
Is it Saturday night yet?
Hey folks, Chibi K here.
Join me, Rocker and Terry Bar for Max Ink Saturday Night.
It's your weekly look at the Wisconsin music scene
with a lot of fun, debut music, interviews with the artist
and live in the layer.
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Let's kick this Saturday night.
Off with a double dip of Katie Skull and she was live
in the layer last week and absolutely rocked it.
It's unfailing.
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Happy Saturday night, everybody.
Happy Saturday night, everybody.
We need Pat McCurdy on this Saturday night.
That's why I'm calling you.
Let's have a party. Let's have some fun.
Let's do it right.
Put on some music and dance all night.
I'm tired of races. I'm tired of their friends.
Looks like Blue Meanies are in Pepperland again.
I can't stand the poison.
They're spewing out.
I turned down the volume. Still too loud.
So listen to James and that's why I'm calling you.
I think I figured out what we gotta do.
Let's have a party. Let's have some fun.
Call up your best friend.
Tell everyone.
Let's get together.
Let's do it right.
Put on some music and dance all night.
That's why I'm calling you.
I think I figured out what we gotta do.
Let's have a party. Let's have some fun.
Call up your best friend.
Tell everyone.
Let's get together.
Let's do it right.
Put on some music and dance all night.
Let's have a party.
Come as you are.
We'll raise the rules.
We'll crash the car.
Let's get together.
That's what I said.
Who knows tomorrow.
We might be dead.
Oh, Mr. James!
Drone.
Drone.
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St Paul and his letter to the Ephesians said it came to me upon a midnight clear.
I finished writing all of my gospel.
Now all I've seen to watch is Sex and Bear.
Mark Anthony looked down on Caesar's body.
He said, Friends, Roman's countrymen lend me your ears.
I did not jump here to play Caesar.
I came here for Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
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Are the two things we hold here?
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Sex and Bear.
Are the things we like round here?
George Washington, he never crossed a Delaware.
There was no midnight ride before the end.
Ben Franklin never discovered electricity.
They weren't too busy looking for.
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the two things we hold here?
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the things we like round here?
Charles Dickens gave us great expectations.
Shakespeare gave us Hamlet and King Lear.
Dostoevsky gave us crime and punishment.
Who the hell is going to give us?
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the two things we hold here?
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the things we like round here?
Sing it so I can dance.
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the two things we hold here?
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the things we like round here?
From the city to the suburbs to the country.
From the southern to the northern hemisphere.
They're holding our tremendous referendum.
And everybody's choosing.
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the two things we hold here?
Sex and Bear.
Sex and Bear.
Are the things we like round here?
They can take away my pride and my dignity gone.
They can use up all my blood and sweat and tears used.
They can take away my name and give me a number.
9-1-1.
But they can never take away my sex and bear.
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Are the two things we hold here?
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Are the things we like round here?
We like sex and Bear and Sex and Bear and Sex and Bear and Sex and Bear.
Is there anything better than sex and Bear?
The answer is no.
No, there's nothing better.
Pat McCurdy on a Saturday night, a double dip.
What a classic song.
I would probably venture to say,
over the 11 years that Maxine Gradio has been doing
on the internet radio or on the air radio.
I played that song so many times.
It's one of my favorites.
I love it.
Mr. Jameson before that.
A double dip of Pat McCurdy to kick off your seven o'clock hour.
Good evening, everybody.
That double dip was inspired by John and Gordy, by the way.
Oh, yeah.
I was listening on Friday when you were on Pippin Maxine Gradio.
Yes.
And I felt the love from John about Pat McCurdy.
So I had to play some.
Just for John and Gordy.
And check out John and Gordy weekdays,
6 to 8 a.m. here on Civic Media on Mad Radio in 92.7.
They're a lot of fun.
And they love Pat McCurdy.
And Pat McCurdy's been around for so long.
Yes.
And John's a big Yipes fan.
We've interviewed a lot of people.
I've never interviewed Pat McCurdy.
Yes, we did, Jimmy.
I did not.
Oh, we did when the author dropped.
Over the phone.
It made me redundant.
Yeah, me been during lockdown.
It was during lockdown.
Yes.
Okay, over the phone is different.
So we'll give you that.
It was over the phone.
I totally spaced that was the first year we were on the radio actually.
Oh boy.
How you doing, everybody?
I'm Jimmy K. Rocker.
KJ hanging out with Forteri Barr.
She is back.
She's on a beach enjoying some leisure time, which was well deserved.
And I'm very jealous.
Let's put it this way.
She's closer to Mar-a-Lago than we are.
The plant is in.
KJ, we still got lots of show ahead of us.
What's coming up?
We've got Elphalashik from Fat Function coming in.
They have an upcoming show and from what I understand.
They don't do that a lot.
So we're going to get some details on that.
It's going to be here, but not such a great news.
He got his keyboard stolen.
So we're going to talk about the GoFundMe and what you can keep your eye out for when you're, you know,
looking or come across maybe his stolen equipment.
We've also got Madison Filmmaker Bob Love.
Love, excuse me, coming in to talk about his new zombie movie.
A time to die.
A lot of death in that movie.
Zombie death.
Let's get the word die right in it.
Right.
We also got live in the layer.
We're going to talk about Jackson Covey after nine o'clock rocker.
And right now, we're going to talk about garage bands.
Jimmy Dennis Graham is director and founder of Rock Ensen.
A statewide music competition for high school bands.
And the winners get gigs at Summerfest.
Here to tell us about the upcoming Rock Ensen competition is Dennis Graham.
Dennis, welcome back to Maxine Gradio.
Thanks so much, rocker, and to be here with on Maxine Gradio and with Jimmy and KJ.
I very much appreciate civic media statewide.
It's a great opportunity to talk to everybody.
It's great to see you, man.
You bet, man. I appreciate it.
And what we're in right now is the Rock Ensen.
It's RLC, K-O-N, S-I-N, just like it sounds.
Rock Ensen.org.
We won all seventh to 12th grade garage bands of any musical genre to go to Rock Ensen.org
and sign up for free to send in one song, cover original of a video.
Use your smartphone. That's all you need to do to see if you will be one of
ten bands that will be judged out by folks like Kathy Detmerz
and others to go and perform at the Rock Ensen State Finals at Summerfest.
Nice.
Well, Dennis, before we learn all about Rock Ensen, I'd like to find out a little more about the guy that founded it.
Tell us about your backstory. How did you get into music?
Well, I have a quite an eclectic career.
I think I was talking to KJ. I believe just earlier that
I've been from working out in Capitol Hill when everybody worked together
50 years ago, so I'm a little long in the tooth.
And working on political campaigns, I've worked for both sides, actually.
I was hired by Dave Prasser, the former Supreme Court Chiefs for Congressman Frailick, very moderate.
And it was my senior year. I went out to Washington, D.C.
and where everybody went to spring break. I went out to D.C.
and I dropped off a resume at all, 435 House of Representatives.
And it was offices and all 100 US Senate offices.
And I got a call back from Congressman Frailick, worked out there, worked on political campaigns.
I was Tony Earl's main driver in the campaign, worked in Tony Earl's office.
And then kind of went from there.
And I worked for a fellow that was, again, a very moderate, very great guy.
Paul Hassett, a teacher who was the head of the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce,
brought that together, the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.
Help them out today. Now it's just basically the voice piece of the Republican Party.
Paul taught me all about that, you know, compromise both sides, you know.
But it's not, you know, he was the Chief of Staff for Warren North, moderate people, moderate politicians that work together.
And then I started working on sports programs. I badger state summer, winter games,
US fast pitch softball tournaments, a lot of different pro-national congresses to state games.
And then I started just kind of goofing around helping a band.
You know, I've always been into reggae and started helping out managing a band.
And that kind of transformed into, as I was working on these other programs,
I was approached by somebody regarding working with a music association in the state.
And what I brought to it was that, you know, I had an idea of, you know, these young musicians out there,
have no showcase or form, you know, the camp playing bars.
Right.
And it really, I remember this cat that was Poncho.
He was a drummer from Whitewater back then.
You had bands on Friday nights, you know, after you had a volleyball tournament between the classes and all that,
then you'd have a band come in and play.
And I always was watching this cat and I was thinking, I don't even know his last name.
He went to Whitewater, but I was always like, wow, how cool.
I always wanted to be in a band. I didn't. I played drums.
Today, now, all of these young musicians and all that in school,
all of the schools have drum sets so that, you know, I had a snare drum and I took a marching band symbol
and I hung it on an instrument stand.
But so then, you know, I also suggested a Lifetime Achievement Award to this group.
And that's when I brought back Les Paul, went out, had Governor Doerl write a letter,
went out to New York, gave it the last, he was stunned like, what?
You know, well, as you should get the first Lifetime Achievement Award, look what you did.
Solid by electric guitar, sound on sound, we all know that, multi tracking.
Brought it back as a matter of fact, it'll be 20 years, this October 27th,
that it was 2004, Les Paul Day.
That just kind of kept moving into, you know, starting to think about putting together this program,
you know, of young, and now it's been 20 years of giving these young musicians an opportunity,
basically, to send in one song, cover original, doesn't matter.
It's free to rockonson.org.
The deadline is coming up, we'll be able 30th, required a ways away, for an opportunity to be one of 10 bands,
to play on June 28th, five bands, and June 29th, five more bands, and the Aurora Pavilion.
It's Summerfest, the big gig, the world's largest music festival.
I'll get 20 minute sets.
I'll receive two sure mics, one vocal, one instrument, Mike.
What are they playing for?
The winner, and runner up.
We'll get a second 45 minute showcase set, on the Aurora Pavilion stage on July 6th.
They also get recording time at Manus' Blassel Studios, as well as the winning band,
gets a sure wireless vocal mic system.
So pretty cool for free, man.
Obviously, this is a big deal, and you know, what you've created with rockons,
and inspiring youth to get involved with music, because we all know,
when kids get involved with music, they do better in school, the grades are better.
Yes, they do.
You know, social skills become better.
It's a win-win for everybody.
So give us the rules once again, the grade range, and how the bands submit music.
You bet.
And we want you to check out two rockons and socials at TikTok, and Instagram, and Facebook.
Can you see some of the past bands that played like geology club that won it last year
from Warkshire or West High School?
It happens to be the last Paul's High School.
Nice.
But we want you to go to rockonsand.org.
Send in one song.
Cover Original.
It does not matter.
We've had bands that played all cover songs, such as Sacka Man, our first heavy metal band
from Muskego High School, two years ago, to All Original, as geology club did,
putting out the first album last year before they graduated from high school.
And so we want you to go to rockonsand.org, record one song.
Cover Original.
Just use the smartphone.
We don't want you to-
It doesn't have to be fancy or anything like that.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And we want you to get that in by April 30th.
The three judges that we have this year are Kathy Dettmirs, the former owner of the high
new ensuing.
Just a wonderful partner for music in town here.
And then we're looking at these three judges will then score them out.
They're looking at everything from vocal blend, synergy, mastery of the instrument and all that.
Then we'll announce on May 15th on rockonsand.org that top 10 bands that will then be performing
at some of us at the rockonsand stage.
Oh, exciting.
That's great.
Dennis, thank you so much for coming in.
Telling us all about rockonsand.
Appreciate you.
Appreciate what you do.
And once again, the website is rockonsand.com.
You bet, man.
Rockonsand.
Not work.
Not work.
Not work.
You bet.
But actually, what guys?
I bought.com, too.
Yeah.
So we did rockonsand.
Just as it sounds.
Rockonsand.
Rockonsand.
Wisconsin.
Youth GarageBands.
Rock and Wisconsin.
This band won Rockonsand last year.
Geology Club.
Yeah.
From Waukesha.
From Waukesha.
Give me 30 seconds of your love for geology club.
The very talented band.
They had played a few years, as I said earlier.
They had been in the last two years of the competition.
And they put together their first CD,
all original songs before they graduate from high school.
And I do want to point out one band that's performed going
through these programs that I've put on that was once,
10 years ago, modern mod from Madison East High School,
sleeping in the stair from Madison West.
They came together as slow pulp.
Oh, yeah.
They're touring.
They're touring.
Yep.
They did a European tour this last fall,
where they were opening for Deathcap for Cutie
and all these major venues,
Royal Albert Hall,
and now are playing major clubs around the country.
Watch for slow pulp.
Yeah.
Watch out.
Because otherwise slow pulp will end up be your orange juice
in the mornings.
And they'll rock you.
That was corny.
I'm sorry.
Dennis, thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you guys.
Appreciate it.
We are local music.
Thanks.
Have a good day.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
We are local music.
Thanks.
Have a good day.
You're in once again.
And I know in which way to go,
I stand alone because no one knows.
I think I have to let you go.
I didn't plan on going so long.
My heart is full of death.
You can't be strong.
Prison and no wing.
You didn't know the whole thing.
Because you never said it.
Now I've built a list.
I want to get home.
Do some crazy things.
Let my teen years fly with the one I want
without again.
Prison and no wing.
But you didn't know the whole thing.
Because you never said it.
Now I've built a list.
In my head, we were dancing under the stars.
We were dancing under the stars.
We were dancing under the stars.
We were dancing under the stars.
Prison and no wing.
You didn't know the whole thing.
Because you never said it.
Now I've built a list.
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But you didn't know the whole thing.
Because you never said it.
Now I've built a list.
You found Wisconsin's local music authority.
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The problem of break-wraping is I prefer to be the side.
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The name of no return from the galaxy.
I came to meet you, to make a friend.
I never told you I found a friend.
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I found a friend.
I don't know what you're having, but I don't know about the show.
With me.
They didn't do my job from the galaxy.
I came to meet you, to make a friend.
I never told you I found a friend.
I just didn't bring it.
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Give your heart your truth into such beauty in the sky.
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Maxing on Civic Media, we are local music.
We're playing all the dance hits tonight.
That was fat function.
And Juniper, you might recognize us song.
We'll talk about that in just a couple of minutes.
I'm Jimmy K here with rocker KJ.
We're listening to original local music from Wisconsin until midnight tonight.
The pop with a smoothness of 60s soul and the rawness of 70s funk formed in the halls of the music school at university Wisconsin.
The multiple award-winning band have performed at clubs and music festivals across the United States and Japan.
Fat function has upcoming shows in Madison and Milwaukee.
Here to tell us about the band's revival, upcoming shows and little known secrets about the band is singer, sax and band leader Al Foulasci.
Yeah, welcome to Maxing Radio.
It's a bell.
Thank you.
First of all, thank you for what you guys do for local musicians and thank you for having me.
Oh, man.
Tell us real quick before rocker gets into this, about the last song we just played Juniper.
It's kind of a cover, isn't it?
Jimmy, I'm going to throw you under the bus a little bit here.
Oh, Jupiter.
Jupiter.
As in like the planet.
Sure.
The band that are two biggest influences is tower power and earth windifier.
Those are the two bands that we grew up as a horn band.
That's pretty much the Bible and the Bible too.
And so I grew up I had two older sisters that were 11 and 12 years older than me.
And that was house cleaning music on Saturday.
I love that.
So I brought that into the band and we kind of did our own little spin on it.
And was that your parents that played?
No, that's not my parents.
My parents were like World War II era.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So big band.
Something.
All Woody Herman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, all that stuff.
My sisters were in that, you know, funk R&B 70s, 80s, early 80s and 70s era.
So that's where I got all of that.
Wow.
The truth is out.
There's the first secret for our listeners who may not be familiar.
What's about forming this band in the halls of the music school and the University of Wisconsin?
Yeah.
So 1993, young, little 18-year-old Al came from Kenosha, Wisconsin.
And shot up to the summer music clinic.
Oh, yeah.
That gives away 10 scholarships every single year to both UW-Madison and UW-Muwaki.
And I met pretty much half of the people that were in fat function at the camps trying out for that scholarship, a bunch of us got it.
And while we were here in high school at those camps, we didn't want to do each floor that stayed in dorms had to do like a song and dance thing.
And we didn't want to do it.
And at the time, the Arsenio Hall show was huge and they had that band that was funky as all get out.
And so we asked them, hey, can we get out of doing the song and dance thing if we do a pit band?
Well, can we be the Arsenio Hall band?
It's a great idea.
Wow.
That's what I thought.
And so Tim Whalen and myself, Tim Whalen, keyboard player, myself formed this pit band.
And we had so much fun doing it that I said, hey, man, if I get to scholarship and I come to he was a year older than me.
If I come to UW, we got to do this.
Do like a tower up our earth, wind and fire kind of thing.
And I ended up getting the scholarship, came to UW.
And a couple of years later, we got into a speaking about Rock Ensen.
It was the college version of a kind of a garage band battle of the bands at the you at the Memorial Union Terrace.
And we entered that competition and it just kind of was a hobby that grew out of control.
And that's kind.
Next thing we knew we had a couple albums and we were going to Japan and and and and the rest of the stuff on that piece of paper in front.
Wow.
Well, your kids go out of control by the musical instruments.
The band, let's see.
The band also enjoyed touring success in Japan.
You just talked about that, making two trips in 2006 and 2012.
But I want to know your thoughts on bidets.
Funny.
Funny you should bring that up.
Yes.
This is not public video.
Yeah, this is not public video.
But we actually have early cell phone video of us going into a Japanese hotel room.
And I didn't read the instructions on the bathroom.
But apparently our guitar player and our bass player did you walk in as they were pressing down on the toilet rim.
And this little robot arm came and was shooting water at the ceiling.
And they were taking video of it.
And that was my introduction to Japanese bidets.
Oh, Americans, huh?
He did seats too, by the way.
You know, another Madison artist that has played in Japan with his band, Lords of the Trident Thai Christian.
He's so infatuated with bidets.
He has like nine in his house.
Yeah.
And I've sat on one of them.
They tell you if you ever needed an excuse to go to Thai's house, you take him up on it.
Yes.
Well, all right.
I'll send him a DM.
Okay.
Please do.
Okay.
We have to talk about something also kind of important because it something good did come out of it.
Tragedy struck in 2009 when your wife Kate lost her battle with cancer.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Thank you.
Apologies to you.
But you decided to host the event Funk out for cancer for the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
And we would like to know, I know the number, but I wonder how you say it.
How much have you raised in memory of Kate?
Over the events life, I think we donated over $260,000.
That's a maze to Dr. Dusty Deming, his lab at the UW Carbone Cancer Center,
which is specific to colon cancer, who he became a colon cancer doctor.
And weeks after he became a colon cancer doctor, was diagnosed with colon cancer himself.
Wow.
It's an incredible story, but he's doing incredible work.
And some of the advancements in colon cancer research worldwide have come out of his lab
and have been direct results of the funding from Funko Cancer.
Oh, my God.
Can people still contribute to this to this funder?
We haven't done it in a couple years.
COVID kind of threw a little bit of a wrench in a lot of things.
So it's to be determined whether or not we will resurrect it here, hopefully in the future.
Wow.
That's incredible.
Well, you know if you do, you got all kinds of support.
Thank you.
Recently, Tim Weyland, he moved back to Wisconsin from Washington, D.C.
And you got the band back together.
Tell us the resurgence of fat function.
Yeah, so this is the pain's not dry on this yet.
You know, it's fresh.
But Tim has been, he was a member of the United States Army band.
Their pop rock band that is kind of a carbon copy of fat function.
It's called the down range.
There you go.
But they did a lot of pop.
And so he didn't, he had an incredible job of arranging a tribute to Led Zeppelin
and the who for the Army strings and the Army chorus, an incredible gig.
And he was out there for 15 years, which made it difficult to say the least to do
fat function stuff back here.
So for the last 10 to 15 years, pretty much we were just doing one or two shows a year.
And Funko Cancer was every other year.
And then we would play our own show at Majestic or High Noon Saloon.
But he is recently retired from the Army and he is originally from Milwaukee.
So he moved back to Milwaukee like months ago.
And so we are excited about trying to get the band to be much more active in the
Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Minneapolis, corridor.
I don't think anybody wants to get in the van anytime soon.
But it's quite true.
I love that you're like, no rest for you.
I know you just got back.
But hey, man, we got to do some important stuff here.
Okay.
So fat function does have shows coming up.
You did mention the Majestic Theater.
So that's the first show in Madison.
That's April 6th, the Saturday, right?
Saturday, April 6th.
With a Dem Tess Faye.
Yep.
So that should be good.
And he's awesome.
Yeah.
I've heard, I've not seen him live, but I've heard you play him, Jimmy.
And I cannot disagree with him.
You've been around the black poet society.
They were huge in Madison.
They were the roots before the roots.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Also Dem's a long time friend.
Oh, that'll be great.
Okay.
So Saturday, April 6th.
The second show is June 1st.
And this one's in Milwaukee at the Viverium.
And that's with Mama Digdown's brass band.
Don't tell me that's not going to be a good time.
They are our longest time friend.
We used to rehearse in the halls of Mills Auditorium with Mama Digdowns.
Back in the day, we used to open up for them until we started getting bigger.
And then we would play our own shows.
But Mama, their dear friends of ours were super excited to be playing.
And it's a brand new venue that was opened up by the PAPS Theater Group.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
And so they just had their first show.
I think weeks ago.
Yeah, it's brand new.
Yeah.
The paint is just dry.
At least the paint is dry on something.
Love the smell of fresh paint, right?
That's Saturday, June 1st.
Saturday, June 1st.
Okay.
So getting on backstage with these people that you've known for so long has just got to be,
I mean, your face is lightened up.
This is great.
Yeah.
We have always enjoyed our time with Mama Digdowns.
They're very dear friends of ours.
We go to their gigs.
They come to ours.
We play on stage.
We'll definitely do something together at the end of that night.
Fantastic.
And my buddy, Paulie Ryan.
And Paulie Ryan.
Everybody knows Paulie Ryan.
Oh, yeah.
Love the guy.
Hey, real quick.
What's the current lineup right now for a FAP function?
Who's all the members of what they do?
Sure.
It's damn near close to what it was when it started 28 years ago.
Okay.
So myself and Tim Whalen co-founded the group.
The horn section is John Shipper on trumpet.
Jimmy Dorety on trumpet and Courtney Larson on trombone, which sounds really,
really close to the Steeley Dame horn section.
Oh, yeah.
And John Shipper is nothing but amazing.
He is an absolute beast.
So in trumpet world, there's solo trumpet and there's lead trumpet.
And that guy is world class lead trumpet player.
When he was playing at Atwood Fast on stage, he blew these trumpet notes.
But they went on for so long and it was really hot.
Like, I was worried about the guy just like completely just like, boom, going down, man.
I've never seen anybody play so passionately on trumpet.
He's a monster.
That's awesome.
I've got that from the Madison Scouts.
Yeah.
Another.
Yep.
Drum and bugle, of course.
That's right.
Rhythm section, Tim led by Tim, Tim on keyboards, Vince Jesse on guitar, who also plays in town
with the Mike Camelary organ trio.
Yes.
And then Nick Moran on bass, who plays with every Latin man that there is, I think.
All of them.
Your, your boy and my boy, Paul Ryan on percussion, who he is, he is world famous.
And then our drummer is Darvante Murray.
His nickname is Turbo.
Everybody calls him Turbo.
South side of Chicago straight out of the gospel.
You know, that, that genre.
And it's just an absolute monster.
And he's been with us since 2005.
So it's amazing that you guys are getting back together doing some more music.
We can come check you out.
Fat function at the majestic on here in Madison on April six.
Al, thank you so much for coming in telling us all about fat function.
Really appreciate you.
I'll go ahead.
Yeah, I just, I just got to say one thing before you leave.
You said there's a big tower of power influence.
I want you to know my very first concert was tower of power.
There's a reason I feel it.
I feel it.
I feel it.
We're going to play a well run dry.
Tell us about this song before I play for the people.
So Tim wrote this.
He, even though he is a keyboard player, he's a guitar player at heart and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
He was channeling his best Stevie Ray Vaughn at this point.
And we wrote the lyrics about a dear friend of ours who struggled with addiction and still does today.
But has turned the corner and this goes on to him.
All right.
Thank you, Al.
Appreciate you.
It's Fat Function Live on Max and Concevic Media.
We are Local Music.
Monday morning, pinning in.
Better weeks, it's Friday.
Bates for the sin.
Take a walk this way again.
Devil's knocking, let him in.
All night, all day.
After a while, it's all the same.
No pride, no shame.
Got a time to break the chin.
Went down to the well, too many times.
Bring me back to hell, let the water clear my eyes.
Now I can see the hell run dry.
Can't believe how I used to be.
Till my true friends came and rescued me.
It's an off road to be free.
Devil's down, now I see.
All night, all day.
After a while, it's all the same.
No pride, no shame.
Got a time to break the chin.
Went down to the well, too many times.
Bring me back to hell, let the water clear my eyes.
Now I can see the hell run dry.
All night, all day.
After a while, it's all the same.
No pride, no shame.
Got a time to break the chin.
Went down to the well, too many times.
Bring me back to hell, let the water clear my eyes.
Bring me back to hell, let the water clear my eyes.
Now I can see the hell run dry.
It's an off road to be free.
It's an off road to be free.
Devil, too many times.
Bring me back to hell, let the water clear my eyes.
Went down to the well, too many times.
Bring me back to hell, let the water clear my eyes.
Now I can see the hell run dry.
Fat function, it's maxing on a Saturday night.
Well run dry.
Thanks for all coming in.
Telling us all about the fat function.
Appreciate that.
We got a double tip.
Of Natty Nation coming up in just a couple of minutes.
We'll have a chat with him about his instrument.
To go fun me and everything like that.
We are local music with Sam Lyons.
You've got that power.
You've got that power.
You've got that power.
You've got that power.
To make a grown man cry, a grown man cry.
This time I want to spare my prime.
Throw it away.
She said I'm looking fine.
The trouble I really contain.
I said I lost my baby.
Going crazy.
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Go for what you know.
Go for what you know.
Hey, I'm going for what you know.
Go for what you know.
Been a long time since I've been able to sing my song.
So long now's the time.
I got to do it.
Do it in the way I know it's best.
Rockers that put you through the test.
No matter what the time of day.
Youth bringing roots.
What the people say.
They want the roots.
They don't mind the food.
They think they are.
They'll never be no big big star.
I just want to be a roots rocker.
Just want to be a show stopper.
Youth bring roots man.
Would you say I youth bring roots.
Youth bring roots man.
Hey, I youth bring roots.
You told Don't.
You got to be strong.
Because you're our responsibility lead.
Yes, you do that.
You stay strong, yeah.
You got to move on.
But you're our responsibility.
So make the better life for you and me.
Don't matter the time of day.
You bring roots.
What the people say.
They want the roots.
Yeah.
Some type of situations I have to say.
I want a lot of people like the way they do.
When it comes to music all I know is the truth.
Yeah.
Youth bring roots man.
Yes.
Say I youth bring roots.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Go for what you know, go for what you know.
And it's been a long time since I've been able to sing my song.
Yeah.
So long.
But now's the time.
I got to do it.
Do it.
And the way I know is best.
Roots rock right gay.
Put you to the desk.
You know what the time of day.
You bring roots.
What the people say.
They want the roots.
Yeah.
You told all.
I got to be strong.
You have responsibilities.
Every day.
I got to carry on.
I got to be stronger.
You have responsibilities.
To make a better life for you and me.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
We've made sure I remember.
Matt's got a lot of friends.
Yeah, we're pretty cool.
We don't have any friends.
And you know.
Matt called me to come.
That's a.
Like to talk about air dance is the first thing.
How does it look?
Break out.
We're going to make a comparison.
And bring the lyrics.
You know.
We're just live in a layer with Linda Nezeros and Maxine Kevin coming up
at 10 and an interview with Connipson and M. Shell after 1030 rocker.
Jimmy, the journey has just begun was natty nation's first album.
And they were actually the 12th cover of maximum music magazine.
That very year.
It was December 1996.
Oh, wow.
There's some history for you right there.
That's right.
We're just a small knit family here in the music scene of Madison, Wisconsin.
A Aaron Conkel is the long time keyboardist for Madison reggae legends,
natty nation.
And recently his equipment was stolen from his automobile at a show up in Minneapolis.
Now with a go fund me in place, which will never replace a prized instrument.
Aaron Conkel is here to give us information to keep our eyes and ears open and tell us about it.
Aaron, welcome to Maxine Gradio.
Thanks so much for having me.
What's up, Madison?
How are you doing?
You know, it's just a terrible situation.
Something that all musicians almost fear.
And we wish you were here on your better circumstances,
but you experienced a horror that all musicians worry about.
In some face, it's a reality of gigging.
In simple terms, just tell us what happened.
Well, I played a gig at Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis with the People Brothers Band.
Sold out phenomenal show.
It was just an absolutely great venue.
The staff, food, everything was beautiful.
It was great night.
Went out, went to after party at a rooftop.
And it was great.
Went to Pizza Lucia for some of my night pizza.
Yeah, it was just one of those great nights.
And I played the night before with natty nation.
And in La Crosse at the popcorn tavern.
So it was just like a great weekend of music on the road.
Classic.
And then went and stayed at a hotel that just right by the Dakota Jazz Club.
Fancy hotel.
And got there about 230 in the morning.
Went to sleep, woke up, got a late check out at 1 o'clock.
It's like, you know, a luxury in our world.
Since we get there so late, you know.
Right.
And yeah, that's all that my tailgate was a jar.
Oh.
Opened it up.
Wow.
Oh god.
It's just all gone.
Now you said that they had a really nice parking garage.
And you were actually parked in the parking garage.
So they've got film.
Nope.
No cameras.
Nope.
No cameras.
Seriously.
You would think so.
Oh, man.
Such a hopeless feeling.
I mean, we've, I don't know if we've all been.
But I personally have witnessed or been part of, you know, my house being robbed once.
Walk it and see it.
Oh god.
It's, it's a horrible feeling, man.
When you're, when your stuff has been stolen and you're, you know, you've been invaded basically.
Yeah.
It's just, it's like a, a deep sense of like violation of personal space.
And yeah, there's, there's really no, no, unless you've been through it, there's really no way to explain it.
Tell us about the instrument that cannot be replaced.
Okay.
Well, so it's a mode of prodigy, but, um, yeah, it's, it was broken in a way.
Like the, the pitch bend as was actually like it, for whatever reason, it didn't do the pitch bend.
It did a different thing where it like kind of like changed the, the timbre of it.
So it was kind of like, whoa, whoa.
So, um, like even if I get another mode of prodigy, it's not going to be the same.
And I've had that since, since I was, since 1999, I got it the early days of eBay.
Wow.
That's heartbreaking.
I've had it forever.
Since before, way before I joined that, a nation, um, yeah, and it's, it's like my favorite thing.
Like I just recently posted a video of me playing it, you know, because I was like,
you know, the mama insta, uh, synthesizer player of the year last year or whatever.
And I was like, probably preparation for that.
Well, that video could come in handy then.
Well, right.
Yeah, it's exactly what this thing looks like.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's right on my Instagram.
At a key Z, a K E Y S Y.
Well, I'm, I'm sorry to hear all, all that.
That just, that's just things all the way around.
Thank you.
Um, so, uh, fellas, fellow keyboardist in the music scene, Joe Burby.
Uh, quickly set up a GoFundMe campaign to help you out.
So thanks, thanks for that, Joe.
So what does it mean to have, what does it mean to you to have that kind of support?
There's really no words like the most humbling thing.
I just called him because I knew it happened to him when he was in Chicago a few years ago.
And I was like, what do you do?
Like I just like, you know, my mind's kind of jumbled like I made the police report, filed the insurance,
like did all the things.
But I was like, you know, hey, like what else is there to do?
And then, you know, he was like, well, yeah, you know, like we'll take care of you.
And I was like, okay, whatever.
And then like by the time I got home, he had posted it.
It had set it all up because I was five, a week, five hours away.
I spent all day doing the police report and everything.
By the time I got home, I was already a bunch of money.
People were donating.
It was like, that's wonderful.
And like at this point, it's like so much money.
It's insane.
Like, like so humbled.
The, the amount of support and love that comes from our music scene.
I mean, we were talked about this last week with the American dead.
Uh, uh, with that go fund me or Kickstarter.
And it's just amazing when people give like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like you know that people support you.
But to actually like see like, and like just like the messages that I'm getting,
the personal messages from people I've never heard of.
People I haven't talked to in, you know, decades.
You know, just like sending in a bunch of money and just saying nice things and sharing it.
And like, you know, just talking about what I mean to them.
You know, it's like you usually don't hear that stuff.
Right.
So like, that's a huge blessing.
How do we find the go fund me?
What's the name of it?
Uh, it's called Aaron Stolen Keyboard Fund.
Perfect.
Perfect.
So what else got Stolen besides the moge?
Uh, my Nord Electro 2, which had all kinds of saved sounds in it.
Like, especially like I used to be in a bank called Star Persons.
And we had like, you know, like two full banks of sounds that I have only would only use for that.
All the labor, all those hours.
And just like the comfort, comfort ability of like being on stage playing your own rig
and like knowing which button to press, like when you want to do a certain thing.
Like, like, yeah, I'm going to like, you know, learn new instruments.
And it's, they'll be great.
And you know, super thankful for all the money.
But and the resources and the ability to rebuild my rig.
But it's just not ever going to be the same.
Yeah.
And you know, that's just brutal.
Right now the go fund me is at 208 donors.
And the amount raised so far is $11,940.
Wow.
For a goal.
That's pretty amazing.
And all you have to do is just, I just went to Google.
I typed in Aaron Stolen Keyboard Fund.
And it popped right up.
If you can, if you're listening to the show tonight,
help a brother out and maybe pitch in a couple of bucks.
We'd like, it'd be very nice of you to do that.
Aaron, what's coming up with Daddy Nation?
What kind of shows do you have coming up?
So our next show in Madison is 420.
It's our.
What?
420.
I know who never would have thought at the Heinzloon
with Dub Foundation, Polyrhythmic Roots,
which is my other band, Dub Foundation.
Jaw Boogie just did a lead singer of Nadi.
Just did a solo album with Dub Foundation.
Yeah, what you guys have featured here.
And then also DJ Trichrom.
And I noticed that your sponsors are very familiar to us.
Yeah.
Honey Bee Cannabis.
Mm-hmm.
And also Ignite Lansing Gifts.
I wore a go.
Yeah.
And let's legalize Wisconsin, Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association
and the Great Midwest Hemfest as well.
Nice.
That shows where again.
At the Heinzloon.
At the Heinzloon.
What was the date again?
I didn't catch that.
420, which is a Saturday this year.
Which is a tradition for Nadi Nation to play the high new
and on 420, is it not?
It is.
It's not quite the annual tradition like Black Friday is
or Bob Marley's birthday, which we do those every year.
420 just generally when it lands close to a weekend.
I like your two examples.
Black Friday and Bob Marley.
Well, two things that could be.
Black Friday and Green Friday.
Right.
I mean, Black Friday is like, you know, it's like our antithesis.
Yeah.
This is like the anti-Black Friday show.
So another little factoid about 420.
Yes.
So April 20th in Madison is Ben Maisel Day.
Yes, it is.
I mean, we played the first Ben Maisel.
That's right.
That's very, very important.
Yeah.
Aaron, thank you so much for coming in tonight.
Tell sharing your story with us.
I'm sorry this happened to you, but I think the community is rallying
around you to get you back in your feet and get some new instruments.
I super appreciate it so much.
Thank you guys for having me.
And thanks to the whole Madison community.
All right.
Let's do some more natty nation right now.
It's a brand new world.
It's almost 420.
It's almost 420.
It's almost 420.
Well, now and the seeds of love will be brewing.
Spreading all around.
So will me winter blessings.
My god, water it.
Water it.
We're carrying and sharing a nourishing.
Nourishing.
Nourishing.
Everybody did understand me.
Music is a tool.
Music is a tool.
Music's a tool.
Music is a tool.
Music is a tool.
Music is a tool that leads a new world to live the dishes.
Music sometimes happens throughout the entire morning.
Music sometimes happens in the whole of the world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new Cela.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Music sometimes happens through a new world.
Well well well dry.
What new world that I am.
I'm not breaking.
We can spread love through my guide.
You know I can make a change.
So if you wanna see a brand new world.
Time to fly the seeds.
We dig out the seeds of fate.
Jelly sea and wheat one more.
So if you wanna see a brand new world.
Time to fly the seeds of love.
We dig out the seeds of fate.
Jelly sea and wheat one more.
We dig out the seeds of love.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
Music
We dig out the seeds of fate.
We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out the seeds of fate.
We dig out the seeds of fate.
We dig out the seeds of fate.
We dig out the seeds of fate.
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We dig out
the seeds of fate.
Oh my goodness, I can't wait.
But first we, I kill zombies.
Jimmy Bob Love made a movie.
But the only love in this movie is probably the love that happens while eating your brains.
It's a zombie movie.
A time to die is written and directed by local filmmaker Bob Love and filmed in Madison with local talent
along with a few cameos from local music scenesters.
The film premieres this Friday, March 29th at the Overture Center in Madison, Bob Love and
Zombie.
Steph Quinto are here in the studio tonight.
Bob and Steph, please don't eat my brains.
Welcome to Max Ac radio.
Well, all I can say is Steph was the zombie, so it could happen.
I'm just happy there's glass between us now.
Is there a history to zombies eating brains?
Why do zombies eat brains?
Well, as a director, I can't really speak to that, but I think I resident zombie.
I've actually done a little bit of research on that.
Oh really?
I'm a little bit of a method actor, so I tried to study all that.
There is a philosophy that the endorphins that kind of flow through the brains keep the pain down
from the decomp of the bodies, so I kind of staving off the pain and the suffering I suppose.
I mean, does it really hurt a zombie?
Does it feel pain when their arm falls off?
You know, I was really fast, so I never really felt pain.
I did see the trailer, and I saw you taking care of business a couple times.
Wow.
Bob, you formed Jinx Films three years ago when you left the video game industry to make independent
films.
Is that like quitting your job to join a band?
That is exactly what I'm creating a job to be an a band.
Yeah.
I had climbed the mountain about as far as I was going to get as a writer, director, and video games.
I love or even software.
I love the people there.
I got to work with A-list actors, and I'm directing MoCAP in these huge studios, but I wanted more.
So I got into independent film, and I get to work with talented actors right here in Madison.
Wow.
That's a great story.
A time to die is a horror movie, but also a comedy.
Tell us a little bit about the movie.
How different is this zombie movie from other zombie movies?
Well, for our price range, we're a $20,000 budget, and we blow everybody else out of the water that's in our price range.
And I even put us up against something that was 10 times our budget.
Our actors are great.
Our writing, of course, is fantastic.
Of course so.
We got it all.
And our fight scenes are phenomenal.
The actors they trained for that.
How do you raise money for the budget?
I mean, you haven't seen me out on state street with the sign saying we'll direct for money?
Sure.
Sure.
I've seen you.
That was you.
No, we did a Kickstarter for that.
And there are several cameo appearances of local musicians and music.
Sunspot is featured.
Anti-Christian from Lords of the Trident.
He plays a guard.
Kyle Henderson from the producers isn't in this.
And our own Terry Barr is a newscaster.
Am I missing anyone?
Mike Rip actually is doing lead guitar on one of our songs in the soundtrack.
Wow.
So all kinds of.
Yeah.
Trying to get the welcome music scene involved.
And then Steph Quinto.
I heard you took fight classes.
And I heard other actors were taking a lot of fight classes to make this movie.
Yeah.
So over at what was it?
Infinity martial arts near the west side.
We actually held a lot of group practices and also some individual practices with Brandon Tracy.
He's one of the teachers over there.
Or I forget what the word for the teacher is.
Sensei?
Sensei?
Yeah.
The sensei for that.
So he was really great.
A lot of his free time went into kind of taking us under his wing.
So very appreciative.
Did you kind of take to it?
I mean.
I would have baby T.J. about that.
Tyler.
Well, I hear in the movie that you are the one who takes down Thai Christian.
No.
No.
She takes down Taylor Brzynski.
Oh, Taylor Brzynski.
Yeah.
No.
Oh, Taylor had to come in.
Yeah.
Taylor.
He's a huge guy.
And their fight scene is just so good.
We worked eight hours.
We shot for two and a half minute fight scene.
Wow.
I was just going to say, what's the most interesting thing about filming a fight scene like that?
That people don't know.
It's really more about selling it than throwing it.
You really got to be able to do the reaction without actually getting hurt.
A lot of it is the coordination and being able to read each other.
So I really found that interesting who I blended well with.
In those moments in who we kind of collided with at times.
Did anybody get hurt on scene in the fight scenes?
Like hurt like major early hurt.
Oh, no, no.
Majorly no, no.
There's always a few bumps and scrapes.
But then you'd have to eat the victims.
In real life.
That's how it works, right?
In real life.
Are there real zombies out here?
Is there?
I mean, we can't talk about that.
We've been told we can't.
Men in black told us we can't talk about that.
I mean, it's something that said they can't talk about it.
I'm not going to get like zapped here with a bright light.
They can only give us something.
You wouldn't remember.
Please.
So many information you can share with us.
That was how we can all come see this movie.
So we're playing at the beautiful overture center.
Which it's just, I'm speechless.
And that's rare for me.
It's across the street from us.
It is across the street.
I'm looking at it right now.
We're in the promenade hall.
You can get tickets if you look on jinxedfilms.com.
J-Y-N-X-E-D Films.com.
Or just look me up.
Robert Love on Facebook.
You'll see me standing in front of Carmageddon.
And tickets are $10 a piece.
And we're selling them at the door.
Come on and see this.
This coming Friday at seven o'clock.
It's a great date night movie.
It is.
It is.
Well, they say endorphins from movies like that actually can make people think I'm not even king.
Like what they said in the movie speed is true.
If you watch it, that's why people like to go scary movies for first dates.
Because you think it's a little zing between you.
Wow.
I appreciate the backup there, KJ.
Thank you very much.
You know what, man?
Now, is the cast there?
Will we be able to meet the cast?
Yes, the cast will be there.
And afterwards, we're going to have merchandise posters and DVDs for sale.
And they'll sign them.
And if you're lucky, Steph will sign.
She's a little particular about that.
Why is that stuff?
Why are you being particular?
A particular.
I'm just kidding.
She's not.
She doesn't want you to make money on eBay for her signature.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Too late.
It's already happened.
Robert, congratulations to you.
I know you've been working on.
We've been taught.
Well, we've known each other for a couple of years now.
Send the universities to you.
Yep.
And I can't believe it's actually going to happen for you.
You have to be numb with excitement.
There were times I didn't think it was going to happen.
But because of actors like Steph and all the rest of the crew,
the cast and the crew, we just kept working and working and working.
And it took us three years.
But gosh darn it, we did it.
Wow.
And thank you so much for supporting us with this.
You're welcome.
Steph, congratulations to you too.
I know you've worked your tail off for this.
And it's going to be fun watching your movie on the big screen
while you're sitting there in the Overshire Center.
Oh, absolutely.
It's kind of a dream come true.
It's awesome.
That's great.
Congratulations to you both.
Once again, a time to die.
The premiere is happening next week at the Overshire Center.
What's the website?
We can get more information on too.
jinxdefilms.com.
J-Y-N-X-E-D films.com.
I'm not sure if this is the right song, but I don't want to be a ghost.
Perfect.
Perfect shot.
That's what I'm saying.
And I talk to them.
I'll be right behind the wall.
And I'll always give you the call.
My name.
I used to want to come back as a spirit.
And be in some romantic tragedy.
At the Patrick's Swayze.
And you would be my sweet dear me.
But when I talk, you couldn't hear it.
If I materialize, you couldn't see.
How could I be happy without some sexy part of it?
If we can't be together, who wants to live forever?
When you're just looking right for me.
If I was below me, there's no point in eternity when I can see you looking right for me.
I don't want to be a ghost.
I just want to be a man.
I don't want to hear my friends when I talk to them.
I'll be right behind the wall.
And I'll always give you the call.
My name.
If I walked the earth as a phantom,
I'd hone every place we used to go.
But what would I do with all these strangers in our home?
And the favorite time I showed was random.
And I was just standing over in some photos.
I'd rather be six feet beneath than a gravestone.
What's the point of us all?
If there's no one I'll make you whole.
Respect your spectator that's born in mortality.
If we can't be together, who wants to live forever?
When you're just looking right for me.
If I was below me, there's no point in eternity when I can see you looking right for me.
I'll just go to the light.
I'll just go to the light.
If I can't see you tonight, then I'll just go to the light.
If we can't make things right, then I'll just go to the light.
If I matter, you say, I'll just go to the light.
There's no reason to find.
I'll just go to the light.
There's no reason to find.
I'll just go to the light.
If we can't make things right, then I'll just go to the light.
I'll just go to the light.
What's the point of a soul?
If there's no one to make you whole.
A special spectator that's fallen in mortality.
If we can't be together, who wants to live forever?
When you're just looking right through me.
If I will always be lonely, there's no point in eternity when I can see you looking right through me.
If we can't be together, who wants to live forever?
When you're just looking right through me.
If I will always be lonely, there's no point in eternity when I can see you looking right through me.
I don't wanna be a ghost, I just wanna be a man.
I don't wanna hear my friends when I cannot talk to them.
I'll be right behind the wall and always give you the call.
My name.
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Sometimes when you get in the door, what you coming down?
What you coming down for?
Selling my soul with time or more.
It's hard to tell who you are anymore.
Sometimes when you get in the door,
Sunday morning sleeping in.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
Sunday morning sleeping in.
Hey you, what you putting the door?
What you coming in?
What you coming here for?
Can't stand, can't tell anymore.
I'll be the line that never tears before.
Hey you, what you putting the door?
Sunday morning sleeping in.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
With Sunday morning sleeping in.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
Sunday morning sleeping in.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
With Sunday morning sleeping in.
Sunday morning sleeping in.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
With Sunday morning sleeping in.
Sunday morning sleeping in.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
With Sunday morning sleeping in.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
I can't remember the last time it's been.
And the zero is just around the corner in the meantime.
We'll do some Jaden James and right now Dana Perry.
Everything is moving.
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I wanna feel alone.
Nobody but me.
So I can feel connected.
I wanna suck me free.
We gotta turn ourselves so we can touch the world.
That's what it takes.
The moving on is hard.
So let me cry it out alone.
Cause when it happened I was alone.
I shut my eyes to everything but the pain.
I gotta listen where the wine opened up.
Cause I tell myself this is just a moment.
Just a story.
Cause everything is moving and the reaper strain is always but on time.
But there's so much shouting I'm just a person.
How does anybody do this?
If I can't pause the movie maybe I can direct the scene.
Well Madison.
How I love this town.
There's plenty of room to grow.
And love is all around.
Show me what I wanna see.
Show me how it starts and ends with me.
I tell myself this is just a moment.
Just a story.
Cause everything is moving and the reaper strain is always but on time.
There's so much shouting I'm just a person.
How does anybody do this?
If I can't pause the movie maybe I can direct the scene.
I tell myself this is just a moment.
I tell myself this is just a moment.
I tell myself this is just a moment.
I tell myself this is just a moment.
Just a story.
Cause everything is moving and the reaper strain is always but on time.
But there's so much shouting I'm just a person.
How does anybody do this?
If I can't pause the movie maybe I can direct the scene.
If I can't pause the movie maybe I can direct the scene.
Cause we just love to cry out here playing victim all the time.
If I'm body like this it's no surprise.
Took me too long to see you.
You're a mere guy.
You've got this way.
Oh yes you do.
I'm making me stay.
I'm ready to eat here for me to take the blame.
And I've never known how many they could.
After all this torture and all this pain and all this pain.
I can recognize the self through the shame.
Oh you've got this way.
Oh yes you do.
I'm making me stay.
Oh you've got this way.
Oh yes you do.
Yes you do.
Why does it matter?
Darling what for you?
Oh if it's just between me and you.
I can never leave.
There's plenty of points tearing me apart.
And I'm dead.
I don't want to die.
Just keep loving me like you.
Like you do.
And I don't want to keep on.
It's easier for me to tell you how I feel.
How I feel.
I know it.
I'll send you in and out of space.
It's easier for me.
It's easier for me to hide my shame.
But not being your baby was my only mistake.
Oh you've got it.
Oh you've got it.
You've got this way.
Oh yes you do.
I'm making me crazy.
Oh yes you do.
Oh you're making me stay.
Oh you've got this way.
Oh you've got this.
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