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Speaker 1: And uh yes, Johnny Guitar watching the two in the

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Speaker 1: you know they always tell people, you know, what is

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Speaker 1: your legacy? You know, because you know we we we're

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Speaker 1: getting this business atron and and you know we wanted

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Speaker 1: these just we want to make money. First of all.

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Speaker 1: Our goal is to make money. And then as you

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Speaker 1: when you look at your body of work, it's fantastic

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Speaker 1: body of work, and go, what am I leading? Man?

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Speaker 1: What is my voice? Is the that is my voice

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Speaker 1: being heard? Are am I leaving a part of it?

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Speaker 1: And that's what it sounds like you're doing with this

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Speaker 1: particular project because of the fact that it's not a

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Speaker 1: one off. It's ongoing. Correct, Absolutely, it's ongoing. We put

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Speaker 1: our first album out several weeks ago. Our second album

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Speaker 1: is coming out at the end of August, and we

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Speaker 1: have three singles before that. And like you said, it

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Speaker 1: is legacy. I started with World Class Wrecking Crew, the

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Speaker 1: Nine in the Night I worked. I was the tour

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Speaker 1: manager for n w A. You know, put the digital

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Speaker 1: Underground records out, the two Pac records out, MC smooth

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Speaker 1: and some and some other work records. And you know,

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Speaker 1: now now as I'm a little older, I'm doing something

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Speaker 1: a little different. But that's all right there. But that's

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Speaker 1: all right though. And don't forget I'm the executive producers

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Speaker 1: sounding seks last two album. So so you know, I

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Speaker 1: work on a wide variety of music. You know, I work.

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Speaker 1: I work with Stephanie as you mentioned earlier, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's important to have that wide variety as

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Speaker 1: you grow and as you change, because everyone grows and changes,

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Speaker 1: and you know, running around in the clubs is not

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Speaker 1: not the same as it was for me thirty years ago. Right,

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Speaker 1: and I want to think that absolutely, and I want

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Speaker 1: to make a note about that because that's why I

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Speaker 1: brought up Stephanie Frederick. Because Stephanie Frederick is a is

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Speaker 1: a content creation, she's video, she's vision that has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with music. You know, music can be introduced

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Speaker 1: introduced into her work. And our clients include Universal Pictures,

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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Disney. That lets you know the

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Speaker 1: body of work that that you are, that you have,

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Speaker 1: you have, the you have, you know this this this

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Speaker 1: the solo Piano project that you have right now that

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Speaker 1: that's going called the Solo Piano Group Project and it

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Speaker 1: is out now May eight then in August roughly. I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you, with the pan dim it going

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Speaker 1: on in zoom uh streaming and being so popular, have

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Speaker 1: you done anything with the team through using zoom or

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Speaker 1: anything with the pandemic times that that could be uplifting

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Speaker 1: and motivating for the people to who are locked in

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Speaker 1: us still basically locked in whin the new normal right

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Speaker 1: now with this COVID Nateen, that doesn't mean our lives

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Speaker 1: are going to change. Yeah, so um, I do it.

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Speaker 1: I talked at USC every year and and this this year,

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Speaker 1: we did a zoom talk with with the class. This

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Speaker 1: is a business class, and so I did that. Um,

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Speaker 1: we are having the solo pianists record and then and

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Speaker 1: then we do a zoom with them as well. So

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Speaker 1: so even though they can't play live right now, people

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Speaker 1: can still see them through through Facebook and all the

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Speaker 1: other modalities you YouTube and Instagram and all those and so, um,

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Speaker 1: we are doing that, and we're looking at doing some

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Speaker 1: of some other things like that, maybe doing a bigger,

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Speaker 1: bigger concert thank you, and and we're also look looking

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Speaker 1: at doing some some talks myself and some of some

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Speaker 1: of the other people that have worked with over the years,

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Speaker 1: just doing question and answer session. So we're looking at

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of different things. I mean, the world

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Speaker 1: has changed, and even when it does go back to

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Speaker 1: some type of normalcy, I think zoom and these these

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Speaker 1: opportunities are going to be there because what that gives

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Speaker 1: is the people from all over the world a chance

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Speaker 1: to see here and talk to you know, myself, yourself,

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Speaker 1: and and and and others that they may have interest

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Speaker 1: and that they may never get to see you may

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Speaker 1: never come into their city, but if they have Internet,

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Speaker 1: they can hear them and they can see them, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's a very good outlet for for for

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Speaker 1: all of us. You know that not not only the

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Speaker 1: content creators, but also the listeners and viewers as well. Awesome.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your Atrian. I want to thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversation. Anyway, we'll get in touch

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Speaker 1: with you. Anyway we can buy this album, get involved

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Speaker 1: social media. Tell us about the Solo Piano Group. It

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Speaker 1: came out May eight, uh developed you know from the

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Speaker 1: So Little Piano Group. The name of the album is

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Speaker 1: Mellow Moods made by the Solo Piano Group. Anyway we

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Speaker 1: can reach out socially or digitally. How can we reach out? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so so, I'm on Instagram, I'm on all platforms Solo

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Speaker 1: Piano well, first of all, Solo Piano Group. Soli Piano

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Speaker 1: Group is on all platforms um from Instagram to Facebook, YouTube, everything.

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Speaker 1: I'm on all platforms. You can reach me on Facebook, Twitter,

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Speaker 1: or Instagram. Adrian Gregory. Depending pun the whether it's whether

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate you so much for doing this. Thank you. Okay,

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