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above and beyond service. And so you know, I start
my show off with our knowledge nugget every week of
coaching knowledge nug which is just going to fit perfectly
with who I'm bringing in and a lot of my
clients they quit like three feet from gold, like they
they're there. They don't, They just don't know that they're
quite there and then they just quit. And what I've
been taught through my mentors and what I kind of
passed along to my coaching clients, whether the professional athletes, actors, actresses,
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or just kind of a you know, a house mom
or dad, is that if you find what you desire,
you back that desire with faith. You back that faith
with a persistence that does not recognize failure.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You just keep moving on.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We fail, we fail forward, And that's going to lead
right into who I have. The epitome of persistence here
is there are in the music world and Varsity Squad.
Get ready to crank it up because my next guests
are amplifying the heartbeat of South Florida's local music scene.
Ben Childs and Hector Diaz are the co founders of
the five to six to one Music Podcasts, a full
on movement built to elevate local talent, spotlight original artistry,
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and unite our community through the raw power of live music.
Ben and Hector of Killbilly's Fame, which is one of
my local bands that I jammed with, launched this platform
in twenty twenty one to give backyard rock stars of
global mic Every week they serve up powerful interviews and
live performances from homegirl musicians who are too good to
go and heard. This just is just a podcast. It's
a mission to turn up the volume on local talent,
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make sure real music never fades out. Let's welcome the
men behind the music, Ben Childs and Hector Diaz and
right now they've been I've been blessed to have them
step away from the five six one Music Festival. It's
happening here in downtown West Palm and I'll let them
give you the details. But if you're sitting around at
noon on a Saturday, get your butt out here because
it is a blast. The music is on point and
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fellas welcome.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
How's it going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Good guys?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You know so Ben, you and I are kind of
cava buddies, sure right, so like me and we enjoy
the natural earth dirt and then actually just kind of
like you know, kind of calms us down. But from
Manchester to Florida, man, your musical journey began like back
across the pond, right, Yeah that's right.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Yeah, I'm English, I've been here for a long time.
It's quite interesting that an English guy is running a
local music Team podcast. But I've been here for quite
a long time at this point out here. I got
here in two thousand and nine, and I was thirty
years old when I moved here, though, so the since staying,
you know.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, and then he was kind of like my homegrown
guy here.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hector kind of took Ben under his wing a little
bit and kind of showed them the ropes around here.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But what's your story with your background there? Ben?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I mean I was born and raised here. As
as I mentioned earlier, I was born in Saint Mary's Hospital,
So I've been here my entire life. I just, you know,
I grew up around music. I was in bands and
stuff when I was younger. I was in church bands
and school bands and things like that. I started out
on saxophone. Eventually I moved to bass guitar at some point,
ironically enough, I saw Ben's band Killbillies in one of
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its early iterations, and did know Ben at the time.
Fast forward about I think it was like eight years
after that or something like that. I met Ben through
through James, our banjo player, who was a mutual friend
of ours. That it's in another band with me, and
James said, hey, we need a bass player. And I said, oh,
hell yeah. I saw you guys like eight years ago,
and and I thought to myself, this is the kind
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of band I want to be in.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So here we are you lined up and you're great.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I saw you everywhere from square group orches to what's
the place in gardens there? They max yeah, you know,
and they're always fun. It's you can dance to it,
you know, you can make love to it, you can
just have had It's what kind of genre do you
feel that the killbilly?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I would say that it is. There's a few different
ways you could describe it. It's it's like Celtic folk.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Celtic was the one I was kind of looking for.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But like, how about like you've played a lot of
diverse you know, from SKA bands, you know, and how
do you guys navigate that process of bringing all of
those different kinds of bands together into a unique sound
like that?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Well, when I was young, when I was I remember
having a conversation with my then girlfriend when I was
about eighteen years old, saying that something that fascinated me
was bringing different types of music together. For some reason,
it's always been a passion of mine. I've never been
able to pin down one thing that and just you know,
stick within the lines of all the constraints of any genre.
(05:00):
It been something I've been about. In fact, i've been
about the opposite. And my band's son had been six
that I was in in Manchester. You should check them
out if you're interested in kind of it's not experimental
so much as genre bending, you should check them out.
When our first album was called The Rough Guide to
Genre Terrorism, so that gives you a bit of an
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idea about how much I enjoy mashing things together.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Like just say, you kind of don't care. I'm not
saying don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You care, Yeah, you don't care what they say about
you mashing them together?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, exactly. And you know people always struggle in articles
and reviews and things like that to pigeonhole it and
to be honest with you, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Love it, love it. Yeah, you guys.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sow the Genesis, Okay, the squad out there, the podcast
that they have five six one music and five six
one is the area code here in the Palm Beach area,
and they're given voices to band because.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's not Miami, it's not Lauderdale.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's not Nash, but these guys are out there giving
voices to bands to absolutely rock the mic. And if
just come on down here to West Palm Beach, you're
gonna get a taste of it right now. And like,
let's get to the genesis of the start of the
five six one music podcast, Like what inspired you guys
Hector to launch the five six to one music podcast?
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And how's that platform evolved into a mission really to
kind of spotlight softword account.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, it started out Ben, you know, Ben and I
being in the band together. It started out that Ben
had a conversation with a radio station of some sort
at one point to potentially do a show, and as
it turned out, it was more of a it was
more of a ploy of them trying to get him
to get sponsors for his show. And so he decided, uh,
(06:45):
you know, we were talking about it. He came to
me and we were talking about it, and we decided, like, hey,
why don't we just do this as a podcast, just
do it ourselves, right, And so we did. We launched
the podcast. It started out really, it just started out
as a fun thing. We were doing a project and
most of the people coming on the podcast where people
we knew, people been knew, you know, things like that.
Somewhere along the way it really became a real thing,
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and here we are four years later. You know, we
have bands on there every week. Most of the time
we've never heard of them, and that's a beautiful thing
because if we haven't heard of them, you haven't heard
of them.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Nobody's heard of them.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But we're making them heard. You know, people were finding
out about these bands, and that's a beautiful thing. And
it's all different genres. I mean, we've had everything from
from rappers to jazz to yeah, it's crazy, like you know,
rock whatever. We've had just about everything on there. And
so yeah, and so four years later, here we are.
And that's kind of how how it all kind of
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came together.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It started out started out as a little passion project,
and it became a real thing. People started listening, and
we realized there was a need for it, and and
we were filling this voyd for people.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, we've been lucky enough to have had people who've
been very faithful and doyle to it from the beginning
as well, because it was something that was needed around here.
This palm Beach County has a large population.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It does. There's a lot of people here, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
And the music ecosystem was it was lagging behind for
where it should be. There wasn't that many things to
do for bands. There wasn't that many ways for them
to poke the head above the parapet and so we
just wanted to provide some structure for people to you know,
it's kind of start climbing.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Their way out, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
And and that's what we've done and it was very
much welcomed, and it was welcome with open arms and yeah,
just growing.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And to clarify, like we we had when we talk
about bands, we're specifically talking about original music bands.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, there's those covers.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, there's a ton of cover bands around, and there's
a ton of amazing cover bands around, but there's a
lot of outlets for them. So we were trying to
create an outlet for the original bands that did not
have an outlet.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And so like you guys have over and by the way, squad,
there are a top ten percent podcast that's over three
point five to five million podcasts that are illumining out there.
They are a top ten percent. I listened to it.
I watch it when I'm at again. Me and Ben
we meet for cava, you know, here and there. It's
a nice little earthy drink with our guy, Jim Murray
a little. I believe he sponsors your podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, you know Jim.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Jim has been a long time supporter. Yeah, love Jim
love Oasis.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, he's a legend and he absolutely loves Brian Mudd,
my producer too, because Brian Mudd is the five to
nine guy here and he does never miss as an
episode of Brian in the Morning.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So yeah, he's like, dud, you're with Brian Mudd.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
It was, It was pretty cool, and Brian did a
really cool video for Jim and stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He was touched by it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So out of the two hundred episodes, can you share
maybe a protect particularly like impactful interview or performance that
resonated deeply with you and you thrifted your perceptive Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Absolutely. It's the guys who comes to punk shows who
yeh yeah, tell him about that one.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, so we had we you know, again, we focused
primarily on original bands, but every now and then we
get an entertainer or we get something that's band adjacent,
if you will. And so we had j c Ortiz
from an organization called a nonprofit called Punk Rock Saves
Lives And they come out to big shows a lot
of times, sometimes small shows, and they set up a
tent and they and they have a booth and basically
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the their main focus is Bone Marrow Registry and so
they get people to register at these rock shows for
bone marrow uh uh donation. I guess. So you get
on the registry. I'm on the registry. My wife's on
the regist.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
There you go and so yeah, so you know how
it works. You know, they'll give you a call one
day if they need you for a match.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, haven't gotten the call yet, but we are on
the registry. But that's that's their main focus. But then
at the show, what they have is this kit at
the table and they call it they call it kind
of an an emergency kit and it has everything everything
from narcan to condoms to you know, uh, tampons, you know,
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any anything that people might need that they forgot at
the show, but also life saving things like their their
mission and their theory is at these shows is you know,
people are at these shows. Let's be honest, they're gonna do.
There's a handful of people they're gonna do drugs of
some sort, and so they're not trying to prevent that, right,
but they're like, if you're going to do it, we
want to make sure you're doing it safely. So they
have have items there and things like that, and so
(11:06):
they're literally save lives Live. Yeah, yeah, lives. And it's
a great organization we're going to have. Yeah, we have
them at the uh we have a booth for them. Yeah,
they're here yeah right yeah, yeah, absolutely right at the end,
right by the main stage.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And it is named punk Rock Saves Lives. Yeah, which
is last night you shout out to j c Ortis
then as well. Yeah, so the uh a little bit
before we.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Get into the festival.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I know Ben and I have talked a little bit
about like your journey to sobriety. Can you've openly discuss
your path of sobriety and its influence on your life
and music. This is personal transformation. Impacted your creative process
because a lot of times some people that are creative
they partake right, Like, so, how does it how do
you stay so creative in such a clear mind?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Okay, so I I'm an alcoholic. I drank until I
was thirty nine, which is a long time. You know,
it took me a while to to I make that
to bottom. But once I did. It's a cliche, but
it just changed my life. It changed my life. I
was ready, and it's something you have to be is ready.
(12:11):
You have to know it's your time sure, and if
you don't get there, then you know you you'll go
back to it. But luckily for me, I did you know,
I realized I was powerless over it and I needed help.
And once I once I took that step, it changed
my life forever. It's the most important thing that's ever
happened to me. I'd now have a completely different helicon life,
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have an unbelievably more productive life. I have better friends now.
The creative process right when I by the time I
was ready to get sober, by the time, I wasn't
being very creative.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I was.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I'd got to a point where I was almost shutting down.
And because I was drinking, not for not not not
necessarily for ideas. It's mostly kind of like social like
when you play in bands and things, they're always in bars,
and so it was it was it was a social
lubricant that turned into a problem.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Social lubricat dude, that is never heard of that. Yeah,
but it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah, and and and when I stopped drinking, took me
a while, But the thing is, you have. What I've
found out is you have to grow a personality when
you stop drinking because you can't rely on the loss
of inhibitions. And you know, you actually have to learn
how to be in public sober, which took me a while.
I'm not gonna lie, but once I got there, I
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found that the creativity came right back.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
That was That's a beautiful thing because you are creative.
You come up with something sometimes on the spot. I've
watched you and I come up with something literally on
the spike. You're like, I got to write this down
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level up Conversation With. Coach fergie And again i'm here
with the members Of the killbillies and also they're put
together this. Awesome festival we're at the five six To One. Music,
festival yeah IT'S it's i need to say off the
hook or off. The chain but it's a lot of, fun, here, Right,
(15:26):
absolutely so like organizing this music festival is no. Small
feed what were the initial challenges you faced and launching
the five Six One music festival and how has that
event grown to become what is your plans for it
to become kind of a staple in.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
THE community i.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Think this is hecked his question because FULL disclosed a
hector is.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
The.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Point man.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So we were doing the podcast the, first year AND like,
i said it started becoming a.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Real.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Thing uh somewhere along that, first year probably six or seven,
months in we had a DISCUSSION and, i said what
wouldn't it be fun to have a, little festival just
something small with, you know a few bands from, something
small a few bands from, the festival from the podcast
rather and and so. We did we did it that
first Year At matthews brewing and, you know we had,
two stages we, had bands.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Et.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Cetera uh and so we HAD like i want, to
say maybe four or five hundred people that showed up
that day, for it which is which was a big deal.
For us so so second year, came around we decided
to do. It again we, grew it we had about
six or seven, hundred people and then the third year
we had about eight or nine hundred people throughout. The
day and so this year we were trying to, find out,
you know what would be what would be the next step,
(16:32):
for us, you know where could we go that might
might be a little bit Bigger Than matthews Brewing In
lake worth, and so which is a, great place which which, Is,
amazing yeah. Amazing place and they supported us for three
years to help us, do this just.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
This.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Event yeah and so woke up one morning saw the
News that SunFest was taking a step back. This, year
immediately probably within, thirty seconds Called up BEN and, i,
said hey SO am i absolutely insane to think that
we could pull us off At The. Meyer Amphitheater and, he's, like,
oh well you're, absolutely insane but let's. Do. It YEAH
so i put in. The application it was like a fifty,
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dollars APPLICATION and, I, thought okay what do we got?
To lose we put in the application AND then i
think maybe like five six, weeks later the city. Approved
it and then after the initial panic of oh, my
god we're. Doing this the unfortunate thing was that because
it was so late in the Game for SunFest to
pull out of. This weekend we've only had twelve weeks to,
organize this so it was it's been a mad scramble
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for the last.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Three.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Months right what was the biggest challenges that you guys
have found OF can i?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Say? Everything, well okay.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
WELL okay i would say the biggest hurdle for us
is that at, this moment we are not a nonprofit
and we have hit a lot of roadblocks because we're not.
A nonprofit liquor licenses were, An issue permitting was, an
issue and then, certain things certain things were more expensive
because we weren't. A nonprofit, you know the cost of
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the ampathatter itself would have been exponentially cheaper if we were.
A nonprofit so those were the kind of the some
of the challenges that we. Came, across so, you know
we will be a nonprofit, soon now but those were
kind of some of the. Bigger challenges the biggest, BIGGEST
challenge i would say is the. Liquor license we had
issues because of not being. A nonprofit we couldn't pull
a one, day permit so we ended up having to
go with a company that comes in and like they're
(18:17):
called potions. Of motion they come in and they do
the concessions for you and then we just get, you
know revenue share basically.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
With them awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And squid if you're out there listening, TO this i
mean they may need a little guidance in this nonprofit kind.
Of thing, you know please get a hold of me
five six one four four zero three eight three Is
that i'll. Be happy they'll put you in touch With
either Hector and ben because the cause and the money
that they can raise for a great cause at a
festival like this is. Absolutely amazing and so how about fostering?
Local talent how do you envision this festival they're out
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there jam and the festival's role in nurturing emerging artists
and what strategies do you employee to ensure it remains
inclusive and.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Representative, platform okay so that the way that we chose,
the bands and by, the way the Bands Are, Mason Pace,
Tiger sunset closer To, The Ocean, Ras, Huffman Foakata, Medicine
Room jacob Tackers And, The, Connection Bline, Reverse Aureo, Modern Odyssey,
Stony Fools, Strider Shakers, Ryan Hopkins Slow funk Pump, Off
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Orbit Billy, Doom, Is Dead, little things And. Blab scam
the way we chose those bands is we put a
thing out and you.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Could apply you could apply to be.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Into the pool of the bands that we were, picked
from and you had to send us live footage And
a spotify link and YouTube links and all this kind.
Of thing and so we spent we put a little
team together and we spent a couple of weeks just
going through every single band and just trying to figure
out what would will work together and also how we
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could diversify the music so that it wasn't all the.
Same THING but i would say one of the things
that we were one of the limitations of that of
diversifying it is that, not everyone not representatives of every
type of music. Didn't apply and so what we're going
to do probably, next year is we're going to do
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an application process so people can come on, our radar
but we're also going to widen it to, you know
we're going to reach out to some people as well
so that we can we can broaden.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That pool but the.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Good thing about the application process is that we know
a lot of musicians, right now but we don't know
them all and this this was a really really good example.
Of that so many of these bands where people we'd
never heard, of before but then we looked, them up
they had tons of followers and they were just. Amazing
life and one of THE things i just cannot believe
with this podcast is how many good bands are, around
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here and how many good bands are around to.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Big following you're, not, kidding Man because i'll be IN like.
I do i put you out in the background in
my office, right Nice and, i'm, like wait it's.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
All, original, yeah yeah it's all.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Out there but the problem with people's public perception of
what it means to make it as a musician or
a band is that you know that you're getting NonStop
play on the radio and that like everyone's twelve year
old son daughter know the name of. The band but
becoming that kind of an act it's like winning, The
lottery it's like getting struck. By lightning it has no
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bearing on the quality of the. Music whatsoever and so
that's the problem that ninety nine percent of band space
is that they're just subject to this kind of, like
lottery this, luck situation and so, YOU know i don't
think it's particularly fair. AT all, i mean life, isn't
fair but this festival just brings people up to the
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point where it brings people up to the point where
people can see them and they get.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
A better shot, at it.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
You. Know yeah and the way that we try and
maintain that is we we do other gigs throughout. The
year we have them on, the podcast and we're setting
up playlists and we're just try and create a structure
for people to have more exposure just, you know throughout.
The year and also through us, doing it, you know
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there's been people who who've emulated us. As well it's
not like we were the first people ever to champion
like music in. This area probably far. From it but
but the fact that we're doing it involves other people
to do it, as, well.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Right and people will get involved and if there's like
our bands welcome to reach out to you if their original,
oh yeah and stuff like, that again and we'll get
to your.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Contact and how they can find you guys here in.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
A minute but, you know the future, aspirations sector you
know that with your guys's kind of extensive experience kind
of in this, music industry what are your aspirations for
the future of the five Six one.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Music realistically as five Six one music as. A WHOLE like,
i said we're gonna try to become a nonprofit and
go through all. That process and we already do some
things like at the Five One music studio, in school
we do probably twice a year an Event, Called Given,
let give and we get gently used instruments donated to
us from local musicians and then we distribute those two
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kids in. The, area yeah and, you know and get
them started on, their path on their on, their journey
kind of kind of the next crop, of musicians if.
You will and so we already do things, like that,
and so, you know putting, together events. Doing things we
do a, food drive but we do It in june
because everybody does It In, november december but people have
to eat. Year around. You Know that that was with
(23:21):
Our Friend, ricky beloof he's win. A, champion yeah typically
it's In. Junior july so we'll probably put. Something together
we've been so focused on this festival that we haven't done,
that yet but. We will, we will and so, you
know there's just there's a there's a lot of events
and things like that that we we try to do throughout,
the year and so. Moving, forward now now that we
are at the juncture that, we're at, moving forward we're
(23:45):
going to try. To grow we're gonna try to do
a few more events and things.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Full disclosure the city put out the live application for next.
Year already they just put it OUT on i think
It was monday at, nine am and by TEN am
i had, already SUBMITTED and i submitted for the festival
to be a two day weekends instead of one because
we just want that it's going to need to be
that many more opportunities for bands.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
To play, so yeah and how about, your advice, you
know because you guys are kind of veterans in a
major way and played in empty places and played you
know to mom, and, dad, right, so like, you know
advice to, emerging artists like drawing from your, guys's journey
what advice would you offer to up and cooming MUSIC.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
If i may?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
GO first, I firstly i love. This question it's a
question we ask on, our podcast and it's.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
So funny.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
My my advice to upcoming musicians and it comes from
SOMEONE who i also, teach MUSIC and i teach music
industry at the school we work at five six to.
One music and the ONE thing i would say is
it's just Like coach, bergi says it's. Just tenacity it's just.
Keep going when you feel like you can't keep, going
(24:56):
anymore go one day more, than that keep. Never stop
is the difference between a musician and someone who's given
up on their dream is whether they're still doing it.
Or not and it's. That's it that is that that's the.
Only difference so, you know just just keep, at it
keep at it if you if you feel like it's
not going well that do it one more day to one.
(25:17):
More week just keep going because you never know what tomorrow.
May bring and also every day you keep, doing it
you get better.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
At it.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
You know it's it's there's no there's there's never any need.
To stop if music is, your dream just plug away.
At it that's my.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Makes sent show up and play a gig no, matter, What,
RIGHT yeah, i mean because it gives you.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
THAT exposure i did it with.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
My speaking i've spoken in front of, three people, you know,
thirty People and i've spoken in front of three. Thousand
people you, Guys Know steve ioki, is right the guy
that throws the cakes like that's luss to, meet him
and he gave me advice, that said no matter if
you're speaking in front of three thirty, thirty thousand be the,
same PERSON and. I. Did so when You know, I'm loud.
I'm boisterous so in front of, three people people, are.
(25:59):
Like whoa then when you get in front of, three hundred,
they're like it was a little bit more, you know natural.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
For. Them, Sure Sure so i'm gonna give you guys. The.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Stage here can we find out how To contact killbillies
five six.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
One, Music yeah Kilbillies is kilbillies, dot net and it's
it's Literally spelled hillbillies but WITH, a k So. It's,
kilbilliest yeah and so you can find us. On there
but if you go to five six one music, dot
com there's a Tab, for kilbillies there's a tab for,
the festival there's a tab for.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The podcast everything's right there. Right now and if you
want just festival information five six one music festival. Dot
com we the festival. Is free come, on. Down guys
it is. Absolutely free there's, food trucks there's, art vendors. There's,
sponsors yeah there's all sorts of stuff and it is.
Absolutely free there's. Two stages There's The myra amphitheater stages
another stage at the. Other end we have twenty bands
(26:50):
playing where they're going and it's in a rapid, fire
format back, and forth back. And forth there's never gonna
be any. Empty, silence yeah, you know it's just. Constant
music so come. On down it's it's it's it's an.
Amazing time and we STILL have vip tickets available if
anybody wants to come down and jump into that experience. Going,
today yeah and it's it's.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
So, exciting honestly we're having the, best time and please
just come and join. The fun come and find us in.
The crowd i'm IN the vip doing a live podcast,
in there so if you want to come and find me,
in there go and speak to someone at the merch
booth or at the DAUGHTER, The vip but if you
just want to come and enjoy, the bands, it's free.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Absolutely beautiful and, you, know guys in five seconds, or
less what is the best loveling up advice you've?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Ever received best leveling UP advice i have ever received
is believe.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
In yourself. Don't quit.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Believe in yourself in the SENSE that I always i
always struggled with imposter syndrome and the FACT that i
found out that other people, did too and that it's
okay and just keep out. Of it i'm just believe,
in yourself, you know have faith that what you're doing
is allowed.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
AND wire i was told by, my dad who is not,
a musician by, the WAY but i, was told make
sure that that it's more important To have it's more
important to, have friends surround yourself with friends in your
band than it is to surround yourself with the best
musicians in. The World and i'm fortunate enough to.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Have both i'm sprus enough to. Be, here squad get
down here to the five Six One. Music festival if
you need directions call me five six one four four
zero three. Three zero Thank you squad for tuning in
and covering thirty minutes of your. Valuable time thank you
for My Producer, Brian mudd Ben and hecker From The
Kill Abilities.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Level.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Up yeah
Are you ready to level up?
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above and beyond service. And so you know, I start
my show off with our knowledge nugget every week of
coaching knowledge nug which is just going to fit perfectly
with who I'm bringing in and a lot of my
clients they quit like three feet from gold, like they
they're there. They don't, They just don't know that they're
quite there and then they just quit. And what I've
been taught through my mentors and what I kind of
passed along to my coaching clients, whether the professional athletes, actors, actresses,
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or just kind of a you know, a house mom
or dad, is that if you find what you desire,
you back that desire with faith. You back that faith
with a persistence that does not recognize failure.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You just keep moving on.
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We fail, we fail forward, And that's going to lead
right into who I have. The epitome of persistence here
is there are in the music world and Varsity Squad.
Get ready to crank it up because my next guests
are amplifying the heartbeat of South Florida's local music scene.
Ben Childs and Hector Diaz are the co founders of
the five to six to one Music Podcasts, a full
on movement built to elevate local talent, spotlight original artistry,
(01:41):
and unite our community through the raw power of live music.
Ben and Hector of Killbilly's Fame, which is one of
my local bands that I jammed with, launched this platform
in twenty twenty one to give backyard rock stars of
global mic Every week they serve up powerful interviews and
live performances from homegirl musicians who are too good to
go and heard. This just is just a podcast. It's
a mission to turn up the volume on local talent,
(02:01):
make sure real music never fades out. Let's welcome the
men behind the music, Ben Childs and Hector Diaz and
right now they've been I've been blessed to have them
step away from the five six one Music Festival. It's
happening here in downtown West Palm and I'll let them
give you the details. But if you're sitting around at
noon on a Saturday, get your butt out here because
it is a blast. The music is on point and
(02:23):
fellas welcome.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
How's it going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Good guys?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You know so Ben, you and I are kind of
cava buddies, sure right, so like me and we enjoy
the natural earth dirt and then actually just kind of
like you know, kind of calms us down. But from
Manchester to Florida, man, your musical journey began like back
across the pond, right, Yeah that's right.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Yeah, I'm English, I've been here for a long time.
It's quite interesting that an English guy is running a
local music Team podcast. But I've been here for quite
a long time at this point out here. I got
here in two thousand and nine, and I was thirty
years old when I moved here, though, so the since staying,
you know.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, and then he was kind of like my homegrown
guy here.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hector kind of took Ben under his wing a little
bit and kind of showed them the ropes around here.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
But what's your story with your background there? Ben?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I mean I was born and raised here. As
as I mentioned earlier, I was born in Saint Mary's Hospital,
So I've been here my entire life. I just, you know,
I grew up around music. I was in bands and
stuff when I was younger. I was in church bands
and school bands and things like that. I started out
on saxophone. Eventually I moved to bass guitar at some point,
ironically enough, I saw Ben's band Killbillies in one of
(03:33):
its early iterations, and did know Ben at the time.
Fast forward about I think it was like eight years
after that or something like that. I met Ben through
through James, our banjo player, who was a mutual friend
of ours. That it's in another band with me, and
James said, hey, we need a bass player. And I said, oh,
hell yeah. I saw you guys like eight years ago,
and and I thought to myself, this is the kind
(03:55):
of band I want to be in.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So here we are you lined up and you're great.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I saw you everywhere from square group orches to what's
the place in gardens there? They max yeah, you know,
and they're always fun. It's you can dance to it,
you know, you can make love to it, you can
just have had It's what kind of genre do you
feel that the killbilly?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I would say that it is. There's a few different
ways you could describe it. It's it's like Celtic folk.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Celtic was the one I was kind of looking for.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But like, how about like you've played a lot of
diverse you know, from SKA bands, you know, and how
do you guys navigate that process of bringing all of
those different kinds of bands together into a unique sound
like that?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Well, when I was young, when I was I remember
having a conversation with my then girlfriend when I was
about eighteen years old, saying that something that fascinated me
was bringing different types of music together. For some reason,
it's always been a passion of mine. I've never been
able to pin down one thing that and just you know,
stick within the lines of all the constraints of any genre.
(05:00):
It been something I've been about. In fact, i've been
about the opposite. And my band's son had been six
that I was in in Manchester. You should check them
out if you're interested in kind of it's not experimental
so much as genre bending, you should check them out.
When our first album was called The Rough Guide to
Genre Terrorism, so that gives you a bit of an
(05:21):
idea about how much I enjoy mashing things together.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Like just say, you kind of don't care. I'm not
saying don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You care, Yeah, you don't care what they say about
you mashing them together?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, exactly. And you know people always struggle in articles
and reviews and things like that to pigeonhole it and
to be honest with you, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Love it, love it. Yeah, you guys.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sow the Genesis, Okay, the squad out there, the podcast
that they have five six one music and five six
one is the area code here in the Palm Beach area,
and they're given voices to band because.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's not Miami, it's not Lauderdale.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's not Nash, but these guys are out there giving
voices to bands to absolutely rock the mic. And if
just come on down here to West Palm Beach, you're
gonna get a taste of it right now. And like,
let's get to the genesis of the start of the
five six one music podcast, Like what inspired you guys
Hector to launch the five six to one music podcast?
(06:20):
And how's that platform evolved into a mission really to
kind of spotlight softword account.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, it started out Ben, you know, Ben and I
being in the band together. It started out that Ben
had a conversation with a radio station of some sort
at one point to potentially do a show, and as
it turned out, it was more of a it was
more of a ploy of them trying to get him
to get sponsors for his show. And so he decided, uh,
(06:45):
you know, we were talking about it. He came to
me and we were talking about it, and we decided, like, hey,
why don't we just do this as a podcast, just
do it ourselves, right, And so we did. We launched
the podcast. It started out really, it just started out
as a fun thing. We were doing a project and
most of the people coming on the podcast where people
we knew, people been knew, you know, things like that.
Somewhere along the way it really became a real thing,
(07:06):
and here we are four years later. You know, we
have bands on there every week. Most of the time
we've never heard of them, and that's a beautiful thing
because if we haven't heard of them, you haven't heard
of them.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Nobody's heard of them.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But we're making them heard. You know, people were finding
out about these bands, and that's a beautiful thing. And
it's all different genres. I mean, we've had everything from
from rappers to jazz to yeah, it's crazy, like you know,
rock whatever. We've had just about everything on there. And
so yeah, and so four years later, here we are.
And that's kind of how how it all kind of
(07:37):
came together.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It started out started out as a little passion project,
and it became a real thing. People started listening, and
we realized there was a need for it, and and
we were filling this voyd for people.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, we've been lucky enough to have had people who've
been very faithful and doyle to it from the beginning
as well, because it was something that was needed around here.
This palm Beach County has a large population.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It does. There's a lot of people here, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
And the music ecosystem was it was lagging behind for
where it should be. There wasn't that many things to
do for bands. There wasn't that many ways for them
to poke the head above the parapet and so we
just wanted to provide some structure for people to you know,
it's kind of start climbing.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Their way out, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
And and that's what we've done and it was very
much welcomed, and it was welcome with open arms and yeah,
just growing.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And to clarify, like we we had when we talk
about bands, we're specifically talking about original music bands.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, there's those covers.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, there's a ton of cover bands around, and there's
a ton of amazing cover bands around, but there's a
lot of outlets for them. So we were trying to
create an outlet for the original bands that did not
have an outlet.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
And so like you guys have over and by the way, squad,
there are a top ten percent podcast that's over three
point five to five million podcasts that are illumining out there.
They are a top ten percent. I listened to it.
I watch it when I'm at again. Me and Ben
we meet for cava, you know, here and there. It's
a nice little earthy drink with our guy, Jim Murray
a little. I believe he sponsors your podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, you know Jim.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Jim has been a long time supporter. Yeah, love Jim
love Oasis.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, he's a legend and he absolutely loves Brian Mudd,
my producer too, because Brian Mudd is the five to
nine guy here and he does never miss as an
episode of Brian in the Morning.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
So yeah, he's like, dud, you're with Brian Mudd.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
It was, It was pretty cool, and Brian did a
really cool video for Jim and stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He was touched by it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So out of the two hundred episodes, can you share
maybe a protect particularly like impactful interview or performance that
resonated deeply with you and you thrifted your perceptive Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Absolutely. It's the guys who comes to punk shows who
yeh yeah, tell him about that one.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, so we had we you know, again, we focused
primarily on original bands, but every now and then we
get an entertainer or we get something that's band adjacent,
if you will. And so we had j c Ortiz
from an organization called a nonprofit called Punk Rock Saves
Lives And they come out to big shows a lot
of times, sometimes small shows, and they set up a
tent and they and they have a booth and basically
(10:07):
the their main focus is Bone Marrow Registry and so
they get people to register at these rock shows for
bone marrow uh uh donation. I guess. So you get
on the registry. I'm on the registry. My wife's on
the regist.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
There you go and so yeah, so you know how
it works. You know, they'll give you a call one
day if they need you for a match.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, haven't gotten the call yet, but we are on
the registry. But that's that's their main focus. But then
at the show, what they have is this kit at
the table and they call it they call it kind
of an an emergency kit and it has everything everything
from narcan to condoms to you know, uh, tampons, you know,
(10:44):
any anything that people might need that they forgot at
the show, but also life saving things like their their
mission and their theory is at these shows is you know,
people are at these shows. Let's be honest, they're gonna do.
There's a handful of people they're gonna do drugs of
some sort, and so they're not trying to prevent that, right,
but they're like, if you're going to do it, we
want to make sure you're doing it safely. So they
have have items there and things like that, and so
(11:06):
they're literally save lives Live. Yeah, yeah, lives. And it's
a great organization we're going to have. Yeah, we have
them at the uh we have a booth for them. Yeah,
they're here yeah right yeah, yeah, absolutely right at the end,
right by the main stage.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And it is named punk Rock Saves Lives. Yeah, which
is last night you shout out to j c Ortis
then as well. Yeah, so the uh a little bit
before we.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Get into the festival.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I know Ben and I have talked a little bit
about like your journey to sobriety. Can you've openly discuss
your path of sobriety and its influence on your life
and music. This is personal transformation. Impacted your creative process
because a lot of times some people that are creative
they partake right, Like, so, how does it how do
you stay so creative in such a clear mind?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Okay, so I I'm an alcoholic. I drank until I
was thirty nine, which is a long time. You know,
it took me a while to to I make that
to bottom. But once I did. It's a cliche, but
it just changed my life. It changed my life. I
was ready, and it's something you have to be is ready.
(12:11):
You have to know it's your time sure, and if
you don't get there, then you know you you'll go
back to it. But luckily for me, I did you know,
I realized I was powerless over it and I needed help.
And once I once I took that step, it changed
my life forever. It's the most important thing that's ever
happened to me. I'd now have a completely different helicon life,
(12:35):
have an unbelievably more productive life. I have better friends now.
The creative process right when I by the time I
was ready to get sober, by the time, I wasn't
being very creative.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I was.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I'd got to a point where I was almost shutting down.
And because I was drinking, not for not not not
necessarily for ideas. It's mostly kind of like social like
when you play in bands and things, they're always in bars,
and so it was it was it was a social
lubricant that turned into a problem.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Social lubricat dude, that is never heard of that. Yeah,
but it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah, and and and when I stopped drinking, took me
a while, But the thing is, you have. What I've
found out is you have to grow a personality when
you stop drinking because you can't rely on the loss
of inhibitions. And you know, you actually have to learn
how to be in public sober, which took me a while.
I'm not gonna lie, but once I got there, I
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found that the creativity came right back.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
That was That's a beautiful thing because you are creative.
You come up with something sometimes on the spot. I've
watched you and I come up with something literally on
the spike. You're like, I got to write this down
for yeah, you know, and stuff and squad, we are
going to get to the roots of the music festival
that we are at and you have to come down
here to Palm Beach.
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level up Conversation With. Coach fergie And again i'm here
with the members Of the killbillies and also they're put
together this. Awesome festival we're at the five six To One. Music,
festival yeah IT'S it's i need to say off the
hook or off. The chain but it's a lot of, fun, here, Right,
(15:26):
absolutely so like organizing this music festival is no. Small
feed what were the initial challenges you faced and launching
the five Six One music festival and how has that
event grown to become what is your plans for it
to become kind of a staple in.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
THE community i.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Think this is hecked his question because FULL disclosed a
hector is.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
The.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Point man.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So we were doing the podcast the, first year AND like,
i said it started becoming a.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Real.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Thing uh somewhere along that, first year probably six or seven,
months in we had a DISCUSSION and, i said what
wouldn't it be fun to have a, little festival just
something small with, you know a few bands from, something
small a few bands from, the festival from the podcast
rather and and so. We did we did it that
first Year At matthews brewing and, you know we had,
two stages we, had bands.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Et.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Cetera uh and so we HAD like i want, to
say maybe four or five hundred people that showed up
that day, for it which is which was a big deal.
For us so so second year, came around we decided
to do. It again we, grew it we had about
six or seven, hundred people and then the third year
we had about eight or nine hundred people throughout. The
day and so this year we were trying to, find out,
you know what would be what would be the next step,
(16:32):
for us, you know where could we go that might
might be a little bit Bigger Than matthews Brewing In
lake worth, and so which is a, great place which which, Is,
amazing yeah. Amazing place and they supported us for three
years to help us, do this just.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
This.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Event yeah and so woke up one morning saw the
News that SunFest was taking a step back. This, year
immediately probably within, thirty seconds Called up BEN and, i,
said hey SO am i absolutely insane to think that
we could pull us off At The. Meyer Amphitheater and, he's, like,
oh well you're, absolutely insane but let's. Do. It YEAH
so i put in. The application it was like a fifty,
(17:05):
dollars APPLICATION and, I, thought okay what do we got?
To lose we put in the application AND then i
think maybe like five six, weeks later the city. Approved
it and then after the initial panic of oh, my
god we're. Doing this the unfortunate thing was that because
it was so late in the Game for SunFest to
pull out of. This weekend we've only had twelve weeks to,
organize this so it was it's been a mad scramble
(17:26):
for the last.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Three.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Months right what was the biggest challenges that you guys
have found OF can i?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Say? Everything, well okay.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
WELL okay i would say the biggest hurdle for us
is that at, this moment we are not a nonprofit
and we have hit a lot of roadblocks because we're not.
A nonprofit liquor licenses were, An issue permitting was, an
issue and then, certain things certain things were more expensive
because we weren't. A nonprofit, you know the cost of
(17:56):
the ampathatter itself would have been exponentially cheaper if we were.
A nonprofit so those were the kind of the some
of the challenges that we. Came, across so, you know
we will be a nonprofit, soon now but those were
kind of some of the. Bigger challenges the biggest, BIGGEST
challenge i would say is the. Liquor license we had
issues because of not being. A nonprofit we couldn't pull
a one, day permit so we ended up having to
go with a company that comes in and like they're
(18:17):
called potions. Of motion they come in and they do
the concessions for you and then we just get, you
know revenue share basically.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
With them awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And squid if you're out there listening, TO this i
mean they may need a little guidance in this nonprofit kind.
Of thing, you know please get a hold of me
five six one four four zero three eight three Is
that i'll. Be happy they'll put you in touch With
either Hector and ben because the cause and the money
that they can raise for a great cause at a
festival like this is. Absolutely amazing and so how about fostering?
Local talent how do you envision this festival they're out
(18:46):
there jam and the festival's role in nurturing emerging artists
and what strategies do you employee to ensure it remains
inclusive and.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Representative, platform okay so that the way that we chose,
the bands and by, the way the Bands Are, Mason Pace,
Tiger sunset closer To, The Ocean, Ras, Huffman Foakata, Medicine
Room jacob Tackers And, The, Connection Bline, Reverse Aureo, Modern Odyssey,
Stony Fools, Strider Shakers, Ryan Hopkins Slow funk Pump, Off
(19:18):
Orbit Billy, Doom, Is Dead, little things And. Blab scam
the way we chose those bands is we put a
thing out and you.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Could apply you could apply to be.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Into the pool of the bands that we were, picked
from and you had to send us live footage And
a spotify link and YouTube links and all this kind.
Of thing and so we spent we put a little
team together and we spent a couple of weeks just
going through every single band and just trying to figure
out what would will work together and also how we
(19:50):
could diversify the music so that it wasn't all the.
Same THING but i would say one of the things
that we were one of the limitations of that of
diversifying it is that, not everyone not representatives of every
type of music. Didn't apply and so what we're going
to do probably, next year is we're going to do
(20:10):
an application process so people can come on, our radar
but we're also going to widen it to, you know
we're going to reach out to some people as well
so that we can we can broaden.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That pool but the.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Good thing about the application process is that we know
a lot of musicians, right now but we don't know
them all and this this was a really really good example.
Of that so many of these bands where people we'd
never heard, of before but then we looked, them up
they had tons of followers and they were just. Amazing
life and one of THE things i just cannot believe
with this podcast is how many good bands are, around
(20:42):
here and how many good bands are around to.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Big following you're, not, kidding Man because i'll be IN like.
I do i put you out in the background in
my office, right Nice and, i'm, like wait it's.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
All, original, yeah yeah it's all.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Out there but the problem with people's public perception of
what it means to make it as a musician or
a band is that you know that you're getting NonStop
play on the radio and that like everyone's twelve year
old son daughter know the name of. The band but
becoming that kind of an act it's like winning, The
lottery it's like getting struck. By lightning it has no
(21:18):
bearing on the quality of the. Music whatsoever and so
that's the problem that ninety nine percent of band space
is that they're just subject to this kind of, like
lottery this, luck situation and so, YOU know i don't
think it's particularly fair. AT all, i mean life, isn't
fair but this festival just brings people up to the
(21:39):
point where it brings people up to the point where
people can see them and they get.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
A better shot, at it.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
You. Know yeah and the way that we try and
maintain that is we we do other gigs throughout. The
year we have them on, the podcast and we're setting
up playlists and we're just try and create a structure
for people to have more exposure just, you know throughout.
The year and also through us, doing it, you know
(22:05):
there's been people who who've emulated us. As well it's
not like we were the first people ever to champion
like music in. This area probably far. From it but
but the fact that we're doing it involves other people
to do it, as, well.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Right and people will get involved and if there's like
our bands welcome to reach out to you if their original,
oh yeah and stuff like, that again and we'll get
to your.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Contact and how they can find you guys here in.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
A minute but, you know the future, aspirations sector you
know that with your guys's kind of extensive experience kind
of in this, music industry what are your aspirations for
the future of the five Six one.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Music realistically as five Six one music as. A WHOLE like,
i said we're gonna try to become a nonprofit and
go through all. That process and we already do some
things like at the Five One music studio, in school
we do probably twice a year an Event, Called Given,
let give and we get gently used instruments donated to
us from local musicians and then we distribute those two
(23:01):
kids in. The, area yeah and, you know and get
them started on, their path on their on, their journey
kind of kind of the next crop, of musicians if.
You will and so we already do things, like that,
and so, you know putting, together events. Doing things we
do a, food drive but we do It in june
because everybody does It In, november december but people have
to eat. Year around. You Know that that was with
(23:21):
Our Friend, ricky beloof he's win. A, champion yeah typically
it's In. Junior july so we'll probably put. Something together
we've been so focused on this festival that we haven't done,
that yet but. We will, we will and so, you
know there's just there's a there's a lot of events
and things like that that we we try to do throughout,
the year and so. Moving, forward now now that we
are at the juncture that, we're at, moving forward we're
(23:45):
going to try. To grow we're gonna try to do
a few more events and things.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Full disclosure the city put out the live application for next.
Year already they just put it OUT on i think
It was monday at, nine am and by TEN am
i had, already SUBMITTED and i submitted for the festival
to be a two day weekends instead of one because
we just want that it's going to need to be
that many more opportunities for bands.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
To play, so yeah and how about, your advice, you
know because you guys are kind of veterans in a
major way and played in empty places and played you
know to mom, and, dad, right, so like, you know
advice to, emerging artists like drawing from your, guys's journey
what advice would you offer to up and cooming MUSIC.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
If i may?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
GO first, I firstly i love. This question it's a
question we ask on, our podcast and it's.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
So funny.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
My my advice to upcoming musicians and it comes from
SOMEONE who i also, teach MUSIC and i teach music
industry at the school we work at five six to.
One music and the ONE thing i would say is
it's just Like coach, bergi says it's. Just tenacity it's just.
Keep going when you feel like you can't keep, going
(24:56):
anymore go one day more, than that keep. Never stop
is the difference between a musician and someone who's given
up on their dream is whether they're still doing it.
Or not and it's. That's it that is that that's the.
Only difference so, you know just just keep, at it
keep at it if you if you feel like it's
not going well that do it one more day to one.
(25:17):
More week just keep going because you never know what tomorrow.
May bring and also every day you keep, doing it
you get better.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
At it.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
You know it's it's there's no there's there's never any need.
To stop if music is, your dream just plug away.
At it that's my.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Makes sent show up and play a gig no, matter, What,
RIGHT yeah, i mean because it gives you.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
THAT exposure i did it with.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
My speaking i've spoken in front of, three people, you know,
thirty People and i've spoken in front of three. Thousand
people you, Guys Know steve ioki, is right the guy
that throws the cakes like that's luss to, meet him
and he gave me advice, that said no matter if
you're speaking in front of three thirty, thirty thousand be the,
same PERSON and. I. Did so when You know, I'm loud.
I'm boisterous so in front of, three people people, are.
(25:59):
Like whoa then when you get in front of, three hundred,
they're like it was a little bit more, you know natural.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
For. Them, Sure Sure so i'm gonna give you guys. The.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Stage here can we find out how To contact killbillies
five six.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
One, Music yeah Kilbillies is kilbillies, dot net and it's
it's Literally spelled hillbillies but WITH, a k So. It's,
kilbilliest yeah and so you can find us. On there
but if you go to five six one music, dot
com there's a Tab, for kilbillies there's a tab for,
the festival there's a tab for.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The podcast everything's right there. Right now and if you
want just festival information five six one music festival. Dot
com we the festival. Is free come, on. Down guys
it is. Absolutely free there's, food trucks there's, art vendors. There's,
sponsors yeah there's all sorts of stuff and it is.
Absolutely free there's. Two stages There's The myra amphitheater stages
another stage at the. Other end we have twenty bands
(26:50):
playing where they're going and it's in a rapid, fire
format back, and forth back. And forth there's never gonna
be any. Empty, silence yeah, you know it's just. Constant
music so come. On down it's it's it's it's an.
Amazing time and we STILL have vip tickets available if
anybody wants to come down and jump into that experience. Going,
today yeah and it's it's.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
So, exciting honestly we're having the, best time and please
just come and join. The fun come and find us in.
The crowd i'm IN the vip doing a live podcast,
in there so if you want to come and find me,
in there go and speak to someone at the merch
booth or at the DAUGHTER, The vip but if you
just want to come and enjoy, the bands, it's free.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Absolutely beautiful and, you, know guys in five seconds, or
less what is the best loveling up advice you've?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Ever received best leveling UP advice i have ever received
is believe.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
In yourself. Don't quit.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Believe in yourself in the SENSE that I always i
always struggled with imposter syndrome and the FACT that i
found out that other people, did too and that it's
okay and just keep out. Of it i'm just believe,
in yourself, you know have faith that what you're doing
is allowed.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
AND wire i was told by, my dad who is not,
a musician by, the WAY but i, was told make
sure that that it's more important To have it's more
important to, have friends surround yourself with friends in your
band than it is to surround yourself with the best
musicians in. The World and i'm fortunate enough to.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Have both i'm sprus enough to. Be, here squad get
down here to the five Six One. Music festival if
you need directions call me five six one four four
zero three. Three zero Thank you squad for tuning in
and covering thirty minutes of your. Valuable time thank you
for My Producer, Brian mudd Ben and hecker From The
Kill Abilities.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Level.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Up yeah
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