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Speaker 1: It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm going easy Bondon's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back everybody. We are delighted to be

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Speaker 2: joined tonight by a true Bostonian, a guy who has

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Speaker 2: been around in so many ways in our area for

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Speaker 2: so many years and has really contributed so much. A friend,

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Speaker 2: a guy who truly is a philanthropist as well as

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Speaker 2: a pretty good businessman. Ernie Back, Junior, Ernie Back, Welcome

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Speaker 2: back to Nightside.

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Speaker 3: How are you. I'm very good, Dan, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's great to have you back. This is the

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Speaker 2: twentieth year of Music Drives Us and we're celebrating that tonight.

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Speaker 2: You founded this children's nonprofit. The name says it all.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you kind of worked in the motor vehicle thing there,

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Speaker 2: music being the noun and drives being the verse. Uh

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Speaker 2: so it just has worked really well. But the numbers

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Speaker 2: are extraordinary in what you have accomplished over twenty years.

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Speaker 2: How many kids have had a chance to be exposed

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Speaker 2: not only just to listening to music, but to playing

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Speaker 2: a musical instrument in the last twenty years, in two

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Speaker 2: thousands across only thousands.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you, Dan, I would like to say that

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Speaker 3: it was my idea for the name, and I was,

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Speaker 3: I was, and it wasn't. I'll tell you right now

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Speaker 3: what it was is is oftentimes when I do something,

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Speaker 3: I have a team around me and we throw ideas around.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: I actually sit at the table and go, what do

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Speaker 3: you got? You know, go down the line. And we

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Speaker 3: were trying to think of a name, and so many

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Speaker 3: names came up. I wish I could think of the

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Speaker 3: old ones, and and and one of the one of

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Speaker 3: the I think it was a woman, one of the

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Speaker 3: twenty years ago. How to remember, she came up with

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Speaker 3: music drives us. Everybody stopped and said, wow, that's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: But that's how that's how it was. Like I said,

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Speaker 3: I'd like to say it was my idea, but it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you're an honest look, leaders attract people to

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Speaker 2: them who were creative. And that's still a tribute you have,

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Speaker 2: you have carried on the mission. And now it's twenty

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Speaker 2: years later. Let's let's just take a step back. You're

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Speaker 2: a guy, which a lot of people may not realize.

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Speaker 2: You're a pretty serious musician. You're not some guy who's

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Speaker 3: You're well, well I wouldn't say that, but I'll tell you.

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Speaker 3: I grew up in the seventies. I was born in

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Speaker 3: fifty eight, you know, in single digits, in the in

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Speaker 3: the sixties, but the seventies are really where where I

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Speaker 3: fell in love with music. Actually in late sixties, Woodstock,

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Speaker 3: what did it for me? But yeah, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: I always you would add Woodstock. Let's make that clear.

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Speaker 3: I was ten. I was ten. Believe me, if the

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Speaker 3: parents would have let me gone, I would have I

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Speaker 3: would have gone. But no, it always it always hit me.

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Speaker 3: And then as I got older, I started to see

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Speaker 3: people where music literally saved their life and you know,

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Speaker 3: and help them through difficult times, and this kind of morphed.

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Speaker 3: I didn't plan on doing this. I didn't plan on

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Speaker 3: making it to twenty years. I just wanted to do

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Speaker 3: something that I thought was needed. I saw a hole,

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Speaker 3: especially in Boston, I saw a hole, and as soon

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Speaker 3: You know. It's it's funny, Dan, people, the power of

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Speaker 3: music is so strong. Most parents believe that homework is

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Speaker 3: the fastest way to make a kid smarter, but research

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Speaker 3: shows that music really helps the brain in traditional academic work.

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Speaker 3: When the children are engaged in music, both sides of

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Speaker 3: They and the nice thing about music with kids when

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Speaker 3: hated hated, hated homork and when and it's pretty one

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Speaker 3: this timing, this patterns, this executive functions are actually formed

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Speaker 3: one of the things, I'm not a musician. I'm never

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Speaker 3: And we were told at the time that if you

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Speaker 3: and it's you know, in this the thing that you

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Speaker 3: it's really again, it's it's it's far deeper than people realize. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The only music that I was exposed to in elementary

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Speaker 5: When you were a kid. What was on the radio

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Speaker 5: for me? It was baseball games. To be really honest

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Speaker 5: with you, it was Arnie Wooboo. Ginsburg probably came along Arnie, Yeah, Ernie.

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Speaker 5: Arnie came along in the late fifties, so we would listen.

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Speaker 5: We thought it was pretty wild, that's for sure. Well,

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Speaker 5: I wanted to just one of the things the last

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Speaker 3: Acts towards towards the you know, when we started in

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Speaker 3: and I mean my bands stopped playing in all eleven

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Speaker 3: there's nothing like live music. So we then after we

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Speaker 2: That's a big that's a huge. There was a big

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Speaker 3: The America is still there's still packing places in and

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Speaker 3: We would literally play anywhere. Never made a dime, but

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Speaker 3: we had fun. But you also did some road stuff too.

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Speaker 3: If our last national tour was with Deep Purple, you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's like a guy who who played

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's yeah, yeah, that's that's what we did.

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Speaker 2: My guest is Ernie Buck and we're talking about music

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Speaker 2: Drives Us his charity, it's for children. Uh And I

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Speaker 2: back with Ernie and some more conversation as well, maybe

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray ONBZ Boston's News

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Speaker 1: Radio with.

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Speaker 2: Us is Ernie Bach Music Drives Us. It's one of

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Speaker 2: those philanthropic organizations that the title defines it. I got

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Speaker 2: a bunch of calls here, Ernie. I'd like to incorporate

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Speaker 2: Let me go to bow Down on the South Shore. Bo.

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Speaker 2: You are first tonight with Ernie Buck.

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Speaker 6: Dan.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Ernie is one hundred percent correct as far as

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Speaker 7: the music scene, I'm a sound engineer and the scene

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Speaker 7: has changed complete. I think I worked with her many

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Speaker 7: years ago. Uh in the backyard patties are the best.

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Speaker 7: But I got to tell you a story because when

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Speaker 7: finer gentleman. He was a class at one hundred. He

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Speaker 7: was a class act one hundred percent. I used to work,

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Speaker 7: but we used to call them the dinosaur acts. They

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Speaker 7: the mill Hill Club. You remember that place, sure, absolutely,

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Speaker 7: the Compass Lounge and and everything, but it's a good

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Speaker 7: you know, you cannot the amount of talent that's in

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Speaker 7: the Boston area in Massachusetts is extraordinary. And I'm somebody

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Speaker 7: who I mean, if you if you understood exactly how

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Speaker 7: many different bands I've worked with over the years. And

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Speaker 7: the thing I've found is on the South Shore as

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Speaker 7: individual musicians, they're like scientists. On the North Shore, you

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Speaker 7: get by far the best bands because they don't care

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Speaker 4: Well, good evening, gentlemen. Block. I was a high school

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And one day, Dan, one of the water pipes

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Speaker 4: Well, like I said, thank you very much for your generosity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that it's great to hear your voice, is all.

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Speaker 2: Bernie, let me keep going with some calls here. We're

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Speaker 8: I'm doing great. I got the mug by the way

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Speaker 2: Do you like the color?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's awesome. It's it's it's absolutely beautiful. I just

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Speaker 2: Rick. Rick was the winner of our our our divisional

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Speaker 8: That's right, Ernie. Oh hey, hey, let's and thank you

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Speaker 8: All right, that's what I thought. There was nothing before that,

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Speaker 3: I went to Berkeley in the seventies.

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Speaker 8: That's awesome. When Steve Smith was playing drums.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of that, Dan, I don't know if I told

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Speaker 8: Well, if you're talking Steve, I actually I think of envy.

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Speaker 3: Lead shredding it out. Yeah. I have on February to

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Speaker 3: celebrate the twentieth anniversary If Music Drives Us on Lansdown

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Speaker 3: Street at the Lansdown Pub February twenty sixth. I'm bringing

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Speaker 3: two guys in from Alice Cooper's band, Tommy Henderson and

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Speaker 8: Right, it's got the Metal Guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah Yeah, Lanstop pub February twenty sixth in Boston. It's

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Speaker 8: Well, that's a that's a good consideration. And I think

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Speaker 8: To get lessons, you had to buy no, isn't that crazy? Oh?

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Speaker 8: I think it was at Harber Lights.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't great that No, no, that was at Harbor Lights.

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Speaker 3: There were a lot of great bands there, Beatle Juice

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Speaker 8: Was I think Charlie was too. I think he was.

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Speaker 8: Beatle Juice had probably what forced singers to replace well,

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Speaker 8: Ernie and the Automatics is incredible. Of course, you can

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Speaker 8: That's right, swamp Scott, Danvers. I don't know where Barry

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Speaker 8: Swamp Scott. Okay, that was just a guess, but no, unbelievable.

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Speaker 8: I appreciate the fact that you care so much because music.

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Speaker 8: I play music myself. It's a godsend. It's where the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. The neurotic guitarist Benny Goodman, I

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Speaker 8: And I just want to say before I go America,

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Speaker 8: I can't believe you opened up for America. I've seen

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Speaker 8: concert on the hatshell. I mean that must have been.

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Speaker 8: That was unbelievable, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you, you know, because I had never

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Speaker 3: met those guys. And when you're the opening band, you're

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Speaker 3: kind of like third Banana, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: You're not really you don't get the good dressing rooms.

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Speaker 3: You don't even get the good parking spots, you know.

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Speaker 3: And I remember walking up to Dewey, the guy that

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Speaker 3: wrote all these yeah you like when he was nineteen,

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Speaker 3: he wrote all those unbelievable songs, and I like basically

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Speaker 3: ran up to him and I go, oh, doy, I go,

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Speaker 3: I go wow. When I was a kid, I loved America.

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Speaker 3: You were like the first band. I tried to play

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Speaker 3: a song for Blah blah blah, and he looked at

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Speaker 3: me and he didn't say this, but it seemed like

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Speaker 3: he said, yeah, okay, kid, and just walked away. That's

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Speaker 3: what it seemed by. I don't think that happened, but

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Speaker 3: that's what it seemed by.

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Speaker 8: And he's still alive. But Dan Peaked died but Jerry

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Speaker 8: Beckley wrote some great ones too. I just love that

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Speaker 8: being so so so you know, I'll tell.

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Speaker 3: You about it. Chuck by the way, Yeah yeah, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you mean tunes or Chuck.

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Speaker 8: No, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck Negron died.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that's terrible. From from uh three dog Night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah great, I can't think of that. But anyway to

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Speaker 3: wrap to put a button on that story. I hired

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Speaker 3: America two summers ago to play my uh super new

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Speaker 3: England Dealer party.

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Speaker 8: You did did he?

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Speaker 6: Did?

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Speaker 8: You remind him?

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Speaker 3: I never, I never do. I never do that when

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Speaker 3: I see people, you never say, I never say stuff

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Speaker 3: like that. But yeah, he was great, played all the hits.

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Speaker 3: It was fantastic.

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Speaker 8: Well they're they're They're an incredible band. Thank god they exist.

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Speaker 8: They existed because music.

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Speaker 2: I never I never knew that you were such a

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Speaker 2: wealth of knowledge here.

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Speaker 6: I was.

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Speaker 8: I was in radio. I'm a record collector. Uh and

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Speaker 8: I play music and you you you love what you love.

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Speaker 8: I was attached to w r K. It was a

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Speaker 8: kid to deal dorm and listening to the early seventy Yeah,

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Speaker 8: and I love music insanely. It's it's just it's what

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Speaker 8: I what I eat and drink. I can never stop

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Speaker 8: thinking about it or talking about it. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 8: pull out my keyboard in a few minutes and practice.

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Speaker 2: Thank you RICKI nice.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you again, Dan, Thanks Ernie for for all

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Speaker 8: you do. I really appreciate it. Uh, it's it'll keep

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Speaker 8: people out of trouble. But you say that for starters

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Speaker 8: for starting. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, talk to you soon. We got to take a break.

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Speaker 2: You only got a lot of fans out there, you

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Speaker 2: know those these are people who know this stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me tell you this music's powerful, powerful coming out.

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Speaker 2: They're coming out of the woodwork. Would be back at

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Speaker 2: night's I with Ernie back and again. Music drivers Ernie,

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Speaker 2: you know before we break here real quickly, if folks

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Speaker 2: want to support, uh.

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Speaker 3: Music drives us dot perfect, Music drives us start org.

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Speaker 3: It'll show all the funding that we've done, the funding

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Speaker 3: that's coming up, the Shredder contest. It's it. There's a

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Speaker 3: lot of stuff in there. If you ever want to volunteer,

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Speaker 3: you can volunteer. Music drives us dot org.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and of course, since it's a dot org, any

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Speaker 2: contributions are tax deductible.

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Speaker 3: We're are five oh one c three in the six

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Speaker 3: States of New England. That's great. We'll be right back

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Speaker 3: with Ernie Bark.

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Speaker 2: More phone calls and more conversation here on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 4: Ernie.

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Speaker 2: I want to get a couple more calls in here,

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Speaker 2: and I also want to talk about some of the

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Speaker 2: things that have been accomplished over the years. So we

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Speaker 2: get lots to cover in about ten minutes. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Ron and Newton. Ron, you are next with Ernie Bach.

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Speaker 6: Go right ahead, Ron, Hi, Hi, Dan. Thanks so much

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Speaker 6: for having this welcome, terrific show. As always, Thank you, Ernie.

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Speaker 6: I really applaud what you're doing. Music is such an

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Speaker 6: instrument to uh to read people around the world. I'm

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Speaker 6: a claren edis myself, but I also played different instruments

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Speaker 6: as as a child. I played as a child and

516
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Speaker 6: a teenager, I played the drums, I played the bass

517
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Speaker 6: guitar and I'm left candid, so I had to turn

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Speaker 6: the bass upside down wow, and managed to do that.

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Speaker 6: My dad was the has been a choral director of

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Speaker 6: two choruses for over sixty years, and when I was

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Speaker 6: a kid, they would He was also part of a

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Speaker 6: barbershop quartet, and oftentimes they would be rehearsing in my kitchen,

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Speaker 6: my dad's kitchen, till late at night. But they raised

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Speaker 6: money through an annual variety show to send us as

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Speaker 6: cub Scouts to camp. So yeah, it's it's a great

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Speaker 6: way of raising money and uh for greater causes.

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Speaker 4: Ron.

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Speaker 2: I've known you a long time as a caller and

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Speaker 2: as a listener to this show, and I never knew

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Speaker 2: that you played the clarinet.

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Speaker 3: I learned something new every night. That's good. You know

532
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 3: that that that feeling you get when you're when you're playing,

533
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 3: that's dopamine. And you know the big, yeah, big controversy

534
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Speaker 3: now with the kids with the phones and the phones

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Speaker 3: producing dopamine. Well, music is an alternative to that. You

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Speaker 3: get that same rush, that same buzz that the phone

537
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Speaker 3: gives you, but it's natural. It's music. It's I'm telling you,

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Speaker 3: the parents, you got to get the kids into music.

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Speaker 2: Much more, much more positive experience, that's for sure. Hey, Ron,

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Speaker 2: I gotta get a at least one more in. Then

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Speaker 2: we got to wrap the hour. Thank you, buddy, We'll

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Speaker 2: talk again, sir.

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Speaker 6: Right, Dan, Thank you, Tony, fine.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Let me go next to Steve is called back from

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Speaker 2: Fort Devin. Steve, we got you for sure this time.

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Speaker 4: Go right ahead, hey Dan, uh Uh, Paul Juice for

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Speaker 4: the earlier disconnect, Thank you for all you've done, and

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Speaker 4: I want to say.

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Speaker 8: Come on down.

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Speaker 4: So but anyways, music definitely raises vibrations, you know, it's

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Speaker 4: all on the vibes and all that. It encourages people

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Speaker 4: and it lists up the spirits and everyone no matter

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Speaker 4: what sounds there is. But I wanted to ask you

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Speaker 4: if you have a thought of branching out to UH

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Speaker 4: other I might be going on a limb here, and

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Speaker 4: I hope I'm not doing that. But in terms of

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Speaker 4: other aspects of helping out homeless veterans attaining uh homs.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm trying to start UH an organization where

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Speaker 4: homeless veterans and their families with kids only uh a

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Speaker 4: tin of home and uh particularly a two family and

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Speaker 4: they get to own it.

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Speaker 2: And yes, Steve, I'll tell you, I love the idea. Yea,

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Speaker 2: let me just jump in here for a second. Great idea.

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Speaker 2: You do have tunnel to towers that is operating now,

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Speaker 2: uh and uh and that's very helpful.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Again, I think that when what Ernie is focused on

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Speaker 2: is what I want to focus on tonight. And if

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Speaker 2: you want to drop me a line or something like that, Steve,

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Speaker 2: send me an email. Maybe I can help direct you

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Speaker 2: to some group. So are you yourself again? You're calling

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Speaker 2: from Fort Defons, but Fort Defens is no longer a

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Speaker 2: military community.

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Speaker 3: Were you in the military, Yes, I was.

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Speaker 4: I'm a veteran myself yet and I experienced holessness.

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Speaker 3: And how you do it? How are you doing now? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm doing good. I have a place of my own.

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Speaker 4: It's not a house, but I'd like to attain a house.

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Speaker 3: But see, why do we do this?

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Speaker 2: Let me, Rob will give you my direct line, give

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Speaker 2: me a call during the day, and let me see

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Speaker 2: if I can help you out here.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but I got to kind of wrap this in terms.

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Speaker 4: Of No, I understand Dan, and I appreciate you taking

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Speaker 4: my car.

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Speaker 3: I love the hustle. I love the hustle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Ernie keep on trucking.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. That's a good one. That's Steve. Stay there.

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Speaker 3: Rob will give me my direct line.

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Speaker 4: Ernie.

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Speaker 2: You know again, just some of the things I mean you,

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Speaker 2: as I understand it, you have donated ten thousand new instruments,

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Speaker 2: over over ten thousands.

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Speaker 3: Over ten thousand new instruments. Some of it, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's it's it's funny because I do talk about music

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Speaker 3: drives us and I'm very passionate about it. And some

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Speaker 3: people are, well, what have you done? Let me let

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Speaker 3: me just six you know, just as of you know,

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Speaker 3: last year, maybe a little longer than last year. In

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Speaker 3: the state of Vermont. We funded because remember we're a

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Speaker 3: five oh one seed three in the six states of

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Speaker 3: New England. Yep. We put we put music programs in

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Speaker 3: seventeen Vermont schools. We put music programs in seventeen main schools.

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Speaker 3: We we are involved in the Blue Schoolhouse at the

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Speaker 3: House of Blues in Boston. What happens is once a week,

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Speaker 3: bust in a bunch of kids, put them on the

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Speaker 3: floor of the House of Blues. We have a live

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Speaker 3: band that educates them from the early country blues of

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Speaker 3: the twenties all the way up into Rihanna. It's incredible.

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Speaker 3: It's in me. That's myself and Don las Brockton East

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Speaker 3: Middle School. We've been in taught and Performing Arts Center

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Speaker 3: of Boston Music Project. That was a great place. The

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Speaker 3: MBMC Durfy marching band. We had a car once in

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Speaker 3: This marching band was forty years old. Their uniforms were

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Speaker 3: they looked like they had been through the war. It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Quinsy Middle School, Haverl Middle School, Boys and Girls Club

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Speaker 3: of New Bedford, North End Performing Arts Center in Boston,

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Speaker 3: which is a great place. Gloucester Education Foundation in Gloucester,

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Speaker 3: Mass and Mathuin Youth Center in Mathuen. They have this

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Speaker 3: That building has to be seventy thousand square feet and

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Speaker 3: they are hell bent on helping the kids out in

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Speaker 3: that area.

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Speaker 8: I mean.

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Speaker 2: But in addition to that, you got this ultimate shred

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Speaker 2: of contest coming up which I assume people get information on.

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Speaker 3: Music drivers Dot August twenty bucks to get in, you know,

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Speaker 3: which is twenty bucks the best twenty bucks for that's

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Speaker 3: February twenty sixth on the Lansdowne Pub in Boston. And

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Speaker 3: then some upcoming stuff. We're going to be at the

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Speaker 3: Rochester Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire, Buxton Elementary School

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Speaker 3: in Buxton, Maine, Hugh Baine Middle School in Cranstonwood Island,

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Speaker 3: and we are so far up in Maine. It's School

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Speaker 3: Union number six wow. Wow.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, that the twenty six for those

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Speaker 2: who don't have a calender in front of the planning

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Speaker 2: purposes is a Thursday night and we even we haven't

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Speaker 2: even touched. I guess you're going to turn that event

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Speaker 2: into a one hour special.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna be film. I have a I have

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Speaker 3: an Emmy woman, an Emmy winning TV. An Emmy winning

642
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Speaker 3: show was on TV first season, the second season because

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Speaker 3: I hate to say the TV, they budget went by bye.

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Speaker 3: And now we're on YouTube. But we just we just

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Speaker 3: we get about a half a million views per episode

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Speaker 3: and we're launching Andy Summers from the Police this Monday,

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Speaker 3: the Monday coming up, and it's called Life and Six Strings.

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Speaker 3: We won an Emmy with it, and please check it out.

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Speaker 3: Go to YouTube. Life in six Strength.

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Speaker 2: And you're international. You're doing Project Uganda.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, where you're teaming.

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Speaker 2: You have to dig wells in Uganda and save a village.

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Speaker 2: And you have a hospital over there and a.

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Speaker 3: School, chicken farm school.

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Speaker 2: If anybody's in in was Jinga Ginger with Ginga? Okay

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Speaker 2: with Jinga you Ganda.

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Speaker 3: The Queen of Uganda opened that open that up, cut

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Speaker 3: the ribbon. Wow, Earn you're busy guy.

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Speaker 2: Uh, I appreciate.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: The hour tonight it was. It was really a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun. And we got to do it again. You know,

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Speaker 2: we'll anytime, you know, we will do another hour somewhere

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Speaker 2: down the line, just to go over some of this stuff,

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Speaker 2: because it is people need to understand there's good stuff

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Speaker 2: out there, and you have. You were the maestro of

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Speaker 2: music drives us dot org. Folks check it out music

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Speaker 2: drives us dot org. And if you could perhaps write

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Speaker 2: a check, that would be helpful as well. Always welcome

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Speaker 2: a great ernie.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I enjoyed it and thank you.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk soon.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank also Peggy Rose, his publicist, who

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Speaker 2: helped set this one up tonight. And it's different. We

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Speaker 2: try to do things different on nightside. And what I

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Speaker 2: want to do right now is we got to step

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Speaker 2: aside for the ten o'clock newscast.

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Speaker 3: We go back. We're going to talk about snow troubles

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Speaker 3: in Boston. Big storm.

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Speaker 2: I get it, but I don't know Boston was ready

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Speaker 2: for it. And we'll talk with you who will also

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Speaker 2: talk with City Councilor Ed Flynn about why Boston wasn't

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Speaker 2: better prepared for what was a big storm, but it

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Speaker 2: wasn't the biggest in history. Coming back on Nightside,