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7000apart & Barr Band Friday (Hour 2)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Fri Mar 28, 2025
It is a Friday night edition of Nightlight.
It's a bar band Friday.
That means our friend Terry Barr is here, one of the hosts of Max Inc Radio.
She will be along shortly to bring us new music and sparkling conversation.
And Terry chimed in on the stream and said, love 7,000 apart.
Yay, yay, yay.
Yeah, Terry's awesome.
She'll be here after you guys.
It's all about the music tonight.
We're reading your texts.
Our question tonight is, who do you share a celebrity birthday with?
At the end of the show, we're gonna decide who has the coolest celebrity birthday share, and we will announce that.
Terry will help us, I hope, if you're listening, Terry.
Tom from New Berlin, in regard to our guest, 7,000 Apart, who you can see if you're watching on the stream.
Tom says, spectacular.
Well, thank you.
Could not agree
Very,
We've got to be them.
That's what we're saying.
Exactly.
This is my mission in life now.
Like, this is all I want.
It's two
birthdays.
Only
this.
Exactly.
We have a lot of competition right there.
Or you could do worse and you could have who Sherry shares a birthday with.
Steven Segal.
with barely talented Steven Seagal.
Bruce in Fishburg says, people born on my birthday May 10 include Bono Dave Mason.
Feeling all right, great song.
Fred Astaire and the longest running SNL cast member, Keenan Thompson.
Born on my birthday in the same year as me, 1957, includes Sid Vicious.
Oh dude.
That's a lot.
Bruce from Fishburg.
He's going to be tough to beat.
We'll read a few more of your texts in a bit.
On the stream, Jim Denney is watching and says, nice to see you too on Nightlight.
Again, how is your Kickstarter going?
Yes, we've hit 50%, but we only have a week to go now.
So we're feeling the burn a little bit.
But we believe in our audience, and we believe that people want to support art, and so we keep fighting.
And
just
as you are.
Yeah, because if we don't hit the goal, we get nothing.
So yeah, it's an all or nothing thing.
So let's do one more here.
I asked this earlier in the show.
Where are we?
Susan from McFarland says, great show as usual, Pete.
Happy birthday to you.
Thank you very much, Susan.
Also just added these song singer and song, oh, singer songwriters to my playlist.
Her voice is absolutely wonderful.
Thank you.
Was it
from McFarland.
Thank you, Susan.
Yeah.
So we're pretty easy to find because very few music artists start their like names with a number.
So if you just type in seven zero zero zero zero, you can normally find us.
But if you want to type in the whole thing, it's seven zero zero zero APRT one word.
Seven thousand apart.
No space in our lives.
So that's why we took that out.
I
Very well
right.
So check
was
All right, so we got
We would love to play you up to date because I don't think we play the full thing for like anyone barely.
So
and this this song is coming out on the 7th.
will be yeah.
So this will be our next single.
it.
That is the wrong song.
Let me find the right
Take your time.
Goodness.
And
away.
Tipped her around, it's not a fair game It's my understanding that I'm insane
That
huh?
We hope so.
The summer.
We haven't played it for people like,
Oh, it happens.
Does it really?
Oh, yeah, really?
We get music.
We get all kinds of audiences.
You know, we play for tens of thousands of people every summer, I would say.
Yeah.
And so like, yeah, you get every type of person.
You
see everything, yeah.
You just play through it.
you do and
then you adjust then you're like okay they weren't really into this let's try this and then maybe that works better um
heard you sing you got a great voice you sing background how
think there's certain songs you know where like I'm definitely like yeah I can sing this okay and then there's other songs where it's like this is really hard really this is one of those songs where it's like I don't think like you know if you just hear omly out of nowhere you're like yeah that's probably an easy song to sing or like yeah if it sounds moderately hard
You're like, it's probably not that hard though.
But she's singing, you know, like skyscraper Demi Lovato level, like some of the highest
pop
songs that have ever been sung.
So like, as a male vocalist, you're like, this is like high tenor range, you know, and I'm not always there, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it must
you're singing too.
Yeah, he does.
It's just also that these are the new songs, so you're still learning the guitar parts.
So usually we'll play it for a while, it's just me, and then John will start singing more and more.
That makes
and people are
in the
Very different.
I really like outside, especially because Wisconsin summers are so humid, which is really good for your
cords.
while like inside will be, you know, like the AC, it might be really dry.
Yeah.
So in one way, I prefer outside.
But again, outside is so temperamental, you know, because it can be the sound gets
absorbed as well by just
Like
it goes into
the abyss, you know,
You just like send it out there and it just goes into the
abyss, you know And sometimes you start off and you're just wetting, you know, sometimes we have direct sunlight on us We've played in
like 105 degrees like
in a wooden box basically before so it was like a sauna goes down and all of a sudden it's almost freezing So like you need to be prepared for a lot of things.
That's interesting
you're
to?
So right now, because I got the Snow White thing, I was like, I need to listen to every Disney song ever
Oh, wow.
That would keep you busy.
Yeah, I've been listening to a lot of Disney and a lot of musical theater lately.
I've been on that kind of
kick.
I listen a lot to, uh, just like what new pop songs that come out generally.
Like I, uh, I've, I'm actually producing this whole album.
So.
I've been spending an insane amount of time like listening to super boring things for normal people but like drum parts and like bass parts and like how did they put that all together and like like dissecting different songs and like that's it's a lot of fun but it's also like sometimes you drive yourself crazy too but uh yeah
just need like refresh yourself with some random pop songs that you can be like oh this needs to be changed and you know like stuff
very basic but not always like
the cleanest production and sometimes that is pop songs on New Music Friday stuff too or you know stuff like from a long time ago to where they did like single takes for the whole song you know oh wow it's fun
It's
the
Thank you for
us.
It's
a great time.
We'd love that.
Of course.
Yes, so April 4th, Hamlet Creek wedding and events.
It's on Finger Road on the east side of Green Bay.
We were doing a free show.
at 7.30 p.m.
so get some of
time.
Oh, we'll do
Check out the Kickstarter too.
Yes, please.
Check out the Kickstarter.
We owe you forever.
Awesome.
All right,
right
We're going to read some texts, and then Terry Barr is here at 7.35.
It's a Bar Band Friday night.
We'll be right back on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Oh John Anomaly are just leaving and I want to I want to share with them they can hear me from the hall PJ says a song released on my birthday okay
That's kind of cool.
And then he gives a thumbs up at Appleton tomorrow night the Northland Sports Pub and Grill on Northland Ave 8 p.m.
Is that where you guys are?
All right.
Thank you, PJ.
He's sharing that you can see 7,000 apart tomorrow night at the Northland Sports Pub and Grill on Northland Ave 8 p.m.
And it's free.
Oh, man, I like those prices.
He says 7,000 apart is scheduled to play and it's 340 West Northland Ave, Appleton.
Thank you, PJ.
Well, public service announcement there for you guys.
Thanks again, you guys.
All right.
So, all right, Terry Barr will be here in just a few minutes, folks.
It's a Bar Band Friday night.
We do this every Friday, just about every Friday.
Oh, we had rocker last week, though.
And then he did really well.
And now Terry has some big shoes to fill.
It's these Maxine people.
They're all just interchangeable and fantastic people.
Pamela from Wisconsin Rapids.
She says April 9th is her birthday.
Actress, I think it's, I don't know if it's spelled Michael Learned.
I remember her, but I've heard it said Michelle too.
Like she just spells Michelle differently.
Either way, I'm familiar with her.
She says played the mother on the Waltons.
Oh, there you go.
Pamela, thank you so much.
Thank you for playing.
I don't know.
My wife is a huge she actually she likes little house in the prairie, but the Waltons were a huge show in the 70s Bruce from Fitchburg says for movie lovers like you Pete I should also mention that all the characters in the 2003 James Mangold movie identity have the same birthday May 10th.
That's Strange Wow.
Oh, I thought he meant her red hereditary.
Is that the like the one that's so scary.
No one wants to watch it.
Everyone has the same birthday.
That's nuts.
I wonder if they did that as like a marketing thing, but really who cares?
Like who's going to see a movie?
Hey, we got the same birthdays.
We got a two on Rotten Tomatoes, but come and see it because we have all that is a really interesting bit of trivia though.
Thank you, Bruce.
Oh, I should have read the read.
He sent another text in parentheses.
It says just in the movie.
like that's a gimmick in the movie.
They don't really have the same birthdays.
He says, I guess I should have said spoiler alert.
All right, well, either way, thank you, Bruce.
All right, so on social media today, folks, and you can still share who you share a celebrity birthday with, Terry Barrow will be here in a few minutes.
And on social media, we put Amanda Nimmer, who does such a great job here with social media and producing.
And she's been on this show before.
She's fantastic.
She put the question out on Facebook and said, who do you share a celebrity birthday with?
And Christie Barlamot and I share the same birthday.
So she put Pete Schwabba.
Christie is always constantly giving me a hard time that I'm a celebrity.
Just because I dated Taylor Swift.
No.
And I don't think she appreciated that.
I'm just a regular.
I'm a meat and potatoes average guy.
And that drives celebrities crazy when you reject them.
Because you know what?
Vince Vaughn wanted to hang out with me and I said, I don't know.
I just don't see us being friends.
That's enough.
Amanda Nimmer says, Colin Joest.
Does this mean I can marry Scarlett Johansson?
Another one of my exes.
Thank you, Amanda.
They're kind of a nice couple.
Every once in a while, you see a couple like a Hollywood couple and you go, eh.
And then some are really cool.
I think Colin Joest, who I don't know, or Scarlett Johansson, other than when we dated, they seem like they'd be cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maximilian Blasca, Frank Darabont.
That's a great one.
And he says he directed Shawshank, Green Mile, and The Myth.
Of course.
I know who Frank Darabont is.
That's a great one, Maximilian, especially because Max Blasca started a film festival in Madison.
that focuses on mental health, which is really cool.
And he says he was the first to make a Stephen King.
He was one of the first to make a Stephen King dollar baby movie.
Okay.
Two dollar baby creators who share the 28th of January birthday.
Oh, that's kind of cool.
Last one on the ladder.
Adaptation is mine.
He did Woman in the Room.
Max, that's awesome.
We got to get Max back on the show.
Dan Davies says he shares a birthday with Jesus of Nazareth.
Not to be confused with Jesus of Decatur, Illinois.
Larry Zonka, haven't heard that name in a while.
Jimmy Buffett and Humphrey Bogart.
Oh, those are cool.
Wow.
Dan's in the running.
Those are fantastic.
Luke Mathers, Civic Media's own Luke Mathers says George Washington he shares a birthday with.
You might be honest.
I'm I assume they celebrate.
But I have no idea.
I'm not as old as I look.
PJ on the stream says April 7.
I share my birthday with Jackie Chan.
Awesome one.
Cool.
Jackie Chan, I've probably seen three of his movies, but he's just so hard not to like.
Every talk show he goes on, he's got this great energy.
Dan Davies also says, my favorite fullback, not named John Brockington, former packer, or John Riggins.
My favorite Margarita drinking crooner, that would be Jimmy Buffett, and my favorite martini drinking actor.
Two out of the three people he shares a birthday with, he's making an alcohol connection.
Well done, Dan Davies, friend of the show.
Eric Ratzack from Ask Your Mother.
Love that dude.
He says, Jake Gyllenhaal, same date and year.
He's got to get extra points for that for the same year.
Todd Michaels, Civic Media's own WGBW and WIS's own.
The producer of Mino and the Mayor says, Peter Gabriel, Stockard Channing, Jerry Springer, and Prince Jackson.
Who's that?
I have no idea.
I gotta look that up for a break.
He says, what a group.
These are all awesome.
That's a good question.
Who did you say you shared it with?
That's why.
Oh, my God.
Tom from New Berlin says, I vote Luke and George Washington.
Luke, you got a fan.
Hey, it's Peach Wabba and Nightlight.
We're coming right back.
We'll read some more of your texts.
And Terry Barr from Max, Ink Radio will be here joining us for Bar Band Friday night.
It's Peach Wabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media Radio
Time to check out original music with Bar Band Friday on Night Light.
Now your host Pete Schwabba and special guest Terry Barr.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am Pete Schwabba.
This is Night Light and it is, as you just heard, a Bar Band Friday night.
Conrad, who's our favorite Bar Band Friday night guest?
Terry Barr.
Hands down, as much as we liked rocker.
They're both lovely people.
But Terry, how are you?
Oh, I don't think she can hear us.
Can you hear us, Terry?
I can tell by the look on her face.
She has kind of a look of disdain.
She's obviously struggling with her sound.
We'll get Terry set up in no time.
And we have great, actually two songs that she brought with us tonight.
We were gonna ask her to help us.
figure out who is our text winner tonight and has the coolest celebrity birthday.
But I think that's unfair to Terri because I don't think she's been cataloging all of this information throughout the night.
So I think you and I should probably just decide.
So there is a few more minutes.
If you want to get in on the fun folks, we're asking you to share who your celebrity birthday is.
I have Julia Styles, Vince Vaughn and Lady Gaga.
I'm very proud of all those, even though I had nothing to do with it.
So that is what those are my celebrity birthdays Conrad has who did you have again con?
I keep forgetting
hi Bill
Yeah, and Judy Garland
I know it doesn't mean that much to you You thought Eli Manning was cooler.
So okay, okay Terry can hear us now.
Oh, do we have Terry?
Hey, there she okay, so I just gave you this humongous
introduction, and I said, Conrad, who's our favorite bar band Friday guest?
And he said, Terry Barr, and I could tell by the look on your face, you were like, I'm like, I don't think we have Terry.
But
I mean.
the.
Kate Upton, Kate Upton.
Wait, who did I say?
girl.
Tumples were on
I think I have plans.
March Madness has, you know,
You know, they're they're blues, but they're rock, but they're funk, but they're they're a little bit of everything.
They've got the horn section.
They've got
I want to say every musician in the band on their own as a you know say they play trumpet or saxophone or whatever every single one of them has won a wisconsin area music industry award on their own but then as a band they can't win anymore they're in the hall of fame now because they won as many times as they could
and same with the mamas because they're in the Madison Area Music Association Awards area.
Again, they have won every award possible.
So they're working on a brand new album right now.
That's so cool to hear because sometimes don't you wonder
Where do these bands keep coming up with these songs?
And overall, Jimmy Vagley, who is the lead singer, he plays keys and he plays organ in the jimmies.
He writes almost all the songs or he's inspired by someone in the band to write a song or something in his life.
But I feel like I would run out of ideas after a while.
Yeah, well here's the best thing and I think this is one of those stories that that can tell anybody Never give up if you think you have an interest in doing this so Jimmy vaguely is a farm kid and he still has a farm his farm and I don't know how he does it because he farms all throughout the spring summer, especially he's a he's a crop farmer
But he plays shows like crazy, of course, all spring and summer.
So I don't know how he keeps that whole schedule rolling, how he even keeps his eyes open.
Oh my goodness.
But his dad, also a farmer, was in a polka band.
And so his dad gave Jimmy his trumpet to play in band in high school.
And this is in the Nuglarist area.
Jimmy ends up
wanting to play keyboard and goof around on the organ.
And he doesn't like trumpet so much, but he does what he has to do.
He flunks band in
This is one of my favorite stories.
And obviously I can't tell it the way he does.
And I think now he's told it so many times, maybe it's not as exciting to him anymore, but I think it's still one of those gems that you hear from someone who then has turned around and not only created this incredible band that everybody, I mean, every show they do is packed.
as many people as you can get in a room.
They do a Jamaican tour.
It's always sold out.
Everybody wants to go with them.
They're just so much fun, so down to earth.
And then knowing some of these backstories, it makes you really laugh.
By the way, Jimmy and his band director did become friends later in life.
So that's OK.
nothing.
I listen to it and it's fantastic.
And the whole reason I brought them to the show, they are our headliner for the mama cares benefit happening on Sunday.
It's in Madison at the high noon saloon, but everybody is welcome.
We know the Jimmy's bring a crowd from all around the state.
So we think it's going to be a great show and it's for a good cause that Mama Cares, Madison Area Music Association Cares, helps other musicians in time crisis.
And the Jimmy's have had a gentleman in their band that needed a little help when he had a heart attack.
So they play because they want to and they want to be there and give back.
So it's very cool.
Jim from Brookfield says, John Lennon's birthday, October 9th.
Jim from Brookfield, happy birthday, Pete.
Thank you, Jim.
And PJ on the stream says, happy birthday, Pete.
We are Aries.
Yes, we are.
PJ.
Whatever our most valiant stream textures.
Love it.
Thank you steady Eddie.
We'll
Steady Eddie wrote a couple chapters.
So we'll do that after the break and we'll hear all about Kelly and another song and we'll announce our contest winners.
There's no prizes.
It's just fun.
Terry, that's how we roll here.
It's like a gentleman's bed, you know.
Network.
Our pal Terry Barr is here.
Conrad is working the board.
We're having all kinds of fun.
It is my birthday and it's fun.
It's fun, Terry.
I've never made a big deal about my birthday, but when other people kind of send you messages, it just makes you feel good.
And now I'm like, I can't run away from it.
I have a radio show, so I have to talk about my birthday, right?
I totally agree.
And my winner is Bob Sheehan from the 608.
He shares a birthday with Sigmund Freud, Willie Mays, Orson Welles, and Valentino.
That guy has got some heavy hitters.
He's got a sports icon who you could argue is the best baseball player ever.
Freud, we all know what he did.
Everything's about sex.
Orson Welles from Wisconsin and Valentino, who is described
I thought he was a fashion and a model.
He's an Italian actor, pop icon and sex symbol.
Professional sex symbol.
I went for that for about a month, and it didn't work out, so I threw in the towel.
That's my winner.
Bob from the 608, Rich LaCasio, thank you all of you for your texts.
They were so great.
Fun birthday wishes, I appreciate that.
And thank you for sharing who you share birthdays with.
I'm gonna read Steady Eddie's text, and then we are gonna talk to Terry about one more fantastic artist, Steady Eddie writes, Happy Birthday.
Peach Guava, aka Peach Cobbler, aka Detached Retina.
AKA the Schwabenator.
Or whatever the hell your real name is.
All these aliases make me think you're a man on the run, going from town to town in search of love, refuge, and the one-armed mad who you claim you saw running from the scene of a crime at the Marinette Kmart in 1987 with a Snickers bar in his hand.
It's time to face the music.
Turn yourself in, Peach Guava.
My birthday bro, Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan.
That's pretty good, steady, Eddie.
Yeah.
Steady Eddie says, Mike drop, I win game over.
Speaking of prize winners, all I need to know now is where do I pick up my Verlo mattress and can I have it delivered?
Steady Eddie did not win the birthday contest, but you might have won the text contest.
Thank you so much, buddy, as always, and thank you for the birthday wishes.
Everybody.
Tom from New Berlin says, enjoying booze, rock, summer feelings.
All right, Tom.
Yeah, that's a good.
for the for the jimmies booze rock summer feeling can she just almost hear that on a riverbank or something i love it uh my guests uh seven thousand apart i'd like to thank them conrad thank you for that compilation that you hijacked from another new station to play
Todd Michael.
I just
gave him the name.
They just wrote with
It was awesome.
Bruce from Fitchburg also says, forgot to say happy birthday Pete.
No problem, Bruce.
Thank you for being a part of the show.
Everybody, text and calls alike.
You guys are the best.
Terry Barr is here.
Tell us about Kelly and then let's go out and just end the show with an awesome tune if you're okay with that.
All right.
Okay, so Kelly Hepper.
She is so fascinating.
She's got this, um, you know, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac kind of has that aura.
Yeah.
mystical.
That's Kelly Hepper.
And Kelly Hepper is very much into believing that music and art is a healing form.
And if you give it to others, it helps others as well.
So she has been writing that type of music for well, more than 25 years.
And I can't believe that.
And even though that comes from her website, I have met her in person.
She doesn't look old enough to have been writing music for 25 years.
Hepper
to help me see.
I looked in the mirror and felt the energy.
Teach me the way to love more clearly.
I asked for courage
face my enemies.
I ask for wisdom.