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Coming up, we say hello to a Cleveland band with a Latin groove and learn about the artist who gave an Akron band its moniker.

Then pinball is the name of the game in Trumbull County.

Hello, and welcome to another round of applause, my friends.

Im Ideastream Public Medias Kabir Bhatia.

Here comes a Latin groove with roots from all over.

Hello.

Three days, the world music project dreamed up by a pair of Cleveland rockers with a thirst for international sounds.

This is heavy on cumbia bandleaders Jake Fader and Ed Sotelo joined Idea Streams Amanda Rabinowitz for applause.

Performances.

I want to talk a little bit about the style of music.

Jake.

It's cumbia and a bit of psychedelic vibes mixed in there.

Talk a little bit about the style of the music and how it all came together.

It all came from hearing, some classic Peruvian psychedelic music from a compilation called Roots of Chicha and getting hearing this cumbia rhythm that's that's baked into their traditional cumbia music comes from Colombia.

I'm no expert on it, but, you know, from what I understand, traditional cumbia music comes from Colombia.

We came to it through this Peruvian style, this, psychedelic cumbia and, and yeah, and there's a lot of that undertone.

Although we're not strictly we're not a cumbia band.

Strictly there could be a rhythm finds its way into most of our songs.

I would say there's like rhythmic underpinnings to a lot of the music that we do, where all of the guys bring in different tunes and, that are from all sorts of different places.

But it's funny, I don't think the any of us, when we're bringing in things at the band or any of the old folks, are bringing things in the band, if they're really, like even that self-conscious about referencing a style.

Rather, they're looking at the entire big picture of like, what emotion or what movement do we want the song to evoke?

In.

This.

And.

And I know that you have a background in playing in punk and hard rock bands.

Yeah.

This gives you a chance to really explore your South American roots for the first time.

When I was growing up, when my parents came here in 1970 from Argentina.

It's actually interesting.

One of my earliest memories of listening music at home was actually country music and and rhythm and blues and soul, because that's the records that were gifted to my parents when they came here.

But they also had some traditional Argentine music, whether it was like folklore or tango.

But it wasn't until years later, as an adult, I kind of came into that in my own way.

And so this was a way to kind of reconnect to something that I hadn't really been looking for until much later in my musical and personal life.

So it's kind of neat to be able to do that, you know, and, and expand on everything that I had already been playing.

And, Jake, I know that the, the band shortly after it formed within a year, you got to open for a very popular band in Peru called Los Malos.

Yeah.

So that the aforementioned compilation, The Roots of Chicha, they're featured prominently on there, and they might arguably be one of the most important bands of that movement in Peru.

It was our very first show ever.

We we got together casually and started to play and then and then, I believe that through Neil, the percussionist and and Ed had this offer, Mirallas was coming to Cleveland.

And first of all, we couldn't believe that.

Yeah.

And then it was like, okay, so our very first show ever is going to be opening up for them, which was equal parts exciting and terrifying, mostly excitement after we were done playing, after them, playing the terrifying part went away, but it was an interesting trial by fire.

But what I will say is that the community that was there to support, whereas there might have been some skepticism when we first took the stage, they were really, really warm and really amazing and seeing how that kind of music and that kind of rhythm can transform a room.

And we've been really lucky that I think over our time playing since then.

That was 2018, when we've got to watch that on multiple on many nights where we see that this rhythm that we're playing our version of brings people joy.

And.

When you talk about Cleveland audiences and then the people who are coming to your shows, I mean, you think that the Cleveland's pretty hip to this kind of music?

Yeah, it's really amazing.

We played a show with, this great, great group from Mexico City, Sonido Gallo Negro.

And, you know, we knew that the some hella 3D people would come out in here.

But weeknights are always tough, you know, and, it was packed and we brought a fair amount of people, but also all these people came because this band was from Mexico City.

And Cleveland has a way of showing up like another group that they really showed up for was the Turkish group Altan Gun at the beach land.

We took some influence on.

One of our songs we played here is is from that kind of Anatolian psych music.

Cleveland tends to be really hip with things like that.

They show up and it's always, I'm always like, oh wow, look at you.

Look at the colors.

There's more people that you know want to find these sounds and.

And, and.

And and.

And you know, I know that you two are still kind of learning global music.

And how does that bode for the future of the band?

Where where does this go from here and how does it evolve?

You know, the songs that we're playing today are just like a sample.

We have like more tunes in the repertoire and we have more songs that are just unfinished, and that's really exciting.

We're coming together with music that we all love, and what's fun about it is that we also now have our own language inside of it.

So even if we were to play a strict cumbia song, if we would like, do something that was exactly like that, it would still sound like hella 3D because we have, we've been able to build a language amongst ourselves that isn't necessarily trying to ape something off of a record.

So it doesn't matter what we play, we're going to sound like us.

And because there's a lot of possibilities, I think that's the exciting part.

If I my mind is waking up to my dream, and find my life this way, can I do my journey and then.

to hear more music from hello 3D and learn how they came up with the band.

Super fun name?

Check out applause performances on demand any time with the PBS app.

Now come with me to the Akron Art Museum.

Like we're on a date, and this time we're going to see some scrolls.

These aren't ancient religious texts.

They're the work of the late Alfred Muchmore, who had some very famous fans.

That's a young, smiling Dan Auerbach standing next to Akron artist Alfred MC Moore.

Some of his friends included Chuck Auerbach and Jim Carney.

Their sons, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach, went on to form the Black Keys.

Mcmurray's work is part of the exhibit.

All this luck in my head.

Most of his drawings are five feet tall by 50ft long.

They're incredibly huge.

They're actually very difficult to display because they're so large.

Mick Moore was self-taught and live with schizophrenia, so he often relied on friends to help him out.

Before his death in 2009, when he wanted your help, when he wanted you to take him somewhere, he would call dozens of times.

And these voicemails got increasingly frustrated as you were not answering your phone.

And he would repeat these phrases that meant something was off in his world.

Like you're black, he is taking too long.

Don't be a black key.

Don't get your black key on my white key.

And that's how he unknowingly named the Black Keys.

All he was trying to do was get a lift.

Maybe to get some food, or to buy art supplies.

Such as his favorite 96 crayon sets.

Often Alfred did something called stop, drop and roll where he was carrying around a five foot scroll.

He would stop whatever he was doing, drop it in the middle of the street, unroll it, and just start working.

If the mood struck him, it was something he had to do.

Much of his work depicts funerals.

Attending them was a pastime he indulged in, whether he knew the guest of honor or not.

He liked the catharsis of a funeral because he was able to go again for a stranger and cry real tears.

So often in our society, we are told to suppress our emotions, and for someone like Alfred, who was dealing with, mental illness with schizophrenia, that was probably very difficult.

But at a funeral he could express those emotions.

McMorrow spent his final decades living independently, thanks to social workers from Akron's community support services.

What I hope people take away is who else in our community can we help?

Can we help thrive if we all come together to support them?

Alfred make more.

All this luck in my head is on view at the Akron Art Museum through February 8th.

Fans of Antiques Roadshow on PBS ought to get a kick out of the new movie, Lost and Found in Cleveland, filmed right here in Northeast Ohio.

I got the chance to talk to the directors behind this indie comedy when it premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival.

All the boom, boom, boom, boom boom boom boom boom.

Cleveland.

The best location in the nation.

I was originally an actor that moved from New York to L.A., and I met Marissa, my cohorts, the other half at films.

And, she said that she had this idea about Antiques Roadshow and wanting to do a film that was based on that.

But she was from L.A., and she didn't want to have a place there.

And I said, well, I'm from Cleveland.

And she said, well, that sounds hysterical.

And I said, hey, don't not Cleveland.

You've never been there.

You don't know what it's like.

And then that kind of set us on this journey.

And I grew up watching Antiques Roadshow.

I mean, it's what I watched with my dad.

It was our Monday night thing, and I. I just loved these real people coming in with their objects and telling their personal stories.

We, filmed all over the Cleveland area.

A lot of iconic, places like the West Side Market, Saint Stanislaus, the Nash and Slavic Village.

We were at the Western Reserve Historical Society.

We filmed in canton at the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum, which actually is a big part of the genesis of the idea as well.

I went to the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum with my mom.

They also had an exhibit about the Wizard of Oz, and it said that The Wizard of Oz was an allegory about the American Dream during McKinley's administration, and that it had ties to Northeast Ohio.

Dorothy was the common man, tin man, the factory workers, scarecrow, the farmers that stood for us.

The gold standard was the yellow brick road, and that McKinley was the wizard.

And the guy behind the curtain was Marcus Hannah, who was a Cleveland politician, his campaign manager, and that he may have been pulling the strings on a puppet president.

And so we said, what if we did a modern take on Wizard of Oz?

What if instead of Dorothy and Scarecrow and Tin Man, it would be a little boy and a mail carrier and a retired steel plant worker?

And instead of a heart or a brain, they would have these objects that were their prized possessions in their lives, and they would bring it to the appraisers who were the wizards, and they would say the same thing that Professor Marvel says to the Scarecrow in Tin Man, which is that the answer to your self-worth lies within.

This very important work of art.

I think you're overreacting.

I hate you.

Let's go.

Don't come a long way.

Hard work.

Holly up.

She.

You nervous little.

Me, too.

There's a lot of Easter eggs in the film.

There's even, you know, some of them were accidental.

Dennis Haysbert plays the mail carrier, and we actually got him 48 hours before filming.

But the first day he shows up, we're filming at the West Side Market.

We are at the butcher stand.

And we're filming and we see there's a sticker go tribe on the on the stall, and it's in frame right beneath him.

And we're like, sorry.

What?

How is that possible?

Keith.

Go check.

It was living now in Hollywood and says, I'm writing and I'm producing a film.

It's called Lost and Found in Cleveland.

I said, I'm in.

Sign me up.

He goes, I want you to do a sequence with Dennis Haysbert, and it's a dream sequence or I want you to storyboard it.

We'll have the composer who worked on La La Land.

The luxury of an ensemble is that you get to have some of your favorite people play.

Jon Lovitz, for example, is doing his incredible Jimmy Stewart as, the mayor of Cleveland.

And our film Eliza while is doing a phenomenal job as a hunting valley socialite.

We picked up the most exquisite piece in Tunisia.

Her delivery is impeccable.

And so we really just concentrated on.

Okay, whose voice do we hear in this role?

And and truly, our film is a modest budget.

So we had to be nimble.

We had to have a script that actors would want to, come to Cleveland to film in January.

And we explain, this is a love letter to Northeast Ohio.

This is a love letter to the American dream.

This is a love letter for people who are curious, who are hungry to return to the theaters with their families.

I think we just wanted to do traditional storytelling.

It was the kind of storytelling that it felt like Hollywood had veered away from.

Hollywood understood.

And the concept of an ensemble, there's an underestimation, I think, of audiences, there has been an underestimation of the film.

It's a mission of ours to have Clevelanders believe in themselves that the goal of the film was to have, you know, the nation look upon Cleveland as we do.

We had a very good mentor who was a director, who said 95% of your job as a director is to hire the right people and then trust them to do what you hired them to do.

When we told you and squib, hey, this is the scene, and she already knows she's bringing her own personal history to that role, and we role and we're all crying when she's putting on lipstick.

That's testament to obviously a master class, and these veteran actors.

And when Joon and Stacy Keach are the first ones to come on board, it then makes other actors want to come on board because they know the caliber and the bar that you're setting of what the acting and what the script are.

This film is going to have a life beyond its theatrical release.

We want people going and doing tours around the city trying to find the locations for the film.

I think, it's going to add to the local economy for years to come, and we're really grateful to have that be part of our legacy for.

Lost and Found in Cleveland opens in movie theaters nationally and here in Northeast Ohio this weekend.

For the.

Now, I'm a collector, but I've never thought to have people over to look at my records or stamps or speeding tickets.

But there's a pinball Mecca in the Buckeye State that's attracting fans of the Silver Ball to Girard, Ohio.

It's the brainchild of Warrens Rob Burke, who wants the world to see and play his Guinness World Record holding collection.

to Over a thousand games in my collection.

We, cover every era from the 30s all the way up to today's modern game players.

And gentlemen, this is a special report.

Every year, around 640 games between pinball and video games.

And there's an additional double decker storage.

Pinball for the family man.

It's a family deal.

Pinball is fun for everybody.

Probably the first memories of pinball was growing up as a young guy, maybe 5 or 6 years old, going in the basement of my home parent's home and seeing this contraption down there, not knowing what it was.

I was a pinball machine, and we're talking about the, early 1960s, but there was a machine there, and, it was there for free play.

And everyone's like, quiet, intrigued by it, didn't know how it worked or anything.

But as I got older and older, I liked it.

It was it was a fun entertainment.

The ball has a mind of its own and no two games are the same.

Artwork was fun, the themes were fun, and that really got me intrigued.

More to the point where I started reading about it, learning more about it, and learning about the players behind the industry.

I started collecting in mid to late 70s, so I had the warehouse for the company, the family business, and that's where I was storing the machines.

So I knew sooner or later I had to find another place to store the games.

And over time I came upon this grocery store and it had been a viable ghost over the years.

But then they closed down for whatever reason, and at the time the price was right.

I figured maybe I'll buy it, store my games in there thinking of myself.

This is such a crazy thinking.

I'll put the games in there.

I'll have a key.

Maybe once a week.

I'll come here, play a couple games and turn the lights off and go home.

So my wife said, yeah, it's crazy.

If you're going to build this place, why don't you build it for the general public to come and enjoy?

Other.

Well, the games in the 30s, the among historians, the very first game was a game called wiffle, which was produced right here in Youngstown, Ohio.

So I have the game here.

Very simple game, very simplistic, no electricity, no flippers.

It actually fits on the countertop.

It's maybe two feet wide by three foot long.

Not much to it, but it was the beginning of pinball as we know it.

It's called Humpty Dumpty, made in 1947.

It was created by that firm in the Harry Mavs, and he came up with a spot.

This idea of these flippers.

And when he put that on the game, it just turned the industry upside down, because all of a sudden, you can keep a ball live longer, a gameplay, and a lot of other people start copying the flippers.

There's arcades all over the US coast to coast, but none of them have the the breadth of variety we do and all.

Not only that, but the international presence.

So there's a whole out here about 40 games that were made in Spain and Italy.

So this row here is all the games from Spain and Italy.

This is my heart and soul right here.

We've got 40 games here made in Europe, for the European market.

And you're seeing it right here.

And these games are very unique.

The artists are unique.

The way the playfield design is unique.

But that's what makes this hobby to me so interesting is those oddball games you just don't see everywhere.

And this is a good example of what we have here in this row.

Here.

So when we celebrate our one year anniversary here about a month ago, my daughter says, hold on for taking.

I want to give my dad something and she has me a package to open up.

And here it's a certificate from the Guinness Book of Records recognizing me and honoring me for having the largest single collection of pinball machines.

So that was a great honor, a great surprise.

And, it's one of the few times have to cut me off guard.

The committee has been very, very supportive.

They didn't really know.

I mean, this building was after such a long time.

So for someone to come here and bring it back to life again, they were very excited about that.

But the more the people come here, they're just awestruck by they.

They really didn't know what to expect, but once they see it, they're just enthralled.

Like, this is unbelievable.

So you got to see it to believe it.

When I went.

if you want to stop in for a game or two.

Pastimes can be found in Girard, about six miles northwest of Youngstown.

we're making a fashion statement on the next applause.

From vintage Dior to Downhome Western wear.

What hangs in the closet at the Kent State University Museum never goes out of style.

I always get someone saying.

But where did you get all this from?

And I always say, our basement.

Then we go inside an old Cleveland Heights movie theater for a moving performance about the loss of a loved one.

All that and more on the next round of applause It's been fun, folks, but our time together draws nigh.

Thanks for joining in on this round of applause.

Im Ideastream Public Medias Is Kabir Bhatia saying goodbye with more music from hello 3D?

Enjoy.

Deep.

Deep.

Deep.

Me me me me me me me me me me me me.

Deep.

Deep deep.

Deep.

Deep.

Deep.

Me.

Me.

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