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Take Neil Young, throw him in a blender with Jerry Cantrell,
John Friciani, and David Gilmore to create a Marsden smoothie.
Taste the layers of organic guitars and free range effects
that weave a sonic energy drink of pure ear candy.
Yum.
Here to explain what all of this means,
and perform in this full band, Marsden, Joe Marsden,
singer, songwriter, and guitars.
Joe, welcome back to Max Inc. Radio.
Thank you for having me.
It's great to see you, Joe.
It's wonderful.
See you all, yeah.
Now, you drove all the way in from Fort Atkinson tonight, right?
I did.
And I go there every now and then.
And you know, I want to know,
we're always talking about foodie and Madison foodie here.
Where do I stop in Fort Atkinson for some really good grub?
My favorite is like grit near by me.
Smokehouse 88.
And they give some good barbecue since a little newer spot.
But I mean, I think I have a sushi spot in Mexican spot.
No, go to Jimmy Johnston.
Are you living in Fort right now?
I am.
Yeah, I got a house out there.
Yeah.
That's a great little community.
It's a great downtown.
That has been cool.
Yeah.
Good, good, good.
What about live music?
That scene has happened in there, isn't it?
Yeah, they have some good outdoor stuff during the summer.
And then it's got that I'm basing on the name, the cafe.
Is it Cuda Cafe?
No, not Cuda.
Oh, my carpe.
Carpe.
Carpe, carpe, carpe, carpe, carpe, carpe, carpe.
Shame on me.
That's okay.
That's a great part.
Yeah, that place is legendary out of Fort Atkinson.
Yeah, yeah.
It's right by the river, right?
Yeah, you got it.
Yeah, with all the carpe, obviously.
Wasn't their high jinks was in Fort Atkinson for a while,
in that little corner bar with you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was a cool little venue for a while.
Can we now take you back to the beginning?
Joe Marston, how about this?
You're six years old.
You're listening to all these?
I love this.
Oh, but also 90s pop.
And by fifth grade, you decide, I'm going to play trumpet.
That's pretty wild.
Tell us your entire backstory when it comes to music.
Sure, well, it's a lot.
But yeah, it's trumpet.
It was in fourth to fifth, no, fifth to sixth grade,
we had to choose an instrument or got to choose an instrument,
I should say.
And my dad had played trumpet before.
So he had a mouthpiece.
And it was like pretty much they just
gave all the kids mouthpieces to try out
and see what kind of work didn't work.
And trumpet worked for me.
And so yeah, I think it was probably mostly my dad
having that that inspired me to do that.
And that really got me into playing music all the time.
Then I kind of fell in love with it as I moved forward
and was listening to a lot of music on my boombox and CDs.
And yeah, I actually was just listening
some third-eye blind, which is what got me into playing guitar.
And now playing trumpet like transformed you, right?
And you became thirdly involved in anything band related.
I'm thinking this was the band room at school, right?
Yeah, that's place to be.
Along with my bassist, it was right there with me the whole time.
And I'm learning, it's my man.
And yeah, we were growing up playing together
and just kind of learning to love music.
And yeah.
I did not know.
I've known you for a while, Joe.
I did not know you played trumpet.
And not really anymore.
Do you still play?
You still pick it up at all or?
I try to sometimes.
And I set it down after about five minutes
of not being able to have any ombresher anymore.
So yeah, it goes, it's gone.
Do you like your lips getting numb right away?
Yeah, yeah, I've become sorely disappointed,
very ambitious and then sorely disappointed.
So I'll pick up a guitar and said, yeah, I love it, yeah.
Well, tell us about your teenage years
because it sounds like that's when you kind of started
with guitar and then you had a band already right away.
Yeah, we're not necessarily right away.
We kind of just played around with whatever
who's kind of getting to know stuff being loud.
And then yeah, I had a three piece with our drummer Elsa
and then on bass in that band as well.
Blue furnace.
Blue furnace, yep, yep.
And we played a plethora of different things
and that's where I learned how to start singing.
And if I listen back to that, I quickly shut that off
and really hate my voice.
Well, that shows how far you've come then too, you know?
Yeah.
But then blue furnace turned into wall of funk
and everybody knows wall of funk.
Yeah, you can say it that way.
Yeah, everybody knows wall of funk.
So at least everybody here.
Yes.
So yeah, we played funk metal for at least 10 years
that I want to say.
As a trio.
So yeah, it's good times, a lot of good times,
a lot of great shows, a lot of cut in our teeth.
Wall of funk had a good following.
I mean, there was a couple of pack shows.
These are at the high noon or the frequency.
The crowd was start chanting wall of funk.
Yeah, thanks to Jimmy.
Thanks to you guys.
I didn't start those chance.
You started at least one.
Now, it was a wall of funk though
that got you into the band management
and the music business.
How did this go from trumpet to guitar
to band manager guy?
Oh, I don't know.
I just kind of fell into the person
that was the most driving force of all those things
in order to make things happen.
You need somebody that can do all those things
and kind of just always fell into me.
So other than playing the music,
what's the best part about being a band manager?
What's your favorite part?
Nothing.
Oh, that was my least favorite thing.
Yeah, I chose to do the solo project
because it's just a lot easier to be flexible
and a lot less disagreements on things.
So yeah, that's nice to be able to have a project
where I can have my soul vision kind of seen through
as I want it.
And I still like playing with other bands
where I just get to be a part of the whole band.
But yeah, that was kind of the big driving factor of that.
And scheduling is the worst part.
Well, when you're solo, everybody shows up
to rehearse a long time.
Do they?
Even if you're late.
No one else is on solo.
I see, yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying.
Yeah, it's just me.
Yeah, only on myself to blame.
Well, let's get to some live music in the layer
with Marsden, the band presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The first song you have for us today,
it's called End on End.
And is this a song of persistence or uncertainty?
Kind of a little bit of calme, a little calm B.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, it's about kind of persistence
through all that uncertainty.
Yeah.
All right.
If you want to call, ask Marston a question.
You could do that.
You could also text us 844-967-2789-844-964 party.
Call or text from the Civic Media app.
You're live in the layer with Marston on Maxine Credio.
It's the only layer.
See, there's been evidence, old silent layer.
But the world's not needed, you need to scream.
See, there's nothing I believe.
Missed last year, when the dead turned in and on.
Then there's the enemy, and now the lost reason
are for believing, when the dead turned in and on.
Then there's the reality, something's been happening
so suddenly.
Yeah.
So there's been evidence, old silent layer.
So there's been evidence, old silent layer.
You must have been a hidden spirit.
I need someone to come on to your senses.
I need someone to come on to your senses.
I want you all to come on to your senses.
You say, yes, yes, yes.
See, there's been evidence, old silent layer.
But the world's not needed, you need to scream.
Then there's the reality, something's been happening.
Then there's the reality, something's been happening.
Then there's the reality, something's been happening.
Missed last year, when the dead turned in and on.
Then there's the reality, something's been happening.
Then there's the reality, something's been happening.
Then there's the reality, something's been happening.
And then when I said not needed…
thathh…
As I could be yeah.
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So we've seen you perform solo electric many of times.
This time of course you brought your band here to Civic Media.
We'll hear from them tonight.
But what inspired you to create the band Marston?
Just mostly me having a lot of my own music and wanting to get it out there
not really influenced by anything else.
So just seeing like my own full vision of the song come forward because when I
hearing songs and working on stuff I pretty much hear everything.
Right. So I just wanted to see all that come forward.
And like I said we'll hear from the bands but what about picking the particular people
that are in the band here?
So it's a little bit you know kind of who you can find not to downplay anybody but just
that is a big factor. My bassist Lenin who I mentioned a couple times I grew up playing
with him since we were at 13. So yeah we had a lot of time playing together and then
Brett I met through another mutual friend through another project and it turns out he's an
incredible drummer and worked out well to play together. And then through Brett I met Brandon
who's on guitar and he's another excellent musician and yeah it's just kind of been a great group.
We all get along really well and meshed together well. So I love watching all of you looking at
each other too to to make sure that you know you're having fun you're on the same page everything's
cool but then it's great because after you do all that it's like they check in and then you
all smile. Yeah because it's like okay yeah this is rock and we're doing great yeah yeah the
smiles really yeah that's that's the top of the story.
Well let's get to know Marsden the band and we're going to start with bassist Lenin Baker.
I mean I know you've been playing I know you've been playing with Joe since you were 13 but telling
your backstory how did you become involved in music and you know this is always the big question
why bass? Because it rocks. Yeah because it does rock. Pretty similar story to Joe actually my dad
was a saxophonist for many many years still is and so when it came time to pick an instrument we
all tried out those mouthpieces the saxophone mouthpiece was the one that I took too so started
playing saxophone pretty much immediately yes. I played saxophone too. It is the best instrument.
It's so cool. Do you still play? I do. Oh good for you. I haven't picked it up in a while.
Neighbors shared walls. It's hard to play a saxophone quietly. Yeah well you know Jimmy knows Chad
oh right and Chad was a drummer for many years but he also played sax and now he plays band
sax and bands as well so. That's kind of why I found myself I you know I didn't have a saxophone
for a long time I just recently made this year got this one. So we might see you with the intention
of potentially being able to get back out there. That's fine very fun. Now bass how did you go from
sax to bass? You know I think it was from just I mean Red Hat Chili Peppers was a big one.
Hopefully you're out. Yeah I want to make those kind of sounds. Do you play in your underwear?
You know I have not lied but he's been a baby Ash. That's true pretty close. See it could have happened
you know we don't know we have to ask these questions for clarification. That's right.
What about you know more about the parents influence and obviously now did you guys go to
school in Fort Atkinson? We went to school in Cambridge so just down the road from Fort Atkinson.
But another school that has always had good school music programs. Yeah yeah Cambridge had
a really really excellent arts program you know probably like 85 90% of the school was in either
choir or band or doing some form of art so they always really supported that in a lot of the
students there. That's great. Well let's give the band leader some who is your band leader in high school?
Becky Peterson. Yeah yeah she she was there for pretty much all of it. The last year she left
she had a kid and we had a young guy just out of college Seaford. He was a pretty cool guy
though. Real mellow definitely kind of getting his teaching legs. Do you play like a lot of where
you are in music on your band leader? Yeah she was extremely supportive and she knew how to push without
pushing too hard and like so that support that made us want to do it. You know marching band was
one of my favorite things and she was always very very excited about it. High energy and it made
it easy to like. Wow that is so cool. Well let's get back to music live in the layer with Marston
presented by the Aaron Weber group. The next song you have for us tonight it's called Doubt. It
can creep on you. Tell us about this song. Sure so Doubt I wrote for the triple M songwriter
competition about maybe seven or eight years ago now. It's right when I started doing the solo
stuff and it was from a prompt they gave you a prompt every week and that prompt for that week
was an emotion and my emotion that I got was doubt. So I wrote it very literally about that meaning
of it. So yeah it's very personified in the song so it's not necessarily about a specific thing other
than considerations of Doubt. Alright Doubt and I doubt that you can't resist to call or text
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10 o'clock tonight.
Marmy A. Manitration.
Chromatic Beasts.
They've been built by a city.
But not so much as it is.
Since our last day.
You've been built by a city.
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