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If You Don't Know What It Is It Must Be Jazz A Conversation With Robeone · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: Hello, this is Robert.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Robert. How are you doing today? It's Arrow Collins.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. What are you doing with a 704 area code, man?
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  Speaker 1: Are you in Carolina right now?
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  Speaker 2: I live in Matthews.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over here in Raintree. Oh, my God. What are
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  Speaker 1: the chances that this would happen?
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  Speaker 2: I used to live in Raintree.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, then you understand the beauty of this unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: forest here then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that explains why you're such a creative mind then,
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  Speaker 1: because the energy of that forest is still inside you.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Bringing music to life the way that you do, you
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  Speaker 1: love to explore, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Where does that avenue come from there, dude?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy, let's see. I have, I guess I started.
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  Speaker 3: Playing piano since I could reach the keys, I guess
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  Speaker 3: about five years old. The piano in our house was
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  Speaker 3: a wedding present to my parents from my great uncle,
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  Speaker 3: Abner Silver, who was a very famous songwriter. He wrote
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  Speaker 3: with these hands amongst many. He wrote songs for Elvis
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  Speaker 3: Presley and GI Blues. Al Jolson, Frank Sinatra.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was.
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  Speaker 3: And so I was inspired from a very young age.
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  Speaker 3: And I just I don't know. It's just music became
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  Speaker 3: part of me my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: And then and not only that, but the thing about
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  Speaker 1: it is, though, is that they always told me that
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  Speaker 1: this area of the world inspired Nashville, that Nashville could
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  Speaker 1: have easily been right here because there were so many
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  Speaker 1: creative people from this area.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not originally from here, but I've been here
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  Speaker 2: a long time.
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  Speaker 1: But you pick up on the vibe of what's going on, though.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on, though. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I spend
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time in Asheville as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the Hollywood of the East Coast.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Hollywood of the East Coast. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love the title of the album. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: really does set up a new tone because I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in the age when REO Speedwagon did You Can
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  Speaker 1: Tune a Piano But You Can't Tune a Fish.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Great album title.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But, I mean, yours is just as creative. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it is, it must be jazz.
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  Speaker 2: Must be jazz. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, I want to expand my audience a bit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've always.
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  Speaker 3: on most of my records, I've always had like a
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  Speaker 3: little jazzy thing thrown in there here and there. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I grew up in the New York area,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Broadway shows. I mean, I saw Gwen Vernon
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  Speaker 3: in Damn Yankees, Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl. I saw
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  Speaker 3: Oliver with Davy Jones. It was like, And then my
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  Speaker 3: dad was in the big band and jazz and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. So I was, you know, that's what I
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  Speaker 3: grew up around.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you captivate our attention, even with a song called
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  Speaker 1: Crimble Crumble. And what I love about this is it
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  Speaker 1: feels like that we're going out for a night out
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  Speaker 1: in the town.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all my song titles actually have come from a
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  Speaker 3: British comedy show called Friday Night Dinner that inspired all
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  Speaker 3: the song titles.
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  Speaker 1: Now I want to go back and do all my
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  Speaker 1: show prep again knowing that. I love that. So now,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to creating the music, you get the
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  Speaker 1: title and then you build the song?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, no. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, that's the way it did work. I was like
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  Speaker 3: thinking about that like Cremble, Cremble, Cremble. And this is
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  Speaker 3: going to be Cremble, Cremble. And I started, you know,
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  Speaker 3: recording process of that track.
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  Speaker 1: Well, too bad you weren't hanging out with Paul McCartney
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  Speaker 1: when he did Scrambled Eggs. I mean, that would have
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  Speaker 1: been a great moment for you, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it should.
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  Speaker 1: Listeners need to understand your process of growing inside the
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  Speaker 1: music industry. I mean, you were actually the manager of
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  Speaker 1: one of the most famous studios on the planet, which
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  Speaker 1: was Electric Lady.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that was quite an experience, yeah. about quite just
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  Speaker 3: about a year i was there in between different things
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  Speaker 3: and uh yeah that was uh that was amazing being
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  Speaker 3: there uh there's some crazy i mean i mean i
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  Speaker 3: recorded there as well in the early 70s but then
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  Speaker 3: again you know winding up there uh it was basically
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  Speaker 3: um my band the states we were um We did
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  Speaker 3: our second album, and we were the opening act for
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  Speaker 3: Hall & Oates on their Ecstatic tour. And after that tour,
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  Speaker 3: it's just like, I think the whole band fell apart. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I came back to New York City, and
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  Speaker 3: I got that job at Electric Lady.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy in the way that when I think of
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  Speaker 1: Electric Lady, there's so much going on with so many
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  Speaker 1: musicians coming in. How do you even find the place
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  Speaker 1: to even find focus there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's constantly busy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much 24-7. So, I mean, I remember getting....
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  Speaker 3: A phone call at 2 o'clock in the morning where
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  Speaker 3: some musician came in with a gun and wanted his
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  Speaker 3: master tapes that he hadn't paid for yet.
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  Speaker 2: And they wanted me to come down. And I'm going,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not coming down. I go, just give him his
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  Speaker 2: tapes and let him go.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about those mastered tapes? Because I even
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  Speaker 1: struggled with my own mastered tapes. I mean, they were
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  Speaker 1: all paid for. They just kept saying, ah, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: around to them. We'll get around to them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they just, you know, they wanted their tapes and leave.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't remember if they ever got any money
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  Speaker 2: out of him or not. That wasn't my department.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the album, if you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: it is, it must be jazz. We'll be right back
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  Speaker 1: with Roby One. Absolutely one of the most creative people
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  Speaker 1: on the planet. We are back with Roby One, the
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  Speaker 1: name of the album. If you don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 1: it must be jazz. You had fun with Hello Bambinos,
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  Speaker 1: didn't you? I mean, because you're doing on this video
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  Speaker 1: what we all do, and that is we love watching pets.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Well, me and my wife foster dogs.
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  Speaker 3: We work with a local rescue here in the Charlotte
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  Speaker 3: area called Catering the Cats and Dogs. and we're actually
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  Speaker 3: on our 94th foster right now. And, uh, that's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: so we're big animal people.
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  Speaker 1: So that's, hell, I, I, I thought we were hitting
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  Speaker 1: home runs with nine. I mean, you're, you're way beyond me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: catch up to you, dude.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, with everything that's going on in the world today,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even, you know, on my social media and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: I don't get involved with politics. Um, And basically, I
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  Speaker 3: just try to bring music and the joy.
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  Speaker 2: Of, you know, dogs and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm friends with Chris Clark, who is the
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  Speaker 3: current keyboard player in the Pan Geeks with John Anderson.
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  Speaker 3: And he's another dog person and stuff. So we get
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  Speaker 3: along really well with all the dog stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of animals, and you once living in Raintree,
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  Speaker 1: were you thinking of the squirrels in these trees? Because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this part of Raintree that I live in,
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  Speaker 1: we have solid black squirrels.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The first time I saw those were actually up in Canada.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Were black squirrels. So you don't see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them around here. But the song title, you know, once again,
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  Speaker 2: came from that TV show.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, every Friday night dinner.
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  Speaker 3: It's about a Jewish family in England. And Friday night
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  Speaker 3: dinner is when the sons came over to the house.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just really funny stuff with us. Dad and
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  Speaker 3: the mom and the sons and the next door neighbor
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  Speaker 3: and two different grandmas and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But the song title came from the father every night
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  Speaker 3: at dinner. he would go, Oh, what a lovely piece
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  Speaker 3: of squirrel.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God. That was his like little joke that he
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  Speaker 2: said every, you know, every Friday night about the food.
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  Speaker 3: So that's where that song title came from.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. I would have thought something like that
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  Speaker 1: with Fox in the freezer. I mean, come on now.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that, even that everything that you do is
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  Speaker 1: so playful and it's filled with exploration.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: This is, this is what I try to do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, You know, I just came back from performing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, at Prague Stock in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: And it was like, you know, same things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was basically up there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Jamming around for about seven hours every day.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't you amazed at how much Prague is still around?
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  Speaker 1: Because I've been with the members of YES. And man,
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  Speaker 1: when we get together, it's all about talking about the
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  Speaker 1: creation and the extension of where Prague is growing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope it's growing.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to be attracting, again, a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: of a younger audience is what we really need, because obviously,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of the Prague people are, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're getting up there, you know, and... And we're hoping
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  Speaker 3: that it carries on because it's really, if you look
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  Speaker 3: at the whole music industry, it's a very small part
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  Speaker 3: of what's going on. And so we need to try
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  Speaker 3: to find a way to get some of these incredible
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  Speaker 3: artists to get more music to the mainstream somehow. Because
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  Speaker 3: it seemed like in the older days, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Greg Lake songs from, you know, Emerson Lake and Palmer,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're able to leak through, you know, songs
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  Speaker 3: like Still Turn Me On and Lucky Man.
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  Speaker 2: Those were, you know, radio hits.
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  Speaker 3: The same thing with, you know, some of the stuff
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  Speaker 3: from Yes and Moody Blues, you know, Nights in White Satin,
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  Speaker 3: things like that. We need to get more of that
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  Speaker 3: happening because, I mean, Prague is a very large you know, genre.
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  Speaker 2: Different styles.
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  Speaker 3: There's, you know, more, you know, like stick men that are,
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  Speaker 3: you know, crazy fusion, the kind of stuff that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's never going to be, you know, radio hits, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but then there's bands like life signs and big, big
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  Speaker 3: train that do much more melodic type things. And somehow,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's very difficult for them to get to
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  Speaker 3: break into, into the mainstream where more people can hear
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  Speaker 3: what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: You're very committed to this because, I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be up there in the Asheville area
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  Speaker 1: or you've been there many times for the Moogseum. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, the proceeds from this album are
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  Speaker 1: going to the Bob Moog Foundation. And listeners need to
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  Speaker 1: understand that this is a total dedication from you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes i've been uh involved i gotta correct you it's moog.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you know how we radio people are dude come
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  Speaker 1: on now you know how we are we'll sit there
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  Speaker 1: and we'll say sharday and shadady and all that kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff but yes um i'm very involved with the with
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  Speaker 3: the foundation uh they have all my music is available
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  Speaker 3: there um that, you know, they sell at, at the
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  Speaker 3: museum shop, you know, in person or online, things like that.
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  Speaker 3: I also, um, affiliated with a band wagon USA that
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  Speaker 3: distribute my music. Um, so it's, uh, yeah, I mean, um,
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  Speaker 3: my daughter lives in Nashville, my stepson's in Asheville and,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm up.
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  Speaker 2: I love it there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to be running around the nearest Harris
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  Speaker 1: Teeter saying, it's not Moog, guys. It's Moog. It's Moog.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get it on straight here.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: You're not the only one.
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  Speaker 3: Michelle Mokusa, who was Bob Moog's daughter, who runs the foundation,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is... always correcting people and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you?
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  Speaker 1: Because I want them to really dive into your process
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  Speaker 1: of creativity and to grow the form of prog music forward.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I have my website, which is Robi1. com, R-O-B-E-O-N-E.com,
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  Speaker 3: which has a lot of my stuff on there about
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  Speaker 3: what I do and history and stuff. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 3: I post music, me playing, just jamming around a couple
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  Speaker 3: times a week on my Facebook page, which is Robert Schindler, S-C-H-I-N-D-L-E-R.
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  Speaker 3: And then I have my YouTube page also as well
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  Speaker 3: under Robert Schindler. that I post all those videos that
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  Speaker 3: I do just to keep things going. This album, I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to expand obviously more in jazz to hit a
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  Speaker 3: bigger audience because obviously jazz has a much bigger following
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  Speaker 3: than prog. I was doing a combination there trying to
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  Speaker 3: reach a larger audience to get my music out there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually thinking about my next record to be a
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  Speaker 3: blues album. So, which is going to be interesting because,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I did, I have done some blues work
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  Speaker 3: in the past. You know, I played with T-Bone Walker.
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  Speaker 3: I played with, well, reggae with Johnny Nash. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And I grew, you know, I grew up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I love blues.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Paul Butterfield and Joe Bonamassa,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and, you know, all.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've definitely got to come back to this show
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  Speaker 1: anytime in the future. And we've got to do a
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  Speaker 1: face-to-face time since you're just right there in Matthews.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If you ever want to come over to the studio,
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  Speaker 3: which is probably going to take me about a week
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  Speaker 3: to get back together because all my cases and everything
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  Speaker 3: are all over my house from coming back from Broadstock.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. Well, man, you have yourself a brilliant
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  Speaker 1: day today, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you so much.