Sept. 7, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest, creative director Tony Giannelli of Music Legacy International

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What is Music Legacy International? Join me today to meet, Tony Giannelli. The creative director of Music Legacy International. A newer creative social platform for musicians to connect locally and around the world with other musicians. Isn't it time that we rise above, amongst our kind in musical unity!

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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 again. And I

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am here in my home music studio in Florida. And

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The Sound of Gold, we focus on music, music, musicians,

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music venues, music teachers, music schools, musicology, and anything music, composers,

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and so on. It is such a privilege to have

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so many great connections and introduce you to different types

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of musicians to give you different ideas, different ideas of opportunities,

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different ideas to grow as a musician. And there's so

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much I have to share with you today. Before we

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get into it, I just wanted to welcome you in.

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It's been, even though it's a Monday and it's a

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holiday here in the U.S., some of us have had

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the day off of work. And whether you have worked

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or not today, just want to bring you in with

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a little relaxation, with a little Monday melody.

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So Â© transcript Emily Beynon.

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Thanks again for joining me today. And I am so

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excited because I have a wonderful, wonderful guest with me today.

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And as I mentioned, we focus on music. And I

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believe as we move forward in this world, and as

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there are so many changes with computers and AI, and

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there's nothing like real music. There's There is this space

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and place and these connections I've made. I feel so

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blessed to tell you that there's this world of musicians

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and there is this new development called Music Legacy International.

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And it is a family based.

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I don't know.

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I can't I don't know if I can call it

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an organization, but a nonprofit perhaps that has begun to

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bring musicians from all over the world together. internationally through

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the internet. And it's beautiful because for me personally, the

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amount of people I've met and the connections and the

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opportunities I've been presented through Muget Music Legacy International is just,

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I mean, I'm just beginning. And I'm so excited to

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introduce you today to the director, the founder, the owner

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of Muget Music Legacy International, Mr. Tony Gianelli. Tony, are

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you sitting here with me?

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Yes, you are.

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Hi.

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I am sitting here with you. Yes. How are you, Lisa?

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Good.

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Thanks for having me on the show.

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Yes, absolutely. It's so good to see you. How are

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you today?

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Doing great. Doing great. Thank you so much. Yes. You know,

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Music Legacy International, just to clarify what you were saying

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in the beginning, is we are not a non-profit. We

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are a for-profit. And what we do is different. We're

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not just like a social media site. We're creating real

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opportunities for people in music, arts, and entertainment. And Helping

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them make money, getting sponsorships and things like that to

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help them move their careers and businesses in those industries forward.

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No, no, we are broadcasting live and we are also

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so we have listeners that are listening and we have

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viewers that are viewing. So for those that are viewing,

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they're able to see the scroll on the bottom to

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connect with Music Legacy. For our listeners that cannot see

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us right now but listening, how do they connect with

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Music Legacy?

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It's pretty easy. You go to musiclegacyinternational.com, and then on

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the home page, there's a couple different options. You could

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select the Community Access option from the drop-down menu, or

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there's a little blue button on the home page right

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now that says Free Community Backstage Passes. If you just

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click on that, you could sign in free with just

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your name and your email. I think now it may

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also ask you who invited you. So if you put

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down the Sound of Gold radio show or Lisa Gold,

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you'll be connected to Lisa in there. And together, we're

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building opportunities for people in those industries, music, arts, and entertainment.

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By signing in free, you... can connect with over 800

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people in those fields. So if you're starting a project

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and you need a lighting person or a sound person

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or a guitarist, a drummer, whatever it is that you're

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looking for, the platform is fully searchable. So you just

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search for that talent or skill that you're looking for,

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and you'll get a bunch of people that pop up.

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And then based on the information they have in their

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platform is what gets them selected to participate in these

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different events or opportunities that come along.

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I'm a member of Music Legacy International. In fact, I'm

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known as one of the top founders.

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Yes.

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Thank you. And so it's easy to navigate. It's easy

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to navigate. I want to jump around a little.

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Bit, Tony.

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You and I know each other. Our audience is just

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learning about music legacy international. But I want to focus

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on you. My show is always about my guests. And

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I want to focus on you. What... brought you what

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inspired you what brought you to create music legacy international.

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Well for many years i was a musician when i

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was a kid my grandfather and a lot of people

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in my family were musicians and um When I was

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about 10, they paid for me to get guitar lessons

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and I learned how to play the guitar a little bit.

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But what happened is I started playing music with, especially

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once there was the Beatles, right? Yes. All those great

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Beatles tunes were an inspiration. And I guess I was

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about 12 and all of a sudden songs started popping

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out of me. It was like I'd hear these songs.

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And in the beginning, it wasn't like, oh, I'm making

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up this song. No, it was like, oh, that song

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sounds familiar. Is that is that that I hear it

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on the radio? Where did it come from? But eventually

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I realized these are just coming out of me somehow.

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So I continued to write lyrics. And then as I

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got better on the guitar, I could sound out the

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music that was in my head. And I started playing

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with other musicians. We put bands together. And then I

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was lucky to come in contact with a lot of

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really great musicians. that had amazing careers in the industry. But,

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you know, I'm not the greatest musician in the world.

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So when my kids were growing up and it came

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time where they, you know, I had to start thinking

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about they need to go to school, they need to

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go to college and stuff like that. I needed a

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real job as everybody around me called it. So at

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that point, I still played, but I had to get,

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you know, get a real job. And then having a

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job evolved into owning my own businesses. But the thing

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that launched Music Legacy was during COVID. When musician friends

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of mine were posting things that said they didn't know

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where their next meal was coming from or how they

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were going to pay their rent. Things like that was like,

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you know, in this day and age, that shouldn't happen.

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And I guess it was back in the late 80s,

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early 90s. We had a communications company. We were building

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computers there. And Microsoft wanted us to put their software

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in our computers. And I was invited to participate in

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these Microsoft events. Nice. And I was lucky enough to

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get trained by actually by Bill Gates, that kind of

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stuff anymore.

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Amazing.

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His vision and the way that he approached technology. his

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business really inspired a lot in me. And, um, So

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during COVID, I got the idea. I started to design

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a website, which I'm not good at that either. I

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just remember in the old days how I used to

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do it, but it's much easier to do nowadays. So

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eventually I got somebody to take my idea, turn it

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into something a little better. It's still a little bit clunky,

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but before we focus on making the platform pretty, We're

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focusing on creating opportunities for our members. So what that

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means is I guess in 2023 or 24, I was

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invited on the Donna Drake show. She's been on CBS

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for about 20 years now. She invited me onto her show,

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did a little interview with her. And then a few

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months later, she called up and said, you know, we're

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still getting people asking about music legacy. Would you be

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interested in, in a collaboration with the affiliate studio here

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in New York.

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Yeah.

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So I started doing that. And that's where, when you

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see the interviews I do with these great musicians, like

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call for high end, the guitarist from super tramp, the

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band zebra, Leo knows some telly of the meters and

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it goes on and on. There's some great artists, um,

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We interviewed Bob Evans, who was formerly with Badfinger.

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Sure.

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And there's just so many great people that we've interviewed

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from beginner to pro. And that's the main thing that

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we stand for is we're trying to create opportunities for everyone.

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Right now, the industry is like a big pyramid and

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the people at the top of them are making plenty

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of money. But the people who are just coming in

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are like, Where do I go from here? What can

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I do? How do I do this? So what we

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do is the goal is that the pro members reach

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out to the intermediate ones, the intermediate ones reach out

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to the beginners, and everybody pulls each other along and

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helps them advance their careers or their businesses, whatever it is.

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I love that.

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It's like you said, I know you said it's a

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family business, but it's really the family is the music

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legacy members. I don't have brothers or sisters or family

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that are actually involved. But, you know, there are some

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family in there looking at what's going on. Oh, is

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Tony going to be able to do what he says

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he could do? But it's exciting to see how it's

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grown quite a bit.

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And what I mean by family, I'm going to go

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off on a tangent a little bit, but I know

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in every community, every state and in other countries, too,

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there is what we have like open mics or gatherings

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where different musicians get together and play and we get

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to know each other. And my concept of family is

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once you're a musician and you connect with other musicians,

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we're a family. We have a vein that that we

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share and it's a drive. It's a creative, artistic drive.

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to want to perform, to want to give and share

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the music that lives in us. And that's what I

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mean by family. And you mentioned something about the pyramid.

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And Tony, you know me well enough to know that

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my passion for even having this radio show is acknowledging

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all the talent that's around us day in and day out.

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And no matter like what you do for a day

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job or part-time job, and you're a musician, it doesn't

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matter what level you're at. We're still at the heart.

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We're still all connected musically. And what was like the

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icons of like the Bon Jovi, the Led Zeppelin, the

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way the world is going, it's almost like it's shifting

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where I think, I mean no disrespect when I say this,

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but almost like the music world, they were the bottom feeders.

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And we're rising above. And I truly believe in our communities,

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there are top celebrities that we walk by every day

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when we're out and about. Because just because you haven't

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gotten the recognition or the acknowledgement or the publicity, you

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have a gift to share. And Music Legacy International is

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that family. that connects us because you've Tony, we only

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know each other so well, but you brought me in

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like a family member.

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And, and I'm.

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Grateful for that. I'm grateful for your inspiration. And, um,

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you know, I, I know I get a sense for

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people and good people and, and you're one of those.

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And I so appreciate this opportunity to, and then being

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at one of the top founders for music legacy international,

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what a privilege. I'm so grateful to you.

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And we're grateful to have you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And for those that are listening and not watching, Music

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Legacy International is easy to find.

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Just type in Music Legacy International dot com and just

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select the community access option or the free backstage community

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pass button that's on the home page. It's easy. And

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once you're inside there, like I said, it's really clunky.

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It doesn't look great. And most companies wouldn't promote that.

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But I want to be honest with people up front.

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If you're looking for a pretty social media site, this

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isn't for you. But if you're serious about your career

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and moving it forward with professional people or people at

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all levels, what you see on the platform is people

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seeking their own level. And when you create your profile,

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that tells us who you are, what you do, what

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you've done in the past, what you're working on now,

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what your plans are for the future. And what Music

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Legacy does is we try to help you get from

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where you are to where you want to be. um

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and it depends you know do you want to do

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it all yourself that's fine uh do you want us

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to help you we're there for you if you need

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that um and then the pros get to a point

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where it's um you know we'll do a lot of

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it for you so uh right now uh we're working

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with a bunch of the top founders it's it's So

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it's starting to roll where we're asking those questions. You

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may have just received a survey that says, you know,

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answer these questions so that we could help you more.

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The more we know about you, the more we could say, hey,

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you guys need to connect. So we have one of

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the other top founders, Desi Desiderio. He's been in music

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for a long time. He played with the band Zebra

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and some other great bands, Twisted Sister back in the day.

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But he came up with this concept of what's called

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a rock opera lay. It combines a rock opera with

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ballet dancing. And so we've been working really hard with Desi,

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got him connected with different ballet companies. And he actually

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has four companies that are interested in working with him.

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And we're moving that whole thing forward with him. He's

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he's at the helm. And that's the key about music

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legacy instead of. it being a pyramid shape, it's kind

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of upside down, more like a diamond shape. And you're

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at the pinnacle there and you decide who you're going

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to work with. So that's, we basically help you get

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in touch with them, send out the emails for you,

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follow up to make sure that you replied to the

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ones that you need to talk to and do all

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of those things. But the, the, The most beautiful part

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of Music Legacy is now that we're coming to the

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point we're about to do the full launch, instead of

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Music Legacy stuffing our pockets with money, it goes into

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a fund and the fund pays out to the active

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members of the community. So what that means is you

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created your profile that creates audience. points for you. You

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connect with other members, that connects points for you. You

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post on the timeline, that creates points. You create an

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event or an opportunity that opens up opportunities to other members,

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that's going to create points for you. And just like

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when you use your credit card and you earn points,

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you could turn those points into dollars eventually. And um,

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help you either buy new equipment, buy a cup of coffee,

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pay the rent, whatever you decide to do with it. Um,

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you know, afford to pay other members to play with

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you on a gig. Um, and the beauty is because

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of the searchability of the platform, music venues can come

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on the platform. And when they find out that Saturday night,

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the band that's supposed to play, um, canceled the last

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minute they could go on there and make a post

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say hey anybody available saturday night from this time to

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that time um same thing with a band if the

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member of the band is going to be out for

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a certain amount of time for surgery they could find

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somebody to sit in with them until that player is

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ready to come back.

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That's wonderful wonderful so in in a big way you've

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taken um the social media concept and you've connected all

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musicians around the world to have an opportunity to grow

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in what they do Yes, absolutely.

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Yeah, and right now we're up to 28 countries worldwide.

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Wow.

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And, you know, people in all different areas, stage crew, lighting, engineering,

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recording studios, venues. You know, guitarists, drummers, trombone players, all different,

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all different things. And we're still in early access. So

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we've been intentionally holding back the blowing up of everything.

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But now we're at that stage where we're almost ready

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for the full launch. And I think things are going

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to really take off. And what I always say is

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we're changing how music gets done. And we're doing it

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through the artists. So the artist has more control over

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their career, the direction they go with their career. We're

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not going to be telling them, hey, you should sound

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more like this band.

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Right.

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We want them to sound like them and to do

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what they want to do. And, you know, if we

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have ideas that they could do better, either through a

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mentor or adding an instrument, we'll suggest it. But the

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ultimate decision is up to the artist. And they make

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the music that comes from their heart.

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Of course.

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Of course.

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Now, do you, I mentioned this last week, I had

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Ariel Hyatt or two weeks ago, I had Ariel Hyatt.

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On my show.

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Actually, yes, it was last week. And she's, she's been

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in the business for over 30 years. And we talked

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a little bit about how the music world, most musicians

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have a day job or a part-time job because being

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a musician is it's we're artists, we're creative. We love

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to perform. We love to be out there, um, inspiring audiences. However,

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it's not a true income that's consistent. And do you

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think in like moving forward in our future, do you

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think that, um, there will be an opportunity for musicians to,

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to continue to step into maybe having that like as

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a part-time career, then, as far as income-based?

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Well, here's the idea of our fund, how that works.

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The more activity that you have in the platform, the

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more members that you bring in, the more opportunities you

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become part of, all of those things are going to

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create those points. And if those points can turn into

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dollars and it's things that recur constantly, What happens is,

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I say this a lot of times to people when

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they're hearing about Music Legacy for the first time, it's

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like when you have a leaky faucet, one drop at

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a time falls out of that faucet. But when you

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put a pot under it, eventually you get a full

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pot of water. So what that represents is each one

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of those drips can represent one of those points that

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you get for doing different things in the platform. But

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if they're recurring every month, and that that income comes

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back constantly, and that full pot of water represents the

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full-time salary that you need in order to be able

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to afford to do your music. You might not need

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to go to a job doing something you don't like.

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And you can take that time to focus on your music,

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whatever it is, whether you want to be in an orchestra,

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start a band, play in clubs. If you have that

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income backing you, it's going to be there for you.

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And you could be you do exactly what you want

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to do, the style of music that you want to do.

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and um have a happy life and get paid because

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right now from what i hear musicians are still getting

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paid what they got paid back in the 70s it's

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true i mean unless you're at the top you know

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if you're at the top of that pyramid you're making

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some decent money but now what happens when all of

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a sudden you can't perform anymore you're too old you

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get hurt um you know, getting up in age, all

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of a sudden you have arthritic hands or something like that. Um,

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if you look back to the old days, we have

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one of our members, Toby Walker, that during his college

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days toward the U S to all of the hot

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areas that had blues artists in them. And he interviewed

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artists in their home. And, um, you know, some of

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them made out better than others, but some of them,

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unfortunately didn't have the income coming in and they were,

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you know, you know, not comfortable in their old age.

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Something like music legacy can change that. If you have

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that income coming in now that you're popular and you're

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connected to all these people in these different parts of music,

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arts and entertainment, you bring them in and that cushion

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is there for you as you are now stepping out.

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Sure.

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And, And it helps you make ends meet and to

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have a comfortable life.

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So I have a question for you. I love what

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The Sound of Gold with guest, creative director Tony Giannelli of Music Legacy International

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