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Marq 'Q' Speck on Sweet Crystal, Veteran Support, and Christian Rock Evolution · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts.
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  And with me today from the band Sweet Crystal, we got Q.
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  Q, what's going on?
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  Not much, man.
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  Glad to be on this, this venerable podcast.
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  Thanks for having me.
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  It is absolutely my pleasure.
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  And we gotta shout out Phil Lepp up there who recommended you highly after we did his
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  interview, which just dropped on the scene project sports network last week.
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  So it being baseball season, we had to get Phil on to talk about the leprechauns out there at
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  Royal Oak, and he said, oh, you do music.
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  You gotta meet my friend Q.
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  So that's what brings us here.
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  So shout out to Phil.
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  Q, I really I always like to start the episode just giving you a minute to kinda give us your
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  background.
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  Obviously, been in music and playing, you know, with these guys and in this band for decades
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  now.
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  You don't have to go necessarily all the way back and recount every crazy story that we have
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  in the catalog, but we'd love to know a little bit about your history, the inception of the
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  band, and then you can fast forward through the eighties, which we probably can't share on the
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  show anyway.
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  That's great.
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  Thanks, Bubba.
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  I appreciate this opportunity.
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  Basically, my band Sweet Crystal, myself on keyboards, as you can see, lead vocals, my
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  guitar player, Bill Bladder, my drummer, Steve Weiser, have been together since 1974.
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  So make that fifty two years of the music and the message that makes Sweet Crystal who we
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  are.
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  Currently, we have a bass player, Martin Kukra, who's been with us seven years.
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  We went through 12 other bass players before we got Marty.
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  So kind of a spinal tap issue with bass players up until Marty came along.
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  But we started out as just a a rock and roll band when we first got out of college.
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  Five years into this mission, I had a medical issue that changed my life entirely.
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  I met a woman who became my wife, who brought me to Christ.
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  Because if you don't know Sweet Crystal, we are a Christian progressive rock band and changed
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  my life, changed the direction of my music and my overall trajectory in this life.
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  Steve, Bill, and I have been going ever since.
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  We have never stopped.
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  We stopped playing live for about a decade when we did soundtracks and TV shows and
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  commercials, but then we got back out live some fifteen, twenty years ago, and we've been
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  playing live ever since.
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  We we've won 28 Detroit Music Awards for outstanding gospel Christian music as well as
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  some other accolades.
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  But, basically, we're just a band of guys that love each other.
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  We get together every week whether we have a gig or recording or something to do just to
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  keep the music fresh, and I just feel very blessed to be here all these decades later
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  still doing what I think God wants us to do.
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  Because if he didn't want us to do this, chances are we would have been taken home by
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  now.
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  Nothing more true than that.
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  And when you find where the good ground is, you stay planted and you continue to water it.
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  And I think that's something that a lot of young bands can can take as well, the the
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  weekly rehearsals.
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  And that's something I've always been very jealous of over my career of now spanning over
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  twenty five years playing music, you know, professionally.
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  I've been in bands since I was 13 years old, whether I was playing in my dad's band or
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  eventually, you know, in my twenties running my own and then ever since that I I have never had
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  that solid foundation of guys that it was just us playing music and was really about the
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  music.
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  I I think, you know, and probably a little bit of a fault of my own because in in South
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  Dakota, we're very blessed to be paid fairly well for what we do, but it changes it to where
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  nobody was ever coming into the band for necessarily the love of the music.
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  It was like, cool.
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  We're gonna go out on the weekends.
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  We're gonna make a 100 to $200 apiece, and it's becoming part of this financial conversation
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  very early in the formation of these bands.
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  It was very much me handing someone a set list with the key changes on it and saying, okay.
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  This is what you're going to play.
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  So as a musician, I've never had that musical relationship long term with a a group or even
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  another person, period.
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  And I'm always very jealous is maybe the wrong word, but I'm definitely, you know, a a little
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  bit, you know, left longing for that, and maybe that's still to come.
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  It's such a long life, and I think that your career is a great example of that, that just
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  because you didn't make it in your twenties doesn't mean that your musical career is over
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  by any means.
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  Not at all.
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  And I think I think that's what's unique about Sweet Crystal is the fact that we are still
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  together.
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  There are very few I wanna call us a local band, although we've done some national tours
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  and opened for quite a few people.
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  But we're just a local band, and we're still together because it's a love of the music, the
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  message, the mission, and for what we do.
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  We're very blessed to not have to worry about playing for money, for finances.
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  We basically do a lot of benefits for wounded warrior project, for veterans organizations,
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  and that's really what got us back out live back in twenty twenty seven, twenty eight.
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  A new organization called VetFest came into being, and the gentleman was a Vietnam vet.
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  And he remembered us from when we started out in the seventies in Detroit and said he had a
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  lot of vet buddies that remembered us as well, and would we like to play this inaugural event?
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  It turns out we hadn't played live in a decade.
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  So we put together a whole bunch of new songs that we did.
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  We came out playing live, and for the next ten years, we played that event until Russ passed
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  away from Agent Orange.
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  And but we've been going ever since.
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  And it's very, very cool.
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  We don't have to play out, so we don't have to burn out ourselves.
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  But we like showing up to events and to places where people can raise support to get to get
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  supported by the fact that we're there.
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  So you don't have to pay us to be there.
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  We just bring Jesus.
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  You can't charge for Jesus.
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  So he comes with us, and we just show up.
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  And hopefully, us being there will bring other people in that will end up supporting whatever
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  the cause is, whatever the event is based on.
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  And I think that's pretty that's a blessing to us to be able to play that knowing that we can
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  just do it because this is where God wants us to be.
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  And in the same vein, I feel for my myself, you know, my relationship with operation combating
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  veteran suicide first
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  as a
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  partner and now as the director of marketing and PR that everything that I do has that cause
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  behind it and the greater cause of of bringing people together and now bringing them together
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  to support our veteran community has meant so much to me, and it's really only been six
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  months since we've gotten together.
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  But we've opened some amazing doors so far and we'll continue to support our veterans and and
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  being able to be a part of these and mostly focused around musical events such as the
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  VetFest and our our hearts go out to to your friend and their family, obviously.
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  But it's it's something that I I didn't know if you would have told me two years ago even that
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  this is what we would be doing and I would have these titles and we would be running on this, I
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  would have never believed you.
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  And that's how I know that is a it is a god thing, that we are here and that we are
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  together today because I could have never planned this beautiful life on my own.
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  And, really, I I'm just trying to do my best to hang on and to go where I'm called.
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  Well, I did a little a little bit of research on you once we had first, talked to each other,
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  and that's the first thing that jumped out of me.
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  When I saw the veterans, focus of who you are and what you're doing, I just well, there it
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  is.
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  That's what god wants us to do because our vets, man, God bless them, they are just
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  hurting.
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  You know?
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  And and if you don't see the wounds on the outside, you see the wounds on the inside.
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  We have a song called Warriors that we play pretty much everywhere we go.
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  And the the premise of that show is you don't or that song is you don't have to support any
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  war, but we have to support every warrior.
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  And because of that, that's why I think Sweet Crystal is still thriving, surviving, and doing
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  what we're doing because we have a heart for the men and women of the armed forces, but also
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  for their families.
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  And that's sometimes the family members, the sacrifice that they go through by letting their
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  loved ones go off to stand in the gap for the rest of us.
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  Their sacrifice can be every bit as as damaging.
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  You may not see the scars on the outside, but every person who's gone through any kind of
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  armed conflict has scars on the inside.
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  And that is something that we just try to help any and everywhere we can.
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  Yeah.
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  And I and I get so disappointed that it often becomes a political issue of supporting the
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  troops as if it should be one.
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  There are people on both sides of the aisle that are affected and have, you know, a a
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  family member who is serving and a loved one who is serving our country or has in the past.
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  And to me, there is no room in, our our veteran community to divide ourselves like that.
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  We are all together in that, in that fight, in that, you know, and especially with us with
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  combating veteran suicide because it's not about, you know, stopping someone when they've
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  gotten to the point where they're considering taking their life.
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  It is to to get in there very much in advance of that when they start to have troubles,
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  whether it's with substance abuse or it is, you know, the the loss, a financial loss maybe, or
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  the loss of one of their loved ones that bring people to this.
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  I don't think that the decision is ever made lightly, and often that decision is made years
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  of advance of something actually happening.
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  So we are very much boots on the ground with what we are doing for the veteran community,
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  and a lot of that focused around the music community and now our sports community as well
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  and reaching the widest swath of people that we absolutely can.
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  And and I don't know anything more healing to me than music.
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  Well, I appreciate you you talking about this because politics gets in the way of intelligent
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  conversation, so I I never bring that up.
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  What's interesting to me, Bubba, is if you ever do another event or other events, even when my
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  full band can't travel, I've start in the last six years since I retired from my day gig, I've
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  started doing something called solo but never alone, where I can go with me, one keyboard,
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  and I show up at a lot of events doing the same music and message that Sweet Crystal is known
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  for.
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  But if the whole band can't make it, then I can always travel.
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  And my wife, Jan, and I have decided that's what we're doing with our we're not calling
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  them golden years because there's no gold involved.
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  But this is what we do.
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  So we travel quite around doing those kind of shows.
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  We also have something called Sweet Crystal Light, which is just my guitar player and
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  myself.
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  So it's the two of us that we show up and do this.
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  So it's kinda neat.
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  We've developed a show where we can do anywhere from one person to the whole quartet.
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  So it's it's it's a lot of fun.
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  And that allows us to play places that normally wouldn't be able to take the whole band.
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  I can do a coffee house, I can do a church, we can do an arena.
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  It's just fun that at this point in my life, I've got the gear I need to go wherever I need
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  to go and do whatever God calls me to do.
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  So it's it's very cool.
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  So I hope to be involved with you somewhere down the road in that aspect.
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  No pressure.
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  Just saying.
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  No.
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  You are on the list, sir.
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  It would be wonderful to bring you out here to the Midwest where I know you have roots growing
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  up in Iowa, but also, this, later next year.
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  Earlier this year, we actually hosted our Midwest Talent Awards with our friends and
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  partners at Candela right there in Mexican town in Detroit.
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  So I was
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  in your city.
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  Your name.
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  I thought I saw your name come through town a while back, and that's when I started looking
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  at you going, I think I saw this guy somewhere.
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  Say he was gonna be here in town.
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  That's what it was.
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  Alright.
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  Yep.
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  So we're gonna make sure you're involved with that as well, our local heroes, and we're gonna
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  make you part of the show.
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  I think it would be absolutely wonderful.
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  I also hope that you're able to avoid a lawsuit with the sweet crystal light as well.
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  Hopefully, you are.
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  That is kind of funny.
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  We don't really well, we do kind of promote it that way occasionally.
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  But, yeah, we've never had anybody come back to us and go, hey.
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  You can't do that.
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  It's just funny.
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  So, Q, what what is it that you know, obviously, your your your love of Jesus and and
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  performing and honoring, right, honoring god with that, your music, your gifts, your
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  talents, which I think is something that more artists need to kind of take to heart that what
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  you have is a gift to the world and is meant to be shared.
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  It's not necessarily meant to just be monetized and commoditized and and sold, you know, to the
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  world, but that it is a gift to be shared.
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  Is it that solely, that that kinda drives you now at this stage in your career, or is there
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  something still musically that you feel there is to achieve or that you haven't quite done
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  yet that kinda keeps the fire burning?
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  Well, what's interesting, Bubba, is we have a trademark slogan called reaching the world one
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  song at a time.
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  We've had that for a long time.
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  And I think that because of technology, because of the web, the way the world works now, I
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  think that's the one thing I still strive to do is figure out how to get the songs.
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  We're working on our eighth CD, which is coming up.
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  How to get these songs out to the people that can use the message that's in the songs.
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  We don't we're not the kinda Jesus freak band that comes out and says, you know, you gotta
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  believe in Jesus, you're gonna go to hell, that kind of thing.
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  We are basically a band of Christians that write songs about the trials and tribulations
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  of our lives, what we've gone through.
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  And usually, by the end of a sweet crystal song, there's a a solution or at least a
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  glimmer of hope, a light at the end of the tunnel that hopefully the the listener will
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  hear and start thinking about.
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  It's not it's not our job to save people, but it is our job to point them in the right
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  direction.
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  And God has been very good to this band and kept us going all these years, and I think
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  that's what we're supposed to do.
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  So my my biggest goal is still to try to figure out how to become more effective.
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  I wanna be a better songwriter because I think I can have a lot of ideas that are probably
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  better than the ones that came out back in the day.
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  But a funny thing, our most played song is from 1976 called Warlords.
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  And this was before we were a Christian band, but the theme of the song, you could tell we
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  were searching for something.
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  And that song has more streams and more play across the world than anything that we've done
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  since then almost.
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  So for us, we just we we've got a concert coming up where the promoter actually says, can
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  you guys play Warlords live?
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  We haven't played that song since the seventies.
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  We're going, you know what?
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  We probably should bring it back up because it's still that's probably the only song I get
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  checks royalty checks on.
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  Every every quarter I go, look at this.
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  So we may have to work that back out.
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  We probably wanna modernize in a bit because we were pretty young and recording was pretty
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  grand grainy, but it still is funny for me to look at that.
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  So those little things are like what god gives us to keep us going.
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  He gives us little attaboys.
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  You know, I just got another nomination this year for the Josie Awards, which is a really
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  big independent music, twelfth year award down in Nashville.
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  Last year, I won it for outstanding musician of the year keyboards.
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  And I had never heard of the Josies until somebody said I was nominated.
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  My wife and I went down there as just the goal because I love Nashville, and I ended up
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  winning, which was just mind boggling to me.
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  This year, I got nominated for piano.
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  I'm just still mind boggled.
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  But it's just those are the kind of things I believe the Lord let send your way so that you
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  don't stop what you're doing because it'd be very easy to just go, I'm done.
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  I've been doing this for five decades.
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  What's the point?
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  Well, the point is God has a point for your life each and every day.
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  It's a new beginning.
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  That's what I'm trying to always remember.
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  You know?
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  In God, we trust.
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  Well, Q, we've just been running circles around each other.
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  I was there working the red carpet.
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  I was I was right there.
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  Was the first time.
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  I'm working the red carpet.
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  It was my first time being at the Josie's.
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  My first time in Nashville.
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  Really?
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  I took George Jones' old tour bus down there.
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  A friend of mine owns the coach still.
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  It needed some work done.
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  So rode down there on the tour bus, got to, you know, work the Grand Ole Opry for my first time
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  being there.
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  So congratulations to you.
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  What a great organization.
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  We're looking forward to going back down
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  this year.
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  Then.
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  That's excellent.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Fing fingers crossed.
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  I know the nominations have been rolling out here slowly with all kinda starting at the top
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  and working their way down.
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  So I I know that we did put in our name in the hat for the Good.
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  Podcasting and some awards in that.
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  So fingers crossed that not only this year are we able to work out there on the red carpet and
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  to be a part of that, but, to have some recognition as a nominee would be massive to
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  me, to win one and to be able to walk up on that stage and to thank everyone who's been
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  such a big deal, with this organization that we've built.
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  This family truly that the Scene Projects has become would be an absolute treat, and that's
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  for someone who didn't necessarily grow up a big country music fan.
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  You know?
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  I know that it's hollowed ground, but it maybe doesn't mean as as much to me as it does to
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  others who grew up watching and consuming.
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  No idea the story behind the circle on the stage.
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  I didn't know what everybody was so reverent toward that, and I had no idea what that meant.
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  I just got up and said whatever I said.
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  I wasn't even expecting to win, so I just said whatever.
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  But later on, when we looked into it, I told my wife, Jan, I just go, you know what?
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  That thing is actually very, very important to the overall scheme of nature.
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  I wish I would have known then.
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  My my good friend Jasmine Cain performed and won
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  a couple of work herself.
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  That's the first time we ever saw her.
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  Jan and I just both went, oh, this is somebody I'd love to work with down the road.
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  We have become huge Jasmine Cain fans since that show.
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  Wow.
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  Incredible.
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  She was a big reason why I went down is she's a South Dakota girl.
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  I've been following her career since my dad was sneaking me in the bars before I was 21 to go
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  see her, and she performed out in Deadwood, my hometown, numerous times being from just out
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  there, Faith, South Dakota, and ranch and family.
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  Right?
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  And I couldn't I couldn't miss it to to be there, to support my friend.
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  And I had a lot of other friends that were nominated as well.
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  I'm I'm a member of the Midwest.
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  Punishing music organization as well.
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  So We
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  loved her.
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  Yep.
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  Oh, was a
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  small world, man.
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  Small world.
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  Well, especially when you start getting into the musician side of things.
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  Right?
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  And that's what's been very rewarding to me doing this and and and and to many degrees
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  stepping out of the limelight of my artist career and not that there was ever a big
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  spotlight, but we did fairly well.
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  And we're fairly, you know, well known in in our you know, in the state of South Dakota and
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  around our areas.
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  And and everybody knows me.
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  And and it was finding a way that I could serve our community.
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  And the scene projects really became that.
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  And the same way that you found that your band had a way to serve your community and the
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  veteran community that I found that in podcasting.
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  And I can still play music.
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  I can still do these things, but it's just a matter of, like, to to begin a new venture
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  takes a massive amount of energy.
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  And I could not serve two masters at the same time.
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  I could not serve my artist career and a burgeoning community that was the scene
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  projects at the same time.
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  But this will always be there.
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  Right?
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  The the artist career and the songwriting is never going anywhere.
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  And in its due time, it will have its resurgence as well once this, you know,
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  monumental task of of getting the snowball built and rolling down the hill, can kind of
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  have legs of its own, and and then I can go back to playing music.
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  And talking with gentlemen like yourself gives me a lot of confidence that I I'm right in that
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  fact.
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  You are right in that.
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  And that's one thing about being a creative being a musician.
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  As long as you're not chasing that almighty dollar or that pinnacle of success that the
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  world offers, you can play until you can't.
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  I mean, so you can always play.
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  Every time I I have a my wife bought me a baby grand piano for one of my landmark birthdays.
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  And every time I walk by that that puppy, that's what I call it, I sit down and play for
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  five minutes, the the endorphin rush that comes through me just from sitting down and playing
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  it, even though I'm not getting anything really done other than playing, it I can do that until
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  my fingers don't work.
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  You can play guitar up until you can't play guitar, and I think that's what a lot of people
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  don't have.
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  They do not have that that release that a musician has.
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  As long as you're not trying to do it for the wrong reasons, you're just doing it because
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  it's part of you and you're able to express that part of you, I think you'll always be able
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  to play.
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  And you can and everybody's always looking for a guitar player.
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  Everybody's always looking for a musician.
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  Everybody's always looking for a bass player.
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  Apparently, that's what it is in Detroit.
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  But it as you know, there's always I'm in five different bands right now, and it's very
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  interesting.
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  Sweet Crystal, of course, is my heart.
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  But these other projects I play with because there's not apparently not a ton of keyboard
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  players out there.
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  And I got a ton of keyboards, so I've joined a whole bunch of different projects.
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  And each project uses a different keyboard.
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  It's very interesting.
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  But that's because that's what I wanna do.
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  I wanna differentiate my sound with everybody I'm playing with.
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  It's kind of it's just a fun little line game I play with myself.
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  Q, what what's next?
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  What's next for Sweet Crystal with these other projects?
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  I mean, it seems like you're still, all these years later, spinning quite a few plates and
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  staying plenty busy out there.
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  What is it that's on the horizon for you?
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  The big one for Sweet Crystal, this is our second year doing it.
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  We have here in Detroit, we have something called the Unity for Christ Music Festival.
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  This is the second year.
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  I am at the actual musical director of it.
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  I booked all the entertainment.
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  It's a a full day event in Downtown Detroit.
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  It's sponsored by four of the the local churches.
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  They came together and we take over a a city block and put on an all day free concert with
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  food, bounce houses for the kids, places for the different ministers to give their message.
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  But I think we've got eight different acts, eight different bands, and three or four
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  different solo artists this year.
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  That's coming up on at the end of June right in Downtown Detroit.
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  So that's a big one for us because not only are we playing I'm almost the headliner, but I'm
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  I'm in the last three bands.
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  So I kinda work my way from Sweet Crystal to David Weinance of the Weinance family.
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  I I'm his keyboard player.
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  And then we end with a a bunch of very high end musician called the Saints, and that's the end
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  of the the the big end of the show.
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  So that's coming up.
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  If you go to sweetcrystal.com or our Facebook pages, you'll be able to follow through with
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  what we're doing.
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  This week, we have a benefit show for a man by the name of Frank Pettis, who's 85 years old,
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  and he's a photographer to the freaking stars.
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  He's been around shooting David Bowie and the Stones from the sixties all the way up until
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  last year shooting a variety of people, and it's his 80 birthday.
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  City's coming together to give him his accolades, and I'm in one one one band called
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  Mars Radio, and we're, like, the headliner for that show.
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  So every every other week, I'm playing doing something totally different.
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  So it's a lot of fun for me.
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  Hopefully, it's fun for people that know us.
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  God bless my wife that she allows she comes with me, so she's a trooper.
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  And we just keep doing this until we can't do it anymore.
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  But really, if you go to sweetcrystal.com or my solo queue page, that's the easiest way to
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  figure out where and when I might be showing up.
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  Fantastic.
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  Well, Q, a pleasure to meet you.
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  I know we'll be seeing each other later on this year.
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  Yeah.
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  Very
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  We'll be making a point of it.
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  We have all your contact info.
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  Highly recommend everybody.
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  Check out sweet crystal, sweetcrystal.com.
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  I appreciate your time, sir, and I look forward to seeing you out there on the road and maybe
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  getting to play this show next year when Whenever you stop.
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  Books open back up.
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  I would be absolutely honored to come out to Detroit and, play some music for everyone
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  there.
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  That's excellent.
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  Thank you, Q.
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  Thank you for spending some time with me.
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  Thank you.
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  Thanks for all you do, man, for the bets.
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  That's huge.
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  It's an honor to serve those who have served.
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  Q, thank you for being part of the scene.