[gentle upbeat music] Oh, all right.

Well, this is nice.

Take my glasses off for you.

This is nice.

It's nice to see everybody.

Thank you for coming out.

This is the first time we've played a Sounds Around Town.

We are all old friends and we've known each other for a while, but this band is kind of a new concept.

So, lots of new songs and getting used to new things.

So you guys we're gonna kind of experiment on you tonight.

It's a bit different as I'm hopeful, all these are, people come out and come out to support a variety of different sounds and different music.

So we are here tonight to be one of those sounds.

The first song we're gonna start off with is a song written about mental illness and about how you can, you know, living sometimes or being with someone, going through something can have its own strains on you and you know, you go back and forth with your own sanity a little bit.

So this is a song called, "I Am The Monster, You Are The Monster."

[gentle upbeat music] [audience applauding] Thanks everybody.

How's the sound out there?

[audience applauding] All right, thumbs up.

Thank you, thank you.

That second part was, "Get Carter."

I always dedicated that to the memory of my father.

So once again, we are out here at WQLN and they are opening up their home here, the beautiful area up here that is this just exquisite little gem off of Peach Street.

And it's so wonderful to be here.

Thank you guys for having us out.

Thank you for coming and supporting WQLN.

Please, if you're not a member, become a member, support them.

They're the only ones that do stuff like this.

They let stuff like eclectic events like this happen so we can come up here and express ourselves.

So thank you.

I would like to point over to my friend Adam.

Oh, what's happening here.

Dave?

Hello.

Oh, Downtown Dave back here.

You see what these 40 under 40 guys do.

[all laughing] When you're under 40, you don't even know about electronics.

What's the deal, Dave?

I'm 42 now, I've been cured.

Yeah, yeah, when you get over 40 you have enough shocks under your belt that you know.

[audience laughing] Anyways, right over here to my left ladies and gentlemen, three time Jeopardy champion winner.

[audience laughing] And that's not a joke.

During the trebek years as well.

That's pretty good.

Giving us our soundscape and our keyboards.

Mr. Adam Halquist, Questy.

[audience applauding] Hi guys.

[audience applauding] And this guy spends most of the year keeping the David Bromberg Band happening on the road.

And when he slips back into town, we get these magic fingers, Mr. Mike Russo on guitar.

[audience applauding] [gentle guitar music] Over here on the viola and the guitar and the pedals, is a wonderful treasure to our region, Downtown Dave, they call him.

You can see him at just about every event because I think he clones himself to get to 'em but he always makes it, and he's so supportive, Dave Tamulonis.

[audience applauding] And a very talented young man, for many years now, as young as he is, he seems like he's become a vet already on the music scene around here.

So Mr. Michael Hibbler on the drums.

[audience applauding] And on the bass guitar over here, Mr. Stephen Trohoske.

[audience applauding] Thank you.

So we're gonna continue on.

We're gonna play some more music.

This next song is a song called, "Tokyo By Train."

And one night I was flipping through the channels and just trying to find something background, and I saw the wonderful world of Asia.

So I just left it on.

I thought, okay, you know, we'll watch some travel, some beautiful places.

And the first stop was Japan.

So they went and they interviewed this 85-year-old woman who had now become one of the hottest, nighttime DJs in Japan.

She just refound her love through DJing.

And she took old classic Japanese tunes and she ran 'em together with some modern day things.

And I was just so impressed by this lady but mostly by her spirit.

And because it's like she was reborn, you know.

And so I wrote this song with the guys called, "Tokyo by Train."

And it is dedicated to this 85-year-old DJ over in Japan.

I don't know her, but it's for her.

So here it goes.

[gentle upbeat music] You know.

[gentle music] In this strange world.

Thank you, yeah.

It's so easy to die.

Not so much in a physical sense.

[gentle music] But in the sense of giving up.

[gentle music] To see the heartbreak of the flame of hope amongst the hopeless.

[gentle music] [audience applauding] If there's a local seafood company that would like to sponsor the clams I just played there.

[audience laughing] See me after the show.

[all laughing] So thank you.

How are you guys enjoying the music?

How's it sound out there?

You can give it to me.

I've taken critiques before, it's okay.

[audience laughing] I appreciate if you take me off to the side behind the Rainbow Van though over here to tell me.

Make me happier.

So once again, we are really happy to be out here.

We are Cosmic Debris.

Some people tell me that's a Frank Zappa album.

You know what's amazing is I barely knew that.

[audience laughing] I was again watching TV in the background, when I just fiddled around, I turned it on and there was a show on like a Carl Sagan type show.

So I, you know, I got into it and Cosmic Debris was in it.

It was, "Oh you play Frank Zappa."

I said, no we play, "Zero Zappa."

I mean I love him, he's Frank Zappa.

But I don't do him justice, so I just listen to him.

Speaking of, I don't know if you've seen but there is a new Frank Zappa album coming out of three Erie concerts, which is gonna be very neat.

So that's exciting.

So this is a song called Zero Zappa.

[audience laughing] [gentle music] Zero Zappa.

[gentle music] We we're Cosmic Debris.

Michael Hibbler.

Downtown Dave Tamulonis.

[gentle music] Mr. Michael Russo.

Adam, Questy, Halquist.

[audience applauding] We got one more for you tonight.

Thank you guys for coming out.

We wanna thank you for having us tonight.

Please become a member.

They do all kinds of different, eclectic music and art and everything you can imagine.

And we really need public radio and we really need public broadcasting.

It's very important.

So this last song, yes, is dedicated to a young man who passed away, that used to be around town Erie, and he was known as Gimp Guy.

His name was Alex Horella.

And he was a great booker, he booked all kinds of great acts, he put on all kinds of great shows.

And no matter what he was going through, he was wheelchair bound, he had every problem you could think of, and he always had a smile on his face, and he always did his job and he always made his job happen.

So we wrote this song for him.

We got to play for his last birthday.

And he was sitting right in front of us in his wheelchair all bundled up with a big smile on his face, ready to go.

And half the band didn't show up.

And so we found.

Not this band.

Not this band.

So we found a guy from New York there that played drums, it was really good, I wish I could find out his name.

And there was another guy that we knew that played keyboard and we just decided to make up a song.

It was called, "Alex's Song."

And so this song kind of came from that.

And not long after he passed away, so this is dedicated really to anybody that's ever gone out there and tried to do anything, you know.

If you tried to write a song, if you tried to write a book, if you tried to ride a bike.

Good, good, good, good, good on you.

[gentle music] One, two.

One, two, three.

[upbeat music] Thank you so much.

[gentle upbeat music] We had a great time.

[gentle upbeat music] I really hope you enjoyed what you heard.

[gentle upbeat music] Mike Hibbler on drums.

[gentle upbeat music] Dave Tamulonis, base.

[gentle upbeat music] Michael Russo.

[gentle upbeat music] Rusty.

[gentle upbeat music] I'm Steve Trohoske.

[gentle upbeat music] Thanks so much, we are Cosmic Debris.

Please, please become a member of WQLN.

[audience applauding] Support, support, support.

Thank you everybody, thank you.