Sept. 14, 2024

Preston Scott Music Joins YFB!

Preston Scott Music Joins YFB!

In this episode, YFB has Preston Scott Music join him on the podcast for a very special guest interview!!

All links for Preston are included in the blog page below:

https://yourfavoriteblockhead.com/2024/09/14/preston-scott-music-joins-yfb/

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In this episode, YFB has Preston Scott Music join him on the podcast for a very special guest interview!!

All links for Preston are included in the blog page below:

https://yourfavoriteblockhead.com/2024/09/14/preston-scott-music-joins-yfb/

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out the red carpet. We've got another very special guest

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all the links for this particular podcast are available. You

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can find them. They're easy to access. If you want merchandise,

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you want to donate to the koffee page. It's all there.

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It's always a big help. So all that being said

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and getting all the disclaimers out of the way, this

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has been a long time coming, my friends. I have

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been wanting to talk to this guy for so long.

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He is such a talented artist and he is graciously

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coming by to join us today. Ladies and gentlemen, I

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give you the one, the only, mister Preston Scott Williamson

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of Preston Scott Music. Preston, Welcome to the blockhead.

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Hour that's going Brian, Thanks for having me man.

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I have been excited about this for a very long time.

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Speak to you to my friend, and I'll tell you

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this just as as a listener, I have loved seeing

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you in concert. I have loved enjoying and embracing your

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music for a while. But to catch up my listeners.

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For the podcast listeners who don't know, we first made

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contact back when the pandemic had just started. If I

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remember this correctly, you're good buddy. Justin Gilly, the star

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of the Rated JG podcast, had had a live concert

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in his house with a lot of you guys, going

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on Facebook Live and getting some exposure a few song

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suggestions were thrown out there, and y'all had a concert

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and it was just a really good, feel good moment.

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So the first question I'm gonna throw at you is

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just to go back and revisit your musical journey that

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was during the pan. What were some big ups and

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downs from that chapter in your music career?

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Man, that was a that was a weird time, I

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think for everyone, but in particular I had, you know,

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previously had my own band and all that, and I

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kind of got burnt out with it and had taken

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probably a couple of years off, gotten a pretty serious relationship.

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And wasn't wasn't doing a whole lot of music.

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I that was about the time where I was like, man,

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I missed playing and I started like playing for fun,

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you know, where As I was so used to it

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being work and you know, something I had to do

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too to make money or stay relevant. That was kind

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of a period where I had just started having fun

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playing music and you know, hanging out with Josh and

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Alex and John you know, the bass player and some

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other musicians. We started jamming a lot just for fun,

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you know, And uh, I wouldn't wouldn gigging a whole lot.

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You know, I'd play little like Buzzies, Taco Shop, like

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little acoustic solo gigs here and there.

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But I was that was for me, that was you know,

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I wouldn't.

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I didn't feel like I know a lot of artists

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that were regularly gigging, we're having trouble.

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But for me, I was just glad. I was jumping

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on anything I.

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Could, and uh, that was one of that deal, right

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there was like kind of I think what kick started

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me back into wanting to do, you know, music, you know,

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take it more serious again and and have a better

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mindset towards it, like just have fun and be around

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the right people. And I think, yeah, definitely definitely kick

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started that whole journey was that little Covid Quarantine live

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stream concert dude.

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So I was glad you got to catch that one.

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Yeah, that one was a great night to catch and

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you're you're right, it was a it was feel good

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all the way through. But you mentioned about how there

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was a time when you were taking music more seriously

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and then you got back into the fun pier. I

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guess what we could do is maybe just go back

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a few years and just take a look at the

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time when the Preston Scott Band was in full swing.

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So I believe that started around twenty eleven something like that. Again,

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you can clarify the timeline for my listeners, but you

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really had a good journey and some special memories during

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that time when you had the Preston Scott band.

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Correct, yes, sir, Yeah, man, it really started like my

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senior year of high school. I guess I was, you know,

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I had written like a handful of songs and started

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really playing guitar a lot, you know.

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You know, that was when in high school, you know,

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people would.

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Have little campfires or whatever and we would go sit

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around and I would always bring my guitar and play

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cover songs. I was getting real into the Texas country scene,

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you know, playing a lot of Randy Rogers and stuff

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like that. And one of my buddies through a big

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prom party and asked, you know, if I would want

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to play it, and I was like, oh, dude, I'm

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gonna get a full band. So I got, you know,

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a few buddies. Josh actually, who's in our band now

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with Alex. He played that he played that gig with me,

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but we ended up having a full band and played

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that show, and then I think another buddies parents hired

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us to do a graduation party, paid us like four

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hundred bucks.

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I was like, dude, this is nice. And you know,

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we weren't very good, but it was. It was definitely.

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It'll motivate you when you're getting paid to play music

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with your buddies. So yeah, and and but at that point,

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you know, I was I still called it the Preston

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Scott Band. I had done some recordings at a buddy's

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house and put him up on like MySpace or whatever SoundCloud.

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I don't remember what all I had it on, but

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going too that, yeah, yeah.

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And you know, I'd go to school and a lot

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of people would be like talking about my songs and stuff.

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I was like, man, that's real, that's pretty cool. People

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are actually listening to it.

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So at that point, you know, I went off to

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call and I got a soccer scholarship actually to Hill

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College over in Hillsboro, just a junior college, and I

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played the full first season, finished that semester. But I

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was like, I'm I want to do music, you know,

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I would I would get done with class, even though

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I didn't go to class, hardly. But when I was

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in my dorm room, I'd have my little my little

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MacBook and had garage Band on it. And I still

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use garage band to produce all my music. And I

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was doing doing a lot of recording, you know, coming

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up with ideas, and I ended up going to Austin

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to record three songs at a studio in Austin. And

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I didn't have a band at that point. You know,

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everyone kind of was doing their own thing. We only

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had those two gigs when I was in high school.

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But at that point, I was like, now I want

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to get a band and learn these songs because the

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producer had, you know, put all the full band behind

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my songs. So I went and found some buddies to

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try and learn those parts and ended up getting to

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getting the band together. We started practicing like twice a

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week at you know, at my mom's house I was,

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I was living there. I quit college and I was

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working at a my uncle's quick loop shop changing oil,

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you know, in the pit every day sweating. I wanted

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to do anything I could to just play music, and man,

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next thing, you know, I was doing like open mics,

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any chance I could, doing any kind of competition, singer

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songwriter contests, and I started getting you know, a guy

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to Cleburn put me on to open for him, one

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of my first I guess like paid gigs. Got to

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go open for this band at a place in Cleburn,

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and it kind of snowballed. Man, we started getting I

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had a lot, you know, luckily, I was fortunate enough

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in you know, Midloathing, the pretty boom in town, and

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I lived here my whole life, had lived here my

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whole life, and had a lot of friends and family

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friends and.

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My older brother's friends and my younger brother's friends.

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And I would just you know, once I started getting

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gigs at the local bars, I would have you know,

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sometimes one one hundred or close to two hundred people

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show up at the you know, the Little box Car

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or the Oasis and Milothian, and you know, kind of

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at that point it was word of mouth. I was

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getting booked a lot, and uh yeah, dude, I mean

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I could go on and on about the Preston Scott.

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That was a long that was a long journey, probably

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almost ten years of doing that. But got a lot

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of great opportunities, like you know, I met some of

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my idols that I you know, and never expected that

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to happen. But I got to open for guys, you know,

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like Brandon Ryder and Darryl Dodd and played festivals with

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Whiskey Myers at Casey Donnoe. You got to meet those guys.

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And one of the coolest things that I would like

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to highlight is this particular festival called Junebug Jam. I mean, dude,

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Cody Jinx was on the line up, Cody Johnson was

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on the lineup, and they were early in the day, dude,

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no one. They weren't big yet, and like Kevin Fowler

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and all these guys were there and I got to

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meet all of them.

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But the coolest thing was when my band got done.

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We were the first band to play this this long,

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full day festival, and the headliner that day was Neil McCoy.

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And as soon as my band got done, we're carrying

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our stuff back to our little truck and trailer next

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to all these tour buses. And I go back there

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my drummers talking to Neil McCoy and I was like,

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and my drums like, oh, here's here's our singer right here.

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Neil coy was like it, stuck his hand out shake it.

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He's like, man, I listened to y'all school set. I

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had to crack the window on my bus. He's like,

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you guys are amazing. Man, y'all were rocking and rolling

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up there, and that was probably the coolest, one of

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the coolest things I ever, you know, ever heard from

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anyone about my music. You know. I was just like,

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holy cow, this is Neil McCoy, you know, like a

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legend in the in the country music game.

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So that was really cool. Yeah.

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I mean, dude, I got all kinds of stories something

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I probably can't tell here, but some good times, a

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lot of fun and things that you know, I've hopefully

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we'll you know, remember forever and get to share with people.

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I don't really talk about those things too much because

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you know, it's been such such a long time now,

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but definitely very fond and grateful for those memories for sure.

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Man.

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I hope Blockhead Nation you'll go back and listen to

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this segment again just so you can hear those names

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that were dropped. So that tells you he's being humble,

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but I'm more than happy to promote him. That tells

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you what kind of a world a musician that we're

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talking to right now. This is this is just amazing

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to walk down May laying with you. So, I know

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that's weird to jump back a few years, but it's

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a good thing. We did those name drops again. Blockhead Nation.

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You heard who he shared the stage with, which means

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if we go forward now, you do have upcoming dates

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and tours, And in case you're a listener outside of

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the world of Texas, which is the state that both

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of us live in, if you're somewhere else, like a

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few of y'all tune in from Florida, New York, California,

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and everhere in between, in case you're not familiar with

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things like Clee Berner, Hillsboro, or Dallas Fort Worth area

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that we're talking about, just in case. Most of the time,

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Preston is spent a lot of time going through Texas

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and going through a lot of venus. I've seen him

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go to Lubbock, to Amarillo, to al Paso, all the

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way down to Corpus Christy, So it's really a well

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rounded Texas set. But you do have some upcoming tours

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that we're gonna promote here on the show as well.

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Do you have anything that's coming up for the rest

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of twenty twenty four into twenty twenty five that you

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would like my listeners to be very aware about and

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your upcoming upcoming tour dates.

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And I've got, you know, my main gig right now.

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I play lead guitar for Alex Inglehart, right, you know,

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that's that's kind of my main main focus right now.

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I still do write a lot of songs and record

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my and produce my own songs here at my little

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home studio. But yeah, a lot of the a lot

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of the I guess more primetime gigs are going to

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be with Alex. I just now started trying to book

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some more solo acoustic stuff and I don't have anything

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too big, just a lot of you know, restaurant stuff

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like patio gigs, patio gigs and stuff like that. We

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do have October twelve, I think will be a cool one.

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It's Country Day on the Hill, which is in Cedar Hill, Texas,

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right in old old downtown. You know there there'll probably

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be you know, last year it seemed like there was

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probably a thousand people there. I mean not they're not

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all front and center, but you know there's a little

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booths all around, people selling things and thanks for the

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whole family, things for kids to do. There's food, there's

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a huge we play on a huge stage, like great production.

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They do it right.

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They block off the street downtown and that's that's a

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really cool gig man. And it's it's like forty five

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seconds from Alex and Josh's house where you know, kind

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of our band headquarters where we practice. A funny quick

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story last year we played that gig and Josh, the

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other guitar player, broke a string on a song and

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he didn't have extra strings, like searched everywhere for the

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right string. Well, he ended up getting in his truck,

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driving to their house, getting another guitar, came back and

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was right on time for the next song, Like it

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took him probably ninety seconds to do that and just

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hopped right back up. I look back and I was like, dang,

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he has another guitar, or like he went home and

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got it and was already back. But yeah, that's a

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that's a cool gig man. If anyone's in the area,

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I would I would say, come see that because the

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sound is great and we won't be the only band.

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They usually have a couple couple bands, so it'll be

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a good time for sure.

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Hey go so And the thing is if they if

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you will block in nation, if you want to stay

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and touch him again, We've got the upcoming tour dates

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in the blog. I'm gonna keep on bringing all backwards

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your favorite blockhead dot com slash blog. You will see

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his tour schedule. It's all there and that will be

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updated quite often. So this is one I've really been

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looking forward to, my friend. I've really become a fan

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of yours over the last couple of years. But the

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last two songs that you have dropped that have made

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it onto YouTube, that may it onto social media, they

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have been played over at the Blockhead Mansion aka my

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House and my leaving Room. I've almost worn out these

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songs listening to them and looking to the background of it.

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It's just I'm enthralled by both of them. So if

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we can take them one song at a time, I

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really want the Blockhead nation to know about these two

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particular songs. I'd like to start with your first one,

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well not your first, but one of the most recent

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you had, and that one would be Vengeance. If you

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can walk us through the writing process where your heart

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was and your mind was, can you take us through

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the process of bringing vengeance to the forefront.

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Yeah, I won't get too sappy on you, but I was.

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A relationship for a good like four years and that

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kind of ended quickly and poorly, and uh, you know,

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I was going going through a lot, really and had

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to move, sell the house, move over here. And music

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was definitely like that was the only time that I

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could just tune all the all the crazy thoughts out

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and just focus. And I think creating music is the

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only time where I feel like, you know, there's just

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some kind of flow, flow state that I get in

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and nothing, there's no external factors like lock me. I'll

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have my headphones on, my guitar plugged in, you know,

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trying to come up with something. I mean, it don't

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even have to be some crazy cool guitar lick, but

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something that just triggers something in me and inspires me.

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And I'll think of like one line that to sing,

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you know, a melody. And usually it's like I'll write

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a song in twenty minutes most of the time, dude,

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once I get in that state of mind and then

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get the juices flowing. And yeah, I think the first

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line in that song was like does it it all

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make sense? Hell, no, forgot how to be myself again,

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and that I was definitely.

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Like feeling that way, you know, I was.

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I was like, you know, I've been in this long

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relationship and kind of like never really took the time

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to to focus on myself and like, like, honestly, like

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looking back now, I don't even I didn't even know

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myself at that point, Like I really didn't. And I

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think a lot of that was, you know, I'm a

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pretty pretty you know, giving and like I guess I

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would say, like nurturing person, like if if I care

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about somebody, I want them to be happy and do

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whatever I can to.

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Aid in that.

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And uh, you know, I was going through a point

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that was kind of the beginning of my journey, I guess,

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just just getting to know myself and better myself. And yeah,

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I kind of that song kind of. I was actually

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drinking alcohol pretty pretty heavily at that point, you know.

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I I've never really been like a big drinker on

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the regular, but you know, when the relationship ended, I

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kind of was, I guess, making up for lost time

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going out doing all that, and I was kind of like, man,

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this isn't really working for me. That was in that

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that period of time where I was like, this is

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I'm waking up just you know, anxiety and just like

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just shame kind of in myself, like I don't do

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what I was I doing last night. I was wasted

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so much time or whatever. And I think, like when

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I finished writing that song, like even now I'll listen

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to it and I was like, man, like it speaks

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to me like still I'll be like, man, I quit drinking,

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like right after I put that song out, or maybe

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maybe a little before I put that song. I don't

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know exactly, but you know, because a lot of that

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song is talking about I think the first chorus talks

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about like drinking it all the way and then everything

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comes back with avengance. You know. You you try to

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drink a problem away and then you know the next

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day it's like you wake up and feel worse, you know.

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And the last course of that song, I changed the

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line to I laugh it all away and I come back.

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I come back with a vengeance. So it was kind

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of a I guess, a message to myself. I didn't

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intend for it to play out that way, but it

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just kind of once I got done, I was like,

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oh wow, and it kind of, you know, after a

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couple of months after that song being out, I'll like

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kind of listened back to it or someone would would

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say something about it and I would start thinking about it.

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I'm like, man that I don't know if that song

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like helped me get on this path to better than myself,

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but that's that's kind of what it was about me.

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I was going through a hard time.

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And pretty lost, and I think that last course in there,

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I try to end my songs with like a positive,

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you know, some kind of hopeful or inspirational, you know,

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message or something to take away from it. And I

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wouldn't say it was necessarily the goal at that point,

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but now that's kind of become My goal is to

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for at least like the resolution of my songs to

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to have some kind of hopeful message or some kind

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of inspiration for somebody or something, you know, and still

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be authentic to me and what I've been through.

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So that was like, I think that.

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Song was a big one that that made me realize

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what my purpose with creating music was.

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And you know, and like I said, it kind of

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happened by accident.

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I finished the song and then kind of reflected on it,

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and yeah, it was a long, long story for one song.

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But I'm glad that you liked that song. Man, I've

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been where coming from.

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Yeah, I mean it's got a lot of depth to it.

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But you know, but also you know, the downloads and

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also the clicks on YouTube continue to go upward every

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time I look at it, which is inspiring to me,

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you know, just as a supporter of yours. And so

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that's the truth. Like Vengeance has got so many layers

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to it, and you recently dropped one on us that

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we've got to talk about that I have been excited

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to talk about with since you released and that's your

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most recent one known as save Us. So if you

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haven't checked it out on YouTube of blockad Nation, you can.

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It does have the subtitles at the bottom. It's mostly

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a lot of rodeo aspect on that, but that song

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has got some great moments on the guitar. It's got

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some great lyrics. So if you would, from the artist himself,

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can you walk us through the journey that is the

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song save Us?

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Yeah, Man, that one that is probably the most i

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would say different style of song that I've ever made

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or put out definitely the most unique one I put

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out into the world. But that actually started I was

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over at Josh as we were kind of goofing around

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one morning. I kind of went over there early and

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we were hanging out talking and he sat down on

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his He's got a little home studio, and he pulled

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up some kind of like rap beat or something he

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had been working on. And I didn't even say nothing.

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He was just like sitting there working on this beat

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or whatever. Maybe he was writing lyrics to it. I'm

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back there on my notes on my phone, you know,

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typing lyrics to it, because like I liked rap music,

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like I like that was kind of like my first

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introduction into creating music. I bought a little microphone and

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would have buddies over and we'd try to freestyle rap

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over over some beats and stuff. But I'd actually wrote

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like the first half of those lyrics to this rap

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beat that Josh had made. And you know, I was

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in one of those states, you know, where I was

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like I need to I need to do something, and

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I plugged my guitar in and came up with uh

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or actually I didn't even plug my guitar, and yet

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I opened garage band and I have a little keyboard

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that's the routes through there, and I pulled up some

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weird like synth pad sounds and I came up with

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a few chords and I was like, oh, this is

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kind of cool. And I ended up just building like

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almost the holes like music or good chunk of the

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music before I even realized like, oh, these lyrics work

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on there.

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You know, I went through my notes.

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I was like, I've got so many notes of lyrics

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on my phone that are unused, that have no music,

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no melody, and I grabbed those and I was like, oh,

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this kind of is working, and so I laid it

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down and yeah, you know, there's there's a fiddle track

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on there. I had a buddy O, my fiddle player.

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Buddy came over one day and I showed him my

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song and he was like, he was like, oh, do

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you mind if I jam on that. I was like, yeah,

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but I'm going to record it and he did one

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take and I forgot he had done that, and I

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really was probably not going to put that song out.

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And then my buddy that has done all my photography

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and videography, Hunter Mitchell.

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He's really created, really good.

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He messaged me like a couple months after created song,

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I think I had sent it to him, and a

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couple months after he's like, dude, I did not realize

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this was hes like this came on on my itune.

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Well, Preston, we were talking about the song save Us.

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Looks like we might have had some cutouts, some connectivity issues,

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but you were talking about the fiddle partner's being dropped again.

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All my listeners need to go back and listen to

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Save Us, and you can find that through Preston Scott Music.

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All that's here in the descriptions. You can go to

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your favorite blockhead dot com slash blog. I know I

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keep plugging that, but all of his stuff is there. Guys,

476
00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:58.839
you don't have to do any work, but you have

477
00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:01.559
no excuse either. So I want to ask you this.

478
00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:05.839
We were recently seeing you in concert. You had been

479
00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.200
doing the Blue Bonnet Barbecue and me and the little

480
00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:10.519
Redhead Girl had come out and we had watched you

481
00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:14.240
from afar and I wanted to remind you just to end.

482
00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:18.000
Also the listeners, this guy has got quite a rollodex

483
00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:21.279
and quite an arsenal when it comes to several different

484
00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:23.240
styles of music you heard him talking about rap beats,

485
00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:25.440
you heard talking about the fiddle part. You've heard guys

486
00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:28.319
like Alex Englehart, Scott Birch, you know, shameless plug to

487
00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:31.319
both of these guys. But you know, if I throw

488
00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:34.160
out songs to you and you may know them, or

489
00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:36.119
you just wing it and you make it work, like

490
00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:39.000
you've done friends in low paid places one time, and

491
00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:41.680
y'all did that on the fly. You did Wave on

492
00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.440
Wave by Pat Green. I'll hear you on TikTok doing

493
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.440
three Am by Matchbox twenty, and then I hear you

494
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:49.359
doing Sublime, and then some say you have these riffs

495
00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.160
that sound like Stevie ray Vaughan. So You've got just

496
00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:56.480
this wide array of abilities. So I'm just gonna have

497
00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:00.880
to ask about what other listeners can expect it from

498
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.400
you with all these different ranges of songs, like some

499
00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:06.960
of your favorite normal secular songs that you do. Maybe

500
00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.599
we can go on that and segue that just a

501
00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:11.839
little bit, talk about your other multi talents in the

502
00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:15.960
world of songs that the rest of America might already

503
00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:16.839
be familiar with.

504
00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:23.279
Yeah, man, I have always had a pretty diverse taste

505
00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:24.359
and music.

506
00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.359
I think my first big influence was my mom, you know,

507
00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:32.079
riding around with her when I was real young. She

508
00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:38.200
liked a lot of like Billy Joel and Gosh, she

509
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.079
listened to Matchbox twenty stuff like that. She was she

510
00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:44.480
was very big on the you know, popular radio stuff

511
00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.640
in the nineties, so all that stuff. I still listen

512
00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.160
to Goo Goo Dolls all that. And then my dad

513
00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:55.799
was a rocker man. He you know, Lenyard Skinnard I

514
00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:58.000
think was one of the first bands that I was

515
00:26:58.039 --> 00:26:58.839
just blown.

516
00:26:58.519 --> 00:26:59.119
Away on it.

517
00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:01.599
He showed me like he had a live album by them,

518
00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:07.079
and Rolling Stones, you know, Creating's Clearwater Revival. And then

519
00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:10.680
my mom's father, Actually, I'm starting to realize it's probably

520
00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:13.920
my biggest music influence. He passed away quite you know,

521
00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:19.480
eight or nine years ago, and we actually did a

522
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.400
garage sale over at my grandma's the other day, and

523
00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:24.319
a lot of his stuff we were getting rid of,

524
00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.720
and I found a CD the tub full of CDs

525
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:30.799
and like a big tub full of records, and I

526
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:32.599
start going through them, and I already knew, you know,

527
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:36.720
he was a huge parrotead Jimmy Buffett fan, Willie Nelson's

528
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:42.000
Creating's Clearwater Revival, Rolling Stones, all that stuff. But then

529
00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:44.680
I start in the CDs that she's given away. She's like,

530
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:47.359
these are ones I don't really care for, and you know,

531
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:48.839
I start going through and it's like.

532
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:50.319
Little Feet and.

533
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:57.440
Van Morrison and man, there was there was quite a

534
00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:02.240
few the band and I was like, these are all

535
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.559
bands that no one in my family, none of my

536
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:07.359
friends really listened to. These are bands that I kind

537
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:10.359
of discovered on my own and really took to. And

538
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.640
to see that my grandpa had all those he never

539
00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:17.599
really shared those, those you know, artists with anybody, like

540
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:21.160
some of the other ones. But I was like, man,

541
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:22.960
I didn't know he was jamming this stuff. And he

542
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.559
even had some like soundscapes like ocean sound, you know,

543
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.720
CDs just ocean sounds. And I was like, man, I

544
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:32.640
had to tell my grandma. I was like, I've weirdly

545
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.640
been like when I shower, I'll turn on like some

546
00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:38.599
some soundscape stuff or something, you know, and just just

547
00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:39.319
enjoy it.

548
00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:42.200
And I was like, that is crazy. Like there.

549
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:46.279
Lately, I don't talk about it a lot, but I've

550
00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:50.759
kind of become a lot more spiritual like things like that.

551
00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:53.799
I feel like there's a lot more you know, things

552
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.839
are a lot more connected than people realize. And absolutely,

553
00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:00.920
you know, I'm starting to realize those things. And after

554
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.119
seeing that was pretty profound, I was like, man, these

555
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.440
are like spot on like bands that only I listened to,

556
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:09.559
Like none of my friends jam and stuff. I don't

557
00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:12.319
even jam it for people because they probably don't care

558
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:14.960
about it. But yeah, seeing that, I was like wow,

559
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:20.319
And so that's kind of long story, short, long story,

560
00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:24.720
long the I guess the background of my influence, you know.

561
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:27.839
And obviously all the hip hop rap stuff came from

562
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.440
friends in school and stuff just what everyone was listening to.

563
00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:38.039
But yeah, I mean, like I said, I started my

564
00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:40.920
first venture into record music was I bought a little

565
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.720
headset microphone and had buddies over to try to freestyle

566
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:47.920
rap on beats and things like that. And then, like

567
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:50.359
I was saying earlier in college, I got a MacBook

568
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:53.799
for college and it had Garage Band on it. So

569
00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:56.319
I started recording all kinds of stuff with that, you know,

570
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:01.400
guitar stuff and things like that. And I still, like

571
00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:03.480
I said, I still use Garage Band to produce all

572
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:06.079
my stuff. It's a free thing. Anyone that's wanting to

573
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:08.920
record music, there's no reason to spend money on something.

574
00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.119
If you got a free program like garage band, they

575
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:11.480
all do.

576
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:16.039
The same thing. So indeed, yeah, I mean another.

577
00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.400
Thing A lot of people don't know I played drums,

578
00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:21.960
I play I play a little bit of keys, but

579
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.079
I play bass, guitar I do. On Save Us was

580
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:27.880
actually the first song I put out where I did

581
00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:30.720
everything on there other than that fiddle track. I did

582
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:35.640
everything on there nice like drums, bass, all that keys.

583
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:39.279
So yeah, it's a little bit.

584
00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:41.359
I don't know if you got any questions in particular

585
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:43.119
that you were you were wanting to know about with

586
00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:46.279
that stuff, but try to summarize it.

587
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:48.599
I mean you brought it full circle. I mean that

588
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:50.559
was kind of what I was thinking, is like I've

589
00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:53.960
seen some other artists in the past, Like I wasn't

590
00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:56.319
watching John Mayer live and he'd just be playing his guitar.

591
00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:58.119
Then he reached down and start playing on the keyboard.

592
00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:00.880
I'm like, this is something Presston william And probably does

593
00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:03.839
or something similar, or people like you know, throw it

594
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:06.000
out there. Even somebody like Charlie Pooth who would make

595
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:08.160
a song and he would use like bees in the

596
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.240
background and use that as a track, just like so

597
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:13.720
in other words, like, that's that's kind of your arsenal

598
00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:16.440
because it's not just your song, right, I mean, you've

599
00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:19.640
got the mixing down, you got all the different drum

600
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.240
beats and and so you're so diverse in all of

601
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:25.799
these worlds, and it's really fascinating to me. So it

602
00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:28.720
really doesn't bring up any questions for me personally. I

603
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:31.240
just I hope my listeners are hearing this, and I

604
00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:34.240
hope that they will embrace you just as I have

605
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.279
and will continue to over the years. But my other

606
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:40.359
question is really simply, since this is a podcast that

607
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:45.720
focuses on the Peanuts, that's my comic strip. I'm curious, now,

608
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:49.039
do you have anything that you follow, whether it's in

609
00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:51.000
like the comic world, or maybe you're like a fan

610
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:53.519
of Star Wars, maybe you're a fan of the Marvel

611
00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:56.279
universe or something. You know, in light of James Earl

612
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.000
Jones passing rest his soul, but you know, maybe there

613
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.920
was something that you followed even when you were taking

614
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.240
a break from music. Is there something of that realm

615
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:08.400
that you were interested in that maybe the listeners might

616
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:10.839
appreciate about you, just to take you to another level.

617
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:17.279
Man, in that realm, I would say. I mean, I

618
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:19.279
think everyone loves the Batman stuff.

619
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:19.599
I was.

620
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.519
I was a big Batman fan. But man, I think

621
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:26.799
my favorite thing, especially growing up, was the Ninja Turtles.

622
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:31.559
Nice and my mom a few years ago, but I

623
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:34.880
guess found a box of our old toys and had

624
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:38.599
a bunch of Ninja Turtle toys and like, uh, you know,

625
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.839
Master Splinter and and some other stuff. And I now

626
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:46.440
have them have my work on a shelf like kind

627
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:51.200
of displayed my Ninja Turtles that were I like Ninja Turtles.

628
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.400
I like, you know, Super Mario. I always loved all

629
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:57.680
those games. I was a big gamer, definitely like the

630
00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:02.519
Halo and that type of stuff. I never really read

631
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:06.559
into comic books, you know, I did, I was. I

632
00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:10.200
did the Pokemon stuff and all that. But and I still,

633
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:12.759
like recently played one of the newer Pokemon games was

634
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:13.319
pretty cool.

635
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:17.319
But yeah, Ninja Turtles, I think is my that's my

636
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:17.720
go to.

637
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:22.559
I'll watch anything Ninja Turtles or can't go wrong with.

638
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:26.599
Yeah, you know, can't go wrong on those four especially

639
00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:28.279
and that I got great memories as a kid just

640
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.000
on that one too. It's just you know, you know,

641
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:32.960
with somebody who has a podcast, it's about the most

642
00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:36.279
famous comic strip in history. It doesn't hurt to just ask,

643
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:39.200
you know, what world do y'all get involved in? What

644
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:42.039
what do you enjoy? Because yeah, you said the man,

645
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.359
Like the other day, I was watching some old commercials

646
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.440
about the teams Metas Turtles. You have some of those

647
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:51.519
eighties vintage ones, and it's all about nostalgia. So we

648
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.160
all have our different go tos that we go through there.

649
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:57.240
But man, I love the Turtles myself really did. When

650
00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:59.559
it comes to sports, I'm a guy that follows mixed

651
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.480
Marshall arts. Is there anything in particular in the sports

652
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:06.559
world college football, baseball? You said you played soccer for

653
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:08.440
a while. Is there any sport that you want to

654
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:11.440
bring up that you also follow outside of the music world.

655
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.280
Try not to miss watching any games, Like I'm fascinated

656
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.840
by the Dallas Stars, especially the past few years, just

657
00:34:18.280 --> 00:34:21.559
all the playoffs run, the playoff runs and the young

658
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:25.480
guys coming in are just taking over and making it happen.

659
00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:29.920
And then really just just the Dallas Stars and then

660
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:32.440
the Dallas Cowboys. I mean it's easy to catch one

661
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:36.119
football game a week for me. So yeah, that's that's

662
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:39.440
really all follow sports wise, that's fair.

663
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:42.039
I didn't want to exclude the Dallas Stars because I

664
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:44.639
know Justin Gilly is a big fan of that too show. Yeah,

665
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:48.119
but you know, and shout to all those guys, you know,

666
00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:50.880
shout to Alex Englehart South to Josh Burch hand and

667
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:53.079
shout out to all your guys that you've jammed with

668
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:55.079
the Preston Scott band, and shout out to j g

669
00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:57.840
who guy was connected for the first time. I'm always

670
00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:59.199
going to be grateful to him then, and he was

671
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.159
a huge Each Stars fan, So I didn't want to

672
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.199
exclude them. It's just one of those way what do

673
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.960
y'all follow? And and just out of curiosity. But I'm

674
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:11.000
looking at our time, Preston, it looks like we might

675
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.039
need to start bringing this bad boy to a rap.

676
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.320
But what I always do with my listeners is this.

677
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:18.679
You know, people come to the show for different reasons,

678
00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:21.039
and for whatever it is, they stick around. They don't

679
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:24.760
stick around when it comes to guests. People are always

680
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.440
looking for some type of inspiration sometime, I hope. So

681
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:30.239
I'm gonna ask you, just like I do all my

682
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:33.320
other guests, if they tuned out everything that we talked

683
00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:37.159
about in this episode. Is there one thing in particular

684
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:41.599
that you want my listeners to take away from Preston

685
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.920
Scott Music. If there's one thing they should hear from

686
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.199
you today, then what would that be?

687
00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:48.320
Man?

688
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:53.400
Like I mentioned earlier, kind of my gold with my

689
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:58.480
music has become to try to leave all my songs

690
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:03.320
with some sort of you know, resolution, some hope, uh,

691
00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:08.599
some kind of positive, positive message. And man, that's that's

692
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:11.400
kind of what why I even play gigs now. I

693
00:36:11.480 --> 00:36:14.880
use those as opportunities to you know, to to spread

694
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:19.719
positivity and and hopefully make someone You know, if someone's

695
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:21.480
having a bad day and they come to your show,

696
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.840
you know, that's an opportunity to turn their day around.

697
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:27.800
And you know, I try to I try to interact

698
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.840
with the crowd, and you know, I'm not I wouldn't

699
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:32.880
say I'm like the funniest guy in the world, but

700
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.199
I try to make people laugh. I'll say all kinds

701
00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:38.400
of goofy things on the microphone and in between songs,

702
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.360
and you know, I try to play request if people

703
00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:43.760
want to hear I just I just try to use

704
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:47.639
music as a tool to to heal man to to

705
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:51.400
to make people's lives better. Hopefully and give them, give

706
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:55.519
them something to hopefully relate to and with things I've

707
00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:59.519
been through, and uh, you know, hopefully give them some

708
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:03.760
kind of inspiration motivation because I've been through all kinds

709
00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:08.239
of crazy things, and I would say I'm still here, man,

710
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:10.719
And I would say that right now I'm in the

711
00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:15.960
best health wise, the best mindset, the best financial everything.

712
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:18.719
I'm in the best spot i've been in, I feel like.

713
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:22.039
And that's just you know, you got to keep plugging away.

714
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.800
And that's kind of what I want to use music

715
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to inspire people to do. Just keep on going and

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do what you love and spread love. Man.

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That's really it, man, pressing.

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You don't realize what you just did. And I'm going

719
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to kind of walk my listeners through that. I've never

720
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:39.760
done this at the end of a podcast, but I'm

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doing it now. He just said something about to keep

722
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:46.159
plugging away. If anybody's ever followed The Peanuts, there was

723
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:49.039
a TV series that was done back in the eighties

724
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:51.760
called This Is America Charlie Brown. There was an entire

725
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.039
episode about them going on the NASA Space Shuttle and

726
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:58.639
Peppermint Patty said about Charlie Brown that he may never

727
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:01.440
kick the football neighbor, are get a hit in the air.

728
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:02.719
He may be able to do all these things, but

729
00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:06.480
you know what he continues to do. He keeps plugging away.

730
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I'm with you there, pressing that nothing is an accident.

731
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Is not an accident that you are on this show.

732
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I am thankful that your music can make my day

733
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better and can inspire so many people that will go

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to your pages and will hear what you've got. So

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I don't have a problem plugging you on the end

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on that one, and again, listeners, you have no excuse

737
00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:29.079
all of his links, from his website, to his tour

738
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.559
and eight's, to his Facebook, his Instagram, his his ex page,

739
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:36.360
his TikTok. Everything for Preston Scott Music is up today

740
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:38.679
on the blog. But before we wrap up, is there

741
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anything that you'd like to share on the back end here, Preston,

742
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Maybe like a big project you're looking towards that you

743
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:46.159
want to share with us, or just something some final

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00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:47.719
remarks before we close out here.

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Sir, I am still working on I got man.

746
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I got quite a few songs, a handful of songs

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that are pretty pretty much done. I'm kind of in

748
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:01.639
the in between stage. I don't know if I want

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to put out another single. You know, my last three

750
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:06.039
releases were singles. I don't know if I want to

751
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:10.559
put out one more single and then you know, use

752
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:12.840
the rest to try to get an EP done. But

753
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:16.559
I might just hold off and and try to get

754
00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:19.880
four four to six songs finished up and put out

755
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:21.079
an EP soon.

756
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:23.519
For my for my music.

757
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:27.760
Other than that, man, we're Alex has been. You know,

758
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.840
our band, Alex Inglehart. We've been recording all of his

759
00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:34.079
new stuff over here at my spot, so he's letting

760
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:37.119
me kind of handle the mixing and production on those songs.

761
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And we've got two of them that are that are

762
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:42.559
just about done, and I think we're going to do

763
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.360
uh maybe two or three more and then we'll be

764
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having an EP from Alex Inglehart coming out.

765
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:52.119
So I'm excited. Man.

766
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It's it's fun working on mixing other people's music. That's

767
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I love working on my own stuff, But when other

768
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:01.480
people got their idea and bring them over here and

769
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:04.440
let me do that part of it, I love doing that.

770
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I love working mixing different people's voices and different guitars

771
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:09.239
and all those things.

772
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So that's what I really love. So I'm excited.

773
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You're having Blockhead Nations. Like zig Zigel said, you can

774
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:18.199
have anything you want if you'll just help enough other

775
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.760
people get what they want. And this is a guy

776
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.639
that embodies all of this. So Preston, thank you so

777
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:26.960
much for your time, my friend. You are welcome back

778
00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:29.760
on this podcast anytime. And also just to shout out

779
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.159
to all the guys from Alex Inglehart to Josh to

780
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:35.320
Justin everybody that have helped us connect and all this.

781
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.920
This has been such a fun podcast and I look

782
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:39.960
forward to hanging out with you in the future. But

783
00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:43.199
also I look forward to having your Christmas song ready

784
00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:46.920
for the Christmas special for your blockhead and until that time,

785
00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.360
I wish you the very best, my friend, and it's

786
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:51.440
great having you here and I hope you have a

787
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:52.280
wonderful day, sir.

788
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.800
Back at you man, Thank you so much for having me.

789
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:55.679
I really enjoyed it.

790
00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:57.760
I've enjoyed it as much as you have. But you

791
00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:00.840
heard it here Blockhead Nation. Preston Scott Music is coming

792
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:03.079
at you. All the tour dates are up. Everything you

793
00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:05.440
need go to the description of this podcast and you

794
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.320
will see everything for Preston Scott Music coming up. He's

795
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:10.800
gonna get promoted a lot on my show, a lot

796
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:13.920
of my YouTube pages. Everything's gonna be there. So next

797
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.480
week we will pick up I'll probably be flying solo.

798
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:18.840
We'll go back to the normal format. We'll get back

799
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to talking about peanuts and mixed martial arts. And until

800
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.719
that time, this has been your favorite blockhead joining Prescott Preston,

801
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:27.480
Scott Williamson, and we will catch you next week. You

802
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:32.039
know how this works, Same blockhead time, same blockhead chair