The Sound of Gold with guest The Undercovers Rock Band

0:01 This program is designed to provide general information with regards to the subject matters covered. This information is given with the understanding that neither the hosts, guests, sponsors, or station are engaged in rendering any specific and personal medical, financial, legal counseling, professional service, or any advice. You should seek the services of competent professionals before applying or trying any suggested ideas.

0:51 Hi, welcome to the Sound of Gold. It is so good to be back here with you. I am tuning in from my music studio in South Florida and Palm Beach Gardens specifically, and for those of you that have been here before, you know, and for those of you that are just joining me. I am a music teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, and I have my music studio here at home, but I also teach in the public school system private schools, and I also perform in addition to that. The reason why I do this show is because not so much for me, but for my music friends and my music community. There is so much talent out there in our community that it seems as though we don't get the attention we deserve. We don't get you know, we have icons, the Billy Doles, the Elton John's.

1:51 You know, we. Thrive to be that popular. And there's so much great talent out there, So why is it that only certain people get that much attention? And you know, we're not born with talent. We grow with talent. We make talent happen by investing the time and the energy into learning to be better at what we do, especially as a musician. I'm so excited today. I have a wonderful group that I've invited, a one full band that I've invited on my show today and they are the new undercovers band in Palm Beach County and they are traveling all over South Florida. I can't wait to learn more about their journey and share it with you. I know they are hanging out backstage. Please join me. His Hi, Tellia, I thank you.

2:46 I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much. It's a Monday, It's the end of the day, and it's such a great way to end a workday on the East coast, West coast kind of still maybe a little bit earlier in the day wherever you're tuning in from. It's Monday here and this is like real talk about music, and Richard, I don't know you well, Idelia, I know you, and I really want to like get into the nitty gritty and share with the audiences and the listeners out there that are wanting to get involved in music, wanting to do more with music. Sure, get an idea of like we weren't just born to do this. So Richard, I tell you mentioned you wanted Richard to start. Richard, give us a little background about your musical journey and how you've gotten to where you are now.

3:39 I started when I was thirteen years old, started playing acoustic guitar. A friend of mine handed me a bass and said, here, play this. You only played one string at a time. The rest is history. I've done it for fifty four years. Took singing lessons through a vocal instructor back in Rochester, New York. Two and a half years so I started singing, and of course I was singer in the band by default because nobody else wanted to sing, so they did that. And I also took some bass lessons through Hawkstein's School of Music, which is in Rochester. It's a predominant music school, and learned pretty much theory and where I need to be and what to do and how to hold myself back. Don't don't be the star of the show. Just make sure you're there with the drummer and make sure you hold down the rhythm.

4:39 Sure. Nice, Nice, that's really cool. I can't believe your parents let you take music lessons because mine didn't. No, Wow, tell us, tell yeah. Tell us a little bit about your stock. And if you hear background music of cats, they're just I have cats, and for some reason, when it's showed time, they find I think it's time to play, So I follow nice for any background you're listening, because we're both live on television and on radio. So if you see us right now, I don't have any cats in the picture. But for those that are listening, I'm letting you know, if you hear that background noise. That's nice. So I'm sorry. I was.

5:20 When I was just thirteen years old, I linked up with a bunch of boys on the block in New York, right and they played bass guitar and I would be like a group yet sit there and they knew I could sing. Long story short, They're like dall, They're like, you know, we're playing at this club. Called February's in Long Island and they want to hear the go Gos. We got the beat. They're like, we think you can do it. You want to do it for us. I'm like, okay, mind you, I'm thirteen years old. I'm not allowed out. I disconnect the alarm at my house. I put my scandex and my shirt all in the back. I jumped out the window because it was snow everywhere. The boys met me up the block. I got dressed in the backseat and we did We got the beat, and they crowd served me. I was thirteen years old. Wow, you just to say after that, they said, you're not in the band anymore?

6:07 Really nice? Wow, that was not nice? No go yeah. Oh. They didn't like the attention. And I was like, okay, well, I'll guess I'll figure it out sooner or later. But yeah, so that's where it all started for me. Very wow, awesome. Nice? Yeah nice. Now I'll tell you that story, did I No, you didn't. Now rack I again, I don't know you as well as I know Idelia. Idelia, you know, compliments to you the couple of years that I do know you. You've grown so much and you've become like such gosh, such an inspiration because you've come from I know you from open mic, right, I know you from karaoke, and you know you never gave up your dream and there you are now in a new band called Undercovers. Tell us a little bit about your band and how you got together.

7:07 Wow. So I was sitting in for another band. They were doing double Roads. They were doing for Piers. They were all over even Ralph's if you want to believe that. So I just yeah, so yeah, we did that. We won't talk about that, but it went well. Everyone liked me. I learned I heard Wait, this was the first time I heard live music. Like when you're doing karaoke, you hear tracks right, yes, it's perfect. You hear it and you know it's there. But when you're with the band, my whole body vibrates because I feel it. I feel it drums, I feel a bass, I feel it all. I came alive, like I had to deal with that. That was interesting. Long story short. I did a couple of songs with them, and then the drummer from that band said, look, you need to be doing more, so come with me audition for this band that I have now and the rest is history. I did. I met a keyboard player, and then I met Rick, and then the other two. You know, they phased out, but I stuck with it as a promise to myself. Nice.

8:09 No, yeah, no, when are you guys put when and where are you guys playing next? But we are going to be at R. Bradley's in West Palm Beach right by I think it's flag Staff or Flagler Road, Flagler right at being a coastal Yeah, and we're there on May the twenty first, from six to nine. Then we have two dates at swamp Grass Willie's. We are there on the. Twelfth of June and on the twenty fourth of July. And also Adelia's working on some stuff at Uncle Mix. Yes, we're supposed to be doing a spot a Sunday in May. I have to get with her on that, but they're interested.

8:55 Nice, No, share with share our audience out there that are listening. Might be just like getting involved with a band or getting wanting to get out there. You know, it seems so difficult, It seems so hard. But what are your tactics for getting gigs where? Like, how do you get them? Well, for one thing, you got to practice. You have to get kind of good at your craft. Once you do that, then you need somebody like a front person or somebody who has the talk to get with these owners or managers and stuff and be persistent on Once you get that one break out, then you make sure you guys are polished.

9:41 You're ready to go, and you performed. Once you perform and you tell all your friends to come out and everything else, once you have the support, the band starts to take off. So for me, yeah, sorry, So for me, I started. I've been singing Karayokate Uncle Mix for the ten years now, okay, So I built up fans people that come just to hear me. And that's how someone grabbed me from the karaoke scene and said, look, you would be perfect for the band. It either works or it doesn't, depending on the person. You know, how the dynamics work. But if you if your dedication is real and you're willing to put yourself out there, which is what I did, Like I don't have people in the back, you know, do an excellent you know sound for me, Like I had to put myself out there and I did, and he worked with me. He would sit me down with just an acoustic guitar in the middle of like on his patio and say okay, let's do this. And I'm very grateful for him that helped me with that, and I just took it all in and I learned from it.

10:39 And from there I met other people that saw me. They're like, wait, I know you. Don't you sing it? Uncle mixed? Don't you sing here? So that's you just have to be true to yourself and believe in yourself. And I feel like the rest just falls into place. It does being consistent hun yeah, and. Persistent yeahs and persistent always persistent. Yeah. So let's say let's Swamp Press Bullies or R. Bradley's. So you contact them, do you send them a demo? Or do you just be like, oh, hey, we we have a band. Can we schedule a date? Like how how is your presentation? What is your presentation?

11:23 Well? I I kind of know Michael at E. R. Bradley's because I booked a band that I was in before there already. So when I. Walked in, I kind of looked at him and I and he looked at me and he said, hey, how you doing reg And I went yeah, good, I said we're going to have dinner. What days do you have open? Right? And my girlfriend that was with me goes, god, can you be any more pushy? I went, yes, yes I can, and see what Wow. So Michael came and I said, listen, the band's coming for dinner. So you know, how about you know one hand the other come on? And he went okay, Sure enough he did. And that's how you break in and how you get there, and then if you do a really good job and everything, then they say, hey, why don't you guys come back?

12:11 And here you go? Nice right right? So yeah, for me Uncle Mikes, they know me there. I mean I even did New Year's Eve karaoke there badly, but everyone knew me, so I was okay, it was they was just grateful that I was there, Thank you for being here, you know. And so I'm like, oh, wait, I have a band. They're like what, because when you do karaoke you're only up there on rotation one or two songs. And then everyone's like waiting for me, and I'm like, wait, I can't go anymore. And then I bust out the car and say, look this is where I'm going to be. So yeah, I've built it. Yeah, so Uncle Mix knows that. So they're like, you know, the manager told the ownership. She's like, she's here. Every Wednesday forever. Her band wants to play. Let's give them a chance. So that that's exactly what she said to me.

12:57 And so they are beautiful, nice, And again that's being consistent. That's being persistent. It's being true to living your passion. That's right, and being building relationships. Yes, that's so important. How many people do you know that don't do that and they wonder why they can't go anywhere or do what they need to do because. It's not about the business. It's not about the money. It's about the passion to share what we have within ourselves as musicians and give out everything we've got and we don't get paid enough. We all know that we'd like to get paid more. Just like a side note, hint hinted listening, Yeah, you know, but it's it's not again, it's building relationships. It's not like who you know and how how can you get me to where I want to go? It's about let's support each other in this.

13:54 It's almost like an expended family. I've always known it to be. You don't get paid to play, You get paid to move equipment. Right. Yes, I was skinners and four peers and I was singing for the first time the Benatar song hit me with your best shot, right, and I'm so nervous and I'm singing it with everything I got. This guy and his wife calm across from the way way part of the bar that I didn't even know existed, and he said, oh my god, I haven't heard that song in years. I just had to come down here and tell you that was awesome and thank you. So it's those moments that that resonate with me, that give people their memories.

14:42 Because I'll tell you what, that's pretty much all you have at the end of the day, are your memories. Right. Music makes people reminisce, that's it, and it's magic. It's healing. It's very healing anyway. That's so true. And now getting back to the band, uh, for our listeners out there, you know you you sing, rick, you sing, you also play guitar and I don't know what other instruments you play. But but getting together as a band, it's almost like what can we share with our audience As far as like auditioning like, do you do you audition for a particular part? Do you? Is it like, oh gosh, you know, is it? Do we all get along? Can we all work together? Is it scheduling?

15:27 Is it? How do you blend together as as a band family? Like what makes the niche? What makes you all connect? It is a give and take, always a give and take. I play bass and I sing. I can sing backup, or I can sing lead. Uh. When Nadalia sings Fleetwood Mac, I usually try to harmonize with her because you know, Stevie Nicks, that's a very tough voice to imitate, and she does it very well. So to have me being the Lindsey Buckingham that's there and to harmonize with her and everything very very important.

16:09 And I feel that in bands and stuff like that, You know, do certain people do have certain jobs in the band. Your drummer does the drumming. Maybe the he or she can do backup vocals. You have a guitar player, maybe he or she can do backup vocals along with playing guitar, lead and rhythm. You got a keyboard player, all right, Maybe he doesn't do vocals, but he does keyboards and he can fill in with different sounds and stuff like. That, and that's how you kind of do it. And then you go to the lead singer and you say, hey, can you sing this? Yeah, okay, all right, and I'll back you up and I'll do this okay cool. And then I'll say, now when I do a lead vocal, you back me up. And okay yep. And then it's always a give and tape.

16:51 So we're building. So I'm not noting it's funny you say that, because while we're doing all this, like my creative mind is thinking, I'm thinking the beat. The beat. So I picked up the tambourine and I'm just playing it. Hopefully it's okay, but it adds something because it's it's what I'm feeling, right, and it does. That's some because I did have someone say to me more tambourine, please, and I'm like, a real instrument what are you telling me? You know? But I'm like, I got I got. The gist of it right, and it's funny. It's funny, but not funny. Well, if you're a musician, you get this. If you're not a musician, or you're in the musician world, it might be hard to understand. But once you're in the flow, like you, once you're in the flow, rest of the world kind of falls away.

17:41 Exactly right, You're in your own world. Yeah, it feels good. Yeah. I mean we rehearse for like two hours, it feels like five minutes, you know, we play for three hours. It feels like not even it doesn't feel like anything, Like like the whole world just melts away. And I can see look on people's faces and it just that's it. That's all I need. It's like a bit. It's like a big high when you see all the people in the crowd go crazy for you. It's like, wow, this is really cool. That's awesome. That's awesome. Now we are all here in South Florida and we're all like people, and so we we need to juggle the real life of work and we have homes, we have families, and this is like in addition, like both of you again, Rick, I don't know what you do outside of playing, But what's your secret for the juggle? Because I don't call it the struggle.

18:42 I call it the juggle because we all do it. But when you have a significant other, you gotta make time for them because you know, after a while they if they keep coming to your gigs after a while, it becomes old hat to them to where other people when you go and perform, they see you, they figure, wow, this is the first time we're seeing them. They're really really good. But when you have the support that we have, it is awesome because that's sacrifice on the better halves portion to make sure that you are successful. My girlfriend has been watching me perform for the past eight or nine years, and she said, she goes, I just like, I love to hear you guys play.

19:30 It's great. It's really really cool. So awesome. Yeah. Same. I mean, I met my guy many ten years ago, we were friends, and then he knows what I do, right, So he's okay with it. He knows what I do because this is like what I do. I'm not stressed, I'm not anything I need to be. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love to do, and that's what's important. He knows that's important to me. He's okay with that. Yeah, So a lot of people don't understand that that's part of who we are. Right. I sing a song. I wake up in the morning, I have a song in my head, go to bed, I have a song in my head like this is who I am, this is what I'm made of. So he's he's okay with it.

20:14 He loves me, so that's what. He's got, right, That's it. I mean it, and it's so true. I mean, you know my husband too, and he I mean, he sings, and we have so mention in common that we were. We do the same things all the time. And unless we're working our day jobs, all right, like I'm a teacher, but unless unless we're working our day jobs, we're together doing the same thing. Because we do the same thing, we live in that same world. So the support from your partner is so so important. And I mean, family is important, and you know that's just to me. I learned the hard way that family is priority comes first. However, you know, they're this musical world, this musical vein that we all share.

21:08 Like you said, Idelia, it's who we are. It's who we are, it is we are. It's just you can't like it's just that's just it's part of who we are. You gotta accept it. So I told my daughter, I said, Babe, I said, you know, honey, I'm performing at this sceno club. You should come out, She's like, wait, let me text my friend. So in other words, she's sending a representative for her to come see me play because I mean doing this for soul long. It's like, I wish I could just come out and watch me, but no, they they And it's funny because you know, my younger daughter, she went to a karaoke party. She's like, mom, She's like, nobody can sing Carly Simon like you can? Well you have it, so that yeah, I'm making my mark.

21:50 Yeah, absolutely, yeah, that's very important. They know who I am and I'm not going to falter from that. I'm not going to not going to do that. And never do you have kids as well? Yes, I have two daughters and they grew up watching me play nice all the time. Plus I was a DJ for thirty seven years for parties, weddings and things of that nature, so. They had seen it all with me. So every time when when my girlfriend sends them a picture of me or a video of me playing and stuff, they'll say, my father absolutely there he is is. Rock and Rick. They just know me.

22:33 But what great inspirations you I'm sorry, Adelia, no, go ahead, no, I was what great inspiration because you're living who you are. You're not limiting yourself, and you're you know, you're juggling, you know, family, I have a daughter. You know, it's a juggle. But we haven't we haven't completely dismissed our own self. And I think being a parent, it's so important to honor who we are, yeah, at the same time as doing the parent job, because sometimes you have to give up that life a little bit in order to raise kids and make it, you know, And it's not easy. No, I did that. I know exactly what you're talking about.

23:15 But now it's my time. Yeah, my time. Yeah, and it's it's a beautiful thing. And yeah, same thing. I mean, I you do what you have to do within the time, but you don't never give up yourself. You never can who you truly are. And as a musician, that vein always runs runs through us. And I just. Recently started taking guitar lessons. Nice. Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. Right, but you will, you will, you will learn. I love it, though, Can I tell you I love learning new music. It's whatever I'm like, the more I do, the more want I don't know how to describe it.

24:02 It's like, oh, I understand syenergy. Like I like, I'm feeding off of my band members and I'm just living this life that I can't explain and I love it. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Nope. Yeah, I've been teaching since high school, but I've been teaching piano specifically for over twenty years. And as a musician, I've also played, and I compose my own music, and when I play or when I don't play, I'm still taking lessons myself. I've played for over forty five years. I'm kind of jumping around, sorry, but I've played for over forty five years, and it never gets old because there's always something more. I see your baby, Yeah, those listening Idelia brought her cat in the picture. So as a musician, like, there's no I tell this to my young students, like there's never any time in your life that you all would go Okay, I'm done, or like I've been teaching guys in a in a classroom in the public school system and they'll be like, Okay, miss gold I finished the song. What's next. I'll be like, well, that was five minutes. Like you exactly go back and practice it, because the more you practice it the more you're gonna find there's more in it that you want to expand on or gating or pay attention to. And the more you play it, the more you practice it, the more you hear that, oh that could be like a quarter note made into like maybe a half note,

25:34 or that. You know, it's not just the music theory, but it's it's you're you're training your own ears as you play and as you grow. Yeah, yeah, this guy's a limit for me at this point. These guys have to give them credit because they're making me come alive with that. It's going to be a journey that won't be anything overnight. That's okay, it's the long haul that's it. But that's what it's all about. It's all about the journey. I used to take acting classes with a very popular celebrity who I'm not going to name now, but I'll never forget him saying to me, you know, it's not about your success of where you're at, It's about the journey.

26:19 Story tells tells of how you got to where you are. Because once you succeed and I feel like I'm not, I don't feel successful. I mean, we always want more. I think That's the beauty of being human and being a musician and being in the arts is that we always, no matter how high we climb, there's got to be another level. Like yes, So so from what you said, Idelia, you know, it's it's a constant growth. I mean as a musicians, but constantly growing and it's never ending. That's the beauty of it. Sure, it really is. And I'm just glad that I have a partner that's keeping up with me, because poor guy, he doesn't kids saying he doesn't know you no poor thing.

27:07 Oh well, now, my girlfriend was sitting there and saying, you know what back in this song back in the seventies, you know, I sang back up with this band, and I go, you. Were four years old? Really really, I said, really, she goes, really I was. I would I just sit there and go, oh my god, good lord. The first song I ever sang was when I was six years old. I sang ROBERTA Flack killing me softly, and my mom would stand me up in the living room with all our relatives and she's say, okay, go. Puts you on the spot.

27:48 Yeah, my whole mother's side, they all sang. So this was nothing unusual, right, and I did it and if it's fun, I was like, okay, I'm home. What now. I started. I started playing piano when I was five, and my mom's one hundred percent of Sicilian, so we had family every weekend, so my mom my parents would always be releaseda go go downstairs, go practice, and I'd feel like, oh, dear, I don't I don't want to practice. I didn't like practicing as a kid. And then when the family would come over, Lisa, please go ahead and play for the family. So it's how did we didn't know then how much it would shape our future. To look at what we're doing now and look at how you know we're we're like fearless. I mean we're shaking on the inside, but we're still fearless. Yes, you know, we've learned at such a young age, and we've had our inspirations, and I hope that we as individuals get to be inspirations, like I said before, to our kids, to our families.

28:50 So on that note, I have inspired quite a few singers over the years. I've been singing you know, teraokee. But now I'm in a band. But they were like, what should I Because I hear the voices. I know what they can sing, and they'll come up to me and say, what should I sing next? What should I sing next? And all of a sudden, I've got all these people singing the songs that I told them to sing, only because I know their voice. I can hear it. And they're so grateful, they're so confident. They're like, Wow, my god, I can't believe I can do that. So that's just a small part of who I am. I'm a bigger person than that, but I do help people with their singing and I have. That's beautiful, that's great, and people need that confidence, especially when it comes to like like karaoke. I mean, it's just stepping out. And for listeners out there that are thinking about going to try karaoke, no matter where you are in your community, you can find a karaoke group.

29:45 You can find I mean there's one that like every other restaurant or every other bar, well maybe every third you know it's not, but well yeah, no matter where you are tuning in from whatever state you live in, I promise you there are karaoke groups that you can connect with and step out of your comfort zone. And you know what, as scary as it is, none of us started where we're at. We know we've all been scared. We've all needed that love and support and our music communities. No matter where you are in the world, we're here to like support each other because we love each other. I think we all want to. And so we do have that family that that that they miss me when I'm not there because they want to know what they need to sing next. And I've built that, but I build it wherever I go, like I have it with my band now, and that that's I'm nurturing both.

30:36 I always want you know, for listeners out there, we're live. So friends of ours that are watching us on TV, they can see the scroll underneath our our broadcasting today. However, for dadas that are listening or maybe driving, actually, if you're driving, don't you know, don't stop and unless you're going to pull over, but please share with our listeners how to get in touch with you if they want to listen to your band, if they want to connect with you and schedule with you. So our Facebook is Facebook dot com backslash book undercovers, and it's the same for Instagram, and all our contact information is on there. If they go to Facebook, they'll find everything. But of course they can always call Rick if you want to announce your phone number.

31:19 Rick, You're awesome, all right, he reach me at five eight five seven zero four zero seven nine four. I'm sorry, I couldn't remember your phone number offhand. And just for our listeners out there, again, it's not called the Undercovers. It's called Undercovers, man. It is correct because a. Lot of bands are start with the so although Beatles, it's not the Beatles, it's Beatles, that's it. Well, so our keyboard player came up with the logo and everything. He's also a math teacher. He's awesome. Yeah, oh great, Well, sorry that he can join us today, but the book that you can. And I'm in my second season of my show, and I love doing this.

32:05 I love promoting all my music friends and musicians that I continue to meet. I want to take a couple of minutes. It's a Monday afternoon, it's a Monday at the end of our day, and I want to just play a little bit of piano for those of you out there and for you as well, and then we'll kind of close out the show and remind our listeners how to connect with you. So please sit back and enjoy. And for those that are driving, don't close your eyes. And for those that are in space and a place where you can sit back and relax. This is just kind of my way of saying, Hey, it's the end. Of Monday, and no matter what day you're listening, just enjoy.

32:54 And for those that have not heard me play before, I don't have anything memorized, don't have anything any Sheep music. I'm just kind of feeling what I'm playing, and I'm just playing becoming an instantramposer.

34:05 From a longation. From the fl.

35:25 Nice. Thank you. Oh that was beautiful. It was beautiful. I've done this thing. I used to. I performed for three years every week for two hours, and I did it once a week. Oh let me say that again. Once a week for three years and I would play for two hours. And so I stopped that for a little while, and I'm going to kind of just spontaneously bring that back and just do live Facebook stuff. So in between that I get to play on the on the show. So thank you, thank you. So please tell our audience again when your next show is. And what time it will be on May the twenty first at R. Bradley's and we.

36:09 Start at six to nine. Okay, and I'm sorry, got to go ahead. Say even a bigger question. You had mentioned a little bit about like Stevie Nicks, but our audience doesn't really know what you guys play. Well. We play everything from the sixties to the seventies and eighties, so very very different kind of approach that we have popular tunes that have been airplayed for a long time, and we select different ones, but mostly it is the party, dance orientated.

36:53 Rock that we like to do. So some Blondie Pretenders one, there's a good one. We do a little Beatles Mac Fleetwood Mac. In the seventies, we play a little bit of Steelers Wheel. Uh. So we kind of bounce all over the place. Adelia will sing a Patty Smith song and we are pretty much we'll we'll cover a whole bunch of I do a little Queen. So it is very much kind of all over the map. But it is popular music and we like to see people dance and have a good time. I think that's the reflection of our band.

37:38 Is to have a good thing. I love it when someone suggested we do taking care of business. This was like what two gigs ago, right, the band stand of the night, We're like, so the guys are like, well, yeah, I think we can play it. I'll tell you what. That was the best song of the whole night. Yeah, because yeah, absolutely, because we have the energy. No, yeah, uh, depending where you play. I mean, do you have like a set list, like Okay, tonight we're going to do this, or do you kind of just go by how you feel and you guys look at each other. And you just know, now we go buy a set list. But that night that she was talking about, we needed a couple extra tunes to kind of fill up the night.

38:19 And I said, all right, guys, you guys don't take care of business by Bachman Turner Overdrive. Yes we do. Okay, let's do it. There we go, And then that was it. I read my tambourine. I'm like, wait, I think I know the chorus, the energy because I filmed it, right, So I'm watching the video and the energy. You cannot make it up. It's just real, you know how the camera captures real, right, Yes, And that's what it did that night. So that taught me something. You gotta feel it, really believe it. You gotta feel it absolutely, now, can you? Can you share more with our audience what you mean by that you film yourself. Not everybody can go back and watch themselves. So like, how important is that for you as a performer to watch yourself watch your recording of yourself.

39:06 It's very important. I'll tell you why because when I watch it back, I know exactly what I was thinking at that moment. Okay, and it's sometimes and I've done this over the years, it's not good. So I can watch myself and talk myself down from the ledge because in my mind, I'm thinking about all these things, not the music. How I look, who's looking at me? Like it's going? And I can read myself like i'm watching it play back, I'm like, wait, all right, time to meditate, Time to meditate. That's just me, get it all out, go back to your true self. Who cares perform like? No one's there? That's for me personally, feel it. Who cares what you look like?

39:47 Like? Right right? Because I'm looking at myself and I know I'm looking at myself. I know they're looking at me, and it's like, so you have to talk yourself down from the ledge. No, that's what I can do. Ricky, about you, do you have Do you like to watch your performance after you've performed or you're like, you're good. I like to do that because I critique myself that I make a mistake here, Should I have done something here? Should I have moved here instead of just stand there? Or you know what I mean. I critique because I want to make sure the next time that I'm out trying not to make the same mistake. Oh, you're perfect. I won't seen anything wrong with You're perfect.

40:29 No. No. Now, for our listeners out there that are thinking about getting out there playing music and connecting to different venues or even going to an open mic, I mean I kind of know, and I've had shows where the topic was confidence right and having courage. To do it. So I'd love to hear from both of you a little bit about the steps you've taken to take on yourself to step out of your own comfort zone of being in front of hump in front of the public eye. A good question. Just relax, do your best and make sure that you practice and stuff, and when you get out that's your time to shine.

41:14 So you have to you have to relax. Remember what got you there. You're practicing your persistence and things should come together. For me, I had to bring friends with me that would give me, you know, not confidence per se, but just support to say, if you grew up, we still love you. So I needed that. So I would bring my friends, or I would build a community of friends, and that helped you love because they were honest with me, you know, they were kind, yes, and I would stay with them. So that So bring your friends out, come out, try it. What you've got to lose? Your friends were they're gonna love you anyway. That's it. They love and come out and come out and see us.

41:56 You can ask us questions when we come off the stage. Yeah, sure, that's great. You know, not everybody can get on stage and remember the words to a song. If we're singing karaoke, we have the words in front of us. I know this easy. How do you get up on stage and remember, let's say you're singing fifty songs that night, how do you remember every word to the song? What's this song? I got it is? It's years and years and years of doing this music. Then I just get up and say, okay, we can do this song, and I'll remember the words and do it.

42:37 But if there was a song then I just heard like five minutes ago. No way, I have to be back from a while back. The long term memory works just fine. So I started my my singing journey in college in live theater. Okay, so I learned how to a musical theater and I danced and sang. So I learned how to lyrics. So you start with the first sentence, memorize it, start with the second sentence, memorize it. You keep going and you build and you build. So so yeah, so that's how I memorize lyrics. Now I was trained how to do it. Yeah, that's a that's a great that's great advice. A lot of us we've heard songs hundreds and hundreds of times.

43:20 Yeah, it's so funny. It's like, how come I can't recall it. It's like it's like a different part of the brain. And if you play an instrument and you're starting to play guitar, if you play an instrument, again, it's a different part of the brain that's playing that instrum and the song part of the brain the words, it's a different part. And you know I've said this before on my show. I wish I had more time to research how the brain works and how the brain recalls this kind of stuff because or even like when I play and you only just heart like three minutes of my playing, but when I really sit down and play, I can't teach what I play because it's just flows. And I care to tell you where it's coming from or how it's being played out. It's just almost doesn't whatever people think of I just call it. You know, I'm a channel and it flows through me. But I can't explain it.

44:12 And I wish, well, I look forward to the research in our near future or in our future to see how the brain works in that way, I find. Here's what I do. I create a story. I print the lyrics out, I look at them, I interpret what they mean, and I create a story in my head. Well he's going here, now, he feels this. Now he feels this. So I create the story. And so when I'm doing the lyrics, I'm like, well, finish the story in my mind. Here's the story, and there it is, And now I know it's all because I've got story in my mind. It's not just lyrics for me. Yeah, it works. That's awesome. Yeah, I teach. I'm sorry, Rick, did you were you going to share something with us?

44:55 I'm good. So I've been teaching piano for over twenty years, and I say to my students, no matter. My youngest student I think is five, My oldest is ninety five, no joke. So what I tell all my students is that if you can't feel what you're playing, I can't hear it. So I want you to take the story, take the lyrics and lyrics, and the music world is called the story. So let's read the story, and I want you to connect with a story about how it rewakes. Oh my cats are fighting, Okay, they don't agree. But I want you to take the story and relate it to something in your life with that song in that way, because you want to own that story. You might not have written it, you might not have the same story the composer did, but find a way to connect with that story so that you can feel it and then you can play it. And I think it is the best musician ship tip I can share.

45:58 With you because when I'm singing on stage and I watch myself back back to your other question, now that you just jog something in my memory, and I tell myself, dell, feel the lyric, Yeah, feel the lyric. I feel it in here? Why don't you let them? So? A lot of it is letting myself be vulnerable when I get up there, to be vulnerable like they. I to show them how I feel when I sing that. And I've been battling with that for years. I think that learning how to let it go right, to like let them feel how I feel. No judgment, but this is how I feel when I sing that lyric, like when I do because of the night, because the night is so personal to me. Yeah, and it just yeah, And I feel like they can see through my soul when I sing that.

46:45 But it is what it is. It conveys well. We have a couple of minutes left. Rick Adelia, thank you so much for being on our show. Please, I would love for you to share any last minute words. Like I said, we have like a couple of minutes left. If you're gonna go for a band, make sure you know what you want to play, make sure you get a whole bunch of people together that have the same vision. And go for it. Yeah. I also want to say, be true to yourself and what you want to do and you can't go wrong. Can't go wrong, all right, and we'll come out and see you your Bradley's may Hey twenty first, twenty first or thirty first, twenty first, all right. And for my listeners out there and for my viewers, thank you so much for joining us today. And tune in next week to find out who my next guest is. I know who it is, but I'm not giving giving it away.

47:42 Oh my guests are so amazing. Thank you Lisa for this opportunity. Thank you for the opportunity. You bet you want to keep music alive. Absolutely, hey, I Will never take over what us humans can bring to life, produce alutely