(VHS player sounds) (muffled music) - That sounds really good on my end, do you want more or less of you?

- (singing) What you wanna see?

Teensy more vocal and I'll be more than happy.

Check, check.

(fake singing) Yeah.

I can hear it.

Yeah, we're good, the levels are fine.

(twinkle) - I'm Tony Ferraro and this is my Sound on Tap.

(drums and bass groove plays) Left eye lazy, right hand crazy.

Takes a real boy to call a big man baby Here's to heaven, both feet waving crack a real smile when you call a bad girl maybe What you want to hear?

What I have to tell you?

They are two different things (guitar solo) You can't touch me, when I'm up here.

I'm a crocodile in the sky.

Build you, break you Made to play you We let you in this is how we thank you.

(guitar solo) What you want to see?

What I have to show you They are two different things.

(guitar solo) You can buy it, steal it or burn it Whatever makes you feel like you earned it.

Don't wanna be right You don't wanna hear this We have no time to pretend, today's your lucky day Sunshine and Marlboro We'll just have to get there.

Ladies and gentleman we are in Denton, Texas at Recycled Books.

We're in the health and medicine section.

You can get your car checked out.

That song was called "Crocodile In The Sky" This next one's called "Harder and Harder" We were lying on the bedroom floor, feeling tired but you wanted more in the sky there's another guy under 21, but I told a lie drive around in daddy's Benz jam pack full with all her friends Uptown under city lights I bought an overpriced beer just to ease my mind No telling where this night will go It's getting harder and harder to just say no.

Broken spirits and a pocket of hash.

I'm feelin' cheap, and I'm low on cash.

Her mouth tastes like a cigarette Five dollar wine and a peppermint There's no telling where this night will go It's getting harder and harder to just say no.

There's no telling where this night will go it's getting harder and harder to just say No-- No-- Ladies and gentleman that's Ryan Thomas Becker on the guitar There's no telling where this night will go It's getting harder and harder to just say no Take it easy on me make it slow, it's getting harder and harder to just say no to just say no just say no - I've had four track tape machines since I was 13, 14.

My dad bought me one for Christmas and I've almost never gone a day without using it.

That one I can't bring.

It's just messed up.

It's used in the recording process.

It's it's used as a boring technical thing.

That gets the sound to the thing.

(laughter) The tape machines come very handy in recording, but I don't always use them.

Definitely not from the beginning.

Those just aren't you know, good enough models and the records you can make on those things will sound cool.

As long as your songs sound cool.

It's hard to make full-blown productions on just cassette, just cause it almost sounds as good as I want it to, but not quite.

Like I said, I've had a four track cassette, four tracks since I was 13, 14, and I use it all the time.

I use, I have two now and I use both of them all the time.

They're in my life.

They're they're just, I don't even think about them.

They're just the thing that helps me make the noise go.

(drumbeat comes on) Grady Don Sandlin on the drums.

"Briefcase Full of Money" You can run, but you can't make me look for you you can hide but you, will tire You can stay.

You signed yourself up with your eyes If you could leave me well enough to take a punch If you could leave me well enough to take a punch Cause I'm the guy from your precious little city I walk around with a briefcase full of money.

In with the cool air out with the hot It's too late to be something that I'm not It's too late to be something that I'm not (guitar harmonies and drums) If that's the only suit you can borrow Then let's just meet here tomorrow Off with your head, on with your life Whatever you say, yeah that's probably right Whatever you say, yeah that's probably right Whichever lies you need to tell Big in the news but not much in the mail It's hard to change, it's hard to admit The best you can do hasn't been done today The best you can do hasn't been done today Doot doot doot doo (scatting) The album is called Elvysses.

E L V Y S S E S The name is Tony Ferrara and this next song is about an old fashioned kind of, lover.

The kind that'll walk All the way to the library and back and take the long way.

Need a landline lover to get me through I need a landline lover to hold onto.

If we can't have what we want right now, do we wanna do this?

And if you want my eyes to stay on you You got to be cool I need a landline lover to get me through.

I need a landline lover To hold onto.

Baby I called time and temperature To wait for the signal Baby I called your work and your momma's house They say try tomorrow.

I need a landline lover To get me through.

Give me a landline lover To hold onto.

Leave your number after the beep But before the weekend No one's gonna change my mind after all it's about time That's Justin Collins on the drum kit there.

He's a nice person.

You try to meet a nice person and look what it gets you You try to make the right kind of friends and look at what happens Honey I need your number, and I need a reason Honey I need your number, but I don't need no reason I want a landline lover to get me through, I want a landline lover to hold onto.

Cause if I think about a number Do you think you can guess it?

If I dream about a lover Will my dreaming come true?

When I lose my connection I call a landline lover When I close my eyes, I see a landline lover And when I need a good time.

That's what a landline lover is for Someone to ease my mind That's what a landline lover is for Someone to ask me good questions - Tape deck versus full band?

- Tape deck's easier.

No brainer.

- Band is funner hanging out with your buddies is way better, but my buddies are all on the tape.

So it's like they're here and it just gives me an excuse to brag about them.

So I've done this particular routine once before.

Yeah, it works great.

It works smooth.

It's so easy.

I got a little box band mate.

It's cool.

I've never quite done anything exactly like that before, but that's part of the fun.

Yeah.

I mean, this isn't quite a representation of what I do all the time is just fun and easy to do for a show.

When playing solo, Yeah.

There's just less schedules to deal with.

So everything's easier and you don't have to ask anyone any questions.

I love having my dudes and when we get to play together, it's magic.

It's fun to do stuff like this too.

Everyone's cool with it.

You know, everyone's in a bunch of projects, we're all buzzing around and meeting up and dropping off and meeting up.

And the way I look at it as is, since I've moved here for the last 10, 11 years, I've, I'm just a solo artist.

Whomever I play with as whomever I play with.

The people I work with are easy to work with.

(laughter) You know, we can work together or not.

The feelings are all love.

It's all hugs.

And when it comes to what we do and which, which version of which project we're doing at which time.

Yeah, we're all just trying to be ready.

The pandemic definitely kicked the idea above water.

I was always gonna do it, but you know, not being able to be around my buddies made it much easier and it's ever so fun.

It's really cool to do it is it's a little scarier being on your own, but I don't know.

It just feels you could turn a bookstore into a stadium.

- Me and mama been waiting by the phone.

We knew that you'd call.

We'll be ready to meet you at your office and show you it all.

I don't know what I was going to do if you didn't call what would I do?

And then a shot came out of the blue I heard the sounds, I followed the tune I don't need you to show me your credentials.

I believe in you, baby.

Just turn and point me and show me where to enter.

We're living in the city of peace at the height of taste How did we do?

And then if what you say is the truth It's two foot two.

How can I lose?

That's Mister Tex Bosley on the shaker On the shaker.

I get the feeling you don't wanna be here where do you wanna go?

Who do you want me to be?

It's time I get back out on the streets, up on the roof, high as the moon I got new shoes.

So while I don't walk like that, no not anymore I looked all over and called your phone number Did I miss you baby?

I'm gonna stand outside of your house under the lights until you, answer me.

I guess it's hard to keep up the look in a day in the life of a modeling agency.

- I'm not making any further plans to build on this particular version of what I do.

I mean, this is one of 10 versions of the way I go about performing solo.

But yeah, I'm definitely going to keep experimenting and trying more for sure.

Yeah.

Whatever's next after this.

I mean, I would definitely do this for awhile like this, but got to grow, got to move, you know, up out, you know, gets hotter.

Yeah.

Got to fizzle out.

Yeah.

It's fun to try new things.

This was, it was very easy because it was new.

I'm working on a solo record.

Should have it out next year.

It's not fully written.

And then I'm working on a collaboration record that hopefully will be out this year.

And I'm releasing a book, kind of like a comic book, a one panel character.

It would go perfectly right there in the humor section.

Things like one panel comic thing, just humor, (laugher) Just plain old, good old fashioned humor.

- Humor, yeah.

- I got a bad, big brother.

I got a bad, big brother.

I got a bad, big brother.

He stands up for me.

He knows karate.

He's got a hundred girlfriends.

He's got a snakeskin pocket knife that he lets me see.

I got a bad big brother.

I got a bad, big brother.

I got a bad big brother.

He looks up to me.

He thinks I'm funny Yeah he thinks I'm crazy But when he gets back he's going to ask me what I want to eat.

Go.

Gonna fill my pockets with G.I.

Joes I'm gonna lie down on the merry go round So if you want to mess with me, go ahead and try it.

Cause my bad, big brother, is standing behind you.

We're like a bird and dirty Bert and Ernie.

He's my little buddy and I'm his bad big brother He's such a bad big brother.

Man, don't you just love some PBS.

I want to thank you.

My pleasure being your captain tonight.

Let's turn off the wifi and have some fun.