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Hi, welcome to the Sound of Gold. It is so
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good to be back here with you. I am tuning
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in from my music studio in South Florida and Palm
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Beach Gardens specifically, and for those of you that have
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been here before, you know, and for those of you
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that are just joining me. I am a music teacher
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in Palm Beach County, Florida, and I have my music
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studio here at home, but I also teach in the
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public school system private schools, and I also perform in
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addition to that. The reason why I do this show
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is because not so much for me, but for my
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music friends and my music community. There is so much
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talent out there in our community that it seems as
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though we don't get the attention we deserve. We don't
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get you know, we have icons, the Billy Doles, the
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Elton John's.
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You know, we.
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Thrive to be that popular. And there's so much great
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talent out there, So why is it that only certain
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people get that much attention? And you know, we're not
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born with talent. We grow with talent. We make talent
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happen by investing the time and the energy into learning
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to be better at what we do, especially as a musician.
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I'm so excited today. I have a wonderful group that
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I've invited, a one full band that I've invited on
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my show today and they are the new undercovers band
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in Palm Beach County and they are traveling all over
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South Florida. I can't wait to learn more about their
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journey and share it with you. I know they are
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hanging out backstage. Please join me. His Hi, Tellia, I
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thank you.
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I'm so excited to be here.
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Thank you so much. It's a Monday, It's the end
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of the day, and it's such a great way to
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end a workday on the East coast, West coast kind
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of still maybe a little bit earlier in the day
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wherever you're tuning in from. It's Monday here and this
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is like real talk about music, and Richard, I don't
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know you well, Idelia, I know you, and I really
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want to like get into the nitty gritty and share
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with the audiences and the listeners out there that are
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wanting to get involved in music, wanting to do more
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with music. Sure, get an idea of like we weren't
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just born to do this. So Richard, I tell you
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mentioned you wanted Richard to start. Richard, give us a
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little background about your musical journey and how you've gotten
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to where you are now.
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I started when I was thirteen years old, started playing
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acoustic guitar. A friend of mine handed me a bass
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and said, here, play this. You only played one string
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at a time. The rest is history. I've done it
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for fifty four years. Took singing lessons through a vocal
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instructor back in Rochester, New York. Two and a half
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years so I started singing, and of course I was
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singer in the band by default because nobody else wanted
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to sing, so they did that. And I also took
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some bass lessons through Hawkstein's School of Music, which is
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in Rochester. It's a predominant music school, and learned pretty
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much theory and where I need to be and what
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to do and how to hold myself back. Don't don't
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be the star of the show. Just make sure you're
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there with the drummer and make sure you hold down
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the rhythm.
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Sure. Nice, Nice, that's really cool.
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I can't believe your parents let you take music lessons
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because mine didn't.
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No, Wow, tell us, tell yeah.
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Tell us a little bit about your stock. And if
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you hear background music of cats, they're just I have cats,
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and for some reason, when it's showed time, they find
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I think it's time to play, So I follow nice
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for any background you're listening, because we're both live on
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television and on radio. So if you see us right now,
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I don't have any cats in the picture. But for
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those that are listening, I'm letting you know, if you
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hear that background noise.
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That's nice.
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So I'm sorry. I was.
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When I was just thirteen years old, I linked up
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with a bunch of boys on the block in New York,
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right and they played bass guitar and I would be
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like a group yet sit there and they knew I
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could sing. Long story short, They're like dall, They're like,
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you know, we're playing at this club. Called February's in
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Long Island and they want to hear the go Gos.
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We got the beat. They're like, we think you can
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do it. You want to do it for us. I'm like, okay,
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mind you, I'm thirteen years old. I'm not allowed out.
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I disconnect the alarm at my house. I put my
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scandex and my shirt all in the back. I jumped
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out the window because it was snow everywhere. The boys
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met me up the block. I got dressed in the
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backseat and we did We got the beat, and they
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crowd served me. I was thirteen years old. Wow, you
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just to say after that, they said, you're not in
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the band anymore?
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Really nice? Wow, that was not nice?
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No go yeah.
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Oh.
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They didn't like the attention. And I was like, okay, well,
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I'll guess I'll figure it out sooner or later. But yeah,
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so that's where it all started for me.
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Very wow, awesome.
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Nice? Yeah nice.
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Now I'll tell you that story, did I No, you didn't.
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Now rack I again, I don't know you as well
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as I know Idelia. Idelia, you know, compliments to you
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the couple of years that I do know you. You've grown
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so much and you've become like such gosh, such an
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inspiration because you've come from I know you from open mic, right,
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I know you from karaoke, and you know you never
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gave up your dream and there you are now in
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a new band called Undercovers. Tell us a little bit
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about your band and how you got together.
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Wow. So I was sitting in for another band. They
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were doing double Roads. They were doing for Piers. They
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were all over even Ralph's if you want to believe that.
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So I just yeah, so yeah, we did that. We
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won't talk about that, but it went well. Everyone liked me.
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I learned I heard Wait, this was the first time
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I heard live music. Like when you're doing karaoke, you
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hear tracks right, yes, it's perfect. You hear it and
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you know it's there. But when you're with the band,
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my whole body vibrates because I feel it. I feel
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it drums, I feel a bass, I feel it all.
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I came alive, like I had to deal with that.
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That was interesting. Long story short. I did a couple
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of songs with them, and then the drummer from that
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band said, look, you need to be doing more, so
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come with me audition for this band that I have
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now and the rest is history. I did. I met
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a keyboard player, and then I met Rick, and then
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the other two. You know, they phased out, but I
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stuck with it as a promise to myself. Nice.
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No, yeah, no, when are you guys put when and
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where are you guys playing next?
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But we are going to be at R.
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Bradley's in West Palm Beach right by I think it's
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flag Staff or Flagler Road, Flagler right at being a
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coastal Yeah, and we're there on May the twenty first,
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from six to nine. Then we have two dates at
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swamp Grass Willie's.
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We are there on the.
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Twelfth of June and on the twenty fourth of July.
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And also Adelia's working on some stuff at Uncle Mix.
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Yes, we're supposed to be doing a spot a Sunday
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in May. I have to get with her on that,
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but they're interested.
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Nice, No, share with share our audience out there that
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are listening. Might be just like getting involved with a
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band or getting wanting to get out there. You know,
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it seems so difficult, It seems so hard. But what
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are your tactics for getting gigs where? Like, how do
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you get them?
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Well, for one thing, you got to practice. You have
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to get kind of good at your craft. Once you
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do that, then you need somebody like a front person
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or somebody who has the talk to get with these
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owners or managers and stuff and be persistent on Once
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you get that one break out, then you make sure
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you guys are polished.
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You're ready to go, and you performed.
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Once you perform and you tell all your friends to
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come out and everything else, once you have the support,
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the band starts to take off.
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So for me, yeah, sorry, So for me, I started.
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I've been singing Karayokate Uncle Mix for the ten years now, okay,
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So I built up fans people that come just to
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hear me. And that's how someone grabbed me from the
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karaoke scene and said, look, you would be perfect for
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the band. It either works or it doesn't, depending on
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the person. You know, how the dynamics work. But if
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you if your dedication is real and you're willing to
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put yourself out there, which is what I did, Like
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I don't have people in the back, you know, do
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an excellent you know sound for me, Like I had
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to put myself out there and I did, and he
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worked with me. He would sit me down with just
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an acoustic guitar in the middle of like on his
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patio and say okay, let's do this. And I'm very
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grateful for him that helped me with that, and I
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just took it all in and I learned from it.
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And from there I met other people that saw me.
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They're like, wait, I know you. Don't you sing it?
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Uncle mixed? Don't you sing here? So that's you just
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have to be true to yourself and believe in yourself.
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And I feel like the rest just falls into place.
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It does being consistent hun yeah, and.
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Persistent yeahs and persistent always persistent.
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So let's say let's Swamp Press Bullies or R. Bradley's.
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So you contact them, do you send them a demo?
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Or do you just be like, oh, hey, we we
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have a band. Can we schedule a date? Like how
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how is your presentation? What is your presentation?
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Well?
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I I kind of know Michael at E. R. Bradley's
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because I booked a band that I was in before
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there already.
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So when I.
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Walked in, I kind of looked at him and I
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and he looked at me and he said, hey, how
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you doing reg And I went yeah, good, I said
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we're going to have dinner.
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What days do you have open?
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Right?
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And my girlfriend that was with me goes, god, can
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you be any more pushy? I went, yes, yes I can,
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and see what Wow.
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So Michael came and I said, listen, the band's coming
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for dinner. So you know, how about you know one
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hand the other come on? And he went okay, Sure
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enough he did. And that's how you break in and
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how you get there, and then if you do a
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really good job and everything, then they say, hey, why
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don't you guys come back?
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And here you go?
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Nice right right? So yeah, for me Uncle Mikes, they
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know me there. I mean I even did New Year's
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Eve karaoke there badly, but everyone knew me, so I
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was okay, it was they was just grateful that I
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was there, Thank you for being here, you know. And
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so I'm like, oh, wait, I have a band. They're
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like what, because when you do karaoke you're only up
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there on rotation one or two songs. And then everyone's
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like waiting for me, and I'm like, wait, I can't
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go anymore. And then I bust out the car and say,
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look this is where I'm going to be. So yeah,
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I've built it. Yeah, so Uncle Mix knows that. So
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they're like, you know, the manager told the ownership.
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She's like, she's here.
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Every Wednesday forever. Her band wants to play. Let's give