1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:01,400 Speaker 1: Music Saved Me. 2 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 2: Pizzier, one of my heroes. I had a change to 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: medium that we're passing by. Someone introduced me. He shook 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 2: my hand. He did not spare a second for small 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 2: talk or pleasantries. 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: He took my hand in the first thing he said. 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 2: He said, look here, this is a folk conference and 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: you're one of the few people that are here that 9 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: are belowd the age of sixty. This music is suffering 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 2: right now. Use your voice in your lifetime to keep 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 2: this music and this message a lot. 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 3: I'm Lyn Hoffman, and welcome to the Music Save Me Podcast, 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 3: the show where we explore the power of music to heal, 14 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 3: to help others, and to create good. Now, if you 15 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 3: love this podcast, please share it with your friends and family, 16 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 3: and please follow and subscribe so you never miss an episode, 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 3: and thank you in advance. Today we have an amazing 18 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 3: artist who lives and breeds the qualities that we love 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 3: here on the Music Save Me Podcast. Adam As is 20 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 3: an underground Americana songwriter who leads Adam as a group 21 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 3: and he takes This is the Coolest Thing a month 22 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 3: out of each year to visit the living room of 23 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 3: his fans around the country. Literally, his band and nonprofit 24 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 3: organization Rally Sound hosts a free festival every summer, raised 25 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 3: almost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for homeless vets 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 3: just last year. Adam Ezra, Welcome to music saved me. 27 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Lenn, Thank you so much for wanting 28 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: to chat with me today. 29 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 3: I'm so excited. First, I don't even know where to start, 30 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 3: So let's start here. When you started your career a 31 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 3: few decades ago, can you tell us about the journey 32 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 3: when you started in how you discovered then how important 33 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: music is in creating good in the world. 34 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 2: Now I would be I would be happy to I have, 35 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: by no means, had a fairy tale journey. When I 36 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 2: started music, I was in I was in Boston and 37 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: just I was writing songs all the time, trying to 38 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 2: figure out how to perform them in front of people, 39 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: wanting to be a part of the band, wanting to 40 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: be a part of something bigger than myself. And I 41 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 2: came up against the challenge that so many starting artists 42 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 2: have that don't have a leg up in the music 43 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 2: world right, that don't have money or connections of resources. 44 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: I needed to get hired to play in the good 45 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: music clubs in order to get fans. But the good 46 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: music clubs won't going to hire me until I had fans. Right, 47 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: It's like this catch twenty two that all starting artists, 48 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 2: or many starting artists, most starting artists face. And you know, 49 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 2: I ended up going to kind of the least successful, nastiest, darkest, 50 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 2: dankest bars that I could find in Boston now and 51 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: ask the owners if I could set up in the corner. 52 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: For many years, we were not getting hired to play concerts. 53 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 2: We were hired to keep people drinking in a close time, 54 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: play five hours and nine every night that we could 55 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,119 Speaker 2: in any bar that was wanting to hire us anywhere 56 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 2: in the Northeast. And at one by one, people in 57 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 2: those bars kind of turned away from the socks game 58 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 2: plan over the bar and decided to pay attention to 59 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 2: music and decided that they liked it, decided that they 60 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 2: wanted to listen, and shared it with their friends and 61 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 2: people that they cared about. And that's how our music 62 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 2: community has grown very very slowly over the years. Now 63 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: we get to play in such cool, inspiring venues and festivals, 64 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: and we get the tour around the country. 65 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: It is and I. 66 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 2: Think because it took so long, and because it was 67 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 2: not a fairy tale. It is something that I am 68 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: always amazed by and appreciate so deeply. 69 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 3: Have you personally discovered the healing forces of music in 70 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: your life during this time? 71 00:03:54,520 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 2: Oh man, Man, I think that music and art, any 72 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 2: kind of expression of art in general, right, I find 73 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 2: it ironic and inspiring all the time. That is not 74 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: when an artist really digs deep, digs out something unique 75 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 2: in them. It speaks to a human experience that is universal, 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 2: and when great art is happening, it connects us. It 77 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: reminds us that there's more about us that is saying 78 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: than is different, and that that I have always felt 79 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: so strongly through music and adds a huge reason that 80 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 2: I write songs and a huge reason that I'm out 81 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 2: there for man music. 82 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 3: And I said something earlier about you being an underground 83 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 3: americanis singer songwriter. Yeah, it's amazing to the power of that, 84 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 3: that underground movement. 85 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: It is coupled with your hard. 86 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 3: Work, many years of hard work. I wonder who are 87 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 3: some of the musicians that have lifted you up during 88 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: perhaps challenging times in your life. You're pretty open about 89 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 3: those challenges. 90 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there have been so many interactions and 91 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 2: moments and songs that have helped inspire me along the way. 92 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: But I will tell you I'll give you because there 93 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 2: are too many stories or examples racing through my head. 94 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: I'll give you one that happened when I. 95 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 2: Was in my twenty eights hours trying out, banging my 96 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: head against the wall, trying to figure out how to 97 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 2: play music. And during that time I ended up at 98 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 2: a music conference, very grassroots, in a camp somewhere in 99 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,799 Speaker 2: the Northeast I can't even remember, and it was mostly 100 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 2: folk musician and Pete Seer, one of my heroes, not 101 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 2: only for his songwriting, not only because I grew up 102 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: listening to his music, but also because of his mission 103 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 2: through music to shape the world around him and inspire others. 104 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 2: I had to change the medium that weekend. It was 105 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 2: we were passing by. Someone introduced me to and he 106 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 2: shook my hand. He did not spare a second for 107 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: small talk or pleasantries. He took my hand in the 108 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 2: first thing he said, he said, look around, right, this 109 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 2: is a folk conference, and you're one of the few 110 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 2: people that are here that are below the age of sixty. 111 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: This music is suffering, right, now and use your voice 112 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 2: in your lifetime to keep this keep this music and 113 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 2: this message a lot. You know, the power of hearing 114 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 2: those words spoken from a hero of mine and just 115 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 2: the briefest of interactions. I think back about those those 116 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 2: words in that moment often in my life. 117 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 3: I bet that was would you say that was a 118 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 3: crossroads for you where you just sort of got put 119 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 3: on that right path. 120 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: It was certainly one. 121 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: It was certainly one of many crossroads, but it was 122 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: more spark that continue to fan the flame of of 123 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 2: what I was feeling inside. 124 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 3: You didn't mean to get out letting you know you 125 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 3: were you were on the right path. Sure, that's pretty exciting. 126 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 3: I mean that I can't even imagine. I've had those 127 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 3: moments in my life, and you know, it's hard to 128 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 3: pinpoint one, but that's that's a pretty big one. 129 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: That was a good one for me. 130 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 3: Something else that's really big is rally Sound, which I 131 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 3: understand it was. It was created based on the premise 132 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: of just helping others. Can you explain this is your 133 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 3: nonprofit organization, what rally sound is, what it does, How 134 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 3: it came about. 135 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it came about way back in the 136 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 2: day where I was playing the bars on Sundays as 137 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 2: Boston Gal. You appreciate a place called the Pine Street 138 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,239 Speaker 2: in almost Shelter in Boston. 139 00:07:59,520 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: Sunday more. 140 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 2: I would go down and kind of play for the 141 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: folks down there when I could. People would come up 142 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 2: to me at shows and they would say, you know, hey, 143 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 2: I'm doing this event at this bar down the road. 144 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 2: I'm trying to raise money for the American Drub Association. Hey, 145 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 2: we're doing this event in our backyard. We're trying to 146 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 2: raise some money for handicap accessible ramp for our neighbors, 147 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 2: right like me, And I would always say yes because 148 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 2: doing good feels good, but also because I was just excited. 149 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: People wanted me to play music right. 150 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 2: But I would find I would find early on that 151 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 2: when a concert was about more than just a concert, 152 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 2: the music sounded better, the experience connected a little bit deeper, 153 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 2: and those shows inspired. Of course, the more I ended 154 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: up doing, the more people would ask me. It became 155 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 2: a part of my mission as an artist. Eventually, as 156 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 2: we began to grow a little bit, put together aboard 157 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 2: and started this nonprofit organization called rally Sound, and rally 158 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: Sound's mission is to empower community through music. Most of 159 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,599 Speaker 2: what rally Sound does help people that are trying to 160 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 2: put together events oftentimes and they want music, but they 161 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 2: don't really know how to do that right. It's as 162 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 2: you can appreciate, right, complicated thing. 163 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: To set up. 164 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 2: An event that has music to it, you have to 165 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: think about sound. You have to think about the band 166 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 2: and how you're going to get them in, and how 167 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 2: the day is going to work, and how you're going 168 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 2: to figure everything and anyways. It can be common and 169 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 2: we wanted to empower people to be able to do 170 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: those things. Over the years, rally Sound has taken on 171 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 2: a life of its own. The community within rally Sound 172 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 2: has really mobilized in an incredible, incredible way, and most 173 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 2: of our atam Mesure Group shows very often will see 174 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: an element of rally Sound at them. Now, there will 175 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 2: be folks fans in the area, you know, ninety percent 176 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 2: of the time will will will reach out and they 177 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 2: will they will do some kind of awareness campaign or 178 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 2: a fundraiser, or they'll have people bring non perishable items 179 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 2: for local food pantry. But those things are happening. Once 180 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 2: a year, rally Sound puts on our own festival, which 181 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 2: you also mentioned in your introduction called the Ramble. It's 182 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 2: our one, it's our one big event that it's awesome. 183 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: It is. 184 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 3: It's awesome. 185 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: It is awesome. 186 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 2: It is and for those of you listening, uh, it 187 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 2: is a festival unlike any cestival I've ever experienced one. 188 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 2: Anyone can come to the Ramble. They can comfort for me, 189 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 2: they can donate what they can. All of the musicians 190 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 2: that come to the Ramble donate their time and their talent. 191 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 2: It is run entirely by an army of volunteers to 192 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 2: regular folks. I give me coming together. Not one of 193 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 2: us actually knows how to run a festival, but somehow. 194 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 2: I mean, this year we had two hundred volunteers working 195 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 2: all summer to put this festival together. It was unbelievable 196 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: and it's the most inspiring day we have. The Rainbell 197 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 2: has a mission which is to put an end of 198 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 2: veteran homelessness. And we actually this is an exciting week 199 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 2: talking to you in because we just found out our 200 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 2: results from this year's Ramble, which happened just a couple 201 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 2: of weeks ago, and we are going to be presenting 202 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 2: a check to the New England Center and Home for 203 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 2: Veterans for one hundred and fifty one thousand dollars, which 204 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 2: is more than I could ever I ever imagined we'd 205 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: be able to raise together. 206 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 3: So congratulations, that's huge, it is It is really exciting. 207 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: It's a good week for me to be talking about 208 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: the power community and music. 209 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 3: For sure, certainly, and the power of music is so strong. 210 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 3: I would I'm just curious. I don't know, a little 211 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 3: more of a personal note, I did hear some interviews 212 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 3: with you recently that you discussed how you started during 213 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 3: COVID talking to person you know, to people online and 214 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 3: then you know, promising you'd be back if they came back, 215 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 3: and how that just sort of grew when you when 216 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 3: you play music, or when you play music and talk 217 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 3: to people, which is probably all a part of your shows. 218 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 3: How does it feel when you connect with your fans 219 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 3: and you see them taking you know, inspired by your 220 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 3: music to take action in their own lives. So how 221 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 3: does that make you feel? 222 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: Hm, Well, that. 223 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 2: There's two things that your there's two things that you're 224 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 2: there your needs. You can touch upon that question, both 225 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 2: of which I think about a lot. Right. One is 226 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 2: the connection itself, making that connection, and there are men, 227 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 2: there are artists that are out there that are incredible, 228 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 2: beautiful singers, incredible beautiful players, like so beyond right. When 229 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: I go to see them, I feel like I'm getting 230 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 2: to experience that they are embodying human potential, right. And 231 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 2: for me as an artist, I mean, it's just it 232 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 2: ain't my art form. It's a different art form. And 233 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 2: that's the coolest thing about music. Within this big category 234 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: of music, there are so many different ways to express 235 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 2: and share art, and so for me, the musical experience 236 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 2: is about that connection. 237 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: It's about That's what a show is for. 238 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 2: It's about trying to connect with folks and trying to 239 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 2: connect folks with each other. I am so so fortunate 240 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 2: in because of my because my journey has been so 241 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: grassroots and undergrad, because it has been so one, one 242 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 2: person at a time, and so very personal for me 243 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 2: and for the folks that have connected to us over time. 244 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 2: The feeling of connection at our shows these days is 245 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 2: just one of the most inspiring things I get to experience, 246 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 2: apart from being a daddy to two little girls. It 247 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 2: is the most inspiring thing that I get to experience 248 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 2: these days. And the fact that rally sound and community 249 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: activism and empowerment is so closely meant to our mission 250 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 2: as a band. 251 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: Getting to watch that. 252 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: Community engage and mobilize and impact each other in different ways. 253 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: It's, uh, it is. 254 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 2: Just so so rewarding for me, you know, I get. 255 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 2: I It's it's like I got to be a little 256 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 2: a little, a little firestarter. I got to be a 257 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 2: little spark, that is it. And when I get to 258 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 2: play shows get I get to fan those slams a 259 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 2: little bit more every single night. And that's often kind 260 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 2: of how it feels to me to be a musician. 261 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 3: What do you think it is about music specifically, Because 262 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 3: you said music has a it's a big tent, all 263 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 3: different kinds of talents, levels, messages, songs. 264 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: What do you think it is. 265 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 3: Specifically about music that heals people or helps people? 266 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 2: You know, I think the way that I think words 267 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 2: are limited. I think the way that we communicate through 268 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: words it's limited. I often struggle to find them write 269 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 2: words to really say what's inside of me right. Music 270 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 2: adds a whole other dimension down vibrates a person and 271 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 2: can speak to emotions that oftentimes I don't let myself 272 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 2: feel on a day and day baby, or I am 273 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 2: not even aware of on a. 274 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: Day to day basis. 275 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 2: Sometimes when I listen to a singer singing about something 276 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 2: that's really really real, right, if they had just said 277 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 2: those words, it wouldn't hit me as deeply as music does. 278 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 2: And ultimately, I think when we are together and we 279 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 2: are listening to music, if it's if it's good music, 280 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 2: if it's art that's made honestly, no matter what genre 281 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 2: it is, we all get to experience that thing that 282 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,359 Speaker 2: is universal and all of us, and that's that's that's inspiring. 283 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 3: Sure is well, Adam Ezra from Adam Ezra Group, you 284 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 3: are inspiring clearly inspiring a lot of people, not just 285 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 3: myself and my listeners, but but I just I'm so 286 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 3: happy to be the one to hear the news today 287 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 3: about the money you've been able to raise. Me's pretty cool, veterans, 288 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 3: that's so exciting, and there's there's nothing better than doing 289 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 3: and what you love and you found a way to 290 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 3: make a living at it. But it's true giving back. 291 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 3: So it's like you get stuff from the people who listen, 292 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 3: you give back, and you're able to find a way 293 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 3: to get volunteers to do all of this incredible work 294 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 3: without sort of the traditional trappings of a music career, 295 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 3: and I think that's probably dare I say a wish 296 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 3: of a lot of artists who didn't follow that path. 297 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 3: But congratulations on all of that good stuff, and please 298 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 3: come back and see us again, and thanks for doing 299 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 3: what you do. And I'm even more a little impartial 300 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 3: because you're from my hometown and see us again. 301 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: Thank you for your words, man, and thank you for 302 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 1: this podcast. Thanks for doing what you do. 303 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 2: I think telling stories about the way that music has 304 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 2: the power to impact us all. I think those are 305 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 2: important stories to be told, and I'm glad you're out 306 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 2: there doing it.