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September 21, 2025 46 mins
The multi-talented Jeremy Hrdlicka of the Canadian Americana  group Brother Bicker Band (Spectra Music Group) talk about the latest release “Another Kind of Train” featuring “Storm Chaser” and “Stone”, plus their previous releases “Hospitality and Northern Charm” and “Bucket List”! Jeremy is a self-taught guitar player who began at 30 later wrote his first song and began fronting Brother Bicker Band as vocalist/guitarist describing their sound as “Maple Whisky Rock & Roll” with a loyal following on YouTube, Spotify and all social media and accompanied by drummer Taylor Miles, guitarist/vocalist Tom Morgan, bassist Jim Duncan, keyboardist Ben Ellard, plus Jennele Coulson and  Claire Wilkes on background vocals plus the stories behind the music! Check out the amazing Jeremy Hrdlicka and  Brother Bicker Band on all major platforms and www.brotherbicker.com and www.spectramusicgroup.com today! #jeremyhrdlicka #brotherbickerband #canadianamericana #spectramusicgroup #anotherkindoftrain #stormchaser #stone #hositalityandnortherncharm #bucketlist #serlftaughtguitairst #vocalist #maplewhisky #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerbrotherbickerband #themikewagnershowbrotherbickerband

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Make sure you check it out. Today we're here. We're
here with an amazing gentleman who's part of Americana group
from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, described as metal whiskey rock and
roll and features Taylor Milers on the drums, Jim Duncan

(01:35):
on bass, and this wonderful gentleman who's on vocals and
acoustic guitargets that minute, Tom Morgan on guitar and vocals,
Ben Millers on keyboards, and Jenelle Colson and Claire Wilkes
on the vocals as well. Sex and over basically over
like three and we're from five thousand up to potentially
ten thousand on all socials with Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram,

(02:02):
everything like that. And we've been talking about another kind
of train. We've been playing two of the songs as
well too. And they're from spect to Music Live, Lace
and Gentleman Plus Studios and Beating from downtown Calgary. The
American group from Canada described as Maple Whiskey rock and roll.
We've got the vocalist and lead singer of the group
from Brother Bicker Band, Jeremy Herlika Jeremy Gowrning. Good afternoon,

(02:23):
get evening, Thanks for joining us today.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Thank you very much, Mike. It's a pleasure to be here.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
What's great. Hey, I'm Borg Jeremy. So, you guys are
from Calgary as an Americana group described a maple Whiskey
rock and roll. You guys feature Taylor Miles on drums,
Jim Duncan on the bass, You being on vocals, acoustic guitar,
Tom Morgan on the guitars and backing vocals, Ben Ellard
on the keys, and he also added Janelle Colson and
Claire Wilkes on the backgrounds as well. And you've got

(02:50):
anyone from three to five thousand on all socials and
your Inspector Records. It's you've got another kind of train.
We'll be playing Storm, Chaser and Stone at the end
of the audio program. We want to make sure you
get that all that. We'll also cover some other music
and forgetting all that, Jeremy, tell us how you first
got started.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know what, I came in late to the deal.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I as far as being a musician goes, I did
my time in university.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I did a frat band for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I actually went to university in the States at the
University of Colorado Boulder, played a year in a frat band,
and then just kind of got out of university, forgot
about things, had my first my first child where my
wife had our first child when I was thirty and
stayed home for a year with him while she worked

(03:39):
and taught myself guitar, and then started my journey there.
And then brother Bicker band. We've been together for over
eight years now. Tom and I started. Tom and I
started it, and then Ben joined us, and then the
others kind of came in since then. But yeah, about
eight years we've been together and having a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
And how'd you guys all come together? First place?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, Tom and I actually are relatively close in our
where in our neighborhoods in Calgary. We actually played in
Monday night ball hockey league in a gym with a
bunch of other guys our age, and that's where I
met him the first time. And I had no idea
he was a such a great guitar player, and we

(04:23):
just kind of, I kind of learned it probably five
years into our friendship, and we started playing together and
everything clicked and we've been there. We've been playing ever since.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
I have our view as a musician, you started playing
guitar as self taught, you know, you know, being a
first time dad at thirty, what was at one exact
precise moment that's simply influencing what you do in the
rest of your career.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
One moment, you know, I think it was probably.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
The first time the first song I wrote, you know,
I was in a tough, tough time, Like shortly after
after that, I had it kind of went through a
rough patch in life and that had kind of a
tragedy happened, and and ended up writing a song coming
out of that, and uh after that, it was like,

(05:13):
you know what, this is pretty cool. I like, you know,
being able to turn my emotions into something that's that
lasts and that I can, uh you know, play to
people and and uh, hopefully make people feel something, feel
happy or sad.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
And I think that was kind of where what hooked
me at that point.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
And then ever since then, I've been kind of you know,
writing and and playing and and whether it's covers or originals,
music's just been a part of what I do now.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
So it's been awesome and it sounds like you're having a
really good time. And who are some of your favorite
singer songwriters and musicians growing up?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
You know what I I kind of I came.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Into my own in the eighties, and so you know,
my earliest, uh, the most influential part of my music taste,
it got to be from the eighties, and I was
an old hair metal guy, Mike and and uh you know,
so that whole def Leppard was probably the first band
I totally fell in love with, and and then in

(06:14):
the Iron Maiden and Judas Priest and then even some
of the hair metal bands and and uh it's uh.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
That was the early part.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then you know, getting into the grunge and and
the alternative rock scene in the in the nineties, I
really you know, I got a lot of that Pearl
Jam and and uh sound Garden and those type of
bands and and I'm still you know, the and the
older I get, you know, I think country music's kind
of taken over in a.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Lot of ways from where rock was, you know, when
we were growing up.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
And uh so a lot of my people say, you
get old and you listen to jazz, and I don't
listen to jazz. But country is country has been kind
of the the the area.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
So so like Chris Stapleton.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
And and uh uh Luke Combs and and uh, I'm
a real big fan of Whiskey Myers, which is why
we covered Stone on the on.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
The album Oh Nice, Okay.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
So uh so, yeah those are and then you know,
I look back and like from our the band perspective,
you know, I see we're in the same vein as
Tom Petty, you know, kind of we've been compared to
Bruce Springsteen and and uh kind of those that classic
rock uh genre, and and that's what what we kind

(07:29):
of what we kind of aspire to, uh to be
is is uh bring back those old feelings and that
that nostalgia for that roots rock Americana.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
And certainly maybe me think of you're talking about some
of the you know singers as well too, being from Canada.
You know you mentioned in the country. I think of
Terry Clark coming from there, Shania Twayne, and you know,
quite a few of those two really stood up in
my mind. You know, everybody talking about Shanaia, Terry Clark,
you know kind of like you know, just kind of
like just kind of stable in the whole country scene Canada.

(08:03):
It's like Calgary is best known for being country Edmonton.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, she's and yeah, she's from about three hours west
or sort three hours east the Calgary in a place
called Medicine Hat. You're familiar with Paul Brand Yes, yes, yeah,
so he's from Calgary. I actually had the pleasure of
meeting him at a at a songwriter's retreat I was
at part of a couple couple of months ago, and uh,

(08:29):
he's uh, he's kind of one of the tops in
the Canadian country scene as well, and and made him
made us into Nashville in the in the two thousands
as well, in nineties and two thousands. So yeah, there's
you know, there's a lot of history, uh, in in
Alberta and in Calgary in particular with with music and

(08:51):
we're you know, we don't have a big scene, but
we have a really really vibrant scene and and uh
there's lots of great talent coming out of the city.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
And certainly did as well. To a howl about some
mere favorite guitarist growing.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Up, you know what I from a guitar perspective, you know,
I got it. Probably probably Slash was when that that
first uh first Guns and Roses album, uh Appetite for
Destruction came out. I don't know how how anybody couldn't

(09:23):
love couldn't love Slash and uh, of course, uh you
know Eddie Van Halen.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
And and uh, you know those guys.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
And that being said, I don't consider myself a great
guitar player, but you know, when I'm listening to guitar music,
those are the guys I listened to.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
And you certainly did a good job on guitar as
well too with the brother Bicker band. And we'll be
talking about another kind of trained a couple of songs
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Today we're here at the Maltatown Jeremy herd Laka from
the Brother Bicker Band, part of the Spectrum Music Group,

(12:11):
here on the Mike Whitner Show. And how did you
first come up with a name Brother Bicker Band.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
There's a little bit of a story behind that, Mike.
I was in the last band I was in. It
was with that a friend, my friend, a friend of
I of mine and I started it and uh, we
were trying to figure out a name, and it took
us months, and we were arguing and and uh, oh
that's stupid. No, your name is stupid, and our bass

(12:39):
player finally said, man, you guys bicker like brothers.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
You should just be the Bicker Brothers.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
So that name stuck and we became the Bicker brothers
and then and then a year or two later we
broke up.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
We're still good friends, but not in a band together anymore.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
And when when I left, I decided that I was
gonna I wanted I had a bucket list was to
record an album. So I just kind of flipped it
around and became a brother Bicker at the time. And
then Tom joined the band, and we when we released
kind of the first EP, and then we we basically

(13:19):
added that we became the Brother Bicker Band to kind
of signify that change.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
And uh have been this been that ever since.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
So you also describe yourself as maple whiskey rock and roll,
and you're making me really thirsty on that one. Maple whiskey,
Oh my god. Yes, that's during of the guys in Canada.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Just a touch of sweetness and uh and and kicks
your ass a little and that's how we like to
think about it.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
But uh we uh that one.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Actually this is my my buddy West, the same guy
who I was a Bicker brother with. He had seen
us at when we were kind of first starting out,
after I think the first time we'd seen us, say, guys,
you guys have this nice whiskey rock and roll feel
to you, and uh kind of took that and put
the put the great White Norse spin on it and

(14:08):
made it maple whiskey rock and roll.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
So I did I like that. I am really enjoying
this right now. Pick them up later on too. You
talked about your first EP. We'll get to that right here,
Hospitality and Northern Charm and your feature So Lonely a
little bit high and tell us more about that EP
and what's far to uh write?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
So that one was U We had the the good
fortune of releasing that literally a week before COVID hit
and the Lockdown's hit, So uh that landed with a
huge thud.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
But uh, at the same time, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
We we really loved that album, and uh it was
probably kind of our first first three or first three
or four years of songwriting that we've done that we
kind of pulled onto that album and uh we had
it up.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
We have a local Calgary Calgary Music Awards.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
One of the songs off that album was nominated for
Rock Rock Song in the Year, a song called Breaking
Glass and it and we do it really that So
Lonely as a cover Police cover, which I think we
do a pretty good job at making our own and uh,
it's just it was a great album for us. It
was kind of our first first, first real time in

(15:26):
the in the studio as a band, and Uh, I
always I have fond memories of it and and we
still play a lot of those songs live still. So
it's a it was a great, great opportunity you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
The song Breaking Glass is nominated as a Song of
the Year with that with it was it Canada? Was
it Canada Music Wars?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
It was our local Calgary Calgary Music Awars.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Now that was it? Okay. I was trying to remember
what it was and tell us more about that song,
Breaking Glass, and when he spared write that one, that one, you.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Know, actually was an inspired was inspired by a trip
to Nashville that uh I had taken.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I've been there a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
I love Nashville, uh and uh loved the scene and
it was kind of inspired just the whole idea. I
have a friend from university that ended up in Nashville
and works for the City of Nashville and also does
carpentry work for a lot for a lot of kind
of country stage country acts for stage shows and stuff,

(16:24):
and He said that it's the only place in the
world where you can get your lawn mode by a
three time Grammy winner.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Lawn mobile, three time Grammy wearing. I love that one
our washing windows for like seven time nominator or something
like that. I love it. It's like, you know, yeah, yeah,
service by your nominated seven time Grammy. Ya you fill
in the.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Blanks, guys, here go on my lawns. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
So it's uh, and that kind of struck me and
kind of going down there when you when you go
in and there's so much talent down there, but at
the same time, it's so hard to get yourself seen.
And the whole idea of the song is just kind
of you know, it's kind of a story song about
a woman who who plays in bars and in Nashville

(17:12):
and is just ground down and worn out and wants
to quit.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
But she doesn't know that there's one guy that comes back.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
To see her every night and he and she she
her songs, her music kind of drive him and keep
him going.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
And uh.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
And so that's and I brought that kind of idea
back and Tom and I work through that one, and
it is still one of my favorite songs that we've
written together because uh, and when we brought to the band,
it's it's a really really interesting song. One of our
old drummers UH called it our our Queen Moment because

(17:50):
because it reminded him of a queen song just because
of the changes and stuff. So it's h I like that.
I like that analogy.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
I really like that too. And let's go on with
another kind of train. And we like to h hit
hit upon a couple as well, like with Nashville Sound,
the breakup song, and and tell us about those two ones,
probably the right those you know.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
What Nashville Sound again, it was kind of a written
at the similar time Tom had had the idea about
about Nashville Sound and I had again just come back
from that same trip to Nashville.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
And that one is really.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
I really love the lyrics of that one that we
pulled together because it really kind of ties in with
the whole Nashville scene and and uh, you know with
the Bluebird and and the different music places that are
in town there. And uh, he had this amazing riff
and a couple of a couple of first lines and

(18:50):
him and I sat down and wrote the rest of
the song and and it's our it's our tribute to
to Nashville. The Breakup Song again, another cover of the
Great Kin classic from I think nineteen eighty three.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh yeah, I remember that song. I love Great Ken
back in the day, especially when he was in Jeopardy too.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Oh yeah, yeah he did that one. And then and
the breakup song. We've been playing for a long a
long time and everybody knows it, but nobody knows where
they've heard it.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
They just know the song.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
And it's one of those ones that have kind of
crept into into our into our popular culture, but nobody
quite knows why. And and uh and we we have
a lot of fun playing that song.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
It made me think of, oh, Louis Louis that that song,
And you're saying, Louis Louis is like you never think
about what the song really meant until you dig deep inside,
like what's the song about? I don't know what you
want to sing it? And I know what you mean.
The King's absolutely oh you got that right. And also
you did no straight line. And also the title track

(19:57):
another kind of train tell us more about that.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
That was one that that Tom had had mostly fleshed
out when we usually get together and uh bring songs
song ideas to each other to test them or and
sometimes they're ten percent done and sometimes they're ninety percent done,
and odd times are one hundred percent done. We just

(20:21):
kind of tested off of each other and he had
brought this one in and it was it was pretty
much pretty much there, and it's it's really about you know,
people that go in a different track in life and uh,
maybe going in a into a in an area or
take a track or a path that you might not

(20:42):
agree with or or might not you know, it might
not be good for them, but they got to take
that track and once they're on it, they have to
keep going until the till the end. And and you know,
at a certain point you just you accept it and
hope that the track leads you back leads them back
to you.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
And uh, that's kind of the idea around another kind
of train.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
It certainly did as well too. And let's see, have
we talked about no straight line or lines?

Speaker 3 (21:11):
That was a fun one, you know what. I want
to say that it was kind of.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Born from a keyboard riff that Ben had brought and
him and him and Tom.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Had kind of worked out and it's kind of our
funkier tune.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's uh, you know, kind of bluesy and funky, and
uh has a really great backing vocals in it, and uh,
you know, it's it's I don't even know what it's about.
It's good lyrically, I don't know if it's it's not
too deep lyrically. It's more of just kind of a fun, fun,
danceable song and and uh, yeah, we have we have

(21:51):
a great time playing that one.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
And it sounds like it as well too. And we'll
talk about two more songs will be playing out at
the end of the audio interview. And what are they
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You heard me.

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We're back with Jeremy Herlca Brother Bicker Band, Calgary, Canada
from Spectrum Music. Here on the Mike Wadner's Show. The
two songs will be playing at the end of the
audio interview. We encourage everybody to do that. We have
Stormchaser and still tell about those two songs and Wayne's
byre the wright thos So.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Stormchaser was actually one that I wrote pre COVID with
with a friend of mine, Jodie Stuart Regner, and she
was actually she was living in London at the time
and she started songwriting and I was kind of early
in in my songwriting stint and was kind of the

(24:52):
first co write I had done outside of working with Tom.
And then she brought in a friend, Brian Sutherland, who
was out of Florida. So we wrote this over zoom
and it's basically kind of comparing, you know, love to
a storm, to a tornado, and the kind of love
that might not be good for you, but it's exciting
and it gives you an adrelline rush and and you

(25:14):
have to chase the storm even though you know there's
some danger there and it might not be good for you.
So so we brought that back, and you know, we've
been playing that one for a while, brought that back
and and Tom kind of pulled it all together with
his with the riff in that song and has kind
of made it something special. And that one again that

(25:34):
got us another nomination for the Calgary Music Awards, and
we again we're we have yet to win a Calgary
Music Award, but we've been nominated three times now.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
But that was one of the one of the songs that.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Made the nomination, and it was was a finalist, and
it's one of the ones that we're pretty proud of.
And most our fans, local fans, when that one comes on,
there there up on their feet, so it's good.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
And that was a storm chaser, right, that was storm chaser?
And what about Stone? Tell us about that?

Speaker 2 (26:07):
So Stone is again a cover from a Whiskey Myers
cover And I started first heard that it came over
my kind of my Spotify and I immediately took to it.
And then I don't know if you want if you're
a Yellowstone fan, Mike, but season one Yellowstone Whiskey Myers

(26:31):
is in it, and that show has a lot of
great music. But they were actually in it and they
were kind of a bar band and they sang Stone,
And ever since then, I've been fascinated by the song.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I just I just love it.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
And when we went in the studio last year, I
thought that this is the perfect song. Janelle and Claire,
both singer have sung in the past for this local choir.
We have a acchoir that's bit around for fifty plus
years in Calgary called Red fifty two and they do

(27:06):
four or five shows a year and it's a full,
a full choir. They're really talented and professional choir. And
I started we started developing relationship with the choir director,
John Morgan and I and I just had this idea
that a full choir with this song would be amazing,
and so approached him and he was on board and

(27:30):
and worked out worked out all the parts on for
the choir parts, and then we went to the studio
and it's probably one of the most fun recordings that
had just because just to see that idea come to
fruition and and see and I think there was fifteen
people all in the same room singing, singing choir on

(27:52):
the on our song and it was it was pretty exciting.
So another one of my favorites. And I wish I
had written it, m H.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
And that's so amazing as well, what you guy, there's
other music we haven't covered. Talk more about that, you
know what.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Well, we put out our first in at last Christmas,
we put out our first Christmas song, which actually also
had the choir on it, called Rocky Mountain Christmas.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
You can find that on our YouTube.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was actually our first professional video that we had
done as well, and it was kind of a it
was in honor of a friend who passed from cancer
that I was one of my best friends who lived
in Colorado and and it's called Rocky Mountain Christmas and
kind of a tribute to him. And we were able

(28:44):
to play it live at one of our one of
our the hockey games here we have a American Hockey
League team called the Calgary Wranglers, which are under the Flames,
which are our top team.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
But yeah, I'm familiar with the ahl on your stand
they as Chicago Wolves are like that. But that's a
really good organization.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, so we we ended up playing at their Christmas
in a Christmas game and uh so we were able
to play that live in front of an eye, in
front of a pretty big hockey audience, and uh it's uh,
it was.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
It's pretty exciting.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
So and we've gotten you know, we've got new stuff
in the pipe and we're always writing and creating and
hoping to get back in the studio real soon.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
It sounds like you've got a lot of work going on.
What else is based the lyric son? When it comes
to music, you know what?

Speaker 3 (29:32):
A lot of it.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think it really comes down to like personal experiences
and and you know, and a lot of it, both
Tom and I. A lot of it is around family
and and uh, you know, we both have We've both
been with our been together with our wives for a
long time and and have grown kids. And and a

(29:53):
lot of the songs that that we write are you know,
inspired by that and inspired by you know, just relationships
and and whether you know good or bad. It's funny
we have for being happily married guys, we do have.
We sing a lot of breakup songs too, so it's
we haven't we have imaginations as well, So I think

(30:16):
a lot of it. A lot of our stuff is
driven by and you know what, sometimes we just throw in.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
We have one song Rocket.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
We have a song called rock and Roll Heaven, which
is basically about all the dead rock stars that we've lost.
And uh, you know, you get to a certain age
and all your heroes start to pass away, and and
and Heaven's got one hell of a band, So you know,
it's kind of silly. Things strike us every once in
a while, and and sometimes it's good to make a

(30:46):
song that's a little bit lighter and and uh and
and not so deep.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
So of course you're talking about rock and roll Heaven.
Most recently Rick Darringer passed away as well too, and
he's got having called rock and roll who Youku's got
a little spot up in rock and roll Heaven.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Absolutely, he is definitely in the band, I would say so.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Certainly did as well too. Where can we find all
your music at? And how do people get a hold
of you, Jeremy.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
So we uh we are on another kind of train
is on Spectra spect your music group, and you can
find us on all platforms Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Pandora, whatever
whatever service you use, you can find us there.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Brother bicker Band another kind of train.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
You can find us at brother bicker band dot com
as well as our is our website. We've got a YouTube,
uh YouTube channel again Brother bicker Band, and uh and
we've got a link tree account which kind of has
a summary of everything we do. And you know, we
if you're ever up in Calgary, we play regularly and

(31:48):
uh come and uh come and have a listen to
us and come say hi.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
We'll certainly do that as well too. Here's amazing Jeremy
Herlicka of Brother Bicker Band, part of the Spector Music
Group here on the Mike Waiters Show, and Jeremy, just
a few more things. What else can we expect from
you in twenty twenty five and beyond.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
So we we do have a.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
New single that we're in the studio right now with
just putting some final touches on, and I'm hoping that
that's gonna be out by the end of the year
kind of.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
And then we're also.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Kind of looking at potential producers for a new EP
that we're hoping to get into the studio for later
in the later in the summer, maybe in the fall,
to start doing some more recording. And you know, we're playing, uh,
we're playing all the time. We've we've got a big,
big show at one of the kind of the premiere

(32:46):
venues in Calgary, King Eddie, which is coming up on
June sixth, and you.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Know, just playing, having more fun. It's all for us.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
It's all about the experiences and and you know, doing
something a little different, playing a new place, putting out
new music, and that's what we just just keep doing.
So we're looking forward to we're looking forward to what
the next year.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Brings and certainly amazing and we look forward to having
you back on as well. Who to consider biggest influence
in the career.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
Oh, career wise?

Speaker 4 (33:20):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (33:20):
I when it comes to music, I always I think
I got to go back to Tom Petty from a
career perspective and just the how creative he was, and
and from even from a you know, a business perspective,
and his his fight against the record companies and earlier
in his career and his uh collaborations that he's that

(33:41):
he's done throughout his life and reinvented himself any number
of times and uh, and just the longevity that he's
had and and uh I uh, I love listening to
Tom Petty and and uh he really is I think
the the bard of of of our generation. And I

(34:02):
I have I always love listening to him. And if
I if I could be anything like him, I'm anything
anything at all like him, I'll be happy.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
And certainly indeed he would appreciate that greatly. What's the
best advice you can get?

Speaker 7 (34:15):
The aim by at this point, you know what, just
have fun and and don't be in a hurry and
just keep working on it.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Like I said, we've been together for eight years. And
you know, I started playing music late in life, when
I was thirty and I don't know, I know if
I want to say this, but that's been twenty it's
been twenty five years, and.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
You know I started out just playing at parties and
playing around campfires and worked open mics, and you know,
just steadily have gotten better. And surround yourself with great
people that you want to be with and that are talented,
and good things happen.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
So that would be my advice and.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Certainly and did as well too. You guys got a
great thing going. We're here with the amazing Jeremy Herlica,
a brother Bicker band, part of the Specting Muser group
here in Mike Whiner's show would be playing Storm, Chaser
and Stone. At the end of the audio interview, we
encourage everybody to go there. Jeremy, very big, thank you time.
You have been absolute fantastic. Larry a lot looking forward
having soon, keeps up today, keep in touch, lave Ivy

(35:19):
back and what's your website? How do people contact you?
Whoring people purchase or check.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Out your music, so if they want to go, the
website's the best place brother bickerband dot com. There's a
contact us link, there's merchandise sales. All our music's posted
on there as well. You can you can purchase our
last two albums there, and there's links to the purchasing
for another kind of train as well. And uh yeah,
just come in and join our mailing list and we'll

(35:47):
we'll be happy to share our stuff with you.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
And certainly looking forward to as well. Once again, Jeremy,
very big thanks you time, deepen abs amazing looking Ford
having soon keeps up today, keep in touch, live Ivy back.
We wish all best and Jeremy you you and the
gang out definitely great feature.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Thank you very much, Mike. I appreciate your time. And
then I spent a great time time have taking see the.

Speaker 8 (36:30):
Landing, crashing down the ruins of picking Gonta, spend the round.
Your spirit can't be tamed, your feet don't touch the ground. Well,
I sit out away chasing you should flow those wind
those times when I'm drawing out sat Pipper Bottle, Thomas

(37:00):
Ben you need to feel me. Doctors the sky he
makes me feel alive.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Just Gandy nine dollar one wall.

Speaker 9 (37:16):
I'm a stone chaser, the women against the high The
truth is in the sky.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
I'm in your thought of cloudy.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
I'm helpless like the past.

Speaker 8 (37:33):
There's no turning back the grimly against the shape, even
with the warning busy.

Speaker 10 (37:38):
You're over the body.

Speaker 8 (37:41):
I should grow over those windows.

Speaker 10 (37:43):
Time in the bud, but I.

Speaker 8 (37:49):
Was trying when out side.

Speaker 10 (37:54):
Forever another lad.

Speaker 11 (37:56):
Thomas Ben said, I'm.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Gonna sail the sky. It could be alive to scan.

Speaker 10 (38:06):
The niether one way.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
I'm the stone.

Speaker 12 (38:13):
Jason, You're the world this, You're there, You're my friend,

(38:55):
You're my pain.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
You've another ray.

Speaker 11 (39:00):
I was dancing ring the fell and the reel bars
of the scot the bell a last to scan the wall.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
I'm starting jerser. Yeah, where the.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Night is my companion.

Speaker 13 (40:24):
And the highway is my home? Got mesicking for one
last baker, have a single, please, Ron.

Speaker 8 (40:45):
Say the Jesus was a former.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
I wish I had a little more hiving me make
it this and a lever.

Speaker 13 (41:05):
Hot missus.

Speaker 10 (41:07):
Ricord sayd Mine, I'm going to break bad America. James my.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Store.

Speaker 13 (41:46):
Well, I guess I've got my bottle, Stay out on it, Burt,
but it gets me smiling. Insang to sleep, believe bit

(42:08):
better of the night. See the loves like a dagger
max stage.

Speaker 14 (42:21):
Just b SCons, I love you and drain you a
little thank you, boll just to feel battle about.

Speaker 10 (42:36):
Their lives, see mine all awake again, Argantize train, FuG

(42:57):
the store, say say I'm gonna break again.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Joe by No by God.

Speaker 10 (43:42):
Says say I'm going to break again.

Speaker 11 (43:47):
I'm just mis.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Okay.

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