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with an answer that is magic seven natural progression.

That's from their 1996 debut album.

And we opened up that set actually with drowning in a dream the first of the double dip.

And you know, that was just a read.

That's a new song.

I put that in from the closet tonight.

I don't think I played that on Maxing radio for a long time.

Well, I certainly haven't heard it.

That was

me

buttoe and the boys from last crack.

That's really kind of like last crack two point.

3.0, actually, with Jeff Grieshammer on drums and Paul Schluter on guitar, Don Bakken and Todd Winger.

That was a really great band.

The interesting thing about that, right, is that was 30 years ago, right?

30 years ago this month, Magic Seven was on the cover of Maximum Ink Music Magazine, and I was at the show in August, right?

And I was there to get pictures so we could put them on the cover and do the interview and all that kind of good stuff.

And I also happened to be working for the band at the time, selling some, some merch.

And at the show is an outdoor show.

As you know, the bands are playing.

This, this girl comes up, right?

I think I've told this on the year.

And she said she wanted to buy a T shirt for me.

I'm, I'm telling Jean because I

don't

know if she's heard it.

And, uh, yeah.

And I said, uh, she said, you know, I forgot my, I forgot my wallet, but, um, I know the guys in the band.

I was like, everybody knows the guys in magic seven.

Come on here.

But.

I got her t-shirt, and now 30 years later, we've almost been married for 30 years.

That was my wife, Alice.

I met her at a Magic 7 show at the White House, which has now been bulldozed over, over on the north side.

In one of these days, you're going to have to break out your last crack flow chart.

Oh,

yes.

Oh, I know.

It really needs to be updated.

In fact, since the last time it was updated, there are like another 20 bands.

So, you know, they've

been

in so many different bands.

Well, you know, we have a really great show tonight.

I'm rocker here.

I'm mixing radio here with Jane tonight.

And boy, we have a crazy Milwaukee legendary radio personality started on WZMF QFM 93 QFM from my childhood back in the 80s.

Bob Reitman also Reitman and Miller, just a famous personality from Milwaukee.

We'll talk to him.

He's 80 years old now.

So he's been in radio since before like 1974.

Yeah,

we don't get too many 80 year olds here at Max inc radio.

You know, we're going to check it out.

He'll be on the phone from us with us from Milwaukee.

Miss Christine.

Miss Christine is here tonight actually playing Mickey's Tavern tonight.

And earlier today, she was playing at the vegan fest.

They're from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and they're on the Queer Joy Tour of the Midwest.

We'll hear all about that.

And Matthew Haefel, he's coming here from Milwaukee.

He's going to be playing for us live from the Man City tonight.

great sounding band, three peaceful drums and everything.

So really looking forward to it.

Yeah, we're really making these people drive all the way out.

Oh, you know, there we have a lot of Milwaukee bands that are kind of all of a sudden heard about it and want to, you know, get in here and play live on the radio.

Yeah.

Sorry, I couldn't be here for a blame it on Kane last week.

Oh, you know what?

They had to cancel.

Yeah.

There was a

problem.

So I was just in here by myself last week.

Hey, new music tonight from the Night Painters.

We have some vintage Ruby Star and Great Ghost coming up during Bob Reitman's interview.

I had some vintage bad boy and I pulled out Sigmund Snowpex.

Thank God this isn't Cleveland.

We're going to hear that totally humorous song.

And of course, we'll have something from the band feels latest album.

What I've released last week and come in here to open for a cheap trick right now.

Let's keep it going.

I want to replay this.

We played it last week.

Seesaw Pure Bliss.

It's one of their

brand new songs.

This goes out to Alice.

You're listening to Maxine Craneo.

We are local music.

That is a brand new from Seesaw.

I'm Rocker here with Jane in the control room.

Oh, we premiered that last week to have a couple of new songs.

We're going to be playing some of them every week.

That's a really good album.

And

please play more of them.

That sounds fantastic.

I didn't get to hear that last week.

I'm so glad.

We

had a double dip of brand new songs.

So next next week we'll be playing some more Seesaw.

And wow, you know, hey, did you know that you can listen to our interviews and podcasts and all that good stuff out on Apple Music and Spotify?

And of course, you can download the Civic Media app.

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Jane.

What

people are sending in brand new music tonight.

We're going to be hearing.

We're going to be hearing from the night painters they just sent in last week.

We played a bunch of new music.

We just heard brand new seesaw.

Here's a Marsden next.

You can send in your MP3s for me and Jane to play right here on Maxink radio.

Send it to music at civicmedia.us and we'll check it out.

We are also taking on people to play right here live in the layer live.

from the Mad City.

Boy, that's still in my brain.

It's okay.

I can't get rid of it.

It's okay.

Just like Matthew Heffel is coming here tonight to play with his band live in the studio from eight to nine p.m.

So make sure to stay around from that.

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So that's a new development as well.

And wow, we have some more brand new music coming up.

We have Bob Reitman coming up at the bottom of the hour.

But right now, let's do this.

Another band we premiered last week, Marsden.

He is going to be here actually next week interviewing and talking about this brand new album that's going to be released.

But right now, we have it and we're going to play it.

This is Joe Marsden, his band Marsden.

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And wow, that is a throwback.

If there's a throwback, because that comes from 1975.

They were on Capitol Records at that time.

That song was actually featured on the Midnight Special.

I don't know if you remember the Midnight Special, but that was a thing before like MTV, right?

Where bands performed on TV in the late 70s and maybe the early 80s.

The song came after she was in Black Oak, Arkansas, did the.

Go Jim Dandy song, which you may have heard of.

And Ruby continued after that with Blackfoot.

And then bands you might remember Milwaukee Grey Star and Ruby Star Band.

And Ruby, unfortunately, she passed away in 1995 after battling brain cancer.

You know, I grew up with her because she was one of my mom's best friends.

And so I knew Ruby well.

She was really awesome.

And it's interesting because we're kind of on this Milwaukee roll, right?

And right now, Bob Reitman.

He's been one of Milwaukee Radio's defining voices for more than six decades.

He began at WUWM in 1966 with a poetry program called Sense Waves and what became a pioneering free-form FM DJ at WQFM in 74 where he introduced Milwaukee audiences to artists including Bruce Springsteen, Patty Smith, while championing Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and other adventurous music.

In 76, Reitman set a Guinness World Record by

broadcasting continuously for 222 hours and 22 minutes.

He later spent more than 25 years alongside Gene Miller at WKTI for Reitman and Miller.

Right now at 80 years old, Reitman has returned to his first love poetry with 12th house.

It's released 54 years after the 11th house.

And on October 12th at the Pabst Theater, they're going to be having a big show honoring

Bob right, man.

Right now, Bob is on the phone with us from Milwaukee.

Bob, welcome to Max, Inc.

Radio.

Hey, how are you doing?

Good.

Good to hear you.

You know, we just heard the classic burning whiskey by Ruby starring great ghost from 74.

I was curious.

Do you remember playing that on QFM back in the day?

I know that was a big hit.

I hope I did.

It's a long time.

Ruby's style is a great name in Milwaukee.

And your mom was friends with her?

Yes, she was.

Yes, she was.

My mom, my mom was like a bartender at Sunset Bowl out in Waukesha.

And so, you know, we were always backstage with all the bands that came through that area.

And of course, Ruby played there, you know, many, many, many times.

And boy, she was just really good friends with her.

And, you know, we went to see her all the time.

That's great.

I mean, it's a name I remember.

Well, tell us Bob, tell us about how you got started in radio.

Well, I had no intention of going into radio.

I was

managing a cemetery.

And I don't know.

I mean, seriously, it was a very important job.

I had probably 46,000 people under

me.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, that's great.

Okay.

Yeah, but I was writing poetry starting in grade school and then just picked up on it because of, among other things, Bob Dylan's song, Chimes of Freedom, which turned me into a Dylan fan for all these years.

And the poetry started in sixth grade when I got caught

flirting with a girl in science classes.

Science teacher said, Raven, I'll see you after class.

And I'm going, oh God, I'm going to be after school until summer.

But instead of punishing me like that, he told me to memorize a poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service.

And I fell in love with it.

It's an interesting poem.

And I started writing and

I had no intention of getting into radio, but that was a farthest thing from my mind.

But I was reading poetry in coffee houses and stuff like that.

And WUWM, which is Milwaukee Public Radio, we asked them if I could have some time on the radio, maybe an hour.

And then General Manager, Dr. Ruane Hill said, yes, just like that.

And years later, when I talked to him, I said,

Why did you say yes so quickly?

Well, his kids were on his case to get some music on WUWM.

So it went from WUWM to all those FM stations that were losing money back in the day.

And they were looking, you know, they were tired, I think, in going broke playing elevator music and shopping mall music and stuff like that.

So a lot of guys and women got on the radio and started playing.

music and there was a huge audience of people that you couldn't get to Grateful Dead or Dylan or Leonard Cohen, any of them on top 40 radio.

So we started playing that and the rest is, you know, the audience was there and it was a privilege to play music for them.

Well now tell us about starting out at the fabled WZMF.

That's a really classic station in Milwaukee and then moving to WQFM and then stepping onto a morning show with Gene Miller called Reitman and Miller.

I mean, how did you keep your identity through that all those different shows?

The police department had mug shots of me.

WUWM got ratings which

public radio usually doesn't do.

But it just proved there was a big audience for really good music back then.

They got ratings and WZMF was floundering out in outskirts of Milwaukee, losing money like every other FM station in the country just about.

And they asked me if I wanted to do a show once a day for a week.

I looked at them, I said, are you kidding?

He said, we'll give you a hundred bucks.

And I thought they're going to pay me to play music.

It's like, it was really, sincerely unbelievable.

And we had good times at ZMF.

And then other stations, I've been fired at seven stations and hired at eight.

So it's

all about.

That seems how it goes in radio.

What do you think is different today from when you first started?

In what

way?

In

radio?

Yeah.

Well, live radio with disc jockeys or whatever you want to call them, people playing music is kind of given way to these huge corporations where one company can own, I don't know, 100 stations like that's been happening.

So there's no local talent in the morning telling you what the weather's like, what the traffic's like, and just having fun.

Miller

and

I just had a good time together.

We spent 23 years doing that.

It really was nothing to do with music then.

It was just having fun.

Yeah, that was a great show and morning radio is very important to communities Talk about the local music scene of Milwaukee in the 70s and 80s You know, what was the scene like back there?

What what clubs what bands what what did you feel in in those times?

Oh, you know There's a lot of good musicians that came out of Milwaukee that played here Bill Campbell and folk music

the velvet

whip which

was a unique group that kind of played in the coffee houses and a lot of other groups.

I mean, I'm failing to come up with names without skipping somebody, but there was an active music scene here, and there still is.

But when you do nighttime radio, like I did for years, I didn't get out as much as I would have liked to, but I was busy playing music.

But there's a lot of, you know,

John Paris and what just a lot of good people.

So the Milwaukee scene was pretty supportive of local original music, even back in the 70s and 80s.

I think so.

I mean, there were certain clubs that catered to local bands and a lot of local bands went national for a while.

But it was, I don't know how to compare it to any other city.

All I know is in Milwaukee, there are a lot of great musicians, good bands.

venues for them to play in, and they, you know, Sigmund Snowpeck and people like that, uh, flourished.

Yeah.

And some of them show around,

you know.

That's right.

We're going to play some Sigmund Snowpeck yet tonight.

Uh, you once said your biggest, uh, limitation was audience, not the station.

Is that true today?

My biggest limitation was the audience.

Yeah.

In what sense?

limiting me.

I'm not sure this was just something I picked up from an old interview with you.

I think that's an ugly rumor.

It can

happen.

The audiences were the people that made us.

It wasn't me.

It was the music and it was just a privilege to play it.

And I used to bring albums to parties in the 60s.

I loved bringing music to them and

I never thought about radio, but then the audience was there.

They were just, you know, hungry for all this great music that was coming out, you know, the Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, the Stones, and Dylan, and then Dylan, and then Dylan, so.

Were you bringing in like your own records or what's this stuff like, you know, already at the station?

Good question.

I would bring in my own stuff initially carrying these two big metal cases and then WZMF had a record library and all the rest of them did too, but we could bring in our own stuff.

Some of those stations it was pretty formatted and when they got too formatted we just end up at another station that was willing to let us.

Well, talk about your work

with WUWM and Reitman Radio Camp.

Well, I've finally retired sort of.

And I wanted to thank WUWM for letting me start there and play whatever I wanted to.

And then I ended my career back at WUWM a few years ago, played music for about 17 years.

And my son, Bobby, joined us.

And when that ended, I took a step back and looked at what that station did for me personally and for the community letting us play that music.

And I wanted to thank them.

And I think, how can I thank them?

I said, well, why don't we do a scholarship fund?

And I went home and thought, what the heck am I talking about?

I'm not a millionaire.

But I really, I want to give them something special.

And I ran into Gary Channon, who's a very good friend of mine, especially the last couple of years.

And he has, he's had groups out of the elevators and he's produced albums and he's engineered them.

And he said to me after a while, he said, let's do an album together.

And I put one out in 74, 72, I guess it was.

and called the 11th house and he recorded the reading poetry from the early days up to the 70s 60s 70s and 80s and it turned into what I consider to be the thank you to WUWM because all the money we're making from the album which is called the 12th house all the money from that and all the money that were

They're going to get from doing a show at the Pap's Theater coming up on October 12th, a presentation, a very unique presentation.

All that money is going to WUWM.

I'm not looking to get a nickel off of it, and I know Tandon isn't, and nobody else is.

It's a remarkable gathering together of people helping me thank a great radio station that opened the doors.

Music all over the place and let me play music until I got middle-aged.

And by the way, I'm not 80.

I'm 84 84 Wow

We gave

you I look like I'm 19.

I

know, you know, I still feel that way myself.

Well, that's that's

we're on we're on the radio.

We can tell people that

Who's your partner there?

Jane, Jean.

Hi, nice to meet you, Bob.

Hi, Jane.

Nice to meet you.

She's going to school for a TV radio film out here at the University of Wisconsin.

Well, that's wonderful.

And having two people working together doing a show to be very interesting, and having Jean Miller as my partner for 23 years, and I was his partner.

Yeah.

I mean, we had so much fun going to the Olympics.

five or six times broadcasting for Moscow.

Why haven't we gone to the Olympics?

Yeah.

Or Moscow.

Yeah.

Wow.

Question, Jane, I think you should put some pressure on

that.

Well, that's incredible.

We're here, Bob Reitman, legendary Milwaukee radio personality since, you know, before 1974.

Wow.

Great career.

Bob, how do we keep up with you online?

Actually, I moved into a senior living center and somebody here found out what I used to do on the radio and they asked if I would play music here.

So once a month, a bunch of people gather on the second floor and I play music for them.

So I can't stop.

I mean, it's in my blood.

Well, that's awesome.

I know that you have a website out there so people can keep up with you and find you online.

Robert Reitman.

Bob, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us tonight.

We really appreciate it.

And good luck with your show coming up October 12th at the Pap Theatre in Milwaukee called The 12th House in Twilight where you'll be releasing your latest album of poetry.

You know, well, thanks for having me.

I kind of rambled around a bit, but I hope I answered your

question.

Oh, it's all fine.

We love rambling.

Rambling.

Besides, that's a great Led Zeppelin

song.

That is a great Led Zeppelin song.

We'll go with that.

All right, thank you very much, sir.

And right now, you know what?

We're going to play another song from the 80s.

Nice

Milwaukee.

This is a bad boy song.

What's the title of this song?

You can see something, right?

Something

ain't right.

That's that's what it is.

Bad

boy.

Bad boy.

You're listening to Max's

radio.

We are local music.

That's just incredible hearing that song again.

Something ain't right.

And that was from the Electric Eyes album from 1984.

They actually self-released that LP after they had been signed on a record label.

It was recorded at Breezeway Studios in Waukesha, Steve Grimm, Zeno, Billy Friday, and John Marcelli.

And you know what, those guys were good friends of mine too because they played along there with Ruby Star all the time out at the Sunset Bowl.

And you know,

I don't know if you realize this, but cheap trick vocalist, uh, the first one was actually Zeno from bad boy.

So he joined a bad boy after leaving cheap trick for reasons we won't talk about, but bad boy, great band.

Uh, I'm rocker here with Jane.

You're listening to maxink radio.

Thanks to Bob right now.

Great guy from Milwaukee, um, poise Benin radio.

I mean,

kind of crazy to talk to him being a radio person and live doing live radio.

He's a lot of great points.

Yeah, we should broadcast from Moscow.

I've been thinking about it.

You know, how about like a Jamaica or Iceland or some other crazy place?

Wow.

What a great, we still have a lot of great stuff coming up tonight.

Miss Christine, she'll be in the studio here after seven o'clock.

And then Matthew Hayfield, he's here with his band.

He'll be playing live from the Mad City from eight to nine PM.

And Jane, have you ever heard of Sigmund Snowpeck?

Oh, yes, I've seen him at Summerfest actually legend.

Oh yeah, he used to be in so many great bands, a UXB.

He was actually a composer.

So he used to write for orchestras.

He would write in crazy bands and there's this one song.

I can't remember what it is, but he goes and plays his trombone and he would just run all over the bar playing trombone in people's face and running.

He's just a crazy guy, right?

A Milwaukee legend.

So we wanted to also play another Milwaukee legend song, but this one is from 1987.

His first band was Bloomsbury people in 1968.

And you know, uh, Sigmund also performed with the violin fans often and the violin fans are on the song we're about to hear.

It's called, thank God this is in Cleveland.

And, uh, see, Siggy once promised if the Cleveland Indians finished above the brewers, that he'd stop playing.

I don't know if that's ever happened.

Yeah, I think they've won.

So maybe he's not playing anymore.

But we can play it right here on Max Inc Radio.

This is thank God this isn't Cleveland, Sigmund, Snowpeck the third.

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You know, some people think they got a lot to complain about when they get a flat tire on 35th National.

Or they get lost in the industrial valley on the way home from a brewer's game But not me See, I know better Cause I've been all over the whole world I travel

far and wide But it's always great to get back home To the land of a thousand bars Some people bitch about Milwaukee But me, I don't really care

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That is witchcraft.

And before that running in place, that's a double dip right here.

I'm maxing radio running in place.

That was from their album, fine dining and breathing.

And of course, witchcraft was from their debut album, Fig Newton.

And, you know, the band that was inspired by SpongeBob SpongeBob.

Is that cool?

How crazy is that?

I just love them.

They're a great band, great show.

They don't.

they don't have any shows coming up.

I was looking out there, I keep saying, when are we gonna have a new magic concert?

And I sure hope they're working on one right now.

My name is Rocker here with Jane in the studio.

Jane, last week it was your birthday.

Oh yeah, my 21st

birthday.

You're

21,

you're out at the bars every night till bar time now.

How are

you

making it in school?

Pretty good, we can be honest with you.

Like you just have to not drink on school nights and you're fine.

And you went to Herb Alpert?

Oh yeah, on Saturday, yep.

He killed it, 91 years old, a total legend.

He can still walk out like a total chauvinist man and play the trumpet really well too.

And he's still sharp in everything.

One of the first things he said when we sat down, he was about to start was, it's so nice to be in a venue that's older than me.

The Orpheum

Theater.

Yeah, the Orpheum Theater.

Wow, that was right around the corner.

I was up here.

just by myself in the control room doing the show, pushing all the buttons last week.

It was a lot of fun.

It was, it was a little nerve wracking though.

There's so many buttons on that board.

And

I know, but you, but I only need to really keep in track of three of them.

And the time.

True.

That's always the toughest part.

Watching the clock, seeing what's going on.

Well, you know, we had some great things happen tonight.

Bob Reitman, legendary Milwaukee radio personality.

QFM, ZMF, Raymond and Miller.

That was a lot of fun.

Thanks a lot, Bob, for coming on the show.

Just in a little while here, Miss Christine and Miss Christine, they're playing at Mickey's Tavern tonight.

They were playing at a vegan fest earlier today.

And the band is from Cambridge, Massachusetts, but they're out on tour in the Midwest.

They call it their queer, queer joy tour.

And then we'll hear from Matthew Hathill.

He is here live from the Mad City.

He's gonna be jamming this full band.

We got a drum set in here tonight.

I feel like, in fact, like he's been here.

He's just been hanging out.

He's hanging out.

Yeah, he came in from Milwaukee.

His band guy's abandoned him.

They went out to State Street.

Yeah, they just left him here.

Yeah, they left him here.

They're out on State Street.

I sure hope they make it back.

They're supposed to be back in just a few minutes before we talk to Miss Christine.

And we still have some great music, new music from the band Feel.

from their latest album, what of?

And they'll be coming to Milwaukee landmark union theater.

And that's going to be November 18th, opening up for a cheap trick, which is pretty cool.

You know what?

I actually called their agent today and I want him back at Atwood Fest because of course, you know, I would fast guy canceled the date is open and they're penciling me in.

So I'm really helpful.

We'll get them off for Atwood Fest next year.

Right now, let's see where are we going?

Night painters new music

night painters new music there.

They're on a new page for me I don't even know what happened to that page But hey, you know what night painters they they sent me in some music, right?

We requested it out there We're gonna schedule them to play right here live from the Mad City coming up in the future But if you have new music and you're in a band you need to send it to us music at civic media dot US and things will happen to you just like the night the night painters right now

from Madison brand new from their new album that's just going to be released in a week.

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our guests here.

I get caught.

That was the Night Painters.

And I'm going to tell you about the Night Painters right now.

I can't

lose.

Hey, here we

go.

I lost my page.

You know, things are happening here in the studio.

Got a lot of stuff.

It's really very fluid.

The Night Painters.

That was Frog March.

That's from their new album.

Good thinking.

They're they're going to have a CD release party coming up at the burrow.

November 7th with Cuoka.

And I want to get some music for Quokka and get him in here and talk to them.

That sounds like a cool band.

I'll have to show you what an actual Quokka is when we go in to break.

Oh, oh, it's something.

I don't even know where I'm lost.

Gosh.

Oh my goodness.

My name is Rocker here with Jane.

You're listening to Max, Inc.

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She just walked in.

We're going to be talking to her after the bottom of the hour.

And then we have so a lot of great music coming up tonight.

The band feel still yet to come.

And then Matthew Hayfield here from Milwaukee to play for us live from the Mad City tonight.

We have

Some great music coming up right now.

Becca Murray and the Wildflowers.

She has a new album out and this is called Skating By.

This is a song called Lost.

You can see her with her band Atomic Blonde.

She's in a cover band called Atomic Blonde and man, she nails those songs.

Unbelievable artist and singer.

We had her right here.

live from the Mad City just a few months ago.

So if you go to Apple Music or Spotify, you can find our podcast, look up Maxink Radio, and you can listen to Becca Murray and the Wildflowers when she was right here.

Atomic Blonde, December 6th at the Boulevard Lanes on Madison's east side.

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Can't see that is miss Christine and you are listening to maxing radio My name is rocker here with Jane in the control room and right now bassist singer-songwriter and band leader Christine mode brings a fearless mix of indie rock blues soul and punk attitude to the stage as miss Christine a Berkeley College of Music graduate Christine's toured internationally and worked as a national session bassist before releasing albums

And now, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ms.

Christine describes their sound as punk rock doo-wop, pairing jubilant performances with songs that challenge expectations around gender, identity, and sexuality.

Their award-winning Google University video appeared at film festivals around the world and currently writing a third album planned for 2027.

Ms.

Christine was in town earlier today, performing at Vegan Fest, and tonight...

Ms.

Christine plays at the Mickey's Tavern on Willy Street.

Ms.

Christine, welcome to Max Inc.

Radio.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so happy to be back in Madison.

Now, tell us about playing Vegan Fest earlier today and what was the most interesting food you tried or saw?

You know, we're a foodie city here in Madison.

I love the food here.

It was amazing to be at vegan fest.

That was my first time ever playing a vegan fest

Okay,

and I walked out with the most sweets possible because I'm a big sweet tooth, but I was most surprised by the vegan Dubai chocolate

That's

like the viral sensation and they had a vegan version which we're gonna dive into after our show tonight.

Mmm.

That sounds good Well, you know, how did you get started playing music?

I mean, what's your backstory?

Well, I started on the clarinet and then piano, but when I was 12, I started playing bass, and I played my first show when I was 12, and I've been hooked ever since, and now it's been over 20 years, and I just can't stop, I guess.

Wow.

Is this what you do professionally?

Yeah.

And what was your parents' role in your musical upbringing?

Oh man, as soon as I wanted to be in bands, my parents were nothing but supportive and my dad went out and bought a sound system to run sound for my band and he booked our first tour all around Iowa because that's where I'm from is Iowa.

So

we were playing car shows and all kinds of little community events and it was so much fun and I'm so grateful for my parents support.

Wow, that's incredible.

I think their parents are, you know, really some of the most important people in people's musical upbringing.

That's why we ask every time because, you know, gotta give it to the parents, right?

For sure.

And my parents are not musical at all.

So we

don't know

where it comes from and where I got it from.

But yeah,

no record collection or anything.

Well, my dad

loves the 60s and 70s rock.

So that's where my influence comes from.

But yeah.

Oh, interesting.

Well, talk about getting into and attending the Berkeley School of Music.

Yeah, so I graduated over 12 years ago now.

But it was always my dream.

I grew up in a really small town in Iowa, and I really wanted to go and learn as much as I could about the electric bass.

And so I really dreamt big, and I got into Berkeley, and I actually graduated, which is rare.

But I have a degree in electric bass performance, and I've been performing ever since.

Maybe you can do a lot of jazz out there.

I avoided

it

as much as I could.

I had

to take

class my last semester, though, to graduate.

But I was doing all kinds of other things, like Latin and R&B and pop and stuff like that.

Did you get to form some bands around Berkeley with some of your students or people there?

Oh, yeah.

My first band was called Eris.

And the guitarist of that band is actually the guitarist on Saturday Night Live now.

Oh,

wow.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

There's

all kinds of cool people I went to school with.

What was the scene like?

And I mean, the music scene here is awesome.

And we're at university.

We have great music here at the university, but Berkeley.

That's a school of music.

What's the music scene like around in the city where that school is?

It's Cambridge,

right?

It's in Boston.

And I moved back to Boston three years ago now.

So it ebbs and flows a lot because it is a college town, but there is a good music scene there and a lot of artists that are, you know, Massachusetts based and local.

And so when I was in college there, I got.

connected with the music scene outside of the Berkeley bubble

is what we call it.

And there's a great music scene there.

Would you say like, you know, how is this scene?

I always wonder about scenes like basically like cover bands versus original music.

What do you see out

there?

I mean, there's definitely both, but I'm in the original music scene

for

sure.

But yeah, I teach private music lessons and a lot of my students play in like Yacht Rock bands or different kinds of cover bands.

But there's a lot of great original music there.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

I'd love to go there someday.

Talk about starting your current band, Miss Christine.

Yeah, well, I've been performing under the name Miss Christine for 16 years now.

And so this is like the new iteration of it.

But tonight.

We have Tony Andrews on drums who flew in from Atlanta to play a agro Hernandez from Des Moines, Iowa is on guitar and then Ali Hicks, who is based in Boston with me is on keys and vocals.

And so we've been playing together.

for the last in the 2020s.

So it ebbs and flows and changes all the time, but this name has been around for a long time.

And I've just keep doing this because it's a lot of fun.

Nice.

And tonight you're playing a Mickey's Tavern.

And it's all part of the Queer Joy Tour around the Midwest.

Talk about Queer Joy and tell us how your tour is going so far.

Tour is great and we wanted to name this tour the Queer Joy Tour because Iowa, where I'm from, my home state was the first state to repeal gender identity from the Civil Rights Act.

And so I'm gender queer.

I'm also asexual.

My bandmates are queer and right now, when all of these...

Forces are trying to repeal laws to make it so people like me don't have a voice We want to be a voice because there's so much joy in being queer and so we've been having great time seeing people in Ames in Iowa City and last night we were in Chicago and we're so stoked to be

in Madison tonight.

Where do you head after here?

And tomorrow we'll be in Minneapolis and then we'll be in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

Whoa, Minneapolis to Pittsburgh, that's a drive.

It's a little bit of a drive.

Yeah,

same with

Madison

to

Minneapolis.

Four hours.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, Pittsburgh, that's got to be at least 14.

A little bit more, but.

I was being nice.

I was being nice.

Oh man, and you're playing Mickey's tonight.

How excited are you to play that bar?

I mean, that's like an underground bar in Madison.

I'm so excited.

I've had nothing but the best times playing in Madison.

I've been touring through here since 2019, actually 2018.

And it's always so much fun.

It's great to be back.

And of course, the food is great, as you mentioned earlier.

And the bands we're playing with tonight, The Golf Dolls, Rat Cemetery and Super Brick, super pumped to share the stage with them.

And it's just going to be a great time.

And there's going to be lots of queer joy.

I'm just so stoked to be here.

And Mickies, well, they have great food.

And

you were saying that you come here and play the Whisco often.

And of course, they're famous for the Whisco burger, right?

I love going there.

Now, I heard that you're premiering some new songs on tour.

Yes, we've been performing or premiering three new songs and it's been really fun to play new music again because this tour is also joyful because we're taking a little

break outside of our writing, because we've been working on this new record since February.

And so it's nice to finally play this music in front of people, and it's been really fun.

Are you in the studio recording already?

No, we'll be going

down.

Still writing?

Yeah, and we'll be going down to Nashville in November.

Oh,

nice.

So you record in Nashville?

Yeah.

And then we can find, can we find your music online?

Yeah, if you go to mischristinemusic.com, it's all there.

Okay.

That sounds great.

What's coming up for Miss Christine and how and how do we keep track of you online?

What was your website again?

Miss Christine music dot com.

Okay.

And tour album.

When can we expect that

sometime in 2027?

That's like the dreaded question.

When is it going to come out?

When's the album artwork done?

We had to record it first,

but

it'll be out next year sometime and I cannot wait for new music.

Yeah.

And now we just heard some music.

How new are the songs that we heard?

So the songs you're hearing are from my second album.

It came out in 2023.

That album is called Bitter Sweet.

So you heard the song, Can't See.

And the next song will be called Love With You.

And yeah, we've been playing those songs live the last three years.

So it's time for some new music.

And you can hear some tonight at Mickey Stavren.