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Now, once again, here's Mino and the Mayor, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor.
Special thanks to John Spagnola, man.
He was great, wasn't he?
He has something else and just, just a great person.
Classy guy, brings it all.
If it wasn't for the Heights Pub and Parler, we wouldn't be having the pleasure of these two gentlemen.
Nicky, jump in right here.
Brilliant, please guys.
Green Bay's on.
How about it?
Welcome to the studio, guys.
Where's your wife in here?
Thank you for having us.
Right, right, right.
But you don't want yourself, though.
If you said, I got two guys here from Tennessee, nobody would say, oh, no.
They might.
You guys need that.
They might.
You got that Tennessee look to yourself.
That country look.
It's definitely that a, that a Schwabbanon look, I think.
Well, the green and gold.
The green and gold, yeah.
I got to support it.
Yeah, yeah.
We are die art background spirit performance.
My name is Derek.
And this is my name is Brett.
And we're the Lavanchie brothers.
Derek and Brett, welcome.
So minor fell in love with you at Channel Five recently and said, you have to come in studio.
I think the role should be reversed.
We fell in love with him.
I've gone.
We know.
We know.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
That's a good way to get it off.
Right.
Stop that.
And I asked you guys, I know everybody probably asked this.
So I was going to dumb guy that had us.
Are you related to Terry and Bobby LeBond?
Yeah.
We did not get confirmation, but we might be right.
Or we might be.
I mean, we were always told from a younger age, like, there's a chance.
So if you look at Bobby or Terry, they look just like my grandpa.
Really?
Yes.
I mean, like, to an extent, would you say, or am I just blowing smoke?
I think you're blowing smoke.
Can I see?
You want to see?
Hang on to that.
Don't put it in a research.
Yeah.
Hang on to that.
Yeah.
I'm just asking around.
There you go.
I just take it.
So I guess.
And keep asking till somebody agrees with you.
That's my strategy.
I think it's, it works though.
Yeah.
All right.
So you're new on the scene.
Yeah.
Relatively.
I would say us playing together.
So we've been playing.
Um, we've been playing together.
I mean, since.
Do I get closer?
Yeah.
There you go.
Oh, there we go.
We've been playing together since the basements.
Uh, of our, of our house.
Um, we haven't been playing together.
Um, so we've been playing against Claire.
And then.
Um, so as kids.
Yeah.
Really?
We worked ourselves up from the basement to the living rooms,
Wow.
I.
To when your parents were home did you ever get that good?
Well, that's when we started.
You know, I don't want home.
Well, that's when I said, could you be good enough
where they would stick around and listen to you.
Yeah.
Party.
I actually made it.
My graduation party was the first time I
had ever played with people.
Uh, real.
And I played.
And then the, I remember looking at my dad and my dad
looks to me and he goes, so that's what you've been working on.
Right.
So it goes like nice.
Yeah.
So all the times we were downstairs jamming and stuff.
You'd open the door and be like, quiet.
We were playing that loud for that long.
Oh, sure.
And then I was learning from YouTube.
He learned from, uh, he had a class in middle school that he took.
And we just decided, you know what?
We should do this together.
How about Jamie?
Do you write your music?
Um, I've been writing my own stuff and dabbling.
Uh, so I've been doing that the past, the past year.
Uh, if you want to check out my TikTok,
yeah, I can't.
Oh boy.
That's only going to be a tick-tock.
Check out the tick-tock.
Yeah.
The tick-tock.
Yeah.
Right on the interwebs.
I think you have to check out tick-tock today because the Supreme
Court's getting it.
They're going to shut that down.
Oh, yeah.
So we got to go to lemonade.
Yeah.
Are you on lemonade?
Because that's what I'm not sure what that is.
That's tick-tock.
Okay.
Joe.
Oh my god.
I'm sure I'm not.
I don't know.
Are you impressed?
I read this this morning.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the United States government doesn't want tick-tock because it's
owned by, um, what's the name of that parent company?
Uh, anyway, it starts with a B.
And so then tick-tock thinks they're going to lose.
That's, that's the Supreme Court.
And, but they're like, if we're going to lose, we're going to
direct people.
So it's called lemonade.
And you can do download it for free.
Right, Todd?
Oh.
I guess.
So I see you're the research person.
You're right.
Okay.
I just told you, I just talked for a minute of something.
I was just talking about it.
Yeah.
We could not tell.
So it's good for me.
And social media.
Yeah.
Not your real house.
So how tick-tock or lemon?
How do we get a hold of you?
Um, we have a Facebook page with LaBonti brothers.
I'm not sure.
I'm sure that's not going away.
Um, so.
No.
We're some people that we find out there.
Uh, that's us.
So we've been playing together for the past two years now.
Great.
We've been doing shows together.
Just about.
Yeah.
And that's been.
Absolutely amazing.
I mean, the stuff that we get to do together, playing these
great memories, making people smile, have a good time.
That's what it's all about.
Music brings people together.
And that's.
But you.
And when you're writing, you're writing from the heart.
Oh, yeah.
Uh, yes.
Um, so if you go to my tick-tock or my Instagram or wherever.
Um,
anyone's social.
Yeah.
I guess I post a lot of my music on there.
My, my solo stuff.
Uh, yeah.
A lot of those songs are very heartfelt.
I wrote a song.
I just had a, uh, a child named Ledger.
Oh.
So I wrote him a song.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
Definitely some songs that, uh, that just speak about me in my,
in my life and our life.
Um,
I know Brett's dabbling too and writing his own stuff.
So we're definitely working on on that part.
But, uh,
we play a lot of covers at our shows and a lot of country music.
A lot of music.
It's hopefully going to get you up and dance, smile.
Grab the person next to you and give him a big ol' hug.
Nice.
And dance.
That's the way we grew up playing, um, tried that once.
Yeah.
Charge is still pending.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Call the restraining order.
All right.
Let's hear you guys.
All right.
Uh, so we do have, uh, a few songs that we had an idea of.
We decided, um,
send an honor of Friday.
We'll play an Eric Church song.
Yeah.
Drinking my hand.
So this one goes out to you.
Anybody going to Fox Harbor tonight?
I know.
The heights.
The heights.
Oh my gosh.
I'm sorry.
Not bad.
Brian's gonna be like, that's it.
Yeah.
She bought it from him.
All right.
Here we go.
Free set.
Free set of heights.
Early Monday morning till Friday at five.
Man, I work, work, work.
But I don't climb, climb, climb.
Boss mangan chill that overtime.
Up is can't.
All you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
And fill it up.
I'll throw it down.
Got a 40 hour week.
We're the trouble, the drown.
No need to complicate it.
I'm a simple man.
Oh, you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
Here the parking lot is muddy.
Can't get to the door.
I'll take my jacked up, drop it down, and four by four.
Chill down along that warm up the band.
Oh, you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
And fill it up.
I'll throw it down.
I'm about to tear a new one in this old town.
Five, four, three, two, one.
I'm a rocket man.
Oh, you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
Make me wanna go, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
When you dance like that, you got that little tattoo.
Playing picky boo on your back.
If you wanna impress me, baby, here's my plan.
All you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
And fill it up.
I'll throw it down.
When you drive me on, take the long way around.
You be my little explainer.
I'll be your Superman.
Oh, you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
My head Monday morning at a long clock say.
Everybody got nose bang, bang, bang, bang.
While he rang, rang, rang.
Yeah, I'm headed to a road if you wanna rock again.
Oh, you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
Fill it up.
I'll throw it down.
Got a little hung over.
Still hanging around.
Yeah, that hair, the dog is hollin' hey there, man.
Oh, you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
That hair, the dog is hollin' hey there, man.
Oh, you gotta do is put a drink in my hand.
Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah.
That was great.
That was great.
That was awesome.
Yeah.
I had to say this.
The best thing about the entire morning
is that I was sitting here listening to them play and sing.
And I was watching Jim.
And he was singing along.
I was gonna say, well, people must just shout right back.
Oh, I gotta do this.
What did I whisper to you, Jim, during the middle of their song?
I was listening.
I don't know if you whisper Eric Church,
but he sounds like Eric Church.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I thought he whispered New Ghani's National Anthem.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Anyway, so you guys that, that was original.
No, no, no, no.
That was Eric Church.
That's the car.
Yeah.
Sorry, I don't fall out of music.
See, I'm giving you a lot of credit.
Tell me who inspired you though.
I wanna hear it.
Was it Eric Church?
Like, locally in stuff.
locally, I mean, the main influence that we both had
was our great Uncle Roy.
He is hence passed, but growing up,
going the family events, stuff like that.
He would have come out, just kind of whip out his guitar,
and played classics anywhere from Hank's senior to...
We're all had your dickens, we're all staggered,
and just all of them and just play for everybody
at family reunions or just get together and stuff like that.
And just from there, just always had that
hankering to kind of...
I just didn't do like, try that out.
perform and when the family reunions got together,
okay, boys get up there sing a song for everybody.
Well, we started like building up with him.
So we'd go to his basement sometimes as well,
and like, and he would just teach us a G chord,
see chord a lot, and like how to really find a rhythm.
So being kids, like watching, we'd sit cross-legged
and just be mesmerized by what he's doing.
I mean, he was just...
He was every...
I mean, it was amazing.
And like, it was a big influence.
Like what Brett said, a huge influence on both.
We wanted to be just like him.
We wanted to play camp parties, deer camp.
You know, that was a big...
Yeah.
That was our big show, right?
Yeah.
We had a lot of family going to play deer camp.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that was like the big deal,
because he would come down and play for three, four hours.
And we would just sit there, you know,
everybody's smiling, having a few drinks,
just having a great time.
That's what we wanted to do with you.
Help Praudry be with you guys right now.
I think he would be a little...
I think he would be a little...
Florida that we're on the radio right now.
Yeah.
And then he'd do some research and say,
oh, that's like that hard.
No, what?
That's like my own.
Yeah.
I hope you had a chance to tell him that.
Yeah, that was...
I mean, that was very from the heart
that he just said about him, both you guys.
And I just...
Yeah, we need to tell people that, because he...
I'm usually a teacher.
Right?
To be an uncle is awesome.
Right?
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
I mean, everything that...
Like I said, when we go and play and stuff,
it's all...
We wear our motions on our sleeves, our heart on our sleeves.
We play music, because we saw it from him.
Mm-hmm.
And the joy and the smiles and the...
I mean, music can bring people together more than you know.
Absolutely.
I was tooling through some of your socials.
And one of the things that you have written about
is, and again, you hit on a lot of really cool things
about the togetherness of music,
that it brings people together family time,
super important.
You wrote a song about your dad.
You've lost your dad.
Yeah.
And I'm so sorry.
But incredibly meaningful song.
Tell us about what that does for you in that process
to write about it.
Um...
And now to perform.
Yeah, it's...
Honestly, it's pretty liberating,
because writing gives you a sense.
And I've always written my entire life.
Like writing...
I always had notebooks and just write and journal.
I've been journaling actually to my son.
Um...
From the time I found out my wife was pregnant
was writing little daily stuff.
To him now being two months old.
But that really inspired...
It really has such a fantastic family chromosomes here.
Yeah.
I mean...
Family...
You're such a family, people.
Yeah.
Because for us, family is a big deal.
I mean, losing our father too
and being able to write that song
and being able to write that song is about our dear camp
and our favorite place in the world.
Um...
And just how...
Nothing actually in the court.
Nothing's changed.
We're just missing you.
It's pretty much...
The only thing that's changed about it.
Mm-hmm.
And, um...
We actually stopped playing music for a while.
I know I did.
When we found out my father passed...
I'm...
Can we turn to 33?
January 16th.
So, Ben, he wants to send me a gift.
Nice.
But, um...
We...
I'm going to turn to 33.
And he passed away in 2015.
He was ten...
Well, ten years ago.
And I stopped playing for a while.
Um...
Because I was kind of a big thing too.
He'd always be standing in the corner up.
I can't be like...
Play that one song.
Play that one song.
I'll play it.
You know.
And never that one song.
Yeah, it was never that one song.
We never knew what song he wanted.
And, yeah.
No matter what song we played, it always been.
No, that wasn't it.
No.
Yeah.
That one I went like...
You guys see what you get through the entire song?
Yeah.
No, it's the one that goes like...
Blah, blah, blah.
Like...
Yeah.
Let's just play this one.
That's what I want you to know.
He's always in your corner.
And he is still requesting that song.
He is.
And one of the...
Our favorite song to play is his favorite song.
It's actually Chicken Fried.
Yeah.
So he actually got a T.
He had a tattoo of that Let Freedom Ring on his arm.
Wow.
So when we got together and started playing again,
I mean, that's what really...
I don't know what someone inspired me.
It's like, I know that's what he would probably want.
So when we got back together,
I actually started getting back into it.
I had to knock off some of the rust and...
And thank goodness I want to shout out Levy Tavern
for their open mics and all that.
And this...
The people there are amazing to...
And bring local musicians together.
So that really helped as well.
And that's what I really...
I mean, now it's just a snowball effect.
And how are we doing in Northeast Wisconsin here with venues?
I think there's venues popping up everywhere.
There are.
You know?
Crazy amounts.
Yeah.
And I think it could be a correlation.
People think it can only support those.
Because those are...
Okay, go ahead.
We're running short on time here.
Please play this song.
I want to hear it.
All right.
So they do have a couple of upcoming gigs.
Right?
Correct.
January 17th, up in Marinette at Campgrounds.
Crossroads.
Crossroads.
Crossroads, pub and grub.
Late birthday present.
What we play in.
9 p.m.
The 1 a.m.
Next Friday.
And I do have a solo show on January 22nd.
It's a Wednesday from 8 p.m.
The 10 p.m.
And where's that?
Levy Tavern.
Yeah.
Down to pure.
Okay.
That's for your play right now.
Take us out to the weekend.
Yeah.
We'll play a Tyler Chiller song.
Thank you.
You guys are cool with that.
Thank you.
It's Feather Indians.
Two, three, four.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Bye.
Bye.
Well, my buckle makes impressions on the inside of her thigh.
There are little feathered Indians where we tussle through the night.
If I'd known she was religious, then I wouldn't have came stoned to the house of such an angel
to messed up to get back home.
Looking over West Virginia, smoking spirits on the room.
She asked ain't anybody told you that them things were bad for you.
I said many folks warned me there'd been several people tripled up till now.
There ain't been nothing that I couldn't leave behind.
And hold me close my dear.
And sing your whispering songs softly in my ear.
And I will sing it long.
Honey, tell me how your love runs true.
And how I can always count on you.
Be there when the bullets fire on across the river just the whole Jew tonight.
Well, my heart is sweating bullets from circles that has raised
Like a little feathered Indian calling out the clouds for rain.
And I go running through the thick.
I go careless through the thorns just to hold her for a minute.
Though it lead me one more.
And hold me close my dear.
And sing your whispering songs softly in my ear.
And I will sing it long.
Honey, tell me how your love runs true.
And how I can always count on you.
Be there when the bullets fire on across the river just the whole Jew tonight.
The La Bonte Brothers, phenomenal Heights Pub and Parlor Music Series.
Ashley, thank you.
Thank you, gentlemen.
You guys are awesome.
Please keep in touch.
We're going to promote you as much as we possibly can.
Thank you so much.
And we appreciate you having us on.
Yeah.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Thank you guys so much.
You nailed it.
Totally cow.
Invite me to dear camp.
You're invited.
I'm there.
Thanks everybody.
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