1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Welcome to Why Make Music… a podcast where we dive into the world of creativity and inspiration, 2 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,000 and to learn how to create. 3 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,000 In this video, we will be looking at how to create a podcast to invite you to the world 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 of creativity. 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,000 We are boardcasting from planet Earth, now, without further ado, it is time for us to make our 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,000 journey to think, to talk, and to explore Why Make Music... 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Hello, hello, hello, hello there my fellow listeners, how are, how's everybody today? 8 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,000 What is going on in the world of podcasting today? 9 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,760 Hi, my name is ThinkTimm , 10 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,760 and this is Why Make Music… the Podcast, Episode 008. 11 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,440 This episode is actually gonna be the conclusion 12 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,720 of last week's episode, 13 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,440 which was Let's Talk Influences. 14 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,960 The reason why I want to continue this week with the, 15 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,600 Why Make Music… Let's Talk Influences 16 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:46,200 is because seriously, I kid you not, 17 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,880 the time got away from me last week, 18 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,600 and I was completely unaware 19 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,120 that we almost did a little over an hour, 20 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,920 and during that time, 21 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,920 I did not get really far into my influences. 22 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:10,420 I do believe, 23 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,560 this is the part of the podcast 24 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,400 where I offer the introduction for those who are new 25 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,520 and have not been listening. 26 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,440 So first and foremost, 27 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,320 I want to suggest that you go back 28 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:32,320 and listen to episodes one through seven. 29 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,860 Not right now, don't cut it off, don't stop, 30 00:02:35,860 --> 00:02:39,120 but check it out sometime. 31 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,080 So I'm ThinkTimm, 32 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:47,080 I'm a independent musician, producer, 33 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,840 songwriter, artist. 34 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:55,840 I am currently independently distributing my music 35 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,480 through United Masters. 36 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,760 My goal is to grow a community, 37 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,720 to grow a fan base, 38 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:20,720 to find, relate, and meet other creative people. 39 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:25,400 I am a hobbyist musician, 40 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,560 turning independent musician. 41 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,600 So basically with that being said, 42 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,600 I am the writer, sponsor, producer, artist. 43 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,000 I am doing it all. 44 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,000 So I am here to talk about Why Make Music….. 45 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,680 I think the topic, the question, the statement, 46 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,680 Why Make Music…, as I've said before, 47 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:03,680 is a very, very interesting topic. 48 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,680 Very interesting conversation starter 49 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:14,880 when it comes to speaking to someone who's creative. 50 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,800 So last week we dove into the topic of 51 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:29,440 let's talk influences. 52 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:34,440 Prior to that, we took a journey through 53 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:39,640 the time management of an independent producer. 54 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,640 We looked at the amount of music being released 55 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,760 by independent musicians daily, 56 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,720 which was a very shocking number per the internet. 57 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,720 It was basically saying that almost 120,000 songs 58 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,160 are released daily. 59 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,520 That's amazing in itself. 60 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:10,520 So we also spoke about why would you want to 61 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:18,200 and what's the psychological makeup of a person 62 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,400 that's attempting to, I guess, get their music 63 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,960 or get their art heard and the effects 64 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,440 that might have on the person. 65 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,360 We also spoke about in the past, 66 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,840 the attempt of trying to converse 67 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,920 with people on social media. 68 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:47,920 We talked about how to perhaps do some marketing 69 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:54,920 feeding on social media, especially when you are not necessarily 70 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:00,920 the social media friendly type that likes to post constantly 71 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,960 all the time daily because you have to feed those algorithms. 72 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,600 So with all that said, I am learning my way around here, 73 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:19,600 but last week we had such a cool topic 74 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,160 of let's talk influences. 75 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,160 And for those who did not listen, 76 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:32,160 the long short version of it is basically 77 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,720 I've had creative people, musicians around me 78 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,720 and my family in my neighborhood my entire life. 79 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:49,440 And I am truly giving props to them for being there. 80 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,760 Household growing up, my uncle, musician, 81 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:03,520 hobbyist bands in the 70s, 82 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,640 my stepfather carried it from my house 83 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,080 carried it from the 70s into the 80s, 84 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,920 gigging with bands around Philadelphia, 85 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:19,920 introducing our household to tons of music, 86 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:25,160 musical styles, teaching us not directly, 87 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,720 not forcing us to learn it, but it was there. 88 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,720 We took a liking to it. 89 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:36,080 I have a brother who's an excellent drummer, 90 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,080 not by profession , but this is something he does when he's, 91 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,400 so when you need a drummer, he wants to get down 92 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,040 and he gets down and he's really good. 93 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:54,040 My thing is that I am a multi-instrumentalist, 94 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,360 meaning that I start on the bass, I moved to the guitar, 95 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:03,360 I play some piano, keyboards, mess around on drums. 96 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,920 As for my personal recording, 97 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,920 currently I'm using the digital audio workstations 98 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,120 that are available on laptops, computers, PCs. 99 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:21,120 My favorite ones that I use are Apple Logic Pro 100 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,520 and FL Studios. 101 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:28,520 So also in the back of these podcasts are tracks 102 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,440 that are either left over from other projects 103 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:38,160 or drums I lifted from my own projects, 104 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:43,160 but everything is my own original material, no samples. 105 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,920 I'm doing all the playing, the programming, 106 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,320 and the production. 107 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,920 So let's pick up where we left off at. 108 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,920 In the prior episode, I gave major props to artists 109 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:05,280 such as from John Williams to Quincy Jones, 110 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,840 to Sly and the Family Stone, the Rolling Stones, 111 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,480 the Beatles, these are things that I heard 112 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,680 when I was younger that helped me 113 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:26,720 form my opinion on the music. 114 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:33,520 Elvis Presley, I know there's a line from a rap song, 115 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,840 Elvis was a hero the most, but he never meant blank to me. 116 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:47,320 Listen, normally I don't go into artists 117 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,400 and relate to what's going on 118 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,520 and make it a name dropping scenario, 119 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:58,520 but these influence episodes, I have to say names 120 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,040 or I create a large guessing game 121 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,240 that wouldn't really be fun. 122 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,360 But Public Enemy was also a big influence. 123 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:13,360 So when I left off basically, we were talking about 124 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:18,360 the late 70s going into the 80s. 125 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,880 At this point, I've discovered the greatest influence 126 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:32,120 on me musically and my way of thinking 127 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:40,760 and the way of being, which was I came across the 45 128 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,560 of Soft and Wet by Prince. 129 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:48,560 I was too young to really get into the lyrical content of it 130 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:53,560 and my mother brought the 45, the smaller record 131 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,800 that plays at 45 RPMs and I still have it to this day. 132 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,400 And I say it's my mother because her name is written on it 133 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,040 in black ink, so I guess she's had it since she was 134 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,800 a young person maybe going over to parties 135 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,800 and playing records, whatever, so you tag your stuff. 136 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,160 That was a major influence. 137 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:26,000 This was prior to 1999, before Controversy, 138 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,800 before Purple Rain, before whatever. 139 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,240 So this was Prince establishing himself his first single 140 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:39,240 and it was impressive to a kid that was under the age of 10. 141 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,360 Now that I'm older and the lyrical content, Soft and Wet, 142 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:49,320 wow, went over my head completely, but it is what it is. 143 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,640 But I grew up in Philadelphia. 144 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:57,640 I grew up on a regular street, not a single home, 145 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:04,640 but some row houses, about 60 houses per block. 146 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,800 At one end of my block was a Baptist church, 147 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,920 at the other and further up on the, 148 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,920 about two or three blocks up was a Catholic school 149 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,640 that I went to. 150 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,640 I currently don't prescribe or have any religious 151 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,320 affiliation to anything, 152 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,520 but that also was forms of music in places 153 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,360 that people played music and these are places that 154 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:39,240 in my childhood I frequent, which helped me also 155 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,280 get a grasp on what everyone was doing around me. 156 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:49,120 So as a, I guess a tween, 157 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,600 going from young age into teenage years 158 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,360 and you find yourself being at the, 159 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:05,160 on the, I guess the precipice of rap music 160 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:10,160 taking over the world and you have pop music, 161 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:16,080 everybody from Debbie Gibson to Cindy Larper 162 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:24,080 Madonna, man, Culture Club with Boy George, 163 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,240 George Michaels, you had a whole bunch of cultural 164 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:34,240 pop people, then you had a whole bunch of R&B groups 165 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:38,240 going on, you had a bunch of older groups 166 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:43,240 that were making the transition into, I guess, 167 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:48,240 popular R&B music, you had groups like the Whispers, 168 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,240 you had Luther Vandross out there singing, 169 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,240 you had the Spinners, the Pointer Sisters, 170 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:00,240 you had Aretha Franklin that was making, I guess, 171 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:05,240 a grand transition from the Motown sound 172 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,240 and bringing that into the 80s. 173 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:12,240 You had great collaborations, you had Annie Lennox 174 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:16,240 and the Eurythmics, you had so many different sounds 175 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:21,240 going on at that time, you had people that were great 176 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:28,240 and still around and kicking, you had Stevie Wonder 177 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:32,240 with songs like I Just Called to Say I Love You, 178 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:37,240 That’s What Friends Are For, which was with Dionne Warwick, 179 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,240 you've had Part Time Lover, you had the group DeBarge 180 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:47,240 that was housed in the 80s with El DeBarge, 181 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:52,240 Bunny DeBarge, James DeBarge, shockingly, 182 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,240 if you did not know, the DeBarge group was 183 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,240 the younger siblings of the group Switch, 184 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:04,240 which was also another laid back R&B group. 185 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,240 On the rock side of things, you had, I guess, 186 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:14,240 what they call the 80s hair bands coming out 187 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,240 and you had Bon Jovi around kicking, 188 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,240 you still had Aerosmith, which had been around 189 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:26,240 from the 70s, The Rolling Stones, oh dear, 190 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:31,240 The Rolling Stones, John Cougar, Melling Camp, 191 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:36,240 Bruce Springsteen, you had Billy Joel, 192 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,240 Billy Joel had that hot track in the 80s, Uptown Girl. 193 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:48,240 So just like today, where you have a large cross section 194 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,240 of music that fell into the pop category, 195 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:58,240 we had that then. And at the same point, 196 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,240 while that was going on, we had the introduction 197 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:13,240 of MTV, BET, VH1, The Box, where people, artists, 198 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,240 were showing music videos much more than 199 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,240 they're showing on TV now. 200 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:25,240 There were music video shows that catered to, 201 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:32,240 whether it be the top five, top ten, a certain genre of music. 202 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,240 You had the Country Music Channel, CMT, 203 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,240 you had a whole bunch of them out there that basically 204 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:46,240 were extension of radio stations and marketing tools 205 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:52,240 to get the artists into your homes and get you familiar 206 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,240 with the artists. 207 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:01,240 So as a young man, I took all of that in. 208 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,240 You will find me listening to anything I can listen to. 209 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,240 You can find me watching whatever I can watch. 210 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,240 I realized at an early age that music was something 211 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:18,240 that I wanted to do, but the only thing is that 212 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:23,240 I was too grounded in reality, more or less. 213 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,240 So I knew that you had to finish high school, 214 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:32,240 go to college, get a career, and you have responsibilities. 215 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:38,240 With all that being said, when I was younger 216 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:43,240 and I was growing up and living my life, 217 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:52,240 the area I lived in in Philadelphia was a regular middle class neighborhood, 218 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:59,240 but we had a bunch of stars that wanted to be stars, 219 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:04,240 and it was kind of cool because you don't necessarily know. 220 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:10,240 Last week on episode seven, I spoke of people that were on my, 221 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:16,240 we called it a block, my street, and when I say my block, my street, 222 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:24,240 in urban vernacular, we're talking about the hundredth of a block 223 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:28,240 that you live on, so your address is blank, blank, whatever, 224 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:36,240 and that would be, your block would be all the numbers from the first two 225 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,240 or the first one number on up until you get to the next digit. 226 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:44,240 So like say if you lived on the 69th hundred block or whatever, 227 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:49,240 the 69th hundred block is yours, and then you had a 70th hundred, 228 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,240 then you had a 68th down, or whatever like that. 229 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:57,240 So that's how we identified the cross sections. 230 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,240 I don't know if that's just a Philadelphia thing, but I'm just saying, 231 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,240 so if I say my block, you know what I'm talking about. 232 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,240 I'm not talking about a cell block or a jail block. 233 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:12,240 I'm just talking about a city street type thing, but on my street, yo, 234 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:18,240 I kid you not, currently where I live at, there are not a lot of kids, 235 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,240 so it's funny when I tell stories about on my block, 236 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:29,240 there had to be at least at any given time, 20 or 30 kids, 20 to 30 kids. 237 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:36,240 So that means that you had groups and subgroups of people who mixed 238 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:42,240 and mingled, and just on your street alone, you felt as though you had 239 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:49,240 friends, adversaries, enemies, people you like, you could rank your 240 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:55,240 little social groups or whatever, but we had a whole bunch of things 241 00:19:55,240 --> 00:20:01,240 going on, so I know my house was the live music. 242 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,240 Like I said, my stepfather had instruments. 243 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,240 We played music. We played it loud. 244 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:12,240 Everyone was aware that, oh, that's what was going on there. 245 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:17,240 They were aware of my Prince fandom. They were aware of me. 246 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:23,240 The thing that was going on everywhere else is that we had friends, 247 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:30,240 neighbors down the block that were like I spoke of my older friend 248 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:38,240 who turned me on to Quincy Jones and Phoebe Snow and the Beatles, 249 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,240 Buddy Holly Kiss. 250 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:46,240 He was very instrumental in my voyage into Prince also 251 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,240 because he was older, so he had access to the music that I didn't have 252 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,240 access to. 253 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,240 He was a rapper at the time frame. 254 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:02,240 I'm like he had a name. He went by the name Grand Wizard Casanova, 255 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,240 later to be changed to Prince Casanova. 256 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:10,240 He had a partner named Sundown, and I think there was a girl in the 257 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:15,240 group. I can't remember what her rap name was, and then they had a 258 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,240 whole little production coming with a few people from a blocks over, 259 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,240 a boy dude named Flash that did some things. 260 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,240 It was a nice thing. They went and did, I guess, community centers, 261 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,240 playgrounds, block parties or whatever, and they were good. 262 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:36,240 I'm like considering for the time, I'm like that was the early stages 263 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:43,240 of rap, so you know the popular rap tracks were like Kurtis Blow and 264 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:50,240 Planet Rock and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. 265 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:56,240 So I'm not saying that they were like the epitome of rap, but they were 266 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,240 good. 267 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:02,240 And then the next little sub generation up there, you had the people 268 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:08,240 like I mentioned last week, which were Jazz and Rich, and then you had 269 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:15,240 a dude that lit a few doors up for me who was the DJ, and he had the 270 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:22,240 most lucrative situation going on because I know that he had a group 271 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:28,240 that he was DJing for, and he had a manager and a whole bit, and I 272 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:32,240 thought they got a little bit of airplay, and the manager would come 273 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:33,240 around. 274 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:38,240 He was rocking like a Mercedes Benz, and when you're 12, 13 years old 275 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,240 and you see that, and you see someone that's maybe four or five years 276 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:49,240 older than you relating and doing whatever you think, okay, this is 277 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:57,240 something, but this was the 80s, and hip hop was new, and people were 278 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,240 realizing, which was still, I guess, from what I understand, an 279 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:08,240 extension of the 70s that everyone always has something in them to 280 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,240 make them want to make music. 281 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:17,240 If you notice, if I get on the rant, I am always going to bring it 282 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,240 back around to why make music. 283 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:29,240 So the thing that I'm saying here is that my environment around me is 284 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:38,240 what instilled in me what still, obviously, if you hear the dates 285 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:44,240 that I'm putting out as far as the time that I'm talking about, I am 286 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:52,240 older, and I am still making music now. 287 00:23:52,240 --> 00:24:02,240 Now, if I would have had the knowledge I have now, then I might be 288 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:10,240 a household name by this point in life, because, like I said, you live 289 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:16,240 your life, and you have responsibilities, and you live, you go to college, 290 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:22,240 you get a job, you have a career, you have a family, you do all those 291 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:33,240 things, but if you ever think about the people that we as a society tend 292 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:50,240 to put on that celebrity admiration pedestal, and those who create, these 293 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:56,240 are the people who never let go of their dreams. 294 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:01,240 These are the people who follow through, not saying you had to be a 295 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:09,240 starving artist or you had to somehow put off your responsibilities, but 296 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:14,240 no, you may have had a support group that supported you. 297 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,240 If you were an actor, you might have took theater and high school, 298 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,240 college, and then went on to do plays. 299 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:27,240 If you were a dancer, you know there are tons of young ladies and young 300 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:33,240 men that are going to dance schools and going to dance competitions, and 301 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:41,240 not everyone is going to make their way to dancing with the stars, but 302 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:48,240 there are people that could go and become teachers for the next generation, 303 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,240 or they'll go and dance in college. 304 00:25:52,240 --> 00:26:00,240 They'll go and they might possibly just go out dancing and enjoy dancing, 305 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:07,240 but the thing is that they prioritize the things that are important to 306 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,240 them and things that make them happy. 307 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,240 We all do it. 308 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:21,240 So the thing is when I say why make music, this is a question that now 309 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:30,240 we are at eight episodes in eventually as our listening audience grows. 310 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:39,240 I would like the listeners to comment, hit me up on social media and tell 311 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:45,240 me their stories and maybe we can connect and I won't be here talking to 312 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:52,240 myself and we could talk about why you do what you do. 313 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:59,240 Hopefully it's music, but I'm open because I know I'm enjoying what I'm 314 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:06,240 doing, so I would like to share and maybe somehow incorporate other 315 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,240 aspects of it. 316 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:18,240 But the influences I had were a bit of everything coming from everywhere. 317 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:27,240 You know, we had rap music, we had R&B music, we had R&B artists that were 318 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:34,240 basically my age or a little older because you think like remember the 319 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:44,240 song Candy Girl, new addition, you know, you had Menudo like a cannonball. 320 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:52,240 You had all types of young kids out there being put out there to move and 321 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,240 sell record and merchandise. 322 00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:07,240 You had every young kid had something going on because we could relate to 323 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,240 the young market of rappers. 324 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:19,240 You have to understand right now rap has basically grown up with me, so 325 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:28,240 therefore when I sit back and say, oh, there were no 40, 50-year-old rappers 326 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:34,240 when I was a kid because rap wasn't 40, 50 years old. 327 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:42,240 So now we have your Rakim, your Jay-Zs, your Chuck Ds, your LLs, your 328 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:48,240 KRS ones, people who have been around Kool Mo Dee, Nas. 329 00:28:48,240 --> 00:29:00,240 We lost some good ones, but we are living now the lifespan of a genre of 330 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:08,240 music because you have to understand when I was younger, Smokey Robinson 331 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,240 was old to me. 332 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,240 He's still around. 333 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:17,240 He's still much older now, but he wasn't my generation. 334 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:25,240 I'm like, I did not have the time to appreciate a Sam Cooke or say like 335 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:30,240 Kenny Rogers or a Chuck Berry. 336 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,240 I missed Jimi Hendrix. 337 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,240 The Beatles wasn't popping. 338 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:44,240 I got duets with Paul McCartney and MJ, but I wasn't catching the Eagles or 339 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:51,240 nothing like that, you know, so, but the thing is that you have to be aware of 340 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,240 all the sounds that you can take in. 341 00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:02,240 And a couple of episodes ago, I did music statistics and that's when I was 342 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:07,240 talking about how much music is being put out. 343 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:17,240 Shockingly, it says that in our lifetime that we take in over a million songs. 344 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:24,240 It's weird when you say that, considering the fact that you think that you 345 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:30,240 probably only hear like the same 20 or 30 songs every day, but anywho. 346 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:44,240 We take it in, we're fully immersed at the same time, completely unaware of 347 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:56,240 all the sounds that we hear and that surrounds us at any given time. 348 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:04,240 These are the fabrics that are woven into our minds and our memories that 349 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:18,240 allow us to relate, understand and find joy and memories that are created or 350 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:28,240 basically memories that are kind of, I guess, hyped up because of music. 351 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,240 You know, like, I'm not going to lie to you. 352 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:41,240 It's almost like I don't sample, but sampling is a way kind of, sort of, to 353 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:49,240 paying homage to other forms of music because you take a track that 354 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:57,240 previously existed and whether you know it or not, someone heard that song 355 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:04,240 and someone is fully aware of the origin of that sample. 356 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:10,240 And they may not even like you as an artist, but they might appreciate the 357 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,240 rebirth of that said song. 358 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:22,240 So it's all relative when it comes from your influences. 359 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:34,240 Take, for example, I'm sure without saying Dr. Dre from Compton, Inglewood 360 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:40,240 is a fan of George Clinton, is a fan of the Gap Band. 361 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:48,240 It's obvious in his music, the samples that he used are samples from that 362 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,240 era from those artists in that time. 363 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:58,240 So what's the greatest, biggest shout out you can give as a musician if 364 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:06,240 that's your cup of tea, the sample, and then the greater part of that is, it's 365 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:11,240 like a gift that keeps on giving because not only are you like making their 366 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:17,240 music kind of more relevant, but because of publishing and copyright laws, 367 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,240 they get paid or at least they should get paid if their paperwork and 368 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:29,240 everything was filed properly and they are the real owners of their music. 369 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:37,240 But we do know that the music industry is, as they say, a little shady. 370 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:44,240 So not everyone who wrote a song is getting paid for that song or not 371 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,240 everyone that you thought wrote the song actually wrote the song. 372 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,240 So that's an episode for another day. 373 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:59,240 But my influences, as you can see, ranged. 374 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:15,240 And to go back, I would say I have a special place in my heart for hip hop 375 00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:23,240 and I have a special place in my heart for rock music and pop music. 376 00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:33,240 And I tend to like artists that have a large catalog. 377 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:45,240 I like artists that will be around and not necessarily transcend the test of time, 378 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:52,240 but they're confident enough to do what they do. 379 00:34:52,240 --> 00:35:01,240 And hopefully they can find the financial backing to always continue to put out 380 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:07,240 music and be true to themselves. 381 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:20,240 I'm not a big fan of chasing the hit or liking someone because they're popular. 382 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:29,240 I could get down with someone who has a similar style to something I like. 383 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:39,240 And I'm not ashamed to say that I'm a fan of music and it doesn't necessarily have to be lyrical. 384 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:51,240 So I know that's a kind of odd thing when you think of liking rap because rap is verbal. 385 00:35:51,240 --> 00:36:06,240 But you can like rap and not. The funny thing is that I'm not saying I don't necessarily dissect everything 386 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:20,240 that a rap artist, a rapper says in a song, but I've been known to be unaware of what they're saying 387 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:25,240 because I like the cadence and the delivery. 388 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:40,240 And I sometimes may not necessarily catch on to the things that are a little bit more inappropriate for a crowd. 389 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:46,240 Since I've gotten older and I have a family, I tend to pay more attention to the lyrics, 390 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:51,240 especially when my offspring was younger. 391 00:36:51,240 --> 00:37:01,240 But now that I'm getting a little older and they're older, I tend not to judge what they listen to or what they're intaking. 392 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:12,240 Because I know when I was their age, I was listening to far worse stuff than what they're listening to currently. 393 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:21,240 The only difference is that it wasn't necessarily being played as openly. 394 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:28,240 The raunchier things were not necessarily being played on the radio. 395 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:38,240 So therefore, just casually flipping through the dials while you're driving in your vehicle or watching TV, 396 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:51,240 you tend not to have seen the things that might be a little bit more offensive verbally than you do nowadays. 397 00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,240 But not judging by no means. 398 00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:58,240 Like I told you before, music is a business. 399 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:16,240 You can never ever judge anyone for making money off of their talent, their skill or their way of projecting someone else's vision through their acts. 400 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:20,240 To me, a musical artist could be like an actor. 401 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:28,240 Like when you see Robert De Niro, you see Denzel Washington playing a role. 402 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:33,240 You see Julia Roberts, you see Kerry Washington. 403 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:39,240 You don't ask if they wrote the lines that they're saying. 404 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:44,240 Did they create the character that they're portraying? 405 00:38:44,240 --> 00:39:03,240 So I think music has such an identity because it hits you harder than so many other art forms that you really want to connect with. 406 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:18,240 The artist, the person, the writer who came up with the piece that you're listening to or the piece that you like, you know. 407 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:38,240 So there's been plenty of times that I listened to other entertainers cover an artist that I like because I like the song and I wanted to see their take on it. 408 00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:56,240 But at the same time, I never forgot that the person who wrote the song wrote the song and you always have in the back of your mind a comparison of how do they do versus the original. 409 00:39:56,240 --> 00:40:02,240 Or you might have a stance that sometimes I say like, I'm not going to lie to you. 410 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:22,240 As a Prince fan, I tend not to want to have another artist cover a Prince song because Prince was Prince and not necessarily will you do it justice. 411 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:37,240 And unlike a lot of things, you like the song delivered by the person who wrote the song. 412 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:40,240 But I'm not going to lie to you. 413 00:40:40,240 --> 00:41:03,240 The funny thing is that after Prince passed away, I've never watched any of those tribute performances of his quote unquote contemporaries performing his tracks. 414 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:19,240 Realistically, the only person that I dig doing covers of his track for some reason is Sheila E. 415 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:21,240 Yeah, it's weird. 416 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:37,240 So she does this hell of a version of America and it sounds very much so like she captures the energy that he put into his music. 417 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:43,240 And if you're a Prince fan, you know that they did a lot of recording together, just the two of them. 418 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:49,240 So maybe it was all in the same vein realistically. 419 00:41:49,240 --> 00:42:07,240 I would love to perhaps see the MPG just perform the music and maybe pipe in his vocals or whatever on keyboards, but not like the new singer guy they have covering Prince. 420 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:20,240 You're spoiled as a fan, you become spoiled and everybody holds their fandom in a certain way. 421 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:45,240 That's how I tend to hold that one because it was such a major influence. It's not like saying that you're a fan of a basketball team or a football team or sports organization that you rock with the team, no matter who the players are. 422 00:42:45,240 --> 00:43:13,240 You know, so when you have someone that, as I say, it's the reason why I make music, sincerely, it's because, like I said, towards the end of the last episode, when I was younger and you were looking at the albums and CDs before the 423 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:38,240 cassette tapes in the back of a Prince album or CD or cassette tapes that produced, arranged, composed, and performed by, a lot of times, it was a situation that I still use to this day. 424 00:43:38,240 --> 00:44:07,240 Because, in comparison, a lot of music that we get and that we receive from artists, musicians, creative entities, it might be, or it may be, it may not be, but most of the time it is 425 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:26,240 a song made up of a full band of people or several people went into the studio and they came back out with this product and it might go under the umbrella of the name of a person. 426 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:41,240 So, as an example, I will entertain the biggest debate, I guess, for my age range of entertainers. 427 00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:58,240 When I was growing up, it was like Coke and Pepsi, you always had to choose one side or the other, which you did not necessarily really have to do, but if you were going to do so, I guess you just had to put things in perspective. 428 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:25,240 People to this day, they hold MJ, Michael Jackson, to such a high esteem as an entertainer, and I get it, I understand, I've seen him perform, I've seen him do his thing, and yes, he is captivating in the way that he moves, is very entertaining. 429 00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:54,240 But if you remove all the visual situations from it, if you had to wake up, this is what I tell folks nowadays, if that person, and I'm not saying that this is the way it should go, my word is not the law, I am not the most intelligent person in the world, 430 00:45:54,240 --> 00:46:19,240 I don't expect people to take my opinion and say it's fact, but what drove me to be a basically lifelong fan of the people who influenced me was the fact that say, 431 00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:48,240 if I heard a song by Miles Davis, other than the extra arrangement that might have been put to it, that's Miles, the horn arrangements, I've seen video, I've seen footage of him playing other instruments, 432 00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:59,240 and instructing other people what to play to get the final product. 433 00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:28,240 What I'm getting at is that as a producer, we have a lot of solitary producers in our world of entertainment currently. Back to my favorite, back to my why I make music and why make music was because of, like I said, 434 00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:40,240 that simple phrase, produced, arranged, composed, and performed by Prince. 435 00:47:40,240 --> 00:48:09,240 With that being said, to me, it was a situation that when you go, if Prince were to wake up and go into the studio every day by himself, he, we may still have the same or close to the same creative output. 436 00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:13,240 That we have now. 437 00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:22,240 Short of engineers and some band members that added flavor to it. 438 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:35,240 But I would say, possibly, a good majority of his catalog would still be his catalog. 439 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:47,240 The reason why I say that is that there are few artists that do it all. 440 00:48:47,240 --> 00:49:07,240 And by that, I'm not saying that they're, I'm not saying that it's special because I know for a fact that there are thousands of multi instrumentalists that are just as good, if not as good as Prince. 441 00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:20,240 It's just that they didn't necessarily have that lightening in the bottle with that time they didn't have the opportunity to show improve just like when you talk about sports. 442 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:43,240 You always hear the story of, oh, there was this player who didn't go to college that played around the way that was just as good as Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant or Steph Curry, you know, but they didn't go to college, but you wouldn't want to meet him at the playground. 443 00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:55,240 He'll drop 50 on you without a problem. So like I know for a fact that these people may not necessarily be the greatest of all times. 444 00:49:55,240 --> 00:50:00,240 I had a guitar player that played for me. 445 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:13,240 Years ago, when a bass player that played for me that I would tell you, we will bury a mug. 446 00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:18,240 We will bury people seriously because they were that good. 447 00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:45,240 You know, and I was honored that I could play with them and they thought I was okay, you know, so it was kind of cool was I think, but like I said, the thing is that when you're putting that position to quote unquote, say what influenced you or what made you do what you do. 448 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:53,240 I know I'm like a lot of feedback as a child of this late 70s into the 80s. 449 00:50:53,240 --> 00:51:04,240 And I say hands down that Prince has it because, like I said, 450 00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:08,240 he was the one stop shop 451 00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:12,240 for his crop product. 452 00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:21,240 I do believe greatly, and I am open for debate and conversation about this, but 453 00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:25,240 without Quincy Jones. 454 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:32,240 I don't believe we will have off the wall thriller or bad. 455 00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:42,240 And those were the landmark albums that put MJ out there. 456 00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:58,240 And Quincy Jones is still alive today and there's tons of committed documentaries that are basically saying that 457 00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:08,240 the thriller was made by committee off the wall had other musicians drag Greg Philanus to keyboard player. 458 00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:19,240 He had a lot of veteran studio musicians that were laying down tracks for Quincy Rod Templeton, the writer. 459 00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:31,240 So you know a lot of people now Michael Jackson gets credit for writing songs, but did he 460 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:35,240 lay the tracks down because 461 00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:44,240 some of the songs are great when they're by themselves and they're just instrumentals and I can't give credit. 462 00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:54,240 Not that anyone's judging or thinking that I need to give credit to, but if you are making music, 463 00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:59,240 it's the whole collective that is getting judged. 464 00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:12,240 And like I said, I rather give credit where credit is due as opposed to just putting it under the umbrella 465 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:26,240 of one person. So I love going on YouTube and hearing the stories and listening to the stories or watching the videos of 466 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:34,240 the musician that came in that's basically unknown. 467 00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:44,240 That might have played the majority of something on some album or some song that you're familiar with, but it's a shame they didn't get credit. 468 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:55,240 But I like the fact that they're speaking on it and they don't a lot of times they're not even upset or bothered by it. 469 00:53:55,240 --> 00:54:10,240 It's just the fact that it was what it was and I encourage every listener to go and what do you guys do now? 470 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:18,240 Wikipedia look up the credits for these songs and the producers that are on the song. 471 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:31,240 So if you I'm just going to throw it out there. There's an album that came out recently and I kid you not. 472 00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:45,240 There was like 16 songs on the album and there were at least a hundred if not a hundred more people listed under the production credits. 473 00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:59,240 And that's a lot of pie to cut up to give everybody their percentage of that money between samples that were used and everybody putting their hand in the bowl 474 00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:04,240 to give their opinion and getting credit for this stuff. That's a lot of money. 475 00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:15,240 And then I'm sure it was a big time artist. That's why I'm not saying any names and I know this person. 476 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:28,240 I know this person and I've never seen this person play an instrument on stage or maybe once in the video behind scenes. 477 00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:47,240 I saw this person played a piano or something but not enough to say that they produced the song and other like now possibly lyric lyrically. 478 00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:50,240 They did it. They might have wrote the song. 479 00:55:50,240 --> 00:56:03,240 But I don't think a lot of times these people that were given credit to put pen to paper or set back and put a baseline or a drum line down. 480 00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:20,240 So all I'm saying is that when it comes to making music, I personally tend to put a lot of weight on the collective experience. 481 00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:30,240 And the thing is, don't get me wrong. I give credit to everybody that's involved, but I just want everyone who is involved to get credit. 482 00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:51,240 So don't say that. Oh, one person is a better entertainer than another person when you're dancing to someone else's song or a song that might have been around before. 483 00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:54,240 They even hooked up with that person. 484 00:56:54,240 --> 00:57:05,240 I think that's one thing I kind of respect about the hip hop game. And sometimes when people pull no punches, it's like, oh, I had a producer. 485 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:13,240 I heard this track. This track inspired me. I rapped over top of it. We made a few changes so forth and so on. 486 00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:30,240 But sometimes you have a situation where there's no shame in the fact that the track was made at one time and then it inspired someone to put lyrics over top of it. 487 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:49,240 And listen, that's another thing. I know when I get towards the end of these podcasts, I tend to go on these crazy rants because I look at the clock and I'll be thinking like, oh, my God, I got so much more to say. 488 00:57:49,240 --> 00:58:04,240 And times ticking away. But think about it. And I say it all the time. You can be creative. You can be very creative. You can rap about anything. 489 00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:20,240 You can rap about being on another planet. You don't have to necessarily had lived and walked in the footsteps of the lyrics that you are saying. 490 00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:39,240 The reason why I say that is that rap, pop, songwriting all together is such a creative art form. 491 00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:54,240 And it's so many people that a lot of times we still expect these folks to be living every word that they say. 492 00:58:54,240 --> 00:59:14,240 And the thing is, don't get me wrong. I don't I don't think it's necessary. I'm like, be creative. Expand your mind. Tell a story. Some of the greatest stories ever written down. 493 00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:27,240 The person did not necessarily have to experience it in order for it to happen. I'm like, listen, we have a whole genre of books called science fiction fantasy. 494 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:47,240 You know, so not everything is nonfiction and we enjoy good stories that have a bit of truth to them and are based in reality. But it doesn't necessarily mean that these writers did the thing. 495 00:59:47,240 --> 01:00:02,240 So all I'm saying is that, listen, I know there are a lot of aspiring songwriters that feel as though, oh, I don't have the life experience. So therefore, I don't know. 496 01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:18,240 Now, don't get me wrong, over a period of time, your experience will expand your writing. You can read books to help you expand your writing. You become more educated in the world or in life itself. 497 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:32,240 But it doesn't necessarily mean that you need to go out there and do all the things that you say or that you write about. 498 01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:56,240 So I'm gonna leave you with a thought and next week I'm going to get back to my normal talking about making my music and my production. But I wanted to open up a bit and let you into my thoughts. 499 01:00:56,240 --> 01:01:09,240 Once again, make note, there was nothing negative about anything I appreciate and I love all music. I love all music creators. 500 01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:28,240 Anybody that can put a thought down is great. But just give credit where credit is due. That's all I ask. I'm like, especially because, like I told you a few episodes ago, I'm trying to crack the code. 501 01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:50,240 And I'm trying to figure out what makes this music industry or this lack of music industry work and work to my benefit. So therefore, I want to make sure that everyone's fully aware that you can do it by yourself. 502 01:01:50,240 --> 01:02:17,240 You can work hard, you can put the time in, you can sit back and say, oh, I did it. And the funny thing is that as a independent person who I ventured into this sharing music with everybody for the simple fact that whether I was sharing it with you or not. 503 01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:30,240 I'm still going to be doing it. So that's the thing. That's the point that I'm getting at. When you do something, you don't do it for the love of other people. 504 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:48,240 I know for a fact that whether I'm sitting here playing music for myself or now, mind you, I wouldn't be doing a podcast and just recording myself talking for the sake of doing that. 505 01:02:48,240 --> 01:03:14,240 But as far as creating sound and music, I'm going to hopefully do this forever. You know what I'm saying? Like I look forward to sharing this with my grandkids, great grandkids and leaving tapes and files for them to find, to sit back and say, oh, this dude has some ideas. 506 01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:28,240 And music is music. I tell you, as long as I don't play something in the wrong key and make you turn your nose up and think, what the hell is he doing? 507 01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:44,240 It should be OK. Like I have some bad stuff. One day maybe I'll put some stuff in the background. I just be like hot garbage, you know, and you'd be like, oh, that don't sound right. 508 01:03:44,240 --> 01:04:01,240 They are because, you know, sometimes you're making a song and you can just like beer to the left and go the wrong way. But with all that being said, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for tuning in. 509 01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:21,240 We have crossed over the hour mark. I hope I kept you entertained. I hope you tune in again. I hope you listen. I need you to like, subscribe, press that button. 510 01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:37,240 Hit me up on my social media accounts. They're all T H I N K T I M M at Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. 511 01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:56,240 What else I got going on? I started a discord page. I don't have anything on it yet. Listen, I'm telling you, I'm being honest. It's a lot of work trying to maintain all these things and live your life. 512 01:04:56,240 --> 01:05:11,240 Because I have a very nice regular everyday life that I try to involve myself in when I'm not doing this music thing. So in all honesty, hit me up. I promise I will get back to you. 513 01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:30,240 I am trying my best to be proficient with social media. I am trying to engage. I am trying to give myself a presence on air. I'm trying not to flood my timeline with stupid stuff. 514 01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:46,240 So thank you once again. This is why make music dot dot dot episode eight. Let's continue to talk about influences. 515 01:05:46,240 --> 01:06:01,240 Next week, we're going to get back into the regular do it yourself music production and we'll talk some cool stuff and we'll have fun. 516 01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:21,240 Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for listening. Thank you for hanging out. I greatly appreciate it. Once again, I say it sincerely. I'm very, very humble because I do check the analytics and you guys are doing good. 517 01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:34,240 Thank you for listening because I'm nobody and I would definitely say being nobody without you guys listening and I don't I ain't gonna lie to you. I don't want to be somebody. 518 01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:53,240 All I want to do is share my music, tell a story, hopefully something I can say will motivate and create the next Prince Michael Jackson. Billy Idol used to be the man. How about Adam Ant? Y'all remember Adam Ant that he was crazy back in the day. 519 01:06:53,240 --> 01:07:09,240 Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Stevie Nicks, the man, Jane Charles. I don't want to fall in love. Peace out. Shout out to the chick who put out my song on the map. 520 01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:28,240 Nothing compares to you Sinead O'Connor. Tori, Tori Amos. Let me go pop on. Let me tell you. Shout out to that new chick out there now. Chappell Rosner. She got it going on. I like her stuff. 521 01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:49,240 Shout out to all the pop boy bands. NSYNC, New Kids on the Block, New Edition, ABC, Bel Biv Devo, Boys to Men, L.A. Reeve, Babyface. Man, Red Hot Chili Peppers. 522 01:07:49,240 --> 01:08:04,240 I would give a shout out to U2, but they got the Grammy for Prince back in 1987. We had Sign o’ the Times, you know. You know Joshua They was not as funky as Sign O’ the Times. 523 01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:20,240 I don't know what to say. Peace. Peace out.