Full Transcript for Heart-Centered Composer Plays Piano for You

they're very intimate and just you know, you get to really hear it and feel it. 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:37.039 So it's great. 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.479 Yeah, you're really up close and um you know that's how I I like it. 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:52.639 And you know, you mentioned I do uh I I am a recording artist as well, but recording and uh playing concerts are like polar opposites. 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:56.159 They're they're very they're very different from one another. 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:05.840 In in the recording studio, there's a lot more pressure because you're you know, you're you're uh we used to say uh rolling tape. 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:14.719 Yeah, rolling tape, and that um uh um in in uh you really want to you you have to be at your very best. 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:22.719 Um but but it is satisfying to have have uh recordings out and and it's a satisfying process. 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:33.280 I really like it very much in the studio, but when you play a house concert or or any live concert, um it's like it's very immediate. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.159 It's just like whatever you you don't go back and redo stuff, it's like whatever happens, happens. 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:50.960 And that and then the crowd becomes kind of participants in the in the music because the energy level in the in the room it gets reflected in um in my music. 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:57.120 And um, so I I really I really like pulling uh live concerts too. 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.800 And and I guarantee you at my live concerts there's no AI. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:02.000 Yeah. 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.080 Yay! Don't need it with your music. 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:11.120 I don't actually put AI on any of my recordings either, just just that disclaimer. 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:16.000 But um I have a lot of you know, I just have a lot of fun with it. 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.120 Um I think that how I started was when I was a kid. 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.680 I was at the piano and I was just what I thought was noodling. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.120 Just like this. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.519 And then I started playing for my piano teacher at the time. 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:35.279 This is when I was twelve. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:37.920 My piano teacher was Mr. 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:39.600 Robert Ball. 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:46.079 And um I used to play my assignments for him. 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:55.600 I'd go through the weekly assignments, and then afterwards, if we had five minutes left over, I'd play him some of my noodlings. 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:05.600 And one day he said to me something that really stuck with me, and he said and uh when I was a kid, I was Danny, of course. 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:10.319 Danny He said, I think you're composing. 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:12.079 Oh wow. 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:13.600 That's really all he said. 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:18.879 So he d he didn't judge my music, he didn't get in and t and change it.

00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:26.480 He didn't go in and say, Oh, you know, that you know, the bridge section really needs to be the introduction or dah-da-da-da. 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.319 That all but he he just noticed, he says, I think you're composing. 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:32.639 And so for a 12-year-old. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:34.560 That's a good teacher. 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:38.000 I might have been, I might have maybe I was fifteen. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.639 Actually, so in that, you know, teenage years. 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:57.839 It was such a simple thing to say, but over time I realized what a great gift it was that he gave you, because then I realized that composing is when you start to do something intentionally, not just you know noodling. 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:02.560 So I think that that's kind of where I trace it back to. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:08.720 I think it traces back to somebody right, uh a teacher that was able to just sort of uh steer me. 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:17.439 And then the other thing he did for me is a couple times he let me play my pieces on his recitals. 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:26.800 And so then somehow that gave it, you know, to be on a recital that was like an official stamp. 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:27.680 Yeah. 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:32.160 And um I always did that when I was a teacher too. 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:40.480 I always I always put kids pieces if they if they were composing something, I'd always put them on the the recitals. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.800 Um so I've had a lot that's what I forgot. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:46.240 I really just had a lot of fun with it. 00:06:46.319 --> 00:07:01.920 And I went to school for music, you know, but when I wasn't when I wasn't doing my you know, theory assignments and composition etudes and such such like that, I was over at the coffee house playing live music. 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:04.399 So that's what I that's what I did a lot. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:05.759 That's what I did a lot at Oberlin. 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:10.000 I played in the Cat and the Cream coffee house a lot. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:16.959 And there they would just be like Okay, you're gonna play for three hours now or like four hours in a row. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.079 And so I just like played like all all the time. 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.639 And if I was lucky, I got a chocolate chip cookie. 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:32.000 But I mean, I mean that's what sounds I mean that seriously when I say I have a lot of fun with with it. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:38.800 I'm actually deadly serious because it's the f the fun aspect is what attracts us to things. 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.920 And and what makes us want to get into some get into something. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.279 Like we we don't go into stuff that that we hate, hopefully. 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:58.319 We go into something that has a a kind of a a ring to it or an a attractive uh quality is what we kind of get get interested in. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:06.399 So if I weren't having fun making uh new music, I'd know that, you know there was a problem. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:07.759 Right. 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:08.639 So I do. 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:10.000 I have I have a lot of fun with that. 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:21.199 So I don't I get to sh and I decided I get to, you know, share it with other other people at concerts and house concerts and community centers and libraries and all kinds of things. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:26.879 So I'm I'm playing like right now I'm playing across pretty much northern New England. 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.480 New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.080 I'm playing a lot in right now. 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:42.000 Yeah, we we talk a lot about following your joy, you know, so I know that you do you have done that and it shows when you play. 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:47.279 And music's a good way to get community together too, I think, you know. 00:08:47.840 --> 00:09:00.960 Because everybody has that common ability to uh, you know, tune into frequency and so it's a it's a great way to get a crowd together or you know, just enjoy. 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.559 So do we get to hear some things from you uh today? 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:05.360 Sure, sure. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:08.480 I can scoot over to the piano here. 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:09.840 That'd be great. 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:11.919 What do I want to play? 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:15.039 Oh, I'm gonna play a newer song of mine that's called The Prism. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:21.919 And the reason why I gave it that title is that because of a prism, it kind of reflects things. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:33.440 And so even though it's a it sounds like a really simple melody, like a simple prism, when you look into it, you know, there's all this other feeling that comes out of it, and that's why I called it Prism. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:10.240 Thank you. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:11.279 That's Prism. 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.000 Oh, I you can rate me, yeah. 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:20.399 Because it does sort of reflect out and goes in different different dimensions, different ways. 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:21.440 I don't I love that. 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:22.879 Thank you. 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.480 Honestly, it always comes out a little differently every time. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.879 I don't I don't have an exact way of playing everything. 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:36.080 In fact, uh that's what's different since this is really more of like a live performance. 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.559 It's gonna have that kind of variation. 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:43.200 And that's what's challenging for me when I go into the studio. 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:47.360 I really I really need to play it all kind of the same. 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:49.120 Kind of the same way. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:54.080 So then I have to kind of grit my teeth and like, okay, I'm gonna

make only one version of this song. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.559 So but thank you for listening to that. 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.840 It was fun it was fun to play for you here electronically. 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:01.759 Yeah, it sounds really nice. 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:02.639 I like your piano. 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:09.679 Um you're welcome to play uh another one if you liked, or that was just beautiful. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:11.279 Oh, you want me to go? 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.759 I've got another I've got another one I've ready for you. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:14.639 Good. 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:20.639 Um this is what this is uh uh this is called Soaring. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.480 I guess I'm only playing songs today that have one word titles. 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:26.559 They're good ones. 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.559 I I love to watch the birds. 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:39.120 I don't I'm not an expert, I don't always know what bird I'm looking at, but I just love to see the birds flying, and so this is why I have an image of that. 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.840 Like I'd love to fly too, but I can't. 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:47.279 But I only can fly a little bit through my music, and that's why I call this one soaring. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.759 Yeah, that was really love that. 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:18.720 Love that. 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:20.160 Yeah, that's good. 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:22.160 Feel like you're soaring. 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:22.799 I know. 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.480 I I've had dreams before where I've been a bird and I've been flying or I fly on my own. 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:36.240 And I had a dream once that I was flying through my high school and I was a cardinal, and that reminded me of that so much. 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:40.319 Like I wished I had had that playing in the background of my dream, it would have been perfect. 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:47.920 No, I wish there was like a VCR for your dreams for that one. 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:58.559 Well, that you know, uh that's very auspicious when you have a like a flying dream that's supposed to be that things are going well, actually. 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:00.799 Isn't that a relief? 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:02.240 I know, right? 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:02.720 Yeah. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:16.240 Yeah, a flying dream is very auspicious, but like a falling dream is really not but you know, to support you know, I'm trying to support these days like happy memories and pe people have. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.359 Um and that that's kind of one of my goals now as a musician. 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:28.799 And that a lot of a lot of my music is pretty um mournful. 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:34.079 You know, like when you go like I I I love a sad song, you know, I have a bit of an irish streak. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.319 So I love a like a sad song. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:40.319 But that I designed that last one, the soaring. 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:48.240 I said

you can have a sad song, but you kind of have to offer some relief and you have to have some more cheerful music too. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:58.960 So like that fast, that idea that soaring is it's a much uh it's a much quicker feeling and it's uh it it's it's a little bit more, you know, uplifting for people. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:06.000 So we're so we're always trying to we're always trying to balance things like this. 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:11.440 But you know people ask me all the time, like, well, where do you get the ideas for this stuff? 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.039 You know, first of all, like I said at the beginning of the program, I have no idea. 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:28.640 But but seriously, though, if I ha if I have to really think about it, um it's it's really just like I I make up ideas like a child who's playing in the sandbox or playing with blocks. 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:32.960 They just naturally they just they put things together. 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:37.359 And then there's always the the painful part at the end where they just like smash it all. 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:38.799 I I I don't do that. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:56.960 They naturally kids just naturally put stuff together and then as an artist, I end up having all these uh like little snippets of music and that I simply just keep the ones that I like. 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.519 That's like the that's the whole trick. 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:02.640 It's like it's it's it's not difficult. 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:17.279 If you know that that the there's snippets you come up with and you're kind of like, uh, you know, kind of like uh that's like leftover, you know, leftover like pasta from like four days ago. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:19.680 You're like, uh I don't want I don't want that. 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:29.440 And then you're like, oh, like a uh like a hot hot stir fry, you know, that uh that I just made ten minutes ago, that's like something I'm gonna keep. 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:34.559 So it's very it's very much it's very much like that. 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:39.599 But you you're really choosing what to keep or keep around in that. 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:43.920 And again, you know, that goes back to fun or that goes back to the love of what you're doing. 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.400 It's that you pick the things that you really c care about. 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:47.119 You keep them. 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:50.160 It's kind of almost like a scrapbook, isn't it? 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.759 You you put the things in your scrapbook that you that you like. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.240 You're like, oh, remember that, that was so awesome. 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.440 You don't put like this like horrible oh, this is when I fell off my bike. 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:32.960 But that's what we're trying to we're we're trying to do, you know, in that like that life life can be so complicated and confusing that we we need to we need the arts to to to offer us like

this little concert hall, this little like safe space where people can dream and share their share their memories to share community, sh and share what they love with each other. 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:36.799 And to enjoy a music concert, you don't have to be a music expert. 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:42.480 You don't have to you don't have to play the the cello to enjoy a concert. 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:54.079 I find people of all walks of life of how of musical training or no musical training, no matter what, that they still enjoy music, you know. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:01.599 So there's a lot of we start out with a lot of common ground, I guess, you know. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:03.279 It's true. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:16.559 Well, and you you kind of answered one of the questions that I was gonna ask, and how you know music affects you on a day-to-day life basis, but like some of the examples you just used, it perfectly explain that. 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:17.440 I think. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:19.119 Yeah. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.960 Well, I mean, I'm weird in that I made it my job. 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:29.119 So in a way, I say, well, I have to do it every day. 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:33.279 But um, and I'm also my own agent. 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:38.319 So I have to make all my own phone calls and do my own emails and all that stuff. 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:49.519 But I can do that, I can I can do that because I know that where my music is, that's I've already put that in what I'm interested in and what I like, what I love. 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:54.480 I've all I've already operated that in my heart. 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:59.759 So then I'm kind of willing, oh yeah, I'll kind of this person never emailed me back, so I'm gonna email them again. 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:11.680 That's where I have to come up with the steam to do those kind of activities because I know that I I know you know what it is at the center that I that I'm doing. 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:18.400 But I mean, I mean, nobody really, nobody goes into music to get rich. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:28.559 But I'm consider myself rich because I've gotten to play, you know, hundreds of concerts all over the country and not not even big, not big headlining. 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:32.640 It's like I'm not like a household name, Dan Kennedy. 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:35.920 Even just to play like a small concert. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:44.000 I find that fascinating and I find that a privilege to play for people for you know whatever that is, an hour, an hour and a half. 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:47.839 So again, yeah. 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:48.640 Sorry? 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:54.640 I was just gonna say, um that's I love that attitude about community and bringing people together. 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:58.640 But also, you know, we've been friends for a long time and I've seen your concerts. 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:13.519 What I really appreciate is that you send a handwritten note to say, you

know, I'm gonna be here or I have a new CD out, or you know, I think that's that's a nice touch that you don't get every day. 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:17.519 Yeah, I mean I still nowadays, right? 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:22.079 When you get something in the mail, people are like, oh my God. 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:26.079 You know, as not a bill. 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:31.920 You know, you don't even get bills in the mail anymore, but you know, it's cra it's it's crazy. 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:38.400 But I I I've I do this person to person in in um I've always done that. 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:41.759 And I like my parents did that. 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.680 They they it's like it's always it's how you treat people as people. 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:50.799 And don't don't mess with people. 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:59.039 Give give tell people what you are doing, what you are bringing, and you give them an invitation, and then they can come or they can not come. 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:00.880 It just it depends. 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:10.480 But um, yeah, I try I try to do stuff personally, because I can say, because I'm just a one-person show, because I don't have an agent or something like that to like do all that. 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:18.160 But I have hired uh once in a while, I do hire some um publicity, um, like if I put out a new album or something like that. 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.640 So I'm not uh that averse to to having help. 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:27.440 So anyways, what else is cooking? 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:29.119 What else do you want to ask? 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:32.079 Do you have anything? 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:39.680 I I I'm just like, you know, I'm I'm always impressed with people that have such incredible art artistic talents. 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:50.559 Um, I mean, I think we all have you know creative places in mind and all of that, but music to me is one of those things, like you said earlier, that everybody can relate to. 00:26:50.720 --> 00:27:02.079 So when somebody can make that magic uh happen for people like myself who uh don't make that magic happen with music, it's just really you know, it's impressive. 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:14.559 So I guess, you know, I do think uh I guess I do think in terms of like magic, that magic is a real real force. 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:24.799 And magic is what gets us through the tough times too, because like not not every day is like a total uh, you know, winner. 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:33.920 And so like we go I know I've gone through tough times in that you kind of go, oh uh you know, I don't want to do anything. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:45.200 And and then what happens is is this this thing here, you you get back to this thing, it draws you in and you start touching it, and you're like, oh yeah, now I remember. 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:48.880 I remember what I was doing, and you kind of get back on track. 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:49.440 Yeah. 00:27:49.680 --> 00:28:10.480 So this this idea of the um magic is something that kind of guides you know forward, and not not just not just guiding you in music, but it can be guiding you in art, poetry, um you know, creative writing, dance, theater, you name it. 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:15.039 I mean, that's that's kind of what the the arts do. 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:18.880 You know, the arts give you something up front. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:24.000 But that there's something underneath it, isn't there? 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:25.759 So it's it's interesting now. 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.920 Like when I go to a concert, I'm listening to like what oh, what are they playing? 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.200 Oh, look at that G chord they're playing on the guitar. 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:50.480 But there's a way of strumming that G chord where you have there's this feeling or sensation underneath the music that's kind of almost cutting across the music, and that's we're getting a very kind of a human human communication there. 00:28:50.960 --> 00:29:10.880 So that's what I've learned too, that all the you know, all the arts that we can talk about that they're all related in that in that they're really they're really communicating something to somebody to say, hey, yeah, you're having a great day, or you're not having a great day, and that this is what your great day might look like, you know, tomorrow. 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:11.359 Yeah. 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:18.799 So there's a this it's it there's a lot of there's a lot of aspects to performance. 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:23.279 A performance isn't just one thing, it's a whole heap of of of things. 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:30.079 And and that hopefully like at a house concert too, hopefully you get like you know, like a brownie or something. 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.599 That's really what I that's what I'm in it for. 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:35.119 The brownies. 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.279 No, no. 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:39.200 Or a chocolate chip cookie. 00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:40.559 Oh heck yeah. 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:41.359 Yeah. 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:51.119 Uh well, you're definitely spreading uh joy and inspiration to everyone who hears you. 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:53.759 I'm always I always love to listen to you. 00:29:53.839 --> 00:30:01.440 And you can you would you mind um telling the listeners uh your website or how they could get a hold of you or hear more of your music? 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:04.319 Sure. 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:25.279 Well, as far as um hearing the music, you can go on any of the any of the streaming platforms that you ordinarily listen to your music, anyways, like Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Unlimited, all those people have my music, and so you can just punch it in. 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:31.920 But when you punch in, sometimes I think there are other this in this crazy modern era, it helps when you search for me. 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:40.559 If you punch in Dan Kennedy and then you put in the word piano,

because that really narrows it down because there's other Dan Kennedys lurking around out there. 00:30:42.240 --> 00:31:04.799 But um, as far as if you just want to learn a little bit more about me, my website is at www.dankennedy.us and um so that has a whole that has a whole kind of things of what I'm doing now, what I've what I've what I've been up to. 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:24.960 And um you can also like if you can email me through the website, and you can if you say what town you live in, uh I can place you in my email list, which is geographically targeted. 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:44.799 So if you like if you live in uh New Hampshire or you live in eastern Massachusetts, you can just say that what area you want to be in, or like what town you live in, so that if I play in like Roanoke, Virginia, I won't email you all the time. 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:46.720 That's very smart. 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:47.519 Yeah. 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:50.079 That's that's the benefit of no AI. 00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:50.880 Yeah. 00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:51.279 Yeah. 00:31:51.519 --> 00:32:00.720 And I don't unf I'm unfortunately I I should do a better job at the social media, but the so social media is very strange. 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:02.799 I I find it very strange. 00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:11.759 But I certainly won't, I'm I'm not gonna like tweet out what I ate for breakfast like every day for the next 14 14 days or something like that. 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:14.559 I just I just don't think it's that interesting. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.279 Um but I do have I do have all those I I have that social media stuff. 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:27.119 I tend to use it more like when I have a bigger event or uh or an album release or something like that. 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.200 So you have quite a few albums out. 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:34.559 I I have some of them or the CDs. 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:36.799 I still use CDs. 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:38.160 I mean, people still buy CDs. 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.200 Everyone is like CDs are over. 00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:47.359 Well, they're not because every show I always sell a couple CDs, it's really interesting. 00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:57.680 I kind of like CDs in a way because because and I have 10 albums, and so I'm keeping track of this, but the CDs sound the best. 00:32:57.839 --> 00:32:58.319 I don't know why. 00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:02.240 First of all, they sound great, and then you say, Well, I actually have it. 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:07.279 When you have a song that's on a streaming service, after it's over, you're like, where was it? 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.200 Where where did the song go? 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:12.400 What what were we just listening to? 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:18.640 Like on streaming stuff, it's just it's just you know, my brain can keep taking track of stuff. 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:25.359 I know I have little lists all over my house of songs that I like that I see if I can find out if

I could read the little thing. 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:30.240 I write it down and they're all over my house, and then I can't remember what was what. 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:30.559 Yeah. 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:31.279 I know. 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:34.559 And then it's like this, I because I use sticky notes too, right? 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:39.680 And then it's like I I write a sticky note that says, remember to read your other sticky notes. 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:43.200 That's perfect. 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.880 But you have to do I do everything streaming, social media, website, email, you know. 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:55.039 My favorite thing, honestly, right now, but I'm focused on is playing live shows. 00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:57.200 Live shows are the most interesting. 00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:07.440 They are because you're you're have contact with people, you're in a community, you've got the you know, um reactions of people and their joy in listening to you. 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:18.480 And yeah, and and you're such a you're humble and you're you're just uh so down to earth and you when you share about your music at the concerts and like today as well. 00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.239 But I like that about you. 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:22.400 Oh thank you. 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:30.159 Well you know, I always at the concerts, I always talk somewhat, you know. 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.519 I always say you never want to talk at the concert more than you actually play the piano. 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:49.519 But but you always you always want to explain a little bit about how you know how something came to be or something came about, because people really interested in that. 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:56.480 People love everyone loves a good story, you know, and every every song that I write really has a story to it. 00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:58.559 So I kind of share that a little bit. 00:34:58.800 --> 00:34:59.440 Yeah. 00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:11.599 Um yeah, it's just like if I went up there, if I played like 16 songs in a row and I never said anything to the audience, it would be really weird. 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:13.519 It would be strange. 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:15.280 Nobody does that. 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:17.280 Nobody. 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:27.920 Would you be willing to play one more for us before we close out this podcast? 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:29.599 Sure. 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:32.159 Not putting you on the spot. 00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:33.119 No. 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:35.199 Does it have a one-word title? 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:37.599 I think it does. 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:44.400 Let me see. 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:46.559 I can listen to him all day. 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:46.960 I know. 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:49.360 That's a really beautiful sound. 00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:54.719 It's almost it's it's almost it's almost one word. 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:57.440 It's called memoir number two. 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:08.159 So I went with the uh I used the French title, and when I say number two, I I named it memoir number two because I couldn't remember number one. 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:09.920 So I just called it number two. 00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:17.039 But I do think about when I think of memories, again, I think of happy memories. 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:21.679 Um, this is a song about it opens up your reflections. 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:27.599 So you're thinking, thinking back, and you know, you can see, and not the sunlight today. 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.719 You see, how does the sunlight look back then? 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:33.679 It has another quality to it, like a photograph. 00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:36.239 So here it is memoir number two. 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:26.000 Thank you. 00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:26.880 Thank you. 00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:34.800 That's yeah, I know that's a that's a nice song, isn't it? 00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:36.320 It's very, very wistful. 00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:38.400 Yeah, it's beautiful. 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:39.119 Thank you so much. 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:41.920 Oh, you're welcome. 00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:43.280 Yeah, my pleasure. 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:43.679 Thank you. 00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:44.719 Thank you for having me. 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.760 I've really enjoyed talking with you guys. 00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:49.199 Yeah, us too. 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.920 Yeah, I was looking forward to seeing you in person. 00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:56.000 Yes, for the concert that they'll be having for you here. 00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.840 We're looking forward to you coming here to play for the house concert. 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:01.199 Absolutely. 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:02.159 Absolutely. 00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:08.800 So we will put a link to all of your information down at the bottom of the podcast. 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:15.039 And so good to see you, and thank you so much for being with us today, Dan, and playing for us. 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:17.280 Yes, thank you so so much. 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.320 All right, great to see you, and nice to meet you, Kim. 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:23.679 Nice to meet you too, and I'll see you soon. 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:30.480 And until until next time, how is your intuition leading you to the next perfect list at the end of the