April 24, 2025 • 39 mins
This Week on Strange Talk: We're hitting the proverbial road with singer-songwriter Rebecca Rego as she shares some of her strangest and scariest tour stories—from eerie encounters at an empty hotel to the best group Halloween costume of all time. You won’t want to miss the spine-tingling tales she’s collected while chasing songs across the country.
Plus, we're talking all things Tahlsound Music Festival, happening this weekend! Whether you're a local looking to groove or a traveler chasing good vibes, we've got the must-know details, highlights, and who to keep an ear out for.Tune in, buckle up, and get a little haunted.Music for this episode includes the Strange Talk Intro by Star Silk, Brave by Rebecca Rego and the Trainmen, Magic by Rebecca Rego and the Trainmen, and backing tracks by Panda Beats.
Plus, we're talking all things Tahlsound Music Festival, happening this weekend! Whether you're a local looking to groove or a traveler chasing good vibes, we've got the must-know details, highlights, and who to keep an ear out for.Tune in, buckle up, and get a little haunted.Music for this episode includes the Strange Talk Intro by Star Silk, Brave by Rebecca Rego and the Trainmen, Magic by Rebecca Rego and the Trainmen, and backing tracks by Panda Beats.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Space in.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
In good evening and welcome to the hour dedicated to
(01:30):
talking about all things strange, weird and paranormal. Listening to
Strange Talk broadcasting on sixteen sixty AM in Northside ninety
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We're also streaming at radioartifact dot com or on the
entire planet Earth. The intro track to this episode in
most of our episodes, is the Strange Talk intro by
Star Soolk And I'm your host, Alex and we have
a very special guest today. If you'd like to introduce yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hi, my name is Rebecca Rico.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, I'm a musician here in like say, King Techy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, and you are playing a super super fun show
this weekend, and we're also going to be there, so
we thought we'd talked about that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yes, I'm very excited about it. It should be a
great night.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Have you Have you played Tall Sound before?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And I haven't.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
My good friends are the organizers of Tall Sound and
basically been to many Tall Sounds, and I have a
little part of kind of being on the board a
little bit of the last like a couple of years
or so. So I think it's just a great community
event that they do in Lexington.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's super fun. I'ven't gone the last couple
of years just because it's been so hot.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It has been really hot and it's been on and off.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Like I hope, well, fingers crossed for this Sunday to
be great weather, because it seems a little.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Hit or miss fifty fifty right now forty sixty but
or wait, that's on Saturday. Actually, I don't know why
I'm I don't know why I'm looking at my weather app.
It has been horrifically wrong lately, where I'm like, my
friend will look at the same weather app with mind
side by side of mine says it is not going
to rain, and there says there's a ninety percent chance
of brain and I'm like, what why am I even
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using this weather app? It's not doing anything?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah weather, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fingers crossed that mine is right because I was looking
at Saturday too, So yes, yes, hopefully we'll get good
weather this year. Yeah. Well, do you want to talk
a little bit about what kind of music you play?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, so I'm a singer songwriter and I've been doing
that for about I don't know Holday twenty years. Been
making records and playing music for about twenty years and
moved to Lexington about five years ago. I was in
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Chicago for about ten years. Then I lived I've kind
of bounced around and lived a bunch of places. I
lived in Champaann, Illinois for a while, and I lived
in Louisville.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
No, I've been here for about five years.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I hadn't released any new records in about two and
a half.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There three years rybe now.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I think that was the last time I released a
record with my band, The Trainman, and I had been
working on an EP for the last year or so.
I live in a recording studio with my partner, who's
an audio engineer.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh his names do you know?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's wonderful and also I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's really yeah, it's really fun though.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We really enjoyed it, and he yeah, he records a
lot of different music here and it's yeah, honestly, our
living situation, we have a much bigger the house than
we used to. We used to live in a tiny,
little eight hundred square foot house and that was the
recording studio and.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Now we're we have way more space.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So in the old house was it like a lot
of like, over're recording in here, can you wait to
cook the bacon afterwards?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yes, it was like like, Okay, I have to wash
my hair.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
What day is this person? It was a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I definitely understand that, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
This is this is a really real crush. Now we
have a big space, but it's fun. It's called Small
Blue our recording studio. Now, it's always been that, and
there's a lot of different people that are common every
day to record fun things.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And I've been working on my own thing here.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, So do you have any stuff you're working towards releasing?
No pressure on dates or anything, but.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, and I think something probably hopefully by the end
of this year. I also have a full time job
and so sometimes it does get a little push behind,
but hopefully by the end of this year it will
maybe be ep, maybe full record, I'm not sure, but
I have Yeah, we'll see what it's called.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I think it's going to be called water Breeds Women.
That's the that's one of the tracks on the record,
and I think that that's what's gonna be called.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So yeah, what are your kind of favorite topics to
write about right now? While you're working on this, where
is there a set theme throughout it?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, I think it's about aging. I think it's about
aging and that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Just friendships while you're aging, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure. Maintaining friendships is
so difficult as you get older because you just have
less and less time and more and more hobbies.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, and just you have like loved ones that you're
trying to see And yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think that's what it's about. I'm not one hundred
percent sure.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Always until it's done done, and also you know, subject
to change. There's no you know, I don't think anyone's
going to come after and be like you said, it
was about this. What do you mean it's not about
that now? And if they do, then I will talk
to them about it. I was like, no, change your mind.
You are allowed to change your mind. We're all allowed
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to change our minds. Yeah, that's awesome. So kind of
how if you've just always been a musician, I mean
you said you've been doing it for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I have. I kind of always. I started playing
guitar when I was six.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
And then I yeah, it took lessons when I was
between the ages of six and sixteen, and then I
started writing stuff kind of what I was like in
my early twenties. And then I moved Chicago and I
after college and I just started making records.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
So yeah, I've been kind of working on music and
playing making records for like twenty you know, twenty years,
and then playing guitar for a long time before that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But my mom was a musician.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh yeah, so it's always been part of your life.
It's not like it was always going to be there
in some form or another.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, she was like she made it a big part.
She played cello, you know. I just was drawn to
the guitar. Yeah, and so I been doing that, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
It's it's definitely like as I get older, there's times
where we'll go I'll go in and out of having
it be a central part of what I'm doing. Yeah,
And I always realized that it's really the most it's
like the most necessary thing for me. It's like anything,
you know, if I'm not doing it, I'm probably not
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in a good spot.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
So that is a pretty good sign of it. Yeah,
do you play music. I do so well. I was
gonna say similarly, my dad is a bass player. My
brother was a drum player, and I ended up playing
guitar because my brother was just god awful at guitar
and he tried so many times to play guitar and
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he just he was a drummer at heart. And later
on he started playing banjo too, But I ended up
playing guitar because he played drums and he just could
not play guitar. So my guitar that I have is
still was his. So that's really fun. Yeah, he just
meant to be.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's how drummers are, just meant to be drums exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
No, he's he's so so good at drums. And it
was just like you're just trying to be something you're
not and that's okay for for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I actually, oh my gosh, you can see my CD
collection behind me. I still have some old CDs of
his high school band that I actually did not realize
was his high school band at the time, but like
another friend of mine was in the band who told
me years later of just like, yeah, he's playing some
guitar on there and he just isn't good at it.
And I was like, I.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Know, I know, do you see plays drugs? Now out
of it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, he doesn't, but he mostly plays banjo anymore. So yeah, yeah,
which I was like, all right, that's like a cross
between a drum and a guitar. Sure close enough. Yeah. Yeah.
I find that a lot of musicians it is sort
of this inescapable thing, you like, I feel like it's
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it does happen. But it's more rare that people are
not around a musician and become a musician. It seems
more often there's someone in their life that's also a musician,
and so it just becomes it just is part of
your life from like the get go it.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, And I think I've talked to people about I
think that you either just really want to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Or you're kind of you don't. Yeah, yeah, you're you're
kind of born with it. Do yeah, do it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'm sure there's like some psychologists out there that's like
furiously writing notes like nature and nurture. This is a
good study of this, because I mean it kind of is.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, and it kind of is, you know, but I
think I you know, for her.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
There was a short stint where I was trying to
like teach guitar to some kids or whatever, and there
was I remember there was a couple of kids where
their parents were trying to like make them, and I'm like,
there's not really a point trying to make somebody try
to play instrument, because you're either just gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Into it, like you're just gonna be so obsessed with it.
And that's how I was when I was a child.
I just was drawn to guitar. I wanted to touch it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I wanted to just strum it as soon as I
saw when it was obsessed obsessed, and I begged my
mom to take guitar lessons like as soon as I could.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So I think that it's just it's either in you
or it's kind of like that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah. I remember, like the first computer we had when
I was six, there was some program that came on
whatever version of Windows that was at the time where
you could make music, and I annoy the absolute crap
out of my parents because I was just like making
bagpipe music on it all the time. And a six
year old making bagpipe music is not good, Oh no no.
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And I'm just like, oh, it's a wonder thing lived
through that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah it's still I mean, but I mean it's still
a thing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, that's still a thing that's a great way to
get into like I don't know, mini keyboards and synse
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Do you play a mean, do you play in like
some kind of no.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I I'm so it's sort of this thing like I
have so many hobbies that I've like already commercialized that
music is kind of my thing that I do for
myself instead. So I mean like that might change at
some point, but like I like doing it just for
myself of just like I like making songs for myself
and I'll record them for myself and maybe one day,
I don't know, maybe I'll share it. But I think
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also part of it is because it is such a
form of just like getting out of my system for
me that it's also like I probably wouldn't want anybody
to listen to this until after I'm not like actively
feeling those feelings, right yeah, because you know, like if
you're writing a song and you're mad at somebody, you
probably don't want them to tear that until you're like
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over those feelings, or you know, if you're sad about
something you know.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Right right, Yeah, it is hard.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To write songs and then sing them, but it can
be really therapeutic.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yes, yeah, it kind of depends on how open and
vulnerable you want to be with that.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but sometimes yeah, you're right, It just
kind of depends on where you're at with it. But
it can be like the best thing for your mental
you know, your mental state at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yes, yeah, which, like you said, if you're not writing,
there's probably a good sense something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
So there's that too, right, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, it's like a thing like recently, I've just been
everyone probably has been very upset, you know. It's just
like there's so much anxiety in this world. Yeah, what's
going on?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And I and like.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
The other night, I was just so stressed and my
partner said, he was like, maybe he just play guitar,
and I was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh yeah, you're right. I have this conversation sometimes with
my therapist who was like, well, did you go and
do something like, you know, enjoyable out of it? And
I was like, no, I just went to bed, right,
I should have. You're right, I should have.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah. Yeah, but right, it's like sometimes you really can't
see it for yourself in the moment what you do.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's really hard.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, it's easier when you're not in that situation. You're like, oh, yeah, right,
that thing that I enjoy doing.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Hmmmm, exactly, that's going to be like the best thing.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, is music kind of your main creative project there?
Do you do art or anything as well?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
No, I think it's really just songwriting.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'm starting to get a little bit into writing short
story stuff and.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'm yeah, doing a little bit of that.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
But it's been really just yeah, songwriting for the last
all these years. But I'm starting to think, like, oh,
I have a lot of pro stuff in my mind
and you know, short story stuff, so I'm gonna start
I'm kind of going into that.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
A little bit, tipping a tone into it. I find
a lot of musicians tend to be like kind of
some of the best writers like that because they're used
to you only have so many words to put this
into a package. Yeah, so they're very concise.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, I didn't mean to. No, you're
totally I'm finding that for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, brevity while also getting the point across in a
creative way. And I really appreciate that because I'm just
not a fan of like the Charles Dickens paid per
word type of writing where I'm just like, you could
have said this in like three words, and this is thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, I know, I'm the same.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I'm the fan of that too when I'm reading and
I just read Jeff Tweety's biography and I don't know,
I mean, I don't know if somebody like helped him
write there it goes for it. I don't know writer
on that, but it was really good and it was
like that it was just like very to the point,
and I loved the way he did describe things and
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but I felt like in that moment that was part
of it. The songwriting really kind of does help kind
of get to the point.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah. Yeah. The last book I read was John Darniel's
Wolf and White Van. Do you listen to the Mountain
Goods at all?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I do listen them out. Yeah, he had written a book.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
He has written two books now. They're not about his songs,
their fiction. So the first one I read, Universal Harvester,
was kind of this analogue horror. They found this weird
VHSS tape at this and at the video store that
was clearly someone's home movies and they were trying to
figure out what was going on. With that, and it
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was very you know, nebulous and vague, which I was like,
that's a very John Darneil thing to do. And then
Wolf and White Van the one I just read. I'm
still like not sure where it was going to. It
was about this guy who writes mail in role playing games,
so they'll mail in a turn and he'll mail them
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back like what happened in that turn based on what
they did, and then it was just sort of about
the whole reason he got into writing this game was
because he had tried to shoot himself with a gun
in the book, and as he was like recovering in
the hospital, he started doing this game. And then, yeah,
it was it was a strange one.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, it sounds cool though.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I really like his writing and yeah, so I bet
that his prose writing is really is really really.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Good, really interesting and really kind of meandering an interesting way.
He's very good at leaving things open end and open
ended in his writing, oh, in a way that he
does not in songwriting, which is interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Oh yeah, I'll just check that out.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah. Uh. The first one was Universal Harvester, and then
the other one was Wolf and White Van. Wolf and
White Van's the RPG one and you'll see there's like
a maze on the cover.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, ok yeah, I'll look into this.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yes, Universal Harvester was a lot quicker over read, just
as a heads up. Okay, yeah, that's what I've been
reading lately. I will also say A wolf and white
van is kind of depressing. Oh yeah, yeah, we'll keeps.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Out of mind. Then I'll I'll save it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
First, save that one for like a less stressful time.
Yeah yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I'll put it down on the list. Hadn't dared.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
I was getting fast cars, jump off to all buildings,
gutting feather bones to shadow to get a cigarette break,
putting something mad of its miserblac.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
It was nothing.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
That's a kind of courage jacket, even fair.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Could you be also? Do you need my help?
Speaker 8 (19:58):
It's not too lady, we need to be bright. Could
you be yourself? Do you need my help?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
It's not too.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Way?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Do you understand?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
But every crazy plan, every crazy plane comes my way.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah in the spring. You don't mean a thing. You
don't mean a thing, you say.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Floating telephone this jealousy and song's jealousy and song stays alway.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Could you be yourself? Do you need my help.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
It's not a too right to be right? Could you
be yourself? Do you need my help?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's not too.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Right.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I can't to fine crowd.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's see the old shift. Get the show all right now,
I get the feeling.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Keep moving, keep moved, but to beyond shelf ben need
b help.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
It's not too late. We need to be right, but
you beyondself? I need my help.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's not too.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It's not to it's not.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
This being strange talk. Have you gone on tour? I
have have any weird stories from the road, anything weird
you saw on the road.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Yeah, let me think of a good one.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, I'm sure you've seen all kinds of weird stuff.
That's why we always ask as we're.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Like the last tour I went on was right before
the pandemic. Trying to think of like a good thing
that happened m and or a weird thing that happened
on that right, it was a three month I did
like a three month tour where I left I kind
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of put everything in storage and went out west and
did this really long tour. It was in twenty nineteen,
towards the end of the year, and I drove all
the way up the coast of California and then went
to Oregon. You all the way up to Seattle and
then came back to I remember I met my partner.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
He ended up meeting me.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
He was touring now with a band called Horse Feathers,
and so we were sort of on Yeah, I was
doing that tour and he was on tour with horse Feathers,
and then we sort of met up in Portland, and
I remember we met up around Halloween. This isn't a
weird story, It's just a nice story.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
I like that too.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
It we went over around Halloween and we went and
we were going to go to this big Halloween party
and our friend Robbie, he.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Decided that we should all go as Gene Simmons. All
different members of Kiss, but we should all go as
Gene Simmons.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So all we he was the drummer and horse Feathers
at the time, and we all did our faces in
Gene Simmons and we did our hair and my hair
was easy to do. Yeah, we went to this Halloween
party and at this bar Let's play a pub or something, and.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That was really that was just a really fun time. Yeah,
it's kind of weird. You have photos of that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That is a really good weird story. I feel like
I would have done all all Gene Simmons and then
one Richard Simmons at the end.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Simmons.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's super cool that you were able to
like make your tours meet up in the same city too,
or did you take time off tour to meet up.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, we kind of made it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I think I was going up there and then he
was there too. I think he sort of planned it
that way. I can't remember exactly, but just sort of
meet up and it was in a story organ that's
where they were, that's where they were based. So that
was really nice, a nice time. But yeah, they that
was one of those fun, fun to war times.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, that's really fun. And I'll give you time to
think on this one too well. We always also ask
if you've had any paranormal stories, any weird UFO sightings
or anything like that too. Well, you can have all
the time you want to think on that. I think
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if it was paranormal, I mean, even if it's not paranormal,
we can still this place.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It was just freaky.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
We used to got this place to play in Iowa,
like in Palmeray Iowa, Me and my bass player went
out and we went His name is Eric and we
went out to do this duo show there and we
didn't have a place to stay, and this happens a
lot on tours, like yeah, you don't stay and he'll
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just kind of wing it and stay with somebody random and.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Uh so we met this guy.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
They were like, oh, yeah, this guy John, he'll hit
owns a hotel, owns a hotel, and you'll he'll take
you in and whatever. You can go out to where
he lives. And we drove really far out past where
we were playing and there was.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
This really old hotel and he he was like, oh,
I have to show you something, and we're like okay,
and he walked us into this basement underneath the hotel.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
This morning, it's just us too, this guy, and he's
walking us into this dungeon.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Of I'm like, we will die.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We're going to die here.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Dead, and he's kind of a weirdo, walks us through
this place and he's kind of smoking, and then he
just we come out and we come out on the
other side of the hotel.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It's almost like we're in like a meowolf or something.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh yeah, Yeah, we get out there and we get out.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
We go into this room.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
And he's just like I and he pulls this mirror
off the wall and it's just just a little love
note to this.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
This guy had written this love note to his wife
and said like I always love Jenny or something on
the back of that.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
And we were like, oh, we have just walked over
here and went.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
We could have just walked across the street and went
and saw that, but it was such a weird moment.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We're under the ground, yeah, going through this weird We
pretty much thought we were gonna die.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
But I love that. After all that, it was just
sort of this he just wanted to show you something
pretty anti climactic.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It really, that's what it was. And that's why we thought, like,
did he change his mind about murdering us?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Halfway three went I got to show them something instead.
He was like, uh, look at this smear. Yeah, here
you go.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Maybe he just changed his mind. But yeah, it was
a freaky night. Then we end up staying there and
we stayed in the room. Yeah, like at crack of
dawn and like we're out, Yeah, we're going.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Were you like the only people in the hotel too.
You think we were that is such a like the
shining situation there, I mean, without the whole getting snowed
in everything.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
But yeah, I don't think there was snow, but it was.
It was freaky. There's nights like that.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah. I think that's just part of the nature of
being on the road is you end up in weird
places that you're not really sure how you ended up there.
Like in your normal life you would not agree to that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
And I used to say, I think I'm getting better.
I know I am. I would not do anything anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Oh you're good. I just beep it. No worries.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Anymore, like seriously, I and sometimes Tom will call me
from the road and he's.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Like, you're not gonna believe where we're at. I'm like,
are you still doing this?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
This is nice?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, I feel like a little old for it.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
My partner used to be on tour like about a
third of the year at least, and so like I
would just get these weird, like three am messages and
just like, oh, we're here doing this, and I'm like,
why are you sure that's safe?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Sure this is safe?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No, it's probably not. And you know, a couple of
broken bones and everything it happens. Yeah, Unfortunately, I feel
like there should be like a like a more cohesive
way to be on the road, because it is really
it's just who you know, who you have connections to,
and being like, yeah, my buddy Steve has a couch
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you can cratch on and stuff like that. Oh yeah,
or my buddy, yeah, John has a whole weird empty
hotel and is going to try to murder you. It
before in the morning.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, it was just like, well, I guess we're going
to go.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, I'm so happy I did do it. Yeah, not
just the hotel, but all of this stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, you come back with fun, weird stories of nothing else,
you know, and it means you know, your friends, you
can go, hey, don't do that. This is a bad idea.
Get a little wisdom.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
From it, yeah for sure. Yeah, but it's so so fun.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah it is. I kind of wish that everybody could go,
you know, on the road at least once.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I just hear so many fun, weird stories from people
on the road, and I'm like, I feel like everyone
should get to do that once.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I have a partner he's been he's toured so much,
he's like total for like, I don't know how long
he's toy right now, just years.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
And there were years where he was never home, yeah
for just like the whole time.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
And yeah, so many crazy stories from his life. And
even now, I'm like, are you ever sick of this?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He's like, no, I love it. I think he was
fine with me telling his age. But he's forty eight.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He's still you know, yeah, still loving it. I mean
it probably keeps him young a little bit, at least
his knees having to pick up and move around all
that equipment all the time.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Oh no, oh.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
My partner from all his touring ever came back with
was just like he hates camping now.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Every time I'm like, let's go gim me, He's like no,
I'm like, okay, no, I know too much of doing
on the road. Yeah, amazing. Well, is there anything else
with your music you want to talk about you want
to make sure people know about?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
No, I think I think just I'm probably gonna release
something later this year. To keep an eye out for that,
hopefully this later this year.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
This show this weekend, I'll probably playing a few more
shows coming up in le Sington and like around here. Yeah,
but I have other stuff that's on Spotify already and
all the places you can look it up with Rebecca
Rigo or Rebecca Ego in the Tradement, I've made some
solo stuff, and then I've also made records with and
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I've been playing with for about twelve years now called
the Trainmen.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
So we still will probably do some Traintment shows this
year too. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
What what social media are you on for as far
as for people to find all that, Yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Say Instagram is the best place where I check in
the most.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Uh, there is a Facebook page out there somewhere that's
probably rolling.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Around, but.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
We go.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I logged in two years ago. Yeah, Recago and the Trainment. Yeah.
What time is your setup? Tall sound on Sunday as well?
I sat is.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
I think it's seven. I just looked it up and then,
But I believe Ello Webster, who is one of is
my absolute favorite and good friend. She starts at six,
So get there really five and just hear all of it.
School of Rock is going to be playing at five
pint fifteen. Ellow Webster's at six. I'll be coming on
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at seven.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
And then b Taylor, who I've not seen and I've
not met, but I have a million mutual friends with
and I cannot wait to meet her and see her live.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
So that's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, I think that's kind of part of one of
the fun things about Tall Sound is it's like you
get to see all your friends and it's a lot
of ways, especially for you.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, it is, and it's such a great way to
connect with the community. The people that are doing.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It are just the most They're so professional and they're
some of my very best friends here in town, and
I just can't I can't be more proud of what
they do, and I'm just so happy they want to
keep doing it. And however we can support them monetarily
showing up.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
However we can do it. I think it's we need
to because we really need to keep things like this
going everywhere.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah. Well, and as a veteran you know who's gone
to a lot of Tall Sounds, do you have any
advice for people who are maybe go for the first time,
like pack extra sunscreen or.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Maybe well, son, I'll probably be going down, so that'd
be good. I would say, just bring warm clothes, it
can get chilly.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Blanket, bring some chairs, and I think there's gonna be
some fun food trucks there, but I think you can
bring your own kind of snack. He's stuffed in there too,
so bring bring your own snacks, but maybe drinks.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
They want you to buy drinks from or whatever there.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Don't get alcohol, but yeah, come and yeah, bring warm
clothes so you can stay.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Late, yeah and have a good time. Yeah, wowesome, Thank
you so much for talking with me.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, of course any time. Yeah, and I haven't put
it in yet, but you all get to hear all
kinds of your music throughout this episode as well, splice
that in and everything. So but yeah, so we can
go ahead and sign off for the night. So we're
gonna send up some strange talk.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
So much.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Thank you guest here. I'll talk to you sir.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Thanks, I'll talk to you soon, all right. I just
wanted to say one last huge thank you to Rebecca
for coming on the show again. See you all tellus
on this weekend. If you want to stop our booth,
we'll be there on Sunday. And thanks for tuning into
this little kind of mini episode. It's a little bit
shorter than usual, just because I barely have a voice,
as you can tell from the weather. So on that note,
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we're gonna go ahead and sign off from strange talk.
Good night and good.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Luck, ho spotlight desired, my many is on, thy good, bad,
a lot of things, And then we guess.
Speaker 9 (36:58):
We ready.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
How don't our father lives existible to say?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Hey, do housing one with you? Even in your go
it does mad? There's something else gone?
Speaker 8 (37:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
He this live is mad? How don't take this full grain?
How two funs?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Money plane.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Had two fights on the money. You could be out
of yourself it all even if you need space, even
if you need time, take.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
All that you need.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He have a whole life, leaving in your goal.
Speaker 13 (38:06):
It doesn't matter. There's something else going on. This love
is mad. One side of leave, Doc Coll's breaking in
(38:29):
your universa shake have one.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
I could understand me leaving when you're gone.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
There's something else going on. This love is mad. No,
no nod.
Speaker 13 (39:13):
Leave it mine, No girl, It doesn't mad. There's something
else gone.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
This slave is mad. This guy is mad.
Space in.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
In good evening and welcome to the hour dedicated to
(01:30):
talking about all things strange, weird and paranormal. Listening to
Strange Talk broadcasting on sixteen sixty AM in Northside ninety
one point seven f m h G two WVXU and Cincinnati.
We're also streaming at radioartifact dot com or on the
entire planet Earth. The intro track to this episode in
most of our episodes, is the Strange Talk intro by
Star Soolk And I'm your host, Alex and we have
a very special guest today. If you'd like to introduce yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Hi, my name is Rebecca Rico.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, I'm a musician here in like say, King Techy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, and you are playing a super super fun show
this weekend, and we're also going to be there, so
we thought we'd talked about that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yes, I'm very excited about it. It should be a
great night.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Have you Have you played Tall Sound before?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And I haven't.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
My good friends are the organizers of Tall Sound and
basically been to many Tall Sounds, and I have a
little part of kind of being on the board a
little bit of the last like a couple of years
or so. So I think it's just a great community
event that they do in Lexington.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's super fun. I'ven't gone the last couple
of years just because it's been so hot.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It has been really hot and it's been on and off.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Like I hope, well, fingers crossed for this Sunday to
be great weather, because it seems a little.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Hit or miss fifty fifty right now forty sixty but
or wait, that's on Saturday. Actually, I don't know why
I'm I don't know why I'm looking at my weather app.
It has been horrifically wrong lately, where I'm like, my
friend will look at the same weather app with mind
side by side of mine says it is not going
to rain, and there says there's a ninety percent chance
of brain and I'm like, what why am I even
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using this weather app? It's not doing anything?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah weather, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fingers crossed that mine is right because I was looking
at Saturday too, So yes, yes, hopefully we'll get good
weather this year. Yeah. Well, do you want to talk
a little bit about what kind of music you play?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah, so I'm a singer songwriter and I've been doing
that for about I don't know Holday twenty years. Been
making records and playing music for about twenty years and
moved to Lexington about five years ago. I was in
(04:00):
Chicago for about ten years. Then I lived I've kind
of bounced around and lived a bunch of places. I
lived in Champaann, Illinois for a while, and I lived
in Louisville.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
No, I've been here for about five years.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I hadn't released any new records in about two and
a half.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There three years rybe now.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I think that was the last time I released a
record with my band, The Trainman, and I had been
working on an EP for the last year or so.
I live in a recording studio with my partner, who's
an audio engineer.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh his names do you know?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's wonderful and also I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's really yeah, it's really fun though.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
We really enjoyed it, and he yeah, he records a
lot of different music here and it's yeah, honestly, our
living situation, we have a much bigger the house than
we used to. We used to live in a tiny,
little eight hundred square foot house and that was the
recording studio and.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Now we're we have way more space.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So in the old house was it like a lot
of like, over're recording in here, can you wait to
cook the bacon afterwards?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yes, it was like like, Okay, I have to wash
my hair.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
What day is this person? It was a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I definitely understand that, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
This is this is a really real crush. Now we
have a big space, but it's fun. It's called Small
Blue our recording studio. Now, it's always been that, and
there's a lot of different people that are common every
day to record fun things.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And I've been working on my own thing here.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, So do you have any stuff you're working towards releasing?
No pressure on dates or anything, but.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, and I think something probably hopefully by the end
of this year. I also have a full time job
and so sometimes it does get a little push behind,
but hopefully by the end of this year it will
maybe be ep, maybe full record, I'm not sure, but
I have Yeah, we'll see what it's called.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I think it's going to be called water Breeds Women.
That's the that's one of the tracks on the record,
and I think that that's what's gonna be called.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So yeah, what are your kind of favorite topics to
write about right now? While you're working on this, where
is there a set theme throughout it?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, I think it's about aging. I think it's about
aging and that.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Just friendships while you're aging, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure. Maintaining friendships is
so difficult as you get older because you just have
less and less time and more and more hobbies.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, and just you have like loved ones that you're
trying to see And yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think that's what it's about. I'm not one hundred
percent sure.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Always until it's done done, and also you know, subject
to change. There's no you know, I don't think anyone's
going to come after and be like you said, it
was about this. What do you mean it's not about
that now? And if they do, then I will talk
to them about it. I was like, no, change your mind.
You are allowed to change your mind. We're all allowed
(07:24):
to change our minds. Yeah, that's awesome. So kind of
how if you've just always been a musician, I mean
you said you've been doing it for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I have. I kind of always. I started playing
guitar when I was six.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
And then I yeah, it took lessons when I was
between the ages of six and sixteen, and then I
started writing stuff kind of what I was like in
my early twenties. And then I moved Chicago and I
after college and I just started making records.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
So yeah, I've been kind of working on music and
playing making records for like twenty you know, twenty years,
and then playing guitar for a long time before that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
But my mom was a musician.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Oh yeah, so it's always been part of your life.
It's not like it was always going to be there
in some form or another.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, she was like she made it a big part.
She played cello, you know. I just was drawn to
the guitar. Yeah, and so I been doing that, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
It's it's definitely like as I get older, there's times
where we'll go I'll go in and out of having
it be a central part of what I'm doing. Yeah,
And I always realized that it's really the most it's
like the most necessary thing for me. It's like anything,
you know, if I'm not doing it, I'm probably not
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in a good spot.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
So that is a pretty good sign of it. Yeah,
do you play music. I do so well. I was
gonna say similarly, my dad is a bass player. My
brother was a drum player, and I ended up playing
guitar because my brother was just god awful at guitar
and he tried so many times to play guitar and
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he just he was a drummer at heart. And later
on he started playing banjo too, But I ended up
playing guitar because he played drums and he just could
not play guitar. So my guitar that I have is
still was his. So that's really fun. Yeah, he just
meant to be.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's how drummers are, just meant to be drums exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
No, he's he's so so good at drums. And it
was just like you're just trying to be something you're
not and that's okay for for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I actually, oh my gosh, you can see my CD
collection behind me. I still have some old CDs of
his high school band that I actually did not realize
was his high school band at the time, but like
another friend of mine was in the band who told
me years later of just like, yeah, he's playing some
guitar on there and he just isn't good at it.
And I was like, I.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Know, I know, do you see plays drugs? Now out
of it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, he doesn't, but he mostly plays banjo anymore. So yeah, yeah,
which I was like, all right, that's like a cross
between a drum and a guitar. Sure close enough. Yeah. Yeah.
I find that a lot of musicians it is sort
of this inescapable thing, you like, I feel like it's
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it does happen. But it's more rare that people are
not around a musician and become a musician. It seems
more often there's someone in their life that's also a musician,
and so it just becomes it just is part of
your life from like the get go it.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, And I think I've talked to people about I
think that you either just really want to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Or you're kind of you don't. Yeah, yeah, you're you're
kind of born with it. Do yeah, do it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'm sure there's like some psychologists out there that's like
furiously writing notes like nature and nurture. This is a
good study of this, because I mean it kind of is.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, and it kind of is, you know, but I
think I you know, for her.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
There was a short stint where I was trying to
like teach guitar to some kids or whatever, and there
was I remember there was a couple of kids where
their parents were trying to like make them, and I'm like,
there's not really a point trying to make somebody try
to play instrument, because you're either just gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Into it, like you're just gonna be so obsessed with it.
And that's how I was when I was a child.
I just was drawn to guitar. I wanted to touch it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I wanted to just strum it as soon as I
saw when it was obsessed obsessed, and I begged my
mom to take guitar lessons like as soon as I could.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So I think that it's just it's either in you
or it's kind of like that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah. I remember, like the first computer we had when
I was six, there was some program that came on
whatever version of Windows that was at the time where
you could make music, and I annoy the absolute crap
out of my parents because I was just like making
bagpipe music on it all the time. And a six
year old making bagpipe music is not good, Oh no no.
(12:18):
And I'm just like, oh, it's a wonder thing lived
through that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah it's still I mean, but I mean it's still
a thing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, that's still a thing that's a great way to
get into like I don't know, mini keyboards and synse
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Do you play a mean, do you play in like
some kind of no.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I I'm so it's sort of this thing like I
have so many hobbies that I've like already commercialized that
music is kind of my thing that I do for
myself instead. So I mean like that might change at
some point, but like I like doing it just for
myself of just like I like making songs for myself
and I'll record them for myself and maybe one day,
I don't know, maybe I'll share it. But I think
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also part of it is because it is such a
form of just like getting out of my system for
me that it's also like I probably wouldn't want anybody
to listen to this until after I'm not like actively
feeling those feelings, right yeah, because you know, like if
you're writing a song and you're mad at somebody, you
probably don't want them to tear that until you're like
(13:25):
over those feelings, or you know, if you're sad about
something you know.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Right right, Yeah, it is hard.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
To write songs and then sing them, but it can
be really therapeutic.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yes, yeah, it kind of depends on how open and
vulnerable you want to be with that.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but sometimes yeah, you're right, It just
kind of depends on where you're at with it. But
it can be like the best thing for your mental
you know, your mental state at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yes, yeah, which, like you said, if you're not writing,
there's probably a good sense something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
So there's that too, right, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, it's like a thing like recently, I've just been
everyone probably has been very upset, you know. It's just
like there's so much anxiety in this world. Yeah, what's
going on?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And I and like.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
The other night, I was just so stressed and my
partner said, he was like, maybe he just play guitar,
and I was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh yeah, you're right. I have this conversation sometimes with
my therapist who was like, well, did you go and
do something like, you know, enjoyable out of it? And
I was like, no, I just went to bed, right,
I should have. You're right, I should have.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah. Yeah, but right, it's like sometimes you really can't
see it for yourself in the moment what you do.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's really hard.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, it's easier when you're not in that situation. You're like, oh, yeah, right,
that thing that I enjoy doing.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Hmmmm, exactly, that's going to be like the best thing.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, is music kind of your main creative project there?
Do you do art or anything as well?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
No, I think it's really just songwriting.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'm starting to get a little bit into writing short
story stuff and.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'm yeah, doing a little bit of that.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
But it's been really just yeah, songwriting for the last
all these years. But I'm starting to think, like, oh,
I have a lot of pro stuff in my mind
and you know, short story stuff, so I'm gonna start
I'm kind of going into that.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
A little bit, tipping a tone into it. I find
a lot of musicians tend to be like kind of
some of the best writers like that because they're used
to you only have so many words to put this
into a package. Yeah, so they're very concise.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, I didn't mean to. No, you're
totally I'm finding that for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, brevity while also getting the point across in a
creative way. And I really appreciate that because I'm just
not a fan of like the Charles Dickens paid per
word type of writing where I'm just like, you could
have said this in like three words, and this is thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, I know, I'm the same.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I'm the fan of that too when I'm reading and
I just read Jeff Tweety's biography and I don't know,
I mean, I don't know if somebody like helped him
write there it goes for it. I don't know writer
on that, but it was really good and it was
like that it was just like very to the point,
and I loved the way he did describe things and
(16:41):
but I felt like in that moment that was part
of it. The songwriting really kind of does help kind
of get to the point.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah. Yeah. The last book I read was John Darniel's
Wolf and White Van. Do you listen to the Mountain
Goods at all?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I do listen them out. Yeah, he had written a book.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
He has written two books now. They're not about his songs,
their fiction. So the first one I read, Universal Harvester,
was kind of this analogue horror. They found this weird
VHSS tape at this and at the video store that
was clearly someone's home movies and they were trying to
figure out what was going on. With that, and it
(17:20):
was very you know, nebulous and vague, which I was like,
that's a very John Darneil thing to do. And then
Wolf and White Van the one I just read. I'm
still like not sure where it was going to. It
was about this guy who writes mail in role playing games,
so they'll mail in a turn and he'll mail them
(17:41):
back like what happened in that turn based on what
they did, and then it was just sort of about
the whole reason he got into writing this game was
because he had tried to shoot himself with a gun
in the book, and as he was like recovering in
the hospital, he started doing this game. And then, yeah,
it was it was a strange one.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, it sounds cool though.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I really like his writing and yeah, so I bet
that his prose writing is really is really really.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Good, really interesting and really kind of meandering an interesting way.
He's very good at leaving things open end and open
ended in his writing, oh, in a way that he
does not in songwriting, which is interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Oh yeah, I'll just check that out.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah. Uh. The first one was Universal Harvester, and then
the other one was Wolf and White Van. Wolf and
White Van's the RPG one and you'll see there's like
a maze on the cover.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, ok yeah, I'll look into this.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yes, Universal Harvester was a lot quicker over read, just
as a heads up. Okay, yeah, that's what I've been
reading lately. I will also say A wolf and white
van is kind of depressing. Oh yeah, yeah, we'll keeps.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Out of mind. Then I'll I'll save it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
First, save that one for like a less stressful time.
Yeah yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I'll put it down on the list. Hadn't dared.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
I was getting fast cars, jump off to all buildings,
gutting feather bones to shadow to get a cigarette break,
putting something mad of its miserblac.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
It was nothing.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
That's a kind of courage jacket, even fair.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Could you be also? Do you need my help?
Speaker 8 (19:58):
It's not too lady, we need to be bright. Could
you be yourself? Do you need my help?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
It's not too.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Way?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Do you understand?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
But every crazy plan, every crazy plane comes my way.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah in the spring. You don't mean a thing. You
don't mean a thing, you say.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Floating telephone this jealousy and song's jealousy and song stays alway.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Could you be yourself? Do you need my help.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
It's not a too right to be right? Could you
be yourself? Do you need my help?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's not too.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Right.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I can't to fine crowd.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's see the old shift. Get the show all right now,
I get the feeling.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Keep moving, keep moved, but to beyond shelf ben need
b help.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
It's not too late. We need to be right, but
you beyondself? I need my help.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's not too.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
It's not to it's not.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
This being strange talk. Have you gone on tour? I
have have any weird stories from the road, anything weird
you saw on the road.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Yeah, let me think of a good one.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, I'm sure you've seen all kinds of weird stuff.
That's why we always ask as we're.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Like the last tour I went on was right before
the pandemic. Trying to think of like a good thing
that happened m and or a weird thing that happened
on that right, it was a three month I did
like a three month tour where I left I kind
(23:04):
of put everything in storage and went out west and
did this really long tour. It was in twenty nineteen,
towards the end of the year, and I drove all
the way up the coast of California and then went
to Oregon. You all the way up to Seattle and
then came back to I remember I met my partner.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
He ended up meeting me.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
He was touring now with a band called Horse Feathers,
and so we were sort of on Yeah, I was
doing that tour and he was on tour with horse Feathers,
and then we sort of met up in Portland, and
I remember we met up around Halloween. This isn't a
weird story, It's just a nice story.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
I like that too.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
It we went over around Halloween and we went and
we were going to go to this big Halloween party
and our friend Robbie, he.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Decided that we should all go as Gene Simmons. All
different members of Kiss, but we should all go as
Gene Simmons.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So all we he was the drummer and horse Feathers
at the time, and we all did our faces in
Gene Simmons and we did our hair and my hair
was easy to do. Yeah, we went to this Halloween
party and at this bar Let's play a pub or something, and.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That was really that was just a really fun time. Yeah,
it's kind of weird. You have photos of that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That is a really good weird story. I feel like
I would have done all all Gene Simmons and then
one Richard Simmons at the end.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Simmons.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's super cool that you were able to
like make your tours meet up in the same city too,
or did you take time off tour to meet up.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, we kind of made it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I think I was going up there and then he
was there too. I think he sort of planned it
that way. I can't remember exactly, but just sort of
meet up and it was in a story organ that's
where they were, that's where they were based. So that
was really nice, a nice time. But yeah, they that
was one of those fun, fun to war times.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, that's really fun. And I'll give you time to
think on this one too well. We always also ask
if you've had any paranormal stories, any weird UFO sightings
or anything like that too. Well, you can have all
the time you want to think on that. I think
(25:48):
if it was paranormal, I mean, even if it's not paranormal,
we can still this place.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It was just freaky.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
We used to got this place to play in Iowa,
like in Palmeray Iowa, Me and my bass player went
out and we went His name is Eric and we
went out to do this duo show there and we
didn't have a place to stay, and this happens a
lot on tours, like yeah, you don't stay and he'll
(26:18):
just kind of wing it and stay with somebody random and.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Uh so we met this guy.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
They were like, oh, yeah, this guy John, he'll hit
owns a hotel, owns a hotel, and you'll he'll take
you in and whatever. You can go out to where
he lives. And we drove really far out past where
we were playing and there was.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
This really old hotel and he he was like, oh,
I have to show you something, and we're like okay,
and he walked us into this basement underneath the hotel.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
This morning, it's just us too, this guy, and he's
walking us into this dungeon.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Of I'm like, we will die.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We're going to die here.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Dead, and he's kind of a weirdo, walks us through
this place and he's kind of smoking, and then he
just we come out and we come out on the
other side of the hotel.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
It's almost like we're in like a meowolf or something.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh yeah, Yeah, we get out there and we get out.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
We go into this room.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
And he's just like I and he pulls this mirror
off the wall and it's just just a little love
note to this.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
This guy had written this love note to his wife
and said like I always love Jenny or something on
the back of that.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
And we were like, oh, we have just walked over
here and went.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
We could have just walked across the street and went
and saw that, but it was such a weird moment.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We're under the ground, yeah, going through this weird We
pretty much thought we were gonna die.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
But I love that. After all that, it was just
sort of this he just wanted to show you something
pretty anti climactic.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It really, that's what it was. And that's why we thought, like,
did he change his mind about murdering us?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Halfway three went I got to show them something instead.
He was like, uh, look at this smear. Yeah, here
you go.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Maybe he just changed his mind. But yeah, it was
a freaky night. Then we end up staying there and
we stayed in the room. Yeah, like at crack of
dawn and like we're out, Yeah, we're going.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Were you like the only people in the hotel too.
You think we were that is such a like the
shining situation there, I mean, without the whole getting snowed
in everything.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
But yeah, I don't think there was snow, but it was.
It was freaky. There's nights like that.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah. I think that's just part of the nature of
being on the road is you end up in weird
places that you're not really sure how you ended up there.
Like in your normal life you would not agree to that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
And I used to say, I think I'm getting better.
I know I am. I would not do anything anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Oh you're good. I just beep it. No worries.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Anymore, like seriously, I and sometimes Tom will call me
from the road and he's.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Like, you're not gonna believe where we're at. I'm like,
are you still doing this?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
This is nice?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, I feel like a little old for it.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
My partner used to be on tour like about a
third of the year at least, and so like I
would just get these weird, like three am messages and
just like, oh, we're here doing this, and I'm like,
why are you sure that's safe?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Sure this is safe?
Speaker 6 (30:00):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No, it's probably not. And you know, a couple of
broken bones and everything it happens. Yeah, Unfortunately, I feel
like there should be like a like a more cohesive
way to be on the road, because it is really
it's just who you know, who you have connections to,
and being like, yeah, my buddy Steve has a couch
(30:22):
you can cratch on and stuff like that. Oh yeah,
or my buddy, yeah, John has a whole weird empty
hotel and is going to try to murder you. It
before in the morning.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, it was just like, well, I guess we're going
to go.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, I'm so happy I did do it. Yeah, not
just the hotel, but all of this stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, you come back with fun, weird stories of nothing else,
you know, and it means you know, your friends, you
can go, hey, don't do that. This is a bad idea.
Get a little wisdom.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
From it, yeah for sure. Yeah, but it's so so fun.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah it is. I kind of wish that everybody could go,
you know, on the road at least once.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I just hear so many fun, weird stories from people
on the road, and I'm like, I feel like everyone
should get to do that once.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I have a partner he's been he's toured so much,
he's like total for like, I don't know how long
he's toy right now, just years.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
And there were years where he was never home, yeah
for just like the whole time.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
And yeah, so many crazy stories from his life. And
even now, I'm like, are you ever sick of this?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He's like, no, I love it. I think he was
fine with me telling his age. But he's forty eight.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He's still you know, yeah, still loving it. I mean
it probably keeps him young a little bit, at least
his knees having to pick up and move around all
that equipment all the time.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Oh no, oh.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
My partner from all his touring ever came back with
was just like he hates camping now.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Every time I'm like, let's go gim me, He's like no,
I'm like, okay, no, I know too much of doing
on the road. Yeah, amazing. Well, is there anything else
with your music you want to talk about you want
to make sure people know about?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
No, I think I think just I'm probably gonna release
something later this year. To keep an eye out for that,
hopefully this later this year.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
This show this weekend, I'll probably playing a few more
shows coming up in le Sington and like around here. Yeah,
but I have other stuff that's on Spotify already and
all the places you can look it up with Rebecca
Rigo or Rebecca Ego in the Tradement, I've made some
solo stuff, and then I've also made records with and
(33:00):
I've been playing with for about twelve years now called
the Trainmen.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
So we still will probably do some Traintment shows this
year too. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
What what social media are you on for as far
as for people to find all that, Yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Say Instagram is the best place where I check in
the most.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Uh, there is a Facebook page out there somewhere that's
probably rolling.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Around, but.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
We go.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I logged in two years ago. Yeah, Recago and the Trainment. Yeah.
What time is your setup? Tall sound on Sunday as well?
I sat is.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
I think it's seven. I just looked it up and then,
But I believe Ello Webster, who is one of is
my absolute favorite and good friend. She starts at six,
So get there really five and just hear all of it.
School of Rock is going to be playing at five
pint fifteen. Ellow Webster's at six. I'll be coming on
(33:59):
at seven.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
And then b Taylor, who I've not seen and I've
not met, but I have a million mutual friends with
and I cannot wait to meet her and see her live.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
So that's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, I think that's kind of part of one of
the fun things about Tall Sound is it's like you
get to see all your friends and it's a lot
of ways, especially for you.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, it is, and it's such a great way to
connect with the community. The people that are doing.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It are just the most They're so professional and they're
some of my very best friends here in town, and
I just can't I can't be more proud of what
they do, and I'm just so happy they want to
keep doing it. And however we can support them monetarily
showing up.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
However we can do it. I think it's we need
to because we really need to keep things like this
going everywhere.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah. Well, and as a veteran you know who's gone
to a lot of Tall Sounds, do you have any
advice for people who are maybe go for the first time,
like pack extra sunscreen or.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Maybe well, son, I'll probably be going down, so that'd
be good. I would say, just bring warm clothes, it
can get chilly.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Blanket, bring some chairs, and I think there's gonna be
some fun food trucks there, but I think you can
bring your own kind of snack. He's stuffed in there too,
so bring bring your own snacks, but maybe drinks.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
They want you to buy drinks from or whatever there.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Don't get alcohol, but yeah, come and yeah, bring warm
clothes so you can stay.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Late, yeah and have a good time. Yeah, wowesome, Thank
you so much for talking with me.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah, of course any time. Yeah, and I haven't put
it in yet, but you all get to hear all
kinds of your music throughout this episode as well, splice
that in and everything. So but yeah, so we can
go ahead and sign off for the night. So we're
gonna send up some strange talk.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
So much.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Thank you guest here. I'll talk to you sir.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Thanks, I'll talk to you soon, all right. I just
wanted to say one last huge thank you to Rebecca
for coming on the show again. See you all tellus
on this weekend. If you want to stop our booth,
we'll be there on Sunday. And thanks for tuning into
this little kind of mini episode. It's a little bit
shorter than usual, just because I barely have a voice,
as you can tell from the weather. So on that note,
(36:28):
we're gonna go ahead and sign off from strange talk.
Good night and good.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Luck, ho spotlight desired, my many is on, thy good, bad,
a lot of things, And then we guess.
Speaker 9 (36:58):
We ready.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
How don't our father lives existible to say?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Hey, do housing one with you? Even in your go
it does mad? There's something else gone?
Speaker 8 (37:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
He this live is mad? How don't take this full grain?
How two funs?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Money plane.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Had two fights on the money. You could be out
of yourself it all even if you need space, even
if you need time, take.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
All that you need.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He have a whole life, leaving in your goal.
Speaker 13 (38:06):
It doesn't matter. There's something else going on. This love
is mad. One side of leave, Doc Coll's breaking in
(38:29):
your universa shake have one.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
I could understand me leaving when you're gone.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
There's something else going on. This love is mad. No,
no nod.
Speaker 13 (39:13):
Leave it mine, No girl, It doesn't mad. There's something
else gone.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
This slave is mad. This guy is mad.
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