E059 -Talk with Teddy - Kevin Danzig Singer_Songwriter

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Episode Transcript

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Tired of the same old, sameold fin checko. Talk with Teddy.
It's a variety show, and eachweek there are new guests and new topics.
What started because of the epidemic andsocial distancing is now casting shadows over
other shows. Talk with Teddy Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday nights at eleven
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you guys, welcome to another episodeof Talk with Teddy Tonight. It's gonna
be a fun night. As Ipromised, we have another musician here on
this beautiful rainy Saturday night here inNew York. Um, so it should
turn out to be a wonderful night. It's not real hot Hello, Eric,
um, Eric Saslota, Kevin aswell. Um, so it is

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a Saturday night, eleven o'clock andall is well, so far, so
good, as they say, so, without a further ado, I'm gonna
do she here to my guest.His name is Kevin uh dan Zig,
right is that how you say?Let's say that awesome? Awesome? And
Dan is playing music for a longtime, and I do have his bio

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here for you, um, andI'm going to read a little bit of
that for you in just a second. But let me say, how are
you tonight? Dan? How orKevin? How is things going? I
mean, you're aware right now?Colorado? Right, I'm in a nine
thousand feet up in Colorado here elevenyears. I love it up here.
Wow, that's that's some heights rightthere, buddy. Yeah. Used to

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it breathing and singing at the sametime. There's a challenge. Oh,
I guess, so, I guessso Alabama. Oh you were in Alabama
before at this time of year.I mean, you know, that's when
I started coming up to Colorado becauseit was so hot down there, you
know. Ah, yeah, that'suh Colorado. We were just discussing it

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before we went live that Colorado hasa lot of there. It's it's it's
a very short summer in Colorado.Yeah, a very long winter. Yeah
yeah, and that's okay with me. I mean yeah, if you ski,
yeah, I rolled pretty good downhill. Um, even with the snow.

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Yeah all right. Um, Sowe're having a couple of little difficulties.
If you guys hear it in thebackground. We got a little noise.
We're not sure where it's coming from. It's a little ticking noise.
Of some type. It sounds likesomebody's typing, and we're hoping it's going
to go away. And if younotice, Kevin's got a guitar with him

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as well, so we're gonna playa few of his songs later on here
in the show. And I believehe's also going to play a song for
us, something that he wrote,and uh oh, I gotta turn that
down. Either way, it's gonnabe a real fun night, and we

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hope you guys will stick around withus all night. And like you guys
normally do, you guys are usuallya lot of fun here, so I
have no doubt. All right,So I'm trying to get your bio up
here. My internet seems to berunning a little slow here. I might

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ask them to with a clicking.Maybe you never clicking? That clicking isn't
not any of the album's tracks.Yeah, okay, you're that's good.
You're that clicking all right? Oh? Where is it? Okay? Wow?

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This is definitely running slow tonight.I don't know what's going on with
it, but sorry about the delay, folks. Oh man, this is
terrible. Maybe because the rain.It could be we've had some really you

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know, um, it's been sodry, you know, and we really
needed the ring, to be honestwith you, Yeah, we need to
so and we got I think itwas like three inches and like a couple
hours and it was a lot ofring, but we definitely need it.

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So yeah, I have a tropicalsystem coming up your way right here,
ring, I think, so yeahyeah, all right, So real quick,
oh do you watch a rather channel? Okay? So um, real
quick, Uh, I'm gonna readthis for you. It says Kevin still

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leads the nomadic troubadour's life where storiesare and how does that? Huh?
And dude asched with a blink ofan eye. Um, Kevin impresses with
intriguing songwriting at atmosphre asth mcpherik vocalsand diversity textured arrangements, who big words.

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You can thank Will for that offbeatmagazine in New Orleans. There you
go. Oh that's wild all right? So um, I asked him earlier
what his genre is and you wantto tell them yourself what you took a

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lot of different styles, but Imean overall singer song you know. Uh,
it's you know a lot of bluesand kind of Beatles influenced you know,
folky pop kind of rock stuff.Cool. I guess. I like
to tell people if Joni Mitchell andJackson Brown would have actually had that baby,
the probably would have gone up tobe me. Awesome, you wearing

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the same type I am, theflat hat, but you wear backwards.
I don't know why. That's allright, So let's get into this a
little bit. So what got youinto music in the first place. Well,
you know, I grew up insouthern California and my uncle, who

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was very well respected and pretty wellrenowned in La area. He was a
country singer named Wayne Parker, andI'd go and hang out of his place
and he'd have people like Kim Carnescome over and rehearse with him. He
was pretty well connected. And thenon the other side of my family was
my dad, and he was avery popular piano player around Hollywood. So

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between the two of them and mygrandfather being a talent scout originally from Oklahoma,
I was kind of molded into this. They wanted me to be John
Denver, but I just wasn't reallygoing for that. And it's funny because
now I'm in Colorado and I'm doinga few John Denver songs to get by,
so just where I got, youknow, right right, But I

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ended up developing my own kind ofwriting because I always said it was cool
how they wrote songs and recorded theirown songs. I wanted to be,
you know, the Beatles. Iwanted to be Cat Stephens, Paul Simon,
James Taylor. I wanted to writemy own songs. You know,
it's always a concept battle because you'replaying a lot of places where people rather

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hear, you know, your interpretationsof other people music. So I learned
to do that too, but Ido in my own kind of way,
so you can't go across the streethear the same version that you hear me.
You know that that's my goal,right, that's awesome. That's awesome.
I like it when it's when it'soriginal and um, you know,
it's just something that you don't normallyhear, you know. I mean,

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I think it's a talent itself,you know, with interpretation and someone else
where. Right. Well, I'velistened to your songs that you sent me,
and yours has complete stories. Imean there there, it's a nice
storyline with each song that's written,and it's it's hard to find stuff like
that today. Well, yeah,I've always, like I said, i'd

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love the theater. I didn't saythat yet, but I do love the
theater, and I was in thetheater a lot. I almost became an
actor, but I had to playgigs and I didn't have any time to
rehearse because you know, they're alwaysrehearsing on the weekends and doing the show
really, so I had to Iended up being a musician instead. But
I've always had my heart in thetheater as well. So that's that's why

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I think my songs are like littleplace and it's no because your your dad
was also into music. What whatwere some of your influences that really,
you know, molded what you dotoday. Well, I like to tell
people my mom left three albums.I think she left them for me to
find one morning. It was onewas Roger Miller's Greatest Hits, the other

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was Bobby Vinton's great It's you knowYeah, and then Rubber Soul by the
Beatles, and I guess it prettymuch took the Rubber Soul. And then
I became a Beatles streak and thenwent out and bought all their music books.
That's how I taught myself to playguitar pretty much learning the Beatles songs,

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and then later this is ten yearsafter they broke up, So I
didn't know the Beatles when they wereactually, I mean I didn't know them
when they were together, right right, Yeah, And you know, the
Beatles stuff is worth a lot ofmoney these days, especially if you got
their albums. Well, yeah,they're a really good condition. And if

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you have a record player and youtry to go buy Abbey Road, it's
like forty now. Yeah, yeah, they're expensive. That's so yeah,
that's definitely expensive stuff. So it'scrazy, all right. So, um,
besides the music, what else iswhat's another love of yours? What

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else do you like to do?Well? I have a lot of fun
with my girlf man. Don't getthe wrong either, but you know,
we we like to go hiking,of course. You know the wonderful thing
about Colorado it was you don't reallyneed a lot of money to have fun.
I mean, there's just so manythings that do for free, you

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know, right, it was thehiking and another skiing is a different thing
that's pretty expensive, but I lovethe ski as well. As the back
of my album might suggest, it'sa picture of me and a ski out.
But um, but uh, youknow, playing music, there's a
lot of great musicians up here,and it's a lot of fun to get

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together around a campfire and playing musand try to write songs together. Yeah,
so this, this is never adull moment up here. And so
how long? So how long haveyou been a writer now? And and
I doing your own music? Well, I wrote my first song when I
was sixteen. It was pretty trite, but you know, I by the

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time I was like eighteen, Ihad written like ten songs, and I
felt like at the time I hadwritten ten hits, I knew they were
offing to be hits, and nowI couldn't even remember how many of them
go th first time songs. Sosince then, I've written about two hundred
songs and every chorded tis where ofthose songs? He said? Ten albums?

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Yeah. Wow. The thing is, though, you know, I
kind of I had to make aliving because I had a family just support
and I had to have a guaranteedmoving So I wasn't one of those guys
that was willing to go beat thepayment in Nashville, LA and sleep on
doorsteps and party in the morning.Just trying to meet the right people.

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And I think that's one of thereasons that maybe my music hasn't reached more
people that I feel like it shouldhave, you know. But because I
was traveling all the time too.Later on, me and my second wife,
we were called Danzig and Wooly,and we did a lot of festivals,
and we did the folk scene,and so we bought a motor home.
When we're just traveling all the times. Just drove her crazy, especially

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and finally she couldn't take me anymore. And one thing another, Well,
some people aren't made for it,you know. Some people just aren't made
for it. It's a hard That'swhy I'm so happy I found a place
where people come to me now rightnow. So so locally, you play
a lot of probably the I don'tknow, clubs or the events like special

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events and stuff like that, rightyeah. And they have a lot of
you know, festival especially in thesummertime. And I have a couple of
bands I'm a part of. Ihave a band called the buzz Drivers beuse
Easy, buzz Drivers Cool. Thepart time bus driver when I was living
in California driving a school bus anda damn near drum me nuts. So
luckily I was laid off. Andthat's when I came to calif I mean

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the Colorado but that's why I wasthinking, well, I need Kevin Danzig
and the something. You know.I just didn't want to Kevin Danzig band,
so I was thinking and maybe thebus drivers. And I drove by
this little area and brecon Ridge calledthe Green Mile brief they all of the
pop chops. You know, it'slegal here, you know, And I
go, no, the buzz driver, so we will drive your buzz if

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you will let us. Oh,that's funny, that's amazing, that's great.
And then I have a rare opportunityhere in the club i'm in I'm
mainly called the King's Club in Vail, where they let me bringing in special
guests from around the country. Andyou know, traveling all those years,
I met a lot of wonderful artistsand they all want to come here ski.

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You know, I'm in Colorado andSummit, right, so they'll call
me, go, hey, canI play a gig? And I'll go
yeah, you know, and Isaid him up in mail on money and
and I get the opportunity to sharemy music with them and they share those
with me. It's kind of acool little niche, I haven't it sounds
great, sounds wonderful. Maybe morepeople need to come up that way,

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I mean, because like right now, people aren't playing. Yeah, well
right now there's you know a lotof the musicians are out of work because
of the whole COVID thing. Soa lot of musicians aren't playing right now.
Um artists, especially national artists,are not doing much. They're kind
of sucking home writing. I havea lot of friends that are national recording

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artists, and they're they're telling me, we just we're just working on albums.
We're just writing songs. That's allthey're doing. They're getting the opportunity
to record and stuff like that.But you know, next time, next
year, probably, you know,the summertime, if we're able to get
out and about and do our normalthing, the music airways are going to
be flooded with music because all ofthese musicians and singers and songwriters are sitting

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on their duff at home, notdoing much, you know, other than
writing. So it'll be amazing tryingto beat them to the punch by releasing
my own mail. But you know, I know it's it's been very hard,
and I think a lot of itis attitude. And you know up
here in Colorado as well, we'relucky because the government's been kind of helping

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those to self employed people out.Maybe an applied person money, you can
get some help and right now.And I usually go in the off seasons.
We have two off seasons here.We have what do we call the
mud season, which is like Apriland May, and then you have the
shoulder season, which is October November, which is really not a whole lot
of work up here. So that'swhen I would go and revisit a lot

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of my friends and standard family aroundthe country or have a little pockets of
fans. And but this time Ididn't do it because I couldn't travel.
So I thought, well, whatam I going to do? You know?
And I thought, well, I'llstart a daily broadcast on Facebook and
Instagram and just post an original songevery morning to try to live people's spirits.

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I tried to keep positive. SoI did six weeks of original songs
and then I started because I gotsome positive response, I started doing this
series, you know, like testsDivide till July when the protests are going
on. And now I'm doing aSummer of Love and I still keep every
day I do a different a songon my Facebook. Oh well that and

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that's that's cool. I mean,you got to keep it out there for
for one like you've You've sent meI think four songs, um, and
I've listened to them, and we'regonna play one here in a moment.
Um. Your songs are definitely somethingthat I'm not used to hearing, especially
around here, which is very cool. Though. It's nice to hear something
different, and um, I'm I'mvery happy with that. Um. I

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was going to tell you that thefeel I got from it was kind of
like a Jimmy Buffett feel or um, you know, something along those lines,
kind of like older Jimmy again maybeyeah yeah, before you got you
know, too much into the paradehead thing. Yeah yeah, but still
it was best. Yeah, butI you know, I still think it

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was. It was really good material, you know, really good stuff.
That's the field that I got fromit. And UM, I'm happy with
that, you know. I mean, I I don't mind this type of
music at all. I think it'swonderful. Um And I think you know,
we don't hear a lot of musiclike this very often, and uh
I, I it's freshing, it'srefreshing, I guess the best way to

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put it. Um. I myself, I don't mind it, like I
said, at all. So alot of my stuff is quite spiritual as
well. You know. I alwayslike you well the way George Harrison as
they are Cat Stevens, they'd alwayshave an underlying spiritual theme to a lot
of their songs. Mhm. Iwas watching for Bangladesh the other day.

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Have you ever seen that? Mhm, oh man, you gotta check
that out with like Leon Wrestling andAir Clapton, Billy Preston and Ringo Starn
all these great performances get together withRobbie Shonker as well, and they you
this benefit concert for the hungry inBangladesh. And I was noticing. I
never realized before that all of thesongs sort areas does pretty much except for

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Here It Comes the Sun are allspiritual songs like my Sweet Lord you know,
and we wear Asten. They're allvery positive and enlightening. Cool.
Well, I think we're gonna playone of your songs if you're ready for
it. Yeah, sure, okay, um the one one of them you
sent me was eye to eye.Do you want to give me an idea

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what that one's about? Um?I actually wrote that something to begin with
about twenty five years ago and myfriend Raoul in Alabama when I lived down
in Fair Hope, Alabama, andit was after the breakup of my first
marriage, and uh, you knowit was it was about that. And
you know it's just about you know, look at me, to be honest
with me. I can take it. You know this isn't working for you

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and it's not working for me.Let's not like driving into the ground and
until we hate it, you know, let's let's just be honest about it.
And if you're not happy, Irelease you and well we'll be friends
hopefully. You know that. That'spretty much where it's coming from first.
And Tina Ferguson is a very popularsinger up here, and luckily she came
in and did the Harmy Heart Awesome. All right, let's check it out.

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Oh look at me, I tolie. Telling me lies will make

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things any easier. All alone,I'll be fine. I was all right
before you came to my one.Give this second? Not you happy?
I would rather be bye? Iam myself. I'll begive round life.

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I got it years ago before youknocked on my door somewhere. Then girl
from me. If you're unhappy,you do the both of us a favor
and look at me eye to eye. Honesty can be painful. I can

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take it as a hard Sime songyou and I used to like when we
would go ahead strong. It wasa story of many woman acting like Beyon.
Now I'll begave a brand new lifeI got eight years ago. Before

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you're knocked up on my door somewhere, there's a girl for me. If
you're unhappy, here, do theboth of virus and favor and lead so
I can get on with my life. Tell me please, I'll try to

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put it all behind. Sure,i'd like to think it all the rules
are the true, but I'm inclinedto be a doubter. I'll begin to

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brand new light I got eight yearsago. Before you're knocked up on my
door somewhere, there's a girl forme. If you're unhappy, here,
do the both of us a favorand look at me, ye too high.

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Telling me lies won't make things anyeasier. All alone, I'll fine.
I was all right before you cameinto my world. If the second
that you happy, I would ratherbe by myself. I would rather you

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tell the truth and lie. Ilove it. Thank it's very very clean,

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very clean, you know what Imean. It's very very clean.
Well. Dean Oldencot is just awonderful session player up here and never been
Colorado. And then Kenny Keller fromKate Gerardo, Missouri played in bass.
And those guys are just stellar.I mean, they just do a wonderful
job, you know. Of courseit was recorded with Tim Strow behind the
engineer console and at his Madhouse Records, and the front of the album cover

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is a picture of that studio,and Jim Jerkins says he loves it.
He likes it. He likes it. Oh cool, Yeah, that's cool.
All the available to stream by theway, like Spotify and Apple Music.
Uh they're running a little slow.I told him I'm gonna be on

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a big radio show and I'd begreat that they were available online. Now
you know, you're like, oh, because it is the virus, you
know, or all kind of shortYadA YadA YadA. And I understand it's
like that every where. Are theyavailable on your website? Uh? Yeah,
you can hear them on my websitebecause that song, for instance,
is a single, So you can'thear that streaming on Spotify or any of

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those now because it was released asa single before the album came out.
Okay, so it will be availableeventually though on but you can you can
hear that song as a single rightnow. If you just say, Alexa,
play Eye to Eye by Kevin Danzi, you'll hear it. Awesome,
awesome, yeah, I um,like I said, it's got a really

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cool storyteller field. It's very clean. Um. I love the way it
flowed. I mean it was,it was. It was easy listening.
I guess too. I guess that'sthe other word. I'm Simon, you
know. And yeah yeah yeah,Paul Simon, that'll work. Yeah,
definitely too. So I tried tofashion it as kind of a pulse Simon,

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I think, Simon Garfunkle. Yeahyeah. If I may be as
bold to compare myself to them,I'm not trying to compare myself to them.
No, no, no, that'sfine. Um let me see here.
I have some more here that wecan play and talk about. Actually,

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if you want to do yours whileI figure this out. Over here,
Um, did you want to playone live? Um? Yeah,
sure. I recently wrote a songwith my friend, a Native American artist
hearing Colorado. His name is LeonJoseph Little Bird. We were sitting around
thinking about all these people out therethat are helping us out, you know,

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with this pandemic, and my girlfriendsays, you should write a song
called well done for all these peoplethat give them a well done. And
the funny thing is up here,I don't know if they have that out
here where you are at eight o'clock, you'll hear all this howling people howling.
To think, all these people thatare putting themselves in my way freends
m. So that all inspired thissong. I gotta put my high money

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coll there you go. You're alittle it's a little bluesy okay. Yeah.
So see that stand out there.I heard that's ma around what I

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thought to be h without the guys. See what I could see all our
witness with my neighbors on their fortunes, slashing with all the hound share for
the people on the doing. Whatthen see my eyes is harm with an

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enemy anonymous. See the US respondingfor the nurses and the doctor. Yeah,
howling and barking well on the starclass and fire people, draft construction

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buss how the thing beout? Well? Well? This killing you as a

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husband, teach you she can't gohome with your back now, don't tenny
baskets. You know the town ofthe hill people riding these are the people?
Are you in a big man?They ain't find it into me that

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can see for the pastors and reportsthe man has ever built. We are
howling in a well for those whofeed the monkeys to say for a soldier
dampers will will do well time welltime see alone? You want well will

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done? Well done? You wantto think what are you to us and
your Yeah, we will bade peoplebabe who well well well wow wow,

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m I like it. I reallylike that. That's cool. I mean
a lot of people have different feelingsabout this, but uh, I know
some people nurses especially this is nolap being bad at right right? But

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I like the song. I meanthat's definitely something you should record and um,
it'd be nice. I mean Icould see a video with it with
like nurses and stuff dancing with youhowling when you're howling and stuff like that.
That would be I could see that. That's very cool. Well we
did. We did like a YouTubevideo Leon and I and his girlfriend singing.

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But yeah, it'd be great.I mean you might maybe there's somebody
out there watching that could get behindit and no soup cool. I think
that's song could be, you know, something for the whole country. Yeah,
that's that's fun. That's a funsong, even though like you said,
there's nothing to howl about or youknow, um, well that's just

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no laughing matter. But still,you know, it's it's cool. It's
just a thank you for doing it. M that's that's that's cool. I
think that's a good idea. Andlike I said, it may not be
what they're doing at where you are, but it's a true story. And
I heard I thought it was likecoyotes that sent I go, what is

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that? And I walk out andI look ahead and there's all the people
on ports Holland. Wow, Nothey did? What did they do here?
They were? They were here,they were doing something. I think
they were God, they were Ithink they were honking horns at one time
and then they were Yeah, Idon't know, they were doing something,

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but you know, and uh,today, I mean I was just watching
news today where it's you know,there's even more people that's got it.
I mean it's one of the highestrecord days, yeah days, your record
you know. Yeah, that's soscary because I myself, I don't I
know one person that died, agood friend of mine, a musician up
here front of it, but hehad a lot of other things, you

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know, the heap and stuffering fromas well. And it's like COVID came
along was a final blow. Youknow. Well that's from what I'm hearing,
is that you have to have anunderlining condition and then that just kind
of amplifies it and makes makes itworse. Um. And it's very like
you know, me being a musicianand you too, probably you know you
people come up when they talk toyou and are you okay with a hug

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and you want to go, ohyeah, okay, sure, but you
know, you just don't know yourlife. So it's a really difficult situation
that we're all in. We're alloh yeah right, and people forget that
they really do. I mean,I have diabetes. My my mother's diabetic,
and she has cooped, and myfather has cooped, and cancer and
there's all these things that you know, if any of us catch COVID.

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It just amplifies everything that we haveand makes it worse, you know,
so, and you're definitely old livesmatter matter. Old lives. Yeah,
I haven't been old, and he'sstill great. You know's a wonderful person,
you know. And people in ourlives, young people, a lot

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of them haven't had the wonderful experiencethat for somebody who is older, and
it was so full of knowledge,and they're just you can learn so much
from these people, and don't justwrite them office anyway. They need to
die and get out of here,right. It's not like that these people
have so much to offer. Theyhave a lot of knowledge, a lot
of knowledge, I really do.So I'm gonna take this opportunity real quick

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to say hi to a few people. Um, Sandra Olivia, Adam Briggs,
Lisa Hagador, and Jim Jenkins Uhdoes very Plunkett deb so back the
Ellen the second. Um. Wealso have Eric Harrison and Tom Nally.
And there is a lot more thatI can't see unfortunately. Um, only

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the ones that are popped in onmy watch party and my stream yard that
I can see their comments. Everybodyelse there on other Facebook feeds as well
as YouTube feeds. Um. Wewere also on Spotify, iHeart iTunes,
Deezer, Um, we're on tenaudio outlets as well, so we're all

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over the place. But um,I want to kind of go on to
the next song here that we have. I'm not sure of the name of
it. Let me see if itshows me the name. Oh, Einstein
is one of them. Albert Einstein. Yes, So what was that one

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about? That was co written withmy friend Rock and John Roth Rock is
all. We were sitting on LakeDylan and he had told me about this
post that he saw on Facebook byAlbert Einstein, which, obviously as an
old post reposted right chronically says Ifear the day when technology will surpass our

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human interaction. And I was Wewere thinking, well, we're kind of
there, you know, right,So he said, well, here's kind
of the course I have in mind, and it wasn't really the words were
really there yet, so I kindof took it and kind of finished it
and made it into as something likesometimes you gotta go outside to get inside
mister Einstein's head, you know,because he's kind of out there and that

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talks about it talks about you know, how righting a round side he was.
We were righting through the mountain tocag I was just absolutely gorgeous.
And and he's you know, hisnose is in his phone, and I'm
like, you know, when youput the phone down, look around.
I mean, so that's kind ofwhere it came from too. Okay,

(37:35):
well we're gonna play it. Ohthat's not it all Yeah, that was
it. That was it? Yeah, okay, how too much? You

(38:00):
have Howard down your sound for aminute, be so we can talk.
Take a moment everywhere to look atyour wind, at the world of wonderstand

(38:20):
time and well, all right,just to know and what I have to
say. I feel the day thattechnology will sometime are human righttion. Sometimes

(38:50):
you've got to go outside to getinside it's right size. Sometimes you gotta
go outside to inside out that Iside later on when you are done putting

(39:25):
on your web inside I was thinkingwe might grabble fine change any time and
run for me. Put you inpie ran away when I forgot to pay
defy all right, chesting know meand what I've got to say. I

(39:59):
feel that that technology will sometime areum intact. Sometimes you gotta go outside
to inside mister R Stiles. Sometimesyou gotta go outside to inside out that

(40:32):
night sky day, that technology willsutime are um intact. Sometimes you gotta

(41:00):
side two side mister R Star timeyou gotta go outside two awesome. I

(41:38):
like it. That's that's the latestsingle too. That's what and that that
uh that that is a catchy line. The outside the inside is find stack
to mind that it's pretty that it'spretty catchy. Yeah, I like it.
And now that's Michael Hunt playing drumsand also singing harmony with the harmony.
I was gonna ask you about theharmony. Yeah, and that's his

(42:00):
real name, Michael Hunt by theway. Okay, cool, we won't
go well too far to that someday. Great great on that as well.
No, you know what, SteveDronzick actually played a member of the buzz

(42:21):
Drivers played the bass on that track. That's right. Tom Nelly says,
I think I need this song tobe the song from my channel. He
says, all right, you goahead of head and help himself. You
can find it to iTunes. AlbertEinstein is my latest single, so you
can hear it on all the screamingnetworks. Cool or you know, right,

(42:44):
No, that's cool. Um,that's awesome. Catchy, catchy songs,
man, I do so the thanksone up here we have is Colorado.
Yeah, that's probably the most popularof all of them. It was
with the Kevin Danzig Band, whichis a band that well, Scooter Barns

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on lead guitar and Michael Hunt thatrummer was talking about on drums, and
let's see Kenny Keller on bass,Faith Craftford singing vocals on the harmonies,
and Mike Fought on the violin.It was the festival group. I played
around Colorado quite a bit, andI wrote that song when I was up
living in the highest town in NorthAmerica. It's a ten thousand and six

(43:28):
hundred feet It's called Alma, whichmeans soul in Spanish, Almah. And
so I was fishing with my dog, Oliver, and that song just kind
of played itself in my head,that melody when I'm in Colorado, you
know, I just felt like Ijust love him hearing and I was one
of the beautiful days like today,and I feel like you've died and gone

(43:49):
to heaven, you know that,And so it just kind of developed in
my mind, and the little orchestrastarted playing as I was sleeping, and
before he knew it, I hadthe arrangement and playing it out live,
and then the other guys started playingit with me. And when I say
we should record this, and that'salso a single that was released, you
can get okay, And it startsoff with the instruments kind of waking up

(44:15):
and it kind of kicks in.Okay. Have fish from travel room were

(44:46):
my best friends, dust I gofriends, fixing, dinner, cooking,
rocking, match this food doing incase we can't alive. All the rule

(45:06):
I'm face with trials and tribulations,all the travel, all the way to
shows the people I must be.But when I'm in color out gets to
see if I'm dying to all thehead Never have I known such beauty.
Every day's brand new. When I'min Colorado, I say, let me

(45:31):
go on living here you in,but I love and loving you Colorado.
From these mountains, you can seefor out combined and daisy growing wild love

(45:58):
pass have taken on certain love clotheswill well as winter turns to spring in
light. When the bud's way rudeout face trials and tribulations, some time

(46:20):
scary situation and the schedule line mustkeep when I'm in Colorado. It is
if I'm dying gone hell. Neverhave a no every day's branded when I'm
in Colorado, Afriknoy, let meinsist him? Do Hill what I love

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love Colorade, bring fresh air.There's a snow flings on it, feeling

(47:23):
a love song around the skin.Sure, I will be a struggle etsewhere
without in Colorado? This is amounttiny go. Never have a known every

(47:44):
day brand without in Colorado? Waslet me go living? You doing what
I love? Love in Colorado?About dad to go? Never know Colorado?

(48:10):
I s what I love? Yeah, I can understand. It's pretty

(48:51):
catchy. It's pretty catchy too.It's a single long you know, people's
singing Colorado. I love it.Yeah, it's definitely catchy. Finnly catch
it. I like that. Ilove the way it all came together within
the just the arrangements. And who'sthe female vocalist in the background, you
said, Faith Crafford. She's inMarblehead O High. We were for a

(49:16):
few years. Yeah, it's it'sit's I like it. Thanks. Yeah,
it's really cool. Um. Nowthe next one we have up here
is was it paint a blue paintof blue sky in your mind. That's
yeah, yeah, that was acouple of things made me right that one.

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You know, I live I liveon Lake Dylan, well I did,
and I live in Avon, whichis about thirty months in there New
Vale, But for the longest timeI lived in Summit County's which is a
There's this beautiful lake called Lake Dylanthere and the mountains are around it,
and so it's just so beautiful thatI was feeling kind of down on the
dumb scene of that day and alot of times I'll write a positive song

(50:06):
to lift myself up out of it. And I took a walk and it
was just a beautiful blue sky,you know. And if you look at
this, it's a single too,and the cover of the single is a
picture of Lake Dylan with the mountainsin the blue sky. But another thing
I couldn't quite finish the last verseour time, and I was watching Dan

(50:27):
Radder interviewing Carol Burnette. I lovethat show that Dan Radder does with his
interviews, and Carol Burnette was talkingabout how she was visiting her terminal real
daughter and she would get so upset, but then her daughter would lift her
spirits. Even though her daughter wasdying. She would always talk this great
positive outlook on life, and Carolwould be in tears saying, how can

(50:49):
you be so positive? You know, even though you're dying. You know,
Well, every day I wake upand I decide to make it a
good day instead of making it abad day. The rest just kind of
follow us. And so that thatwould I go, that's it. That's
you know, painting blue sky inyour mind open you know, open your
eyes and decide to make the mostof your life. And so that was

(51:13):
the final verse of that. That'sawesome. Yeah, the very positive uplood
thing type of thing. Awesome.Okay, well here we go, h

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painting the sky in my tune dayabout the man in the ground painting the
sky and mind tu see any lights? Maybe you paint every sky in your
mind? Your world is behind.I can find a shoot you will find

(52:05):
is enlightening me. He isn't fightingme. Paint the sky in the mind,
you said, of course, Isiy, he Skymight you trust me?
I know what I say. Ifyou painted the sky in line keeping

(52:32):
your world is behind, I canfind a shoot like you will find is
enlightening me. He is in fightingme. Never mind the candy. You

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can be your own beast if youhad together and we ain't you know,
wind wind see you you can't preparehinting the sky and the mind, moving

(53:30):
your eyes and decide hinting the skyin your mind to make the most of
your line. If you painted thesky in your mind, let you wears
behind I can comes. You mightfind he's a lighting, he's a fighting

(54:25):
I like it. Yeah, catchy, like yeah, yeah, I uh,
it was catchy. It was alsowhat I really like about your music
is the like you're playing a harmonica, you know. With with all that,
I mean, you don't hear alot of harmonica in songs much anymore.

(54:46):
And I mean even in country youdon't hear it that often anymore.
But I do realize that in liveUm. I have a couple of friends
and bands that, um they're livemusic, they'll play harmonica, you know,
so very nice, you know,And so I was influencing Neil Young
too, you know, so right. They were the ones that got me

(55:08):
to start playing harmonica while I play. And plus I'm not a very good
looper. You know, a lotof the guys really have that Donner admire
that, but I always had tohave some kind of lead instrument, and
that would be the harmonica while I'mplaying rhythm. You know, when I
do solo, we're duo kind ofbecause that help at all. You know

(55:29):
what I've noticed about all of yourmusic, The recordings are very They flow
very well, you know, andthey're stacked well in there. Everything sounds
good. I mean, whoever putsthese together for you really knows what they're
doing. The arrangements, you know, I pretty much produced most of the
songs that's more like a Mama's andpapas. I kind of hear that that

(55:52):
kind of influence on that song withthe harmonies. That's also Tina Ferguson,
who's sing on Eye to Eye singingthat one with Yeah, she's great.
Yeah. I pride myself on myarrangements. All my albums are very meticulously
thought out. And another thing isthat I try to take the subject and

(56:13):
I try to meditate on it andimagine what kind of instrumentation and a theme
that I want for the song tobest represent what's being said. Right,
So gilet me ask you a questionsso you hear the medley. First,
is that how that works. Youusually hear the melody first, you know,
it's different, It's always it's alwaysdifferent. Sometimes it's a guitar riff

(56:36):
that I'm working with. Sometimes it'sjust an idea from something I saw on
TV or something, or or afriend of mine is going to do something.
And I'll usually have these dreams andI'll wake up with an idea a
lot of times that I'll just kindof manifest, you know, as I'm
driving right, I asked, Iask a lot of musician friends of mine

(57:01):
how how often do they write?And I'm going to ask you the same
question, and like how often?And like how many songs have you put
out in say a week's time usuallyor a month's time? You know,
when I was younger and I wastrying to beat the Nashville pavement or what,
I was trying to write a songa week was like I would do

(57:22):
the thing where you set the clockand you're just trying to force the song
out, you know, and tryingto make as commercial sounding as you can.
But you know, later on,I wait for the inspiration to hit
me. You know. I feellike, if it's a song that's really
gonna last and something that's really gonnabe loved by others. It's got to

(57:44):
be something that is a bit divinelyinspired, if that makes sense, you
know, right, that's collective consciousness. I feel like if you can tap
into that. I always imagine allthese songs that have died, let's say,
and they're up there looking for theaspiring talents to write songs, and
they're just trying, you know,if I could just get that into their

(58:06):
head, you know, likeap andand I kind of feel that sometimes I
feel that inspiration coming from somewhere else, and it's different different parts of the
country. Like if I'm driving downthat was sixty one towards New Orleans,
it will be more of a funkyblues kind of influence, or like if
I'm in LA, It'll be morelike like this song, you know,

(58:28):
like with poppy kind of all themoms and pop is kind of a harmony
driven. Yeah, it's it's greatmusic. It's great music. And I
can tell you this. I meanwhat you've what you're recording. I mean
you said you've got what ten albums, and yeah, you've got written two
hundred songs. I mean you're leavingyour mark, you know what I mean,

(58:50):
you're definitely are leaving something behind,so um, that's great. Not
very many people get to do that, you know, you know, and
there are people that just kind ofgive up, mistare what's it worth?
Why I bother? You know,But it's really what I have to off.
It's all I've really known in mylife. That's what I do so

(59:12):
right, Well, it's it's thelove, it's the the You're an artist,
man, I mean, it's inya and kudos for being able to
live that and do that, youknow, that's just I feel very blessed.
I do ye, even though I'mnot a big star or whatever.
You know, sometimes I feel likethat's a blessing too, you know.
Well yeah, uh yeah, there'sa lot of nightmares that go with that,

(59:34):
more so than what we always see, you know. Um, definitely
the stories you can see on Idon't know, on TV. I mean
that's just uh, I don't know, and like E magazine and stuff like
that just so much crap when whenyou become a star. But you know,
there's nothing like playing in a club, a small like coffee shop or

(59:55):
um, just sitting down with yourfriends strumming a guitar and singing a few
tunes, um, and leaving yourmark with your friends sometimes is the best
way you know you're friends, youknow, when you're not traveling all the
time. Yeah, I did thatscene in the nineties and then you know,

(01:00:15):
what do they call the first tenyears of the millennium of them tens
zeros that But yeah, yeah,I felt it's pretty lonely, you know.
And luckily I have an extended familyaround the country because I have been
traveling for so long. And onegood thing about isolation though, is it

(01:00:36):
does give you time to really workout these ideas as a songwriter. You
know. Um, if I didn'twrite songs, I would find it incredibly
boring just go from one town toanother and just do a bunch of cover
songs. You know, I wouldn'treally want to do that. I have
to be creative. I just luckilyI have that gene. You I did

(01:00:59):
that for very long time, covertunes. But you know, I've I've
written my own as well and recordedsome as well, and I haven't gotten
nowhere near where you are with twohundred songs and ten albums. But I
have written my own album, whichwas cool, and um, it's just
one of those things. You know, Mine was all influenced by Native American.

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My mom is Sonica Indian, soI had the opportunity to stay true,
you know, to learn her cultureand her ways. And then I
got hooked up a couple other NativeAmerican writers, and I followed one named
Bill Miller, who has some fantasticmusic, and I just I love the

(01:01:43):
way they write their storytelling within theirsongs, and so I write. But
I write more of an alternative musicthan I do or world music, I
guess is what they call it,yeah, versus any other type of genre.
And but I'm happy with it.It's it's where my heart is,
you know. That's wonderful. Youknow. I've been very influenced by Native

(01:02:04):
American works as well. One ofmy best friends is Leon Joseph Little Bird,
and if you listen, you don'thave an album, do you,
But I'll have to send you theMP three. He plays flute on a
song called the One You Feed,which is about that folklore tune, that
folklore story I mean, where thetwo wolves that are fighting within us and

(01:02:24):
the chief says to the brave youknow who asked him, well, how
do you which wolf is gonna winthe war, right. The chief said,
it's the one you feed, right, one's evil and one's good,
right, right, Yeah, Iknow the story actually yeah, and that
that song is on my album.I didn't send that to you because it's

(01:02:46):
more of an album cut. It'smore of a a longer song. That's
okay. I'll have to send youa couple of mine here, um,
in a day or two. Um, they're not on MP three. I
have to put them on MP three'sbut I can do that. Mineus old
fashioned, Mineus all cut on cassette, still in CD, but I can

(01:03:07):
get them, you know, puton the internet. You don't mind me
asking you just real quick? Whatdo you think of the Washington Redskins is
the name? Do you think theyshould change that? Well? I live
in a I live in a smalltown called Avon, all right, and

(01:03:27):
we have the Avon Braves, andum it's depicted with an Indian head.
Yeah, so, um, Idon't know. Braves is a positive image,
you know, that's a fighting warrior. Redskins was always like an insult
kind of like, you know,well, it doesn't affect me either way,

(01:03:51):
but I guess as as an overallif you're a fan. Um,
I don't know. I mean,I know some some there's there's a there's
a there's a divided line there,you know, So I mean give or
take somebody, I don't know.Maybe maybe they should change it. I
don't know. I don't know.And all those new T shirts, isn't

(01:04:13):
it Well it's money, but youknow it's a Yeah, I guess I
should have thought about it though beforehand, right on the Land of the Free.
Oh man, I don't on yourshow. I'm sorry. No,
that's okay. That's why I saidI don't have an opinion. I don't.
I don't. I don't know whereI lie with that, other than

(01:04:35):
the fact is that if it's offendingsomeone else, um, then maybe we
have to look at it, Iguess. And that's when it comes down
to, you know, yeah,I mean, if it offends somebody,
then look at it. Yeah.It's like these people that walk around the
saity for it every other word.You know, when I'm with my girlfriend,
you know, I'm sorry guy,you know, but I have a

(01:04:57):
lady here with you. You knowyour mind? Yeah? Yeah, Well
you don't want to you don't wantto go to Ireland then, because that
every Ireland is every other words theup for it, I know, but
yeah, yeah, yeah, it'sa little different. But I guess I
don't know. That's another thing Idon't really want to get. Two people

(01:05:20):
just don't say, well my girlfriend, Okay, there you go, guy,
Okay. So the next song thatI have here, you sent me
the five. So this is thelast one. Um Alice, Alice says,
uh, my mom's name. ButI needed a girl's name, so

(01:05:42):
I just chose her because it's afictitious character. But it was kind of
an exercise, you know, becauseI'm big Bob Dylan fan, and that
I wanted to write a song withthat kind of a like a rolling stone
peep with the coffeehouses and the latesixties and that whole kind of imagery,
and that's kind of where this camefrom. I mean, my my dream
girl from the heartland of the world, you know. But I had to

(01:06:05):
leave her because in my bag aboutheart spirit, that's and I said it
with that kind of a bot filmof risk kind of feeling cool. That's
cool. All right, let's getto her. She was my dream girl

(01:06:30):
from the heartland of the world.Her name was Alice A diamond. I'm
doing the run without a fort you. She was shining like eerie on a
gipsy the first time that I sawshe was working in the mall and a

(01:06:54):
discount stole. He used to bea lot of if the l nineteen sixty
nine, we were hanging out andhaving five and dime. Now that didn't
so always playing on radio asking mehow it doesn't feel to me and Stone.

(01:07:15):
I turn it down, but I'mmanning, running around my hand,
making me wish I was there.Me and Out had a good thing going
for a while, rising every dayand seven we make love. We'd grab
a cup of coffee in that littlehouse around the corner. Money didn't matter.

(01:07:42):
We were happy. She was mydream girl from the heart. Lad

(01:08:14):
of the world. Still had toleave her a bag of bone by tree,
no raise blade, I run aroundit now. I feel my soul
of flexus growing restless. Now thatdinner song is played on rad asking me

(01:08:36):
how that feel to be the RollingStone, I turn it down without Melodie's
running around my head making me withnow's there, Yeah, I don't differ.
Souls playing all real, asking mehow that feel to be in the

(01:08:57):
Rolling Stone? I turn it round, taking me wish she was my dreamer
from the hard land of the world. I like that one. I really

(01:09:23):
do. Kind of folk, yeah, but I don't know, there was
something about it. I really likedthat one that was that was probably my
favorite so far, to be honest. One. And it had that you
know, double tracking of the vocal, which was very popular back then.
Uh, the Beatles would always dothat. He'd have two tracks, like

(01:09:44):
John Lennon would sing twice and thensometimes they wouldn't be exactly together. Use
it like a course, feel onthe course, you know what I mean.
Yeah, yeah, I I particularlyfind that one too. It turned
out as a mistake. The engineer, Tim's Joe. He's so good at

(01:10:08):
helping me kind of creating the rangers. I had recorded two different guitar tracks.
One was a little harmonic thing andthe other was the picking, and
he said, well, let's trysomething a little different. Let's take the
picking out and bring in a littlelater and just have the harmonics to begin
with. And that turned into thebeginning hook of the song. So sometimes
happy accidents happened, you know whenyou try to Yeah, yeah, that's

(01:10:34):
that's I love. Who did theharmony you said on that Oh that was
just me singing with myself. Yeah, oh it sounds, it sounds great,
sounds great, love it, youknow. Um, So I want
to so, guys that are watchinghere, we have had several more people
pop in here, from Gegrey,Nick Gregory Nichols to Christopher Ares, Christina

(01:10:58):
Wolfanger, m Grant Gass and MikeWarren, uh Plato, Angelasquez, Lee
Allen Junior Um and everyone else that'spoppingham Michelle Millins. Um. You can
find his stuff right now over onKevin Danzing dot com. Um, he
will have now you said you're stillwaiting on some of that stuff to be

(01:11:23):
released on Spotify. Actually, allthe songs you've played are all available right
now as singles singles okay, oralso Apple Music, Google, play Music,
pretty much any streaming service. Youcan find the songs you've played today.
It's just the album itself isn't availableyet, but it should be any
day now. They're just running behindbecause of the virus and staff. Awesome,

(01:11:53):
awesome, Okay, So we're gonnatake a short pause here. I
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(01:12:13):
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(01:12:35):
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(01:13:00):
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All right. We're looking to getour hundred subscribers on YouTube so that
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goodness, this has been fun sofar. So um now what's what's what's?
What is are you looking for inthe future? What are you hoping
to do or accomplish? I meanwriting more songs obviously, But um,

(01:14:11):
where do you want to go withus any further? Or like where where's
your dream with us? And whereis it going to end? Or is
it not going to end? Oryou know what I mean, where I'm
going with us? It's pretty muchwhat are your hopes and dreams? Now?
From this point one? Right now, you know we're all in kind
of a waiting stee mode. Um, because you know, you can't really
plan tours and you don't know they'regoing to be canceled. We're shut up

(01:14:34):
inside again. I mean, it'sjust a very strange time in history.
You know you are doing lives thoughon your Facebook? Is that what you
said? Yeah, yeah, Ido that, and uh, like I
said, this music is available anduh, I mean if if we are
all to be shut up again,I would just keep doing. I was
doing Monday night shows two our streamlive streams. M I might switch over

(01:14:59):
to like stage it. There's certainservices that are popping up now where you
can actually interact and they could donateor even pay for the show, you
know, like David Bullock, peoplein my genre, Chuck Brodsky are starting
to do these kind of thing YouTube. You know my songs are you can
find them all on YouTube. Soyou know, just keeping on keeping on.

(01:15:23):
You know, Luckily, the GoodLord has been providing for me all
these years, and it seems toonly get better as I go and just
try to bring joy and some kindof reflective feelings to people that are willing
to listen to my music. Right, you were talking about Ireland and I
was over in Island, explored Irelandabout five years ago, and I felt

(01:15:46):
Northern Ireland Ireland pretty interesting, youknow, because of the Catholics and Protestants
and all that war that's been goingon. And I was in Dairy,
which is up in the Commonwealth.Still they're used sterling for money. Him
still British own, you know.But the tour guide Martin mcclasson did,

(01:16:09):
if you'll go back to America,if you write a song, make sure
they know that Ireland has piece oflass because it's called Londonderry too. And
then they have a wall that goesaround the town that separates the Catholics from
the Protestants, so you know theyknow they've known a lot of prejudice too,
like America. Right. I felta lot of similarity in that I

(01:16:32):
did write a song about did youI could do it if you want to
hear it? Sure, well it'scalled that Ireland looks good and stand up
here. It's a beautiful day inArry also lovely and love and dry either.

(01:17:13):
I the ways to see Island ifyou take a talk hole sup by
Martin mcclas and you walking talking roundaround his town, you may see the

(01:17:38):
muros. Feel the gross coming upthe past with your lead there, you
know the pace is coming around.They have to be a full day day.
Also lovely and unfair boches loose ways. I am a school. It's

(01:18:01):
that all the runs about back tothe state. It was built to divine
artestants from Cappa. Even though thewalls stuff who went out on the street,
he said, the loyalists. Iam a nationalist. I know it's

(01:18:27):
a beautiful game game also love itunderta either idle base I I myself foolishness,

(01:18:56):
prejudice, all my mother's I myfamily wants so street. I was
brought up period blacks to not betrusted. I was forced to close my
ears turn awain. I can croundlysee down my family has changed. All

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the best, all the best earsto be to day and also lovely and
loved. They either either way seeIlan from the Giant's Causeway to the Ring

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of the Canny, from the Irishside the island and ismall there are friendly
people who know how I have agood time, can make no no oh

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no day also lovely either I cool, that's very cool. I like it.

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Thanks now it looks like we havea question here. Um, the
question is, oh, where isit here? I just thought, uh,

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oh here it is any relation toGlenn? I knew i'd get that
one. I always get that one. Dude. When I was growing up
in La my dad used to tellme who he was from the season.
He said that there was a guya little older than me that was like

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a metal musician who was my cousin, and his name was Glenn. So,
I mean, I can only imaginethat it was Glenn Downs. I've
never met him. I was alwayshoping that we would end up in the
same place at the same time sohe could actually work this out. But
we never had him. So maybeyou see him. Tell him. I
said, hil music is totally different. So that's awesome. He's an amazing

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singer, an amazing book. So, but he's older than you a little
bit, yeah, a couple ofyears. So tonight, I mean,
I've noticed you just played that oneabout Ireland. It's like, so you
do you write pretty much about yourexperiences where you are, what you see
here, feel that's awesome. Younever know. It could be like Teddy

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does a radio show. Oh,here we go, Teddy's gonna have his
own song. Have you ever heardabout Beatle Bob in the same room.
No. Yeah, he's this crazyguy that dances in front of bands every
night. And it's like seventy now, but for like forty years now,

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every night he's found a band ofdance in front, and he goes to
the jazz fest and all kinds ofthings in New Orleans now. But they
say, a beetle Bob races yourpresence by dancing, you're gonna be famous.
So really, I'm still waiting Bobum. According to Liz Um,
it says he just came out withan Elvis cover album. I heard about

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that. Yeah, that's pretty cool. He's got that he you know,
he used to say in interviews andhis influences were Elvis and Satan to put
some words on Elvis and there yougo. Well that's that's what you see

(01:23:25):
about the Angel the way I seethe Angel. That's awesome. Yeah.
Um. She said that it's fantastic, so cool to check it out.
Yeah awesome. UM. So Iusually do this with you know, I

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ask all the artists um out there, no matter what they what instrument they
play, or whether it's music oranything else. When it comes to the
newer generation of music and stuff.What what advice would you give damn about
you know, writing and playing performing. I would say, just go,
you know, follow your heart,you know, gover your heart leads.

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You know, don't worry about tryingto sound like somebody. Try to develop
your own individual sound, you know. Um it might take some meditation,
it might it might take some tryingdifferent instruments. You know, do what
you like to do. Because ifyou try to play an instrument that causes
you pain, let's say, orlike you just really can't stand it,
you're not gonna ever get good atit. You have to find something that

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you enjoy, and the and themore you enjoy it more likely you are
to follow through with it because,let's face it, you may not make
a whole lot of money you knowdoing this. Um it may take many
years of persistence and just beating yourhead against a lot of different doors,
you know, to make a living. If you're tough enough to hang in
there, you know, God's feed. But otherwise you're gonna if you're just

(01:24:56):
trying to do it to be famousor try to you know, get some
fame. You know, you dofor the round reasons. You know,
yeah, you should do it forthe love of it. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's not you know,you find what you said you can
do well, and you know followthat right, right. I Uh,
I tried learning the guitar many manyyears ago, and I just couldn't wrap

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my head around it. I triedseveral times, bought several guitars, then
sold them all because I just couldn't. For some reason, it wasn't my
thing, you know, it justwasn't. And I finally, you know,
everybody kept telling me, well,you're a front man for a band,
you need a guitar, and I'mlike, I'm just I don't feel
it, man, I don't feelit. So try Yeah. I actually

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picked up the harmonica and uh mydad played and I couldn't get into that
either. So I'm not I'm notsure what instrument is good for me out
there yet. I have no idea, But at fifty three, I don't
know. You know, you gotto kind of have something in you that

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you have to have a gift.I hate to use that word, but
if you're really going to pursue itfor a lifetime career anyway, And well,
I play a mean tambourine. That'sOkay, I play a mean tambourine
though mean tambo. Mister tambourine man, playing something for me. As long

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as you got rhythm, you know, you always got these people that try
to jump up and grab your tambourinein me. You have no rhythm.
That's happened a lot, a lot, and I'm just like, okay,
give it back to me. Andtambourine is loud. I mean you can
hear it, the tambourine, eventhough it's not Oh yeah, yeah.

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Um. We have about three anda half minutes here, so UM,
I just wanted to say that Iappreciate you coming on the show. It's
some great music. I love thewriting. Um. I'm hoping that maybe
later on down the road you'd liketo come back. We could do this
again. Maybe that would be great, um, especially when I get this

(01:27:12):
ticking tapping thing gone out of here'sdriving me nuts. Um. But yeah,
and hopefully, um god willing musicianswill get back out playing because it's
it's hell for them. You know. I have seen on Facebook and Instagram
there are a couple of musicians outplaying certain places. They have these big

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see through glass things separating them fromthe crowds, um, but it's still
not the same thing, you know, it's not the same. I'm very
lucky in the fact that I canplay solo or with the band, and
there's like because it's summertime where youcan play solo. It's not being able

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to sustain myself that way. ButI love playing with the band as I
missed that. Yeah, all right. I actually my guitar player, UM,
actually had a gathering today, butI take care of my parents and
unfortunately things did not work out forme to make it down there to to
his annual party. UM. Iknow they like to jam and stuff,

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but I didn't make it down there, and I felt bad. But I'd
love to, you know, sitdown and play again myself, you know,
sometime soon. Well sync, youknow, but not play. Yeah,
I'd like to hear some of yourmusic. Maybe you can send me
some of your music. Yeah,I'll send you a couple of tunes.
I can do that, all right. It's uh, let's see, we

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got about oh minute and a halfhere. Is there anything else that you'd
like to talk about for a minuteand a half or say, or any
social media things we should get outof the way for you. Where they
can check you out even more.I mean I've got your website. Yeah,
you know my Facebook page. LikeI said, I do a song

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every day. Okay, that wouldbe just Facebook dot com slash Kevin dot
dan Zing. Okay, it's theD A n Z I G like Glenn
Danz. It's still saming, okay. You know, just thanks for listening
to my music. I really appreciateit. Yeah, No, I appreciate
you coming on. I'm here tomake a difference in the world if I

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can, and people who like youto give us a shot. You know,
that's that's just so helpful. Soappreciate it, right, No,
I and and I love music.I love listening and talking to people.
So that's why it's talked with Eddyand um, it's just I love it.
You know. It's a late show, um for some of us,
but it's, uh, we gotsome good we got a good fan base.

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We got people that love music fromall different genres and they they love
to interact as well. And everybody'sbeen great tonight. Um, you've been
wonderful. Guys. Please go outand check out Kevin dan zinc dot com.
Go check out his stuff, andI'm sure he'll put a schedule up
when he's outperforming at some point andlook for his music. You can check

(01:30:08):
him out on Facebook as well YouTubeas well. As he said, it's
been a wonderful night chatting with you, Kevin. It's been fantastic. The
music is great and um I'm lookingforward to talking to you in the future.
Yeah, me too. Thanks somuch, Eddy, Yeah you are.
You are so welcome. All right, guys, don't forget here and
talk with Teddy. I have onething to tell you at the end of

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the night when we close the show. It's besides taking care of yourself,
take care of your family and yourneighbors because they are important just like you
are. And if we can keepspreading that, then you know, we'll
have a whole much more love inthis world than hate in this world if
we do that. So guys,please take care of yourselves and everybody else
around you. Kevin, have agreat night, and thank you so much

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again, and we will talk toyou all real soon. In fact,
we will see you Tuesday night andright here and talk with Teddy. So
everybody have a good one. Thanksagain, keV, appreciate it. Thanks
love bye, Thank you, andmy guests for joining me here on Talk

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