Speaker 1: Voice of the color analyst from the KOA broadcast team
Speaker 1: for the I don't know what I'm trying to say
Speaker 1: here the Denver Broncos. You hear him on the radio
Speaker 1: with Dave Logan. He's rick Lewis. Welcome, Rick, don't try
Speaker 1: that on your show, Rick, I'm a trained professional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of a wonky introduction. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what I did. Hear the beginning of your show
Speaker 2: and your blog and you said, rick Lewis plays around
Speaker 2: with black culture.
Speaker 1: That is not what I said.
Speaker 2: I said, no, No, what are we going to talk about?
Speaker 1: What I should say, rick Lewis is playing around? Is
Speaker 1: what I said. Rick Lewis is playing around. That's the headline.
Speaker 1: And then but to the next headline, does black culture
Speaker 1: embrace vials? Okay, maybe I just put a little comma
Speaker 1: in their little pause so people will know I was
Speaker 1: just telling a rod I was telling off the air.
Speaker 1: The Rick Lewis project is so flipping good. You guys
Speaker 1: absolutely cook when you were on stage, and I want
Speaker 1: everybody to go see you guys play. So what are
Speaker 1: you guys doing exactly at the Little Bear tomorrow night
Speaker 1: in Evergreen.
Speaker 2: I appreciate those kind comments. Thank you, Mandy.
Speaker 1: And it's the rest of the people in your band.
Speaker 1: They're amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they're all better than me, are you kidding? Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is one of Colorado's premier bands. I've got the
Speaker 2: top talent around and as I just said, every one
Speaker 2: of them's a better musician than I am. We are
Speaker 2: going to play a benefit tomorrow night at the Little Bear,
Speaker 2: the legendary Little Bear in Evergreen, and proceeds will go
Speaker 2: to Evergreen Strong. So all the ticket proceeds, this is
Speaker 2: a ticket to show any silent auction and by the way,
Speaker 2: I want to thank the Broncos. They donated a really
Speaker 2: cool sign Zach Allen Jersey to be a part of
Speaker 2: that silent auction. And it's basically a night of music
Speaker 2: and healing the Evergreen community still reeling from what happened
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, insych The kids just got
Speaker 2: back to school, Yeah, within the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: So come on out tomorrow night, Little Bear and Evergreen.
Speaker 2: Showtime is six and my band will start at eight,
Speaker 2: And get your tickets at Little Bear live dot com.
Speaker 1: And if people have never been to the Little Bear,
Speaker 1: it is a great place to see a band. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just the vibe is cool, the space is cool.
Speaker 1: It does get crowded. So I would say, if people
Speaker 1: are planning on going, get your tickets. I mean, wouldn't
Speaker 1: you think this probably could sell out? Don't you think.
Speaker 2: I'm expecting it too, and so are they. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I would definitely try to get your tickets ahead of
Speaker 2: time if you can. Yeah, there's GA tickets, and then
Speaker 2: there's some VIP tables and I think maybe the VIP tables.
Speaker 1: I think they're sold out. I looked earlier today and
Speaker 1: I think those are sold out. I can't go. I
Speaker 1: have a volunteer commitment that I am I'm going to
Speaker 1: be doing tomorrow night, so I can't make it. But
Speaker 1: I just you know, Rick, there's a lot of in
Speaker 1: my radio career, I have worked with multiple radio personalities
Speaker 1: who had always dreamed of being in a band, and
Speaker 1: they all learned how to play drums. And I'm not
Speaker 1: even making this up. So they all learned how to
Speaker 1: play drums because I think it seems the most successible,
Speaker 1: and then they would all put bands together and they
Speaker 1: were perfectly fine, right, They were nothing wrong with them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It was just like a vanity project for that radio personality.
Speaker 1: But your band truly is outstanding, and I just that's different.
Speaker 1: I don't want people to think this is a vanity
Speaker 1: project and Rick won't just absolutely rock the house because
Speaker 1: he and his band are so good, so good, so
Speaker 1: well done, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. Yeah, there's a lot of talent
Speaker 2: in the band. I think I have probably the two
Speaker 2: best guitar players around, certainly the best lead vocalist in
Speaker 2: Sarah hornebook. Yeh, he's incredible, A great percussionist, great bass player. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's loaded with talent. We've been doing this for a
Speaker 2: long time, Mandy. We played a lot of big gage.
Speaker 2: We played all the big venues around here, Red Rocks
Speaker 2: and Ball Arena, Fiddler's Green. So the band's been around
Speaker 2: for a while. We're battle tested. This is kind of
Speaker 2: a family band at this point. We know each other
Speaker 2: so well, and you know, I think it comes across
Speaker 2: on stage the love that we have not just for
Speaker 2: playing music, but the love that we have for each
Speaker 2: other in the group. And it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: It's a high energy show and I hope people will
Speaker 2: come out and support us tomorrow night and support mainly
Speaker 2: the community of Evergreen. These guys need us and they
Speaker 2: need to start healing, and you can be a part
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: Well. I think it's going to be a great ye.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite song to play?
Speaker 2: Oh boy? As far as cover songs, there's so many.
Speaker 2: We typically close with Rolling Stones gimme shelter. Not too
Speaker 2: many bands covered that song. Because the female vocal on that,
Speaker 2: I forget her name, the original that did it with
Speaker 2: the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 1: She also did she did a couple of their songs.
Speaker 1: What is her name? I can picture her perfectly in
Speaker 1: my mind.
Speaker 2: Same but that chorus raped murder, you know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. Nobody can really do that like that, and
Speaker 2: Sarah just kills that, and I think that's what really
Speaker 2: makes our cover of that song special. We played that
Speaker 2: at Fidler's Green the same day that Charlie Watts died,
Speaker 2: the Rolling Stones drummer. I think we were opened it
Speaker 2: for maybe Sammy Hagar that night and we just had
Speaker 2: a short set. They said you guys can play one
Speaker 2: cover song, and that was the one we chose, and
Speaker 2: I announced that, you know, this is for Charlie Watts
Speaker 2: and all your Rolling Stones fans out there and we
Speaker 2: crushed the cover. I went backstage and these these grizzled
Speaker 2: roadies that were backstage that have been on the road
Speaker 2: for decades and probably toured with The Stones over the years.
Speaker 2: Those guys were crying.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2: That's it was that powerful.
Speaker 1: Mary Clayton is the woman we're trying to remember, and
Speaker 1: she has only done that one song. She just did
Speaker 1: get me sheltered with the Stones. I'm confusing her with
Speaker 1: another woman completely, but so that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Somebody just asked, were you ever in Government Mule?
Speaker 2: Was I in Government? Yeah? No, but I do know
Speaker 2: Warren Haines quite well Government Mule. Before they were really big,
Speaker 2: when they were coming through town and playing like the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Rose, we would have them at studio and they
Speaker 2: would play specifically for us in studio and I became
Speaker 2: good friends with Warren Haines over the years, and he's
Speaker 2: one of the best musicians, best guitar players around, great songwriter,
Speaker 2: and just a really quality dude. And so no, I
Speaker 2: played with Government Mule. I played shows with Government you'll
Speaker 2: but I've never been in the band.
Speaker 1: Okay, clarifying that and last question, could you please ask
Speaker 1: Rick if you have if he has any music uploaded
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Do you guys have a YouTube page?
Speaker 2: We don't we have. What you should do is go
Speaker 2: to the band website, which is Rick lewisproject dot com
Speaker 2: and there's a bunch of live videos performances on there.
Speaker 2: And typically, you know, people at the show will shoot
Speaker 2: a video on their phone and then post it kind
Speaker 2: of what it is. So the audio quality isn't professionalists rough,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not mixed, but you certainly get the
Speaker 2: point well, and.
Speaker 1: Somebody else asks is there a floor for dancing? There
Speaker 1: is a floor. Don't think you're going to be out
Speaker 1: there ballroom dancing because you'll probably be shoulders to shoulder
Speaker 1: with everybody else doing the hippie shake. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what happens out there.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a great explanation. Yeah, it's I think
Speaker 2: it holds about three hundred and fifty people, maybe four hundred, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it'll be packed in there. And the cool part
Speaker 2: about the little bear there's a balcony up above, which
Speaker 2: I believe is where the VIP section is and those
Speaker 2: people are almost looking down right onto the stage. So
Speaker 2: It's really cool because you feel like these people are
Speaker 2: just hanging pretty much off the balcony just above your
Speaker 2: head and feels like a house party. I think that's
Speaker 2: a good way to describe it. And if you've ever
Speaker 2: been to a cool house party, you know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. The energy is incredible and this is going
Speaker 2: to be a really special night. I've heard they had
Speaker 2: some high school kids that have volunteered to help out
Speaker 2: and work the show. I can't wait to play tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: All right, my friend, have an absolute blast. By the way,
Speaker 1: I put a link on my blog for the Recluse
Speaker 1: Project so you can go ahead and check them out
Speaker 1: and head out to a little Bear. I think you
Speaker 1: have a great gig man.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mandy, love you and thanks for having me
Speaker 2: on and look forward to getting you back to a
Speaker 2: show again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll talk to you soon.
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