Sounds on 29th
Flobots at Ophelia's Electric Soapbox
Season 12 Episode 1 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Flobots kick off the 12th season with their hip-hop beats, led by host Stephen Brackett.The Flobots
Flobots kick off Sounds on 29th's 12th season with their electric, alternative hip-hop style, led by our host Stephen Brackett. The Denver-based band - made up of Jonny 5, Brer Rabbit, Kenny O & Andy Rok - have been playing together for more than 15 years. Joined by Sarah Hubbard on the violin, they reintroduce themselves to Denver in celebration of the grand reopening of Ophelia's Electric Soapbo
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Sounds on 29th is a local public television program presented by PBS12
Sounds on 29th
Flobots at Ophelia's Electric Soapbox
Season 12 Episode 1 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Flobots kick off Sounds on 29th's 12th season with their electric, alternative hip-hop style, led by our host Stephen Brackett. The Denver-based band - made up of Jonny 5, Brer Rabbit, Kenny O & Andy Rok - have been playing together for more than 15 years. Joined by Sarah Hubbard on the violin, they reintroduce themselves to Denver in celebration of the grand reopening of Ophelia's Electric Soapbo
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch Sounds on 29th
Sounds on 29th is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipan everyday people.
But I'm here to see you again.
I like it that every day people come here every day.
People far away, because that's what we even yes, we need to rewind 3 minutes to fast forward.
Felix how you know things go.
What about this shout out for me?
Go.
And the Baptist transformed those who would never say keep a do before they every day people who are feeling.
So love they're so proud How could that be different?
Just looking at this could keep your hands up If you're feeling the love every day, people get.
Your head up every day.
People living that day every day.
every dollar really is at the top.
Of all time.
And that's what happens.
let's dance tonight.
Let's sing tonight.
And even our anger can make beautiful noise and it can resonate even further if we're not singing alone.
So thank you all so much.
Y'all ready for a show?
Rainbow Over years we will be true beacons way soldiers and we could break through.
We could slay ogres.
And we could be goo.
We could slay ogres A week away.
We will be used.
We will be.
Together.
We will show be so Jones a week, a breakthrough moment to wake up.
We could not stay awake for hate.
To go together.
We should Together we fight to come up together to divide up the song.
It was not the song that was great.
We adjusted for the big goal.
So for the love of the mother, the Bible, the book, and we'll be all right.
Don't don't be on that.
Don't be such don't need to go.
We just we don't like to go back to us, bro.
We are building.
Up a new world.
Colorado.
We need to celebrate the fact that we are here, that we are.
Thinking and nothing can stop our ability to love.
One another.
Hey, it's okay.
We think we are brain to cancer.
Cancer?
Now come on.
The to topic of the secrets match with us what's going to be difficult and to sing a song for love nobody even that's.
Not open to get it up and how to know office had a marginal shock and now with about to go get the shot for shot is the hardest ball end up walking over the matter Who will match an old revolver?
Bosa will break us, take us home.
Bat day will be a bit frozen.
Is that the fabric getting on top of that?
Wounded Nicole Schiavone.
No tax.
Breaks from the possibility of trade offs.
In the penitentiary.
Barber shop for the symphony.
We are here.
No frenemies.
We are here.
Kind of means we are here.
It was meant to be like it's high noon and we're facing our fate.
Like a centerpiece of a tide.
Pokémon come at the Battle Hymn of the battle.
We will be war because we remain strong.
We can sway soldiers.
We can break through.
We could slip out because we could wake you together We shall.
Be Romeo's it we But they.
We got the.
They so.
That we can break from together.
We shall go once a week to wake you.
Together We shan't get the week.
Like that We strong get to be divided.
We fall.
What's that?
Hey, don't.
Bother.
I'm enjoying myself.
This is a very meta kind of interview because we're all in the actual same band.
So, Jimi, we've known each other since.
Ten years old.
Yeah.
So I was in fourth unit, so accurate.
Can you talk to me a little bit about how like a white boy from Nacogdoches, Texas, falls in love with hip hop in the eighties and into the nineties and like what that was like navigating that space.
so I kind of came to hip hop.
I think the way a whole lot of people did, which is just through hearing songs on the radio.
Some of the first songs I heard where, you know, young emcee Supersonic, somebody is like, you know, songs that might be seen as like these kind of corporate songs, these songs that had made it big in the late eighties.
And I was always into writing.
I always think of myself even less as like it early days and identify as a musician.
But I like to write, I like to write poetry, I like to write stories.
And I remember, you know, we all were kind of messing around trying to start writing raps and something about like being able to take the experience you had in the day.
You know, you have a day where like that one moment you replay your life because I think we're both kind of perfectionists.
And so you have a moment, something the reaction, and you're like, That went wrong.
I'm going to write about that thing that went wrong in a way that rhymes had like lines up perfectly and is sort of this like finished sculpture.
And once that had happened, it's like I fixed reality.
Like, yeah, I'm in, I'm in a timeline where one thing went wrong, but I was trying to make sense of it and I don't want to go back now because I have this product So it was this, that organic relationship with it felt so clear to me.
And then I think I think it was mainly even in college where I started to think about like, what are the origins of hip hop being in the South Bronx, being this creative, multiracial, not response to oppression, to racism, to poverty, that there was kind of this like decision point, like, all right, this is clearly not I'm not of this culture that that created it.
However, it came to be like millions of people through the airwaves, and now it's become so organically an art form that makes sense.
Do I say, okay, this is not mine, I'll walk away from it?
Or do I say I'm going to listen much more closely to what's being said, what's been asked to me, how I could contribute not just creatively in this statically, because we can all do that, but what do we do to participate in addressing the conditions that people are facing in this, are still facing who they help to create forms that you kind of give back, not just to the art form, but not the sort of amplify the messages and play a role in it that is actually respects like, you know, the differences and the different backgrounds.
And I think like the shoot became very clear and I think a lot of us at the same time, like there's a call to action in this music.
And so, yes, it's often we'll say like it was the post, the post ice cream era.
Yeah.
So yeah, I was thinking about that.
My white rapper was I mean, he was I mean, but at the same time, millions of other people were thinking the same thing.
And yeah, the missing piece was to be active in other Y'all want to hear.
Brand new one.
One, two, three, four, five.
Laughs Take a rain, Can't find land My state plane Come, let's stop taking some place I'm not looking for my favorite bet on the crash course by car state to state.
Swear to God, dare to call stick faith, Declare the claustrophobic space I'm moving underground.
Make it rain while the crowds pass in the tunnel Now for my growth Hey, can't look awake.
You'll be just slow A new for Mexico.
Beautiful place Close out of the state.
But I've.
The great rocket, my truck and all the.
Luck and all the angles up and down the single top above the makeup.
Looking for my.
Kinfolk.
Stop in Tonto.
Central to the story today, old pal Combs is able to remain in the sky.
Let's hope the whales come up here.
That comes of the day coming Down syndrome.
Davis daughter day to day living.
I just go to Vegas.
I'm better than this guy.
That's way better than my mother.
Carpal tunnel syndrome.
Get up with that and hope.
It never gets slow.
Just a little bit for gentlemen's hits.
Go to the top of the governorship, put it like that.
Look in the back of a boat that smoke signals.
Just throw truck with the the word 21st century blown up when a mercy hotshot or toxic drop hits the dope home title shot Now classic.
Still big champion to not sit back.
You know, none of our business generally the last one.
Loves a duck.
I try to move fast and my God.
If I'm the way what am I supposed to say to fear?
But no boats.
Day one hell of a hurricane and a rip of the basket to throw stones away.
no, no, no.
Run with nowhere to get your hands up.
Get your hands up, my mama.
Come on.
Just come on, Come on.
Don't go.
I got my dollar slow today or without being able to see Brittany Scott.
Let's hope.
Father Coast today Travel Channel Central.
Nervous Lauderdale.
I'm Monaco's are the variables Gabriel any scallops on the West.
Coast you get.
$4 go to day old to the West coast.
They will help the timber cover on the cozy day, And the temperatures 103, That's one up from the day here.
I don't want to end up with another stampede.
And I wonder, does anybody understand me?
I said the depth.
Is 103.
I need a little lemonade from the take my next step when away from the hand cream.
But that's what went away.
We are not so different.
You will not listen to me.
That's Computer Doc from movie.
I was disillusioned by now we just connected to what we want to see.
God's glory run the doctor.
But for do that, the doctors on this type of have you guys, a couple of us to go back to something I can do on the roller down my window.
Welcome up your show finding friend what the doctor said Top doctor for my info.
Carpal tunnel syndrome.
have been in Denver for how long?
My whole life.
And so like North Side and North.
Yep.
Until he died.
Born and raised in North Denver.
Something that we haven't actually had a chance to talk about just in general.
I don't think a lot of people know about when it comes to like the history of Denver.
Can you just talk about like your experience in the bands you've played with and then like especially from like the North Side and what that music scene has been like over the years?
yeah, definitely.
You know, the scene was early, but back then it's really vibrant.
You know?
I started playing drums in the local music scene in 1989, You know, So it's been a it's been a while now.
Is that would.
Be reasonable, you know, doing 30.
Five years, you know, And yeah, the scene back then was a lot of fun and it's a really like DIY.
There's a lot of competition because there weren't a whole.
Lot of clubs.
Yeah.
To play at, you know, But you know, we made our way, we played in a lot of community centers and.
It was the first band that who was we.
Back then?
My first band was called Fantasma Orgasm Night.
Yes, Yes.
For the kids.
And I really cherish those times.
You know, I was very fortunate to have musicians who, you know, I had just started playing drums and musicians I was playing with had been playing for a while.
And for them to grant me that space to learn my instrument and play with them, you know, was special indeed.
And I, I owe a lot to a lot of those musicians.
I came up with, you know, again, just giving me the space to to be me and play drums.
All right.
So Fantasma goes into.
Then after that, there is a band called an okay Detail Brown, which was basically just kind of like what flow, but starts with hip hop with a light band.
From there, I did a band called Tree Tribhanga.
I was in a band with a window pane.
Which I don't think I ever heard of Tre, but I.
Think if a window pane, window pane.
Pane or.
A pan, okay, know, I think I.
Do use normally for window panes.
Without the eyes.
Yeah, I think that would have been pretty cool.
Yeah.
I would have liked more emo.
it's funny, I think I had a plan my first start playing drums, so like a five years I'm going to be here and make it big.
Then the five years tape pass, ten years, 15, 20, you know.
But the thing was, is I just kept at it because I loved doing it until I, you know, ran into you guys and I guess the rest is history.
Absolutely.
I mean, I think it was once you became a member of the band, it's kind of like the final piece.
And that's when things really started changing for us sonically and travel the land, for travel than to say and know nobody ever had any complaints, anything of to have to gravity bags out of a cadaver.
There's a rabbit in my hands because I've got the majesty.
But the baddest trickster fish for whale brought a ship up out of it was that it just saw a platypus.
Maybe it's a rat claw the flat on his paws.
Or maybe drag it just drag on his clothes.
It doesn't really matter, because Saturday got away from him.
Not bad thing.
That's collaborative and take it back.
Wrap.
But for now, just days and.
Days after all that.
Jason Gray's Anatomy.
Gray's Anatomy.
Gray's Anatomy is happening all.
To the pale blue yonder to infinity and beyond the city.
Beyond the city.
I go home to see serenity.
But sometimes you've got to have the fantasy that al-Shabab's.
The intervention is still at the bottom of the sea.
Great Lakes CHEERING That can be said.
The intensity that the spirit.
It's a pervasive how I was meant to be.
I don't want to but this will come.
It's a great you also.
To think of Pickering and the small town called Lake and nobody weighing down about my bank account, Baton Rouge.
But for now, just gazing at the moon and another thousand.
Is that we're going to have announced Gray's Anatomy.
Gray's Anatomy, Gray's Anatomy, Anatomy and your goodbye by tonight with young Samantha.
Go get a man, make some noise for everybody.
They left before they left those days.
In that case, about the capital chasing them.
We're to sit down with him and talk about to help me get back to work.
You asked to of the bands that like we came up with here in Denver and like like what were those relationship like at the like what venues do those take place in?
Like what what how would you like take that.
For me, the very, for some of the very first shows ever with Pop schism at Bender's Tavern.
Yeah.
And I think like Andy's experience guitar player Andy Guerrero, who just like coming up in the music business realm and learning how to do this.
I remember coming back from college with Lobos and just starting and Andy gave me a job putting up posters, and I'll never forget, like the pride he took in all of the tiniest details of putting up posters.
They were it was amazing.
He was like, This is how you just how you make sure that the coffee shops, like, are glad you showed up because if you take down the old posters, then they don't have to do it.
You want to tape it diagonally so that it comes off easily.
If he tape it this way, he's not going to come up with every single little tip that he gave me.
It was like these these tiny, crucial, essential tools of the craft that indicated this, like dedication to it.
So anyway, like the fact that he'd laid the groundwork and we could sort of plug in, that was a big one.
the way I found Flow about Circle was to Randy.
He was my band.
We our bands in the early 2000 used to play together.
Bob Schism when I was playing in a band at that time called Holy Bugger that had a mike Freer Now We'll Be Buggers.
It's a fishing lyric.
Yeah.
Yes, some names.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, you got to have a name.
And Andy was a big fan of the singer.
Well he bugger Mike Friesen who used to play in psychedelic zombies.
It's really storied funk rock band, you know, very popular here in the late nineties.
I think Herman's was the first place where we suddenly started to have people that were like, Hey, no, we're not our friends, right?
I've never been like, All right, so did you see those five people up front?
Whose friends were those?
And I ignored my friends where my friends.
Wait a second.
Was that anybody's friend?
We have friends.
Yeah.
I really think it's because, like, nobody knows what's funny to me.
I think that maybe a lot of folks don't understand that.
Maybe for bands like for the first for a while, a lot of times it's like it's the people that you've directly called and asked a favor to come to your show.
Will you come to the flicker a little like and adapt to the home spike of the night and you end up cold.
I want to let the right brain retain control.
Private spies boast, but at 5 minutes, all this is a feeling that I get when it's sad and it's gray.
Reminds me good times.
Way back in the day, they wouldn't call me back.
They didn't want to play.
They would call me back.
They didn't want to play.
They would come back.
I asked the stepmother, Does it ever go away?
So I said, Are you willing to put text?
That's a problem.
Say you to S.O.S..
Yes.
So I guess that I pressed those numbers.
This type of force.
Let's do this number with the four words spring into summer or winter, what would lay around like the birds for me?
Like a thunder.
Paying attention.
To the paying.
Attention.
We all have.
Forces pulling asunder somewhere beneath this world torn asunder.
We smelled this talk before the Thunder Spring Angels down to earth like thunder when it hurts, the loneliness burst like hunger.
So why don't you tell them about the those.
That Why don't you write them about the Lord?
Why don't you tell them about the lonely?
Why don't you tell them about But don't tell me why Don't tell them about their zone And what I love about the game.
That's Why don't you tell about that now and then They wanna you tell them about.
About me.
That will be about your go.
They are from met.
With this basement and puppies.
The opposition.
The time is up my Lord.
Disgrace and say your faith and break the chicks down.
What is in this case?
This I'm a trio with a block wonder where my base jumping up on the bat the pencil promising put me inside of breaks and praises to rub back at the same rate.
I tried to breathe and gas drop.
The thing is the bad did that don't even that fit don't get.
Down to me I'm a lot more people that can't get convictions when ever princess meet the men that separates the bone to be the ball but that the and not trust the get a busted but a sunken ship suppressed to preach cuts go to the cook and love myself to split the ships multiplied by my deficient.
Round down for the placement hoofing just be on top in the base model Tell them.
About the dome day.
Why don't you tell them about the dome?
The bottle.
Tell them about the dome that day.
Why I don't know what to tell them about the dome.
Why don't you tell them about the photograph?
Why don't you tell them about the golden days?
Why don't you tell them about this?
lives and the music scene that we'd love to give a shout out to.
Just want to take some time to write that.
Yeah.
Dig up some folks You know, I was in high school my senior year.
I wasn't a great student.
I didn't have a plan for college.
I was intimidated by a lot of the drummers, the incredible drummers at North, that I didn't want to take up drums there, you know, because I was just there was like an intimidation factor showing up in a drum class with some sticks not knowing what I was going to do.
So I kind of put on like, I don't know if this is in the cards for me to play drums, but I want to be around music, I want to play, I want to just be around it.
So I took a class at a career education center, an audio engineering class with Mr. Hall, and he was just this coolest teacher.
You know, he kind of is like a kind of remind me of Kenny Loggins, you know, you got to be there.
But he was like, he understood the kids that were coming in were not just wanting to learn how to record music, but wanting to do their music.
That's why they were they're like, I want to learn how to record my music.
so I could sit behind a drum set and play a boom bap boom boom bap type of thing.
And when it came time for my group of four to record a band, we didn't have a band record, so we took Mr. Hall is like, Hey, my me and Toby, you know, we have Toby has some riffs and I want to play drums.
Then can we just record that?
Can we let you know my cousin and another friend, Dave record does.
He's like, Yeah, okay, sure.
So we go and I mean, Toby play his riffs, and I go back into the control room to hear what we what we had done.
And when I heard myself back, I'm like, That is what I want to do.
This is what I want to do.
I am going to play drums.
I don't care if I you know, I had just turned 18.
This is what I want to do.
And as soon as I graduated high school, my my father helped me find out a drum kit and it was on.
And so I have those people to thank Mr. Hall that, you know, allowed me, you know.
So when I heard by again, when I heard myself back, it was like, this is this is it.
This is what I want to do.
and to think us three have been doing this, you know, little boxes.
Where we going to 20 year anniversary.
Yeah.
And I've been with the band for 18 years and it's the longest I've ever done anything, any one thing, you know, really, And it's to do it with a family.
What I consider family, friends, this group of people, it's special.
I wouldn't change anything.
the worst part about this is that you're going to miss people.
But I feel like the people I feel especially grateful for, people who like that key moment when I was doing things wrong were like, Hey, you can't do things this way and worried, but had patience and saw the promise and so I'm actually thinking even outside music.
I remember just in the world of activism in college, So people who had patients like that, but also, you know, people like like Vincent Harding, both like who kind of we're both his adopted nephews, people who I think it early on, people like Dent like who I would just like witness the anti like the time or do I just walk in the room and you see him freestyling.
I mean even like the concept of like I came back from Denver and Caitlyn and these folks were, yeah, bugaboos, you know, recipes between, you know, just some of the folks that haven't come back from from college coming back to here and see like, this is there's this vibrant scene that is underway.
Life grew.
Yeah.
Just like Denver's own hieroglyphics grew, basically like the diversity of their musical styles.
And so I remember coming like I do, I do.
But day and night it's only right to be so happy and best diving thing to do.
And it's by my so very far from the guy that should be with you.
I don't want.
Them to get too much in the study.
Getting to have the chance to die had to be simpler back in the day when their folks would pick trucks, they could pass up.
But now none of it to time.
We just want to look at the number of a wonderful Phi Alpha over time surviving the metropolitans that goes up and down to me.
I don't want to know with the thoughts of thinking that you comprehend and do with a thoughtful ponder.
But if we want to be together like Donovan Ritchie.
But I'll make you decide.
When you came here became alive.
It's like everything else.
When the glimpse of a hit comes to your neighbors, I've gotten a chance to face the body and do all the.
The guy who calls in the Pentagon gets it, say, which.
Means I never lose the beginning.
I can imagine the futility.
I see it all the time.
We see a tragic we would never more than a few.
Degrees with the weapons over my body and no body.
But hello, my baby.
This guy will be the days for me.
So how imagine you when you know.
Want to wait for a week to be tough?
The guys, the picture, the snake has been a tragedy and I really don't happening that you now will fantasy that's another mark of even you want to but the one for you and that's the way it has to be alone complete a masterpiece on.
The campus actually got another half to me asylum won't do that God.
Love doesn't love the rest Of course confessing hoping the first the blessing empty doesn't have a hope.
We'll go with that.
Regretfully go from hold the check at best we both emotions pull from cavities from the dead.
I have it easy.
Go with it to get the we will never begin to battle.
With drowning by the side of my bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah.
Everything.
No matter how to talk to the guys and answer the anthem for me, so happy to have what happened.
But I.
But not now.
But I'm gonna.
I don't know.
I think the bottom line I don't but I'm not the power but I'm by but or not I. stopped sucking and started becoming a good band?
Because I think a lot of times like when you're starting a band, like you're not good, it takes a while to figure it out.
Early on when I joined did Psych, I think the band was still finding its voice.
When we talk about all the bands we played with, I think the reason why we were able to not match up as a as a lineup of show lineup is that we were very diverse.
You know, not only we had the rapping, but it was with Rock and, you know, there's just a bunch of different styles that allowed us to do.
It well, having a viola player who classically trained and jazz, and then Jesse, the original bassist, kind of coming from like a kind of chili peppers kind of background.
And then Andy is coming from a kind of like Scott Funk and from Tower of Power kind of background, and then like me and Jamie kind of coming from this like backpack wrapper type thing and then you coming from this, I felt like maybe you kind of had like the most broad experience because I had also been playing longer than all of us.
But I, I think also in many ways, like Andy was the one who kind of like, helped like, help us codify, like, what the band was and how we were marketed and make the sound and like bring the music business.
I feel like you were the one who kind of helped us synthesize all the different elements into one thing.
So I have two answers, and neither one of them answers your question Do it.
But the first pivotal moment was, I think after just about a year of you, and I decided, okay, let's let's start wrapping it.
Let's bring that kind of our high school robots.
And work with.
When did when do you when did we start rapping?
So what do you start rapping like in your basement?
Yeah.
Just with a group.
Of goofballs in high school in 1995, 1986.
And then I remember it was it was like the summer of one of those two years that we became like our actual project, getting.
Getting.
Recording songs in people's basements.
And then literally every summer or winter break, starting like senior year of high school, throughout college, every single time I remember we were working on something.
Yeah.
So there was these early cassettes that early kind of the temps would not much like performance at all.
No.
And then when we really started in earnest in 2004, there was like a year of just like experiment.
It was you and I and Mackenzie and various deejays.
And then it was the time when Andy said, Hey, look, I remember it was October 9th, 2004.
It was a get up to Rock the Vote show.
And it's like, Let me just put together a band And I was like, All right, we'll try this.
And I remember that show, just seeing the reaction of people in the audience like, like I saw friends of ours.
Like, I remember seeing April and she's just like, immediately moving.
She's a dancer.
But still, it was like people were moving like that last time when I was just a DJ and, you know, I got it like, all right, So it has to be a live band.
It has to be, you know, live music is what moves people.
It physically moves people kind of instantaneously.
And it helped that there was incredible musicians in that live band.
So the first day that I wrote it, the second one was more like when I fell out calling congealed and it was Peace Jam 26 Yeah, when there was a gathering of the largest gathering of Nobel Prize laureates in the United States ever, ten Nobel Prize laureates coming to University of Denver.
We got asked to perform there.
You know, it felt like all these relationships, all these like mission driven things we've been.
Doing as efforts and we were invited there.
This is before, like any record, right?
This is for a community.
We we're just a band in Denver trying to get both get gigs but also find kind of our purpose.
And we had done this project with Littleton and the teacher, Littleton High School.
They had more just having a lot of conversation back and forth with students.
They're writing them about the music.
So we had this sort of sense like maybe there's more substance to music than just playing the show and writing the songs that was already in the air.
But I remember playing that piece of show and it was just sort of like transformative.
Yeah, I mean, pretty much everybody.
I mean, I remember people like kind of cheering up and just say, I can't handle all this.
This is this is overwhelming how powerful this feeling is.
And so I don't know whether we musically congeal, but I think the spirit of our I think everyone was transformed by that.
It was clear that this is a mission driven I can ride.
My bike with no handlebars.
No handlebars, no handlebars.
Look at me.
Look at me Hands in the air like it's good to be alive.
And I'm a famous rapper.
We win the basketball book D I can tell you how to dose you know, I can show you how to scratch a record.
I can take it back to promote control.
I can almost put it back together in a chair.
I can tell you about the Mavericks.
I know all the work to take on orders and I'm proud to be an American with you, my friend John.
That was the year my friend made a comic book.
I guess I'll go.
Got you.
Can you take that?
I want?
Because, look, I read the window, Batman.
No, no, no, no.
Should.
No, I can see your.
Face on the telephone.
All the time.
The phone on the telephone are.
Look at me.
Just consider.
It was good to be alive in such a small group of 300.
They want to open up the restaurant.
I hope I can live another magazine.
I can design.
It's a 64 miles to the gallon gasoline.
I went on the air.
I think the computers are by the water and you should know about the business.
Like if they do want to buy product movers, shakers and producers, my friends understand the future I.
Seem to bring to control the system.
I could do with it, but no positive because I need to take with the microphone.
With the microphone, with the microphone.
And I just got a double buckle of a button to talk about your look at me.
Look at me from the top.
I like this.
It's global.
Tell to truth, I can't go back.
I was like, I had a declaration for dying.
Declaration?
I don't want your restoration.
But I forgot and I didn't want permission.
I haven't talked to my guy about that, but I just don't have a time when I can give a talk through a telescope.
Through a telescope.
Telescope that I deserve to be caught in the Holocaust.
In the Holocaust.
In a huff from the Holocaust.
But we don't know.
We don't know.
And because I do about my life when I go to class, no handlebars, no handlebar.
Wait a cigar.
So here's the thing.
When we wrote that song 50 years ago, more than that, and at the time we wanted to share this knowledge that these gifts, these tools of ours can be corrupted, can be transformed, could be made into destructive items.
But 50 years later, that feels all too easy to say.
I think we all know that, don't we?
I think we know how destructive, destructive this can be.
So I feel like it's time to go further.
Y'all feel me?
I feel if you take it did to take it to the next level.
Let me tell you this.
Look at me.
Look at you.
Surrounded by polarization.
Does it feel so to be alive?
Your reach is global.
Your message is loud and clear.
Your cause is noble.
You're here.
You can fucking.
Reach for demonstrations on the road with administration.
We can fight for the generation to take us all from the generation.
Rediscover how to turn back the clock.
Take the lives of this.
Go back to you.
Can the alternative to go to the fight for justice, but never support yourself.
But you can channel power with somebody.
The thought you bring us all back from the brink of civil war.
And you write this letter from the Holocaust.
From the Holocaust, from a Holocaust.
Yes, you can save the planet from the Holocaust, from all the I can write my life with no laws, no handlebars.
No handlebars.
I can ride my bike with no handlebars, handlebars.
So let's save it.
what is it you can do with music that you can't do?
Do other arts?
Yes.
I think like if you look at Silicon Valley and you look at like the billions, almost like trillions of dollars that have been gone into social media and generated from it, all of this technology is being used to find ways to connect people and then monetize it.
There's a technology that human beings have had for millennia, even before they even before the agricultural revolution that brought people together in a genuine way.
And nothing does a better, cheaper and faster than music coming from education, from activism and all these different points.
And even like running the music school that I am now and helping folks get music therapy, there's an actual magic of being able to connect people through their hearts that even a well-crafted argument can only link people to their minds.
So like, that's it's just the best way possible to get everybody on the same resonance.
It will take me hours to read enough pages on a book to change my emotional state.
It might take 90 minutes in a movie.
I can get halfway through a song that's 2 minutes long and already be moved.
And so looking at it as a kind of technology and looking at a point in time like so many people are feeling so disconnected, I'm even more enamored with the discipline, the power of the technology of music right now.
And what's the song that you either sing to yourself or play to yourself and no one else is around to actually, like change your your state of mind.
man.
There's a song in the Five Heartbeats that my mother used to sing, and it's I feel like going, I feel like going off even though trials come on every hair, I feel like it's.
Going to make me cheer up again.
That will always gives me strength.
And it's a great way to remember my mother as well.
And with robots, it's one of the things that I hope and endeavor to be able to write songs that can be strong and go with the one down.
Get the last all round so that I just go to validate it's time to repay Jim upon you Wisconsin a state that although won't give up any so in US radio unless they're bad boss I come there this independent stream just so long thought doesn't bother me.
I cry far more in the mornings.
No Mexican born out.
yeah.
Just for now.
Just because of me.
But God for the fuck this, this system was.
I hope that they told them that it was okay to shake to the stratosphere for the.
But we're.
We're better to put the stats to get inside.
Amy Rose firm.
To put your.
Breasts up.
Bill, come back with a opener.
By the dance, I mean set up by less than Squeaky Rose.
You don't let your misstep melt them by without firing up a fight.
Maybe not by nasty.
It was a whole Go home.
Go, my folks, and see what's up.
In the battlefield is everywhere.
The Bronco picnic at the bar, don't you?
Weapons.
You had two choices to bring back or maybe the person.
No, You always the first to argue or never down to stick your neck up.
Because I heard you fought.
But.
But what's your best shot from a tougher brand of propaganda sucker?
Jim, you by the dark drop, man.
Look on the canvas, the zipper.
Better brother.
That I've got to bubble up the shock, the lift off of the pot to stop John I stop.
Cigar gasping manifestoes that Jeb run by Joe Biden.
John David.
John DICKERSON.
What's going on?
What thoughts does this guy in that joke Plenty more in these high you try to expect a greater pragmatic sycophant divide and conquer.
We build bridges off and run and prosperity.
We give a sucker.
You psycho sponsors.
Heroes, go pick on this stuff.
But we will die right in my mind with handle name, Sweetie Road.
Fill them with your fists up.
I sit down and write with your friends.
I guess that a must be so of open.
But those like those who things don't flows.
But you create.
But we go for broke When we get the sin the way you go you both be through that They're through Believe in you.
What did you say?
So we wrote them.
Have to put your fists up.
Build them.
Fight, fight, fight, fight with white man road with your fists up Fight with another fighting a fight with James.
We road officer Battle, fight, fight, fight, fight it down.
Fight with the fight.
Say, pretty.
Much to the front.
All three by to the foot.
We come up on with.
It We come up at the end.
The cops don't like a party when it's our courage or dedication.
Your passion, your commitment.
Gather up to a maximum, melt it down.
Got the gold melted down.
Gather Russell.
Brown, your silver, your maneuver.
Down, down, down, down, down.
things.
I just want to give a second a shout out y'all.
And I also want to give a special shout out to Andy, who's come up so often in this.
He's often one of the people to be in these interviews, but I wanted actually an opportunity just for us to be like, Andy, thank you for all the things that you've brought to the band and how much effort that's gone into it.
And then also another shout out to Sean Blanchard, who is currently in the ICU right now.
And we have Matt playing bass for him today.
But just for a shout out, Sean, as a member of this band and all the things that he brings to us, we just wait.
Our thoughts are with him and Sarah.
Yes.
Are Heads in the air.
President, Prime Minister, they said that we didn't care, but.
That is the band.
Heads and the president, Prime minister, they said that we didn't care where the Circle Square is in the finish, where the circle lit the square, but it's empty.
Prime Minister, They said that we didn't exist Where the circle live in the square.
But they said that we didn't care where the circle in this way.
Get Minister.
They said that we didn't care when circle the square.
The time has come, our time has come.
We show them how much time.
No matter what they say or they don't say.
We make a way out.
No wage against the God beneath the veil.
Yes, we can.
Too big to fail.
We are the.
Ones we're waiting for.
We save ourselves face.
We'll die in the family stone in the name found founded the dome of the dome The demonizing and proud the people trying to make a be but by the people coming.
No one in the government excited the sky.
The stars that we try to get the right type of Bible and have we let the 300 member nation back up with the Bible and.
God minister that said that we didn't care where the circle in the square and this is the Prime Minister that said that we didn't care where the circle in the square.
Everything that the Prime Minister lets it that we didn't get with the circle, get the split between the President and Prime.
Minister, they said that we didn't get the circle, that the square we are the circle in the square.
We had to straighten out the ones who did it prepare.
Don't be scared.
Whatever type of push when you at the clock is God was the 55 on the picket to your body is to the circles that we see back.
If I didn't the operation to uncover secrets of the help of the treasure back there, we do not believe do this job was a party Is a protest rally like a rock star?
Got to go to the donkey, go faster.
But the people who need a hundred feet of you get the votes and rally like a rock star young guy.
I know I'm not for John yet.
You go far to love the people.
Who need opening it up and feed of.
Circles in the square.
All right, let's try it all together Here.
Here we go.
Where?
The chocolate.
The square.
Where the circle In the square Where the circle Linda square.
With the circle in the square.
We may go.
We go way.
We may go way out.
No way, we may go way, No way.
No way out.
Know where they go, Where we are that night, Larry, let's go way out into the night.
By the time that we got the 9537991997497, we are the group dreamers, vision seekers involved everything in the aftermath of light able to type in our boat to the boat.
No repeat of in 2004.
Balance the band the band for the team to battle Saint John for three to bed but the devil get lost by the deep thoughts.
The bubbles of crystal scheme played on the sleepwalking list, all dreamed up to be here, but.
They just took.
They said that we didn't care.
Yeah.
And the Prime Minister.
They said that we didn't get the car down where struggle business.
When President Trump.
Contacted us with his quick release.
A moment, that's when.
Thank you all for Yes, Sunday in the warm weather?
By daylight I distance for their statement the day to break the monsoon season, but the spectacle of people to appetite is cruel.
Those attires have cell phones.
Let's drop out the cravings and things with no shows.
People traveling towards chips can shine like God like to average human.
So the sky is a by my father hold the passion for the in my the bad body washes up upon the shop said.
Please I'm leaking Boone's.
Ransom sinking ships as I've known off to forever with these words from no one.
And that's just what I can as my bride dies.
People are two ways I fall.
I'm also a wasted bad day.
You said radically midstream as I pulled into your presence.
Do one now know what in my passion fantasy for the boys I brought their body washes up up on the shore since they swim lake and moons like ransom sinking ships as afloat off to forget though with these words upon my lips.
If you enjoyed watching Sounds on 29, we hope you'll support BBC 12 to help bring you more fun grassroots local music programing.
Visit PBS 12 Dawgs Flash Program support and donate today.
Support for PBS provided by:
Sounds on 29th is a local public television program presented by PBS12