Chihuahua.
PJ on the screen says of course all-time favorite is Madison's own the late Chris Farley Adam Sandler played a song with homage to Chris and says Chris Farley was living in a van down by the River sketches is one of the best of all time I think we've heard that from a few people at your favorite right Conrad Favorite sketch of all time.
That's what I thought you said.
I'm totally confused somebody a couple of people have said the van by the
I can't keep track of my SNL genres, eras, whatever.
Matt Harper is coming up at 720, folks.
He is in the studio.
Northeast Wisconsin rap rocker Matt Harper.
It's gonna be fun.
He's gonna blow the roof off the dump.
Stick around for that.
Right now, we've got time, a few more minutes, with our other friend named Matt, Matt Miller.
Milwaukee Film Critic.
We're talking movies and award shows.
Matt, you saw Captain America.
And it got pretty mediocre reviews, but the numbers were crazy.
And again, I read today in one of the trade papers it said for February, that's a crushing opening of 100 million bucks.
walking around money, yeah.
It has the lowest cinema score at a B minus.
And if we just want to toss all those things aside, it kind of stinks.
It's a poorly made movie.
And I think even those of us who've had issues with the Marvel machine over the past several years and what it's done to Hollywood thinking in terms of, you know, what kind of genres deserve to be in theaters and, you know, what genres deserve attention, you know,
You always knew when you went to a Marvel movie that the quality was going to be good, you know?
Iron Man is a good movie, Thor Ragnarok, good movie, the Black Panther, good movie, you know?
And you don't really get that promise now when you go to see a Marvel movie.
I thought Captain America was really shoddily made.
It's clunky and clumsy and you can see the scenes in terms of, you know, the storytelling that's going on.
I can't imagine anyone going into this Captain America movie being like, I cannot wait to find out more about the characters from 2008's The Incredible Hulk.
I gotta find out more about what happened in that movie from 17 years ago that I forgot was even a part of this franchise.
But that's the kind of Marvel brain thinking that they have where it's like, well, we gotta tie up the loose ends.
With Thunderbolt Ross and no you don't tell a good Captain America story.
Yeah, and they don't unfortunately
interesting.
Okay Another film you saw I haven't seen yet.
It sounded really interesting was the companion with Jack Quaid and I think that's a Jack Quaid movie It's like a kind of a
horror story love story.
It sounded really interesting.
I haven't seen it yet your fan
Yeah, I really enjoyed that one I'm not I can't I don't want to say too much about the premise of the movie because it is one of those movies that the less you know kind of going in the better but it is movie about a relationship between a man and woman Sophie Thatcher from yellow jackets and the heretic the Hugh Grant horror movie from last year She stars on that as well.
I had a really good time with it.
I don't know how many theaters that's in anymore But I highly recommend checking that one out.
I think that
one's a really fun time, especially like I said, if you don't really know where it's going.
I would also, if you're a horror movie fan, Hard Eyes was kind of the crazy story of this past weekend because here's the crazy thing, it was Valentine's Day weekend and Hollywood did not put a rom-com in theaters.
Oh yeah, you're right.
Valentine's Day weekend in Hollywood was like, should we release a rom-com in theaters?
No, never mind.
And the closest thing to a rom-com in theaters was this horror movie called Hard Eyes, about a couple, a man and a woman who kind of meet cute as marketing experts.
And while they're kind of out and about on Valentine's Day weekend, they get stalked by a serial killer who kills couples.
And they're trying to tell the serial killer, they're not a couple.
And the serial killer is like too bad.
You seem like a couple to me.
I'm going to have to kill you.
And it's a very fun kind of mashup of romcom and gory, bloody slasher movie.
And it did really well this past weekend.
It did something crazy, which horror movies normally drop like a rock after.
for their opening weekend.
You know, the buzz wears off, the young audience sees it right away, then clears out.
This movie made more money its second weekend than its first weekend, which really cool, love to see it, very fun, charming, interesting blend of genres, but Hollywood, release rom-coms and theaters again, please.
Yeah, this got 80% on Rotten Tomato.
Okay, I didn't read much about this, Matt, but I love that.
That's a great, and was that a wide release, Hard Eyes?
If you like slasher movies, if you like rom-coms, this is kind of the weird, bloody hybrid of the two.
I think the lead two cast members are very charming.
They have chemistry together.
I had a really good time with them.
I'm glad it's finding an audience.
how much of that audience was just desperate for anything resembling romance over Valentine's Day weekend, who's to know, but I'm glad that they had at least something decent to go see.
All right, last one, Matt, you saw Wolfman, age old story, classic character, reviews, okay, not awful, but what did you think of Wolfman?
I still haven't seen it.
Hopped over to streaming pretty fast.
I was really looking forward to this movie.
The director is fabulous.
His name is escaping me.
His name is escaping me, but he did the Invisible Man remake with Elizabeth Moss from a few years ago.
And he did a really cool sci-fi horror movie called Upgrade a few years before that as well.
Unfortunately, this movie is kind of a bore.
I think the movie isn't very scary, which if you're a scary movie is kind of a big problem.
Yeah, I think it's thematic ideas are kind of muddled in the movie.
Huh?
Yeah, it's unfair.
I was really looking forward to this one.
It's one of the lesser movies.
I've seen this year so far, unfortunately.
Oh, that's too bad.
I just looked it up myself as well.
All right.
Matt, awesome stuff.
Thank you so much, buddy.
I want to let people know starting this weekend.
I know a bunch of the best picture nominees are going to be back in theaters.
Just about all of them except for Amelia Perez because it's Netflix and Netflix hates movie theaters and wants them to die.
So if you want to see any of the best picture nominees other than Amelia Perez, you can check those out.
I know the Marcus theaters have a bunch of those coming back and I believe Nickel Boys is still at the Downer Theater right now.
And they have the short film nominees there as well.
So, if you're looking, if you're a big Oscar completist, you can find just about everything back on the big screen
soon.
Great tip.
Any prediction?
You got an outside prediction?
I know we're getting a couple weeks away.
What's your gut telling you for best
I Would never do that, but we will keep talking.
I'm sure thank you buddy for your time tonight Always thanks.
That's Matt Miller check out a man about film Matt's up stack.
He does great work and Love his take on movies so
All right, so we got, what do we got here?
Oh, JB checking in on the stream says the Steve Martin sketch about if you don't have the money, don't buy stuff.
Was that last night?
don't remember though.
Doesn't sound
I would have thought it was last night, because I didn't see the whole thing, but thank you JB for checking in.
That's the guy behind the guy for those of you scoring at home.
From the 608, laughing.
deserves our strong appreciation for TV comedy and comedians.
During its 50 years, SNL has done very little except copy Laugh-In.
Oh, that's interesting.
I have not heard this form of plagiarism before.
608.
608 continues saying Gilda was my favorite.
Wow, a lot of votes for Gilda Radner tonight and very deserving.
Sandler was introduced.
Oh, I said that.
I meant to send you a message.
Steady Eddie.
Oh, I love it.
Steady Eddie says Pete.
Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I have listened to Matt Flynn and Matt Rothschild on the same radio show on Civic Media.
Oh, he's shooting us down, man.
could skirt around.
All right.
He continues to mass on the same radio show has been done already.
Wah, wah, wah.
You lose again, Schwabba.
Steady.
Steady Eddie's out to get me.
He says, PS, I like Dana Carvey as the church lady.
Oh, that's a great one too.
Well, isn't that special?
Church lady's favorite same.
PSS on the 50th anniversary show, the Debbie Downer sketch with Bob DeNiro.
Steady Eddie's on first name basis or calls him Bob.
Bob DeNiro, he insists I call him Bob or Bobby made me laugh.
Well done, Steady Eddie, great to have you back, buddy.
Bridget from the 818 says, one of my favorite characters and an iconic one in the history of SNL, Rosanna Zanadana, she is sweeping the awards tonight.
Yes she is.
Wow, good for you, Gilda.
represented.
Do we have time for our tribute to the President's Day?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, let's do that.
Here's our tribute to President's Day by way of The
Simpsons.
Harrison.
I died in 30 days.
We are the adequate, forgettable, occasionally regrettable.
And take your presidents up to you.
I love that so much.
Can we play?
Do we have time to play the...
Come on, man, you're bringing me down!
That cough gets me every... When he makes the joke and has nothing to do with it.
The Simpsons, that is their go-to thing, like they will say a joke at a school function or whatever and all that.
You hear in the background,
thing.
Matt Harper will be along shortly, folks.
He is a rap and rock artist.
Why don't you hear that more rap and rock?
You either hear rap or rock or rap and rock together sounds amazing.
Am I just out of the loop?
Maybe people say that all the time.
I don't know.
Matt is going to come in here and blow the roof off the dump.
That's a figure of speech.
It's actually a very nice facility.
We're coming right back on Nightlight with Peach Wobble.
Great to have you with us on this Monday night on the Civic Media Radio Network.
sweeping our question of the night answers.
The front runner in our question of the night, which is what is your favorite SNL sketch or character from over the years?
We've probably got five or six texts that have said Rosanna and Dana, but there are no right or wrong answers, folks.
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We are about to make, well I thought we were making radio history but apparently we're not.
Apparently even on civic media there have been two mats on a show before and it was all tongue and cheek anyway but our second Matt of the night joins us here in the studio.
He's a rap rock artist from right here in northeast Wisconsin.
Matt Harper is back on the show.
Hey buddy.
Hey how's it going man?
Thanks for having me back.
Listen, dude, it's great to have you here.
And you're very good at social media because sometimes I have guests on the show and I'm like, oh my God, why haven't we had this guy back yet?
And it's like all of a sudden I'm like, oh yeah, Matt.
So I applaud you for having such a great social media presence.
And that's why you do it, right?
Right.
I mean, it's the biggest part of it now.
I mean, even you guys know bad music gets popular all because of the promotion.
So I'd say mine's bad.
Right, no, I knew it.
It all helps it.
The brand is bigger than the music now.
Absolutely.
So, all right, I love this.
We were talking a little bit about this before you came on the show.
I said, and I don't have my finger on the pulse necessarily of all music.
I know what I like, but rap rock artist.
I don't
hear that a lot.
Is that a common crossing of genres?
If it is even crossing genres?
Yeah, so.
You know, back in the late 90s and the early 2000s, you had the new metal wave, which was bands like Lincoln Park and Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, POD, Saliva.
A lot of those guys did that sound and it had a really good run for five or six years and became some of the most popular, you know, heavy rock music at the time.
You've seen that kind of taper off through the 2010s and now it's made a resurgence a little with bands like Falling in Reverse is a big one.
I prevail.
Bands that bring some of that rap hip hop.
electronic music into the rock and the metal scene and I just love the fusion of genres.
You see a lot of crossover now with the country rap artists like Jelly Roll and even Morgan Wallen to a certain extent.
You've even seen some
country metal crossover where Jelly Roll's done songs with Ozzy.
He's done a song with Falling in Reverse.
So I've always been a fan of mixing different genres of music together to make something unique.
I mean, not to get like too deep here, but doesn't that bring people together too?
Like when they see their favorite, like I would say maybe, and I'm generalizing, but let's say country fans might be more resistant to seeing their favorite artists doing rap or vice versa.
But doesn't that help people come
together?
I think it really does and it's been cool with music festivals like you look at the Harley Davidson thing last year and you had Friday night was was Jelly Roll and then Saturday night was Red Hot Chili Peppers and Offspring.
Yeah.
And you're seeing the same people you know that and even MGK came out with with Jelly Roll and his set and I love the crossing of all of it and I think it has brought some of it together and the way music is now I mean everybody
has any song at their disposal at their fingertips with streaming platforms.
So you see playlists and stuff that people curate has been such a popular thing in music.
And they're all over the board.
I mean, I've been fortunate enough to get on some pretty decent sized playlists before.
And, you know, I'm there with everything from old school 80s hip hop to classic rock to, you know, modern metal music.
And it's really neat to just see all that stuff come together.
That's so cool.
Can I just tell you one of the things I love about your
I don't know if I'd say your brand or how you present yourself is that there's plenty of white hip hop people now.
And now there's black country artists and I love all that stuff.
But even a lot of the white hip hop guys look like Eminem or they, you know, you look like you.
maybe just cut off a tractor.
You got these awesome boots on.
You got the beard.
And then you start pumping out these wraps.
And I just think it's so cool, because the first time I met you, I was not expecting that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I just, you got to keep it real, right?
There's a hip hop tour for you.
And, you know, I'm a blue collar construction guy.
I was on a job site today before I came here.
So, you know, I wear the car heart because I actually work in the trade, not just because it's cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and again, like even, even with my brand, I try to, I try.
to keep some of that blue collar which has really hasn't been a
song topic and a lot of metal songs and I brought that in the one I'll play later tonight and the motorcycle culture and all of that kind of stuff is is what I know so that's what I want to talk about in my music it's like any of the rappers do the same thing with you know their backgrounds and the subject matter that they sing and rap about and I do the same with mine
yeah before we get into you have a new album out people can stream we'll get into that you're gonna perform for us I want to ask you before we get up against the news here the Super Bowl halftime
Oh
killer.
Yeah, I I have to admit I watched it Matt and I was like this is pretty cool I thought it was a great presentation I thought the colors and the dancing was cool and I could tell there was some protest in there I heard 40 acres in a mule, but that's not my first
favorite music so I don't know Kendrick I know about the feud between him he and Drake and my son is like dad that was the greatest thing I've ever sounds like it was okay and that made me look into it more and now
I
love it yeah
what were your thoughts I've actually went back and probably watch it five times now because I didn't even catch all of it as I was watching it and and just when you
peel back all the layers of that performance.
You know, the Drake thing aside was incredible, but he brings out Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam and does the, you know, you can't sing that song.
It's too ghetto.
It's not mainstream.
It's, you know, all of that.
And then he ties it back into towards the end of his performance where he does the turn the TV off song of his, which is a great song.
But he did that to kind of troll all the people he knew were going to comment on social media and say this is the worst halftime show I've ever seen.
And he had that platform to where he could say, look, I'm on the biggest stage of the world.
If you don't like it, turn your TV off.
Doesn't matter what you think.
Right.
And getting back to the Drake thing, I mean...
Rap Battles is such an integral part of rap music and hip hop and has been forever.
And some of the greatest songs have been diss songs.
And he's the first one ever when a Grammy on a diss song, which is like, it's unheard of.
And the awards and all the recognition that he's gotten recently and, you know, really capped it off with the halftime performance.
And I liked how he had really good production, but he kept it stripped down.
He kind of kept it old school hip hop.
Yeah.
I mean, he buried Drake.
There's no
I mean Drake came out with a new song the next day and it was called something like forget the rap beef I just want to party because he's admitting because he knows I mean even the lighting in the crowd they had you know people must have had had lights on them that spelled out game over when he was done yeah and it is I mean there's no coming back from this there's no bigger stage that Drake could come back against Kendrick than the Super Bowl halftime
he could probably just say you know
what I'm
doing okay
Matt Harper is here.
When we come back he's going to perform something off his new album and we're going to talk more about all cool things music with our buddy Matt Harper.
It's Night Light with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
I just have to say Matt Harper is here, a local rap rock artist from northeast Wisconsin.
I love it.
When we were talking about the halftime show and there's a comedian from Appleton named John Egan who's very funny and we were talking about the reaction and we kind of knew what it would be and Kendrick kind of knew what it would be.
Oh yeah.
So the first thing I did was go to Facebook to the usual suspects.
And I thought, well, I knew he'd hate it.
I knew he'd hate it.
But Egan and Appleton, he was the first post I said, and his post was just, nobody cares that you didn't like that.
Right, right.
Oh, it's so great.
Yeah, so true.
Um, so all right, let's talk about, oh, we got some texts here too.
Jameson from Pennsylvania.
So I want to hear your take on this.
He says there's two sides to wrap rock combo.
You have greats like rage against the machine or the Beastie Boys, then the horror that was limp biscuit into a lesser degree kid rock.
Yeah, I mean those bands in that time period, I see both sides of it, right?
And I do remember hearing, you know, Limp Bizkit was touring with Metallica back in 2002 or 2003.
Oh, yeah.
they were getting booed off the stage at some shows.
Really?
And Limp Bizkit is probably my favorite rap metal act of all time.
I think they're fantastic.
I've seen them in concert a bunch of times.
But that old school metal...
fan base was not as accepting to some of those
bands
like that in that time.
And I definitely get it.
I mean, they all sound different to me.
They all have their own, you know, their own little niche in the market.
And, you know, I like it all, but that's, you know, it's, it's any kind of art form.
It's all subjective.
You could sit here and argue for, yeah, forever.
Brady Zellner checks in on the stream and says,
Go Matt Harper.
He hates farmers.
Yeah.
Big city boy.
I
don't hate farmers.
I just don't like that farmer.
Shout out to Brady
Zollner from the big city of Luxembourg, Wisconsin.
Thanks for tuning in, buddy.
Yeah.
Thank you, Brady.
I'm going
to play your favorite song in a minute.
So
I'll pay it
back.
I love it.
All right.
So let's talk about that, man.
You have a new album available to stream.
Tell us about
it.
Yeah.
So it's a five song EP.
I've been working on it.
We we release songs every couple of like six to 10 weeks.
So they're all out there now.
The last one just came out the end of November that I'll play a little bit earlier or a little bit later.
I mean, in yeah, it's it's
Even all of these songs are a little bit different.
Some favor the rap side a little bit more.
Some are more rock.
Some are pretty heavy.
Some are more ballad sounding.
So I like to just really explore all different kinds of music when I'm creating.
And I'm fortunate to work with a great team of people that I'm not the most talented instrument player of all time, but I've got a team where I can
even do corny things like record melodies on my phone with my microphone and
then they can come
up with guitar riffs or other things for me.
So yeah, it's it's I love it so much.
It's such a great creative outlet and you know, it's my it's my channeling of
all the things we go through in life.
Yeah.
Does that keep it more interesting for you too, Matt, when you do different things like a ballad here, then more rock or more rap that gets your own creative juices flowing in.
Yeah.
And a
lot of the artists I really like, like, you know, say what you want about a band like Lynn Biscuit, but they've been all over the board too.
Made some, you know, they covered Behind Blue Eyes.
They did the Mission Impossible theme song in a metal version.
Oh, yeah.
You
know, they're they're all over the board and that's what I like about them.
You listen to their albums and there'll be one or two songs like the Significant
other album they did a collaboration with Wu Tang Clan that was just a straight-up old-school hip-hop song but then some of their big hits like Break Stuff and and Nookie were on that album that are you know more your hard rock hard hard metal rap type stuff and I love that it it's it's you know music is such a creative thing and you know
not every song I write or start working on comes out, you know, it's kind of like an art form, but it's fun to explore all that different stuff.
And, you know, sometimes you just come up with something that you're like, well, that that could be something right there.
Let's say you you got to a point where you could cover whatever you want it to or sample.
Yeah, what
would you what would you do?
What would
you
take?
I'm actually thinking right now of a song that I kind of want to cover because it's it's politically
almost coming back around is the Neil Young rocking in a free world.
Oh,
wow.
And I want
to do something with that.
There's been a couple covers of that that are a little heavier, but nothing in my space to where I could take that, make it real loud and maybe put my own verse, hip hop verse
into
that song.
So that's one that I'm kicking around.
But, you know, there's a lot of them that
you know, I could probably come up with, but that's one top of mind for sure.
That's excellent.
All right.
So you're going to perform something.
You got something off your new, uh, yeah.
Okay.
So this song is called pretend.
It's, uh, you know, a emotionally reflective song about when you're in a situation where you've got.
some tough decisions to make and it's almost paralyzing to an extent where anxiety and everything can take over and you're almost like can't make any decision even though you know you have to make one so
it's
a deeper song it's it's kind of in the middle between my heavier and my softer music so it's got some good hip-hop elements to it and um yeah this song came out
was one of the first ones released off of this in April of 24.
Sweet.
What do you need from us?
Are you good?
I'm good.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Matt Harper, live in the studio at Nightlight.
Locked in my own mind.
It's like a prison cell cage like a rabbit dog.
It's personal hell Yeah, I'm fully messed up from the indecision paralyzed from these dark times past recognition I just don't get it.
I hear it.
I see it.
I live it But I cannot understand the thoughts under this black-fitted mind races and paces a thousand miles a minute close my eyes It's just faces and places and I'm still trapped I run away Every single day
to pretend this won't happen to me over again lost the words to say I'm not okay I try to pretend this won't happen to me again and again all the times I have the opportunity I let it pass now I'm stuck in this room with vivid moments of the past I know that I can't get it back but it's all I have I replay this every day I'm a wreck
Throw this beer bottle up against the wall For every single time you didn't return my calls Look at this, of course this is how it would be Try and blame you and we both know that it's me I run away Every single day I try to pretend This won't happen to me over again Lost the words to say
This won't happen to me again and again.
Chill with the noise.
Yeah, I just need space misguided mistakes thrown back in my face Overwhelmed by this place and I lost all faith.
Yeah, I did it to myself.
It's the bed that I made There's a butcher with a smile my heart on the cutting board.
I've been living in denial I could not take this anymore wait on my mind so heavy collapsed me stuck in one place so long life passed me so I try to build focus even when it seems hopeless I'ma and I know this you should quote it yeah
I built these walls around me then complain that I'm isolated knowing full well this is something I created so for months I stay faded and jaded and hope to go away trust I betrayed it became hated myself to blame drowning in Confliction and distance well in my mind I see this image but real life everything is so different I run away every single day I try to pretend this won't happen
It's awesome
dude.
Yeah, thanks man.
There's pretend
Wow there is like it's called pretend all right, so go to where can people if they want to
own that song or listen to it over and over where would they find
yeah if you want to own it Apple music any major streaming platform so Spotify Pandora YouTube music any of them it's on it's distributed through all of them so it's yeah it's everywhere that you have a great the composition is great who's behind you on that
So there's a couple of guys that I worked on that with one is Miko Marhol from Ghost Mob Entertainment Milwaukee Matt Browning did the drums and the guitar on that and then The recording mixing and mastering was all done by Dave Patella at Source Track Studios in Appleton.
That sounds great, dude Okay, so you can you can get the album.
Where can people see you live Matt?
That's what
that's what we're working on now.
So we
had to get this was the big one to check off.
I got to have material to perform live.
So
we got that.
I'm working on some new songs.
I'll probably mix some fun covers in there.
Just, you know, it's it's always hard as a original artist when you're relatively unknown to keep a crowd's interest for a whole half hour or 45 minutes set that you're doing if they don't know the words in your song.
So I've always mixed.
some covers in all of my live performances.
So we're working on a couple opportunities this summer, one potentially at stage one on Broadway here in Green Bay and another one at under the tracks on Broadway.
So we're going to start some smaller venues and maybe pull some guys together from the Milwaukee area and maybe a heavier band and have a set where we have a, you know, a straight up rapper, maybe a heavy metal group and then myself.
So
I'm looking forward to that.
You got to keep us posted and we'll see if we can
Okay, when you're writing something like you my guess by the way is Matt Harper and you just heard him perform pretend Check him out.
You can follow him.
He's very active on social media again.
Where can they get the
album?
Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, any of the string platforms.
We just heard pretend it was fantastic when you come up with a song like that Matt
What are you writing first lyrics?
And when do you decide it's more rap or rock or different genres?
Do the lyrics come first or the music?
A lot of times I get a melody and Chorus is always comes first for me So I like to try to make music a little bit catchier and and have a good melody with with the lyrics So I'll just you know, it's weird how
this works for probably every musician, but I'll just kind of have a, this is the melody I want to sing these words in and I'll kind of build out the chorus.
I play a little bit of guitar, so I'll send ideas to better guitar players of, Hey, this
is
what I'm thinking.
How do you
spice
this up for me?
Um, and then I kind of work backwards into the verses and like a song like that, when I came up with that chorus, it was just like, I have so much I want to say and get off my chest on this song that I almost need the rap where I have more words per minute during the verses than if I'm singing.
singing, singing a verse.
So
that's
kind of how that worked.
And, you know, again, Matt Brown and you did the drums kind of came in with some of the more hip hop sounding drums and parts of it.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, this is this is going to have rap verses and a rock chorus for sure.
That's excellent.
Morgan checked in again.
He says, whoa, go big brother.
Oh, yeah, it's my sister.
Shout out.
Shout out to Morgan.
Oh, Brady.
I'm sorry.
Brady also said, hell yeah, sounds good.
Okay, that's the one I was getting confused.
The mortgage your sister.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
Is she musical?
Yeah, she actually took some music classes in
college.
She
knows
more about
music than I do, probably.
Who did you listen to?
Like, who are your influences in terms of finding your genre?
Like, you said you listen to Limp Bizkit and you had rock people and you said you started, when you first started, you did more rap.
Who did you listen to growing
up?
When I started growing up, I actually remember one of the first...
Cassette tapes I ever had was gangsters paradise by Cooley.
Oh, yeah
And I remember going to like ride my bike to the mall to the Sam Goody to buy that on
cassette And I remember I
wanted on CD, but they were sold out of the CDs, but they still had some on cassette So I started listening to that but then of course, you know, you listen to music your parents like yeah a lot of classic rock and things like that and I just I remember the day that
I saw the first Limp Bizkit music video probably 1998 on TRL and MTV and they fused those two together so good.
You know, you had Run DMC and Aerosmith did it.
You had Beastie Boys and all that stuff sounded cool, but they did it.
It was so modern.
It was so fresh.
They had a DJ in a metal band and it's like, just blew your mind.
Like, what is this right now?
So those are huge influence of mine, but my music range is so broad.
You know, I, I like everything from, you know, Hank Williams senior to
Bruce Hornsby and the range to Metallica to Kendrick Lamar.
I mean,
I
just I like all of it and I I like taking different parts of their music and Incorporating him to mine.
I saw one of the coolest Tic Tox the other day was Dave Grohl was talking to Pharrell Williams And he said everybody wants to make a big deal about how I'm the greatest drummer of all time or one of them And he's like I stole so much of the Nevermind album from the Gap Band.
He's like all that.
Oh
wow
You hear, he's like, that's all disco.
I
love the Gap Band.
I was in high school.
Oh, that's so great.
So I love that he can admit that too.
That's so great.
That's pretty cool.
You know who I'd like to see you cover?
Who's that?
Manolo.
Think about it, Matt.
Barry Manolo.
All right.
Matt Harper is hanging out with us here in the studio at Nightlight.
We'll be right back.
He'll help us close down the show.
And maybe we'll hear a little more of Matt's work after the break.
Here we go.
Stick with us.
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guy behind the guy.
He's almost behind the other guy now.
he's behind so many guys I don't even know if I remember his actual name, but I was in I was at Potawatomi over the weekend with my son and my wife You know you can't play blackjack for less than 25 bucks a hand
And my son Joe's like, well, I'll do three hands.
I'll clean out in like 30 seconds.
He's like, oh, what the?
Inflation's
even hitting the tables,
I guess.
Exactly.
That's the voice of Matt Harper.
We've got a few more minutes with Matt here.
Matt is a local rap rock artist here in Northeast Wisconsin.
You can check out his new album on Spotify.
And he will be playing live soon.
We'll have more information on that.
You got to keep us posted on that.
But you have something else you can you can play for us here.
Yeah.
So this is actually the last song.
We'll play a little clip of it because I want everybody to go to your favorite streaming platform.
So we get we get the stats up
and they're
swearing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we
love.
Yeah.
So we can
we can play
the first first minute and five and then you know after that.
Well, uh, you'll have to go listen to it on your own.
R
rated.
This song is, uh, is called high octane.
And it's, it's actually about, you know, motorcycle culture, blue collar work, getting off work on a Friday blown off steam.
It's the heaviest, loudest song.
So maybe some of your listeners are going to get.
Kendrick Lamar by me right now.
What is this noise I'm listening to?
But this was probably the most fun I had making any song.
Really stepped out of my comfort zone and in the heaviness of it.
But it was a blast.
And it again has some of the rap element and some of the metal element.
And I think it fused together
pretty well.
What's it called?
It's called high octane.
High octane.
All right, let's hear it.
I got a chip on my shoulder, that's right.
I got that blue on my collar, that's life.
Work hard for a dollar late night, so when I pull up, we ain't stoppin' at no red light.
Middle class from nothin', yo, I need to make something, or I gotta take something.
I need substance, I love it.
Burning gasoline on my 1-14, so mean.
All black, everything, Johnny Cash.
Never change.
That's a
headbanger.
That's a headbanger.
Yeah.
And yeah, like I said, it's the most fun I ever had making a song in my whole life.
Really?
Yeah.
It was a blast doing that.
So, all right.
So that was like a teaser.
Yeah.
People should go to Spotify and download the rest of it.
Do that for sure.
All right.
High octane.
And check out Pretend, too.
That was a great song, too.
Yeah.
There's five of them, like I said, out there.
All a little bit different.
That's for sure the heaviest one, but...
Yeah, that song is my favorite.
And we had some really good success with some.
I have a song called Burn It that I actually played the last time I was here.
I performed live.
That one about a month ago just went over 80,000 streams on Spotify.
Nice, dude.
Yeah, I'm really proud of that.
I hope it hits 100, but I had to post about it at 80 because it was just too big of a deal not to talk about.
That's so cool, man.
Yeah, it's really cool.
Okay, so when you play...
Around here or northeast Wisconsin.
I wouldn't say rap is number one around here Maybe even not even heavy metal anymore when I was growing up when I moved here in junior high Everything was hard rock or classic rock
and had a great punk scene here for a long time.
That's what I hear Yeah, yeah, so do you have people that like what's the reception typically?
In other places where you're more well-received than others in the area
Yeah, there's definitely some some metal and hard rock friendly venues here stage one is done
a few, when it was still keggers, they did a lot of rock shows there, but the old gasoline that's now between the tracks is a great metal venue.
I love every word you just said, the old gasoline between the tracks.
That sounds so awesome.
Yeah, that venue's been super supportive.
So you've got to kind of find your area.
And honestly, when we do our shows, we're going to
kind of pander to our demographic, if you will, and put a good card together of bands that compliment each other's style.
I think our local music scene is, is great with all the cover bands we have.
I mean, you look at a band like, you know, obviously Dennis Peters, uh, who's around the station quite a bit with glam band.
I mean, they do numbers.
Like they draw crowds bigger than national touring bands
around here.
I've heard of that.
Yeah.
It's crazy impressive.
But what I'd like to see us continue to do in, in Green Bay and Northeast Wisconsin is to cultivate that original music.
And there's a festival.
I love the shipyard festival here.
Um, all the bars on Broadway in the fall do that's
all original music at all the different bars.
And it's like every 15 minutes, there's a different band
at a different bar.
And that's incredible.
And I hope we continue to foster that.
I mean, I have to give you a lot of things for giving artists like me a platform.
I know you have people from famous movie stars to lowly local construction workers like
me on this show.
Tell
me,
introduce me to more of your friends, dude.
I'd love to have them on.
Absolutely will.
And I just appreciate you and all you do for all of us up in Cummins.
I couldn't do this without guests like you.
So thank you.
keep up the great work and let us know anytime you have something new Matt.
Absolutely will do.
Excellent having you in the studio.
Thanks again for having me.
Anytime.
Thanks to the other Matt too.
Two mats on the same show Conrad.
it's been done before.
My thanks to Matt Miller, Matt Harper and all your texts and calls.
Fun night here at Nightlight.
We'll be back tomorrow night to do it all again on behalf of the lovable producer Conrad.
Good night Wisconsin.