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Sept. 14, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest The Hot Seat

The Sound of Gold with guest The Hot Seat
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Season 2

In a perfect world, we imagine what it will be like to have family and friends supporting our vision. Today my guests not only got support from family and friends. They are making it! Tune in to learn how School of Rock takes full responsibility for their success!! As ,The Hot Seat, makes a music impact in their community and more! When you have big dreams to rock the stage. Tune in to learn how this young band is making a huge impact.

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Hi, welcome back to the Sound of Gold. It is

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so good to be back here with you. And for

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those of you that know, or for those of you

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that are just tuning in, the Sound of Gold is

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focused on music, musicians, music venues, music teachers, music schools,

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and composers, musicology, and anything to do with music. I

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am here recording in my home studio. I'm here at my, uh,

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Fancy name, Vertical Grand Wurlitzer Piano. And I absolutely love

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my piano. I'm also a piano teacher in South Florida.

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And presently, we are broadcasting live. This will be recorded.

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And whatever day you're listening to this, know that we

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are recording on Monday. It is the end of our Monday,

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end of our Monday workday. And so sit back, relax

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a little bit. I would like to invite you to

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just kind of Breathe and chill no matter what kind

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of day you've had. And I'd like to introduce you

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to a little Sonatina, Monday Sonatina. Sonatina Thank you. If

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you've been here before, welcome back. And again, for my

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new audience out there, my focus is on music. And

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every week, I'm so excited to have so many wonderful connections.

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And I'm so excited to always have so many different

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guests with so many different talents on my show. Today,

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I have a very, very special guest, actually a couple

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of people on my show. And whether you've been playing

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music your whole life whether you've been playing it for

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just a few months or a few years, you know

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the work that goes into being a musician. It's not,

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even for myself, it's not that I just woke up

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and here I am, I can play piano. There's a

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lot of work and time that goes into.

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The musicology, the expression of music, the artistry, the, I.

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Don't know if you want to call it a trade

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or the talent. And I'm so excited to have a

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local band called the hot seat on our show today

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and i can't wait till they join me and we're

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going to talk about their journey and how they got

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to where they are today dylan and carolyn are you

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i know you're sitting backstage please come out and join

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me hello hello hello hi thank you again for making

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the time today how are you.

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We're great how about you Good, good.

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You guys have a busy day today?

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Oh, I did. I was at work. I just got

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back home.

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Maybe a little bit more to do later. But, you know,

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at the end of the day, you know, you come home,

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you want to relax, play a little music, maybe listen

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to music and have a good time.

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Yeah, we're so excited to be here, though. Thank you

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so much for having us on.

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You're welcome. You're welcome. And just starting off, okay, you

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and I both know, and a lot of our audiences

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out there are learning that or are realizing that to

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be a musician, it's not your typical nine to five

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job with a consistent income. It's more of a, not

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a hobby, but it's almost like a side gig until

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it can become somewhat more consistent. And across the board,

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it doesn't matter how much of a beginner or advanced

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you are. It doesn't matter like how far you've gotten.

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It's unless we're like the Billy idols and the, you know,

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I don't know what bands you guys listen to now,

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but anyway, before I go off on a tangent, thank

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you for mentioning work, because I just want to mention

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that we all need to work to, you know, pay

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the bills kind of thing, something consistent, but enough of

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me talking, please share with us and whoever wants to

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go first, go first. Tell us a little bit about

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your musical journey and tell us where you are now

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and tell us about your band.

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I can go.

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So I'm Carolyn, this is Dylan, and we are.

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Two out of five members of a local West Palm

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Beach band called The Hot Seat. We were formed about

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three years ago with some members coming in and out,

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but now we have a bass player, we have a drummer,

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we have a backup singer, we have me, the lead singer,

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and we have Dylan, who is.

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On guitar and piano.

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So what you were saying about having to work Or

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you can't just start piano and be like, oh, I'm

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great now.

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It's definitely work.

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I can tell from him that it's been years and

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years and years of dedication to get where he is now.

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Oh, he's for keyboard. She can play piano, too, and

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she writes her songs for you that way. But we

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have all our roles in the band, that's for sure.

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Yeah, it's been three awesome years, though, just traveling together

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a little bit, getting to play and see different places

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that we never.

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Would have thought. Oh, yeah, that's definitely one of the

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funnest advantages.

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Our favorite thing, I think, might be the food festivals

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we get to play.

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Oh, fun.

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We're definitely foodies who like those.

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And give us some ideas of where you've played.

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Oh, we just played our last show was at Banyan Live.

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Okay. It's on Southern, right?

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It's on Southern by the Turnpike. Very good venue. Beautiful

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stage with all the lighting in the background. And they

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have two banyan trees on both sides. And the sound

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is so good.

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Oh, beautiful.

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We have a lot of fun.

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Oh, that's awesome.

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But we've played around as well. Battle Bros with the

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Food Festival has helped us a lot.

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They even let us come to Georgia. Our first out-of-state

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gig was with the Food Festival.

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And that was amazing. Yeah, we had a mini vacation

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out of it.

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That's great. Now how, okay, I'm going to back up

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a little bit because I know I'm friends with Rick

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a long time and he was on my show a

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couple months ago and School of Rock is just such

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a fabulous school and such a great foundation. I wish

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like if I were a young person again, Not that

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I'm old. I'll never be old. But if I was younger,

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I would want to. In fact, I think I got

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an opportunity to teach there, and I chose a different place.

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But you've been a part of School of Rock. Tell

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us a little bit about your education there.

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At least with me. And I know Benny.

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Benny, who's in the band, he was the bass player

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in the beginning.

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And that's Rick's son. Yeah.

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That's Rick's son.

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Yeah.

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He's playing drums currently in the band. But yeah, some

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of my foundation, I learned.

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Piano from my grandpa. Then I switched around. Then I

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went to the School of Rock.

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I probably have maybe five or six years where I

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learned to perform with the School of Rock.

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And they kind of did something that other places didn't do.

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I would have like a piano teacher and, you know,

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you play piano, you practice song.

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Yes.

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Guitar teacher, drum teacher, you just kind of learn the songs.

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But School of.

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Rock does something different where they take you onto the stage.

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You're playing with other students. It could be older kids.

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So if you're 12, 13, playing with a 17-year-old with

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some more experience helps, but you play in front of people.

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I think the first time I performed, I with the

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School of Rogers in Abacoa. And there had to be

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like at least 500 people there. Oh, my God. I

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think I had the first song and the second to

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last song of like a four-hour set, which was funny.

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Oh, my God.

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Playing bass on Black Magic Woman in front of so

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many people.

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I was like, a little kid is funny.

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Surveil, I bet.

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Yeah, I mean, that experience definitely helps. I'm dirty, you know,

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at this point. And I don't think I could play

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on stage on my own playing with other people.

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It does something different.

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I'm lucky enough that I've been able to go to

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School of Rock and that expanded me when I went

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to college and I came out of college playing with

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different bands doing that it definitely set up a foundation

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I think playing live is something unique and different I'm

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definitely thankful for the School of Rock for that all

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the people that I know I wouldn't be in this

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band without the School of Rock actually I was playing

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with Benny, so that's pretty awesome.

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Carolyn, are you a student of School of Rock or

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you are adopted into the band?

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I was more adopted into the band. I do remember, though,

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as a kid getting to see School of Rock, and

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I always wanted to be a School of Rock kid. But, yeah,

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I love that you said learn to perform because you

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can tell really a big difference in School of Rock

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kids and kids who have taken maybe music lessons where

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they learn to play. It is a totally different experience

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when you're on the stage. I guess, though, I did

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still get experience because I went to Bach and Dreyfus

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for singing.

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Very good school.

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Yeah, yeah, art schools for singing.

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So I did get the experience of performing and getting

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to see all of it. But, man, I really always

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wanted to be a school of rock kid. It looked

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like so much fun.

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We practiced there sometimes.

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You guys were like rock stars, yeah.

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That's so awesome. And it's so true. I started taking

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lessons when I was five. And then I had this

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rebellious series of phase where I'm just like, I'm not

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doing this because I'm doing it for my parents. And

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I protested. And then I went back to it. However,

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I did not have, growing up, I did not have

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School of Rock. And so today, I can be on

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stage and have 500,000 people in the audience and I

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can just play. But put me in a band... with

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a group of people and I need lots of practice.

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I'm just not trained. In fact, I've had opportunities to

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be an accompanist for some major productions and I'm not

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trained that way. I haven't had that experience. And for

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our audience out there, even for myself, like I could go,

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I still take lessons to this day, but if that's

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something I want to move forward in, I can still

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learn to do that. However, I do not have the

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training up to now. And so, again, for my audience

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out there, it's not something that I can't learn or

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that you can't learn. It's just if you haven't had

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the training beforehand, it's kind of hard to go swimming

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if you're just thrown in the pool.

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Yeah.

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In the end, we're all students, no matter how old

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we get. And I recall the Korea classic.

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Yes.

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And as he said, like, he's not a teacher. He'll

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always be a student no matter what. there's someone else

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doing something different or new or something that you need

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to take a moment and think about. And performing is

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definitely one of those things. I know we see bands

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all the time and we see like the whole performance

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show and how they can have an hour to perform.

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We've done an hour, we've done two hours, three hours,

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four hours. But all of those timelines are different performances.

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And can you hold the attention of everybody, bring them

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through a story? Some artists have different light shows and

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all this other stuff.

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They sync everything through crazy technology. So that's a whole

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other level of performance. That's something definitely that we want

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to learn eventually. It takes a lot of work, we know.

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I'm sorry not to interrupt you, but it's so true.

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I'll always be a student, and as you said, you

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as well. being an artist, being a musician, like you

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never stop learning. Like you can always like tweak something

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in the song. You could always like improvise something more.

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And I recently, I just got off of another show

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and we were talking about, or I brought up the

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idea of, you know, music theory and rules. Like once

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you know how to, what the rules are, you kind

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of know how to break them. So, so that's the

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beauty of being a musician. Cause you can like play

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with that. Like, you don't have to be so structured

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and it has to be like, Oh, this song is

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written in the key of a, and then like, okay.

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But if you go off into like an a minor,

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just to give it a little diversity, like, you know

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how to work with that. Yeah.

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Adding those flavors definitely bring the color in the end. Um,

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you know, you have the general major Ionian, right.

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Right. Other scales and everything.

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But yeah, once you start access, uh, accenting other things.

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Get extra flavor. We have a song that.

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We actually just released, So What, Oh Well, and it

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has a specific chord structure, mostly minor, but only one

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time in that song we do a turnaround instead of

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a minor chord. We do a dominant seven chord.

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It's that major third lift that takes us out of

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the bridge. So that's kind of one of those things

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that's semi-rule-breaking. We start with F minor, we end up

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doing the five. and dominant, but five and dominance, a

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classic turnaround that we see a harmonic minor and general.

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I only the major, but it was the, the shift

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in that song, which, which helped out.

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I love what you said before, when we were talking

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about like different groups about different lighting, different use the

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word stories. And, and I'm saying this for our audience.

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Cause you, you spoke it already. Like every song, OK,

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every concert you go to, there's a different theme, a

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different attraction in accordance or in intertwined with the music.

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And then in every song, it's a story being told.

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And and I love that you guys compose songs. But

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tell us a little bit more about the music that

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you play, because some of our audience has not heard

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you perform yet.

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So for our music, I believe we fall into an

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alternative rock category. And I think the alternative would be

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that we get a little funky and a little jazzy

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at times. Our newest single that we just released, So What,

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Oh Well, we've been told it's a little R & B.

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I guess, yeah, alternative rock, you know, but we love

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to get a little jazzy. And this new one is

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a little different, I think, from some of our past stuff.

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I think we're going back to our original roots. We

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had an EP and an album out, and now.

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This new single.

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Our first EP was pretty jazzy. We had a saxophone.

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It was pretty groovy. And then we released an album,

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and we leaned more into rock, which we loved. But

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this new single has definitely taken us full circle, back

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to more jazzy, more R & B, a little bit slower.

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And I would definitely recommend... everyone listening to go listen

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to it it's my personal favorite that we've released.

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We have it on loop all the time which is

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hard to do with your own music sometimes.

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No i'm gonna have to go listen.

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To it yeah it's very good we released it i

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think last week yeah.

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Yeah i'm gonna have to check it out now we

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are both broadcasting live and we also have an audience

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that's just listening So our audience that's watching can see

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how they can reach you.

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Because there's the scroll on the bottom. But for those

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that are listening, how can people find you?

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So we're on all available streaming platforms. We're on YouTube, Spotify,

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Apple Music.

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I do see the links on the bottom.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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If you just type in the Hot Seat Band anywhere.

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You'll be able to find us.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Instagram.

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Everything.

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Everything. Everywhere. Now, you mentioned some places that you played

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and you got to play out of state as well.

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How do you go about making the connections to play

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at certain venues? Is it by choice? Is it word

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of mouth? Is it both?

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In the end, every place is a little bit different

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and unique. And honestly, social relations does a lot in

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any workplace. And this is a type of workplace, right? Music,

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you end up socializing. And who knows who's going to

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be at a gig, right? So the Battle Grows, we

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got lucky.

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With that connection and we played there and they wanted

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to see more. So we continue to communicate, get more

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gigs and they give us even more, right? Some places

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we end up reaching out and sometimes just have to

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find their Instagram or their webpage and.

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See what you can do. And then sometimes we even get,

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other bands.

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Reaching out and asking us um and this is typically

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like the last we have like a week or two

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weeks to prepare out of nowhere we'll get a gig

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this is what we'll jump on the gig at like

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propaganda or something in like miami um so yeah knowing

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other bands helps um continuing communication with people you've you

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know talked to before always helps every place is different

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now one thing that we're trying to do a little

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bit more is always play more gigs that are playing

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even more gigs that, you know, can sustain us more.

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There's expenses for the bands and personal stuff too. So

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getting bigger gigs.

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Kind of getting to the next step is something that

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we're also learning.

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Yes.

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But I think we're in a good flow currently.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah. We, we have a, another gig at Banyan coming up.

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We played there a few ago and they reached out

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within the week, which is awesome. They hear they like

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the music enough that, They want another gig.

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We'll take it.

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That's awesome.

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Love when they ask us back. Yeah, it's the best feeling.

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Of course, of course it is. Now for newer venues

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that are getting to know you, do you email them

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a demo? It's a different world now. I remember years

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ago for me to go get something done, or wanting

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to connect with people. I physically had to go. It

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was like by foot and go meet the person and,

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and set up like kind of like an interview. Um,

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and that, and that's how I introduced myself. Do you

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still do that? Or do you have, or is it

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just by email? Is it by demo? Is it, how

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do you go about this?

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I do have to admit, probably going in person is

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probably actually the best way we could do that more,

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but we typically do it via Instagram message or email.

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Right. Um, Because everybody's busy. Yeah.

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Everyone's busy. My mom has a story where she was

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trying to get a job, and she went in person.

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They declined, and then she went again the next day

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in person, like, hey, I'm trying to apply. For me,

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in my mind, I feel like that tactic might actually

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work at places, because sometimes you email places, and I

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don't know if they're using, like, AI or an automated system, like, oh,

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we're busy. Reach back later, and then, you know, did

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anybody actually get it? So....

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You just have to message consistently. Everyone is busy in

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the end. Even if it's a restaurant who has a two,

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three-hour cover gig, you've got to message them a few times.

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They're not always going to see your specific email. They

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could be out of office that day or a week

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of PTO, and they come back and have, I know

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it happens to me, like 100 emails, and then things

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get missed.

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Oh, it does.

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Yeah, staying consistent and emailing a couple of times or

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calling and finding out more.

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Every place is different in the end, right? Everyone's going

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to do it a little bit differently.

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We did get one gig, I know, from, we played

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at O'Shea's. It's an Irish pub on Clematis.

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Okay.

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And we had one.

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Of our past members and Benny actually went to have

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a drink there and ended up talking with the owners

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and the people booking and they got us a show there.

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So sometimes it is just going face to face. And

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building a connection and a relationship. And sometimes it is email.

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Sometimes we've had to send videos or send links.

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It is true.

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Everything, every situation is totally different.

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Live videos help.

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Getting videos on YouTube and saying this is what we

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look like definitely helps. And also having the stuff and

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content on Spotify.

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Yeah, it can get overwhelming a little bit. I mean,

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everything seems to be content these days and online.

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Instagram must be ready. YouTube must be ready. Spotify must

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be ready.

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We've got to keep up.

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Website. Keep up is one of our songs. It's hard to.

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There's a lot going on with social media.

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It is, and it's constantly growing. And even I think

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of it myself. It's like every day I have to

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almost keep up with myself because I have to keep

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up with the technology. And as a musician, as an artist,

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you'll find if you haven't already, it's almost like I

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think of this myself. I always have to like compete

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with myself. I always have to like outdo my lot,

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my yesterday's show to make it better today. And I

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think as a musician, we're all like that. We just

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want to constantly get better and better at what we

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do and show up better. And I love what you said.

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It's so true that emails do get missed and I don't,

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I don't ever want to lose that opportunity to be

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able to be like human to human connection. Um, like

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you can't, you can't AI that and no disrespect to AI. There's,

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there's so many benefits with it. However, it'll, I don't

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know with my music, I don't use AI because I'm

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like the source of me.

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And we try to stay that same way. Yeah. Yeah.

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For our music for sure.

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Completely human.

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Yeah. Like be real. Like what's your idea about like

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what the future holds for musicians with the way I,

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AI is because, You guys probably know a lot more

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about it than I do because I just don't understand it.

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Well, we don't prefer it. I know she doesn't prefer it.

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I've seen some... We'll be exploring YouTube and you see

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videos that have no words on it. I talked to

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my friend as well, Esom, who was doing some research

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about AI. And there's Spotify playlist of jazz that are

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completely AI.

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They'll have more followers than... like uh any.

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Like john coltrane or something someone who's like big like

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how how does this ai artist actually have more views

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i don't know it doesn't make sense it doesn't make

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sense i don't prefer it it doesn't feel real you

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listen to it and you're like wow this kind of

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sounds like it has thoughts and ideas but i don't think.

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It's fully fledged i think that there is nothing ai

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or technology wise that could ever compete with the true

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human experience.

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I i agree A hundred percent.

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Yeah. There's just, there's a human touch that is needed

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to connect with other people for music. Cannot create.

473
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There's this saying that I say to my students, my

474
00:25:06.740 --> 00:25:11.380
piano students. Um, and I say, if you can't feel

475
00:25:11.539 --> 00:25:14.059
what you're playing, I can't hear it.

476
00:25:14.529 --> 00:25:15.089
I love that.

477
00:25:15.509 --> 00:25:17.950
And I hold it so true because I'm going to

478
00:25:18.009 --> 00:25:20.430
go off like a zigzag. I'm going to zigzag a

479
00:25:20.470 --> 00:25:24.150
little bit. Like I have a friend where, um, I

480
00:25:24.190 --> 00:25:27.730
was emailing or we were texting in some fashion. No,

481
00:25:27.750 --> 00:25:31.269
it was an email back and forth. And she's a

482
00:25:31.309 --> 00:25:35.470
very heartfelt person. And it was like on a person,

483
00:25:35.730 --> 00:25:41.259
not personal stuff, but it was meaningful conversation. And I

484
00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:44.740
even said to my husband, I'm like, the response I'm

485
00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:49.000
getting by email is like so thorough, but it's almost

486
00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:54.579
like cold. There's no like heart in it. And he goes, oh,

487
00:25:54.619 --> 00:25:57.359
it's probably AI. And I go, oh, yeah, most definitely,

488
00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:01.460
that's AI. And again, not to discourage or dismiss, you know,

489
00:26:01.509 --> 00:26:04.250
the AI and what's become of it and where it's going.

490
00:26:04.750 --> 00:26:08.170
It's just, it will never, and we're on the same page,

491
00:26:08.230 --> 00:26:11.450
it will never replace the human spirit and the human

492
00:26:11.529 --> 00:26:14.490
soul that's put into the music we listen to.

493
00:26:14.950 --> 00:26:15.839
Absolutely.

494
00:26:16.279 --> 00:26:16.940
Yeah.

495
00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:22.019
Any piece of art, like artistry or painting or anything, music,

496
00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:24.410
I think that should stay Specifically human.

497
00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:27.880
I wish I could do our laundry or something. Something

498
00:26:27.940 --> 00:26:31.519
like that, maybe. Not so much the arts.

499
00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:39.400
Watch the dishes. Do the laundry, please. Do the ironing.

500
00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:42.400
I don't even own an iron. You do that, yes.

501
00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:45.549
Maybe someday, yeah.

502
00:26:46.049 --> 00:26:48.750
I get it. So when and where are you guys

503
00:26:48.789 --> 00:26:52.150
playing next? Did you say Banyan you're playing in two weeks?

504
00:26:52.859 --> 00:26:57.079
Oh, next week, actually, Saturday, September 19th, we're going to

505
00:26:57.099 --> 00:26:58.640
be at Swampgrass Willie's.

506
00:26:59.059 --> 00:26:59.420
Okay.

507
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.519
It's a dive bar in Palm Beach Gardens. We love

508
00:27:02.579 --> 00:27:03.599
it there. We play there.

509
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:04.180
Once a month.

510
00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:07.440
They have really good food. Oh, yeah, you've been there?

511
00:27:08.589 --> 00:27:09.200
They do, yeah.

512
00:27:09.529 --> 00:27:10.930
And the pool tables I love.

513
00:27:11.369 --> 00:27:12.470
So, yeah, we'll be there.

514
00:27:12.789 --> 00:27:15.410
Banyan, we did get asked back, but that's going to

515
00:27:15.430 --> 00:27:17.829
be all the way in January. We're still preparing for

516
00:27:17.890 --> 00:27:18.119
that one.

517
00:27:18.450 --> 00:27:23.349
Yeah. We do have a couple additional gigs up. In October,

518
00:27:24.230 --> 00:27:27.410
one in Melbourne. That's also the food festival. And then

519
00:27:27.509 --> 00:27:30.289
Boca the next week. On the weekend, I think they're

520
00:27:30.329 --> 00:27:35.150
both Saturday, which is the food festival. Then we're actually

521
00:27:35.190 --> 00:27:36.569
playing on the 30th.

522
00:27:37.049 --> 00:27:37.789
October 30th.

523
00:27:37.890 --> 00:27:39.569
October 30th at Fright Night.

524
00:27:39.849 --> 00:27:40.150
We are.

525
00:27:40.170 --> 00:27:42.089
That was fun. Congratulations.

526
00:27:42.509 --> 00:27:46.069
Yeah, thank you. We have a whole playlist. We're writing

527
00:27:46.109 --> 00:27:48.250
everything down. We're trying to get all the spooky songs.

528
00:27:48.829 --> 00:27:51.380
Is this your first year there at Fright Night?

529
00:27:51.390 --> 00:27:51.470
Yeah.

530
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.359
Our drummer has played there many years through school of rock.

531
00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:56.180
Okay.

532
00:27:56.460 --> 00:27:58.900
An opportunity through him and through school of rock to

533
00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:02.009
be able to join. So I'm so excited. We love

534
00:28:02.069 --> 00:28:04.049
anything and scary.

535
00:28:04.150 --> 00:28:04.930
And we've gone to.

536
00:28:04.869 --> 00:28:07.769
Fright nights and seen school of rock perform a few

537
00:28:07.789 --> 00:28:10.630
years in a row. So we're, we're so excited to

538
00:28:10.650 --> 00:28:11.309
be able to join.

539
00:28:11.329 --> 00:28:15.890
That's awesome. So what we're saying, what I'm hearing you say,

540
00:28:16.029 --> 00:28:19.390
and for our audiences out there, it's really the connections that,

541
00:28:19.630 --> 00:28:21.599
And it's really like going out there and making the

542
00:28:21.660 --> 00:28:25.680
connections and creating the opportunities. Cause it's not like for

543
00:28:25.700 --> 00:28:27.420
me to sit here and be like, okay, great. I

544
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:29.759
can play piano. I can compose, but nobody's going to

545
00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:36.160
come knocking at my door saying, Oh, so you play. Yeah. Again,

546
00:28:36.339 --> 00:28:39.539
like you said, also, unless like, Oh, word of mouth,

547
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.619
somebody called you cause like maybe another band canceled. Then

548
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:46.390
they knew about you because they heard you before. So again, Again,

549
00:28:46.410 --> 00:28:50.250
that goes back to making connections and building relationships. And

550
00:28:52.049 --> 00:28:55.109
this was like an aha moment for me recently. And

551
00:28:55.890 --> 00:28:59.740
it's not sales. It's just showing up and having a

552
00:28:59.779 --> 00:29:03.079
conversation to say, this is what I do. This is

553
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:09.079
what I offer. And then the venue or whatever place

554
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:13.519
it is, you're not selling. It's just like you're helping

555
00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:18.670
create a better environment. a better vibe you know a

556
00:29:18.819 --> 00:29:21.839
different vibe so i just i love what you guys

557
00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:25.480
are doing um share with our audience a little bit

558
00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:33.849
about the the challenge between work schedule and practicing well there.

559
00:29:33.849 --> 00:29:38.809
Are five members of this band three others are working

560
00:29:38.869 --> 00:29:41.339
today and they were not able to get off work

561
00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:46.700
so it's definitely rough sometimes to have to find a

562
00:29:46.740 --> 00:29:49.619
way to get everyone in the same room sure we

563
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:52.789
try to meet at least once a week but everyone

564
00:29:52.809 --> 00:29:55.910
has lives and jobs and has to pay bills so

565
00:29:56.230 --> 00:29:59.160
this is one of those things that sometimes the You

566
00:29:59.180 --> 00:30:01.299
don't win every week. You don't get to see each other.

567
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:04.700
We try sometimes to do phone calls or texts. We

568
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.329
have a big group chat that is always active. But yeah,

569
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.109
finding the time. You make time for the things that

570
00:30:12.589 --> 00:30:15.630
you care about. So we make the biggest effort we

571
00:30:15.670 --> 00:30:18.490
can to at least see everybody once a week.

572
00:30:18.750 --> 00:30:21.849
Yeah, if not, it's going to be a call. Ideally,

573
00:30:21.890 --> 00:30:22.829
it's a little bit more.

574
00:30:22.849 --> 00:30:26.980
We do our regular Thursday practices regularly. we typically get

575
00:30:27.140 --> 00:30:30.509
a day or so additional where we're recording some more

576
00:30:30.589 --> 00:30:34.609
music and content. So we've been doing extra days for that,

577
00:30:34.690 --> 00:30:37.450
but yeah, I mean, everyone has a different schedule. I

578
00:30:37.490 --> 00:30:40.569
have the closer to Monday to Friday, nine to five,

579
00:30:40.990 --> 00:30:43.269
whereas Benny, you know, works at the school of rock.

580
00:30:43.349 --> 00:30:46.460
He works a lot on the weekend. Um, given that

581
00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:50.220
that's when most kids are off of school. Uh, so that,

582
00:30:50.259 --> 00:30:51.359
that contrasts the schedule.

583
00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:56.569
It can be difficult. We still do progress forward, but, Yeah, we.

584
00:30:56.470 --> 00:30:58.269
Find a way just about every week.

585
00:30:58.789 --> 00:31:03.099
Yeah. And everyone has different, you know, holidays or events

586
00:31:03.180 --> 00:31:05.880
going on. Like we're in the process.

587
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:08.019
Rosh Hashanah, the high holidays right now.

588
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:08.119
Yeah.

589
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.720
Yeah. And we'll be moving to a new house soon.

590
00:31:11.779 --> 00:31:15.880
So we're always busy with a lot of content, stuff

591
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.440
to do with that choices and doing different things.

592
00:31:19.539 --> 00:31:23.460
And, you know, it's not the younger I get because

593
00:31:23.569 --> 00:31:26.720
I don't want to say old. The older I get,

594
00:31:26.740 --> 00:31:29.640
the younger I get. Like you and I are at

595
00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:33.940
different phases in our lives. Like you'll always be you.

596
00:31:33.980 --> 00:31:36.619
And that's the funny thing about getting, I gotta say,

597
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:40.230
about getting older is that you'll always be you. But like,

598
00:31:40.509 --> 00:31:42.569
but now like I look back at my life and

599
00:31:42.609 --> 00:31:45.150
I'm like, oh, well, I just like know how to

600
00:31:45.170 --> 00:31:48.069
be me better now than I did like 10 years ago.

601
00:31:48.089 --> 00:31:50.710
Like I know how to show up better now for

602
00:31:50.750 --> 00:31:53.349
me and for everybody else because I just, it's just

603
00:31:53.809 --> 00:31:57.769
part of life. But there's always some stuff to do.

604
00:31:57.829 --> 00:32:00.950
There's always responsibilities. And I love how you guys are

605
00:32:00.990 --> 00:32:05.170
so responsible. And it's important. I find that your home

606
00:32:05.230 --> 00:32:09.809
life is your foundation. And that's where your grounding is.

607
00:32:09.990 --> 00:32:12.109
And that's got to come first, no matter what. That's

608
00:32:12.269 --> 00:32:16.950
got to be your priority. And I know in my

609
00:32:17.049 --> 00:32:20.230
world of the arts, for me personally, I had to

610
00:32:20.289 --> 00:32:24.880
go through a specific phase where I had to be

611
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:27.200
confronted in my own way and my own thoughts to

612
00:32:27.220 --> 00:32:30.180
be like, Whoa, like I got to step back from

613
00:32:30.549 --> 00:32:33.029
like the idea of being in the limelight and I

614
00:32:33.069 --> 00:32:37.170
have to focus on my family. Like, because I, I mean,

615
00:32:37.210 --> 00:32:39.789
I have a daughter, but there was time I, times

616
00:32:39.829 --> 00:32:43.279
I missed out on, on being with her more because

617
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.819
it was more about the limelight and more about the show.

618
00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:50.119
And it's like, where do you draw the line? And,

619
00:32:50.259 --> 00:32:52.960
and the truth is even like people that are older

620
00:32:53.019 --> 00:32:56.190
than me, I speak with who are musicians. They're like,

621
00:32:56.779 --> 00:32:59.880
either they were there or they weren't. And the ones

622
00:32:59.900 --> 00:33:03.099
that weren't missed out because you can't go back and

623
00:33:03.140 --> 00:33:06.539
repeat that, that time, but you'll always be a musician.

624
00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:07.240
Right.

625
00:33:07.420 --> 00:33:09.759
So it's, it's, it's, um, I'm not going to call

626
00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:11.619
it a struggle. I like to call it a juggle.

627
00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:14.589
So it's like, how well can you juggle it so

628
00:33:14.609 --> 00:33:17.150
that everybody gets a piece of you. And at the

629
00:33:17.170 --> 00:33:19.789
end of the day, you're not totally burnt out to like,

630
00:33:19.869 --> 00:33:21.390
look in the mirror and be like, I am just

631
00:33:21.470 --> 00:33:26.079
beyond exhausted. Um, I hosted a show Saturday night, a

632
00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:29.200
comedy show, which I've been doing for 10 years. And

633
00:33:29.259 --> 00:33:31.160
one of my friends who is one of the main

634
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:34.190
comedians after the show, I'm like, and he does a

635
00:33:34.230 --> 00:33:36.950
lot of stuff in film worlds as well. And I go, wow,

636
00:33:36.990 --> 00:33:39.190
you look exhausted. And I can say that because he's

637
00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:42.910
a friend. And he goes, you know, I am. And

638
00:33:43.150 --> 00:33:45.269
I'm good friends with his wife. And I said, oh,

639
00:33:45.289 --> 00:33:47.509
you know, how's she doing? And he goes, we're both

640
00:33:47.529 --> 00:33:50.109
so busy. We don't even see each other. He goes,

641
00:33:50.170 --> 00:33:52.609
but if I don't start slowing down, my health is

642
00:33:52.650 --> 00:33:56.000
going to remind me too. And, you know, that stuff

643
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:59.980
like is so important. And, and so, so while you're

644
00:34:00.089 --> 00:34:04.049
like creating and growing, I still have to remind myself this,

645
00:34:04.210 --> 00:34:08.530
but it's, it took a life altering, like my dad

646
00:34:08.570 --> 00:34:12.170
passed away and it was life altering for me to like, whoa,

647
00:34:12.670 --> 00:34:17.130
like I have to really reevaluate and prioritize. So yeah.

648
00:34:17.789 --> 00:34:19.989
I love that you guys are responsible and that you're

649
00:34:20.170 --> 00:34:23.000
like living your lives and, um, and doing what you

650
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:27.000
love at the same time. And, um, yeah, like we're only,

651
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.219
we can only spread ourselves so thin.

652
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.539
Definitely a big juggle, but we do as much as

653
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:34.179
we can with the time that we got.

654
00:34:34.539 --> 00:34:35.699
Right.

655
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:38.519
I feel like we spend it pretty wisely. Yeah.

656
00:34:38.989 --> 00:34:40.869
Well, my condolences to your father.

657
00:34:41.010 --> 00:34:41.510
Absolutely.

658
00:34:41.829 --> 00:34:45.090
Oh, thank you. It's been a long time, but that, that,

659
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:48.280
was the weight for me that made me kind of

660
00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:52.659
stop and prioritize. But yeah, I mean, the world of music,

661
00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:55.320
like we'll always be learning. We'll always be growing. Like

662
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:59.610
you said, we'll always be students of. For those of

663
00:34:59.829 --> 00:35:03.070
our listeners, and I'm repeating myself, that are listening and

664
00:35:03.110 --> 00:35:06.210
not watching, please share with our listeners, again, a little

665
00:35:06.230 --> 00:35:08.510
bit about the music you play and how they can

666
00:35:08.929 --> 00:35:12.199
connect with you or download or buy your music.

667
00:35:12.699 --> 00:35:15.280
Of course. So yes, we are the Hot Seat Band.

668
00:35:15.889 --> 00:35:20.070
We're Local Florida Alternative Rock. And you can find us

669
00:35:20.289 --> 00:35:25.670
on Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, at the Hot Seat Band.

670
00:35:26.110 --> 00:35:26.710
So go listen.

671
00:35:26.730 --> 00:35:28.909
We have an EP, we have an album, and we

672
00:35:28.949 --> 00:35:31.429
have a brand new single that just came out last week.

673
00:35:31.849 --> 00:35:34.650
And we also have a new music video up on YouTube.

674
00:35:34.670 --> 00:35:38.670
So for anybody who's listening, definitely go see the visual.

675
00:35:38.929 --> 00:35:42.920
It creates a whole different experience watching us perform. rather

676
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.699
than just listening as well. It's a whole other element

677
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:48.780
that's added on to everything. And we hope anyone who

678
00:35:48.820 --> 00:35:52.280
does listen can feel our love for music throughout because

679
00:35:52.579 --> 00:35:54.559
it truly has been a labor of love the last

680
00:35:54.619 --> 00:35:57.659
three years. Thank God we have music as our core

681
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:02.079
because there's a whirlwind of life going on around us.

682
00:36:02.579 --> 00:36:05.019
And like you said, it is a slippery slope trying

683
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:10.119
to balance everything, but keeping music and our love for

684
00:36:10.179 --> 00:36:13.260
it at the core, I think, has helped us be

685
00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:17.400
able to balance everything like family and friends because we

686
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:19.559
bring them all in. You know, our family and friends

687
00:36:19.619 --> 00:36:23.760
are always at our shows. We love sending out our music.

688
00:36:24.260 --> 00:36:28.150
I think it's created a community around us that we're

689
00:36:28.190 --> 00:36:30.570
so lucky to be able to have.

690
00:36:31.050 --> 00:36:31.369
Yes.

691
00:36:31.849 --> 00:36:32.150
Yeah.

692
00:36:32.389 --> 00:36:35.110
Thank you to anyone listening who goes and checks us out.

693
00:36:35.710 --> 00:36:37.869
And thank you for being on the show. Yes.

694
00:36:38.550 --> 00:36:41.309
Absolutely. And you're playing this weekend at the Brewhouse on

695
00:36:41.369 --> 00:36:42.550
Saturday the 19th.

696
00:36:42.909 --> 00:36:43.409
Swampgrass.

697
00:36:43.449 --> 00:36:46.139
Not the Brewhouse, the Swampgrass Willies.

698
00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:48.139
Yes, Swampgrass Willies, yeah.

699
00:36:48.619 --> 00:36:48.880
Awesome.

700
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:51.179
And usually how many hours is your show? Is it

701
00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:52.639
two hours, three hours?

702
00:36:52.659 --> 00:36:54.360
It's about three this time around.

703
00:36:54.380 --> 00:36:56.199
Yeah, we have three hours at Swampgrass.

704
00:36:56.699 --> 00:37:01.230
And you guys start at what time this weekend? 8 p.m. Okay, nice.

705
00:37:01.230 --> 00:37:03.510
8 p.m. on Saturday, 19th, yeah.

706
00:37:03.989 --> 00:37:07.360
Awesome, awesome. Now, what do you think, where do you

707
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.139
think the music world is going? I mean, when I

708
00:37:10.179 --> 00:37:11.960
was growing up, like I could go to the record

709
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:14.619
store and buy an album and the artist made money

710
00:37:14.659 --> 00:37:17.989
for me buying the album. Where do you see, and again,

711
00:37:18.010 --> 00:37:21.949
there's no wrong answer. This is just your perception of

712
00:37:22.030 --> 00:37:24.469
where you see our music world going.

713
00:37:24.949 --> 00:37:27.969
I see a lot of it going towards, I mean,

714
00:37:28.190 --> 00:37:30.769
we know now, I guess CDs are, are not very

715
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:31.780
popular anymore.

716
00:37:31.969 --> 00:37:34.460
Even vinyl, though it is making a little bit of

717
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:35.960
a comeback. Yeah.

718
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:40.480
Collectors. I think mostly now it seems to be streams

719
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:45.280
all online, online services. And then when it's not that

720
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:49.550
I think live performances, seeing someone live is, is the

721
00:37:49.590 --> 00:37:51.070
way to go. I think these days.

722
00:37:51.630 --> 00:37:52.309
Absolutely.

723
00:37:52.329 --> 00:37:55.610
I agree with that fully. I think it's a little

724
00:37:55.630 --> 00:38:00.099
bit everywhere, everywhere, anywhere at once. Um, TVs are definitely dying.

725
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:03.480
Vinyl is growing a little bit just because it's nice

726
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:07.699
to have the full album. But live streaming, social media,

727
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:11.440
TikTok trends seems to be a big thing that gets

728
00:38:12.019 --> 00:38:14.039
some bands bigger. Yeah.

729
00:38:14.659 --> 00:38:17.179
Now, you guys, I know TikTok is pretty big. Are

730
00:38:17.219 --> 00:38:19.869
you on TikTok? And do you do a little bit

731
00:38:19.909 --> 00:38:22.650
of a performance within the amount of time they give you,

732
00:38:22.670 --> 00:38:25.730
which is not much? We are on TikTok.

733
00:38:27.630 --> 00:38:31.230
We do posts on there, but we're definitely trying to

734
00:38:31.289 --> 00:38:34.449
catch up with all the trends. There's a new one

735
00:38:34.489 --> 00:38:34.909
every day.

736
00:38:35.389 --> 00:38:39.889
We play our music. We haven't done as many of

737
00:38:39.929 --> 00:38:43.840
the trending videos. Who's the drummer type of thing? There's

738
00:38:43.860 --> 00:38:45.219
always so many different ones.

739
00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:48.099
We're working on it.

740
00:38:48.460 --> 00:38:49.400
It's a learning experience.

741
00:38:49.420 --> 00:38:51.780
It's always fun to make the videos no matter what

742
00:38:51.820 --> 00:38:54.079
it is, but we really do focus on the song

743
00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:58.380
creation and the has been our major focus.

744
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:02.639
Our live performances seem to take precedent along with recording

745
00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:06.380
more than social media, I guess for now. But we

746
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:07.780
definitely try to work on.

747
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:08.659
It as much as we can.

748
00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:09.320
It's a problem.

749
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:13.179
Yes, absolutely. Now you mentioned a few different, you mentioned

750
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:17.110
alternative rock and jazz. What is your favorite?

751
00:39:17.489 --> 00:39:21.289
For us, my personal, I really love when we are

752
00:39:21.389 --> 00:39:25.469
in our R & B, smooth, alternative rock vibe.

753
00:39:26.070 --> 00:39:26.510
What about you?

754
00:39:26.550 --> 00:39:27.579
That's my favorite.

755
00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:29.710
I mean, I play the keys. I always love the keys.

756
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:31.780
I always wanted to play a little bit of guitar.

757
00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:34.300
I play a little guitar in the band, so I

758
00:39:34.340 --> 00:39:35.539
like my guitar sounds.

759
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:39.900
You definitely have, I think, psychedelic influences when you play.

760
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:40.559
Oh, yeah?

761
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:43.530
Yeah.

762
00:39:44.070 --> 00:39:46.989
Honestly, just the whole time on stage, it goes by

763
00:39:47.050 --> 00:39:50.039
so quick. It's a three-hour performance, and it can go

764
00:39:50.059 --> 00:39:52.159
by so quick. We're always having fun.

765
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.119
I love that in all our shows, we do covers

766
00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:58.010
as well. So we're always doing multiple genres. We're never

767
00:39:58.050 --> 00:39:59.130
really married to one.

768
00:39:59.710 --> 00:40:00.050
Right.

769
00:40:00.429 --> 00:40:02.469
So we get to do it all, really. I mean,

770
00:40:02.489 --> 00:40:05.210
first and foremost, we do it because we love it.

771
00:40:05.510 --> 00:40:07.590
So we just pick what we love a lot of

772
00:40:07.610 --> 00:40:09.789
the time, and we just play that it could be

773
00:40:09.849 --> 00:40:12.550
any genre. All of our members listen to different stuff.

774
00:40:12.949 --> 00:40:15.469
So anything, really, that anyone wants to bring to the

775
00:40:15.510 --> 00:40:17.949
band that we like, We just go for it.

776
00:40:18.489 --> 00:40:21.469
Now there's five of you and you met, you mentioned

777
00:40:21.489 --> 00:40:24.550
the word married. And I know I was told like

778
00:40:24.630 --> 00:40:27.090
when you're in a band, it's almost like you're married

779
00:40:27.130 --> 00:40:29.530
to the members. Cause you got to all work together

780
00:40:29.610 --> 00:40:35.099
and intertwine. Would you feel, and because there's five of you,

781
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:38.320
when you, no matter where you go, when you guys

782
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:41.539
are all on stage and you're in that zone. And

783
00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:43.360
I know, you know what I'm talking about? Cause I

784
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.250
go there when you're in that zone. Do you feel

785
00:40:47.389 --> 00:40:50.949
that you in how would I say this? Do you

786
00:40:51.030 --> 00:40:56.090
feel that your energy out out rules the the energy

787
00:40:56.130 --> 00:40:58.909
of the audience? Do you bring a presence to you

788
00:40:59.010 --> 00:41:00.840
that just is?

789
00:41:00.989 --> 00:41:02.039
I don't know.

790
00:41:02.300 --> 00:41:04.320
I'm not I don't know how to ask this. Do

791
00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:07.260
you bring bring a presence with you that and I

792
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.690
have to come and see you guys. Um, cause I

793
00:41:09.690 --> 00:41:11.869
think it got too late when I was there, when

794
00:41:11.909 --> 00:41:14.190
I first met you guys. Um, I think it got

795
00:41:14.210 --> 00:41:16.989
too late and we went home cause like we're, we're younger, right?

796
00:41:17.090 --> 00:41:22.070
We're younger. So we have early nights, but, um, but

797
00:41:22.090 --> 00:41:23.389
I got to come listen to you. But do you

798
00:41:23.429 --> 00:41:26.019
feel your energy of your whole band kind of like

799
00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:28.500
takes over the room or do you feel like the

800
00:41:28.659 --> 00:41:32.320
audience has an impact energy that the audience does or both?

801
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:36.059
I definitely, I definitely think so. Especially at Banyan, we

802
00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:39.289
saw everyone dancing. We were dancing with them. You try

803
00:41:39.309 --> 00:41:42.489
to become one with the audience. I mean, we're jamming together,

804
00:41:42.570 --> 00:41:46.090
but if we can have fun with the audience, if

805
00:41:46.130 --> 00:41:49.949
they're clapping along to a song or dancing, I think

806
00:41:49.989 --> 00:41:53.489
that's when we're the best in the essence. We're in

807
00:41:53.510 --> 00:41:57.610
the middle, maybe jamming a solo or doing whatever, or

808
00:41:57.690 --> 00:42:02.969
people are singing to her amazing melodies. Yeah, I think

809
00:42:03.010 --> 00:42:06.050
we become one with the audience. Definitely, those are the

810
00:42:06.090 --> 00:42:06.840
best moments.

811
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:11.980
Yeah, the audience participation is like no other feeling, really. Because,

812
00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:14.159
I mean, you only get so far playing to an

813
00:42:14.219 --> 00:42:17.539
empty room. It's really the audience is everything. Seeing how

814
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:21.829
they react to your music, dancing, smiling, laughing, singing along.

815
00:42:21.849 --> 00:42:22.929
Have a lot more fun.

816
00:42:23.110 --> 00:42:25.630
It's the best feeling, yeah. But I do think even

817
00:42:25.789 --> 00:42:28.110
if we did play to empty rooms, which in the

818
00:42:28.150 --> 00:42:31.289
past when we were first starting out, definitely happened more

819
00:42:31.309 --> 00:42:35.010
than once. We bring in energy. We come ready to rock.

820
00:42:35.460 --> 00:42:38.199
We come ready to rock the stage. And you know what?

821
00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:40.409
If there's no one there, it's a great time for

822
00:42:40.469 --> 00:42:43.929
us anyway. We've had plenty of great shows that were

823
00:42:43.989 --> 00:42:46.909
two or three people. And it's just as long as

824
00:42:46.929 --> 00:42:49.909
we're having fun, I think the audience and us on

825
00:42:49.969 --> 00:42:51.750
stage will have a good time.

826
00:42:52.170 --> 00:42:55.059
Yes, I love that. And it's so true. The audience,

827
00:42:55.820 --> 00:43:00.699
from my experience, again, different space, different place. The audience

828
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:04.579
is really what I found gives me even a greater inspiration.

829
00:43:04.659 --> 00:43:08.389
Like I'm here to do a show, but the audience, yes,

830
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:12.900
participation or the attention, you just feel the energy. And,

831
00:43:13.289 --> 00:43:17.550
you know, like even the other night when we had

832
00:43:17.610 --> 00:43:20.269
a show, it's like, oh, it's a low energy group.

833
00:43:20.489 --> 00:43:24.889
Or before that, it's a high energy group. And it just, yeah, there's,

834
00:43:25.210 --> 00:43:27.929
I think we ricochet off of each other.

835
00:43:27.949 --> 00:43:30.409
Oh yeah, yeah. I think we definitely feed off the

836
00:43:30.530 --> 00:43:36.679
audience's energy. especially if it's, it's high energy. Sometimes we've had, um, audiences,

837
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:40.380
I guess, you know, on weekdays, sometimes people are tired

838
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:42.900
and it's easy, I guess, for us to feel a

839
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.510
little like, Oh no, but it's usually, it's not us.

840
00:43:46.699 --> 00:43:48.989
It's usually, I mean, people have their lives. You never know.

841
00:43:49.050 --> 00:43:49.909
Everyone's tired.

842
00:43:50.469 --> 00:43:53.710
We always bring the same energy. I really believe we

843
00:43:53.750 --> 00:43:55.650
try to give the best show we can, no matter

844
00:43:55.730 --> 00:43:56.489
what's going on.

845
00:43:56.889 --> 00:43:58.670
And we have a few minutes left. I have a

846
00:43:58.730 --> 00:44:02.130
couple of questions. Um, We, we did meet. I don't

847
00:44:02.170 --> 00:44:03.070
know if you remember me.

848
00:44:03.659 --> 00:44:04.300
Yeah.

849
00:44:04.929 --> 00:44:11.559
Still. And I remember Carolyn, um, you have, you present yourself,

850
00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:16.639
all of you with so much confidence. And sometimes like,

851
00:44:16.659 --> 00:44:18.739
I don't know, to me, like you get, I just

852
00:44:18.780 --> 00:44:21.119
become the instrument and I'm like, good. Like I can

853
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.840
hide within the instrument. You, you portray so much confidence

854
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:27.900
when you're on stage and, Do you have any secrets

855
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:33.389
to share with our audience on how you have learned

856
00:44:33.449 --> 00:44:38.289
to present and perform on stage with such grace and

857
00:44:38.329 --> 00:44:39.289
with such confidence?

858
00:44:39.590 --> 00:44:40.010
Thank you.

859
00:44:40.130 --> 00:44:45.780
That is so kind. My biggest advice would be fake

860
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:48.800
it till you make it. There are plenty of times

861
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.019
I am shaking in my boots when we walk up there.

862
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:53.900
But yeah, fake it.

863
00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:54.369
Till you make it.

864
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:58.079
I think I pretend... I just fake it until I

865
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:02.440
don't feel it anymore. And a little liquid courage never

866
00:45:02.500 --> 00:45:06.619
hurt anyone too much. Sometimes it helps a little before

867
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:07.070
a show.

868
00:45:07.550 --> 00:45:07.929
Right.

869
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:12.230
Yeah, I agree with that a little bit. I'm just

870
00:45:12.250 --> 00:45:12.969
trying to have fun.

871
00:45:13.590 --> 00:45:16.269
I think once I separate, like, I have a lot

872
00:45:16.309 --> 00:45:18.530
of songs that I do like a special intro, just

873
00:45:18.570 --> 00:45:20.809
me playing guitar, which I think a little bit more about,

874
00:45:20.869 --> 00:45:24.380
or me just playing keys, which, you know, when you're

875
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.730
playing music all alone, Any mistake, everyone hears. No mistake

876
00:45:28.789 --> 00:45:31.369
is a true mistake. Unless you think it is. You

877
00:45:31.389 --> 00:45:32.489
play it off. Play it off.

878
00:45:33.449 --> 00:45:35.380
I'm just trying to have fun. I'm going to be real.

879
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:36.280
I just want to have fun.

880
00:45:36.380 --> 00:45:38.900
You bring a very fun stage.

881
00:45:39.059 --> 00:45:40.960
I'm trying to smile when I play. A little bit

882
00:45:40.980 --> 00:45:44.239
more every time. You're so focused. I focus a lot,

883
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:45.840
for sure. Right on it.

884
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:50.340
There's a keyboardist for a band called The Main Squeeze.

885
00:45:50.710 --> 00:45:54.269
His nickname is Smiley. We love The Main Squeeze. Very,

886
00:45:54.329 --> 00:45:57.510
very tight funk band at I've seen them like four times.

887
00:45:57.869 --> 00:46:02.929
Cousin's obsessed with them. But he smiles. He looks like

888
00:46:02.989 --> 00:46:05.809
he's having so much fun. And for a while, even

889
00:46:06.409 --> 00:46:09.369
playing with the School of Rock as a younger, you're

890
00:46:09.409 --> 00:46:13.280
in the focus. As an adult, smiling, having fun, appreciating

891
00:46:13.550 --> 00:46:17.559
the crowd, appreciating the members of the band, knowing that

892
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:21.579
every week, every weekend, whatever it is, is another performance.

893
00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:26.150
You're sharing the music. It's awesome. I think just have fun.

894
00:46:26.650 --> 00:46:29.409
Just be in the moment and have fun. Who cares

895
00:46:29.429 --> 00:46:31.090
about the mistakes? Have fun.

896
00:46:31.570 --> 00:46:33.309
And it's so true. We got like a minute left.

897
00:46:33.389 --> 00:46:37.429
And it's so true. A smile on anyone's face, to me,

898
00:46:37.449 --> 00:46:41.170
it just relaxes like those around you. Because it's like

899
00:46:41.690 --> 00:46:45.340
we're all here just to like have fun. So, yeah, enjoy.

900
00:46:45.449 --> 00:46:47.469
But thank you so much for making the time to

901
00:46:47.510 --> 00:46:50.719
be on the show today. I look forward to coming

902
00:46:50.780 --> 00:46:54.199
out to see you guys this Saturday at Swamp Brass Willies.

903
00:46:55.110 --> 00:46:59.110
And for our listeners out there, the Hot Seat Band,

904
00:46:59.530 --> 00:47:04.480
check them out. Alternative and jazz music. And yeah, may

905
00:47:04.500 --> 00:47:06.219
you guys like soar.

906
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.239
Thank you so much.

907
00:47:08.300 --> 00:47:10.360
Thank you so much for having us today. Thank you.

908
00:47:10.820 --> 00:47:17.019
Absolutely. We'll see you soon. See you soon. Thank you.

909
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:19.530
For my audience out there, thank you so much for

910
00:47:19.570 --> 00:47:24.389
tuning in. Tune in next week. Help me keep music alive.

911
00:47:25.340 --> 00:47:26.460
Thank you.