and really build it up and add things, it becomes a whole new thing.
• 26:07
  Speaker E: Yeah, we like to have fun in the studio and do something we can't do live. You know, like. Like we said, we multi track all our live shows. Like, we don't want to go into the studio and just, you know, release a live record. You know, we want to go put stuff on there that work we can't do live.
• 26:22
  Speaker B: Right.
• 26:23
  Speaker E: That we can't just do with the four of us, you know, sounds that we don't use.
• 26:26
  Speaker B: And that was a weird, like, when I like. Because, you know, we played, like, garage rock. Like, I play, like, three note songs on the bed, you know, whatever. And I was like, when we first started recording, I was like, I want it to be something that we can emulate live. And our producer was like, no, you don't.
• 26:44
  Speaker E: Right?
• 26:44
  Speaker B: And I was like, no, but I did. He's like, no, you don't. He's like, we're gonna add hand claps and tambourines and shakers and ooze and Oz and this and that.
• 26:54
  Speaker E: Yeah. The studio is an instrument.
• 26:56
  Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. And, like, so that's a real cool way to look. And especially, like, multi tracking, because you're like, here's. Here's live, and here's the composition. Like, it's like a. Like a play or a motion picture, you know?
• 27:10
  Speaker E: Yeah, exactly.
• 27:11
  Speaker B: One is. Here it is. It's happening. The other, you take a year to build it and piece it together.
• 27:17
  Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. And this one's fun because there's four songs, and it's one song that each of us wrote, whereas last songs weren't necessarily like that. And the way that we're approaching that is basically each person is the executive producer of the song they wrote. So we all contribute, we all have ideas, and we all share those, and we're all work together on them. But really, the final call lies with the person who wrote the song, which is kind of a different thing for us, which I think is kind of cool.
• 27:50
  Speaker B: Yeah, that's definitely. It's a great way to do. And to have four people in a band that can. Cause songwriting is different than song playing. Yeah, like, that's. It's. To have four people in one band with that, that just shows the. The range that you're gonna open up with, the four of you. So, like, that's really cool. It's a cool way of doing it. So, do we want to play another song before we go?
• 28:18
  Speaker E: Sure. Yeah.
• 28:20
  Speaker B: Which one do we want to do for the second one?
• 28:22
  Speaker D: This tune is called Doppler, and it's off of the latest album, as well. Off of washed away. It's the beginning. It's going to be the beginning of the side b of the vinyl, as well. If you happen to purchase the vinyl, that is.
• 28:35
  Speaker B: Which you should.
• 28:36
  Speaker D: Which you totally should.
• 28:38
  Speaker F: If you don't know that it's side b, the start of side b.
• 28:40
  Speaker D: Right.
• 28:41
  Speaker B: And know that you're missing out. Cool. All right, so let's listen to Doppler, glass pony, and then we'll be right back to wrap it up.
• 29:54
  Speaker A: Hose in the hedge died with your guide, show me the history of your country. I grasp a picture from friends of my family recognize the memories that make it yours. Danny Chevening. Better, baby Cheven.
• 35:35
  Speaker B: So that was Doppler glass pony. And while we were listening to the song, you were saying that there was a video for the song. Anybody want to tell me a little bit about that and where you can find it?
• 35:46
  Speaker C: Yeah, so just our YouTube channel. We had a lot of fun with this one. We went to a field in Del Mar and we had Frankie from Mirth films do the video. It was a lot of fun. We had some model rockets and we were building them and setting them off in the field and we got too excited on the first one because we didn't see where it came down. So it's lost in the Goldenrod or whatever's grown over there in Del Mar. The music video, it's funny, though. It tells a story. Jeff again plays the star role as he did in our Mortimer music video way back, a couple years back. So head over to the YouTube channel and you can see if you can make sense of it.
• 36:30
  Speaker B: And is that just YouTube channels just at Glasspony or whatever?
• 36:33
  Speaker E: I think it's glass pony band.
• 36:35
  Speaker B: Glass pony band. Well, actually, you know what? I have the power to link on a show page. I will link it on the show.
• 36:41
  Speaker E: Glassponyband.com. All of our socials are linked there. And I think the videos are there too.
• 36:46
  Speaker C: I think so.
• 36:48
  Speaker B: All right, well, cool. Well, thank you so much for taking time out of your day to drive out here to talk to me. Before we go, like I do with all my guests, I want to give you the chance to say your gratitude. So we'll start down here.
• 37:01
  Speaker D: All right, it's Jeff here. I just want to say thanks to all of our fans and friends and family for supporting us over the years. It was. I just had my 30th birth birthday at the beginning of April at what used to be parish public house. Now it's called Ophelia's. A lot of cool people came out and showed their support and it was a really nice.
• 37:27
  Speaker C: I don't know, it.
• 37:28
  Speaker D: Was just really nice to see everyone come together and hang out and like, just show their support for us and me personally and the band, obviously. But it was just a really nice moment and, you know, it's just good to share the groove and it's. Honestly, at this point, I just want. I just want to thank all of us for putting up with each other and making it all happen and still wanting to keep doing stuff, and it's cool. It's really cool. So, yeah, thank you.
• 37:59
  Speaker E: Yeah. Yeah, that's a great point. We talk to each other pretty much every day. We're all, you know, best friends, and I think that is a huge part of why we continue doing this and enjoy doing it, and it's fun. So, yeah, going off that, I love you guys and thank you for putting up with me and being a part of all of that we do and that and, yeah, my family, my parents have been so supportive of my musical interests since I was younger, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be doing any of this, probably. So I think them and just the scene in general, I love the Albany music scene from, like, Greg Bell, who gave us our first shot on a bigger show, to, you know, Frankie, who's just an awesome guy, but really just a friend, you know, at this point, just everyone in the scene really love albany.
• 39:06
  Speaker F: I agree with that sentiment. I also love the scene here. I would like to thank. I started playing as an adult. I started playing when I was around 25, which is not super common, and it can be very self defeating when you start at that age. You can come up with a ton of excuses as to why you shouldn't be doing it and spending the time, and you don't necessarily have the resources to be doing it. So, like we mentioned earlier, those open mics that we were playing, like that made me. I played with these guys as a band, but I also played on my own as a musician. So people like Brian Mangini and Tom Perozzi, who was a huge support to me. Those. The musicians in this community are the reason I'm playing today. And so I'm very grateful to them, my friends and family, robalou, my mom, hailey, and, yeah, these guys, I'm a pain in the ass. They're pains in the asses, and we all love each other, and it's awesome. We're like family, and I wouldn't want to be doing this with anybody else. And so I. Yeah, I'm just grateful for it. So thank you.
• 40:21
  Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, a lot of the points have already been covered. Playing music is a very, in a way, a very selfish act, and it takes a great deal of support and sacrifice from everybody in your immediate life. You know, wives, girlfriends, you know, family friends, you know, us. You know, we are booked a lot, so our weekends are eaten up a lot. It takes a great toll on relationships and everything. So I just want to say thank you to everybody, you know, who has come out to see us and, you know, girlfriends and family for supporting. You know, we couldn't do this without the whole network around everything. And that's what I was thinking about at the eddies. You know, all the nominees, seeing the names, like, thinking, oh, we've worked with them, we've played with them. I know them. It's this whole huge, like, ecosystem that works together. And, you know, I see people talking about Albany and they'll say, like, Albany's boring. There's nothing to do. And I think, dude, you are so wrong. The music scene here is out of control. There's so much and, like, stuff to do just about every night. And. Yeah, so, you know, I just want to say thank you, you know, parents, friends, you know, my girlfriend Victoria, who's, you know, always dancing in front, you know, all these people who come and, you know, even if there's a few people in the room, you know, dancing and helping us feel welcome and, like, we got it going on. And, you know, everybody who's bought the records and spent their money on the sounds that we make, you know, sometimes it's weird and sometimes it's cacophonic, but that's okay. You know, sometimes you have to get a little bit weird. But we want people to have a good time. So thank you to everybody who comes out and taper John. Oh, my God. Yes. John and Michelle. Dude, John is incredible. He comes to just about all of our shows and sets up his rig and records us. And, I don't know, is he our biggest fan now?
• 42:32
  Speaker B: Probably.
• 42:33
  Speaker C: Maybe.
• 42:34
  Speaker F: Like, anything we have, you can listen to on archive, and that's thanks to him.
• 42:37
  Speaker C: So, yeah, the live music archive, archive.org. So you know it. When I was growing up, it was always a dream of mine to play in a band that was on archive.org. Like, that's, like, the big deal. Like, that's how, you know, you've made it kind of thing. And John came over to big Daddy's one time. We were playing a show, and he, like, walks up to us, he's like, is it okay if I tape you? And I'm like, yeah, like, please. That would be an honor. And now he does it, and he's only missed a handful of shows over the last few years. So a big thank you to John. He puts in endless work.
• 43:13
  Speaker E: And rich, too.
• 43:14
  Speaker C: Yeah, well, yeah. So the other half of John's team is Rich Lemire, who does all the tracking and, I believe, editing, once John sends him the EQ'd and mix live show and so that team puts it up on the archive together, and, yeah, we can go back and listen to jams from, you know, two years ago, three years ago, or John usually sends us over an mp3 quick, like 2 hours after the show. I don't know how he does it, but just, yeah, everybody in our network, you know, there's so many people. We can't do this.
• 43:45
  Speaker E: Yeah. I want to give a special thank you to Bronson.
• 43:50
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
• 43:51
  Speaker E: Matt Burke, he's. I don't even know officially what he is. He does everything for us, man. He's our band manager. But he does merge. He does lights, he does everything for us, and he's always there. He's always supportive, you know, makes our.
• 44:04
  Speaker F: Lives so much easier, honestly. Like, at shows, he'll show up and, like, take care of everything else that's happening around us when we're setting up. Like, he's just great.
• 44:12
  Speaker E: So, yeah, him and Eric Delagh, who. Who does sound for us, whenever we can get him, basically. He's one of the best engineers in the area, and he's awesome to work with, and he's just another part of our family. He's grown with us. We've grown with him around us.
• 44:32
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 44:35
  Speaker D: It takes a village.
• 44:37
  Speaker C: That's what I was looking for. This is very much a team effort. You can't do it alone.
• 44:43
  Speaker B: Absolutely.
• 44:44
  Speaker C: Cool.
• 44:45
  Speaker B: All right, well, they are glass pony. I am Andy Scullen. This is unsigned 518, and I'll see you on the road. Unsigned 518 is produced and hosted by me, Andy Scullen. New episodes are available every week wherever you stream podcasts. If you'd like to help support the show, please like and subscribe wherever you are listening. Or you could buy me a coffee@buymeacoffee.com. Unsigned 518, if you would like to advertise on the show, send me an email at unsigned five one eightmail.com. And to be a guest on the show, reach out to me through instagram. Unsigned 518, take care of one another, and I'll see you next week.