September 24, 2025 • 32 mins
Barbara Snyder and Josh Arnold | Intermission Band | Conversations With Creatives Josh Arnold and Barbara Snyder of Intermission Band join the ladies to talk about their album release show coming up in September!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
On today's episode, we are excited to have Josh Arnold
and Barbara Snyder from intermission and they're gonna talk about
their upcoming concert at the Arts Council. Stay tuned, Welcome
(00:30):
to conversations with creatives.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The Arts Council. Ladies.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm Lindsay and I'm Leslie, and we are excited to
have these two.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Very local, wonderful artists with us. Very local, very very local,
very very local.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Sorry about that, very local, you know that might apply
on some days to possibly.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Barbara Snyder and Josh Arnold, they are with the band intermission.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We're gonna hear all about their.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Villain origin story with the band and anything else they
want to talk about themselves today, but we always start.
And by the way, just a little tidbit of information
for you, Josh Ronald is not only in this band,
he is our board president.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, make sure you update those membership nice.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He's coming for you. So we appreciate him and all
the work he does. He's a lawyer. He will come
to your house and make you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yet No, no, he will not.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You will get served, no.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But he does a lot for us and we appreciate
it and We're excited to have you, Barbara.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But we start with.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
A very important question every week, so get ready for it.
You're not prepped before for a reason. Yeah, lindsay yes.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Always finds our very important question. So let's go. Lindsay,
what's our very important question.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So our very important question, and this is a hypothetical question.
But if you two died and uh, you're going to
die together in this scenario out on the road, if
you yes, if you were out performing you died. This
is like one of those Buddy Holly airplane situations.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
All that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So if you died together and you had a joint
funeral together, what band would you want to come play
at your joint funeral? They could be living in any band,
any band.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
They'll say yes. So you get to dream yes at
your funeral. First of all, we cannot die together because
we both work in a small town. Yeah, that would
be pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, we do straight into the dark and the and
the joisted here. No, that's that's totally fine.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You've met him, you know I'm not gonna get to
pick right all right, man? Just playing at our funeral.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, you can have your dream.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And it's and it's it's living or dead, living or dead.
You know, if I'm getting to pick, it's gonna be
Mac Davis.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He's the guy who sings, Oh Lord, it's hard to
be humble. Oh yeah, that'll be that'll be the walk
out me.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That'll be the oh I love it, I love it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So probably probably Mac Davis, and he would just sing
that one song and leave because I you would probably
get a draw. I'm not gonna have a lot of
people at mine, more than Michael. There may be a
few people who come to check and make sure it's
actually me in there, and then after that they're checking out.
They're not hanging for the music.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, okay, Barbara, who's gonna be the opening act? So
he's gonna pull Mike Davis.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I'm gonna pull something from Kenny g because he hates
yes so music.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And then that way, it's just a payback music.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Thus began the haunting of whatever I need to haunt
to pay people back for that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I can accompany him because he plays the saxophone.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Not all saxophones are bad, but Kenny Jesus, but this
is gonna be the worst funeral gig. Ever, it's well play.
It reminds me. It reminds me of when they used
to let me book music on Maine. But we're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Get Yeah, we've heard stories about that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, in the episode there's there's not.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There might be.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We might make time for that story.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But their budget has dramatically improved. That was the goal.
That's the goal. Sometimes, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Just belly dancers.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Unique problems require unique solutions, and we're all about unique sold.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's a good lesson. This is our lesson for today, folks.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sometimes you need to hire a couple of belly dancers
to breathe your point exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It gets some more money.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yes, well we actually always answer the question too, So
we got we got to think about sometimes I don't
get to think about it. But yeah, but today's so
for our joint funeral, which we be would you say
murder homicide? No, that's what choice. That would just be
both murder should probably kill me.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You'll watch a lot of investigation discovery, right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Murder suicide suicide. He would kill me and then feel
so bad about it or the other way. So at
our joint funeral.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
We would have Dolly Parton and Chapel Rone performing together.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Dolly Parton, that's a good call. That's a good call, exactly.
That's a good call.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
And if papalone is not available, we'll take sprint of
Carpenter as well, and Dolly sang with her.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, exactly, So it's a perfect Matt But Dollie, Dolly's
there in a mask. So y'all got to come to
our funeral if y'all are still alive.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's right clear, that's the better ticket. It feels much
less spiteful. Then then it's than what I put together.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's it it together, love it awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, we're just excited to have you guys, thanks for
joining us.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We are more about this show coming up and album release.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes it's several years in the making actually, but yeah, Sunday,
October fifth at the Arts Council. What time are we
starting four four pm? Doors open at three thirty. You
can get your tickets online now a lot of you
have not, mom, so let's make sure we take care
of that. She did share it on Facebook this morning, though,
I think we're we need to move through that Mary
(06:25):
Kay crowd and get get those people to buy tickets.
I have delivered enough makeup over the years. Like, if
those people bought tickets, we're doing three We're doing three shows.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Your Sunday school friends, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
If you have Sunday school friends, yes, please tell them.
If you don't have Sunday school friends.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Tell them anyway, tell bar friends, right, I mean just friends.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think I think the bar friends would appreciate it more. Actually,
because this is this is we put this together several
years ago, just kind of on a whim. And our
friends Sean Dietrich and Aaron Peters, who may know, are
on this album. They will be playing with us. They
will It will not be a shown of the South show,
but Sean will be there playing the piano with no
(07:08):
other responsibilities. And if you've not seen Sean when he's
not the one driving the bus, it gets wild back there,
completely unfettered Sean Dietrick. So show up for that. It'll
be it'll be worth the cost of admission. We're also
going to be selling these massive autograph platters where you
can get Shawn's autograph for a smaller everyone else in
(07:31):
the band's autograph. Yes, those also make good doorstops. Table balancers,
things like that player.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's right exactly, because our cars don't want us to
listen to all five thousand I.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Still have right. But there's you know, when we designed
these and shout out to Kelly Brazier, the bass player,
Todd's wife, who designed all this a lot of tactile
experience in doing this. So you need to buy a
copy of both so you can see all the wonder
design work that went into this. But yeah, we cut
(08:03):
this just on a whim. It's all. It's the majority
of is read back hymnal music. And if you're familiar
with that, fifty percent of this iteration of the band
grew up Church of God. We won't tell you which
fifty watch the watch the beverage cooler and you can
probably figure out which fifty percent did. And we're cool
(08:27):
with the other ones. They're good Baptist guys as far
as we know, and we don't ask questions. But we
all grew up this music. This is the stuff that
we I mean, you know, it's it's ingrained in the DNA,
and so we sat around We're just having a conversation
with all of these folks because we do kind of
like to hang out with each other and not do
work or you know things, And we thought it'd be
(08:49):
cool to put this together because Todd and I know
for years have had conversations about what we'd really like
to see, you know, with that muse that particular music
and interpretation that is something like you you got you know,
the world's best bar band to play it, or you know,
if buck Owens and the Buckeroos redid read back hymnal music,
Willie Nelson and the Family Band did it. And so
(09:12):
we had this crazy idea and somehow or another we
got everybody together on the Saturday of MLK Weekend a
couple of years ago at Jack Dudley's basement. Shout out
to Jack and Donni for use of the space and
Phil Dudley for recording and producing all of this stuff.
Phil does a fantastic job. This is completely this is
an Arts Council project. Yeah, and we tracked everything in
(09:36):
one day, so everything you hear on here are live takes,
no overdubs, no punch ins, and we did it in
about fourteen hours. I don't think we'll do it that
way next time.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes, not the same, but for.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
This experience, it was a really really cool deal, and
we all felt okay about it after we left, as
okay as you can feel, you know, right, we were
all still for and important, and we all showed up
the next day to kind of look at, Okay, where
do we need to fix? What do we need to patch?
And we got through several of them, and everybody was
(10:10):
it was a little odd because there wasn't really anything
we could spot to fix. Not that we played it perfectly,
but the creation itself was like, that's good, don't mess
with it. And so you know that that awkward kind
of deal, like have we done something really cool here?
Like did we mess up and really get this right?
And the moment we knew we did, we all know
(10:32):
and loved George Dudley, who I think ought to probably
have his own podcast at some point, or having like
a cut in segment like you know, one of those
guys on John borg Its.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, it would have to make a you know.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
A warning like an EXPENSI this maybe PG.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Thirteen or above.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We'll talk to the board president and the board attorney,
the board pro Bowl attorney to get clearance for George.
But George had had an accident the week before we
did this. This was when the leg break was fresh,
like just got the scooter. He was not you know,
George Knievel that we know in love. This was like
(11:14):
George trying to figure out how to move through life.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And so we're three or four songs into the listen
back and feeling just strangely good about it all, and
then George shows up. So we get George in check
on George, make sure he's kind of comfortable and situated,
and we all know George is gonna listen. And if
you don't know George, George's opinion is exactly what it is, and.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's always ready to go. Yeah, there's no filter.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
No, it's very much just that push button. Like whatever
you pushed, that's what you're absolutely gonna get. I was
very nervous. I mean so I think everybody probably was.
But everybody kind of you know, tended to George whatever else,
to the point that Phil and I may be spilling
the family business here. But Phil finally turn around to
looking at us. Are we done playing with George? Can
(12:02):
we get back to work? Like, don't anger, you know,
don't don't mess this up, you know, don't mess this up.
We listened to the yeah yeah, and so we listened
back and it's like there's silence for like an awkwardly
long amount of time, ten seconds or so, and we're
all waiting to see what George does, because we see
that his eyes are open, he's paying attention, he's listened
(12:24):
to this, and he kind of turns his head a
little bit to the side and says, well, that don't suck.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That is the highest content to give you.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
See, and y'all know that we that we didn't talk
about this beforehand. Everybody knows when George tells you that
that's you're you're doing. And so for the rest of
this process, it was fun. It was like we're listening,
we're taking a few notes, and ultimately what we decided
is we had the takes and we picked them, and
everything on this album is probably at most a second
or third take of a tune. No overdubs, no punch ins.
(12:58):
This is a live album and it was just a
really really cool experience to get to do that. And then,
you know, our first album we released in the middle
of a pandemic, so we will have those for sale
too at the show. That's all original music, right, different story,
all original tunes there except for one which is actually
(13:21):
a red back Hymdal team that we did and that
that's kind of what got this whole whole thing started.
But it was a fun process. We had a blast
with it. And I mean the first track on the
album is what we did to warm up, and that's
the take. So I mean that was a one shot deal.
You know, for people who've ever tried to put something
together like this. Playing live is one thing, but when
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you sit down and like people are recording, it goes
just straight out in the window. Nothing ever sounds right.
So the fact that we got this diverse group of
individuals together, diverse group of personalities and temperaments and it
and it just clicked. Everything about it clicked and it
was it was just loads of fun. We're looking forward
to sharing that and it sounds great on vinyl by
(14:07):
the way, So.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Just to pick that up right, I know Dakota will
get one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
He always wants is vinyl for sure, and then plays
it and has a vibe in the theater days it's
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There's yeah, there's there's a thing. And I mean if
we if you don't know, if we look at it
or no, go for it, because you know, we just
we kind of came up with a list of stuff
that we just thought was, you know, indicative of when
we were growing up listening to this. So the front's
pretty cool. The back has the old attendance board with
the songs. I'll go ahead and bring this out there,
(14:42):
I will. I'll give it. I'll give a free copy
of either the record or the CD to the person
who can figure out what the numbers actually are. If
you can figure that out, family members excluded so as well,
if you can figure out what those numbers actually are.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Is it how long the songs last?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
We can't talk about it now. You're not you're not eligible.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I'm not eligible.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You're not eligible as an employee, not at all. So
we've got that on the back. And then the inside
we thought was really cool because the you know, sometimes
you just get kind of a cheesy liner on the
inside of what we did. We did it like a
like a tithe en below. So if you grew up
at certain shirt, these are the things that you you
played hangman on in the back of here in church,
and we're supposed to be listening, and so we've got
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our credit stuff listed out there like that, and then
on the back we're going to pretend we were good
note takers from the church, and so what we've got
are actually you know, the handwritten titles and writers and
you know the status of the copyright owners who we've
all paid so straight out.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
So we have that, and then we have a photo
in the black box theater inside.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
This CD is really cool. Shout out to butch ogles
Bey for that photo. We use his photographs in this stuff.
He was definitely cool with us doing that. He takes
great photos.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He is amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So you've kind of got that tithe envelope vibe on
the CD interior. And then the coolest part we like
is that the vinyl is actually read like the him.
So it's kind of a if you're familiar with these
things and this ought to just ought to hit that
nostalgia button.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
That's hit it hard if you p k here, that's
all those Yeah, the fuzzy microphone, I know absolutely, I
love the fuzzy You know, I sang in those a
lot as a little kid, and yep, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Did you ever wonder who would sing it before?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, as a kid, Know, I wasn't worried about
Germans as much like that was pre COVID.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Right in certain churches, you knew if the music minister
dip winter grain or not, because you need to smell
it on the thing, right, you've ever.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man, that's gonna be on my church. That's right, that's
gonna be such a cool show. Now, let's let's go
backwards a little bit. Tell us about I know, we
don't need the cover whatever. Tell us about yeah, y'all's
a villain or just story? How y'all, how what did
a retired principal, yes, start making at the time, weren't Yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Were a principal when I first mad.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yes, I was the assistant principal when we first started
doing music together. So we had a talent show at
the school, you know, teacher talent show, and I was
going to sing to a track, and then he played
at the talent show, and I think it was the
first time that we realized that each other. You know,
I knew that he played in the band at his church,
but I don't know that he knew that I.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Sing in no offense to church musicians. But I mean,
like we talked about the saxophone earlier, there's definitely church
Sacks and then like you know, John Coltrane, so like
you hear people are church musicians, Like that's that's cool.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, but you.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Know, so he played at the at the Teacher Talent Show,
and then shortly after that, or it may have been
a little bit longer down the road, but I was
invited to sing at Music on Maine, and at the
time I only sang to tracks because it didn't have
anyone that played for your church. And so I thought,
will ask him if he can learn some of the
songs that I sing in that way, we can make
(18:05):
that work.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
And he obliged. He said he would and probably knew
most of them already. Most of them were not Christian music.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Brother, do what I did not make.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
But if you've ever watched him, he can learn a
song about you know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But you guys were probably playing after the belly dancers
went on.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
No, this was well before. This is one of those
gigs where the budget was like two hundred bucks bringing
the sound system well before.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Okay, so should I watch off into the entire story?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I think we we could probably keep it brief. We
could do the reader's digest version.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
So I was asked to sing, and I didn't have enough,
so it was for three hours. I didn't have enough
material to do that. So my co worker had a
son that had a band, and so I had said
something to him about what he wanted to sing. A
few songs too, sure, and he was interested, and so
he went and talked to the organizer at the time.
(18:56):
He went and met with her by himself and talked
with her about possibly having some of that time. And
by the time it was showtime, it was that band,
and then intermission was when I was supposed to sing,
and then that band again.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
So that's how we started. You were singing daring intermission.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Right, We got the schedule and I said, oh, I
guess we're intermission, and there you go. I have not
been able to scrub that all for going on thirteen years.
So careful with the sarcasm, kids, It could stick, that's right.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
And that's what I get for sending him to talk
to her by himself, which he was a looker now cutie,
I understand, But all of a sudden it's like, wow,
oh that changed, and I heard and you don't have
to pay for three hours in three minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
But from that one tale, we get obviously the issues
with maybe understanding a good budget for talent. You have
events and things like that. So there's so much kind
of wrapped up in that one little moment there and
what we learned and is this it's not a great
band name because people see you on the on the
bill and they get up and obviously go to concession
staying and go to the restaurant whatever. But but you know,
(20:10):
the flip side of that is every time there's an
event listed anywhere you've ever played.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Were there?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's on the schedules when people go, hey, are y'all
playing here? Like, no, not y that actually is a break,
it's not really us. But you always get to ask
and you're always out there. So probably on balance, yeah,
it's kind of it's kind of even on that every.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Show that I've gone to with family, right, I know,
even even like going to the ballet, Yeah whatever, you know,
it'll say they'll say we're about to have a brief intermission.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
The whole family will turn to look like, no, that's
not us. That's great.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Now did you grow up singing Barborough Church and you
say your kids are musical there in the band they are.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
There was a family family music.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Just singing in the Singing in the car is pretty
much the extent of the music. But in church, you know,
is their kids choir. And I'm not trained and a
trained musician, but loved it. Just kept singing and Pentecostal roots.
And you know grandparents that lived in Texas, so they
were several states away. So it was like you would
record something in send because they never got to hear
him singing, right kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, And that's what it's always been cool about, like
American Idol and shows like that, Like the kids that
grew up singing in church, they've had so much more
experience than where else you sing. If you don't grow
up singing in church as a kid, you don't have
a music.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Programing right or something in your school.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
And I grew up in small school in America, so
we didn't really have where I was growing up at
Church was the foundation for exacting.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And Josh, when did you start?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I started off as a drummer and I couldn't afford
a drum set. It was nine hundred dollars when I
decided I really needed something to play. And uh, a
buddy of mine had his sister's guitar. She got married
and moved out. He needed speakers for his car. It
was it was not the here we are all right,
and literally here we are like he said, how much
(22:02):
money do you have? I said, I got one hundred
and twenty bucks. He said, I can do one hundred
and forty. And so I bought a pretty crappy guitar
from him and haven't put it down since I was fifteen,
I think, so at that point, obviously, I mean, other
context closed, but athletics went completely out of the window.
Schoolwork kind of went out. The went that I wound
up getting kicked out of Beta Club the last semester
(22:23):
of high school because you know, I couldn't put it down.
And it was fun. And again, very fortunate to grow
up in a in a church environment with just brilliant
musicians who and I mean, of course Todd Todd's in
the group and he, I mean just just just a
phenomenal musician, plays with shown and Aaron, you know, in
that grouping and just you know, so happy that that's
worked out. But just always been very fortunate to be
(22:46):
around fantastic musicians and for you know, for people who
don't know the difference Church of God, Church of Christ,
Church of God, we're the ones with the drum sets
and the amplifiers.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So Christ is not Wait what, I went to a
Church of Christ church one time because one of my
friends is pastor there. And when I tell you, the
shock on my face when they were They're like, we're
gonna start playing music and there's no music, and I'm like,
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
We just we just have to sing our voices. You're
making a joyful noise. It was right, that was right
for the Methodists. That's right.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That's yeah, that's it in the Church of God kept
peeving business for a long time. Everybody in the eighties
had those had those Mississippi marshes, right, so we love
that stuff. But you just that growing up playing there
and then you know, in lots of embarrassing bands since
then with people that we're not going to discuss, but
just really glad to have come back around to this
(23:40):
kind of stuff. It again. It's just one of those
things that it checks all the box, right, It hits
all the all the right points in doing this, and
it was just just super cool thing to do, like
back to your roots. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now you said Todd Brazier. It's so funny. He plays
I think with every band everywhere I go, and you don't.
He's so unassuming and he's just there and you hear
the music and you're like, oh, yeah, we do have
bass up there. Oh yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's hot.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And his son Jet is quite the opposite.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yes, and listen any dinosaur related questions. He's got it down.
But you know, growing up around Todd and also around
Jack Dudley, you know, George's brother, Phil's dad, just two
of the best bass players you're gonna find anywhere. I mean, like,
I didn't realize how spoiled I actually was until you
(24:34):
kind of go out and again, you play with other groups,
you do other things like hey, this is so and
so he's the bass player, and you hear like, wow,
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You're like, you're not are you're holding the instruments?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's that's not quite what I'm a customer.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
You get a note every couple of measures and they're
not holding an instrument they made either, like right, Jack
Dudley did.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Right, and so it's you know, it's it's that deal
where just you know, the the amount of talent in
this area, but also who have kind of coalesced around
the arts Council's just super phenomenal. It's just it's it's
really nice how it's all come together. And again, as
I guess as an officer of that organization, thrilled with
all the things we do and encourage you to buy
(25:15):
a membership for you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And your family, but you were thrilled before.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You or.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Always thrilled. Yeah, I mean yeah, my kiddo took drum lessons,
which and that's another cool component of this is kind
of how you keep it going because I mean I
played these tunes as a drummer, not just with Todd
but with his grandmother, which is just played the shape
notes out of the hymnal couldn't read the actual value
of the notebook, read the shapes played in any key. Brilliant,
brilliant stuff. And I got to I got to play
(25:44):
music with them, and that was really cool. And now
that Graham has decided he really is kind of into
the drum thing for sure. After all the after all
the money on lessons that didn't seem to take, they
did hanging their parents, they do, they pay attention. He's
playing music with us with with you know, me and
Todd every every weekend, and he's learning this stuff too,
(26:06):
and you know he's now learning you know this stuff.
You know, it may not be the newest thing out there,
but musically this is this is where you go learn
this stuff. I mean, this is where you get an
education as a musician playing this stuff. And he digs
it because he's a cool kid or will be one
day at some point on his way to being a
cool kid. But yeah, so it's that continuation of all
(26:28):
of that stuff that's just so neat to see. And
then you get to do that with with people that
you like.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, not to mention that feeds your soul. Yeah, and
do y'all write a lot of your music too and
perform original things, and.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, that first album, Yeah, that first album is full
of original stuff. You do most of the lyrics. Really,
we would I'd record music, put in a drop box thing,
and then lyrics would just magically show up, right, and
they were really cool. I'm like, Okay, that's that's nice
couple on there that I did the lyrics for. But yeah,
for the most part, we just kind of sit down
(27:03):
and hash that stuff out. There's a positive spin on
this this car trip that earlier ended in our Mutual Funeral.
When you are when you are tracking back and forth
to gigs and things like that, that's kind of when
you talk about it like I've just got a little
notebook that I keep in my briefcase. I just pull
it out. But here, you know, look at this. It's
like sharing your diary with somebody kind of. But you
(27:23):
go looking through it and it's like, okay, what can
you know? Can you do anything with this? Or she'll
text me something and say, hey, what can you know?
What do you think about this? And so that's you
just put it together and I want.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
To text him and said, I can't sing that line right.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Sometimes we get that like you're gonna have to sing
and if it's gonna get sung, and so those those
don't get sung sometimes, but you know, have fun with that.
But yeah, we definitely write her on stuff. And then
that first album which we just have on CD still
great worth listening, is original. So yeah, we do that
and we play those a lot. And it's always cool
(27:56):
when you go play somewhere and people are looking on
their phone for where that song is. We wrote that,
So that's that's that's really good. It's validating. I mean,
I guess that's kind of what we're doing, is looking
for some validation, and so yeah, we do that.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
And that first album, the cover was designed by Michelle Branson,
who has been on the show.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Some of this chain stuff around here was kind of
to pay homage back to her, going oh cool, yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, she had a we we had written a tune
and she actually had a piece of art independent independent
of you know, that album and that concept, and it
was like one I saw, it's like that'd make a
great album cover, and we did that and made that happen.
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What's the name of the album?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Skeletons?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, because you know she she's.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Very much into the kind of skeletal thing and the
origami stuff, and it just it worked. It was just
really really cool. So again just not having to go
very far to find everything you need to not just
get something done, but to do it. Really.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
She was a teacher that time, and then of course
you know Cousins, Yeah he was. He was a student
and now he's at there at John Aren't you a
teacher there?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I was a teacher there. Eric was my student. He
is now a teacher there and my child is his student,
so a lot of these it's a certain thing. So
just yes, just everything kind of time together. That that's
usually when you know you're onto something good, when when
all the all the ends kind of connect like that.
So I just very very happy to be involved with that.
It's just super cool thing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
It's shocking how much all things come back to Columbiana, right,
you know, I haven't been around this area of a
few years, and yeah, I'm not even what Okay, that's
just ended here.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So it's talent, so many talents, a lot of a
lot of a lot of positive stuff going on there,
and so we're happy to do that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
But yeah, well good, we're super excited.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's going to be a great, a great Sunday, nice
Las afternoon.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah is it four? You should have probably had your
nap out exactly. The matter is, look, if you want it,
if you want it dark and air conditioned, you can
buy a ticket to the show and come taking that there.
Please make great head props.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, right, growing through your phone and Josh will think
you're looking up one of.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
The songs, songs that's right, trying to figure out what
be offended trying to figure out what the numbers on
the back of the album.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Right, Well, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We have you again, Barbara, You're gonna have to stop
talking so much, so, I mean, really.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
God, I just couldn't get this one. It's getting y'all.
I was trying not to overtalk. I'm teasing him. We
loved having y'all. Y'all so fine. It's could be a
good Where can we find you on the internet's internets?
You have to look it up. I know y'all have
an Instagram.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I do have to look at Yes, it's www dot
intermission tunes dot com. There will be a byelink at
some point on there. I don't think that's active at
the moment, but you can at least go check it out, right,
and we'll have these for sale at the show on
October fifty four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
By three, And they can follow you on social media.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Social media Instagram, I think it's Intermission dot tunes. There's
a Facebook page I think under the same name.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
So okay, just start searching. Yeah, the band you might
want to just put music.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, we're not the intermission band that's in Missoula, Montana, though,
We got several phone calls about that gig one time
like hey, you guys, good, what else do you need
for setup? And we're like nothing, Man, I can't. I'm
not going to be in conspilled this week. Sorry. That's
a long way away about that. So we've we've run
across those.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Well, everyone thinks we're Columbiana, Ohio and they tag us
and stuff all the time on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm like, that's not us, not in Ohio, but.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Never been there. We're probably cooler.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, probably I think we are.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, we're excited. Please come to the show. You'll have
all the links below and you want to check them out.
Come see Sean do his thing on the keys Man
and Aaron Peters and Todd and.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Aaron and Eric and Eric.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What a what a cow's with a bunch.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, So join them October fifth, four pm Shelby County
Arts Council dot com and tell them our social media.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Be sure to follow us on Instagram at Shelby Underscore
County Underscore Arts and at the Arts Council Lady the
Arts Council Underscore Ladies. We're now on TikTok at Shelby
County Arts Council and YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, just google us.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I'm sure you'll find us.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know, we're Shelby County, Alabama and Columbiana, Alabama, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So yay, all right, thanks for joining us, everybody, Bye
bye
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
On today's episode, we are excited to have Josh Arnold
and Barbara Snyder from intermission and they're gonna talk about
their upcoming concert at the Arts Council. Stay tuned, Welcome
(00:30):
to conversations with creatives.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The Arts Council. Ladies.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm Lindsay and I'm Leslie, and we are excited to
have these two.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Very local, wonderful artists with us. Very local, very very local,
very very local.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Sorry about that, very local, you know that might apply
on some days to possibly.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Barbara Snyder and Josh Arnold, they are with the band intermission.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We're gonna hear all about their.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Villain origin story with the band and anything else they
want to talk about themselves today, but we always start.
And by the way, just a little tidbit of information
for you, Josh Ronald is not only in this band,
he is our board president.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, make sure you update those membership nice.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He's coming for you. So we appreciate him and all
the work he does. He's a lawyer. He will come
to your house and make you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yet No, no, he will not.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You will get served, no.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But he does a lot for us and we appreciate
it and We're excited to have you, Barbara.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But we start with.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
A very important question every week, so get ready for it.
You're not prepped before for a reason. Yeah, lindsay yes.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Always finds our very important question. So let's go. Lindsay,
what's our very important question.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So our very important question, and this is a hypothetical question.
But if you two died and uh, you're going to
die together in this scenario out on the road, if
you yes, if you were out performing you died. This
is like one of those Buddy Holly airplane situations.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
All that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So if you died together and you had a joint
funeral together, what band would you want to come play
at your joint funeral? They could be living in any band,
any band.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
They'll say yes. So you get to dream yes at
your funeral. First of all, we cannot die together because
we both work in a small town. Yeah, that would
be pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, we do straight into the dark and the and
the joisted here. No, that's that's totally fine.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You've met him, you know I'm not gonna get to
pick right all right, man? Just playing at our funeral.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, you can have your dream.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And it's and it's it's living or dead, living or dead.
You know, if I'm getting to pick, it's gonna be
Mac Davis.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He's the guy who sings, Oh Lord, it's hard to
be humble. Oh yeah, that'll be that'll be the walk
out me.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That'll be the oh I love it, I love it.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So probably probably Mac Davis, and he would just sing
that one song and leave because I you would probably
get a draw. I'm not gonna have a lot of
people at mine, more than Michael. There may be a
few people who come to check and make sure it's
actually me in there, and then after that they're checking out.
They're not hanging for the music.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, okay, Barbara, who's gonna be the opening act? So
he's gonna pull Mike Davis.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I'm gonna pull something from Kenny g because he hates
yes so music.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And then that way, it's just a payback music.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Thus began the haunting of whatever I need to haunt
to pay people back for that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I can accompany him because he plays the saxophone.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Not all saxophones are bad, but Kenny Jesus, but this
is gonna be the worst funeral gig. Ever, it's well play.
It reminds me. It reminds me of when they used
to let me book music on Maine. But we're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Get Yeah, we've heard stories about that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, in the episode there's there's not.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There might be.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We might make time for that story.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But their budget has dramatically improved. That was the goal.
That's the goal. Sometimes, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Just belly dancers.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Unique problems require unique solutions, and we're all about unique sold.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's a good lesson. This is our lesson for today, folks.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sometimes you need to hire a couple of belly dancers
to breathe your point exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It gets some more money.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yes, well we actually always answer the question too, So
we got we got to think about sometimes I don't
get to think about it. But yeah, but today's so
for our joint funeral, which we be would you say
murder homicide? No, that's what choice. That would just be
both murder should probably kill me.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You'll watch a lot of investigation discovery, right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Murder suicide suicide. He would kill me and then feel
so bad about it or the other way. So at
our joint funeral.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
We would have Dolly Parton and Chapel Rone performing together.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Dolly Parton, that's a good call. That's a good call, exactly.
That's a good call.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
And if papalone is not available, we'll take sprint of
Carpenter as well, and Dolly sang with her.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, exactly, So it's a perfect Matt But Dollie, Dolly's
there in a mask. So y'all got to come to
our funeral if y'all are still alive.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's right clear, that's the better ticket. It feels much
less spiteful. Then then it's than what I put together.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's it it together, love it awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, we're just excited to have you guys, thanks for
joining us.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We are more about this show coming up and album release.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes it's several years in the making actually, but yeah, Sunday,
October fifth at the Arts Council. What time are we
starting four four pm? Doors open at three thirty. You
can get your tickets online now a lot of you
have not, mom, so let's make sure we take care
of that. She did share it on Facebook this morning, though,
I think we're we need to move through that Mary
(06:25):
Kay crowd and get get those people to buy tickets.
I have delivered enough makeup over the years. Like, if
those people bought tickets, we're doing three We're doing three shows.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Your Sunday school friends, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
If you have Sunday school friends, yes, please tell them.
If you don't have Sunday school friends.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Tell them anyway, tell bar friends, right, I mean just friends.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think I think the bar friends would appreciate it more. Actually,
because this is this is we put this together several
years ago, just kind of on a whim. And our
friends Sean Dietrich and Aaron Peters, who may know, are
on this album. They will be playing with us. They
will It will not be a shown of the South show,
but Sean will be there playing the piano with no
(07:08):
other responsibilities. And if you've not seen Sean when he's
not the one driving the bus, it gets wild back there,
completely unfettered Sean Dietrick. So show up for that. It'll
be it'll be worth the cost of admission. We're also
going to be selling these massive autograph platters where you
can get Shawn's autograph for a smaller everyone else in
(07:31):
the band's autograph. Yes, those also make good doorstops. Table balancers,
things like that player.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's right exactly, because our cars don't want us to
listen to all five thousand I.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Still have right. But there's you know, when we designed
these and shout out to Kelly Brazier, the bass player,
Todd's wife, who designed all this a lot of tactile
experience in doing this. So you need to buy a
copy of both so you can see all the wonder
design work that went into this. But yeah, we cut
(08:03):
this just on a whim. It's all. It's the majority
of is read back hymnal music. And if you're familiar
with that, fifty percent of this iteration of the band
grew up Church of God. We won't tell you which
fifty watch the watch the beverage cooler and you can
probably figure out which fifty percent did. And we're cool
(08:27):
with the other ones. They're good Baptist guys as far
as we know, and we don't ask questions. But we
all grew up this music. This is the stuff that
we I mean, you know, it's it's ingrained in the DNA,
and so we sat around We're just having a conversation
with all of these folks because we do kind of
like to hang out with each other and not do
work or you know things, And we thought it'd be
(08:49):
cool to put this together because Todd and I know
for years have had conversations about what we'd really like
to see, you know, with that muse that particular music
and interpretation that is something like you you got you know,
the world's best bar band to play it, or you know,
if buck Owens and the Buckeroos redid read back hymnal music,
Willie Nelson and the Family Band did it. And so
(09:12):
we had this crazy idea and somehow or another we
got everybody together on the Saturday of MLK Weekend a
couple of years ago at Jack Dudley's basement. Shout out
to Jack and Donni for use of the space and
Phil Dudley for recording and producing all of this stuff.
Phil does a fantastic job. This is completely this is
an Arts Council project. Yeah, and we tracked everything in
(09:36):
one day, so everything you hear on here are live takes,
no overdubs, no punch ins, and we did it in
about fourteen hours. I don't think we'll do it that
way next time.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yes, not the same, but for.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
This experience, it was a really really cool deal, and
we all felt okay about it after we left, as
okay as you can feel, you know, right, we were
all still for and important, and we all showed up
the next day to kind of look at, Okay, where
do we need to fix? What do we need to patch?
And we got through several of them, and everybody was
(10:10):
it was a little odd because there wasn't really anything
we could spot to fix. Not that we played it perfectly,
but the creation itself was like, that's good, don't mess
with it. And so you know that that awkward kind
of deal, like have we done something really cool here?
Like did we mess up and really get this right?
And the moment we knew we did, we all know
(10:32):
and loved George Dudley, who I think ought to probably
have his own podcast at some point, or having like
a cut in segment like you know, one of those
guys on John borg Its.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, it would have to make a you know.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
A warning like an EXPENSI this maybe PG.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Thirteen or above.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
We'll talk to the board president and the board attorney,
the board pro Bowl attorney to get clearance for George.
But George had had an accident the week before we
did this. This was when the leg break was fresh,
like just got the scooter. He was not you know,
George Knievel that we know in love. This was like
(11:14):
George trying to figure out how to move through life.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And so we're three or four songs into the listen
back and feeling just strangely good about it all, and
then George shows up. So we get George in check
on George, make sure he's kind of comfortable and situated,
and we all know George is gonna listen. And if
you don't know George, George's opinion is exactly what it is, and.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's always ready to go. Yeah, there's no filter.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
No, it's very much just that push button. Like whatever
you pushed, that's what you're absolutely gonna get. I was
very nervous. I mean so I think everybody probably was.
But everybody kind of you know, tended to George whatever else,
to the point that Phil and I may be spilling
the family business here. But Phil finally turn around to
looking at us. Are we done playing with George? Can
(12:02):
we get back to work? Like, don't anger, you know,
don't don't mess this up, you know, don't mess this up.
We listened to the yeah yeah, and so we listened
back and it's like there's silence for like an awkwardly
long amount of time, ten seconds or so, and we're
all waiting to see what George does, because we see
that his eyes are open, he's paying attention, he's listened
(12:24):
to this, and he kind of turns his head a
little bit to the side and says, well, that don't suck.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That is the highest content to give you.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
See, and y'all know that we that we didn't talk
about this beforehand. Everybody knows when George tells you that
that's you're you're doing. And so for the rest of
this process, it was fun. It was like we're listening,
we're taking a few notes, and ultimately what we decided
is we had the takes and we picked them, and
everything on this album is probably at most a second
or third take of a tune. No overdubs, no punch ins.
(12:58):
This is a live album and it was just a
really really cool experience to get to do that. And then,
you know, our first album we released in the middle
of a pandemic, so we will have those for sale
too at the show. That's all original music, right, different story,
all original tunes there except for one which is actually
(13:21):
a red back Hymdal team that we did and that
that's kind of what got this whole whole thing started.
But it was a fun process. We had a blast
with it. And I mean the first track on the
album is what we did to warm up, and that's
the take. So I mean that was a one shot deal.
You know, for people who've ever tried to put something
together like this. Playing live is one thing, but when
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you sit down and like people are recording, it goes
just straight out in the window. Nothing ever sounds right.
So the fact that we got this diverse group of
individuals together, diverse group of personalities and temperaments and it
and it just clicked. Everything about it clicked and it
was it was just loads of fun. We're looking forward
to sharing that and it sounds great on vinyl by
(14:07):
the way, So.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Just to pick that up right, I know Dakota will
get one.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
He always wants is vinyl for sure, and then plays
it and has a vibe in the theater days it's
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There's yeah, there's there's a thing. And I mean if
we if you don't know, if we look at it
or no, go for it, because you know, we just
we kind of came up with a list of stuff
that we just thought was, you know, indicative of when
we were growing up listening to this. So the front's
pretty cool. The back has the old attendance board with
the songs. I'll go ahead and bring this out there,
(14:42):
I will. I'll give it. I'll give a free copy
of either the record or the CD to the person
who can figure out what the numbers actually are. If
you can figure that out, family members excluded so as well,
if you can figure out what those numbers actually are.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Is it how long the songs last?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
We can't talk about it now. You're not you're not eligible.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I'm not eligible.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You're not eligible as an employee, not at all. So
we've got that on the back. And then the inside
we thought was really cool because the you know, sometimes
you just get kind of a cheesy liner on the
inside of what we did. We did it like a
like a tithe en below. So if you grew up
at certain shirt, these are the things that you you
played hangman on in the back of here in church,
and we're supposed to be listening, and so we've got
(15:27):
our credit stuff listed out there like that, and then
on the back we're going to pretend we were good
note takers from the church, and so what we've got
are actually you know, the handwritten titles and writers and
you know the status of the copyright owners who we've
all paid so straight out.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
So we have that, and then we have a photo
in the black box theater inside.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
This CD is really cool. Shout out to butch ogles
Bey for that photo. We use his photographs in this stuff.
He was definitely cool with us doing that. He takes
great photos.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
He is amazing.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So you've kind of got that tithe envelope vibe on
the CD interior. And then the coolest part we like
is that the vinyl is actually read like the him.
So it's kind of a if you're familiar with these
things and this ought to just ought to hit that
nostalgia button.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
That's hit it hard if you p k here, that's
all those Yeah, the fuzzy microphone, I know absolutely, I
love the fuzzy You know, I sang in those a
lot as a little kid, and yep, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Did you ever wonder who would sing it before?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, as a kid, Know, I wasn't worried about
Germans as much like that was pre COVID.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Right in certain churches, you knew if the music minister
dip winter grain or not, because you need to smell
it on the thing, right, you've ever.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Man, that's gonna be on my church. That's right, that's
gonna be such a cool show. Now, let's let's go
backwards a little bit. Tell us about I know, we
don't need the cover whatever. Tell us about yeah, y'all's
a villain or just story? How y'all, how what did
a retired principal, yes, start making at the time, weren't Yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Were a principal when I first mad.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yes, I was the assistant principal when we first started
doing music together. So we had a talent show at
the school, you know, teacher talent show, and I was
going to sing to a track, and then he played
at the talent show, and I think it was the
first time that we realized that each other. You know,
I knew that he played in the band at his church,
but I don't know that he knew that I.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Sing in no offense to church musicians. But I mean,
like we talked about the saxophone earlier, there's definitely church
Sacks and then like you know, John Coltrane, so like
you hear people are church musicians, Like that's that's cool.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, but you.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Know, so he played at the at the Teacher Talent Show,
and then shortly after that, or it may have been
a little bit longer down the road, but I was
invited to sing at Music on Maine, and at the
time I only sang to tracks because it didn't have
anyone that played for your church. And so I thought,
will ask him if he can learn some of the
songs that I sing in that way, we can make
(18:05):
that work.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
And he obliged. He said he would and probably knew
most of them already. Most of them were not Christian music.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Brother, do what I did not make.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
But if you've ever watched him, he can learn a
song about you know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But you guys were probably playing after the belly dancers
went on.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
No, this was well before. This is one of those
gigs where the budget was like two hundred bucks bringing
the sound system well before.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Okay, so should I watch off into the entire story?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I think we we could probably keep it brief. We
could do the reader's digest version.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
So I was asked to sing, and I didn't have enough,
so it was for three hours. I didn't have enough
material to do that. So my co worker had a
son that had a band, and so I had said
something to him about what he wanted to sing. A
few songs too, sure, and he was interested, and so
he went and talked to the organizer at the time.
(18:56):
He went and met with her by himself and talked
with her about possibly having some of that time. And
by the time it was showtime, it was that band,
and then intermission was when I was supposed to sing,
and then that band again.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
So that's how we started. You were singing daring intermission.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Right, We got the schedule and I said, oh, I
guess we're intermission, and there you go. I have not
been able to scrub that all for going on thirteen years.
So careful with the sarcasm, kids, It could stick, that's right.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
And that's what I get for sending him to talk
to her by himself, which he was a looker now cutie,
I understand, But all of a sudden it's like, wow,
oh that changed, and I heard and you don't have
to pay for three hours in three minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
But from that one tale, we get obviously the issues
with maybe understanding a good budget for talent. You have
events and things like that. So there's so much kind
of wrapped up in that one little moment there and
what we learned and is this it's not a great
band name because people see you on the on the
bill and they get up and obviously go to concession
staying and go to the restaurant whatever. But but you know,
(20:10):
the flip side of that is every time there's an
event listed anywhere you've ever played.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Were there?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's on the schedules when people go, hey, are y'all
playing here? Like, no, not y that actually is a break,
it's not really us. But you always get to ask
and you're always out there. So probably on balance, yeah,
it's kind of it's kind of even on that every.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Show that I've gone to with family, right, I know,
even even like going to the ballet, Yeah whatever, you know,
it'll say they'll say we're about to have a brief intermission.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
The whole family will turn to look like, no, that's
not us. That's great.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Now did you grow up singing Barborough Church and you
say your kids are musical there in the band they are.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
There was a family family music.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Just singing in the Singing in the car is pretty
much the extent of the music. But in church, you know,
is their kids choir. And I'm not trained and a
trained musician, but loved it. Just kept singing and Pentecostal roots.
And you know grandparents that lived in Texas, so they
were several states away. So it was like you would
record something in send because they never got to hear
him singing, right kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, And that's what it's always been cool about, like
American Idol and shows like that, Like the kids that
grew up singing in church, they've had so much more
experience than where else you sing. If you don't grow
up singing in church as a kid, you don't have
a music.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Programing right or something in your school.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
And I grew up in small school in America, so
we didn't really have where I was growing up at
Church was the foundation for exacting.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And Josh, when did you start?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I started off as a drummer and I couldn't afford
a drum set. It was nine hundred dollars when I
decided I really needed something to play. And uh, a
buddy of mine had his sister's guitar. She got married
and moved out. He needed speakers for his car. It
was it was not the here we are all right,
and literally here we are like he said, how much
(22:02):
money do you have? I said, I got one hundred
and twenty bucks. He said, I can do one hundred
and forty. And so I bought a pretty crappy guitar
from him and haven't put it down since I was fifteen,
I think, so at that point, obviously, I mean, other
context closed, but athletics went completely out of the window.
Schoolwork kind of went out. The went that I wound
up getting kicked out of Beta Club the last semester
(22:23):
of high school because you know, I couldn't put it down.
And it was fun. And again, very fortunate to grow
up in a in a church environment with just brilliant
musicians who and I mean, of course Todd Todd's in
the group and he, I mean just just just a
phenomenal musician, plays with shown and Aaron, you know, in
that grouping and just you know, so happy that that's
worked out. But just always been very fortunate to be
(22:46):
around fantastic musicians and for you know, for people who
don't know the difference Church of God, Church of Christ,
Church of God, we're the ones with the drum sets
and the amplifiers.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So Christ is not Wait what, I went to a
Church of Christ church one time because one of my
friends is pastor there. And when I tell you, the
shock on my face when they were They're like, we're
gonna start playing music and there's no music, and I'm like,
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
We just we just have to sing our voices. You're
making a joyful noise. It was right, that was right
for the Methodists. That's right.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That's yeah, that's it in the Church of God kept
peeving business for a long time. Everybody in the eighties
had those had those Mississippi marshes, right, so we love
that stuff. But you just that growing up playing there
and then you know, in lots of embarrassing bands since
then with people that we're not going to discuss, but
just really glad to have come back around to this
(23:40):
kind of stuff. It again. It's just one of those
things that it checks all the box, right, It hits
all the all the right points in doing this, and
it was just just super cool thing to do, like
back to your roots. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now you said Todd Brazier. It's so funny. He plays
I think with every band everywhere I go, and you don't.
He's so unassuming and he's just there and you hear
the music and you're like, oh, yeah, we do have
bass up there. Oh yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's hot.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And his son Jet is quite the opposite.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yes, and listen any dinosaur related questions. He's got it down.
But you know, growing up around Todd and also around
Jack Dudley, you know, George's brother, Phil's dad, just two
of the best bass players you're gonna find anywhere. I mean, like,
I didn't realize how spoiled I actually was until you
(24:34):
kind of go out and again, you play with other groups,
you do other things like hey, this is so and
so he's the bass player, and you hear like, wow,
that's okay.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You're like, you're not are you're holding the instruments?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's that's not quite what I'm a customer.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
You get a note every couple of measures and they're
not holding an instrument they made either, like right, Jack
Dudley did.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Right, and so it's you know, it's it's that deal
where just you know, the the amount of talent in
this area, but also who have kind of coalesced around
the arts Council's just super phenomenal. It's just it's it's
really nice how it's all come together. And again, as
I guess as an officer of that organization, thrilled with
all the things we do and encourage you to buy
(25:15):
a membership for you.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And your family, but you were thrilled before.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You or.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Always thrilled. Yeah, I mean yeah, my kiddo took drum lessons,
which and that's another cool component of this is kind
of how you keep it going because I mean I
played these tunes as a drummer, not just with Todd
but with his grandmother, which is just played the shape
notes out of the hymnal couldn't read the actual value
of the notebook, read the shapes played in any key. Brilliant,
brilliant stuff. And I got to I got to play
(25:44):
music with them, and that was really cool. And now
that Graham has decided he really is kind of into
the drum thing for sure. After all the after all
the money on lessons that didn't seem to take, they
did hanging their parents, they do, they pay attention. He's
playing music with us with with you know, me and
Todd every every weekend, and he's learning this stuff too,
(26:06):
and you know he's now learning you know this stuff.
You know, it may not be the newest thing out there,
but musically this is this is where you go learn
this stuff. I mean, this is where you get an
education as a musician playing this stuff. And he digs
it because he's a cool kid or will be one
day at some point on his way to being a
cool kid. But yeah, so it's that continuation of all
(26:28):
of that stuff that's just so neat to see. And
then you get to do that with with people that
you like.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, not to mention that feeds your soul. Yeah, and
do y'all write a lot of your music too and
perform original things, and.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, that first album, Yeah, that first album is full
of original stuff. You do most of the lyrics. Really,
we would I'd record music, put in a drop box thing,
and then lyrics would just magically show up, right, and
they were really cool. I'm like, Okay, that's that's nice
couple on there that I did the lyrics for. But yeah,
for the most part, we just kind of sit down
(27:03):
and hash that stuff out. There's a positive spin on
this this car trip that earlier ended in our Mutual Funeral.
When you are when you are tracking back and forth
to gigs and things like that, that's kind of when
you talk about it like I've just got a little
notebook that I keep in my briefcase. I just pull
it out. But here, you know, look at this. It's
like sharing your diary with somebody kind of. But you
(27:23):
go looking through it and it's like, okay, what can
you know? Can you do anything with this? Or she'll
text me something and say, hey, what can you know?
What do you think about this? And so that's you
just put it together and I want.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
To text him and said, I can't sing that line right.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Sometimes we get that like you're gonna have to sing
and if it's gonna get sung, and so those those
don't get sung sometimes, but you know, have fun with that.
But yeah, we definitely write her on stuff. And then
that first album which we just have on CD still
great worth listening, is original. So yeah, we do that
and we play those a lot. And it's always cool
(27:56):
when you go play somewhere and people are looking on
their phone for where that song is. We wrote that,
So that's that's that's really good. It's validating. I mean,
I guess that's kind of what we're doing, is looking
for some validation, and so yeah, we do that.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
And that first album, the cover was designed by Michelle Branson,
who has been on the show.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Some of this chain stuff around here was kind of
to pay homage back to her, going oh cool, yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, she had a we we had written a tune
and she actually had a piece of art independent independent
of you know, that album and that concept, and it
was like one I saw, it's like that'd make a
great album cover, and we did that and made that happen.
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What's the name of the album?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Skeletons?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, because you know she she's.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Very much into the kind of skeletal thing and the
origami stuff, and it just it worked. It was just
really really cool. So again just not having to go
very far to find everything you need to not just
get something done, but to do it. Really.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
She was a teacher that time, and then of course
you know Cousins, Yeah he was. He was a student
and now he's at there at John Aren't you a
teacher there?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I was a teacher there. Eric was my student. He
is now a teacher there and my child is his student,
so a lot of these it's a certain thing. So
just yes, just everything kind of time together. That that's
usually when you know you're onto something good, when when
all the all the ends kind of connect like that.
So I just very very happy to be involved with that.
It's just super cool thing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
It's shocking how much all things come back to Columbiana, right,
you know, I haven't been around this area of a
few years, and yeah, I'm not even what Okay, that's
just ended here.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
So it's talent, so many talents, a lot of a
lot of a lot of positive stuff going on there,
and so we're happy to do that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
But yeah, well good, we're super excited.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
It's going to be a great, a great Sunday, nice
Las afternoon.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah is it four? You should have probably had your
nap out exactly. The matter is, look, if you want it,
if you want it dark and air conditioned, you can
buy a ticket to the show and come taking that there.
Please make great head props.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, right, growing through your phone and Josh will think
you're looking up one of.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
The songs, songs that's right, trying to figure out what
be offended trying to figure out what the numbers on
the back of the album.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Right, Well, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
We have you again, Barbara, You're gonna have to stop
talking so much, so, I mean, really.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
God, I just couldn't get this one. It's getting y'all.
I was trying not to overtalk. I'm teasing him. We
loved having y'all. Y'all so fine. It's could be a
good Where can we find you on the internet's internets?
You have to look it up. I know y'all have
an Instagram.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I do have to look at Yes, it's www dot
intermission tunes dot com. There will be a byelink at
some point on there. I don't think that's active at
the moment, but you can at least go check it out, right,
and we'll have these for sale at the show on
October fifty four o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
By three, And they can follow you on social media.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Social media Instagram, I think it's Intermission dot tunes. There's
a Facebook page I think under the same name.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
So okay, just start searching. Yeah, the band you might
want to just put music.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, we're not the intermission band that's in Missoula, Montana, though,
We got several phone calls about that gig one time
like hey, you guys, good, what else do you need
for setup? And we're like nothing, Man, I can't. I'm
not going to be in conspilled this week. Sorry. That's
a long way away about that. So we've we've run
across those.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Well, everyone thinks we're Columbiana, Ohio and they tag us
and stuff all the time on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm like, that's not us, not in Ohio, but.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Never been there. We're probably cooler.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, probably I think we are.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, we're excited. Please come to the show. You'll have
all the links below and you want to check them out.
Come see Sean do his thing on the keys Man
and Aaron Peters and Todd and.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Aaron and Eric and Eric.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What a what a cow's with a bunch.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, So join them October fifth, four pm Shelby County
Arts Council dot com and tell them our social media.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Be sure to follow us on Instagram at Shelby Underscore
County Underscore Arts and at the Arts Council Lady the
Arts Council Underscore Ladies. We're now on TikTok at Shelby
County Arts Council and YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, just google us.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I'm sure you'll find us.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know, we're Shelby County, Alabama and Columbiana, Alabama, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So yay, all right, thanks for joining us, everybody, Bye
bye
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