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Asher on Ambition, Live Performances, and Supporting the Arkansas Music Scene · The Scene Projects

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  Tonight on Love Noise, we step into the shadow with Asher, a voice born from pain, purpose,
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  and pure emotion.
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  From Arkansas roots to raw confessional, His sound isn't just music.
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  It's therapy and distortion.
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  Turn it up.
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  This is Love Noise.
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  Let's welcome Marisher.
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  This program is part of the Scene Projects podcast network.
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  Scene Project features interviews with independent musicians, comedians, and artists
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  from across the Midwest.
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  Become part of our community and support local art wherever you are.
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  Welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I'm your host, Bubba Starts, and this is Love Noise.
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  This is our weekly live show every Wednesday at 9PM.
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  We bring another independent artist from around the world on with us.
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  We listen to their music, and we talk about the stories behind the songs.
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  As always, with me is my cohost, Wild Willie.
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  What's happening, Willie?
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  Not much, buddy.
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  How are you tonight?
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  I'm good, man.
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  Another great Momo meetup we had tonight that we do on Wednesdays as well.
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  We got to meet some young some young artists, Another one that you brought to the table who
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  I'm excited to have on the show coming up in a few weeks, but we also had a young man from
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  Arkansas that's making a whole lot of noise.
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  Let's bring in our boy, Asher.
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  Hey.
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  What's up, y'all?
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  What's up, dude?
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  How you doing, man?
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  Doing great.
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  Doing great, man.
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  Happy to be here.
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  Yeah.
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  Fresh off your appearance at Spookstock down there at Captain Jack's.
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  Man, I was so proud when, Willie sent me the video of you up there doing your thing.
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  Little brother, I I just continue to be amazed by you more and more, man.
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  Yeah.
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  It it was fun being in Missouri.
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  I love it there.
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  It's it's so pretty, and then the views and music music was great, man.
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  I I had a blast.
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  Yeah.
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  I saw you drunk.
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  Were you a bottle of vodka for one of the nights?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I was.
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  Yeah.
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  Yep.
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  Showing off that personality, man.
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  I love it, Asher.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  So I I mean, besides playing up at Captain Jacks again, what have you been up to?
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  That's the that's the last place that I left you.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That pretty much really, I've been working on music.
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  I've I've really been just trying to write more and really work and hopefully get an EP or
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  something drop soon or, like, a a bunch of music just like I I kinda wanna get some music
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  going.
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  But when I drop it, though, I wanna drop just a bunch with it.
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  Just trying to upgrade my sound and, you know, bring, like, merch to table, merch, and just
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  more more stuff and just make it a better drop than you do.
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  I don't wanna drop just, like, just, like, one song.
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  I I wanna drop a collective of things, you know, like like an album or something, kinda
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  make it bigger.
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  You know?
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  A collection of songs and really be able to to spread your wings a little bit, man.
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  Yeah.
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  That's awesome.
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  I've been working on an album myself for a long time, and that's kind of where I'm at is, like,
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  what do I do with this?
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  Like, I don't even wanna give in to the singles drop and the way that they want me to release
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  music.
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  Yeah.
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  That's very true.
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  Yeah.
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  Hear it, man.
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  You know what?
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  I wanna get it out there for the people and to be able to really, you know, deliver a body of
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  work.
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  And I think that's where you're at in your career now as well is that, you know, you have
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  you have several songs that are out there already.
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  People have a feel for what you've done, but, I think that you're starting to write in blocks
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  more.
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  Right?
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  Where maybe in the early goings, it was writing a song and producing that one where maybe
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  you're getting a little bit faster at producing songs and writing in that whole process that
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  you can release a block of
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  it.
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  Yeah.
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  Most definitely.
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  That's awesome, man.
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  So what is the new stuff sounding like?
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  Does it sound like the old stuff?
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  Is it different?
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  What what's what's coming out next?
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  So for those who don't know, I have a song called black magic, and the new album is
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  definitely taking a lot of inspiration from that song.
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  Think think of that song, but just a whole lot better, man.
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  Just think, like, bigger and and better.
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  Like, I this idea that I have for this this album is is huge.
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  Something like, you know, larger than life.
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  You know?
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  I I wanna go more in-depth into things I experienced in my life, you know, and and try
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  and write it down on paper and putting other people to listen to and and relate to.
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  You know?
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  It's kinda like a larger than life thing.
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  And I'm I'm and I'm I'm getting so close to where I want it, and I'm I'm excited when when
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  I can, you know, be able to prove release that.
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  You know?
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  Well and you've been doing a lot of growing.
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  I mean, you know, you're you're 19 years old for people that don't know.
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  You're a young man, just graduated high school, playing a lot of live shows really for the
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  first time in your life and getting out there and interacting with crowds, but also starting
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  your own business.
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  Tell us a little bit about what it's like to be a young entrepreneur.
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  So I'm a very ambitious person.
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  I I always shoot for the stars.
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  I mean, I love music, and I I've always wanted to dabble my hands in everything.
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  And with work being slow right now, I've really, you know, put my put my hands in
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  everything I can.
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  And I've always wanted run my own business.
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  I've always wanted to I just thought the idea of it would be so cool.
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  I've always wanted to kind of have my own business and and run it and just see what it
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  was like.
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  And so I'm really beginning in in, like, power washing.
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  So or, like, late October that I was gonna be starting up, all of them power washing.
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  So y'all y'all watch out for that.
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  I actually have a Facebook page dedicated to that now.
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  I'm gonna start posting to that, and I'm I'm really excited about that.
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  That's awesome.
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  Will, you got anything that needs power washed there in, Salem, Missouri?
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  I would say my house, but I'm afraid it might fall apart at this point.
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  Well and, Asher, you sent me the logo, and it was an elephant with the hose,
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  you know, with the
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  trunk as a hose, and I just thought that was so cool.
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  Great branding.
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  Yeah.
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  Based off my last name.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Well and I wish you nothing but the the utmost success in everything that you do.
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  But nice to have, a a hustle that you're not having to go and, like, give someone else your
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  time.
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  Right?
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  Like, you can make your schedule and and you can run your business so that you're still free
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  to run your other business, which is your passion, right, which is your
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  Exactly.
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  Yep.
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  It's so important.
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  And as someone who's kind of tried to do both while, you know, when I was working, I had a
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  little bit more money to invest in my business, but I was also, like, exhausted.
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  You can see me yawning now.
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  I mean, I was never up till 09:00 on a Wednesday when I was working at the factory and
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  waking up at 04:00 in the morning.
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  Right?
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  So, like, in many ways, this isn't even possible if I don't, you know what I mean, if I
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  don't have my own business.
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  So I know what it means, and I'm just I'm proud of you, man.
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  I love how ambitious you are to just get out there and go after everything, man.
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  It's beautiful.
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  Thank you.
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  Yeah.
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  I I'm very ambitious.
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  I appreciate that a whole lot that come from you, Bubba.
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  Well and you have to be ambitious in this in this life, you know, not only in music, in our
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  business, especially you have to be because there's so many other people that want it too.
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  Right?
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  There's so many people that are willing to give it everything that you can't come in here and
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  half ass it.
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  No.
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  You cannot.
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  That's for sure.
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  Definitely not.
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  No.
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  And that's a big impetus for why we started the Midwest original music organization because I
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  think there's a lot of, there's a lot of misconceptions about what it is to be a, quote,
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  unquote, rock star.
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  And and, you know, one of those is that, you know, that it's all glitz and glamour.
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  And and, really, it's a lot of freaking work.
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  It's a lot of, work that nobody sees.
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  It's a lot of work
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  that nobody's
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  paying you to do.
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  Exactly.
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  But it all has to be done.
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  And, I think that what we're able to do now and especially, with our weekly meetups, which
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  you've been a part of several of now, is that we're able to share the realness of the
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  industry with young artists like yourself and old artists like Willie alike.
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  I mean, it's it's all the same.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's one of those things where, I mean, there there's glamour to it, but you don't see that.
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  So, I mean, you're making and making you gotta start from the very bottom.
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  People don't seem to see that.
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  You know?
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  They they just see the, the the outcome of it.
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  Right?
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  They don't see the hardship that musicians like myself, you know, that that we go through.
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  You gotta you can and, exactly, you can't just come in here and just half ass it.
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  Definitely not.
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  You you gotta work hard for it.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's everything from the the marketing behind the scenes, the songwriting, the
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  production.
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  And then what people see is that performance, and they see that bit, and they're like, oh,
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  that's so cool.
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  Like, must be nice.
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  And you're like, you haven't seen the hundreds of hours invested to just get to this moment
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  where I get to step on stage for, you know, a few songs and to do my thing.
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  And granted, there's no feeling that can replace that, coming from someone that's tried
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  to replace that with, you know, substances or other, you know, things that I've tried to
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  chase.
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  It's just not possible.
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  So, I love that you're out there.
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  You're doing it.
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  You're doing it big.
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  You're giving it everything you got, and that is, commendable at the very least.
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  So congratulations to you, young man, on continuing to Oh, man.
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  To chase this dream, brother.
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  It's beautiful to watch.
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  Well, we're gonna listen to some music tonight too, Willie.
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  He mentioned Black Magic.
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  I wanna save that one for last because I kinda wanna build up to something.
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  So let me, no.
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  Which one you know what?
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  I'm I'm getting to pick.
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  Have faith we're gonna say for second.
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  You got letting go on here, and that's one of my favorite ones.
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  So we're gonna listen to that song first, Asher, if that's alright with you.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Go ahead.
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  Alright.
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  Change our scene.
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  Oh, look at my man up there on stage.
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  I love it.
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  I love I stole this off your Facebook page.
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  Alright.
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  This is Asher letting go.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Asher, god.
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  I love that song, man.
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  Me too.
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  Thank you, man.
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  You let it go on stage when you're performing it too.
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  And Yeah.
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  One thing that we we talked about tonight on our Momo meetup was, like, when when you're
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  performing that, I I really hope that you pull the the vocal tracks off of that so that we can
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  hear your real voice.
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  And especially when you're hitting, you know, those screaming parts at the end, like, we
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  wanna hear you do that live.
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  And and when you're bring when you're covering it up with what the track is doing, it doesn't
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  necessarily deliver the full effect of what you're doing.
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  Like, yeah, we can see you it you doing it.
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  Right?
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  But it it's sometimes hard to decipher what's you on stage and what's the track.
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  Right?
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  And while the track is awesome and we love that, when you're performing live, we wanna
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  hear you.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  And, you know, I love when you perform, Ashley.
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  You do.
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  You have a stage presence in the way you work your crowd, you know, like we were talking
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  about, earlier.
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  If you can take that off them tracks and just have the track itself, you'll be able to
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  interact with the audience a little better and not have to worry about, oh, am I gonna be able
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  to catch the next lyric?
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  Yeah.
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  Sorry.
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  Yeah.
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  It'll give you a little bit of freedom.
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  And it will I I feel like if you have the tracks on there, it dilutes a little bit of
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  your live performance.
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  Right?
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  And you deliver all of that stuff live.
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  It's just sometimes hard to pick it all out from to decipher what's the track and what's
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  you live.
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  So the track is freaking awesome, man.
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  I think that's the first time I've heard it without you, trying to to sing on top and over
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  top of it.
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  And, freaking killer, man.
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  Now you self produced all of this stuff.
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  Correct?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So what's that process like?
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  I mean, we hear a lot of, like, hip hop that's produced at home, and I feel like that's a
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  little bit maybe, I don't wanna say easier because I can't do any of this stuff, but, you
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  know, making a beat or something is different.
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  This is a lot different music.
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  What's that process like to create all of this instrumentation and and stuff to then be able
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  to deliver your lyrics on top of it?
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  So it was, like, the heavier stuff.
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  Like, when I first started out, the hip hop beats, I did those by myself.
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  They weren't too difficult, honestly.
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  I mean, it took forever, though.
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  Beats take think a very like, I can, you know, put the booking on something and it sound
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  decent quickly.
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  You know?
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  But beats take a very long time.
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  But in the beginning, beats were was what I was making, and it was easy.
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  But since I have this certain sound that I wanna get, which is really, like, a modern,
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  like, metal rock sound that, I mean, I could put on the radio.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  But I don't have the capabilities, to make it sound so amazing.
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  So I started reaching out to local bands and just or, like, producers that would help me
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  create, you know, like, help me because I'm just a one man band.
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  You know?
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  I would, you know, create the guitars and, some my one of my friends, the drummer, like, hey,
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  man.
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  Can you think you should do some drum tracks on, like, on this or whatever?
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  You know?
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  And we'd come together and try and make something great and then hand over to my my
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  producer and be like, hey, man.
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  I have this.
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  I mean, it's it's decent, but I know you can just do that polishing touch.
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  And but recently, though, I've been working with a bunch of producers just helping me get
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  the sound that I that I need.
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  So big shout out to all of them, man.
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  They they really helped me develop my sound towards where I want it.
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  That's awesome.
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  So you have some friends and local musicians that were on on letting go with you?
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  Yeah.
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  Dude, it sounds awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  There there's a lot of great talent in Arkansas, man.
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  It's just yeah.
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  The there it's you you wouldn't think there there would be much of, a a metal scene or
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  anything like that, but the metal scene here is it's, like, it it's incredible.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I'm soup I'm super impressed.
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  I don't I don't know that I could produce something like that.
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  I mean, I don't play all the instruments proficiently a lot like you where I'm like, I
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  can bring a little bit to the table, and I have this song, but I really need a lot of help to
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  bring it all to fruition.
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  So it's awesome that you can bring together a bunch of people to to help you create this and
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  to deliver such a rock solid product.
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  And, I mean, if this is where you're, like, starting out at, where you're going is so so
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  far above that.
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  It's pretty unreal to kind of consider.
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  Yeah.
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  It's Yeah.
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  It's an amazing track.
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  Like, I think this is the first time I've actually heard it myself.
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  I've heard you perform it, but I think this is actually truly the first time that I've
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  actually you know?
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  And, I mean, I'm I'm gonna need help with what I'm gonna do because I'm just a one man band,
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  and, you know, I wanna do something that sounds so great and so big and so greater than life.
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  I'm gonna need to have help.
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  You know, I'm I'm I'm happy to, like, outsource other musicians, you know, to help get me with,
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  like, what what I want.
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  Melissa is the producers.
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  The producers are, very helpful.
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  Getting it like that that crisp crisp, like, sound and and just making it sound sound good.
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  Yeah.
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  And we talked a little bit about that, you know, on the Momo meetup tonight as well.
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  And especially for young artists, I think you're not I mean, I don't wanna say that
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  you're pigeonholed because some of you guys are so talented, but it's if you want that
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  professional sound, sometimes you have to work professionals.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  And and it's just it's part of the game.
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  I mean, I have to work with professionals.
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  Right?
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  The the tracks that I have, and maybe I'll get to play one for you tonight and to share one of
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  my songs with you.
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  Like, I didn't do all that by myself.
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  Like, I just have, you know, friends that have been in this industry for as long as I have and
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  are able to help me to do that where I'm not, you know, spending my whole month's paycheck on
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  building that like I would have.
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  I was maybe trying to go to Nashville or or, you know, some some place like that with with,
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  you know, professional studios.
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  So
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  I'm just glad you finally admitted that you needed help, Bubba.
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  I hope it's mental help you're seeing.
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  You are you are
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  here because I need help, Willie.
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  I can't do it all.
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  There's just not enough hours in the day.
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  You ain't That's, but that's why the same product exists is that we all help each other.
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  Right?
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  Like, we all bring something different to the table.
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  And when we roll through Arkansas and the tour bus needs to be washed, we know who we can call
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  now.
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  Right?
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  He's like, as long as you let me get on the bus afterwards.
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  Heck yeah.
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  Take that power washer with you.
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  On the bus.
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  Take that power washer with you.
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  Yeah.
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  We'll make a little trailer for it to pull behind the tour bus.
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  In case we need to make a few bucks while we're out there, we
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  can Yeah.
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  Exactly.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  There you go.
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  There you go.
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  Oh, man.
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  It's so so awesome to speak with just young talented people, man.
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  I wish I wish I would have had mentors like me when I was your age.
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  Right?
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  A lot of what I have was guys that were kinda stuck in what the music industry used to be.
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  Right?
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  Where, it was either, well, you gotta play covers to ever make it in this world or you
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  have to, you know, go to Nashville or LA or New York and you gotta get signed and you, like,
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  you don't have to do any of that shit.
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  Right?
• 23:20
  Yeah.
• 23:20
  And I and I'm able to to kinda sit back and to now, coach and to provide some guidance to some
• 23:29
  of you young people.
• 23:30
  And not that you couldn't find this information somewhere else.
• 23:32
  I had to learn it from somewhere, but we've already established that modicum of trust.
• 23:38
  Right?
• 23:39
  You know, we got to travel around for three, four days sleeping in parking lots in Memphis,
• 23:44
  sweating our ass off.
• 23:45
  Yeah.
• 23:46
  Yeah.
• 23:46
  Getting to Missouri so we could perform for Vibe Fest.
• 23:50
  There's that level of trust, and I still kinda I I kinda scratch my head that your mom was
• 23:56
  like, yeah, man.
• 23:57
  He can jump in with you.
• 23:58
  It's all good.
• 23:59
  Have fun.
• 24:00
  And, like, okay.
• 24:02
  Well, I well, I appreciate that.
• 24:06
  Are you sure that's I don't know.
• 24:09
  I'm not
• 24:10
  a serial killer.
• 24:12
  Yeah.
• 24:12
  Well, you know yeah.
• 24:16
  And especially with someone like me who has the rap sheet that I have too, where you're like,
• 24:19
  are you sure you wanna send your your young child off?
• 24:24
  I mean, you're not young.
• 24:25
  You're 18.
• 24:25
  You're 19 now.
• 24:26
  You're a young man.
• 24:28
  You know?
• 24:29
  But it it was nice that I was able to establish that trust, you know, with your mom and to be
• 24:35
  able to Yeah.
• 24:36
  You know, let let her baby go out and to experience a little bit of that dream and to do
• 24:42
  it in a pretty safe environment.
• 24:44
  Right?
• 24:45
  You know, like, I'm not gonna let anything bad happen to you out there.
• 24:48
  They still had to come pick your ass up out of Missouri.
• 24:51
  I wasn't bringing you back home, but it it it was really awesome.
• 24:56
  It was really awesome
• 24:57
  Oh, yeah.
• 24:57
  It was time with you to give you a taste of it, and now you've been back there again on your
• 25:03
  own.
• 25:04
  Right?
• 25:04
  And did your parent did your mom go up with you this time?
• 25:07
  Yeah.
• 25:08
  Yeah.
• 25:08
  She did.
• 25:09
  She she she loves it now.
• 25:10
  She's like, we're we're gonna go up there all the time now.
• 25:12
  I'm like, oh, okay.
• 25:13
  Alright.
• 25:15
  That's awesome, man.
• 25:16
  She loves it.
• 25:17
  Dude, I'm glad she got to go up and to see you perform up there and to see that beautiful
• 25:22
  space that they have up at Captain Jack's RV Park And Campground in Summersville, Missouri.
• 25:29
  They don't have ads on the show yet, but I think they will hear soon.
• 25:33
  Great people.
• 25:34
  Big shout out to Carrie and Leo for everything that they've done for the music scene out there
• 25:39
  and, everything that they're, you know, doing for the scene projects and our network and and
• 25:44
  what we're doing.
• 25:45
  Little spill on the tea here, but Willie's gonna be hosting a big event out there, May 16.
• 25:52
  We are putting together a fundraiser for operation combating veteran suicide.
• 25:56
  Oh, awesome.
• 25:57
  It's, yeah.
• 25:58
  Well, I hope that you're able to make the trip, man.
• 26:01
  It would be really great to have you back out there.
• 26:04
  Oh, yeah.
• 26:07
  For sure.
• 26:09
  You know, you can't forget Casey.
• 26:11
  Crazy Casey.
• 26:12
  I I love her to death, but she puts on some really good events.
• 26:16
  She does.
• 26:17
  She I mean, we for SpookFest, we had a lot of artists, man.
• 26:20
  That was it it was crazy.
• 26:22
  But, I mean, I love Missouri.
• 26:23
  My mom, she loved it too, but she loves she loves the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 26:26
  Like, she literally went there and was like, I'm gonna get everything, Kansas City Chief.
• 26:30
  I'm gonna, you know, just trying to get everything she can.
• 26:33
  She's so big on football.
• 26:35
  So she she loved it.
• 26:36
  She had she had a blast.
• 26:38
  I knew I liked get
• 26:39
  you booked up with KC then during football season.
• 26:42
  Yes, man.
• 26:43
  To a game.
• 26:44
  Yes.
• 26:44
  If may yes.
• 26:45
  We yeah.
• 26:47
  She would love that.
• 26:48
  Yeah.
• 26:49
  That would be awesome.
• 26:50
  That'd be awesome.
• 26:52
  If that's the case, I know a sound guy.
• 26:56
  Willie Willie's a big Chiefs fan too.
• 26:59
  I am.
• 27:00
  I I heard his ringtone at Vibe Fest about 700 times because
• 27:04
  Yes.
• 27:04
  I did too.
• 27:05
  Yeah.
• 27:06
  Not to serve on.
• 27:07
  Thank you.
• 27:08
  Hey.
• 27:10
  You know what?
• 27:11
  Job.
• 27:11
  Know who I stand for.
• 27:13
  Okay?
• 27:13
  Yeah.
• 27:14
  Okay.
• 27:14
  Well, alright.
• 27:15
  I think we're gonna we're gonna get into another song.
• 27:18
  Yeah.
• 27:18
  We're talk way to change the subject.
• 27:21
  Yeah.
• 27:21
  Well, otherwise, you guys are gonna sit here and suck off the Chiefs for the next freaking
• 27:25
  wherever.
• 27:26
  So
• 27:28
  Whatever.
• 27:29
  K
• 27:29
  c.
• 27:30
  K c.
• 27:31
  K c.
• 27:31
  Yeah.
• 27:32
  Oh, stop.
• 27:33
  Alright.
• 27:33
  So this is I'm I'm here to to to promote Asher and everything that he's got going on.
• 27:39
  So this next one, you can see it on the scroll.
• 27:41
  This is have faith in me.
• 27:42
  Asher, anything you can tell us about this song before we play it for the people?
• 27:47
  Have faith in me is a is fun song.
• 27:51
  An unlike black magic, we're all or, like, black magic or letting go while I was in a dark
• 27:55
  place.
• 27:57
  Have faith in me was I was having a good day, and I wanted to make something that was
• 28:01
  energetic and just, just fun.
• 28:05
  And that's where Half Faith came in.
• 28:06
  I was had a because I was in a good mood.
• 28:08
  It's like, hey.
• 28:08
  Yeah.
• 28:08
  Let's let's record something.
• 28:11
  Well, that's what I like.
• 28:12
  I like Asher in a good mood.
• 28:42
  Like it is poison to our skin.
• 28:46
  It tries to kill us, but this storm is nothing.
• 28:50
  It'll be okay.
• 28:53
  It'll be okay.
• 31:02
  That was so powerful still.
• 31:08
  I dig it, man.
• 31:10
  Thank you.
• 31:10
  I dig it.
• 31:12
  And same with the last one.
• 31:13
  Produced with some local guys and and put together right there in Russellville or around
• 31:19
  that area?
• 31:20
  Yep.
• 31:21
  So that's crazy, man.
• 31:23
  The the the sound, like, the instrumentation and everything is great.
• 31:27
  So are you playing the guitar?
• 31:28
  Did you kinda bring in the idea, and then there's somebody else playing guitar as well?
• 31:33
  Or
• 31:34
  So I tried playing guitar, and I had a friend who was better than me.
• 31:41
  I got a lot of those.
• 31:43
  Yeah.
• 31:44
  Yeah.
• 31:46
  And so, really, he was kind of just teaching me how to because, like, these songs are
• 31:51
  different.
• 31:51
  Right?
• 31:51
  So, like like, letting go is more, like, metal metal base with with with this song being more,
• 31:58
  like, pop punk.
• 31:59
  You know?
• 32:00
  And I like all these different drums in music because, I I mean, bands that I that I, like,
• 32:04
  inspire that inspire me are, like, different sounds.
• 32:07
  And I'm like, man, I wanna sound like that or that band's really cool.
• 32:10
  How how can I incorporate some that kind of sound on my music?
• 32:13
  You know?
• 32:14
  And I'm like, well, damn.
• 32:14
  I can't do it all by myself.
• 32:15
  You know?
• 32:16
  So you just gotta have people.
• 32:18
  And, eventually, some of the producers that I that I was talking to, like, hey, man.
• 32:22
  Like, I love this, like, pop punk sound, but, like, I just can't play that.
• 32:27
  Like, I can't play that fast, you know, on those tones.
• 32:31
  So, you know, I I showed them the idea and and the concept of what I wanted to sound like, and
• 32:37
  and they were like, oh, I I I can do that.
• 32:38
  Yeah.
• 32:39
  No problem.
• 32:40
  I'm like, oh, okay.
• 32:41
  Alright.
• 32:41
  Cool.
• 32:42
  So then that that's Yeah.
• 32:43
  You're like, okay.
• 32:44
  Cool.
• 32:45
  Sounds good.
• 32:45
  And then you get the tracks back, you're like, damn.
• 32:47
  That sounds pretty good.
• 32:48
  Yeah.
• 32:49
  Yeah.
• 32:51
  Here recently, though, I've been getting into drums, and drum drums is so much fun.
• 32:55
  I I love it.
• 32:57
  Yeah.
• 32:57
  I bet for someone with your energy, it's a good outlet for that, isn't it?
• 33:03
  Yeah.
• 33:03
  See, guitar I I play this decent guitar.
• 33:05
  I I play couple a couple songs.
• 33:08
  But it also aggravated me because I don't have to tune my guitar and, like, beat.
• 33:11
  You know?
• 33:11
  Oh my gosh.
• 33:12
  Like, I just it all gonna be aggravated when I would get, like, the wrong tone or something
• 33:15
  like that.
• 33:16
  So I just like, man, I just ugh.
• 33:19
  This part is so annoying.
• 33:20
  I'm like, what's because vocals have I've always been I've always been a vocalist.
• 33:23
  That's, like, that's, like, my strong suit.
• 33:25
  I was like, I need I need to find something else that I can, you know, do.
• 33:28
  You know?
• 33:28
  And I had this drum set.
• 33:32
  Like, oh, I got this drum set.
• 33:33
  Like, $200 drum set.
• 33:34
  I'm like, well, you know, I'm playing this.
• 33:36
  Y'all be going out, sort of playing.
• 33:37
  I'm like, I'm actually pretty good at this.
• 33:40
  My little sister, actually, she'd been playing it at or playing it, and I think she's better
• 33:44
  than me, dude.
• 33:45
  Like, she's so good at she's in band and stuff, and she's I'm like, dang.
• 33:49
  You're good.
• 33:50
  So I'm I'm like, I've got a little competition.
• 33:51
  You know?
• 33:52
  She she You're a
• 33:53
  team of band, little sister.
• 33:56
  Is she like, I'm like, dang.
• 33:58
  You're okay.
• 34:01
  Now and I was very fortunate.
• 34:03
  I got to meet your whole family when y'all came through and we played together in Little Rock.
• 34:10
  And shout out to Stickies over there.
• 34:12
  That was a
• 34:12
  cool Oh, yeah.
• 34:13
  Shout out to Stickies.
• 34:14
  That was awesome.
• 34:15
  Looking forward to getting back into Little Rock, and that's gonna be a tour stop next year
• 34:19
  for sure.
• 34:21
  Yeah.
• 34:21
  I need to get you in con I need to get you in contact with Dead Party.
• 34:27
  Dead Party is like a media company that, like, post about, like, all the they got catches,
• 34:33
  like, all the artists and stuff like that.
• 34:35
  Shout out to shout out to them, man.
• 34:36
  They're they're awesome.
• 34:37
  They're they're really how how I found out about the metal scene in Arkansas, like, in
• 34:40
  Little Rock and, you know, surrounding areas, was was from, dead from, dead party.
• 34:45
  So shout shout out to them, man.
• 34:47
  They're awesome.
• 34:48
  Awesome.
• 34:48
  Yeah.
• 34:49
  Well, I hope that, we get a chance to connect and come through, and, that's really that's
• 34:56
  really what this is about.
• 34:57
  Right?
• 34:57
  We know we can do it on our own.
• 34:59
  We know we're just starting out, but there's so many of us that feel like we're in the same
• 35:05
  we're in the same boat or the same points in our career.
• 35:07
  Maybe there's some of us that are, like, a little bit ahead of someone, but there's not a
• 35:11
  lot of bands out there.
• 35:12
  And especially because what happened to everyone during 2020 and everything just, like,
• 35:16
  got shut down as far as the music scene goes, that, like, everybody kinda lost their status
• 35:22
  and had to restart.
• 35:24
  Right?
• 35:24
  So it kind of leveled the playing field off to where bands that had made it but then couldn't
• 35:31
  do what they were doing anymore kinda quit or dissolve.
• 35:35
  And granted, some of them are coming back, and you're always gonna have that, like, upper
• 35:38
  echelon of artists that are you know, have Live Nation behind them, a Kevin Gates or a, you
• 35:43
  know, a Kid Rock Kid Rock has full own tour.
• 35:47
  Right?
• 35:48
  The Rock the Country Festival this year was was awesome.
• 35:52
  We got to cover that as the scene projects.
• 35:55
  That was a pretty cool pretty cool deal.
• 35:58
  But Yeah.
• 35:59
  There's a lot of us, and I would say most fans are in that, like, middle ground.
• 36:04
  Right?
• 36:04
  That's where we're at.
• 36:08
  That is where we're all swimming in.
• 36:10
  It is, you know, relative obscurity from everyone.
• 36:14
  Even if you may have a local fan base, most people nationwide or even regionally may not
• 36:21
  know who you are.
• 36:22
  I'm very blessed to be from a small town in a small state, right, at least population wise,
• 36:28
  and to have played or lived on kinda both ends of it that like, South Dakota is a huge state,
• 36:34
  but all the people are in, like, two areas.
• 36:38
  Right?
• 36:38
  Yeah.
• 36:39
  Fortunate to play in both of those bigger areas.
• 36:42
  Yeah.
• 36:43
  Where people kinda know me.
• 36:44
  It's not like Missouri where everything is two hours from everything else and people don't
• 36:50
  travel out outside of that very often and really commingle.
• 36:54
  Right?
• 36:54
  And I think that's why an event, and especially Casey.
• 36:58
  Casey's really good at bringing people together from all over the state.
• 37:01
  But events like, what Casey does, whether it's at Captain Jack's or some of her other events,
• 37:07
  is that she brings people from all over together in one place.
• 37:11
  And that's not always
• 37:11
  easy to do.
• 37:16
  Yeah.
• 37:16
  But definitely not easy.
• 37:19
  Well and you've been putting together some of your own shows now.
• 37:22
  Talk about some of the challenges maybe that you've been facing or things you've been
• 37:26
  learning just kinda booking your own shows for the last five, six months now.
• 37:32
  Man, it's it's it's definitely crazy.
• 37:37
  I I've noticed, look, like, local shows that, you know, bands or, you know, promoters will
• 37:43
  see, oh, this guy's popping.
• 37:45
  He's doing this and this and that.
• 37:46
  Let's try and get him for the, you know, get him for the the show lineup.
• 37:50
  It's really just about who you know, man.
• 37:52
  Like, I mean, who like, who you know and, you know, putting yourself out there.
• 37:56
  Like, I I've noticed the more that I post, the more that I talk about music and this, this,
• 38:00
  and that or, know, just keeping my fans up to date.
• 38:04
  People are gonna notice you.
• 38:05
  People are gonna take notice, and they're gonna be like, hey.
• 38:07
  Let's, know, book this guy.
• 38:08
  Or, like, right now, actually, this Saturday, I'm having a show in Atkins, and I've been
• 38:17
  working with city council here in here in Atkins, little bitty Atkins.
• 38:22
  You know?
• 38:22
  And I was like, hey.
• 38:23
  Like, you know, if my these two bigger towns around me, which is Russellville and Merlton,
• 38:27
  which is Russellville on this side of me and Merlton on this side of me, They have live
• 38:31
  music going all the time, and I was, you know, city council.
• 38:34
  They they called upon me to for some reason, they wanted me to be there.
• 38:37
  I was like, why me?
• 38:37
  You know?
• 38:39
  But they're like, hey.
• 38:40
  We want live music to to come to Atkins, and we know, like, you're you're local.
• 38:44
  And, I mean, everybody knows me.
• 38:45
  I mean, go to McDonald's or the local Sonic or something.
• 38:48
  You know?
• 38:48
  I'm like, oh, I know, Azure.
• 38:49
  You know?
• 38:50
  It it it's a crazy it's a crazy feeling, you know, going, like, Dodging or something and,
• 38:55
  you know, someone recognizing you.
• 38:56
  You know?
• 38:57
  That happens all the time.
• 38:58
  And the city council, they're like, hey.
• 39:00
  Like, we want live music, and we have, like, a little park pavilion in Atkins.
• 39:04
  And so this Saturday, I'm throwing the first rocking in the park event.
• 39:08
  And I have some local artists that are gonna be there.
• 39:11
  And if it goes good, hopefully, I can do that every month.
• 39:13
  And I, you know, possibly be the event coordinator for Atkins and just throw, you
• 39:17
  know, events.
• 39:18
  And, I mean, I I love my community.
• 39:20
  You know, it may be small town and stuff, but, mean, I I love the people here, and I love it.
• 39:25
  So I'm I'm glad I could be able to do this.
• 39:27
  Man, I'm so damn proud of you, kid.
• 39:31
  I love it.
• 39:32
  I love everything that you're doing.
• 39:33
  I I love that you're already turning around and supporting your community.
• 39:38
  I I know you performed at a at a memorial service recently, and you sang did you sing the
• 39:44
  anthem at that one?
• 39:47
  No.
• 39:48
  I was I I was going to, but they found someone else who is way better at seeing that fan.
• 39:56
  He I forget his name, man, but he he killed it.
• 39:58
  Was like, man, this guy's yeah.
• 40:00
  I'm I'm glad they they had that guy.
• 40:01
  No.
• 40:03
  I was a I was a speaker.
• 40:04
  I I was one of the speakers.
• 40:08
  That's amazing.
• 40:09
  I I love how your little town is embracing you and really kinda putting you out there and
• 40:15
  asking you to to help them.
• 40:18
  But that's because of things you said that they see you.
• 40:21
  They see you're out there, you know, and traveling out of state to perform.
• 40:24
  And for someone from Atkins, Arkansas, right, and your little town, for people in your local
• 40:30
  community to see that as like, oh, damn.
• 40:32
  Like, Asher's doing it.
• 40:34
  And while it may just be you going to another small town.
• 40:37
  Right?
• 40:38
  It doesn't matter.
• 40:39
  You're out there.
• 40:40
  You're going somewhere, and you're doing something.
• 40:42
  And that's really what people see and, you know, who are you to tell them any different?
• 40:47
  If they think you're a big rock star, then oh, yeah.
• 40:50
  Yeah.
• 40:51
  Exactly.
• 40:51
  Yeah.
• 40:52
  Yeah.
• 40:52
  Awesome.
• 40:53
  Thank you.
• 40:54
  Yeah.
• 40:56
  Yeah.
• 40:56
  It's it's it's pretty pretty couple credible, man.
• 40:59
  I wouldn't I've only been doing this for, you know, like, not very long at all.
• 41:06
  You know, it it's a crazy experience, you know, going you know, when I was in high school and
• 41:10
  stuff and recording music and, you know, there's people that are like, oh, man.
• 41:13
  This this is cool.
• 41:14
  Man, I was I went to school with bunch of, like, country people and stuff.
• 41:17
  You know?
• 41:17
  And they're like, man, like, who's this this Asher kid?
• 41:21
  Man, like, who's this kid?
• 41:22
  And I was like, man, I'm gonna make it.
• 41:23
  I don't know.
• 41:25
  You know?
• 41:26
  And and to see the growth and, like, where I've came from since then is crazy.
• 41:31
  I would have told you you're crazy if I if I told myself that, hey.
• 41:35
  You're gonna go on tour.
• 41:36
  You're gonna do all these cool things for your community and, be able to speak at events and
• 41:41
  just do cool stuff.
• 41:42
  I I would have told you you're crazy on a million years, but I'm I am proud to to to do
• 41:46
  that.
• 41:48
  Well and it's something that you're born to do, that's pretty obvious at this point.
• 41:54
  Yeah.
• 41:54
  And just to see the growth from Vibe Fest to Spoonstalk, buddy, you just you have a true
• 42:00
  talent, when it comes to
• 42:02
  Check out my new cashier.
• 42:04
  Working working the crowd, your music, just stick with it.
• 42:09
  You know?
• 42:09
  Keep being you.
• 42:10
  Oh, yeah.
• 42:13
  And it's only gonna get up from here.
• 42:14
  You know?
• 42:14
  I mean, I'm excited to be able to drop my my new stuff when I can and when it gets done.
• 42:21
  And just, I mean, grow as a artist.
• 42:23
  I mean, I I love it.
• 42:25
  Like, what you're saying earlier, Bubba, about, you know, this the the feeling you get when
• 42:29
  you're on stage.
• 42:30
  Right?
• 42:30
  That feeling is incredible, man.
• 42:32
  I mean, all that work that we that we go through as musicians, and it pays off in that
• 42:36
  moment.
• 42:37
  Like, I had a you know, it's crazy.
• 42:39
  I don't realize, like, how good I'm doing because I'm I'm I'm a person where I'm like I'm
• 42:44
  always telling myself I'm not doing enough or I'm beating myself up.
• 42:47
  I I oh, I didn't get this song released this month, or I I feel like I'm falling behind.
• 42:51
  But I kind of, like, take a step back, and I'm like, look at what I've done, you know, just in
• 42:55
  a short amount of time.
• 42:57
  Like, when I when I did that show in Conway, because these these local bands were at record
• 43:01
  recognizing me and like, oh, like, we need to get this guy records in.
• 43:05
  Well, shout out to them.
• 43:06
  Records is is awesome.
• 43:08
  I love that place.
• 43:10
  Yeah.
• 43:10
  And I performed at records, and, I mean, the crowd was singing every lyric.
• 43:16
  I mean, when I sing my song, what will it take, which is a unreleased song that that I've been
• 43:22
  singing or singing to see what people if if they like it, you know, if I should if I should
• 43:25
  release it now or what.
• 43:27
  And at that moment, man, I sang that song for, like, for the first time there, and the crowd
• 43:32
  was singing the lyrics to me.
• 43:34
  Like, I put the microphone out like that, and they were just singing the chorus.
• 43:38
  No.
• 43:38
  I even like, it's an unreleased song, man.
• 43:41
  And the crowd is jumping and yelling, man.
• 43:44
  Like, they they loved it.
• 43:45
  I was like, man.
• 43:46
  Like, I can't believe it.
• 43:48
  You know what I'm saying?
• 43:49
  I'm able to do this.
• 43:50
  And, like, this is a unreleased song.
• 43:52
  Like, all my songs, they were just singing back to me.
• 43:54
  I was like and I I never and at that point, I never did a show in Calmway or nothing like
• 43:58
  that.
• 43:58
  Like like, it was it it was incredible.
• 44:01
  You're like, how do you all even know this song?
• 44:03
  I just wrote it yesterday.
• 44:05
  Exactly.
• 44:05
  Exactly.
• 44:06
  Like, literally.
• 44:07
  I was like, you know what?
• 44:09
  I'm gonna give this song a a go.
• 44:10
  You know, I'll play it, see if the crowd likes it, they've messed with it.
• 44:14
  And they were singing it back to me.
• 44:15
  You like, I was like, oh, well, this is wow.
• 44:17
  Okay.
• 44:19
  You know?
• 44:21
  Unbelievable, man.
• 44:22
  Well, we're gonna get into your last track here.
• 44:25
  Black magic is one you referenced earlier, and you said that the new stuff is gonna be
• 44:31
  sounding a lot like this.
• 44:32
  So this is kinda why I wanted to, put
• 44:35
  this up.
• 44:35
  And, anything you can tell us about the song before we play it for everybody?
• 44:40
  So Black Magic was my first, like, heavy song where I wanted to go into heavier metal and
• 44:47
  didn't really necessarily know what I was doing.
• 44:50
  I knew that I was in a dark place, though, and I really wanted to get these fillings out, you
• 44:57
  know, and, you know, not on, like, a rapper hip hop beat.
• 45:01
  I just wanted something.
• 45:02
  Like, I wanted to be you know, you can relate to it, you know, put put this pain in, you
• 45:07
  know, in in the in the song.
• 45:09
  And that is black magic, man.
• 45:11
  It was a it was a dark place, but, I mean, I love that.
• 45:14
  I love it from that song.
• 45:15
  But that song, this this new song I I have is gonna be it's gonna be a lot like it, but just
• 45:20
  better and bigger and just more, like, in-depth and and more, you know, just deeper and better
• 45:26
  than than Black Magic.
• 45:28
  Awesome.
• 45:29
  Well, this is Blackmagic by Asher.
• 46:08
  Woe is me, and why do I get hurt?
• 46:13
  I see you walking.
• 46:15
  I see the pain behind your eyes.
• 46:21
  I know you you You're not alone.
• 47:21
  This darkness so cold.
• 47:25
  I feel like no matter where
• 47:43
  darkness die.
• 47:46
  Black magic has a hold on you, but the darkness
• 47:52
  raging from behind you and try
• 48:21
  It's so sick, Asher.
• 48:23
  I just I freaking love it, man.
• 48:27
  I love it.
• 48:28
  And I love that you're so early on your journey, and it's only gonna get better and
• 48:35
  better from here, and it's already so good.
• 48:39
  You're you're such a young man with so much of your career left in front of you.
• 48:46
  Do you ever think that maybe you'll get to a point where you want to kinda, like, go back
• 48:54
  and maybe remix and re you know what I mean?
• 48:57
  Redo some of these songs as you continue to become a better singer and vocalist and to kind
• 49:03
  of refresh some of the old tracks?
• 49:06
  I've I really never thought of that, but, I mean, that would be a really cool idea, though.
• 49:14
  Yeah.
• 49:14
  I never really thought I never really thought about that.
• 49:16
  But, I mean, later in my career, you know, like, black magic, I love that song.
• 49:20
  I mean, I would love to I I never really thought of that thought about that, honestly.
• 49:24
  But, yeah, that would be
• 49:25
  I just feel like you're a much more confident singer even now because of all the live
• 49:30
  experience that you've had that you would sing that differently in a studio setting now than
• 49:37
  even you did when you recorded it, which I know probably wasn't all that long ago anyway.
• 49:42
  But I feel like you would deliver it differently.
• 49:45
  I think you're right.
• 49:46
  I yeah.
• 49:47
  I just did it's one of those things where, like especially me, like, my older songs, I I can
• 49:54
  see the growth, but it's happening so fast.
• 49:57
  You know?
• 49:58
  But, yeah, that's a that's a really good idea.
• 50:00
  And I I think, yeah, I would definitely sing that song, probably different.
• 50:04
  You know?
• 50:05
  We are actually growing and growing and growing to get more experience, you know, for sure.
• 50:10
  Yeah.
• 50:11
  I would like to see you take one at that because you can hear, like, a little bit of
• 50:14
  hesitancy in your vocals.
• 50:16
  And, like, you you sound like you're singing in your closet and, like, you don't wanna wake
• 50:21
  someone up in the next room almost.
• 50:23
  Right?
• 50:24
  Like, where where it sounds a little timid, but you're also probably recording some of this
• 50:29
  stuff for the first time and with equipment that you're not comfortable working with.
• 50:33
  But
• 50:34
  I feel like all the experience that you've gained now, it would bring out more of the
• 50:39
  song.
• 50:40
  And you have all the tracks.
• 50:41
  Like, you've self produced most of this stuff, so you'd have the ability to go back and
• 50:46
  refresh and refine
• 50:48
  Oh, yeah.
• 50:48
  Even some of the stuff that you already have.
• 50:50
  And I think your fans would appreciate that too because it would show that growth.
• 50:54
  Like, you don't have to pull it down as it is now and redo it, but you could really say,
• 50:59
  like, remastered or or whatever kind of version and be like, hey.
• 51:03
  You know what?
• 51:04
  I, you know, that was cool what I did, but I love this song so much that I wanted to, I
• 51:10
  wanted to show you what it's turned into.
• 51:13
  And I think that of the ones that we've heard tonight that Blackmagic has that where it's
• 51:17
  like, man, I've heard you sing this live now, and you're there's no timidness in your voice
• 51:24
  anymore.
• 51:25
  Right?
• 51:26
  You're not the same you're not a kid that wrote a song in his bedroom anymore.
• 51:30
  You're an artist.
• 51:31
  You're a performer.
• 51:32
  Right?
• 51:33
  So, I'd love to see that coalesce.
• 51:35
  And I know you're working on a lot of new music, but maybe some of these reimagined,
• 51:40
  right, or just, you know, redone vocals can appear on this this collection, right, that
• 51:45
  you're talking about putting out now as an album or or, you know, whatever you wanna call
• 51:49
  it, EP, whatever.
• 51:50
  I don't even know what any of this stuff's called anymore.
• 51:52
  Who cares?
• 51:53
  But It's called music, Bubba.
• 51:56
  Yeah.
• 51:56
  Yeah.
• 51:57
  Into this collection of music that you're trying to put out, next that maybe these are
• 52:03
  some of the b sides that are like, here's some of the old songs, but it's not just the old
• 52:07
  songs.
• 52:08
  It's them with a little more polish maybe that you couldn't remember because of your lack of
• 52:13
  experience, you know, even six months ago.
• 52:15
  I've seen so much growth since I've met you, and that's that's only been six months.
• 52:19
  So Yeah.
• 52:22
  It's happened fast, man.
• 52:24
  Yeah.
• 52:25
  It it it is for sure.
• 52:27
  It's crazy.
• 52:29
  What was your first show?
• 52:30
  Like, your first performance?
• 52:33
  So my very first show I ever did, I was, like, yeah, I was, like, 16.
• 52:40
  And, these are songs I don't perform anymore, but they are on Spotify, and they're I don't
• 52:45
  think that they're very good, but they're very old.
• 52:48
  But the first song that I ever, performed was my song, the, set me free.
• 52:54
  Set me free, only up, and a couple, like, grab songs, vampire.
• 53:00
  No.
• 53:01
  Wait.
• 53:01
  No.
• 53:01
  Vampire was released later, but, like like, only up and set me free.
• 53:05
  They're on YouTube.
• 53:06
  They're on Spotify and stuff.
• 53:07
  You listen to them.
• 53:08
  I was my favorite song I ever did, though, was called forever and always.
• 53:12
  And I think this song is not that good, but I have a buddy of mine who loved this song.
• 53:16
  He said it's the best song I ever made.
• 53:18
  No.
• 53:19
  My first song I ever did.
• 53:20
  Like, I I don't I don't think it's that good, but, he he says it it it's amazing.
• 53:26
  But those songs are still up on Spotify forever and always.
• 53:28
  Set me free.
• 53:30
  Give me faith is one.
• 53:31
  Man, I know some of those songs in a long time, man.
• 53:34
  But the yeah.
• 53:34
  They're still up and running.
• 53:36
  But my first show was at this cafe in Atkins, turtle turtle make cafe.
• 53:41
  Shout out to him.
• 53:42
  He is awesome.
• 53:43
  They relocated to Little Rock and or at, like, a a mall.
• 53:48
  It's called Park Plaza Mall.
• 53:50
  They're they're awesome, man.
• 53:52
  Did my first show there in, like, 16.
• 53:54
  Had a crowd of about, like I was, like, like, 30 people.
• 53:59
  I did a lot
• 54:00
  of, like, promote town of Atkins.
• 54:02
  Yeah.
• 54:02
  I know.
• 54:03
  Like, the whole town was there, man.
• 54:04
  Like, pretty much.
• 54:09
  Yep.
• 54:09
  I didn't I didn't know how to hold a mic properly or, like, I was just, like, standing
• 54:13
  there like this, singing my song on stage, and they loved it.
• 54:16
  And looking back, there's still some clips clip it's on Facebook and stuff, I'm sure, of me,
• 54:22
  singing, singing my my first couple songs, ever.
• 54:27
  And, it it go check check those out.
• 54:30
  I'm actually after this, I'm gonna go check those out and see the growth.
• 54:33
  But, man, I'm sure you can, like, you can tell for sure.
• 54:36
  You know, that could possibly be like Bubba was talking earlier.
• 54:41
  You don't have to throw them songs out even though they're your first ones and you say
• 54:44
  they're not very good.
• 54:46
  That could be something now that you have all this growth that you've had, even in the little
• 54:51
  time that I've known you, that could be something you go back and you say, you know
• 54:55
  what?
• 54:56
  Let's take these songs that I don't find very good, and you can revamp them.
• 55:01
  You know?
• 55:02
  Yeah.
• 55:03
  Kind of reborn them and bring them to life a little bit.
• 55:05
  Yeah.
• 55:06
  That is very true.
• 55:06
  Yeah.
• 55:10
  Yeah.
• 55:10
  And don't, you know, don't take the old ones down.
• 55:13
  Right?
• 55:14
  Even if, you know, they might embarrass you a little bit as soon
• 55:17
  you Never.
• 55:18
  They're they're still up, and they're for everybody to see.
• 55:20
  That's
• 55:20
  the Yeah.
• 55:21
  Yeah.
• 55:21
  I love it.
• 55:22
  That's what I love about you, man.
• 55:23
  You're not afraid to let it hang and to just stand and deliver and to, to just be yourself
• 55:31
  and to unabashedly step out there and to to to be you.
• 55:39
  Right?
• 55:39
  And
• 55:40
  Yeah.
• 55:40
  You're only going to get better at doing that.
• 55:43
  I know it sounds kinda silly, but it's not easy to step on stage and to to deliver a
• 55:51
  performance.
• 55:52
  It's not easy.
• 55:53
  Definitely not.
• 55:53
  Not everyone does it.
• 55:55
  In the in in the beginning, a lot of people were like, are you sure you got this?
• 56:00
  Like, when I first started, man, I had my phone, and I'm pretty sure a Xbox or
• 56:06
  PlayStation, like, a gaming headset and my phone in my garage.
• 56:09
  And I told myself I was like, I'm gonna make this happen, and I can see where I wanna sound
• 56:16
  like, and I'm gonna make it I'm just making it happen.
• 56:21
  And the song that really it actually well, it's not at least one.
• 56:25
  What will it take when I do release that when it's fully fully done?
• 56:30
  This like, this song, what will it take is is getting to the point to, like, where I wanted
• 56:36
  to sound.
• 56:37
  Like, back, you like, you know, years ago, like, when I, like you know, I first started,
• 56:40
  like, two years ago, it was you know, I was like, I can see this sound that I that I wanna
• 56:46
  sound like, and then this song right now is like, oh my gosh.
• 56:49
  Like, I'm I'm starting to be like, this is what I was wanting.
• 56:51
  You know what I'm saying?
• 56:52
  Or something like it.
• 56:55
  So yeah.
• 56:58
  Is crazy.
• 56:59
  Stuff, man.
• 57:01
  It's been so fun to catch up with you over the course of this evening.
• 57:05
  It was really nice having you in our Midwest original music organization meetup earlier
• 57:10
  tonight to connect you with another young man in Blackie Chan, who Oh, yeah.
• 57:16
  Y'all are gonna be hearing more of here on Love Noise because I think he already signed up on
• 57:21
  the calendar to come and share some of his music.
• 57:24
  But to see some young people like you that are out there doing it that will not be deterred,
• 57:32
  we're we're here.
• 57:33
  I mean, the scene projects and and our organization, like, we function to help young
• 57:39
  people like you avoid some of the pitfalls, that that I have stepped in, and it took me
• 57:46
  years to get out of Yeah.
• 57:48
  And to help you along the way.
• 57:50
  That's that's why we have these organizations and these podcasts and and everything that we
• 57:56
  do, is for you guys.
• 57:58
  And in in a selfish way as well because I probably don't have enough time left in the
• 58:04
  hourglass for me to make my own career in that way, or the energy, to be perfectly honest.
• 58:10
  I've yawned my way through the last thirty five minutes of our show.
• 58:13
  He's like like what he's trying to say.
• 58:16
  I'm just an old man.
• 58:17
  I'm really struggling.
• 58:18
  I didn't get my energy drink in around 05:00 like I usually do on these Wednesdays.
• 58:23
  But I just I love you so much, Asher.
• 58:27
  It's been such a pleasure getting to know you, man.
• 58:29
  Thank you, man.
• 58:29
  Yeah.
• 58:29
  You too, man.
• 58:30
  I love it all.
• 58:32
  Dude, it's just been a blast, and I can't wait to together with you again here soon and to to
• 58:39
  continue to watch you grow and to have you back on, to have you on the scene projects.
• 58:43
  I don't think I've ever had you on for an
• 58:45
  interview on, like, podcast.
• 58:46
  I've even on the scene projects yet, man.
• 58:48
  No.
• 58:49
  So we gotta we gotta talk
• 58:50
  to that.
• 58:51
  I gotta get him on mine too.
• 58:52
  I mean, we There you go.
• 58:54
  Well, he's making his rounds now.
• 58:55
  We got him for love noise.
• 58:57
  We got to hear the music.
• 58:58
  We had people tuning in all night, so I know your fans have been loving this content.
• 59:03
  It it's it's really cool to watch you grow, and I know where you go from here is only straight
• 59:10
  up and past the moon and out of the solar system and way out there.
• 59:15
  Stars.
• 59:16
  Always shooting for You're well, you're going
• 59:18
  like that.
• 59:20
  Yeah.
• 59:20
  Well, you're
• 59:21
  trying to ride your coattails.
• 59:24
  Will weigh him down.
• 59:25
  I'm a big old guy.
• 59:26
  I will weigh him down.
• 59:27
  You, buddy, you shoot that you shoot like a star.
• 59:30
  I'll watch that star shoot.
• 59:32
  Okay?
• 59:33
  Alright.
• 59:34
  But, no, buddy.
• 59:36
  Just to see and I said this again, and I'll say it again and again and again.
• 59:42
  Just to see the growth and, you know, as someone that I'm not necessarily I'm in the
• 59:49
  industry, but I'm not in the industry.
• 59:51
  I know that don't make a whole lot of sense, but I don't produce the music.
• 59:54
  You know?
• 59:55
  But I help with the sound and seeing someone that you are the type of person that I like to
• 1:00:02
  run sound for because you get the crowd going.
• 1:00:08
  You get the anticipation of you get it where the crowd is loud, and I have to crank the
• 1:00:13
  sound a little louder so you can be heard over the crowd.
• 1:00:16
  Yeah.
• 1:00:17
  Yeah.
• 1:00:17
  You know?
• 1:00:18
  And, you know, I love running sound, I've seen all walks of life.
• 1:00:24
  And, you know, Bubba has said this in my very first interview on Soul Impact that when you
• 1:00:33
  come off that stage, you know, and you see it with you, when you come off that stage, people
• 1:00:38
  know your heart and know your story by the way you perform and the way you put your heart into
• 1:00:44
  your lyrics.
• 1:00:46
  You know people know your heart, and they say, I know Asher a little better.
• 1:00:52
  You know?
• 1:00:54
  So Yeah.
• 1:00:55
  Just keep doing that.
• 1:00:56
  Keep that passion in your music, And it it's gonna get hard at times because you're gonna
• 1:01:00
  feel like you're stuck.
• 1:01:02
  Yeah.
• 1:01:03
  That is definitely the biggest challenge is is feeling stuck.
• 1:01:05
  But, I mean, I I love the energy.
• 1:01:08
  I love music.
• 1:01:09
  I I'm I'm proud to and blessed to be able to, you know, be here with y'all tonight and share
• 1:01:15
  my story and just keep grinding.
• 1:01:17
  And there are times where, like, you know, you just feel stuck or, like, you're in a place.
• 1:01:23
  But, you know, we all as humans, like, we always get out of it.
• 1:01:26
  You know?
• 1:01:27
  I I just love it.
• 1:01:29
  I I love what I do, and I'm gonna you know, I can't like, this new stuff, man, it takes a lot
• 1:01:34
  of work, you know, to make better stuff than what you did, but I'm gonna keep my head up
• 1:01:39
  and, you know, I'm just excited for all of it.
• 1:01:42
  Means you can do.
• 1:01:45
  And that's all you can do, buddy, is you just gotta keep shooting.
• 1:01:48
  You know?
• 1:01:49
  And you may fail.
• 1:01:50
  There's gonna be points where you do fail at something, and I'm not gonna wish ill on you
• 1:01:56
  because it it's gonna happen to everybody.
• 1:01:57
  Yeah.
• 1:01:58
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:01:58
  It it's how you get back up from that failure.
• 1:02:01
  You know?
• 1:02:02
  The failure don't define you.
• 1:02:04
  No.
• 1:02:04
  It
• 1:02:04
  doesn't.
• 1:02:04
  You give up and you say, okay.
• 1:02:06
  I can't do this anymore.
• 1:02:08
  You know?
• 1:02:08
  And I being in the sound and the DJing and a sound guy as long as I have, I've seen a lot of
• 1:02:16
  people that they had a true gift, but over time, they just they let that fire fizzle out.
• 1:02:25
  And my biggest advice I could give you is remember your why.
• 1:02:30
  Yeah.
• 1:02:30
  Why are you doing what you're doing?
• 1:02:33
  You know?
• 1:02:33
  My why is I wanna be a better father for my daughter and provide for and show her that no
• 1:02:40
  matter how old you are I'm 35 years old, and I started a podcast.
• 1:02:45
  No matter how old you are, you're never too late to chase those dreams.
• 1:02:51
  Yeah.
• 1:02:52
  So when them times get hard, find that why and remember why you're doing what you're doing,
• 1:02:59
  and that's gonna motivate you when them times do get hard.
• 1:03:04
  Yeah.
• 1:03:06
  Yeah.
• 1:03:06
  Totally.
• 1:03:07
  And we're and we're here for you.
• 1:03:08
  And Elaine here is for you.
• 1:03:10
  And, like, we're all we're all rooting for you.
• 1:03:14
  Right?
• 1:03:14
  Like, we all wanna see you succeed to the utmost, and that's, that's why the SCENE
• 1:03:21
  projects exist.
• 1:03:22
  That's why the MOMO exists, and that's why I'm always making sure to invite you to all of
• 1:03:28
  these things.
• 1:03:29
  It's for those times, inevitably that you are low, that you're you're already used to hanging
• 1:03:36
  out with us, and your community can lift you up.
• 1:03:39
  Right?
• 1:03:39
  And it's not like we have to go find you or that you have to find us.
• 1:03:43
  It's that, no.
• 1:03:44
  We see you all the time, man.
• 1:03:45
  Like, we're gonna know when when life has been challenging for you because we see you all the
• 1:03:50
  time.
• 1:03:51
  Right?
• 1:03:51
  And and you're part of the crew and you're part of the family.
• 1:03:55
  And I'm proud to call you a little brother, man.
• 1:03:58
  You're you're half my age with twice the ambition and 10 times the talent, man.
• 1:04:04
  So I hope you never stop doing what you're doing and that we get to keep doing stuff like
• 1:04:10
  this and listening to your new music every
• 1:04:13
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:14
  You know, couple of times a year for the rest of my life and Mhmm.
• 1:04:18
  To see where your career takes you.
• 1:04:20
  And, hopefully, you can get, me and Willie some tickets when you're selling out those big
• 1:04:25
  stadiums.
• 1:04:26
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:26
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:27
  I got you off my ROCs.
• 1:04:28
  Alright.
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  For sure.
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  Yeah.
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  We'll cover your concerts too.
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  You'll have two different cameras there, so just know.
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  Asher, why don't you tell everybody where they can find you, where they can follow you online?
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  I know you got a cool little Snapchat group.
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  I don't know if you wanna shout that out and get your biggest fans some love.
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  I'm sure some of them have been tuning in here all night.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  So I wanna say thank y'all for tuning in.
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  If you have been, I y'all are, like I mean, I know they say, like, my fans or whatever, but
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  y'all are family to me.
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  Like, y'all are awesome.
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  The sport is crazy, honestly.
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  And where you find me, I'm on everything, man.
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  I'm even on AudioMac, but it's Asher on everything.
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  Asher, I'm I'm on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, AudioMac, Pandora.
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  It's Asher.
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  And there's a lot of actors out there, so you might have one of my songs.
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  And that being, like, I mean, letting go, black magic, have faith in me, ambition.
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  Those are my songs you can find me on.
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  Just Asher and and one of those songs.
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  And I appreciate the love, and thank you to Bubba and Willie for I mean, to be honest, for
• 1:05:38
  yeah.
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  I I love it.
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  I'm I'm proud to be part of the family and the same projects always represent.
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  Love it, dude.
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  Hey.
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  Shout out to you, Alexis.
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  I'm sorry.
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  I I just know the names that are on the thing.
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  I don't know everybody.
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  I didn't know Asher's real name was Tristan for, like, two months of knowing him.
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  So
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  Hey.
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  I didn't either.
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  I didn't either until he sent me a friend request.
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  And I went digging, and I was like, who the heck is this?
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  You know?
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  Because now I do get a lot of friend requests because of the podcast.
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  And I was like, okay.
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  I've gotta figure out who this is.
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  Is this really a legit person?
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  So the next thing I know, I go digging on his Facebook.
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  And, thankfully, right at the top, he said has his name and then Asher.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I know who this is.
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  Well Yeah.
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  I wanted to rewrite it just by Asher.
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  Yeah.
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  But Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I wanna encourage everybody to join our group, where we all kinda hang out off, off the
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  social media sites, group.thesceneprojects.com.
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  We also have a text line of which Asher's gonna be a part of as well, and we're gonna be
• 1:06:43
  putting out a newsletter and stuff through our text messages.
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  You're gonna be able to win concert tickets through this as well.
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  So you can text SCENE, s c e n e, to 605805990.
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  We got Kevin Gates tickets that were given away, at the Sioux Falls Arena here, coming up
• 1:07:01
  soon.
• 1:07:01
  I know for some of you tuning in, that's not real close, but we're working with concert
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  venues all across The US and, eventually the world, and we're gonna have all kinds of great
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  shows that you're gonna have an opportunity to win tickets to.
• 1:07:13
  So get on the text list.
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  Follow Asher.
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  Follow Willie.
• 1:07:17
  Soul Impact is Willie's show.
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  It's, how music saved us, and, we got to shoot a really cool episode today on there.
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  Thank you for that, Willie.
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  It was a pleasure to
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  And, for y'all that don't know, I'm on I mean, besides music and stuff.
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  Our music platform is I'm on.
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  Instagram is, asher underscore music twenty six, and then my Facebook, which I'm on a lot,
• 1:07:38
  is just Tristan, and then my last name, o l I p h a n t, Oliphant, and then Asher.
• 1:07:43
  But I'm sure if you just type in Tristan and then just Asher, it'll pop up too.
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  Just me either or, but Facebook, definitely.
• 1:07:49
  I'm on Snapchat too.
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  I have longest time, I didn't really use Snapchat as, you know, music or nothing like
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  that.
• 1:07:56
  But one day, I was like, you know what?
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  I'll go on here and make a public account, and it's blowing up.
• 1:08:00
  And I was like, oh, okay.
• 1:08:00
  I'll make a group, add some people and stuff.
• 1:08:02
  So Snapchat is just asher underscore music.
• 1:08:06
  And I found out my Snapchat's gonna add me.
• 1:08:08
  Well, I am in that super group, and I freaking love it.
• 1:08:11
  And I know Alexis is in there.
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  I'm gonna
• 1:08:13
  have to get in it.
• 1:08:14
  Yeah, man.
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  It's a good time.
• 1:08:16
  I have to have it muted because sometimes these people are going crazy in the middle of
• 1:08:20
  the night.
• 1:08:20
  Yeah.
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  Each other, and I don't I don't have the stamina for that.
• 1:08:24
  But I like because you're getting old.
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  Yeah.
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  You're getting old.
• 1:08:27
  No.
• 1:08:27
  I'm not getting old.
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  I definitely feel old.
• 1:08:31
  Isn't it bedtime?
• 1:08:31
  Clock on a Wednesday where I'm like, man, can we move this show up to, like, 5PM?
• 1:08:37
  But it just wouldn't be the same.
• 1:08:40
  It's nice, to to come in and to share some time with my brother Willie.
• 1:08:46
  Of course, you can check out everything from the scene projects at thesceneprojects.com.
• 1:08:52
  We have an Internet radio station where you can stream from there, or you can download the live
• 1:08:57
  365 app and listen on your phone.
• 1:09:00
  Asher, obviously, will have some songs on there.
• 1:09:03
  A lot of other great artists that have been on Love Noise or in the scene projects world in
• 1:09:08
  some cases.
• 1:09:09
  It's just we're building a huge community, and it's nothing but good music and good people.
• 1:09:15
  And, eventually, we're gonna be able to take this thing out on the road and to come to your
• 1:09:19
  town and to see you.
• 1:09:21
  Maybe even little Atkins, Arkansas, we'll make a tour stop through there.
• 1:09:25
  Tristan
• 1:09:25
  That'd be awesome.
• 1:09:26
  Yep.
• 1:09:27
  And, and then we're gonna steal him for a couple of weeks and take him out on tour with
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  us.
• 1:09:32
  So, little brother, I I appreciate you tapping in tonight and sharing your music with us.
• 1:09:38
  It was an absolute pleasure.
• 1:09:40
  For Willie and myself and everyone here at the Scene Projects, My name is Bubba Starts, and
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  this has been Love Noise.
• 1:09:47
  Thanks for tuning in.