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Speaker 1: Ninety three WBC. It's Kennelly Casey Show. I'm Rob Casey's

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Speaker 1: That even happen? Like, how do you because you've toured

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Speaker 2: And session work. I've got a little mobile rig. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've toured like like it's so cool. I

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Speaker 2: Right right, The band did our thing, and then it

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Speaker 2: it's fine, great to finally meet you after doing this recording,

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Speaker 2: and I thought we'd finally do a show. Sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Troy Kennet's our guest. He's the keyboard player for John Mellencamp.

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Speaker 1: Who inspired you? Because I like John?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I grew up in the so the

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Speaker 2: music of the early seventies. I think Talking Book was

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Speaker 2: my first eight track.

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Speaker 1: Did you say I want to be that guy? Or

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Speaker 1: I want to be like that guy?

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Speaker 2: Like like you know, well, now, you know, like with

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Speaker 2: Elton John on the Honky Chateau album, I played the

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Speaker 2: myself as being the artist. Yeah, but I always just

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Speaker 1: Yeah. What's a couple of minutes that we have left

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Speaker 1: here with you? These are all things I wanted to ask.

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Speaker 1: I've been at Troy for years to come in and

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Speaker 1: do this and so this is great, great for me.

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Speaker 1: What's it like home life like? Because obviously you have

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Speaker 1: your son has grown now I'm curious, you know, like

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Speaker 2: Well, I started touring when he was six seven years old,

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Speaker 2: I would pick him up. Yeah, we would do you know,

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Speaker 2: So weekends, I was there a lot. Now, there was

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Speaker 2: before I went and played shows at Beef and Board. Sure,

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Speaker 2: it's it was great, but at times a roller coaster ride.

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Speaker 1: Do you still I mean you still love doing music, right,

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Speaker 1: Like it's not a job to you still love this? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean it has its good and bad days, like

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: Sam would be swimming at a swim meet and I

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's going go Sam, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then it would cut out, and you know, it's

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Speaker 2: like everybody has to. I guess parents go through that.

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Speaker 2: They could be across town and still doing that.

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Speaker 1: So we talked to fifty thousand people a day. But

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Speaker 1: I don't see anybody like I see you. I'll see Jerry,

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Speaker 1: I see Kevin, that's it. Yeah, I don't have to

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Speaker 1: in front of that many people if somebody said, there's

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Speaker 2: Is that it's really hard to When they're people I

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Speaker 2: And I don't try too hard, but I you know,

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Speaker 2: But then if they're really close, you know, you see

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Speaker 2: some faces. But for the most part, you're pretty far

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Speaker 1: If you'd have told yourself when you were like in

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Speaker 1: gonna end up with Mellencamp, would you have ever believe that?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I thought, yeah, I always thought

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Speaker 2: It just took me a long time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's awesome, man, And you're such a good

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Speaker 1: like the future, right, because the way record contracts work

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Speaker 1: or don't work now. And you're one of those guys

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Speaker 1: these cool things locally, you're in Indiana guy, and then

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Speaker 1: you end up getting to do this really amazing thing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to say, I'm I'm pretty lucky.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Troy, thanks for being with this today. Man, I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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