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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. We have entered our number three newmerow trace

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Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios

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of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester,

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New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere.

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Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all

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your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etc.

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Et cetera. Today is Saturday, November twenty nine, two thy

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twenty five. Hello everybody. We have a great guest we're

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going to be introducing in just a moment who will

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be familiar to some of you because he's kind of

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a member of the extended family here at WM and H,

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but it's his first time appearing on this program, so

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very very excited about that. But before we do that,

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just quickly, if you are listening live on Saturday, we've

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got a big event tonight, the Pop Punk Pop Up,

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Live Music and Arts Market. This is happening at Terminus Underground,

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presented by New Hampshire Underground at one thirty four Haines

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Street in Nashua. And part of the reason we're talking

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about this it's a great event of course, and there's

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gonna be some great bands there. Let's see, We've got

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Island of Alaska, grim on what You're on. They're all

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gonna be playing. But also Jenny's art will be Jenny's

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gonna have a table there. Jenny and I will be there,

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so come say hello. The art vendors include not only Jenny,

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but Dennis Layton of course from the band The Gray Curtain.

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He's also a visual artist Let's see with Love from

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Faith Elements and Fantasy, Brenda Drew Designs, Cosmos Creations, Andre

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Dumont of course from Dead Harrison Prospero's paintings, Mystics, and

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Chelsea Purington photography. They will all be there tonight as well,

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So doors open at seven. It's all ages fifteen dollars

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entry twenty for the VIP lounge and that is tonight,

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so that starts at seven pm, So come see us.

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Jenny and I will be there. I believe it goes

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until ten, I think so. But yeah, come down, say hello.

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I've got my brand new business cards. I'll hand one

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to you if you come see us. No, but Jenny's

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gonna have her amazing artwork there, so please come tonight

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and again the band's playing Island of Alaska, gr im

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and on what You're on will all be there as well,

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so it's gonna be a great night. One thirty four

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Ain Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. You can find out more

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information go to New Hampshire underground dot org and they're great.

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We love Eleanor and Andre and everybody involved in that.

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So come see us tonight and let me get this

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microphone up here. Let's see because he's got his guitar

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with him. Brooklyn Mike is here. Hello, Brooklyn Mike, and

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I can't hear you. Let me let me figure out

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why think I figured out? Why still can't hear you?

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Why can't I hear you?

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Speaker 2: Six?

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Speaker 1: I think, oh, I think I hear you a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Check check there we are. Good morning, Matt and everybody.

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Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Let's see. I'm gonna turn that down and turn that

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up and it's uh yeah. Mike's got his guitar with him,

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so he's gonna play. So this is exciting because again

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for those who are not familiar, Brooklyn Mike has been

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well this morning on the Morning Show because every Saturday

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morning Peter plays a classic episode of the Morning show.

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This Morning Show was from twenty eighteen. It was from

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the end of twenty eighteen, and you were.

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Speaker 2: On it, Yeah, twenty eighteen. And at that point I

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had been already listening and participating with the Morning Show

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for probably at least a year or two at that

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point already. Yeah, so I know it was you know,

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when Moose was still and Moose was off the show

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at that point in twenty eighteen, Jaral was there. So

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at the very least twenty seventeen. Yeah, so we go

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back good eight years, eight nine years something like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So this is the first time. So you've

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been on the Morning Show many times. Have you ever

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been on a Rob's show, Robber's Video show?

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Speaker 2: In fact, I've never had the good fortune to meet

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Rob yet.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you haven't even met Rob yet. I'm

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sure you will at some point. Yeah, but you've been

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on so you've been on Retrospection Radio obviously recently for

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the first time.

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Speaker 2: So that was that was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: That was great.

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Speaker 2: I look forward to coming back in next Friday.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And this is your first time on this show,

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so welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, well, you know, being I retired from my regular

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job at the beginning of this year. And so this

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is affording me, you know, time to do things that

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have been back Bernard for a quarter century. Yeah, so

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including you know, performing and playing music. You know. I

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moved here January of two thousand in one from New Brooklyn,

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New York, and you know, got it, you know, started

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working and had to pay bills and be an adult.

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So I kind of back burned the music. I didn't

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really have the time and the energy. I was working nights, so,

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you know, working weekends, so my schedule was not conducive

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really that much to to playing out and yeah, I

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mean certainly if you could always find the wherewithal to

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do it, yeah, but I just didn't have it in me.

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I was more focused on, you know, just building a

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new life here in New Hampshire.

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Speaker 1: With my wife.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which has worked out beautifully.

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Speaker 1: No, that's wonderful. We have a call. Oh no, nobody there.

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Someone was calling the studio line. All right, I thought

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it was one of your fans, but whoever it was,

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they hung.

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Speaker 2: Up, Yeah, well one of them. Yeah, Daryl the Dragon's

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Ion should be listening this morning. If you're listening, Daryl,

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good morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh excellent, good morning, Daryl. Yeah, I haven't spoken with

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him in a long time, but you had lunch with

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him recently, right at breakfast or something. Yeah, yeah, we're

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good friends. Now that's X. That is excellent. He's a

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good man. Yeah, absolutely, Well, he's a musician himself, he is.

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You guys are gonna do? Uh?

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Speaker 2: We were we know, you know, we we totally had

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plans because in additions playing guitar and bass, my first

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instrument was trumpet and I love jazz and uh. Darrell

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plays saxophone and uh and clarinet.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And we had plans. We had it all mapped out.

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name for the duet, and we had repertoire ready to go.

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And then he took an unfortunate fall and he's recovered

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quite well, but he feels he doesn't have the proper

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dexterity in his fingers in his hands anymore to play.

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So we had to kind of shelf that that project.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Fortunately, let's see it. Oh, I think our caller

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is online. Hello caller, who's this.

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Speaker 3: Ricky?

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Ricky Man Simpleton? Hello are you so?

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Are you familiar with Brooklyn?

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Speaker 2: Mike I'm yes, I am a big go ahead.

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Speaker 3: I'm I learned about in front of your show.

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Speaker 1: Oh wonderful, wonderful. So see you already have a new fan.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully it will be disappointing. Good morning, rick Yeah, morning.

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Speaker 1: Ricky Mapleton is gonna be on with us in the

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uh in the not too distant future. So and it's

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been on the show many times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I'm coming on in February.

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Speaker 1: I think so. I don't have it in front of you,

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but that sounds right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well I'm good to have you. Thanks.

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I was starting to call up with thanks, give me

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to you guys, Oh, thank you. Yeah, just a big,

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big fan of the show. I'm glad you're still rocking.

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Speaker 1: And rolling absolutely well. Thank you very much. We appreciate

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that and we look forward to, uh look forward to

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seeing you in February and with your new project.

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Speaker 3: Ah, I got a project coming up called The Breadman Cometh,

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a rock opera.

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Speaker 1: Add Yeah, very excited about that. I'm a big fan

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of sandwiches myself in French doasts, so you know I

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like bread.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, I'll bring some in and have a great

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show and I'll talk to you guys, let keep going.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, by bye.

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Speaker 2: It's funny that he mentioned bread, because you know, the

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first thing you think of is you know bread that

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we eat. Yes, And I think I only learned recently

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that the band bread, uh, which I always thought, you know,

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bread that we eat, but it was actually you know bread,

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the nickname for money. Yes, I think that's that was

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the the meaning of the band.

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Speaker 1: You only learned that recently?

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Speaker 2: Yeah about Wait about uh that that the name bread

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of the band?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Oh, I thought you meant No, No, I knew

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that that was that was I was confused.

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Speaker 2: No, no, we yeah, amen, let me some bread solid No, No,

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but I only learned learned recently that that that was

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the meaning of the of the name of the band.

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Speaker 1: Oh. I got you, I got you. Yeah either way. Now,

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you had said, I don't remember if this was an

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on air or an off air conversation during Paul's show,

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but you mentioned back in New York you had worked

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with Walter Egan.

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Speaker 2: Correct, we didn't work Yeah, actually we did work in

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New York. Walter Egan is originally from Queens from Forest Hills,

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Queen's same town. Coincidentally as Simon and Garfunkle and I,

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you know, I was playing in many, many bands, and

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he wound up working with one of the bands that

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I was working with, not on a permanent basis, a

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little bit more than subbing, but we we would go

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up to that band. The band leader, so to speak,

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Ray Passenen, is from East Millinocket, Maine. Okay, yeah, so

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this in Brewer, Maine, at a uh kind of a

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motel that would have a lounge there and we'd play

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there for the whole week. It was called Stacy's. Doesn't

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the nineties and when we'd go up for the week

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to Maine, Walter would would go with us and play

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for the whole week. And in fact he would he

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would carpool like I would drive, and he'd carpool with me,

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so I'd have his guitar and his amp in my

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car and it was a lot of He's he's a

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lot of fun. But he lives in Nashville now, Yeah,

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very talented guitarist. So his biggest hit was Magnet ste

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pretty much a one hit wonder, but very very good songwriter. Yeah,

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great guitarist, good singer, just all around good guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that was fun. Is there anyone else like

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Speaker 2: Don't remember the guy's name. It was only one night.

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you were mentioning earlier about you know, one of one

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of the downfalls of being in a band is when

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somebody can't make it. But we were fortunate, you know,

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in in New York City. I mean there's I mean,

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there are a lot of musicians everywhere, right, but we

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knew each other on the on the circuit, so to speak.

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our drummer couldn't make it, and I don't know how

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our band leader, her name was patients More, she found

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this guy but he was again I don't remember his name,

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but he was the drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings.

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English guy, super super nice. Of course, great drummery.

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Speaker 1: There. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: There was a guitarist from the Left Bank, you know,

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walk Away Renee that song. Just every now and then

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we'd come across, you know, we'd wind up working with somebody. Yeah,

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and it was just you know, main job, main thing

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was to get the job done right. But it was

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my approach where whether it's right or wrong, I'm happy

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with it. Where the music that I decide to perform

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or do this is when I'm doing solos. But or again,

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back in New York, all the bands I was in

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I played bass.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we were doing.

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Speaker 2: Cover music mostly believe it or not, because it was

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in the nineties, mostly country bands really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So and we were super busy. I mean there was

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a month I remember we did like thirty two jobs

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in one month.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, wow, like doubles.

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Speaker 2: You know you do an afternoon and you know, on

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a Saturday afternoon at like a fair or something, and

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then yeah, play a bar at night.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: So where was I going with that? Oh, my choice

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of music that I play, So back home again. I

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was playing in these cover bands, and family members and

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people I knew would say, you know, why don't why

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don't you join a wedding band? You can make so

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much money. I'm like, I'm not doing that music. I

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don't really care at this point about the money. I

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should have cared a little bit more about the money, honestly. Luckily,

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you know, my wife was very patient with me, and

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you know, she worked, and I worked the day job too,

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but I'd work part time jobs, full time jobs, depending

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on how busy I was with music at any given point.

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So as a result, I worked a lot of different

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types of jobs I can imagine in my life. And

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so yeah, so still to this day, like the repertoire

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that I do is not primarily songs that people know.

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I mean, there are a fair amount of those songs.

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But for example, everybody, anybody who knows me through the

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station knows Gordon Lightfoot is like my hero, and I

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don't really do his.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 2: I think two songs of his, well, now three, because

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I learned sundown I do, so I do three songs

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of his that were popular songs that were hits that

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people would know. But then I'll do ten songs of

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his that unless you're like a Gordon Lightfoot fan or

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had his albums or have his albums and were really

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into his music, you wouldn't know them. But I love

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the songs. And it's a little bit selfish on my part.

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It's like three parts to it. Part of it is

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selfish because I enjoy it. Yeah, okay, And I think

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that if a performer is doing songs that he or

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she enjoy really enjoys, you're going to get the best

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result usually, you know, because it's it's from the heart.

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So that's one thing. And the other thing is I

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think it's a little more interesting for audiences unless they

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just want to hear songs that they know. And that's

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why it really want to play like primarily like in

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a bar setting because people are drinking, you know. I

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did that for years and years and years, even my

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first band with my brother, which was all classic rock,

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and it was fine, you know, because people are drinking,

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you know, they want to sing along and they want

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to know the songs. But hopefully I could find some

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venues a little more low key where it's more of

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a listening experience. So I could do these songs, for example,

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by Gordon Lightfoot and my other hero Dan Fogelberg that

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the people might not necessarily know, but I think they'll

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wind up really enjoying it hopefully. And the third thing

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is that at any given point, if I'm performing and

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somebody is in the audience or more than one person,

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let's take Dan Fogelberg for example, that is a Dan

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Fogelberg song. And then I'm doing these cuts like off

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albums that when never on the radio, I'm hoping they'll

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be like really happy about it, that it's like, oh

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my god, he's doing For example, it was I used

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to play this place in Greenwich Village called the back Fence,

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and I played their solo many times with many bands

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over the years. And my favorite America song is Daisy Jane.

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And it got some airplay, but it wasn't like, you know,

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it wasn't Ventura Highway for example. You know, it wasn't

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like a huge ute hit and there. So I was

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at the back Fence one night and played Daisy Jane

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and there was this guy there just at the bar,

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and he loved the song and he went nuts, and

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he said, every I'm gonna make sure i'm here every

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time you're hear just because I want to hear that song.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: So to me, that's like it's not even about the money,

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Like that's the payoff right there. You know, it's like

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mission accomplished.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. You mentioned your brother, so you were

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in a band with your brother, and then.

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Speaker 2: My brother he passed away, unfortunately a couple a couple

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of years ago, passed away. But he's seven years older

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than I am. And I you know, I know you're

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an only child, but I think it's kind of normal

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for let's say.

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Speaker 1: Especially, I should just clarify, Mike, I'm not an only child,

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just in case any of my siblings are listening. I

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often feel like I.

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Speaker 2: Will sorry, sister, right, it's okay, okay, yeah, I have

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I'm just remembering.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's okay. I have two half sisters and

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a half brother. I'm sorry, and everybody scattered. And I

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was already yeah, I was already older when the first

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one was born. So I often feel like I grew

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up like an only child. Okay, So that's okay. Just

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I'm only correcting you just in case any of them

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are listening, which is unlikely, but I don't want anyone

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to be mad at me. I apologize. It's all good.

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Speaker 2: I did know that and I forgot totally okay, but

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the reference is it's still relevant in that. So my brother,

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being older than I am, I always kind of looked

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up to him. I just wanted to like emulate him. Yeah,

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And he was a musician from early early on. First

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played drums. We had a drum kit in the basement

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and I'd go down and play the drum, you know,

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just by ear. That was actually the first instrument.

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Speaker 1: That I played.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he was a great guitarist and keyboard

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player and singer. My sister is a singer. My father

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was a singer, and so my first band when I

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started studying guitar, and my brother had already been playing

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for years and he was in a band. Then that

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band split up, you know the way it goes, and

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then he and the lead singer rhythm player wanted to

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form another band, and I was just learning to play,

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and I joined them, and we were three acoustic guitars

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at that point. And then about a year later we

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had the idea I started studying bass, and then my

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friend John Sheridan, who I played with in like a

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ton of bands. He's like my best friend back home

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in New York while he's in New Jersey now. So

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then I then my brother went he Like I said,

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we started out as three acoustic guitars, and then when

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we supplemented the band with the drummer, my brother went

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to electric guitar and I went to bass. Okay, and

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then we were like a legit four piece, you know,

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with acoustic rhythm.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it was great. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The name of the band was County Line, and I

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came up with the name for the band from a

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song by the Poussett's Art band, John Poussett's Art Who

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you interview was a great interview. That was a great

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feather in your cap.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And if you ever get the chance to see him,

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he plays over at the Rex. I've seen him there

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a number of times. You will not be disappointed. He's great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the last time we had him on. That's why

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it was because he's great.

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Speaker 2: I've seen him a few times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, that was my first band that was all

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classic rock.

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Speaker 1: And then and then what why did that end?

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Speaker 2: Work started drying up?

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Speaker 1: A little bit. Yeah, So that we.

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Speaker 2: Started that band County line. That was about nineteen eighty

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six or seven, and we went strong for a good

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three or four years, and then in nineteen ninety but

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we're going we're going one hundred and eighty on this one.

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In nineteen ninety, my wife and I bought a pizzeria. Okay,

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so I started working when I was eight years old.

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I'm going to backtrack real quick a little bit. I

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started working I was eight years old in pizzerias.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And I know it's not legal, but it was a

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pizzeria and it was in Brooklyn, so it was okay.

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Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha.

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Speaker 2: So eight years old, I started working in pizzeri's. I

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did that straight through thirteen years until I was twenty one,

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through all pretty much all my school years.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And then then I wasn't working in pizzer anymore. So

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from twenty one that was whatever year that was nineteen

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eighty two, and I was a bank teller and I

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did a whole bunch that worked for coffee company, industrial

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hardware company, all kinds of stuff. But in nineteen ninety

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an opportunity came up in our neighborhood. Actually a block

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from my mom's house. There was a pizzeria for sale.

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And I wasn't really involved in a career or anything,

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and I knew how to do the you know, run

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the business. I did it pretty much all my you know,

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thirteen years, all my young life, and my wife and

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I decided to buy the buy the pizzeria. So then

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I couldn't play music anymore because I was there like

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seven days a week.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then we got rid of the pizzeria in ninety two,

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and I mean I didn't even lock the door the

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last day, and my friend John Sheridan and it's like, okay,

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you're ready to join the band again. And then we

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were off and running. And then, like I said, country

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music was like really up and coming then with you know,

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the coming on the scene of like the likes of

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Clint Black and Garth Brooks and Brooks and Dunn and

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you know, Dwight Yoakum and all these guys, and it

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just country music exploded, and believe it or not, in

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New York City and Long Island and New Jersey, you know,

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all the line dancing and all the you know, all

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the bars and clubs were doing it.

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Speaker 1: Oh I believe it because I remember that super busy

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wave in the nineties wave a lot of country was huge,

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and it was very very mainstream in that in that sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it's you know, my kind of one

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of my running jokes is, yeah, what you'd expect, you know,

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nice Italian boy from Brooklyn playing country music, you know,

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but you know, I have all the accouterment, you know,

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the Western boots and the Western shirts, and I never

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want I have a couple of stetsons. I only wore

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I think once when we played. We actually did do

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a wedding. But they were country music fans, so we

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were to our country music. That's what they wanted.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I'm curious about the pizzeria. Why so,

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so you owned it.

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Speaker 2: For a couple of years and yeah, three years, ninety

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ninety to ninety two, and then why did you give

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it up?

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Speaker 1: It failed? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were a small guy in town. You know,

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there was a pizzer on every block. And there were

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two main drags in our neighborhood, Manhattan Avenue and Nasa

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Avenue that kind of intersect at one point. Yeah, and

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all the pizzeris and businesses are on that on those

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two streets. We were on a boulevard. Parking was hard,

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there were no other stores there, and you know, we

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were a new guy in town. Yeah, we you know,

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we made enough just like to pay the bills. But

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after three years, I'm like, I'm not doing this. I'm

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marking like ninety one hundred hours a week. I can imagine, Yeah,

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I'm done. And we couldn't even say I'm like I said,

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I'm an open book. I'm honest. We couldn't even sell

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the business because we couldn't show a profit. Yeah, so

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we just we we sold whatever, liquidated whatever equipment we could,

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yeah ours, and said, you know, just chalk it up

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to experience.

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Speaker 1: Right right, you know, yeah, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: And life went on. Yeah yeah, you know. But I

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always say, you know, if we hadn't done it, we'd

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always be kicking ourselves in the butt, saying, what is

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exactly what could have happened?

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Speaker 1: So absolutely it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a great learning experience, which what I took

474
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,559
away from there is I'll never own my own passess again.

475
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: Ever. No, thank you, I don't blame you, by the way,

476
00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:50,880
So should we talk about where the name Brooklyn Mike

477
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,079
comes from? Because you weren't always Brooklyn Mike.

478
00:23:54,200 --> 00:24:00,519
Speaker 2: No, I've always been Mic from Brooklyn, So it's got

479
00:24:00,559 --> 00:24:03,599
to be over it's got to be over fifteen years ago,

480
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,559
because I know when we moved to New Hampshire, we

481
00:24:06,559 --> 00:24:09,079
lived on the East side. We were on Harvard Street

482
00:24:09,319 --> 00:24:12,240
and we lived there for about ten years, and then

483
00:24:12,319 --> 00:24:14,400
we moved to the West side, which that's where we

484
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,799
are now. We're just like a couple of blocks from

485
00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:23,359
the Bedford border. So I know this came up. This

486
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,759
Brooklyn Mike nomenclature came up when I was still at

487
00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:29,400
the old house, So I know it's more than fifteen

488
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,880
years ago. So I say between maybe seventeen eighteen years ago,

489
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,359
something like that. Well, I used to watch this show

490
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,039
on Manchester Public Television called Norman Friends, which was on

491
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,799
the great late Norm Moody was the host, and even

492
00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:49,960
greater than Norm was his co host, which happened to

493
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:55,200
be mister Matt Connerton. And so that's where how we

494
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,759
you and I first met, not in person, but we

495
00:24:58,839 --> 00:25:03,799
came to know each other because Norm would take calls

496
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,240
on you know, while the show was going on. He

497
00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:10,440
would take phone calls, which was fun, and you know,

498
00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:14,799
no big surprise, I called in, which you know, that's

499
00:25:14,799 --> 00:25:17,920
how I came to know Peter and I started calling peters.

500
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,480
And it's kind of funny because when I think back

501
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,960
to it, I would do it in New York too.

502
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,240
I would call in like I've won some like prizes

503
00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:27,319
on radio shows. Like I wasn't like a prize hog,

504
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,160
but every now, if it was like something that interested me,

505
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,599
I'd say I won like two or three things in

506
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,200
New York over the years. So it was always kind

507
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,480
of fun to like connect with the disc jockey. I

508
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,359
thought it was always fun, you know, because I wanted

509
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,079
to hear myself on air. I couldn't care about that.

510
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,160
So so anyway, I called in Norman friends the first

511
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,079
time that I called in, and you know, you'd say,

512
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,720
you know, oh who's online? Or what's your name? Actually

513
00:25:49,759 --> 00:25:53,079
you would answer the phone, and so I said, oh,

514
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,359
my name is Mike. And I don't know if it

515
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,759
was right right on the spot or eventually I just

516
00:25:59,839 --> 00:26:02,400
I guess I didn't feel comfortable giving my last name.

517
00:26:02,599 --> 00:26:02,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

518
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 2: It was either that or I remember saying, well, you know,

519
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,000
there were so many mics and there are other mics

520
00:26:09,039 --> 00:26:11,599
probably that do call in, so just to make it

521
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,680
easy and differentiate. I'm from Brooklyn, so just call me

522
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,640
Brooklyn Mic. Yeah, and that's how it started. Yeah, you know,

523
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,039
I kind of gave myself, you know, you know, my

524
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:21,480
own stupid nicknames.

525
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: It works, it works. Yeah, you've been Brooklyn Mic ever

526
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,400
since Peter asked me.

527
00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 2: Peter asked me recently, says, you know, when hopefully you

528
00:26:29,039 --> 00:26:31,960
start performing out places, are you, you know, going to

529
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,359
book yourself as Brooklyn Mike.

530
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,799
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, it's like.

531
00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 2: Why not. Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of pretentious.

532
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,359
I think, I think, I think you should. I don't know,

533
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,799
I said, I'm going to think about it. A funny

534
00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:47,079
little anecdote about that is that I did one another

535
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,039
place in Greenwich Village that used to do plenty of them,

536
00:26:50,079 --> 00:26:52,519
that would do open mics, and I only did an

537
00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:54,799
open mic one time in Greenwich Village. Again, this is

538
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,359
like mid eighties, and like, I'm gonna do it. It's

539
00:26:58,359 --> 00:26:59,720
gonna be kind of fun. I even played on the

540
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,720
street one time with the guitar case open in the village.

541
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,599
It's just a fun experience. So it's something I made.

542
00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:07,359
One thing I never did though. I never played on

543
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,960
the subway that I wouldn't do. Okay, So I played

544
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,960
this open mic once at this bar in Greenwich Village,

545
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,359
and again, my last name is like very ethnic, not

546
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,880
that it's that difficult, but my joke was always, you know,

547
00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:28,559
usually when people get married, the woman takes the husband's name,

548
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:33,720
and I always said I would have preferred to take

549
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,960
my wife's name because I just like it better, you know.

550
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,039
And so I booked myself as Mike, and then I

551
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:39,960
used her last name.

552
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: Oh no, kidding, interesting, Oh that's funny, that's funny. Well,

553
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,880
do you want to play something for us? Yeah, okay,

554
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,240
if you're just joining us, Brooklyn, Mike is here with us,

555
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,319
live in studio. He's got his guitar, and I'm going

556
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:56,200
to bring the level up on that guitar, and uh,

557
00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:58,599
you know we're already live, so no chance to do

558
00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,519
a proper soundcheck.

559
00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:03,599
Speaker 2: But I have the level set right at midway, both

560
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,279
volume and tone, so I could always adjust it if

561
00:28:06,279 --> 00:28:09,920
I that's great. It's plenty of plenty, plenty of loud.

562
00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:13,839
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, sounds good in the headphones.

563
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 2: Make it a little less bright here, okay, yeah.

564
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: So.

565
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 2: Not to be redundant, but Gordon Lightfoot. I just feel

566
00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:33,400
I have to start with a song of his. Okay,

567
00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:37,319
So here's a song again. This is a real old one.

568
00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:41,000
This goes way back, I don't know, sixty eight, sixty

569
00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:46,240
nine and certainly not a song anyone would know unless

570
00:28:46,359 --> 00:28:48,799
you know you're a Gordon Lightfoot fan or have his

571
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,960
albums and you know, would be familiar with it. Even

572
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,839
if you're not a fan, if you have the album,

573
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:53,440
you might.

574
00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:56,319
Speaker 1: Know the song. Yeah, but I'm gonna start this one.

575
00:28:56,559 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: I played this once years ago on Peter's show. He

576
00:28:59,079 --> 00:29:03,400
really liked it, and I think it's apropos for today

577
00:29:03,799 --> 00:29:08,240
because it's entitled Saturday Clothes and it's a little tale

578
00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:12,200
about I kind of envision a young guy going out

579
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,079
to live on his own for the first time, maybe

580
00:29:15,079 --> 00:29:17,359
going going away to college, and having his own little

581
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,519
place and really kind of something I think a lot

582
00:29:21,519 --> 00:29:24,519
of us could relate to, like learning how to do

583
00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:26,440
things on your own for the first time, you know,

584
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,079
away from mom and all that good stuff, you know.

585
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:34,039
And so he's really going through that process in his

586
00:29:34,119 --> 00:29:38,519
own place here, and every Saturday he has a gathering

587
00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:40,920
at his home or his apartment, whatever it may be,

588
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,319
and his old friends come over every Saturday night, you know,

589
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:50,759
and at the end of the night, everybody leaves, and

590
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,279
he's already looking forward to the next Saturday.

591
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:53,599
Speaker 1: You know.

592
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 2: He's like cleaning up after the mess that they've left.

593
00:29:56,759 --> 00:29:59,039
And that's kind of what this little tune is about.

594
00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:00,880
And it's called, like I said, Saturday clothes.

595
00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 5: I feel a little blue because I can't sew. There's

596
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:27,559
still a lot of things that I should know. Anyone

597
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:35,799
can guess. I don't know how to press my Saturday clothes.

598
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:43,440
Everyone who's going home. I feel a little sad to

599
00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:50,119
watch them be. But I'll be cool because I don't

600
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:57,279
believe the happy times are gone. I could still put

601
00:30:57,359 --> 00:31:10,359
on my Saturday clothes. Every warmbody knows I've got two

602
00:31:14,599 --> 00:31:20,960
That was a swell time. So now we'll take the

603
00:31:21,119 --> 00:31:25,559
bucks away and put the glasses on the train. I'll

604
00:31:25,599 --> 00:31:46,240
see you all next Saturday, two three. I feel a

605
00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:52,960
little off because they're gone, and if my own work here,

606
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:58,720
i'd still be full. Put in a week or two.

607
00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:05,559
There's lots of things to do in my Saturday clothes

608
00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:09,720
and everyone's gone home.

609
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,279
Speaker 2: I've got to.

610
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:25,359
Speaker 5: Bad was a swell time. So now'll take the butts

611
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,599
away and put the glasses on the tray. I'll see

612
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:37,640
you all next Saturday Tuesday.

613
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: Hmm, that is wonderful. Wonderful Brooklyn. Mike is here with

614
00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:26,200
us a live in studio and uh so that was

615
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,759
Is Gordon Lightfoot your your favorite Did you say he

616
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:29,759
was your favorite.

617
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 2: Favorite singer songwriter? Absolutely?

618
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,279
Speaker 3: What what is it like? Is it?

619
00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:38,119
Speaker 1: Is it possible to sort of describe what it is

620
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,880
about him that connects with you so much? Yeah?

621
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 2: This has been asked of me. Well, on the surface,

622
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:51,119
I love his voice, his singing style, but just his

623
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,839
the music in general. I mean, uh, you know, he's

624
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,960
the consummate storyteller people usually refer to him.

625
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:00,279
Speaker 3: Is that.

626
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,279
Speaker 2: And there's something about Uh It's kind of funny because

627
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:12,920
many of my favorite musicians singer songwriters are Canadian, and

628
00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:15,880
I think it's something about, you know, you're from a

629
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,800
different place. Wherever you're from, you kind of have different

630
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,679
sensibilities and I think it comes out in the songwriting.

631
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,880
Joni Mitchell is my favorite female vocalist. She's Canadian. Another

632
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,840
one of my favorite songwriters singer songwriters is Bruce Coburn,

633
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:41,280
also Canadian. Dan Hill. I don't know it's just something

634
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:48,119
I've just always loved his music and just something different

635
00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:53,199
about it. Certainly, you know, started out as straight folk,

636
00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:57,440
but then like a lot of music.

637
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: Of that was coming.

638
00:35:01,159 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 2: Folk music that was popular in the sixties and those

639
00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:10,800
singer songwriters and bands that carried through into the you know,

640
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,000
late sixties into the seventies.

641
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: You know, there was a change.

642
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 2: There was like an infusion of country, and so then

643
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,280
we get you know, country rock. And it's also kind

644
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,480
of funny because growing up, when I was really young,

645
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,559
there was an elderly woman we had. We lived in

646
00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:33,760
a six family apartment house that my parents owned, and

647
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,920
downstairs from us, we were on the second floor, and

648
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,719
the first floor there was elderly woman and she lived

649
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,920
with our son, and we'd go down when we were

650
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,239
really really young, like you know, five, six, seven years old,

651
00:35:45,639 --> 00:35:48,159
and we just like spent time down there because we

652
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,199
were just like friendly with the neighbors. And she would

653
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,800
have I don't remember what program it was on TV,

654
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,440
but she loved country music, but I mean country western.

655
00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:00,559
Speaker 1: And I hated it.

656
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: It's just I just felt like it was just so corny,

657
00:36:03,079 --> 00:36:04,920
you know, because you know, I wanted to hear the

658
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:09,320
Beatles and you know all that, and so I was

659
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,039
always in the back of my I think subconsciously thought

660
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,960
I don't like country music. I hate country music, right,

661
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:20,000
And then the evolution of I should say, the infusion

662
00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:24,599
of country music into rock, so many of the bands

663
00:36:24,679 --> 00:36:26,440
that we grew up with that I wound up loving.

664
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,480
I'm thinking, oh, these are great rock bands.

665
00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:29,039
Speaker 1: I love them.

666
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, But looking back on it, there was like a

667
00:36:32,159 --> 00:36:37,480
lot of country influence, so Eagles, Poco, even Crosby Stiel's nesh.

668
00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:39,840
You know, you went from folk, you know, and then

669
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,599
there was rock elements. But then and even if you know,

670
00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:45,480
when you see videos and pictures of these guys, they

671
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:49,039
were wearing like country outfits, Like the shirts were like

672
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:50,440
all deck down and stuff.

673
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:50,639
Speaker 1: It was.

674
00:36:51,159 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: It was a style, you know, and so unbeknownst to me,

675
00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:57,840
it was like I was absorbing that, you know, and

676
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,639
not really putting a label on it, you know what

677
00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:04,079
I mean, Not that that's necessary. It's just kind of

678
00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:06,480
funny how things turn, you know, Oh yeah, absolutely, and

679
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,800
then how wind up being a country bands? Figure we

680
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,719
have we have a call Hello, call her? Who's on

681
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:14,119
the line.

682
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:20,639
Speaker 4: Good Gene Simmons, Gene Simmons.

683
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Jean Simmons of Kiss, Welcome, sir.

684
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 4: I was just doing in doing my early Christmas shopping

685
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:35,400
for and I it unleashed. Wow, and I heard Mike

686
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,280
on your show? Is that correct?

687
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,679
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Mike is here, you know, Gene Simmons of Kiss,

688
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,320
another real New Yorker.

689
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's right.

690
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:47,599
Speaker 4: In fact, that's why I was calling. I know that

691
00:37:48,679 --> 00:37:51,360
Brooklyn Mike is a very humble guy and he will

692
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,239
never admit. They actually said it with Wicked Lester for

693
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:56,000
four shows.

694
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:57,599
Speaker 5: Wow.

695
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, he left that out. He did not mention that

696
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,360
earlier when he was talking about his will.

697
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 4: He'll he will deny it.

698
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 2: Jean, I you know, I'm I'm I'm humbled by your

699
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:09,920
call this morning, but.

700
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're.

701
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,159
Speaker 2: At first, I was thinking, this is the first time

702
00:38:15,199 --> 00:38:17,639
you and you and I have ever spoken, But now

703
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,159
it just you just sparked the memory that one night,

704
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,039
way back in the good old days, you and I,

705
00:38:23,559 --> 00:38:28,639
uh spent a fun evening at Studio fifty four. Wow,

706
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:30,679
oh the memories.

707
00:38:31,039 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 4: That was the night that you and I were doing

708
00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:35,599
lines off the smaller Carlyons bat Hey.

709
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:40,599
Speaker 2: Well she didn't mind, so I mean, you know, get it. Well,

710
00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:43,519
the getting's good. I guess it was consensual, right mm.

711
00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: Memory memories. Wow, well, this is amazing. It's wonderful to

712
00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:55,719
have this kind of reunion happening. Geene Simmons of Kiss, Well, Mat, I.

713
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 4: Am absolutely mess Maris that I have my old friend

714
00:38:59,119 --> 00:39:03,400
Brooklyn Mike the studio. I hang up now and continue

715
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,320
my Christmas shopping, all right, And I just wanted to

716
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,679
point out that for the next fifteen minutes, if you

717
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,800
go to Kiss online dot com, fifteen percent of all

718
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:14,880
coffee monks.

719
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,519
Speaker 1: Wow, by one at Kiss online dot com only for

720
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:19,639
the next fifteen minutes.

721
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,039
Speaker 4: Wow, for the next fifteen minutes, by one coffee munket

722
00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:24,920
full price. Get the next.

723
00:39:26,519 --> 00:39:29,519
Speaker 1: Oh that's a deal. That's that's fantastic. Wow.

724
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 2: As amazing as we New Yorker say, such a deal.

725
00:39:32,639 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: Wow.

726
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,119
Speaker 4: And we do have the four cups where false Stanley's

727
00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:43,679
on Wanton, Gene seven Kisses on another, uh huh ay,

728
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,519
and of course Peter Chris from Chills.

729
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: Wow. Well that's amazing. So you can get all four,

730
00:39:54,119 --> 00:39:58,440
that's that's great. Collect them all, Mat, that's wonderful. Got

731
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:01,159
to collect them all professional math.

732
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,079
Speaker 4: But I will say that if you buy the Paul,

733
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,199
you will get the Ace and Peter at the next

734
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,000
fifteen minutes.

735
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 1: Wow, oh boy, it just gets better. I hope you'll

736
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,719
extend that, because you know, I am doing a radio show.

737
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,440
I don't think I can make that purchase in the

738
00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:18,480
next fifteen minutes.

739
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 4: That's something you're gonna have to work out with your people.

740
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,679
Speaker 1: Math, I understand. Jean Simmons of Kiss, I.

741
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 4: Am taking up Brooklyn Mike's time. Nice to hear your

742
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,239
voice again, Brooklyn Mike.

743
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:34,039
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend.

744
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 4: Maybe you can make a stop on that nighttime show

745
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:38,719
there on Friday night.

746
00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. All right? Oh wow, he's gone,

747
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,079
Gene Simmons of Kiss.

748
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, he mentioned Peter Chris. Peter Chris is from my

749
00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:50,400
neighborhood in Brooklyn Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Oh yes, yeah, actually the

750
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,119
same street that might that I lived on for a

751
00:40:52,159 --> 00:40:54,079
little while that my brother lived on. Oh o kidding,

752
00:40:54,159 --> 00:40:57,559
and on the same street also down the other end

753
00:40:58,159 --> 00:40:58,920
Barry Manilow.

754
00:40:59,039 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: Oh no, kiddyest wild wow that is yeah. So did

755
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:06,639
you ever interact with Peter or what about Barry? No, no, no,

756
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,119
It's nice to be able to reunite, reunite you with.

757
00:41:10,159 --> 00:41:14,559
Speaker 2: G I'm just you know, I'm playing it back in

758
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:17,920
my in my mind that it was quite quite the affair.

759
00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:22,199
Speaker 1: I can imagine. Well, do you want to you want

760
00:41:22,199 --> 00:41:24,360
to play another song for us? I'd love to hear more.

761
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 2: All right, do you mind if I keep it a

762
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,000
little low key?

763
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't mind at all if I whatever, whatever you

764
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:32,360
want to play.

765
00:41:36,159 --> 00:41:39,079
Speaker 2: Okay, here's a song again. Dan Fogelberg is my other

766
00:41:39,679 --> 00:41:46,719
singer songwriter hero Man from Peoria, Illinois. And yeah, I

767
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,039
mean if I had to describe myself musically and what

768
00:41:49,159 --> 00:41:52,119
I do, I'd just say the mellow music man, you know,

769
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,360
like it or not. I mean, that's just just what

770
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,400
I am and what I do. Sure, but it doesn't

771
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,320
mean I don't do any up tempo stuff. But my

772
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,880
heart is with like the sentimental, really mellow kind of stuff.

773
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,360
So okay, this one's entitled song from Half Mountain.

774
00:42:07,599 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: All right, Brooklyn Mike live in studio.

775
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,519
Speaker 5: Mm hmm sounds good.

776
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:16,559
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, here we go.

777
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 5: Now the windows. In a moment, it will be raging.

778
00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:47,840
Now my sole is young. In a moment, it will

779
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:57,559
be aging and high of the pines. I wrote several

780
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:05,639
lines and left them in a bottle for you to fine.

781
00:43:16,159 --> 00:43:20,800
Now the dream is rising. In a moment it will

782
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:28,079
be passed. This breath is my first, it will at

783
00:43:28,199 --> 00:43:35,880
you soon be my last, and on me with the coast.

784
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:42,480
I made several toasts to you and me and the sea,

785
00:43:44,159 --> 00:43:47,000
and no one heard.

786
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: M hmm.

787
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 5: Nowst In a moment, it will be raging. Now my

788
00:44:31,199 --> 00:44:36,679
soul is young. In a moment it will be aging

789
00:44:39,199 --> 00:44:46,039
and higher both their pines. I wrote several lines and

790
00:44:46,599 --> 00:44:53,159
left them in a bottle for you too, fine.

791
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: Wow, beautiful, beautiful. So that's uh, that's Dan Fogelberg. Yeah, Fogelberg.

792
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,480
What I feel like, I've never really listened to much

793
00:45:14,519 --> 00:45:17,159
of him. I mean, what are what are his big hits? Again?

794
00:45:17,199 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 2: I forget, Well, there's the leader of the band, Uh,

795
00:45:20,559 --> 00:45:21,920
the one he talks about.

796
00:45:21,679 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 1: His funt leader of the band. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

797
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 2: And then it's longer, longer than anything.

798
00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:30,599
Speaker 1: Oh that's the big big one is that's actually my.

799
00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 2: Wife and I and mine. That's our wedding songkidding longer

800
00:45:35,039 --> 00:45:40,000
and then uh yeah. But I do like twenty his songs,

801
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,519
and wow, none of them are let me see, none

802
00:45:43,559 --> 00:45:44,519
of them are really are hits?

803
00:45:44,679 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, that's cool though. Actually you know why uh,

804
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,960
I mean, why be predictable? Yeah, you know, dude, it's

805
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,199
cool that you do some some deep cuts there. Yeah.

806
00:45:58,159 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 2: How about a song by Coburn? Yes, yes, so this

807
00:46:02,199 --> 00:46:07,039
is called Lord of the Starfields. Again he was really,

808
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,079
I mean, this guy is a prolific songwriter. He is

809
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,719
virtuoso guitarist and really a one hit wonder Wondering where

810
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,360
the Lions Are nineteen seventy five. I don't know if

811
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,280
he had well, Danny rocket, rocket launcher, rocket launcher. Yeah,

812
00:46:23,599 --> 00:46:25,800
in the eighties, that's when I first became aware of

813
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,800
a right. So yeah, yeah, yeah, and this one is

814
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:36,039
kind of Lord of the Starfields, not really a religious song,

815
00:46:36,679 --> 00:46:42,840
but kind of giving acknowledgment or praise to what I

816
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,079
would refer to. And it's not my own term source.

817
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,679
Everything emanates from. Yeah, yeah, and it's entitled Lord of

818
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:50,400
the Starfields.

819
00:46:50,440 --> 00:47:00,519
Speaker 1: All right, Brooklyn Mike Livin studio, m hm.

820
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 6: Word of the star feels.

821
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 5: Ancient of days, you nursemaker. Here's a song in your praise,

822
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,880
Wings of the star cloud.

823
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 3: Beginning, and then.

824
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,519
Speaker 5: You made my heart.

825
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 2: Like a banner in the wind.

826
00:47:46,159 --> 00:47:59,079
Speaker 6: Oh the Fire's son keeping Birded, Oh my, the fires

827
00:47:59,119 --> 00:48:17,639
of song, be birded, Lord of.

828
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: The Star, fel souler of life.

829
00:48:27,159 --> 00:48:37,760
Speaker 5: Heaven under far throt of your life, Voice of.

830
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: The No smile what you all?

831
00:48:47,679 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 3: The warrior.

832
00:48:51,599 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 7: Only comes home to you on the fire sun keep

833
00:49:08,679 --> 00:49:20,480
the fires sun keeping. Oh, the fires sun keeping.

834
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: Well, that is cool. Yeah, I've never heard that before.

835
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:47,480
That's an old Yeah. Yeah. He's known more for producing, right,

836
00:49:47,599 --> 00:49:50,679
He's produced a lot of albums, hasn't he He I'm

837
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:51,440
not certain about that.

838
00:49:51,679 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, But what I will tell you is his albums

839
00:49:54,559 --> 00:49:59,400
are engineered. They're like the finest sounding, like sonically y

840
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,320
albums that I that I own, and I own like

841
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,920
three hundred albums. They just sound so good, yeah, the

842
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,519
way they're produced and engineered.

843
00:50:07,679 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

844
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,159
Speaker 2: And then it's funny because I saw him a number

845
00:50:11,159 --> 00:50:13,599
of years ago and when Vinyl was coming out again

846
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,800
and he had a new album and it was on Vinyl,

847
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,440
and I bought it, and I'll never buy Vinyl again. Honestly,

848
00:50:19,599 --> 00:50:23,199
it just sounded horrible. Really, Yeah. I was really disappointed

849
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,039
with it, especially in comparison to like his old albums

850
00:50:26,039 --> 00:50:28,559
from the seventies, which sounds so good.

851
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know what it is. I know

852
00:50:31,079 --> 00:50:35,960
that some vinyl now is it's not like there's a

853
00:50:36,039 --> 00:50:38,800
cheaper way to do it where it's not like uh

854
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,920
where it's basically just they how do they do it?

855
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,039
It's not I don't I don't remember exactly, but it's

856
00:50:46,119 --> 00:50:49,800
it's there's a cheaper way to do vinyl now that's uh,

857
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,960
it's not like the original. It's it's you're basically listening

858
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,280
to a CD, but it's on the record, okay, instead

859
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,599
of uh, you know, instead of listening to actual vinyl. Yeah,

860
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,320
but uh no, that's interesting.

861
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,559
Speaker 2: It wouldn't surprise me though, if he were a producer,

862
00:51:02,679 --> 00:51:05,320
because the guy's brilliant. Yeah yeah, and I've met him

863
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:06,440
a couple of times. Super nice.

864
00:51:06,519 --> 00:51:08,679
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. But he's still tours.

865
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's still plays Yeah yeah good. I mean as

866
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,320
far as touring, I don't know, but he still does

867
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:14,119
shows for sure.

868
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

869
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 2: But even like Gordon Lightfoot, I mean he died a

870
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,960
couple of years ago and he was almost eighty five

871
00:51:20,039 --> 00:51:22,039
years old, he's still doing like one hundred shows a year.

872
00:51:22,159 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: Oh wow, crazy? Yeah wow. Do you want to do

873
00:51:26,039 --> 00:51:27,400
We have time? If you want to do one more,

874
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:28,280
you want to do one more.

875
00:51:28,679 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 2: See what should I do?

876
00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:31,559
Speaker 1: What should If you're just joining us, We've got Brooklyn

877
00:51:31,639 --> 00:51:35,559
Mike here in studio, a long time member of the

878
00:51:35,639 --> 00:51:38,320
extended family around here. But this is uh, this is

879
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:39,960
Brooklyn Mike's first time on this show.

880
00:51:40,199 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun.

881
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about it.

882
00:51:42,639 --> 00:51:45,119
Speaker 2: Like I said, I've started saying before being that I'm

883
00:51:45,159 --> 00:51:47,679
not working a regular job anymore. Now now it affords

884
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,840
me time to do you know, be able to come

885
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,679
here in the morning or yeah, you know, because I

886
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,800
was working weekends, i was working nights and just wasn't

887
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,079
conducive to doing too many other things.

888
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, should we do?

889
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 2: Would it be crazy to do another Gordon Lightfoot song?

890
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,679
Speaker 1: Not at all, Not at all. Okay, he's your favorite

891
00:52:09,679 --> 00:52:10,079
after all.

892
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,119
Speaker 2: Again, it's very uh, very selfish of me here.

893
00:52:15,199 --> 00:52:18,119
Speaker 1: No, that's that's quite all right. Plus, you do you

894
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,880
do songs that a lot of us haven't heard before.

895
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 2: So well, see that's see, that's my thing. It's like, hopefully,

896
00:52:24,159 --> 00:52:26,880
you know, whatever the songs are, you know, people are

897
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,000
enjoying them, and hopefully it makes it more interesting rather

898
00:52:30,039 --> 00:52:33,159
than hearing a song that you've heard three hundred, you know,

899
00:52:33,199 --> 00:52:35,920
a thousand times, like I told Peter, like I do

900
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,760
a couple of Eagles songs, but you know, nothing against

901
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,719
take it easy. But I'm not doing it anymore now.

902
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: I know how to do it.

903
00:52:41,519 --> 00:52:44,159
Speaker 2: If somebody requests it, I could do it, but it's not.

904
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,960
My choice is not to do take it easy. Yeah,

905
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:48,599
do we really need to hear it again?

906
00:52:48,679 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: I don't blame you, you know what I mean, I

907
00:52:50,039 --> 00:52:50,559
don't blame you.

908
00:52:51,079 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 2: So let's see. So this is actually this is kind

909
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,400
of a moody song. This is also an old one.

910
00:53:01,639 --> 00:53:04,320
This goes back I don't know, sixty six, maybe nineteen

911
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,440
sixty six, sixty seven, can remember. I mean Gordon was

912
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,480
you know, he was performing way back in the early fifties.

913
00:53:11,519 --> 00:53:12,079
Speaker 1: I think it was.

914
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 2: So this song is about the four seasons, which you

915
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,599
know is kind of apropos right now, we're kind of

916
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:25,519
changing seasons here. He starts starts with this. It's four

917
00:53:25,679 --> 00:53:28,639
verses and starts with the spring, summer, autumn, you know,

918
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,960
ends with the winter, but then by the end of

919
00:53:31,039 --> 00:53:35,239
the last verse it's returning to spring again. And he

920
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:40,960
kind of describes it as you could if you really

921
00:53:41,159 --> 00:53:44,280
listen to it. It could be related to a relationship

922
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:48,360
between two people. So there's that analogy, so to speak.

923
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,639
And this was actually the first day that I started

924
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,679
that I studied guitar. I was determined to play a

925
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,519
full song the first day. So I had my lessons

926
00:54:00,039 --> 00:54:02,920
and I went home and I learned. I played this

927
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,880
song the first day. So this is the first song

928
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,440
that I learned how to play on the guitar. And

929
00:54:07,519 --> 00:54:09,639
it's entitled Pussy Willows Cattails.

930
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,599
Speaker 1: Okay, so all right, good luck with this one, Brooklyn

931
00:54:12,679 --> 00:54:13,559
Mike live in studio.

932
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:14,159
Speaker 2: Okay.

933
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:44,199
Speaker 5: Pussy whooos, cat tails, soft winds and roses, rain pools

934
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:52,400
in the woodlands, water to my knees, shivery, quivering, the

935
00:54:52,639 --> 00:55:01,000
warm breath of spring. Pussy willows, cattails, soft winds and roses,

936
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:15,519
catted birds and corn fields. Day dreams together, riding on

937
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:23,079
the roadside. The dust gets in your rise, reveling, disheveling.

938
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:30,639
The summer nights can bring pussy willows, cat tails, soft

939
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:50,760
winds and roses, slendid rays and colored days, dark blue horizons,

940
00:55:52,000 --> 00:56:00,480
naked limbs and wheat bills, hazy afternoons. Voice rejoice, seeing

941
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:08,400
the wine cups still spring, Pussy willows, cattails, soft winds,

942
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and roses, harsh nights and candlelights, wood fires, ablazing, soft

943
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lips and fingertips, Resting in muscle treasurey, remembering the permise,

944
00:56:33,199 --> 00:56:40,880
soft spring, pussy willows, cattails, soft winds and roses.

945
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Speaker 1: Oh beautiful, beautiful.

946
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Speaker 2: I'm wondering if I could substitute my music for sedation

947
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at the doctor's office.

948
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Speaker 1: No, you sound great. You sound great, Brooklyn, Mike, thank

949
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,199
you so much, my friend. This has been wonderful.

950
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Speaker 2: It's really been my pleasure to be here.

951
00:57:17,639 --> 00:57:20,239
Speaker 1: Thank you, Matt. Absolutely, and you're gonna be on Retrospectrum

952
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,400
Radio right next Friday. Yeah, it's coming from this coming Friday.

953
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I should say very good, very good, by the way,

954
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before we run out of time too. I just want

955
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to remind everybody for those listening live on Saturday tonight

956
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,880
the pop punk pop up at Terminus Underground, of course,

957
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presented by New Hampshire Underground. Jenny and I will be

958
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there the event doors at seven pm. All ages fifteen

959
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:45,119
dollars entry, twenty dollars VIP lounge. Come see some great bands,

960
00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:48,480
Island of Alaska on what You're on gr im and

961
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of course some great artwork. Jenny will have a table setup. Also,

962
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Dennis Layton will be there with his art with Love

963
00:57:55,519 --> 00:57:59,360
from Faith, Elements and Fantasy. Brenda Drew Designs, Cosmos Grations,

964
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Andre do My Prospero's Painting's Mystics and Chelsea Purington Photography.

965
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That is tonight doors at seven at one thirty four

966
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Hayines Street and Nashua, New Hampshire. You can go to

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New Hampshire Underground dot org for more information. So we

968
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look forward to seeing you there and I believe this

969
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is part of the Winter Stroll in Nashua, so great events,

970
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so come see us. By the way, if you're wondering

971
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,119
what happened to Jenny, she went home because we had

972
00:58:24,119 --> 00:58:27,119
a very important package delivered, so she took an Uber

973
00:58:27,239 --> 00:58:30,400
home microphone, a new microphone for my podcast studio at home,

974
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and it's an expensive item, so she went home to

975
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:37,000
make sure that the ports pirates didn't get to it.

976
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But Brooklyn, Mike, thank you again, my friend. This has

977
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been absolutely wonderful to have you here and we'll do

978
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it again in the future. You're coming back in January

979
00:58:46,719 --> 00:58:48,599
right to this show. Yeah, I believe we're booked for

980
00:58:48,679 --> 00:58:51,320
January twenty fourth, outstanding. I'll look forward to it. Thank

981
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:54,039
you very much. Absolutely anything people should know about where

982
00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:55,639
to find you online if they want to book you

983
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,400
or now that you're taking bookings or gearing up to

984
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do that.

985
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Speaker 2: You know, I've got a couple of videos on YouTube, okay,

986
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but they're under my name, which is Michael Plotino pl

987
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:08,880
O T I n O. Okay, first time I've given

988
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,079
it out. Oh yes, but there's just I've just got

989
00:59:11,119 --> 00:59:13,960
a couple of videos on there. I'm just starting to

990
00:59:15,679 --> 00:59:18,400
try to have some kind of online presence. It's very

991
00:59:18,519 --> 00:59:20,760
very new to me. Yeah, you know, I'm still used

992
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:25,360
to recording on a four track cassette, which I love doing, right,

993
00:59:25,559 --> 00:59:29,920
you know, so certainly if anybody listening really wants to

994
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,239
get in touch with me through any of the radio shows,

995
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,320
all you guys know me and have my contact so

996
00:59:35,639 --> 00:59:36,519
that would be awesome.

997
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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely all right, Brooklyn, Mike, thank you so much.

998
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:41,760
And of course if you missed any part of today

999
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should it will be up in just a little bit

1000
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at wmnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton

1001
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dot com. And that's gonna do it for us.

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Speaker 4: For now.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk at y'all a little bit later, Bye everybody,