Just Loungin'

This week, Gaz & Jessi chat with piano man Ellyes Baghouli about music , being in a band, and playing out in London. Ellyes has performed all over London, to include Passyunk Avenue Battersea!

The Yunk Life Podcast features one hometown Philly girl, one warped Mancunian, and one shared love for Philly culture. Listen to these two spew their thoughts and feelings about almost everything, over a pint or two, from the only authentic Philly Dive Bar in London, Passyunk Avenue. Come with us in our silly exploration of life, liberty, and the pursuit of frivolity.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:00

Are we rolling? Are we rolling? We are rolling. I know we're rolling this is a stupid question. Oh no, the back, the the TV thing. Give me the remote. I need the remote. Where's the remote? Give me the remote. Where is it? It's there. Hello? I know we're rolling because the big block thing is going on. Nice.

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That's terrifying.

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We're rolling.

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We're rolling.

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We're rolling!

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Hey yo, use ready for the worst podcast intro ever, young bull. This dye dunk life ball.

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Living that young life, baby.

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Welcome back to the young life. I'm Jesse.

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I'm Dave.

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He's not Dave, he's Gaz.

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I'm Gaz.

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And this is Elias.

SPEAKER_07 1:18

Hey.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_08 1:21

Elias is from Philly, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:23

I'm from Delaware. Close enough. Slight technicality.

SPEAKER_08 1:25

Yeah, it's alright. It counts. We count.

SPEAKER_03 1:27

It counts, it counts, we'll count it.

SPEAKER_08 1:28

I'm from South Jersey, bro. It counts. Still counts.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

I'm from Philly.

SPEAKER_07 1:32

I didn't know where to know what the first time I ever heard about Delaware was in Waynesworld. Because they do that little skit, don't they? Where it's like, hey, oh, uh. I'm in Delaware. Delaware. One of the few things we're known for.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Yeah. Wainsworld.

SPEAKER_07 1:45

So from that, so years, so for years and years, I just thought Delaware was just a really boring place on Earth.

SPEAKER_08 1:50

Well, my husband thought correctly. We were watching a show that takes place in Delco, and he said, It's in Delaware. And I said, no, it's in Delaware County. And he was like, that's what I said. I said, no, Delaware County is in Pennsylvania. And he was like, I don't fucking understand the states. So what part are you here?

SPEAKER_03 2:09

Great question. I um to the bar you mean. Yeah, just for the Young Clive.

SPEAKER_08 2:15

Just for the Young Clive. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Flewing in on a private jet. Obviously. Yeah, I was all all leaning back in uh business class.

SPEAKER_04 2:24

Obviously, okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

That's the best flight ever. If I could take that, that'd be great. So I uh I moved over here two years ago. I graduated college. I went to Drew University, which is in North New Jersey, and um I studied music and business, wanted to move to a city. My mom's from here originally, and so dual citizenship passport makes it pretty easy.

SPEAKER_09 2:45

Yeah, yeah.

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And um, that's about it, really. And here we are two years later. You studied music and business? I did a double major.

SPEAKER_07 2:52

Oh, right, okay. Can can you explain? Sorry, I don't I don't want to go too often, but like no, this this podcast is usually about cultural differences between you know like America, like America and uh UK, but a double major, is this quite common in like uh American education?

SPEAKER_08 3:06

Yeah, I did I did both history and theater.

SPEAKER_07 3:08

Alright, because like it uh so I'm guessing like you can choose one that's very sort of artsy and a bit more creative, but always one that will make you money, one that won't. So is that classic is that classic one of just like okay, we'll support you on your journey, but make sure you got a backup. Right. That kind of thing. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_08 3:24

But not everybody does that. Like you opt to be a dual major. Yeah. And sometimes you get lucky and your credits carry over between the two, but most of the time you have to take a totally separate program. So you're basically a full-time student twice, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07 3:36

So but that must be twice as much work then, right?

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Yeah, it is, yeah. You have to fulfill there's a certain amount of classes, you take the list off, you know, as you go, and and credits and classes together.

SPEAKER_07 3:46

I guess, but I guess one kind of complements the other because obviously, if you become like when you become you are a successful musician, like all that kind of stuff. That's also you're selling yourself yourself, right?

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Yeah, absolutely. But you see there's gonna be some classes too, depending on the major, that will overlap. Like they're actually in both coins, and that's what is great. Um my programs did not have that, but the music program I was able to skip through it because I've been doing that for a long time. So interesting. Didn't have to take keyboard studies because I could play it a little bit. Look how excited it got.

SPEAKER_09 4:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 4:18

When I said we were having a jazz or a lounge pianist come in. A lounge pianist. He was like, that's great! We're gonna sing. Do you happen to know anything by Vanessa Carlton?

SPEAKER_03 4:28

Ooh, are we on this keyboard?

SPEAKER_08 4:30

It's you're gonna make him cry.

SPEAKER_07 4:34

I'm gonna I'm gonna sing, alright. I'm gonna do this as Tom Blong. Making my way down, Jim! Walking fast!

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Nine and nine and nine nine. Young flip's making dreams come down.

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Another chord. That's another word.

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Wait, I was it And I need you!

SPEAKER_07 5:03

And I miss you! And now I wanna fuck Right, let's go on. I'm obsessed with that song. Really? I love that fucking song. Where does that come from? I well, where on earth it primarily came from White Chicks, the movie. Oh, oh, okay, not what I thought you were talking about. No, it came from the movie White Chicks, because like uh there's that scene where Terry Cruz is sitting in the car and uh one of the Wayne's brothers is dressed up as, you know, well, is a white chick, and then obviously Terry Cruz doesn't know that that this girl is actually a dude in disguise. So he's all nervous, like I just go on, oh my god, he's gonna take me out on a date, and he's really infatuated me and he's big and strong. So he thinks that in a way to deter uh this very manly man, Terry Cruz, away from her, is to put on the the most girly song ever, a girly song, right? Which turned out to be Vanessa Carlton's uh thousand miles thousand miles, and then his reaction is like that, just going, and he's like, Yes, it's worked, and then he just goes, How did you know?

SPEAKER_08 6:10

Make it my way down to it. And it turns out he actually loves the song, and then he's all perfect Terry Cruz face when he did that, by the way. How did you know?

SPEAKER_07 6:18

So, like, so then and then he, you know, he's kind of rolled with it for the rest of his career, and then you know, whatever. And then I yeah, I watched that movie and then I listened to the song.

SPEAKER_08 6:26

And then you rolled with it for the rest of your career.

SPEAKER_07 6:28

It's a big song, but away from all that, it's a banging tune. It is an absolute banger of a tune.

SPEAKER_06 6:35

Am I making up that they already nine at one point?

SPEAKER_08 6:38

Would you call that the I mean that's Terry Cruz, so I could see why you made that up.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

Yeah, that's my favourite part. I'll tell you how.

SPEAKER_07 6:46

I get to catchy, but I think I've I'm a musician as well, so I love all types of sort of music and stuff like that. Piano is something that I've grown up with because my mum plays the piano as well. So it's always an instrument that I've dabbled with, but I can't really fuck I can't do what you can do.

SPEAKER_08 7:00

I can I didn't know that about your mom playing piano, and I always find it interesting when I learned something about you on the show. I always thought we knew everything.

SPEAKER_07 7:06

I'm a guitarist and I play a lot of I've I've been playing guitar since I was 12. Favourite guitar player? Oh fuck inspiration, or one of them. That's such a good question. Um we can come back to it. Yeah, we'll come back to it. We'll come back to it. But no, um no, let me answer it now because he's asking the question. Uh the first one was gonna be a top. I grew up listening to a lot of heavy metal and a lot of rock and roll. So uh Dimebag Darrow from Pantera. Okay, yes, Pantera. Uh you know, he was very bluesy. I like a lot more of the bluesy guitar players that in heavy rock and stuff like that. A lot of other guitar players did all this fucking stupid wanky stuff where they were just a little less feeling. Yeah, yeah. Devin Devin Townsend was uh is a guitarist that I absolutely love because he just well, he plays the guitar like it's uh synthesizer, which is incredible. Devin Townsend, he used to be in a band called Strapping Young Lad, but then he sort of moved away from the really heavy stuff and did more um I call it um uh like like epic love music. It's just epic love music. Incredible. It's incredible, like you know, and he's just such a great so yeah, he's really cool. There's so many ways I can go with jokes on that one. But the first song I ever learned that I taught myself on on the piano, I can only play like a second, well, like 30 seconds of it. No, we're not gonna well I'll do it. Well, let's see if I can let's if I can get it on. Sorry, I'm taking I'm taking all the fucking spotlights. There's no spotlights to be taken. Okay, let's see. Hang on.

SPEAKER_08 8:43

What is that? Oh, it's Jurassic Park. It's Jurassic Park?

SPEAKER_05 8:49

Yeah, and if you put yeah, if you put lyrics to it, it's no no no no no. Is it that?

SPEAKER_07 9:01

Fucked it. Sorry, I got nervous.

SPEAKER_08 9:04

Anyway, the best part was the Velociraptor, whatever that was in the background. That was my favorite part.

SPEAKER_07 9:09

Whatever. Anyway, um, I forgot what my main point was. Um my bad. We were talking about guitars. No, I feel well, they're definitely down back darrow, but there's so many. But what I actually really like about the piano compared to playing the guitar all these years, it's actually really relaxing. Especially for the especially for the you your fingers as well. Like it's actually it's one of the more soothing instruments that I've ever been in the presence of.

SPEAKER_03 9:35

It's definitely definitely true. I think the guitar hurts a lot more. Yeah, it's got a lot more, you know, there's resistance to some of these other instruments. And when you're you you're a flautist, is that right? So when you're and novo. So when you're when you're blown into something, takes a lot of takes a lot of energy and breath. So I mean it's you know, that wears you out. There's that barrier there. So what's nice about the piano is you can see all the notes, and yeah, theoretically, that's completely true.

SPEAKER_07 10:01

It is an enigma to me though, this this this uh instrument, because I can't read. Can you you can obviously read?

SPEAKER_08 10:09

I can't read! I can't read.

SPEAKER_07 10:11

I can't read mu uh like proper sheet music. Right. So like figuring out, I always know like you know, middle C, that's a good place to start. Right there. But to figure out what this means and that means.

SPEAKER_06 10:22

Julie Anders would say it's a very good place to start at the very beginning.

SPEAKER_08 10:25

Was that something that you learned in the um yeah, he's doing this for you. Do you know any Rogers and Hammerstein that really gets his heart?

SPEAKER_03 10:41

Uh I mean, I know it, but maybe with a fringe on the side. Maybe Sherry with a fringe on some. That'll be our outro. There you go.

SPEAKER_08 10:54

Um So, what other instruments do you play?

SPEAKER_03 10:56

I taught myself I did like a little like YouTube guitar teaching. So I feel like I can strum through and sing all the songs I would be able to normally kind of go for, but that's about it. I mean, I can do bass, I produce a little bit of music, and um, but I'm I'm a singer and a piano player, keys player mostly.

SPEAKER_08 11:13

So and I was Facebook stalking you, of course. Instagram stalking me. Instagram stalking is about um yeah, there's nobody on Facebook anyway.

SPEAKER_07 11:20

It'd just be me and some old lady very unflattering pictures on Facebook. Right. Yes, it really is.

SPEAKER_08 11:25

Yeah, but you were in a band that has now gotten back together, is that what I've gathered?

SPEAKER_03 11:30

This is a good question. Um, I had a little band in college, my good friend Ethan, if you're watching this, it was called Duotones. So it was just the two of us, and we were like, I was keys in singing, and he would do guitars and vocals as well. And that was just our little thing in college for sure. Um, could be rekindled absolutely if when I ever move back to the US. But um, I'm actually in a pop rock band in London. It's called Good Time Locomotives.

SPEAKER_08 11:53

I think that's what I saw.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

And that we've that is an interesting story, I guess, in terms of the breaking up. They've had some different members over the years. Okay. But since I've joined, we've had the same roster. So it's been about two years now. I joined them, it would be January or February 2024.

SPEAKER_07 12:10

Cool. So playing the piano?

SPEAKER_03 12:12

Yeah, I do keys and um I do a lot of background vocals as well. We have a Portuguese lead singer, and then the other three lads are all English. Nice very cool. Yeah. We're on Spotify. We have an EP coming out uh later this month, which is also or February. It's called Dimensions. I should have the date for that. We'll we'll find that. Um, we're on Spotify.

SPEAKER_07 12:31

I'm just gonna check it out. Keep talking, though. I'm just gonna do it, do it.

SPEAKER_03 12:34

Pop rock, you say, yeah? It is very pop rock, kind of like a modern sort of they've all been in metal bands too, so there's a little of that influence. We all have a little bit of.

SPEAKER_07 12:45

Yeah, they can. They're good smilers. They have a nice set of teeth.

SPEAKER_04 12:48

A metal-ish band.

SPEAKER_07 12:49

But I'm allowed to smile. But I when I used to I used to be in a metal band years and years ago. Well, listen to it. The singer literally just went, no smiling on stage.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 12:58

Fucking hell. All right.

SPEAKER_03 12:59

So no, we're quite the opposite. We're trying to be, you know, very animated as much as possible. That works for us. What's it called again? Good time locomotive. Because we're all about the good times. Yes.

SPEAKER_08 13:09

I mean it was really good vibes when I when I did stalk.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Yeah, it's it's a fun, it's a really uh been a great project. I'm super lucky to have met those guys. Um, it's given me a lot of direction since I moved here and um very consistent as well.

SPEAKER_08 13:21

So uh you're playing any gigs coming up that we should know about.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

We uh and this this is we had one coming up. Uh it was supposed to be last week, actually, but our our guitar player has got a little bit of a wrist injury. So too much. How did he do that? No, no. Um just some RSI, which sounds worse.

SPEAKER_06 13:38

He picked up he picked up a little too much steam uh when he's on that locomotive. Having a good time there. Blowing the horn.

SPEAKER_07 13:47

It's not it's not really ideal. Uh you could I reckon you could still play guitar on stage. You like it was it is it his fingering hand or it's his spreading hand. Oh, right, okay. Yeah, that's a good thing. It's spreading with this conversation. Well, those those are the terminologies you gotta use when you're a musician, right? I didn't know that. I mean, like if you booked one of your hands, you could probably still like play a tune. Yeah, with my other hands. I wouldn't be very higherful though. No, well, you're already in a band anyway. They can't, they can you've already hired.

SPEAKER_03 14:15

You've already booked the job, bro. So we're just uh we're focusing on the release, and then we'll get back to gigging in February. Should be awesome. But yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:24

So you so you do this full time then?

SPEAKER_03 14:25

Like, yeah, the band stuff is very full on, full time. Um, and what's hard about doing original music for sure is getting to that next level, getting getting farther along. It's a lot easier to make instant money if you're in a covers band or um you know, doing whatever else. What I'm pursuing solo is kind of that. I wanna, you know, have more busy, a busier schedule with piano bar entertaining, um, taking requests and playing in lounges. I have a show coming up for you guys. We're gonna try something, which sounds fun.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

And um, yeah, you know, that's that's good money. That's really fulfilling for me too. It's fun. Um, I just like entertaining people and singing their favorite songs. That's cool.

SPEAKER_07 15:02

It's there's quite a resurgence with this piano bar thing. Definitely, isn't it? Yeah, there's a lot of it going on now. Like it's just something different.

SPEAKER_06 15:09

Well, well, especially with him taking the request like from from the from the crowd as well. That's that's really cool. Yeah, it's and engaging and interactive as well.

SPEAKER_03 15:16

Absolutely, fantastic atmosphere. And then um, but back to the original stuff. I mean, when you're it's it's hard. I mean, how how many times have you gone to see even your favorite band in the entire world? Maybe a couple times if you're lucky. That that's your and how how often are you keeping up with that stuff? You know, most people want to stick to what they're comfortable with. It's hard to get people to listen to your music, it is. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_08 15:39

Yeah, but um, also it's not like back in the day when there was TV or radio station X that played what you wanted to hear. Yeah, now you gotta actually there's so many different outlets. You're seeking out what you want to listen to, and you might be missing over something that you wanted to listen to because there's too many things to pick from, you know?

SPEAKER_03 15:57

100%. And there's this concept of virality, and like if this, you know, podcast for example, or if my band went viral, what would change? But even now that's becoming less potent than it was when the internet was really kind of starting to take off in a new direction early, earlier, like last decade, I'd guess. Yeah, you know, last decade. Um yeah, right? So it's it's just there's it's so saturated now, and um, it's very uncertain uh how how to like move that along now, especially with the thing I will say is coming from the states, you probably will see this as well.

SPEAKER_08 16:28

But London is a much smaller pool to be swimming in. Like you bump into famous people in London. That very rarely happens in America. You're not bumping into somebody on the street that you watched on TV last night, and I that literally happened to me yesterday.

SPEAKER_04 16:41

How did you bump into?

SPEAKER_08 16:42

Uh her name is Lou Lou something. She's a comedian. She was on uh last uh last man stand uh last man laughing or whatever that's called. Uh scene it's a lot of things. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Her name is Lou something. Anyway, she was walking down the street right next to me at um King's Cross yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

There you go.

SPEAKER_08 17:02

But that's not something that happens in America. So here it's kind of cool. You could be playing in a bar in Camden, and there's somebody famous sitting there that would hear you. And that's kind of what the dream is in America. Like that Hollywood, you know, black car pulls up and signs you immediately, like Waynesworld.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

All signs point to Wainsworld.

SPEAKER_08 17:22

Yeah, obviously.

SPEAKER_06 17:23

Well, you know, that takes me back to uh my good mate Kiefer. Um, how I met him actually. And I was actually in a bar uh watching one of my mates play and doing some photos for him for a show he was doing in just an acoustic set and doing some photos. And Kiefer Sutherland was in the bar.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:36

And said, Hey, come talk to me. And he talked to him and ended up, he ended up going on tour with him.

SPEAKER_08 17:41

There you go.

SPEAKER_06 17:41

So then after my mate left, he came over to me, Kiefer, and he said, Hey, are you with the singer? And I was like, Yeah, I know we're mates, you know, I'm here. I said, I know the guys at the bar, I know him, so I was here. But once again, that chance meeting just by him seeing when his band went and toured several months later, he went and supported them all across England.

SPEAKER_08 17:57

A much smaller pool, like I said.

SPEAKER_06 17:59

It's really cool.

SPEAKER_08 17:59

England is a very small country compared to where we're from, and it's a lot more likely that you're gonna bump into somebody that you need to bump into for your career here.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

100%. The formula is still the same at the end of the day. Definitely didn't mean to sound pessimistic, it's just the internet side is uncertain. Yeah, in everything, it's still about who you know and what kind of connections you're willing to go out and make. Honestly, it's the people who work the hardest that get the farthest, not the people who play the best. Right. So that you know, and that's in every industry, I guess, but music especially.

SPEAKER_08 18:26

By the way, speaking of chance meetings, Elias is totally a Young Life or something.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

Yeah, I have.

SPEAKER_08 18:32

So I have you guys met in what was you, but a lot of games. He plays Bird's Bingo with us. I do.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

Yeah, did you win? I have, I win every week. Food beer every time it's on the lock. Um, I've been coming to you guys at Waterloo, uh, because I live in Limehouse, just in East London. So Waterloo is my closest location to get to, and also the biggest. I thought it was the original, I didn't realize it was here, and then I didn't realize it was a food truck. But yeah, yeah, there you go. The more you know. Um, before you guys did the Pash Yunk play there, um, I was going there. So my first Super Bowl with you guys, it's two years in a row now, was the 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl two years ago.

SPEAKER_07 19:10

Oh yeah, that was uh that was the first one. That was the first time. Okay, that we did, yeah. Yeah, and then I was outside.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

I was there last year, absolutely. I have a video of me falling off one of your chairs. It's awesome. I'm in front of a bunch of very young lifes. Right in front of you. Uh uh, it was a callback. I'm a bunch of white chicks absolutely in front of white. Did they laugh at you or did they laugh?

SPEAKER_07 19:30

Did I laughed at me?

SPEAKER_00 19:33

I was like, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.

SPEAKER_07 19:37

Last year, last year was mental.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 19:39

It was absolutely out front or were you inside the bar?

SPEAKER_03 19:41

Everywhere, I was everywhere. Uh yeah. Uh, kind of a blur that night. I did not stop moving the entire time.

SPEAKER_07 19:49

Yeah, that was one hell of a fing time.

SPEAKER_08 19:51

I believe you danced on the bar.

SPEAKER_07 19:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_08 19:54

Uh on the Super Bowl. I think it was the last one. I can't remember. I can't remember. I think it was the last one. I fell off Super.

SPEAKER_07 20:00

You and Millie were dancing on the bar. Oh, yeah, no, yeah. That was that was I think that was the first Eagle Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, was it? Was the year after that the 49ers Chiefs? Yeah. Oh yeah. No, yes. Oh, yeah, okay. If we're talking two years, three years back. Yes, because it was our first tailgate. It was the one in between the two Eagle Super Bowls. Right.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Oh, that was that was the Kansas City Chiefs. 49ers. So that was the first tailgate. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, that was the first one that we did outside.

SPEAKER_08 20:24

Such a stupid Super Bowl. I was so bored. Like, I just didn't care. Oh, that's red on the screen. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 20:32

Uh I mean, well, yeah, and then last year we just topped that. So who knows what's gonna happen. Um, so you've been coming here, so you've been coming to our places like for a long time, then. Yeah, absolutely. And um it's just good. Young life chose me, yeah. Only because you won all the birds of bingo and drank all the beers. Yeah, yeah. That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_08 20:52

But also, this place, as we always say, has that effect. Yeah, you would think it's odd to bump into somebody from Philly 3,200 miles away or whatever, but not here.

SPEAKER_07 21:02

Yeah, what what what was that like when you first discovered? What was it? Did you just walk down Waterloo, like Leak Street and I fell on my knees, and then just and then just go like just going, hang on a fucking second. I fell to my knees and I sobbed. Clouds parted and he heard a because we always hear, like, you know, people from Philly come over here and they're just like, I never knew this bar existed, and I'm from Philly. Yeah. And they're just like in complete awe. Yeah. It's like, what the fuck is going on?

SPEAKER_08 21:28

So, just out of curiosity, based on what you just said, do you know that there's like a proper English pub in Philly?

SPEAKER_07 21:34

No.

SPEAKER_08 21:34

I'm just curious. Have I been there? To Philly?

SPEAKER_07 21:37

No, no, no, I've been to Philly. Well, have I been to this bar?

SPEAKER_08 21:40

No, I don't think so, but that's kind of my point. Or somewhere. Yeah, it's one of those Steven Starr places. It's on Broad Street and Sandsome. Like right around my own. Um, anyway, my point was you're going if you're going to Philly and you bump into a British pub, you're gonna go, I didn't know that. Was a British pub here. So we can't really blame the Philly people for not knowing it's here.

SPEAKER_07 22:04

Well I mean, but I wouldn't go in there. Well, you say that. I wouldn't go in there. I'm like, I just go, I didn't come up. I didn't come all the way from fucking England to go into a British pub. Although if I found the first Irish pub, I'd probably go in there because I love Guinness. Right. Yeah. So that's a bit of a cop-up.

SPEAKER_08 22:17

Guinness is not hard to find in Philadelphia, I assure you.

SPEAKER_07 22:19

Yeah, I know. We should have it on tap.

SPEAKER_03 22:21

But this. If you had it on tap, I'd live there.

SPEAKER_07 22:23

Oh, you see? Right, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

We're not into it. I wasn't, and it was in all of all places. Irish pub, right? In Milan. I was on a backpacking little Explore Europe.

SPEAKER_08 22:36

Known for their good Guinness.

SPEAKER_03 22:37

Right, known for the in Milan, Italy, fantastic Guinness. And we were taking shots of baby Guinness, and then it was like, oh, let's split the G because that was really trendy all year, last year. And um, so yeah, I don't know. I was doing that and I did the thing enough where I was like, you know, I think I kind of like Guinness now. Hey Grosly, you just gotta drink enough of it, and then you know.

SPEAKER_08 22:56

Have you guys ever done a carbom?

SPEAKER_06 22:58

No. Yes.

SPEAKER_08 22:59

Yeah, you probably had that success.

SPEAKER_06 23:01

Yes. It's called an Irish pint drop. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 23:03

I didn't say the first part, I just said a carbomb.

SPEAKER_06 23:06

Carbomb.

SPEAKER_08 23:07

Um you basically take a shot of half Bailey's, half James, and then drop it into half of a Guinness in a pipe and drink it as fast as you can. Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 23:15

Bartender! Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 23:17

I put all those ingredients back at my house right now. Let's go. We're leaving! Let's go! So when you when you're doing all the lounge stuff then, uh how okay, this is gonna be sound like a really dumb question. How many songs do you know in your head right now? Like, because obviously you've got to have a good back cap. Yeah, definitely. Are you reading everything off like sheet music as well?

SPEAKER_03 23:37

So I'm not to answer a few questions, I guess, in a row. Sheet music, not my strongest suit. I can read it, I can understand it, especially rhythm-wise, but like I'm not looking at sheet music and like playing it. I'm looking at the lyrics, because fuck, you're remembering that many lyrics. Yeah. I'm looking at lyrics and tabs, like with the chord. A. No shit really. Tabs.

SPEAKER_06 24:00

You can do you can do Tuesdays gone on the wind? I think that was. That's St. Elmo's Fire.

SPEAKER_08 24:06

No, but that first note is Tuesdays Gone. Saint How does St. Elmo's Fire keep coming up for us? It came up the other day.

SPEAKER_07 24:14

I thought he was gonna be doing uh Vangelis. Vangelis. Uh chariots of fire. I love um.

SPEAKER_08 24:27

By the way, this is like a little Yamaha keyboard for those who aren't peeping yet and should be.

SPEAKER_06 24:32

It's pretty awesome. I know.

SPEAKER_08 24:38

Casier, he looks so excited.

SPEAKER_05 24:43

There it is. Have you been to St. Andrews?

SPEAKER_08 24:50

He's really getting into this, man. So St. Andrews, Scotland is where they filmed that scene that you're playing.

SPEAKER_07 25:02

That was sick.

SPEAKER_08 25:03

Next time you go up to Scotland with your girlfriend, go to St. Andrews and you can recreate that scene for real. Oh, yeah. That's the Golden Sands, is where they film that scene.

SPEAKER_07 25:10

That's right. That's great. That's such a cool little riff as well.

SPEAKER_03 25:13

Yeah. So I mean, that I just ear kind of figuring out where it goes. So to answer your question, knowing the songs, just knowing of them is the most important part. That's like the skill. And then it's you can recall, you know, very, very discreet anyway, and you're like, oh, I know this song. And once you're playing, once you get through that first chorus and chorus, verse, chorus, you're in it and you know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_08 25:34

That's fucking funny because as a musician, I'm the opposite. Right. And everyone has different strengths with that.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_08 25:40

But that being said, if I could get rid of the amount of lyrics in my head, I probably could cure cancer because it's taking up 90% of my brain is lyrics from 1985. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 25:50

Yeah, you can remember a lot of like hip-hop lyrics, like really.

SPEAKER_08 25:52

So many. Like I'm telling you, I would cure cancer. It would happen.

SPEAKER_03 25:55

You're like you're into hip-hop stuff.

SPEAKER_08 25:57

Very much so.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

And you're into the middle of the rock.

SPEAKER_08 26:00

Well, we're both into a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Me too.

SPEAKER_07 26:02

I mean, I like everything. I yeah, I love everything. If it if it made it.

SPEAKER_08 26:05

Our common ground is Tool.

SPEAKER_07 26:07

Tool?

SPEAKER_08 26:08

Yeah, we've seen Tool twice together. I've seen them live nine times. Awesome.

SPEAKER_07 26:11

Although one of our we actually, what's the song that we harmonise really well? I know Cobell Jam.

SPEAKER_08 26:17

Anything by Green Day. Jeremy. Jeremy, yeah, which you all mean, Jeremy.

SPEAKER_07 26:20

I think the the day that we realize that we can both spit the lyrics for bare naked ladies or weekends. Oh my god. People hated us so much. That was it. That's one to really warm up the lips. And harmonize. We harmonised and exactly. But you're better at doing that because you're you got you're you enunciate better.

SPEAKER_08 26:35

And also hip-hop. Like I'm used to that quick rhythm.

SPEAKER_07 26:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 26:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:38

Well, but go on.

SPEAKER_08 26:40

No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 26:40

I was gonna say. Yeah. Well, I I um I'm actually quite blown away that you actually read it by tablature. Yeah. Um, because that's how I learn how to play the guitar. Guitar stuff.

SPEAKER_08 26:51

Same concept if you think about it. Yeah. Separating the team.

SPEAKER_07 26:53

It's actually a much simpler way. It's actually quite similar to guitar hero because it shows you where the fingers are supposed to go. Oh, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

So I mean, I'm not reading the chart really. I just kind of just the letters. And then I'm making it. You have to know. So Saint Almo's fire, right? Yeah. You just kinda have to know that that's the melody. And I I understand where the things are well enough to kind of pluck that out, however it is. How old are you? I was six.

SPEAKER_00 27:19

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

And I just, I mean, I didn't take it seriously, guys. I was just playing piano and having a good time, which I think is the most important thing. I'm not a better reader because um my teacher would always write in, not because of my teacher, uh Louise, if you're listening to this. Um, we the focus was always like to enjoy playing piano more than anything else. So I got to try a couple different styles. Like I did some classical stuff. This keys are so small.

SPEAKER_08 27:50

You still got the little roll in there, though.

SPEAKER_06 27:53

Well, they would be the size of harpsichord keys if you were playing traditionally.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

Yeah, so you know, get a little classical.

SPEAKER_08 28:04

Seriously, you're making him so happy.

SPEAKER_07 28:06

I love it. I was gonna what's that fucking classical song? Uh no, carry on with your answer, actually, before I derail this. No, I was gonna say, what is it, you know, in Tenacious D where they go, what's that possible song? Because if if you knew that, I was gonna sing the the Tenacious D version, but there's a lot of swearing in it.

SPEAKER_08 28:25

I'm surprised that you're a good one.

SPEAKER_07 28:26

Did you see he's the man, he deserves it. Applause, he is more than a man, he's a shiny golden cot.

SPEAKER_08 28:32

You didn't need the backing. He's done fucking rock.

SPEAKER_03 28:36

But what was the question? It's definitely fuse. Oh, well, I mean, I just told you he was gonna derail it. I grew up learning um just I wanted to play popular songs, so I had a Vanessa Carlton like, or a most popular pop songs. And when did that song come out? Was it 2011? Okay. So whatever, by 2000, some point you've got this book of popular songs. So my piano teacher, to help me out understand the charts, would write in like the letters above each note, and I ended up just reading the letters, and she'd do like a dash for a step up or a skip for a third, which is like I fine. I I ended up learning how to do it that way, and I'd end up memorizing a song by the time I got to the end of it. Um, I wouldn't be reading it anymore, I'd be just playing it. And uh I wish I wish we weaned off that more, but um that's so I've I've tried to catch up on the the reading, but also I never practiced. Like I'd come into my lesson every week and be like, Did you practice? Be like, no. No, not at all. I'm just a whiz. No, I suck.

SPEAKER_09 29:35

I'm just that fucking good.

SPEAKER_03 29:37

I'm I'm just alright, really. It's it's about it's just about what you put into it. I like that.

SPEAKER_07 29:42

So it's just like built into that's that sounds like a lot of passion. You just enjoy doing it. I love it, yeah. You can definitely tell when someone is like more into it for just sort of they're just enjoying playing. Like you just see it's like a it's like soul and everything is just pouring out of you, and you just don't even need to be fucking seen where you're going. You just sort of naturally go there. I've seen that happen to drummers before. Like drummers just all of a sudden they just start going into this thing and they just they they're just completely in the moment. It's like nobody else exists, and it just sounds like fucking mega.

SPEAKER_06 30:14

Well, they are drummers, so there's that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 30:16

Brains get run away. No one else exists. I've seen drummers read sheet music, and I'm just like yeah, drumming sheet music always confused me.

SPEAKER_06 30:26

Um I had cause to revisit, speaking of drummers, by the way, I had cause to revisit Nirvana's MTV Unplugged a couple days ago, and I'm watching it. And what I didn't realize at one point, Dave Grohl is behind the kit playing bass because the other guitar player is playing an accordion. He's playing an acoustic bass, but he's still doing a kick and a hi-hat to keep rhythm and singing. But he's still sitting behind his kit playing the bass.

SPEAKER_08 30:51

That always uh really cool. It always amazed me about Phil Collins as a drummer and singing.

SPEAKER_06 30:56

Singing.

SPEAKER_08 30:56

That's awesome. I personally I can play the flute because everything's happening at once. I can play the bass because everything's happening at once. But when it comes to separating my brain to do, like I can't even do it faking it. Guitar, having the chords stay stationary and moving this hand, piano having to separate my brain like that. I can't do it. It's kind of sing and play.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

It's still a challenge. Like to separate the two like our hand independence is super important. It's really difficult to do. Um, and then singing on top of that's hard. But when you're drumming, I feel like that's even I suck at the drums. Like limb independence, one, two, three, four. Yeah, and you're singing. I mean, Phil Collins just nails it. It's it's really difficult to do because you've got a very specific rhythm going on, and you your lips don't want to move at the cadence of the song, they want to move with what you're doing here, one that follows the other. It's really it takes a lot of price. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 31:47

Well, it's the same with the piano, like you know, like because you're yeah, you gotta split it. Yeah, because this is always the rhythm, and that's always well, I guess it I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 31:53

I don't know much about piano playing, but it's definitely you stand a better chance of being good at it, seeing as you can play guitar because you already kind of have that separation. Yeah, I mean, like, like I said, with the bass, it's two fingers, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07 32:05

I mean it's just keeping a rhythm when I when I was still like when I learned how to play the Jurassic Park theme tune, even though it sounded like shit there, I actually sat down with my guitar and um learned it on tablature on the guitar first, but I did it bass notes first, yeah, and then went over to the piano, and I just was like, okay, that's that's that, and all that kind of stuff. And then I went back and then learned the the melody, and then did that, and then basically, and then once I was like, right, I'm happy with that, I put the guitar down, and then I would just I just sit there for fucking hours, just going out.

SPEAKER_08 32:38

My experience with music is so different from you guys, like learning music. I mean mine was very regimented and school, like you had to learn to read, you had to all of it was very much practiced this time every day, very regimented, a lot less soul to it. Yeah, more like orchestra based.

SPEAKER_03 32:53

That comes comes with being an orchestral instrument primarily, though, right? I mean, yeah, that's that's the expectation and the and I had a mix of that actually.

SPEAKER_06 33:02

Because I had a guitar and a little, you know, G Z keyboard before I actually started like formal training in school playing saxophone and then you know, later obo and flute or whatever I played later on. So I got you know, sort of that feel for music before, but then I got the actual, hey, here's how you read it and here's how you do it. And oddly enough, even having played bass as an adult in a band, I can't like piano music, I can read. Now it takes me a while to do it and I have to do it very slowly. Right. Um I can read both clefts, but it is almost impossible for me, if there's anything in the left hand on the bass clef, it is impossible for me to read that at the same time reading the trouble where generally more of the actions go on.

SPEAKER_08 33:40

I have a serious problem transposing from bass to I'm I started on the flute, so I can't see the bass music the right way. I can't. It's what is it, F-A-C-E? No, that's uh that's A-C-E-G.

SPEAKER_03 33:52

I still for the spaces and the yeah, I still struggle with it too. Again, that's totally not my wheelhouse. I can do it, I can learn it, like I'll end up memorizing it, and then sure I can execute, but I'll end up memorizing it by the time I've picked through it and notated it too. That's just me.

SPEAKER_06 34:06

And what's weird, when I was trying, when I should have been learning bass clef like in high school, I was playing baritone saxophone, which is an E flat instrument. So I was reading the bass guy's E flat. I was reading the bass guy's stuff, like the tubas and all those guys, but with the E flat, it reads just like the trouble clef. So, you know, a D was a D was a D for me, not an F.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Oh, right. That's that is instruments work out. So it's really weird.

SPEAKER_08 34:31

So my experience learning transposition like that was because I played the flute, I played the oboe, big old nerdy instruments. I just wanted to be in a band. Like I wanted to be in the jazz band, and there was no flute in the jazz band, so I took up the bass, but tried to approach it the same way I did the obo and the flute and learn the music and transpose and all of that. That's not what bass was about for me. That was the fun one. That was the I'm gonna be in a band and be an idiot and wear a biggy suit wig that's hot pink, and you know, like that was a big thing.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

Pixar, it didn't happen. I gotta see. Maybe after.

SPEAKER_07 35:04

That's so funny. Would you say that the piano is a percussive instrument? Like, where does it fit in? Because like because technically, yes, because yeah, you got the pedal and then but you're hitting the keys, but then the key in a proper big piano, yeah. It's hitting a it's hitting a wire string. So it's just like there's so many different elements. That's why I think the piano is so epic.

SPEAKER_03 35:23

When you hear, sorry, yeah, it was because you've got mallets, these little hammers inside the piano. And when you hit the key, yeah, it all works together to hit three three strings together that are all tuned specifically. Yeah, it's so it is and it is percussive because a lot of the time you're doing that, like uh, I don't know, it's on one. There's just there's a lot of drumming kind of feeling going on. Yeah. Yeah. If I turn the volume down and I just play. Uh I love this tune.

SPEAKER_09 36:01

I love this tune.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

Yeah. So, you know, it's just you've got that like that action to it. I think it ends up being quite percussive.

SPEAKER_07 36:11

It's probably the most important instrument ever in the world, to be honest. Because if you think about it, a lot of composers, even the old school composers that are all well, they're all dead. Not all of them. Well, you know, the classic, the classic composers, they all, I'm guessing they transpose everything. I think most of the broken classical. Yeah. Everything starts with the piano, that's where they start, and then it all gets thrown out into these.

SPEAKER_08 36:31

It would have been harpsichord back then. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03 36:34

And then piano. Beethoven had a little piano. Harps, it's the way I remember it. I believe that's it. Harpsichord and then piano. And then the harpsichord, right? It plucked, is my understanding. I think it plucked the strings.

SPEAKER_06 36:43

It plucked instead of hammering them.

SPEAKER_07 36:46

I remember watching a documentary with um John Williams, and John Williams was yeah. I mean, he was talking about, he's just kind of talking about his process, and he's like he's old school on how he creates music. He still sits there and writes on in those big things. I think he said like you can only write at least two minutes of music a day. Or like 20 seconds or something like that. It doesn't seem like much because you've got to write for a lot, but he always started off on the piano. And I remember just seeing that story about him when uh Steven Spielberg came in and he was asking about right, what's the theme for Jaws gonna be? And he just went, he was like, Are you fucking kidding? He probably didn't say that. He was like, And you kind of sort of think as well, like, there's not really much to that in terms of like wow, but it invokes a sort of a certain feeling of because now it's used for you know oh yeah, for danger, like it's used to be a few years. Anywhere you hear that danger. Exactly, and all that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 37:44

John Williams was like the master of the theme to me. Like like if you think of like Star Wars or Indiana Jones and stuff. It's just like the themes really evoke very specifically what the audience is supposed to feel. I mean, even Jaws was not him, right?

SPEAKER_08 37:59

Yeah, you did hardly.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

We're gonna sound really stupid if we're wrong.

SPEAKER_08 38:04

Oh, we sound stupid on this podcast all the time. Don't do worse.

SPEAKER_07 38:07

Me more than her.

SPEAKER_08 38:09

No, no, we both have our moments.

SPEAKER_07 38:11

Yeah, I guess so, yeah. Um, so when you sit down to write a song, uh are you just do you do you do you actually this this is not how I would technically do it if I was writing a song or a riff or anything like that. But do you just sort of like sit in front and just sit in front of your piano or your instrument and just see what happens? Like if your bingo goes there and then you just sort of like you're not really thinking about it, you're just sort of letting the moment take you, and if something pops out of it and you just sort of disassociate without thinking about it too much, and just see if something falls out of the sky.

SPEAKER_03 38:41

I'm not gonna lie, sometimes when I get stuck, I absolutely go that way, or sometimes when I just don't know where to get started, I throw myself in that direction. I'm like, uh, I don't because I always pick the same key. Let me pick a different key. Let's go here, and then we're doing this. And I don't know. I yeah, I try to do that. I'm uh still kind of finding my sound as an independent writer. Like I've done a lot of writing for Good Time Locomotive, my band. Um, and they, you know, a lot of that music coming out kind of starts with synth parts, at least on our new EP. And um, I've been able to give birth to the beginning of these songs, and then we kind of come together. There's a bit of everyone doing everything for sure. But lyrics? Uh I can. I feel like I, you know, it's right what you know. So like the a lot of the stuff I end up writing about is I like there's one song I I did write one song. It's probably my best song that I have, but um, it's called Be There, and it's not out or anything. I'm still kind of giving it some time and thinking about it all the way through. But um, it's about like leaving the US and moving here, actually. And I was in a relationship and it was a really good one. Um, it may have been coming to its end anyway, but um, you know, it was very amicable leaving it, but because I was gonna be so far away, that kind of also pushed it in that direction. So um, yeah, and that that's a cool one. I can play a little bit of you uh of it for you.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

I mean it's so it's I wish we could be a little bit closer. Let's go down. I'm trying so hard to love you from afar.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

And then the chorus is kind of an instrumental. It's just such a funny little keyboard. I know, it's so cute. So that's like the main kind of hook bit.

SPEAKER_07 40:35

That's an interesting little it's an interesting hook for a song which is about something which is like quite emotional, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's got an upbeat, it's got that, it's got that happy stuff.

SPEAKER_03 40:44

I'll give you the pre.

SPEAKER_00 40:45

So oh you had a bee, oh you had a bee, beat it, beat it, oh you had a bee, breathe in, breathe in, oh you had to be there to be there to be there, oh you had to be, breathe in, breathe.

SPEAKER_08 41:04

You're giving me shivers. Love this.

SPEAKER_07 41:06

I'm just hearing like that's kinda like I could that's what music is, really. Like if I if I was a drummer, I probably wouldn't, but that's what I would hear if hear it like coming off that. Yeah, yeah. Like if I was working with you, I'd be like, it's going, oh, this is cool. Like it just reminded me of a really incredible. You start getting that vibe without even saying that's it. I wanted to be in this style. It's just like, no, I think I can I get a lot of things. I like writing.

SPEAKER_08 41:35

You should be a mouth drummer.

SPEAKER_07 41:36

You should. Beatbox. Can you beatbox? No, not really.

SPEAKER_08 41:39

I mean, I can do like, you know No, it's gotta be like symbol noises and stuff. You got it's gotta be mouth drumming. That's really good. Sounds like it's got brushes. That's who needs an instrument?

SPEAKER_07 41:54

Oh, wait, I can't do the ride symbol. The ride one's the hardest because it's a belt. Yeah, it's like yeah ding. No, that's stupid. I mean, I can I can do uh I can do a double kick like for the heavy metal.

SPEAKER_08 42:08

So it's like you probably could also speak Italian if you could do that. I was gonna say, you reminded me of this amazing moment I had in high school where I had rock and roll in my head. Like I liked rock and roll. And then I heard Ben Fold's five, and I was like, holy shit, it's rock and roll without a guitar. And it completely changed my vision of the piano. Like all of a sudden I saw it as something you could use not just in the orchestra or whatever. Now it was part of the jazz band. Now it's part of the rock band. So it really changed my.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

I love that take. I mean, for me, it's like you you know, you can't help but feel dorky. I mean, I'm in a rock band for all intents and purposes. They all are a little more rocky. I kind of I'm pushing us to pop as much as I can with what I do. Um, but like, uh yeah, it's it's you'll feel a little weird being the keyboard player, but if you own it correctly, it's like really fun. I do wear the shades sometimes live, and it's just like, yeah. That's a good way to be like, look at this guy.

SPEAKER_08 43:06

Let's go for it, dude. Is that what you've been doing the whole time? Just trying to look cool?

SPEAKER_07 43:09

Yeah, absolutely. And it's just keeping the light and sun out of my eyes. It's it's a bit, yeah. I'm gonna let him have all the fucking sunlight, some of the things.

SPEAKER_06 43:19

I feel like what you need to do though. Have you worked a key tar? Good question.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

A what? Let's talk about the key tar. Yeah. I I have played on a keitar, absolutely. Um, but they're just kind of not that practical. It sucks. It sucks. They are really, really cool. For the one hand, and you get like the pitch stick is up at here, so you get to do something with your left hand. You have like a couple other little buttons you can hit, whatever, maybe some drum pads on it. But typically, this is what you got. And I don't know, like I tried hanging, I'm really tall, so I like, I'm like, let me put it low because I've got this long ass arm. It's all my fault.

SPEAKER_08 43:56

It's past young Petey, she's just trying to run away.

SPEAKER_03 44:02

So I mean, yeah, I keep to keep my arm like so I don't have to do this, right? Then play the keyboard. It's like I because then I only have access to a couple notes. By the time I get up here, I'm all blocked. So I tried doing like a long, like really low flea bass almost with the key tar, and that's okay, but like I don't know. And then I end up using my right, it's hard to demonstrate sitting down. Oh yeah. My right leg to kind of pick the keyboard up so I'm nearly looking at it flat, and then I'm just kind of cheating. I'm just playing the keyboard in my hands. It is really damn cool though. If you're playing a lead line, you can get get a lot of that stuff on it.

SPEAKER_08 44:33

Pianist.

SPEAKER_03 44:34

That's a pianist. That's yes. Pianist. My favorite pianist. He heads out of the ghost. It's a really um that's a hard question. Um You asked him the same question.

SPEAKER_08 44:46

I did, I did. I knew you were going to be able to. At some point in my life.

SPEAKER_03 44:52

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_08 44:53

I then I discovered Jacko Pastorius and everything.

SPEAKER_03 44:56

I think I look up to like the most like there's some the a basic answer is like you're Billy Joel, you're Elton John. But I love those guys. There's the way they arrange songs together and their like little flourishes and stuff are just absolutely phenomenal. Um so I take a lot of inspiration from them for the pop piano stuff, um, especially the body things. I love I mean some of my favorite keyboard players. Um like I I I guess I it's hard because like I said, the keyboard player doesn't get a lot of fame, so sometimes I don't even look into it. I'm just like, oh, I know this band has great keys.

SPEAKER_09 45:34

Right.

SPEAKER_03 45:34

Um but like the keys for Genesis were great. I just had his name on the tip of my tongue, but I'm forgetting him.

SPEAKER_09 45:39

That's okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:40

Um and yeah, so I it's it's gotta be those guys. There's a lot of great uh like piano players out there too in different styles. Like I do like jazz. I'm not the best jazz musician, but like fusion, jazz fusion, I love Chick Korea, and um Spain, if you know that that's got the flute in it. There's your jazz flute. Yeah, exactly. So um I play jazz flute. I love him. Um Oscar Peterson a lot for jazz too. Um what's what's the Doobie Brothers guy? I sound Michael McDonald. Michael McDonald, fantastic piece player, yeah, great singer too, and he's kind of got the oh, wrong, wrong patch. Yacht rock.

SPEAKER_08 46:19

Yacht rock, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 46:22

And that's so I do that shit a lot. Like I overuse that because I love it. Um, it's just fun.

SPEAKER_08 46:28

Everything's like but I also feel like this genre has surpassed corny and gone to retro. Yeah, yeah. Like we're allowed to like this again.

SPEAKER_03 46:37

I and I'm nostalgic for something I never experienced. I love 80s music. Um, it's I don't know why. I couldn't even tell you.

SPEAKER_08 46:44

You know, it's the sounds, it's the sounds of it. What did you just say? There's a German word for that. Nostalgic for something you never actually experienced. Or the Germans actually have a word for that. I've heard of this. I don't know what the word is. I don't know what the word is either, but I really like that. Like the first time I went to Westminster Abbey, I studied English history. I felt like I'd been there before and I missed it. And I've never been there. It was my very first time going there, but I was nostalgic for something that I'd never heard of. That's cool.

SPEAKER_04 47:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good.

SPEAKER_07 47:12

Westminster Abbey is pretty awesome. Yeah. This is a piano player that I really like, and everyone's probably uh Ludovico Ainauti.

SPEAKER_08 47:23

Uh Ludovico Ainaudi.

SPEAKER_07 47:27

A lot of his arrangements get used in TV shows or films and stuff like that. Einaudi. Maybe maybe it's more interesting now. Because his uh his a lot a lot of his a lot of his music, uh used in the This Is England uh T series and movies. It's very emotional stuff. And it's literally just him playing the piano, it's quite incredible. There's an awesome video of him in the fucking near the polar ice caps literally floating on like a deck on his own whilst all these like uh ice caps are just falling in front of him, and he's just surrounded by ocean. And he literally just sits there and you see this all this shit just going to melt, and he looks over and then just goes and then just starts playing. It's one of the weirdest things I've ever done. I'll show you, I'll show you in a sec. But like, yeah, he's just like solely a piano player, very classical kind of thing, occasionally has like accompaniment with a violin player or whatever, but he's uh yeah, it's just him and a piano. But I know him a lot through uh all that kind of stuff. Um check him out.

SPEAKER_08 48:28

Since we said kitar, I can't stop thinking about Journey. I like I love Journey. Journey's great. I'll say it. Separate ways was the first song we ever played.

SPEAKER_03 48:37

Alright, hold on. Are you ready? That's too high.

SPEAKER_08 48:44

There it is. That just belongs in this room. That was the very first song we ever used to test the sound in this room.

SPEAKER_07 49:03

What was the what was the other?

SPEAKER_08 49:06

The guitar in the video was on the wall.

SPEAKER_07 49:09

What was the other really famous um 80s? The final countdown. Yeah. Oh yeah. That was that was probably really easy as that. And of course, my favorite, jump by Van Halen.

SPEAKER_08 49:26

I absolutely love that we keep saying shit and he figures it out immediately.

SPEAKER_06 49:29

Exactly. I mean that lick made that the actual version of that game more famous.

SPEAKER_08 49:48

Um, didn't you have a special surprise for gaz? Something we had prepared ahead of time.

SPEAKER_03 49:55

Well, I thought we were. Sort of, but I might fuck it up.

SPEAKER_08 49:59

He did it on the fly for us.

SPEAKER_03 50:01

Wasn't it? Wasn't it? Yeah, sure. Um how does it go? It's that yung lif pod.

SPEAKER_07 50:17

Alex remembers all of his fucking lyrics.

SPEAKER_08 50:19

Maybe. Yeah. But it's no, I think we should do a special release of that actual song. Yes. How cool is that though? I just said learn it, and he did.

SPEAKER_07 50:31

Yeah, that that's a special skill, Matt. But you ask someone to just learn learn a song like that.

SPEAKER_08 50:38

That's what the podcast sounds like.

SPEAKER_07 50:42

I always have to That is awesome. It sounds like a theremin. Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_08 50:48

Yeah, a cork.

SPEAKER_07 50:50

So you've got some gigs coming up, yeah? Like just so the jazz lounge stuff.

SPEAKER_03 50:55

Absolutely, yeah. And it's it's it's honestly more the cruise ship lounge stuff, really, is like what the vibe is. Because sure, we can go jazz, but it's it's all like, let's go, Mr. Bright Side, let's go uh journey, let's go, you know.

SPEAKER_08 51:07

How can people follow you, find out where you're playing?

SPEAKER_03 51:10

Um, great question. I mean, just through Instagram, really. So um my handle is underscore and then Elias is me, E-L-L-Y-E-S.

SPEAKER_08 51:17

We'll put on the uh go for it.

SPEAKER_03 51:19

Yeah, so that's that's how you can keep up with me. And um, I'm really looking forward to doing uh doing the show with you guys. I think we'll have a really good time.

SPEAKER_08 51:28

There'll be a couple of passion venues.

SPEAKER_03 51:29

Yeah, do you encourage people to get up and like sing with the supply? If anyone's like, uh, I'm like, sure. Unless, you know, if they're belligerent, you know, somewhat thing. If they're if they're peacefully belligerent, then I'll be peacefully belligerent with them. He's gotta be belligerent. It's never peaceful. I I'd say the more the barrier. That phases him, right?

SPEAKER_06 51:48

So hybrid. We're gonna invite some people to sing along as well, do a little hybrid show with them. Yeah, a couple of our guests give me a good time.

SPEAKER_08 51:58

We're probably requesting songs as a song.

SPEAKER_07 52:00

We could do journey if you want.

SPEAKER_08 52:03

But before you start playing us out, we gotta say as usual.

SPEAKER_07 52:07

We'll put the glasses on your ass.

SPEAKER_08 52:12

The young life chooses.

SPEAKER_07 52:15

Well, um oh here we go. When do I come in?

SPEAKER_08 52:21

I feel like Tony Soprano's about to die.

SPEAKER_07 52:24

Right here.

SPEAKER_05 52:26

Just a small town girl living in a lonely world. You took the midnight train going anyway. Just a city boy Born and Race and South Detroit You took the midnight train going.

SPEAKER_00 53:07

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:08

I'm gonna get to the chorus before this comes out.

SPEAKER_04 53:11

You ain't gonna stop Huna to the feet lights. What? Don't stop. Subscribe to the Young Light. Hold on to the fee lights. Hey! Fuck yeah, dude! Round of applause!

SPEAKER_06 53:51

And I have an un unbelievable desire to go home and re-watch Glee now.

SPEAKER_10 54:25

Living that young life, baby. Thank you very much, though.

SPEAKER_03 54:32

That was amazing. Thanks for having me. That was really fun.

SPEAKER_07 54:35

Dude, that was so much fun.