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November 26, 2024 • 40 mins

Welcome to another episode of the CPMP. Coming up we have:

Moon Peak Productions:
Founded in 2022, Moon Peak books Artist for events and venues. They are currently booking for the Abbey Bar in Harrisburg, PA. Danny and Tyler are both Talent Buyers for Moon Peak, and have backgrounds in the Central PA music scene.
https://www.moonpeakproductions.com/
https://www.instagram.com/moonpeakproductions/
https://www.facebook.com/moonpeakproductions

&

Shine Delphi:
CPMA Nominee. An incredibly talented artist with a unique and beautiful sound. Born in PA, spent his formative years in California, and some New Orleans sprinkled on top. Shine has an amazing range of genres. Catering to each specific live audience, you are bound to get a unique experience when seeing him live. New album coming soon!
Don't miss the incredible live performance at the end of the episode!
https://www.shinedelphi.com/
https://www.facebook.com/shinedelphi/

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast Tonight Moon, peakProductions and Shine Delphi.
This episode is sponsored byMembers, first and now your
hosts, daniel Kime and AlanMcCutcheon.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Music
Podcast.
I'm your host, daniel, comingup.
We have Moonpeak Productionsand Shine Delphi Sitting here
with Danny and Tyler fromMoonpeak Production Guys.
Thank you so much for coming onthe show tonight.
Thanks for having us.
Yep, happy to be here, man, ofcourse, of course, of course,

(00:50):
we're excited to have you here.
So let's dive into moon peakmoon peak productions and see,
talk about what you guys do.
Uh, just, let's just kind of,yeah, start from the bottom and
get to the top.
So what is it that you guys do?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
uh, moon peak.
Um, we throw concerts,currently managing and running
the Abbey bar at Appalachianbrewing company, a venue on
Cameron street in Harrisburg andTyler, and I book all the shows
there.
We promote the events, do allthe promotion and advertising
the small team and uh, yeah,we've been there since February,

(01:19):
so it's been about six months.
We've had about 30 shows.
It's 30 or 40 now, I'm blanking.
But yeah, it's been a funlittle run.
So far it sure has.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
We occasionally book shows for artists when they
request it or they would like towork with us a little bit, but
the Abbey Bar is definitely ourmain focus at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Gotcha, so you'll book other artists at other
venues sometimes.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's cool.
So what kind of um artists areyou guys mostly booking at the
abbey bar?
Is it any kind of music, or doyou guys have a wheelhouse, you
kind of?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
stick to or we've been switching it up yeah I've
been uh trying to focus on somebluegrass, because it seems like
harrisburg likes bluegrass.
Uh, folk obviously um some rock, some jam bands, because that's
naturally what you know, you'veprobably seen at the abbey bar.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah yeah, we tried out some like edm stuff.
We did some.
I've had a variety of likeindie bands but uh, kind of
honing it in on like thebluegrass folk kind of jam band,
funk music type of stuff rightnow yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I think that's a good spot for it.
The uh, the room itself has ahas the perfect kind of vibe for
it.
I guess you could say totallyhas that kind of I don't know, I
don't.
I don't want to say rustic, butalmost want to say rustic.
Look to it very uh, fitting forthe bluegrass and you know folk
sound, um.
So you guys have been doingthis, you know, since february,
but you guys also have been inthe music industry for quite

(02:47):
some time.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I know you had said you've been in the music
industry for 10 years, or giveor take yeah, yeah, I did used
to do some like independentpromoting in harrisburg and like
the surrounding area in my likeearly 20s and mid-20s and
managed a few bands in the area.
Helped like the yam yam guys getgoing in the very beginning of
that project yeah, I uh movedaway when the pandemic happened

(03:11):
and then got reached out to bysome local entrepreneurs that I
used to work for to come andhelp start moon peak in 2023,
just in the beginning of theyear, and so I moved back here
to help them do this.
But, uh, yeah done a variety ofthings in the music industry
over year and so I moved backhere to help them do this.
But, yeah, done a variety ofthings in the music industry
over the years, like working atmusic festivals, doing food
vending or artist hospitality inPhilly and Hershey for Live

(03:34):
Nation Wow, all kinds ofdifferent stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Now I guess you'd be a good person to ask me You've
moved away and you've come backCentral Pennsylvania.
I know we kind of havesomething special here, I don't
know.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I think we should do that.
That was good, I don't know.
I mean, it seems like you knowyou talk to people that you know
have moved away or people thathave moved here or you know
whatever variation.
But it seems likesylvania has avery big, very close music
scene and it's really neat andalmost unique and which is
unfortunate.
You wish it was everywhere.

(04:09):
Um, but what do you guys thinkthat we do differently out there
that other people aren't doing?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
I think that's a good question.
I mean just coming up, I youknow being friends with the yam
yam guys watching rivers,attending shows at the make
space, I think it was a prettydiy situation for a little bit
there.
You know, steve and michaelhaas throwing little treehouse
shows, you know that's.
I just think it's.
It's got that grit, you knowwhich.

(04:37):
I think people are grinding.
I think it's a good area forfor people to kind of make a
name, especially because it'snot like an, a market
necessarily, you know.
So we definitely have peoplethat can claw their way up to
the top and make a name forthemselves pretty, pretty
solidly, if you ask me.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah yeah, and I mean , I think that's kind of what
we're working at here with thehall of fame is trying to make
this an a-list area.
Um, you know, get those biggernames in there to help support
the, you know, the local guys.
Uh, you know, get them on that,that big ticket show and you
know, as an opener or something,even just help them.
Help them get that name outthere.
Um, and you know, even justsupporting each other is, you

(05:12):
know, everything that's.
That's really what it boilsdown to totally yeah so you guys
have some big shows coming up?
uh, I heard uh.
So what do you guys have comingup on the schedule here for the
abby bar?

Speaker 4 (05:23):
uh, a real big one that we're pushing is going to
be Thanksgiving Eve.
We have TreeSap, which is aside project with three members
of Cabinet, and they're going tohave the plate scrapers opening
that show.
And then right after that wehave Flux Capacitor on November
30th with Uncle Kunkel's OneGrand Band All right.

(05:43):
And then we've got two shows inDecember.
On the 6th we have Big Shrimpand Solar Circuit, then on the
7th we've got a Bluegrass Bangerwith Dirty Grass Players and
Sickard Hollow, who are actuallya band I met in Montana, who
are awesome.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
So it's cool to have them out here.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, that's awesome.
So when you took over booking,are you, are these some
reoccurring acts from before youguys were booking there, or are
these?
You know a lot of ones youpicked up, like you said, you
met the one in montana.
Uh, what's that uh dynamic beenlike?

Speaker 4 (06:14):
uh, where do we really just do a lot of digging
online and we have some agentswho we've built up relationships
with now so they send us otherpeople they work with, um, but,
uh, like dirty grass players,that'll be the first person
we're bringing back for a secondtime.
Um, yeah, it's, it's really,it's all over the place how we
find people and how we reach outto bands and who has a positive

(06:36):
response, or whether, if theyhave a tour that happens to be
coming through and we're lookingfor a show, it's uh, it's all
over the place.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, we're definitely trying to focus more
on regional acts just to kind ofbuild a rapport with the
Harrisburg community, and ofcourse we love throwing locals
on.
That's kind of one of ourthings that we've established to
be with every show we want andwe need a local opener.
So, yeah, definitely hype onthat.

(07:03):
It's really be, you know, withevery show we need, you know we
want and we need a local opener.
So yeah yeah, definitely hypeon that it's really cool.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
You guys do that.
Um, now, what are you guysdoing with like?
I guess, like are you guysdriven towards trying to book
like really well known bandsthat come through the area?
What's your cap with that?
Um, I guess I could say we loveto book well-known bands.
Yeah, that's the whole goal but, but I mean, like you know, uh,

(07:29):
jesus, I'm having a terribletime trying to explain this the
right way I guess, yeah, wealways want to have people that
have like notoriety and stuff orhave like played here before.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah even, even still .
We're trying to develop bandsin the community as well just to
kind of build some namerecognition for them, especially
the regional bands that arekind of working outside of their
direct area in which they cameup in, you know, trying to bring
bands from New Jersey andPhiladelphia like out Pittsburgh
way.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Who was the band from New York Hilltop?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yep Hilltop Cool band out of.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Buffalo buffalo I think so out of buffalo yeah,
they who are not that not likesuper well known around here,
but try to put them on a showbecause they're a really solid
band, and then try to bring themback and more people will come
back out to them because theysaw them the last time I guess
we got a lot of like uh talentregionally, like uh, serene
green is a band that I like alot, that we're trying to, you

(08:25):
know, build them up regionallyand locally specifically.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
So yeah, well, I'm sure every time you have yam yam
on there too, that's always abig turnout, right?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
yeah, people love yam yam.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, those are our boys, for sure some of our best
friends and, uh, yeah, we didtheir album release show just a
couple weeks ago and that waspretty awesome nice, yeah, I
just saw them um over the summerat the new cumberland iron
bridge music festival sick, yeah, we were there as well.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I was there we were
filming a little dumb littlevideo oh yeah, glad you didn't
see us?

Speaker 3 (08:54):
yeah, it was.
It was really terrible oh manit was.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean, there's always a lot going on at that,
but uh, that's, that's quite thefestival.
It's cool to see that kind ofstuff that was a really cool
thing.
It was, and whenever I saw YamYam was headlining, I was like
that is even cooler now.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
So yeah, that was awesome.
So what is something that youknow as a promoter that people
most people wouldn't know ispart of your day-to-day as a
promoter?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
The grind is real Like you got to be out there
posting on Facebook, hanging upposters wherever you can, trying
to get the word out.
Send like a hundred emailshoping that you get like five
responses is like the realisticnature of our job, I think um, a
lot of taking cues from peoplethat have come before us, you

(09:44):
know.
So, yeah, trying to essentiallyget our name out there, get the
band's names out there and kindof bring people in, as what
we're mostly focused onpromoting the show, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, well, yeah, and I guess as a promoter too, you
guys have to kind of build aname for yourselves, just as the
bands do, uh, so that way youknow people want to work with
you exactly.
Yeah, because I mean especially, you know you want to be a
promoter with a good name.
Nobody wants to have a bad name, but I mean just getting the
name out.
There is half the battle yeah,we try to.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
We really try to make ourselves stand out when we
like, for instance, like in alot of ways, but like when we
bring the bands in, we reallytry to take care of them really
well, give them likepersonalized attention, make
sure, like the green room,spaces are clean and have waters
or whatever the rider has on it, actually try to get that stuff
for them and like take care ofthem and not like you'll be

(10:31):
helping carry their equipmentand stuff like that, which it's
kind of amazing.
Most bands are like shocked yeah, when we're like, yeah, we'll
carry your guitar in, it's fine.
Um, just trying to kind of gothe extra mile wherever we can.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
That's really cool.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
And then we do some other things Like we do like
sustainability practices, likewe got ABC to go 50-50 in on
some like compostable plasticcups, so we use all compostable
plastics in the venue now, whichis just like the first step
towards being a little more likeenvironmentally conscious with
our events all the time, yeahand we donate a percentage of

(11:09):
every ticket we sell todifferent charities and, uh,
yeah, just try to find ways togive back and, like, actually do
a little bit to benefit thecommunity.
That is helping us be a promoterin it that's, that's really
cool.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Um, I mean it's, it's just kind of like you like one
of those things I just thoughtabout when you were saying about
the compostable cups and stufflike that, because the amount of
trash and stuff that comes fromthese shows Everyone's been to
a show where the entire flooryou can't even see it because
it's covered in plastic cupsthat's cool that you guys do
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Definitely.
We're lucky to work withAppalachian Brewing Company,
which has kind of definitelysupported our green initiative,
so to speak.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
So we're pleased to be partnered with them.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, they have great beer too.
Yep Shout out to Bruce BruceTanner, that's our guy.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
He works with us as well, and helps us run our shows
and stuff and he's the headbrewer there.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Okay, gotcha.
Yeah, definitely go for the.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Argyle Shout out.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Bruce.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Okay, gotcha.
Yeah, definitely go for theArgyle Shout out, bruce.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
I definitely go for the Argyle sweater every time
I'm there.
Yep, that's a classic rightthere.
So what would you say is yourfavorite part about being a
promoter or one of your favoriteexperiences over the years?

Speaker 4 (12:17):
I like I liked having , uh, being able to kind of meet
the bands, I don't know.
I like meeting people who areon the road doing the, doing the
like, the grind of like drivingin their van for eight hours a
day just to play a gig and doingthat all around the country,
Like like hearing their storiesof being on the road and just
like help being like a positivething, like a positive day for

(12:38):
them when they're like eatinggas station food and shit.
And we're like yeah, dude, we'regoing to get you like a nice
meal and we bought you like someapple chips and not just like
the cheapest potato chip.
Just little things to like maketheir life a little better.
It's like a fun, fun littlelike stop in someone's like
interesting adventure of a lifethat we're just here Running our

(12:59):
little venue Having a likeinteresting adventure of a life
that we're just here running ourlittle venue.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Have a good time.
You're like a part of a sidequest.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
We are.
What about you?

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I definitely this is going to sound a little bit sad,
but I kind of like the factthat being a promoter like is a
thing that makes me talk topeople, makes me engage with the
community and makes me kind oflike get out there and mix it up
.
I'm kind of like a reservedperson normally, so when I have
any kind of excuse to talk topeople, it's kind of I'll eat
that up.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's really cool, man.
That's awesome.
It sounds like you guys arevery passionate about giving
back to the community too, whichis that's what we're all about,
man.
That's about giving back to thecommunity too, which is that's
all, what's what we're all about, man.
You know that's that's, that'swhat we do, that's our, that's
our big thing.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
So we love what you guys do, man, we, uh, we came
out to the cpmas.
It was my first time going thisyear same at the hershey
theater.
Uh, it was a blast, yeah, yeah,we're always referencing your
guys's lists and stuff to see,like who is doing what and who's
like doing good things.
We, like I genuinely look atyour guys website all the time
all the time.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, local openers, all right.
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
It makes us feel good seriously yeah it's a great
resource for us, yeah, yeah.
Well, I mean, yeah, we're happyto work with you guys.
I mean, that's, that's what thewhole thing is about, you know,
it's like I was just sayingwe're a community, we gotta help
build each other up so that way, you know, we can all get to
the main goal of where we wantto be and be successful and
happy and prosper.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
And I could talk about it for hours, but
definitely something, somethingthat danny always says is uh,
rising tides raise all ships,you know, and we kind of like
lean into that a lot, you know,supporting club xl and hmac and
all the venues around our areajust to kind of facilitate, you
know, an atmosphere of, uh, youknow camaraderie yeah we're all

(14:43):
on the same team.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
We're not really competing against each other.
We're all trying to benefit thegreater music scene of the area
so if one of us does better,generally all of us do better,
so yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's actually a really good point.
That's something that wehaven't actually talked about on
the show before.
But you know, one thing we dotalk about a lot is how our
music industry, band wise, isn'tsuper cutthroat.
A lot of the bands around herelike to help promote each other
and, you know, build each otherup as a team and makes it with
camaraderie.
We never actually talked aboutthe venues relationships with

(15:15):
each other.
I'm glad you brought that up.
That is really neat because,you're right, all the venue
owners around here all know eachother, they all get along, we
all support each other.
Um, and that's super cool, youknow, because you go pretty much
anywhere else and it's it's allyou know headbutting,
competition between the venues.
So it's really really neat tohave that because, like you said
, you know one one oh my god, Ican't speak tonight.

(15:36):
One succeeds, we all succeedyou know.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
So I mean we started out throwing shows at HMAC.
Shout out to Chris Werner.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Danny and I go to Club XL shows all the time,
happy to buy tickets and, youknow, get in there and see some
pretty solid acts that theybring through, so shout out to
them too, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Absolutely.
I mean, every single venuealways gets great acts and
that's cool because you havethat kind of mixing pot as well
between all the different venues.
Some have their wheelhouses andothers just, you know, will
play anything, so you can findany kind of music you want in
Harrisburg.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, almost like we're turning it into like a
little Nashville, I think that'sthe goal.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
A hundred percent, yeah.
Also shout out to JB Love Dvestoo.
We love those guys as well.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah, yeah, we love them too.
We've filmed episodes at,actually both JB's and HMAC, so
I guess that means we've got toget over to your place sometime
and film an episode with theband.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
We'd love to have you we had Glenn Hamilton came and
filmed a commercial for theRiver at the Abbey Bar a couple
months ago.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Love to have people using the space for whatever um
I don't know what made me thinkof this, but we were given shout
outs and I wanted to give.
I was thinking about all thedifferent venues and we work
with assorted studios uh, jesseand justin and their whole team
and they do all the stuff atexcel and they've been like a
very, very helpful group to bein partnership with.

(16:56):
They do all like they're ourproduction managers and they
installed our sound system and,yeah, they've just been like a
top tier supporter shout out tothose guys they're awesome dudes
definitely they really make ourlives a lot easier for sure.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's awesome, man.
It's so great that we have allthat stuff locally here.
You know that's awesome.
Yeah, we are lucky yeah, yeah,build a good relationship with
them.
Just make the dream worktogether.
100.
Well cool then, guys.
Thank you so much for coming onthe show tonight.
Really appreciate it.
Is there anything I'm missing?
Maybe you guys wanted to talkabout or anything, or um follow
us on instagram.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Moonpeak productions there we go and on facebook.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Like us on facebook, yeah and we'll have all that
information in the descriptionbelow for everyone, so make sure
you check that stuff out.
Um, and yeah, stay up to datewith the shows going on at the
Abbey bar.
Thanks for having us, of course.
Great conversation with Dannyand Tyler from Moonpeak
productions Super awesome tohear what they're all about.
Coming up next we have shineDelphi sitting here.
With shine Delphi, thank you somuch for coming on the show man

(17:52):
, good to be here, of course.
So you are a CPMA nominee.
You've been playing music forabout 10 years now as Shined
Elphi.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, I was going to say I've been playing as Shined
Elphi for a long time, but I'dsay in this area, 10 years or
something like that probablyYou've been around the block.
Yeah, a big block.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
And you've built quite the name for yourself.
Man, you're well known in thearea.
Uh, you said you described yourmusic as like kind of like a
jazz, folk, bluegrass or, I'msorry, blues swing seriously
calm down, like you'll get yourchance.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Uh, yeah, no, music is like blues, jazz, folk,
whatever.
I try to read the room like ifthey're.
If they're really into uh, likea country vibe, then I try to
country all my songs.
If they're into like somethingcompletely different, I try to
fill that void.
So, like I don't know, I feellike, uh, on a certain night

(18:54):
you'll catch my song and be likeI've never heard you play that
before and I'll be like that'sbecause I've never played it
like that that's awesome, sothat's fun to do.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Man, that is really cool how long you've been doing
stuff like that, like mixing itup, just like.
Is that like an old trick youlearned back in num, or is this
something that you'reintegrating?

Speaker 6 (19:09):
I've never seen the movie blues brothers, but my
buddy swears that I got the ideafrom blues brothers so I don't
know but, um, but yeah, I'vejust been, I've been playing
music for like 25 years playingguitar, and so I get really
bored, um, and when you getbored, you discover like all
these new ways to do thingsbecause you're like I don't want
to do it that way again remindsme when I worked in a call

(19:33):
center.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
I'd get bored and start doing accents yeah,
exactly.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
And then you like lose it halfway through and
you're like damn it?

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, exactly, it's just like one night you're doing
a British accent and you startspeaking in your regular voice.
You're like weren't you Britishthree seconds ago?

Speaker 6 (19:44):
That's what happens when I try to make a sort of
Brazilian jazz version of one ofmy songs and halfway through it
I realized my rhythm wastotally changing, because it's
really hard to hold a rhythmdown like that.
I was like, oh, this is so hard, such a struggle, and I was
like no one cares, so I justdecided to go with the new

(20:05):
rhythm and chuck it out, and noone seemed to notice.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's cool.
You experiment and it seemslike it works for you man.
For sure, I mean 25 years ofexperience.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, for sure I love the.
Um.
I was just playing at a bar theother night or not a bar, it
was a restaurant and uh, I wastelling the server they were
saying how nice it was to haveme play there and I said every
time that you all are takingorders, I stopped like singing
and they were like, oh, oh, solike I can actually.
I was like, yeah, if you, if Isee you talking to a customer

(20:41):
and you're trying to get theirorder, I was like I stopped
singing, I bring the music downand then I get back into it as
soon as you're done.
And they were like, oh, thatmakes it.
They're like it made it so muchmore pleasant.
I was like I was like, probablycause you're not trying to yell
over somebody the whole night.
That's crazy.
I don't think a lot of peoplethink about the environment
really, so I like to use theenvironment as a band member.

(21:04):
My production assistant is theenvironment.
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
There you go and I mean, hey, I'm sure it gets you
coming back to places too, Forsure it helps you get rebooked.
Definitely what kind of placesare you playing around I?

Speaker 6 (21:19):
play.
Honestly, I play everything.
I play restaurants, I play bars, I play clubs, I play bat
mitzvahs, I play your backyard.
I've played for a couple justhaving dinner on their
anniversary.
Um, I write songs for people.
I'm actually part of a companycalled song finch and, uh, so I
write custom songs through themand it's kind of, it's

(21:41):
interesting, but they reallywant to pigeonhole me.
They only want me to do countrysongs, so it's always got to be
like this country thing, and soit kind of feels like eh, I
don't really consider myselftruly country at all.
I'm not truly folk, I'm nottruly anything.
I I listen to a little bit ofeverything and I steal a little

(22:02):
bit from everyone.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
So called abstract artistry.
You know it's uh, for sure,it's really cool that you do
that you know, I understand, youknow, not wanting to get
pigeonholed though, but you know, hey, it's cool.
You stay true to yourself withthat man you know that's.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
The only thing I'm good at is being myself.
Well, dude we love that.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
It's authentic man you know, uh, and actually
speaking of being yourself, soyou're a pennsylvania native, um
, and we were talking about thisoff air because I'm a diehard
eagles fan you are as well gobirds, yep, uh.
So you have a song called fly,eagles, fly.
That was the first thing thatpopped up whenever I looked you
up and I thought that was thecoolest thing yeah, so I wrote

(22:39):
that song.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
It was right when they were going to they're
making their super bowl run andnick foals had been taken over
and um yeah, they had won thechance you know, nfc
championship game and I was likethey're going to the super bowl
and I started writing this songin my friend's mom's house, so
I was staying with her mom whileshe was out of town.

(23:01):
Irita, I love you, thank youfor putting me up.
Thanks for being one of myCalifornia moms.
I have many moms from traveling.
They all put me up in theirhouses and feed me.
Well, if you can't tell.
But yeah, I was staying intheir house and they had a
little room and I set up a tinylittle studio of just like one
mic and my computer and Istarted playing this song.

(23:24):
And it was just a joke and justsomething I was going to send
to my brother or something likethat or a couple family and
stuff like that.
I made a little video of TomBrady getting sacked by the
Eagles a bunch and put that asthe video.
But then I was like I like thissong, so I was like I'm putting
that on the CD too.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's an awesome story.
Got to make the album, you know, and then they won the Super
Bowl you know.
I like to say I helped.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
But I wasn't like Kevin Hart trying to get down
there and hold the trophy, youknow.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
No, no, absolutely not.
But I mean, I was literallyjust gonna say I think I think
you actually helped us.
So just saying, you know,january comes around this year,
maybe I'll write another song,yeah right it's all you need.
Help, man, I'll you know, I'llhelp ghostwrite it or whatever.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
One of my favorite things to do at gigs is to sneak
in the eagles, uh, fly, youknow, anthem or whatever like.
I will put it in like a guitarsolo or just play it
instrumentally in between a song, or if it's in the same key,
I'll kind of like run it inthere.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
You're talking about the original fly.
Yeah, uh, huh.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Yep, and I love like that.
No one ever knows.
I see I see people with likeEagles gear on and I'm like sick
, I'm going to play this songand I'm staring at them the
whole time, like time, like youget it, do you get it?
They're like I have no ideawhat you're doing.
They're probably sitting therelike man, this sounds familiar,
sounds familiar.
Why do I want to go?
E, a, g, l, e s eagles?
I'm like because I just madeyou like no, just joking, but

(24:47):
but yeah, no, it's fun.
I love sneaking in uh littlequotes I call me or I guess they
call them musical quotes justlike anything from something
else, like uh, throwing like alittle spice girls riff or
something, or uh, my one of myfavorites is like the
Flintstones.
I love to throw in theFlintstones theme, especially
over songs where it shouldn't be.
Um, and I just like to see ifanyone ever notices.

(25:09):
Like my favorite is whensomeone notices, a lot of times
people don't, they don't, theydon't get it.
They're just like, hey, thoseguys playing a solo Cool, I'm
like, hey, this guy's playing asolo Cool, I'm like that was the
Flintstones, and will peoplecome up to you after the show
and be like was that theFlintstones.
A lot of people come up to me.
Well, I throw in a lot of Zeldastuff, a Zelda hat and a lot of

(25:32):
people will be like did youplay Zelda?
And I'm like, hell yeah, dude.
Every night I throw in somesort of zelda reference and I'm
always like, is there anyone inthe audience that's as nerdy as
I am, all right cool, I like you.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
How do you mix it up between like ocarina of time and
like majora's mask?
Is it just like every other?

Speaker 6 (25:48):
I'm just a strictly ocarina of time guy, like I mean
I love all zeldas, but themusic's all.
Ocarina of time came out when Iwas really young and it was
like the first video game that Iplayed where I really heard the
music and I was like and then Istarted focusing a lot on the
music in video games and beinglike I think at a young age I

(26:08):
was really inspired by how goodthe music was in video games and
then I started noticing inmovies and stuff because I guess
I was raised metal and uh, sothat kind of brought in a lot of
other genres and and mygrandparents played a lot.
I started noticing in moviesand stuff because I guess I was
raised metal and so that kind ofbrought in a lot of other
genres and my grandparentsplayed a lot of weird stuff
around me too, that's kind ofwhy I got New Orleans swing jazz
and stuff from.

(26:29):
That's cool though, but I love.
I think all music is good youjust have to find the right
artist, and so that's myfavorite thing to do is to be,
like you know, to find the bestartists in that genre and then
try to steal something from themhey, man, it's just, you know,
you're learning from them, youknow I'm borrowing.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
I can't do it like that and you brought up a good
point like learning from videogames.
Dude, we were blessed growingup to have like the best music
in video games.
I learned about Atreyu.
You said you were a metal fanDude.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
I grew up in California, actually, and Atreyu
was one of the bands that waspretty local to near where I was
from actually.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Oh my God, I forgot they're from California.
No, yeah, I was playing Needfor Spears.
I'm like right side of the bedcomes up.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
I'm like what is this ?
Dude comes.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I'm like what is this dude?
For sure they had the rockingsoundtrack.
Tony hawk had a greatsoundtrack.
Oh my god, all the tony hawkgames have the best soundtracks
for sure, bring back tony hawkoh man, we should get him on
here somehow he's not frompennsylvania.
But we'll figure.
We'll figure it out one way, oranother tony let's talk like I
got people.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
We'll make this happen, all right we'll put my
song in your video and you'llteach me how to holly.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
So you're a well-traveled man.
I mean you lived in California.
You said you played music inlike Asheville, North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yes, I lived in New Orleans for a long time and
there's a weird connectionbetween Asheville, north
Carolina, and New Orleans and Ican't explain it other than I
just know a lot of musicians whohave floated back and forth
between those two places andAsheville to me was always kind
of like the New Orleans of.
North Carolina or something.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, they were both kind of like you know, funky,
artsy, fun towns.
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
And I love Asheville.
I was actually on the cover ofthe I think it was like 2016
Asheville tourist guide, and sothere's like a picture of me
busking on the street, which wastotally faked for the cover,
even though I I played on thestreet all the time.
That's how the people found usand, uh, and me and my friends,
they were like, hey, we'll payyou if we can, you know, and

(28:29):
they made us wear like clothesfrom stores that were local, and
then they didn't let us keep it.
I was bummed oh what because Iwas like damn, I look good.
But I looked at the price tagand I was like no, you can have
it back, I can't afford that Iwould be like delete the
pictures.
I'm not doing this, but yeah,obviously, ashville is on my
mind a lot lately and just thatwhole area.

(28:50):
Um, I have a ton of friendsdown there and I like I'm really
hoping I I know that they'rewell as far as they're alive and
stuff, but I know a lot of themlost a lot and so, if you have
money, please donate.
The guitar company I play for,beard Guitars, they're donating
$1,000 from every guitar thatthey sell to Hurricane Relief.

(29:13):
So get a new guitar and donate$1 dollars to your charity of
choice, uh, by buying one oftheir guitars and, um, yeah, I
just think that, uh, I hope thatwe can rebuild soon and I hope
that all the people who losteverything get more back.
Uh, so that's awesome man,that's really cool where is uh

(29:35):
beard guitars based out of?
they're based out of hagerstown,maryland.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Okay are you uh endorsed by them?

Speaker 6 (29:41):
yeah, I have an endorsement with them and, uh, I
do some events for them, uh,from time to time and they just
like I play a resonator guitarand so resonators are kind of
like not as popular as mostother guitars they're becoming
more more popular, I see.
But, uh, but they're definitelylike they're a specialized

(30:03):
guitar and so I had a differentresonator guitar years ago and
it would always break.
I would always break it and itwas always out of tune and uh,
and I love that guitar, but itwas just like always had
problems and so I'd take it tothem because I found them
through the interwebs, um, and Iwas like I trust I met Paul
Beard.
He owns the company and he isjust like the most knowledgeable

(30:26):
guitar person I've ever met.
He's so great at it.
And then, after I brought myguitar in like several times,
he's like, hey, if you do acouple of events for me, like
maybe I could get you a guitaror something that won't break on
you, and I was like that'd besweet.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Heck yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:41):
And so, yeah, I've been playing that guitar ever
since and I love that guitar somuch.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
That's awesome.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Very thankful.
Thank you, Paul.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, big shout out to them, man, they seem like
they're very community driven.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
I mean donating $1,000 per a thousand dollars.
That's a good, that's yeah, Iwas surprised.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
I was like that's a nice chunk for sure.
And uh and um, the funniestthing is they make these guitars
but because they're resonators,they have metal parts to them
and, uh, they make, they sellslides and stuff.
And so my dad's a machinist andI actually was.
I was eating breakfast withpaul one day and he was telling

(31:16):
me that his machinist was gonnaquit, and then he someone.
So I got my dad a job workingfor them.
So my dad was like you know,hey, thanks for once, you gave
me something back.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
That's awesome though .

Speaker 6 (31:32):
But yeah, so family works there.
You know, I don't know, it'sjust a good like and they're a
small crew and they're greatpeople.
They're seriously some of thebest people I've ever known and
they're like literally well,I'll be in like tears hanging
out with them because they'rejust funny good people.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
So that's like the best full circle full circle
story I've heard in a long timedude that's.
That's awesome.
That's what I like.
So you're working on some newmusic.
You got some new shows andstuff coming up.
Dude, that's awesome.
That's what I like.
So you're working on some newmusic.
You got some new shows andstuff coming up.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
Yeah, I've got shows.
Literally I play about three tosix times a week so I have like
we're recording this at adifferent time, but I have three
gigs on Saturday Not thisSaturday, but I don't know if

(32:22):
that makes any sense, um, butanyway, maybe you will, yeah,
who knows I do a lot of like.
If I can do three gigs on asaturday and three gigs on a
sunday and you know, two gigs ona monday, I'll do it.
But uh, but yeah, I play allaround this central pa area
right now, play the Inglewoodevery now and then I've got a
gig kind of there and all theway in March.
But, um, but yeah, you know,play at all those places, but

(32:46):
also I play at restaurants andbars and if you look up shine
Delphi, I'll probably be playingsomewhere near you soon.
All right.
But also I do have a.
Yeah, I have a new album or anew album in the works, and I'm
doing an album that's morefocused on how you would see me
live, because I've realized thatall the stuff I've released

(33:10):
always has a band and I usuallyplay solo and I think I've sort
of gotten really good at playingsolo.
So I kind of want to put thaton an album where it's like I
want people to hear the song onthe radio or on the cd the same
way that they hear it live.
I want them to like come andhave that experience, and so I'm

(33:32):
excited to put this stufftogether and just kind of like
showcase all the things that Ido well no, that's really cool
man.
That's all it'll be fun for sure, but I don't know when it's
coming out.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Hopefully next year we'll see, hey, it gives you
more time to experiment with it.
It sounds like you've beendoing a lot of that, for sure,
definitely, definitely.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
I love experimenting and trying out new stuff.
We'll see.
I think that's what makes bandssuper cool.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Some of my favorite bands.
None of their albums sound thesame and I've always thought
that's super cool yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:11):
One of my favorite artists is Beck, and Beck always
did lots of different.
He started out like a folkyacoustic guy and then always
grew and eventually came back toit, I don't know.
He's just always done reallycool stuff and it's always hit
me.
I don't know you find thoseartists that hit you and it's
like I don't know.
But there's actually a lot oflocal artists that hit me like
that too, like Rivers and YamYam, and you know like there's

(34:34):
just like.
This place is kind of crazy inthat way, like because I have
traveled a lot and I haven'talways seen such like a local
scene, you know, like this one.
Yeah, for sure this isdefinitely unique, so I'm
thankful.
Thank you for booking me, me,keep booking me and book
everyone else too.
All right, but I don't know, Ijust keep looking at it like I'm

(34:57):
campaigning.
This is my camera, right?
Yeah, all right, that's us,that's you, that's me all.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Right vote shine.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
Delphi 2024 2024 folks, I will get musicians paid
.
I don't know what else I'll do,but that's for sure.
Hey, it's a start oh man.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Well, dude, thank you so much for coming on the show
man.
So anything else I may bemissing or didn't cover that you
wanted to shout out or anyanyone you work with that you
want to shout out or anythinglike that um, I don't, I don't
know.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
I'm not really good at shout outs, but I'd just say
that uh, um, I love all of youfor uh joining this show today
and um, thank you all and I hopeyou all have the loveliest days
and loveliest lives and uh,come to a show sometime and I
will make you laugh.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Perfect.
Thank you so much for coming onthe show man Thanks for having
me.
Yeah, of course, man.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
That was like the coolest ending I've ever seen
man All right folks my name isShine Delphi and I'm here to

(36:20):
play you a song I wrote calledLong Life.
It's been a long year.
It's been a long life.
It's been a long life.
No, it ain't been a short one,mama, it's been a long life,
it's been a long one.
Oh, but I don't really mind.

(36:44):
It's when I put my mind tothinking.
Well, I find the answers everytime.
Put my mind to thinking, well,I find the answers every time
when I some think I'm dirty,some think I'm clean, but I
think I cover a big, vast spacesomewhere in between Because of
everything that ever wanted tobe.

(37:05):
Oh, mama, if you listen closely, well, you just might find me,
your friend.
You said you loved me.

(37:38):
I've been many places.
Yes, now I've been many things.
Oh, mama, that's just life.
It changes, but that's part.
I think that's sweet.
Now, if you don't believe meand you always feel past, when
you'll just stop living, I'llbury beneath the grass and if
that's what you want, go righton ahead.
Oh, mama, I ain't through withliving.

(38:48):
No, you ain't gonna find me.
Guitar solo.
Thank you ¶¶.
It's been a long life.
You know, it ain't me to showmy mama it's been a long life,
it's been a long one.
When I pull my mind to thinking, well, I find the answers every

(39:22):
time find the answers everytime.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Oh well, I find the answers every time.
Had a great time sitting downand getting to know Shinedale Fi
.
That live performance was outof this world.
Everyone that does it for thisweek.
Thank you so much for tuning inand we'll see you next time.

(40:16):
Bye.
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