September 9, 2025 • 46 mins
We were alerted to a Facebook post by the Evans Family Band holding a sign up asking to meet the Cowsills and voila! We have this week's guest and it is indeed the Evans Family Band. You should google them and listen before you hear from them in this episode. They are simply remarkable. Sit back and enjoy this one what a cute super talented family!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I saw I'm sitting in the rim.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We're the Cantles.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm Paul, I'm Bob, and I'm Susan Cowcill.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And welcome, welcome, one and all to the.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Calcil Podcast, where we have fun, fun, fun even when
we're being serious.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Every single week with our music stories and weekly special
guests from all walks of life.
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Right right right, Well, if that's true for you, then
you have a ride at the right place.
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At the right time.
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So we want you to sit back back and escape.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
With us and to our world of harmony, laughter and
tom foolery.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So let's get to it. Here's today's episode of the Castle.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yea hey, everybody, we are in our cone a minute.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Back in our corn again for a minute where we're
off the bus. Yeah and uh man, not sleeping in
the berth your right ball that you know, you get
used to it, but your body doesn't want to get
used to it, So it's really glad to be out
of there.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It is funny because y'all, I'm just trying to figure
out how to recreate my bunk in my bedroom.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
See now, Susan cave girl here said this was right
up her alley. The first word that came to Susan,
the first word that came to me with birth was
like dark. The first thing birth came to Susan when
she looked at birth was decorate and then both. That's
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a big difference.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It's a very big difference.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But I've been decorating every three blocks that I get
into for my whole life. It's just it's a it's
a good thing. But I think I figured out how
to do it at my house. I'm pretty excited. All all,
I have pictures of the birth, and so once I
accomplish this, I will give you A and B. It's
gonna be super exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, excellent. Hey Susan, I gotta say something.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
I'm sorry, but so I'm looking at you and I'm thinking, God,
she looks so pretty today. But you know you have
all this uh it's called hair. You've got the blurriness
behind you.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's behind me. Somehow makes you look better. I just
washed my hair after probably not washing it for a week,
so it's all. I literally did it three minutes ago,
so it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I was wondering what filters you were using. I'd like
to get a hold of those.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, it's just don't don't just have your hair too
long so you pretty much have a dog kind of
thing going on. Then wash it poofs out and covers
up everything and be in red light that I live.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
In mighty going on. Yeah, if you can see me,
fantastic time of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It's all living ball game.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
It's pretty good. Sometimes I'll see a picture of Susan
and she looked so good in it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'll go that's not because he'll look over on the
bus and go definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Or you look at it and you go, wow, she
looks familiar. But who is it?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, imagine how I feel when I look in the mirror.
But y'all know about.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That, Yeah, right right, picture of Susan looking like a
Hollywood starlet and one of the h t Again, no
one recognized her. She looks like.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Tom goes, who is this chick with us? You look
at it too. I looked at it when I don't
know where are my glasses?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, exactly, they're on your head.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh it's true, but god lord.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Anyway, guys, we had.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The last day of the tour. We had the last
show and and and, as is the custom for breaking
camp for the Happy Together tour. After that last show,
we go to the hotel and everyone just high tails
it out of dodge.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They did.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
There's no not really any tears, not really any Uh.
There's some hugs if you some of us were tears
if you're paying attention. Yeah, but it is so frenetic
to get out.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But we like to call that an Irish goodbye.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yes, and that's just like, yeah, you'd be there all
night hugging and oh we're going to miss you so much.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Godby are the opposite of that. You got to do
it eight thousand different times. You say it inside, you
say it outside, you say it on the driveway, you
say it at the car, you say it, well, the
car is going away, and then.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
You call it's the Irish goodbye, the one where you
disappear without saying it. And yes, they have a little
lepre Yes, that's a good one. I like that one.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, I told that too.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I told that to a lady yesterday because I was
out a thing at Dean's house and and Becky was
there and I said, I said, hey, you know, I'm
going to do an Irish goodbye. And the people go, well,
what's an Irish goodbye? I go, well, I'm not going
to say goodbye to all those people out there because
I will never go home.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It will never happen goodbye.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And then this lady says, well, I'll tell you. We
have this thing in my shirt. It's called the Ruthering goodbye.
And that is where when somebody comes over you house,
you feed them, you walk them to their car. Everybody
hugs before they get in the car, and then the
car's moving away and the driver rolls the window down
halfway to get yet another hug.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Well, look at Cajun Lutheran. Anything that ends in then
evidently run has a lot of hugging. But listen, I
like to get to an unpleasant part of our come
home journey, which was yay. Upon getting home, we all
got the very very sad and shocking just because because
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he was doing great and he was coming out on
the road, but we got the news that our commander
in chief and Bossy passed away. Mark Vohman, you all
know this. This is not news to any of you
by now, but we are still reeling from it, wouldn't
we say, guys, you should.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Know that we have experienced many deaths in our history,
the three of us parents, siblings, close people who are
very very close to us. This is up there amongst
those upper tier deaths. Not that you have tears of
deaths in your do.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How they hurt feels different to me. I agree.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
To lose Mark Bohman was like losing a father and
a brother and a friend and a mentor and everything
you could assign to somebody as a human being. This
man possessed and noted upon us. It took us three
years to crack this yell they get to him, but
it was so worth it once we all did that,
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and we all fell in love and found out what
the special thing was waiting for all of us once
we got through it, and so it was quite a hit.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yes, thanks Bob well put welcome.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, you know I do want to you know, of
course miss him, miss some love him, love him. But
I am grateful that he had a complete summer last summer. Okay,
I mean he wasn't in any really, he wasn't in
that much better shape than he was, you know this
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year at this time. But at the same time, man,
he was loving it and happy.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And it's about it to be.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, he had a great last I mean, he got
what he wanted. It was the most epic year ever.
And God bless Bridget she absolutely added to that and
the whole happy together team we last year became about
Mark's quality on stage and him going out gracefully. Now
we certainly we were all talking to him a few
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weeks before this year, so he was coming back out
for another victory run. But it wasn't meant to be.
But the fact that the victory run of last summer
was what it was is everything he wanted. And he,
as I said in my post Man, he just would
say to me sometimes, you guys, I just want to
leave them laughing, not at me with me.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Hey, And I do want to say one thing, Howard Kaylin,
you are not you are not forgotten here now you
know we're all thinking of you now. I mean, yeah, okay,
don't die. Okay, now listen, I got that way, but
you come out on tour.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Listen, listen, listen. I'll tell you I've been talking listen. Boss.
He's the one who told me. I woke up at
five am and saw I had gotten a text from
Howard and it said literally you know, he said Mark
just died. Fuck, I didn't want you to hear this
anywhere else. Yeah, that's what he said. So he and
(08:48):
I have been in constant with him. He is equally
what the heck well, but equally rich.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
How big it is for the three of us, we
can't project or even imagine how big it is for Howard. Howard,
I mean like you feel like losing Susan, you know,
and me, but yet way way up there, you know, with.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Like listen his his quote unquote ex wife Emily, which
is always fun, and she's laughing if she sees this.
She took him. She created the environment for us to
be able to have him out with us, to have
his epic gears, his doctors, his team. M was amazing
because everybody who would sometimes maybe misunderstand and say, to
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some of us, this is cruel, he shouldn't be out here,
can you do this didn't know that there was a
major plan from his doctors, his caregiver woman Emily, and
all of us. It was for his benefit that he
was out there, and he thrived in it, y'all. Yeah,
he lived on the bus.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
People, He was a bus guy like us, and by
this guy a fun factory that I was going to
learn about Mark was that this guy I was a
baseball Dodger fan. Throughout all the summer. You could hear
the Dodger game coming from his dressing room. He loved
to listen to it on the radio. Even if you
had it on a video. He would opt many times
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to just lay on that couch and listen game on
the radio. He liked that way of listening to baseball.
And we had that in common. If something big happened
during the season, you know, we'd kind of acknowledge it
in the in the base camp there, you know, while
we're out of her together about that the hot or
if they he'd get he'd get like a real fan,
he'd get concerned. And you know about the Dodgers. It
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was great. It was great.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, I can tell a story that relates to the
Dodgers and Mark summer was going to be because he
was so into it. This year. His outfit was a
Dodger outfit and it said and he had a number
and flow on the back and that was going to
be his stick this year.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That would have been cool.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Instead of the balloon jacket, remember yes, And then Sniffy
and the Snoopy this year he had made for himself
that's how ready to roll boss. He was his own
Dodger outfit would flow on the back. And he even
made for Bridgid a Dodger shirt for her that said
Queen Bee on the back for their team when they
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would walk out at night.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Were I want to tell you that, Yeah, I'll tell
you Also, in my opinion, I think he I mean,
his mind was working just as great as it could
possibly work, because you know, I saw him. We saw
him just a few weeks ago and we were talking
and we were excited, and Mark looked to me and he.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Goes, oh why why And so.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Just him because that's what he would always say to me.
I'd come roaring into his dressing room during you know,
the years, and I go hey, Mark, and he go, clyet,
paul cly bring it down. And he told me to
bring it down right there in front of him. And
it was like I was thinking, Okay, well he's still
in there, you know what.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And also to that point, he would say that to
Paulie if I was hanging and we were on the
couch just doing our couch sitting, and Poullie would leave
and he'd go, you know, I was Polly before Polly
was Paulie, and so he was like that used to
be me, and everybody saying.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Mark, my, oh go down, go down.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, what's he on? What's he on?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So anyway, needless to say, this is ongoing for us.
We will, you know, be a year of what the heck?
But man, what an honor and what what a magical
I mean, who I can't even believe that happened to us,
that we got.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
To right, we're the only.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
People that feels amazing.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
No, we're the only people left on the Happy Together
tour besides Godfrey probably man that was there and touring
and on their game Mark the Turtles. We literally got
to tour with those guys, and everybody else is not
doing that.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Agreed, Howard sends love. He said, you got to tell
the guys who all love. And you know, I'm sure
we'll see him, you know, memorial information on its way,
et cetera.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, and you know I do want everybody to
know that last year, you know, we did take some heat.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well why is he out there?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Well, you know, he never lost respect for himself and
nobody ever lost respect for him in fact, we know
the line of when we're not respecting you know, the
elderly people in our lives. We know where that line
is and we don't ever go to that line. So
everybody out there, you know, know that Mark was respected
and when he was on the road with us at
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the very end, he was respected as much, if not more.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So you know, it wasn't It was never a thing like, hey,
let me we need this guy out here. Okay, tape
over his mouth and whatever, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And that goes for all of our folks who stayed
maybe a minute too long, you know, in others opinions,
but it is their tribal cry and it is their
right and the respect was always always there.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
So and listen also, and we also can personally thank
Mark Bowman because this guy took the reins for us
because we did try for three years to get on
the Happy Together tour and Mark was on our side,
and he even called us on the third year that
we're going to get to know. But Mark personally called
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us and said, look, I can't sell this.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I've been trying.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They don't understand. And that's okay, Mark, God bless you,
you know, and but you hang up from a call
like that. You go, boy, man, we thought he had
all the power. Who's he trying?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, but you also hang up from a phone call
like that, going well. What we really wanted most out
of being on Happy Together in a way was just
to be acknowledged by our peers. That says, yeah, we're
legitimate too, ye. And Mark calling and saying I have
been trying and I can't do it, but I've been trying.
That was an acknowledgment from one of our.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Major He's going to succeed the next year. Yeah, and
then it's going to be eleven straight. So the history
is going to be what it's going to be for sure.
Time everyone's dancing around adding the councils to the Happy
Together tour, including the half together. To our people, look
at it, we go, we're the only ones missing. Well,
no you're not, but.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well in our opinion we are.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
And man Mark Bohlman, he just gets all the credit.
I'll never forget the early in the eleven year cycle
when he looked up and said, this tour is never
leaving without you guys. Whatever he was thinking at the time,
I didn't ask what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, And then I thought, yeah, right, okay, he's feeling
good again. Right, we've been down that fad before.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You know, well, you know what it was, the God's
honest truth.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Great, it was great, man. Yeah, guys were everywhere. They
were everywhere, I mean, Ron Bangan Goong and hungry Heart.
And my question is always, how do you find yourselves
in these places? To be on the back.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
They became known for it, y'all, I've been. They're known
for their backgrounds. Everybody wanted Springs, anybody, They're known for it.
And then they'd come in and and and one of
his his obits stories it said, you know, everybody wanted
them because the party would start. And that didn't mean drugs.
It meant that. And we know what that means when
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Howard and Mark would come on our bus and you know,
sit down with their little ukuleles and crack a bottle
of wine and start telling us about the good old age.
And then next thing you know, you're watching a Flow
and Eddie show across the aisle from you on your bus,
for no money, for no for no damn good reason
except these two knuckleheads doing that with each other.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Always running in with the ad libs and you know,
they starting some story and then if it got to
you and you and you let down on the story
they handed to you. Man, they got it was like,
you've got to come up with something next next.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, we do want to one issue right away. The
tour itself is fine.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes, we will be back.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
The songs have been driving this tour for many years. Okay,
it's it's been the music of the Turtles, It's the
music of the folks. It's the music of you know.
You know what I mean by that. It's like we
all know that we are supporting our own hits and
our own songs and that they now have the power.
So it is fine. The audience will be fine.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We are for sure a twenty twenty six. We've been
We know it absolutely and we are looking greatly forward
to it. And Bossy would be nothing.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You know, we got caught off guard this year because
two weeks before going out is when Mark stepped down
and cannot do this. So now we've already had the
summer without Mark or Howard and the Turtles. And see
the strength of the music still, how that comes forth
even y'all. Yeah, and boy, you just well and people
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cheer even more.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and it is about that, and it's about the audiences.
We still got to figure this out. But the audiences are.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Not ready to not, at least once a year, see
the songs live, you know, in a theater the way
we all did it as kids. And I think that
audience is gonna they're gonna they're gonna put us to
our task because they're going to keep us going to.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Want to.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
We just want to last long enough for one thing
to happen. I just want to be on stage one time.
It's another summer with a Happy Together tour, and it's
another night of Happy Together the song at the end
of the show, with the finale, But I want to
see a couple of holograms drop right out of the
sky on that stage with us, and it's Mark and
Howard and we're all doing Happy Together together. The technology
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is going to be there. It's going to be a whot.
It'll be the craziest thing.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I tell you something I wrote, Hold on, Bob, what
you just did was mimic Bossy's reaction only two weeks ago.
Whereupon I was watching the finale and you know the
video at the end. We've all been watching it because yeah,
we saw just missing Mark, so we all you know,
you're getting sentimental just missing the guy this summer, and
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it was him. They were up on the side of
one of the bigger places, and so I took a video,
a brief video of them on the wall and the
whole stage do us together. I send it to Howard
and he says to me, oh my god, we are
we have become effing holograms. Well, bossy, it looks like
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you have, and he went, so be it.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Damn it the very dramatic people. So here's what you believe,
he said. That screen behind us in many venues many
now they all have them now. And when they're playing
the old turtle footage of the guys, they are just
gigantic behind us, looking down on us, like uh, like
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a hologram, almost a girl looking down at the figures
of the Twilight's on the episode. It looks that big
when you look up at these guys, you know, hey
should be.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Tell them who's coming on so they don't pop in
and live.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
You have a guest Susan there. That is so funny
that Susan was just about to tell everyone that we
have a guest. Now they don't have their mic on yet.
We can see the eggs.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
If you would like a psychic greeting please, don't want to.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Understand, just tell me what horse to bet on.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Susan, we were just about there they are. We're about
to tell you about that Evans family band when all
of a sudden, who pops in.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Evans? Look at this? They all are and we hear you.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Uh oh, we don't hear you real good. Now do
you have a microphone set up there? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Let me see here. We worked on this a lot today. Well,
actually we're hearing you pretty good girl. Okay, hang on
one second. Maybe we just need to get closer you
might and also you might need to yell from where
you are, and I know, being kids, I would love
to yell my interview from a couch.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So I've been Can you say hi?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We can hear you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Let's go down by the way. Everyone, So a real
quick setup if you don't mind, and then Susan's going
to do some stuff, but it's going to be fun
family band. Who are the Evans Family band? Well? Listen
on Facebook. We saw a picture a while ago of
this beautiful family and they were had a little sign
on their next saying, would someone introduced us to the
Couciles or how can we get to meet the Cosciles?
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Now we always at first thing someone's messing with us,
so we don't take it seriously like that. But then
they came to a show and they happy together tour.
They're a real family. They're a family band in ways
that you won't believe. If we could go down, there's
the three kids. Now there's a set of twins. I
know that it's not their I think it's the girls.
(22:26):
It's not the girls. Okay, so go down and take
it from Brent and to the who's who?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Okay, I'm Brent, and I'm the father and the roadie.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And yeah, there's generally one of the twins and the
other twin like.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
A Porter and I'm ten years old?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Okay, order nine and a ten.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm it's the first but is it Evie? Wait? Brothers right?
I remember that Heavy's how old? How old are you, buddy?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
How old are you? Heavy?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah? Your window porter?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Ooh?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Girls and boys like Buffy and Jody from Family Affair.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's very unusual being named after two brothers. Cool, very interesting.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah, yeah, and so we have Cold Porter. We named
him after Cold Border.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oh, so I have a question.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Did you leave their middle name? Did you leave the
middle names alone so they might pick a name that
they would be more suitable with.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
No didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, all right, take us through this, Susan, get it
going here, all.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Right, and this is going to be kind of fun
and a little bit hilarious. First of all, welcome to
the Councils Podcasts. We're so excited you guys are with us.
You are in great company. Yay, thank you, You're welcome.
One of the first things I like to ask my guests,
who are usually well into their fifties or sixties, But
(24:17):
I'm going to ask you guys anyway, because it's the
same question and it and it might well you'll see
what I mean in a second. So I'm going to
ask Porter emma An Evya before you got huh it's Eda,
Eda James Like, okay, all right, all right, Porter Eda boy,
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and Eda would be proud of you just actually articulating that.
All right, here's the question, guys, before you became the
musical entities that you are today, was there anything you
wanted to be as a younger, you like a fireman,
a doctor, a garbage guy, a teacher, anything else you
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thought about doing before you became the consonant professionals. You
are today a veterinarian. Yes, me too, and.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
I still want to be a veterinarian. And I'm any singer,
so like a veterinarian singer.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, thank you that I love it. Okay, Porter, I
wanted to.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Be I want to be a baseball player, and I
still want to.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Because I'm doing baseball. So we talked to Poullie about
that in a minute. Okay, so you guys like it's
amazing because some some artists have other things they want
to do, some don't. But I really encourage you guys
to get your other things done because I didn't go Polly.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
What did ever want to do? You didn't get to her.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Oh, I thought she wanted to be a vet. Also,
what do you want to do?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
I want to I wanted to be a gymnast.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I'm sorry, I thought you I'm in double vet. Awesome.
You can do it all, guys, Yeah, she can already
do this flits. Yeah, I'm starting to get a little upset.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
This is incredible, PAULI.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Okay, whatever, guys take it. I just thank you very much.
You guys. Yeah, you should hear the old people answer it.
Miami Steve told me what he wanted to be when
he was growing up, before he was a musician. Was
out of jail.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Okay. So one song that we have in common is
Be My Baby.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's very easy to find your version of Be My
Baby online and it was quite something to hear the harmonies.
So I was a little surprised at how sophisticated and
how like day this is a real vocal stack here.
You know, thank you all the right harmony. Now, even
in Be My Baby, I heard a little cowcil slash
(27:05):
Osmond even Osmond. I don't know if you listen to
the Osmond's and the Barber Chop Quartet years and the
when they were on Andy Williams probably the cat even
born then. But you know, we're it's a serious vocal stack.
So my question is did it start with two parents
or did it start with three kids and the parents
(27:26):
came later.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Wow, that's a good, good question.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
No, we just thought we just knew that would be
a good song for the show.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And I've always wanted to play that song and we
just sat down and worked out the parts.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Actually there, I don't believe there.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Are harmonies on the first or second choruses of the
songs that we just kind of added them.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, no original can Can I ask a harmony question? Yes? Sure?
So when y'all sit down to do them quote unquote,
do let's say, does Eda does she gravitate Towardois? Do
you all gravitate towards like your spots almost pose?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Do you teach them their harmony parts? Or do they
come in and go, oh, hey, I'll take this. I'm saying, goes, well,
I'll take this part.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
It'spens both. It's been both ways.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
If they the song and they know the song really well,
they sometimes will.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
But it started, it really did. It started the first
few that we did.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
One of our most intricate harmony songs that we originated
with with our group.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Was the Mamas and the Papas right Monday Monday, and
that's been two years ago. It was it was New
Year's Eve and we got the idea.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
We actually that was when we were getting aby to
take off in our bus and we sold everything and
we moved into our RV and we were just days
away from going.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
We were trying to get it running. We had a
little issue.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
We were trying to get on the road, and we
decided to learn Monday Monday, and we we did teach
them their own parts and it kind of went from
there and ever since then.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Really, Eda has almost always fallen into the third part naturally,
she just starts singing it. Eddie always likes to take
the high part. Okay, Porter can go either way. Yeah, yeah, yeh. Funny.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
We sang Monday Monday for years. I know, I mean,
you know, any of the good vocal songs, any of
the big ones. We gravitated towards as children. So did Brent,
did you and your wife did you guys have a
duo going or something? Decided, you know, we need some
harmonizers and had children.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yeah, and we wanted a basketball team also.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
So yeah, we started together. We performed I think ten
years prior to the children.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Yeah, so we were a duo slash band, right.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
But they they were on stage with us, with me
when they were in the womb. I mean, so they
have literally heard harmony since they were created.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I mean I remember being pregnant.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
With the twins and I played mandolin and I could
hardly hold my mandolin in front of my stomach.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It was the most awkward thing. Of course, that's when
you're Catherine. That's when it's the side thing. When you're
pregnant and you're a guitarist, that guitar it's your Now
you become a side strummer.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:26):
I ended up going there so they you know, always
heard harmony. So I think, were you guys when you
started harmonizing.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
One year four four?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Well that we were like four or five when we
started doing three parts three and when me and Ebbie
started doing two parts when we were like probably three
or four.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Wow, I had the car seats. Yeah, it's interesting because
I was not I didn't come out to shoot being
able to sing, evidently because my brother Bill told me
that I was not getting anywhere near his band until
I actually could sing. And I was five six seven,
(31:12):
you know, just wait wait, you know, And there was
a time that I sang something and it was it
was acceptable and I was let in. But I wasn't
at three, four and five doing harmonies. I can tell
you that.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah, are the kids train? Are you trained to read
and write music?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Or do I do it all by year. Yeah, I'm
a record producer. Also it's studio engineer.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
So and it's all god ken right ear people, Yeah yeah, even.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
The little guy. You guys are by ear too.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Yeah, I read some music because it plays violin.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Well sure, and go ahead and do so. You know,
you guys can do whatever. But the fact that you're
like doing what you do without it is cool. And
then you can go I mean it's always there. You know.
You can earn that and and and and it helps
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, all right, guys, So you all live in a van?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh yeah, talk about this.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We guys all live in a van? Or do you
live in a house?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You have a house? Now?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
We so we sold everything two years ago and moved
into an RV and.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
We is it. We went from how bad was that house?
Speaker 9 (32:24):
It was a nine eighteen hundred eighteen twenty five old
mansion home. I mean it was massive, sounds familiar with
all of it. And we went into like two hundred
square feet Yeah oh.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
That why why did you do that? What was the plan?
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
This? Well?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, music, but we owned an ice cream business and
that kind of took over our lives. We uh, you know,
we loved it. But it was it consumed us these
children will not be young very long. Yes, and we
said let's do something different and we did.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And we are all right. Yeah so then yeah, so
then the kids are homeschooled.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yeah? Yes, have they been homeschooled their whole life? Or
did they go to public school?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And no?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
No, so this is not for you dad or you mom. So, guys,
so do you miss going to a regular school?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
No?
Speaker 8 (33:30):
I like being homeschool because we have school all our
friends and all all of our lessons are so fun
and we can do them outside and wherever we want
to do it, and then it's just like we can go.
We can just like decide last minute we want to
go to the park and do our school there, and
(33:50):
then go to a coffee shop and do our school there.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That sounds like. That sounds like a lot of fun.
So and friends, you have a lot of friends?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Ah, yeah, we do?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Or four.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Time.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Obviously, now that you're traveling, you know you won't be
able to hang out with your pals on an everyday basis,
But you guys are in touch with friends that you
you had at that big house. Yeah. Yeah cool.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
So right, now, porter like Porter, when you did base,
you do baseball? You joined little league or something? Is
that how you do it?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Or?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Okay, So do your fellow ball players know they have
another life?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yet?
Speaker 7 (34:38):
The season just started. These are all new friends and.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Okay, well they're gonna find out.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Yeah, I ask you, guys.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
What position do you play? Porter hold on?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Okay? Mostly third base?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Third base. They're gonna hear some third basement singing his
heart out one day and they're gonna find out about Porter.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Hey, y'all, so I know you sold the house, you
bought the RV. You live in the r V. Do
you live in a like wherever your house was when
you are not driving all over the place? Do you
live in the r V? Or are you in constant motion? Now?
I mean, how can he be balling if he's now?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
We bought a house here in Florida in January?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Okay, so you do have.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
A place to call home.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Great, the best of both worlds.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
We lad has the time to be on a little
league team and make the games and the practices and
all that.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
So far.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, awesome, guys.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Well, just watching out for you kids. I'm just watching out.
Here's my next question, So do any.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Of the kids. Do they sing lead? You know, part
of your show. And you have a show? What is
in an hour? Can you do an hour?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We do two hours?
Speaker 10 (35:58):
Okay, yeah, yeah, each of the children have their own songs,
like she sings Annie beautifully.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
What kind of places are you performing in? Where are
you booking yourselves? Where can people find you?
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Well, so we're trying to do small theaters. Those are
seem like a great fit for what we do because
it's really kind of a show. You know, we're not
really your typical restaurant type music, and it's not really
get up and we do a lot of medleys, so
(36:40):
it's kind of hard to We're not a dance group
per se.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
So yeah, we're doing We're doing small theaters and fatiable Okay.
Speaker 7 (36:52):
Art sales.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
I see, I see a guitar in your hand. Does
that reply that perhaps you could sing us a little something?
We never can because we're always separated at this zoomy thing.
Where are you now? I'm a New Orleans where an Oregon?
New Orleans? And Los Angeles?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
I'm an Oregon crazy so cool?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah, we love to guys, right, I mean they're there.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Yeah, we got here and I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Most of the strings are into in luck with that, but.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
One too. Well, now it's getting weird. It doesn't hear we.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Can't hear you, and hear you sing, we can't hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
You're saying something, yeah, because the second you guys started singing,
all of a sudden the sound went away. It won't
let you do it, guys. Now your format does not
(38:04):
accept all of your voices at once.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
You think it might be overloading the microphone.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, but man, what
I heard?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Are you kidding me? With Marrakesh Express?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
And we can tell people just go up to your
address field, put in Evans Family Band and you can
put Brent if you want, just to get the you know,
but there's plenty of footage on them soon. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
No, I did want to mention.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
I thought I was seeing everything on YouTube, but you know,
I deep dove and man, I came up with some
tracks that you guys did, and I think that I
might have even heard you do amra Cast Express. But
you did some Crossby stills in Nash song and man,
it was killer.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And I want to tell you kids. You guys are
killing it, man.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I mean your voices are true, and your harmonies are true,
and and and Porter just don't be pushed around by
those sisters.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Hey, and sisters certainly don't let Porter push you around.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, Porter's on his own here.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Well look here, he's there. I'd like to discuss this'll
push each other around.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Your dad starts acting up, fire them.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Yeah, fire and don't forget that fire.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
M for sure.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
It Christmas time. You guys, do you do Christmas shows?
You learn Christmas songs.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
And all that.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Yeah, that was my favorite time of the year, man,
was Christmas. We were Catholics, so man, we were always
in church with cellophane on the flapslight listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I want to know if there's something you guys want
to want to say, like, what do you want to
tell everybody out there, from the little people to Katherine
and Brett? What do you want everybody to know about y'all? Oh?
All right, good enough?
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Mom and Dad, well, speaking speaking of Christmas, and we're
working on yeah, sure.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
So we're actually working on.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Dad had two Christmas albums and we're re recording so
then to have sounds. Yeah, some of the Dad's original
to have out for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
How excited?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Kids?
Speaker 5 (40:26):
Make sure, I'm sorry, Bob. One last thing for the children.
Make sure a couple of things. Don't sign anything that
asks you if you're twenty one. If you're not, just
don't sign anything. And make sure even if dad and
mom write a song, that you get a percentage of
the plub publishing at least.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
All right, good guys, it okay, Bob, what do you think?
Child advocate Paul cows You just got off with Paul
Peters and he's on fire.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
All is the available through Paul Counsel Consultants.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Paul is taking over for Paul Peters. Wait, wait, Porter
wants Paul go. Porter. Do you have your pins on?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Well? I have to.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
We're doing a show tomorrow or we're going somewhere tomorrow,
and all my pins are in my pin holder, but
I will probably tonight put all my pins on my shirt.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Definitely, question Porter, Bob.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Where is the Evans Family Band performing next?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah? What's up?
Speaker 9 (41:37):
We've got some local shows down here in Florida, and
then we're really just trying to work up our schedule
for next summer so that we can kind of keep
our off season a little bit more open for homeschool and.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
All the activities they do.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
Sure, so, yeah, we will be posting our schedule on
our website. We just took the Evans Family band one,
so right now redirects you to our social media and we.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Have all our shows posted on our website.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
And well, well of we couldn't hear you live, but
Zoom Zoom has a ways to go still, and they're
a little bit trouble when you want to perform. That's
why everybody sends files instead.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
But listen, you all sounded like like, you know you guys,
you know in the Little Mermaid under the Sea, that's
what we will go. We were going for Hume, Brent.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Did you have a career prior to all of this?
They're referencing prior albums and what what was with you?
Speaker 7 (42:46):
Yeah, yeah, I did. I was a solo app for many,
many years.
Speaker 6 (42:51):
I mean I played in bands here and there, but
I wanted to make a living doing it.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
So I did the solo thing, and I did cruise
ships and casinos that kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (43:02):
And then I met my wife and we started, you know,
doing the duo thing.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
And so yeah, how are you guys known as were
you Brett and Catherine or were you the Evans? Who
were you?
Speaker 7 (43:14):
Good question? No, we didn't like the sad Brent mccatherine,
I can dig it. We went with the Johnny and
Sally show.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course I had.
Speaker 6 (43:30):
I had written a song called the Legend of Johnny
and Sally and we just became those characters.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I love it.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Good.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
All right, So all right, family.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
We want to thank the Evans Family band. Now what
part of Florida do you hang out in?
Speaker 3 (43:47):
North central Florida? So right above Gainesville?
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Okay, so just check them out online. I'm gonna share
all of the information about them and go see this
family because they're very good singers. They got that sibling
blend we all know about that. Yep, that's going to
get a little tighter. You know. That's where your space
between harmonies is less and less because your siblings. It's
tighter anyway. So you have that and it sounds wonderful.
(44:13):
So good luck to all of you is thank you
for reaching out to us.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yes, we are so happy to have met y'all, and
we look forward to following you in your adventures.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
You guys rehearse every day. Kids, Do you guys rehearse
every day?
Speaker 7 (44:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:28):
No, not every day? Okay, and good And what I'm
going to do with Pollie. Hey, kids, if your parents
ever get you to try and rehearse during the time
your favorite TV show is on, really nicely ask them
to renegotiate that. There's a lot of hours in a day.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna call you next week.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
We're gonna call you next week with a list of
stuff that you need to do for the kids.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
You guys are awesome. Gat You guys are amazing. You
don't need us.
Speaker 7 (45:02):
We love you watching and listening to you guys. So
this is a real honor for me, and it's all
the kids.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
So your kids.
Speaker 9 (45:10):
We've been watching your old, older videos, your newer stuff
since they were two and a half.
Speaker 5 (45:16):
Yeah, you guys sing like pros.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
You guys sing like pros.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Keep it up.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
I do really good. Now, smile out your brother, right, okay, right, everybody,
let's wave because if we all start talking, it's gonna
blow the microphone.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
We're going to do by Thanks, Hi, guys.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
A lot of bye okay everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
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Speaker 3 (46:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 5 (00:21):
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Speaker 5 (00:30):
Right right right, Well, if that's true for you, then
you have a ride at the right place.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
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With us and to our world of harmony, laughter and
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
So let's get to it. Here's today's episode of the Castle.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yea hey, everybody, we are in our cone a minute.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Back in our corn again for a minute where we're
off the bus. Yeah and uh man, not sleeping in
the berth your right ball that you know, you get
used to it, but your body doesn't want to get
used to it, So it's really glad to be out
of there.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It is funny because y'all, I'm just trying to figure
out how to recreate my bunk in my bedroom.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
See now, Susan cave girl here said this was right
up her alley. The first word that came to Susan,
the first word that came to me with birth was
like dark. The first thing birth came to Susan when
she looked at birth was decorate and then both. That's
(01:44):
a big difference.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It's a very big difference.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But I've been decorating every three blocks that I get
into for my whole life. It's just it's a it's
a good thing. But I think I figured out how
to do it at my house. I'm pretty excited. All all,
I have pictures of the birth, and so once I
accomplish this, I will give you A and B. It's
gonna be super exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, excellent. Hey Susan, I gotta say something.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
I'm sorry, but so I'm looking at you and I'm thinking, God,
she looks so pretty today. But you know you have
all this uh it's called hair. You've got the blurriness
behind you.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's behind me. Somehow makes you look better. I just
washed my hair after probably not washing it for a week,
so it's all. I literally did it three minutes ago,
so it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I was wondering what filters you were using. I'd like
to get a hold of those.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, it's just don't don't just have your hair too
long so you pretty much have a dog kind of
thing going on. Then wash it poofs out and covers
up everything and be in red light that I live.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
In mighty going on. Yeah, if you can see me,
fantastic time of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It's all living ball game.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
It's pretty good. Sometimes I'll see a picture of Susan
and she looked so good in it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'll go that's not because he'll look over on the
bus and go definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Or you look at it and you go, wow, she
looks familiar. But who is it?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, imagine how I feel when I look in the mirror.
But y'all know about.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That, Yeah, right right, picture of Susan looking like a
Hollywood starlet and one of the h t Again, no
one recognized her. She looks like.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Tom goes, who is this chick with us? You look
at it too. I looked at it when I don't
know where are my glasses?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, exactly, they're on your head.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh it's true, but god lord.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Anyway, guys, we had.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
The last day of the tour. We had the last
show and and and, as is the custom for breaking
camp for the Happy Together tour. After that last show,
we go to the hotel and everyone just high tails
it out of dodge.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They did.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
There's no not really any tears, not really any Uh.
There's some hugs if you some of us were tears
if you're paying attention. Yeah, but it is so frenetic
to get out.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But we like to call that an Irish goodbye.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yes, and that's just like, yeah, you'd be there all
night hugging and oh we're going to miss you so much.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Godby are the opposite of that. You got to do
it eight thousand different times. You say it inside, you
say it outside, you say it on the driveway, you
say it at the car, you say it, well, the
car is going away, and then.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
You call it's the Irish goodbye, the one where you
disappear without saying it. And yes, they have a little
lepre Yes, that's a good one. I like that one.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, I told that too.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I told that to a lady yesterday because I was
out a thing at Dean's house and and Becky was
there and I said, I said, hey, you know, I'm
going to do an Irish goodbye. And the people go, well,
what's an Irish goodbye? I go, well, I'm not going
to say goodbye to all those people out there because
I will never go home.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It will never happen goodbye.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And then this lady says, well, I'll tell you. We
have this thing in my shirt. It's called the Ruthering goodbye.
And that is where when somebody comes over you house,
you feed them, you walk them to their car. Everybody
hugs before they get in the car, and then the
car's moving away and the driver rolls the window down
halfway to get yet another hug.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Well, look at Cajun Lutheran. Anything that ends in then
evidently run has a lot of hugging. But listen, I
like to get to an unpleasant part of our come
home journey, which was yay. Upon getting home, we all
got the very very sad and shocking just because because
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he was doing great and he was coming out on
the road, but we got the news that our commander
in chief and Bossy passed away. Mark Vohman, you all
know this. This is not news to any of you
by now, but we are still reeling from it, wouldn't
we say, guys, you should.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Know that we have experienced many deaths in our history,
the three of us parents, siblings, close people who are
very very close to us. This is up there amongst
those upper tier deaths. Not that you have tears of
deaths in your do.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
How they hurt feels different to me. I agree.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
To lose Mark Bohman was like losing a father and
a brother and a friend and a mentor and everything
you could assign to somebody as a human being. This
man possessed and noted upon us. It took us three
years to crack this yell they get to him, but
it was so worth it once we all did that,
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and we all fell in love and found out what
the special thing was waiting for all of us once
we got through it, and so it was quite a hit.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yes, thanks Bob well put welcome.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, you know I do want to you know, of
course miss him, miss some love him, love him. But
I am grateful that he had a complete summer last summer. Okay,
I mean he wasn't in any really, he wasn't in
that much better shape than he was, you know this
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year at this time. But at the same time, man,
he was loving it and happy.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And it's about it to be.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, he had a great last I mean, he got
what he wanted. It was the most epic year ever.
And God bless Bridget she absolutely added to that and
the whole happy together team we last year became about
Mark's quality on stage and him going out gracefully. Now
we certainly we were all talking to him a few
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weeks before this year, so he was coming back out
for another victory run. But it wasn't meant to be.
But the fact that the victory run of last summer
was what it was is everything he wanted. And he,
as I said in my post Man, he just would
say to me sometimes, you guys, I just want to
leave them laughing, not at me with me.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Hey, And I do want to say one thing, Howard Kaylin,
you are not you are not forgotten here now you
know we're all thinking of you now. I mean, yeah, okay,
don't die. Okay, now listen, I got that way, but
you come out on tour.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Listen, listen, listen. I'll tell you I've been talking listen. Boss.
He's the one who told me. I woke up at
five am and saw I had gotten a text from
Howard and it said literally you know, he said Mark
just died. Fuck, I didn't want you to hear this
anywhere else. Yeah, that's what he said. So he and
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I have been in constant with him. He is equally
what the heck well, but equally rich.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
How big it is for the three of us, we
can't project or even imagine how big it is for Howard. Howard,
I mean like you feel like losing Susan, you know,
and me, but yet way way up there, you know, with.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Like listen his his quote unquote ex wife Emily, which
is always fun, and she's laughing if she sees this.
She took him. She created the environment for us to
be able to have him out with us, to have
his epic gears, his doctors, his team. M was amazing
because everybody who would sometimes maybe misunderstand and say, to
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some of us, this is cruel, he shouldn't be out here,
can you do this didn't know that there was a
major plan from his doctors, his caregiver woman Emily, and
all of us. It was for his benefit that he
was out there, and he thrived in it, y'all. Yeah,
he lived on the bus.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
People, He was a bus guy like us, and by
this guy a fun factory that I was going to
learn about Mark was that this guy I was a
baseball Dodger fan. Throughout all the summer. You could hear
the Dodger game coming from his dressing room. He loved
to listen to it on the radio. Even if you
had it on a video. He would opt many times
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to just lay on that couch and listen game on
the radio. He liked that way of listening to baseball.
And we had that in common. If something big happened
during the season, you know, we'd kind of acknowledge it
in the in the base camp there, you know, while
we're out of her together about that the hot or
if they he'd get he'd get like a real fan,
he'd get concerned. And you know about the Dodgers. It
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was great. It was great.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, I can tell a story that relates to the
Dodgers and Mark summer was going to be because he
was so into it. This year. His outfit was a
Dodger outfit and it said and he had a number
and flow on the back and that was going to
be his stick this year.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
That would have been cool.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Instead of the balloon jacket, remember yes, And then Sniffy
and the Snoopy this year he had made for himself
that's how ready to roll boss. He was his own
Dodger outfit would flow on the back. And he even
made for Bridgid a Dodger shirt for her that said
Queen Bee on the back for their team when they
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would walk out at night.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Were I want to tell you that, Yeah, I'll tell
you Also, in my opinion, I think he I mean,
his mind was working just as great as it could
possibly work, because you know, I saw him. We saw
him just a few weeks ago and we were talking
and we were excited, and Mark looked to me and he.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Goes, oh why why And so.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Just him because that's what he would always say to me.
I'd come roaring into his dressing room during you know,
the years, and I go hey, Mark, and he go, clyet,
paul cly bring it down. And he told me to
bring it down right there in front of him. And
it was like I was thinking, Okay, well he's still
in there, you know what.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And also to that point, he would say that to
Paulie if I was hanging and we were on the
couch just doing our couch sitting, and Poullie would leave
and he'd go, you know, I was Polly before Polly
was Paulie, and so he was like that used to
be me, and everybody saying.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Mark, my, oh go down, go down.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, what's he on? What's he on?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So anyway, needless to say, this is ongoing for us.
We will, you know, be a year of what the heck?
But man, what an honor and what what a magical
I mean, who I can't even believe that happened to us,
that we got.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
To right, we're the only.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
People that feels amazing.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
No, we're the only people left on the Happy Together
tour besides Godfrey probably man that was there and touring
and on their game Mark the Turtles. We literally got
to tour with those guys, and everybody else is not
doing that.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Agreed, Howard sends love. He said, you got to tell
the guys who all love. And you know, I'm sure
we'll see him, you know, memorial information on its way,
et cetera.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, and you know I do want everybody to
know that last year, you know, we did take some heat.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well why is he out there?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Well, you know, he never lost respect for himself and
nobody ever lost respect for him in fact, we know
the line of when we're not respecting you know, the
elderly people in our lives. We know where that line
is and we don't ever go to that line. So
everybody out there, you know, know that Mark was respected
and when he was on the road with us at
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the very end, he was respected as much, if not more.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So you know, it wasn't It was never a thing like, hey,
let me we need this guy out here. Okay, tape
over his mouth and whatever, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And that goes for all of our folks who stayed
maybe a minute too long, you know, in others opinions,
but it is their tribal cry and it is their
right and the respect was always always there.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
So and listen also, and we also can personally thank
Mark Bowman because this guy took the reins for us
because we did try for three years to get on
the Happy Together tour and Mark was on our side,
and he even called us on the third year that
we're going to get to know. But Mark personally called
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us and said, look, I can't sell this.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I've been trying.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They don't understand. And that's okay, Mark, God bless you,
you know, and but you hang up from a call
like that. You go, boy, man, we thought he had
all the power. Who's he trying?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, but you also hang up from a phone call
like that, going well. What we really wanted most out
of being on Happy Together in a way was just
to be acknowledged by our peers. That says, yeah, we're
legitimate too, ye. And Mark calling and saying I have
been trying and I can't do it, but I've been trying.
That was an acknowledgment from one of our.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Major He's going to succeed the next year. Yeah, and
then it's going to be eleven straight. So the history
is going to be what it's going to be for sure.
Time everyone's dancing around adding the councils to the Happy
Together tour, including the half together. To our people, look
at it, we go, we're the only ones missing. Well,
no you're not, but.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well in our opinion we are.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
And man Mark Bohlman, he just gets all the credit.
I'll never forget the early in the eleven year cycle
when he looked up and said, this tour is never
leaving without you guys. Whatever he was thinking at the time,
I didn't ask what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, And then I thought, yeah, right, okay, he's feeling
good again. Right, we've been down that fad before.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You know, well, you know what it was, the God's
honest truth.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Great, it was great, man. Yeah, guys were everywhere. They
were everywhere, I mean, Ron Bangan Goong and hungry Heart.
And my question is always, how do you find yourselves
in these places? To be on the back.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
They became known for it, y'all, I've been. They're known
for their backgrounds. Everybody wanted Springs, anybody, They're known for it.
And then they'd come in and and and one of
his his obits stories it said, you know, everybody wanted
them because the party would start. And that didn't mean drugs.
It meant that. And we know what that means when
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Howard and Mark would come on our bus and you know,
sit down with their little ukuleles and crack a bottle
of wine and start telling us about the good old age.
And then next thing you know, you're watching a Flow
and Eddie show across the aisle from you on your bus,
for no money, for no for no damn good reason
except these two knuckleheads doing that with each other.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Always running in with the ad libs and you know,
they starting some story and then if it got to
you and you and you let down on the story
they handed to you. Man, they got it was like,
you've got to come up with something next next.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, we do want to one issue right away. The
tour itself is fine.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes, we will be back.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
The songs have been driving this tour for many years. Okay,
it's it's been the music of the Turtles, It's the
music of the folks. It's the music of you know.
You know what I mean by that. It's like we
all know that we are supporting our own hits and
our own songs and that they now have the power.
So it is fine. The audience will be fine.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We are for sure a twenty twenty six. We've been
We know it absolutely and we are looking greatly forward
to it. And Bossy would be nothing.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You know, we got caught off guard this year because
two weeks before going out is when Mark stepped down
and cannot do this. So now we've already had the
summer without Mark or Howard and the Turtles. And see
the strength of the music still, how that comes forth
even y'all. Yeah, and boy, you just well and people
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cheer even more.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, and it is about that, and it's about the audiences.
We still got to figure this out. But the audiences are.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Not ready to not, at least once a year, see
the songs live, you know, in a theater the way
we all did it as kids. And I think that
audience is gonna they're gonna they're gonna put us to
our task because they're going to keep us going to.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Want to.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
We just want to last long enough for one thing
to happen. I just want to be on stage one time.
It's another summer with a Happy Together tour, and it's
another night of Happy Together the song at the end
of the show, with the finale, But I want to
see a couple of holograms drop right out of the
sky on that stage with us, and it's Mark and
Howard and we're all doing Happy Together together. The technology
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is going to be there. It's going to be a whot.
It'll be the craziest thing.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I tell you something I wrote, Hold on, Bob, what
you just did was mimic Bossy's reaction only two weeks ago.
Whereupon I was watching the finale and you know the
video at the end. We've all been watching it because yeah,
we saw just missing Mark, so we all you know,
you're getting sentimental just missing the guy this summer, and
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it was him. They were up on the side of
one of the bigger places, and so I took a video,
a brief video of them on the wall and the
whole stage do us together. I send it to Howard
and he says to me, oh my god, we are
we have become effing holograms. Well, bossy, it looks like
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you have, and he went, so be it.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Damn it the very dramatic people. So here's what you believe,
he said. That screen behind us in many venues many
now they all have them now. And when they're playing
the old turtle footage of the guys, they are just
gigantic behind us, looking down on us, like uh, like
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a hologram, almost a girl looking down at the figures
of the Twilight's on the episode. It looks that big
when you look up at these guys, you know, hey
should be.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Tell them who's coming on so they don't pop in
and live.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
You have a guest Susan there. That is so funny
that Susan was just about to tell everyone that we
have a guest. Now they don't have their mic on yet.
We can see the eggs.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
If you would like a psychic greeting please, don't want to.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Understand, just tell me what horse to bet on.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Susan, we were just about there they are. We're about
to tell you about that Evans family band when all
of a sudden, who pops in.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Evans? Look at this? They all are and we hear you.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Uh oh, we don't hear you real good. Now do
you have a microphone set up there? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Let me see here. We worked on this a lot today. Well,
actually we're hearing you pretty good girl. Okay, hang on
one second. Maybe we just need to get closer you
might and also you might need to yell from where
you are, and I know, being kids, I would love
to yell my interview from a couch.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So I've been Can you say hi?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We can hear you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Let's go down by the way. Everyone, So a real
quick setup if you don't mind, and then Susan's going
to do some stuff, but it's going to be fun
family band. Who are the Evans Family band? Well? Listen
on Facebook. We saw a picture a while ago of
this beautiful family and they were had a little sign
on their next saying, would someone introduced us to the
Couciles or how can we get to meet the Cosciles?
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Now we always at first thing someone's messing with us,
so we don't take it seriously like that. But then
they came to a show and they happy together tour.
They're a real family. They're a family band in ways
that you won't believe. If we could go down, there's
the three kids. Now there's a set of twins. I
know that it's not their I think it's the girls.
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It's not the girls. Okay, so go down and take
it from Brent and to the who's who?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Okay, I'm Brent, and I'm the father and the roadie.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And yeah, there's generally one of the twins and the
other twin like.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
A Porter and I'm ten years old?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Okay, order nine and a ten.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm it's the first but is it Evie? Wait? Brothers right?
I remember that Heavy's how old? How old are you, buddy?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
How old are you? Heavy?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah? Your window porter?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Ooh?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Girls and boys like Buffy and Jody from Family Affair.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It's very unusual being named after two brothers. Cool, very interesting.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah, yeah, and so we have Cold Porter. We named
him after Cold Border.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oh, so I have a question.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Did you leave their middle name? Did you leave the
middle names alone so they might pick a name that
they would be more suitable with.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
No didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, all right, take us through this, Susan, get it
going here, all.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Right, and this is going to be kind of fun
and a little bit hilarious. First of all, welcome to
the Councils Podcasts. We're so excited you guys are with us.
You are in great company. Yay, thank you, You're welcome.
One of the first things I like to ask my guests,
who are usually well into their fifties or sixties, But
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I'm going to ask you guys anyway, because it's the
same question and it and it might well you'll see
what I mean in a second. So I'm going to
ask Porter emma An Evya before you got huh it's Eda,
Eda James Like, okay, all right, all right, Porter Eda boy,
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and Eda would be proud of you just actually articulating that.
All right, here's the question, guys, before you became the
musical entities that you are today, was there anything you
wanted to be as a younger, you like a fireman,
a doctor, a garbage guy, a teacher, anything else you
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thought about doing before you became the consonant professionals. You
are today a veterinarian. Yes, me too, and.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
I still want to be a veterinarian. And I'm any singer,
so like a veterinarian singer.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah, thank you that I love it. Okay, Porter, I
wanted to.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Be I want to be a baseball player, and I
still want to.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Because I'm doing baseball. So we talked to Poullie about
that in a minute. Okay, so you guys like it's
amazing because some some artists have other things they want
to do, some don't. But I really encourage you guys
to get your other things done because I didn't go Polly.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
What did ever want to do? You didn't get to her.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Oh, I thought she wanted to be a vet. Also,
what do you want to do?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
I want to I wanted to be a gymnast.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I'm sorry, I thought you I'm in double vet. Awesome.
You can do it all, guys, Yeah, she can already
do this flits. Yeah, I'm starting to get a little upset.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
This is incredible, PAULI.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Okay, whatever, guys take it. I just thank you very much.
You guys. Yeah, you should hear the old people answer it.
Miami Steve told me what he wanted to be when
he was growing up, before he was a musician. Was
out of jail.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Okay. So one song that we have in common is
Be My Baby.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's very easy to find your version of Be My
Baby online and it was quite something to hear the harmonies.
So I was a little surprised at how sophisticated and
how like day this is a real vocal stack here.
You know, thank you all the right harmony. Now, even
in Be My Baby, I heard a little cowcil slash
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Osmond even Osmond. I don't know if you listen to
the Osmond's and the Barber Chop Quartet years and the
when they were on Andy Williams probably the cat even
born then. But you know, we're it's a serious vocal stack.
So my question is did it start with two parents
or did it start with three kids and the parents
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came later.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Wow, that's a good, good question.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
No, we just thought we just knew that would be
a good song for the show.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And I've always wanted to play that song and we
just sat down and worked out the parts.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Actually there, I don't believe there.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Are harmonies on the first or second choruses of the
songs that we just kind of added them.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, no original can Can I ask a harmony question? Yes? Sure?
So when y'all sit down to do them quote unquote,
do let's say, does Eda does she gravitate Towardois? Do
you all gravitate towards like your spots almost pose?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Do you teach them their harmony parts? Or do they
come in and go, oh, hey, I'll take this. I'm saying, goes, well,
I'll take this part.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
It'spens both. It's been both ways.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
If they the song and they know the song really well,
they sometimes will.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
But it started, it really did. It started the first
few that we did.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
One of our most intricate harmony songs that we originated
with with our group.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Was the Mamas and the Papas right Monday Monday, and
that's been two years ago. It was it was New
Year's Eve and we got the idea.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
We actually that was when we were getting aby to
take off in our bus and we sold everything and
we moved into our RV and we were just days
away from going.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
We were trying to get it running. We had a
little issue.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
We were trying to get on the road, and we
decided to learn Monday Monday, and we we did teach
them their own parts and it kind of went from
there and ever since then.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Really, Eda has almost always fallen into the third part naturally,
she just starts singing it. Eddie always likes to take
the high part. Okay, Porter can go either way. Yeah, yeah, yeh. Funny.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
We sang Monday Monday for years. I know, I mean,
you know, any of the good vocal songs, any of
the big ones. We gravitated towards as children. So did Brent,
did you and your wife did you guys have a
duo going or something? Decided, you know, we need some
harmonizers and had children.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yeah, and we wanted a basketball team also.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
So yeah, we started together. We performed I think ten
years prior to the children.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Yeah, so we were a duo slash band, right.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
But they they were on stage with us, with me
when they were in the womb. I mean, so they
have literally heard harmony since they were created.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I mean I remember being pregnant.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
With the twins and I played mandolin and I could
hardly hold my mandolin in front of my stomach.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It was the most awkward thing. Of course, that's when
you're Catherine. That's when it's the side thing. When you're
pregnant and you're a guitarist, that guitar it's your Now
you become a side strummer.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:26):
I ended up going there so they you know, always
heard harmony. So I think, were you guys when you
started harmonizing.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
One year four four?
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Well that we were like four or five when we
started doing three parts three and when me and Ebbie
started doing two parts when we were like probably three
or four.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Wow, I had the car seats. Yeah, it's interesting because
I was not I didn't come out to shoot being
able to sing, evidently because my brother Bill told me
that I was not getting anywhere near his band until
I actually could sing. And I was five six seven,
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you know, just wait wait, you know, And there was
a time that I sang something and it was it
was acceptable and I was let in. But I wasn't
at three, four and five doing harmonies. I can tell
you that.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah, are the kids train? Are you trained to read
and write music?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Or do I do it all by year. Yeah, I'm
a record producer. Also it's studio engineer.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
So and it's all god ken right ear people, Yeah yeah, even.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
The little guy. You guys are by ear too.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Yeah, I read some music because it plays violin.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Well sure, and go ahead and do so. You know,
you guys can do whatever. But the fact that you're
like doing what you do without it is cool. And
then you can go I mean it's always there. You know.
You can earn that and and and and it helps
a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, all right, guys, So you all live in a van?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh yeah, talk about this.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
We guys all live in a van? Or do you
live in a house?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You have a house? Now?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
We so we sold everything two years ago and moved
into an RV and.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
We is it. We went from how bad was that house?
Speaker 9 (32:24):
It was a nine eighteen hundred eighteen twenty five old
mansion home. I mean it was massive, sounds familiar with
all of it. And we went into like two hundred
square feet Yeah oh.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
That why why did you do that? What was the plan?
Speaker 5 (32:46):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (32:48):
This? Well?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, music, but we owned an ice cream business and
that kind of took over our lives. We uh, you know,
we loved it. But it was it consumed us these
children will not be young very long. Yes, and we
said let's do something different and we did.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And we are all right. Yeah so then yeah, so
then the kids are homeschooled.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yeah? Yes, have they been homeschooled their whole life? Or
did they go to public school?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And no?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
No, so this is not for you dad or you mom. So, guys,
so do you miss going to a regular school?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
No?
Speaker 8 (33:30):
I like being homeschool because we have school all our
friends and all all of our lessons are so fun
and we can do them outside and wherever we want
to do it, and then it's just like we can go.
We can just like decide last minute we want to
go to the park and do our school there, and
(33:50):
then go to a coffee shop and do our school there.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That sounds like. That sounds like a lot of fun.
So and friends, you have a lot of friends?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Ah, yeah, we do?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Or four.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Time.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Obviously, now that you're traveling, you know you won't be
able to hang out with your pals on an everyday basis,
But you guys are in touch with friends that you
you had at that big house. Yeah. Yeah cool.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
So right, now, porter like Porter, when you did base,
you do baseball? You joined little league or something? Is
that how you do it?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Or?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Okay, So do your fellow ball players know they have
another life?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yet?
Speaker 7 (34:38):
The season just started. These are all new friends and.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Okay, well they're gonna find out.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Yeah, I ask you, guys.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
What position do you play? Porter hold on?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Okay? Mostly third base?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Third base. They're gonna hear some third basement singing his
heart out one day and they're gonna find out about Porter.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Hey, y'all, so I know you sold the house, you
bought the RV. You live in the r V. Do
you live in a like wherever your house was when
you are not driving all over the place? Do you
live in the r V? Or are you in constant motion? Now?
I mean, how can he be balling if he's now?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
We bought a house here in Florida in January?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Okay, so you do have.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
A place to call home.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Great, the best of both worlds.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
We lad has the time to be on a little
league team and make the games and the practices and
all that.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
So far.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, awesome, guys.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Well, just watching out for you kids. I'm just watching out.
Here's my next question, So do any.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Of the kids. Do they sing lead? You know, part
of your show. And you have a show? What is
in an hour? Can you do an hour?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We do two hours?
Speaker 10 (35:58):
Okay, yeah, yeah, each of the children have their own songs,
like she sings Annie beautifully.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
What kind of places are you performing in? Where are
you booking yourselves? Where can people find you?
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Well, so we're trying to do small theaters. Those are
seem like a great fit for what we do because
it's really kind of a show. You know, we're not
really your typical restaurant type music, and it's not really
get up and we do a lot of medleys, so
(36:40):
it's kind of hard to We're not a dance group
per se.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
So yeah, we're doing We're doing small theaters and fatiable Okay.
Speaker 7 (36:52):
Art sales.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
I see, I see a guitar in your hand. Does
that reply that perhaps you could sing us a little something?
We never can because we're always separated at this zoomy thing.
Where are you now? I'm a New Orleans where an Oregon?
New Orleans? And Los Angeles?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
I'm an Oregon crazy so cool?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah, we love to guys, right, I mean they're there.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Yeah, we got here and I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Most of the strings are into in luck with that, but.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
One too. Well, now it's getting weird. It doesn't hear we.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Can't hear you, and hear you sing, we can't hear it.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
You're saying something, yeah, because the second you guys started singing,
all of a sudden the sound went away. It won't
let you do it, guys. Now your format does not
(38:04):
accept all of your voices at once.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
You think it might be overloading the microphone.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, but man, what
I heard?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Are you kidding me? With Marrakesh Express?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
And we can tell people just go up to your
address field, put in Evans Family Band and you can
put Brent if you want, just to get the you know,
but there's plenty of footage on them soon. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
No, I did want to mention.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
I thought I was seeing everything on YouTube, but you know,
I deep dove and man, I came up with some
tracks that you guys did, and I think that I
might have even heard you do amra Cast Express. But
you did some Crossby stills in Nash song and man,
it was killer.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And I want to tell you kids. You guys are
killing it, man.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I mean your voices are true, and your harmonies are true,
and and and Porter just don't be pushed around by
those sisters.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Hey, and sisters certainly don't let Porter push you around.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Well, Porter's on his own here.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Well look here, he's there. I'd like to discuss this'll
push each other around.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Your dad starts acting up, fire them.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Yeah, fire and don't forget that fire.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
M for sure.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
It Christmas time. You guys, do you do Christmas shows?
You learn Christmas songs.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
And all that.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Yeah, that was my favorite time of the year, man,
was Christmas. We were Catholics, so man, we were always
in church with cellophane on the flapslight listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I want to know if there's something you guys want
to want to say, like, what do you want to
tell everybody out there, from the little people to Katherine
and Brett? What do you want everybody to know about y'all? Oh?
All right, good enough?
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Mom and Dad, well, speaking speaking of Christmas, and we're
working on yeah, sure.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
So we're actually working on.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Dad had two Christmas albums and we're re recording so
then to have sounds. Yeah, some of the Dad's original
to have out for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
How excited?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Kids?
Speaker 5 (40:26):
Make sure, I'm sorry, Bob. One last thing for the children.
Make sure a couple of things. Don't sign anything that
asks you if you're twenty one. If you're not, just
don't sign anything. And make sure even if dad and
mom write a song, that you get a percentage of
the plub publishing at least.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
All right, good guys, it okay, Bob, what do you think?
Child advocate Paul cows You just got off with Paul
Peters and he's on fire.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
All is the available through Paul Counsel Consultants.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Paul is taking over for Paul Peters. Wait, wait, Porter
wants Paul go. Porter. Do you have your pins on?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Well? I have to.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
We're doing a show tomorrow or we're going somewhere tomorrow,
and all my pins are in my pin holder, but
I will probably tonight put all my pins on my shirt.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Definitely, question Porter, Bob.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Where is the Evans Family Band performing next?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah? What's up?
Speaker 9 (41:37):
We've got some local shows down here in Florida, and
then we're really just trying to work up our schedule
for next summer so that we can kind of keep
our off season a little bit more open for homeschool and.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
All the activities they do.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
Sure, so, yeah, we will be posting our schedule on
our website. We just took the Evans Family band one,
so right now redirects you to our social media and we.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Have all our shows posted on our website.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
And well, well of we couldn't hear you live, but
Zoom Zoom has a ways to go still, and they're
a little bit trouble when you want to perform. That's
why everybody sends files instead.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
But listen, you all sounded like like, you know you guys,
you know in the Little Mermaid under the Sea, that's
what we will go. We were going for Hume, Brent.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Did you have a career prior to all of this?
They're referencing prior albums and what what was with you?
Speaker 7 (42:46):
Yeah, yeah, I did. I was a solo app for many,
many years.
Speaker 6 (42:51):
I mean I played in bands here and there, but
I wanted to make a living doing it.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
So I did the solo thing, and I did cruise
ships and casinos that kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (43:02):
And then I met my wife and we started, you know,
doing the duo thing.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
And so yeah, how are you guys known as were
you Brett and Catherine or were you the Evans? Who
were you?
Speaker 7 (43:14):
Good question? No, we didn't like the sad Brent mccatherine,
I can dig it. We went with the Johnny and
Sally show.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course I had.
Speaker 6 (43:30):
I had written a song called the Legend of Johnny
and Sally and we just became those characters.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I love it.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Good.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
All right, So all right, family.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
We want to thank the Evans Family band. Now what
part of Florida do you hang out in?
Speaker 3 (43:47):
North central Florida? So right above Gainesville?
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Okay, so just check them out online. I'm gonna share
all of the information about them and go see this
family because they're very good singers. They got that sibling
blend we all know about that. Yep, that's going to
get a little tighter. You know. That's where your space
between harmonies is less and less because your siblings. It's
tighter anyway. So you have that and it sounds wonderful.
(44:13):
So good luck to all of you is thank you
for reaching out to us.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yes, we are so happy to have met y'all, and
we look forward to following you in your adventures.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
You guys rehearse every day. Kids, Do you guys rehearse
every day?
Speaker 7 (44:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (44:28):
No, not every day? Okay, and good And what I'm
going to do with Pollie. Hey, kids, if your parents
ever get you to try and rehearse during the time
your favorite TV show is on, really nicely ask them
to renegotiate that. There's a lot of hours in a day.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna call you next week.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
We're gonna call you next week with a list of
stuff that you need to do for the kids.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
You guys are awesome. Gat You guys are amazing. You
don't need us.
Speaker 7 (45:02):
We love you watching and listening to you guys. So
this is a real honor for me, and it's all
the kids.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
So your kids.
Speaker 9 (45:10):
We've been watching your old, older videos, your newer stuff
since they were two and a half.
Speaker 5 (45:16):
Yeah, you guys sing like pros.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
You guys sing like pros.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Keep it up.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
I do really good. Now, smile out your brother, right, okay, right, everybody,
let's wave because if we all start talking, it's gonna
blow the microphone.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
We're going to do by Thanks, Hi, guys.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
A lot of bye okay everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
We hope you enjoyed visiting with us today.
Speaker 5 (45:47):
We definitely had a blast visiting with you, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Each episode of the podcast is available to download on demand.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
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Speaker 5 (46:01):
You can also follow the Costles on Facebook and Atcouncil
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Speaker 1 (46:06):
And of course we will see you in concert.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
And on the road.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Until then, let's stay
Speaker 5 (46:11):
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