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Speaker 1: Wh in this Minnie Cooper singing to myself, going through

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drive through after drive through, looking for some help.

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Speaker 2: I'll miss my family and my girl.

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Speaker 3: My friends are by my side. If you feel the

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beat and you're feeling men.

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Speaker 2: Come on, let's ride.

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Speaker 4: We need a bigger bus to get our friends on.

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More windows and more highs.

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Speaker 5: Party in the d party in the back.

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Speaker 4: We'll go sway inside to side down the highway, surrender,

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all wheels, go.

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Speaker 5: Around and ridd I get all.

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Speaker 4: The bumper stickers from all the places that we found.

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Speaker 5: Need a bigger bus. We need a bigger bus.

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Speaker 2: You can bring your friends. They can sing too. You

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can even bring your mama as long as she can

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hold the too. You can bring a dog and that

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does ease by out no wind, they will pick up

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theld ain't down and singing a game.

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Speaker 5: We need a bigger bus to get our friends on

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my wind.

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Speaker 4: Josh, party in the front, party in the back. We'll

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go sway inside to side, side down my way to

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the surrender. All we us go around and un mumble,

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get all the bumper stickers from all places that we found.

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Speaker 5: Need a bigger bus. We need a big up bus,

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and I don't wanna fid or take the train, and

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she has a road call in my neck.

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Speaker 2: Winter feels this good.

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Speaker 6: Mona shed love, get the ball want singing a little.

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Speaker 4: We need a big up bus. Do get our friends

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a windows in.

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Speaker 7: The front, in the back.

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Speaker 4: We'll go sway side to side, down where surrender all.

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Speaker 5: Wheels, go out there and back home.

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Speaker 4: We're just fund big out of the family.

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Speaker 5: From all the big cities, all the little time. We

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need a big up bus.

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Speaker 4: Do get our friends on them, all windows and one

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body in the front, body in the back.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna sway inside to.

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Speaker 4: Side, ride down wheels, surrenders, all wheels, go around and

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bid mumbo.

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Speaker 5: Get all the buncle.

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Speaker 8: Stickers from all places that we found.

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Speaker 4: Need a big up bus. We need a big up buzz.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna need a big up bus.

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Speaker 9: We need a bus that is catchy as hell. That

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is bigger bus. We need a bigger bus. Eli lev

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who are going to be speaking with me in just

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a moment.

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Speaker 7: What's up?

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Speaker 9: I need a giant canvas.

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Speaker 7: That's a well. Seriously, I want to go paint to that.

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That's so much fun. I love that great great song.

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Speaker 9: This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from

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the studios of w m n H ninety five point

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three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you

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can stream the show at Matt connorton dot com.

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Speaker 7: Slash Live.

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Speaker 9: Today is Saturday, September fourteen, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: And let me get that mic up there.

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Speaker 9: We have Eli lev with us live in studio.

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Speaker 7: Hello, he yo yo yo.

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Speaker 9: Sounds good, sounds good. Yeah, I love that song. This

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just came out relatively recently, right, President Journey the EP.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a couple months ago. We are on the

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present journey right now it's happening.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. You're on a big tour, right yep? How many dates?

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but this, this particular one is a fall tour, going

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up to Canada and back. It's about us six weeks.

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Speaker 9: Okay, excellent, excellent. Now where do you Where do you

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: From here, I'm going to Lawrence, Massachusetts, then up to

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Maine and then up to Quebec, then back down be

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in New Hampshire again, coming back down Vermont, and I

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got to play in Rhode Island. I've never been I

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Speaker 9: Yeah, the last state you hadn't played in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've played in all US states except Rhode Island.

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Hawaii or like Alaska.

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Speaker 2: Crazy good on you to be able to do that. Yeah,

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we live in a beautiful country. It's absolutely incredible. Being

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of folks, you know, north south east West, and been

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able to play tunes and and share and share moments

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's awesome. You've been at this a while, I assume, right.

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Speaker 2: No, actually, I'm a former middle school teacher.

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Speaker 9: Okay, okay, yeah, I was watching I was watching another

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interview that you had been on a podcast. You had

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is the importance of really being kind of business minded

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about your career.

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Speaker 7: You know, obviously the creative.

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Speaker 9: Part of it is the most important thing, and without

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that there is nothing else to do really with it.

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gonna have a short career or you know, you could

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play music all your life. But yeah, you know, if

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business side of it. And it seems like you've really

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Speaker 2: You brought up spreadsheets when I came in. You're like, bro,

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going to get along just fine. Yeah. So, yeah, my

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spreadsheet database is insane. Like if you looked in there

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on my Google Drive, you'd be like, what is this

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guy like an astronomer? Is it taking all this information from?

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the beginning, when you decided to take the plunge and

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do this and leave being a middle school teacher behind

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creativity aspect of it. Strangely enough, interesting because there are

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Speaker 7: No, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Some folks just want to share shilly songs with friends

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and family. That's great. Yeah, And some folks like want

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to do the thing, you know what I mean. And

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it's all in. Yeah, I mean, go for it.

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it something that you were thinking about over time, or

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna get a little spiritual.

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Speaker 7: Okay, cool, that's fine.

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Speaker 2: We're getting there. We're good with everything on there, all right,

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So come with me, Matt a beach on the west

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coast of Mexico, north of a town called Salulita, Okay.

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And it was my last semester of grad school from

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that's what I did. And I started playing songs, and

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you know, the waves started listening. You know, the trees

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were kind of like vibing with me. The sand was

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like kind of happy, and I kind of like just

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a great life. This has been amazing, you know, creator

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or whatever you want to call it. Uh, the rest

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is in your hands. I'm good. So you let me

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know what's next and I will let go and go

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all in on whenever that is. And you know, as

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people think. And I recorded my first demo in Indiana

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six months after that, and I've been following the breadcrumbs

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Speaker 7: No kidding, no kidding, that's awesome. Yeah, good for you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So it was like a moment, you know what I mean,

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let's let's be up for it. And then you know,

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it's like you gotta be ready to play shows to nobody.

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the song that you didn't think that no one would

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like would be your hit song. You gotta be ready

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to you know, just you know, bust, bust your bottom

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and getting tickets sold to a show, and you know,

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maybe the band that you wanted didn't come or like,

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every song didn't work out exactly as you want. So yeah,

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one hundred percent along the way, and there's imposture syndrome

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as as you're entering into a new identity. But that's

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that's with everything. So yeah, yeah, but the music's been

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carrying me, which has been.

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Speaker 9: Great, outstanding, and you've recorded quite a bit right in

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Speaker 2: Short time, courd to almost forty songs.

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Speaker 7: In June? That's relatively new.

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project was four directions based on my time as a

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teacher on the Navajo Nation arizonaid yep. And then this

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project is three worlds, so Present Journey will be one,

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then Past Lives and then Future Myths. Oh cool, thinking

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the thematic units. Yeah, a teacher of course.

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Speaker 7: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's very cool.

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Speaker 9: Uh well, I'm gotting to hear you play if you

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want to do it, play something for us, and uh

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I'll kind of off to ride the faders a little

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bit as we actually go ahead, strum a little, let's

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Speaker 7: Well, there we go, there we go.

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Speaker 2: So Matt, do you remember cassette tapes vividly? Do you

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remember very much?

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Speaker 7: One, what do you how to use the pencil.

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going back to the days of cassette tapes and pencil

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sharpeners for this song. And do you remember like the

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first like mixtapes where you recorded the radio and recorded

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other tapes onto tape, you wrote the song names on

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the back and you gave it to someone you know,

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a friend, and you know your relationship would last at

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least another week or two yep, at least. And you know,

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I remember my first mixtapes, and I bet if you

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listen to them, it would probably take you back exactly

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to that emotional mindset that you were at at that age.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 2: Music has that power kind.

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Speaker 7: Of thing, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to tell you my first mixtape and

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just a list of some of these bands. You remember them.

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Fleetwood Mac, but also Bruce Springsteen YouTube and mc hammer, YEP,

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flock of Seagulls there as well. So just a wild

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range of songs. And I'll remember that tape forever because

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I put it in my tape recorder and I just

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listening and catching the words to all of a sudd Yeah.

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and it's about that first mixtape.

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Speaker 7: All right, wonderful here we go.

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Speaker 2: It was the age of eight when I played in

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the tape and I heard a voice going through you

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was singing loud and singing strong to the words. I

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barely knew. I was hanging on to the edge of

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the song, waking up all my senses.

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Speaker 12: Hunt time.

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Speaker 2: I'm singing along for the first time.

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 2: For the first time.

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Speaker 5: Oh Oh, I'm singing alone for the first time.

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Speaker 7: Yaya.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been hearing songs since I came along on

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radio and TV, but this one song when it came off,

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felt like it just for me. Now I'm singing alone.

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Speaker 12: For the first time. Oh for the first time. Oh Yeah.

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Speaker 8: And it was Springsteen in the Street, Cash in Summer.

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Speaker 2: Heat, Willie on the Road, the Cobaine in the coal,

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Stevie in my room, and in every line of that tune.

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When the chorus came, it was my chance to get

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up and start to dancer.

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Speaker 13: Wait where.

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Speaker 5: Weak here we go.

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Speaker 2: I'll sing alone for the first time now.

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Speaker 5: For the first time. Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 10: Springsteen in the Street, Cash and summary Willie on the Road,

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the Cobain in the co Steedie in my room, let

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every line of that tune, and when the chorus came,

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it was my chance.

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Speaker 3: I'm singing alone for the first time. For the first time,

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I'm singing along for.

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Speaker 7: The first time. Oh fantastic, fantastic.

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Speaker 5: That is uh.

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Speaker 9: Eli love is here with us live in studio if

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you are just joining us and playing some playing some

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live tunes for us.

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Speaker 7: And do you remember the first song you ever wrote?

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Speaker 11: I do?

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Speaker 7: How old were you?

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Speaker 2: I was thirteen? Yeah, it's from middle school talent show

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and it was called My White under kidd it and

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I performed it in front of an entire auditorium that

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had my grandparents in it. Yeah, and it mostly consisted

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of me just screaming into my wad underwear over and

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over again. Yeah, huge hit. Yeah, I've been trying to

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get back to that moment ever since, right right, Yeah,

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that's what started my career in music.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's awesome, that's awesome. How many songs have you

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written do you think? I know you said you've recorded

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about forty Wow.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting. Yeah, let's go back. How many songs do

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you think I've written? I think probably finished songs, probably

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about two hundred. Okay, I think maybe like half finished,

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probably like three hundred. Yeah, and I think like ideas

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probably about a thousand.

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Speaker 9: No kidding, yeah, just out there. Yeah, you seem like

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someone who would be pretty prolific. Yeah, were you when

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you were still teaching? Were you already writing a lot?

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Speaker 14: Or I was?

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Speaker 2: You know, songwriting has always been like that friend, that's

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just right there.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 2: The guitar has just been like kind of like a

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some of the a conversation with Yeah, I meantimes are great,

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times not so great, and all in between. So you know,

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it's just you know, I think back, it's like, yeah,

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probably about like more than a thousand times. There's been

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like some voice memo that I've taken of, you know,

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some idea or a title or like an emotion or anything.

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but not like you know, half finished work right right?

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Speaker 9: And when and when you play is it? Is it

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always just you and the guitar? Do you ever have

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other musicians with you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I started, I did a full band Maryland. It

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was Eli Lev and the Fortunes found the First Iteration,

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and then it was the Eli Lev Collective and it

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was Eli Lev Band, and then it'll be something else,

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I'm sure. But I love performing with other musicians. There's

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nothing like it, you know, just being on stage and

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kind of like creating that musical space with folks. But

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on tour, I just kind of do the solo thing

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keeps a little easy.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot easier really, right, because you know, it

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kind of opens up places you can play when you

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don't have a full band. And of course, you know,

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I've been in bands, and I know that the pain

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of dealing with everyone's schedules and all of that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, tell me if I'm wrong, But like, being

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a band is like kind of being in like five relationships,

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and those five relationships also being in five different relationships

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at the same time. So you know, there's this wonderful

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family atmosphere, but there's everything that goes along with being

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in a family.

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Speaker 9: You know, that's that's a great way, but that's absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, I get I love it though, I love

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I love performing with other musicians.

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Speaker 9: The songs that that you had in these bands, I

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assume those those have survived and you still play those

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today or some of them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, All the songs are pretty much the

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ones that I recorded. Just maybe I'll play them with

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a band or solo or duo.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What instrument did you play in the band?

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Speaker 7: Bass?

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Speaker 2: Bass? Okay, see, bass is the smartest instrument ever. Everybody

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goes and learns guitar wants to be the lead singer.

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But if you can play a bass, you'll get work

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the rest of your life. Oh yeah, and you want it.

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Speaker 9: Like yeah, when I was, when I was really act

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to have playing I don't play currently.

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Speaker 2: But okay, you know I was.

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Speaker 7: I was kind of sod after in the scenes.

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Speaker 9: But it wasn't because I was a great base I mean,

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you know, I'm very objective about, you know, my own assessing,

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my own musical ability.

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Speaker 7: It was average.

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Speaker 9: I was an average bass player, but I was a

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bass player.

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Speaker 2: That is a hot commodity, exactly exactly.

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Speaker 7: I think I think.

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Speaker 9: Drummers are the most in demand because you know, we

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we interview a lot of bands on the show, and

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the drummer is always in ten different bands because there's

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no drummers.

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Speaker 2: Right right right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no basic drums. Yeah,

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remember that, kiddos, you want to make a career music.

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Speaker 9: Do you play on on what you've recorded? Do you

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play anything other than guitar? Do you stick to guitar

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and have other musicians.

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Speaker 2: Or I do, yeah, play guitar, I play piano. I

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play a native flute from Arizona. I do harmonica, mandolin,

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make percussion, noises, strange sounds of my mouth like whistling

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and who knows what, but I love making sounds.

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Speaker 7: O kidding? Yeah yeah do you uh so? Do you

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do everything on the albums.

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Speaker 2: Or I work with different producers on the albums, So

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I like collaborate with folks in the studio. They'll do

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some instruments, I'll do some instruments. We'll bring in some

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other you know, uh kind of hired guns to rock

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the rest and so it's a nice kind of a mix.

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Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, but it's nice when you have the ability

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to play multiple things. And I mean that gives you

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a level of control that wouldn't otherwise necessarily have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's you're almost like a conductor, like

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of an orchestra. Yeah, what I mean, like you get

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to really kind of imagine melody lines and different sounds

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and different instruments. So h it's really it's really awesome.

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I love the process of kind of putting sounds together

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for a song.

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Speaker 7: You enjoy being in the studio? I do, because I

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know a lot of musicians.

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Speaker 9: A lot of musicians just want to play live and

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they hate the studio or they're ambivalent about it. But yeah,

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if you actually enjoyed the process, that's goods.

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Speaker 2: Now, I love it. Yeah, and like the different takes,

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you know what I mean, Like, oh, which take were

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you going to go with? Yeah, it's it's a really

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wonderful process. I don't I'm not personally a producer, but

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I love working with and collab.

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Speaker 9: Are you ever surprised because you're working with producers? Are

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you ever surprised at what comes out?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 9: Do you ever have an idea for a song and

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you've written it, and you you know what you want,

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you know what it's supposed to sound like, and then

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it ends up coming out very different and hopefully you're

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pleasantly surprised when that happens.

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Speaker 7: But do you ever have that happen?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, That's why I like to work with different producers

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because they bring different sounds and different ideas. And you know,

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when I come up with a song, it's usually vocals

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and guitar or just vocals and piano. So watching it

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develop and bloom and blossom, like for example, like two

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days ago, you know, you record a song and then

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you get back a mix, you know, so it's like

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the first time you really hear what you recorded with

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all the instrumentation and Bro, I was listening to this

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first track of my upcoming album, Past Lives. It's called Echo,

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and it's about like hearing the echoes of our ancestors,

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like kind of coming in and you know, living with

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that knowledge. And I was like laughing and crying at

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the same time hearing a song come to life like that. Yeah,

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I mean, I'm just like, oh yeah, this is amazing.

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So like having those visceral emotional reactions is like, is

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really cool. And you know, only the only people who

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heard that was my producer in me. Yeah, so having

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that special moment of like really being there like on

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this like creation is just awesome. So I love the studio.

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I love the process of creating songs too.

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Speaker 7: It's really fun.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and you've made some videos, right, I saw I

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watched the Universal song, yeah, which is really cool.

477
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 7: I love the song and the video is great.

478
00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:36,599
Speaker 9: And that's you know, we were kind of talking earlier about,

479
00:23:37,039 --> 00:23:38,920
you know, the music side of I mean the business

480
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:39,240
side of it.

481
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 7: That's important, right, making videos.

482
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:42,599
Speaker 15: Yeah.

483
00:23:42,759 --> 00:23:44,839
Speaker 2: So what I did in the pandemic when everything shut

484
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,079
down and all my tours were canceled is I went

485
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,319
online and started live streaming. Yeah, and that's where the

486
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,759
levitator's community came and people were just looking for things

487
00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:55,559
to do. So we did participatory music videos.

488
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,799
Speaker 7: Okay, So people.

489
00:23:56,599 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 2: Would video themselves. For example, I had a song called

490
00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:02,200
Dance and on the Lawn, so they would go outside

491
00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:05,119
and take a video of themselves dancing on the lawn essentially,

492
00:24:05,559 --> 00:24:08,799
and the music video is levitators from around the world,

493
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,240
We're talking Europe, Australia, Africa, Canada, South America sending in

494
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,880
videos of them dancing on the lawn, all spiced together.

495
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 7: Okay.

496
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 2: So I did a participatory video with chasing Daylight with

497
00:24:20,759 --> 00:24:23,480
another one anywhere we can go, and I think I

498
00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:25,440
should do one with we need a bigger bus. You

499
00:24:25,599 --> 00:24:28,920
should like get like get like rent a school bus,

500
00:24:29,039 --> 00:24:30,640
you know, I mean, and go around and pick folks

501
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,559
up and just kind of like, you know, like film

502
00:24:33,759 --> 00:24:35,240
this party happening on a bus.

503
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 7: That's a great idea.

504
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 2: So it's really important because especially today and like we

505
00:24:39,799 --> 00:24:43,079
live in a visual kind of content world. So anytime

506
00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:45,839
that people can see your music, yes, you know what

507
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:46,720
I mean, is important.

508
00:24:46,839 --> 00:24:47,039
Speaker 7: Yeah.

509
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 9: So yep, it's funny because there was a time when well,

510
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,160
you know, some people still think today even I'll hear

511
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,400
people say, oh, you know, I miss the days of

512
00:24:55,519 --> 00:24:57,720
music videos, you know, because they're thinking of it in

513
00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:01,039
the context of MTV. Yeah, it's like and some people

514
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,920
just don't realize, you know, because they're maybe not paying

515
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,039
attention that there's actually more music videos than ever.

516
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are, we just don't see them.

517
00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 9: They're they're on YouTube, they're not they're not on the table.

518
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,440
But something we also talk about a lot on the

519
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,319
show is, you know, with the pandemic, terrible experience for

520
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,200
us all, but we have to find the silver linings

521
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,079
where we can and you know, you're a great example

522
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,200
what you did, you know, trying to you know, innovate

523
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,400
and and come up with ideas, you know, to keep

524
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,200
people involved and keep people engaged.

525
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:31,599
Speaker 7: Yep.

526
00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:35,039
Speaker 9: Yeah, so that's really cool. Yeah, I'm dying to hear

527
00:25:35,039 --> 00:25:36,680
you play another one. You want to play another song.

528
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,839
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's do that universal song when you're

529
00:25:38,839 --> 00:25:40,200
talking with the music video.

530
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 9: Wonderful and if you are just joining us, Eli Love

531
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,079
is here with us live in studio and I do

532
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:45,839
love this song.

533
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,640
Speaker 7: So yeah, whenever you're ready.

534
00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 2: Let's do it right, all right. So imagine like Eurovision

535
00:25:54,599 --> 00:25:56,599
was not just for Europe, that it was like for

536
00:25:58,319 --> 00:26:02,799
the whole galaxy, Like they're like a Milky Way Eurovision,

537
00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:03,960
And then.

538
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 9: Imagine there was like a.

539
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 2: Universal song contest where the Milky Way would send in

540
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:17,039
their entry and the Andromeda Galaxy who's sending theirs? And

541
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,240
what that song would sound like. So this song kind

542
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:27,119
of explores that possibility. I was on a train in

543
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:32,319
the middle of the city, saw girls sitting.

544
00:26:32,079 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 16: On the floor with their headphones on.

545
00:26:35,039 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 3: She was homing a tube, looking as happy.

546
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,039
Speaker 2: As as she could be, nodding ahead and closing her

547
00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:45,960
eyes and singing and the song she was singing, Na,

548
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:55,359
and the sun broke through the window. Now everyone's homing alone.

549
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:07,640
She got every byey singing that Uni Verso song. Yeah,

550
00:27:08,559 --> 00:27:10,839
singing it all day long.

551
00:27:15,799 --> 00:27:18,039
Speaker 3: I was on a cruise in the middle of the ocean.

552
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: I was sitting alone out the table for two The

553
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:28,799
band was on a break because the singer he was late.

554
00:27:29,519 --> 00:27:32,119
But the second he got on stage started singing that

555
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:38,279
sing too. He was singing nine no, no, no, and

556
00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:43,720
everyone got out of the dance floor. They were shaking

557
00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:44,279
their hips.

558
00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:46,599
Speaker 5: Nine n no no.

559
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:57,839
Speaker 2: You got everybody singing that Uni Verso song. All right,

560
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,799
let's bring the aliens for the fifth dinute beings, whatever

561
00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:01,160
you prefer.

562
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:04,599
Speaker 4: Well.

563
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,279
Speaker 2: I heard on the news today that they made contact

564
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,480
with outer space. The transmission was coming in loud and clear,

565
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:19,680
and all the scientists and linguists and astrophysicists try to

566
00:28:19,759 --> 00:28:22,960
decipher the sound that was coming into their ears.

567
00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:25,319
Speaker 10: But all the air it was not.

568
00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 8: And they started shaking their shoulders to they all agree

569
00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:39,279
that that's what we should do. Everybody in the world singing.

570
00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 2: They got the hands up in the air.

571
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:54,359
Speaker 4: Nowvic baties getting along.

572
00:28:55,839 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 2: Body ass seeing that universa so goes like this no

573
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:06,839
no no.

574
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 3: No no no no no no.

575
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 7: I love it. That's awesome. The universal song that is

576
00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:23,160
Eli love.

577
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 9: He is here with us alive in studio on this

578
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,559
Saturday morning, and that is great and I do encourage

579
00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:31,799
people to check out the video.

580
00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:33,519
Speaker 7: Video is really cool, really cool.

581
00:29:35,519 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 9: So how is.

582
00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:39,279
Speaker 7: How's the tour been going?

583
00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 9: Any any interesting uh stories, any big surprises or or

584
00:29:43,319 --> 00:29:46,039
has it been has everything been been smooth? Or I

585
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,400
love roads stories if you if you have any, and

586
00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:51,279
if you don't have any, that's actually a good thing.

587
00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:54,519
That means that means everything's going well generally.

588
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 2: But plenty of stories.

589
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 15: Yeah.

590
00:29:57,599 --> 00:29:59,759
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I play every night pretty much, Yeah, and

591
00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:02,720
every night's different, Like sometimes it'll be like last night,

592
00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:04,880
I was at the basement of a church playing the

593
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,319
opening set of an open mic, and the night before that,

594
00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:10,920
I was at this like amazing fancy schmancy listening room

595
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,480
winery thing whereas like professional sound, you know, table service

596
00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:18,720
and all that jazz, and you know, the night before that,

597
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,799
I was playing at this vegan restaurant in Vermont and

598
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,759
Burlington and it was like a Thursday and it was

599
00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:29,200
a nice night out. So you never know, what's going

600
00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:31,960
to happen you show up. It could be ten, twenty fifty,

601
00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:36,079
who knows. But that night there was just a couple,

602
00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:39,160
oh no kidding, and they were out on a date.

603
00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:41,519
They came in and they're like, table for two please,

604
00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:44,240
I could tell you what I mean. They were in

605
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,359
for the experience and it was just me and this

606
00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:50,680
couple and this waitress. And I was like, well, y'all,

607
00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:55,720
it's just us, so let's have some fun with this,

608
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,440
you know. So we were chatting, we were making up

609
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,000
songs together, you know, having a great old time. And

610
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,200
then you know, they were a younger couple and they're like,

611
00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:08,000
can you play a slow dance song? And I was like, yes,

612
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,920
I can play a slow dance song for you. So

613
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:17,920
I played Van Morrison's Crazy Crazy Love She gave Me Love, Love,

614
00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:23,119
Love Love, Crazy Love. And they got up and danced

615
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,240
and they they were not good dancers, and they knew it,

616
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,960
and they were just having the time of their lives.

617
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,559
It was just them in this empty restaurant with me

618
00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:38,599
and the waitress, and they danced the entire song. Wow,

619
00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:41,720
you know, just you know, missing steps and kind of

620
00:31:41,759 --> 00:31:44,319
fumbling and trying to do twisty things and like kind

621
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:48,519
of knocking over little flower things whatever. But they just

622
00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:50,480
had a blast and it was just a wonderful reminder

623
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,759
that you know, it doesn't necessarily really matter what we

624
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,559
look like or sound like or seem like on the outside.

625
00:31:58,599 --> 00:32:02,640
It's like how we feel the space, you know what

626
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,599
I mean that moment and it was beautiful, Like I

627
00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,039
was like really emotional afforts. I was like, yeah, that

628
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,759
is so sweet. Y'all the biggest sweeties and me and

629
00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:12,880
the Wagers gave him a big, you know, round of applause.

630
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:15,880
They had an absolute blast. Yeah, you know, got some merch.

631
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,519
I had a great tip. I made more e merch

632
00:32:18,599 --> 00:32:21,039
and tip that night with two people than sometimes I

633
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:23,799
will with like thirty or forty, you know what I mean.

634
00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:26,480
So it just depends on getting into the experience, really

635
00:32:26,559 --> 00:32:28,960
holding it to being aware. So that happened just a

636
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,720
few nights ago. I will always remember that. And they

637
00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:33,680
made my night VIP night too.

638
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:34,119
Speaker 7: Yeah.

639
00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:37,119
Speaker 9: Well that's awesome. Well that's a positive roads story. That's

640
00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:38,720
absolutely I don't hear many of those.

641
00:32:38,839 --> 00:32:39,119
Speaker 2: Okay.

642
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,359
Speaker 9: Usually it's like usually it's like broke down, Yeah, the

643
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,839
van broke down, or we got to the place and

644
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:46,799
toilet didn't work, and.

645
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: You know, you know what I mean. We lost our

646
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,400
band member. We drove away from the gas station and

647
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,759
we realized two hours later, you're missing her drummer.

648
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,559
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you're all kinds of terrible things. So it's good.

649
00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:03,279
Speaker 9: Here a positive story like that. That's awesome. That's awesome.

650
00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 7: You want to play another one?

651
00:33:05,319 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: Yeah?

652
00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 2: Happy too? Do you want one more?

653
00:33:06,759 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 17: Teen?

654
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,279
Speaker 2: This is from Present Journey as well. Okay, I also

655
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:13,759
played this song for the couple. This one's called Love

656
00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:14,720
in the Middle Ages.

657
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 7: Oh yes, this is I listened. I like this one.

658
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: Do you like this one?

659
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,039
Speaker 7: I like this one a lot.

660
00:33:19,079 --> 00:33:19,839
Speaker 2: I like this one too.

661
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:20,599
Speaker 7: This is really good.

662
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:36,279
Speaker 2: Awesome, here we go. When I was in my early age,

663
00:33:36,759 --> 00:33:41,279
I heard him talk about Tula, so I started looking

664
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,599
for where it could be. I ran from kisses in

665
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,519
the third grade. DI did a girl in middle school

666
00:33:49,559 --> 00:33:53,000
for ten days. I thought it would never come out,

667
00:33:55,039 --> 00:34:02,000
But I found love middle Ages. It ain't always fireworks

668
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:09,039
and comes in stages, and it takes courage and trust

669
00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:09,840
in each other.

670
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 15: I know.

671
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 5: I found.

672
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:15,599
Speaker 2: What you love is.

673
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 3: It's love in the Middle Ages.

674
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 1: Love in the Middle Age.

675
00:34:29,079 --> 00:34:32,039
Speaker 3: I chased love across the ocean.

676
00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 2: But I never knew what it was like to stay,

677
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:47,079
what it took to really listen, how to compromise.

678
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 3: And how to sing the sing.

679
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:56,679
Speaker 2: Now I'm oldly enough to see I found love.

680
00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 7: Middle Ages.

681
00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:06,559
Speaker 2: It ain't always fire worms, and it comes instages. It

682
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,239
takes courage, trusting each other.

683
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 5: I know I found.

684
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 2: What you love is. It's love in the Middle Age.

685
00:35:20,679 --> 00:35:23,280
Speaker 14: It love in the.

686
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:32,559
Speaker 2: Middle Age, and it's a trip to Duncan in the morning.

687
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:40,960
It's knowing exactly what she's gonna say. It's getting cozy

688
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:46,480
on the couch after a long hard day. It's growing

689
00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:52,679
old together, figuring it out along the way. Because I

690
00:35:52,800 --> 00:36:00,519
found love the Middle Ages. It's not just fate or

691
00:36:00,599 --> 00:36:08,440
even the promise. It's something deeper, something stronger. I put

692
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:13,800
down my sword and took off my armor because I.

693
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,039
Speaker 3: Found loving.

694
00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 7: The Middle Ages.

695
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 2: It ain't always fireworks, and it comes in stages. It

696
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,800
takes courage, trust in each other.

697
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 5: I know I found it.

698
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 3: What you love it's love in the Middle Ages.

699
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 6: Jes love in the Middle Age.

700
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 2: It's loving the Middle Age, loving the middle lady.

701
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 7: M m m, that is beautiful. That is beautiful.

702
00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 2: Some sauce on it.

703
00:37:08,639 --> 00:37:11,159
Speaker 9: Eli love is with us here live in studio on

704
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,960
this Saturday morning on Matt Connerton unleashed and planning some

705
00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:19,000
tunes live for us, and yeah, that's that's great. By

706
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,559
the way, you in terms of your vocals, have you

707
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,280
did you get formal vocal training or are you self taught.

708
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 2: Or I did not?

709
00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:30,159
Speaker 9: Yeah, I uh.

710
00:37:32,159 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 2: Vocal I found out. I found out at the beginning

711
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,400
of my career that your vocal cords are like muscles.

712
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you can train them.

713
00:37:40,519 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get better. I did not have like

714
00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:45,920
an American idol. I still don't have an American ile voice.

715
00:37:46,079 --> 00:37:47,719
But it wasn't like people who heard me sing and

716
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,719
were like, whoa, yeah, you should be famous. Never you

717
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,599
know what I mean? Never in the thing. But after

718
00:37:54,679 --> 00:37:57,639
singing for almost every day for the last six or

719
00:37:57,679 --> 00:38:00,679
seven years, really developing into it, getting to the character

720
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,679
and kind of like feeling in you know, what I

721
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,840
really also found is just like just being unique, you know,

722
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,599
not necessarily sounding like someone else, but just like whatever

723
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:10,800
the true voice is kind of like letting that out, yeah,

724
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,039
really kind of leaning into that.

725
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,679
Speaker 9: Yeah, do you do you do things to take care

726
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,000
of your voice, like you know, Lemon and all that Yeah.

727
00:38:18,119 --> 00:38:21,159
Speaker 2: So so my tours, Matt, Like, I know, like there's

728
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:24,920
this image of tours being like wild and crazy stand

729
00:38:25,039 --> 00:38:29,199
up and partying and stuff, but I'm an indiful singer songwriter. Yeah,

730
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,519
so that's not usually the case. So, you know, it's

731
00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:35,239
a lot of a lot of hydration. I'm drinking a

732
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,400
lot of water, I'm drinking smoothies. I'm sleeping as much

733
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,800
as I can. I'm going to plant fitness in the morning,

734
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,519
you know what I mean. I'm doing vocal warm ups,

735
00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:45,360
I'm doing vocal cool downs. I'm like, you know, like

736
00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:47,599
doing the throat coat tea and kind of like you know,

737
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,800
massogyn all that kind of stuff because it makes me

738
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,760
feel better, it makes me have better performances, and it

739
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,760
keeps my voice. It's like what I'm doing is kind

740
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,960
of like an ultra marathon. Yeah, two hundred twenty five

741
00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:03,000
days on the road. You can't mess around, right, you

742
00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:05,239
know what I mean. So, and I've had times where

743
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,039
I've lost my voice. Really it's been tough. Yeah, so

744
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:11,440
I don't want to do that again. So you're absolutely

745
00:39:11,519 --> 00:39:13,639
right on that. It's like it's a very conscious effort

746
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:14,559
to keep things going.

747
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, when you're singing every day like that. Yeah, no doubt,

748
00:39:17,679 --> 00:39:18,119
no doubt.

749
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 9: Is it literally every Like do you ever have a

750
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:21,840
day off on your tour?

751
00:39:23,199 --> 00:39:26,159
Speaker 2: Sometimes maybe like once a week, once every two weeks, yeah,

752
00:39:26,199 --> 00:39:27,400
but usually it's pretty packed.

753
00:39:27,519 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's good.

754
00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:29,639
Speaker 2: It is good.

755
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,039
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's really good.

756
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

757
00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:35,280
Speaker 9: By the way, I'm also curious about your influences in

758
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,760
terms of songwriting, because everything that you write.

759
00:39:37,679 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 7: It's all it's so catchy.

760
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 17: It really is.

761
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 9: Exactly exactly like any who influences you as far as songwriting.

762
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I kind of like was formed

763
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,920
by you know, Cat Stevens, Bob Doing, Joni Mitchell growing up,

764
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,480
like when I was really young. Yeah, you know, John

765
00:39:58,559 --> 00:40:01,679
Denver all like all that kind of good stuff. But

766
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,679
then you know, it's funny, Matt, because like I grew

767
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:09,599
up in the grunge era. Yeah, like Stone Table, Pilots, Nirvana, Radiohead,

768
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,360
you know what I mean, read at Chili Peppers like

769
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,199
that was my music And here I'm playing becausic guitar right,

770
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,199
which is hilarious. But yeah, so that really influenced me too.

771
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,159
In college, I got into underground hip hop. When I

772
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,599
was living in Europe for a few years, I got

773
00:40:24,639 --> 00:40:28,599
into like dance beats, electronic music. When I came back,

774
00:40:28,639 --> 00:40:32,239
I got into modern day songwriters like you know, Noah Khan,

775
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,840
you know boy Genius, you know, just kind of like

776
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:43,000
these very straightforward kind of singing songwriters, Jason Morez, you know,

777
00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:46,119
Jack Johnson, you know Ed Sheer and that that stuff

778
00:40:46,159 --> 00:40:48,119
as well. But also, you know, I got a little

779
00:40:48,119 --> 00:40:52,320
countryside yeah, you know, Jason Izbel, Tyler Childers. I like

780
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,519
this singer songer named Hardy. He's really cool. So all

781
00:40:55,559 --> 00:40:56,400
that kind of comes together.

782
00:40:56,599 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 7: Yeah.

783
00:40:57,159 --> 00:41:00,559
Speaker 9: Yeah, do you try to do you approach like trying?

784
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,880
It sounds like you probably don't necessarily try to have

785
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,159
a particular sound, but what comes out is what comes out.

786
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:06,679
Speaker 7: I assume.

787
00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:09,159
Speaker 2: Yes, I know that's wrong. I know I'm not supposed

788
00:41:09,159 --> 00:41:09,480
to do that.

789
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,599
Speaker 7: But I think it's great.

790
00:41:11,639 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 9: I think that's I think that's the best way to

791
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,679
do it. Don't don't overthink it, just be that's the

792
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,119
best way to be authentic. Just to not overthink it,

793
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,880
not to say I want to sound like this, but

794
00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:23,920
just sound like what you sound.

795
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 2: Like, right, And I'm I'm not in the industry, I'm

796
00:41:26,519 --> 00:41:28,639
like industry adjacent, you know what I mean. It's like

797
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,519
I'm like the DIY independent scene, so I don't have

798
00:41:31,639 --> 00:41:34,280
a manager that says you need to sound like this, right,

799
00:41:34,639 --> 00:41:37,360
So it's fun because I can just sound like whatever

800
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,000
I feel like that day. Right. I'm enjoying that. So

801
00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:41,960
I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.

802
00:41:42,199 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 7: And is everything?

803
00:41:43,599 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 9: Is everything self released? Or are you on any kind

804
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,280
of a label or you just do it all yourself?

805
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:49,199
Is that the best way to do it in your opinion,

806
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,559
if you were to give advice to somebody who's aspiring

807
00:41:52,639 --> 00:41:53,239
to do what you do.

808
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, So record contracts actually have never been like the

809
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:03,880
thing that guarantees success, right, they can be, you know,

810
00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:07,599
for the one percent of artists that you know, record

811
00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:09,840
contract is a really good thing for right, But for

812
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,920
the other however, many percent of it, you know what

813
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,760
I mean, All sorts of things can happen. You can

814
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,559
get shelved, the label can have another band that sounds

815
00:42:17,639 --> 00:42:19,719
just like you and they signed you so that they

816
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,360
could push the other band and not you. They could

817
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,239
drop you after an album, they could keep you for

818
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,239
ten albums and never release you. So it just didn't

819
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,360
sound like something that would fit my vibe. So I

820
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,119
kind of went on my own route. Now that's not

821
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,079
saying that if the right record contract comes along, you

822
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:36,480
know what I mean that I wouldn't I would like

823
00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:40,159
reject it necessarily. But you know, I've found that it's

824
00:42:40,199 --> 00:42:42,440
best to like do your own thing, make your own business,

825
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,320
and then if that happens, great, but not to like

826
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:44,880
bank on it.

827
00:42:45,119 --> 00:42:47,639
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know, and we're fortunate to live

828
00:42:47,679 --> 00:42:49,960
in an era where you really can do it all. Yeah,

829
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,719
you know, because of the Internet, you can. You know,

830
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,400
I'm old enough to remember when your only shot really

831
00:42:54,639 --> 00:42:57,119
was if you you know, you record a demo and

832
00:42:57,199 --> 00:42:58,119
then you send it to record.

833
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 2: That was it because they had the equipment. There was

834
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,559
no other way to record your music besides getting a

835
00:43:03,679 --> 00:43:05,639
record contract. So that would make sense because at least

836
00:43:05,639 --> 00:43:06,719
you have your music recorded.

837
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:07,119
Speaker 7: Yeah.

838
00:43:07,519 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 2: But now, yeah, it's very accessible, which has pauses and

839
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,679
negatives because everybody can do it, so you have to

840
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,360
kind of like be inventive a little bit, right, So yeah,

841
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,679
it now it's like kind of about being creative, I think.

842
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely well, I think so as we as we

843
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,400
approach the top of the hour singing, I'll play another

844
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,360
studio track, the honky Tonk Truth.

845
00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that one.

846
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,679
Speaker 7: I think it would be a great way to a

847
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:31,960
great way to end the segment.

848
00:43:32,079 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 9: But yeah, but before we do that, I want to

849
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,960
make sure that our listeners know where they should go

850
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,239
online to keep up with everything that you're doing, and

851
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,880
of course plug your next show too. You know, we're

852
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,320
in Manchester, but we do have a lot of people

853
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,440
who listen online, so we want to make sure everybody knows.

854
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 7: Where to find you.

855
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome. So my name is Eli Love. It's E

856
00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:51,360
L I space and then L E V as in Victory.

857
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,280
You can type that into the Google machine and my

858
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,000
website will pop up. All my website is all my

859
00:43:57,119 --> 00:44:00,400
music that's just freely available to stream with lyrics, and

860
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,360
also my tour schedule. So I'll be in New England,

861
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:07,199
in Canada and a bunch of shows all over the world.

862
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,920
Actually in February March, I'll be in the UK and

863
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,719
you're oh, no kidding, good show. Yeah, folks are listening

864
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,400
over there. I'll see you. I'll see you next year.

865
00:44:16,199 --> 00:44:18,679
And also on my website is a little button at

866
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,039
the bottom that says join the Levitators. Yes, so you

867
00:44:22,079 --> 00:44:24,159
are welcome to join. It's just like a you know,

868
00:44:24,199 --> 00:44:27,159
an email texting list, but I send out songs and

869
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:29,280
good vibes and keep people going and we do live

870
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,159
streams together. I do full Fridays. Is a great way

871
00:44:32,159 --> 00:44:35,360
to stay connected to a worldwide community of music lovers.

872
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:39,679
Speaker 9: Excellent, excellent, that is outstanding. Have you played overseas? But

873
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,280
you mentioned you lived in Europe? Did you have you

874
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:43,239
played over there before?

875
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 2: I've played shorter tours. I lived in a country called

876
00:44:46,079 --> 00:44:49,800
Andra between Spain and France over there, so I've played

877
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,800
shorter tours, like a week in France or a week

878
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,960
in Spain. But this is the first like full on,

879
00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:57,239
two month like show every day kind.

880
00:44:57,159 --> 00:45:00,079
Speaker 7: Of wow, very cool. Yeah, good for you. Yeah no,

881
00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:01,360
that's that's that's exciting.

882
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 9: Uh So we'll we'll close out the segment with the

883
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,960
Honkey Talk Truth another great song.

884
00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 7: But I like all of these, They're all really good.

885
00:45:08,119 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 9: But Eli Lev, thank you so much for joining us,

886
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:10,840
Thanks for having me on.

887
00:45:11,599 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 7: This has been amazing.

888
00:45:12,559 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 9: Now we'll have to do it again in the future

889
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,840
next time you're next time you're on tour through the area,

890
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,440
we'll definitely we'll have you back. But uh and if

891
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,840
you are listening live on Saturday, sick Around coming up

892
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,320
in the third hour, we have the rightful heirs joining

893
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:23,920
us in studio.

894
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 8: But here it is.

895
00:45:24,519 --> 00:45:27,639
Speaker 9: This is the honkey talk Truth from Present Journey by

896
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:28,519
Eli Lev.

897
00:45:33,039 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 2: So far it's been quite an adventure.

898
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 7: With there's a part of.

899
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,199
Speaker 12: That goes on forever.

900
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:03,079
Speaker 1: And to leasy shine.

901
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 5: If my time.

902
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 4: Do that, we're just skinning starting.

903
00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 5: What you keep on keeping on with me.

904
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:28,639
Speaker 6: Because I try, try, try to be opening hardy.

905
00:46:31,559 --> 00:46:32,679
Speaker 10: I hope that's all right.

906
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 4: I'm learning as I go.

907
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 6: It's a long winding road with ps and dangerous turns.

908
00:46:48,559 --> 00:46:51,719
The hardest part staying true.

909
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,159
Speaker 8: But I know when you're with me, that's all that

910
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:57,559
I want to do.

911
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 16: So far, we've built the time empie in the middle

912
00:47:12,199 --> 00:47:14,639
of a wild and wondrous work.

913
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 5: If we keep.

914
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 10: Going, lie, we'll go with.

915
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:31,519
Speaker 5: There's no telling how big ain I FuMB this could.

916
00:47:35,159 --> 00:47:38,320
There's a send my mine.

917
00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:42,199
Speaker 1: Lascar of what's uh happened?

918
00:47:43,559 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 10: But too much to look at old time, cause I'm

919
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,920
knowing when you're with me, up, Bob.

920
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 5: Gone on me you alright.

921
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 16: Since we sing our first song together, I knew.

922
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,559
Speaker 15: That we be just fine.

923
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 7: We're going to keep on singing.

924
00:48:33,599 --> 00:48:41,559
Speaker 2: To start, We'll stay on the run and keep on

925
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,480
chasing daylight.

926
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,159
Speaker 5: It's one thing.

927
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 6: With parrols and dangerous turns.

928
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 5: God's bond stay up, but I'm not.

929
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 2: When you win me, that's all that I want to do.

930
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:08,119
Speaker 5: That I want to do.

931
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,800
Speaker 6: I guess the smoking gun was always after.

932
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:24,639
Speaker 18: The sun set.

933
00:49:25,079 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 17: Looked at our shoes all coming mun sat in the

934
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:31,679
park way after dark.

935
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 5: We will never cold. That's off to the city, leaving

936
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:38,920
the south side.

937
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 2: They were giving us no place to hide.

938
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 5: What if I just to run? What if we be

939
00:49:47,559 --> 00:49:53,679
come run? I'm seeking feet like a spare park.

940
00:49:53,679 --> 00:49:57,079
Speaker 13: The special moy Trybys house.

941
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 5: I never wonderful. I'm blest gully. I was bof to

942
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,639
apple from the base.

943
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,039
Speaker 13: Stay steady, but I guess I couldn't hold my love.

944
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,159
Speaker 5: It's such a funny and a bailey.

945
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 13: Every hurdle of showing bmies all the body.

946
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:22,679
Speaker 5: It seems everyone that gets about me impost the can

947
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,719
feel like stample this person mo. They try to raver

948
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:32,519
ony gas ponder for old day on body killing. I

949
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:38,679
was bof theapple from the base hard it reserves behind

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from there, Yes, a ride, it's a caround looking ride.

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I've been feeling kind of homesick. I'm mister shoes and

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the ground. I'm wolping. I've been feeling kind of homesick.

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Wanted five mother away. I've been feeling kind of home sick,

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being feeling kind of homesick, want about mother around A

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Speaker 13: They try to mother running yas who wanted the all

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