July 28, 2025 • 46 mins
This week, we feature Joe Trojcak of Progressive Enterprises Sound Studios as our in-studio guest! Joe and Progressive just celebrated 40 years! Therefore, we celebrate with the following artists who have recorded at Progresive:
1. Steve Mazur - "Maggie K"
2. Dean's List - "Happy Father's Day Mama"
3. Switch Fu - Searchin'
4. Lobo Libre - "Naturalidad"
5. YAM YAM - "Sizzle"
6. Joe Trojcak - "Borgus"
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1. Steve Mazur - "Maggie K"
2. Dean's List - "Happy Father's Day Mama"
3. Switch Fu - Searchin'
4. Lobo Libre - "Naturalidad"
5. YAM YAM - "Sizzle"
6. Joe Trojcak - "Borgus"
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Hosts: Glenn Hamilton & Brandon Valentine
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Proudly Pa. This is the local show with a Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame on the River ninety seven three.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well, good evening. It's Glenn Hamilton here from the River
ninety seven three and Brandon Valentine, founder of the Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's me happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That so great to have you here, man, as we
spotlight the local music scene here in Central PA. And
this week we have a special in studio guest, our
good friend Joe Trojack.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hi, Joe.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good evening, everyone, How are we doing? Great to be here,
So good to have you here.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Joe just celebrated forty years of progressive enterprises sound studios. Man,
that's amazing. Where's the applause? Oh you want the applause?
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
There we go, sho a little more, there we go.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Crowd goes, well, sit down at the studios.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, okay, settle down all right? Man, that was an
abrupt stuff there. I mean, seriously, they listen. They're good listeners.
That's right, they obey. No, we love our fans, Joe.
I'm telling you, man, you are an institution here in
Central PA. Anybody in the Central Pa music scene knows
you and is more than likely recorded something at your studio.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Either that or we've worked with him with av Tech,
had him as students and a lot of different things.
So with the fortieth anniversary, we wanted to do something
that brought the three areas that I work in. I'm
the pipe organ this music director at Seven Sorrows, choir
directing and everything there, running the studio with all kinds
(01:38):
of dialogue, music work and all those sort of things.
And then I teach a class each semester at HACK,
but over the years I've taught at Lemanon Valley, filled
in at your college and other places. So amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So we're going to feature a lot of the music
that has been recorded at at Progressive Sound studios, some
that you're on, You're usually on most of them. Then
we're gonna have one of your songs later on too.
But who are we starting off the show with tonight?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
This would be Steve Major and a tune called Maggie K.
The timing is neat because we're getting ready for back
to school and this is just a fun, energetic piece.
They were I was. They were nice enough to have
me play piano keyboards on it and it's just for
teachers getting ready to teach this. We'll get them pumped.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Up, all right, sweep nice.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
This is Steve Major with Maggie K. It's the local
show on the River in ninety seven three.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Maggie K. Maggie kay, how are you to today? You
say you gotta go to's good today? And team's a
kids a lot of man for ma.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Maggie K.
Speaker 10 (02:55):
Maggie kay, how are you today?
Speaker 8 (02:58):
You say you gotta go to school today? And T
shirks a lot of the infremation. You gotta go teach
them how to read in right. You gotta show them
what wronging right and tell them that they show them
by their friends man that ain't right. You gotta show
(03:23):
them how to count one, two, three. You gotta show
them almost everything. And those two kids they look a
light to me. Oh I think they're twins.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Maggie K.
Speaker 10 (03:37):
Maggie KA, out.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Or you today?
Speaker 8 (03:39):
You say you gotta go to school today? And T
shuck is.
Speaker 10 (03:44):
A lot of information, Maggy K.
Speaker 11 (03:50):
Maggie K.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
How are you to today? You say you gotta go
to school today? And T shirk is a lot.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
Okay, have made man take it away? No Maggie Kay,
(04:34):
all the words be gone, all the words.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
I have gone away.
Speaker 10 (04:46):
Maggie Kay, all the words are gone, all the words.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Have gone away.
Speaker 12 (04:56):
Hey, Maggie Kay.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Maggie can now are you?
Speaker 12 (05:00):
Did you say gotta go?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And Gza.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Maggie Day, Maggie.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Daw you.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Say gotta gooda and Deza.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Lit the.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Nice Steve Major with Maggie k great song for back
to school on the Local Show on the River ninety
seven three. Our special in studio guest on the Local
Show is Joe Trojack from Progressive Sound Studios. Joe's that
those were kazoos.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yes, and the is donated it as part of our
arsenal of sound equipment.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Did he sign it?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I have to check for that. That's a good question. So,
but Chase Bartholomew was the engineer on that project. He
was an intern with us during COVID Okay, and that
was a strange one because always the LVC interns were
spring summer. And then he calls and goes, I want
to do this in the fall. I said, does Jeff
know about those? He goes, yeah. So we worked and
(06:19):
it worked really well, and then he moved to Virginia.
Was you know, with his fiance. They were she was
teaching down and everything, and then he was really missing
the studio. And then when he moved back he's kind
of in the Maryland Southern PA area, and uh, he'll
just say I'm coming and taking a weekend okay for
the Highway Yeah, the Highway Boys. And we did a
(06:41):
lot with Steve Major.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, great stuff. We just recently featured song of Steve's
on this.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Show we did last week. Yeah, and both off the
new EP called Making Lemonade. It just released I think
about three weeks ago and recorded at Progressive for Sure
to Go.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Now, here's another project by Dean's list. Talk about this song,
Joe and how it came to be.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Dean Vaughan has been a client at the studio of
mainly doing tons of dialogue work how to turn your
room into a multiplication for kids to quickly learn their
multiplication tables and things, translations for medical terms in Spanish
and English. And then he's like, well, I've got this
(07:23):
musical idea. So this is about the third incarnation of
this song. It's called Happy Father's Day, Mama, and it's
a beautiful tribute to the single mom and a little
boy who recognizes everything that mom's got to do. And
that's how the piece came together. So we got Bernad
de Bertina to do vocal. Sam Dunklar Dunkloud did guitar,
(07:48):
I played some bass, a little bit of keyboards and
engineer to produce this one and we released it and
we have it touches certain people in ways. They're like, Joe,
what are you doing to me? You're making me cry
at work? You know, which is is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So well, my wife, Nancy, but she grew up with
She is the youngest of five and her mother basically
raised all five of them by herself. Her dad left
when she was like not even two years old, so
she can certainly relate to this song and as a lot.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Of people can, so very very relatable. Take a listen
to these lyrics again. It's Happy Father's Day, Mama by
Dean's List on the local show.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The River ninety seven three in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 13 (08:35):
It was Father'sday morning with no father all the very
first Father's Day and we would be a love.
Speaker 14 (08:50):
My son had not talked about this holiday this year, maybe.
Speaker 13 (08:58):
Not too mind me or to save me from ties.
Speaker 15 (09:07):
It was just before sunrise in the kitchen, I saw
one red rose on the table in a glass much
too small, and laying right beside it.
Speaker 13 (09:25):
A small card. I could see it was made by
my son and was done just for me. Happy Father's Day, Mama.
This card's just for you.
Speaker 14 (09:46):
I made it last night.
Speaker 15 (09:49):
And I colored it too.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
And I know that most mamas won't get flowers today.
There's a rose on the table, and to kiss on
the way. It's Father'sday evening. More tears filled my eyes.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
I had read the card further with another surprise. I
was happier this day then I thought I could be.
He added still more words to that card made for me.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
Happy Father's Day, Mama. It's just you and me.
Speaker 16 (10:49):
You'll make it off ourselves.
Speaker 15 (10:52):
Just you wait and see.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
And I go that most.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
Mama's I get cards on this day. But here's a
card for.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You, Mama.
Speaker 13 (11:07):
On this Father's Day, I made a card for you, Mama.
On this Father'say, I made a card for my mama
on this.
Speaker 16 (11:28):
Fathers The local show on the River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Love a woman named Joe.
Speaker 17 (11:48):
She was a beanche turner, used to dance in the
nat No music.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Love Maria.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
She was a e.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Used to dance till you to.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Only one saw and searching.
Speaker 16 (12:06):
More magic and every day got to.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Keep on.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Searching, searching, searching.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Search.
Speaker 17 (12:22):
Live up in the pines where we don't prove myself.
I spent too many nights so fred to stop lived
every second like I can go to many future chances
dot searching.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
My wishes to be creative time.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
No key one.
Speaker 16 (12:49):
Searching, searching, searching such.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I not the only soul accused of hit and run
high tacks all across your back. I can see you
had you from now the segn that turns from me to.
Speaker 18 (13:51):
M see the traffic jam straight over my head.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
It's just that pasacha get through.
Speaker 12 (14:00):
It's just like sad traffic get do to you.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
It's just starting PROTI trapping, trying to slow me down,
trying to get all the other side of time.
Speaker 17 (14:23):
They down the moonlight every Friday and now til the morning,
come in, set me free, lay down the.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Spotlight every way anything.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Till the morning, way too much for me.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Searching for purpose in every day you can get to.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Keep on.
Speaker 12 (14:50):
Searching, searching, searching.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Such a.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Such a.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's John merks Band switch Foo searching on the local
show on the River ninety seven to three, recorded at
Progressive Enterprises Sound Studios with our in studio guest Joe Trojack,
and they just celebrated forty years of progressive in Central PA,
one of the most popular studios in all of the areas.
So Joe talk about switch Food and how that song
(15:44):
came out.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Okay, well, basically for that one, all the basic tracks
records the studio they finished up elsewhere, but Jay Kerson
and Billski guitarists. I played with them for five years
in Rosina Natural Oh yeah, yeah, and that was you know,
when I finished building the studio that I said, okay,
I can take time to play in a band, and
(16:06):
so we did that for several years. And Jay and
I also teach at hack Okay, so I kind of
teach music business and the Internet, and then I teach
him how to write music on a computer. Jay teaches
how to record and mix nice with mixing in a
lot of physics and some things that a lot of
other schools don't. So you learn quite a bit from Jack.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
That's really cool. And both Jay Kerson and Joe Trojack,
those are names you recognize in this area without a doubt.
And you may know him as Joe Trojack, but he
has a nickname and that is Captain Razor Blade.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What the heck is that, Joe?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't think it has to do with the Peruvian
white dust. Let's captain credit cards.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
So no, this is so I know what this means.
We're going back now to the eighties. And so eighty
eight I opened the first studio that we built. It
was the Atomic Ports Studio. Before that, everything was being
done where the bathroom and lounge were, and we were
just slowly building because so much of this is going
(17:09):
to be my dad's print shop. That studio, which we
still use, was going to be my dad's fruit seller,
you know, old Europeans. This is how we keep our
you know. So we made it into a studio. And
then one of my clients, because I was being a
mastering engineer at Crown Magnetics, and one of their clients
(17:30):
was Investors Hotline. So Joe Bradley would get on the
telephone with John Templeton, some of the big wigs in
the investment field and talk to them for forty five
minutes to an hour, and then this was all condensed
into a ninety two minute cassette. So at some point
it's like, hey, I lost my engineer. Would you want
(17:50):
to move to Baltimore. I'm like, well, I just built
a studio. Can we possibly move the equipment here? He
thought about it, and after two issues he was throwing
and actually said, You're going to New Orleans. We're going
to record a blancher and investment conference. So basically now
I'm getting via FedEx a pancake. Yeah, Joe on one side,
(18:15):
telephone guests on the other side of forty to sixty minutes.
I have two days to make that twenty five and
then to come back and do cosmics to take every
uh s breath, you know, stutter everything out to get
it down to twenty one minutes, and then we would
speed the tape up, pitch it down. Wow. So then
(18:37):
instead of talking about what we wanted to do with
the bond market, we were actually moving this with the bonds.
And then everything was better, and he would you know,
so it was it was actually we had we got
a good balance with it, but some studio trickery, studio trickery,
but we would slam all this information. Four interviews, a
hot tip. We were in fifty two countries, five thousand,
(18:58):
two hundreds, good grief. And it was going smoothly until
CNBC and the Internet came along and the whole newsletter
business just it just died. But so what was doing now?
I was doing Value Talk, which was another one we
helped launch the Lincoln Journal radio show. So I was
like constantly and I got to be very still have
(19:21):
the editing skills. Now it's commands on a computer. So right,
so Jo editing a word document it is.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
But back in the day, what Joe? So the deal is?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And we used to do this here at the radio
station too. You'd have, you know, a piece of tape.
You had a grease pencil white usually, and you'd mark
your your your where you wanted to edit. You get
to put it out on the splicing block and you'd
get your razor blade out and you'd slice that and
then you get your tape and you would connect those
pieces together. And so that's how you got the nickname
Captain Razor Razaus.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You were the master.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's amazing, dude, it's a big good skill. I didn't
have a nickname, but I was pretty good at editing
in the day.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'm getting schooled over here. So virtually that was actual.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Cutting, literal cutting and splicing with Razor Blades and some
of these major recordings that you hear and that you
that you love, some of these guitar solos, some of
the they would make their own loops, right, and they
would literally take feet or yards of tape and connect
them and then just loop them over and over again
around the head. The heads kept the Scotch tape industry
(20:27):
in business. It wasn't Scotch tape, but it was similar
to that. I mean, it literally was tape that was
customized to fit your quarter inch or your eighth inch
or your two inch tape or whatever it was. So, yeah,
man back in the day. That's right. It's nice to
have Captain Razor Blade in person in the studio with us,
Joe Trojack as we celebrate forty years of progressive sound
studios and who do we still have to come on
(20:49):
the show, Brandon.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah, coming up in a little bit here after the
commercial break, we're going to take a listen to uh
Lobo libra Yam yam, and.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Some Joe Trojack original music himself.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
All right.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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Now the River twenty seven and three, we're back with
the local show. It's season three, episode eighteen if you're
following along at home, and our special in studio guest
is Joe Trojack celebrating forty years of progressive sound studios
in the Harrisburg area. I'm Glenn Hamilton Brandon Valentine as
my co host as always, Yes, indeed, and we talk
(22:18):
about forty years, you know, real quick.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Thank you for the invite.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
You had the fortieth celebration there at Champions in High
spire and had a lot of some of these artists
and a lot of artists on stage plan as well.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Tell us about how that came together.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I wanted to have a situation where, you know, we
could bring the three areas that I work together, church,
Seven Sorrows, teaching, hack LBC, and then what we do
the studio. And I also never had a chance so
much of what I do in performing now it's a wedding,
it's a funeral, it's church, and I don't even have
(22:53):
time to be in a band because there's so much
of that going on. So okay, I want to play,
not just a and I want to play tunes. I
never get to do some tunes from Yes we Hushed
by Deep Purple, you know. And then you know, what
would it be like if zz top had a Hamman player.
So we chose Champions because they have the Hammon and
(23:15):
the Leslie. That was the first thing, nice stage, intimate area,
you know. We we knew we could get a good
crowd in there, and so we got sponsors. They were
very helpful, so they covered the food to drink and
we just had a great celebration and people really really
had a good time. For sure, I was appreciating and
(23:37):
there were a lot of people that we could have
had well over two hundred, sure, but I'm traveling.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I got a baby shower. People were tied up with
other things. Yeah, no, it was it was great. It
was a good party. It was a good celebration. A
lot of familiar faces there. Uh and this this one,
I think the lead singer this next track we're going
to feature was there as well. The band is called
Lobo Lebre and tell us about them.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Dobby's Camaro came to us. He's from Colombia and he's
an internet security specialist.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But in Columbia, South America. Columbia, South America is not
from Columbia South Carolina. There's a different Columbia.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Not to be mixed up with Colombia and Lancaster County.
But Dobby's just really we hit it off very well.
So this is an album that I engineered and produced.
Played keyboards. We had Ryan Frantz in on bass, Kevin
Dobain played drums, and I just added keyboard parts. But
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in this particular piece, we had Santiago from Colombia actually
lay down seven different guitar parts and then you know,
not since we were talking about no longer being in
the Captain Razorblade era. He was able to put them
up on the internet. We were able to fly him
in like he was in the same room. And as
(24:53):
soon as his parts came in, I turned all my
keyboard parts up. I play a little bit at the end,
but he just adds so much. So that awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So here is uh, this is Lobo lebre with NATURALI Dad,
NATURALI dad, NATURALI dad.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Okay, easy for you to say. It's like felice na
Right there.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
We go in July it is the Local Show on
the River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2 (29:47):
Local Libre natur Raladad on the Local Show the River
ninety seven to three, recorded at Progressive Enterprises Sound Studio,
celebrating their fortieth year of recording excellence here in Central Pa.
Our special in studio. Guest is the founder of Progressive Studios.
Joe Trojack.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Awesome to be here, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Great to have you. Man, So tell us about one
of our favorite bands. We featured a lot of their
music on the show. I think they're tied for the
most songs that we played from a local artist. We're
talking about, of course, Yam Yam, Central Pa favorites.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yes, this is We knew them for a while and
they were like, Okay, we're gonna get this all set up.
We're gonna come in and they basically recorded the album
Slurp Slurp in basically four days.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Now there were some overdubs and things that happened elsewhere, sure,
but we gave them a nice blockout. And on this
particular one, this was Marshall de Z flying, I was
the butler, do you guys need help you move this?
Goo that? And then you know, I would kind of
sneak in and listen like this stuff's good. I mean
it was really good stuff, and then you know, so
and the mix took a while, but it came out
(30:55):
last August and you know, sizzle and there's a great
video of this where you could watch them live in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh that's cool, Chaz on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Check it out. Very cool.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
We featured the opening track to that album Slurp Slurp
called Haircut here on the Local show previously, and this
is track number two once again. It's Sizzle by Yam
Yam on the local show The River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 11 (32:00):
Sette say.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
Then you do up again.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
The days.
Speaker 12 (34:24):
Of the STA.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Don't know. I can.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
Do anything, anything, anything.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Central Pa favorites a Yam Yam Sizzle on the local
show The River ninety seven to three. Recorded at least
the basic tracks recorded at Progressive Sound Studios with Joe Trojack.
That's Joe Trojack's studio and we've been featuring a bunch
of the music that's been recorded there over the last
forty years. Joe, we're going to feature now one of
(37:25):
your songs.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Tell us about how?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Tell us all about this song.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
So in the late eighties, as I'm building the studio,
I was the mastering engineer at Crown Magnetics in Lebanon,
and Ben Borges, who escaped from Cuba, was a loader,
so you would get like a pancake and one cassette,
one cassette. He would run the machines. We got to
be really good friends and I also related to my
(37:53):
father escaping from communism, and so I got this piece
together and it kind of that for a while. Then
I had Dan Kerberra come in as an intern from York.
His father was from the Dominican Republic. And so everything
on this piece except for the keyboard is nom Idiot's
organic base playing everything like all that very cool and
(38:19):
it's just you know, my parents were, you know, immigrants
to this country, and you know, there's a lot of discussion,
and you know, it has to be broken down. The
immigrants who come here and embrace it, that's what we need.
And some people that get homesick about it a little bit.
They they missed their country. They're the we need to
embrace those people. What we do have to watch out
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for are the ones who have.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Bad intentions, right, which are the fewest of them, Yes,
very very very few and far between.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Thankfully there's a good balance.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
So speaking of balance, Joe has an album called Balance
that came out in twenty ten. This track is off
of his EP entitled Liquid Voltage from twenty nineteen. Here
it is This is borgis by Joe Trojack on the
Local Show at the River ninety seven three.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Co Co Co.
Speaker 19 (40:16):
Co come.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Sing the River ninety seven three. This is the local
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show that is our special D studio guest Joe Trojack
with his original song Borgas to finish up this week's special.
And it's great to have you in the studio.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Joe.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I've known you for years and anybody that's anybody in
the Central PA music scene is familiar with you and
either familiar or it has either recorded something at Progressive
or wants to that I should want to.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Heck, I've been at Progressive and recorded.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
You did that Jordan the Berg song with Stuart Malina there,
and you've been a proponent of Jordan the Berg for
quite some time. You've had some of your music on there,
you know that you've done or you've played on some tracks.
What a great you know, nonprofit in this area to
work with on a continual basis, and not only is
it your own music, but you're also recording a lot
of the local artists that end up on that as well.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
So we we meen involved in so many areas of that.
I and then I like to help out and you
know stage management, we do the live show. Yeah, you're
good that going And but I remember when when we
first came out. I was like, I don't know, let's
see where this project goes. And whoa, they made twenty grand.
That's good, right, you know. Then the the most important
thing was the twenty twenty year with the COVID. Yeah,
(43:35):
and all the video had to do everything, you know,
nothing live.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
You made all the videos and.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Jerry Campbeck came in. Yeah, they made that happen. And
but each year then we you know, either some years
I do a piece, other years people come in. Canean
Land you know, loves to come in do some stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
And the stars and Sapphires past Quinn yeh.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Yes. We shot all the videos with Shay Yes, yep.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
So we're looking forward to Joy to the Berg this
year as well. And so what do you got coming
up in the future there? What's on the horizon for
the next forty years.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
We are tracking the Union Street Holligans. It's a punk
rock band based out of Middletown. Some neat guys doing
those guys. They're good, very cool, believe it or not.
Next couple weeks we're going to be doing heavy metal
with Draka Spry and also Blaine Weaver's doing a solo
heavy metal project. So Ryan France is coming into engineer
(44:30):
that and and then I'm working on a couple of
my own albums. I'm doing a prayerful piano, which is
just meditation, healing, and then I'm gonna do a Frank
Zappa g rated type thing called Prognosis positive prognosis.
Speaker 5 (44:46):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
You know, there's you know, there's a piece in there
called Disco Crisis and a lot of other different fun things.
This will give me a chance to go in and
experiment as an engineer, try to push the software, try
to do some things that I usually don't get a
chance to. And uh, we need to get back to
work on that one.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
I'm trying to think of some g rated Frank Zappa,
like the Torture never starts. Well, if you go with
moving to the Yellow snow Cout, moving.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
To Montana, that one works. That's a good one. And
then a Valley Girl, which was the big hit.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Oh yeah, for sure. Well that's cool man. Well, Joe,
thank you so much for coming in. Man, it's always
great to be with you and keep rocking over at
Progressive Sound Studios.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Man, for sure.
Speaker 7 (45:33):
For the artists listening out there, you know, how can
they seek out Progressive Enterprise Studios and do some work
with you.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Just go to the website peesound dot studio. Check us out,
send me a message. We'll have you over for a visit.
We'll plan in your next.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Session asound dot Studio. Yes, there, you go, right there
on the interwebs.
Speaker 7 (45:53):
And if you're looking to get music here on the
local show in the River ninety seven to three, you
can go to cpmhof dot com slash radio and submit
your tracks for consideration for airplay.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
That's right for our special guest Joe Trojack, my co
host Brandon Valentine. I'm Glenn Hamilton. Thanks so much for
tuning into the Local Show each week. I'll have the
podcast up for you. To make sure you follow the
River Local Show on the iHeartRadio app. New episodes drop
on Monday around lunchtime. But the best thing you can
do is go out and see a local show.
Proudly Pa. This is the local show with a Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame on the River ninety seven three.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Well, good evening. It's Glenn Hamilton here from the River
ninety seven three and Brandon Valentine, founder of the Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's me happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That so great to have you here, man, as we
spotlight the local music scene here in Central PA. And
this week we have a special in studio guest, our
good friend Joe Trojack.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hi, Joe.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good evening, everyone, How are we doing? Great to be here,
So good to have you here.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Joe just celebrated forty years of progressive enterprises sound studios. Man,
that's amazing. Where's the applause? Oh you want the applause?
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
There we go, sho a little more, there we go.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Crowd goes, well, sit down at the studios.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, okay, settle down all right? Man, that was an
abrupt stuff there. I mean, seriously, they listen. They're good listeners.
That's right, they obey. No, we love our fans, Joe.
I'm telling you, man, you are an institution here in
Central PA. Anybody in the Central Pa music scene knows
you and is more than likely recorded something at your studio.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Either that or we've worked with him with av Tech,
had him as students and a lot of different things.
So with the fortieth anniversary, we wanted to do something
that brought the three areas that I work in. I'm
the pipe organ this music director at Seven Sorrows, choir
directing and everything there, running the studio with all kinds
(01:38):
of dialogue, music work and all those sort of things.
And then I teach a class each semester at HACK,
but over the years I've taught at Lemanon Valley, filled
in at your college and other places. So amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So we're going to feature a lot of the music
that has been recorded at at Progressive Sound studios, some
that you're on, You're usually on most of them. Then
we're gonna have one of your songs later on too.
But who are we starting off the show with tonight?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
This would be Steve Major and a tune called Maggie K.
The timing is neat because we're getting ready for back
to school and this is just a fun, energetic piece.
They were I was. They were nice enough to have
me play piano keyboards on it and it's just for
teachers getting ready to teach this. We'll get them pumped.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Up, all right, sweep nice.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
This is Steve Major with Maggie K. It's the local
show on the River in ninety seven three.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Maggie K. Maggie kay, how are you to today? You
say you gotta go to's good today? And team's a
kids a lot of man for ma.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Maggie K.
Speaker 10 (02:55):
Maggie kay, how are you today?
Speaker 8 (02:58):
You say you gotta go to school today? And T
shirks a lot of the infremation. You gotta go teach
them how to read in right. You gotta show them
what wronging right and tell them that they show them
by their friends man that ain't right. You gotta show
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them how to count one, two, three. You gotta show
them almost everything. And those two kids they look a
light to me. Oh I think they're twins.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Maggie K.
Speaker 10 (03:37):
Maggie KA, out.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Or you today?
Speaker 8 (03:39):
You say you gotta go to school today? And T
shuck is.
Speaker 10 (03:44):
A lot of information, Maggy K.
Speaker 11 (03:50):
Maggie K.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
How are you to today? You say you gotta go
to school today? And T shirk is a lot.
Speaker 10 (03:59):
Okay, have made man take it away? No Maggie Kay,
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all the words be gone, all the words.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
I have gone away.
Speaker 10 (04:46):
Maggie Kay, all the words are gone, all the words.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Have gone away.
Speaker 12 (04:56):
Hey, Maggie Kay.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
Maggie can now are you?
Speaker 12 (05:00):
Did you say gotta go?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And Gza.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
Maggie Day, Maggie.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Daw you.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Say gotta gooda and Deza.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Lit the.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Nice Steve Major with Maggie k great song for back
to school on the Local Show on the River ninety
seven three. Our special in studio guest on the Local
Show is Joe Trojack from Progressive Sound Studios. Joe's that
those were kazoos.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yes, and the is donated it as part of our
arsenal of sound equipment.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Did he sign it?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I have to check for that. That's a good question. So,
but Chase Bartholomew was the engineer on that project. He
was an intern with us during COVID Okay, and that
was a strange one because always the LVC interns were
spring summer. And then he calls and goes, I want
to do this in the fall. I said, does Jeff
know about those? He goes, yeah. So we worked and
(06:19):
it worked really well, and then he moved to Virginia.
Was you know, with his fiance. They were she was
teaching down and everything, and then he was really missing
the studio. And then when he moved back he's kind
of in the Maryland Southern PA area, and uh, he'll
just say I'm coming and taking a weekend okay for
the Highway Yeah, the Highway Boys. And we did a
(06:41):
lot with Steve Major.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, great stuff. We just recently featured song of Steve's
on this.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Show we did last week. Yeah, and both off the
new EP called Making Lemonade. It just released I think
about three weeks ago and recorded at Progressive for Sure
to Go.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Now, here's another project by Dean's list. Talk about this song,
Joe and how it came to be.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Dean Vaughan has been a client at the studio of
mainly doing tons of dialogue work how to turn your
room into a multiplication for kids to quickly learn their
multiplication tables and things, translations for medical terms in Spanish
and English. And then he's like, well, I've got this
(07:23):
musical idea. So this is about the third incarnation of
this song. It's called Happy Father's Day, Mama, and it's
a beautiful tribute to the single mom and a little
boy who recognizes everything that mom's got to do. And
that's how the piece came together. So we got Bernad
de Bertina to do vocal. Sam Dunklar Dunkloud did guitar,
(07:48):
I played some bass, a little bit of keyboards and
engineer to produce this one and we released it and
we have it touches certain people in ways. They're like, Joe,
what are you doing to me? You're making me cry
at work? You know, which is is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So well, my wife, Nancy, but she grew up with
She is the youngest of five and her mother basically
raised all five of them by herself. Her dad left
when she was like not even two years old, so
she can certainly relate to this song and as a lot.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Of people can, so very very relatable. Take a listen
to these lyrics again. It's Happy Father's Day, Mama by
Dean's List on the local show.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The River ninety seven three in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 13 (08:35):
It was Father'sday morning with no father all the very
first Father's Day and we would be a love.
Speaker 14 (08:50):
My son had not talked about this holiday this year, maybe.
Speaker 13 (08:58):
Not too mind me or to save me from ties.
Speaker 15 (09:07):
It was just before sunrise in the kitchen, I saw
one red rose on the table in a glass much
too small, and laying right beside it.
Speaker 13 (09:25):
A small card. I could see it was made by
my son and was done just for me. Happy Father's Day, Mama.
This card's just for you.
Speaker 14 (09:46):
I made it last night.
Speaker 15 (09:49):
And I colored it too.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
And I know that most mamas won't get flowers today.
There's a rose on the table, and to kiss on
the way. It's Father'sday evening. More tears filled my eyes.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
I had read the card further with another surprise. I
was happier this day then I thought I could be.
He added still more words to that card made for me.
Speaker 13 (10:41):
Happy Father's Day, Mama. It's just you and me.
Speaker 16 (10:49):
You'll make it off ourselves.
Speaker 15 (10:52):
Just you wait and see.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
And I go that most.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
Mama's I get cards on this day. But here's a
card for.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You, Mama.
Speaker 13 (11:07):
On this Father's Day, I made a card for you, Mama.
On this Father'say, I made a card for my mama
on this.
Speaker 16 (11:28):
Fathers The local show on the River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Love a woman named Joe.
Speaker 17 (11:48):
She was a beanche turner, used to dance in the
nat No music.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Love Maria.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
She was a e.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Used to dance till you to.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Only one saw and searching.
Speaker 16 (12:06):
More magic and every day got to.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Keep on.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Searching, searching, searching.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Search.
Speaker 17 (12:22):
Live up in the pines where we don't prove myself.
I spent too many nights so fred to stop lived
every second like I can go to many future chances
dot searching.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
My wishes to be creative time.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
No key one.
Speaker 16 (12:49):
Searching, searching, searching such.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I not the only soul accused of hit and run
high tacks all across your back. I can see you
had you from now the segn that turns from me to.
Speaker 18 (13:51):
M see the traffic jam straight over my head.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
It's just that pasacha get through.
Speaker 12 (14:00):
It's just like sad traffic get do to you.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
It's just starting PROTI trapping, trying to slow me down,
trying to get all the other side of time.
Speaker 17 (14:23):
They down the moonlight every Friday and now til the morning,
come in, set me free, lay down the.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Spotlight every way anything.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Till the morning, way too much for me.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Searching for purpose in every day you can get to.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Keep on.
Speaker 12 (14:50):
Searching, searching, searching.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Such a.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Such a.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's John merks Band switch Foo searching on the local
show on the River ninety seven to three, recorded at
Progressive Enterprises Sound Studios with our in studio guest Joe Trojack,
and they just celebrated forty years of progressive in Central PA,
one of the most popular studios in all of the areas.
So Joe talk about switch Food and how that song
(15:44):
came out.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Okay, well, basically for that one, all the basic tracks
records the studio they finished up elsewhere, but Jay Kerson
and Billski guitarists. I played with them for five years
in Rosina Natural Oh yeah, yeah, and that was you know,
when I finished building the studio that I said, okay,
I can take time to play in a band, and
(16:06):
so we did that for several years. And Jay and
I also teach at hack Okay, so I kind of
teach music business and the Internet, and then I teach
him how to write music on a computer. Jay teaches
how to record and mix nice with mixing in a
lot of physics and some things that a lot of
other schools don't. So you learn quite a bit from Jack.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
That's really cool. And both Jay Kerson and Joe Trojack,
those are names you recognize in this area without a doubt.
And you may know him as Joe Trojack, but he
has a nickname and that is Captain Razor Blade.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What the heck is that, Joe?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't think it has to do with the Peruvian
white dust. Let's captain credit cards.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
So no, this is so I know what this means.
We're going back now to the eighties. And so eighty
eight I opened the first studio that we built. It
was the Atomic Ports Studio. Before that, everything was being
done where the bathroom and lounge were, and we were
just slowly building because so much of this is going
(17:09):
to be my dad's print shop. That studio, which we
still use, was going to be my dad's fruit seller,
you know, old Europeans. This is how we keep our
you know. So we made it into a studio. And
then one of my clients, because I was being a
mastering engineer at Crown Magnetics, and one of their clients
(17:30):
was Investors Hotline. So Joe Bradley would get on the
telephone with John Templeton, some of the big wigs in
the investment field and talk to them for forty five
minutes to an hour, and then this was all condensed
into a ninety two minute cassette. So at some point
it's like, hey, I lost my engineer. Would you want
(17:50):
to move to Baltimore. I'm like, well, I just built
a studio. Can we possibly move the equipment here? He
thought about it, and after two issues he was throwing
and actually said, You're going to New Orleans. We're going
to record a blancher and investment conference. So basically now
I'm getting via FedEx a pancake. Yeah, Joe on one side,
(18:15):
telephone guests on the other side of forty to sixty minutes.
I have two days to make that twenty five and
then to come back and do cosmics to take every
uh s breath, you know, stutter everything out to get
it down to twenty one minutes, and then we would
speed the tape up, pitch it down. Wow. So then
(18:37):
instead of talking about what we wanted to do with
the bond market, we were actually moving this with the bonds.
And then everything was better, and he would you know,
so it was it was actually we had we got
a good balance with it, but some studio trickery, studio trickery,
but we would slam all this information. Four interviews, a
hot tip. We were in fifty two countries, five thousand,
(18:58):
two hundreds, good grief. And it was going smoothly until
CNBC and the Internet came along and the whole newsletter
business just it just died. But so what was doing now?
I was doing Value Talk, which was another one we
helped launch the Lincoln Journal radio show. So I was
like constantly and I got to be very still have
(19:21):
the editing skills. Now it's commands on a computer. So right,
so Jo editing a word document it is.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
But back in the day, what Joe? So the deal is?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And we used to do this here at the radio
station too. You'd have, you know, a piece of tape.
You had a grease pencil white usually, and you'd mark
your your your where you wanted to edit. You get
to put it out on the splicing block and you'd
get your razor blade out and you'd slice that and
then you get your tape and you would connect those
pieces together. And so that's how you got the nickname
Captain Razor Razaus.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You were the master.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's amazing, dude, it's a big good skill. I didn't
have a nickname, but I was pretty good at editing
in the day.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'm getting schooled over here. So virtually that was actual.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Cutting, literal cutting and splicing with Razor Blades and some
of these major recordings that you hear and that you
that you love, some of these guitar solos, some of
the they would make their own loops, right, and they
would literally take feet or yards of tape and connect
them and then just loop them over and over again
around the head. The heads kept the Scotch tape industry
(20:27):
in business. It wasn't Scotch tape, but it was similar
to that. I mean, it literally was tape that was
customized to fit your quarter inch or your eighth inch
or your two inch tape or whatever it was. So, yeah,
man back in the day. That's right. It's nice to
have Captain Razor Blade in person in the studio with us,
Joe Trojack as we celebrate forty years of progressive sound
studios and who do we still have to come on
(20:49):
the show, Brandon.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Yeah, coming up in a little bit here after the
commercial break, we're going to take a listen to uh
Lobo libra Yam yam, and.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Some Joe Trojack original music himself.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
All right.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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Now the River twenty seven and three, we're back with
the local show. It's season three, episode eighteen if you're
following along at home, and our special in studio guest
is Joe Trojack celebrating forty years of progressive sound studios
in the Harrisburg area. I'm Glenn Hamilton Brandon Valentine as
my co host as always, Yes, indeed, and we talk
(22:18):
about forty years, you know, real quick.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Thank you for the invite.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
You had the fortieth celebration there at Champions in High
spire and had a lot of some of these artists
and a lot of artists on stage plan as well.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Tell us about how that came together.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I wanted to have a situation where, you know, we
could bring the three areas that I work together, church,
Seven Sorrows, teaching, hack LBC, and then what we do
the studio. And I also never had a chance so
much of what I do in performing now it's a wedding,
it's a funeral, it's church, and I don't even have
(22:53):
time to be in a band because there's so much
of that going on. So okay, I want to play,
not just a and I want to play tunes. I
never get to do some tunes from Yes we Hushed
by Deep Purple, you know. And then you know, what
would it be like if zz top had a Hamman player.
So we chose Champions because they have the Hammon and
(23:15):
the Leslie. That was the first thing, nice stage, intimate area,
you know. We we knew we could get a good
crowd in there, and so we got sponsors. They were
very helpful, so they covered the food to drink and
we just had a great celebration and people really really
had a good time. For sure, I was appreciating and
(23:37):
there were a lot of people that we could have
had well over two hundred, sure, but I'm traveling.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I got a baby shower. People were tied up with
other things. Yeah, no, it was it was great. It
was a good party. It was a good celebration. A
lot of familiar faces there. Uh and this this one,
I think the lead singer this next track we're going
to feature was there as well. The band is called
Lobo Lebre and tell us about them.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Dobby's Camaro came to us. He's from Colombia and he's
an internet security specialist.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But in Columbia, South America. Columbia, South America is not
from Columbia South Carolina. There's a different Columbia.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Not to be mixed up with Colombia and Lancaster County.
But Dobby's just really we hit it off very well.
So this is an album that I engineered and produced.
Played keyboards. We had Ryan Frantz in on bass, Kevin
Dobain played drums, and I just added keyboard parts. But
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in this particular piece, we had Santiago from Colombia actually
lay down seven different guitar parts and then you know,
not since we were talking about no longer being in
the Captain Razorblade era. He was able to put them
up on the internet. We were able to fly him
in like he was in the same room. And as
(24:53):
soon as his parts came in, I turned all my
keyboard parts up. I play a little bit at the end,
but he just adds so much. So that awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So here is uh, this is Lobo lebre with NATURALI Dad,
NATURALI dad, NATURALI dad.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Okay, easy for you to say. It's like felice na
Right there.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
We go in July it is the Local Show on
the River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Mm hmm, soon.
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Speaker 6 (27:41):
Too loud.
Speaker 12 (27:46):
Over live, but.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Mos, I'm about to go with that this if you die.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Day you die?
Speaker 6 (28:09):
He did go.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Two said.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
So ninety two d he does.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Tell you you die.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Two say so ninety two down.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Local Libre natur Raladad on the Local Show the River
ninety seven to three, recorded at Progressive Enterprises Sound Studio,
celebrating their fortieth year of recording excellence here in Central Pa.
Our special in studio. Guest is the founder of Progressive Studios.
Joe Trojack.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Awesome to be here, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Great to have you. Man, So tell us about one
of our favorite bands. We featured a lot of their
music on the show. I think they're tied for the
most songs that we played from a local artist. We're
talking about, of course, Yam Yam, Central Pa favorites.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yes, this is We knew them for a while and
they were like, Okay, we're gonna get this all set up.
We're gonna come in and they basically recorded the album
Slurp Slurp in basically four days.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Now there were some overdubs and things that happened elsewhere, sure,
but we gave them a nice blockout. And on this
particular one, this was Marshall de Z flying, I was
the butler, do you guys need help you move this?
Goo that? And then you know, I would kind of
sneak in and listen like this stuff's good. I mean
it was really good stuff, and then you know, so
and the mix took a while, but it came out
(30:55):
last August and you know, sizzle and there's a great
video of this where you could watch them live in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Oh that's cool, Chaz on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Check it out. Very cool.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
We featured the opening track to that album Slurp Slurp
called Haircut here on the Local show previously, and this
is track number two once again. It's Sizzle by Yam
Yam on the local show The River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 11 (32:00):
Sette say.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
Then you do up again.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
The days.
Speaker 12 (34:24):
Of the STA.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Don't know. I can.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
Do anything, anything, anything.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Central Pa favorites a Yam Yam Sizzle on the local
show The River ninety seven to three. Recorded at least
the basic tracks recorded at Progressive Sound Studios with Joe Trojack.
That's Joe Trojack's studio and we've been featuring a bunch
of the music that's been recorded there over the last
forty years. Joe, we're going to feature now one of
(37:25):
your songs.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Tell us about how?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Tell us all about this song.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
So in the late eighties, as I'm building the studio,
I was the mastering engineer at Crown Magnetics in Lebanon,
and Ben Borges, who escaped from Cuba, was a loader,
so you would get like a pancake and one cassette,
one cassette. He would run the machines. We got to
be really good friends and I also related to my
(37:53):
father escaping from communism, and so I got this piece
together and it kind of that for a while. Then
I had Dan Kerberra come in as an intern from York.
His father was from the Dominican Republic. And so everything
on this piece except for the keyboard is nom Idiot's
organic base playing everything like all that very cool and
(38:19):
it's just you know, my parents were, you know, immigrants
to this country, and you know, there's a lot of discussion,
and you know, it has to be broken down. The
immigrants who come here and embrace it, that's what we need.
And some people that get homesick about it a little bit.
They they missed their country. They're the we need to
embrace those people. What we do have to watch out
(38:41):
for are the ones who have.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Bad intentions, right, which are the fewest of them, Yes,
very very very few and far between.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Thankfully there's a good balance.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
So speaking of balance, Joe has an album called Balance
that came out in twenty ten. This track is off
of his EP entitled Liquid Voltage from twenty nineteen. Here
it is This is borgis by Joe Trojack on the
Local Show at the River ninety seven three.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Co Co Co.
Speaker 19 (40:16):
Co come.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Sing the River ninety seven three. This is the local
(42:27):
show that is our special D studio guest Joe Trojack
with his original song Borgas to finish up this week's special.
And it's great to have you in the studio.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Joe.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I've known you for years and anybody that's anybody in
the Central PA music scene is familiar with you and
either familiar or it has either recorded something at Progressive
or wants to that I should want to.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Heck, I've been at Progressive and recorded.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
You did that Jordan the Berg song with Stuart Malina there,
and you've been a proponent of Jordan the Berg for
quite some time. You've had some of your music on there,
you know that you've done or you've played on some tracks.
What a great you know, nonprofit in this area to
work with on a continual basis, and not only is
it your own music, but you're also recording a lot
of the local artists that end up on that as well.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
So we we meen involved in so many areas of that.
I and then I like to help out and you
know stage management, we do the live show. Yeah, you're
good that going And but I remember when when we
first came out. I was like, I don't know, let's
see where this project goes. And whoa, they made twenty grand.
That's good, right, you know. Then the the most important
thing was the twenty twenty year with the COVID. Yeah,
(43:35):
and all the video had to do everything, you know,
nothing live.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
You made all the videos and.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Jerry Campbeck came in. Yeah, they made that happen. And
but each year then we you know, either some years
I do a piece, other years people come in. Canean
Land you know, loves to come in do some stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
And the stars and Sapphires past Quinn yeh.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
Yes. We shot all the videos with Shay Yes, yep.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
So we're looking forward to Joy to the Berg this
year as well. And so what do you got coming
up in the future there? What's on the horizon for
the next forty years.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
We are tracking the Union Street Holligans. It's a punk
rock band based out of Middletown. Some neat guys doing
those guys. They're good, very cool, believe it or not.
Next couple weeks we're going to be doing heavy metal
with Draka Spry and also Blaine Weaver's doing a solo
heavy metal project. So Ryan France is coming into engineer
(44:30):
that and and then I'm working on a couple of
my own albums. I'm doing a prayerful piano, which is
just meditation, healing, and then I'm gonna do a Frank
Zappa g rated type thing called Prognosis positive prognosis.
Speaker 5 (44:46):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
You know, there's you know, there's a piece in there
called Disco Crisis and a lot of other different fun things.
This will give me a chance to go in and
experiment as an engineer, try to push the software, try
to do some things that I usually don't get a
chance to. And uh, we need to get back to
work on that one.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
I'm trying to think of some g rated Frank Zappa,
like the Torture never starts. Well, if you go with
moving to the Yellow snow Cout, moving.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
To Montana, that one works. That's a good one. And
then a Valley Girl, which was the big hit.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Oh yeah, for sure. Well that's cool man. Well, Joe,
thank you so much for coming in. Man, it's always
great to be with you and keep rocking over at
Progressive Sound Studios.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Man, for sure.
Speaker 7 (45:33):
For the artists listening out there, you know, how can
they seek out Progressive Enterprise Studios and do some work
with you.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Just go to the website peesound dot studio. Check us out,
send me a message. We'll have you over for a visit.
We'll plan in your next.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Session asound dot Studio. Yes, there, you go, right there
on the interwebs.
Speaker 7 (45:53):
And if you're looking to get music here on the
local show in the River ninety seven to three, you
can go to cpmhof dot com slash radio and submit
your tracks for consideration for airplay.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
That's right for our special guest Joe Trojack, my co
host Brandon Valentine. I'm Glenn Hamilton. Thanks so much for
tuning into the Local Show each week. I'll have the
podcast up for you. To make sure you follow the
River Local Show on the iHeartRadio app. New episodes drop
on Monday around lunchtime. But the best thing you can
do is go out and see a local show.
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