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Spaulding High School's "The Tones" · Aired Out

• 1:18
  Speaker 1: All right, looks good today Central fromont a little bit cooler,
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: some unsettled weather coming in mixes sun and clouds this morning,
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: but scattered showers starting up this afternoon and this evening.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Highs generally gonna top out lower the mid sixties is
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: what I'm seeing tonight, dropping into the upper forties, lingering
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: spotty showers early on, and then some clearing overnight. So
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: the good news though, Warmer and sunnier weather returns by
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: midweek next week, with tempts climbing back into the seventies.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: I got some some badass people on the couch here
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: this morning. I am so happy to have. Yeah, all back.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Uh Leah welcome, uh, Lilah welcome. And Seamus welcome. Hello Seamus.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Uh you were you just sat down, yeah, on the
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: couch like seconds ago. You were? You were for some reason.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: We don't know why. You thought the studio was over
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: at Dunkintona's what's going on?
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: You know? It was right, it was an early morning,
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: early morning.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Woke up.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: God, I want to say, five thirty, pretty excited be
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: on the podcast.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, man, just the nerves man, Yeah, that's
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: all right, that's all right. So guys, I'm so frigging
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: this is I'm I'm stoked to have you in here.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Uh Leah, you were in here last year, so this
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: is your your second time on aired out. Yeah? Man,
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: and you you reached out to me and you were like, yep, yep,
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: you remember us the Tones. Yes, you said, we're back.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: We're doing a couple of a couple of shows and
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: we want some press. So that's awesome that you rattled
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: my cage, made sure that that I didn't forget about you.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: This is so cool. Guys. How the hell are you
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: so so lilah? I'm meeting you for the first time?
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Seame is you as well? Right?
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Where's your instruments? But you're supposed to be Oh god,
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: did you not get the memos? I? Yes I did.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: Was I supposed to bring him every single.
• 3:39
  Speaker 5: One amalgamation like the horn right here?
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah? Like one man band you know?
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Who? Seriously who plays the tambourine? Yeah?
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: Both of us? I think?
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Nice? So the Tones, you guys are a Spalding high
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: school band. Yes, modern music.
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: Popular music ensemble is what we're.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Popular popular music ensemble. Yeah, so what so what is that?
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Are you basically doing covers or are you guys writing
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: your own music?
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  Speaker 4: A lot of that. I think we we have thought
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: and talked about doing our own songs for a while,
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: but it's just a little bit different. I think that's
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: going to be a next year.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: Okay. But you've you've written original music, right.
• 4:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, not as a band together, but definitely have written
• 4:35
  Speaker 5: some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what about you, Seamus.
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  Speaker 3: I don't write my own music, I'm not. No, I
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: don't trust myself to do that.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: I got to find out about you, Seamous. You're you're
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: a junior at Spaulding. What so you play a couple
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: of different instruments.
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  Speaker 2: I am sort of.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't consider myself the primary basis, but I'm on
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  Speaker 3: the bass a lot of the time, okay, and I'm
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: decently skilled at playing guitar.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's it right there, those two.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you do play the drums on one of our songs.
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: I have, Yes, there is one song that I played drums.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 5:09
  Speaker 4: That's very humble, is he?
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  Speaker 6: Is?
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  Speaker 1: He like really awesome?
• 5:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's really really good.
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  Speaker 5: We have some we have some songs where there's some
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  Speaker 5: room for our instrumentalists to do a little bit of improvisation,
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  Speaker 5: and especially on songs where James is on the guitar,
• 5:29
  Speaker 5: it's it's it's really cool to see how the guitarists
• 5:32
  Speaker 5: in general like kind of go go crazy during their
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  Speaker 5: little section.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's your favorite guitarist?
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  Speaker 2: Clapt In?
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  Speaker 1: Really, Eric Clapton, It was just it was just your
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: dad that was bringing that to you.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad was really into a lot of the
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: classic rock stuff. Stevie ray Vaughn. Well, I don't know
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: if he's classic. Yeah, Stevie, Eric Clapton, just everybody good?
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: You know? Do I have to mention?
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: Get ready, I'm gonna be asking you guys the same question.
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  Speaker 2: Oh good, So.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: What about Peter Frampton?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry? Oh oh that's a blow, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dude, dude, Okay, I need to yell at you
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  Speaker 1: off to Okay, Okay, Peter Frampton, I'm going to give
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: you a list. Okay, you need to write this. We're
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: going to write this down. Yep, all right, that's awesome, dude.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: Do you know this? Do you know this? This little girl,
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: Ellen al Gevera, I think her last name is Ellen
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  Speaker 1: bass player. She started when she was like five and
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: now she's like.
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  Speaker 2: It's really amazing. I really don't know a lot of
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: like famous bass players. Now you mentioned it.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: She is absolutely amazing. Just put out her first album.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: I think she's like twelve or thirteen years old now,
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: and she's just like, yeah, she's exploded, massive, gone viral massive.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I just just thought of that. Let's
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: talk about what you guys have going on, and then
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get your favorite instruments too.
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are going to be performing at Currier Park
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: right here in the Granite City on June tenth. Food trucks, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: with the food trucks, and they got the farmer's market.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And for the food trucks usually.
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  Speaker 1: There's a pretty damn good crowd.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean people love. People love to get together and.
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  Speaker 4: They like the food trucks.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they and the music and the music.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's really great to be able to do that
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  Speaker 5: because I feel like we have such a good culture
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  Speaker 5: in Central Vermont of stuff like that, of get of
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  Speaker 5: like getting together, and especially with the food trucks.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's it's just such.
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  Speaker 1: A fun thing we do. And you know, I'll be
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: honest with you. You know what people really love to
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: do at the at the backside of the day. They
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: love to just sit. Yeah, they like to sit and
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: relax and maybe enjoy something, but definitely just enjoy the
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: music up there. So it's a great thing. And it
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: starts up this coming Wednesday, which I think is I
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: want to say June third, if I'm not mistaken. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be great. And Donna Thunder, who's always rocking out
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: Curier Park, she'll be there at some point. You guys
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: got to check her out. She's amazing. So June tenth,
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  Speaker 1: Curier Park, and then you've got a big thing coming
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: up just two days after that. What is what tell
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  Speaker 1: me about that? This is something that's happening.
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  Speaker 4: At spad Yeah, so that's June tenth or twelfth, sorry, Jess.
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  Speaker 4: Tenth is Curier Park. The twelfth is the Tones for
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  Speaker 4: the Cure, which is at Spalding and the admissions for
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  Speaker 4: that are donations to the Make a Wish Foundation m
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  Speaker 4: WOW and Northeast.
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  Speaker 2: New York nor New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. Yeah, and I checked them up yesterday
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  Speaker 1: in this But that's really cool. Last year you were
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: you were, you were just telling me and I had
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  Speaker 1: forgotten it was the Vermont Food Bank.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, tones for the table was the Vermont Food Bank.
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  Speaker 1: All right, why who who decided to make a Wish Foundation?
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  Speaker 5: It was a I think it was a unanimous band decision.
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  Speaker 5: We were all going through the nonprofits, especially the ones
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  Speaker 5: that that Spaulding has so like our high school has
• 9:28
  Speaker 5: support for and just like because Spalding has a big
• 9:33
  Speaker 5: emphasis on doing community service and I think it's it's
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  Speaker 5: really special that we.
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  Speaker 4: Get to to do what we love.
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  Speaker 5: While also giving back to the community. So we kind
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  Speaker 5: of made the decision as a band together to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. That's so cool. Make
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  Speaker 1: a Wish Foundation is huge. Yeah, But then when you
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: break it down right here in Vermont, this little green
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  Speaker 1: mountain state, we help yeah with that, And it's at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line is it's all about the kids, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and making their dreams come true. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: so cool. So June twelfth, Spalding High School Auditorium. Make
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  Speaker 1: a donation to get in. That's your admission, yes, and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be treated to some pretty top brass
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  Speaker 1: music entertainment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just you guys, yes.
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  Speaker 4: No, we also have Native Tongue who's going to be
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  Speaker 4: joining us again. And then we have Jericho Bodwin who's
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  Speaker 4: he's also a Spalding student, he's a junior and he's
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  Speaker 4: going to do a little solo act for us.
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  Speaker 1: So how long? How long's he going to play for?
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  Speaker 1: Do we know?
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  Speaker 4: Believe last year it was a four song act? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I think it might. It might be around the same
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  Speaker 4: because we have more songs for the tones this time, okay,
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: or I bet they're I don't know. All right, we'll see,
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: we'll see.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's at least a good hour, I'm guessing, right.
• 11:05
  Speaker 4: We got a lot, Yeah, we have, we have.
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  Speaker 5: We definitely have worked on a lot and a lot
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  Speaker 5: of different styles, different types of repertoire.
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  Speaker 4: We've put our like own little spins on some types,
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  Speaker 4: different types of things.
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  Speaker 5: We've just been doing a lot of experimentation. And the
• 11:20
  Speaker 5: instrumentalists too, have have really done some experimenting.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna shred? Dude? Are you gonna?
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try?
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Really? Has he?
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Kenny shred?
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  Speaker 4: I really, I really hope that.
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  Speaker 5: The guitarists bring out the shred for their little section.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so does the school do the students and the administration.
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  Speaker 1: It's falling. Do they turn out for this? Do they
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  Speaker 1: they show her?
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to get more people to show up. We're
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: I think, uh, there's a lot of work going on
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: with the Spaulding community in general. Like we have a
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  Speaker 4: great community. It's just hard to get people out and
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  Speaker 4: move in and like coming to see shows. So we're
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  Speaker 4: really really trying to push the word out. We're sending
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: invitations to people. We're trying to make sure that like
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: as many people known, as many people come as possible,
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: especially since it is for a really really good cost.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is. Yeah, And I gotta say this again.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you got on me about
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: this here. You shot me an email and I was like, yeah,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: remember us, we need to come back, we need we
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: need a couple of microphones. We got to push this
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: and that's great. I got to come in here from
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: someone saying that they saw you at the zen Barn.
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  Speaker 4: Yes we did do.
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  Speaker 1: We did en Barn and they say they are really
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  Speaker 1: good if you get a chance to go to one
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  Speaker 1: of their gigs.
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  Speaker 4: So to it, My god, ed Barn was so much fun.
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  Speaker 4: We opened for the Heart with Assembly.
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  Speaker 5: Then I have a lot of really good friends in
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  Speaker 5: the Hardwood Assembly Band, so it was it was really
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: really nice to be able that we were invited to
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  Speaker 5: go do that gig. So profs to the Hardwood Assembly
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  Speaker 5: Band check them out if you haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, and uh yeah, it.
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  Speaker 5: Was just a lot of fun. It was like our
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  Speaker 5: this semester, it was our first like it was like
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  Speaker 5: a real gig.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like we were a real band.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: It was really the first real gig for the Tones
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  Speaker 4: in general, Like we hadn't had anything like that, anything
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  Speaker 4: so up close and personal. Like I remember we all
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: we all were done and we were like, this is
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: this is crazy, Like you can the people are right
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: they oh, they're right there if if you're watching or
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: if you're if you're performing, like it's it's a crazy
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: like change of scenery and pace. Yeah, it's awesome.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Sure, what tell me what what you guys do for instruments?
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  Speaker 1: And and are y'all on y'all sing your vocals?
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  Speaker 4: Sabus will tell you he doesn't. He's pretty good at.
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  Speaker 1: Listening to the pipes on that guy though, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he could he could be doing some some vocals, singing
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  Speaker 1: some bass notes. If I wanted to listen to if
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: I wanted to like cool. So you guys sing though,
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  Speaker 1: all right? But who else is singing in the band?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: We have another great vocalist, his niece, Gavin Gavin Cicles.
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  Speaker 4: He's also a senior. And then we also have our
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  Speaker 4: our pianist. Were getting him to sing one of the songs,
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: Bear Trader.
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  Speaker 1: He was here last year, ye playing you guys had
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  Speaker 1: like the full ensemble. We had the keys that we had. Uh,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: what else?
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  Speaker 4: Bobby was playing guitar, Bobby was on guitar, I was singing,
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  Speaker 4: and then Andy was in the corner playing the d Yeah, we.
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  Speaker 1: Got him on camera though, we did, we did.
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  Speaker 4: We ended up swapping him and Bob at one I
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: think he dropped one of the symbols that at one point, but.
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  Speaker 1: Remember I think I do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember if it was before we went on
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: the air or during. But anyway, where how's Bobby this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Bob is mommy is employed by Spaulding High School boys
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: classes that he needs. He's work, he's working, He's making money.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: He's making money.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing about Bobby. Uh and when he was
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: here last year, he had it written all over his face.
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  Speaker 1: He's very proud of you guys. He really is.
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  Speaker 5: He really shows it, and I just he has given
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: us so much support.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Shout out Bobby Booth.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah he and it's just so apparent after we especially
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: after the few gigs that we've done does En Barn
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  Speaker 5: and then like some little things here and there that he's.
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  Speaker 4: Just he's just so proud.
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  Speaker 1: Was Bobby with yet the z Yes he was on
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: stage two he was.
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  Speaker 5: Not on stage he he he I. He really mediates
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  Speaker 5: the class really really well. But when it comes time
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: for us to go and perform, he really just lets
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: us do our thing.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, he's he's very like, no, you do you
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: do your thing? Like?
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: You know, do you guys have any recordings at all?
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: We do have some videos, but they're not out. I've
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: been thinking about posting some of our old stuff. Uh,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: maybe some videos from the Tones, maybe some VIDs from
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: the Zen Barn if I can find some good ones.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Uh, but yeah, just to what about what about audio recordings?
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, here's the audio recordings. Uh, we've we've thought
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: about doing that and we uh, I'm pretty sure we
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: have this stuff to do it it's just we we
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I know you haven't really.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you were in this.
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  Speaker 5: You were in the studio with Bobby the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to it's in the works?
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  Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, more or less? Okay, Because here's the thing.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you guys get a recording in audio recording,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: you throw it together, you know, five song EP or
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: whatever the hell, sell it, and there's there's a fundraiser
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: right there, and that can go toward anything. New instruments
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: go to the school, can go to a charity. Whatever music.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: People will buy that. People will buy that, They definitely
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: will What instruments do you play again? Yes?
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, I sing, I play tambourine, and that is it?
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Okay. Lead singer, lead singer.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Kind of we have three leads. We have three leads.
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  Speaker 5: We kind of go back and forth, and it's really
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: it's nice that we have that flexibility because like we
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: also get the chance to do some like some background stuff,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: and I think that's a really good learning opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Were you guys harmonizing together? Yeah?
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, wow, and it's it's like, yeah, it's a really
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  Speaker 5: it's really cool too because we're both in we're both
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: in chorus, so so we get to kind of experiment
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: with some of the stuff that we've learned in chorus
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  Speaker 5: and take it into contemporary music.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Leah, you're a junior. Yeah, Seamus, you're a junior.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Seamus Hogan. That's a badass name, dude.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I know. I'm grateful to my parents every single day.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Serious, Please thank them for me, because that's a freaking
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: awesome name. You worked to a Shamus Hogan. Oh yeah,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I worked with a Seamus Hogan. Uh. Bears is tuned
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: in here this morning, so he smiles, smile, Shamous, you're live.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Well what Bear's saying right now? Let's see what time
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: are they playing at both areas in June? Can that
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: be posted?
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  Speaker 5: The Courier Park show starts at five thirty I believe
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  Speaker 5: June tenth, Yes, June tenth in Caurier Park starts at
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  Speaker 5: five thirty two. Were playing for an.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Hour and a half, which is really great. Yeah, very
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: grateful for think. We have like eighteen songs. Yeah even
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: we're going to be bringing back some old ones. So
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: if you miss the tones, we're going to bring back
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: a couple these really Yeah, we have four old ones
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: that we're bringing back.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Listen. If you guys need to fill that that ninety
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: minutes just to stop down and let shame is to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: like a fifteen minute guitar.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: So head, seriously.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I'd be I'd be okay with that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: What about acoustic acoustic guitar too?
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I play a lot of acoustic guitar, not only not
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: actively in the tones on our musical endeavors, but solo
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: and for avocation wise, I do play.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: That's that's awesome. That's awesome. Uh lilah. I gotta ask
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: about you. You're a senior, that's balding. So what's your deal?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: What instruments do you play? I? Well, I'm a vocalist first,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: but I also do play the guitar acoustic.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, acoustic.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I'm not, by no means a shredder, but I do
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: play guitar, and I do some some solo gigs on
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: the guitar.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And I yeah, so guitar and vocal.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's mainly.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: Any drums, no, I wish what about bass?
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You ever pick up a bass?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I think I picked up a bass couple of times.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Do you like it?
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: I do like the bass. I would I would like
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: to play more bass.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, So tell me about you a little bit because
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you you do some some solo kicks I do, Yeah,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: tell me about this?
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I'm a theater performer first, but I do
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: do some like It's just me and my guitar. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: actually tomorrow at Higher Ground, I am playing the Sonic
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Futures Youth Showcase. Damn, I'm I'm very excited to be
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: able to play alongside the Hartward Assembly Band as well.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I'm It's just gonna be.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Me and my guitar. I'm doing two renditions of pre
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: existing songs and of one original.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So can you tell us the songs? Or is that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a surprise?
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: So, I The reason I am playing this gig was
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: because I played a solo submission in the Hardwood's Battle
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: of the Bands, which is where everyone in Central Vermont
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: and beyond can come compete for a spot to play
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: at at Higher Ground, and I played a rendition of
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: the song Georgia by Phoebee Bridgers and I was selected
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: to be able to play with them, so I will
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: be playing that song. I also am gonna play a
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: rendition a vocal improvise and guitar improvisation version of Unknown
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: by Hoser Hosier, and then I have an original on
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: that one is going to be a little bit of
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: surprise for anybody.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Who are cool original song? Yes, nice? Any any gigs
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: around here right here and.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Barry oh right, So currently I just have I kind
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: of have the tones. The tones are the gigs that
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I'm focused on right now.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But are you Are you nervous about getting up on
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: stage at the Higher Ground?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I am.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: It's it's a it's a huge concert venue and some
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: bands of people who I really like have played up
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: there and it's I'm just I'm very honored and a
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: little bit overwhelmed about it, but I'm really excited.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Have you been there before?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been to Higher Ground. I just obviously never
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: been on the stage.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You've never been on the stage, all right, so you
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: see you know a little bit of the vibe in there,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: so it's really cool.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very intimate.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, So that's when tomorrow night, that is summer night,
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: seven pm.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: How much of the tickets do you know get on
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the Higher Ground dot com?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, go on to high all.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Right, the Sonic Future Sonic Future Music Showcase, Yes, seven pm.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: It's the different smaller bands.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, got the Junkyard Goats who are the winners of
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: the Battle of the Bands. What a great great they
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: were great. They played an original, they were so great.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: My great friends and the glam Cowboys are also playing.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: And then the Harward Assembly Band got some other smaller
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: a couple of smaller acts there.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Wow once again, and we just want to repeat it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: because we've got some folks that are that are asking.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: June tenth, Curryer Park right here in the Granite City,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: five thirty. That's the Wednesday. Yeah, that's the Wednesday nights
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: farmers Market to get the food trucks there and live
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: music and that whole concert series in the park at
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Curier Park starts on this coming Wednesday. But the tenth,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you guys are going to be yes ripping it. It's
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: going to be great. And then June twelfth, what day
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: of the week is that? Friday, June twelfth, You're doing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: a show at Spaulding High School. Tones for the Cure,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Tones for the Cure. If folks have seen it on
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: social media, please don't just see it and look at it,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: share it, click, share it and like it, drop a comment,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: give it, give it a reaction, and share it to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: your own social media because not only are folks coming
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: by to support you. Guys.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: It's for a really good for Make a Wish, Make.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: A Wish Foundation right here in Vermont. And Native Tongue
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: is going to be up there.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Oh yes, And.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: If you're lucky, Native Tongue might get up with us.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And do a little That would be so great. So
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: sticker up.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Bob Nelson up there, Bob the guy kN sing. Oh yeah,
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: he's great.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Native Tongue is great, and they're just so they're such
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: great people too.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Wilay, I have to ask you, uh, what do
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you want to do after senior year? Here? You're you're
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a senior right now, it's Spaulding you. What are you
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: going to do next year? What are you going to do?
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: We're going to college for musical theater and performing arts.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Damn.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: I'm really I'm really excited to be able to go
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: get out there and start performing as as my job,
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: and I am very thankful to be able to do it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: This summer with Lost Nation Theater. I'm in their production
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: of Into the Woods and that's the shout out Last
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Nation Theater. I'm really excited about it, and I'm also
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: really excited to just see where the tones go and
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: what they're all. I know that there's a lot of
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: juniors in the Tones.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Thanks youre's going to be an emotion.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's a lot of juniors in the Tones.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I'm really excited to see where. I really hope that
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: no matter where all of you guys go, that you'll
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: still stay in touch and also keep performing because everyone
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: in the Tones is just so talented, and I like, yeah,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: no matter what you're majoring in and what trade you're
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: going into.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: That you still keep making music. It doesn't end after.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I'm listening to you and I'm visualizing all of you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: guys in your sixties rocking out, rocking out together.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Oh totally.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Do you remember when we were in the Tones back.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Back in the collad that's in the.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Day the would be that's school. So what about you, Seamus?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's that million dollar question. Yeah, what
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do with your life?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: That's loaded? Yeah?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: So and will it beat music?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: It's likely not going to be music as a career.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think I would be made out for that.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: And also I got recently accepted into the Career Center
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: that's a joined the Spalding for EMS so I'm likely
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: going to go into the MS field primarily out of
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: high school, and then join up on a career fire
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: department and then go through the fire academy.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Good for you.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: That's just exciting. It's so cool. It's the type of
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: work that excites me.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I was just I was just chatting with the chief
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: up at Berlin and he was like, you know, uh, Spaulding.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: By the way, they've got their their Big Trades show
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: tonight at school. I think it starts at five thirty
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: or something, but they have their Big Trades fair. But
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he was saying, Joe stop that that the career center
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: used to have the uh fire science program there and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and all that, and that it's heavy now e MS,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: but they need more firefighters badly. All everyone does all
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: towns around here in central from hot So that's really
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: really cool that you're doing that. Man, that's awesome. Uh Leah,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you're a junior. Okay, what's the deal now, what's happening
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: next year? Obviously you're going to be rocking out the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: tone driving the bus.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: On this bus. I I have no idea. I'm saying
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: it's balding. I thought about doing early college, but I
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: just I want to stay. I want to keep doing
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: the tones at school like I want to I want
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: to keep taking classes.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: I have no idea where I want to go, what
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I want to do. I've been looking at music a lot,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: and I've been looking at psychology and education. Those are
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: like my main three pathways. But I honestly, I am terrified.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I have no idea what I wanted to do.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Fair Enough, Yeah, I was a I was a I
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: remember well very well being a junior in high school
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and having absolutely no clue.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's it's it's stressful, and I think I
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: noticed that with a lot of a lot of different students.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: It's like, it's kind of crazy, how like in four
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: years of high school you're expected to figure out what
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: you want to do for the rest of your life
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: and then go to college and study that and then
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: you know college is expensive, or go to a training
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: program or just figure it out. You're expected to figure
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: it out. It's a lot.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I know my two twin nephews, I'm so proud of them.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: They both just graduated from college in the last couple
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of weeks, and they're just diving in head first. Man
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: they're just going right from one hot pan to the next.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And you know, my advice is to you guys are young,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you know, just enjoy life, enjoy the experiences that come
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: your way, and don't feel like you need to get
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: on some road driving one hundred miles an hour. You know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: just take your time and just enjoy the experience of life. Yeah,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that's all. And don't be you know when I say
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: on that road going one hundred miles an hour, like
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Seamus was coming here, don't don't.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Tell Barry's city.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I won't, but you just did. He was just at
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the Duncan dunk road, you know. Just but but just
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to enjoy enjoy your time here on earth, man, you know,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: it's like, just enjoy it. Get out there, grab gigs, leah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe you'll end up filling Bobby's shoes, you know, is.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: It is it a little I don't know about that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Listen, Bobby's getting up there, he's getting he's got some
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: gray hairs coming.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, just saying, Bobby, we're not involved. This is not
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: We're not saying it.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I said that, So you know, be mad at JD.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: But maybe, you know, maybe you'll be doing that. Maybe
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that'll be the path that you'll be on in being
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a music teacher.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I know, I really really want to stick with it,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: and I think the Tones in general has it's It's
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: given me a lot. I don't know what to say.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: It's given me a lot of It's changed things for me.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: It's changed how I look at different things. It's changed
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: my confidence. Like last time, I would not have been
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: talking this much. I wouldn't have been talking this much,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: like at all. Yeah, it's changed my confidence as a performer,
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: as a singer, as an artist, and it's changed my
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: viewpoint on Like my freshman year, I was determined, like
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I want to go to art school. I want to
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: go for I want to be an art director, or
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: I want to be uh do something in film, like
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I want to animate or something. And being a part
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: of the Tones and doing a lot of different opportunities
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: at Spaulding, including like their chorus and the chorus festivals. Like,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: it's really changed how I view it and how it's
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: It's changed how I think about music in my life.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: It's changed how I realize, Like I realized that music
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: has such a bigger impact on my life than I
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: ever thought it did, and that's the big thing with
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: me for like moving on to college, Like, I like
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: music is super important to me, and I want to
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: continue with it, especially stuff like the tones, Like I've
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: realized this kind of contemporary music, I guess is what
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: you would say is like, it's it's where I shine
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: the most vocally, Like I've done theater, I've done chorus stuff.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: This is where I feel like I can really a
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: number one push my limits, Like I don't get to
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: sing like this much. So it's it's great and I
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: just want to keep going with it. I love it.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: It's Isn't it funny how a lot of musicians are
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: kind of intrinsically shy people. It's just part of their character.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: But you get an instrument in their hands or a microphone.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: And they're a different person.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're a different person on the stage. Are you?
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Are you kind of like that?
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: Really a lot of what about Yeah, I would say so, really, Seamus,
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: judging by the fact I've probably said less than twenty words,
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: I've got.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Here, you put a base in his Oh yeah.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Really for a base right now? Yeah?
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: No, are you like that too? Are you kind of
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a shy guy? But are you you butterflies. You get
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the jitters when you're on stage.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's ever going to go away. No,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: it never does for any performer.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I I I pursue theater outside of Shakespeare.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Shakespeare.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: He does Shakespeare.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, Shakespeare.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Good for you than you can. I hear some Shakespeare
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: right now. Let me think.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: You got it.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: We minded to come back. I'll be thinking about it though.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: All right, that's that's really cool. It's it's amazing, you know.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: And here's the thing. And I just had this conversation
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: with some friends that I love to sing, but I'll
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: tell you right now. And the other day I sang
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: here on the air in the morning. It was just
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: having fun Backstreet boys. I want it that way.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And here's the thing. I love to sing love, but
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: people don't.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Love it when I sing like somebody, yeah don't.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it right there. I mean, it's I some
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: of the what I'm saying. My point is is that
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: some of us love to do certain things, but we
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing it in public.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I think you should do it anyways.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I like that, you know some of us are we
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: love to do things that were just really not good
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: at you know, but I don't know, you know, but
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: you guys are obviously good at what you do and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: you enjoy it and it makes you happy. You know,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: It's true, Leah. I mean listen as the front person
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: when you when you get a mic and you've got
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: to carry the vocals and hold that band together. What
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: happens if you guys screw up during a song?
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Keep going?
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: We have we can go, Like Tones for the Table,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I think I think it was our first time performing
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: like by ourselves and doing like a whole set list
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: like Battle of the Bands. We just got on. We
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: did the one song We're done right, Tones for the Table.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I think we kind of got ramped up and a
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: lot of it like upped the tempo, Like one of
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: our songs was super super fast.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, then what we normally do.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: And sometimes that happens in rehearsal too, like they'll get
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: they'll get fast because we're amped up and we're ready
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: to go. Sure, and you know, that's that's one thing
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: that we have to work on. But we're it's it's
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: it's so much better this year.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: What do you what are you going to do during
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the summer? I mean, what are you gonna do? I mean,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: technically you're not in school to It's a really good question.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, what the heck what are.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: We going to do? Are you guys gonna play together?
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I mean you're all in touch with each with each other. Yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: you all know each other's phone numbers and whatnot. Grab
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: it gig somewhere, really, grab gig.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: I mean we're all yeah, we're all in touch.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: And at the time, if it yeah, if it allows it,
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: I'm sure everyone would love to get together to do gig.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe down with the Ladder one.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, they always have They always have there always. I
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: mean Bear has been down there playing piano.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Has he solo for Uh?
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: There was some sort of party that he played for
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: you that was held there.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Wow. Uh you guys once again. June tenth, Curry Park,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the Tones. You're looking at three of how many band
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  Speaker 1: members here? We could count them off. Horns.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we do have a horn section.
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  Speaker 2: We have an incredibly talented, incredibly to the.
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  Speaker 4: Point where they're like swapping horns in one of our songs,
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  Speaker 4: like they're they're like our saxophone player playing trump trumpet
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  Speaker 4: for one our trumpet player playing traumba.
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  Speaker 3: It's like musical chairs when they do it too stage
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  Speaker 3: and off, like trombone crazy.
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  Speaker 4: They're all wicked, wicked talented, every single one of that.
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  Speaker 5: I think it adds an interesting texture to aller songs
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 3: Does it's really it's a really great tambore and it
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  Speaker 3: adds really unique.
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  Speaker 2: To our music. Like I feel like that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: an edge.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes us a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: She got So what we have? You said, sacks, trumpet, trombone.
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  Speaker 6: Tumones really.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, any what else? Drums, space, drum.
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  Speaker 5: Space, two guitars at one time on any song we.
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  Speaker 2: Had tambourine, bongos.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, there are some songs that utilized bongos, shakers, cow
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  Speaker 5: bell shakers.
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  Speaker 2: Cow bell more, cow bell more cow bell.
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  Speaker 1: I was just gonna say more. You did almost got
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  Speaker 1: it out, but always need more keyboard and board, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: of course keys, uh.
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  Speaker 4: And then vocals. Who's on concress typically, I think Andy
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  Speaker 4: is the most in your pie. Yeah, honestly, we we
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  Speaker 4: kind of we kind of just have fun with it,
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  Speaker 4: like like uh, I mean last semester, I wasn't even
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  Speaker 4: touching any form of percussion, and now I'm playing tambourine
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  Speaker 4: for a couple songs and shaker for a couple of songs. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: and like, I think the entire group is really just like, uh,
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  Speaker 4: being a lot more experimental, and I think that's really
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  Speaker 4: really fun. Like the horn sections switching around. One of
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  Speaker 4: our horn players, our trumpet player, Jason also plays keys
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  Speaker 4: for one of the songs. Seamus is playing drums on
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  Speaker 4: one of the songs. One of our other guitarists is
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  Speaker 4: playing drums on one of the songs, like it's it's
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  Speaker 4: it's awesome that we get to be that experimental and
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  Speaker 4: have that much fun with it and we get to
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  Speaker 4: learn new things. And Pie is playing upright bass for
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  Speaker 4: one of the songs too, like acoustic bass. It's really cool. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if we're gonna use that in a
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  Speaker 4: per perfemanths, just because it's a a little a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I think it'd be really fun if we figure if
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  Speaker 4: we could figure out how to do it for the twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like oh I feel like twelve.
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  Speaker 4: I think Wow, maybe not career part, No, that would
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  Speaker 4: be a little.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think your your horn section is going to
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  Speaker 1: go back and watch this episode? Maybe maybe if they
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: do I want to get a message to them right
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: now that and they probably already know this, but Tower
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: of Power is where it's at, and they probably already
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  Speaker 1: know that. But if they don't, I hope they google
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: it and check out Tower of Power because that's where
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  Speaker 1: it is. And of course, you know there's other great
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: bands from the seventies and stuff that that rock out.
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  Speaker 1: But man, you know you guys are doing you're doing
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  Speaker 1: a great great job of connecting community, bringing music to
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  Speaker 1: the forefront. Yeah, it's super important, and and also tying
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  Speaker 1: in a really important charity. It's it's it's a kind
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: of the trifecta. Hear, you're hitting it. Now, where's Bobby
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  Speaker 1: going to be on June twelfth?
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  Speaker 4: June twelfth, He's probably going to be introducing us and
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  Speaker 4: helping us out with that. But Bob, most of the time,
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  Speaker 4: he he he instructs us, instructs us and like, what's
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: the word like guides us, guides us. Bobby is like
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  Speaker 4: a guiding the conductor. Yes, like he does in band.
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  Speaker 4: He's kind of the way he does it. He kinda
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  Speaker 4: is like, Okay, we're gonna play this, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: learn it, and there you go and then we we
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  Speaker 4: learn it. We learn it on our own time, and
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  Speaker 4: then we come back and and we play and then
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  Speaker 4: and he helps us fix out little parts and helps us. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to perfect it.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not like he's rolling us the whole way.
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  Speaker 3: It's like he pushes us and then we yeah, continue
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  Speaker 3: to moment.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, without Bob, I think it would be a lot
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  Speaker 4: more chaotic.
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  Speaker 5: Holds it together and it is. It is a class,
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  Speaker 5: like we meet for a whole block of the day,
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  Speaker 5: all this and that is like he's teaching us, and
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  Speaker 5: I think that we're all getting better.
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  Speaker 1: But Bobby, where is he? I mean on June twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: is he going to be sitting in the in the stands.
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to be in a seat? Is he
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  Speaker 1: going to be backstage running microphones? Or is he going
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  Speaker 1: to get on stage?
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  Speaker 4: I think he's going to be running uh tech up
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  Speaker 4: in the boothroom and then.
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  Speaker 1: But but no instrument on stage.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, he lets us do our thing. Every once
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  Speaker 4: in a while he pulls up drombone or he's like me, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: let me play. I want to. I like this one.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, guys, this is really really cool. Leah. I'm so
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  Speaker 1: glad again that you reached out to me and said
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  Speaker 1: we need more exposure on this. This is great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be uh continuing to share what it
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: is that you guys are up to, and I know
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  Speaker 1: you'll you'll stay in touch with me if there's anything
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  Speaker 1: I need to if I need to push or push more,
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  Speaker 1: you'll let me know and we'll get it all over
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  Speaker 1: the aired out page here. You guys are doing a
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: great job, man, and I thank you and I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: of you guys and Lilah kick some ass tomorrow night
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: and higher ground. God, that is so freaking cool. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited you're bringing some friends with you for that kick.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's just going to be me on stage, but
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  Speaker 5: I do have some great friends in the audience that
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  Speaker 5: are going to be cheering up.
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  Speaker 1: So great. That's so great, Uh, Seamus, we need more
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  Speaker 1: vocal from you and cow bell.
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  Speaker 3: I'll think about it. I'll think about it. The cow bell.
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  Speaker 3: I can do the cow bell.
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  Speaker 2: I can.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the pipes, bro.
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  Speaker 4: You Just every once in a while when one of
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  Speaker 4: us isn't there, he'll start saying, and we're.
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  Speaker 1: Like you, that's just for.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for coming in here. Thank you,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: appreciate you so much. All right over now, that.
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  Speaker 6: Thin steep step step.
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  Speaker 8: Back the bad paved the Statuta to stay, stopt and
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  Speaker 8: stay the state