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  SPEAKER_00: It's WEHM All Access.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get ready for this year's Sag Harbor Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: It happens, of course, uh Thursday, kicks off September 24th through the 27th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four days of free music all throughout the village of Zag Harbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And coming Friday, September 25th, 5 30 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: at Amy's Music Store is Jay Shepherd.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a chance to get to know Jay a little bit here on EHM All Access.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jay, how are you?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Very good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for sitting down.
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  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you taking the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've been doing my research, and I have to say some high praise on your website.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're you're a busy guy over the past uh, it looks like the past couple decades, you're doing a whole bunch of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think you were on Rock of Ages in the band there on Broadway and just a lot of different projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh first off, I guess kind of like why don't we start?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where are you originally from?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh originally from a town called Florence in South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: About an hour in from the coast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um grew up there and then was playing in bands on stages since I was about 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: My dad was a huge music lover.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then from there, I kind of went to College of Charleston with my high school band, and then from CFC, uh made it to the Big Apple, and then from the Big Apple to Riverhead.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the formative years were all in South Carolina, so I'm a South Carolinian.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting to see that people come from different music scenes all over.
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  SPEAKER_00: And kind of what was uh what was the first thing you noticed?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you're you're out on Long Island now, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been um out since 2020.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh what's interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's funny, you came to New York uh during 2020.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most people left um and they went out of Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what what are the differences you see in the New York and the Long Island music scene and as opposed to where you where you came from, where you grew up?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, there's just a lot of similarities in out here on the North Fort and this part of Long Island from where I came from in South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, some of it feels just really small and comfortable and cozy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um the farmland uh strikes a special core with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Being from South Carolina, I grew up kind of as a country boy walking barefoot, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, New York City, obviously completely different.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was there for 16 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just to be clear, I moved there around 2007 and then stayed uh until about 2020, which is when everything kind of shifted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that now it all makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's yeah, that's perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh I love it out here.
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  SPEAKER_01: The uh, like, you know, after grinding in the city, and the city was amazing because you know, I'm got to play with so many different people, so many different opportunities, tour around the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you mentioned the Broadway thing, but uh playing with some of the people that I used to listen to coming up as a kid, uh making records and just kind of learning all the ropes, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, that just helped prepare me to really enjoy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I guess this is just a lot more peaceful and easy, easy living, easy going, slower pace out here.
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  SPEAKER_01: At least, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it, that's interesting to see the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you really have seen uh all the different sides of it, especially being in New York City for so long, it sounds like uh you you obviously get a lot of praise for your guitar work.
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  SPEAKER_00: When when did you first pick up a guitar?
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  SPEAKER_00: How old were you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I I think it was right around when Nirvana Nevermind came out.
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  SPEAKER_01: So like uh I was probably like 12, maybe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Early 90s, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and now luckily that was a good time to be interested in guitar.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, I think one of the first songs I learned, even though that's not really the style of music that I play now, was like a lot of the grunge stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um the guitar was all over the airwaves then, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um that uh that was really uh really a big part of me getting started is hearing all of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And my dad I had records playing all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I just begged and begged and begged until one year I finally got a guitar for Christmas.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was a real beater.
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  SPEAKER_01: Strings were like an inch off the fretboard, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, but ever since then, so I guess it's been almost man, almost three decades, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, now you've really uh you kind of threw yourself into it, or you're in a lot of bands, I'd imagine, uh, growing up and kind of finding your way through this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what precipitated them?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you say you moved from well, College of Charleston to New York?
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  SPEAKER_00: What uh what was kind of the impetus to move to New York?
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  SPEAKER_00: You just kind of wanted to come here and see what what you could do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so the our band and at in College of Charleston toured the Southeast.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we had some pretty good success in the jam band scene we opened for Derek Trucks back uh in like 2003 at the music forum in Charleston.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was just a really good place to like kind of to like home get a band and hone your skills.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there are a lot of venues and colleges and frat houses to play all around in the southeast, SEC football.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but um, I guess that uh what really was the straw that broke the back that ended up pushing me to New York was I just needed a the band broke up for reasons we won't get into.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to call any names, but uh we left uh and decided to go to New York, me and one of the bandmates.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we just thought we'd make a go of it there in the city.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then one thing leads to another, you meet one person.
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  SPEAKER_01: You I'd said no to I did I said yes to basically every gig for like the first two years, just in hopes that one would snowball into the next, or you'd meet a musician, and that's kind of what happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I knew that I moved there knowing one person, and all the rest, you know, just kind of unfolded naturally along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: What what kind of music?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you do a lot of different projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is kind of your first love as far as music goes?
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  SPEAKER_00: What did you love growing up and and kind of grow into?
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like blown away by Stevie Ray Von live at the Elma Combo.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a classic VHS, or it's on YouTube now, the whole concert, little small club in Montreal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, um to you know, the Zeppelin stuff, all that classic rock guitar hero stuff was really like a made a big impression on me when I was younger.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then it was more like learning to improvise through like the Almond Brothers, Grateful Dead, Fish.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then um, you know, in college, you just I kind of sharpened my uh my skill set a little bit more by studying jazz composition, and uh so it was just adding more tools to my bag.
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  SPEAKER_01: But at the heart of it, I'm like uh Americana Southern rocker, uh blues kind of jam guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I had to push all those words into one sentence.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that that's kind of funny.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot, I think, and that's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You you when you go to your website, I was just I was reading up and you have a lot of different projects you're involved with and kind of always keeping busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's kind of part of part of this whole gig, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh making sure you're always doing different things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh coming to the Sag Harbor Music Festival, which is a lot of fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this your first time out here?
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  SPEAKER_01: First time in the Sag Harbor Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_01: Super stoked.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be good.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's four days of of music all over, and it's just like a very nice vibe throughout the village of Sag Harbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious, we mentioned Broadway.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you were in the Rock of Ages band playing uh guitar.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was that like?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what did that teach you actually about performing?
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you look back at that time of your life, uh what did you learn from that experience?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, so um that was uh like the most ner I don't get nervous ever really, except for when I had piano competitions when I was like 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this was the most nerve-wracking first gig ever because in in that world, the preparation, they give you in a lot of places, in a lot of shows, you're in the pit, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: You're not on stage.
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  SPEAKER_01: This show, the band is part of the set, you're on stage.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's no music stands, there's nothing you can read.
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  SPEAKER_01: You I was allowed to have one cheat sheet at my feet that was taped to the stage, which was basically just a running order of the songs.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the preparation was here's almost three hours of music on an MP3 from a Dropbox file.
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  SPEAKER_01: My parts were pan hard left, the MD and the rest of the band, and the count offs are pan hardright, and the center was the cast and the dialogue.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh a lot of the songs are counted off, but some of them you have to wait till the actor or actress gets to the point, a certain point on the stage or says a certain line, and then you know that's your cue to start.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as much prep as you do behind the scenes, like I spent two months working, you know, hours a day learning my parts note for note, and you never get a rehearsal.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's just trial by fire, right to the wolves.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I came in first as a sub, and when you come in as a sub, they're not gonna throw a rehearsal with 25, you know, people for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you're expected to come in and nail the show at the drop of the dime.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was terrifying.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I did it, and I I guess I did it well enough to where I got the chair eventually.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it became my gig for a while.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh, it was just a great learning experience to be in that world and just something I hadn't done.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never wanted to be on Broadway.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it never was like kind of even crossed my mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: But a friend that I uh played in a band with and did a session, he had the chair.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was actually shout out Tommy Kessler from Blondie.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's a good friend of mine, and he's like, yo, you want to come in and try this gig?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Yeah, why not?
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  SPEAKER_01: It'll make my grandmother happy and my mom, you know?
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  SPEAKER_01: But I did it and uh it was uh it was a great experience, and it turned out to be so much fun because you're on stage and like you get to like we had some headbanging moves and choreography, and I think I had one speaking line or something, but it was just a trip.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a it was a good experience, you know, and it's it's kind of like a nice little brag and right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone likes to bring it up, and uh, so I'm proud of that, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh how long were you doing on Broadway for?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh four years on and off.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the show ran um like for like 10 years in a row, I think, on Broadway and didn't did like maybe two years off Broadway in a different theater, so roughly combined about four years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you uh did you find it hard to do your own music uh on the side after as you were doing that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you had such a focus.
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  SPEAKER_00: You mentioned kind of learning everything and making sure you were you were hitting everything properly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what did you get a chance to work on your own stuff at the time?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think that's the hardest thing for any working musician who makes a living because unless you're like selling major tickets and a lot of merch, um, you know, and I've been on the road for six or eight weeks at a time, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's finding the time for your own music is always tough because there's always the club dates, or you know, I did a wedding band gigs for years uh to make ends meet.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um and so all so finding the time to make your own music is always a challenge, and especially since I've been out here seasonally, you know, for us it picks up pretty heavily like June, July, August.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I just I just came off eight gigs in five days.
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  SPEAKER_01: I saw that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's uh that's impressive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I was like, wow, he is a hard worker because you and and that's that's the time to do it at the end of the summer, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's so many so many.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're like squirrels gathering the nuts for the winter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, and that's just it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like then a couple weeks from now, it's it's it's very slow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I'd imagine that gives you a chance though to start um writing and recording and doing stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh how are we where are you at with uh your own music right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you?
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm always writing, recording in the cracks.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll come home from a gig and like finish something on a song or work on a song.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I have probably about three albums worth of material right now we're sitting on, and the guys are coming over uh this weekend after my Saturday gig, and we're gonna listen through and try to sort out the best set and what's gonna be the next um record.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I haven't put out a record in too long, since I think maybe like 2018, the a band Shepherd the Breeze that I wrote and assembled for.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, things kind of fell apart during the pandemic, but we did play a couple shows out here on the North Fork and the East End.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, so like the plan is to kind of this this festival gig is a really great catalyst for us to kind of put our heads together and really finish the record and decide on what's going to be the core material.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so, like a lot of the club dates that we do or the the gigs out here, you know, you're doing three or four hours and you're you're playing a mix of covers and some originals, but this is a great opportunity for us to kind of, you know, really get into the woodshed and get our original set together and decide on the record.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, generally, um, most of the that work is done like in the fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this is a a great way to light a fire under us, so to speak, you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it sounds like it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it sounds too when you're doing those gigs, those four-hour gigs where you're you're playing at a restaurant or wherever you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that a chance?
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  SPEAKER_00: I I've always wondered, and I've I've spoken to a few people about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it a chance to kind of just mess around a little bit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, people want to hear certain songs, but in a way, you can kind of go into it, it's like, hey, when the the audio the crowd is a little thin or they're not paying attention this way.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: Can I can I work on a few different things of my own?
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like I've been doing that more and more as you know, I've been out here for what, I guess, six years now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So like I'm finding ways to keep myself entertained as well as like the crowd, because a lot of people who come out and see me regularly, they've heard me play song X, Y, or Z, you know, tons of times.
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  SPEAKER_01: So like I will uh make up stuff on the fly, always playing something different.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing's ever played the same way twice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that way, I guess the spirit of the Grateful Dead and the improv jam world has really kind of left its mark on me.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just exciting, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this summer I've been lucky.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've had special uh guests and friends from old bands come in and stay for like a week or two and play gigs with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's been keeping it kind of fresh.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, short answer is always using those opportunities to kind of hone things in and get better and try out material and see what people respond to and what people don't, you know.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: When you moved to Long Island in 2020, now obviously we're in the city, so you knew people out here, I'd imagine.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: But what was that like?
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh who who have you collaborated with out here?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh back in the city, we started this thing.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my drummer did it's called Turbo Tribeca Music Community.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: And it was like, long story short, it was like he connected me with a lot of really talented musicians, most of which were from Long Island.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: So like I work with and have done gigs with the Blue Oyster Colt guys, Danny Miranda, the bass player, Jules Rubino, the drummer.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um, a couple of set recording sessions with Bobby Rodnelli, who used to play with Ozzie and Rainbow from the Deep Purple Circle.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, uh in terms of those are like the legacy kind of like classic rock dudes, um, which again, it's like learn so much from those guys and like what an honor to play with them.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: But out here it's been mostly solo work, um, which I had to adjust to because I never played solo gigs until I moved out to Long Island um by myself.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so that was an adjustment, but I've I learned how to I dusted off my old loop machine and was like figured out a way to keep myself entertained and create a show that sounds like it's more than one person.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I have collaborated, you know, by chance, you know, uh sometimes we're we get double booked, or I have a night off and I show up at a a club where somebody's playing.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Aaron Chase is a good friend.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um Jason Dorsa, um you know, Paris Ray, all of us uh singer songwriters that are out here and working kind of the same rooms have this massive group thread that are always like keeping in touch, making jokes, quoting the big Lebowski, just helping each other out in general if you've had a tough day or if you need some coverage, or you know, it's that kind of thing.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: So there is a real community I found.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, even if we're not actually playing together, um, but like the communication and just like the camaraderie, you can feel it, you know.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's real.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a certain venue that's it kind of feels like home for you?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious because you've played you've played a lot of different places.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a certain one where you you always kind of go back to and and just so comfortable?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's a tough one.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: There's a a couple of them.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: I've been really fortunate with a lot of the places.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I just have been playing every Sunday at Oakland's.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: The staff and the crew there have been really great, friendly.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's become really comfortable.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the watershed in South Jamesport, tiny little place, kind of like you walk in, everybody knows your name, neighborhood watering hole.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I've been doing well there, and I've really grown to love the the scene at Cory Creek Tap Room in Peconic.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a winery, kind of, but a tap room, but it's very relaxed.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of my uh fan base is out there, kind of South Hold Pecanic.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so those are those are three that kind of jump out to me, but I'm always looking for another one, you know?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh of course.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious too, and as we wrap up here, I I read that I guess the the our the producer Mark Hudson has talked about you a lot.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, living on the edge, the riff.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: He was so impressed.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm curious, you've played a lot of different songs uh and original music, so a lot of covers and this.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: What's kind of the difference in like mindset when you're I'd imagine the honoring that classic is is a challenge.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: You really you want to make sure you you nail it each time.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so like through Mark, we had a residency at the Iridium once a month.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's just a legendary club in you know, Times Square that Les Paul basically built and would play every Monday night.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: And through that gig, I got to play with Denny Lane from Wings.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm playing the opening to band on the run, or like um Joey Mollin from Badfinger from you know the band that uh the Beatles signed and wrote for, uh Pearl Slick from Lennon and Bowie, and like learning all these parts note for note to step on stage with these guys and get ready to play it is uh I take it very seriously.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: I want to play it, you know, you know, put in put in the work and let it pay off.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so that is in one way, like when you're a side man, it's you prep really hard.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um and but when you when you're doing your original stuff, I put almost more pressure on myself because it's my stuff and like I wanted everything to be just right, just like I do when it's other people's music, but it's more uh personal or feels more uh I don't know, feel I feel more pressure playing my own music than being on stage with those other guys, you know?
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's weird.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, that's that's interesting.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: Because I think like other people feel that the opposite way too, where they want to make sure they they uh they don't mess it up.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: But uh you get high praise, which is very cool too to read about.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to see it.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Amy's Music Store, 5 30 on that Friday, September 25th.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: J Shepherd, part of the Stag Harper Music Festival, Sag HarperMusic.org for the full schedule.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: And uh what is your what is your website?
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: We'll link to all of this.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: I want to make sure people sure.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh J-A-Y-S-H-E-P sounds, S-O-U-N-D-S.com.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: J Shep Sounds.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's the same handle as my Instagram.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the Instagram links to the website, the website links to all the other socials, YouTube, Apple Music, where you can listen to the original stuff.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, it's all J Shep Sounds from there, Jshepsounds.com.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: And uh good chance you'll see him live somewhere on the east end here, a long island.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh hard worker for sure.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: Always hit always doing the gig.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: So we appreciate that.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you for your time, Jay.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Really nice to meet you.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: You too.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: Take care.