<b>I have</b> <b>lifted best description</b> <b>would be neo classic rock.</b> <b>And it's it's basically taking all the</b> <b>all the bits and pieces of rock music</b> <b>from let's say that it's inception,</b> <b>the 50s</b> <b>and moving it all the way forward to now</b> <b>and picking up these</b> <b>bits and pieces of things</b> <b>that were really marvelous about it.</b> <b>I think a really good thing,</b> <b>like, guitars played</b> <b>directly into microphones.</b> <b>Obviously tape is no longer an option,</b> <b>unfortunately,</b> <b>because it's prohibitively high</b> <b>to actually produce with tape.</b> <b>But the idea is not using</b> <b>and not using things like that</b> <b>and music played by humans on instruments.</b> <b>And we like having the option of a piano</b> <b>and a</b> <b>piano on an organ</b> <b>or organ and Fender Rhodes</b> <b>and all these different things,</b> <b>like if you hear something</b> <b>like let it Be,</b> <b>there's three different keyboards on that,</b> <b>and that's kind of once again,</b> <b>a classic rock sound.</b> <b>We like to have a big produced</b> <b>sound without having to</b> <b>actually</b> <b>have any kind of backing or anything,</b> <b>any backing tracks or anything like that.</b> <b>We want to have enough people on stage</b> <b>to pull it off.</b> <b>Big sound, big vocal harmonies,</b> <b>the whole thing.</b> <b>It's basically it's a it's a warm blanket.</b> <b>It wrap, the sound wraps around you,</b> <b>and the more players you have,</b> <b>the more you're able to spread out</b> <b>that sound a little, a little more evenly.</b> <b>I've always been interested in music.</b> <b>I, I've been singing or performing</b> <b>since I was four.</b> <b>I started,</b> <b>Sony arms around us.</b> <b>I would,</b> <b>I would have me,</b> <b>performing for the celebrities</b> <b>in the rectory, that kind of thing.</b> <b>And then as I got older, it</b> <b>progressed,</b> <b>I would sing with my grandmother.</b> <b>I even literally.</b> <b>And, and my uncle John McCarthy.</b> <b>And so it's just been it</b> <b>runs in the family.</b> <b>So it's just something that we've done and</b> <b>and then of course, having Glen,</b> <b>we've</b> <b>been singing together since we were kids</b> <b>when I was eight in the,</b> <b>Saint John's talent show.</b> <b>That was the first time I ever saying this</b> <b>in front of 300 people.</b> <b>And instead of being nervous about it,</b> <b>I thought to myself,</b> <b>well,</b> <b>this seems like a natural thing to do.</b> <b>Which I mean, how many eight year olds</b> <b>are going to think,</b> <b>oh, it's natural to stand up here</b> <b>and sing in front of 300 people.</b> <b>I knew I wanted to do it,</b> <b>but when I was 12 and I heard the Beatles</b> <b>nuclear explosion,</b> <b>it was a it was one of those things</b> <b>where I understood,</b> <b>I looked at the Beatles as my example.</b> <b>So I'm like,</b> <b>well, naturally you have to be able</b> <b>to play a guitar and sing</b> <b>and write your own songs.</b> <b>Oh, and</b> <b>I guess you have to be able to play bass,</b> <b>and you have to be able to play keyboard</b> <b>to and a little bit of drums.</b> <b>That's what they're all doing.</b> <b>So I guess I've got to do that too.</b> <b>Don't forget about writing and writing.</b> <b>As far as a vocal artist,</b> <b>the truth</b> <b>I would say</b> <b>more along the lines of Celine Dion or</b> <b>more,</b> <b>more k.d.</b> <b>lang, Janis Joplin, people with females</b> <b>that have power and strength</b> <b>behind the voice and,</b> <b>as well as arrange</b> <b>the Eagles Hotel California album.</b> <b>I had a, I had an eight track of that</b> <b>and, or my brother</b> <b>had an eight track of that.</b> <b>He took it back with him</b> <b>and went to the Marines,</b> <b>and I was very mad about that,</b> <b>because if you listen to Hotel California,</b> <b>you're starting out.</b> <b>You've got like, there's a little bit of,</b> <b>like faux reggae Hotel California,</b> <b>there's a little bit of country,</b> <b>there's a little bit,</b> <b>there's an orchestral reprise to a song.</b> <b>There's just everything.</b> <b>Harmonies, rock guitar,</b> <b>country</b> <b>guitar, acoustic, electric, 12, six.</b> <b>Anything you can possibly</b> <b>think of is all happening on that album.</b> <b>So it went right here in the back of my</b> <b>head, and I was like that is a sound.</b> <b>And I think it prepped me.</b> <b>It prepared me</b> <b>for when the Beatles happened.</b> <b>The within, the Beatles showed up.</b> <b>It was like,</b> <b>oh yeah, of course you use orchestras,</b> <b>you do all of these things in music.</b> <b>A lot of the time.</b> <b>A lot of the time it's, I come across</b> <b>a couple of chords that I like.</b> <b>Right?</b> <b>And then, I start looking through,</b> <b>I start looking through my notebooks</b> <b>and things like that</b> <b>because I'm always writing words,</b> <b>always just words afterwards, afterwards.</b> <b>So I start flipping through</b> <b>until I can find something that,</b> <b>oh, this feels right.</b> <b>So yeah, there's a mass</b> <b>production of lyrics, and there's always</b> <b>some kind of little tune</b> <b>that's always being worked on.</b> <b>And so what I will do</b> <b>is I'll put those together.</b> <b>So if I find myself strumming and going,</b> <b>me of, you know, a,</b> <b>like scrambled eggs, right?</b> <b>But the same thing.</b> <b>If I find myself doing that,</b> <b>then I'm like, okay, I gotta have words.</b> <b>I can't just mumble.</b> <b>So I look for the words,</b> <b>put the music together</b> <b>and like, okay, is it going to</b> <b>modulate, is going to change keys,</b> <b>what's it going to do.</b> <b>You know, things like that.</b> <b>The original album</b> <b>is on Spotify right now.</b> <b>And you can also find</b> <b>it on Amazon and download it.</b> <b>Although we</b> <b>are, we've</b> <b>started, remastering some things.</b> <b>So you will see civilized</b> <b>natives pop up on, Apple Music</b> <b>and also YouTube music.</b> <b>And you can also use it for on Instagram</b> <b>and, and Facebook,</b> <b>if you want to make your own real type</b> <b>in Civilized Natives,</b> <b>you've got at least two to choose from</b> <b>that have been remastered.</b> <b>And I'm going to be continuing with that,</b> <b>running parallel to making a new album.</b> <b>So I'm trying.</b>