When Art Meets Music: Unplugged with Derek Gores and Andrew Spear

If you've ever marveled at the intersection of music and art, prepare to be bowled over by our guests for this episode. Renowned artist Derek Gores, whose works have graced the Playboy Hugh Hefner special tribute edition cover and the official Derby poster for the 2013 Kentucky Derby, joins us with the versatile Andrew Spear, a muralist, illustrator, designer, and music trivia fanatic. Together, they enlighten us about their upcoming show, Rock Paper Scissors, at the Derek Gores Gallery, sharing their plans for the show, its merchandise, and the live set from John Robert Bridges III!

Ever wondered about the creative process involved in merging music with art? We've got you covered! Join us in our riveting conversation with Andrew, as he discusses his 90s-inspired playing cards, his passion for painting, and how he creatively combines his love for art and music. We also explore the bond between Derek and Andrew, their collaborations on projects for Van Halen and Live Nation, and delve into a fascinating discussion about the legacy of the late, great Tom Petty.

In our final segment, we offer a peek into the personal lives of Andrew and Brittany, revealing intriguing details ranging from their favorite colors to Starbucks orders. We also chat about their upcoming collaborative art show at Derek Gores Gallery and their efforts to use the power of art to transform tragedies into something beautiful, as exemplified by their incredible Kool-Aid Man mural at the Hideaway Bar in Orlando. Tune in for a captivating journey through art, music trivia, and a whole lot of fun!

Transcript

Rock Paper Scissors

Speaker 1 0:01

Welcome to Local Celebrity . I'm Nico Lehman and today I have Derek Gores and Andrew Spear . Welcome boys .

Speaker 2 0:09

Thank you .

Speaker 1 0:11

Of course , derek is best known for his Playboy Hugh Hefner special tribute edition cover , the official Derby poster for the 2013 Kentucky Derby , and he was an artist in residency at the Hotel Bel Air during Oscar season . That must have been amazing .

Speaker 2 0:31

It's true , that was wow . The brunch at the Wolfgang Puck alone sticks in my mind forever for sure .

Speaker 1 0:38

Did you see a bunch of celebrities there ?

Speaker 2 0:40

Saw some good ones . Let's see Bumped into . I forgot Dennis Quaid . We saw Bono , we saw Martha Stewart . A few more , A couple more . I just can't .

Speaker 1 0:51

Yeah , there's too many , too many , you know . And Andrew , you are a muralist , an illustrator , you make clothing with your artwork and you are a music trivia fanatic .

Speaker 3 1:05

I was up until about 2003 and then I don't really know what's happened musically , because I'm not older . But I still try to pay attention .

Speaker 1 1:12

But all the stuff before that .

Speaker 3 1:14

Yeah , I'm good to go , Okay , okay .

Speaker 1 1:16

That's cool , and you've done a lot of murals in Orlando , predominantly right .

Speaker 3 1:22

A lot in Orlando . But yeah , just nation all over , the US All over , yeah .

Speaker 1 1:27

I've seen your Instagram and it's full of amazing artwork .

Speaker 2 1:31

Thank you , Including some stuff for TV shows right .

Speaker 1 1:34

Yes , you did Hard Rock for the real world .

Speaker 3 1:38

Mm-hmm , did you get to In Vegas ?

Speaker 1 1:41

Yeah , in Vegas , and you also did a Hard Rock in South Dakota . The tribe chiefs .

Speaker 3 1:44

Yes .

Speaker 1 1:45

That was a marionette-making artwork Crazy , yes .

Speaker 3 1:49

Yeah , that was just passed over the summer and I mean it was like they had like a whole ritual and blessed it . It had to get approval from the five tribes .

Speaker 2 1:59

Of course .

Speaker 3 2:00

I mean it was like a big deal . So I felt like I was like in .

Speaker 2 2:03

That's so cool , which is ?

Speaker 3 2:04

pretty dope , yeah , but yeah , hard Rock all like pretty much all over the country .

Speaker 1 2:10

Yeah For them at this point . Okay , that's so cool .

Speaker 2 2:14

I heard you're the stairwell specialist . Is that true ?

Speaker 3 2:17

I am Just on the weekends , though Depends on how cold it is outside , of course .

Speaker 1 2:26

Well , Derek has brought you here he has . This weekend , especially for what ? What is going on at the Derek Gores Gallery .

Speaker 2 2:35

We have our new show opening for Friday . The show is called Rock Paper Scissors , which is a name that we've kind of texted about for the last like five years . You know rock because of our love of rock music and 80s stuff , and then the paper and the scissors for collage and for his cool art , but this isn't our first go around .

Speaker 3 2:54

We've done this before .

Speaker 1 2:55

Oh yeah .

Speaker 3 2:56

Like years ago , we did it .

Speaker 1 2:59

And here at EGAD yeah .

Speaker 2 3:01

We that show . We called a different name .

Speaker 3 3:03

It was a different name .

Speaker 2 3:04

We called it Torah Torah .

Speaker 3 3:06

Oh , that's at the first spot you had .

Speaker 2 3:08

First spot .

Speaker 3 3:09

But then we did the other one when you were off of Highland , I don't remember Right we did . We did one of them .

Speaker 2 3:14

And that's one of the names . The first one was definitely called Torah . Torah , which is a , which is a Van . Halen song title so we were the only ones who cared about the name , but that was all it took . Yeah , that one nerds . And then we've met up a couple times . I was telling my wife , cassandra , that one show in Orlando I I showed up a little bit late Andrew here was pretending to be me and telling me and telling people please , please , ma'am , step , don't touch the art . Step away from the art .

Speaker 3 3:42

I was like a little too close and now like not being the bodyguard , but I'm like well , they don't know that I'm not Derek , they don't know who I am .

Speaker 1 3:47

So can you please Were they trying to like step aside , stand back a little bit Stand back yeah .

Speaker 3 3:55

So we've had , we've had a in our over our history at this point we've done . We don't get to do stuff as much together so why are you traveling , traveling a lot . Just yeah , you know life gets in the way of life . So it's like you know kids or whatever and not me , not me but him , but just getting the schedules together .

Speaker 1 4:15

Yeah .

Speaker 3 4:16

And yeah , so he , he , he dropped this a couple months ago , or maybe a month ago . It was like you want to get down . I'm like yeah absolutely , dude , let's go . So it gives you got the new space .

Speaker 1 4:26

I wanted to check out the new space over here . Beautiful , yeah , awesome . Well , it's great to have you here .

Speaker 3 4:31

Thank you . You want to show us what you brought .

Speaker 1 4:35

Okay , yeah , show and tell time .

Speaker 3 4:37

I got some . Well , I guess , just so people know what the show it's going to be . Obviously it's going to be it's a music show .

Speaker 1 4:44

Yeah , all month long .

Speaker 3 4:46

Yes , right .

Speaker 1 4:48

And the opening is Friday , first Friday .

Speaker 2 4:50

Tomorrow Yep , so depending on when you air this sucker . But yeah , friday from 530 to 830 in the O'galley Arts District and yeah , my gallery is at 1418 Highland and Art . At the tail end of the show we have a live set from John Robert Bridges , the third , who maybe you can borrow his guitar or something . Do a little noise yourself . Air guitar , Air guitar , yep . But yeah , it's a show that's packed full of music and inspiration , other pop culture fun , and I was willing to have anything that Andy here could bring , along with a handful other other cool artists .

Speaker 1 5:29

Super cool . So let's kind of get a little flavor of what we're going to see this month at Derek .

Speaker 3 5:34

It's going to be a little bit of merchandise . I love merchandise . I got my new sticker packs . These are amazing .

Speaker 1 5:39

I think anybody who loves pop culture , rock and roll . These are so colorful and creative

Art, Music, and Trivia With Andrew

Speaker 1 5:47

.

Speaker 3 5:47

These are fun . There's five in this , so if you can't afford a piece of artwork , it's like well , you can get some sickers for 10 bucks or whatever .

Speaker 1 5:54

And it's a pack of stickers . It's a pack . Yeah , there's five in here people . Okay , that makes sense .

Speaker 3 6:00

You got to support these locals while they're still local . Yeah , damn it , yeah . And then , because of the music thing it inspired me to get together for I'm doing another release of playing cards . This is the 90s edition , if you can see this on a podcast , but if not , you're going to have to go to the gallery .

Speaker 1 6:21

Also , this is the second edition . You're saying that you did a pack of cards before . Let's see the other side , yeah .

Speaker 3 6:28

This is it's all 90s artists on the face cards . Unbelievable Dig it , you'll have all the trivia as far as people go on who's that , who's not that .

Speaker 2 6:38

If you can't afford artwork , you can buy yourself a deck of cards and you drew like the number three in the hearts you hand drew that , all that .

Speaker 3 6:45

Yeah , very Christmas , very yeah , casino approved .

Speaker 2 6:49

That's so cool and all the white areas you drew , that also yeah .

Speaker 3 6:53

I did that with . I etched it Brilliant .

Speaker 2 6:56

Yeah , took a lot of time . Stone tablets .

Speaker 3 6:58

Yeah , well , it's going to use an etch of sketch , but I couldn't find it . I don't know if they do , maybe they do Nice .

Speaker 1 7:05

So , andrew , do you just paint or draw ? Well , you paint too , paint , draw rock and roll , or do you kind of go outside of that at any point ?

Speaker 3 7:16

Yeah , I mean music is just such a big part of it , because a lot of stuff for hard rock is like usually on my plate .

Speaker 2 7:22

you know with them .

Speaker 3 7:23

So they'll be like oh you know , I just finished a piece of Jay-Z and Beyonce , like two days ago for the one , the casino down in Miami , so there's always a constant flow of that . And then lately it's been , um , just trying to find out that , like with the , with like I got a threat , the store , and that's kind of what we referring to before right , right .

Speaker 1 7:51

You can find all of andrew's merchandise um artwork on his merchandise at his store .

Speaker 3 7:56

Well , that , yeah , but but also with threadless , because I wanted to like not have to give them half , because they take fifty percent yeah , so I'm , I actually just started . Uh , I'm opening my , my own store online and that's a spear life dot me right , so it's , but it's still being . Still being built is still like . This is a couple things on the bed . After we open the show , I'm gonna start filling up with yeah , all the stuff that works here , so if you're out of town you can come see it .

Speaker 1 8:22

Maybe get something love that um , let's take a look at this piece oh well , this is something completely different .

Speaker 3 8:30

Yeah , this was . I mean we're kind of shy , his halloween just went by , but this was for halloween and this was everything's hand hand drawn , except for the hands , except , except , yeah , except for the colors , and then I colored it with a mouse on the computer , because I'm fifty and I'm still trying to figure it out everyone's like why don't you get the back book of the thing in the pan ? And I'm like why don't you just let me do this ?

Speaker 1 8:55

by hand . That's still . It's still doing its thing so cool . Lots of great color in your artwork thank you now I saw on your um , on your instagram , that you are a music trivia fanatic I am so I wanna play a little game with you today oh man , I hope I can pass this I hope you can pass it too , because I asked a I to give me some hard questions oh man but they're all . I've took them all from your murals , so if you've painted it , it's about them okay so I'm not stepping outside of your wheelhouse .

Speaker 1 9:27

Are you ready to play ? Yeah , absolutely , and you can use derrick as your lifeline oh nice , my phone a friend yeah , phone a friend if you need to . Are you ready to play ?

Speaker 3 9:35

uh , yeah , let's go alright .

Speaker 1 9:36

So question number one madonna starred in a film directed by her then husband , guy richie . What is the title of that film ? Uh , that's swept away ding ding well done nice , very good , very good .

Speaker 3 9:52

Yeah , I was like my madonna friends , if I like my madonna friends , if I didn't get that , they'd be like bullshit too , and I saw your madonna mural .

Speaker 1 10:00

It was the one with her with the cones uh-huh excellent job . Where , what ? Where is that that's in ?

Speaker 3 10:04

miami , I believe cool in there in there . Yeah , they , I did a bunch of cards with them and they they have a bunch of artwork in their uh , high roller .

Speaker 1 10:12

I think that's in there , so cool alright . Next question john lennon song imagine was co-produced by him , and which famous producer phil specter yeah hey , very good , I am alright . We saw shanae doe connor on one of your cards . Uh , she had a nineteen ninety hit . Nothing compares to you . Who was it written by ? It was an iconic musician don't pretend , I know it I know it was .

Speaker 3 10:44

Look , I can't , I don't know if you for you . Yeah , that's uh . That would be uh , prince rogers nelson that was another question .

Speaker 1 10:53

What's his real name ?

Speaker 3 10:55

I'm a prince fanatic , like , get me on a prince show and I'll , I'll try that with , I mean , the prince people crazy , but I would , I'd go on that too okay actually we're gonna go see she'll era . We're gonna go see she'll be on monday at ebbcott though they go not to promote that place , but still alright , next question .

Speaker 1 11:16

Mic jagger released a solo album in nineteen ninety three , featuring the single sweet thing . What is the title of the album ?

Speaker 3 11:24

nineteen , ninety three , uh , I , I know the first one he did . She's the boss . I don't know that , I don't know that night , I don't that one I , I stopped you yeah , I got that they met it's called wandering spirit uh it sounds like I'm not on a dump booth .

Speaker 1 11:43

I'm not gonna go home fall I think this one will be easy for you , don't ? Don't , don't , don't , lose a sound from uh prices right the , the , the , the , the , the , the , the the trip home yet that that that's . That's my phone ring okay , which beasty boys album one the grammy of the year for best alternative music album in nineteen , ninety , nine oh , hello nasty that is correct , yeah very good .

Speaker 3 12:15

I , I , yes , I've met I yeah , actually um dj hurricane and I he's on , he's in my phone , which is like I'm so dropping that right now , but I , I , I , I , I . I got to hang out with them back in the day and uh , you see to buy weed , offer a keep , howl and stuff in new york they just got a street , they're straight . Yeah , that's right where paul's fatigue is on . Uh , was that lap lap yet ? And where is it ?

Speaker 3 12:40

I feel like clinton like somewhere like barry , like right over there yeah , right over there can I ask you for a quick list ?

Speaker 2 12:47

I know you . I know you met david ly roth . Is that wasn't it while he was the mt , or not ?

Speaker 3 12:52

and who else ?

Speaker 2 12:53

who else ?

Speaker 3 12:53

give us a list of who else I I couldn't if I if well , you live in new york . I used to bartender new york as as that here gallery on six avenue in spring , like all the people that would come in there , you know , because they do like movie readings during the day and it was an art gallery at night . Now it's like it's still there , like , which is crazy , it's like right off the solo yeah on but I became friends with . Like Cindy Loper would come in all the time .

Speaker 1 13:20

Oh , my God .

Speaker 3 13:21

And like Alec Baldwin and I remember seeing Seymour Philip , Seymour Hoffman .

Speaker 1 13:26

Yeah , I saw him riding a bike once , super quiet .

Speaker 3 13:27

Yeah , and like kind of scary .

Speaker 1 13:29

And I was like fuck that's him .

Speaker 3 13:31

I don't wanna bother him . Yeah , you know that whole New York thing too .

Speaker 1 13:33

You don't wanna be like that guy . Yeah , you don't wanna be that guy . Like , oh , you're the guy . I've never been that girl and I regret it . Now I'm like if I had been that guy I would have like a wall full of celebrity photos .

Speaker 3 13:45

I think maybe what's more interesting is like like getting it wrong or like something that goes bad , Like I remember .

Speaker 1 13:55

You get like a phone thrown at you .

Speaker 3 13:57

Well , like the first person I met when I moved , there was Willem Dafoe , and I called him William and he just looked at me and I was like what's ?

Speaker 1 14:05

that I'm like come on , william .

Speaker 3 14:06

And I was like oh , I said fucking name wrong so close . Well , like I remember Natalie Portman coming in one day getting the , and I'm like the style was movie hadn't come out yet and she's like can I get a glass of wine ? I'm like Natalie .

Speaker 1 14:19

You know , I know , I'm not 21 , right ?

Speaker 3 14:21

All right , you were in the professional . She totally was wasn't she yeah .

Speaker 1 14:26

Yeah , yes , she was .

Speaker 3 14:27

Yeah .

Speaker 1 14:28

All right , more trivia .

Speaker 3 14:30

Yeah , oh sure .

Speaker 1 14:32

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at the Super Bowl halftime show . What year was that ?

Speaker 3 14:39

Wow man .

Speaker 2 14:40

See , he knows the pet , he loves the pet , he cares not about the sports ball ? Yeah , I don't know about sports .

Speaker 3 14:46

it was 2006 , 2007 ? Close 2008 . Oh , when was Prince 2000 . I don't have that in my paper . Oh yeah , maybe I'm getting confused with Prince , but yeah , that's unfortunate . Yeah , sports ball , yeah , I like how you call it sports ball .

Speaker 2 15:06

Yeah , his January Go Cows posts are are always well received .

Speaker 1 15:12

Yeah , go Cows , go Cows . My husband got me a shirt that just says go sports yeah .

Speaker 2 15:17

Yeah .

Speaker 1 15:17

I could care less .

Speaker 3 15:19

Yeah , I think we're too busy playing our own games against ourselves with making artwork , yeah , you know . So it's like a chess game . So in a way we're playing a sport against ourselves and then we put it out , so that I guess that's kind of like a sport in a weird way .

Speaker 1 15:33

Yeah , but nobody gets hurt . No one gets hurt except our self esteem .

Speaker 3 15:38

That's about it , that's true , if nobody buys our playing cards , that's sad , yeah , if no one comes to the show and we're like we're doing all this for you guys , and then you know it's show up , you , the fans , what are we doing ?

Speaker 2 15:48

You , the fans , come to the art show .

Speaker 3 15:50

Yeah , come unite over , not on sports ball Anybody who's .

Speaker 1 15:52

anybody will be at this show , so if you want to be anybody , you should come .

Speaker 2 15:57

Come on out .

Speaker 1 15:58

Cindy .

Speaker 2 15:58

Lauper might be there . Yeah , call her out .

Speaker 1 16:02

Yeah , has anybody contacted you , like on Instagram or anywhere ? You put your artwork on social media and been like oh , thank you so much .

Speaker 3 16:11

Uh , oddly enough yeah , it hasn't panned out yet , but I had an amazing January 1st where Nile Rogers hit me up on Instagram . Now , if you don't know who Nile Rogers is , he is a dude from Sheik . He wrote ah , freak out Good times , get lucky for Daupon Borderline from Madonna . Yep , let's dance for David Bowie , like he's written everything . And he had seen my work on Instagram , which is at Spear Life , if you want to check it out . And he sent me his number and then I called it and he didn't answer the phone . So I'm calling another friend of mine and I'm like yo , this is some bullshit . I called his number it's like well , but it was a New York number and then , as I'm on the phone , he called .

Speaker 3 17:00

He called back and I've heard his voice and we just talked , for I fanboyed for like a good 10 minutes and then I was like I gotta get it out . And then we talked about doing , about me going down to Turks and Caicos where he's opening a studio to Murally Inside of it , and we've gone back and forth over email but he's on tour with Doran Doran right now and he's like crazy busy and I'm just like look , if I just get the phone call and I get to tell you guys the story , but that was enough for me .

Speaker 1 17:36

But it's on the table . He just needs to find the time it is ?

Speaker 3 17:39

It is yeah , it was funny cause he was dropping names on me Like he's like , well , you know , I was gonna open this place with David and I was like David , he's like Bowie , I'm like oh , yeah . And then I was gonna do it with Michael and I'm like Jackson , he's like no , hutchins . And I was like yeah . And then he said something about Pharrell Williams and I was like , yeah , man , I get it with him . I'm like every time I text him back , he never hits me back and he's like , oh , you know , pharrell Williams . I'm like , no , I don't , but you're talking to me like you know all these people , like I know , and I'm not a regular person , I'm not you , mr Studio 54 .

Speaker 1 18:14

He's like yeah , yeah , I will introduce you . Yeah , okay , you are a Van Halen fan , so you should know .

Speaker 3 18:21

Oh .

Tom Petty and American Songwriters Discussion

Speaker 1 18:22

Song Jump was released , on which album known for its futuristic cover art 1984 . Uh huh , did you do an album cover ? Am I wrong about that ? Not for Van Halen .

Speaker 3 18:35

He's worked with Van . You worked . Did you do the shirts ?

Speaker 2 18:38

I did some merch for them for the last decade or so of their existence , yep .

Speaker 3 18:43

I think , yeah , people should know that Derek was doing live nation shirts , like you know , for like crazy legit artists , and he passed me a couple gigs on that to get involved because of the music love , so that was nice .

Speaker 1 18:58

How long have you guys known each other ?

Speaker 2 19:00

I guess it's a good 10 minutes , decade or so .

Speaker 3 19:03

Yeah , I met him on the way in and I'm like , just if I can read this and we'll say that we know each other . I don't . No , we met . Um , I think we both we've both bitten on a on a gig at the same time .

Speaker 2 19:15

Oh for the amway center .

Speaker 3 19:16

Was that for the amway ?

Speaker 1 19:18

Did one of you get it , one of you didn't ?

Speaker 3 19:20

He got it . So I was like fuck this fool you know . And then but I was like I got to learn his secrets , so I'll just be nice to him .

Speaker 1 19:29

Yeah . So I you know you got to be friend , your enemy , yeah , and we keep them close yeah .

Speaker 3 19:34

Exactly , you got to know what he's up to . But yeah , that's why I'm I have my hand on his knee .

Speaker 1 19:38

So so you said you know the Prince is real names . You know Tom Petty's real name with middle name included . I just get Tom .

Speaker 3 19:49

Petty people going to hate me . Is it Gainesville . No , I know his brother , Bruce , but that doesn't really do anything .

Speaker 1 19:57

Bruce Petty yeah .

Speaker 3 19:57

Bruce Petty .

Speaker 1 19:59

But now I don't . Thomas Earl Petty .

Speaker 2 20:03

Earl , oh Earl .

Speaker 1 20:05

Yeah , what a name .

Speaker 2 20:07

Did you , did you go what a writer like a year after he died . Did you go up ? Wasn't there like a tribute show ? Did you go up to that ?

Speaker 3 20:14

Oh , they do the the Tom Petty weekend . They actually they just did it . And at the Heartwood state , this Heartwood sound studio up there , huge spot , and they had me do a mural of Tom . Actually , in the piece the original piece is actually going to be hanging at the show on Friday with Derek and myself .

Speaker 1 20:38

Oh , my goodness .

Speaker 3 20:39

But the but but that piece , that the mural , or even the artwork , was eventually put onto video for the song Gainesville , which was on the box set that came out with Tom Petty on the American treasure . So the the actual artwork that's in the video is what's going to be hanging at the gallery , but it's still up in Gainesville as well and of course Petty's a , you know , a Florida legend .

Speaker 1 21:03

Yeah , yeah , can I ?

Speaker 2 21:04

sneak in a question .

Speaker 1 21:05

Yeah .

Speaker 2 21:05

I love hearing you talk about music . What do you love about Petty ? What , what's ? What is it about Petty ?

Speaker 3 21:12

What ? What do I love about Tom Petty ? Tom Petty's like like the last , really amazing , like not last , but like when you think of American songwriters , like he's just so , like he's always been there since I was a kid , you know , when you watch , like when , when , like the you got lucky video came out like 1980 , what was that ? 1983 when it came out . Or 84 ? Like that was the first video where they had to add an extra part of a song to continue the video because the video was so long , which is interesting . And actually Van Halen did that with , with the cathedral , with intruder on the pretty woman video .

Speaker 3 21:56

But but if you think about great American songwriters , like there's not that many , I mean there's a lot of great ones I don't want to like say , like you know , people like Tom Waits or people like Dylan , bob Dylan or or even like Tom Petty , to me is just like , oh , like John Mellencamp . He's just like . He's so raw and like didn't give a shit , didn't care , just did his thing and just did it well . He just , yeah , everything he did was like really worth listening to If you haven't gone further and it was catalog .

Speaker 2 22:31

I always like with him that he had the kind of raw barband style you know emotional stories , but then he was also willing to . You know , he went kind of the Jeff Lynn Beatles kind of harmony harmony vocals direction .

Speaker 3 22:44

It's like nice to listen to yeah , and then he played bass on the the travel , the travel , woolberries , yeah , yeah , so he did some outside the box stuff , and did you know that his middle name is Earl no .

Speaker 3 23:00

I do now that Dave Grohl was initially asked to be the the drum replacement for him in like 19 after he left Nirvana , and he he said no because he wanted to try this little thing called the food fighters . But they did perform once live and you can watch it on YouTube , but it's on SNL . Oh cool , it's like . Yeah , so you can see Dave Grohl playing drums with Tom Petty on Sunday at live .

Speaker 1 23:21

That's cool , so pretty cool , okay . I just want maybe a couple more questions and

Pop Culture, Murals, and Games

Speaker 1 23:25

then we'll move on . Sure , I don't know if people are getting bored of this .

Speaker 3 23:29

It's definitely turning to a music thing , but I'm totally loving it . Right , Rock paper scissors , Exactly .

Speaker 1 23:34

Coming at you live .

Speaker 3 23:36

Van Halen's guitarist Eddie .

Speaker 1 23:37

Van Halen is known for popularizing which playing technique ? Oh , that would be finger tapping , that's right . Two handed fingers tapping . Yeah , mm , hmm .

Speaker 3 23:46

Mm , hmm , bill and Ted's . Oh , do you remember this one ?

Speaker 1 23:51

This is like pop culture , shanae O'Connor famously tore a photo of which public figure during the live TV performance .

Speaker 3 23:58

The Pope . Yes , mm , hmm , that was him . That was really cool and initially , what she , what she , what she show Lauren Michaels . Before they did it , I think it was like a flag , oh , really . It wasn't it wasn't actually John Paul . I love she was a man , she was . Yeah , If you . If you haven't seen the doc about her , that's on Showtime . I want to it's really great Like , even if you like people think that she's just like this crazy woman .

Speaker 3 24:24

Yeah , no , I think she had more to say than anybody like her she went through a lot and she was as about as punk rock as you could go , and I don't think a lot of people realize that . Yeah , they don't they don't see her backstory . They just go and it's really unfortunate that she ended up . You know suicide , so that kind of makes that go a little bit heavier , where it's like well , she was crazy , it's like well , yeah , but if you see the struggle of what she went through , yeah , listen to her music .

Speaker 1 24:50

Yeah , yeah , yeah , totally Well . I do want to talk about another one of your murals , the Kool-Aid man . It has such a cool story behind it . So let me get this right . Somebody crashed into a bar during the holiday season and your idea was to have the Kool-Aid man . Yeah , it was crashing out of the wall that they rebuilt Well what happened ?

Speaker 3 25:18

Okay , everyone in Orlando knows that there's a bar that I frequent that's very close to where I live and it's called the Hideaway Bar . Props to Chip and all the girls , and you know I've done a lot of artwork there . But it was a Sunday and which is which ? It was in December of last year and apparently they had been a fight that went up , that something that happened inside the bar and anyway , this guy got into his truck , pulled out and then rammed right into the straight front of the bar and injured a lot of people .

Speaker 3 25:54

Like people got hurt and ended up in the hospital Surprising that no one it had there been a football game going on . That would have been crazy , but luckily enough it didn't go down that way , but it was . What was crazy was that that happened at about 6 pm and then the wall was completely cleared out and rebuilt by patrons in the neighborhood by 12 o'clock . That night was done .

Speaker 1 26:22

That was great . I read that people came and like People were bringing pizzas for like , but I had no idea it was done in that amount of time . It was so fast . And then , how fast did you put your mural on ? Well ?

Speaker 3 26:31

then I told Chip I was like , all right , now we have this big hole and we've got a blank wall , like let me come up with something . And I thought what's the best way to make this negative into a positive ?

Speaker 1 26:42

Yeah . And I got busted into the wall yeah , what busted the wall .

Speaker 3 26:45

And I was like well , we'll throw the Kool-Aid guy up there and make them all Miami Dolphins , because it's the Dolphins bar when it's like see , when it's football season , but yeah , and then we made T-shirts . I made T-shirts of that and then all the money from the T-shirts went to the victims that were in the hospital .

Speaker 1 27:02

Oh my God , you're an angel .

Speaker 3 27:04

It was good .

Speaker 1 27:05

You also use pop culture in the best sense , like you're really cheeky about it .

Speaker 3 27:10

Yeah , it's like a DJ mashup . Yeah , it's kind of a way to look at it . Yeah , so it's all just playing homage to the history of the stuff that we grew up on and just kind of putting a remix of it .

Speaker 1 27:22

Yeah , of our own style and making it light .

Speaker 3 27:25

Yeah . I know it was tragic , but yeah , people were like put the back of the car and I'm like now you just drink over there .

Speaker 1 27:35

No , I'll worry about it . That's like putting the Boston bomber on the cover of the magazine .

Speaker 3 27:39

Oh , yeah , oh , and when it's on the cover rolling stone . Yeah , that didn't fly very well , especially with the . You know , my Boston boys up there were not either . They were like no .

Speaker 1 27:49

That was crazy yeah .

Speaker 3 27:51

That was completely insane . Yeah , let's fuck him .

Speaker 1 27:54

Yeah , no he's rotting in jail . Yeah , he is so that's all good , all right . Well , I've realized that Derek knows you a little better than I thought that maybe he would , because I've got a second game for you guys . Okay .

Speaker 2 28:07

Yeah .

Speaker 1 28:07

Okay , this time Derek is in the hot seat .

Speaker 3 28:10

Yeah .

Speaker 1 28:11

And we're playing . Is it Andrew Spear , or is it Brittany Spear ?

Speaker 2 28:16

Whoa , wow , that's phenomenal .

Speaker 1 28:19

So here's your little paddle . Oh , and you're going to tell me he got props . I know that's just nice , I'll get you a prop next time .

Speaker 3 28:28

Look at that , that's crazy .

Speaker 1 28:29

That's cute . Okay , hang on , I got it .

Speaker 3 28:33

You know , every time I when people because I know I had a problem with my last name until Brittany got famous .

Speaker 1 28:38

So I went from a spear to a spears like overnight and I always have to tell people Sorry , I was trying to be clever .

Speaker 3 28:44

No , I just I tell people I'm like you know , not related to Brittany , but I got the dance moves .

Speaker 1 28:50

Yet do you ? Are we going to see those at the gallery On ?

Speaker 3 28:53

the next podcast . I will definitely do it . Okay , all right Below the waist Podcast , it's a less lightning . Yeah , a little less lightning .

Speaker 1 29:02

We'll pull out the camera wider , excuse me Wow , whip it out . All right , Derek , are you ready to play ? I ?

Speaker 2 29:10

am .

Speaker 1 29:11

Okay , let's do it

Getting to Know Andrew and Brittany

Speaker 1 29:13

. Was it Andrew or Brittany who was born in Mississippi ?

Speaker 2 29:20

The accent would tell me that's Brittany .

Speaker 1 29:24

That is Brittany , you're right , all right , whose favorite color is currently fluorescent pink ?

Speaker 2 29:34

I'm going to go with both .

Speaker 1 29:37

Actually it's just . Andrew Brittany's favorite color is blue , notoriously , but she recently posted that it was yellow . But the hardcore Brittany's fans think that that is just a cry for help , Because for some reason yellow means something yeah , I got a pee .

Speaker 2 29:59

I got a pee . Yeah , no , it's . You almost finished your water , I understand .

Speaker 1 30:03

Damn Okay . Whose favorite author is Gladwell ? Is that Andrew or Brittany ?

Speaker 3 30:20

Trying to see if his temples are pulsing . I don't read .

Speaker 2 30:23

Yeah , gladwell Do any music videos Brittany .

Speaker 1 30:27

I don't know if Brittany has it in her to read Malcolm Gladwell .

Speaker 3 30:31

Oh yeah , it is Andrew .

Speaker 2 30:36

I'm not doing very well . You're doing all right .

Speaker 1 30:38

No , you're doing good , ok , ok , cool . Whose favorite sport is basketball ?

Speaker 2 30:44

That would have to be Brittany .

Speaker 1 30:45

That would have to be Brittany , right ? Yeah , we all go be house Go cows .

Speaker 3 30:50

It's my favorite team , the cows .

Speaker 1 30:52

OK , whose favorite movie is One Crazy Summer .

Speaker 2 30:57

I did , shirley . Yeah , you're right , I don't know . I don't know . One Crazy Summer was out .

Speaker 1 31:04

Brittany's favorite movie is Ferris Bueller's Day Off , oh .

Speaker 2 31:07

Which is also good one . That's pretty good . Yeah , oh , john Hughes , john Hughes , yeah .

Speaker 1 31:12

Who orders strawberry frappe at Starbucks ?

Speaker 2 31:19

I was going to say that that would go with Brittany .

Speaker 1 31:22

That is correct , and only because Andrew won't go to Starbucks . He is a Duncan guy .

Speaker 2 31:28

Oh yep , boston .

Speaker 3 31:29

I mean I will go to Starbucks if there's nothing available , but I'm not . Yeah , Well , these people go with the ventes and the I don't even know what they say I just say I'll have a small please .

Speaker 2 31:38

Yeah , you can translate that on your own Exactly and while he's in town , I will be taking him to Anaya and Villain and Apocalypse and going with local .

Speaker 1 31:48

Yes , go with those .

Speaker 3 31:49

That's what .

Speaker 2 31:49

I get the Duncan for sure . Have you done any work for Duncan ? No , that should have . I have not . Surely there are some New England brands that you've got to work with .

Speaker 3 32:00

I haven't really done much up in Boston , or I mean New York . Yeah , I've done a bunch of stuff . But now have you been ?

Speaker 2 32:09

Boston , Not . I did some art for New England Journal of Medicine . That's not so . Podcast swanky fun .

Speaker 3 32:19

Well , that's very good . Well hunting of you MIT stuff right .

Speaker 2 32:23

Why Thank you he ?

Speaker 3 32:26

used to pretend to be the janitor over there too , Instead of like mopping up , he'd like put his artwork up , and he did that at the what's the museum , the American Museum of Arts in .

Speaker 1 32:36

Boston .

Speaker 2 32:37

Oh yeah .

Speaker 3 32:38

So it's pretty good . He also had some good Banksy did that shit too , I think right , didn't Banksy do that at the Tate ?

Speaker 2 32:48

in England Did he Inside , I didn't do it outside .

Speaker 3 32:51

I thought he started changing like Warhol stuff .

Speaker 1 32:54

Aren't we about to find out who he is because of the lawsuit ?

Speaker 3 32:58

I don't know that is going to really come to play at this point possibly .

Speaker 1 33:05

Well , they already named somebody who's been either him or it is .

Speaker 3 33:10

Yeah .

Speaker 1 33:11

Go for it right . I think that the I mean see a lot , Let us see her face . I think it's time . What do you think ?

Speaker 3 33:20

I think that the cat will be out of the bag once they realize that I mean , I don't want to . I have a little bit of insight on this .

Speaker 1 33:29

You do Spill the tea .

Speaker 3 33:32

It's more of a group effort than a singular effort , that's really cool . So , yeah , everyone was used to say it was tricky from . Not who's a band he was in . Anyone remember tricky from ? He said he was with Bjork back in the day . Everyone , everyone thought it was , was he , was , that was him , and then it went away and then it was someone else and then it was David Beckham , like everyone everyone over . That's famous . It's like one of the Spice Girls .

Speaker 1 34:04

You know all of them . Yeah , that's what I'm saying . Yeah , it might be the frog .

Speaker 2 34:08

You know , like you said , team sport .

Speaker 3 34:10

Mm , hmm .

Speaker 2 34:11

Team sport is the Maybe .

Speaker 3 34:12

Definitely Could be yeah .

Speaker 1 34:15

In this case yeah , all right , one more , I guess OK .

Speaker 2 34:18

I'm ready .

Speaker 1 34:20

Who Mm ? Hmm , Whose favorite gum flavor is watermelon .

Speaker 2 34:25

Sheesh . I don't know these facts , let's , I'm going to go , I'm I'm starting to , I'm going to go against my instinct and say that that is definitely spear .

Speaker 3 34:37

Eee , he likes fruit striped because it got more flavor than fruit strap gum . That was actually Beastie Boys lyric .

Speaker 1 34:46

Oh nice so well , thank you for playing , Derek . You did OK .

Speaker 3 34:50

All right , we're going to work on our relationship .

Speaker 1 34:52

Everybody . You guys need some therapy or something .

Speaker 3 34:55

So that's what this is . We're talking it through right now Nice .

Speaker 2 34:59

Nice , it was fun . Where was ? Where was my Van Halen song trivia question for you ? That would have helped . I could have done better with you .

Speaker 3 35:06

Do you have one ? Yeah that's a top man . You know that we're nerds with that stuff . Super .

Speaker 1 35:13

You guys did really good on that , thank you .

Speaker 2 35:16

Most of them . Well done , all right . All right , I feel good , though it was all right ?

Speaker 1 35:18

Well , share with us your your Insta handles , where people can find you and your artwork .

Speaker 2 35:25

Go for it . Sure , yeah , I'm at , you know , at Derrick Gore's . That's my own art , non-local stuff . But then the local fund is at Derrick Gore's gallery where we do the shows and the classes and the happenings . And of course next door would be at Rocky Water Mercantile where you can get all kinds of clever goods and art supplies and the best candy around , the best candy around , especially for kids named Quinn .

Speaker 1 35:53

Quinn and Nico .

Speaker 2 35:56

And Nico , kids named Nico , yeah , highland .

Speaker 3 35:59

Avenue right .

Speaker 2 36:00

Yeah , that's right . We're going around town to Highland Avenue .

Speaker 3 36:01

What about you ?

Speaker 1 36:05

Where can we find your stuff ?

Speaker 3 36:06

You can find me at SpearLife on Instagram and , like I said , I have a thread list store you can check stuff out at and that is spearlifethreadlistcom . And then the new store that I'm going to be just me and not like this thread list thing , which is still not just in thread list is just SpearLife . Anything SpearLife you find is me , spearlifeme Okay .

Speaker 1 36:32

And they take 50% . You said yeah , but . There's other sites that will take like 20% .

Speaker 3 36:37

Yeah , but I think the thing with and I've looked into a lot of Well , I mean , I'm just like at the time those websites that have that accessibility to all these different products without having an inventory .

Speaker 1 36:50

Right , it's print to order .

Speaker 3 36:51

Yeah , like if you have a , you get a box of shirts or like I got a box of all Lady Smalls and you just drop 300 bucks and you're like I sold two of them Right .

Speaker 1 37:00

And you're like what ?

Speaker 3 37:01

So , and then dealing with the shipping and the people , I've only In the years that I've done it for about maybe five or six years , and I think I've had like maybe two complaints , and that was just because those people were insane .

Speaker 1 37:13

Right , there's 2% of insane people out there . That's right .

Speaker 3 37:17

They were wrong . There was nothing wrong . I was like I don't know it was mailed later or something . But yeah , so there's that . But then , yeah , come by the show on Friday , tomorrow , November 3rd , for the Rock Papers . This is extravaganza with myself and Mr Derek .

Speaker 1 37:35

G . Can we just maybe get one idea , derek ? I know you have a third section of your wonderful shop gallery . Do you have any idea what's going to happen in that third spot ?

Speaker 2 37:49

I'm still interviewing candidates for there . We had something lined up . It fell through , so now I get to fill it again , which is Exciting it is exciting . Yeah , it's 1600 square feet of goodness right there in the heart of the O'Galley Arts District with 15,000 cars going by the two one ways . So a number of things would be cool . We want something that complements the gallery and everything but , also that the district needs , so I showed it to two people today and I'm excited . Something good . Maybe it's your spot .

Speaker 1 38:24

Maybe it is Well awesome . Let's end this by playing Rock Paper Scissors .

Speaker 2 38:29

Oh , good idea .

Speaker 1 38:31

And then we'll see all of you at the show . If you can't make the opening come , It'll be all month long .

Speaker 2 38:41

From afar . You'll be able to go to the Derricorps Gallery , Socials , and you'll get a link to view the artwork as well . Did we tell you that It'll be not threadless , Not through threadless . We'll show all your art through the website , so you can shop from far away . But definitely come hang out with us if you can .

Speaker 1 38:58

Awesome , alright , rock Paper , scissors or it up . Who's going to win this one One ?

Speaker 2 39:03

two , three ready . One , two , three .

Speaker 1 39:06

Oh , rock Paper Scissors shoot .

Speaker 3 39:09

See how close we are as people .

Speaker 2 39:11

You guys are together again , beautiful metaphor in there .

Speaker 1 39:16

Alright , thank you for coming . Next time we will talk to Lena Lopez and get all her interior design tips . We'll see you next time .

Speaker 3 39:27

Show me the tips .

Speaker 1 39:28

Yeah , bye .

Speaker 3 39:30

Thanks everybody .

Speaker 1 39:32

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