FIVE-A-LIVE ! BROTHER WALLACE

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:18

I was walking, walking downtown. Have a look seat just in around. We had a fall at it, it's all white. Just like you like, you say we're looking at trains. But I'm deep down in my heart, love I was trying. You would know what you have to hold on. Having a real good time. I know where to hide. Foolish child ran a long long way from home. Now you can't go back. You're bound to drown when the sun goes down the sea. You're getting old inside. And then the fly is die. Your heart is stuck, and then your soul is drunk. And while the night I'm out the moon. And what's done is done. Running fast, I can't change the pain. Ain't this the life looking? Dancing with the devil in the pillar moonlight.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

All but it's almost right, yeah, it's alright.

SPEAKER_04 4:24

Papa never taught the baby room from right.

SPEAKER_03 4:27

Oh, but it's almost right, yeah, it's alright.

SPEAKER_04 4:30

Dancin with the devil in the pillar moonlight.

SPEAKER_03 4:33

Oh, but it's almost right, yeah, it's alright.

SPEAKER_04 4:36

Papa never taught the baby room from right.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

Oh, but it's almost right, yeah, it's alright.

SPEAKER_04 4:42

Ain't this the line picked it right?

unknown 4:48

Ain't this the lie? Ain't this the lie?

SPEAKER_04 4:59

Ain't this the lie? Standing in the shadows of the midnight. Waiting for the show in the blue. Say, brother, they tell you there ain't nothing here to do. Sometimes I feel like the yo-yo, can't tell my up or down. Sometimes I feel like I'm head over here, and my feet don't turn around. And we need a need, and when I face the pill, sometimes I feel like I'm going to train. And then it's Chris the grill. I can lie. Sometimes I feel like it's over. Like I'm already dead. Sometimes I feel like the only thing real is what I'm building in my head. And then I get to feel that it'll be alright. It got to be reached before the grand baby. Because the future bride. I'm gone with the wheel. I'm gone with the wheel. So we're not fresh. Made up my mind this time I'm looking at the eye. I'm gonna be the three. So get the wig. I don't win the wind, and this guy's fast beauty, I can see now shut in my face.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

I'm playing this Yamaha keyboard. I love Yamaha keyboards. It's literally um my favorite brand when I have this personal again. That's what I sit down in and I write too. It uh gives me everything that I need. Um is a great board and a great sound. I'm a trained piano, I play it. Grew up playing the church. And so uh it was always a lot of fun playing it, something I can really feel. And uh I I really love I love the board. Um I remember when I got my first motif when it ES88 when it first came out, man, and that keyboard stayed with me for a long, long time. A lot of people, a lot of artists played it. Um especially in the beginning, because in my area in West Point, Georgia, I was like one of the first people to have it. So I used to rent it out all the time, and a lot of people um played the board. I love it. Because I just stuck with with Yamaha Synchron. And so it's just been great.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Um, hello, my name is Travis Murphy. I play bass with Brother Wallace. This is an Ibonaz Hollow Body bass guitar. It's some series of letters and numbers. I think it's like an AFB 200 or something, maybe. Um I have flat wound strings on it. I shove some paper towels in here to kind of help mute the strings a little bit more. Uh to give it kind of like a very dead sort of Jamerson kind of sound. It's very woody. Cool thing about this base is um sometimes you can kind of even get like some cool kind of upright tones out of it a little bit. Um it's very lightweight. That's nice. Yeah, but it's just simple. It's got one-tone knob. Pickups electric. And uh what else can I tell you? It's a great case, I enjoyed like. I mean, I bought it from like on Craigslist from like uh a guy in the suburbs who's like a hobbyist and had um many, many guitars, and it took a long time for it to stop smelling like his house. Which smelled like a lot of potpourri. But now here we are. And there's blood sweat and tears have gone into this thing, and it probably smells nothing like potpourri anymore, so I can tell you that. Yeah, I mean the other thing about this basically it was stolen from me. And um I was at a jam session in Atlanta at this place called Gallery 992 where a bunch of my friends used to have and it got stolen out of my car. I never usually leave my instruments in my car, but I was used to driving such a piece of shit car that was painted with like turquoise house paint, and I would just leave everything in it because it didn't nobody was gonna try and get in there because it was just full of garbage. But then I was driving like a rental car and accidentally left this in there, and it got stolen out. But I had the serial number for it, and I gave it to the police, and they have a registry where if you have a serial number for your instrument, they put out a message to all the pawn shops. And uh then I got my bass back like a month later. So it was like a miracle. That never happened. So the moral of the story is write down your serial numbers.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

My name is Ian Newberry, guitar. The aunt here was provided by this. I don't know how it sounds great. This is a kind of telecaster. And it's a uh reissue of the 72 model. But this one's from really 90. And uh, so we got booster. Uh reverb. This one's really good. This reminds me, everybody likes cardy people love that too. Red distortion. This is a full space. And then uh Max and Overdrive, which is like the tube screen. Mini Walker.

SPEAKER_06 17:49

And then Jordan mainly. Uh drummer for you know, just like most drummers, um, you know, we travel and we're using that class. Um so sometimes we get exactly what we want. Um sometimes like this is a beautiful yellow, I think it's a customer, maple customer. Yo, Maple Custom. I used to have stage customer actually. Um I just remember it just gave me everything I needed. Like really fun hardware. We can hopefully for your young drummers. I can't buy anything on the finish. Really just buy it on the hardware because that's what's gonna be funny. So yeah, uh really awesome. Um I don't really care. I mean, because symbols are like um pretty heavy and definitely. So right now I can I can't play some awesome. I need to mix the match symbols on the time. Um yeah, I think that's all I gotta say on the game. Uh also, you know, I'm a big fan of this stuff. Tape. It's like really helpful. Um, because yeah, man, sometimes even a beautiful drum set with microphones on it, you need to like control things as much as possible. So, um, yeah, I'm not shameful about putting the approach tape all over everything. Because at the end of the day, you know, if if it doesn't sound good in the room, um it's like what are we doing? So thank you.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

Me and Dan Taylor from the heavy started collaborating on writing uh songs and we decided to record them and we recorded it out. And uh people loved it and everything, and then uh now we're here with ATO, uh recording level, great label, shout out. But it's just been a great time, man. That's how we that's how we got together. I started playing in church and singing in church uh in my hometown, and then I went off uh school shout out for NL University and uh study music and uh I became a musical teacher and I continue to play. And it's kind of my musical teacher we have on a camera.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

Yeah, that's special because uh there's incredible players there. Uh there's a there's a huge scene of people that make their living professionally as musicians and play various different kinds of music. But everybody kind of intermingles and collaborates with each other.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

And there's so many different types of music in Atlanta is a is a great game. I were playing gospel in Atlanta, and like even in even in those scenes, we have top-notch like the the greats who are just there, like you said, in a nonpretious way, where you get to do a lot of music. And then even as far as like the rap scene, I play with a lot of uh rappers and uh a lot of you know uh that part of the music industry, and it's all there in Atlanta, and it's all very You know, the collected and just everybody's being a part of everybody. So it's a great place to meet musicians and to get out and to do some great music. Growing up playing in church for me had it was was indeed monumental. Simply because, you know, like we were just speaking on so many musical crates would just come through. And as a musician. And me, I was not only a musician, I was a choir director. And uh I had a hundred-voice choir when I was like 14. Uh and uh we did like Bobby John's gospel. We sang for like people like Reverend Clay Evans, Naughty People's, like they would just come and then we would we would just be doing that. And uh we traveled, we actually sung at one of the torch ceremonies for the 96 Olympics, alongside another good friend of mine who at the time was playing for the Georgia Mass Quad. And so all of this is just like, you know, huge. You would you would be playing here, and people would hear about you, and Grace would come, and you just be at some service, and then in comes Kurt Franklin, and it's like, do y'all know? Sure, yeah, we know it. Let's let's go. And it was uh always one of those things where you had to be on your P's and Q's all the time. And so uh that's the area though. That's the that's the area, and it was always great singing, always great music. I teach band and chorus uh at shout out to Flitney County uh elementary middle high school. Um I teach K through 12 every day, and it is, it is, and it has been the light of my life. I love music education. I've been teaching for quite a while. Um so I love music education and I love uh young people learning music and being, you know, the good fight of making sure that music education stays in education and that we keep lighting the light and young people to keep music going. Go to sleep, do not go to every party, do not be drinking every drink that somebody gives you bed so that she can be fresh. People don't want to see you hung over. They're 24 hours in a day, do not stay up all of them. That's why they pick for you all to use it.

SPEAKER_06 25:09

Yeah, eat good in the in the green rooms and stuff. Like you like for me, it's just especially like playing rug, being physical and stuff. Just trying to like because like you gotta fight so hard just to get like fresh fruits and vegetables. You know? So anytime that you got the opportunity to like veg out on some um some some leafy greens or some uh some some fresh fruit, uh yeah, you gotta take advantage of that.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

My album Electric Love, it pops on May the A. It is it's a it's a freight album. And I'm not saying that because it's mine, I'm saying that because it I love to listen to, and I think that you do love to listen to. So take that I will be around going on tour with St. Carlin Roger Bones in April. We'll start April the 12th, and Charlotte then we'll be on tour with them. Um then we'll go to Europe and we'll do the European running, and there's so much more, you know, coming up as well. So get into it. Um that's that's the thing that I say, get into it. It's a it's a it's a great vibe. Um in writing this album, I wanted people to experience love again, experience fun, learn to dance again, learn to have a good time, learn to let go of inhibitions. There are so many things that keep our brain running a thousand miles an hour, and sometimes you have to stop and enjoy what it is that is around you. And music is all about, and so I to make music that would touch the heart of people and make people remember what it was for everybody was so uptight and to just dance like nobody's watching.