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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you a songwriter?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Are you looking to turn your songwriting passion into a
full time gigig? Whether you are just at the start
of your songwriting journey or a seasoned industry professional, this
show is made for you. You we will welcome to
the Songwriter Show, bringing together songwriting, news, interviews and communitating.
Now welcome your houst Sronto.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hello, and thank you so much for tuning in tonight
to the Songwriter Show. I'm Sarantos. You're humble host and
fellow songwriter with a passion for crafting stories through music.
As someone who's been writing lyrics for as long as
I can remember, I know how every song holds its
own unique story. That's what brings us together here on
Reality Radio one to one every single Tuesday evening to
(00:46):
celebrate the voices behind the music we love. Tonight, I'm
so excited to have on the show Dream Chaser. Dream
Chaser has been playing guitar since fourteen started doing open
mics and gigs about three years ago from New York
to North Carolina. His biography is coming out in a
few weeks, and he talks about in his book, fourteen
(01:06):
year cancer survivor and losing both parents before seeing him perform.
His biggest influences have always been Slash.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And now Welcome this week's special guest.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Welcome to show. How are you Dreamchaser?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So tell us a little bit about your story. Man,
you play guitar, What do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I play guitar. I don't sing.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I never really went down at avenue of singing, but
my uncle has been pushing me to try it for
gott knows how long since I started playing. But yeah,
I've been playing guitar since I was fourteen. I took lessons.
I started taking lessons my first four years and actually
used my uncle's who'stick for it, which I still I
(01:49):
still have. I still use I use it for open mics,
I use it to write my own stuff. I've been
playing ever since. I stopped lessons after four years and
I just kind of self taught myself kept going with it,
and then about six years ago we started lessons.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I've been with the same teacher the whole time.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He does it professionally, so I kind of knew going
into it. I wanted someone that was kind of more
on the professional side.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of it to kind of that next level.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I definitely hit it off because, like I said, I've
been with some six years.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
All right, And tell us a little bit of how
you practice. Do you jam on that guitar every day
once a week? What do you do now?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I try to get it every day. I work a
full time drab. I'm a butcher, so I'm usually home
by seven six. I always would just come home, go
down to the basement and at.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Least get an hour.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And yeah, you know, obviously time doesn't allow me to
do it eight hours every night when.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I started seven o'clock at night. Yeah, but you know,
make sure I get it in, you know. And my
guitar teacher is really cool because you know.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Like ho'll let me pick whatever songs I want to learn,
but whole teach the theory behind it too, you know,
who whole show me with scale it's in you know,
you know solos, like you know what kind of what
notes they're used, and what's blues notes, what's the root note? Yeah,
so it's really cool. And he writes everything out. So
I have a whole binder of all the songs we've learned.
(03:30):
So I think I have. I could be off, but
I think I have. I think we've done fourteen songs
so far, and he writes it all out. We do
it through Facebook because he looks a little further out
to me, so we'll do it through Facebook. Write it out,
will show me it, and I'll printed ed and I
have a whole binder, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So, yeah, it's been awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's definitely gotten me to the next level working with them.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Tell us about your music. Are you putting songs out?
Are you collaborating with other people just doing the guitar part,
are like a session musician thing, or what are you
doing with that.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
My own stuff? I'm kind of doing it on my own.
I'm trying to save up money for the recording part
because I don't always how expensive it to get. Yeah,
but I've definitely priced it around, and I feel like
now I'm at a point.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Where I have I think I have.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I want to say I have five songs, five six
songs that I want to say, you're ready to go,
but are pretty close to it If they're not, so, yeah,
I would say I'm writing my own stuff. And you know,
it's kind of cool because you get new experiences and
kind of learn from it and kind of grow from it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And it gives a different perspective on things.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And other than Slash, are there any other famous musicians
that you respect and admire?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh, definitely James Hedfield. I've always been intrigued by his
lyrics and just kind of like how we phrasees them
and stuff like that, you know, metaphors and different way
of saying things. Actually, I've always shorted. His lyrics were
kind of full pulse Stanley, Pulse Stanley. I like the
(05:08):
lyrically and musically. I've always been intrigued by the lyrics.
You probably equally just as much as some music.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
How do you write a song or the guitar lick?
You know, what do you There's some certain way that
you start? Is there some way it always happens? Any
variety of ways.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I've started both ways. I first started writing about three
years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The first one I wrote, I just.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Kind of put a jam track on YouTube, and you know,
I just kind of messed around with that and you know, say, hey,
this kind of works, this kind of sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You know, I've done it different ways.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I've gone to where you know, I've had the lyrics
and then I came up with the guitar part, and
you know, it's been an opposite where I've.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Had a guitar part before the lyrics part.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It seems like lately it's kind of like they kind
of measure together. So yeah, you know, I really don't
have a set way. You know, it's kind of just
what kind of pops in my head and what kind
of comes out.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Is there like a typical mistake you see guitarists make
that you want to talk about about mistakes.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I think it just got to be peace and Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I've been playing since I was fourteen, and you know,
I would say the one thing that's just take your
time learning stuff. You know, it's especially complex off like
I've learned Metallica, I'm learning I'm actually learning say and
I Now, which is a pretty fast song. So I
think it's important to slow it down and just kind
(06:39):
of do it at your own pace, you know, like
you're not going to play you know, metal Metallica speed
right off the bat. I think it's with anything, you know,
trying to learn it really after you got read it
off the seat music. You know, I'm trying of build
it into musclemer.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And just do it by boose.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, okay, and it'll be afraid to do open mics
like I love over them. I started doing open makes
three years ago, three years ago, and I was nervous
as anything with them when I started, because there's always.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Like, oh my god, you know, what are people going
to think? Are they going to like it?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
You know if I if I do Originals, are they
going to like the originals?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So the more calm you are.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
About it, I guess you could say, the fun er
it is, and the more you do it, the more
fun er it is.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Like I love them now.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Like if I could do all the every day, I would, you.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Know, tell us a little bit about I always ask
guests about scams, any scams that you might have fallen
for or anything that you want to warn us about.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No, I mean I haven't ran into any. Yeah, I'm
pretty cautious with us stuff. And I have my guitar
teacher us Local. So yeah, I'm pretty lucky that I
have him to you know, any musical questions. I pretty
much could run by him and to help me with it. Okay,
I'm kind of ware of doing a whole you know,
Instagram and you know, let's connect through Instagram.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'd rather do local.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You know, we're in person you know, yeah, of course,
just to be on the safe side.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you could re record any song in the history
of existence, what song would you re record with your guitar?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh, God, and why I kind of put my own
spin on it or just kind of like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Of course you could put your own spin on it. Yeah,
you can make it your own.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
First, I would say any slash song. But if I
could record any slash song, that would be pretty awesome to.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Say, I did. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I've been into country a lot lately. I've kind of
branched out a little bit, so it'd be kind of
cool to mess with some of them and kind of
put a different spin on it or add to it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Do you have like the strangest place or situation where
inspiration struck you and your guitar.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Strangest place, Well, I don't know about the strangest place,
but probably the place I.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Wouldn't inspect it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I used to play at Brewery in New Jersey, and
I haven't played there. Anybody played there a lot. In
twenty twenty three. You know, they had to list the
drinks on the wall, So while I was waiting to
go up, I'm reading the drinks, so I'm like, oh, okay,
that's cool. And one of the drinks that stuck out
was marsh for Flames, and I'm walking at like, you know,
(09:21):
that'd be a really cool name of a song. And
the first thing I popped in my head was Right
the Lightning by Metallica. I said, that'd be kind of
cool if it was like a Right the Lightning, but
kind of like my own spin on it. Yeah, So
the tight the name just kind of stuck with me,
and I'm actually working on it now. I just started
(09:43):
writing working on it yesterday. I was working on something
totally different and I said, you know, I kind of
hummed out the words to kind of see what would fit,
and you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Know, I'm working on that one now.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So yeah, I want to say it's the strangest was
probably the place I wouldn't expect to find inspiration for
a song.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Sure. Do you have a favorite chord or favorite key
that you come back to again and again?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I kid, D I have a bad I have two
songs and the ky A D that are my own.
It's just something about the D, the D A G.
They kind of move around and switch around with that.
That's kind of fool. That's probably my favorite.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Do you have what's like the most rewarding feedback you've
ever gotten from your guitar teacher?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Probably that you know how how close it is, you know,
when we get done with a song, just just a
progress throughout of it, through through doing it, you know, like, hey,
you're really close. You know he bat it, you know,
or you know that that was pretty on point, keep back,
you know, stuff like that to kind of you know,
we're realizing how how close I am to the song,
(10:55):
you know, from him here in it. Sure, sometimes they
don't realize it. You know, Yeah, you know you're close,
but you don't know, you know how close you really
are to that fuhole songs. So hearing it from him, yeah,
definitely gives me a boost.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So are you a Marvel guy or a DC guy?
What do you prefer?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I like X men, I don't know. I like both.
I like X when I like Batman.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Is there like a certain book that you hated that
everybody else loved.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I wasn't big on books, like really reading, and it's
sort of to have a book coming out, but yet I.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Was never a big on reading.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I don't know, I wasn't really big on reading like
English wasn't my favorite subject.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
In high school.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, Like I used to do magazines and stuff like that,
and biographies on other musicians. I don't think there's any
of that everyone liked that I didn't like because I
really didn't read that much.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know, is there like the weirdest piece of merch
that you've bought at a concert that you want to
share with us on the show tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The weirdest? Not really ever lived in buying anything that,
you know. I bought T shirts, nothing crazy, Yeah, nothing crazy.
I mostly just went for the T shirts.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
If if I told you had to get a tattooed
tonight representing your music, what kind of tattoould you get?
Where would you put it?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Definitely on my arm?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Definitely be a guitar like guitar with something with a
stull guitar.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And like a top hat, just like thing for you know,
a thing towards lair.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
What's the most adventurous food or dessert you've ever tried?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I tried to carry one time a friend meet and
I tried it. It was pretty good. It was definitely
something different.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You binge watching any shows right now on TV?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Hell's Kitch and I be watching a lot.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I watched for wrestling, you know, I'll watch for I'll
watch I sat it and I really don't watch TV,
you know, I'll stream of stuff on my phone or
you know, my laptop.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Sure, all right, man, what do you want to be
when you grow up?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I want to say, definitely a musician or songwriter, maybe
more on a professional level, or even a session player
or even like, you know, even if it wasn't my
own band or something like that, kind of like the
players that play for the Yeah, like like a Colestundel,
like his guitarist or you know something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Sure you're not, Yeah, you're not. Even if you're not
in your own band, are still doing something with it.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
So last question night for you man? Where can fans
buy your stuff? Check you out on Instagram, Social, Spotify,
whatever you got if you can share that in for
for them.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So Facebook, I'm under Robert McKay. It's public profile, source
suit it's pretty easy to find. I don't have anything
out musically. I started streaming, but I have stuff on
my Facebook teage that has to do with my original music,
and I have colors on there too.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Instagram is dream.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Dot Tree, sir I'm sorry that the story dream dot
tree sir to oh two to four.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All right, man, I want to thank you so much
for being on the show tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Dude, Yeah, definitely, thanks for having me welcome.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So thank you. Tell the fans out there for spending
a little bit of more precious time with us and tuning
in tonight. If you're a songwriter with a story of share,
please head over to songwritershow dot com. To all the
other listeners, I hope this episode has inspired you to
keep reaching for the sky, keep exploring your own stories
through music. My name is Sarantos, and as always, it's
been an absolute pleasure having you with us tonight. Join
(14:42):
us every single Tuesday evening to your more stories from
awesome artists around the world. Have a great night. I
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a while.
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Speaker 6 (15:16):
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Speaker 1 (15:23):
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Speaker 7 (15:28):
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Speaker 6 (15:35):
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Speaker 5 (15:42):
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
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sea to grow.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
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Speaker 6 (16:51):
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Speaker 5 (16:58):
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Singling, hanging, hang
Are you a songwriter?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Are you looking to turn your songwriting passion into a
full time gigig? Whether you are just at the start
of your songwriting journey or a seasoned industry professional, this
show is made for you. You we will welcome to
the Songwriter Show, bringing together songwriting, news, interviews and communitating.
Now welcome your houst Sronto.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hello, and thank you so much for tuning in tonight
to the Songwriter Show. I'm Sarantos. You're humble host and
fellow songwriter with a passion for crafting stories through music.
As someone who's been writing lyrics for as long as
I can remember, I know how every song holds its
own unique story. That's what brings us together here on
Reality Radio one to one every single Tuesday evening to
(00:46):
celebrate the voices behind the music we love. Tonight, I'm
so excited to have on the show Dream Chaser. Dream
Chaser has been playing guitar since fourteen started doing open
mics and gigs about three years ago from New York
to North Carolina. His biography is coming out in a
few weeks, and he talks about in his book, fourteen
(01:06):
year cancer survivor and losing both parents before seeing him perform.
His biggest influences have always been Slash.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
And now Welcome this week's special guest.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Welcome to show. How are you Dreamchaser?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So tell us a little bit about your story. Man,
you play guitar, What do you do?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I play guitar. I don't sing.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I never really went down at avenue of singing, but
my uncle has been pushing me to try it for
gott knows how long since I started playing. But yeah,
I've been playing guitar since I was fourteen. I took lessons.
I started taking lessons my first four years and actually
used my uncle's who'stick for it, which I still I
(01:49):
still have. I still use I use it for open mics,
I use it to write my own stuff. I've been
playing ever since. I stopped lessons after four years and
I just kind of self taught myself kept going with it,
and then about six years ago we started lessons.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I've been with the same teacher the whole time.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He does it professionally, so I kind of knew going
into it. I wanted someone that was kind of more
on the professional side.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of it to kind of that next level.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I definitely hit it off because, like I said, I've
been with some six years.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
All right, And tell us a little bit of how
you practice. Do you jam on that guitar every day
once a week? What do you do now?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I try to get it every day. I work a
full time drab. I'm a butcher, so I'm usually home
by seven six. I always would just come home, go
down to the basement and at.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Least get an hour.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And yeah, you know, obviously time doesn't allow me to
do it eight hours every night when.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I started seven o'clock at night. Yeah, but you know,
make sure I get it in, you know. And my
guitar teacher is really cool because you know.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Like ho'll let me pick whatever songs I want to learn,
but whole teach the theory behind it too, you know,
who whole show me with scale it's in you know,
you know solos, like you know what kind of what
notes they're used, and what's blues notes, what's the root note? Yeah,
so it's really cool. And he writes everything out. So
I have a whole binder of all the songs we've learned.
(03:30):
So I think I have. I could be off, but
I think I have. I think we've done fourteen songs
so far, and he writes it all out. We do
it through Facebook because he looks a little further out
to me, so we'll do it through Facebook. Write it out,
will show me it, and I'll printed ed and I
have a whole binder, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So, yeah, it's been awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's definitely gotten me to the next level working with them.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Tell us about your music. Are you putting songs out?
Are you collaborating with other people just doing the guitar part,
are like a session musician thing, or what are you
doing with that.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
My own stuff? I'm kind of doing it on my own.
I'm trying to save up money for the recording part
because I don't always how expensive it to get. Yeah,
but I've definitely priced it around, and I feel like
now I'm at a point.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Where I have I think I have.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I want to say I have five songs, five six
songs that I want to say, you're ready to go,
but are pretty close to it If they're not, so, yeah,
I would say I'm writing my own stuff. And you know,
it's kind of cool because you get new experiences and
kind of learn from it and kind of grow from it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And it gives a different perspective on things.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And other than Slash, are there any other famous musicians
that you respect and admire?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh, definitely James Hedfield. I've always been intrigued by his
lyrics and just kind of like how we phrasees them
and stuff like that, you know, metaphors and different way
of saying things. Actually, I've always shorted. His lyrics were
kind of full pulse Stanley, Pulse Stanley. I like the
(05:08):
lyrically and musically. I've always been intrigued by the lyrics.
You probably equally just as much as some music.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
How do you write a song or the guitar lick?
You know, what do you There's some certain way that
you start? Is there some way it always happens? Any
variety of ways.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I've started both ways. I first started writing about three
years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The first one I wrote, I just.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Kind of put a jam track on YouTube, and you know,
I just kind of messed around with that and you know, say, hey,
this kind of works, this kind of sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You know, I've done it different ways.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I've gone to where you know, I've had the lyrics
and then I came up with the guitar part, and
you know, it's been an opposite where I've.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Had a guitar part before the lyrics part.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It seems like lately it's kind of like they kind
of measure together. So yeah, you know, I really don't
have a set way. You know, it's kind of just
what kind of pops in my head and what kind
of comes out.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Is there like a typical mistake you see guitarists make
that you want to talk about about mistakes.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I think it just got to be peace and Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I've been playing since I was fourteen, and you know,
I would say the one thing that's just take your
time learning stuff. You know, it's especially complex off like
I've learned Metallica, I'm learning I'm actually learning say and
I Now, which is a pretty fast song. So I
think it's important to slow it down and just kind
(06:39):
of do it at your own pace, you know, like
you're not going to play you know, metal Metallica speed
right off the bat. I think it's with anything, you know,
trying to learn it really after you got read it
off the seat music. You know, I'm trying of build
it into musclemer.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And just do it by boose.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, okay, and it'll be afraid to do open mics
like I love over them. I started doing open makes
three years ago, three years ago, and I was nervous
as anything with them when I started, because there's always.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Like, oh my god, you know, what are people going
to think? Are they going to like it?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
You know if I if I do Originals, are they
going to like the originals?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So the more calm you are.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
About it, I guess you could say, the fun er
it is, and the more you do it, the more
fun er it is.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Like I love them now.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Like if I could do all the every day, I would, you.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Know, tell us a little bit about I always ask
guests about scams, any scams that you might have fallen
for or anything that you want to warn us about.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No, I mean I haven't ran into any. Yeah, I'm
pretty cautious with us stuff. And I have my guitar
teacher us Local. So yeah, I'm pretty lucky that I
have him to you know, any musical questions. I pretty
much could run by him and to help me with it. Okay,
I'm kind of ware of doing a whole you know,
Instagram and you know, let's connect through Instagram.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'd rather do local.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You know, we're in person you know, yeah, of course,
just to be on the safe side.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you could re record any song in the history
of existence, what song would you re record with your guitar?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh, God, and why I kind of put my own
spin on it or just kind of like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Of course you could put your own spin on it. Yeah,
you can make it your own.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
First, I would say any slash song. But if I
could record any slash song, that would be pretty awesome to.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Say, I did. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I've been into country a lot lately. I've kind of
branched out a little bit, so it'd be kind of
cool to mess with some of them and kind of
put a different spin on it or add to it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Do you have like the strangest place or situation where
inspiration struck you and your guitar.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Strangest place, Well, I don't know about the strangest place,
but probably the place I.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Wouldn't inspect it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I used to play at Brewery in New Jersey, and
I haven't played there. Anybody played there a lot. In
twenty twenty three. You know, they had to list the
drinks on the wall, So while I was waiting to
go up, I'm reading the drinks, so I'm like, oh, okay,
that's cool. And one of the drinks that stuck out
was marsh for Flames, and I'm walking at like, you know,
(09:21):
that'd be a really cool name of a song. And
the first thing I popped in my head was Right
the Lightning by Metallica. I said, that'd be kind of
cool if it was like a Right the Lightning, but
kind of like my own spin on it. Yeah, So
the tight the name just kind of stuck with me,
and I'm actually working on it now. I just started
(09:43):
writing working on it yesterday. I was working on something
totally different and I said, you know, I kind of
hummed out the words to kind of see what would fit,
and you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Know, I'm working on that one now.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So yeah, I want to say it's the strangest was
probably the place I wouldn't expect to find inspiration for
a song.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Sure. Do you have a favorite chord or favorite key
that you come back to again and again?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I kid, D I have a bad I have two
songs and the ky A D that are my own.
It's just something about the D, the D A G.
They kind of move around and switch around with that.
That's kind of fool. That's probably my favorite.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Do you have what's like the most rewarding feedback you've
ever gotten from your guitar teacher?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Probably that you know how how close it is, you know,
when we get done with a song, just just a
progress throughout of it, through through doing it, you know, like, hey,
you're really close. You know he bat it, you know,
or you know that that was pretty on point, keep back,
you know, stuff like that to kind of you know,
we're realizing how how close I am to the song,
(10:55):
you know, from him here in it. Sure, sometimes they
don't realize it. You know, Yeah, you know you're close,
but you don't know, you know how close you really
are to that fuhole songs. So hearing it from him, yeah,
definitely gives me a boost.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So are you a Marvel guy or a DC guy?
What do you prefer?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I like X men, I don't know. I like both.
I like X when I like Batman.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Is there like a certain book that you hated that
everybody else loved.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I wasn't big on books, like really reading, and it's
sort of to have a book coming out, but yet I.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Was never a big on reading.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I don't know, I wasn't really big on reading like
English wasn't my favorite subject.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
In high school.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, Like I used to do magazines and stuff like that,
and biographies on other musicians. I don't think there's any
of that everyone liked that I didn't like because I
really didn't read that much.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know, is there like the weirdest piece of merch
that you've bought at a concert that you want to
share with us on the show tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The weirdest? Not really ever lived in buying anything that,
you know. I bought T shirts, nothing crazy, Yeah, nothing crazy.
I mostly just went for the T shirts.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
If if I told you had to get a tattooed
tonight representing your music, what kind of tattoould you get?
Where would you put it?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Definitely on my arm?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Definitely be a guitar like guitar with something with a
stull guitar.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And like a top hat, just like thing for you know,
a thing towards lair.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
What's the most adventurous food or dessert you've ever tried?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I tried to carry one time a friend meet and
I tried it. It was pretty good. It was definitely
something different.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You binge watching any shows right now on TV?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Hell's Kitch and I be watching a lot.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I watched for wrestling, you know, I'll watch for I'll
watch I sat it and I really don't watch TV,
you know, I'll stream of stuff on my phone or
you know, my laptop.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Sure, all right, man, what do you want to be
when you grow up?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I want to say, definitely a musician or songwriter, maybe
more on a professional level, or even a session player
or even like, you know, even if it wasn't my
own band or something like that, kind of like the
players that play for the Yeah, like like a Colestundel,
like his guitarist or you know something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Sure you're not, Yeah, you're not. Even if you're not
in your own band, are still doing something with it.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
So last question night for you man? Where can fans
buy your stuff? Check you out on Instagram, Social, Spotify,
whatever you got if you can share that in for
for them.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So Facebook, I'm under Robert McKay. It's public profile, source
suit it's pretty easy to find. I don't have anything
out musically. I started streaming, but I have stuff on
my Facebook teage that has to do with my original music,
and I have colors on there too.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Instagram is dream.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Dot Tree, sir I'm sorry that the story dream dot
tree sir to oh two to four.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All right, man, I want to thank you so much
for being on the show tonight.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Dude, Yeah, definitely, thanks for having me welcome.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So thank you. Tell the fans out there for spending
a little bit of more precious time with us and tuning
in tonight. If you're a songwriter with a story of share,
please head over to songwritershow dot com. To all the
other listeners, I hope this episode has inspired you to
keep reaching for the sky, keep exploring your own stories
through music. My name is Sarantos, and as always, it's
been an absolute pleasure having you with us tonight. Join
(14:42):
us every single Tuesday evening to your more stories from
awesome artists around the world. Have a great night. I
love you all. I had checked your phone in quite
(15:08):
a while.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
The way that did there there were sixty five.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Messagees in a pile from a guy we both knew,
with the.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Flirt and smile.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Heat one to train the day we walked down there.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
All while you're pretending, pretending to care for me.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
All I think in your always be to be.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
There for me.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Sixty five in one hour, with every.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Glass beside pole and is drown our say nothing troum
but it feels as bad.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You're trowning and waiting.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
And her sad. He's a nobody, a real nothing, a
real Does your guy have absolutely nothing on me?
Speaker 6 (16:36):
You held the sun but let it fall into the
sea to grow.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Other woman his eyes over me.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Oh while you're pretending, pretending to care for me.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Oh, I think, and you lot ways me to be
as for me?
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Sixty five in one hour, with everything's to beg the
silent hole fages grove me you saying nothing strong but
f song brisbee, you're trowning rays all been in Spa,
(17:41):
you chasing, I said, see streams rais kids sixteen.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
So this sixty five.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
With every glassphee.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Silent and is grow say nothing but it's so Chris Briter.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Thank you for listening to The Songwriter Show.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
To keep the momentum.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Going, head over to www Dot songwriter show dot com
and join our free music community of artists, songwriters, and producers.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's www.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Dot songwriter Show dot com.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Mon name
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Singling, hanging, hang
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