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  SPEAKER_02: It's EHM All Access for the Great South Bay Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_02: Learned all about the different performers at this year's festival, happening, of course, July 23rd through the 26th at Shorefront Park in Patchalk.
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  SPEAKER_02: It coming up on the Sunday night at the Ajambalaya stage at 6 30.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is Great South Bay Music Festival veterans miles to Dayton.
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  SPEAKER_02: And joining me from the band is Dave March.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dave, what's going on?
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  SPEAKER_02: How are you?
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: How's it going, Harry?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good to see you again.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for doing this and sitting down.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you guys, for me, you're kind of synonymous with the Great South Bay Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_02: How many years have you have you done this festival?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we maybe missed one year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe one year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we still ended up playing it anyway.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: We ended up backing up Robert Brewery.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's kind of funny.
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  SPEAKER_02: Funny how that works.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you are veterans of it.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're performing this year at the Great South Bay Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_02: For people that don't know, you guys have deep Long Island roots.
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  SPEAKER_02: How did the band originally come together?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, well, my sister, Krista, and John Pratus uh went to high school together.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and Krista always kind of had a crush on John when we were in high school.
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  SPEAKER_01: John was a musician in his own right, and we were kind of doing our own musical thing at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh years later, um John and Krista kind of reunited, and um John said, I want to write music with you, and she said, Okay, well um I come with a brother.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I uh we started writing some music together.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it was we would get together on Sunday nights and we would work on some songs together.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: And and John is kind of a machine, he writes pretty quickly, so uh he had a few songs that were uh that he had already written.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: And um I had a few songs, but Johnny can definitely turn some songs around pretty quickly.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: So we were writing some songs together and and and putting the pieces together.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of it was performed at like open mic nights.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hosted a couple of open mic nights back then, so we could try songs out at the open mic nights, and as we build up, built up more of a you know, a repertoire we started, and we were like, okay, I think we have a band.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: So we started putting the rest of the pieces in place, and then um we went and started recording demos, and eventually what would become a long way back, which was our first album.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_02: What was what kind of influenced the sound of the initial, the earlier versions of Miles of Dayton?
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  SPEAKER_02: What were you kind of looking to do initially?
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  SPEAKER_01: At that time, um, we were coming from a lot of different perspectives.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um John obviously was very classical-influenced, classically influenced.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think a lot of the music uh that he was listening to, you know, he was listening to a lot of different genres of music.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we both were listening to a lot of like uh even like indie rock music, like hemo music, even.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: I was listening to a band called The Get Up Kids, and ironically, Johnny was listening to the same band, or Jimmy Heat World.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: We were listening to some bands like that, and we were listening to jazz, and then we're, you know, John would come from a jazz perspective.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, there was a great artist uh named Gabe, they uh named Gabe Dixon, a band called the Gabe Dixon Trio, and John introduced us to them, but we were constantly kind of shuffling different styles of music to each other, if you know, and it was it's always been about musical conversation.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it's like, hey, you know, like I love this band, you should listen to this.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: And like at that time, when I mean it's it's over 20 years at this point, but at that time we were heavily into Damien Rice and Ray Lamontane.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: They were like our our like they they kind of like really kind of kick-started a bit of a style.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um when I was a kid, I was heavily into like Crosby Still, Snatch and Young.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: That was like my thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um when we got together and started playing, like the harmony structure was always something that we wanted to do.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like it always had to be based around having um like three-part to four-part harmony.
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  SPEAKER_01: And at this point, it's like five-part harmony.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're uh we're still kind of going by a few of the same threads that we had when we started.
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  SPEAKER_02: How long did it take to kind of evolve the sound or at least have you be confident in the direction you were going in as the more for the sound for the band?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that we all bring the elements.
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  SPEAKER_01: John kind of, you know, creates the the sauce and we put the spices into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, you know, John always comes to the table with the with the structure, and then we're we build off of what he what he builds.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that the different influences that we bring to the table is what makes it unique in its own style.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh it it usually starts with John a lot of the time.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so it it definitely has, you know, it it begins there, and that this the kind of stamp itself begins with John's style, and then our styles influence it more, and you know, it may not always be what's in his head, you know, like I might not play a baseline the way that he had it in his head, but it ends up he's always been very generous in being like, hey man, I I like what you did there.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't what I thought you were gonna do, but let's just go with it.
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  SPEAKER_02: How did you land on the name?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh and then where did I imagine um Miles to Dayton, where did that come from?
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  SPEAKER_02: I've heard this story, but I just want to make sure we you tell it because it's interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so on the first album, um, there's a song called Dayton on a long way back.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um uh when we were first playing coffee shops, John would come and play the open mic nights when he got home back from school.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: He was he was away at school and he was living in Chicago for a while.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know, I didn't know that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um he would ring, he probably had like two or three songs that he would play that weren't Miles to Dayton songs yet, but um one of those songs was a song called Dayton, which he wrote for his grandfather, uh Dayton Precis.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and when we were trying to come up with different names, it was it was it's always you know, it's like okay, write down a bunch of stuff on a piece of paper and whatever works.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had a Miles Davis shirt at the time that I used to wear all the time to um to gig stuff, and people are like, you should call the band Miles.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, it's gonna be too confusing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then uh we came up, and then I wanted to name the band Dayton, and John's like, I don't know, I feel like that might be a little too personal.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then uh one day I was just like writing stuff down on a piece of paper, and it ended up I I liked different bands with like like three name, yeah, you know, uh like three word names, and like uh I think at the time there were all sorts of different bands at that time.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like Jimmy World has three, you know, a three word, it's a three-word name, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we were like, oh, that's kind of a cool thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I came up with Miles to Dayton, and then um, and then John kind of came up with the idea that miles to Dayton is the miles that you travel in life until you see that person that you looked up to or respected again.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: So the miles from beginning from from life to death, uh from birth to death.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_02: Very, very nice.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh it's an interesting story.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then you guys have been together for over 20 years now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, did you imagine that when you first started?
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like, because it's it is a family band, so you you know that people, but it it's it's amazing how long the project has endured.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we have our moments.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's been a lot of life happening in between, you know, in that 20 years.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, John and Krista alone four kids.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, the landscape has changed a bit.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we love making music together still.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's always been a thing, and now even the kids are starting to become a part of what we do, you know.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like John and Krista's oldest will get up on stage with us, you know, and sing therapy off of our first album.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's so much fun.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's like, you know, they know everything word for word because they were born into it.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like whenever they get the chance to sing with us, it's it's just it's it's cool to be able to extend the family out.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: And uh Leanne, um, our violinist, and Alisa, our violinist, John's sisters also, their kids all know all of our songs by heart.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, every year we get together at Bradstock, we have them all up, and we're up, you know, we're up playing, you know, we have our own little family orchestra at this point.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: You're doing the uh the Great South Bay Music Festival on that Sunday once again, and you're kind of like we mentioned part of the the DNA of the festival over the years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, how have you seen it changed?
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  SPEAKER_02: Because you've seen it for multiple different types of stages, and how have you seen the festival grow?
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's always been so so fascinating to me.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Jim Jim does a great job.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: He's always done a great job since the beginning, but I remember when it was solely just one stage, maybe two stages, then it you know it evolved to two stages.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: It was always very remote to one specific area, and then as it built up and built up, you've got that giant main stage and then the VIP sections.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, I've seen a lot with that festival.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: I remember the first one of the first years was like Richie Havens played on the band shell, and I remember like getting to meet him, but like he they just like set up a bunch of polling tables, and you could go and walk up and talk to him.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I just remember him being such a cool guy, like shook your hand and like talk to you like he'd known you forever.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was really cool.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: It is very cool.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: How is the festival?
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um I imagine it has helped Long Island's original music scene uh for for sure over the years.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, definitely, um with you know bringing, I think that it definitely, you know, like we were talking about the sauce and the spices.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: I think that the overall the the um the festival itself, you know, you bring in these bigger names, but I think that the local acts are what really kind of you know gives you that that spice.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: You're getting the you're getting introduced to things that you may have, bands that you may know, and you know, it it adds the extra, you know, incentive to get to that show because you know those bands already.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: But I think sometimes it also, if you don't know who they are, you know, you might be you know taking a walk in between stages and something might catch your ear and you might be attracted to it.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: You learn about new music just from that alone.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I think that the local bands really provide that, and I think it's a very important thing.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it should never be overlooked.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think um I think there's so much local talent on the island that you know needs to be in the spotlight, you know.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um and you guys do a fantastic job of showcasing that, and I always appreciate that.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's just yeah, but I I think that the Great South Bay gives that opportunity to local local bands to you know to showcase, you know, you know, and then and to bring their A game, you know, all the time and to let people see that Long Island has a really fantastic music scene.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: So we're very fortunate that they that they give us a a stage to be able to do that.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well, have you uh I know you've got some new music coming up.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what's it like to debut music, new music at the festival?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: I'm curious.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's it's always very stressful because we're so comfortable doing all of our regular songs, and then it's like, all right, we're here's a new song.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, all right, guys, you ready?
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that leads me to the how do you create the set list for it?
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: Because I know you guys do, I mean, you you do shows, and I know that schedules are different for you guys over the years.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_02: So um, how many shows actually before we how many shows a year do does the band do?
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: Out of curiosity.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: We've been, I would say at this point, we're kind of we've we've kind of cut back a little bit as opposed to when we used to again.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um you know, the landscape has changed a bit, you know, like there's a lot of going on, a lot going on in our families.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um John and his sisters are teachers.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: We all have a lot going on in our lives.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know, we still like to get together and play music together and and write music together.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: So um at this point, I think we're probably playing maybe a little over a dozen shows a year.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: I think that's what makes the this festival um kind of special uh for you guys because it because it's not as you guys are busy.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: It's nice to see you uh take the time to put this together, um, for sure.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, like I said before, like we're always gonna bring our A game, so it's like we're you know, it's like, all right, what time are we on?
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: All right, we should definitely go out swinging and you know, pull out some hard-hitting songs, and then we get into the softer stuff.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: And then by midway, we're usually introducing some of the newer songs that we've been writing, um, which is always really cool.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: And that's that's a great new thing that we're starting to do again, um, and starting to introduce into uh into the mixes some of the newer songs and newer stuff that we've been recording.
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  SPEAKER_02: So how long have you been working on the new stuff for?
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a little over uh about a year and a half or so.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh last last August we went into we went to New Haven uh to record three new songs um at a really cool place called Firehouse 12, which is a converted, well, Firehouse 12 is a converted um firehouse uh that's converted into a recording studio.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um we were very fortunate to get to go and record there, and the room is uh just phenomenal and uh uh just an incredible place.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: We recorded three new songs.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um the first song, which has already been released, is called Cool Hand.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: The the next song, which is going to come out the Friday before Great South Bay, is called The Love You Take Away.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the third and final song will be Whiskey and Wine, which will probably come out a little later in the fall.
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  SPEAKER_02: Are there um what what themes are these songs kind of addressing?
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  SPEAKER_02: Because you guys have been in changes in your lives over the years.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, was there a certain thing that kind of you realized that what you were writing about this time around?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: I think that um there's always been um I think with Miles to Dayton, a lot of times the music has always been what's going on in our life at the time.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I've always noticed John's style of writing is always um based around family and experiences that are happening.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um we definitely get a little political from time to time.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um on you know, the the song that we're releasing, The Love You Take Away, is definitely got a little bit of a political twinge because it's you know, it's what we're experiencing right now.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's the times we live.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: We're seeing in in our social environment right now and and how it affects us all.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I think that John is really um got his his finger on the pulse of that and how it's affecting him, his family, you know, and our lives in general.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: So um, and hey, come on, man.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: We're musicians.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Every musician, you know, if yeah, you know, if Bob Dylan wasn't writing political songs, you know, like where would we be?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know, exactly.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_02: Uh this is fun.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: You've got three new songs.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: Is there gonna be a are you thinking about a record, or is this just to kind of get the the balls rolling, you know, the wheels moving again?
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: At the moment we're looking at releasing an EP and it's gonna be called the the Firehouse Sessions.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we started uh we're starting with these three.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: We're probably gonna head back um either in the fall or maybe just before the holidays to start recording the next batch.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: So um we just want to get new music out.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's going in and recording an album for us is always you know a process and it it takes a long time.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: So we figured let's go and try and do, you know, we'll do this piece by piece and release some new songs and get music out there.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, things, things, you know, the way the way that music is released today is so much different than it was when we started.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I remember like I mean we would take like upwards of a year, if not more, to release an album, and then you know, you you get your CDs out, and then you'd have a CD release party and hope people buy the CDs.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that was before you could stream all of this stuff, and it was readily available to you the next day, you know.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's fascinating to me how how the landscape's changed over time since we started playing music, you know, to to now.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just just this tremendous abundance of music at any time.
• 16:38
  unknown: Yeah.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: How has the Long Island music scene changed?
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: Because you've been a part of this for for decades now.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_02: How have you seen it grown or evolve?
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm curious how COVID affected that too, because it kind of shut things down for a bit and had a restart.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's really interesting because uh, from my perspective, I've been hosting open mic nights for over 20 years, and um, and I've gotten to watch bands evolve, I've gotten to watch singer-songwriters come up, you know, um, and it's always really cool.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Even now, like the scene is changing, but I feel like uh the Long Island scene has always been really great with um with welcoming in new music, and it and you know, we all kind of like work together and and create music together.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um and you know, there's such a great abundance of original music that's that's that's really starting to come around even now.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: I'm curious during your your during your open mic uh sessions, who have you who has impressed you over the years that it that are still doing it right now?
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I play with um a singer-songwriter Sarah Gross.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: She came to my open mic night when she was still in high school.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: Which is crazy to me.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: And now she's looked down in Nashville, she just released an album.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's just it's it's just always been, you know.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I I met Cassandra House at a open mic night.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't know that.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: And that was many, many years ago at this point.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: I think I've been playing with her for like 15 years.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know, it's always been different open mic nights.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: There's always been, you know, people that stand out.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you know the wheels keep turning.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_02: What what do you what do you say?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: Because I know you've been down in Nashville doing different projects with Sarah and other things.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: What is it like for someone?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um, what would you say to someone that's just kind of starting in the Long Island music scene?
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: Because it does feel like if you've got some talent, you hear everyone go down to Nashville and doing different projects.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_02: Um what what do you recommend?
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm curious.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think that it's good to start here, but I think that it's you can't stay here.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you can you can you gotta move around, you have to kind of try and get your music out there.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think that it helps sometimes to leave for a little bit and then come back.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um it it's it's it's it's great.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: There it's great to build um music in the scene that's here.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: But there are, you know, and especially with the way that music is being released today, you know.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: I uh I remember years ago we played um we played a show in Pennsylvania, and we just released our music on Pandora.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember that there was a group of people that came because they heard us on Pandora and looked us up and found out that we were playing this venue in Pennsylvania.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: And like, you know, music is is you know, we're we're able to release music in such a way now where it's getting, you know, spread over all of these different, you know, in musical environments, uh you know, and pe more people are it's getting to more people.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um and I think that uh I think that you have to bring your music to different places.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you'll play to you know maybe ten people in a room, but you know, you never know the next if how it affects those ten people, they might bring another ten people in another state somewhere, you know, and it just keeps building up.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: But I I notice more more more musicians today um from our music scene are branching out and they're taking that chance and they're going out there and they're trying to find places to play.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um we were you know heavily involved in a lot of the folk scene and a lot of different festivals, um and we would go and we would showcase our music and then we would hope to get a handful of gigs um in the in you know in the tri-state area, you know, sometimes down the east coast if we were lucky.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I see more and more people.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of original songwriters are writing songs and and just get trying to get on the road as fast as they can with the music that they're writing.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's interesting.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh with the bands and on your own stuff too.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: What what are your goals uh for for music right now?
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_02: Because there are so many, it feels like there's so many options um to release on different platforms, etc.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_02: What are you what are you looking to do as far as your own stuff, but also with the band?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: I love playing music.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I um I love our band.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: I I love our music.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um if it gets where it gets, I think we're grateful that people are listening.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's it's always about getting music out to people.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um am I looking for the you know, the big rock star life?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think so much anymore as as when I was a kid.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I just I think it's you get to a point in your life where you're making music for yourself, you're making music to be, you know, for people that love what you do.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's still, you know, it still can affect your soul when you're standing on stage and people.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Singing your songs back to you.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it's a very special feeling.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: But I love supporting the music that we create.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: I love the music that we create.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: I love the evolution that we've been through.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm grateful for it.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm grateful for the people that listen to it.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: But I also really love you know kind of trying to help bring to fruition fruition a lot of the newer artists as well.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: So when I get the opportunity to try and help out other artists and help move them forward, you know, I know I have I I have the time to to be able to, you know, um help out artists and and play with different um original artists, which which really makes me happy.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_02: Are you uh are you doing any open mics uh coming up?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_02: Is there a regular schedule that you can do?
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I um I host the People's Open Mic night at People's Pub in Bayport.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um the third, oh sorry, the second Wednesday of every month.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: And um what's the website for that?
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_02: Is it People'sPubAyport.com, I think.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: That is it.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: That'll that'll get everything and all the information you need for that.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_02: And you never know who you're gonna see performing.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and that's really great that you do it.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and you give back to the community, um, and the music community.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you for doing that.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_02: That's very cool.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_02: Tell me a little bit about all right.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_02: I got a little bit of trouble.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_02: I haven't seen this, but I did read that maybe I'm not supposed to speak about Bradstock on the air.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I and I wanted and I've always wondered, because and I'm running around with radio and stuff, you're doing different things, and all I want to do is like support musicians and and get the word out.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_02: But I did hear a rumor.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_02: I actually never saw it for myself, but I do hear a rumor that apparently I'm not it is this kind of like fight club that I learned.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know so much that it's a like fight club.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: You're not supposed to say anything about it.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_02: So you not speak about Bradstock.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's definitely a uh it's a secret society.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: All right, and I apologize.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_02: I just want to I I don't want to offend the secret society of Bradstock.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_02: I I had the best intentions, and I still will, and I'll probably still mention it when it comes down to the end of the summer.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: You can you can absolutely talk about Bradstock because if we didn't talk about Bradstock, we couldn't talk about what a great thing it is for what it does.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: And that is, you know, it helps fund um Camp Pakwatuck and Cinema Riches.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's been around.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is gonna be its 30th 33rd year, and uh it's a it's a two-day concert with and all the proceeds go to benefit Island Harvest as well as Camp Pakwatuck, which is a camp for handicapped children.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um over the last few years, we've raised um, I think last year we raised either$30,000 or$40,000 for the camp.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_02: That's amazing.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_02: And that and that actually is what drew me to want to support it because of certain um people in my life who have have special needs.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_02: And I thought that was the the coolest thing.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: And I really say thank you to that camp and everyone that raised money for it because it's it really is important.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you for doing that.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's very cool.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: I I you know uh I'm really proud to be a part of it.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, it's not something that you know it's always kind of a word of mouth type of thing.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_02: That's the thing, and I think that's part of it too.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of a grassroots thing.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_02: So I get that.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's never like you can't go, you're not allowed to go, but like it's when it's word of mouth, people are like, oh, what is that?
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: That sounds kind of cool.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: But um, that makes I'm halfway joking with the uh thing.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: But uh no, I just I was surprised a little bit by the the reaction to to talking about it, and I guess uh it's just kind of funny.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm I'm happy that it's it's raising a lot of money for a terrific cause, a couple causes, and uh I'm sure I think on a local scale people are it it's it's a little you know less hush hush.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: On a local scale, it's like yeah, okay.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like when you know big name ra magazines are like contacting the Bradstock people and are like, hey, we want to publish a whole piece on Bradstock.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, you can't.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: We're sorry.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_02: That that's uh it's a very interesting.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: I actually would love to talk to the the people that the history of Bradstock is interesting too.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um the whole the way it's uh evolved over the years.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_02: So maybe down the road uh we could do that, but maybe not too much attention.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll I would be happy to rile them up for you.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_02: That would be very cool.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_02: Dave, thank you so much for your time.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_02: I really appreciate it.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um Miles to Dayton, Sunday, 6 30, Jamali's Stage, the Great South Bay Music Festival, and new music uh streaming on all the platforms.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh there's a song out there now and more coming soon.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_02: So check it out.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_02: Search for Miles to Dayton, it'll all be up there.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_02: And uh continue to success with everything going down in Nashville and wherever you're at.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: And uh we'll see you in the future.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much, Dave.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much, Harry.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: And thanks for all the support you give local music.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: We really appreciate it.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.