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Rocker, I see somebody that looks familiar to me.
Do you?
I do.
Familiar.
Is it me, Rob?
Well, yes, it's you.
Of course, yes.
I know you.
Or could it be me?
Well, okay.
I know you too.
All right.
So nice.
There's a third person in there that I recognize from Atwood Fest.
Oh.
That's right.
Nice one.
Well, one beer please is a scoff fusion group based in Madison, whose members carry a wide
variety of musical influences and backgrounds, including jazz, Latin, pop, punk, funk, and
scoff.
And always striving to create a fresh sound.
Steve Bita of One Beer Please is here in the studio to tell us about the scoff fusion
of One Beer Please.
Steve and Bita, welcome to maxing radio.
Thank you for having me.
And now we've led in with money, money, money.
And that's what I'd call scava.
Exactly.
Exactly.
We talk about that all the time and we play that.
So that's a scot cover?
That is our scot cover.
Wow.
That was money, money, money.
It's actually part of a larger like 70s thing that we do.
We know another.
Avatune.
Lay all your love on me.
Wow.
Wow.
Disco.
Does that get people going?
It does.
That's the answer.
I had a feeling, yeah.
People like hearing what they know.
If they hear it a little different, they get interested.
And then like listen.
It's crazy how like, you know, disco kind of makes this resurgence.
But you know what, it's the, it's the, it's probably just great dance music.
Yeah.
That's what's new.
What's old is new again.
Exactly.
Wow.
And you know, the whole time I never knew that was an abacover, so I learned something
today.
Oh, wow.
Stephen, before we hear about One Beer Please, tell us a little bit about yourself.
I mean, how did you get started playing music?
So I went to public school and advanced stuff for a while.
So I played trombone.
That's my main thing.
I actually ended up coming down here to study trombone as one of my degrees at UW-Madison.
I see.
Wow.
One of them, what was the other one?
It econ.
I was an econ music double major.
Wow.
Some to fall back on.
Yeah.
You're going to be a trombonist.
Sun, you're going to need something to fall back on.
Not exactly the most reliable profession out there with an undergrad trombone degree.
But yeah, while I was in school, I kind of started getting hooked up to a lot of different
bands in town.
My sophomore year had my first paying gig with Latin band, Latin pride, or Kesta.
Sure.
On a New Year's Eve in like 2018.
And that was my first introduction to the scene.
That's where I met a bunch of people who slowly but surely connected me to a few of
the other bands that I've played throughout in town.
Now tell us a little bit about your parents role, they put you in trombone lessons.
How was trombone picked?
My band teacher actually came to my parents.
They were going to put me in band.
Both my parents, they weren't band growing up.
They played in marching band and musical theater and all that kind of stuff all throughout
high school.
So they're like, you're going to do band.
And then the band teacher came back to them after I wanted to do percussion.
And thank God they said no, because I would have been a terrible percussionist.
But they're like, hey, we actually need trombone players.
And that was like, way low on my choice list.
I was like, I'd rather do trumpet or saxophone, obviously drums, but they needed trombones.
So they kind of stuck me with trombone.
And from there, I just kind of, I really liked it.
I spent a lot of time after school practicing playing, listening to a lot of stuff.
There's some really great players up in Wasa where I'm from that really bolstered that
brass background.
You know, why does that surprise me a little bit when I think of Wasa, I don't think
of brass.
Yeah, it's, it's not a, you know, then not a lot of people think about that town for,
for that kind of scene, but there's a, there's a band up there, a hip pocket that's a,
like a 70s, you know, Chicago style cover band.
And they play around town a lot.
And the principal for one of the elementary schools leads that band.
He's a killing trumpet player, Nick failing and his son, his two of his sons, we've all
played together.
He's a musician's wonderful musicians and a lot of creativity and collaboration with, with
that family and a lot of growth in that scene with those people, which is really cool.
What are instruments do you play besides trombone, anything else?
I play air quotes, the bass guitar.
I spent some time doing that in jazz bands and just kind of like messing around.
Like if our bass player can't make a rehearsal, like I will fill in for him as best as I can.
Air quotes again.
And it's, that's, that's really the only thing.
And then, and then I did learn the double tenor pans for panchromatic steel when I was playing
with that band.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
That's really cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tell us a little bit about your band one beer, please.
So I kind of started this project mainly just because of me and a lot of other friends at UW
Madison kind of started to get into Scott together a bit.
I heard, I kind of got into the genre from the way that a lot of people in like my age
and maybe a little bit older, the third wave of Scott, which is all that 90s stuff, you
know, Superman by gold finger, real big fish, the mighty, mighty boss tones, all that kind
of stuff.
And then like as, as I kind of got into it, mean my specifically, my roommate, Nick Hill,
we both really started listening to a lot of that music and got really into it.
And we found fishbone and the specials and all these other older bands that they're
just killing.
They're so good.
And it really expanded what Scott was in our brains as a genre.
And we're like, Hey, you know, we got a lot of other musical influences and it would
be really cool to start our own thing and just kind of get it going.
So a couple of years ago, you know, post pandemic, we're all out of school at this point.
We're like, we want to do something related to this.
Like let's find some other people who are available and want to get in on it and just start
playing around town, having some good times, playing some good music, yeah, that's kind
of where it all started.
Now how did you get the name one beer, please?
I mean, why not two?
Yeah.
You got to ask for the first one politely and then from there, actually, the name comes
from one of my roommates back in college.
We were going out and he had an idea that was perhaps not the most legal at the time.
Oh, yeah.
Nami, I was, you know, I was law abiding at the time, but he was getting denied at every
bar we were going to, but not anymore.
He's not.
Not anymore.
I got to bring his mom.
I know.
Right?
Shame him a little.
That's what I do.
Yeah.
But we were, we were hitting the bars and we tried to get into as many as we could and we
got denied at almost every single one and we get to one and they somehow let him in.
The bouncer must have needed new glasses or something.
But we get up to the bar and it's loud and we can't hear anything and he's never been
to a bar.
It doesn't know what to say.
So he just goes up and he's like, Hey, give me one beer, please.
And I elbow on the side and I'm like, just ask for like the name of a beer.
Like you can't just ask for a one beer and expect them to hand you exactly what you're
thinking of.
Like we already were testing the waters here trying to get you into this bar.
Like the last thing we need is for them to think that you're more underage than you
are.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A little green.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
One thing that's pretty much a requirement for Skaw bands is a killer horn section.
Tell us about your horn section.
Yeah.
So obviously as a trombonus, that's something I love about Skaw.
So I play trombone in that band and sing and then next to me, my right hand man is Justin
Coyne, who's currently a doctoral student here, a UW-Madison.
He went to school of trombone.
Oh, wow.
Dr.
Trombone.
Dr. Trombway.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really committing to the bit on that one.
But he played in a punk Skaw band out in Boston when he was an undergrad for our master's
skin, his master's.
And so when I met up with him at UW, we were like, Hey, let's do this guy thing together
and he was a pretty big fan of it.
Our tromboplay right now is Noah Joke, who he, it's spelled differently, but he plays
in a couple other bands around town.
Novel Folly is the one that a lot of people would know.
They're kind of like a neo-soul, prog neo-soul kind of group that highest coyotes, the first
band that comes to my mind when we, when I listen to them.
And then our current trombonus, our other trombonus right now, we got three trombones.
Back in a big time.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's Kadenbuck and that's another friend of mine that I went to school with and he, he's
played around town with me and other bands like Mad City Falken.
How do you argue the longest as three trombonists?
You know, we're all peas in a pod there.
Like we're all trombonists at the same personality.
You know, we're all big goofballs, I think, when it comes down to it.
Is that required to be a trombon?
Yeah, yeah.
When they handed me the trombone, there's like the list of clients like you got buzz and
move the slide and then also be a big stupid goofball at the bottom there.
So we all, we all signed up for it, but yeah, give the drummer some, you know, tell us
about your drummer quick.
Yeah.
So Abe Stofl Murray is our drummer.
We, I went to school with him too, all UW grads.
And he, I met up with him again after we graduated altogether and we needed someone to
play drums in the band and he's, he's not playing around with a lot of other bands,
but he's actually got a big DJ thing going.
He's part of a, a pretty big group of DJs that play down at the Cardinal bar pretty
frequently.
And it gives, you know, a lot of house funk disco kind of stuff like that.
And he's all spinning vinyl.
So his love of that, like very groovy music translates really well to playing in this band.
Plus the jazz background helps to go chops.
One beer please.
Are you playing at the high noon saloon on Thursday, August 28th and then October 30th
at the Gamery bar?
This is the end of the year shows.
You've had a really great summer and now Halloween show to cap it off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had a really busy summer played a bunch of different gigs around town, all outside
and luckily the weather held for basically all of them, which is, you know, you don't
always get that every summer kind of a crapshoot.
You never know what's going to happen in Wisconsin could be rain, could be snow.
I mean, yeah.
Come on.
No.
Some of those early, early enough ones.
You never know.
We bring all types of clothing for all types of weather, all terrain music kind of thing,
you know.
What's the future look like for one beer please?
You guys got new EP coming out, album?
Yeah.
We're working.
We recorded some music for an EP in February and we've slowly been working on that music,
trying to do all the mixing and mastering DIY, you know, it's a learning process.
A lot of us really haven't released our own music before, so we're kind of taking that
as a track to try and learn how to do some of that.
We recorded all of our stuff with Evan at Redshed Recording Studio.
He's a drummer for Secret Menu, another great label band.
Okay.
He's awesome.
Yeah, that guy.
His studio is great.
We had a really good time recording with them and we got about six songs down and we're
just slowly chunking our way through it.
It's been a lot, but it's been a really good learning experience.
How do we keep up with one beer please online?
You can follow us on all of our social media channels, we get Instagram, Facebook, we have
a band camp that we're dropping all of our stuff on, we're on all the major streaming
platforms too for our current single, money, and then our next one coming up good for
your soul.
Tell us about that song before we listen to it.
Is that an Oingo Blango reference?
No, it is not an Oingo Blango reference unfortunately.
It's actually heavily inspired by Chicha, which is like the Peruvian psychedelicumbia
genre that I play in a couple of other bands and there's a lot of great Scott Latin fusion
bands that have been playing around Los Fabulousos Cadillacs is definitely the big inspo for
this song.
So it's a Latin Scott fusion kind of thing that we're trying to cook up with this.
Well, Stephen Bita, one beer please.
Thank you so much for coming down to talk to us tonight on Maxine Gradio.
We really appreciate it.
Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
It's been awesome.
Well, let's check out this brand new song.
This is the premiere by one beer please.
This is this is good for your soul, Maxine Gradio.
We are Local Music.
The rhythm flows and cuts through here we try to brave a space, the urge to dance to
move to field, know what's in this place, a beating heart, a moving mind, creates a feeling
that we're losing time, it is so good for me and you, it is good for your soul, friendship
forged within the groove, it is good for your soul, come as you want, come as you may, it's
good for your soul, we're headed and took care of the way, it is good for your soul, look
to your left, to your right, it is good for your soul, this is your family for the night,
it's good for your soul.
It doesn't matter who you're with yet, together or alone, nicked and exit helps
you skin to skin and bone to bone.
Some heavy fears and two feather ways.
Crumble stone hearts to feel love instead of hate.
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