For New Esco Weekend, I'm Lisa Hale, your host.
Now our musical guest this week is a Western psychedelic folk group.
They're Isaiah and the New People.
They recently appeared on Mino in the Mayor, which airs weekdays from 6 a.m. till 9 a.m.
here on WISS and WGBW.
Our guest today, Isaiah and the New People, Dennis?
Gentlemen, good to see you today.
We know that there's somebody in your background that said, no, really, you can do this.
So we always want to start out with that question, who helped get you here?
Honestly, I would say Michael Flatley from Florida.
Wow.
That was the inspiration originally as a kid.
Michael Flatley.
So what was it?
What was it?
Was it the Irish music?
Yeah, it was just like, there's just so theatrical and they do it just build, you know,
and like you'd start, and then on the sun, there's all these other people coming in and
running around.
And like, as a kid, I was like, I just really enjoyed watching that.
If you could introduce these fine fellows, we've got a Rick spatula Armstrong, he's
on drums.
And we have Starfish, he plays lead guitar, and we have Duffy, he plays bass guitar.
What else type of music you play?
We call it Western psychedelic folk.
Yeah, we play pretty much original music.
I guess you could say it's kind of indie rock, in a sense, but yeah, it's kind of like
that.
And how do you get your inspiration to do the writing?
You guys work together on that or somebody come in an individual piece and say, look,
you guys, I got it.
Some of both, but Isaiah is by far the main song right here.
Yeah, I wrote a bunch of songs I was playing solo for a while, and now, this group just
kind of formed.
And so now we're just like working, we're shopping all the songs and adding little things
and making them a little more dynamic.
Did you come down?
Just come down in the rain again.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Did you want?
Did you want you cried on Rice?
Did you come down in the rain again?
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Did you lie?
Touched my head.
Now I'm in the rain again.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run.
Run down in the rain again, again, again, again,
come down in the rain again.
What's the tattoo on your wrist?
It's an owl.
It's all on the website, too.
I have a lot of influence or just, like, I just really love the Native American spirituality.
It's kind of something that's transformed my life a couple years ago.
That last song that we wrote, LaHina, that chord progression, actually, we started, is
from Don't Fear the Reaper, one of the last songs we played together, and then that day
I was in a car accident, that kid died, and then Native American spirituality, for a lot
of people, even not even that, but just, like, it kind of teaches, like, there's certain
animals that show up in your life, and the owl represents, like, death, but it also
represents rebirth, and so the owl, to me, is just kind of, like, any day, I can, any
moment, I could choose to be reborn and be a completely new person and everything.
And that's a logo for your group, then, too, isn't it?
Yep.
Well, we definitely have more of a rock side to us, too, as, you know, this is kind of,
fits the studio.
Thank you for being a part of Newisco Weekend.
I hope we've given you something to laugh about today.
Newisco Weekend is produced and written by Terry Barn, Lisa Hale.
Our executive producer is Todd Michaels, directed by Lisa Hale.
Our lead correspondent is Terry Barn, with features from Conrad Krieger, Peach Schwabba,
and Commentator Amanda Nimmer.
Special appearances this week by John Mino and Dennis Peters.
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I'm civic media Northeast Wisconsin Bureau Chief Lisa Hale for WISS and WGBW News.
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