Bond Henry | Singer/Songwriter

What happens when a talented singer-songwriter with a soulful voice takes us on a journey through his musical influences and captivating experiences? Get ready to dive into the melodies and memories of Bond Henry's life, as he shares entertaining stories of his music career and the three-piece band he put together. From playing an acoustic show for a heavy metal band to reflecting on the impact Johnny Cash's music had on metalheads, Bond's dedication to his craft is truly inspiring.

Growing up surrounded by music, Bond Henry's journey began with his dad playing Johnny Cash and Porter Wagner songs on the guitar. We explore his childhood memories of spending time on Beale Street in Memphis, listening to blues music, and learning how to play guitar from his aunt. We also discuss his love for graffiti art, plans to move to Tennessee to further his music career, and the upcoming writers' round in Nashville.

As we wrap up this unforgettable conversation, we delve into Bond's family history and its influence on his music, as well as his connection to the Chicago Cubs and growing up in the Windy City. We discuss his song "Poor Man's Dollar" and its connection to his upbringing in an orphanage in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Don't miss out on this incredible journey through Bond Henry's music and the melodies and memories that have shaped his career.

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Speaker 1 0:01

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Welcome to the Melodies and Memories podcast with Jillian and Aaron Shriver, brought to you by Arlo Revolution. Each week, they connect melodies and memories with fans and singer-songwriters from all genres of life. When all else in life is gone, music will be left to leave a legacy of life's adventures. Please welcome your hosts of the Melodies and Memories podcast, jillian and Aaron Shriver.

Speaker 4 0:36

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Speaker 1 0:42

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Speaker 4 0:43

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Speaker 1 1:59

Ooh, look at that Nailed it. They're good.

Speaker 4 2:02

Yeah, i feel like you changed the layout on me.

Speaker 1 2:04

No, The font.

Speaker 4 2:06

Yeah, something threw my eyeballs off.

Speaker 1 2:08

Yeah, i changed out the font on it. That's funny, man. You know what I just realized? We come on here and go live right at 7. We kind of just BS talk a little bit. Welcome everybody. I always edit that part out of the show every week The audio. When you listen to it streaming, they hear you first Read all that And then we just go right into the guest.

Speaker 3 2:26

I'm like we never really like intro us or talk before that I'm like we're not changing things up for our next season.

Speaker 1 2:33

We're almost close to the end of the season. All right, y'all, we are excited for tonight. This is going to be a fun one. We've done a few. This might be our fourth or fifth in-studio guest we've had, so we brought in a local guy AKA in basement. But I don't know if this guy's going to be much local much longer, because he's on the path that I'm going to tell you big things coming out of this guy soon.

Speaker 1 2:52

So, tonight we are welcoming Bond Henry for episode 167, an incredibly gifted singer-songwriter hailing from the Windy City, bond spent his early days strumming a guitar to now being an established singer-songwriter. Bond Henry's dedication to this craft has been unwavering, with a smooth and soulful voice that resonates with audiences of all ages. His lyrics come straight from the heart and leave it lasting impression. He attributes success to his strong work ethic and commitment to his family, always putting them first in his life. We are honored to discuss the melodies and memories tonight that make up Bond's journey. We're going to welcome on in. Oh, you don't get a countdown because you're in studio. Look at that. Nobody's a guest. Get a 3-2-1 on their screen before they come on. You didn't get that because you're here, dude. Welcome man. This is fun because we actually could look at you and actually have a conversation I'm having a hard time looking at you.

Speaker 5 3:42

I'm just staring at all this stuff.

Speaker 1 3:45

I got the show off the museum.

Speaker 1 3:47

It's a little overwhelming right Good thing he's a Cubs fan because he liked the Cubs Wall stuff. Yeah, it doesn't really fly with Socks fans. sometimes We converted you over. You were Socks. But, dude, welcome on, we're excited to have you tonight. man, i was trying to look. I think it's been like two years now that we kind of first. okay, you reached out on Instagram one time and we started talking. I came off to carols and shot one of your shows and yeah, it was just impressive because, like you saw these three guys up there and I could have swore I was seeing like a five-piece band and what you guys were playing. But it's only the three-piece. I was like damn man, that's a big sound for these guys. So I want to throw it back. man, it's kind of growing up. man, what was it being played around your house? What was your inspirations at a young age? Like your first music memory.

Speaker 5 4:33

So my dad's a musician. He grew up in Tennessee and just pretty much my entire life all I've ever heard was Johnny Cash being played on acoustic guitar, and so you know probably the first I was thinking about that I remember. The first song that I remember him playing me was actually the song Green Green Grass of Home by Porter Wagner. That and Give My Love to Rose by Johnny Cash.

Speaker 5 5:06

And I remember just being a kid and like those songs, i remember how sad they were. I used to like start crying when I would hear them, like I just thought it was like, like it was like the end of the world or something you know. And then like I think that just when you that, just pretty much in my family, my aunt, she taught me how to play guitar And before she passed away she taught me how to play guitar. My uncle was like the number one Elvis impersonator in the world.

Speaker 4 5:35

That's cool. We had an Elvis impersonator at our wedding.

Speaker 5 5:39

Was it Rick Sosito?

Speaker 4 5:40

I have no idea, but I would not be surprised We'll have to pull out our wedding albums.

Speaker 5 5:44

It was what 12 years ago He trained that guy to. He was like his underling. He passed the torch of being Elvis. We got.

Speaker 1 5:51

Mary in Bristol, wisconsin. So if he covers southeast Wisconsin, he's all in this area.

Speaker 5 5:55

Okay, very well put about I could have.

Speaker 1 5:57

I had been him Yeah.

Speaker 5 6:00

My grandmother was a songwriter. She she was very, like you know, very poor and growing up, So one of the things that she told me she used to do was they would, she would write songs and she would go over to Nashville. She worked in the Peabody hotel, but she would write songs, go to Sun Studios, go to Nashville and sell them for nothing.

Speaker 1 6:22

You're telling me she's from Tupelo, right Yeah?

Speaker 4 6:24

So, she was same street as Elvis lived on the same street. Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 5 6:29

So yeah. So, like she claims I don't know how to, there's a bunch of famous country songs that she had written that she sold because she was so broke.

Speaker 4 6:36

Yeah, wow.

Speaker 5 6:38

I don't know if it's true, but Yeah, you gotta do it. That's what she claims.

Speaker 1 6:42

That's crazy. So you born and raised in Chicago, man, i love it. You spent some time outside the city, but what is this crazy for you just growing up in this area, what was like kind of Chicago for you like music wise? Would you ever listen to a lot of Chicago music at all? Yeah, like local stuff.

Speaker 5 6:59

I mean, i don't even like when I was younger I don't even know what like to me like local, i didn't even really know that. it was like a scene really. Yeah, like when I was young we used to go down in Memphis all the time is where my sister lived And my mom would take us on to Beale Street and we would just literally go stand on Beale Street and listen to blue music till two or three in the morning.

Speaker 1 7:15

Yeah, as like little kids, so Must be some Beale Street.

Speaker 5 7:18

Yeah, So your aunt taught you how to play guitar. how old were you? I started playing when I was very, very small. I mean, since I I don't remember a time when I wasn't playing it, and I still have that guitar. It's a Yamaha nylon string guitar.

Speaker 1 7:32

Nice, and you remember where she got it from.

Speaker 5 7:34

I have no idea. She just brought it to me one day and she gave it to me.

Speaker 1 7:37

Cause. that's cool. My first one came from music around. I'll never forget that, yeah.

Speaker 5 7:41

I just remember they're like here's your guitar.

Speaker 1 7:44

That's awesome. So how, how does she teach you? I mean, was it YouTube videos, tableture books? I mean, how, how did you learn guitar, like kind of what was the methods?

Speaker 5 7:52

She. Well, initially she would just come over every day and she would just sit and show me how to play just the chords. Basically I learned playing chords first and then you know more like not theory, but she would show me, like she would teach me, how to play you know Led Zeppelin solos, like stairway to heaven, stuff like that, and you know, i learned a lot of that growing up And she passed away. I kind of stopped playing and then when I got a little bit older I started playing it more and more, cause like my dad would teach me how to play too, but he was just a, you know, country strummer, he just played chords and sing, so he didn't really play any lead or anything. But you know, obviously, going to Beale Street I wanted to be a blues soloist And then coming back to Chicago too.

Speaker 1 8:37

I mean Chicago's home of the blues.

Speaker 3 8:39

Exactly In a way boys, it's like that's.

Speaker 1 8:41

I was just going to say that's where the blues influence between Memphis and Chicago. Man, that's just that's home For sure.

Speaker 5 8:46

And I was, like you know, getting getting like a fake ID I'd go to like buddy guys and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 8:50

So Kings and Mines blues.

Speaker 5 8:52

you know stuff like that, So that's cool. They never really carded you anyways, yeah.

Speaker 1 8:58

We used to live when we were in Mississippi. We spent a lot of time in Memphis. Man, there's a corner like BB Kings over there and something was always cool, Cause like there'd be people playing the street but they'd be so damn good.

Speaker 4 9:07

So many talented people just playing everywhere. It's such great. Half of them would be blind.

Speaker 1 9:12

I don't know why they are. I don't know if that was a thing, but no, I gotta say Half of them, half of them.

Speaker 4 9:16

I'm just, you're always blind And they can play like none other.

Speaker 1 9:20

Get out.

Speaker 5 9:21

One of my favorite bands is North Mississippi All.

Speaker 1 9:23

Stars.

Speaker 3 9:24

Oh man.

Speaker 5 9:25

I've seen them live so many times, man, they just they're they. To me, i think they are the best live band you can ever like. They're I mean they're. You know they've been playing together their whole lives, or brothers but like there is no tighter band that I've ever seen, they're good, they're just incredible And they're all over the place.

Speaker 1 9:41

No matter where you look, festival wise or for years, you will see North Mississippi, all Stars on that line of somewhere, the North Mississippi All Star live at Bonnaroo album.

Speaker 5 9:52

Oh my God, i remember I bought it on Beale Street from this guy and he goes. he goes. if I sell you this album, young one, don't come back to me when you get a speeding ticket. And I just laughed and I was like, well, this is going to be good. I got a few You gotta be a good one.

Speaker 1 10:09

There's a few speeding tickets on. I'm like, okay, i got to slow it down a little bit. We always like to ask to your first concert experience that you remember like kind of just like who was it and what should you kind of take away from just going there, if anything?

Speaker 5 10:22

So growing up, my uncle Jim Jimet. He performed all the times like county, county fairs, state fairs, and he actually played. I remember the first time I saw the Kentucky headhunters he opened for them. Oh okay, i saw them hit my uncle play with the Kentucky headhunters. I remember that.

Speaker 1 10:40

Oh man, that's cool dude. Did you know then? did you say, hey, I want to do something like that, or did you feel that at all?

Speaker 5 10:46

I always just like, just, I always wanted to do it, but I just never thought I would ever be that good. Yeah, yeah, You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 10:53

Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. I dabble with it a little bit here and there. So, oh, all right, All right. So talk about, yeah, talk about a little bit about your uncle man, because when I was researching for this show, he kept humming up like your uncle Jim. This kept coming up, that name, and what kind of influence did he have on you man? What kind of guy was he?

Musical Upbringing and Songwriting Journey

Speaker 5 11:13

So my uncle, jimet, was like you know. Like I said, he was an Elvis impersonator, but he would have. He's probably one of the people that really showed me how to write songs, because he was always writing songs And the first time I ever recorded an album I recorded five songs at a studio And at the time the only reason I got to record him he was recording this campaign. He was also like a golf pro. He was a golf hustler So he would play golf against people for money all the time, like he was an incredible golfer, and so he met all these like big wigs playing golf. And I remember he was recording a campaign for Budweiser at the time where it was like he was going to take all these old videos of like famous rock shows on I was at Dick Clark right, the Beatles and all that. So I remember one of them was he was going to redo Only the Lonely by Roy Orberson, but it was going to be Only Budweiser.

Speaker 5 12:10

And he did like 10 of these and then he goes okay, there's an hour left. You guys go in there and record for the last hour, because his friends that he used to play with in this band called Scramble. They owned the studio And they I think they were in that band casting crowns that.

Speaker 3 12:25

Christian band believed.

Speaker 5 12:26

One of the guys that he used to play with was in that band. Are they recorded there or something. So it was like a really big, nice studio And we like there was me, my cousin and my brother And he's like all right, go in there and record.

Speaker 4 12:38

That's all, yes, but he was.

Speaker 5 12:40

I mean like he was like a larger than life figure. I mean, everywhere you went, everybody knew this guy, like he knew everybody everywhere, always playing, like every time we had a family party. He's playing guitar, singing songs. He was. You just go to his house. He's like walking around writing songs and making his wife mad, singing about whatever she's doing, which is what I do today.

Speaker 1 13:04

Did he try to look like Elvis too? He was impersonating.

Speaker 5 13:08

He had to pay for a while and then I think he just gave that up. He just went with the, with the, with the bald head. Oh, he got rid of that. He went bald. So he had to pay for a while and then he went there, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 13:21

I bet you probably have to go a little bit Elvis music, though, no no I mean.

Speaker 5 13:25

I'm still convinced that his real father is Elvis Presley because he looks just like him And he well, he did before he passed away. He looked just like him and he's. I've never heard any. But I was just literally at a black party on Saturday. I played, or a private event, I played this, this, talking to these women, and these older women were like, yeah, I think we know your uncle, for remember him from back in the day. And I was like, yeah, I think he's. Like I've never heard anybody sing that close to Elvis in my life, Like he's dead. I mean dead on like singing wise.

Speaker 5 13:53

I'm like maybe, maybe something happened Yeah.

Speaker 4 13:56

It crossed paths somewhere. What is it?

Speaker 5 13:58

What is that movie? 3000 Miles of Graceland?

Speaker 1 14:00

Yeah, So you have a favorite Elvis song Oh, I like Mystery. Train. Okay, mine's always in the ghetto just because it talks about Chicago. Yeah, that's a good one. I like I go with the Indiegato because it talks about Chicago, perfect. So we talked a little bit about cash and who else kind of shaped your music growing up? Maybe in their high school years? Because when you start getting to high school at least for me, I listened to everything. My parents, didn't want me to listen to. Yeah, i made sure I listened to that.

Speaker 4 14:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1 14:32

I listened to all that good stuff But kind of like when you got into a little older in life. who were you listening to?

Speaker 5 14:37

When I was like younger, I was always all my cousins. I was always listening to like hip hop music. Nice, All just straight. I was like a big hip hop head. I listened to everything And like I was a graffiti artist, I would like break, dance and all that stuff, Like I was just fully into it, you know, and like you said, I mean my parents didn't listen to that, But everyone around me was. So, you know, that's what I pretty much listened to, you know like. And then as I got older, I still listen to it. But you know, I just I started listening back to more country stuff Once I started really playing guitar, seriously playing shows, and a lot of my early recordings are like kind of like citizen cope stuff, Like I had all the drum beats from like hip hop and then I play acoustic guitar over it. So it's always there, Like you know if you listen to one of my songs, Night Train.

Speaker 5 15:28

You could hear the 808s in the background.

Speaker 1 15:30

Nice, so nice. So who's this in this picture with you and the guitar?

Speaker 5 15:33

So that's my Aunt Jeanie, right there.

Speaker 1 15:35

I love that.

Speaker 4 15:35

I found that picture I was like I have to use it. That's a cool picture, that's awesome.

Speaker 5 15:41

So, she's the one that would come over and teach me how to play guitar. She gave me that There's another one where I have a little piano.

Speaker 1 15:46

I'll say you're young, they're playing, oh yeah.

Speaker 5 15:49

And then she upgraded me to the Yamaha which I still have.

Speaker 4 15:52

Nice dude, i love that you were surrounded by musical influences, you know, and that was such a part of your upbringing. I think that's super cool.

Speaker 1 15:59

I love that was an Aunt and Uncle too. I don't think we've ever had it where an Aunt and Uncle was kind of like the more dominant musical family, because I mean I always looked up to my uncle in West.

Speaker 5 16:07

Virginia.

Speaker 1 16:08

We had him on the show here last summer or something. And then we had him on the show and I always looked up to him.

Speaker 3 16:14

He was big influence for you. It was really cool.

Speaker 1 16:16

He was the one who got me into my first concert I ever saw and everything else was a kiss. I was 27, I was 2DM young. We had a kiss show, but at least back then I was. But they're a little different now. They're a little more family friendly now, but hey, whatever. So, dude, something that really kind of like when I first heard of you and started digging into you as your songwriting, it was really unique. It had a different style to it, I felt, and I really love just listening to a lot of your songs. When did songwriting come around for you? Like, how old were you? When did you start writing? Did you write poetry or journals or anything before that?

Speaker 5 16:48

I say, probably the first thing I remember writing was so I used to go to this outreach program in the city. It was, like you know, one of those programs to make sure you didn't join a gang like that. I did that.

Speaker 1 17:00

Yeah.

Speaker 5 17:01

Keep you up the street, Yeah it was like a keep you up. It was called Midtown and it was a really good program. I mean, i love the program. I think that today I think every kid should go to it, because they did some really cool stuff took us to concerts, took us to the Symphony Hall but one of the things that they did was they bring people in like experts, in like different fields. So one of the things that they did was they made us write like poetry about whatever. So one time we had to write this poetry thing about our families and I wrote this poem and all the parents were crying at the thing that I wrote And I was like why are you? crying. What's going?

Speaker 5 17:37

on This is just an assignment they gave me. So then after that I was kind of like, oh, I'm actually pretty good at this writing poetry thing, Yeah, And I was like I'm not doing that just throughout high school. Just then I went to college just kept writing and pretty much once I decided I wanted to start doing songs and that was it. Like I started writing more structured songs. I always wrote journals and stuff like that, But then I was like, okay, let me sit down and figure out like how do you write a song, kind of.

Speaker 1 18:05

Thing.

Speaker 5 18:06

And then I was probably like 18, 19 years old when I really started doing that.

Speaker 1 18:10

Did you have any favorite song writers around that time? Did you ever look at the liner notes and CDs or sets or?

Speaker 5 18:14

anything like that. You want to know. It's funny when this is kind of embarrassing. But I remember when I was like really getting the music, i would read through the thing and I'm like, man, who is this artist feet? This guy is on every track. And then I go, oh, that's featuring. This guy has got to be a billionaries, but he's on every song I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 18:37

That's like what's that?

Speaker 2 18:39

DJ Khaled, another one, and another one.

Speaker 5 18:42

Who's this feet guy? This guy is incredible. I couldn't find him online, so that's awesome, that's amazing, but here's one of my favorites.

Speaker 2 18:52

Oh yeah, he's fantastic, he's everywhere, he's everywhere.

Speaker 5 18:56

Mainly honestly like just Listening to the Johnny. Like I like, everything I listen to when I was a kid was Johnny Cash. So like I do, you could. I mean, if you listen to my my songs, most of them are like stories and stuff like that. That's what I mean connective music and that's pretty much storytellers. That's pretty much where I just started writing stories really is what I kind of figured, you know, like, and that was the easiest thing to do.

Speaker 5 19:17

I wasn't really trying to Do anything really too Too clever, you know. And then, like, when I really started getting into songwriting, i remember the. The one thing that I took stuck with me was from Tom Petty and he said don't bore us, get to the chorus. And You know he's like, you can write like, basically, if you know how to write, you don't have to write a thousand words. You, if you understand words, you understand how to write a song that had one word, has five meanings in the song, and then that, like, you leave it open for interpretation and everybody can figure out what that song means to them. I think that's the best way to write a song.

Speaker 4 19:52

Oh, absolutely. I think you connect with more people that way too. Yeah you know, and I, i love that.

Speaker 1 19:58

Well, i mean like just talking about your song right a little bit and it's just amazing. But your lyrics are very personal and heartfelt and how do you decide like kind of what experiences it takes songs from? and if you ever had One way, it was just really tough to write, but you knew you had to write it.

Speaker 5 20:13

Um, i Try to think like I Probably where you know where the road is. The last song I released, that's a pretty good, that's a song. There was like kind of like you know, it's kind of about my life and like all the things I've done and mistakes I've made, and you know, i mean It's it's very personal and I mean that's to me that song is. It's like sums up pretty much my journey to this point. And You know, i think it's like a That was a hard one to really like figure out. What, like, what do I, what parts of my life are important enough to tell you like, hey, here's something I did that was stupid. Here's something I did like don't you know what I mean? like kind of like a cautionary tale, but like the story continues.

Speaker 5 21:03

Mm-hmm and I think that was a hard one to figure out what parts to put in. This thought, the song that I just did, that I'm releasing soon Poor man's dollar, that's another one because it's about my dad and just trying to figure out, like How do you, how do you write a song about somebody that's honest. But you know, like in The end you know you're trying to convey like, what like in that song What did this person go through? What are their experiences Through my, my eyes? but obviously I don't know his, his side of the story. I know my, like, what I've seen and all the things he's told me. You know what I mean. So you get like a lot of it. Just that song is to me like he's told me all these stories And this is basically what the stories he told me, the things that he's done. So it's kind of like I'm trying to tell his story accurately, honestly. You know what I mean, not incriminate him in any way.

Speaker 4 22:00

Yeah, let's call it. It's from your perspective to you know from the way he told the story to you and how you interpreted that story, and You're retelling his now, so I think that's a cool perspective, yeah.

Speaker 1 22:14

So when did you really start playing shows like I don't about, like you should remember, like kind of your first early his shows?

Speaker 5 22:19

Yeah, actually I do. So I mean I always obviously my uncle's doing stuff, i would sit in and play with them, but I never got to play, you know, like live or anything. And I remember. So I, when I first started playing, i I was like man, i was very nervous about going to like an open mic night. I'm like I don't know, like obviously people around you're like, oh yeah, you're really good, you should go do it. And Then so then I was like really nervous, i'm like I don't want to go to this, i'm not gonna do it.

Speaker 5 22:48

Then one day my buddy He was in a band, a heavy metal band, of all things He was he went to DePaul, it was called no fate and he's he's actually a music producer now. But he was like, hey, our opening act dropped out. Do you want to open for us? Just do an acoustic show? and I'm like all right. So, like that was it, like I didn't have an excuse at that point. I Showed up, played the show, then that was it. And then, you know, i the, i got nothing but positive feedback and then I was like all right, i can do this.

Speaker 1 23:17

I was gonna say how did an acoustic show go before a heavy metal band? I'm like that could be iffy with the crowd at times.

Speaker 5 23:23

It was good, because I played a lot of like old country stuff Okay, and I think there is a definitely an overlap between Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard and stuff like that, like a lot of the metal heads are like They listen to that.

Speaker 1 23:33

I think when cash released hurt changed the game a lot too. Yeah, he took a nice nail song and made it his own and dude. It changed everything, i think that was playing around.

Speaker 5 23:42

The time that I really started playing was about right, right around there.

Speaker 1 23:45

It's like mid to late 90s or so.

Speaker 5 23:47

Yeah, it was like right, right 2005. Okay so that was about. I mean, that was like that song was still popular.

Speaker 1 23:52

Yeah. I remember that so yeah, i feel like that was like kind of one of those turning points and like music, music Over the years was when he put that song out. I was just like, just think about make sure your hair and all that video dude.

Speaker 5 24:03

If you watch, do you watch that video?

Speaker 1 24:05

You're just like yeah, it was right before he died. Yeah, that's what? yeah. That's a eerie video to watch so you have to play House of Blues in Chicago, which I bet you that was a lot of fun. Any other places you played in around and you play our buddy Dave Canavan's place at M Ryle a few times here and there, and have you played out of wendy city yet? Or no what was that? What about wendy city? was that one he has? and to Brigleyville, oh.

Speaker 5 24:30

Really Bill North. Yeah, i've played there, played Wrigley North, i Mean. I've played pretty much the met, everything we've done at all the metro.

Speaker 1 24:39

I was playing the metro because that's like that place has history.

Speaker 5 24:43

We played House of Blues, we played I think we played martyrs, pretty much all the mid-level places. We've done it all. They're all cool. House of Blues I mean, probably my favorite, just cuz that's a big. That's a big. It was a big show. The venue is just incredible. Everything like the backstage is cool. Yeah, you drive underneath the lower wacker to get in there. Yeah craters, potholes on the ground You like terrible, crashing into it.

Speaker 4 25:10

It's terrible, but parking is terrible.

Speaker 2 25:12

They will be, there It's a cool venue.

Speaker 1 25:15

Everything getting there is awful. Yeah, we're shooting a rap show. They're Thursdays. Carol's is cool the one you came to. I like Carol's.

Speaker 4 25:22

Carol's is cool.

Speaker 1 25:22

Carol's is probably my favorite places right now and I love Joe's don't get me wrong, but I think Dave and Ed it's more intimate. Change the game too. But I like Carol's is cuz no matter who's there, always has a crop. Yeah, um, they have so many locals and regulars that show up there. I mean they're always bringing crowd in that place, which is awesome.

Speaker 5 25:41

I mean I told my uncle's playing there. He's like Carol's, that place is dangerous. He's like we used to go in there and brawl and fight people there. I'm like I don't think that's the same crowd, That's the only man.

Speaker 4 25:55

No, we've heard stories about Carol's too. when he told me that the first time I'm like wait what?

Speaker 1 26:00

They said chicken wire in front of the stage and all that stuff, man That's just heard some crazy stories about that place but now they cleaned it up. It looks nice. I love Isle and while I was amazing He's got a little better lighting, but that's always fun man, he does get things there, always had some good acts. I wish he would do in our songwriters event. He did it the songwriters round there at one time. Yeah, everybody was just too Damn noisy. I don't have to yell at everybody.

Speaker 5 26:24

Was it Austin Edwards?

Speaker 1 26:32

Yeah, I think I'm the fuck up. What did?

Speaker 4 26:33

he really? Yeah, i remember Dave shirt, sorry mine is the band interrupting your conversation?

Speaker 1 26:38

Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 26:40

Remember that shirt. That was a cool shirt.

Speaker 1 26:41

Actually the picture was showing is the you house of blues man That's awesome dude That's cool shit. I love that man. Good for you, so is there any shows you played over the years that have been memorable. And then, on the other side of spectrum that you just said, i cannot wait for this damn show to be over with.

Speaker 5 26:55

Yes, i played a show one time at Uncle Faddy's Okay. So what happened was my one of my buddies, my old bass player, my old band. He was in another band before and they were called Main Street Minority Okay, and they were doing a charity event and so they rented the place out And they didn't tell us was. The charity event ended at like eight o'clock and so they're like, oh, you're gonna play it like 830. So we show up and There's these people there. They're like. They're like, where are the? what's that band called? There's a cover band. The setting is spasmatic.

Speaker 5 27:32

Yeah they're an astral all the time. Yeah, I think that was the band there. They were supposed to be scheduled to play or something, and then they got canceled because there was like a miscommunication, and so all the people were furious that we were there. They were just screaming at us like, get off the stage.

Speaker 4 27:46

So they thought someone else was gonna be, there. They're like where are the?

Speaker 1 27:48

spasmatics. They have a following, they have a cult following.

Speaker 5 27:52

Yeah, they were not happy, clearly they were pissed. They weren't there We played for like 30 minutes and then the owner was like listen, you guys, we're just gonna have the DJ finish, like these people are gonna get nuts, so, so we just left. You still got paid, though, right, it was a no, because it was supposed to be a charity event Donated your time. Even worse. So he just packed up and got out of there.

Speaker 1 28:17

It was like I had everybody so what's been your most memorable show, like the one that you Say this has been? I was at the top of my game. The audience was into it. What's been like the one you've taken with the best or the most probably?

Speaker 5 28:29

I don't know, like probably my I would say probably the first time we played. House of Blues is probably my biggest, biggest you know, most memorable show, you know most people, biggest stage, you know best audio. Pretty much, i think that was probably it, you know. Do you see any concerts at the house?

Speaker 1 28:46

of blues before you played there, oh yeah, so it's kind of like a full circle, yeah, yeah so I mean, i was like I would always go to see concerts there.

Speaker 5 28:54

I saw, i saw train there before Some of the Metro.

Speaker 1 28:57

Oh, okay, i saw train, the Metro Well, i forgot Splendor or somebody opened up for them. They're awesome, but that was crazy like seeing with that little ass place.

Speaker 5 29:05

I think we were talking about the other day. Amory was like yeah, we opened for train when they first with swizzle tree. They opened for train when they first started like playing around Chicago. He's like yeah, we opened for them when they before they became huge.

Speaker 1 29:18

And that's cool. You and I were talking about swizzle tree earlier, because you've actually seen swizzle tree before and you don't even know it. I yeah, when we first started dating, we used to always go and see Lucky Boys confusion all the time and swizzle tree open for Lucky Boys. Okay, he knows, like all the guys from Lucky Boys too. Oh sure, So we kind of had a little full circle moment to talking about Lucky Boys and swizzle tree, I mean.

Music and Artistic Expression

Speaker 1 29:38

I'm gonna invite Stu beyond the show one these days, but I've been waiting for a good time, so see, cuz he always has good stories to us. I was like man, he's an interesting dude. I don't know you ever met him before.

Speaker 5 29:47

I never met him. I met his brother, yeah Sarong. Yeah, yeah, he he's. He's actually just. I just heard one of his songs. He's doing like this new. He's got a bunch of new songs coming out recently too that were really cool. He's dude, so he does that like almost. It all reminds me like system of a down cuz he uses the.

Speaker 1 30:06

Indian.

Speaker 5 30:09

You know the Raga's in there and it just it's very different. It's really cool though.

Speaker 1 30:13

I know well it's to be put a few few like Twist on a couple Lucky Boys songs would sound like more of like Indian music and stuff. I love that. Yeah some of those songs Masala was one of them. I remember that song. That was one of my favorites. So well, dude, we talked a little bit about kind of just like what you go to college for.

Speaker 5 30:30

I I got a bachelor's of science and a bachelor's of art.

Speaker 1 30:34

Cool. Well, that's why I don't see if you had any other creative outlets other than music. But you talked about being a graffiti artist. Now you had to school with art, so yeah tell me a little bit about your artist side, your drawing side and stuff.

Speaker 5 30:47

Yeah, i mean, i used to. I used to write graffiti back in the day, drawing stuff I Really liked. You know, i draw all the time. Still I do. I got like no, i got hundreds of sketch pads and I really like doing like anime and stuff like that. That's pretty much. I used to draw Probably every day. I used to get in trouble at school because they would be like why aren't you listening? I'm like I'm not bothering anybody, i'm just sitting here drawing comic books. You're not paying attention to us.

Speaker 1 31:17

I figured you had like an artist side to you. When I first saw one of your guitars, you had all the stickers all over. I was like dude, this guy has some stuff. Oh yeah, there was a guy locally here. He's always drawn his guitar. I forgot his name but he always would play at Genesee Theater and all of his guitars He had he just hand drew every like all over and amazing artwork on.

Speaker 5 31:35

I wanted to do that, but I'm always like man if I take the lacquer off the like, i'm always afraid I'm gonna mess it up.

Speaker 5 31:41

Yeah but I do have one guitar I got actually from my uncle, jomet. It's a, and I remember when I took it into the guitar They're like I can't believe you did this. It's like a 1960 something, gibson SG jr And My uncle got that. He'd found it somewhere and he gave it to me some like garage sale. I sold him really 50 bucks and so he gave it to me. Luther Dickinson signed it. So what I did was I put a piece of tape over where he signed it And then I splatter painted the whole thing like Jackson Pollock style. Yeah, and I have that guitar. I really don't play it, but I because it's they. When I got it remade they couldn't really like It. It was really hard to find the original hardware for it and stuff like that, so it didn't sound. It doesn't really sound that great, but it looks really cool.

Speaker 4 32:27

It's got a memory Yeah sure, so that's cool.

Speaker 1 32:30

Definitely. My dad has old guitars, like a piece of gone here. See that guitar in their house. That's a memorable guitar too, for sure. So living in Chicago, we talked you're in Arizona, california, for a little bit in Chicago. Now You put a couple of our riders rounds down in Nashville. Do you have the itch at all? Do you think you're gonna jump ship one day and call national your home, or do you think that you can make make be happy you're staying here in Chicago?

Speaker 5 32:57

No, i, i mean, my plan is to move to Tennessee back, you know. I mean, i think that, uh, it's Chicago's like a, it's like one of those things, it's like it'll always be, it'll always be there, you know. But I, you know, it's just hard because there's so much, it's like you said, like there's only like three or four guys really doing anything with the, with country music here.

Speaker 5 33:20

And it's like more like it's more like a destination for bigger people. So it's like hard to really, like you know, get your name out there and stuff like that. So hopefully in the next year or two probably moved to Nashville somewhere outside of it, your songs and your style fits Perfect for those riders rounds.

Speaker 1 33:37

You know, if you play a couple of more of those right arounds, your names can get out there Early. We'll let it slip right now, july 9th, we're back in Nashville bonds with us. So there you guys go. That's the first artist we announced for the line. We have another writer's round coming up We're excited for. But uh, dude, just seeing it as our last year It's been awesome is to see the growth that we've had from the first one to second one you're on, and this is really cool. Just hear your music, dude, i know you're. You're building a fan base, one by one too, which is what you got to do it these days, yep yep for sure.

Speaker 1 34:04

So that one person's going to tell three more and keep my eyes on saying to you guys talk about the, the, the Eric church concert with the in the parking lot yeah, and I was like that's pretty much.

Speaker 5 34:19

I played a. We played a concert in Wisconsin on the back of a semi trailer.

Speaker 4 34:25

It is a road house, yeah, yeah. So it's crazy. That's the thing. You just keep going and keep going and then three turns into six, and then into 12, and then into 24, and it just you just keep going and it's.

Speaker 5 34:37

Two is like you have to be and I'm sure you you interview so many people and you deal with so many different like, different, like artists and stuff. Like you remember that experience. I, you know, like I remember when I got that guitar signed by Luther Dickinson, i was just like he came out of his bus and his brother. They came, they talked to us, they signed it, they hung out. It's like an hour. We're just, we were just talking music, that's it We're talking about.

Speaker 5 35:03

I was like you know Dicky bats, and he's like you gotta listen to dick. He was like giving me, we're like going back and forth like you got. Like you gotta listen to Dicky bats, sun's new band, like you gotta listen to this and I'm like, no, you gotta look like and that's like. You know, that's how you have to. People remember that kind of stuff, you know, and like sometimes some people are just you know, i don't know They like it's like you like hearing you talk about Eric church. Like to this day He's still the same guy that, like you, could just sit there and have a beer with the guy and talk to him.

Speaker 1 35:31

That's like we're kind of just right before. I saw in general before we went live, he kind of I mean the way it looked. He had a fan club party in Nashville and it's Everybody on Facebook and where else is thrown fits about it. Because the way they ran the fan club party for him was they ran it Through like a meeting greet, like you would be going to a show, so you, you went on his website, you'd be like you're applying for a meet and greet. And they said that way because it was easy. It was easy to be able to draw how many winners they had for the show. But then when everybody got the email saying that they won the fan club entry, it said me and greet on it and they frat that, take that wording out.

Speaker 1 36:04

So everybody thought Eric was showing up to this fan club party on Saturday. They get there, they pay 150 bucks, they get autographed poster, a t-shirt, a koozie, maybe some free whiskey, some free food and no, eric, everybody leaves and they're pissed off. We're like it says me and greet. Well, in true church fashion, the way he's always been himself, he comes out today, puts out a statement, says no, if you're there, i'm sorry I miss communication, but you come on the tour. We're not. We can't give you tickets, but you come on tour, i'll give you me great Yeah. So everybody that was at this party on Saturday, he's getting a free meet right now, and it's just awesome, it's just cool, so it's it's just a larger scale, but he's still trying to connect with people.

Speaker 4 36:43

It's harder to do bigger.

Speaker 5 36:44

Imagine, you know, my god you saw a lot of rena's. It's not.

Speaker 4 36:48

It's not easy to do stand outside the bus anymore, you know you go outside, you start a little riot. I mean oh for sure, yeah, i can't even, i don't even you ever see that video of John mayor.

Speaker 5 36:59

When he was like, he used to put the bear costume on you know that and he walked through the You ever saw that? no, he would put a bear costume on and he would walk through the parking lot when people are tailgating and talk to People and they'd have no idea. No, was him, and he'd be like this guy sucks, like why are you watching this guy? and people get mad and he'd take the hat off.

Speaker 1 37:15

That's kind of how you got to do it. That's a little bit I gotta tell Eric church to do that next time. He had a wig on it wasn't double down, it was whatever was the center heart and soul tour. There's a couple of him he went and actually a couple friends of mine that was on the show. He would put a wig, an usher jacket on all this stuff and went up in like the nose bleeds and gave people wristbands for a pit, but they didn't notice him.

Speaker 1 37:39

that first They saw was like an usher.

Speaker 5 37:41

I'll see that that's cool.

Speaker 1 37:42

And then he took off the wig and there's holy shit, it's Eric church. Yeah, he ran a couple people down parking lots in Green Bay and said hey, you want some tickets or some pit tickets, and he was Pretty good doing all that stuff, so that was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 37:53

Yeah, um, but yeah, that's true. Like to connect with people, like for people to can take the time to connect to your music. You have to connect with them.

Speaker 1 38:01

Mm-hmm.

Music, Shows, and Ghost Stories

Speaker 1 38:02

You know you have to try to give them the opportunity to hear who you are And that's kind of like where this, this podcast, was born, in a way, because we started a little bit right before 2020, before COVID hit and and then, all of a sudden, shows were done, everything else an artist, we're looking for platforms. They're like, alright, we need to go and do something. And we had a platform to offer them and we were just interviewing fans of Eric Church and we went into a singer-songwriter podcast and which I love because we've had some great guests on dude. So, man, what does the rest of the year look like for you? We're halfway through now. We're in June. What kind of shows you got? come up, you release any. You said you got to do Song. Come now. Tell us a little bit about what's going on for you.

Speaker 5 38:38

Um well, i'm gonna release This new song, poor man's dollar battle ballot of Don Lee. Then I'm gonna record my next song, which is called girl dad. I played it at the last writers round, which I know that's a good song, because Adam Church came up to me and was like bro.

Speaker 4 38:56

Yeah, yeah he like can't.

Speaker 5 38:57

He's like hey, hey, we got it. We got to start working together.

Speaker 5 39:02

Yeah, so me and him connected and he's like, yeah, you gotta record that one And yeah. So I mean I'm playing. I've always got shows like, just like I get random texts Hey, dave, text me there. Hey, can you fill in? So I just pop in. I got a show at, i think, 24. I got it at Smoke show in Naperville. I'm playing there 27. I'm playing like an afternoon show. It's someplace called Old Republic in Elgin. Okay, yeah, i've never heard of it. It looks really. I saw online. I was born in Elgin.

Speaker 5 39:37

They got like a whole stage and everything. It's really cool. I'm sure I'll be at the aisle. I'm usually there once a month. Hopefully more shows in Nashville. I'm trying to line up more stuff that week. I was trying to do the whole week of July, further going into the ninth, but I'll be there the sixth, the seventh a thing, it's like six, seven, eight, nine, hopefully. Maybe I'll get something else down there.

Speaker 1 39:57

I see many other rounds right now. Let's you know.

Speaker 5 39:59

Yeah.

Speaker 1 39:59

I'll try to reach out to some guys and be like hey, You guys got anything going on.

Speaker 5 40:02

So I was gonna do this, i was gonna leave the third, but Just scheduling conflict, i wasn't able to go three, four or five. So now we're just gonna go the six, seven, eight, nine. We got an Airbnb and Yeah, so I mean, but I'm always playing around. I mean you just if you follow me online Bond Henry music or bond Henry calm. Most of my stuff I post on Facebook or Instagram. You still use YouTube a lot.

Speaker 1 40:25

YouTube. I don't I don't.

Speaker 5 40:26

Honestly, i really have no idea how to use you to.

Speaker 3 40:29

I'd know how to upload.

Speaker 5 40:30

I don't understand their social features on there at all. I don't even know clue what they're trying to do. So I, you do. I post videos on YouTube all the time. I do cover songs. Whatever people send me messages Hey, you ever done this? I just I started doing that because people would always ask me They're like hey, I like the way you play that song better.

Speaker 4 40:46

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 40:48

So I started doing it and then it just started snowballing. I just keep doing them. People send me messages all the time Hey, we do this song, we do that song, and then, yeah, i just keep putting them out there and Tic-tac, do you take that? tick-tock. Yeah, bond Henry music on tick-tock. I do this I. I mean, i post on whatever sites it exists, pretty much Twitter.

Speaker 1 41:05

So if you're scrolling through your personal tick-tock, what side tick-tock do you wind up on?

Speaker 5 41:11

Conspiracy theories.

Speaker 4 41:13

Mine's, mine chefs, mine's usually like mom, and then I followed that conspiracy theory. I've been following the aliens music.

Speaker 5 41:23

I told you 50,000 years ago, aliens came to that's pretty much my Yeah.

Speaker 4 41:30

I tend to follow my buddy told me goes.

Speaker 5 41:33

Every time you log on he goes. I'll be watching tick-tock, He goes. He's like a contractor, He goes. I get a construction videos He goes. The minute you log on in tick-tock. Do you have you ever seen the on a knocky? He goes. I know you're online because those videos start getting sent to my feet.

Speaker 1 41:52

I was like.

Speaker 5 41:53

Have you seen the on an hockey?

Speaker 1 41:56

That's real, it's really amazing, yeah, baby was it Jackson was telling me about Logan Paul and all this? What is that? you tell me all these?

Speaker 4 42:04

aliens. Oh, the aliens are coming in June. I'm selling you, selling you.

Speaker 1 42:10

I'm like, yeah, i don't know my dad. My dad always thinks the aliens built the pyramids. He watched that. Each alien, oh my god.

Speaker 4 42:16

We went for. This is just a short. We went for our rehearsal dinner not rehearsal dinner tasting for our wedding and we both invited both of our parents. This was what 12 years ago however, long ago we were married and My parents had met, but not really like sat down and had like a full meal or whatever, and his dad talked about aliens the entire time and how aliens built the pyramids and my parents were like who are you?

Speaker 5 42:40

You need it.

Speaker 2 42:40

Well, do it, we'll do a podcast.

Speaker 5 42:43

Me and your dad.

Speaker 1 42:47

My dad's a miracle of a national and on our way down. We we had a listen to was a Bob Lazar on the Rogan. Oh yeah, you had a watch there. Listen to that. All the way down We played it twice. I'm like all right.

Speaker 2 42:59

I don't listen to me He erased his records.

Speaker 4 43:04

I got the documents.

Speaker 1 43:07

Don't tell me stories or days. I was like all right, dad, let's do this, let's go find them info warscom. That's an art thing.

Speaker 1 43:15

We're gonna wrap up here in mid But we're talking a little bit before we went live about paranormal ghost hunting stuff And I took my dad out, dude, like I went to a couple like these old, like ancient Well it was place was the Bel Air house in West for Ohio, around Ohio River by West Virginia, and I took my dad there for a couple nights and, dude He swears he had like a little girl whispered his ear Oh there's a this thing here. I'm tell these stories and that was like an earth. And we were at family reunion in November at my cousin's house on I'll wear my dad's Santa table down all these ghost stories He witnessed and he felt like dude, so awesome.

Speaker 5 43:51

Dude, i'll show you, i'll find it on my phone. More done. I used to play every Tuesday night at a place called Dillinger's in the city You should be called toasted ox, and it was loose seals before that. Every person that's ever worked there has said they've seen a ghost. It's haunted. This girl used to work there. She took a picture of her friend sitting at the bar. In the background of the picture, inadvertently, there's a woman wearing an Victorian purple dress. 100% a specter.

Speaker 4 44:21

I've never believed in that.

Speaker 5 44:22

I've never believed it. I saw that picture and I was like holy shit, that's a ghost.

Speaker 1 44:27

Dude, we're gonna have to do a big show in October, cuz like.

Speaker 4 44:30

I think that would be fun. It's a paranormal month.

Speaker 1 44:32

This is the second time or the second guest, like three weeks We've done are like super cool.

Speaker 4 44:37

Here's the thing not everybody talks about it, cuz then they think that people think they're like you know.

Speaker 1 44:41

So we had I think it was drew green on. Was it triggering that we talked about a couple weeks?

Speaker 4 44:44

I think so, and he was like super into it.

Speaker 1 44:47

So Kip Moore did a podcast with Bobby bones a couple years ago and he had his old house He was living in and up in the attic. He swore this place is haunted. He'd be up in the attic writing. He said it'd be like a whole party going on downstairs. He'd go downstairs There's nothing like he'd her music, dance and all this stuff. Go downstairs and hear nothing. I'm like, dude. I'm like that's why I highly die. I can't ever get Kip Moore around the show But, dude, they have some stories out of him would be badass. I know like hardy's talked about some haunted stories and stuff. I was like we should do one of them. When I was running around with paranormal team, i always want to do a YouTube video or YouTube like episode like a show where I would grab like a country singer or a singer songwriter.

Speaker 1 45:21

We go to these haunted places and we gather we would explore together. And we haven't played music inside the place too, cuz I always thought music drew all the spirits or energy or whatever it is. I always thought music drew them out too. So I was like man I'll get my.

Speaker 5 45:33

If you really want to do that, i'll get my buddy. They got the guy. I know it's a ghost hunter.

Speaker 4 45:38

Oh yeah, all we've got it, We've got all the other.

Speaker 1 45:41

Show you the trailer I have outside.

Speaker 4 45:43

You got everything you need to go hunt you a ghost, and I'll hang out at home when I was a kid I thought there were ghosts in my house.

Speaker 5 45:50

You know, like in a home alone there. He's afraid to go in the basement. Yeah, I had this really creepy basement, and This will probably tell you how my life was shaped. I go, dad, there's, there's, there's ghosts in the basement. I can't go down there and get the laundry. He goes, boy, you better go down there, you better be afraid of what's alive up here.

Speaker 4 46:11

So That's funny, yeah there were.

Speaker 5 46:15

There was a terrifying experience, but we got through it Okay.

Speaker 4 46:19

I'm sorry to say I know you say our houses haunted. We're talking about ghosts. We totally lost our feet. I know, i know how you got you getting this house has been haunted.

Speaker 1 46:33

for how long we're sitting here telling ghost stories And our whole system just went out?

Speaker 3 46:36

Yeah, you all see, y'all are watching whoever's out there watching. You guys saw it.

Speaker 1 46:40

We saw it on Facebook. I got the feed right here. Every camera just went out. We just lost our signal, dude, i'm telling you.

Speaker 4 46:47

Well, my first thought was oh crap, did I not pay the bill? Oh, did we lose the internet.

Speaker 1 46:53

All right, so we're gonna leave it at that. We're gonna move on to our powered by projects, our sponsored part of the night. Are we back? We pulled a couple cards earlier. This is our sponsored part. What was the first band t-shirt? you felt super cool about wearing the school.

Speaker 5 47:09

Let's go to high school the first banter shirt. You were like the high school high school I had a Kanye West college dropout shirt. I got that shirt when he first blew up in Chicago and The original grave on with the bear on it with the skyline.

Speaker 4 47:24

That's where some money.

Speaker 1 47:25

I think mine. I was trying to think I saw this card come up. I was like, dude, i don't know. I think mine was a grateful dead Lithuania shirt. Still have it in the crawl space back here. I have like a bin of shirts, but like a grateful dead Lithuania special edition shirt or a grateful dead shirt.

Speaker 5 47:42

I had one too.

Speaker 4 47:43

Nice dude What what do you think I wanted? that was like the glory.

Speaker 1 47:48

Huh, i have that picture you in that Billy Ray shirt.

Speaker 4 47:49

Yeah, Thank you, ricky hard. He had the mullet and everything in the red jacket.

Speaker 1 47:56

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 5 47:57

He was the man back then. Oh dude.

Speaker 4 47:58

I'm gonna tell you there's.

Speaker 1 48:00

There's a picture right back there of us and Billy Ray on the top shelf dude. That's no uh it's Lil Noah Cyrus back there too, dude. In the mid 90s, late 90s, my mom was obsessed. She took me to shows. I probably seen Billy Ray every bit of a hundred times got to know the guy real well There's a couple things coming down the stairs to a Billy Ray that I have out here.

Speaker 1 48:17

But dude was awesome and I was telling you. But if they want to go look at Billy Ray, look at after a key breaking before Hannah Montana. That was some of his best work, like trailer tears stuff, like the words by heart. Those are the best songs. They'd never got any recognition. Those songs like this was dead after a key breaking and Miley revived everything and Everything with the hell out well, He did Old Town Road too.

Speaker 1 48:39

Yeah, well, that's one screw up, sorry to say I mean the kids liked it. Yeah, that's a wild family, though, those guys. Yeah, i liked it.

Speaker 5 48:47

He was the guy that did that, though.

Speaker 1 48:48

Yeah, they're like of all people they were like.

Speaker 5 48:50

Well, this can't be on country radio. There's no country singer on it and Billy Ray Cyrus I'm doing it.

Speaker 4 48:58

Raise the fan.

Speaker 1 49:01

Catchy tune. I was like, whatever, it's a good song. It was catchy for the for the time.

Speaker 5 49:05

You know, many times people ask me to play that song. I'm like I honestly don't know that song.

Speaker 1 49:08

What's the strangest request you got other than Old Town Road?

Speaker 5 49:13

Trying to think oh, on Saturday this lady wanted me to play the Pina Colada song.

Speaker 2 49:19

She just kept yelling play Pina Colada song And I'm like which one like Garth Brooks to Pina Colada?

Speaker 5 49:25

No, the other one, i Love it. Dude, i'm like I don't know that song. I'm sorry, she's like just try it.

Speaker 1 49:31

How many free birds you get all the time free bird? No, not really.

Speaker 5 49:34

But when I played the I don't do it to go, this guy goes Oh, these actually really cool. Like 20 people. They literally stayed the whole time. They just kept requesting songs and I'm like hey.

Speaker 5 49:44

I would have said if I go, if you know, if you say a song and I know it or I can even think the melody, i'll play it. I just look up the tab, i'll play it. This guy goes Hey, we're gonna go see Morgan Wallin, he goes just play. Last night by Morgan Wallin I said I don't know that song, he goes Just played anyways and I don't know how to play it at all. I can't. I don't know the melody. He goes just play the chords and say the first part, and all these, all these women at this table will sing it. I'm like, but what if they don't? He goes.

Speaker 2 50:11

I'll sing it.

Navigating Self-Doubt in the Music Industry

Speaker 5 50:14

No, i was like no, no, no, no. Then this then his friend goes can you play shinai at 20? I go, honestly I don't know any shinai. So she goes, why don't you just look it up and I'll sing it? and I was like, can you sing?

Speaker 1 50:25

She's like kind of like maybe we won't do that as well as shinai I can now these days anyways.

Speaker 4 50:29

Well, she probably thought she could sing at that point and and the night.

Speaker 5 50:34

You know, I was like uh, how about we just? so then I just played his act, brian song, and they all went when ape Shit.

Speaker 1 50:38

So Dude, that guy's that talk about game changer is that grinds. Get changing the game man. He's gonna be up in milwaukee here We're gonna be out of town. That I was gonna look at trying to cover it, but now. So our second card was and this is a good one, man, um, do you ever struggle with self doubt about your music career or abilities? So how do you overcome that in order to keep going?

Speaker 5 50:57

Uh, yeah, i mean it's. It's tough because, uh, Like, right now I'm working on the release in this song and it's like, like we were talking about earlier, i'm like what do I need to do to get to the next level? Like I don't think it's There's. Especially when you play these writers around. You see so many people out there, they got so much talent, they're so good at certain things, and especially when you know country music, like the way things work out, like Sometimes you're like hey, like willy nelson, like well, we don't want you to, we just want your songs. We don't want to hear you sing, we, you suck. And then like he's like no, i don't, i'm gonna, you know, and he becomes willy nelson.

Speaker 5 51:31

And it's tough because, like you, every time you I release a song, i'm like I know the song is good because, like I, I play like 10 songs. Right, i'll write 10 songs and I'll go to my, my producer, aimery, and I'm like, hey, which are the best songs? and he doesn't bullshit me, this song sucks, this song That's, this song is good. So we only pick the best songs. And then it's like you put it out there and it's like, uh, you got a thousand streams. Like, oh great, you know. And then it's like, what do you do? and then you know, i watched this video of uh t-paying the other day And he's like talking about how he makes more money off gaming than I have music. But he was like when I would put out a single, he said he had to put like A million dollars into marketing a single of his own money. And I'm like why don't I have?

Speaker 4 52:11

Yeah right.

Speaker 1 52:12

Like and what's the return investment?

Speaker 5 52:14

Yeah, even if you did.

Speaker 4 52:15

What do you want to put that much into?

Speaker 5 52:16

and then, what do you get out of it? You know so it's like It's just tough because, like you, you know, like you want, it's like you do get that moment of doubt because you're like, well, what am I doing wrong that this guy? it's not like Like what, this guy did this. How do I get there? like Zach Bryant, right, like you put it. I don't know the whole story. I don't necessarily believe that he just happened to upload a song on youtube and just happened to get 10 million hits and Yeah, like that's kind of like crazy. I don't know if that's really what happened, but I feel like he probably had some. Somebody had a label that knew him because he was always on warner. That's what this remember that controversy He's signed with warner. They're like he's always been signed with warner, like what are you talking?

Speaker 5 52:55

about. But like you know what I mean, like they do, they do craft these narratives and but it's like you need to. Like I was, i'm on there earlier. I'm like I don't know how to do any of that kind of stuff. I don't know how to get somebody to Do that. So I think that's it's. Every time I release a song I'm like, oh shit, like I hope it's good, like. But you know, i mean, you really just get to the point where you just start realizing like I just got to just keep releasing them. So I think I read this thing that This anard virgin said you have to release 33 songs before one song will break.

Speaker 4 53:26

Oh, wow.

Speaker 5 53:26

That's what their average was per artist. So like, if you're out there releasing songs, think about that. You got to release 33 songs, so that's three albums at least or more. Now I.

Speaker 1 53:38

Yeah, if you're more.

Speaker 5 53:41

Right, that's one album, crazy, you know. So that's yeah. I mean, there's always doubt and I you know, but you, you just got to like. Yeah, you just you, like. When you get to a certain level, you know you're good, like you, you're out here playing, you're out here in the game, like, if you're in the game, you, you can play. You know what I'm saying. You're not on the sidelines, you're in a game. It just got to keep playing and see what happens. I love it, man.

Speaker 4 54:04

I love it.

Speaker 1 54:04

It's great, that's cool Because, yeah you, you just never know. and that's the we're talking about earlier with podcast. We've done 167 of them, but I'm just gonna keep going and see what happens. You know, i mean one day one might just hit and get a thousand downloads or whatever, and then we go off from there.

Speaker 1 54:18

But I do the same thing with photos, dude, like a lot of the photography idea. I don't really charge for it at all right now because I feel like once I can get enough portfolio built up and get out there, i'll be good, i'll be good to go and I'll be all right. I mean, in our year or so, start clicking, i feel. But I still got work out. You gotta keep grinding, you just gotta keep working hard and I just Don't give up. And I think that was like kind of my dawnfall with a lot of things too, like when I look at like self doubt. Self doubt is I tried a lot of endeavors over the years But I never stuck to anything, like at five years, four or five years. It didn't work out. I moved on to something else. That's why I'm like you know what this one? stick with for a little bit and try out, because I love it.

Speaker 5 54:53

I'm, it's raw music and Hey, if I'm happy doing it, that's all it matters and it's like we're talking about authenticity, like if you, you can tell like there's certain people, it's like you know, there's like, if you don't, if you're not authentic about what you're doing, it's just so obvious. And like knowing you and obviously This place is incredible. So it's like I know, like when I talk to you like you're, like you love music You love everybody like it doesn't matter what kind of like we're talking about Billy Ray Cyrus.

Speaker 5 55:22

Yeah you know, like it's just, it comes off. And it's like if you stick with it like I was telling you about my cousin Like he's like, yeah, we just stuck with it. And then that's saying, you know, boom, we're there where we want to be, but it's like you can't give up. You know, like I had came to the crossroads of like I was either gonna go to medical school or I was gonna keep playing music, and so then I was like, well, i'm not gonna do that. I don't want to go 300 thousand dollars in the debt right now.

Speaker 5 55:45

And that's a true I'm like and you know what, to be honest with you, like, this is what I love to do. So I was like you know what? I'm just gonna keep doing this. Oh yeah, dude.

Speaker 1 55:52

You're good at you. Yeah, good for you.

Speaker 6 55:54

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Memories Through Music

Speaker 1 56:19

All right, we're gonna move on to our fun part of the night. We call this melodies and memories. I picked five songs that we're gonna pick and we're gonna see if you have any connection with it. I kind of made the first one a little easier hit a yellow one, i had it. Man, you're Chicago boy. And that's why I asked earlier I'm your cubs, right, i figured you were, but do. when you hear that song, where does it take you?

Speaker 5 56:43

uh game seven World series. I was there, i witnessed it. I'm jealous. Were you in that you were in the.

Speaker 4 56:52

I was in the stadium.

Speaker 1 56:53

We were talking about the crew and I was like second row upper deck.

Speaker 5 56:58

I was there.

Speaker 1 56:59

How and when did you score those tickets So?

Speaker 5 57:02

uh, literally, we were driving there and my cousin my cousin and my best friend at the time Um, we were like, hey, we got to go to this game. And So my buddy's like, hey, we got to go. We're like I call him up. I'm like, hey, he's like, hey, he's a construction worker, he goes, i call my boss, i'm not coming in, let's go. So, like my cousin picked us up, we just drove straight through And on the way there, my cousin was like here, take my credit card, So he runs a company. He's like, just, i don't give a shit what it costs, put it on my credit card. We're like all right, if you're paying for the tickets, let's go. That's awesome. Oh yeah, dude.

Speaker 5 57:36

So I think they were it actually was funny because he went to all seven games. He paid six grand to go to game, six per ticket. So he took his dad. We only paid 50 hundred bucks a ticket in cleveland. I ain't bad, no, i were like dude for that.

Speaker 1 57:50

For that yeah, we're like, let's do it. Yeah, I am going to wrigglyville and doing the whole thing and that was a fun night. I do it all over again. I do in a heartbeat. It was just so many people down there, just so wild and so crazy, and it's everybody coming together and it was just Dude that that I don't think I've ever felt that sick in my life is.

Speaker 5 58:09

when he hit that home, run in the a thing, it bounced off the camera. Oh my god, i was like This is not happening. It was suspenseful that, and then the rain delay. I feel like this is not.

Speaker 1 58:19

It was meant to happen that way. It was meant to keep it comes to the very end.

Speaker 4 58:24

We waited so long and like you're gonna wait a little longer, yup, so that's cool.

Speaker 1 58:31

No, dude, it's really cool. I hear that song, the same thing. It takes me back to That game and all over again. I just love that. All right, go ahead and hit the green one, cover me up.

Speaker 2 58:43

No, you're enough.

Speaker 1 58:45

Isabel, cover me up. I had you this version. when you hear it, where does it take you?

Speaker 5 58:50

um, it takes me to uh my kitchen and uh me playing it for my, uh my family, and then uh yeah. That's one of my wife's favorite songs, so I always play that. she always well. She likes the Morgan Wallin version And I like the uh isabel version.

Speaker 1 59:09

Oh yeah so I put it on my tiktok when we went to cover it, isabel, by a year ago, and I put it on tiktok and to you, it's such a battle. Everybody thinks hardy wrote that song for wallin. Really, yeah, dude, and people are like no, isabel wrote that. It's honestly one of my most commented videos I haven't really people arguing. Who wrote?

Speaker 5 59:25

actually, you know what I do. I watched the video that, the one where he plays it at, uh, austin city limits and people are just spamming the comments.

Speaker 2 59:32

Morgan's better. That's what we got people.

Speaker 1 59:35

Yeah, casuals, we got to see him last year at the salt shed.

Speaker 5 59:38

dude, how crazy is that as a venue now? Oh yeah, i know my buddy. Uh, he does the valet parking there.

Speaker 1 59:43

Nice dude. It was cool. It was a cool event. That's where I grew up, right there, okay, right on street from the salt shed. I grew up at uh.

Speaker 5 59:49

I grew up at north avenue and daemon, so I grew up right there.

Speaker 1 59:52

So you guys don't know what we're talking about. In chicago, if you ever drove down 90 years, be able to build in, says morton salt. On the side Is the old salt building they turned into a concert hall bad ass.

Speaker 5 1:00:01

Dude, you know the building where they used to paint Dennis rodman's head? Yeah, i lived behind that building, okay.

Speaker 4 1:00:06

Okay.

Speaker 1 1:00:07

I remember when I passed. I'm like I wonder how many layers of paint You could get to you actually recently just said that we just had this conversation about that. He used to change his hair color. After a while They they're, they're painting it, and after a while they would just put like I think it was like billboarder, like cardboard or something.

Speaker 5 1:00:21

Remember, they made them stop because the traffic jam.

Speaker 1 1:00:23

They're like you can't do this. Those are the days, man, i can't watch basketball anymore because the bulls in the 90s spoiled me, dude.

Speaker 5 1:00:32

Yeah, i mean the, the greatest teams ever. Yeah, what do you? what do you watch now? I mean it's like I watched this tonight the games on. It's like it's actually pretty good series. I just got tired of watching the bronbers stuff. Curry ever. Yeah, yeah, like uh.

Speaker 1 1:00:45

The warriors are just too good. I had to be lost Kobe. I think I was like my last hair with basketball and I'm like, yeah, i'm good.

Speaker 5 1:00:51

I said you know I met Kobe Bryant, Did you? when I worked in LA, I ran a pizza shop or Italian restaurant. I know I ran an Italian restaurant owned by the Korean mob. Oh, that's fun And uh yeah, it was really, actually, really fun And uh but yeah, kobe came in after one of the games they won in the in the they beat. Uh, what did they beat when they? it was when they were in the championship run. He came in after the game and ate pizza, he's like hey, that's crazy.

Speaker 5 1:01:16

Yeah, like, we're like, why are you eating pizza? That's cool.

Speaker 1 1:01:20

Love it. So most of these songs I picked are, i think, ones that really nice guy, by the way, i do. I've heard, i've heard that. I heard he's amazing, awesome guy Yeah or amazing. Um, yeah, but I never heard anything bad about the guy. I always heard nothing but good things. So, um, hit the yo.

Speaker 4 1:01:37

Oh sorry.

Speaker 1 1:01:40

That one came in a little hard. Riley green, grandpa's never die, man, when you hear that song, where's it?

Family History and Movie Memories

Speaker 5 1:01:44

taking. Uh, i think about. You know, i did a cover of that song, um, yeah, i think it's. It just reminds me of just. It's a really powerful song because, uh, how many people do you know that are just gone, that you, just, you never get any time with them. You know, because, like I never had any grand, i had one grandparent. I shouldn't say any, i only had one grandparent growing up my grandmother, my crazy Cherokee grandmother, um, and she was awesome, but she was, she was nutty, so she's want to, you know, play music with me and uh, but um, my grandfather passed away before I was, uh born. My other grandfather passed away before I was born. He was gassed in World War one.

Speaker 5 1:02:30

He was old, old man, when he had my dad. I don't know how, um, probably like prostitution or something um, but uh yeah. So like I never had a grandfather, so like it resonates with me like, yeah, it'd be cool if I actually could talk to him, you know and like in my family, my grandfather bond, which that's my name. Bond. I'm named after my grandfather. That's cool. Um, he's like the patron, like the saint of the like.

Speaker 5 1:02:53

Everyone's like, that's like my mom wouldn't even call me that because she was when he passed away. She couldn't even like function without him. So it was like really hard, because everyone in my family's name something bond like my. My full name is donald bond, okay, and so I use my middle name, just because I liked it better. I do, um, and but like in my family with donald bond, joe bond, gary bond, angeline bond, i mean like everyone names their middle.

Speaker 4 1:03:21

Isn't their middle name?

Speaker 1 1:03:23

Our kids have their grandparents first name, so that's pretty cool.

Speaker 5 1:03:27

I was gonna be james bond, by the way, and then my dad. When my mom because I had a c-section my mom woke up and there was, like donald bond.

Speaker 4 1:03:37

My mom was like I was gonna say did that call for?

Speaker 5 1:03:41

like I could have been double o seven, my whole life.

Speaker 4 1:03:44

That's cool. You had some real street cred Right.

Speaker 1 1:03:48

I was gonna ask you about your name. I totally forgot to do that during the show. So I'm glad we brought that up, dude, because that's awesome. It's cool to know that the family history like that too. Man, all right, hit the last one, this last one. Dude, i heard your cover of this and I was just blowing away. That's why I'm like I'm throwing this in here. Love this song, big one Where are you going, dude? when you hear that song, where's it? Where's it taking you?

Speaker 5 1:04:09

Um, i, when I hear that song, well, i think about uh the wedding I put my buddy's wedding I played last year. He loved ryan being him and his wife, so I played uh, i played uh that song and then I they came out to uh Us. What is it sunrise? No no no, what the hell's name that song? I'm blinking on it. Her favorite song, so they. I played it for her to come out to the to the party.

Speaker 5 1:04:34

But that just reminds me of ryan being him. And then you know, uh, that's. I just remember watching that movie, like all the time I didn't watch that movie all the time. Yeah he loves jeff bridge is so much. Yeah dude, that's what my I love that movie It's so good.

Speaker 4 1:04:47

That was a good movie. We should watch that movie with the kids.

Speaker 1 1:04:51

I don't think the kids would.

Speaker 2 1:04:53

No, that's too slow for them but that's a good movie though.

Speaker 1 1:04:57

So, and there's another song, trisak and sing it from that movie. But he covered effort. Who's the guy that played that movie? the younger guy? Oh, colin Farrell. No, no one, that was the opener. All the time phone love with that girl. Was there? the same movie? I'm right thinking of a different movie.

Speaker 5 1:05:13

I think I'm gonna be thinking of a different movie. Call it and in crazy heart. Colin Farrell was the guy that Took his songs and got famous with him.

Speaker 1 1:05:19

Yeah he wrote, and then he I'm thinking of country strong Country, so that's what I'm starting to think of. country strong with timigra and guanis paltral. I don't think I've seen that That's an our good one, um but the best is uh, george, straight, that's pure country.

Speaker 2 1:05:38

God, you really did a second one of it.

Speaker 1 1:05:40

Yeah, but it was yeah, it was like one of those Or we're not spoo's, but it wasn't mine was um.

Speaker 4 1:05:45

What was the movie about? um, It was about a young girl and guy. It was a country movie.

Speaker 1 1:05:53

It's like every damn movie.

Speaker 4 1:05:55

Oh my gosh, you guys. It's um, it's a lot like pure country.

Speaker 5 1:06:00

Always is it with uh. Layton meester, the girl from gossip girl. That's country strong. Okay, that's country strong.

Speaker 1 1:06:07

I think I've seen that one, because there are pictures right there on my wall. I mean she's barely wearing clothes, but that's the that lean mister in that picture right there, and she was in country strong with guanis By the way, i'm a big gossip girl fan.

Speaker 5 1:06:17

Yeah, i used, to all right.

Speaker 4 1:06:20

I'm gonna find out.

Speaker 1 1:06:20

I got my my actress wall over there with was that uh liviowile lean mister and then rob zombie's wife Sherry moon. She's crazy dude, but she's awesome. Of course, ronnie rousey too.

Speaker 4 1:06:35

All right, I'll get back to you.

Speaker 1 1:06:37

What are you?

Speaker 4 1:06:37

give us some hints um she The guy, um she was like a waitress, So it was like um, uh, open mic night And it's not the one with lady gaga, right Nope. No, this is from when I was growing up, so this was had to be in like 90s, 2000s, early um, and you're gonna kill me with this now.

Speaker 1 1:07:03

Yeah, this is I can't move on.

Speaker 5 1:07:05

I have like a.

Speaker 1 1:07:06

I Figure this out, because we're gonna put them on the hot seat.

Speaker 5 1:07:11

So, wait, she's a. She's a waitress.

Speaker 4 1:07:14

I don't remember if she was a waitress, it was an open mic night. And then the guy they ended up like getting married super young The girl. They were two girls, a blonde and then the brunette. They were like girlfriends. Um, come on, so is anybody watching? somebody help me.

Speaker 5 1:07:30

It's not coyote ugly right.

Speaker 4 1:07:31

It's not coyote ugly, it's not country strong. Come on name some country movies. I know you guys, i don't know man I.

Speaker 1 1:07:42

I was gonna try googling it real quick, but I have no clue. Like your country was that was george straight George.

Speaker 4 1:07:49

George straight.

Speaker 5 1:07:52

Come on, somebody's got to know this.

Speaker 4 1:07:53

He died. I feel like the guy, the main actor, he was like a young coyote ugly forever.

Speaker 5 1:07:58

My girl Sounds like a nicolas sparks book Nashville the song.

Speaker 4 1:08:06

The title to the movie was the the title of a song, a famous song.

Speaker 1 1:08:14

We're gonna have to figure it out. Um, and let them know next week when we do this show.

Speaker 4 1:08:19

She was like a beauty queen. One of the girls was a beauty queen, the other one was like a waitress and the beauty queen like wanted to be a country singer and is that two mean girls? No.

Speaker 1 1:08:31

I don't know, man, you have me going crazy over this now because I cannot think of it.

Speaker 4 1:08:38

I More wasting time.

Speaker 5 1:08:40

I guarantee you, like I know my wife sleeping right now, she guarantee you that she's gonna watch this and go. Oh, it's this movie.

Speaker 1 1:08:47

It wasn't dropped that gorgeous, was it? That's what came up. I'm like dang country music singer Her movie and I can picture it.

Speaker 4 1:08:53

She had on like oh, she wore red cowgirl boots. I'm almost positive.

Speaker 1 1:09:00

No, you're gonna let me know what we're gonna get it What's everybody know later. Are you ready?

Speaker 4 1:09:05

All right, let's move on.

Speaker 1 1:09:07

hot seat, here We go and put that All right, dude. So we're gonna kind of like what we just did with Mel's memories. I'll ask you a quick question. First thing comes of mine. We'll go, we'll try to do 60 seconds, but we never make it through ready. Oh Yeah, i got playing first CD or vinyl you ever purchased.

Speaker 5 1:09:22

Mystical shake that ass.

Speaker 1 1:09:25

My mom threw it out the window when she heard the unedited version that was like me in the offspring Offspring CD they had that stupid god, whatever in the middle of a song I'd play as loud as I could at CD just appeared cry Where's your, where's your happy place, man, where do you go to rocks?

Speaker 5 1:09:41

Relax. Honestly, my happy place is just I lay in my. In my back room I have a playpins up for my child and I just like to watch her play.

Speaker 1 1:09:52

Nice dude.

Speaker 5 1:09:53

Nice How old?

Speaker 1 1:09:53

is she now one and a half? No, i have just best time, yep.

Speaker 5 1:09:56

Best times are coming out. They five years.

Speaker 1 1:09:58

They say terrible twos, but don't, don't listen to a man, it's just terrible threes, but Those twos are fun. So you know, ours are six and nine. Now, dude, like like the song says, don't blink. Like, literally, it goes quick.

Speaker 5 1:10:10

Who has the best pizza?

Speaker 1 1:10:12

Panino's, okay being from Chicago. That's cool. I was kind of curious where you're gonna go with that.

Speaker 5 1:10:17

Where's the worst panino is that? so the the one I go to is in the park ridge All right, cool, we got to check that out.

Speaker 1 1:10:22

We're gonna build, like a pizza list, one of these, a. what's the wallpaper on your phone? My child, nice dude, all right. What's the movie that always make you laugh? I Just watched it.

Speaker 5 1:10:32

Role models.

Speaker 2 1:10:35

Taste the beast.

Speaker 1 1:10:40

What was your first job?

Speaker 5 1:10:42

First job was doing construction for my uncle's company.

Speaker 1 1:10:45

All right, what's your oldest thing you own?

Speaker 5 1:10:47

the oldest thing. I own shit, probably my guitars.

Speaker 1 1:10:55

All right, cool. What's one tour you don't like doing all of?

Speaker 5 1:10:58

them. I Hate washing dishes, but I do it anyways All right, all right, all right.

Speaker 1 1:11:05

What was your favorite childhood TV television show?

Speaker 5 1:11:08

Oh, Man, probably X-Men and spider-man Animated series, Oh yeah dude, i used to have the cards or boy meets world. There we go.

Speaker 1 1:11:16

Oh boy meets world. What's the most on your bucket list, man? That's something that you want to make sure you do, either in the music industry or not, but something that's definitely is a must.

Speaker 5 1:11:25

It's gonna happen. I've manifested it, headlighting Brickley Field.

Movie and Live Performance Discussion

Speaker 1 1:11:32

We'll be there. that happens, we'll be there. Yep, we'll definitely be down there on the floor, man, all right? Well, we're gonna get you to play a song. We got to do a little bit of switching of the cord real quick and then we're gonna set up and we'll We'll bring Jillian and bond right back on it. just, you got me for right now where they switch chords.

Speaker 4 1:11:49

Well, hold on. I found out the name of the movie and I have to tell you that.

Speaker 1 1:11:52

What is it?

Speaker 4 1:11:53

Oh no you got to bring bond up because I know you guys know this movie.

Speaker 5 1:11:56

Tell me the actresses before you tell me the name.

Speaker 4 1:11:59

Sandra Bullock. It was one of her earliest movies, maybe not earliest movie, sandra Bullock. I mean to give you the rest of the actors River Phoenix, didn't I say River Phoenix? Maybe I said that in my head. The thing called remember, cuz I said he died. It's the thing called love.

Speaker 1 1:12:16

Oh, the Tom Hanks movie.

Speaker 5 1:12:18

No that was uh. I know. I don't I know Okay, I don't know if I've seen this.

Speaker 4 1:12:23

Yes, look at the. Don't you remember this picture?

Speaker 5 1:12:29

Yes, I know that do you remember? she sleeps with his boyfriend right.

Speaker 4 1:12:33

Yeah, and then they get like in this big fight She, like Sandra Bullock, is like a beauty queen But she wants to be like a country singer and the other girl is just a waitress. But she ends up that's it, samantha Mathis. But then she can actually really sing.

Speaker 1 1:12:52

I don't know, I just thought about yeah what is it son-in-law?

Speaker 4 1:12:54

Yeah, i remember he was kind of the goofy guy, the guy in the cat, and then the other guy was like the bad. The River Phoenix was like the bad, you know, the bad boy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 1:13:02

I think I have seen. I know I had to have seen it Cuz my mom guarantee you she's.

Speaker 1 1:13:09

How old are you?

Speaker 4 1:13:09

in 92 I was only 10 well, i was seven, but I didn't say I was seven as well, Yeah. I didn't say I watched it in 92. I just said it was early 90s.

Speaker 5 1:13:17

I was watching major league probably No, we might have to watch a movie.

Speaker 1 1:13:20

I don't think I've ever seen think I love do major league was awesome Major league. We think I'm, we would you think We were?

Speaker 2 1:13:29

kept some sleeves at this level, vaughn.

Speaker 1 1:13:31

I Could probably quote the whole movie for you, though I was always the the one where they're peeling the piece off of the. She's like naked underneath, and they pull each piece off. Every time they win a game, they pull these off of them like the owner.

Speaker 5 1:13:48

Hey, bartender, joe boo needs a refilling. He gets it with the bat, or actually I think remember at the end where he swings it. Yeah, he's got two strikes and Wesley Sipes is like.

Speaker 2 1:14:00

Should have got a live chicken.

Speaker 5 1:14:01

Oh.

Speaker 1 1:14:04

Man, that's an arm. We got watch. I don't know, charlie, she gets a little yeah we watch that grown up. We're supposed to but we watch every night I know what you're talking about now. I think I was thinking the kid movie no, yeah, rookie, the year, the year, that's what I was thinking but I know what you're talking about with major league.

Speaker 1 1:14:26

All right, i'm gonna take you guys off and let you guys switch your chords and do that. We're so. This is. I was kind of talking a little bit about Doing it in studio and having in studio guests. I know we ran a little bit over tonight, guys, thank you for keeping tuning in with us. But, um, what's cool is? I think tonight's performance probably be the best one we've ever had, because we're gonna have the clearest audio. We have the guitar Was that?

Speaker 1 1:14:50

I don't want to jinx it, but well, we have the guitar, everything being plugged in, and that's why I'm right We'll take a quick minute and do it. So, yeah, i'm excited, how you doing over there. You have a microphone. I can't. I mean I could bring your back up. You just muted now. So, yeah, give us many guys and we're gonna poor man's dollars me an interesting one. I'm excited. Go ahead and well, sound check it real quick, bring you back up. Yeah, so this is our first in studio that we've ever had where they're playing live, because when we had Trevor and Joey on, they didn't play live.

Speaker 5 1:15:33

You got it in there. No, can you hear it?

Speaker 1 1:15:34

That's what she said.

Speaker 5 1:15:36

Sorry, how to say it? Sorry You.

Speaker 1 1:16:16

Why are you meeting me over there? You're the power of the muclin. Oh, i say we needed that for, like our marriage.

Speaker 3 1:16:25

Just hit the mute button.

Speaker 1 1:16:28

All right, buddy, the only thing I got with this you gotta tell us like a little bit of the backstory. I mean, i think we kind of talked about it. Tell us where the song came from again.

Speaker 5 1:16:36

All right. So This song is called poor man's dollar, the ballad of Donald Lee. It's about my dad And if you listen to the lyrics, it's pretty much all the stories and all the speculation about the things That he did or didn't do Government agencies he may have worked for. So my father grew up in an orphanage in Chattanooga, tennessee, and I wrote this song because I said these arguments with sociology professors about this. I Think that he is the Ex, the how do I say it? the epitome of the American dream. He grew up in an orphanage, no money, nothing, literally got his way out of destitute poverty, taught himself how to read, taught himself everything, self-made man, you know, and so I just think that this is the kind of story we need to really be Promoting nowadays. We need to give people hope and we really need to remind people that you can make it out there If you really try and you really work your ass off. And that's what this song is about, and it's about doing crazy stuff. You, yeah.

Speaker 2 1:17:59

I could tell you stories and I hope they help you get by. I don't mind helping now. You don't mind sticking by my side, not gladly share some mistakes if they help you. Skip a few. You won't never be on that high just repeating what they teach you in school Oh man darling, oh, oh man darling, oh, oh, fancy. Oh man darling, oh hey, oh no, fancy School, the poor man's dollars worth a little more. Don't you be nobody's fool. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Spin a week down in the coal miles. I thought well, they're the same for me.

Speaker 2 1:19:37

Head over to Nashville, start driving those big old limousines. Maybe I'll sell some pills. Feel the thrills. Maybe I'll spread a little that mountain do. Maybe I'll fly a plane for the CIA on another day. Maybe that's what I do. Oh man darling, oh Man darling, oh, no, fancy car. Oh man darling, i'll pay for no fancy School. Oh man, dollars worth a little more. Don't you be nobody's fool. They call me a Billy and they call me redneck. I don't give a damn what you call me, long as I can cast their checks, because an animal is an animal. Don't be fooled by the clothes they wear. You can have your high society satellite. Well, i'll take that money, oh man darling. Oh, oh man darling, oh No. Fancy car Oh man darling, i'll pay for those. Fancy school. Oh man darling, what a little more. Won't you ever be? nobody's fool, that's it.

Speaker 1 1:22:10

Oh, yeah, yeah. So now you got to tune in to hear the full version on the streaming side, because the first like what? 20 seconds was muted. Sorry, we're doing some sound. And then next thing we know the Facebook doesn't have any audio. Good old Facebook, i'm gonna blame them. All right, we're gonna mute the cameras real quick, switch the audio cord. Oh, my camera's not up there. There we go. All right, i'm back, guys, we're gonna switch the audio, bring Jillian back on the mic and wrap up a little bit. But man, dude, what a song, dude, and like a we'll bring bottom back and on and talk about it. But I kind of like it, because you saw me earlier about Johnny Cash and the storytelling. That's just exactly what that song was. The story telling with that song is amazing And also that's what we're fans of a singer song or the storyteller and love it. You know, look back in. All right, slowly bringing them all back.

Speaker 1 1:23:03

There we go Look at that, see, that wasn't even that bad. We will it will switch out the cord and you okay.

Speaker 4 1:23:12

Man dude. Yeah, that was amazing, i was fantastic, awesome dude.

Speaker 1 1:23:15

It's. The story telling was cool. I love how well, how you brought your day like this kind of brought your dad to life on that song.

Speaker 4 1:23:21

Yeah, very cool.

Speaker 1 1:23:22

That was awesome, Dude this is amazing. I thank you so much for joining us tonight and coming out here. I'm glad so I just it was cool having having something local and having him here in the studio So much different being able to talk to somebody face-to-face, you know. I think that's why we ran over to, because we were just like we're like. Talking.

Speaker 4 1:23:40

I mean everyone's great on the show, don't give up. But it is different having somebody in. In I was enjoying having this.

Speaker 1 1:23:47

A face-to-face conversation is about different things, everything, and we got off topic a few times, which is great. I loved it. Let people know more about you, just as a being an artist on two sides of the spectrum now. So, and then everything else. But, dude, thank you so much And we won't wish you the best man. Dude, we cannot wait. You're coming back down to Nashville July 9th, point our show. We're excited for that, and if you live here in Chicago, keep an eye off this guy And man Nashville, watch out, he comes down there.

Speaker 3 1:24:14

Be a force of reckoning, guys gotta watch out.

Speaker 1 1:24:17

All right? Well, dude, we're gonna let you go real quick and Jelena will swap your finishes up. Thanks again. Any final words, man, before we let you go.

Speaker 5 1:24:25

Uh, thanks for having me and I can't wait to see you guys in Nashville.

Speaker 4 1:24:29

Yeah, dude, all right, yeah, Whoo that was fun, it was fantastic, and we'll share all of your socials.

Speaker 1 1:24:36

Yeah, everything. If you check out the show notes, everything will be there.

Speaker 4 1:24:39

But man, i was able to find them on all the social platforms, the socials or whatever they call them social.

Speaker 1 1:24:45

We figured out that movie. That was driving me crazy.

Speaker 4 1:24:48

Oh, I know. I used to watch it a lot as a little girl, which is probably not even appropriate.

Speaker 1 1:24:52

I bet you if I watch and be like, oh, i remember that movie, oh for sure.

Speaker 4 1:24:57

For sure.

Speaker 1 1:24:58

Um, we're gonna do to wrap this up tonight, because normally we do. We already talked about our first ban show.

Speaker 4 1:25:02

We wore Yeah, we kind of already talked about our hot seat question or um.

Speaker 1 1:25:07

I think she's just hot that question. I think she's just pull a random card and we just do that to wrap it up tonight.

Speaker 4 1:25:12

Oh, that's okay.

Speaker 1 1:25:13

You don't like the one X.

Speaker 4 1:25:15

I like to filter the random question. You know those decks.

Speaker 1 1:25:18

Give me one of those decks. That's what we're gonna do, so we're gonna. Before we wrap up Jillian, i always like kind of doing a little one-off thing.

Speaker 4 1:25:23

I'll do it. I want to do it because you're gonna, you know.

Speaker 1 1:25:26

Okay, you're gonna. You're gonna filter through. This is what this, these decks, are made for. So we normally just randomly draw two cards earlier in the night and put them on here, but we've never really just random picked one, so we're gonna. Okay, all right. What was the strangest thing you've ever seen in the middle of the road? I? Don't even know man was that damn armadillo in Mississippi that.

Speaker 4 1:25:55

I was gonna say I think it was rock hard That you said that I've seen toilet was like the first week.

Speaker 1 1:25:59

I really mississippi. I ran over a damn armadillo. Do I hit a bowling ball?

Speaker 4 1:26:04

Yeah, i've seen a toilet in the middle of the road before, like I don't know if it fell off somebody's car truck. Whatever, off the truck, all right.

Speaker 1 1:26:13

There you go.

Speaker 4 1:26:17

Yeah, probably toilet.

Speaker 1 1:26:20

Well, guys, it's me in our crazy week. For us We're gonna be out and about all weekend or all week. Thursday night we're gonna be in Chicago at the house of blues. I'm actually gonna be covering a rap show, so it'd be kind of interesting and check that out. Michael Manelli is the artist Friday night. I think we're just gonna be fans and go to a show We'll see. I'm gonna go see Jordan Davis, i don't know. We'll see what's going on with that. And then Saturday, where we had it to, saturday, matchbox 20.

Speaker 1 1:26:47

Her show so excited been waiting three years for this show can be excited We got to take it Yeah. I got tickets in what 2024 matchbox 20 and oh, was it 2020?

Speaker 4 1:26:56

Oh, three years we've been playing. I was gonna tour in 2020 and.

Speaker 1 1:27:00

I got pushed back three freaking years.

Speaker 4 1:27:03

That's gotta be a record, don't you think I'm curious? actually, that's actually a good question. I'm actually curious, like For rescheduled shows, like for actual ticket holders, not like canceled tours and they're gonna tour again next year, like you actually had a ticket, like how long Has it been pushed out? Do you even know where? I hope you know where the tickets are.

Speaker 1 1:27:24

I'm so I'm taking master account.

Speaker 4 1:27:26

Let's hope so.

Speaker 1 1:27:28

That's another six row, so you're gonna pull.

Speaker 4 1:27:30

No, it's cuz it's inside. We can't do a. Pull a Taylor Swift and set outside.

Speaker 1 1:27:34

No that's inside simoleen. Yeah, we gotta drive down the Quad City. So, yeah, well guys, as our interview with bond Henry comes to a close, we can't help but feel a sense of awe and a minor admiration for this talented singer-songwriter. His ability to express the complexity of human emotions through his music is truly captivating. From his powerful vocals, his poetically or expan, henry is an artist who is unapologetically himself. His journey in the music industry is a testament to the power of passion, hard work, and we can't wait to see where his career takes him next.

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Speaker 1 1:28:04

Thank you, bond Henry, for sharing your music and your story with us tonight, and we left us inspired in all of your town man. Thank you guys for joining us tonight. Everybody tuned in. We hope you enjoyed the episodes as much as we did. Don't forget to catch up on everything you missed from tonight and past episodes over at melodies and memories comm. And We'll be back next Monday with another amazing show, and I'll tell you this. This is our second artist that we were announcing for our July 9th Show in Nashville for our rise round. So we'll see you guys next week.

Speaker 3 1:28:32

The melodies and memories podcast with Jillian and Aaron Schreiber, brought to you by Arlo Revolution. As we close the book on another chapter, remember music gives us soul to the universe We use to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to every fish. Next week, jillian and Aaron connect more melodies and memories with the fans and artists they love. Thank you for being a part of this musical journey And we will see you next time on the melodies and memories podcast with Jillian and Aaron Schreiber.