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July 7, 2025 53 mins
This week, we have a special guest, Michael Giblin, in studio! Susan Giblin Foundation and Speranza Animal Rescue present the 50th Anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run album! Sunday, July 13th at 6pm at Englewood Hershey! Therefore, this week, we feature some of the artists who are a part of this SPECIAL EVENT! TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! https://shorturl.at/iiZM9

1. The Split Squad - “Now Hear This”

2. Dan Kibler - “Mystery Girl”

3. Corty Byron - “Hey Baby”

4. Amy Simpson - “Hot Nasty”

5. Jeffrey Gaines - “In Your Eyes” LIVE

6. The Badlees - “1,000 Melodies Without Words”

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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.
All right, welcome in. It's episode Sweet sixteen, Season three,
episode sixteen. I'm Glenn Hamilton from the River and my
buddy Brandon Valentine from the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Famous.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Here.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
How you doing, Glenn?

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Excellent as always, fourth of July weekend, special holiday episode,
and we have a very special guest in the studio
from the Split Squad from Redshuck Studios, a local Central
Pennsylvania legend but also known around the world.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Michael Giblin. Mike, how are you man?

Speaker 5 (00:40):
I'm doing well, my friend, how are you? Folks?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
So good? And it's it's so good. Thank you for
coming in and being here in person. It's great pleasure.
Great to have you in.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
You have a very special show coming up at the
Inglewood next Sunday. Tell us about that. It's the Susan
Giblin Foundation, right, But it's a really cool idea that
you guys have.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, on a number of levels. So the Susan Giblans
Foundation was founded in twenty ten after the untimely passing
of my wife Susan. Yes, she had a very quick
and very unfortunate bout of leukemia. And so when we
went to her funeral, the funeral director told us, you know, oh,

(01:24):
it's a young person's funeral. She was forty six. It's
a young person's funeral, so we expect, you know, a
good bit many more people, you know, maybe seventy five
or so, you know, and like several hundred showed up
and took them completely. They kept opening rooms and opening
rooms and opening rooms. And I was standing there receiving

(01:46):
folks in a relentless line, and people come up to
me going, you don't know me, but I adopted my
first dog or first cat from your wife at the
Helen Kraus Animal Foundation where she was on the board,
was the medical director there. And I had people stopping
me in the grocery store going, oh, I'm so sorry
to hear about your wife. And so we were just

(02:07):
dumb struck at the funeral. And we we did a
memorial shortly after where we just pulled a bunch of
musical friends together and then did it at h Men
and one of it we were also in moved, were like,
you know what we should turn this into something, and
so we decided that well, my wife and I we
didn't have children, but the two most important things were

(02:28):
in our lives were her work with animals and then
of course my musical career, and so we combined the two,
you know, like a Reese's Peanut butter cup, and we
started a series of annual shows where well, well, first off,
we formed the foundation, made it a five oh one
c three, and we started a series of shows where
we would raise and then dispense money to other animal

(02:51):
caregiving organizations through a grant process.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
And the shows were always very highly curated, usually by me,
and they were not exclusively but largely they would center
around an important piece of rock history or an important
work in rock history. And it was a way to
pull together a lot of the music community, focus everybody

(03:15):
in one direction, and to create some really you know,
interesting opportunities to raise money. And somehow we kept it
going for over ten years, right, and we did shows
like we did. We played the first Pretenders album Cool,
we played the first Ram record, we played David Bowie
Ziggy Stardas, we played Neil Young's Harvest. Our most musically

(03:43):
aggressive one was we did the entire movie soundtrack to
the band's The Last Walls Oh wow. Yeah yeah, and
we did that with a full horn section.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
And just the variety of artists that are on that
in styles of music. That's pretty cool. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Tony Ryder from Wayne super Genius as Morrison.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Stole the show absolutely wow.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
But then we also did a number of rock history
ones like British Invasion but not the Beatles, Okay, you
know Chinks. Yeah, the Jelly Bricks as Herman's Hermits were.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Fun and I can only imagine they ate that up. Man,
they killed it. I'm sure that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
So yeah, well what was really cool about that one
was the Jelly Bricks opened that show doing the entire
Beatles Ed Sullivan performance Okay, and then we just forgot.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
The Beatles for the rest of the show. Well that's fine.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, So there were four songs I think that they
did on the Elevant right, right, So, so what do
you guys doing next Sunday at the Ingle One.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Our last show was in twenty ten. I know the
date specifically March eighth, because it was my birthday, but
also that was also the day before the world started
to fall apart, that's right. In twenty twenty, and so
we did. We did the first Cars album.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I remember that, ye yeah, which is just basically a
great hits album. That's a masterpiece of the album.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah. So we you know, we were forced to take
a break due to COVID and then the rest of
the rest of the foundation said, you know, why don't
we why don't we take our foot off the gas
a little bit here, and so we retired the five
oh one C three and but we never really put
it all to bed per se. So all the musicians
and some of the folks in the foundation were, you know.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
What, let's get the band back together.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
And so uh and so this spring I decided, uh, yeah,
let's let's give it a try. We we can't do
our grant process like we did in the past because
we're so we partnered with the Speranza Animal Rescue in
mechanics Perk.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
They're a great organization.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, so we're raising money on their behalf. And this
this album had been on our radar for some time,
but no better time than the fiftieth anniversary. So we're
going to perform the entire Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
album Front at Back epic, Yeah, the Boss.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, so you're doing a full which is the album
in its entirety, but before that, you're doing a bunch
of different Springsteen.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, so this is generally our format for these shows.
What we'll do is we'll we'll we'll do a set
of catalog songs. Anything off the record is game. Okay,
So it'll span Springsteen's entire career. I think if I
think album wise, it goes from Greetings to it touches
Greetings from Asbury Park and goes I think as current

(06:26):
as Magic. Okay, so yeah, that's just a few years ago. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Team Yeah, so what what time does this all get going?

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, Sunday the thirteenth, And because we're all of a
certain age, the uh, we're going to have doors at
five and then the music will start at six.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Perfect.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, and Sunday and every show do that will be
home by nine o'clock.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
And we're going to run down the lineup. You won't
believe who's playing this show and the different artists that
are just legend avery Central PA artists coming up. We'll
talk more with Michael Giblin come up. But I thought
we'd start the show off with your band, Michael, the
Split Squad.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Here's that now hear this.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
It's the local show on the River ninety seventy three.

Speaker 7 (07:38):
I gotta ruck.

Speaker 8 (07:43):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I'll never know about comment to Jos.

Speaker 8 (07:52):
Suits well, I never miss now.

Speaker 9 (08:03):
Now I'm running now, I'm trying to get myself together.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I'm not that's FW. So you just s not wait whatever.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
I'm god with your bay because I'm missing this.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Now. Now don't step out, st An.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
Tell about this. I can't spend your time.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, its act is less.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Now The Split Squad on the local show The River

(10:50):
ninety seven three and iHeartRadio.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Now hear this.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
It's Glenn Hamilton and Brandon Valentine. Our special in studio
guest is Michael Giblin of the Split Squad. We've got
to big concert coming up with the Susan Giblin Foundation
next Sunday.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
That's right, and we're featuring the artists who are playing there, right, So,
Mike being one of those as a member of the
Split Squad and I myself, I'm I'm a baseball fan.
Is that the reference of the name there, and tell
me about the band a little bit.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
Yeah, absolutely, For those of you who are not baseball fans,
a split squad is what baseball teams do in the
spring training. They split the squad in half so they
can plete two games at once and evaluate players. And
the Split Squad band started as a I don't want
to say a vanity project, but it was basically a

(11:38):
bunch of people who I had met over the years
playing on the road become friends with and we were
Actually it was a guitarist, Keith Strang, who said, you
know what, we should make a record together. And we
pulled them all together and made a record. And the
band was myself, Keith Strang from the flesh Tones originally
Eddie Munios from the Plimsuls, and our keyboard player who

(12:03):
sort of dropped in in the sessions in Boston and
stuck around, a guy named Josh Cantor whose day job
is the organist at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
The way so too, right, yeah, really Red Sox nice,
all right.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
I'm a new Englander. And then of course on drums,
the legendary Clem Burke, Yes.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
And body you know who sadly recently just passed away.
So we so we all got together we went up
to Boston. We made a record just for fun, and
we're like, that was really fun. And so at some
point someone said we should play some shows.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
And uh, and so we got together on our first
show I think two thy and thirteen at south By
Southwest Austin. That's a good place to bat Baptism of Fire.
But and then we just kept rolling. So this was
called reference is that it wasn't a mistake and everyone assumes, oh,
go Josh, baseball must.

Speaker 11 (12:59):
Be no where.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
That's what's god because everybody is another more famous bands.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yes, I like it, and you guys have toured the world.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
We had all over Europe, and I would refer to
ourselves as America's least famous supergroup. I like its yea
and yeah, and we we we've been all over the
United States, uh, playing both headline on our own tours,
but also playing with other bands. We did two tours
with Southern Culture on the Skids, which were just an

(13:30):
absolute roar.

Speaker 8 (13:32):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
But then we actually got super traction and had had
a lot of fun in Europe. In fact, I think
we since two thy and eighteen we've only played maybe
five dates in the US.

Speaker 10 (13:44):
Something else has been across Yeah, anglewood right with the
jelly bricks over that too, ye.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah, yep, and uh and yeah. I like to say
Europe in general, but France in particular has a Their
governments have a more mature relationship with the arts than
we tend to do here, and so they give a
lot of money to towns and cities to put on

(14:09):
festivals for the towns every year. And man, the French
summer festival circuit.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Is just a wonderful thing, no kidding.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, we played to like five thousand people in Bordeaux
as the sun was going down, looking at the river,
looking at a castle. Backstage hospitality was just endless, unmarked
bottles of red wine, and it was people would say
to us, you know, why why don't you guys play
in America anymore?

Speaker 11 (14:39):
You want to know why.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Drink? You're lucky?

Speaker 5 (14:46):
Yeah, So so we we We made two albums and
we have two EPs. One was just recently released in
France a few weeks ago. And unfortunately, as you're aware,
we lost Clem after a very very private and very
difficult about with cancer in April, and so while the
Spitsquad is not necessarily dead, we are on kind of

(15:07):
a hiatus to to sort of re reinvent the band
understand and Yeah, and our last the EP that just
came out in France. It's it's our last recordings with Clem,
I said. I wrote this little essay online about working
with Clem for fifteen years, which was just an absolute
the thrill of my musical life. There was no one

(15:28):
like him behind the drums, and he was a huge
He was as huge of a person as he was
a musician. And my only my biggest regret with the
Smithsquad is because we got such limited time together because
of everybody's crazy schedules, that we would always go out
and tour and play because we had so much fun

(15:49):
playing together, and so my biggest regret is that we
didn't record more, and so we don't have a legacy.
There's not a whole bunch of Clem Burke tracks sitting
in the vault that we can that we can put
out and so yeah, but our catalogs, I'll put my
feet down, put my arms on my waist and say
it's as good as anything out there in power pop

(16:09):
and pop rock. Right now, Go go go check us out.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Check it out.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
The Split Squad available on all the streaming services that
you could on vinyl. Everything's on vinyl, vinyl, baby absolutely so.
Our special guest is Michael Giblin. The Susan Giblin Foundation
Show is coming up a week from tonight actually at
the Inglewood, and it's an evening of Bruce Springsteen the

(16:34):
fiftieth anniversary of Born to Run. They're going to play
that entire album from start to finish, but before that
a bunch of different catalog Bruce Springsteen's songs. Tonight on
the show, we're featuring a bunch of the artists that
are going to be performing at the show, including someone
that you've had a long relationship with. In fact, all
these people you have, but because you know everybody, Michael,

(16:55):
but we're going to talk more about this guy in
just a few minutes. This is Dan Kibler and says
Mystery Girl.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's the local show on the River, ninety seventy three.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
Mother not to.

Speaker 12 (17:19):
See she's a tracks track, she sad.

Speaker 13 (17:35):
No one set side.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
A side, She's ad.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
A number. She's a mystery.

Speaker 13 (18:08):
She said Christmas, she's a proud and guy, isn't a
time of I think about she gotz.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
It was best abou.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
Something that bet.

Speaker 14 (18:48):
She's a mysterier, she said.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
She said.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
She's a proud.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
You have a children.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
Someone said, you must be true to me.

Speaker 11 (19:41):
Guy, she's a mister Meader, she.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Said, proudly.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Pa.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
This is the local show with a Central Pennsylvania Music
Hall of Fame on the River ninety seventy three.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
I know what you've been putting?

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Die? Whoa baby, I know what you've been put die?
Sorry ya side the house?

Speaker 11 (21:13):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
You didn't want to pull me? Frown ay?

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Babe?

Speaker 7 (21:20):
Whney?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Would you stay last night? Oh babe?

Speaker 6 (21:27):
Where'd you stay last night?

Speaker 11 (21:31):
Honey?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Your hair is a mess?

Speaker 11 (21:33):
Center.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
You ain't acted around.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
You don't say more? By baby, see what saying?

Speaker 6 (22:03):
We're not there? See who were serted?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
If you're a woman, no more, just say soon go
on my wik m Babe, will you stay last time?

Speaker 8 (23:37):
Bay?

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Where you stay last time?

Speaker 13 (23:43):
What are your heads?

Speaker 2 (23:44):
The who day? You ain't a talking to?

Speaker 14 (23:46):
Ride go by?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
She was some potty day.

Speaker 8 (23:55):
We go back.

Speaker 15 (23:58):
She was some pouty just get a woman just said,
so I don't want you reported, I don't want you
can put it down? Stop self a friend's house, stone

(24:23):
pull me around?

Speaker 14 (24:26):
Talk about small.

Speaker 10 (25:11):
Cordy Byron with Hey Baby on the local show in
the River ninety seven to three. Cordy actually just won
a CPMA Award in the Blues category. And before that
we had Dan Kibler as well with Mystery Girl. And
you know, Mike, I think you've had a long history
with Dan Kibler, right, tell us about that.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
That's right. Yeah, so I go all the way back
to the late eighties, I think with when Dan's band
Elkabong Yep. We used to play a bunch of shows
with them, you know, in the various clubs. And then
when Dan with solo, he asked me to play bass,
and I've been playing bass for Dan ever since then.
But then I also produced let me think for a second. Yeah, yeah,

(25:48):
probably his last four records. And yeah, he's dance well
known around here, but he's also got a nice little
sort of underground national file where people seek out his records.
And it's always great working with Dan.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
He's such a great song writer. Yeah, I mean, he's
a great artist, but I mean he writes so well. Yeah,
I mean in the studio with Dan.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
What's interesting is that Dan's songs are both distinctive and
malleable at the same time He'll come and played the
song to me and I'll go like, oh, you know what,
that should be kind of a pretendersy kind of thing,
or that should be like a Neil Young kind of Well.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
You're great at that, Michael. You're such a great producer.
And I've had the pleasure of just even just a
handful of times that I've gotten to work on Brian
Seneca's record with you.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
Which was a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Dude, so much fun. And he's already got like ten
other records. Irit, But you are an amazing producer. You
really have such a great ear. You have a great
way of directing people and suggesting things and just being
part of the whole process and making things better. I
will say, just from the limited time I've gotten to work.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Well, thank you man. I've spent enough time in studio
that were not productive. I've learned. I've learned to sort
of avoid some of the pitfalls of like people just
sitting there going.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Don't want to be Oh God, and screw you for
not wanting to be there. You know what I mean,
You're getting to make a record, This would be the
dream of your life. Shut up and go get me
a beer.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
But yeah, man.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
So. Michael Giblin is our special guest tonight. He is
the owner and operator of Redshalk Studios, member the Split Squad,
local Central PA legend, and one week from tonight is
the Susan Giblin Foundation Benefit Concert at the Inglewood. It's
an evening of Bruce Springsteen music, including the entirety of
the Born to Run album, which is celebrating its fiftieth

(27:43):
anniversary this year, and we've got some other artists coming
up on the show. We're going to play some songs
from some of the other artists that are going to
be featured, including our very good friend all of our
very friend Amy Simpson, just absolute queen, a legendary vocalist
here in Central PA. Jeff Gaines is going to be
coming up, and we also have The Badly's Pete Palladino

(28:06):
is going to be playing. But Michael's going to stick around.
We're going to talk talk more about what we can
expect next Sunday night, and a bunch of the other
artists that are going to be performing. So keep it
here on the River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio. The
Local show continues right after these They sold already.

Speaker 11 (28:22):
I can't afford these.

Speaker 10 (28:23):
Hey, could you hook me up?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Why?

Speaker 4 (28:25):
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what's trending. Now you're listening to the local show on
the River ninety seven to three and iHeartRadio. It's Glenn
Hamilton from the River and Brandon Valentine from the Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame. And our special end studio
guest is Michael Giblin, who is put together another incredible
lineup for the Susan Giblin Foundation Concert this Sunday night

(30:00):
at the Englewood.

Speaker 10 (30:01):
That's right, we're featuring some of the featured artists at
the concert. Next up being Amy Simpson, Central Pennsylvania Music
Hall of Famer of Blitzteinette and current member of the
Groove Rebels, right which as a star studed cast as
well with you know you mentioned supergroup. That's literally what
that band is and you're in that too, right Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, So it's Amy myself, Steve Montresor, and Trent Pachaka
from Hot Wing Jones and then guitar player is Mark
Burke from Stereo Glue, and we Amy came to me.
I was I was a big fan of Blitzteinette, you know,

(30:40):
I kind of everyone was. Yeah, stellar musicianship, such control.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
And unlike any other band in the area or most
any area.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Right right, very unique, right right. But they were a
very slick, polished soul band. And I'd always had this
notion about Amy though, and she came to me and
said she wanted to make a record with me, and
I said, okay, let me let me do what I've
always wanted to do with you, and that is put
you in front of a rock band. Hell yes, and

(31:09):
now we did it. We did it mostly on her record,
of course, you know. We did some dusty Springfield stuff
and then there's some Burt backracky type of things, and
there's an there's an old standard crimea River, the Julie
London version.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
But with groove rebels.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
We leaned in hard on that. So it's a lot
of like the track You're gonna play Hot Nasty, that's
a that's an old humble Pie track. Yeah, right, So
I I introduced her to uh uh to to humble
Pie in the Small Faces, and she's like, oh, this
is right up my tree. Make so yeah so so yeah,
So we're we're we're kind of pushing Amy down the rock.

(31:42):
Shoot a little bit.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
What's a what Springsteen songs? Are Amy singing at the
show this Sunday.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
We've got this terrific trio of background singers. It's Amy
and then it's a couple others, uh firm Marie Ames
and Elizabeth Angelosi from the Carlisle Band. That's what she said. Okay,
and they're there throughout the entire show.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
That's beautiful.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
But I don't want to I don't want to do
any spoilers. But all I can say is the Pointer
Sisters version of Fire.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Oh all right, that's that's sexy. I like that.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
All right, Well, that's something to look forward to. We're
here's Amy. Let's do Amy's version of Hot Nasty. Now
it's the local show on the River ninety seven three.

Speaker 16 (33:00):
He's shaken baby, forget it. I'm gonna standing scam honest sleeping.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Cat, the do with the feeling.

Speaker 17 (33:21):
Now you're gonna get passing, well, shake down the world.
Get let me say he's shake the day, the loose
scampy a love, Look what you don't you money?

Speaker 12 (33:45):
Take off the hat to take all my wad, but
must bag and take.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
All my.

Speaker 14 (33:51):
Bad f.

Speaker 8 (33:56):
I'm gonna sink and look at st ut.

Speaker 14 (34:06):
Oh you get to do away the bee.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Lad when you go to embassy.

Speaker 14 (34:13):
Lead you know you gotta ship and there.

Speaker 12 (34:30):
Don't forget to shake that thad, do away the bea.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
Then you go.

Speaker 12 (34:45):
Then you're gonna passy lad?

Speaker 8 (34:50):
Oh what do.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Amy Simpson's cover of Humble, Pies, Hot and Nasty on
the local show on the River ninety seven three. It's
Glenn Hamilton, Brandon Valentine, our special instudio guest Michael Giblin,
who is heading up the Susan Giblin Foundation show at
the Inglewood one week from tonight. In fact, right now,
you guys would be rocking Born to Run in its
entirety on stage, and Amy Simpson is part of the

(36:02):
background singers and also going to be singing some something
very special on all right, So we also have another
Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Famer in the lineup, won
Jeffrey Gaines and you guys go way back.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
Yeah, jeff and I had our first band together in
high school.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Wow, yeah, So would you go to East?

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Where'd you did to Central?

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (36:26):
As did I, gentlemen, and so did Deuce?

Speaker 5 (36:29):
I think, didn't mark work from stereoglobe? You went there,
all right? So yeah, yeah, Deuce grew up across the
street from me.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
No kid, yea, so.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
All right? So so yeah, Jeffrey and I go way back.
Our first performance together was our high school talent show,
no kidding, and what did you play?

Speaker 4 (36:48):
Well?

Speaker 5 (36:49):
This is this is a funny story. I remember exactly
because there were four bands that day. Three of them
played Crazy Train yeah right, and and then we played
Damaged Goods by Gang of Four and people looked at
us like, what planet is this?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Comment? Did you win?

Speaker 5 (37:09):
I it wasn't a contest, okay, just a talent but
I doubt we would have, all right.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Which is good. You don't want to win that. Then
you're badass if you don't win it.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
But no, yeah, we we went back and forth, Jeff.
When I went off to college. Jeff went off to
seek his fortune in the world, which is done quite
well with.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
But then we researched, we got back together and for
his second album. He asked me to come play on
his second album and then his I think his first
and only time of actually playing with a regular band.
We toured for that album. Yeah, we had some fun
adventures and one of my favorite stories it wasn't on
that album tour. Then I played intermittently with him throughout

(37:47):
the years. If you know, if there's a band situation,
he'll generally he'll generally call me uh and then. But
one of my favorite stories regarding Jeff uh Well, people
always ask me, what's your favorite gig ever? I said, Oh, man,
it's hard to say. I said, I've played thousands and thousands,
but I can tell you what my favorite moment on
stage ever was, and that is it was I can't

(38:09):
remember the year. It was early two thousands and we
were I was playing with Jeff. It was just a
trio guitar, Jeff, bass and drums, and we were at
the Theater of Living Arts in Philadelphia. Yeah, it was
sold out, and Jeff was calling the set list off
the top of his head like he usually does, which
is not the easiest thing for someone that doesn't play

(38:29):
regularly with him, and he called a song off his
first record called why uh, and uh, there's a crazy
bass run. I didn't play on that record, but there's
a crazy bass run in it where it goes do
and then it got to that and I nailed it
and uh and everybody's like And then after that, crowd

(38:50):
got quiet and Jeff goes, all right, what songs should
we play next? And that's usually a recipe for chaos, but.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
But it was like I was.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
I was, you know, I was younger, more slender in
my hair, with shaggy er and and uh, and it
was like it was like the entire crowd anointed one person,
and that one person, one voice, came out of the
crowd and said.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Let Woody Allen take a solo.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
Look, jeez, I'm playing the bass here.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
That's amazing, that's so great.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
All right, Well, Jeffrey Gaines is going to be singing
some Springsteen with the Susan Giblin Foundation concert one week
from tonight at the Englewood. Here he is with his
most famous cover Live in Your Eyes on the local
show on the River ninety seventy three and iHeartRadio, I

(40:00):
get soon thas.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
South till days Past.

Speaker 7 (40:12):
And this semteeness feels my heart when I want to
run away. I tried off in my back whichever way

(40:33):
I choose, I come back to the place.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
You up, no my instincts there turn in the grand
fair side. So soon we'll burn thout a noise.

Speaker 7 (40:58):
That man put ridge shot from the inside.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
In rise to the lack of the heat.

Speaker 7 (41:19):
I am complete, see the doorways, two thousand churches, resolution.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Full my fruitless searches. But see the light over Yes,
I want to be that complete, but not such the
light the heat. I see theas.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
I don't like to see so much spa.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
Soon thatch wasting, and each monman is slipping away, not
get super time, working sue hard for rash survivle.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
But I look to these times with you.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Keep me awaken the life. No many hastings, but they
returned from the grand fell side. So sul bird without
the noise, without my bad I reach shot from the

(43:17):
inside in yours that in the heat, I am comflete.
I see the doorways, two thousand churches, and resolution for

(43:46):
my foodless churches. Thanks what I see the lie the heat.
This cnemonted me that compleatment.

Speaker 6 (44:01):
But that's such a light.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
He see your rest, in your rest, in your rs.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
It's the local show on the river ninety seventy three.

(44:43):
How do I make sense of it all?

Speaker 6 (44:45):
I'm just sitting there watching fox turn into winter? How
do I even hope to begin? I'm talking the sheep
a man this time?

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Oh the time?

Speaker 11 (45:04):
Now?

Speaker 6 (45:04):
Why sing worse?

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Not seeing better?

Speaker 6 (45:11):
Crowd, don't change things? My mind's an ambulance and traffic
mys flying birds?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
How do I now gave this starting of a.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
Thousand melodies without word?

Speaker 8 (45:37):
Right?

Speaker 6 (45:38):
The better angels were cool, talking on a frequency I
found my day. I said, just wear the battle.

Speaker 7 (45:51):
In front of you, and you find new way, and
you find your way, and you find your way.

Speaker 6 (45:59):
The ross worse enough, seeing better? The crowd don't change things.
My mind's emuloust and traffic mas a fuer.

Speaker 9 (46:21):
How do I now gave this stack of a thousand
melodies without word?

Speaker 6 (46:54):
See worse enough? See better? For clowd, don't cheese things?

Speaker 8 (47:05):
Moms like jazz.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
On real city streets, the sweetest sound you ever heard?

Speaker 14 (47:16):
Why don't you should sell me?

Speaker 6 (47:17):
How can my mind compete with a thousand melodies without words?

Speaker 7 (47:28):
Of ambulances, travers, momas and flower combirdss.

Speaker 6 (47:38):
My reactions allmatting to a Thousand Melodies Without Word to
A Thousand Melodies Without Words.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
The bad Les a Thousand Melodies Without Words on the
local show on the River ninety seven three. Pete Palladino
from The bad Les is going to be part of
the lineup for the Susan Giblin Foundation Concert one week
from tonight at the Inglewood, singing some Bruce Springsteen. Our
special in studio guest is Michael Giblin. Michael, it's been
great having you in here.

Speaker 8 (48:56):
Man.

Speaker 5 (48:56):
It's super fun. Man.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
It's one of the best episodes we've ever ever done.
And we're three seasons into this, so that's saying a lot. Man.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
We'd love to have you back any Thank you very much, man.
But the the Susan.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Giblin Foundation Concert is one week from tonight at the Inglewood.
Talk about some of the other artists that are gonna
be playing the Bruce Springsteen music.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
Yeah, you know, the singers get all the attention, but
we have a fantastic supporting cast. The whole thing is
to just you know, tap the music community and pull
folks together. We and you know, and give everybody a
good time, both in the audience and on stage. Yeah,
and so we have we have a core band that
we use, Well, it's basically gonna be two different bands.

(49:36):
The first set is going to be one band and
that features trumple Chaka and Steve Montressor and Dan Kibler
on that, and then the other band is a core
band that we generally use for these shows. The drummer
is Palmer from Lancaster, my co music director, a guy
named Chad Kinsey who was in the band Burning Bus
back in the you know, back in the twenty nineteen nineties.

(50:00):
But then we're doing a Springsteen sized band. So we've
got two keyboard players nice, one of which is an
internationally known and respected classical and avant garde pianist, a
woman who named Zooping Song and she's she from a band.
She leads a band called the Naked Ensemble that plays
all over the world. Yeah, and she's been blowing our

(50:23):
minds in rehearsal.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
That's so cool.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
Absolutely, And with playing the Born to Run album all
the piano on on Jungle Land Man, that's epic.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
We've got our our Danny Federici character. He is a
gentleman named Matt Thomas from New Jersey who works and
who works in the Lancster music community quite a bit.
And he's super proud because he's a keyboard nerd okay,
and like his house is a keyboard museum.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
So he's got all the patches right, well, no, the
real keyboard.

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Oh yeah, he's like you all the bells of the
Glockenspiel and want to run. He's got the same unit
Danny Federici used with the East Street Band for thirty
years and he loves like when we did the car show,
he brought all analog stints, no digital keyboards.

Speaker 7 (51:03):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
So yeah, so he's he's he's he's doing that. And
of course we're gonna have a full horn section for
Born to Run. Oh yeah, and uh yeah. So everybody's
super excited to get this to everybody and it's.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Gonna be epic.

Speaker 7 (51:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
Rehearsals have been some of the most fun rehearsals we've
had of all of these shows over ten years.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Amazing.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
So the show is one week from tonight, or if
you're listening on the podcast, this coming Sunday, or if
you're listening after next Sunday, it's already happened and you
missed it and.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
You're a loser.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
But no, so It's the thirteenth of July at the
Englewood doors at five. The show starts at six. How
can people get tickets? Tickets are available.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
You can go to the Englewood website, which I believe
is Englewoodharshey dot com. Right, there's also a Facebook event,
so if you look up Susan Giblin Foundation on on
on Facebook, you'll you'll find the information there. Great, but yeah,
tickets are on sale. There will probably be walk up.
You know, it's the summertime. People don't people don't commit
until you know, the very last minute. But it's going

(52:00):
to be a good, healthy crowd and you don't want
to miss out, and it's for.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
A great cause, and you're going to hear some of
the best live music you've ever heard, and especially especially
if you're a Springsteen fan, they're going to do you right.

Speaker 10 (52:10):
You know, it's going to be legit so great lineup,
you know, great artists there as well as we mentioned.
But also important to mention, I think that one hundred
percent of the proceeds benefit the Speranza Animal Rescuers.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
All right, right, yeah, we're going to do a silent auction,
which the kind of the Susan Giblin Foundation is famous
for so they've a bunch of baskets and get certificates
and things like that that people can bid on. And
then I think there's a fifty to fifty as well
to raise money.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
Great, excellent, So support the cause and see a heck
of a good show. Michael Giblin our special guest man.
You can come back anytime. No, thank you man, anytime.
Great to be here, Great to have you in. Michael
Giblin from Red Chuck Studios and absolute legend. All right, Brandon,
how can artists get their music submitted for consideration to
be played here on the local show.

Speaker 10 (52:55):
Yes, indeed we love doing the feature it here, like
promoting this concert coming up here next Sunday. But if
you are out there and you're listening, or you know
someone who has original music and or even covers and
they'd like to hear their track right here on the
local show in the River ninety seven to three, they
can go to cpmhof dot com slash radio, click the
link there and submit your song for consideration for airplay.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
All right, and don't forget we always upload the episodes
to the iHeartRadio app. Make sure you follow the River
Local Show, subscribe so you know when we get these
new episodes up there, and they're usually around lunchtime on
Monday is when we drop the new episodes, so check
that out. For Brandon Valentine, I'm Glenn Hamilton. Thank you

(53:37):
for listening and supporting local music by listening to this show.
But the best way to support these artists is to
follow them on their social media's, but even more importantly,
go out there and see a live local show.
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