Oct. 16, 2025

Chemistry Sweet Band

Chemistry Sweet Band
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Season 1

Rick and Diane are the dynamic duo called CHEMISTRY SWEET, music band. They love playing The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Depeche Mode and more. They are a local band in south Florida. They also play in Woodstock, New York and Connecticut.
Our show will focus on the bands hiatoet of development. The ins and outs of band practice time. What it takes to play at different venues. As well as how building relationships with music vendor owners creates bridges.

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Hi, welcome to the Sound of Goals. I love doing

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this every Monday. This show is based on music. I

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have my cat here, one of my cats. The show

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is based on music. I am a musician and a

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music teacher, and I believe in keeping the original originality

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of music alive. Musicians get to play out, we entertain.

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As a music teacher, we teach to continue to help

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continue keeping music alive and in our younger generations, older generations.

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No matter where you are in your journey of music,

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it's never ending. We're always learning something. Even though I'm

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a teacher, I'm also a student. And I'm here in

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South Florida, and we have a great community of musicians

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and we're kind of like an extended family. It's pretty special.

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So I don't know what state you're in but I

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know that there are music communities. So if you are

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not here in Florida and you are a musician, please

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check out your community and find out where events are

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that you can get together with other musicians. It's important

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to be surrounded I like minded friends, and they become

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extended family. So what's that being said. I'm so excited

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about today's show because I have some dear friends of

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mine who are going to be joining us who are

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not only musicians, but they're just both of them just

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have so much talent that they bring to the stage,

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and I mean, I can't say enough about them. So

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please help me introduce Diane and Rick and their band

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is called Chemistry Sweet, Dan and Rick. Are you guys backstage?

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Here we are, Lisa, Hi, great to see you. Thanks

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for making the time today to be on the show.

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Absolutely, without a doubt, no problem there. It's the band

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is called Chemistry, The.

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Sweet, the Sweet. Okay, my bad, okay.

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Chemistry Chemistry flat this week. I know no one ever

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really gets it right, but anyway, nice to be here.

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Thank you us you bet you bet No. I was

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trying to I was thinking this morning, Diane, when I

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was out for my box I'm like, we've known each

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other over fifteen yes, be over fifteen years.

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I was wondering too, how long I was thinking the

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same thing. I think it's eighteen eighteen years.

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Wow, now you're a dear friend of mine. With that

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being said, I'm not saying this just because you're my friend,

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but I'm seeing it because, like I've seen so much

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growth in you because both of us, I mean, we've

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both been involved in the arts as far as like acting,

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and we've been involved in music. But I've like, like

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ass on the sideline. I've seen you grow so much

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as as a person at in talent and you've really

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like spread your wings. And I'm so excited that you

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and Rick are here today because I want to share

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with the audience. You know, being a musician, you don't

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just like show up on stage and play. And you're

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not like born with gifts. I mean even myself, I

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was not born to play piano. In fact, when my

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parents signed me up when I was five years old,

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I hated it. I hated to practice, but it's brought

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me to where I am today. So but this is

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not about me, It's about you. I want to hear

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from both of you sorry with Diane did what was like,

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what's your journey Ben? With music? Where did you begin?

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What inspired you to be where you are today?

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Oh? Wow? Well, my whole life, you know it started.

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I mean when I was a young girl and my

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father would have the radio on all the time and

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listen to his you know, Peggy Lee or you know

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Tony Bennett, and he'd be whistling all over the house,

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you know, and loving his music. And you know, the

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first I could remember with me is like when I

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really was when Motown you know, came around. Yeah, and

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I was in like seventh or sixth grade or whatever,

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But oh my god, did I love that music. I

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love Motown, Mary wells Uh, Smoky Martha and the Mandela's

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all those groups. And I used to have a little

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transistor radio and I would just you know, walk around

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with my transistor radio all the time, learning all those

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songs and just knowing them by heart, and you know,

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watching Bandstand and all that. I just yeah, then I

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remember moving forward, like I remember one night I was

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having a bath. I was in the bathtub and I

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had my little transister. This was, you know a couple

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of years later, and I'm listening I said, oh my god,

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who is this, you know, and it was Dylan. I

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had never heard him. That was the first time I

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heard him in that bathtub on oak Wood Drive in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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And wow, that changed changed it for me. You know.

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Then all these artists started coming, you know, at the

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same time, like you know, Joni Mitchell and you know

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Laura Niro and you know, oh my god, all though

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you know, then a little further was like, let me see,

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I was in Connecticut and I remember one day I

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just went to the local music store and I bought

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a guitar, a buddy, I'm a guitar I remember. I

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paid one hundred bucks and I came home and I said, Mom,

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look what I bought, you know. And this started me,

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you know, playing music. And I found a guitar teacher,

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you know, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and I would go there

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and he taught me all my first position chords and yeah.

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Then I moved to New York City and I spent

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most of my adult life there and I got with

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a guitar teacher there, Ronnie Lee, who was he was

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in the Philharmonic New York Philharmonic. He bought me so

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much theory and you know, jazz chords, and I mean

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he really pushed me. And you know, then at this

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same time, I started taking voice lessons. You know, I'm

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thinking of the Ansonia Hotel. Oh, I got a landmarkt.

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I had a voice teacher in the Antonia Hotel. But yeah,

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I always, you know, learned, So I took many lessons.

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I spent a lot of time, and I just loved

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the instrument. I just loved all the music that started

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coming out the Woodstock, you know, all of that. And

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then I was so lucky to be with music people

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in New York City and would go you know, all

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around Steve Paul scene. I mean, all these places, Cbgv's everything,

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and it was so easy to meet people back then.

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There wasn't a lot of security. It was all you know,

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it was. It was awesome dancing with Ritchie Havens and

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you know, I mean it was just so easy to

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talk with each other back then, you know. So that's

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what I did. And then, of course you can't make

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a living from this, so I got intos in the

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fashion This is my whole life, you know, But I

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still always, you know, even when I traveled a lot

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during that business and I bought a traveling guitar and

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I would be in my hotel room, you know, playing

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the guitar. And I really didn't do anything professionally, you know.

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What I did was open mics, a lot of open

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mics in Manhattan, you know, and that's why I'm fantastic people.

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And just started you know, playing a lot at these

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open mics, you know, and I don't know how much

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time we had it. Came to Florida and continued open

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mics and uh, you know Double Roads open mic and

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uh just started playing and learning and you know, just

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really got into it like you know, like I never

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did before. I just love it and I went full force,

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you know. And I was working. I was just working

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like part time then. So yeah, so you know, I

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think I should probably let Rick talk. You know, I'll

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get back to how he and I hooked up if

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you want.

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You know, yeah, yeah, but I want to I want

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to again compliment you, which I did earlier. You've I've

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seen you grow, I've seen you come such a far

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such a far away. I don't know if I'm speaking

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proper English, but what I want to say to even

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like our listeners out there, is that if you have

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this dream to play an instrument, like dive in full

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force and give it everything you've got. And like you

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said too, you can't. You don't always necessarily make a

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full time living off of it, but you can make

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some money here and there performing or teaching like myself.

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But yeah, it's a passion that lives on forever because

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you never stop learning. There's always something new to learn.

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There's always and as a musician, spending time around musicians,

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we inspire each other. It's it's so beautifully like knitted together.

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I know, I just love, I just love the whole thing.

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I mean, yes, I play now, I play like you know,

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all the time. I could play three hours a day

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and you know, because I'm not working, but h and

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always learning, always on top of.

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It with learning.

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And now you have things like YouTube. You know, if

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you want to just find out what are the chords

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to this or how is that one playing it? You

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just have to go on YouTube, which wow, that's amazing,

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or you know one of those apps that teaches you

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how to play something. Yeah, but right, so yeah, if

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you have the bug for you know.

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Go for it.

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Rick, how did your journey start? Where did you begin?

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With music, like what inspired you and what kept you

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moving forward with it?

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Well, I'll tell you what inspired me. It was my grandfather.

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He played the guitar. My grandmother played the drum.

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These are on my mother's side, So my grandparents on

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my father's side were farmers and my grandparents on my

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mother's side were Suburbia musician. And so I mean that's

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how I got inspired. He showed me how to play

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my first song, my first chords. Then, uh, you know,

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back home.

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My uh actually, my brother was taking guitar lessons and

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then I would look at his the things that the

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instructor had written out, you know, where to put your

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fingers and all these things.

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And I can tell you my first song was.

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Tom Dooley Came down your Head, Tom Dooley, which is uh.

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But that's how I got inspired.

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With my grandparents and they had like a little band

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in their house, you know, my aunts and uncles, they

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all dabbled with stuff, drums and things. And I can

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remember being a little kid and watching these you know,

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go to their house and watching them jam and it

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was pretty cool.

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And uh, but I you know, I went for learning

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on my own.

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I never had a lesson I always had just done

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it on my which is I guess, kind of a mistake,

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because you do things wrong, and you do them a

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whole bunch of times, and you learn to do it wrong.

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I learned to do a lot of things wrong. But uh,

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you know, and as.

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You get older, and you know, you become more focused

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on some things.

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You know.

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I got focused on the guitar there for a long time,

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and I would say in my twenties or so. And

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then then then I got had a family, you know,

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I had had a kid and then another kid, and

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then all.

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That goes away, all.

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The the responsibilities take over, the not want to waste

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time playing the guitar, not that it's the other things

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take over, you know. And I went many years without

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playing at all. I didn't pick up a bit. And

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then what's really happened here? And I would say in

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the last five six, seven years and ever since, I

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bought a set of drums, and I was like, maybe

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I should be playing drums instead of guitar.

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You know, I'm not really a great guitar player. You know,

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I don't know what people think of me.

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I could play Cowboy chords and and uh, you know,

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I'm not a lead guitarist. I'd love to be a

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lead guitarist, but I think my you know, deep down inside,

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my passion is really the drums. And I bought a

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set of drums during COVID because you know, we we

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weren't driving to work, we weren't eating out. I wasn't

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eating out all the time. And so next thing you know,

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I got all this money in my checking account that

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I hadn't spent on life, and I bought drums and

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I just loved it. And I play them every day.

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It's like one of the first things I do in

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the morning. I get up, I play drums. And they're

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electronic drums, so I'm not bothering the neighbors. So that's

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a good thing. And I have I have a friend,

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I have a lot of friends, uh, Carl Carlos in

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the band th HC. I saw him play a akahome

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one one day and.

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I was I was like blown away.

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This is before I started playing it, and I was like, wow,

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that's really cool.

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That's a cool instrument, and I ordered ordered one. I

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started banging on it.

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Everyone's like, they tease me and say it's a grandma's

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shoe box.

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I don't know. Yeah, so that that was to me

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was fun.

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And that's that's a musician and being a musician and

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actually trying to uh, because I'm also retiring, so don't ever.

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I never thought i'd ever make enough money being a

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musician to make a living. So in fact, this is

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my last week of work Friday.

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So uh.

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Playing playing the drums is really what I like, and

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playing ituitar is like secondary for me. Okay, but that's

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what what I do the most. Would dies as I

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played the cahona and I play the I play a

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few songs and we split the load kind of.

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She does most of the singing and most of the

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guitar player.

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But you sing as well? Sorry, you sing as well?

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Yes, yeah, I said Rick, you have to when we met,

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you have to sing because he wasn't singing, he was

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just playing, you know the sometimes I.

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Said, you have a great He has a great voice. Yeah,

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I mean a distinct voice. And I said, you really

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need to sing. Sing So now he sings, But I

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mean it's really, you know, great to have that. I

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wish I had a voice like that that you can

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really you know, tell who it is, right, you know, George.

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I mean like, no, he really has an awesome voice.

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So yeah, that's his vocals A strong point, you know, embarrassing, No,

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but it's true. But anyway you were talking to him.

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I have I have a bunch of uestions for you both,

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but I want to mention to our listeners. You know,

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no matter where you are in life, like, I just

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kind of like put it in a box and say,

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life is like this book of chapters. Right, we all

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have this journey to be on. Everybody has a story.

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Everybody deals with life, the ups and downs we all do, right,

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nobody's like left out of that and we all, like

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I said, we all have our story. If you're a

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musician and you once weren't thinking about going back to playing,

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definitely do it, like you never lose that passion. I

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personally have a piano student right now who's ninety four

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and her dream is really not to play out so much,

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but she takes lessons. I mean at ninety four, she's

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like every week she's still practicing. So it's you know,

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no matter where you are in life, like, there's no

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excuse that says, oh I'm too old, or I'm too young,

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or I'm too busy. You know, if you are busy,

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just put it on the agenda for when things like

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settle down a little bit, because there's always we always

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make enough time for what we enjoy to do right

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when it.

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Comes down to right.

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It's almost like when we make phone calls to friends

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like like, oh, we haven't talked to you in years

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or months. It's like, well, yeah, well I was busy.

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But you know what, even family members, there's you always

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make time. It always make time for what's important and priorities,

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like what you put in as a priority. And yes,

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work would definitely come first because we have all have

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to pay bills. But music is almost like you gosh,

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it's just such a beauty to be able to play

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a music instrument and to perform, and yes, it really

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is therapy. I've heard you guys play. You play, and

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we talked a little bit earlier via text. I know

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you love the Rolling Stones, you play a lot of

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that Depeche Mode. I'm a huge fan of Depeche Mode.

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What are some of your favorites that you enjoy playing?

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You know, we have such a variety. That's why our

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guitar player wanted to join us, because we're just like

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all over the place. But we just do you know,

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we'll go from Everly Brothers to Sinatra, to the Talking

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Heads to uh, you know, Miley Cyrus, uh the Cure,

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you know. I mean we just yeah, these said, we

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just really go with the songs that we really dig,

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you know, in the groups that we like. Yeah, there's

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no we'll play a little rock, a little uh now

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we're doing some country songs, you know, yeah, and uh

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a little blues you know.

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Uh.

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So our latest thing is we're all wanting to you know,

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bring out some songs that we wrote and things like that,

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so you know, just being covers doing covers rather Yeah.

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So yeah, we could go anywhere with you know, British

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Invasion whatever. We you know, he and I met, you know,

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I wrote all my songs I've known from my you know,

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from my career, and he wrote all he wrote it

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all his right, yeah, right.

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But a little bit about what brought you together.

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Music, I tell you the whole twenty twenty thing, the

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COVID being stuck at home and buying drums and learning

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to play the drums, and then and then as as the.

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The lockdown, uh, some of the right words to use

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up and we started going back out again, and.

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We were going to double the old double Road, going

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to Yes open mic and going to brew House open mic.

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And I have a very good friend, Brett Steel, who

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got me to.

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Uh go to open mics because I, you know, I

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could play the guitar and I, you know, she says

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I can sing, and so.

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I would, you know, play play with Brett uh uh

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play the home or or whatever.

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And Brett got me to go, and so so he's

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he's kind of the reason why I uh met her,

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you know, and uh because I probably wouldn't have met her.

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I mean, so anyway, I'm there. I love Converse shoes.

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I wear Converse all time, and anybody that knows me,

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my friends tell me I wear Converse all time. I

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have well, I don't have all the colors, have a

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lot of the colors, and and I do collect them.

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If my closet is a mess, I mean I could,

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I could make a background of my shoes.

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But she was wearing red Converse on an open mic

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and she was playing, uh, it's a song, Don't don't

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you Want Me Baby?

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And I'd liked her shoes. I go on, you know,

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and I had black ones on. She had red ones

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On and she totally ignored me. Though I tried to

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buy her drains, she didn't want dream.

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Then he asked me if you could play the guy

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party said.

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When she tells people the story the funniest line to me,

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and she goes and then I finally let him.

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Yeah, no, I said. And then I guess I cave.

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You wore me down, that's what because it was a

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couple of times going back to Double Rows and he

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was on Monday nights and he was always there. So

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he finally wore me down and we went in. We

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started to practice and play together at his house and

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uh yeah, and we had chemistry, you know, it was

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working nice and uh yeah, so we said we thought

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about want to do it a duo or something, you know. Yeah,

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and then the Garden City gave us, you know, our

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first We had learned a lot.

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Of we have, like other interviews you have the people,

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Garden City is where we.

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Got started to Yeah, and it's Rusty hook.

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Yeah us right, and every all of us people down here.

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That's why all the musicians. So yeah, we started from

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there or worked on it, and now it's been about

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what six I guess six years of us just you know.

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And chemistry. The Sweet the name of your band that

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came out.

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By well, we had good chemistry. It was kind of

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sweet chemistry and we didn't want to just say that

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sweet chemistr oh yeah, this other there's chemistry bands, that's right.

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Oh okay, yeah, chemistry the eighties band. You're right. Yeah,

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So that's what we started doing then playing and we

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were going around seeing if we could play here and there.

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And I was contacting people and you know, emailing and

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stopping in and everything. So you know, the next thing

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was like the brew house and uh, the butchers shop,

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and yeah, we started getting.

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That's here in South Florida. Now, Diane, you also travel

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because you you travel during the summer. So Bopsuck has

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been your place to go to the power couple of years.

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How how is that? How is that working out with

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playing up there as well?

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It's working out. I mean, you know, I have to

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book it way ahead of time. You know there's any

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musicians up there, but yeah, a couple of restaurants up there,

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the couple. But before Woodstock, I would go to Connecticut

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and I play also gigs there in Connecticut. So yeah,

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but now it's Woodstock. Yeah, I love it. I love

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the change, you know, I love seeing su Yeah. Everything

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inires me up there.

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What's the difference now I haven't been up there. So

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for friends and that are listening, Yeah, we have our

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community and I call it our extended family of musicians

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here in Florida where everybody's very supportive. And if you

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heard in the beginning of the show today, I mentioned

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wherever you are, wherever you're tuning in tap into like

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your community, local community, and find a group of musicians.

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Is it very different in New York or do you

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find there's the same type of chemistry where everybody's so supportive.

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As a musician, same type. Yeah, I'm telling you. Woodstock

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is a beautiful thing. New York City was a great

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group of people too.

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Yeah.

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And anybody that comes in, you know, there's not that

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many people that you know, you don't like so much.

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Now they're all to me. Most of them are just great,

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you know, beautiful and give you generous with what they know.

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They'll show you, they'll actually come up and play with them. Yeah.

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I find musicians to be I love musicians, Yeah I do.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, So whoever, it's easy to connect. You just

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find out you know, where's the Open Fights or you

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know there's they have a fabulous one of Woodstock called

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the Colony. It's been there forever. I mean, you get

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one song a night, there's like sixty people. You know,

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you put your name in a hat and they pick

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it out and I could be like number thirty five

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or number two. You know, it's great because everybody's so talented.

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There's so many talented musicians, unbelievable. You know what, I'm sorry,

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I cut you off, as you know. One of the.

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Biggest reasons that's drawn me to do this show is

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because I have such a passion for being the voice

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behind musicians. Not just because for no like no reason,

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just because I'm a musician, but the fact that there

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is so much talent in our communities. Like you know,

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we grew up with oh, you know, like David Bewie

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and Bob Dylan. Oh, they got such a big name,

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they're so talented. But you don't have to have such

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like you don't have to be the icon to be talented.

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You can be a phenomenal musician in your own community.

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And what we forget is that even as musicians, and

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I call it our extended family, we feed off of

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each other. We inspire each other because we learn from

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each other and we grow from learning from each other.

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And so my point is is that I want to

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I want to continue to be that voice for us

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musicians that aren't the icons of like David Bowie and

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Bob Dylan. But I want to keep the fire alive

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because yeah, it doesn't matter what town you go to

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or what state you're in, you will find a music

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group and you will be welcomed. I mean, I think

467
00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:36.640
we all that first time, we all fear, including me.

468
00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.200
Remember I couldn't even get on stage to play the fear.

469
00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:46.440
Fear is just so crippling. But I promise you you

470
00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:49.839
get the support and the love that you need, and

471
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:51.880
you'll get to that point where you're like, all right,

472
00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:54.880
I'm gonna step it up and do it for yourself.

473
00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:59.240
Don't step up and perform for other people because you

474
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:03.440
want to get not for the getting noticed or be recognized,

475
00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.480
but do it for yourself first, because when you focus

476
00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:09.319
on your heart and you're on who you are as

477
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:12.039
a person, you have a gift to share. If you

478
00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:14.880
can play an instrument, you can, if you can sing,

479
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:17.720
I mean, that's a huge gift you not only give

480
00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:20.279
to yourself, but you give to the community. But definitely

481
00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:23.279
put yourself first when it comes to who are you

482
00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:27.119
showing up for and who really cares? Like nobody you know,

483
00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:29.920
and I don't know anybody here. Well, sometimes that's even better,

484
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.119
you know, like do it for yourself.

485
00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:36.759
I know that you know your passion for the music.

486
00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.440
I know it's not about getting the next gig, right,

487
00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:42.480
I mean, I just well picking up my guitar and

488
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:45.440
playing and you know, playing with Rick and I love

489
00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:49.559
our Tuesday and Thursday night practices with our you know

490
00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:52.720
guitar player. I mean, it's like the best night. It's great,

491
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:56.599
you know, the we you know, things come up that

492
00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.920
oh wow, oh yeah, do it that or whatever. I mean,

493
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:04.559
we just really all feel the same about you know, music,

494
00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:09.079
and yeah, you're right, do it for yourself first.

495
00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:13.400
Yeah, do it for yourself first, and and you'll you'll find.

496
00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:16.200
Your your niche what you're supposed to do with it, right.

497
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:18.440
Yeah.

498
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:22.480
I taught for a little while in New York, you

499
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:28.480
know kids guitar. Yeah, it wasn't really I don't know,

500
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:31.720
h it didn't work for me or I didn't stay.

501
00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:34.119
I just you know, I don't know. I just did

502
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.079
it for a year. So but yeah, that's a fine

503
00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:42.079
teacher because you've you know, you've taught Aura and uh

504
00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:47.279
yeah it's a little girl that we know anyway. So yeah, so.

505
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:50.559
What would you what would you say? I want each

506
00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:55.960
of you to share with us for our listeners something

507
00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:58.519
about your journey, Like what have you Diane?

508
00:28:58.599 --> 00:28:58.839
First?

509
00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:02.759
What have you learned about your musical journey that if

510
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.559
you knew when you started you you would have maybe

511
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:09.079
had an easier time getting out there?

512
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:13.240
Oh? My thing is about the nerves and the fear

513
00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:17.680
like you, Oh my god, just terrible. I mean, you know,

514
00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:21.720
we studied together, you know, with under the best teacher,

515
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:25.279
and it was the same thing. I've been so nervous

516
00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:28.079
all my life, you know, and yet I choose these

517
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:31.680
things to do that are like, you know, people's friends

518
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:33.599
say to me, why do you do this to yourself?

519
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:36.240
When I first started doing open mics, I really I'm

520
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:43.720
like sick in my life, you know. Uh so what

521
00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:45.359
would I do about that? Well?

522
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:46.200
Really not?

523
00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:49.240
I still am very nervous. I mean you can tell

524
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:51.559
people go well, I really can't tell I really like

525
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:53.960
almost could you know, throw up?

526
00:29:55.960 --> 00:30:00.279
You know, so what can you doing that? What do

527
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:02.640
you like mentally tell yourself.

528
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:05.480
I go through all these things, like the breathing, you know,

529
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:08.599
that sort of calms you down a lot, and you

530
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.920
just have to say, people are really not like, you know,

531
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.240
judging you or staring at you. They're kind of thinking

532
00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.119
about themselves, you know. I mean there's you know, they're

533
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:21.200
watching your everything, but they're not like intensely you know,

534
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.359
listening to everything you're playing or singing, you know. And

535
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:29.079
so I have to realize it's just you know, just

536
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:31.160
get up there and have you know, like they say,

537
00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:35.119
have some fun and try to relax. So it's gotten

538
00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:38.000
a little better, but I still could have really bad

539
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:40.079
bouts of anxiety.

540
00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:44.119
Yeah, it's it's so true. We get so caught up

541
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:46.599
in what people think of us. But the truth is

542
00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:49.640
is that everybody is so caught up within their own

543
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:52.599
head worrying about what other people think of them, that

544
00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.000
we're thinking they're thinking of us, but now they're worried

545
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.920
about themselves first, and we forget that.

546
00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:01.920
Plus we're background really we're really background music in a

547
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.799
restaurant or you know, it's not a show. We're not

548
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.119
putting on a concert, you know, you're just going there

549
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:09.920
and having you know, adding to the atmosphere a little,

550
00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:12.519
you know, so you have to you know, be really

551
00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.519
you know, level yourself and be humble, and you know,

552
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.039
realize it's not about you really, you know, we just

553
00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:22.680
love playing and wherever we can get to play, we're

554
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:24.880
going to continue to do that, I would think. And

555
00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:28.960
then absolutely don't have like twenty years left or anything.

556
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:29.519
I don't think.

557
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:35.920
I don't know, Brick, what would you share with our

558
00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:39.680
audience if you can tell your like your younger self

559
00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:42.759
before the kids, when you were playing, or even yeah,

560
00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:45.279
even your present self, what would.

561
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.039
You want to go back in time and whisper to myself,

562
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.119
I would say, play the drums. But to any anybody

563
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.839
looking at playing any any music, practice I mean practice

564
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.960
all the time. Like I just helped the friend lend

565
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.680
them a guitar he'd moved here from Singapore. It's my replacement,

566
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.039
I said, And I gave him a stand. I gave

567
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.759
him a guitar and a case and a stand. I said, no,

568
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:14.359
when you get home, put the stand in the living room,

569
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:16.200
put the guitar in the stand.

570
00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:17.960
Don't put the guitar in the case.

571
00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.240
And he's like, why, And I said, because if the

572
00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:22.599
guitar is sitting there and you're more likely to pick

573
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:23.039
it up.

574
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:23.519
And play it.

575
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:26.440
If it's in the case, you're like you you might

576
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:28.640
not be want to be bothered getting it out of

577
00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:31.000
the case, but if you could just walk over and

578
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:33.359
pick it up and start playing. So that would be

579
00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:36.359
my advice to put your make your instrument handy, make

580
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:40.200
it so you can pick it up and play and practice.

581
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:43.200
Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of discipline

582
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:46.200
that goes into practice. I think I mentioned this in

583
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:51.519
previous shows. It's work, but it's not the kind of

584
00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:53.279
work like you know, you got to go clean the

585
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:55.000
cat litter or you know, take the dog for a

586
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.839
walk and pick up after the dog. It's not like

587
00:32:57.279 --> 00:32:59.440
that kind of I mean, even though we love our animals,

588
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:03.039
we probably don't really think of that too much. But

589
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.400
you know, it's a passion. And even for myself as

590
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:11.039
a musician, as a teacher and and a piano player,

591
00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:14.640
I'm still a student. I still take lessons, but some

592
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.599
there are some days where I'm like, I haven't gotten

593
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:20.240
to the piano yet. I have to like make myself

594
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:22.359
go to the piano and I walk by it all

595
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.119
day long. But it's like I have to force myself

596
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:26.720
to get there, and once I get there, I'm like,

597
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:29.680
oh right, you know what, it's no big deal, you know.

598
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:33.759
But but yeah, it's a matter of like you said,

599
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:37.200
leave the guitar out, have it obvious, have it, have

600
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.559
it be like kind of in your way. So, yeah,

601
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.119
a distraction to get your attention.

602
00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:47.680
Definitely. It's all about playing a lot. Playing a lot.

603
00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.400
Now, how nation Tuesdays and Thursdays, you guys practice, so

604
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.440
it's only two days a week that you practice.

605
00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:58.200
Yeah, but it's you know, they're good practices. There's you know,

606
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:04.160
three hours, yeah, twice a week. But he and I, yeah,

607
00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:10.400
Brick and I practice every day every day practice. I

608
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:12.239
mean we at least do an hour. We have more.

609
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:14.800
We call it, let's do a tiny. What's a tiny?

610
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.440
A tiny is like where he'll do four songs and

611
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:20.119
I'll do four songs. You know, I'll be alcohol for

612
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:23.079
his score. And we do it and it helps so much.

613
00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:25.599
You don't have to have this big you know, practice

614
00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:28.840
all the time. You do four songs one day, next

615
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.480
do they do another four? Yeah? So we go, let's

616
00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:34.400
have a tiny. What time you want to have a

617
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:42.840
tiny today anyway, but the big practice is he Okay, yeah.

618
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:44.519
I do.

619
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:45.320
I do.

620
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.679
Do you find that I'm about to have it right here?

621
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:52.519
Do you ever think of practice time is intimidating? Uh?

622
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:56.599
Sometimes if we're gonna go over, like certain new songs

623
00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:59.480
that we're doing, I might practice them by myself first,

624
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:02.159
you know, at home, before I go to the practice

625
00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:04.320
with Rick and Bob, you know, because I don't want

626
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:07.800
to be a total, you know, dummy about it. Yeah,

627
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:11.000
so sometimes I get a head start on it. Yeah.

628
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.679
And you do you ever find in practice, Rick or

629
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.039
Diana or your your guitar player, do you bring something

630
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:19.159
more to the table where it's like what you originally

631
00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:21.480
thought you were going to play, you kind of envelop

632
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:22.480
into something more.

633
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:26.280
Sure, we're always listening to each other, you know, we

634
00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:29.840
respect each other, you know as far as that goes.

635
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:33.320
We're open let's say open minded too, you know, do

636
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:38.119
this player do it that way? Definitely? Yeah? Yep, yep, yep.

637
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:45.199
Sorry. And have you recently played.

638
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:46.360
Part of me?

639
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:47.519
Would you say?

640
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:49.880
I said you guys recently played?

641
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:57.000
Yeah? We played Friday past Friday. Yeah, Uh at Rusty Hook.

642
00:35:57.480 --> 00:35:59.239
It was a good one. It was the you know,

643
00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:01.599
the place was jump in, it was alive, everybody was

644
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:06.079
having a good time. You know, food there's delicious, So yeah,

645
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:08.440
it was very upbeat. You know, it's nice.

646
00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:10.360
You have to try it out with some and been

647
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:13.840
there since they changed owners. Yeah, be there for to

648
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.360
advertise ourselves, but we haven't been there to eat.

649
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:24.360
Okay and really enjoy. They do not disappoint definitely, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

650
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:30.440
So so forward, We just had a cancelation which was

651
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:33.760
at a new place because they stopped music on that

652
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:37.119
particular night. So ah, that was like a bummer. But

653
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:39.679
she's scheduling us going forward.

654
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:40.039
On another night.

655
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:44.079
But yeah, it's it's hard. You know, it's difficult getting gigs.

656
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.440
There's a lot of good people, a lot of players

657
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:51.239
and not you know that many venues, right, But you

658
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:54.039
just have to stay on it, keep trying, you know,

659
00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:58.559
keep calling and don't drop the ball, right.

660
00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:02.039
I think the biggest thing that kind of like nudges

661
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.079
me a little bit is that, and I mentioned this

662
00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:08.519
and other shows too. The pay that musicians get to

663
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:13.639
entertain is not a lot. And we don't do it

664
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:16.239
for the pay. We do it for the passion. But

665
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:20.440
those of us that are not musicians. I don't know

666
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:24.119
if they realize the work that goes into what we do. However,

667
00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:26.239
we don't look at it as work because it's fun.

668
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:30.000
It's work, definitely. Yeah, it's a lot of work. And

669
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.280
you don't want to do it for free. Come on,

670
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.360
you know you want to and you don't want to

671
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:38.599
be insulted like they would, you know, like they say,

672
00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:42.239
will you just play for tips or something? No, that's

673
00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.840
not right, you know, you know, but you know that

674
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:47.400
you're not going to make a lot of money, but

675
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:51.000
you want to have something that feels you know, right,

676
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:56.119
you know. So yeah, that's I think it's important. It's

677
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:58.440
important for the rest of the musicians.

678
00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:58.880
Too in the community.

679
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:02.400
You shouldn't, you know, do it for nothing, right, I.

680
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:04.480
Mean we if we go to the movie theater, we

681
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:05.679
pay for a ticket.

682
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:06.440
Yeah.

683
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:09.719
If you go to a restaurant, most unless it's like

684
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:12.039
a concert, a quote unquote concert where you got to

685
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.159
buy tickets, you get to a restaurant, there's a band playing,

686
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:17.880
and the restaurant's gonna pay the band, and then we

687
00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:20.559
kind of play and make tips there too.

688
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:21.840
Yeah.

689
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.400
But I would just like to see in the future,

690
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:27.880
it would be great if venues found. I don't know

691
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:29.920
if it's I don't know what it is, but if

692
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:31.440
they paid musicians more.

693
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:35.559
Yeah, there's some yet do that's kind of like really

694
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:38.639
good around here. You're like, wow, yeah, you know, they're

695
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:41.880
like they expect to be asked, you know, for that much,

696
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:44.320
and they just say, you know, so what do you

697
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:47.719
charge for you know, three hours or whatever? Yeah, I

698
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:51.639
love those. They're usually rocking and rolling places that are

699
00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:55.079
like do very you know, really good business and sell

700
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.199
a lot of food and drinks. Yeah. So so there's

701
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:00.320
some that play really nicely.

702
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:02.840
And then there are also places a lot.

703
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:05.239
Of the problems that some of these venues depend on

704
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:11.280
the musicians to bring people in. Yeah, we get to

705
00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:14.039
the point where we can't keep asking our friends coming

706
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:16.280
to our friends are.

707
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.719
Yeah once twice, then they're like all right already. You know.

708
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Sometimes we wonder like I'm like, well, how come you

709
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don't have any customers?

710
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:31.920
Yeah, like, you know, why to bring your customers? I

711
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:34.920
don't get the restaurants should have its own.

712
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:39.199
Customers right and advertised and all that. Yeah, I know,

713
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:41.760
because we've made a lot of money for restaurants, haven't

714
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:45.239
we friend a lot of money and yeah, And I

715
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:48.119
mean we have brought a lot of people too. You

716
00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:51.440
know many times where the restaurants had really good nights.

717
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:54.679
You know, yeah, that's true. You wish they would just

718
00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:57.199
you know, oh, we'll playing here and I don't have

719
00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:58.199
to worry about it's.

720
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.320
Fun to go play and you know your friends.

721
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:04.880
Yeah, and a lot of restaurants too will say, well

722
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.480
we will book you. From my experience, we will book

723
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:11.480
you as long as you bring us business, right, like

724
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:14.559
you said, Rick. But it's like, well, if you've got

725
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:18.199
the reputation and you've got a good restaurant going, I

726
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.880
shouldn't have to necessarily bring me business. I could bring

727
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:24.159
more like followers to listen to our music to help

728
00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:27.920
make us both money. But it's like a fine line.

729
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:32.280
There was an interview I had where Great Place and

730
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.320
the owner had said, you know, show up, play, if

731
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.480
you get you know, bring in some people, and you

732
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:42.519
bring us some money, then we can pay you kind

733
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:46.320
of thing. As a business owner, I guess that's you know,

734
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:51.000
I understand it. But it's just as a musician, it's frustrating.

735
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:51.800
And then, like you.

736
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:55.559
Said, it's hard, especially today since COVID, more people are

737
00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:56.880
playing instruments than ever.

738
00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:58.480
Oh my god, you.

739
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:01.079
Know, and everybody wants to get out there and play

740
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:02.559
right and.

741
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.159
Again you learn songs and you know, just go buy

742
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:08.159
a guitar and you can learn whatever you want on

743
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:09.519
YouTube or you know.

744
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:11.519
That that's the way you do it.

745
00:41:11.639 --> 00:41:15.719
Yeah, those apps like the guitar on it.

746
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:20.320
I'm playing again, it's not so much about the money.

747
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.079
But at the end of the day, like you said,

748
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:26.440
we don't want to play for free because we share.

749
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:31.320
Go to a like Double Roads. You used to do

750
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:35.599
this before pre covid. You if you went there and

751
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:38.239
there was live music that night, there was three dollars

752
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:39.239
charge on your.

753
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:40.199
I remember that.

754
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:41.880
Yeah, a three.

755
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:44.360
Dollars cover charge. I don't have a problem with a

756
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:48.960
three dollar live music that night. And you want to

757
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:51.800
charge me three bucks on my on my bill, that's fair.

758
00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:52.960
I think that's great.

759
00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:55.840
Yeah, as long as the you know, you're using that

760
00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:59.639
money to pay the band or look, that's great.

761
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:05.039
Yeah, you know, ll just do that. But not you

762
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:09.360
have live music, everybody can pay that.

763
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:16.000
Well, Dannie said, you go to connect with different restaurants. Well,

764
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:19.400
so let me back up for our listeners if they

765
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.519
want to contact you and learn more about your band.

766
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:24.400
What is the best way to contact you?

767
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:29.440
Oh, we have a website, Chemistry the suite dot com.

768
00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:33.599
And we have a Facebook page, Chemistry the Suite Facebook page.

769
00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:36.639
What else do we have a Gmail or something.

770
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:44.840
At Gmail dot com ts cts yeah, yeah, so yeah,

771
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:46.679
I guess the website and then you can even hear

772
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:49.599
our videos and you know that.

773
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:52.360
But we don't have a list of we we're playing next.

774
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:55.880
But the easiest would be to that's okay, not yet,

775
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:59.199
but the easiest would be to Facebook messenger you on

776
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:00.559
Chemistry this week.

777
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:04.559
Sure, yeah, right, and then our and then of course

778
00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:08.519
the phone number is on everything too, right, I mean

779
00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:12.840
on their website and uh yeah, uh right those dot

780
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:16.840
cards no, not that, Yeah, so we have it's easy

781
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:20.400
just chemistry sweet dot com and your Facebook thing.

782
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:25.599
Will pop up Facebook, uh, you know, on Facebook dot

783
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:26.400
com slash.

784
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.159
But also you could just put into chemistry sweet that's

785
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:30.719
what I do.

786
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:35.039
Yeah, that's.

787
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:41.199
Really this week all those h T P P and

788
00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:42.159
all those things.

789
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.079
That's easy to find. Well I'm looking at the time,

790
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:52.719
and yeah, chat, it's been awesome and you've shared so much,

791
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:56.960
like a wealth of information to our listeners, our musicians

792
00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:00.199
out there, especially our newer musicians who are one to

793
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:03.119
step up and step out. No matter what state you're in.

794
00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:07.320
If you're if you're in Florida, South Florida, I'm sure

795
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:11.159
we'll cross you across paths along the way for if

796
00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:14.360
you're listening in and if you're out of state, definitely

797
00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:17.960
connect with your community and your local musicians. You will

798
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:22.760
be very welcomed. And other than that, look for Chemistry

799
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:26.880
this suite on Facebook and connect with Diane and Rick there.

800
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:27.960
Thank you so much.

801
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:34.599
YouTube, very lovely to see you, yes too, definitely, all right,

802
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:36.280
thank you, thanks.

803
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:39.599
All right, you be talk to you. Thank you so

804
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:42.400
much for tuning in today. Again. If you want to

805
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.880
connect with Diane and Brick, go to Facebook Message or

806
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:49.000
Facebook Chemistry this week and you can find them there.

807
00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:52.960
Other than that, as I mentioned, if you are just

808
00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:56.679
starting out in your music journey, or if you're picking

809
00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:58.960
up where you left off, if it's been a long time,

810
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:03.239
don't be a free to step out and follow your dreams.

811
00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:07.199
Play an instrument. It's such a great therapy for yourself.

812
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:09.480
You don't have to do it for anybody else but you.

813
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:13.519
And if at some point you want to entertain other people,

814
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.719
that's great. Too, but always start out with focusing on

815
00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:21.519
yourself and bringing out the best in you. For you,

816
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:23.800
because you are so important and at the end of

817
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:26.519
the day given me. We all kind of live in

818
00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:28.840
our head and in our heart, and we all want

819
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:33.159
to live this peaceful, happy life. And so I believe

820
00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:36.320
you will find a lot of happiness if you, just

821
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:40.320
like if you're called into playing an instrument or even singing, like,

822
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:43.960
step into it. Don't be afraid of yourself, believe in you,

823
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:47.199
and have patience with yourself, and be kind to be

824
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:49.519
kind to yourself. With that being said, I think we

825
00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:52.920
have another minute, and just to exit us our show today,

826
00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:59.039
I'm gonna play a little bit. Please tune in next

827
00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:06.039
week Monday at four pm Eastern time one pm Enter time,

828
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:09.679
and you can find out who our guest is. Then

829
00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:12.199
always like to keep it a little bit of a surprise.

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