Rock and roll Chicago, rock and roll Chicago, my hometown. When I was born in the city, growing up in the city of Chicago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chicago rock and roll is all the festive around. Everybody, this is Paul Michael and Ray the Roadie for the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast. What? Are you at a religious revival? Lord Jesus! Save my soul! Are you at a religious revival? I sure am.

You said we're going to one this week. No, no, no, no, no. No, no.

Can you step out of that tent? I'm out. Uh, no, I, no. Wrong revival? Yeah, we're speaking with the band, Revival.

Oh, man. I've been reading the Bible all week. I've been practicing my moves.

That's good. That's good. I mean, I mean, it's always good to read the Bible.

Yeah. I guess I should listen closer to you, closer when you, when you're talking about what we're doing. Yeah.

Yeah. It would be a good idea. Yeah.

I, you know, I have a short attention span. Yeah. How was that revival? Was that fun? It was a ball.

I had a great time. Okay. I've been saved.

That's good. That's good. About time.

That's right. So we met with the guys from Revival the Band. Revival the Band.

Joe, Dan, and Mike are better known as Stu. We met with the three of them. We missed out on Doug.

Doug couldn't make it, but we had a nice talk with them. Learned a little bit about their, about some of the stuff that they do. Dan is a, Dan is a writer and he's written some original stuff too.

So, so let's see what, let's see what everything, all that they had to say for themselves. Lord Jesus, let's go. Let's go.

Praise the Lord. Hi, welcome to the show, everybody. Today, today we're speaking with the band Revival.

We're speaking with Joe DiGiacomo and Dan Bay and Mike Sawicki, better known as Stu. And how are you guys doing tonight? Doing good. Thanks.

Doing good. Good deal. Yep.

Good deal. So tell us about the band. Tell us how you got started, where you got started and how you guys all got together.

We started about five years ago as a completely different band. Dan and I have been playing in bands together since the nineties and Chiefs since the eighties, actually, if you think about it while we're old. And we decided to get back together and started doing a little music together.

And we started up a band, started off with Fun Guys, I think is what we started calling it. And we're having a good time and just, it evolved through a different band name. We turned into what we call it after that.

And then we decided that Dan had a pretty good John Fogerty sounding voice. So we decided that we were going to do a CCR tribute band and we came up with Revival as the name and we sort of let this CCR tribute go and just started playing every kind of music that we wanted to play. We were reviving, we're bringing it back from the dead.

So taking old rock and roll and bringing it back to life. So what was the name before it became a Revival? I missed that. I'm sorry.

Was called Side Effects. Side Effects. Okay.

So, but I'm assuming you still do some CCR, right? Oh yeah. Do a lot of CCR. We're very CCR heavy.

But we found out, believe it or not, there's not a big calling for a CCR cover band. I was a little shocked to find that, but people don't realize how much CCR they know until they start hearing it. Yeah, that's probably true.

The original band, the Fun Guys, what was that? Mushroom Rock? No, we just put it on Psychedelic Mushrooms. It was pretty much different kind of music. So it was more 90s rock.

Wouldn't you agree with that, Dan? Yeah, probably. Yeah. Okay.

Not Psychedelic. Not Psychedelic, no. Well, I don't know.

Maybe individually based, depending on if they had mushrooms or not, I guess. The promo was definitely Psychedelic, that's for sure. So we're missing one guy in the band, right? Just one guy, correct? The bass player, yeah.

And the bass player is? It's Doug. Doug Hogue. I'm sorry Doug couldn't make it tonight.

So now tell me, who plays what? I know Joe, you're a keyboard player, right? That is correct. And the interesting thing about this is, Stu and I go back to the mid-90s. We were in a band together in about 94, I think, called Blues on Toast.

Yeah. And I hadn't seen Stu for a long time. And we got back together on Facebook through a mutual friend of ours.

And the three of us are on Facebook from the original Blues on, well, not original, but from Blues on Toast. And a few years ago, Stu asked me about doing the CCR thing. And I kind of said, hey, there's not a whole lot of keyboard stuff for a CCR tribute band.

So he's like, yeah. And I kind of suggested, you know, having a second guitar would probably be more up the CCR vein. And so we kind of left it at that.

And then I went ahead and joined Five Guys Named Mo after that. And then this year I left the Mo's. And lo and behold, Stu was looking for a keyboard player.

And we decided to just kind of jam a little bit. And we, you know, kind of just said, yeah, OK, we'll go with this. And, you know, here we are talking to you guys.

How long did you play with the Mo's? A little over a year. And you left them when? My last gig with them was the last day right before COVID shut us down on March 14th. Oh, OK.

We played March 14th at Flapshots. And everything closed, I think, the next day. Or was it the Monday that it closed? I don't remember.

They were talking about it was either that Sunday or Monday. And then that was it. But that was my last gig with them.

So, Dan, you and Mike, have you guys been together? You know, the main two guys have been with the band since the 90s, 80s? Off and on, yeah. We were actually high school, both in a marching band, both in a jazz band. I played guitar.

He was a drummer in a jazz band. And, you know, back in the day, we just went in the basement and just rocked out. Whatever you wanted to do.

And having an old Polish lady next door throw water at you because you were being too loud. That kind of stuff. But, yeah.

And then I got out of the Air Force, came back, and just kind of, you know, messing around and started a band headfirst back in the 90s. And, of course, everyone thought we were a baby's tribute band. Yeah, yeah.

We were like, no. So we just thought it was a clever name headfirst. So that's what we used.

Didn't even think about the baby, to be honest with you. But, yeah. There were no sexual connotations there, right? There's always a sexual connotation.

Well, maybe on a business card, right? Headfirst. There's always a sexual connotation. That's what the business card said.

Uh-oh. Oh, there it is. There's always a sexual connotation there.

Yeah. And then, for me, anyways, life got in the way. Had kids.

Got married. Had kids. And music was sort of put on hold.

And after that, then, I don't know. We just sort of got back together. And we're talking about maybe getting a band and doing some of the stuff that we did in the 90s.

And that's where the fun guys sort of started with 90s-themed stuff. Yeah, I spent 20 years playing with the Blues Brothers and Small Time Dave and the Windy City Groove. And it was time to do something else.

And the timing was perfect. Dan and I got back together, and the rest is history. Was Doug around back in those days? Or is Doug a new addition? Doug's a new guy.

Yeah, we actually tried him on guitar. And we had a different bass player. We actually had... Doug's actually our third bass player for this recent, yeah, band.

He was originally our guitar player. Yeah, right. He was originally a guitar player.

And then we got tired of going through bass players just unreliable. So I was like, you know what, Doug? I'm going to switch you to bass. So I showed him kind of just basic stuff on bass.

And he put a lot of work in to play the bass. And now he's just a solid bass player. So nothing flashy or anything, but he's just solid.

You know, it's good to have a solid bass player, right? Right, yeah. So Mike, you sound like you've been continually playing for all these years, correct? I've been... I'm a drum whore, you know? I'll play with anybody. I've played with a lot of different people.

Blues, I've played with Jody Ngo. I've played with Mike Gibb, Ronnie Lass. Pretty much everybody.

Played, like I said, played with Small Time Dave and the Windy City Group. Did a stint with Blues on Toast back in the 90s. So yeah, we've been all over the place.

Blues on Toast was Jimmy Hood from the... That's how Joe and I got together, back together, was through Jimmy Hood. I know Jimmy. Yeah, everybody knows Jimmy Hood.

So you said you also played with the Blues Brothers too, correct? Correct. How long did you play with them? Almost 20 years. Oh, wow.

Yeah, I started with them in 2001, early 2001, like January of 2001. Replaced Frankie Rago on drums and never looked back. It was a great gig.

And that would be B-L-U-Z. Yeah, the B-L-U-Z Brothers, not the B-L-O-O-Z-E Brothers, which, that's Chuck Livingston. I see.

We are the B-L-U-Z Brothers. It was a great time to be a musician, I'll tell you what. Especially on the south side of Chicago.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in Haguish, in the northwest Indiana music scene. And back in the 80s and 90s, it was a completely different scene for music back then. Nobody helped anybody.

Everybody was cutthroat. And for me in the 90s, to come into the southwest side, Oak Lawn, Orland area, and to just have guys like Gino Martino, guys like him, just be so helpful to up-and-coming bands, I was amazed by that. I saw a side of music that I'd never seen before.

And it made me appreciate other musicians before me. Because where I was from, you weren't friends with musicians. They were all your enemies.

And it was a very bad situation. Because it was very cutthroat, like I said. Everybody was looking for gigs.

And when there's 100 bands and 10 gigs, somebody loses. So it was so much better when I came out west. And maybe it was the times too, I don't know.

But just met a lot of great people in the music scene out here. And it just made it, it opened up doors. Well, I agree with you.

Back in the day, I'll just say it, back in the day, it was almost like a battle of the bands. I went and saw them. We're better than them.

We could do that song or whatever, just as well as they can. But I'm so glad that it's actually the table's half turned. And I would have, I used to run sound at the Blue Chip Casino.

And I'd have three bands in there in one day. On a Saturday, I'd have three or four bands. And I'd have a guy, a bass player or a guitar player come in at the 6 o'clock spot.

And he plays until 7 o'clock and then he winds up saying he's playing the late band too. You know? Because he's just a geeky musician. And I think that's actually a great thing.

You know? It is great. We actually, we are striving to pay it forward or pay it back, if you will, I guess. We had so many people help us out and so we try to help other musicians as much as we can.

Younger musicians and a few local bands. Amy's River that we've helped out in the past got them some gigs and passed down equipment that we don't use anymore. Things like that.

And so it's always great to help other musicians become musicians. You know? It doesn't have to be a fight of who's better. Right.

I mean, we're all musicians. We should all be helping each other out. Right.

Absolutely. Absolutely. You're absolutely right.

So, what does your setlist include? What do you guys actually, what kind of music do you play? What kind of music do you like to listen to? Dan and I listen to everything. I mean, we're old metalheads from the back in the days. But I've done blues.

I've done jazz. I've done pretty much everything. He's done, Dan's done a lot of different stuff.

He writes great stuff. Guy could be a jingle writer. He could write movies for music.

He's a great, he'd be a great soundtrack writer. We play, well, of course, the CCR's there. A lot of Hendrix, ZZ Top, pretty much anything you could think of that we, like I said, the name Revival allows us to play anything we want to play or anything the audience might want to hear, I think.

Do you guys play any original stuff? As a matter of fact, we just, well, we just finished up a single and we are going to be releasing a single, when is the date on that release, Dan? Well, it's already released, but we're trying to make it simple for people to find it. And on this one page website, there's, there's a couple things wrong with it. So, we don't want to point people to say, hey, go to this page and whatever platform you want to download it on is there.

Because it's not quite ready for that yet. but if you were to search for it, like on Amazon Music, it's under Revival and the song is called Spunk. It's an instrumental.

Because I had thought, why don't we just write something simple, something that sounds familiar to people and, in return for supporting the band, they can have the song, you know. So, it's 99 cents. you know.

And it's on Amazon? Is it on iTunes? Yeah, iTunes. Yeah, all the major platforms. Spotify.

Yeah. It's definitely Satriani-esque, especially the guitar work. Okay.

It's very Satriani-esque. Yeah, I told, I showed it to to Ron over at the museum and I, I texted it to him and I told him, yeah, it kind of has a Satriani feel. And the next day, I saw him because I was working or doing a tile and he's like, well, I gotta be honest, yeah, you said Satriani.

I was kind of like, yeah, okay, sure. Because so many guys say, oh man, we're great. We're like this or we're like that.

And he's like, but I listened to it. Yeah, you're right. It has a really Satriani feel to it.

And I'm like, yeah, I told you. So, so anyways, I don't know what he was expecting, but I guess he wasn't expecting that. But it's just, yeah, it's just, it sounds familiar, but you can't really pinpoint it to anything one of those kind of songs.

So, like I said, in return, people, yeah, they, you know, they can have one of our songs and help support the band a little bit, especially in these times when there's no gigs really to be had. Do you plan on any additional recordings? Yes. Yeah, we're working on stuff right now, so.

Good. Not instrumental, it's just, that was a, that was a quick one to sort of just get out there. So, we're going to work on some, yeah, more kind of in the style of what we're doing cover-wise, so.

And you've written all this, Yes. You're the writer? Yeah. Yeah, I've been writing songs, man, since I was like, like 13 years old.

Actually, the drummer's writing one. Yeah. We got that going for us, too.

So, does it have a drum solo in it? No, no, no, it's not in the album. It's a drum solo for like five minutes. Yeah, just me playing drums.

I call it Moby Stu. Moby Stu. So, so you guys are going, well, how you, how you survived with COVID-19, first of all? Have you had any gigs? Three.

We had one. We live in Will County and a player in the place that we live or that we, it's called Hickory Creek Brewing Company. When everything opened up partially, they had us back into play and they had, all the tables were distanced and, you know, and all this other stuff.

it was fine. And then, of course, Will County spiked in cases. So, they shut everything back down again.

So, and what was that gig? Oh, that's right. It was the day before my birthday. It was August 15th.

That's the last time we played out. yeah. Anything else lined up? Not as of yet.

So, we've been streaming a lot and, uh, trying to give fans, you know, mostly friends and family something, uh, of us to watch. yeah, it's certainly a shame right now. Yeah.

Um, I know it's, it's been, it's been very limited for, for most bands and, although I see some bands being out there and gigging and, and being able to do some outdoor things at least. Yes. But, but for the most part, I know it's, it's awful.

Let's just hope and pray that, uh, next year everything comes around. Yes. And by, uh, by March or April, we're starting to book some gigs for next summer.

Yeah, because even the outdoor gigs are going to be gone pretty soon. It's going to get mighty cold here. Yeah.

Yeah. It's tough to play at 20 below. Right.

Yeah. I mean, I'm Chicago tough and all, but I'm not that Chicago tough. That's right.

That's right. So now I'm sorry. I was just going to say a lot of these, uh, clubs or bars or whatever, they seem to be just hiring like the bands that they always work with.

I mean, and you can't blame them probably because they know they're going to bring in X amount of people, X amount of dollars, you know, with everything being so hard on everybody. as you play that place a bunch of times, you're not really getting it at this point. they need the clientele to come in.

if you've been there, they know you. Right. How far back? I mean, the name, and you give me the impression that people can call out songs and you guys will do something.

Um, is that it or do you work off a set list? We will work off a set list. Um, usually, and we don't, that's the one thing we try not to do is a lot of bands you go see them 10 times and you hear the same songs in the same exact order. Maybe there'll be a little bit of a difference.

We write up a new set list every time we play out. Um, and it's basically based on audience response. Um, if, if we have audience responding well to a certain song, we play it more in rotation.

If we have them, the song isn't going over so well, we'll either, uh, we'll either lower it in our rotation or we'll can it all together if it's not working. I mean, why keep doing something if it's not working, right? So, um, yeah, we, every time you come see us it's gonna be something a little bit different. Um, hopefully that, uh, people will come see us more than once.

Um, we try to keep it a little different. Um, you know, it's sort of hard to entertain and play music and when you're just a four-piece band, when you're playing in a eight-piece band, it's a lot easier to provide entertainment than it is with, uh, just four players, you know, because you're concentrating on the music more than you are on the actual show. We try to put on a little bit of a show, so we, we try to get it all worked in there.

You primarily, uh, play just around Will County or do you guys venture out? We've, sorry about that. Uh, we've actually played all over the place, but we do a lot of gigs in Will County. Um, yeah, mostly, I guess, most of our stuff is in Will County.

I've been trying to get out into Indiana, but since the COVID hit, um, none of the buyers out there seem to want to, um, like Dan said, they don't want to book anybody, but a sure thing. So maybe once the COVID, uh, is over, um, we'll be in Indiana and we'll be, uh, heading up into Chicago and maybe we'll see. Hopefully they'll find a cure for this and we'll all be back playing soon.

So, yeah. That's, that's for, we, you know, that's the last thing we want to do is be out there playing and, God forbid, we come down with something, but anybody in our, in our fan base wants to come down with something and, uh, you know, I mean, we would feel terrible about that. So that's why we, we did play Hickory, Hickory Creek Brewing Company, which is a great little place to go for a beer if you're ever in the area.

The distancing was great, the cleanliness was great, um, and the bar owner was really taking it seriously as to how he was running his own personal safety campaign against COVID. So as long as the bar owners are careful and the people are careful, I think we should be able to get back to, uh, some normalcy soon. That would be wonderful, wouldn't it? Definitely.

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So, uh, so do you guys, uh, you guys do go back to the 50s and, uh, that's the 50s music or is it, uh, obviously just the 60s with Green Clearwater, right? We're gonna, we're gonna be working in more, more, I don't know, 50s, I don't know, I think we go back pretty much 60s is about it. I think the oldest song we probably do is, um, Shaken All Over by the Guess Who, maybe some of the Creedence stuff. um, yeah, we don't really, 50s not so far.

We did do a little Elvis for a while there. We'll probably bring some Elvis back in. So we'll be, uh, we'll be doing the 50s for sure if we can bring the Elvis back in, right? Who's your Elvis voice? Hey man, what are you talking about? I'm Elvis Presley.

Does everybody in the band sing? Yes. Um, Dan sings lead, I sing lead. We've even given Joe a few songs on lead.

and Doug mainly sings backup. But everybody in the band sings and we're working on our harmonies all the time and, uh, trying to make them sound good instead of, you know, nobody likes to hear a bunch of cats screaming in an alley. I think I know that group.

I know several of them. I think we're interviewing them next week, aren't we? So, uh, what kind of drums do you use, Mike? I am a Mapex player. I started playing Mapex when I bought my, um, my set from, uh, John LaTrenthe back in 1990 and, uh, I fell in love with it.

I blew it. Except for this awesome set right here. Well, that isn't Gretsch.

That's my newest Netflix edition. I have eight drum sets, so, uh, I don't, I don't only play Mapex, but that's my, that's my basic kit right now. I do own three Mapex kits.

But, um, Good point. Yeah. So, but, yeah, John, John is another good guy.

He's another good Chicago guy. We know all these great Chicago guys, right? So, uh, Sabian or Zildjian? Oh, Zildjian all the way. There is no other symbol but a Zildjian.

Zildjian, um, Zildjian paper thins and quick beat hi-hats and a ping ride all the way. So, what about you, Dan? What kind of, what kind of, I see you got a strap back there behind you. Uh, this is going to be a joke.

Um, I, I like to, uh, make, uh, my own guitars, so, uh, or, or at least, put pieces together so that, uh, a company out in, uh, where are they at? Oregon? Warmoth? So, I'll, I'll buy necks from them, um, because, oh, back in the 90s when I discovered that you had different profile necks and there's so many different combinations to choose from as well as the scale, right? The size of the frets, all this stuff and I'm like, why am I playing stock? So, I stopped and I started making my own kind of creations, so, um, so, yeah, I use, um, because Warmoth they'll have a Stevie Ray Vaughan profile which is thicker, um, on the thumb side and thinner down low, so it's like an asymmetrical shape instead of, like, a deep C and, uh, yeah, it was jumbo frets on them and stuff, um, but I, I like to tele bodies a lot, so I have, a lot of my guitars are teles, um, I had this one tele made, oh, the shape anyways, with the, the, um, tummy contour, which are never on teles and the forearm contour, which are never on teles, right? So, but I wanted, uh, I wanted the comfort because the teles, I mean, they're so thick and they start to cut into my forearm, like, after a long night of playing and, uh, starts to rub the skin pretty raw, so, um, yeah, so that's what I do and, um, like to do all kinds of different combinations of stuff and I also like to build my own amplifiers, so. Oh, goodness, really? What about three years ago, four years ago, something like that, I just started reading on it and I was like, I could do that and I started building them, so, yeah, Stu likes to call me Frankenstein or, or the, the, what, not Frankenstein, but, uh, Doctor, the Mad Scientist, that's what it is, yeah. Yeah, because, because I'm always like, if we need something and I'm always like, why don't we just make it? So, so that's what I do, I, I'll just make something, so.

So you just get out your soldering gun and go to town, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so, so I, I've never been one of those guys where, uh, you gotta, you gotta have a 66, uh, Strat or whatever, you know, um, with my guitars and stuff. I mean, I love playing them, but I won't have a problem with crashing a headstock over a cymbal, you know, so, in a show, just, just because you get riled up and stuff and, uh, you know, because if I break it, I can fix it.

So that's what, uh, I, I did, that's what I do a lot of, uh, um, oh, and I also, I put like a, uh, a Floyd Rose or a Kahler Trem on my Telecasters, so, and I think, uh, who is, there was only one guy, um, was it Joe Strummer? That would play a Tele with, with a Trem on it. So, uh, and I always thought that was cool because you don't see it. So, so I like to just kind of do stuff like that a lot.

Yeah. Yeah. So Dan, Dan's also real, uh, good with computers.

And, uh, we do live streaming and Dan also takes care of all the computer stuff, if you will, when we do our live stream and stuff like that. So he's a pretty much a genius. So it looks like you practice at your place too, right, Dan? Yes.

Yeah. I built a room down here. Soundproofed it, did double walls, did that, uh, loaded vinyl, uh, to, because my wife works from home, so it's operation.

Don't piss the wife off. Yeah. Yeah.

She loves the band, but not when she's working, you know, so, and so we tried to do the best we could. And I mean, the room is pretty much airtight, but we don't want to, we don't want to die in here. It's fixing here.

So I had to put some sort of ventilation to, you know, move the air back and forth, exchange it. So, uh, but yeah, for the most part, it does its job. And now that we're not really playing with the amps in here anymore, we're using all headphones and just going direct in, not too crazy about that on a guitar.

Cause man, you really lose that feeling of the amplifier, but it sounds good on the other end. So it's good for rehearsal, right? Yeah. Right.

Yeah. It's like practicing in the studio. It's beautiful.

Right. Yeah. So now she only hears the students drums.

So Joe, what, uh, what are you playing through or smashing into things? I'm a Hammond guy by nature. I grew up on a Hammond. Matter of fact, it's right behind me.

I don't know if you can see it. Yeah. That's my Hammond right there.

And on top of it. Is that an M three? Yes. Yes, it is with a one 47 Leslie.

She is right in the corner over here. Do you bring, did you bring that out to gigs? No, no, no, no, no. I was going to say, boy, strong, strong, strong back.

If you're doing that. Yeah. So what I use on the, on the, in the, uh, in the band is my Yamaha M O X F eight, which is right there.

And I have a Hammond X K one C, and I run that through a Behringer amp. I also have a Leslie studio 12 that I take out, depending on the gig that I'll run the Hammond, the little Hammond through this, the Leslie, and then the Yamaha would go through the Behringer. Um, so, and then I have a core Cronos that's sitting on top of the big Hammond that I'll use that once in a while, depending where we're at and how much room we'll have or whatever.

Uh, but I typically use the Yamaha cause I really liked the piano sounds out of that. Plus it's an 88 key. Um, so I get the full range of keys.

The Cronos is only a 61 key and I get a little, a little tight in. It's kind of hard to do some stuff on the piano, but it has other great sounds. I mean, it's got some great brass sounds.

It's got great synth sounds and stuff like that. Not that the Yamaha doesn't, but I think the Cronos may be a little better, but, um, but yeah, that's my, my road gig is typically the Yamaha and the Hammond. Very good.

So, uh, before we shut down here, let me, let me ask you what, what's one song that you guys always like to have in a set list that you can all agree on that you like to have it in your set list. Only one. For me, it would probably be, um, uh, human cannonball by Webb Wilder or American girl by Tom Petty.

Those are two that I sang. How about you, dad? Um, pie fortunate son, Joe. Of course, of course, for me, I like, give me some loving and nobody, but me, but that's because I sing them.

That's okay. Good deal. But I have to, I have to admit though, when, when we first did give me some loving, uh, when the guys did the harmonies behind me, it was like, Whoa, this is awesome.

Um, the guys had some really great armies for that song. So I'm, I'm pretty excited about doing that with the guys. So, um, yeah, that's pretty cool.

Yeah. We're all pretty excited about everything that's going on right now. It seems to be, uh, it seems to be our time to, to get things rolling.

Um, Joe's worked in fine. Um, we're getting some contacts through, uh, Ray Romano over at the museum where we're working at the museum, helping him out, getting that ready. Um, just it, music's feeling really good again.

It's feeling like it should. It feels right. You know, and that's how music should feel.

Yeah. I know Ray has been over to the museum and helped out quite a bit. And, uh, and Dan, you said you laid some tile there, correct? Yeah.

The bathroom downstairs in the basement. That's beautiful. I saw it.

It looks like a piano. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. I've kind of was sticking with the, uh, with that and kind of leaving some of that art deco flair because it was built in the 1930s, that building. So, so, and, you know, rock and roll.

What's more rock and roll than black and white tile. All right. So that's right.

That's right. So I can't wait. I can't wait to get over there and see, uh, what they've done with the place.

We just, we have to get that drum set in the bathroom upstairs and that guitar in the bathroom upstairs. That's all we got to do. Figure that out next.

That's right. Yeah. So where could, uh, people find you guys on social media? We are on Facebook.

Revival band, Chicago, uh, on Facebook. And we post a lot of stuff in there. We're also on, yeah, we're on everything.

All the, all the, uh, social media, um, outlets, if you will. Uh, you can buy our single right now on Amazon, Google, right? Dan. Yeah.

All the major platforms, iTunes, Spotify. It's everywhere. Do you have a website? We don't have a website.

We had one, but, uh, yeah, it seemed, uh, not, I mean, no traffic was going there and it was like, yeah, white paper is if it's not even really being used. So just Facebook. And now with the streaming, we stream, uh, simultaneously to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch all at the same time.

So, and so Twitch, I guess is now it's starting to become bigger and bigger for musicians. Because for a long time, it was just for gamers to live stream. They're playing games, which I kind of never really understood, but I guess guys that want to know how to get past a certain level or something.

I don't know. But, uh, I think a very small percentage at first is only like 5% musicians were using, but now that's going out because they're realizing that a Twitch is actually pretty friendly and good for musicians to use and full bands and stuff. So, and that's what I'm trying to do with the technology part is because when I say musicians, a lot of times it's just DJs, just spinning records and doing air stuff or acoustic guys or whatever, but never really full bands.

Don't really see too many full bands streaming like, and the same area, if you will, you know, things like on zoom where they're supposedly a hundred miles apart or whatever, you know, I'm not sure. But anyway, so what we do, though, right. It's hard.

So how do we get you to do it for us? Yeah. Right. So when we first started streaming, we were actually in the gym of this church that I belong to.

And we had the big green screen behind us and everything. So we made it look like wherever we want it to be. So when we were doing CCR stuff, we were like on the bike.

No. And different things like that playing green river. there was a green river behind us, you know, set of railroad tracks, whatever.

So that was really cool. But now that space has since been gone. We can't use it anymore.

Yeah. But really learned how to do the green screen stuff too. And I was like, man, this is really cool.

So there you go. Ray's got his green screen. Ray just moved to the beach.

See, he's got a screen behind him. Yeah. There you go.

Yep. Let's go back to the beach. It feels good.

I got warm in here all of a sudden. Well, thanks guys. Appreciate you spending some time with us this evening.

We appreciate it. Thanks for the invite. So, and, uh, hope you guys, uh, hope you guys can get out there soon and start jamming and start rock and roll.

Check out our next stream on Facebook. It's going to be, uh, two weeks from a week from this Saturday, right? Dan. Okay.

Yeah. All right. That's what October 5th.

That's perfect. All right, guys. Well, thank you very much.

Thanks a lot. All right. Thank you.

Well, that was, uh, Joe, uh, the Jack. Dan bay and Mike. I better know this too.

I'm not quite why he becomes too, but I guess we didn't get to that. Did we? Yeah, no, we didn't, but you know what? They were as much fun as that revival. I went to.

Yeah. Yes. Well, now you've been saved twice this week.

I haven't saved twice. It's your revival. And at, uh, at the, uh, at the hands of the band revival.

That's right. The hands of the band. So, um, so, uh, it was, it was fun talking with those guys.

Uh, they're, they're obviously tied down by this COVID thing too. Yeah. Just like everybody else.

It's like most other bands are. And, uh, but hopefully, um, hopefully, uh, let's pray that, uh, we get the, the, the, the, the, the sense sooner we get moving. That's right.

And you know what? This Saturday, you can catch them live streaming on their Facebook page. So make sure you check them out. That's right.

Revival, the band on Facebook. That's right. So, um, thanks for, thanks for listening to everybody.

We'll, uh, we'll talk to you next week. Uh, we'll see you then. Another exciting interview.

Oh yeah. Probably. Yeah.

Pretty, pretty good one. It's Sam. Yeah.

We can't tell him who he is though. No, no, no. We have to leave you in suspense.

No, it'll probably confuse me. Yeah. Yeah.

You seem to get confused lately, but now that you've been saved, maybe you're good. Maybe. May I have an open mind? That's right.

All right. Thank you much. Everybody.

We'll talk to you soon. Talk to you next week. Bye bye.

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