Chemistry Sweet Band

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0:51 Hi, welcome to the Sound of Goals. I love doing this every Monday. This show is based on music. I have my cat here, one of my cats. The show is based on music. I am a musician and a music teacher, and I believe in keeping the original originality of music alive. Musicians get to play out, we entertain. As a music teacher, we teach to continue to help continue keeping music alive and in our younger generations, older generations. No matter where you are in your journey of music, it's never ending. We're always learning something. Even though I'm a teacher, I'm also a student. And I'm here in South Florida, and we have a great community of musicians and we're kind of like an extended family. It's pretty special.

1:42 So I don't know what state you're in but I know that there are music communities. So if you are not here in Florida and you are a musician, please check out your community and find out where events are that you can get together with other musicians. It's important to be surrounded I like minded friends, and they become extended family. So what's that being said. I'm so excited about today's show because I have some dear friends of mine who are going to be joining us who are not only musicians, but they're just both of them just have so much talent that they bring to the stage, and I mean, I can't say enough about them. So please help me introduce Diane and Rick and their band is called Chemistry Sweet, Dan and Rick. Are you guys backstage?

2:35 Here we are, Lisa, Hi, great to see you. Thanks for making the time today to be on the show. Absolutely, without a doubt, no problem there. It's the band is called Chemistry, The. Sweet, the Sweet. Okay, my bad, okay. Chemistry Chemistry flat this week. I know no one ever really gets it right, but anyway, nice to be here. Thank you us you bet you bet No. I was trying to I was thinking this morning, Diane, when I was out for my box I'm like, we've known each other over fifteen yes, be over fifteen years. I was wondering too, how long I was thinking the same thing. I think it's eighteen eighteen years.

3:16 Wow, now you're a dear friend of mine. With that being said, I'm not saying this just because you're my friend, but I'm seeing it because, like I've seen so much growth in you because both of us, I mean, we've both been involved in the arts as far as like acting, and we've been involved in music. But I've like, like ass on the sideline. I've seen you grow so much as as a person at in talent and you've really like spread your wings. And I'm so excited that you and Rick are here today because I want to share with the audience. You know, being a musician, you don't just like show up on stage and play. And you're not like born with gifts. I mean even myself, I was not born to play piano. In fact, when my parents signed me up when I was five years old, I hated it. I hated to practice, but it's brought me to where I am today. So but this is not about me, It's about you. I want to hear from both of you sorry with Diane did what was like, what's your journey Ben? With music? Where did you begin?

4:17 What inspired you to be where you are today? Oh? Wow? Well, my whole life, you know it started. I mean when I was a young girl and my father would have the radio on all the time and listen to his you know, Peggy Lee or you know Tony Bennett, and he'd be whistling all over the house, you know, and loving his music. And you know, the first I could remember with me is like when I really was when Motown you know, came around. Yeah, and I was in like seventh or sixth grade or whatever, But oh my god, did I love that music. I love Motown, Mary wells Uh, Smoky Martha and the Mandela's all those groups. And I used to have a little transistor radio and I would just you know, walk around with my transistor radio all the time, learning all those songs and just knowing them by heart, and you know, watching Bandstand and all that. I just yeah, then I remember moving forward, like I remember one night I was having a bath. I was in the bathtub and I had my little transister. This was, you know a couple of years later, and I'm listening I said, oh my god, who is this, you know, and it was Dylan. I had never heard him. That was the first time I heard him in that bathtub on oak Wood Drive in Fairfield, Connecticut.

5:44 And wow, that changed changed it for me. You know. Then all these artists started coming, you know, at the same time, like you know, Joni Mitchell and you know Laura Niro and you know, oh my god, all though you know, then a little further was like, let me see, I was in Connecticut and I remember one day I just went to the local music store and I bought a guitar, a buddy, I'm a guitar I remember. I paid one hundred bucks and I came home and I said, Mom, look what I bought, you know. And this started me, you know, playing music. And I found a guitar teacher, you know, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and I would go there and he taught me all my first position chords and yeah.

6:37 Then I moved to New York City and I spent most of my adult life there and I got with a guitar teacher there, Ronnie Lee, who was he was in the Philharmonic New York Philharmonic. He bought me so much theory and you know, jazz chords, and I mean he really pushed me. And you know, then at this same time, I started taking voice lessons. You know, I'm thinking of the Ansonia Hotel. Oh, I got a landmarkt. I had a voice teacher in the Antonia Hotel. But yeah, I always, you know, learned, So I took many lessons. I spent a lot of time, and I just loved the instrument. I just loved all the music that started coming out the Woodstock, you know, all of that. And then I was so lucky to be with music people in New York City and would go you know, all around Steve Paul scene. I mean, all these places, Cbgv's everything, and it was so easy to meet people back then.

7:38 There wasn't a lot of security. It was all you know, it was. It was awesome dancing with Ritchie Havens and you know, I mean it was just so easy to talk with each other back then, you know. So that's what I did. And then, of course you can't make a living from this, so I got intos in the fashion This is my whole life, you know, But I still always, you know, even when I traveled a lot during that business and I bought a traveling guitar and I would be in my hotel room, you know, playing the guitar. And I really didn't do anything professionally, you know. What I did was open mics, a lot of open mics in Manhattan, you know, and that's why I'm fantastic people.

8:22 And just started you know, playing a lot at these open mics, you know, and I don't know how much time we had it. Came to Florida and continued open mics and uh, you know Double Roads open mic and uh just started playing and learning and you know, just really got into it like you know, like I never did before. I just love it and I went full force, you know. And I was working. I was just working like part time then. So yeah, so you know, I think I should probably let Rick talk. You know, I'll get back to how he and I hooked up if you want.

9:03 You know, yeah, yeah, but I want to I want to again compliment you, which I did earlier. You've I've seen you grow, I've seen you come such a far such a far away. I don't know if I'm speaking proper English, but what I want to say to even like our listeners out there, is that if you have this dream to play an instrument, like dive in full force and give it everything you've got. And like you said too, you can't. You don't always necessarily make a full time living off of it, but you can make some money here and there performing or teaching like myself. But yeah, it's a passion that lives on forever because you never stop learning. There's always something new to learn.

9:46 There's always and as a musician, spending time around musicians, we inspire each other. It's it's so beautifully like knitted together. I know, I just love, I just love the whole thing. I mean, yes, I play now, I play like you know, all the time. I could play three hours a day and you know, because I'm not working, but h and always learning, always on top of. It with learning. And now you have things like YouTube. You know, if you want to just find out what are the chords to this or how is that one playing it? You just have to go on YouTube, which wow, that's amazing, or you know one of those apps that teaches you how to play something. Yeah, but right, so yeah, if you have the bug for you know.

10:29 Go for it. Rick, how did your journey start? Where did you begin? With music, like what inspired you and what kept you moving forward with it? Well, I'll tell you what inspired me. It was my grandfather. He played the guitar. My grandmother played the drum. These are on my mother's side, So my grandparents on my father's side were farmers and my grandparents on my mother's side were Suburbia musician. And so I mean that's how I got inspired. He showed me how to play my first song, my first chords. Then, uh, you know, back home.

11:09 My uh actually, my brother was taking guitar lessons and then I would look at his the things that the instructor had written out, you know, where to put your fingers and all these things. And I can tell you my first song was. Tom Dooley Came down your Head, Tom Dooley, which is uh. But that's how I got inspired. With my grandparents and they had like a little band in their house, you know, my aunts and uncles, they all dabbled with stuff, drums and things. And I can remember being a little kid and watching these you know, go to their house and watching them jam and it was pretty cool.

11:51 And uh, but I you know, I went for learning on my own. I never had a lesson I always had just done it on my which is I guess, kind of a mistake, because you do things wrong, and you do them a whole bunch of times, and you learn to do it wrong. I learned to do a lot of things wrong. But uh, you know, and as. You get older, and you know, you become more focused on some things. You know. I got focused on the guitar there for a long time, and I would say in my twenties or so. And then then then I got had a family, you know, I had had a kid and then another kid, and then all.

12:34 That goes away, all. The the responsibilities take over, the not want to waste time playing the guitar, not that it's the other things take over, you know. And I went many years without playing at all. I didn't pick up a bit. And then what's really happened here? And I would say in the last five six, seven years and ever since, I bought a set of drums, and I was like, maybe I should be playing drums instead of guitar. You know, I'm not really a great guitar player. You know, I don't know what people think of me.

13:16 I could play Cowboy chords and and uh, you know, I'm not a lead guitarist. I'd love to be a lead guitarist, but I think my you know, deep down inside, my passion is really the drums. And I bought a set of drums during COVID because you know, we we weren't driving to work, we weren't eating out. I wasn't eating out all the time. And so next thing you know, I got all this money in my checking account that I hadn't spent on life, and I bought drums and I just loved it. And I play them every day. It's like one of the first things I do in the morning. I get up, I play drums. And they're electronic drums, so I'm not bothering the neighbors. So that's a good thing. And I have I have a friend, I have a lot of friends, uh, Carl Carlos in the band th HC. I saw him play a akahome one one day and.

14:11 I was I was like blown away. This is before I started playing it, and I was like, wow, that's really cool. That's a cool instrument, and I ordered ordered one. I started banging on it. Everyone's like, they tease me and say it's a grandma's shoe box. I don't know. Yeah, so that that was to me was fun. And that's that's a musician and being a musician and actually trying to uh, because I'm also retiring, so don't ever. I never thought i'd ever make enough money being a musician to make a living. So in fact, this is my last week of work Friday.

14:53 So uh. Playing playing the drums is really what I like, and playing ituitar is like secondary for me. Okay, but that's what what I do the most. Would dies as I played the cahona and I play the I play a few songs and we split the load kind of. She does most of the singing and most of the guitar player. But you sing as well? Sorry, you sing as well? Yes, yeah, I said Rick, you have to when we met, you have to sing because he wasn't singing, he was just playing, you know the sometimes I. Said, you have a great He has a great voice. Yeah, I mean a distinct voice. And I said, you really need to sing. Sing So now he sings, But I mean it's really, you know, great to have that. I wish I had a voice like that that you can really you know, tell who it is, right, you know, George.

15:47 I mean like, no, he really has an awesome voice. So yeah, that's his vocals A strong point, you know, embarrassing, No, but it's true. But anyway you were talking to him. I have I have a bunch of uestions for you both, but I want to mention to our listeners. You know, no matter where you are in life, like, I just kind of like put it in a box and say, life is like this book of chapters. Right, we all have this journey to be on. Everybody has a story. Everybody deals with life, the ups and downs we all do, right, nobody's like left out of that and we all, like I said, we all have our story. If you're a musician and you once weren't thinking about going back to playing, definitely do it, like you never lose that passion. I personally have a piano student right now who's ninety four and her dream is really not to play out so much, but she takes lessons. I mean at ninety four, she's like every week she's still practicing. So it's you know, no matter where you are in life, like, there's no excuse that says, oh I'm too old, or I'm too young, or I'm too busy. You know, if you are busy, just put it on the agenda for when things like settle down a little bit, because there's always we always make enough time for what we enjoy to do right when it.

17:02 Comes down to right. It's almost like when we make phone calls to friends like like, oh, we haven't talked to you in years or months. It's like, well, yeah, well I was busy. But you know what, even family members, there's you always make time. It always make time for what's important and priorities, like what you put in as a priority. And yes, work would definitely come first because we have all have to pay bills. But music is almost like you gosh, it's just such a beauty to be able to play a music instrument and to perform, and yes, it really is therapy. I've heard you guys play. You play, and we talked a little bit earlier via text. I know you love the Rolling Stones, you play a lot of that Depeche Mode. I'm a huge fan of Depeche Mode.

17:49 What are some of your favorites that you enjoy playing? You know, we have such a variety. That's why our guitar player wanted to join us, because we're just like all over the place. But we just do you know, we'll go from Everly Brothers to Sinatra, to the Talking Heads to uh, you know, Miley Cyrus, uh the Cure, you know. I mean we just yeah, these said, we just really go with the songs that we really dig, you know, in the groups that we like. Yeah, there's no we'll play a little rock, a little uh now we're doing some country songs, you know, yeah, and uh a little blues you know.

18:32 Uh. So our latest thing is we're all wanting to you know, bring out some songs that we wrote and things like that, so you know, just being covers doing covers rather Yeah. So yeah, we could go anywhere with you know, British Invasion whatever. We you know, he and I met, you know, I wrote all my songs I've known from my you know, from my career, and he wrote all he wrote it all his right, yeah, right. But a little bit about what brought you together. Music, I tell you the whole twenty twenty thing, the COVID being stuck at home and buying drums and learning to play the drums, and then and then as as the.

19:19 The lockdown, uh, some of the right words to use up and we started going back out again, and. We were going to double the old double Road, going to Yes open mic and going to brew House open mic. And I have a very good friend, Brett Steel, who got me to. Uh go to open mics because I, you know, I could play the guitar and I, you know, she says I can sing, and so. I would, you know, play play with Brett uh uh play the home or or whatever. And Brett got me to go, and so so he's he's kind of the reason why I uh met her, you know, and uh because I probably wouldn't have met her.

20:03 I mean, so anyway, I'm there. I love Converse shoes. I wear Converse all time, and anybody that knows me, my friends tell me I wear Converse all time. I have well, I don't have all the colors, have a lot of the colors, and and I do collect them. If my closet is a mess, I mean I could, I could make a background of my shoes. But she was wearing red Converse on an open mic and she was playing, uh, it's a song, Don't don't you Want Me Baby? And I'd liked her shoes. I go on, you know, and I had black ones on. She had red ones On and she totally ignored me. Though I tried to buy her drains, she didn't want dream.

20:52 Then he asked me if you could play the guy party said. When she tells people the story the funniest line to me, and she goes and then I finally let him. Yeah, no, I said. And then I guess I cave. You wore me down, that's what because it was a couple of times going back to Double Rows and he was on Monday nights and he was always there. So he finally wore me down and we went in. We started to practice and play together at his house and uh yeah, and we had chemistry, you know, it was working nice and uh yeah, so we said we thought about want to do it a duo or something, you know. Yeah, and then the Garden City gave us, you know, our first We had learned a lot.

21:44 Of we have, like other interviews you have the people, Garden City is where we. Got started to Yeah, and it's Rusty hook. Yeah us right, and every all of us people down here. That's why all the musicians. So yeah, we started from there or worked on it, and now it's been about what six I guess six years of us just you know. And chemistry. The Sweet the name of your band that came out. By well, we had good chemistry. It was kind of sweet chemistry and we didn't want to just say that sweet chemistr oh yeah, this other there's chemistry bands, that's right.

22:28 Oh okay, yeah, chemistry the eighties band. You're right. Yeah, So that's what we started doing then playing and we were going around seeing if we could play here and there. And I was contacting people and you know, emailing and stopping in and everything. So you know, the next thing was like the brew house and uh, the butchers shop, and yeah, we started getting. That's here in South Florida. Now, Diane, you also travel because you you travel during the summer. So Bopsuck has been your place to go to the power couple of years. How how is that? How is that working out with playing up there as well? It's working out. I mean, you know, I have to book it way ahead of time. You know there's any musicians up there, but yeah, a couple of restaurants up there, the couple. But before Woodstock, I would go to Connecticut and I play also gigs there in Connecticut. So yeah, but now it's Woodstock. Yeah, I love it. I love the change, you know, I love seeing su Yeah. Everything inires me up there.

23:33 What's the difference now I haven't been up there. So for friends and that are listening, Yeah, we have our community and I call it our extended family of musicians here in Florida where everybody's very supportive. And if you heard in the beginning of the show today, I mentioned wherever you are, wherever you're tuning in tap into like your community, local community, and find a group of musicians. Is it very different in New York or do you find there's the same type of chemistry where everybody's so supportive. As a musician, same type. Yeah, I'm telling you. Woodstock is a beautiful thing. New York City was a great group of people too. Yeah.

24:13 And anybody that comes in, you know, there's not that many people that you know, you don't like so much. Now they're all to me. Most of them are just great, you know, beautiful and give you generous with what they know. They'll show you, they'll actually come up and play with them. Yeah. I find musicians to be I love musicians, Yeah I do. Yeah. So yeah, So whoever, it's easy to connect. You just find out you know, where's the Open Fights or you know there's they have a fabulous one of Woodstock called the Colony. It's been there forever. I mean, you get one song a night, there's like sixty people. You know, you put your name in a hat and they pick it out and I could be like number thirty five or number two. You know, it's great because everybody's so talented.

25:04 There's so many talented musicians, unbelievable. You know what, I'm sorry, I cut you off, as you know. One of the. Biggest reasons that's drawn me to do this show is because I have such a passion for being the voice behind musicians. Not just because for no like no reason, just because I'm a musician, but the fact that there is so much talent in our communities. Like you know, we grew up with oh, you know, like David Bewie and Bob Dylan. Oh, they got such a big name, they're so talented. But you don't have to have such like you don't have to be the icon to be talented.

25:47 You can be a phenomenal musician in your own community. And what we forget is that even as musicians, and I call it our extended family, we feed off of each other. We inspire each other because we learn from each other and we grow from learning from each other. And so my point is is that I want to I want to continue to be that voice for us musicians that aren't the icons of like David Bowie and Bob Dylan. But I want to keep the fire alive because yeah, it doesn't matter what town you go to or what state you're in, you will find a music group and you will be welcomed. I mean, I think we all that first time, we all fear, including me.

26:37 Remember I couldn't even get on stage to play the fear. Fear is just so crippling. But I promise you you get the support and the love that you need, and you'll get to that point where you're like, all right, I'm gonna step it up and do it for yourself. Don't step up and perform for other people because you want to get not for the getting noticed or be recognized, but do it for yourself first, because when you focus on your heart and you're on who you are as a person, you have a gift to share. If you can play an instrument, you can, if you can sing, I mean, that's a huge gift you not only give to yourself, but you give to the community. But definitely put yourself first when it comes to who are you showing up for and who really cares? Like nobody you know, and I don't know anybody here. Well, sometimes that's even better, you know, like do it for yourself.

27:32 I know that you know your passion for the music. I know it's not about getting the next gig, right, I mean, I just well picking up my guitar and playing and you know, playing with Rick and I love our Tuesday and Thursday night practices with our you know guitar player. I mean, it's like the best night. It's great, you know, the we you know, things come up that oh wow, oh yeah, do it that or whatever. I mean, we just really all feel the same about you know, music, and yeah, you're right, do it for yourself first. Yeah, do it for yourself first, and and you'll you'll find.

28:13 Your your niche what you're supposed to do with it, right. Yeah. I taught for a little while in New York, you know kids guitar. Yeah, it wasn't really I don't know, h it didn't work for me or I didn't stay. I just you know, I don't know. I just did it for a year. So but yeah, that's a fine teacher because you've you know, you've taught Aura and uh yeah it's a little girl that we know anyway. So yeah, so. What would you what would you say? I want each of you to share with us for our listeners something about your journey, Like what have you Diane?

28:58 First? What have you learned about your musical journey that if you knew when you started you you would have maybe had an easier time getting out there? Oh? My thing is about the nerves and the fear like you, Oh my god, just terrible. I mean, you know, we studied together, you know, with under the best teacher, and it was the same thing. I've been so nervous all my life, you know, and yet I choose these things to do that are like, you know, people's friends say to me, why do you do this to yourself? When I first started doing open mics, I really I'm like sick in my life, you know. Uh so what would I do about that? Well?

29:45 Really not? I still am very nervous. I mean you can tell people go well, I really can't tell I really like almost could you know, throw up? You know, so what can you doing that? What do you like mentally tell yourself. I go through all these things, like the breathing, you know, that sort of calms you down a lot, and you just have to say, people are really not like, you know, judging you or staring at you. They're kind of thinking about themselves, you know. I mean there's you know, they're watching your everything, but they're not like intensely you know, listening to everything you're playing or singing, you know. And so I have to realize it's just you know, just get up there and have you know, like they say, have some fun and try to relax. So it's gotten a little better, but I still could have really bad bouts of anxiety.

30:40 Yeah, it's it's so true. We get so caught up in what people think of us. But the truth is is that everybody is so caught up within their own head worrying about what other people think of them, that we're thinking they're thinking of us, but now they're worried about themselves first, and we forget that. Plus we're background really we're really background music in a restaurant or you know, it's not a show. We're not putting on a concert, you know, you're just going there and having you know, adding to the atmosphere a little, you know, so you have to you know, be really you know, level yourself and be humble, and you know, realize it's not about you really, you know, we just love playing and wherever we can get to play, we're going to continue to do that, I would think. And then absolutely don't have like twenty years left or anything.

31:29 I don't think. I don't know, Brick, what would you share with our audience if you can tell your like your younger self before the kids, when you were playing, or even yeah, even your present self, what would. You want to go back in time and whisper to myself, I would say, play the drums. But to any anybody looking at playing any any music, practice I mean practice all the time. Like I just helped the friend lend them a guitar he'd moved here from Singapore. It's my replacement, I said, And I gave him a stand. I gave him a guitar and a case and a stand. I said, no, when you get home, put the stand in the living room, put the guitar in the stand.

32:16 Don't put the guitar in the case. And he's like, why, And I said, because if the guitar is sitting there and you're more likely to pick it up. And play it. If it's in the case, you're like you you might not be want to be bothered getting it out of the case, but if you could just walk over and pick it up and start playing. So that would be my advice to put your make your instrument handy, make it so you can pick it up and play and practice. Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of discipline that goes into practice. I think I mentioned this in previous shows. It's work, but it's not the kind of work like you know, you got to go clean the cat litter or you know, take the dog for a walk and pick up after the dog. It's not like that kind of I mean, even though we love our animals, we probably don't really think of that too much. But you know, it's a passion. And even for myself as a musician, as a teacher and and a piano player, I'm still a student. I still take lessons, but some there are some days where I'm like, I haven't gotten to the piano yet. I have to like make myself go to the piano and I walk by it all day long. But it's like I have to force myself to get there, and once I get there, I'm like, oh right, you know what, it's no big deal, you know.

33:30 But but yeah, it's a matter of like you said, leave the guitar out, have it obvious, have it, have it be like kind of in your way. So, yeah, a distraction to get your attention. Definitely. It's all about playing a lot. Playing a lot. Now, how nation Tuesdays and Thursdays, you guys practice, so it's only two days a week that you practice. Yeah, but it's you know, they're good practices. There's you know, three hours, yeah, twice a week. But he and I, yeah, Brick and I practice every day every day practice. I mean we at least do an hour. We have more.

34:12 We call it, let's do a tiny. What's a tiny? A tiny is like where he'll do four songs and I'll do four songs. You know, I'll be alcohol for his score. And we do it and it helps so much. You don't have to have this big you know, practice all the time. You do four songs one day, next do they do another four? Yeah? So we go, let's have a tiny. What time you want to have a tiny today anyway, but the big practice is he Okay, yeah. I do. I do. Do you find that I'm about to have it right here? Do you ever think of practice time is intimidating? Uh?

34:53 Sometimes if we're gonna go over, like certain new songs that we're doing, I might practice them by myself first, you know, at home, before I go to the practice with Rick and Bob, you know, because I don't want to be a total, you know, dummy about it. Yeah, so sometimes I get a head start on it. Yeah. And you do you ever find in practice, Rick or Diana or your your guitar player, do you bring something more to the table where it's like what you originally thought you were going to play, you kind of envelop into something more. Sure, we're always listening to each other, you know, we respect each other, you know as far as that goes. We're open let's say open minded too, you know, do this player do it that way? Definitely? Yeah? Yep, yep, yep.

35:38 Sorry. And have you recently played. Part of me? Would you say? I said you guys recently played? Yeah? We played Friday past Friday. Yeah, Uh at Rusty Hook. It was a good one. It was the you know, the place was jump in, it was alive, everybody was having a good time. You know, food there's delicious, So yeah, it was very upbeat. You know, it's nice. You have to try it out with some and been there since they changed owners. Yeah, be there for to advertise ourselves, but we haven't been there to eat. Okay and really enjoy. They do not disappoint definitely, Yeah, yeah, yeah, So so forward, We just had a cancelation which was at a new place because they stopped music on that particular night. So ah, that was like a bummer. But she's scheduling us going forward.

36:39 On another night. But yeah, it's it's hard. You know, it's difficult getting gigs. There's a lot of good people, a lot of players and not you know that many venues, right, But you just have to stay on it, keep trying, you know, keep calling and don't drop the ball, right. I think the biggest thing that kind of like nudges me a little bit is that, and I mentioned this and other shows too. The pay that musicians get to entertain is not a lot. And we don't do it for the pay. We do it for the passion. But those of us that are not musicians. I don't know if they realize the work that goes into what we do. However, we don't look at it as work because it's fun.

37:26 It's work, definitely. Yeah, it's a lot of work. And you don't want to do it for free. Come on, you know you want to and you don't want to be insulted like they would, you know, like they say, will you just play for tips or something? No, that's not right, you know, you know, but you know that you're not going to make a lot of money, but you want to have something that feels you know, right, you know. So yeah, that's I think it's important. It's important for the rest of the musicians. Too in the community. You shouldn't, you know, do it for nothing, right, I. Mean we if we go to the movie theater, we pay for a ticket. Yeah.

38:06 If you go to a restaurant, most unless it's like a concert, a quote unquote concert where you got to buy tickets, you get to a restaurant, there's a band playing, and the restaurant's gonna pay the band, and then we kind of play and make tips there too. Yeah. But I would just like to see in the future, it would be great if venues found. I don't know if it's I don't know what it is, but if they paid musicians more. Yeah, there's some yet do that's kind of like really good around here. You're like, wow, yeah, you know, they're like they expect to be asked, you know, for that much, and they just say, you know, so what do you charge for you know, three hours or whatever? Yeah, I love those. They're usually rocking and rolling places that are like do very you know, really good business and sell a lot of food and drinks. Yeah. So so there's some that play really nicely.

39:00 And then there are also places a lot. Of the problems that some of these venues depend on the musicians to bring people in. Yeah, we get to the point where we can't keep asking our friends coming to our friends are. Yeah once twice, then they're like all right already. You know. Sometimes we wonder like I'm like, well, how come you don't have any customers? Yeah, like, you know, why to bring your customers? I don't get the restaurants should have its own. Customers right and advertised and all that. Yeah, I know, because we've made a lot of money for restaurants, haven't we friend a lot of money and yeah, And I mean we have brought a lot of people too. You know many times where the restaurants had really good nights.

39:51 You know, yeah, that's true. You wish they would just you know, oh, we'll playing here and I don't have to worry about it's. Fun to go play and you know your friends. Yeah, and a lot of restaurants too will say, well we will book you. From my experience, we will book you as long as you bring us business, right, like you said, Rick. But it's like, well, if you've got the reputation and you've got a good restaurant going, I shouldn't have to necessarily bring me business. I could bring more like followers to listen to our music to help make us both money. But it's like a fine line. There was an interview I had where Great Place and the owner had said, you know, show up, play, if you get you know, bring in some people, and you bring us some money, then we can pay you kind of thing. As a business owner, I guess that's you know, I understand it. But it's just as a musician, it's frustrating.

40:51 And then, like you. Said, it's hard, especially today since COVID, more people are playing instruments than ever. Oh my god, you. Know, and everybody wants to get out there and play right and. Again you learn songs and you know, just go buy a guitar and you can learn whatever you want on YouTube or you know. That that's the way you do it. Yeah, those apps like the guitar on it. I'm playing again, it's not so much about the money. But at the end of the day, like you said, we don't want to play for free because we share. Go to a like Double Roads. You used to do this before pre covid. You if you went there and there was live music that night, there was three dollars charge on your.

41:39 I remember that. Yeah, a three. Dollars cover charge. I don't have a problem with a three dollar live music that night. And you want to charge me three bucks on my on my bill, that's fair. I think that's great. Yeah, as long as the you know, you're using that money to pay the band or look, that's great. Yeah, you know, ll just do that. But not you have live music, everybody can pay that. Well, Dannie said, you go to connect with different restaurants. Well, so let me back up for our listeners if they want to contact you and learn more about your band.

42:22 What is the best way to contact you? Oh, we have a website, Chemistry the suite dot com. And we have a Facebook page, Chemistry the Suite Facebook page. What else do we have a Gmail or something. At Gmail dot com ts cts yeah, yeah, so yeah, I guess the website and then you can even hear our videos and you know that. But we don't have a list of we we're playing next. But the easiest would be to that's okay, not yet, but the easiest would be to Facebook messenger you on Chemistry this week. Sure, yeah, right, and then our and then of course the phone number is on everything too, right, I mean on their website and uh yeah, uh right those dot cards no, not that, Yeah, so we have it's easy just chemistry sweet dot com and your Facebook thing.

43:20 Will pop up Facebook, uh, you know, on Facebook dot com slash. But also you could just put into chemistry sweet that's what I do. Yeah, that's. Really this week all those h T P P and all those things. That's easy to find. Well I'm looking at the time, and yeah, chat, it's been awesome and you've shared so much, like a wealth of information to our listeners, our musicians out there, especially our newer musicians who are one to step up and step out. No matter what state you're in.

44:03 If you're if you're in Florida, South Florida, I'm sure we'll cross you across paths along the way for if you're listening in and if you're out of state, definitely connect with your community and your local musicians. You will be very welcomed. And other than that, look for Chemistry this suite on Facebook and connect with Diane and Rick there. Thank you so much. YouTube, very lovely to see you, yes too, definitely, all right, thank you, thanks. All right, you be talk to you. Thank you so much for tuning in today. Again. If you want to connect with Diane and Brick, go to Facebook Message or Facebook Chemistry this week and you can find them there.

44:50 Other than that, as I mentioned, if you are just starting out in your music journey, or if you're picking up where you left off, if it's been a long time, don't be a free to step out and follow your dreams. Play an instrument. It's such a great therapy for yourself. You don't have to do it for anybody else but you. And if at some point you want to entertain other people, that's great. Too, but always start out with focusing on yourself and bringing out the best in you. For you, because you are so important and at the end of the day given me. We all kind of live in our head and in our heart, and we all want to live this peaceful, happy life. And so I believe you will find a lot of happiness if you, just like if you're called into playing an instrument or even singing, like, step into it. Don't be afraid of yourself, believe in you, and have patience with yourself, and be kind to be kind to yourself. With that being said, I think we have another minute, and just to exit us our show today, I'm gonna play a little bit. Please tune in next week Monday at four pm Eastern time one pm Enter time, and you can find out who our guest is. Then always like to keep it a little bit of a surprise.

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