I'm rocker here with Rob Roberts, Jane and Dom Lee and we're going to talk to Dom Lee,
you know, Dom Lee, I hang out with John and Gordy right here on WM DX 92 7 FM every Friday
morning at 7 30 and we do a maxing preview and of course they used to have their producer
was named Sam and Sam is left to go on to pursue I think being a history teacher and
then all of a sudden Dom's down here right we're going to civic media he's on the John
and Gordy show he's the producer but we don't know much about him so Dom Lee welcome
to maxing radio how you doing thanks thanks for having me rocker I appreciate I'm you're
right I'm not normally here I'm usually behind the board I'm really clicking all the buttons
yeah but yeah this is the first time where I'm actually you know talking to people face to face
close you know I can like touch you right now rocker it's different yeah he was also saying I mean
I can't touch you but I can track but yeah he was also saying it's weird it's getting darker
where he's used to it getting lighter oh right because the morning show yeah yeah they started
6 a.m. to 8 a.m. every every Monday through Friday right correct yeah wow right after this I'm
probably going to be taking I'm probably going to be sleeping around 9 30 this is yeah past your
bedtime what time do you get up in the in the in the weekday that's a great question I always get
up at 4 o'clock but I have I have whoa or 4 a.m. but I always have alarm sets I have like 3 o'clock
320 yeah 340 and that's when I'm like okay I have to wake up now oh wow that that's pretty
early actually on Fridays I get up around 3 a.m. to get all my prep out of the way to do
John and Gordy show oh my wow yeah get up earlier than me I didn't know that yeah I'll only on
Fridays on Friday so you know you got to beat him now true yeah I got to wake up at 2 or something
no I mean at that point you might as well just stay up yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
coaches right right leather leather coaches you know you can't be that not down you just came down
here got you moved to Madison I believe you came from my gosh gosh you graduated from
gosh tell us a little bit about yourself and and how you got started this how you ended up in
TV radio film and producing and radio and stuff right I'm well I originally I was actually born
in Illinois um Frankfort Illinois about a half an hour south of Chicago yep that's what everyone says
I didn't know you don't like the bears do you don't let's just move on um so anyways uh
but uh yeah um then I went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Ashkash all four years I
just recently graduated with like you said a radio TV film uh major major and um after that
right I just I kind of came to Madison um and I've been here for about two and a half months now
and it's been it's been amazing it's been it's been great I've I've loved it and I started radio
freshman year um of college and I never looked back after that I had you know I also worked at
w i x x in green bay for a year sure and so I I've been I've been kind of immersed with radio
for a very long time now and I love it wow wow yeah you know um Dom I met you at atwood fest oh yeah
and it might be like one of your first exposures to the Madison scene like what's the biggest
culture shock what's the biggest difference you've noticed between here and Illinois I the
biggest I mean I've never been able to like she said Illinois too she like skipped over that
effect you lived in Wisconsin because Madison is a whole other beast yeah that's true well
first off it's route it's way colder here you everyone says like oh Illinois is really cold
not even close to to the Wisconsin winters but um I would say the biggest difference is I'm
able to walk around in Madison right I can after work I can just walk to walk to you know
eans or Michelangelo is down here yeah I can just walk down state street and in it's it's it's an
amazing experience you know I just feel it in Illinois I felt like I couldn't really walk anywhere
it felt congested right I don't know what it was but Madison's very open very lively the like you
said the music here is amazing and and that's kind of the main reason why I kind of moved here
and and I haven't haven't left and I don't I don't I don't plan on leaving yeah that's right
and that's what happens yeah I came here in 1986 really and I got into playing with bands
and being the music scene and I could never leave and I think Madison's music scene is is most
unique and interesting because there's so little cover music here and so much original music I
always tell people that you know here in Madison we're walking around drunk on original music you know
yeah and it's just everywhere so I think that's a little different but Ashkash is a very
interesting scene in itself now Terry Barr right our co-host here at Maxing Gradio she is a from
the University of Ashkash as well she's an alum yeah oh yeah how many pairs of overalls do you
have in your closet too much she's asking a good question oh yeah yeah that's a what do they
call that Ash Vegas yes oh man that's what everyone knows Ash Vegas yeah I mean in in Lake
Winnebago Lake Winnebago I mean they always associate that with Ashkash as well yeah but man I
I also miss Ashkash I won't lot Ashkash as they it's an awesome college college scene and that's
also why I went there for college too but oh man I do I do miss Ashkash from living in Illinois
yes correct yeah and it was mainly because of the the the radio TV film curriculum that they have
the program and yeah yeah it was it was amazing it's a really good school it really is it really is
I got to talk to Terry Barr about that now yeah I have to I didn't know that I didn't even know that
oh yeah well that's Maxing Gradio making the connections hey you know she was she was an anchor here in
Madison on channel three news three she was also an anchor up in Green Bay for a long time when
the Packers went to the Super Bowl she was choming around with Brett Farvin all those guys so
she's yeah she has some she has some credit man yeah she's she's awesome so we great
you know some people yeah she does yeah yeah now one thing that's interesting is you are not
necessarily a musician with instruments but you do beats I do do a little bit of beats on yeah
let's hear about that yeah I do there's this program called Ableton Ableton Ableton Live
yeah and I I have an apartment right now and I just kind of I have I have the live full version
of it it's about like $50 a month and I just kind of play beats off of it I you know I do string
I do all sorts of stuff on there and I try to make my own beats and try to try to make my own songs
I've just started so it's a very you know recent thing for me but you know my roommate was saying
what are you doing why is the music so loud in our apartment I'm like you know go to sleep all right
I got so what for is going on yeah a little bit yeah a little bit he's stopping in bed waking up
what's going on no noise complaints yet but we'll see wow yeah well so cool we are here thank you so
much for sitting in time that's so awesome we're glad you're with civic media and the John and
Gordy show Monday through Fridays you can listen right here on 92 7 FM
