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Speaker 1: That is quite catchy. That is Brian Bolanski. That is

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called the Perfect Date. And this is Matt Connorton Unleashed

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and we are live from the studios of wm NH

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ninety five point three FM, Inglorious of Manchester, New Hampshire.

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Today is October twelve, twenty twenty four, and Jenny is here,

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of course at the news table, and we have Brian

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here with us. Let's see if that mike is working. Brian,

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how are you?

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Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going? I'm doing well? How about yourself?

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Speaker 1: There we go, now I can hear you all right?

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Brian is So we were talking off air about I

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was trying to figure out if I was saying your

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name correctly, and so it turns out I wasn't, but

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I was because so you professionally you go by Brian Bolanski. Yes,

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but the way I was saying it Biolanski is actually

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the uh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how you say it correctly in Poland, and

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it is a Polish name. So I'm doing the the

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Midwestern americanized accent version.

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Speaker 1: Well fair enough, but we do have listeners in Poland,

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I believe awesome. I made that up, but it's nice

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to think we do I mean it's the internet.

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Speaker 2: Well, I definitely promoted this show on my social media

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pages and do have quite a few followers in Poland,

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so hopefully, hopefully now there are some listeners there if

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there weren't before.

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Speaker 1: There you go, there, you go. Yeah, you're on a

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big national tour, right or you're going everywhere yet?

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Speaker 2: Well this fall it is a Midwest, East Coast and

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Canada tour. I actually just got back from Edmondston, New Brunswick,

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playing a show up there last night. Okay, so so yeah, yeah,

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all over the place, just trying to promote the new

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album Brian's Super Happy Fun Time.

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Speaker 1: For Yes, yes, no, I love it. It's very very

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catchy stuff fun songs. Didn't have to make any radio edits,

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which is nice.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, I always try to be polite

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to to my friends in the radio there. Make everything

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FCC friendly.

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Speaker 1: Where are you from.

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Speaker 2: I am from Charlotte, North Carolina. That's my home.

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Speaker 3: We have listeners there, we do have for el Yeah,

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that is true royal listeners.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, excellent.

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Speaker 2: All right, well hello Charlotte listeners.

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Speaker 1: That is a that is a verifiable fact. So is

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that where you currently live?

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Speaker 2: That is my home? Base. Yeah, so though saying I

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live there is is kind of a stretch. I'm there

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maybe a few weeks out of the year. The rest

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of the time, I'm just traveling across the country. And

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like we were talking off the air, did a europe

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tour earlier this year too, So yeah, I spend most

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of my time traveling and playing music. Yeah, I do

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call Charlotte home at the end of the day, you know,

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for a few weeks at least.

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Speaker 1: How long have you been doing this full time touring?

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Speaker 2: Twenty twelve is when I made the big plunge and

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decided to go from being a part timer like weekend

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Warrior to just kind of being a nomad and kind

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of living on the road more or less.

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Speaker 1: Was it was? It scary at first?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's still scary. It's still yeah, especially at first.

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of it, and honestly, the aspect of not doing it

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is scarier to me than all the things that folks

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might consider scary about being on the road. Ye, But yeah,

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you get used to it and it's great. It's a

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lot of hard work, but it's a lot of fun too.

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Speaker 1: Have you been touring steadily since twenty twelve, so actually

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the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: Probably we know that, Yeah, we know, there was a

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little break for that, and I actually have been touring

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steadily since things reopened from COVID. Pre COVID, it would

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get to see, I've gotten better about the business aspect.

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like nine months, run out of money, have to work

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on tour another seven months. You know, Yeah, it depends,

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every financial mistake there was to make as being a

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traveling musician. So now I, like, you know, know how

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to weather the storm, if you know, some years are

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better than others. Sure, but but yeah, yeah, since since

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you're making it work, certainly, and that's great.

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Speaker 2: Good for you, Thank you, Good for you.

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Speaker 1: Well, do you want to play something live for us? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Sure, I'm gonna do a song from my last album,

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Brian's Super Happy Fun Time three, the predecessor to the

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New one, and this song is called rock the Library.

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It's a song about how I hang out in the

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libraries all day before my shows because it's a great

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place to get some work done, hang out for free,

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and even every once in a while, have a chance

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to read a book.

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Speaker 4: There you go, all right, way, honey, I know what

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you need. I like to write, you like to read.

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I really like the way you look. Are you gonna

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check out my library book? Because I'm you your host?

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We're the most rocking libraries coast to coast and I ten,

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I twenty, I thirty and forty A fifty, I sixty,

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I seventy eighty. I love you, baby.

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Speaker 3: The don't mean maybe your heart of than nash potatoes

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm your hosts. Aokave rocking libraries. You will say, yeah,

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you look so cute in your glasses. Studying for college

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classes no fills only passes sweeter than all family molasses.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host.

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Speaker 4: We're the most rocking libraries coast to coast. And I ten,

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Speaker 3: The don't mean maybe your heart of than mash potatoes

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and gravy Well, I'm your hosts.

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Speaker 4: AOKA rocking libraries.

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Speaker 2: You will say, have.

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Speaker 4: Ck rock rock the library, Rock rock rock the library,

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Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock the library.

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I'm your host AOK rocking libraries. You will say, yeah, honey,

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I know what I need. I like a girl that

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likes to read. Come on, baby, I'm no fool. I

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know that the library's cool. And I'm your host. We're

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the most rocking libraries coast to coast and nine TENN

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twenty thirty forty, A fifty, I sixty, I seventy eighty.

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I love you, baby, don't even maybe your hot of

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damn mashter, Tata's and gravy. And I'm your host AOK

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rocking libraries.

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Speaker 2: You will say, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Rock rock rock the library, Rock rock rock the library,

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Rock rock rock the library. A rock rock rock the library.

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I'm your host AOK rocking libraries.

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Speaker 2: You will save.

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Speaker 1: Very nice. That's awesome. I love it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks y'all, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Brian Blanski is here with us live in studio. If

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you're just joining us and uh, yeah, libraries are do

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you have you found that there aren't as many as

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Speaker 2: Oh no, there seem to be plenty of libraries. The

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only thing I've noticed was, well, you know, a lot

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libraries are closed on Sundays, which but you know, honestly,

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they're often like open till late at night. So, like,

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if I have an early show, I stopped by a

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college library, pull out my laptop and you know, start

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sending emails to book book and promote shows. That's pretty

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much how I keep things going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Now do you have a because a lot

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of the people who listen to this show are musicians

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do you have advice for maybe somebody who's just starting

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do in terms of touring nationally, hitting the road. You

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know you mentioned mistakes that you made, especially you know

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earlier early in your career.

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Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, my advice to anyone that wants to, you know,

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do music full time. Just pretty much it's all I do,

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more or less. You know, if I'm not driving city

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to city or playing shows, I'm just I'm on my laptop,

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laptop promoting and booking shows. So I literally, you know,

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don't have a lot of downtime, and yeah, I just

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spend all my time just you know, working hard at it.

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or anything, if you devote your entire focus to whatever

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like you know, little by little. And my other advice is,

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do not let any rejections or anybody who you know,

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saying something mean about your music or about you as

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a person. Don't let that deter you because a lot

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of the times the people are probably just jealous. So yeah,

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don't let any of that stuff bother you, and just

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work hard and keep a positive attitude and you know,

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stay calm when challenges arise. That's my advice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you. Yeah, I think that that too

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kind of gels with what you know. In the first hour,

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our guest six Minds Combined, who's kind of an alternative

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hip hop artist from the area. He said something similar

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not letting rejection or criticism affect you. But but he

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talked about how you know, the way he really got

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and how approaching it. He talked about how approaching everything

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positively really enables him to have the career that he

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Speaker 2: And that's the truth. And I think you know that,

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like like it's true in anything you do that if

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you stay positive and you treat people the way you

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lot of people in you know, the music business and

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in any business that you know, we'll try to get

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Speaker 1: The Internet has made it very small indeed. Indeed, yeah, yeah, no,

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you treat people, because it's so much of it is

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about building relationships and having a strong reputation, you know,

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because yeah, you know, people talk well. It's quite true.

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Speaker 2: And one thing I've seen in shows where I'm playing

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with other musical acts and maybe some that are, you know,

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more famous than I am, but I've seen a lot

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of musicians treat their fans poorly, like they can't be

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bothered with them, and that just always boggled my mind.

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I'm like these people that like your music is the

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reason why you're doing what you're doing. So anytime, like

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somebody you know, tries to reach out to me and

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express that they like my music, I try my best

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to express my appreciation for them, because if it wasn't

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for those people, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: Right right Exactly, how many do you have any idea

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how many songs you've written? It looks like from what

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I see online, it looks like you've written quite a few.

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Speaker 2: Exactly one hundred and eighty published songs.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Before I was a solo artist, I had a

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band for many years, so most of those songs are

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the old band. I still play a few of those

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old band songs here and there in in my live sets.

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Speaker 1: And you've probably written I imagine you strike me as

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someone who writes a lot. You've probably written a lot

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got a like a flood of new song ideas. I'm like,

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that always happens too. I'm like, oh, man, why could

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have I wrote this one before the album and put

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it on this album? But yeah, I definitely have almost

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the whole next album written whenever, whenever I find the

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time and the money to record it, you know, it's

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definitely I've got the songs with all set.

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Speaker 1: Where do you record?

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Speaker 2: So most of my songs I record in Charlotte. There's

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a studio called Catalyst Recording, and my producer Rob Tavlion

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down there and we've been working together for almost twenty

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years since the old days with my old band, and

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he does a great job. I always like to say

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he's like the George Martin of the Southeast United States.

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a lot of the songs on the albums uh. And

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this this last album, actually I did the whole thing

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It was a better year financially because sometimes I just

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do the radio singles, like the standout tracks at his

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studio and then I'll self record the rest of the

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album in my home studio. But this year treated me okay,

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Speaker 1: Outstanding.

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Speaker 2: Neat, Yeah, it wasn't neat.

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Speaker 1: What was the band that you were in? What? What

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did what did you guys sound like?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 2: The band was called Anguish with a W A G

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W I s H. And it was punk rock slash

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hard rock kind of band. Yes, yes, so I definitely

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did like A one to eighty as far as like

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the the lyrical themes, like you know, now it's Brian

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super happy fun time, whereas, like you know, the the

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old band was more like angry, screaming punk rock songs

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and stuff. Yeah. So, actually the final album as a

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band I got to do with the late great Steve

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Albini back in twenty sixteen, no kidding, and that was

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so yeah, he was. He was a great guy too.

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I mean he did so much for independent music and

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he was a really pleasant guy to work with. He

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was just ultra professional, had a lot of input and

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ideas for a lot of the songs we recorded there.

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So it was a great way for me to like

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end that chapter of my life, to get to something

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a dream i'd always had. Is my favorite engineer by far.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic that you got to work with Steve Albini.

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That's great, Thank you. Pasted a couple of years ago, right,

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it was earlier this year. Actually, oh it was earlier

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this year. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And then so after that, so the band was that

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after having that experience, was that kind of like, well,

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there's nowhere else to go with this, or.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually what it was? You know, I mentioned I've

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been touring live since twenty twelve, and you know it

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was like half and half band and solo because basically

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I'd set up up tours as my band, but bandmates

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would just like flake out halfway through the tour. Because

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the living life on the road at the level that

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I do it, it can be a little grueling and

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it's not for everybody. So basically, band members would quit

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and I'd be left like just showing up to the

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places alone with my acoustic guitar, like, yeah, my band

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bailed on me, but I'm here. I still want to

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play and and I just got the epiphany. I was like,

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you know, why don't I just do this right?

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Speaker 1: You know right?

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Speaker 2: And it's it's been a lot easier logistically since I

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just started being a solo artist. And then of course

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on the albums, I'm I'm doing the instruments, like the

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track we played to start the show, I'm doing drums, bass,

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lead guitars. So I still get to kind of have

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fun in the studio, like like I'm a full band,

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laying each track down one at a time, Paul McCartney style.

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But yeah, when I'm live, this is this is what

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I do. I got my acoustic guitar, and I'm miss

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singing and playing my songs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard with you know, I've been in bands

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and somebody I forget who it was now. Somebody on

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the show described describe the challenge of it, you know,

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in terms of scheduling and all of it. It's like

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being like if you're in a band with three other people,

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it's like it's like being in a it's like being

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in three separate relationships. And those with with people who

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are all in three separate relationships. You know, it's it's

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it's just it's it's hard. It's really hard. It's so hard.

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Speaker 2: And it's sad too because the last incarnation of my band,

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we were just a two piece. It was just me

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and a drummer. But still it was just uh, you know,

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like I said, it's more like you know, sleeping in

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a vehicle and you know, not you know, dealing with

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all the you know, pressures of the road. I mean,

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don't get me wrong, it's a fun time too, but

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there's a lot of things that I think, you know,

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quote unquote normal people might might find just they couldn't

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you know, deal with it on a daily basis. Yeah,

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so uh so yeah, but but you know, what you

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said was one hundred percent true, like you know, trying

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to you know, manage all the schedules and it is

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it's like it's like being in a family and being

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or being like in a relationship. So it's tricky. I mean,

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and uh, a lot of my ex bandmates are are

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still like very supportive come to my shows when I'm

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around in Charlotte. So yeah, definitely, like not uh you know,

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a lot of amicable breakups, just kind of like hey, Brian,

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I just can't do this, not not like you know, yeah,

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like I can't stand you.

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Speaker 1: Well that's good. Is the material that you recorded with

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Anguish is that still available online?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah absolutely. As a matter of fact. Accidentally, because

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I didn't understand how all the digital distribution worked at

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the time, my first solo album is actually under the

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old band, which is yeah, I was a little mistake

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on my Parloy said, I think I made every mistake.

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I was like, oh, I didn't know I had to

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create a brand new uh you know, identity online for

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my new uh my new projects. So so yeah, but yeah,

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all that stuff if anybody wants to see it, but

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I will warn anybody that that stuff is not family friendly,

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like the Brian Super Happy stuff. So just a fair

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warning to anyone because there's a lot of like younger,

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younger listeners these days. I've been playing a lot of

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shows at things like you know, churches and schools and

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and things like that. So definitely, I just like to say,

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parental advisory. For the earlier stuff. There's there's some clean stuff,

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but a lot of it was punk rocks. So yeah,

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it's enough said. I guess understood, understood.

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Speaker 1: Well, do you want to play another one for us?

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I'd love to hear another song, Absolutely sure.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna just do one more from the last album,

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and this one is called Baby. I'm your super Mario, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Brian Blansky live in studio with us.

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Speaker 4: Baby, om your super Mario. Oh yeah, your super Mario.

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Give me a try. You won't be Sorrio. Oh no,

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you won't be Sorrio. I'm getting big, I'm getting super

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I'm gonna save you from King Cooper. You're gonna be

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my Princess Peach. The Level eight Castle is in my reach.

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Fav ite, I'm your super Mario. Oh yeah, your super Mario.

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You just stay away from Warrio. Oh no, don't go

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with Warrio. You're gonna be my Princess Peach. The Level

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eight Castle is in my reach. Will all my dreams

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have come true except the one where I save you.

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Where I save you? Because all my dreams have come

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to except the one where I save you. I just

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want to be your guy. We have a super happy

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fun time. Baby, I'm your super Mario. Faby, I'm your

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super Mario Fabe. I'm your super Mario Baby, I'm your

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super Mario.

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Speaker 1: Now, Ryan Dolansky live in studio with us here on

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this Saturday morning on Matt connorton Unleashed. Yeah, I'll tell you,

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if you're gonn write a song about a video game,

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it makes sense to do that one because it's timeless.

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Yeah you know what I mean, Like like Super Mario

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goes back to when I was a kid.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, me at me too. And ironically that when

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that song came out on my my last album last year,

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I had no idea there was a Super Mario movie

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coming out, and it actually came out just about the

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same month that the movie came out. I was like, oh, really,

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what a coincidence, But it worked out. I think that's

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the most popular song as far as the digital streaming

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sites go, which is which is kind of neat. I

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like it, and once again, you know, yeah, I used

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to love playing video games as a kid. Not a

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lot of time to play video games now with the organizing,

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you know, three hundred shows a year, So instead I write,

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write and play songs about him instead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, and video games can

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be highly addictive too, so probably.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. Well, you know what, I love video games,

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and I feel like the fact that I was so

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into them when I was a kid has like really

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helped me, uh, you know, with with my booking and

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my promoting, like you know, surfing the internet trying to

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find you know, radio TV stations and venues. Like the

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faster I can find their emails, I'm like, it's kind

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of like, you know, jumping out of the way of

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the Koopa Troopa and super Mario. Is are you fast

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enough to do that? Are you fast enough to find

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the right place before another band books it?

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Speaker 1: Kind of thing, right, right? Yeah, No, that makes sense.

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That makes sense in your experience, you know, because again

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you were started touring in twenty twelve, and then of course,

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you know, the pandemic kind of caused that break and

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then and then you got back out. Is is touring

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different post pandemic in terms of like I hear people

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complain that some venues have closed and you know that

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kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: You know, Yes, I think if I'm not mistaken, and

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I could be wrong about this, but I believe that,

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like you know, pre COVID that I think one third,

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close to one third of all venues in the US

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closed down. Now there are new ones popping up to

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which is great, but yes, sadly, I mean venues that

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I'd played at for years and years that I had

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great relationships with went out of business because they just

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could not weather the storm. I mean, you know, the

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COVID thing. Really it killed a lot of venues, which

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is sad. But you know what, like I said earlier

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about the advice, you know, I mean, there's you just

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keep going. There's a well, like I said, I've started

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playing a lot of places that a lot of musicians

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don't even think about playing, like schools, homeless shelters, hospitals.

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So you know, there's and I think a lot of

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musicians probably don't want to play those kinds of places

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for whatever reason. But to me, those are some of

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the most fun shows and some of the most appreciative

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audiences at places that don't typically get musicians.

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Speaker 1: No, that makes sense. Is there a particular place or

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type of place that you've played that really kind of

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surprised you where you it ended up being a better

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experience than you thought.

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Speaker 2: You know, and it's funny. I have a song where

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I list off all the different interesting places. Yes, I've

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played grocery stores. I played a laundromat once, you know,

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a dentist office waiting room in Mexico. I was able

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to get a play for the people waiting to get

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their dental work done and got a discount for doing

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the concert. So that was kind of yeah. And to me,

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like the more unique of a place, like, the more

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fun it is. And like I said, I've been having

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a lot of fun, you know, doing doing the shows

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at like homeless shelters and hospitals and rehabilitation centers, just

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you know, trying to think about people in the population

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that that, Like I said, a lot of musicians don't

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think about playing for them, and I like to, you know,

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I like to, uh to do those kind of shows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's awesome. And while you're while you're on

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the road, do you do you primarily do shows by

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yourself or do you have anybody you team up with

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or anybody?

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Speaker 2: Mostly it's so when I'm traveling, it's just me in

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my car going city to city. Most of my shows

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00:25:08,799 --> 00:25:12,200
are me just performing on my own and I you know,

474
00:25:12,279 --> 00:25:14,839
my concerts can be anywhere from like an hour and

475
00:25:14,839 --> 00:25:17,519
a half, two hours to uh I've done up to

476
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,400
five hours. Really a five hour concert. A few of those, Yeah,

477
00:25:21,559 --> 00:25:23,440
those are few and far between, but I have done

478
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,880
a couple of them. Sometimes I do play shows where

479
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,839
I'm playing a shorter set and there's other musicians or

480
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,000
bands on the bill with me, but uh, typically it's

481
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,759
I'm doing the longer concerts where it's just me.

482
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: Wow, no kidding. You've done of shows was five hours?

483
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 2: Five hours? Yeah, one in one in New Mexico and

484
00:25:42,279 --> 00:25:43,359
one in Wyoming.

485
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 1: Wow, that's like Springsteen in the eighties, you do those

486
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,319
five hour shows. Yeah, you know.

487
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 2: It was uh yeah, there's something else and but ill Yeah,

488
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,400
I love a challenge, so you know when they were

489
00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:58,559
uh in one of the venues, was like, hey, our

490
00:25:59,079 --> 00:26:01,599
next band cant old, can you just play five hours

491
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,960
instead of two and a half. I was like, I'm

492
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:04,240
on it.

493
00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, no kidding. I hope they paid you for it.

494
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 2: I did get paid a yah.

495
00:26:09,519 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, which was a great part.

496
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 2: That's definitely a great part of that.

497
00:26:13,519 --> 00:26:16,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. Well, you want to you want to

498
00:26:16,319 --> 00:26:18,680
play another live one for us absolutely.

499
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,599
Speaker 2: I'll uh you know this next song that I'm gonna

500
00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:24,720
carry on with here. This is one from the brand

501
00:26:24,799 --> 00:26:28,799
new album uh Brian Super Happy Fun Time four And

502
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,039
this is a little bit more of a like a

503
00:26:31,079 --> 00:26:33,839
serious song. I guess it's it's my version of a

504
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,200
we are the World kind of song about how I

505
00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,119
wish everyone in the world would get together or get

506
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,000
along better.

507
00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 5: You've gotta give a little love.

508
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:08,599
Speaker 2: And you get a little love. So what are you

509
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,799
thinking of.

510
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 5: Commands from heaven above? You've gotta give a little love. Well,

511
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:33,640
I don't think that it's too late. Things in our

512
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:41,200
world could be great. Well if we pray for peace,

513
00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:44,400
the wars, in.

514
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 4: Hunger, all mecies. You gotta give a little love.

515
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,599
Speaker 5: And you get a little love.

516
00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:59,839
Speaker 2: So what are you.

517
00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 4: Think a can of.

518
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 5: Commands from heaven above? You've gotta give a little love.

519
00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 3: I know we can do it. Let's put all my

520
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,440
suit with sisters.

521
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,559
Speaker 5: And brothers speaker to each other.

522
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 2: I know we can do it.

523
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,759
Speaker 3: Let's put on my suit and make the world a

524
00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:43,680
better place, a better place for every one.

525
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,119
Speaker 4: You gotta give a little love.

526
00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 2: And you get a little love.

527
00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:01,519
Speaker 4: What are you thinking again of.

528
00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:12,599
Speaker 5: Commands? From having above you gotta give a little love.

529
00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: I like that.

530
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 2: Me too, Thank you.

531
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: That's something we could uh, we could all use, right.

532
00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:35,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, give a little from the new album there and

533
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,880
it's uh, it gets tricky too because most people know

534
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,599
me for my my happy go lucky like semi silly songs.

535
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,400
So but I felt like, you know, doing a serious

536
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:45,799
song here and there is okay.

537
00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:48,839
Speaker 1: No, I think, uh and very appropriate. I think thank you,

538
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,359
thank you very much. Absolutely. Uh. If you are just

539
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,599
joining us on the Saturday morning, we have Brian Bolanski

540
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,960
here with us live in studio. Where do you now?

541
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,680
Where do you go from here? Brian? Because you said

542
00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:02,519
so your last show was in Canada? Is that right?

543
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:08,519
Speaker 2: Yeah? Last night played in Edmundston, New Brunswick. After I

544
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,240
leave the show here, I am headed to Swansea, New Hampshire,

545
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:15,519
where I will be playing at the West La Beer

546
00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:18,799
Company today from three pm to six pm.

547
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,359
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, very cool, very cool.

548
00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:24,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it's it's great to be back in

549
00:30:24,119 --> 00:30:24,799
New Hampshire.

550
00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: How much of the how much of the country have you?

551
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:28,519
Speaker 2: Like?

552
00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: Do you keep track of how many states you've played it?

553
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, that's something that as a matter of fact

554
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,680
I list them out in the bio. It's been forty

555
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,599
nine states and twenty five countries abroad that I've performed in.

556
00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:44,759
Speaker 1: Wow, what's the one state you haven't hit?

557
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 2: Alaska?

558
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: Alaska.

559
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're they're not going to get away from

560
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,799
me forever. I'll eventually get there. They're they're they're in

561
00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:52,359
my sights.

562
00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. How many times, like how many times have you

563
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,000
gone overseas to do tourists?

564
00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 2: So this this year would have been my fifth time

565
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,559
going overseas to uh to Europe uh, And I've done

566
00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:11,240
one Central American and one Asian tour in the past,

567
00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:14,079
and I'd love to uh love to get back to

568
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,319
Asia and Central America was was pre COVID, So I'd

569
00:31:17,319 --> 00:31:19,680
love to get back to both those places. And you know,

570
00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:23,279
I've still still got Australia and Africa and South America

571
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,440
and you know, to to get to and then uh

572
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,839
finally Antarctica eventually. Oh okay, so yeah, yeah, that's my

573
00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:34,839
my life stream is to perform in all seven continents.

574
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,279
Well I'm still still here.

575
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: Do the do the challenges they come with touring change

576
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,559
when you go like Central America or is it all

577
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,839
I mean? Or is it the same challenges, but just

578
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,559
more severe, shall we.

579
00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 2: Say, Uh, you know, it's kind of the same. Like Luckily,

580
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,920
well Central America. I'm not great speaking Spanish, but I'm

581
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,720
a little bit better at Spanish than any other langguage. Okay,

582
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,880
you know, I think language well. Luckily, a lot of

583
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,400
people abroad speak English as a second language, so that

584
00:32:08,799 --> 00:32:11,400
between that and me, I always try to learn at

585
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,839
least a little bit of every country I go to.

586
00:32:14,279 --> 00:32:16,480
That got a little trickier when I was in places

587
00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:20,880
like Finland and Latvia and even like Poland was really tricky.

588
00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:25,279
French and Italian and German a little bit easier, a

589
00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:29,440
little bit closer to English. But yeah, I always make

590
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,359
sure I sing in English, but when I'm talking to

591
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,640
the audience in between songs, I always learn how to say.

592
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,400
This next song is from my last album. As a

593
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,119
matter of fact, yesterday in New Brunswick, I was in

594
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,680
a French speaking part of the province there, so I

595
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,000
got to practice my French again last night speaking to

596
00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:53,319
the audience there. But you know, same kind of challenges.

597
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,519
I just do a lot of online research and find venues,

598
00:32:57,119 --> 00:32:59,279
and after I get my venues booked, I try to

599
00:32:59,319 --> 00:33:02,920
find you know, radio newspapers and stuff to promote the

600
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,640
shows and uh, and yeah, yeah, it's just it's a

601
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,680
labor love, a lot of a lot of hours spent.

602
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. What what was the most challenging place that

603
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,680
you've played geographically?

604
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,039
Speaker 2: Oh, I would have to say Thailand when I was there,

605
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,160
just it was it was trickier to find venues there. Luckily,

606
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,200
I had kind of like boots on the ground. I

607
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,920
had some friends that lived in Thailand and and they

608
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,759
were the ones that helped me book the majority of

609
00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:34,359
my shows in Thailand. So it would have been a

610
00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:36,839
lot more challenging if I didn't have friends already there

611
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,640
kind of like you know, going to places like in

612
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,440
person and and you know talking me up to uh,

613
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,960
different music venues. So so that was kind of challenging.

614
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,200
But it was also probably one of the most fun

615
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:53,119
countries abroad really just because it was you know, such

616
00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:55,880
a different culture and uh and the people there were

617
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,440
so friendly, so amazing and great food too.

618
00:33:58,640 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

619
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. You want to play another one?

620
00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:07,359
Speaker 2: Sure? Absolutely so. This next song that I'll carry on

621
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,400
with us from my album two albums Ago, Brian's Super

622
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,039
Happy fun Time too. And this was the main single

623
00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:17,360
from that album. It's called Elf Girlfriend.

624
00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 4: She's an elf in the woods and she's magic. If

625
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:35,280
she turned me away, it be tragic. I feel like

626
00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:39,320
I've known her for years. I really like her point

627
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:44,000
of years. She's an oath in the woods. I discovered

628
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,519
she's an o Now I think I'm gonna love her.

629
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 3: I know she lives inside a tree. That's really who

630
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:56,639
came with me?

631
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:10,119
Speaker 4: Well, I'm so intrigued, and I never knew that she exists.

632
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:17,079
Oh yeah, it's true because my life was bad, but

633
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:22,239
now it's cool. Well, I know what I gotta do.

634
00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:30,280
She's an oath in the woods and she's magic. And

635
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:36,920
she turned me away, it be tragic. I feel like

636
00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:40,199
God known her for years, really.

637
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: Like her pointy years. She's an oath, prettier than Princess

638
00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:49,559
eu the I'm quasimodou.

639
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,039
Speaker 4: She's as moral.

640
00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 3: I know she lives inside a tree. That's really okay

641
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:04,800
with me. She's my oath. She's my health, golfriend, she's

642
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:12,000
my health. She's my health goffriend. She's my health. She's

643
00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:17,239
my health gofend gol friend.

644
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,519
Speaker 1: Duh, very nice, very nice, Thank you very much. Did

645
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:24,079
you meet an actual health in the woods?

646
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 2: No, that song it is a fairy tale. Okay, that

647
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,519
did not. Actually, even though most of my songs are

648
00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:36,800
actually you know, I'm singing them all from my own perspective,

649
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,480
so that one.

650
00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

651
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 2: Actually, I when COVID hit in twenty twenty, I and

652
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,320
nobody was sure if things were going to open soon

653
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,719
or not. Of course they wind it up not So

654
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,400
I spent many months camping in national forests, and I

655
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,320
like to do a lot of research on anything I'm doing,

656
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,960
and I kept researching that a lot of people would

657
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:03,880
see supernatural creatures in the national forests, and some of them,

658
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,920
most of the almost all of them were like bigfoot sasquatch,

659
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:11,440
scary threatening things. And then you'd hear a few people

660
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,679
talk about like the pixies and fairies and like the

661
00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:17,320
more benevolent kind of creatures. And I've always been a

662
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,800
fan of supernatural stuff. So I was like, well, let

663
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,719
me do a song about, you know, instead of like

664
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,440
a big scary bigfoot, if there was like a benevolent

665
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,880
creature in the woods. So so yeah, fit little fairy

666
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,599
tale song there. When I was bored in the woods

667
00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:33,360
for three months, the COVID quarantine.

668
00:37:33,519 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: Oh very cool. Do you remember the first song you

669
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:36,920
ever wrote?

670
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:43,159
Speaker 2: Oh? I do, actually, yes, I do, the first good one.

671
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:45,480
You know. I guess there was like some proto songs,

672
00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:49,800
but but yes, I actually do. I you know, used

673
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,679
to write them all down in notebooks and and yeah,

674
00:37:53,079 --> 00:37:56,519
that's a very good question. I actually do remember, what

675
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,400
I think, at least the first one that that you know,

676
00:37:59,519 --> 00:38:01,400
was written down and and everything.

677
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely did it? Did it survive or did you leave?

678
00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:08,159
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I had resurrected it and

679
00:38:08,199 --> 00:38:10,960
put it on the very first Brian super happy fun time.

680
00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:13,800
Oh cool, Yeah, you know, and it's funny too. A

681
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,800
lot of times, you know, when I release music, I

682
00:38:17,159 --> 00:38:19,639
like to release albums. I know a lot of musicians,

683
00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:21,000
I guess I'm old fashioned that way. A lot of

684
00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:23,880
musicians these days just like to do singles and EPs.

685
00:38:24,039 --> 00:38:26,119
But uh, I don't know from from what I hear,

686
00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:29,440
you know, albums are still the way to go because

687
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,719
I look at albums kind of like a painting, and

688
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,599
one song is like, you know, one thing in the painting,

689
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,559
like one of the tree in the landscape painting or whatever.

690
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,800
So I like to do that and a lot of

691
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,000
times I'll go back to like my really early songs,

692
00:38:43,519 --> 00:38:46,360
and you know, when I'm trying to, you know, I'm like, oh,

693
00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:48,679
I need I need three more songs for this album.

694
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:50,480
I'm like, wait a minute, all right, that part of

695
00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:53,119
that song was good, This part of this song was good.

696
00:38:53,159 --> 00:38:57,239
So sometimes I frankenstein songs together too. Yeah, yeah, but

697
00:38:57,519 --> 00:38:59,079
it did survive. Yeah.

698
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,199
Speaker 1: Subject that comes up a lot on the show is,

699
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,639
you know, because we live in a time where there's

700
00:39:02,639 --> 00:39:05,639
so many different strategies you can use for releasing music,

701
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,559
and you know, some artists just do EPs, or some

702
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,639
just do singles, or or some of our guests that

703
00:39:11,679 --> 00:39:14,840
we've had in recent years, their strategy is to release

704
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,760
a series of singles that eventually become an album. Kind

705
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,039
of the inverse right of what we're used to traditionally.

706
00:39:21,199 --> 00:39:26,079
Speaker 2: But indeed, and I've done that before in the past,

707
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:28,519
and yeah, there's no wrong way to do things. Of course,

708
00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:30,480
what I've been doing. As a matter of fact, last

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year I put out the album full album Brian's Super

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Happy Fun Time three, but I also put out an

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EP of all non album tracks. I'm a big Beatles fanatic,

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and one thing I loved about them is that their

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EPs and their singles were almost always things that were

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not on their albums. They like they wanted to make

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sure their their customers were getting their you know, getting

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their money's worth. So that's something I do if I

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ever do an EP or a single, I try to

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make sure that it's not something that you can just

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get on the album and make your fans buy something twice, right,

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So that's something I tried to do too.

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Speaker 1: That's like a British thing. I feel it is, because

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you know a lot of yeah, a lot of British

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artists would do that, not not even necessarily then, but

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even in more recent years like Oasis when what went

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well of course, if Jesus it was back in the

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nineties now when Oasis fir scot Big seems like more recent.

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But I noticed, uh, they right from the beginning, did that.

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Like one of my favorite Oasis song, which happens to

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be Acquiesce, was originally the B side.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It eventually came out on the Best Of album, but

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it was originally a B side that was not not

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released on an album.

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Speaker 2: No kidding, you know, and I'm and yeah for me

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Like Nirvana, another one of my big, big inspirations and

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I loved Like to me, that was like just the

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best thing, getting a single with a B side that

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you could not get anywhere else, and me like, this

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is the best song. Why is it just on the

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B side to the single? It seems like the B

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sides are always the best songs we should uh.

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Speaker 1: So we're running out of time. I'd love to get

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you to play one one more, but before we do that,

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I want to make sure our listeners know too, uh

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where to go online to keep up with everything that

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you're doing if they want to follow you on tour.

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You know, obviously we're local here in Manchester, but we

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have a lot of listeners online in other parts of

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the country who might uh, you know, you might be

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coming to their area. So I want to make sure

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everybody knows exactly where to find Brian Blanski.

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Speaker 2: Great, thank you and and yeah, the way to find

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me online The best way is my official website, Brian's

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Super Happy Fun Time dot com and that is Brian

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with a Y. And from Brian's Super Happy Fun Time

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dot com you can find everything my tour schedule, links

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to you know, music streaming sites, the YouTube channel, all

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the social media platforms. So it's a great one stop

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shop and all the links to anything else you might

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like to uh consume music on or right there on

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Briansuper Happy Funtime dot com.

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Speaker 1: Excellent. Looks like you've got tour and AD's going all

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the way like for the next year.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, well that's the thing Europe next year. You

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see Europe. They booked, They booked pretty far in advance,

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so yeah, there's stuff going all the way up to

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the next September. So yeah, uh yeah. I said it's

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good to stay busy.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, yeah. You want to play one.

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Speaker 2: More for us, absolutely well, I'll do one song from

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the original Brian Super Happy Fun Time album Brian Super

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Rappy fun Time one.

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Speaker 4: All right, love you once, love you twice, love you

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more than ps Rice, my beive it, my pretty, my

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little lead it, my pretty believe it, love you will

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love you down God, love you well.

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Speaker 3: I found my beeve it my pretty but ye there,

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my little leading, my pretty.

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Speaker 4: Baba, damn love you here, love you, damn God. I

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love you everywhere.

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Speaker 3: My beheming, my pretty bad, my little leader, my pretty

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bad love you watch, love you twice, love you mo.

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Dam beats Rice, my bee my pretty Biet, my little leading,

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my pretty bie, my little leader, my pretty bade.

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Speaker 1: It very nice, nice, very nice.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Brian Bolanski live in studio with us and uh no,

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this is this has been wonderful. Brian. We really appreciate

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your coming in