Unsigned518 - Weekend Spotlight - 3/15/24

[00:00:00] Speaker A: You was born on a Saturday in. [00:00:03] Speaker B: 73 in the park. [00:00:05] Speaker A: Rock music on the fifth guitar with the joke with radio. It's motherfucking Andy calling. Look at my fucking cup, here we come. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Andy calling wearing his orange hat. [00:00:27] Speaker C: All right, so welcome to unsigned 508 weekend spotlight for the weekend of March 15, 2024, which just happens to be St. Patty's Day weekend. And there's a lot of events going on, obviously, on Saturday and Sunday. So again, I implore you to kind of look for some events as well, because in full disclosure, when I do this show, I literally just browse a couple of things minutes before I hit record, and I throw the whole show together in a matter of minutes. And it's just a couple of things for you to maybe prime the wheel to kind of get you thinking about, oh, well, if there's these cool things, I wonder what else there is. So again, I can't tell you enough how many cool publications there are or ways to find out what's going on. This is just one of many ways. So reach out and try to find some cool new shit for you. But anyway, first event that I want to talk about, Wild Adriatic took a little bit of a hiatus, and they've recently come back, and obviously the whole scene was a buz and very excited for their return. And they are going to be playing at Cafe Lena on Friday the 15th, and that's at 07:30 p.m. So you can go catch Wild Adriatic. They're obviously a very talented group of individuals, and they've now added Dustin Deluc on keys and Mike Oman on saxophone and expanded the sound. So wild Adriatic. If you'd like more information, you can check out cafelina.org. And of course, Cafelina is 47 Phyla street in Saratoga. Wild Adriatic, Friday at 07:30 p.m. All right, so next up on Saturday, March 16, is non compliance, the hauntings, the grandstand jockeys, and black belt Jones at Empire Underground in Albany. I've had the pleasure of playing shows with the hauntings and the grandstand jockeys, both excellent bands. I'm aware of non compliance and black belt Jones. I've heard the music, and I think this is just going to be such a fucking great local punk bands at Empire Underground. I just got to play Empire underground a week ago, two weeks ago, something like that. Very cool venue. It certainly had, like, that old school club vibe. Very music centric. I don't know, just very cool. So go check that out. It's an upstate black and blue step up presents SLP concerts joint and it is only $10 so it's March 16. We have non compliance, the hauntings, grandstand jockeys and black belt Jones at Empire Underground in Albany. All right, so now we're going to go around town with Amy modesty and check in and get Amy's top three picks for this weekend. Number one in the blood put on by Harbinger Theater, opens this Friday, March 15 at 07:30 p.m. At the College of St. Rose Theater located at 996 Madison Avenue in Albany. The play will also be showcased on 316 with a farewell to St. Rose night starting at 06:30 p.m. And on 317, a matinee show at 02:00 p.m. Since St. Rose is closing this spring, it would be important to make note of this show number two shows Leary is going to be having a book signing for his debut book, the Footless Girls of Camp C at Alias Coffee in Troy with an artist opening featuring the works made by Gene Tanzi and live music by John Kahowski on Sunday, March 17 from three to 04:30 p.m. This event is free to the public and Amy's pick number three is kind of an all encompassing get out and kind of find a bunch of stuff to do for St. Patrick's Day. There is a lot, way too much to list. It says there's a lot happening in Troy, at bootleggers on Broadway and at Revolution hall and Frog Alley Brewing will even have music from hair of the dog on Sunday afternoon. And of course, more information on these events can be found on Amy's blog, which is of course aroundtownwithamymidesti substack.com. So if you would like more information on Amy, you can find her website at almfineartandphotography WordPress.com or at aroundtownwithamydesti. Like I said, that is aroundtownwithamymidesti substack.com. So I do have one more event that I want to talk about, but I'm going to actually do kind of a deeper dive into this event because not only is it a cool event, I know I've had my band on events before, but my band is playing. But it actually goes a lot deeper than that because it's something that I moved to where I am now kind of because of this brewery, Argyle brewing. The band, shortwave radio band literally would not be a band without them. The first time Lonnie and I played as an acoustic duo was because they gave us the chance. So their ten year anniversary is coming up this weekend on Sunday, St. Patty's Day, and they have a shitload of stuff going on. So I wanted to highlight the music that they have. They've got stuff going on at their Greenwich location, stuff going on at the depot in Cambridge, and I wanted to highlight some of that. And I sent a quick text to Chris from Argyle. He's one of the owners. And I was just know he's a budy of mine. I said, hey, can I do, like a quick interview with you to talk about this? And so we are going to have a bit of a conversation. He's going to come to the dazzled end. Sit down. We're going to talk about the event, about the tenure anniversary, and you're also going to get some insights into how Argyle brewing shaped my current life. I guess because like I said, the band certainly wouldn't exist without them. I wouldn't be living in Skylerville without them. I wouldn't probably be doing the podcast. So we're going to deep dive with Chris in just a minute. But before we do that, I want to check in with Frankie Cavone of mirth films. So we're going to do this every week along with, like, around town with Amy modesty, her top picks. I'm going to check in with Frankie every week and he's kind of going to give me some insight into a form of music that I may not be as well versed in, which is jam bam music. So we'll check in with Frankie and see what's up. Hey, what's up, Frankie? [00:06:58] Speaker D: What's up, Andy? How are you doing? [00:06:59] Speaker C: I am fantastic. It's almost springtime. [00:07:02] Speaker D: That is right, it is. Finally, we got a couple of days over 60 degrees here in Albany, partly cloudy with a chance of sunshine. And it's not going to get any better than this. [00:07:12] Speaker C: Well, I mean, it will get better than this. [00:07:15] Speaker D: That is very true. [00:07:16] Speaker C: But this is nice. [00:07:18] Speaker D: This is nice. And you know what's even nicer is that there's a ton of jam bands that are going to be taking over Albany over the next few weeks all across the capital region, including in a special two set performance by the disco biscuits for those who are into Jamtronica. And then we have cool, cool, formerly turquoise, an incredible funk band, and they will be taking over Putnam Place on March 15. And then aside from that, we got another special edition of palace sessions with the return of Formula Five, who are Albany natives and have yet to play Albany since their breakup in 2019 and are coming back for a special performance right in the lobby of the Palace Theater. [00:08:01] Speaker C: That sounds awesome. And as we were talking last week, kind of like after we recorded our weekly phone call, we were saying how we should have you cover the jam scene, because that's like a scene that I am famously not well versed in. And you are such an expert. So I think that's so cool to have you filling in that area of expertise for me. [00:08:26] Speaker D: Yeah, of course. And we got plenty of them. They're constantly touring all the way around the United States and playing 20 minutes songs one or after the other. Some people love it, some people hate it. But at the end of the day, it's just cool to see just musicians pushing their creative boundaries live on stage and improvising along the way. And the cool thing about jam bands is it's all rooted from rock and roll, just like every other genre that we are blessed to have. And we sure, definitely have a lot of. I think we have the basis covered here in Albany, with metal to punk to alternative, to know there's a great variety. And it's cool that everything can coexist along the way. And for all those who are interested in learning more about some of the jam bands that are playing in this area, along with all other mirth films stuff, you can head to mirthfilms.com. And it always helps to hit subscribe on our YouTube channel where you can watch live music content, all different genres. You can watch myself consume Reubens and, yeah, not hate myself along the way. [00:09:40] Speaker C: I mean, the weekend of Reubens is coming up. Or at least for corned beef, it very much is. [00:09:47] Speaker D: And for those Irishmen and irish women out there, don't forget to put out that little bowl of thousand island dressing, because you know somebody needs that, right? [00:09:55] Speaker C: I guess. I don't know if anybody needs it. [00:09:59] Speaker D: But just like the Van Helen song everybody wants, right? You want some, too? [00:10:04] Speaker C: And remember dating myself? But what was that movie, the John Cusack movie with, like, the little claymation hamburger sang that song. Do you remember that? Was that better off dead? I think it was better off dead. Look it up. Because there's a scene, I'm almost positive it's better off dead. Like 95% sure. But there's a scene where he imagines a little hamburger with Eddie van Halen's guitar doing everybody wants something. It's pretty funny. [00:10:31] Speaker D: That's too funny. And it would be wrong if I didn't bring this up. But also, huge congrats to all musicians and people who help carry this music scene. Just huge congrats to everybody who were nominated for the Eddies and the listen up awards. And we had the extreme Metal music awards earlier this year, and it's great to just see these bands flourish and prosper and see them grow to the next. [00:11:03] Speaker C: And, you know, and I was going back to kind of like the jam bands. I'm thinking, like, jam bands, I feel like paved the way a little bit for community in music, because a lot of it used to be like seventy s, eighty s bands competed, and then now they don't. And there had to have been some kind of usher of that mentality. And I think jam bands could have had something to do with it. [00:11:27] Speaker D: It could have been jam bands, it could have been cannabis. [00:11:29] Speaker C: Who knows? May never know. [00:11:32] Speaker D: But something that is, yes, very cool about the jam band scene is that it is very communal, and in the same ways the metal music scene is very communal. You could go there and see the same people night after night, and you end up becoming friends with them and you end up feeling just a little more comfortable at a concert because, yeah, sometimes it is a little nerve wracking going to a show by yourself. I know for myself, even as a concert photographer, goes to a lot of shows, I still get nervous sometimes. But when you see those familiar faces, it just makes it that much more enjoyable. And when everybody's in it, it's always a good time. [00:12:10] Speaker C: Absolutely. All right, so cool. Anything else you want to add, Frankie? [00:12:16] Speaker D: I guess with just these warmer days ahead of us, we're going to have a lot of exciting outdoor music events. Andy Palooza, May 18. Also five one eight day. [00:12:29] Speaker C: And I just realized that 517 is the two year anniversary of this podcast. [00:12:35] Speaker D: Congratulations. [00:12:36] Speaker C: Isn't that funny? Wow. I was like, you know, it started right around my birthday two years ago, so 517 was the very first episode of unsigned 508. [00:12:46] Speaker D: And now you're on episode 115 with our band show. [00:12:50] Speaker C: Yes, 115 with our band show, not including special episodes and stuff like that. So I think it's like 122 episodes altogether if you include the unnumbered episodes. [00:13:04] Speaker D: Incredible. Yeah. As always, Andy, thank you for carrying the torch for podcasting, because when I say the music community definitely benefits from having somebody like you do this stuff. [00:13:22] Speaker E: Well, thanks. [00:13:22] Speaker D: Thank you for all the hard work. [00:13:24] Speaker C: Thanks. I'm happy to do it. All right, so that is Frankie Cavone of Mirth films, and we'll check in with him every week, and we'll keep tabs on what's happening with the upcoming concert season. So, Frankie, thank you so much. [00:13:42] Speaker D: For your time, anytime, Andy. [00:13:44] Speaker C: That is Frankie Cavone of Mirth films. You can find out more information over at Mirth films.com. And we'll be checking in with Frankie weekly. All right, so I definitely said that this is going to be like an extended episode just because it kind of came about that it's Argyle's ten year anniversary, and again, I had such personal connections. So I'm going to bring on Chris Castrio, who's one of the owners of Argyle Brewing. He's going to be live in studio at the Dazzle den. And before we do that, I wanted to play, like I said, there's going to be music at the Greenwich location and the Cambridge location. So I want to play a little bit of the music from both locations. So before we bring Chris on, I'm going to play a song from Carolyn Shapiro, who will be playing at the Cambridge location, the depot, with Connor Armbruster. And that will be again on Sunday, St. Patty's day. And Carolyn was on the show recently and played a couple songs live in the studio. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to play take it easy from Carolyn Shapiro. That was recorded right in this very room. And then we'll come back with Chris Castria of Argyle Brewing company. [00:15:23] Speaker B: I've been taking way home I'm trying to catch moment in the way that we go in the way that we I've been here before I walk these roads and I thought these words thousand times in my mind take it easy it's all right it bothering me without you my I'm trying to find my way to be all but I think I got a long way to go I've got a long way to go take me to the riverside where the rocks are smoothly rising tight we rise in take me to the ocean deep where the fishes go to fall asleep fall asleep sometimes I just want maybe I will be all right take it easy it's all right it's me there's something bothering me will I do my soul I'm trying to find a way to behold I think I got a long way to go I've got a long way to you find will you fade away will you wait I you will you be mine take it all right if we let it be there's way to be holy I think I got a long way to go I got a long way to go. [00:19:09] Speaker C: All right, so we are back and I am here in the dazzled den with Argyle Brewing company co owner Chris Castrio. How's it going, man? [00:19:18] Speaker E: It is going awesome. And this is my first visit to the dazzle den. And I'm like, whoa. [00:19:24] Speaker C: Yeah, well, that's why I said when you were like, we could do it over the phone, or do you want me to come out there? And I'm like, yeah, it'll be pretty short. I'm like, I think it makes much more sense to you to come out. [00:19:32] Speaker E: I was like, the phone serious, man, I'm coming out. Here I am. [00:19:38] Speaker C: And I was saying earlier in the episode, not that you've heard it yet, but know Argyle Brewing Company is something very special, not only to the community, but to me and Katie, my wife, personally. We were looking for a place. We were living in downtown Saratoga. And we were kind of know, I don't really want to live in downtown Saratoga anymore. We were, like, settling down, so to speak. And I was working out in Vermont, as I'm doing now, and Katie had come out to meet me for something and had stopped by Argyle. And she was so excited when she met me about this cool little place. She was like, it was so neat. Like, I walked in and I didn't know anybody, but everybody acted like they knew me and just immediately was engaged in conversations with people and with people who. This is probably six years ago that I'm talking about, maybe even close to probably six years. I think it was like late 2017 or something like that because you'd been open for a couple of years, but like, people who we're still friends with to this day that I talked to today, that we met, just per chance, just walking into Argyle brewing. And then we ended up moving to Greenwich and lived in Greenwich for a couple years and then over here to Skylerville. But Argyle is just such a cool place. And we want to talk about, or I want to talk about, I guess, a lot of stuff. But one of the things especially is your ten year anniversary that's coming up this weekend. [00:21:20] Speaker E: It is, yeah. [00:21:21] Speaker C: And there's going to be. There's going to be shit. There's going to be stuff happening at the Cambridge location and the Greenwich location. And I guess we'll get into that. But we'll get into that a little later because I also am going to play some music from people that are excellent going to be performing that we just heard from Carolyn Shapiro right now. She'll be at the Cambridge location on Sunday. [00:21:48] Speaker E: So that'll be breakfast with Bob. Well, Bob's going to start off. Yeah, he's going to start off brunch. [00:21:55] Speaker C: With Bob over at Cambridge. And then he's over at. [00:21:58] Speaker E: Poor Bob. [00:22:01] Speaker C: He loves it. [00:22:02] Speaker E: Oh, I know. He's like, really? You want me to play at both stages? I was like, yeah, Bob, you grew up with us. [00:22:08] Speaker C: It's cool. [00:22:09] Speaker E: And he's like, all right, yeah. [00:22:12] Speaker C: So Bob Webb will be doing. He does the brunch with Bob series at the Cambridge location every Sunday. [00:22:19] Speaker E: Almost every Sunday. Almost every Sunday. Loves when he can have brunch Bob with. And he's just a great mellow guy. And then the whole gang over at Cambridge had put together, literally, a brunch and a donation. I was over there a couple of Sundays ago and I was like, wow, this is a good spread. [00:22:44] Speaker C: Yeah, we've done that a bunch of times too. I love it over there. So let's just do maybe like a mini version of the last ten years, actually, just do a day by day breakdown of the last ten. [00:22:58] Speaker E: We should probably go. [00:23:01] Speaker C: I'll add a sound effect. Cool. [00:23:03] Speaker E: Excellent. All right, Andy, are you ready for the weedback machine? [00:23:08] Speaker B: Hey. [00:23:08] Speaker C: Professor Argyle Brewing. It's been around for ten years. It started in Greenwich and if anybody who doesn't know, but they have driven through Greenwich, they've without question seen the big argyle. [00:23:25] Speaker E: And I hope they stopped in. [00:23:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:27] Speaker C: And if not, you should, because that's absolutely how a lot of good shit starts. That's literally how the band started. We'll talk about that later. So go back, I guess, to the short story of how you got into the beer business. [00:23:43] Speaker E: Well, that goes back a long time, back when I lived in Pennsylvania, actually, and I was a home brewer. I've been brewing for about 30 years at this point. [00:23:55] Speaker C: Wow. [00:23:56] Speaker E: Yeah. In Pennsylvania. I was in Lancaster. [00:23:58] Speaker C: You don't look a day over 25. [00:24:00] Speaker E: Well, thank you, sir. [00:24:03] Speaker C: It's the beer which we're drinking right now, actually. Yeah, we drinking hop two at iPas. [00:24:10] Speaker E: Yeah, it's quite yummy. And I won't lie, before I got here, I was drinking the scottish ale too. But building your stage. But we'll get to that. [00:24:20] Speaker C: We will get to that. [00:24:21] Speaker E: So getting back to where. Yeah, so I've wanted to open a brewery for quite a long time. When I lived in Lancaster, there was this opportunity that I had with this german guy called avilium Laze. And he had laze hotel. And actually, it was originally the Blue Star brewery. And what was really unique about this building was not only did it have, literally hotel rooms, but it had this full bar, but below it, 40ft under, had catacombs and it had tunnels that went out to different sections of Lancaster city on rails. And that was dug out by actually small people. Very small people. You're not supposed to midgets and stuff. No height challenge, but literally. And children. And during prohibition, they used to run kegs through these tunnels and connect them to people who had cold water and beer on tap in their kitchen. And I was like, yeah, I got to have this building. Unfortunately, when I married my wife, I was still kind of, this is great. And she's like, I don't know about this guy. I was like. And I knew it was coming because I did get invited to his back kitchen with his wife, Federica. And it turned out, yeah, he actually was a. [00:26:02] Speaker C: I was going to crack wise and be like, that sounds like a total Nazi name. [00:26:07] Speaker E: Well, not too far from Cabbage Hill in Lancaster is the Lancaster prison that was built for World War II POWs. So japanese and german POWs were stationed there. And William was a YouTube captain, YouTube. [00:26:22] Speaker C: Boat captain of, like, the band. [00:26:28] Speaker E: Now, he was trying to. He was bob the shit out of England. [00:26:30] Speaker C: President of the YouTube fan club. Yeah, he was Joshua Tree. [00:26:35] Speaker E: Yeah, he was like, you know, eventually. [00:26:40] Speaker C: That band, you two will. [00:26:43] Speaker E: So I had a really good friend, still do. John Bachman. Like, crazy dude. Crazy. Spoke, like, flawless german and everything. So he got us in the door. He was my college buddy and a lot of stories there, but took kind of a liking to me through John. And so we got invited, literally, to his kitchen in the back room with his wife, and he was so excited. Know, John, knowing German and everything, just figured that we were on the same page. And he pulls out these photographs, and he's with Hitler. Wow. It was like. But Williah actually was a Olympic athlete, know? So Hitler was really into him, and he was really tall, blonde hair, blue eyes. [00:27:39] Speaker C: I did not expect the origin story of, well, you asked for the origin to involve Nazis, like, right out the. [00:27:49] Speaker E: So my last ditch effort to do a brewery at Lancaster was to join the lidercrants, which is the german club. And so I brought Kathy, by the way, she's jewish, to the lidocrants. And so it didn't go over well. And we got home and she said no. I was like, man, really? No. So I was like, fine, put it on hold. And lo and behold, we got to the point where it's like, let's move. And then we randomly, literally randomly ended up in upstate New York. And so we used to go to Madison's in Bennington a lot and Mel and all. And my father in law was quite a character. And so we would meet there. He was in Hensdale, we were in Argyle. It was perfect. In between spot and Mel knew us because we came there every month, once a week or once a month. And then they had a maple porter on tap. And my father in law being the guy he is, he's like, oh, I want to try one of your maple porters. So he did. And he's like, oh, this is crap. My son in law, he could do. [00:29:11] Speaker C: Such a better job. [00:29:12] Speaker E: I'm like, dude, come on. Come on, dad, don't do this. And Mel came out, and he's like, what's going on? Are you guys okay? I'm sorry, Mel. He goes, what? And my father in law, he goes, hey, my son in law here, man, he makes such a better maple porter than you. And he goes, really? You brew? And I go, yeah, yeah. And I'm trying to downplay it. He goes, well, bring me some next know or next time you come. So I did, and I brought it to him. He took it, took it into the back in the kitchen. About five minutes later, he comes out, and he had a weird look on his face. [00:29:48] Speaker C: I was like, uh oh. [00:29:49] Speaker E: And he throws down some paper, and he goes, you're going to this competition. And it happened to be the New England in Vermont. It was being held competition for beers. And he goes, you got to enter this beer. And I was like, okay, I've never done it. And so, lo and behold, we go to this competition. I'm sitting there, and I see another something over away from there, and it says it was a maple wheat beer from Argal. I'm like, is there an Argyle, Vermont? I was like, what's going on here? But by the end of the day, that was my original partner, Matt. He was there, and he's from Argyle. And so two Argyle guys are there. We never met until this competition. And by the end of it, I won. First he won, and then people was like, oh, you got to sell this. You got to sell this. So it really started to fester. And then next thing you know, we started a homebrew club, our gal Sud society, better known as ass. We do brew in the alley, so keep an eye out for that. So anybody who's out there wants to brew, come on. And if you don't have grains, Argal. [00:31:03] Speaker C: Brewing Company and the brew in the alley, you do that at the Greenwich location, right? [00:31:07] Speaker E: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, right there in the alley where you'll be performing. And then next thing you know, Matt and I start the business and then COVID killed Matt, in a way, not literally. [00:31:20] Speaker C: Right. Let's clarify that. Spirit. [00:31:25] Speaker E: Yeah, but he moved on. [00:31:28] Speaker C: Spirit isn't the greatest. Matt is still very much alive. [00:31:35] Speaker E: But luckily, we brought on rich, who is, like, the master brewer. And I still am, in honesty, a home brewer, and rich is a professional brewer. He is our brew brew king, and he brought every recipe up to speed consistently. And he keeps on growing the list. Right now we have 18 taps on the wall. [00:32:00] Speaker C: Wow. [00:32:01] Speaker E: Yeah, we're killing it there. We are. Now we're in Greenwich because back when we started, Argyle was a dry town. And when my wife and I, we bought that house, the lawyers and the real estate agents after we signed, they're, like, making this big production about, drying our signatures on the loans and all that. And we're like, what's going on here? It's like, you know, you just bought a house in a dry town. I was like, no water. I was, like, panicking, no, you can't have alcohol. It's like, what? I was like, no alcohol. I was like, well, where's the nearest place I can buy something? Plus, my wife's a venter and I'm a brewer. I think we'll be all right. But it's like Fort Edwards. Like, we can do this. It's all. Yeah, we had a start in Greenwich, which was great. Greenwich embraced us. [00:32:58] Speaker C: It's such a cool location. [00:32:59] Speaker E: Oh, my gosh. One main street. Yeah, the building was a disaster when we got it, but it cleaned up well. Any of the demons are gone. It's a great place and got the place next to it. Eventually, that's going to be the whiskey bar. And then from there, we went out to Cambridge. We got an opportunity to get the old train station, and that's been rocking. And we got Dave Ampell, who really has crazy connections with musicians. [00:33:40] Speaker C: There's such different vibes, like Greenwich and Cambridge, but they work so well together. And I remember we used to do on Sundays, like, when we lived in Greenwich, we used to walk to the Greenwich location, but on Sundays, we would drive out to Cambridge for lunch and have a beer or two and chat with Dave, and then drive back to Greenwich, park the car, have a cup, then walk down to the Greenwich taproom, and then be able to. [00:34:13] Speaker E: Wonderful Sunday. [00:34:14] Speaker C: We would do that every Sunday for, like, two years. [00:34:17] Speaker E: And we miss you from doing. But you moved into this really cool place. [00:34:22] Speaker C: Yeah, we did move, and that's the thing, because obviously, especially old and responsible, the walking somewhere to be able to get beers just changes the whole. As soon as I'm. Even though it's only ten minutes down the road, like, no, that's ten minutes down the road. Sorry. [00:34:41] Speaker E: I forgive you. [00:34:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:45] Speaker C: We'Re going to be there Sunday, so I do want to talk more about that. But right now, let's take a quick break. We're going to listen to a song from Tom Powers, and I guess we'll talk a quick anecdote before, but I met Tom at the Greenwich location of our guy brewing. And we went down there one night, and he was just there with his guitar, singing and playing. And I went up to him and was just really. And this is, like I said before I was in any band, long before any podcast or anything, and I struck up a friendship with him, literally, like immediately, just like I was like, oh. And we got along, we ended up hanging out, and we played a lot of music together. And that's kind of what started my reintroduction into playing, because I played when I was younger for a while, but then it was a fucking ten year break where I don't even know if I ever picked up a guitar. I certainly didn't own one, you know what I mean? For a long time. And then that meeting with meeting Tom, and that's kind of then I started playing again. And then. [00:35:58] Speaker E: Look at you. [00:36:01] Speaker C: Look at me now. So I guess we'll go into a little of that and we'll talk. Definitely want to get into the event this weekend. But right now, let's listen to Tom Powers and friends. This one's called rock and soul, and it's here on unsigned five one eight weekend spot. [00:36:50] Speaker A: Keeps saying we'll make the big tiny. But my mom just don't agree. Here we live in the ocean. My hawkins rhythm of my mind. Rock melody. Hawkins rhythm of my mind. Rock melody. Hear my hands with all the blister. He's my toe. Live a life of life. There we go on, believe it. Come home quick. Cause we're never quiet. Saddy. It's right we come home quick, because we're never quiet. That is right, dog. Make the big town. [00:37:59] Speaker B: Oh. [00:38:06] Speaker A: Tonight we're gonna sing. Realize tonight we're gonna press this cry. Tonight we're gonna reach our goal. Lock it in. Gonna lose control. [00:38:19] Speaker B: We all sat safe. [00:39:13] Speaker A: He's my memories. Full of pain. I don't know where I was before you came. You're my last rhythm, and I halt. Sing all morning. You're my last rhythm, and I'll halt. [00:39:33] Speaker B: Sing all morning. Don't make the big time. Don't give the same a. [00:39:50] Speaker A: Tonight we're gonna sing realize tonight we're gonna breathe these crowd tonight we're gonna reach our goal lock it in gonna lose control and I just wanna give him my rocky soul I just wanna give him a rocky soul I just wanna give my rocking soul. [00:40:30] Speaker C: All right, so that was rock and soul. Tom Powers and friends here on unsigned five one eight weekend spotlights. And I am here with Chris Castrio, co owner of our guile brewing company. And we're talking about their ten year anniversary party, which is happening this Sunday, St. Patty's day. And it's funny because I didn't even plan. I always say I never plan anything, but I didn't even plan this extended episode until very late in the day. I'm glad that it happened. We can make it happen so quickly. [00:41:03] Speaker E: Thanks, man. [00:41:04] Speaker C: But I want to, I guess, tell everybody what's happening on Sunday. [00:41:11] Speaker E: Well, we're celebrating our 10th anniversary, which seems crazy. It seems crazy. And so since it is crazy, we're going to just blow it up. We're doing a lot of stuff. So first and foremost, we're going to be open extended hours on Sunday in Greenwich from twelve to whenever Andy stops playing. Andy's our showstopper. [00:41:42] Speaker C: Yeah. A short wave radio band is closing out the evening. [00:41:46] Speaker E: Close out. He showed me the playlist. I was be. That's going to work. [00:41:50] Speaker C: And I think we're aiming for about a two hour set list, which is. [00:41:53] Speaker E: Very long for us and much appreciated. It's going to be great. Prior to short wave, it's going to be Tom Powers, which you just heard, and then Bob Webb, who's going to start us out, kind of on the mellow side in the morning, but all day long. And everybody who shows up. Well, the first hundred people who show up at both locations. [00:42:16] Speaker C: You'll save me one, right? Cool. [00:42:19] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. [00:42:19] Speaker C: All right, go ahead. [00:42:21] Speaker E: Well, we have a commemorative pint glass for our 10th anniversary. We're going to have giveaways all day long. We're going to be handing out tickets, lucky the irish kind of a thing. And we're going to be giving away beer, we're going to be giving away t shirts, and we're going to be giving away all kinds of stuff. [00:42:39] Speaker C: And, I mean, if there's one thing that you guys know how to do, it's two party. [00:42:44] Speaker E: It's going to be a party to end all parties. I mean, it's ten years. We got to just blow it up. And then we're going to be out in the garden. The weather is looking better. It's looking okay. Little bit chilly, but we got chilly. [00:43:01] Speaker C: Which is a lot different than winter. [00:43:03] Speaker E: And we've got fire tables, we got hi hat heaters. So you can hang back at the tables and keep yourself warm, or you can get right up to the stage and just mosh pit it. [00:43:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:16] Speaker C: And I figure we'll be moving around. [00:43:18] Speaker E: A lot, I think. So it's going to be good. It's just an all day. We got Lorraine's food truck there. She's going to be doing corned beef and cabbage and Reuben. So it'll keep you nourished. Parking park across the street at the red barn or up Washington street. So don't worry about that. Come on out. I mean, it's just going to be a great day. We're going to throw out some new beers, too. [00:43:46] Speaker C: Oh, nice. [00:43:47] Speaker E: Well, I saw that. Some old, some new. Well, maple Porter, which is the. [00:43:51] Speaker C: And you know what's funny is I didn't even realize that that was the flagship. That was the first mean. [00:43:59] Speaker E: Yeah, that's my oldest recipe. Now, I got to give my partner rich credit. He's made it even better, but he kept to the recipe, which is, it's made from SAP. It's not tap. So in our maple porter, it is all SAP. No tap. I mean, it comes from the trees. So we take a quantity of SAP and we render it down to the sugar content that we want, and we make beer out of it. And there is no tap water in that. So what you're going to get is something that you never had unless you've had this beer before, because everybody else, nobody else that I know of does it this way. And so you're going to get a slight maple sweetness because it's maple SAP. But there's an earthiness in there. There's all kinds of different. It's one of those things where it probably comes out of the tap a little too cold, and when you have it, it's like, oh, this is good. And then you wait a little bit. Let it warm. I was like, what just happened? In my hand? And then it transforms into all these different flavors, which is the magic of it. That was our very first beer that we ever brewed, which was insane because it's a weird beer to brew, but we did it, and that's what started it all, the maple porch. So that's coming out, and it's a very limited quantity this year. No growler fills. Sorry, folks. All pint fills for sure. Then we're also bringing out a new beer, which is going to be presented in two different ways. One out of the tap. It's a honey brown ale. It's Barley's honey brown ale, which is named after Rich's dog, who, unfortunately, had a very short lifespan. So, in homage to barley the dog, we got barley honey ale. But my recent trip to Nottingham, England. Hello. [00:46:00] Speaker C: Look at you. [00:46:01] Speaker E: I know. Hello. I made fast friends with Nikki over there in Castle Rock Brewery in Nottingham, and he sent me home with a beer engine. Or in England, they call it a pulley. And so we're doing cask ales now, which we're going to just pull out this time. So hopefully it's good. If it's not, we're still going to hang in there and we're going to start doing cast ales. We're completely 100% into it. We got three furkins, which is a great word, you ferkin jerk. [00:46:37] Speaker C: What the fuck is a furkin? I know, right? [00:46:41] Speaker E: Furkin is the container that it's in. There's three sizes. There's a pins, which would be like a sixthall to us. A soda keg. Sure. Pony raponi, the ferkin, which is less than be like a quarter keg. And then the Kindle pin, which would be like a half. But. So we do Ferkins. We're going to continue to do Furkins now at Greenwich, we have the pulley, which is awesome. At Cambridge, we're going to have kind of old school. That puppy is going to be in a cradle on the bar. We're going to smack the tap in there. The spout pulling right off of it. We're going to start that on Friday for both. You know, it's there. [00:47:35] Speaker C: But by Sunday it'll be. [00:47:38] Speaker E: We got know. Including shortwave radio, it's Carolyn Shapiro and. [00:47:44] Speaker C: Connor Armbruster in Cambridge. Cambridge. And then Bob Webb, Tom Powers. And is he bringing friends? [00:47:53] Speaker E: Yes, he is. [00:47:53] Speaker C: He is bringing friends. And I love that it's just the. And friends because you never know what they're going to be. [00:48:00] Speaker E: Yeah, I know Tony Cafano will be in there. Okay. That makes sense. [00:48:04] Speaker C: That makes. But. And then shortwave radio band will be starting at 06:00 and we're definitely bringing high energy. And I'm going to be. You know what? It's funny because. Well, not funny. Well, hilarious, actually, because I'm going to be drinking Argo beers for several hours before we play. So if nothing else, you can expect. [00:48:28] Speaker E: Are we talking like Tom Waite kind of stuff? [00:48:30] Speaker C: My piano has no drink. No, but you want to know what's funny is I love how you just did that. Because ask Ryan Shaw, our guitar player, to do a Tom Wades impression for you. You could shut your eyes and you would think it was him. It's unreal. I told you. We do karaoke night in here in the dazzle dance, and when Ryan pulls that very song out, it's, yeah, no, we're going to bring the high energy. I'll be jumping off the stage, running through the crowd. Maybe I'll trip and fall. We don't know. [00:49:07] Speaker E: Jill, jump out. Hopefully we'll catch him. [00:49:09] Speaker C: Yeah, it's certainly in the cart. But I guess unless there's anything else you wanted to add, we could wrap it up. [00:49:19] Speaker E: I was having a Halloween experience all of a sudden. [00:49:22] Speaker C: A Halloween experience? Like, in this room? [00:49:25] Speaker E: Yeah. Looking around, I was like, yeah, there's. [00:49:26] Speaker C: A lot of Halloween in this room. [00:49:29] Speaker E: After I met you briefly, and you were like, I thought you were kidding about how cool you are with Halloween. You helped me out with the haunted house. [00:49:37] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I did the haunted house. And, I mean, unfortunately, I became too know. I know. And I became too busy just putting it out there. Yeah. Actually, before we go, I will tell you real quick. Chris and his wife at the Styles house in Argyle, they do a haunted house every year, and it's a haunted house for charity to raise money to restore this historic volunteer, what? Three years, I did. So I volunteered for three years. [00:50:10] Speaker E: Beautiful. [00:50:10] Speaker C: To do a room in the haunted house. And it was, like, the coolest experience. I would go there because you gave me the code, and I could go in whenever, and sometimes I would go there super late simply because it was fucking freaky. And I would go, like, the one year with the dragon, there was a huge, entire dragon built in this room. And, like, the skull hanging down and all the creepy rooms. I would go late at night to work on my room, and I would play, like, Halloween sound effects while I was doing it. [00:50:49] Speaker E: How do I scare myself? [00:50:51] Speaker C: Totally. And that worked. [00:50:54] Speaker E: That was like, not going to a scary movie, but being in a scary movie. [00:50:59] Speaker C: I made several people piss their pants. [00:51:02] Speaker E: And that's how we judge every haunted house. How many piss pants do we got? [00:51:06] Speaker C: And they like, you know, a lot of know what it is about someone getting so scared that they pee, but they have to tell people that I don't well, because they have to be. [00:51:20] Speaker E: Like, no, I sweat in my crotch. [00:51:22] Speaker C: No, all three of them. That I did. All three of them, like, oh, man, just piss my pants. That's a shame. Yeah, we made some scary rooms, man. Good times. A lot of fun doing that, man. I wish I wasn't so busy. I would do that. But anyway, come out to either the Greenwich location or the Cambridge location. Or again, if you're the super cool type, you do both because there's plenty of room or plenty of time. Because it's a noon to, like, eight, nine p. M. Thing, and Cambridge will. [00:52:02] Speaker E: Be noon to five. [00:52:04] Speaker C: Okay. [00:52:05] Speaker E: And Greenwich will be noon to nine or whatever. Or whatever, yeah. So if you want to stop at brunch in the morning at Cambridge and then zoom over to Greenwich or vice versa. [00:52:17] Speaker C: Whatever. Yeah. There's time. Come and visit us. But we can definitely tell you that we're going to cap off the ten year anniversary party. [00:52:24] Speaker E: You're going to want to end up in Greenwich. [00:52:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:27] Speaker C: Because it's going to be radio. It's going to be very loud and very loud and high energy. But anyway, Chris, I appreciate you so much. I appreciate you coming over. I appreciate everything that you and Dave Van Pelt have done for the. And the band would not exist without you because I met Tom there, which got me playing acoustic guitar again. And then Lonnie reached out to me, who lives in Greenwich now. Lonnie reached out to me and was know, let's start doing some playing. And we started playing and then I was like, hey, Chris, can we come play at Argyle? Just sit in the corner. And we did that. I don't know, a lot. We did that probably ten or 15 different times. [00:53:12] Speaker E: And it was fun watching you guys grow and all of a sudden it's like, damn, you're good. [00:53:18] Speaker C: Then we kept going and kept going, and then we added John and then Dave allowed us to. Once we were kind of bigger than sitting in the corner, Dave allowed us to play at Argyle in Cambridge, and then we added Abby and Ryan. And the very first show that we played when we added Abby and Ryan was at Argyle in Cambridge. And you guys have just been so cool and helpful and we really super appreciate it. So we're excited that when you reached out to me and we're like, we want you to cap off the ten year anniversary party. I was just like, we are going to bring it. We're going to bring it. So, Chris Gastrio, co owner of our guy brewing company, come out to Greenwich or Cambridge Sunday. It's going to be a really cool time. So, Chris, thank you so much. And I guess we'll end it with a short wave song. [00:54:12] Speaker E: Appropriately enough, it sounds like a good way to do that. [00:54:16] Speaker C: It is a good way to do it. So this is our latest single. This one's called plastic, and it's here on unsigned 5.8 weekend spot. [00:54:41] Speaker A: Some say it's round, some say it's flat? Whether you're with us or them they who was whatever? Time is not real, neither is money? Spend your whole life chasing a dream? Some things don't add up? There's plastic in the sea? On the ocean floor? Closing down this beach party as a footprint wash away? I'm totally bored, don't entertain me? Nothing really rises my shine? Gold and bows? Hold her hair together? Killing all the beast? Dead zone with no bars? I've been stoned once too many? Swat team right next door? [00:56:40] Speaker B: You? [00:56:45] Speaker A: Let's stop the world from spinning out of control? Let's stop the world from spinning out of control? Can't stop my world spinning out of control? Can't stop my world? The plastic in the sea? The plastic in the sea? Closing down the beach party as a footprint wash away? [00:57:35] Speaker C: So that was shortwave radio band with plastic and I want to thank everybody for listening, and I hope everybody has a safe and happy St. Patty's Day. Thank you to Chris Castrio of Argyle Brewing, Frankie Cabone of mirth Films, and Amy Modesty of around town with Amy Modesty. I am Andy Scullen. This is unsigned five one eight's weekend spotlights, and I'll see you on the road. Unsigned five one eight 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 [email protected]. Unsigned 508, if you would like to advertise on the show, send me an email at unsigned five one [email protected]. 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