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I’m super excited to have as my guest today Matt Sams from the band Somnistatic.

  • Matt and I first met about 15 years ago at an open mic in Crystal Lake, IL. We played in the first version of Matt’s ongoing musical project, Somnistatic, as a real-life band but due to the usual life circumstances, the band members had to go their separate ways.
  • Matt talked about what he did musically after the original version of the band broke up, and then we discussed how we started working together again thru the Internet.
  • I asked Matt to explain how he came up with the same “Somnistatic,” which lead to a discussion of different band names we had before settling on this one.
  • Matt has been playing some live shows around the Chicago area. Some as a solo act, and some as a band. You can see a lot of videos of Matt’s performances on the Somnistatic YouTube page.
  • Matt recently played at Madame Zuxu’s, a teahouse owned by Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins. Matt is a huge fan of the Pumpkins and he got to interact a little with Billy during his time at Zuzu’s. Including this video of Billy playing a Beatles song on piano:

    Then, Billy took a picture of Matt while he played this song:

    And Billy even sang along a little bit with Matt on this one:
  • I asked Matt why he’s covered more George Harrison songs than the songs of the other Beatles. Like this one:
  • We had a discussion about The Who, a band Matt and I both love. Then, we talked about a new album Matt’s putting together as well as a special “Matt Strat” guitar he is designing.
  • Our song of the day for today is a piece Matt composed called “Lie.” Matt wrote the song as part of a soundtrack he’s doing for a short film.
  • I asked Matt how it is that this video from his YouTube channel has over 27,000 views:
  • You can purchase the Somnistatic album In The Heart Of The Sun thru the band’s Bandcamp page for $5.00. But Matt has a special offer for listeners of the podcast! e-Mail him at rarndgo(at)gmail(dot)com and he’ll respond with a code that’ll let you download the album for free.
  • Matt made us this piece of artwork in response to our first newsletter:

    An actual jetpack raptor with freeze rays.

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