July 25, 2025 • 13 mins
The Omaha native performs two original songs live in promoting his show tonight at the annual Playing With Fire concert event.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorgie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The outdoor concert series Playing with Fire is going to
move indoors tonight at the Slowdown in the No Do
part of downtown just north of the Baseball Stadium. So
it's at the Slowdown this year. All the details about
the Playing with Fire concert series tonight through the weekend
is Playing with Fire Omaha dot net and one of
(00:25):
the performers there tonight is right now in the studio
with us for a live performance. We'll talk with him
after this number. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome. Jared Gottberg.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
A man came from us. He traveled so far and
then he made a former.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Him he fell so so does she love him?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Love him?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Wha say loveby, say loveby.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And loving that heasy baby loving tady.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
And and he said he meet her halfway and she
gave him everything.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
How venus was warm, but he's sennaty s.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Day this does he love her?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Love him?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Nah?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Whoa say loudy say loudy.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Arming daddy easy baby.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Arming dayasy.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Whom the the the.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Oh yes, say love.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Sees on me?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Love me dadyasy baby.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
M me d easy.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Whoa how.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
H m h.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Dude wow Jared Yeah, Jared said, I'm gonna start off
a little quieter, then I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
A little louder.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah. People came from three buildings over to pop their
heads into the studio to see what that was all about.
I love it. What is that song.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Called love se Lave?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Very nice? Jared William gott Berg. It's one of the performers.
You're on stage tonight at the slowdown for playing with
Fire indoors this year. Is this your first time being
a part of this free concert event?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Is?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, it is? Indeed, this is it's been three years coming.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Actually, Yeah, it's a it's a great event. It's usually
been outside and it's been going on in Omaha for
about twenty years or so, and it's a it's a
really cool deal. You're gonna be on stage. What time tonight?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Six?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Tell me about some of the other performers tonight or
through the weekend of playing the Fire any idea.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
We got the Snelli brothers, Yeah, and Harry Manx.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, that's both tonight and Harry Manx has got Kevin
Bright with him, who worked with Norah Jones on Come
Away with Me? Who you sound nothing like?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Tell me about your musical influences.
Speaker 9 (05:10):
I grew up listening to a lot of what my
parents loved, and so Pink Floyd is my favorite. Yeah,
and then as you know, I got older and kind
of discovered my own tastes. My first band was a
metal band.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, so I can hear that there's.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
A little bit of that in there.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, I've seen your social media. You can find Jared
Gottberg on social media g O T T B E
R G Jared Gottberg. I've seen some of your stuff.
I've seen some of the acoustic stuff like we just
heard and we'll hear another one in just a moment.
But also i've seen you plug in and just start
shredding guitar solos, which is the first thing I asked
(05:47):
you to do, Like, hey, why don't you come in
here plugging an amp and just start shredding. And you're like,
I think I'm gonna do an acoustic guitar And I'm thinking,
all right, Well, as long as it doesn't put everyone
to sleep on the front, So.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
I doubt that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, I was watching more of your videos like, oh,
this is not going to be a problem. So yeah,
it's it's very cool. You've got a new album coming out?
Speaker 9 (06:08):
I Do.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I Do.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
This is with my three piece rock group, The Party After. Yeah,
it's a record that we recorded at the end of
twenty twenty one early twenty two in Mexico City, Mexico.
And it's actually the second of three albums that I've
done on my own there as well.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So, so you recorded it all these years ago and
it's just now starting to see the light of day. Yes,
were you, Michael Jackson? You're liking until it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm not going out.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
I'm broke.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Now.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
I've released the first of the three records. We did
three three albums in twenty twenty one, and the first
one came out earlier this year, and then here comes
the second one the night, and then the third one
will be out next year.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Can people buy your albums at the show tonight? Do
we still put physical copies that I do thick out?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I do good?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Thank you for that, some expensive coasters? Maybe, No, It's
it's just better that way. I like having a physical
copy of an album. So tonight it's a it's a
free concert, So just show up at Slow Down. While
space exists. It's not the world's biggest place. It's not
like playing out on the lawn at Midtown Crossing or anything,
(07:21):
so it is. It's a finite group of people. But
I've been at the slow down for that Mustaches for
Kids annual event. They pack I don't know, eighty seven
billion people in there, and so that we got, we
got plenty of room. But at tonight, starting at six thirty,
are we doing acoustic? Are we plugging in sight tonight? Excellent?
(07:43):
So tell people what they can expect when they come
see you tonight at six thirty at slow I don't
even know yet.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I'm not one that usually writes set lists, at least
when I'm solo.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
I kind of just base it off of how the
crowd's feeling.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, well base it off how the out's feeling. That's
me and the people have been sticking their head in
here when you got started.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Here, can we get one more songs? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
This is your performer tonight at Playing with Fire had
slowed down six point thirty tonight. All the details online
at playing with Fire Omaha dot net. Once again, here's
Jared Gottberg, n To and Fu.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
The ginstonll of the Rains fool, Who do you recognize
my withering mo.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Here's this one we've been waiting for. And sometime after
(09:27):
mad night I.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Found that way your wings were beating sun bright?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Oh tonight is where's my whole life?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
So she stole by next to you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
She stole by next you, Round and round again. Here
we go.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
A k install of the winds that blow? Did you
recognize my drunken flow.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Wealth?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
This is one we've been waiting for.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
And sometime after that night I found my waiting you
do the cat?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Your wings look so bright?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Thought, tonight is worth my whole life?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So down through the room, stole by next do you
still bam next to you?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
And sometime after midnight I found no way did you?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Your wings were burning so bride.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Out?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Tonight is worth our lives. Soon we will be.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Through stole down next to you, hold down next to
Joe Joe showings a lord, so very bride.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Next to Joe Jill Joey's so very bite.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
To sunny, next to you, se met.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh, next to next too.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That is Jared Gottberg. You can find him on social media.
Albums available wherever you get your music, and tonight at
Playing with Fire, which is indoors for the first time
this year at slow Down Doors. Open to five. Music
starts at six thirty tonight with Jared Gottberg and then
more tomorrow as well. All the details at Playing with
fire Omaha dot net. Jared awesome, Thank you so much
(12:53):
for being in here.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Absolutely Scott for Yes Mornings nine to eleven, News Radio eleven,
t KFAB
Scott Vorgie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The outdoor concert series Playing with Fire is going to
move indoors tonight at the Slowdown in the No Do
part of downtown just north of the Baseball Stadium. So
it's at the Slowdown this year. All the details about
the Playing with Fire concert series tonight through the weekend
is Playing with Fire Omaha dot net and one of
(00:25):
the performers there tonight is right now in the studio
with us for a live performance. We'll talk with him
after this number. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome. Jared Gottberg.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
A man came from us. He traveled so far and
then he made a former.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Him he fell so so does she love him?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Love him?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Wha say loveby, say loveby.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And loving that heasy baby loving tady.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
And and he said he meet her halfway and she
gave him everything.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
How venus was warm, but he's sennaty s.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Day this does he love her?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Love him?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Nah?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Whoa say loudy say loudy.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Arming daddy easy baby.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Arming dayasy.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Whom the the the.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Oh yes, say love.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Sees on me?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Love me dadyasy baby.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
M me d easy.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Whoa how.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
H m h.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Dude wow Jared Yeah, Jared said, I'm gonna start off
a little quieter, then I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
A little louder.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah. People came from three buildings over to pop their
heads into the studio to see what that was all about.
I love it. What is that song.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Called love se Lave?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Very nice? Jared William gott Berg. It's one of the performers.
You're on stage tonight at the slowdown for playing with
Fire indoors this year. Is this your first time being
a part of this free concert event?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Is?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, it is? Indeed, this is it's been three years coming.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Actually, Yeah, it's a it's a great event. It's usually
been outside and it's been going on in Omaha for
about twenty years or so, and it's a it's a
really cool deal. You're gonna be on stage. What time tonight?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Six?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Tell me about some of the other performers tonight or
through the weekend of playing the Fire any idea.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
We got the Snelli brothers, Yeah, and Harry Manx.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, that's both tonight and Harry Manx has got Kevin
Bright with him, who worked with Norah Jones on Come
Away with Me? Who you sound nothing like?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Tell me about your musical influences.
Speaker 9 (05:10):
I grew up listening to a lot of what my
parents loved, and so Pink Floyd is my favorite. Yeah,
and then as you know, I got older and kind
of discovered my own tastes. My first band was a
metal band.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, so I can hear that there's.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
A little bit of that in there.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, I've seen your social media. You can find Jared
Gottberg on social media g O T T B E
R G Jared Gottberg. I've seen some of your stuff.
I've seen some of the acoustic stuff like we just
heard and we'll hear another one in just a moment.
But also i've seen you plug in and just start
shredding guitar solos, which is the first thing I asked
(05:47):
you to do, Like, hey, why don't you come in
here plugging an amp and just start shredding. And you're like,
I think I'm gonna do an acoustic guitar And I'm thinking,
all right, Well, as long as it doesn't put everyone
to sleep on the front, So.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
I doubt that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, I was watching more of your videos like, oh,
this is not going to be a problem. So yeah,
it's it's very cool. You've got a new album coming out?
Speaker 9 (06:08):
I Do.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I Do.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
This is with my three piece rock group, The Party After. Yeah,
it's a record that we recorded at the end of
twenty twenty one early twenty two in Mexico City, Mexico.
And it's actually the second of three albums that I've
done on my own there as well.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So, so you recorded it all these years ago and
it's just now starting to see the light of day. Yes,
were you, Michael Jackson? You're liking until it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm not going out.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
I'm broke.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Now.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
I've released the first of the three records. We did
three three albums in twenty twenty one, and the first
one came out earlier this year, and then here comes
the second one the night, and then the third one
will be out next year.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Can people buy your albums at the show tonight? Do
we still put physical copies that I do thick out?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I do good?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Thank you for that, some expensive coasters? Maybe, No, It's
it's just better that way. I like having a physical
copy of an album. So tonight it's a it's a
free concert, So just show up at Slow Down. While
space exists. It's not the world's biggest place. It's not
like playing out on the lawn at Midtown Crossing or anything,
(07:21):
so it is. It's a finite group of people. But
I've been at the slow down for that Mustaches for
Kids annual event. They pack I don't know, eighty seven
billion people in there, and so that we got, we
got plenty of room. But at tonight, starting at six thirty,
are we doing acoustic? Are we plugging in sight tonight? Excellent?
(07:43):
So tell people what they can expect when they come
see you tonight at six thirty at slow I don't
even know yet.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I'm not one that usually writes set lists, at least
when I'm solo.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
I kind of just base it off of how the
crowd's feeling.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, well base it off how the out's feeling. That's
me and the people have been sticking their head in
here when you got started.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Here, can we get one more songs? All right?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
This is your performer tonight at Playing with Fire had
slowed down six point thirty tonight. All the details online
at playing with Fire Omaha dot net. Once again, here's
Jared Gottberg, n To and Fu.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
The ginstonll of the Rains fool, Who do you recognize
my withering mo.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Here's this one we've been waiting for. And sometime after
(09:27):
mad night I.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Found that way your wings were beating sun bright?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Oh tonight is where's my whole life?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
So she stole by next to you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
She stole by next you, Round and round again. Here
we go.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
A k install of the winds that blow? Did you
recognize my drunken flow.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Wealth?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
This is one we've been waiting for.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
And sometime after that night I found my waiting you
do the cat?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Your wings look so bright?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Thought, tonight is worth my whole life?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So down through the room, stole by next do you
still bam next to you?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
And sometime after midnight I found no way did you?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Your wings were burning so bride.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Out?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Tonight is worth our lives. Soon we will be.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Through stole down next to you, hold down next to
Joe Joe showings a lord, so very bride.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Next to Joe Jill Joey's so very bite.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
To sunny, next to you, se met.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh, next to next too.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That is Jared Gottberg. You can find him on social media.
Albums available wherever you get your music, and tonight at
Playing with Fire, which is indoors for the first time
this year at slow Down Doors. Open to five. Music
starts at six thirty tonight with Jared Gottberg and then
more tomorrow as well. All the details at Playing with
fire Omaha dot net. Jared awesome, Thank you so much
(12:53):
for being in here.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Absolutely Scott for Yes Mornings nine to eleven, News Radio eleven,
t KFAB
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