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A New Age Of Storytelling By Way Of Billy and Elton From NBC's The Voice Lucas West · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: going on, Lucas, How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, Thanks so much, appreciate you having me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, dude. You've got a story, and your story
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  Speaker 1: is what is so fun about music, always growing forward.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to start the story in a place
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  Speaker 1: that I can really relate with, and that is is
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  Speaker 1: that when I in studying everything that you've done on
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  Speaker 1: your path, I see that there are some German roots.
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  Speaker 1: And my family is Dobrin's. I'm second generation German. So
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  Speaker 1: it's so fascinating to be able to talk with people
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  Speaker 1: who have got those German roots and aren't afraid to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thanks for digging, and yes, that's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: My dad immigrated to here from Disudov and I kind
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  Speaker 3: of grew up half and half holidays, language, culture, traditions,
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  Speaker 3: foods and everything you name it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's really cool, man, that's.
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  Speaker 1: It's so awesome you bring up my favorite thing, foods
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  Speaker 1: because I am a sour kraut fanatic. But to see
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  Speaker 1: the thing, people are getting it wrong. It doesn't come
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  Speaker 1: in a can. Go ahead and make it at home
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  Speaker 1: and do it right like my parents and my grandparents
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  Speaker 1: used to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: Now where did that coming with that kind of a background. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to really dig in deep because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that people don't realize is that
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to music, because I've been with the
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  Speaker 1: stars of Germany, they take it seriously, dude, And I
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  Speaker 1: know that when I hear you singing, this is not
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  Speaker 1: just something that was planted inside of you. You are
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  Speaker 1: living it forward. It's not just music. You're living what
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  Speaker 1: you sing about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank thanks for saying that, man, I really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: But to make that choice to be that way as
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  Speaker 1: a musician, is it even a choice or is it
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  Speaker 1: something that you're You are the vessel and you are
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  Speaker 1: just receiving and now you're giving it to the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, well, the way you say it, I would
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent agree with on on any kind of
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  Speaker 3: scale of deeper meaning I think you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: God puts but put me on the earth to be
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  Speaker 3: his vessel. Yes, so yes, I do agree with it.
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  Speaker 3: But a lot of it is also mindset. Mindset is
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  Speaker 3: really really big. You have to you have to be
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  Speaker 3: the the the entertainer version of yourself. Yeah, and and
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  Speaker 3: and it's a healthy switch, a healthy code switch. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's I think that's part of this too,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being able to switch on the the the
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  Speaker 3: after burners.
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  Speaker 1: But so then, as a creative person, how do you
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  Speaker 1: switch that on? Because that's what of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I have spent so many years as as an artist
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  Speaker 1: to be able to figure out, you know, because people go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: just go over there and turn it on, or you
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  Speaker 1: think we can just turn it on and turn it off.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's like a comedian, tell me a joke, funny man,
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  Speaker 1: How is it that you're able to get it to
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  Speaker 1: move through you and to be able to stand on
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  Speaker 1: that stage at NBC's the Voice and all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden we're all going on. You've got to be kidding me.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to that voice.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, brother, thank you. I don't know, it's I
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  Speaker 2: wish I thought about these things more, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So much of it is just just just the mindset.
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  Speaker 2: Is it just the work you put in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very happy to be getting so much out of
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  Speaker 3: it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you taking good notes? I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: sound like your dad or your grandfather, but you're taking notes.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to need this later on.
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  Speaker 2: I trap.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you know, I've got to compliment you on something
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  Speaker 1: that that that I've always believed that music are also
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  Speaker 1: ambassadors for different parts of the country. Because you coming
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  Speaker 1: from the crown jewel of the Erie Canal. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what that was until I had to go and
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  Speaker 1: research it and look at the pictures. My god, you
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  Speaker 1: are in a very beautiful piece of this country that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know about.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's true, It's very true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because we hear the Erie Canal, or
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  Speaker 1: we even hear of the Great Lakes, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think people really love it the way that we did
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  Speaker 1: when I was growing up because it was a part
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  Speaker 1: of Americana. Now, you you know, unless I hear somebody
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  Speaker 1: like yourself here, Lucas, It's like, oh, that's right, the
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  Speaker 1: Erie canal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is this is my this is
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  Speaker 3: my home forever. I'm here right now in Fairport and.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I thank God every day to live in this, in
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  Speaker 3: this neck of the woods. It's beautiful here. I love it,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the things that out.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do in that neck of the woods
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm presently sitting inside a nature preserve in North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm here to receive from these trees and from
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  Speaker 1: In fact, yesterday I planted a right instrument next to
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  Speaker 1: a rock because I believe rocks are writing instruments and
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  Speaker 1: they'll share it with one so the human can have
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  Speaker 1: a new song. Do you do any crazy rituals like that?
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  Speaker 2: I do not. No, I can't say that I do.
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  Speaker 2: But that is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know that the land is always speaking to us, Lucas.
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  Speaker 1: It's always in yo.
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  Speaker 2: Human, human, Human.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna trip you with this next rock if you
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  Speaker 1: don't listen to human and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: we face plant. Now what are you learning on NBC's
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  Speaker 1: The Voice, Because when you're sitting down with someone like
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  Speaker 1: John legend. I would love to tap into him just
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  Speaker 1: to say, here are my vocals, what can I do
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  Speaker 1: to expand them? Have you had that talk with him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, definitely something we've talked about together. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: my work with John revolved into just leaning into the
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  Speaker 3: intricacies of my voice and kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Sirrendrick control.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean that was I'd say, outside of
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  Speaker 3: that primary my primary lesson there, a lot of it
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  Speaker 3: was like what the kind of mindset stuff I learned
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  Speaker 3: from John for being a performer, embracing what it's like
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  Speaker 3: to be a piano man. You know, I always thought
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  Speaker 3: I'd had a disadvantage because I played piano and I
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  Speaker 3: can't perform. That's kind of the whole point. And just
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  Speaker 3: watching John play kind of teaches me that and reinforces
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  Speaker 3: that makes me realize like, oh no, it's it's quite
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  Speaker 3: it's quite cool to do that and that at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, and that's more of an advantage than a disadvantage.
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  Speaker 2: So those are the kinds of lessons and things. Well.
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  Speaker 1: See, I've always looked at the piano as being the
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  Speaker 1: extension of the human imagination, and that when you do
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  Speaker 1: do that on the piano and you're able to share
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  Speaker 1: a story and you go into a song. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: to me, that is one of the greatest gifts on
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  Speaker 1: the planet from the universe, because it's like you can
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  Speaker 1: go from conversation to the hook of a song and
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  Speaker 1: we're we're all sing it along and have no idea
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  Speaker 1: how we got there. We just know, damn that was
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  Speaker 1: the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely agree.
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  Speaker 1: Are you recording yourself on that piano that you're going
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why I asked that because I'm that
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  Speaker 1: guy that had to record his mother when he was
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  Speaker 1: a kid, because I knew one day mom wouldn't be here,
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  Speaker 1: and today her on that piano on those cassette tapes
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest gift that I don't even know why
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  Speaker 1: I recorded it. I just know I've got him. Are
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  Speaker 1: you doing the same thing?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I do record myself as a as a
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  Speaker 3: practice all the time. Yeah, but yeah, I'm definitely glad
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  Speaker 3: my mom my mom filmed me growing up. It's pretty
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  Speaker 3: wild to see the kind of how far I've come
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  Speaker 3: with piano. And because I started very very early, that's
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  Speaker 3: where I started the classical piano lessons when I was
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  Speaker 3: six years old. So yeah, it's definitely cool to like
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  Speaker 3: look back and and kind of reminis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But see, you know a lot of listeners don't understand
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  Speaker 1: that when we hit clinker moments, especially on the piano
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  Speaker 1: or even a guitar, that clinker moment that we happen
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  Speaker 1: to get onto your smartphone, you know, recording or if
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  Speaker 1: your mother got it, those can turn into songs that
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  Speaker 1: get millions of listeners later on. What do you do
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  Speaker 1: with your clinker moments? In other words, where it just
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  Speaker 1: didn't sound right, but you won't throw the damn thing away?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean a lot of that.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm excited to say that I have some
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  Speaker 3: original music, my debut single releasing once the show's done airing,
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  Speaker 3: So that'll be that'll be in like mid early May,
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  Speaker 3: i'd say, But there you go. That's my answer. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's I've been giving into the ideas in my head
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  Speaker 3: and I wrote a song and I'm really excited to
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  Speaker 3: release it once the time is right.
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  Speaker 1: How do you mix that that music into the actual
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  Speaker 1: live performance? And the only REASONHY bring that up because
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  Speaker 1: I'm so only because I saw Elton Johnny concert and
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  Speaker 1: I got to play the music after the show, just
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  Speaker 1: outside the stadium, and the thing is they gave me
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  Speaker 1: his playlist, and that took away from the excitement of
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  Speaker 1: being at that concert. So what it did was it
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  Speaker 1: inspired me to really follow other musicians. When you place
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  Speaker 1: these songs on that list to perform, are you going
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  Speaker 1: for the oh wow factor when people go, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God, that's what I wanted to hear.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely thinking about it. I won't
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  Speaker 3: lie tuns like Benny in New York State of Mind.
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  Speaker 3: You know, those are anthems of you know, that's not
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  Speaker 3: a Billy Joel tune and an Elton tune.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the one of the anthems of Elton John.
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  Speaker 2: That's the anthems of Billy Joel.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like, I know I'm picking heavy hitters, but
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of the whole point. It's like, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to be competitive on this show, you have to
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  Speaker 3: know what you're good at and pick within that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think, please do not move.
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  Speaker 1: There's more with Lucas West from NBC's The Voice. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up next NBC's The Voice, We are back with singer
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  Speaker 1: songwriter Lucas West. You're definitely in the right place Lucas.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because I've
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  Speaker 1: done some studying on where today's musicians, the up and
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  Speaker 1: coming musicians are, and what that study is showing is
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  Speaker 1: that people like yourself are going back into the Billie
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  Speaker 1: Joels and the Elton Johns, and you're going into the
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  Speaker 1: Stevie Wonders and you're studying their journey. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: you're copying them, you're feeling that inspiration. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: the music world is waiting for, is waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: guys to say, we are it. It's here. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: just play this, we are We went back to do
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  Speaker 1: the homework to get to this moment of now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, absolutely, So much of creating new music is pulling
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  Speaker 3: from old music. You really have to pay homage to
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  Speaker 3: the original ideas and everything's inspired to know, because it's
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  Speaker 3: this entire music world is so saturated now it's like
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  Speaker 3: coming up with the original ideas is tough, but now
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  Speaker 3: is it's like if you can come up with it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I do, that's original enough to you,
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  Speaker 3: but also people can tell it pays homage to an
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  Speaker 3: older artist, and even better, you know, because we want
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  Speaker 3: to we want to we should sound like the people
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  Speaker 3: were influenced by I think that's really important and that's
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  Speaker 3: why I'm really really excited to release this one.
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  Speaker 1: When did you realize that that piano was a part
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  Speaker 1: of the storytelling? And the reason why I bring that
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  Speaker 1: up is because when I sat down with my first
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  Speaker 1: Elton John sheet music and it wasn't going the way
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  Speaker 1: that I hear the song on the radio, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden my mind went to figure it out. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: there's something going on beyond those lyrics. When did you
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  Speaker 1: realize that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great question, Yeah, I think I think I was.
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  Speaker 3: It was like twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen, playing rocket
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  Speaker 3: Man and Benny.
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  Speaker 2: And the Jets, you know, on heavy rotation, those two tunes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I remember Rocketman though, playing a practice room
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  Speaker 3: and I.
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  Speaker 2: Was just vamping on that.
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  Speaker 3: On the two court, I was just vamping on those
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  Speaker 3: two chords because it's such a pretty progression, And I
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  Speaker 3: think that was That was definitely one of the moments
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  Speaker 3: that maybe like fall in love with piano more than
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  Speaker 3: just like the classical and jazz lessons I had been doing.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, hop music, this is a new
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  Speaker 3: world on piano.
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  Speaker 2: That I hadn't explored.
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  Speaker 3: So Yeah, I remember, I'd say, twenty eighteen in a
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  Speaker 3: practice room singing rocket Man.
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  Speaker 1: I got to give you a compliment on something, Lucas,
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  Speaker 1: that's invisible to probably the listener until we bring it
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  Speaker 1: up and with you turning around to play the piano
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  Speaker 1: like that, if you need to know how many of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest of the great have shared conversations with me
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  Speaker 1: with their instruments and they do that. And what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing is planting yourself in the year twenty ninety five
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  Speaker 1: because you're sharing the instrument with us while talking about
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  Speaker 1: the music. And when Ted Nugent sits down with you
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  Speaker 1: and he's got his guitar and he's blasting that dang
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  Speaker 1: guitar and you're playing piano. That tells me, Lucas, you
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  Speaker 1: fricking get it, you understand the journey.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because don't you think as fans of seeing you live,
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  Speaker 1: don't we want to talk to the piano as well?
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  Speaker 1: And if you bring that into the conversation, doesn't that
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  Speaker 1: build up that relationship?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would absolutely agree with you on that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's that instruments or vessels. Right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's a big It's a conversation we can
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  Speaker 3: have to you know.
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  Speaker 1: So where do you grow from this point forward? Because
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're in a position right now where the
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  Speaker 1: world is watching you. We as fans need to either
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  Speaker 1: stamp you onto Spotify and put you on our list.
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  Speaker 1: We need to get you onto our list so that
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  Speaker 1: it can grow organically and make you a statement beyond.
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  Speaker 1: You know, NBC's the voice. I love the voice, but
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  Speaker 1: it's it's the after journey that I need that after
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  Speaker 1: Bernard to get you back to the earth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I couldn't have said it better myself. It's
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  Speaker 3: really just a matter of captivating momentum once the show's over,
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  Speaker 3: you know, making sure I give people a reason. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the demand for you doesn't just exist as an artist.
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  Speaker 3: You have to create it. You have to be the
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  Speaker 3: one to create demand for yourself and for your brand.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm I'm I'm quite excited. I'm quite excited for
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  Speaker 3: what's after.
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  Speaker 2: And think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean saying yes to a lot of performances
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  Speaker 1: that you know, I really didn't need to do that,
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  Speaker 1: But you still need to make the visibility And the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I bring that up is because here in Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: our grocery stores feature live music throughout the week and
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  Speaker 1: musicians will come in and play inside grocery stores to
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  Speaker 1: get that visibility.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it's certain kinds of gigs
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also learning how to say no. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: kind to say no.
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  Speaker 3: And if the gig is being you know the person,
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  Speaker 3: the person is selling it really but it doesn't pay musicians,
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  Speaker 3: and it doesn't pay musicians. It's not like you no,
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  Speaker 3: it's not like I'm not taking. But you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: starting learning how to say no and protect myself and
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  Speaker 3: make sure I'm getting paid.
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  Speaker 2: For what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 3: If you're if you're gonna call yourself a professional, which
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  Speaker 3: I want to, you know, you gotta start treating yourself
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  Speaker 3: like going in a respectful way.
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  Speaker 1: Well here's here's a Gene simmons ism, and that is
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  Speaker 1: is that is that is that it is the music business.
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  Speaker 1: Put the even even even Gordon Ramsey will tell you
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  Speaker 1: it is the restaurant business. You gotta do the business
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  Speaker 1: before everything else.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. That's very true. It's very true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you see yourself as an old soul
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  Speaker 1: because you're you're playing like you've lived this path before.
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  Speaker 2: Dude.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, as far as music tastes goes, I'd say I'm
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  Speaker 3: an old soul, you know, just that fleet that fleet
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  Speaker 3: would Billy Stevie, Elton Queen kind of vibe. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I just like the storytelling back then. I think it's changed,
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  Speaker 3: not for worser for better, but it's changed. And and
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  Speaker 3: nothing beat some some good Billy Joel or Alton john
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  Speaker 3: on On on record.
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  Speaker 1: Well you said Fleetwood Mac too. Now you've got my
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  Speaker 1: heartstrings going, what do you know about Fleetwood Mac? Can
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  Speaker 1: you being on that piano? Or are you listening to
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  Speaker 1: Christine mcviee or what were you at when you listening
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  Speaker 1: to those.
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  Speaker 2: Newer Fleetwood Mac is a newer exploration for me.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes when I think I was listened to some
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  Speaker 3: playlists and whenever a Fleetwood Mac song comes on.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I know she has this Matt Shimmer's magic
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  Speaker 2: to it. Well, see, I.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't really respect Lindsey Buckingham until I heard a solo
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  Speaker 1: album and I went, oh my god. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: what I love about solo album is that you you
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  Speaker 1: get to see a different side of John bon Jovi
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  Speaker 1: or Richie Sambor when they're out there doing a solo project.
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  Speaker 1: And even with Billy Joel, I mean, it's it's like
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  Speaker 1: it's like, in fact, I think there was a thing
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  Speaker 1: that was called Guns or something like hired Guns, and
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  Speaker 1: they talked with Billy Joel and they were talking about
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  Speaker 1: how it's his band and the musicians come around him,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like I always thought it was just the band. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's Billy, It's Billy's band. Yeah, and that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the same true. The same thing that's true for you,
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  Speaker 1: Lucas is the fact that this is Lucas's band. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how are we going to make sure that this can
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  Speaker 1: get us into New York City and and and all
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: these other cathedrals when it comes to great music around
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  Speaker 1: the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't have said about it myself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Are you working on any solo projects right now? Any
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: new music that we're going to be talking about in
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  Speaker 1: the future.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that debut single that'll be dropping.
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  Speaker 3: In early to late early to mid May. Really really
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  Speaker 3: excited for that. Yeah, it's kind of cold plays. I'm
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  Speaker 3: pretty psyched, pretty psyched.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm starting to hear a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that of how cold Play has played a major role
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  Speaker 1: once again, here we go. It's the piano, isn't it
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  Speaker 1: any any even with Bruce Hornsby, It's the piano. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: is drawn to the is it? Is it? The piano?
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  Speaker 1: Is the piano your mother's musical instrument inside her heart
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  Speaker 1: while we're growing, there's a there's a piano playing in
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  Speaker 1: her heart. Because what is the connection?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's it's just it's kind of my
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  Speaker 3: home base. I feel like it's just like kind of
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  Speaker 3: where I where I collect And I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think societally what you said is true. Man.
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  Speaker 3: It's like people just find their find themselves around the
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  Speaker 3: piano a lot of a lot of time. That's It's
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  Speaker 3: been that way for hundreds of years now ever since
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  Speaker 3: the creation instrument.
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  Speaker 2: It just brought people together. That was the point, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I I have a piano in my in my dining
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  Speaker 1: room from eighteen sixty nine, dude. So I mean I
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  Speaker 1: will sit there at that that at those keys, and
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  Speaker 1: I sit there and I wonder how many fingers touch
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  Speaker 1: this and is their spirit still alive on these keys
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  Speaker 1: for me to feel it today so I can grow
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  Speaker 1: it forward.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this thing, this is a disc club here, which
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  Speaker 3: means it plays itself. So I experience that what you
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: just said, I can wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, it's not the keys there there. As a kid,
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  Speaker 2: I would just come and start start watching it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Lucas and grow with you and give you some love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all social media platforms, Lucas, Underscore West, Underscore Music. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then reach out to me and repost men and
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: let's talk.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always trying to add to the family. So I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: love it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future, Lucas.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Dude. Yes, sir, thanks so much for having me.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You'd be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay ah, yes, sir, thank you,