Coming to you from the studios at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66. It's the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast Hey everybody, it's Ray the roadie and I'm Hollywood Mike. Hello, Hollywood Mike.

How are you this evening? I'm doing fantastic How you doing, right? I'm doing well traffic was nice. I got a little little backed up before I got here I thought I was gonna be screwed with the bridge, but nope got right in I missed it today Normally, I normally I hit the bridge, you know, I know you do I'm the guy that if you see me standing in the line at the grocery store go to the other line. Mm-hmm.

That's me Yep If you see me on the road driving through lovely downtown, Joliet, Illinois, that's right. Don't get behind me You're gonna get caught by a bridge you will yeah. Yeah, I know you've had many bridges Yeah, I burned a lot of bridges to I hear you know I bet I've lived I've lived in this area for close to 30 years Mm-hmm, and I probably went to good 20 to 25 years without seeing those bridges up ever I didn't think they even worked and some for some reason in the last five years.

I get caught by it like once a week Wow, maybe they Picked up the train or transport or something with the barges or something. Who knows? Who knows? Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're here I'm glad I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad I'm here too. Yeah who we have with us We've got the mats bros band with us. That's good to know their names because they were just staring at us like hello Yeah, you guys gonna talk to us.

Yeah We got caught by the bridges for you, oh, there you go. There you go. Where'd you guys come from came up from Darien? Oh, that's not too far.

It's not too far away at all I thought traffic would be better today, but with the holiday, but But it was pretty heavy on the Oh President's Day. That's right. See when you don't work anymore.

You don't know Yeah, yeah, well last night at the last night at the jam it was absolutely packed and was it yeah I don't get the day off today. I mean who gets the day off today is it government employees? Yeah government. Thanks Yeah, man, all I know is nobody was going home.

Yeah me. Well, yeah, I didn't get the day off Nobody was going home 11 o'clock came around jam supposed to be ended. Nope.

We stayed there until around Oh 1230 or so I was going home. Nice. Yeah, so it was a lot of fun So tell us about the mats brothers band or the mats bros band or whatever.

They spell it differently though I noticed they do because it took me like forever to find him on the internet because I kept putting M a TT apostrophe s And it's it's Matt's Matz Bro Z. Yeah, we're pretty obscure. I guess it's hard to find us. Anyway, I've actually found Matzah brothers before The Matzah brothers Featuring gefilte fish on vocals So tell us about yourselves guys We're related brothers.

All right We've been making myself too comfortable, that's right You can you can lean back we just bring the microphone with you Well, we've been not not right out of the womb but shortly afterwards we That's the name of their first album by the way Funny thing is Not our parents but and not our grandparents but three generations ago there was a there was a Band of brothers up in the in the Dakotas South Dakota area all brothers and so we're possibly Reincarnations, I don't know Of course that played slightly different instruments. I believe we're talking accordions and all right well, and then we have the people out in Czech Republic there the Group of them, they're all related playing now playing music with the sextet, but there's only five of them. I So it somehow runs in the family I guess yeah, which is good and We've been playing since teenagers Kind of went off on our own as teenagers because who gets along as siblings when they're teenagers, right? So you guys have been brothers longer than having a band? slightly Right, I just want to clarify that from some people want to know from the womb Yeah, well came from the same womb.

So yeah after a while says well we all play music. Why don't we play together? Okay. Yeah So you guys so you guys weren't I mean you weren't playing together at all.

You were doing your own thing You were doing your own thing. Yeah, he was it's funny They were set he was set up in the basement with it with the band that he was working with with Those with Debbie Welsh. Yeah And And I was doing all my own thing.

I kind of was, you know playing here and there with you know Schoolmates and everything getting bands going and Rob had this thing going on in the basement Our brother David one day Out of the blue decides he's gonna sit behind the drum set It's like I can play these things So say wow, okay. Well, maybe we got we got a trio here at least Let's start throwing some some stuff together and see what you know transpires and So who's the drummer? That would be David who's not with us. Okay, that's right.

David. Okay. Gotcha.

Gotcha. All right He's the crazy one And you're the guitar player. I'll be the guitar player and the singer in the videos that I saw.

Okay Yeah, you do you have videos out there, but do I know we're gonna talk about that in a little bit We have questions, yeah, we have And Rob's the bass player Rob's the bass player, okay. All right So so what about what time was that that all of this decided that you were gonna make it go with the 80s? Okay Yeah, it's about the 80s. What were you guys still in high school at the time or I was out.

Well a little before that Yeah years after I graduated Yeah, the delayed 80s and have the three of you been together since then or has there been some changes over the years? Oh, there's been a lot of changes Yeah, David went out to California for a couple stints just and So obviously we I find my own, you know, we find our own different players Yeah, I mean, it's kind of like we'll be supporting players too for other bands it's like well with Crawford's daughter Rob and I are pretty much the main players now with with with Christie's band and You know, I've done other things. We've done things with with a crew out by the Rockford area So, I mean we kind of kind of like the Brecker brothers. We'll just go play with other people too, right? All right, right.

Thank you for saying that by the way, because I was trying to remember the other band Yes, that's exactly what is the other band and I couldn't remember it's Crawford's daughter we see so many bands Oh, you're right. I know. Yeah, and we're up to like 180 some 180 episodes.

This is episode 181 yeah, so Scraping the bottom of the barrel No and a lot more no, I'm sure you got a lot more. Yeah. Yeah.

No, not at all. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Yeah So and so I'm sorry. I interrupted you there take me back again. So you So David was going off to California and everything and you had to find other people to kind of fill in, right? We went with other, you know other name monikers.

We were as uncle kick for a while and that okay and that one we we played quite a few Gigs under that name and then David came back and we went back to the front man for a while. We had we had such a great drummer I was like, you know, you're not playing drums, you know, you can sing play. I came back.

Yeah, right So he ended up David's pretty multiverse as far as instrumental station instrumentation, right? harmonica Vocals, he's probably the best singer out of all of us actually when he puts his mind to it You know drums I say he's a natural of that so he could pick up any instrument and make it sound decent you know, it's not a virtuoso by any means but He has a handle on music. Yeah, some people got an ear that can do that, right? I I saw something amazing last night I went on and saw a couple of guys play and there was a guy that was he was the drummer He was also the lead singer Then he had this contraption around his neck with a harmonica and the microphone was stuck into this harness thing So it looked like he was wearing scuba gear behind the drums and he was playing the drums and he was singing and playing Harmonica at the same time. It's like the other guys Yeah, the guitar player was good, right bass player was good But you couldn't take your eyes off of this guy that was doing all three of those things at the same time It's like how do you teach yourself how to do that? That was for nation.

That was that was incredible I mean, I've tried to play guitar and play harmonic at the same time with the with the doohickey I can't do it. This guy's playing the drums and singing in the whole bit and doing it. It was unbelievable.

Yeah Yeah, that's exactly that's exactly what it was the one man band right right, right So let's so let's talk about your your internet presence. I said we were gonna come back to that I was looking for you guys and I swear there there were so many different things that came up. You were exactly right Matz if you google matz, I was shocked how many things came up and it all had things to do with music Then it was like games of companies and it was stuff that was all over the world And then I came across as one thing and I clicked on it.

It was specifically for you guys It was like a one-page Such as add or something with a list of videos that you can go and click on and all the videos were from I think It was Miss Kitty's Miss Kitty's or another way was like there was a place in Aurora that we had a bunch out of It was Turner Club But yeah, yeah most of our were kitties I think mm-hmm we set up I gotta say I didn't send videos is nothing like high production value, but you know, it's fan videos Sometimes sometimes those are the best. Yeah, right. Yeah.

Yeah, you get to know who the favorite person is in the band Yeah fans sends you to videos. Yeah There's five people in there and one person's in this whole video. Yeah, that's right.

That's right. Yeah. Yeah, that's good So I looked at some of the music.

It seems kind of be Not really all over the board But it definitely seems to be from one specific type of an era Tell me a little about the music that you guys prefer to play Well, it is definitely more the the classic rock I'm gonna say as we were 70s 80s As far as that goes what we prefer to do would be Right, you know do the original thing which we did we've got a couple CDs we made I mean in an ideal world, I would be playing originals Shows all all night that the money of course isn't as prevalent, right? But if it was that's where I really would like to be is just doing the original material Mm-hmm, and well you mix some in don't you? Oh, yeah, we can't. Yeah, absolutely So and you know some of these venues you play as I won't want to hear stuff we know So that's where we go 70s 80s 90s familiar 60s You know 60s through 90s. I'd say is where we're at.

We'll try to do that Try to cover so much as much as we can whatever we like, you know reggae, you know If we can, you know pull off some jazz, you know country You know, whatever whatever we like and if we can play it well We'll do it and I've seen a few things on there You guys kind of do them like medleys and I can't remember what they are specifically You'll start off as one thing and then I think you went into a Bob Marley song or something like that So you kind of like them you give it a little bit of a variety to it, right? Right? Yeah I'll start doing that and I won't let them know that we're doing. Yeah Surprise, you know, we call those parking lot songs Learn it out in the parking lot and you just go inside and start playing it Yeah, so so why do you think I mean if you if you'd prefer to do original music, why do you think I? Why do you think it's not being received is it maybe the places that you're choosing to play at or What's the response been for you? The response is usually good When we you know, it's just a matter of finding new venues that'll pay, you know decent um, you know a decent amount a lot of times it's right I find it's like you're doing showcases or whatnot and at a point now where actually, we're kind of on a hiatus because there's some health issues with One of the numbers basically, right you put it one way So kind of on hold we did we did a couple gigs last year actually a couple out Galena way One was all originals for the for fine arts and you know, it's you know, it's great. I mean it was well-received, you know money wise is it worth doing the run out there if you don't have You know three other gigs lined up at the same time.

I know yeah Right, right I get it. So what do you have prepared for us today? You guys gonna play some original stuff or what are you gonna know? Yes, we brought a couple of instruments We could we can do a couple originals. We got two or three planned out.

We could uh, yeah Well, why don't you guys get them out tune them up and we'll be right back. I think it's time You're listening to the rock and roll Chicago podcast. Hi, I'm Rick Anthony I'd like to thank my radio brothers Ray the roadie and Hollywood Mike for allowing me to tell you about my podcast The someone you should know podcast we spotlight musicians authors and interesting people and we like to say we're making a difference one artist at a time The podcast is heard twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays and you could check it out on your favorite streaming platforms and on the web At someone you should know podcast.com. That's the someone you should know podcast with me Rick Anthony making a difference one artist at a time and for the first time this evening the Mets bros band We'll do a song called matter of time this one I guess I cashed in some of my 15 minutes of fame on this one because this one actually That played on the loop at one point.

Well, I I didn't hear it. But somebody had Somebody had submitted it. Yeah, and The size of this fish I caught man The crush of it was somebody calls me later Within an hour, I just heard one of your songs on the radio somebody completely unconnected.

Wow Let's do it let's do it's called matter of time this one Just To care It's the yes, or they say Measure it in numbers or the measure But no matter how you slice it up boys You make it stand Over to me over work. I'm sure you all agree The double time that's something you and I rather seldom see You got central time. You got your mountain time.

You got nothing in between Lord, I really wanna go and wonder why it's a British time. So me Taking time me making time Possibly But it feels so good to me some people say I have too much time I'm at a disagree Don't you see Believe it'll come a time when all those clocks off the wall Really don't believe we'll have a need for time at all Won't feel that for certain now make it come to call You're gonna be the end of time as you and I know it for saw One day in the future, oh, I see my younger days Vanished in the days, but the time is here time is now. I believe the time is right In another Very nice Nicely done.

Yes. Yes. I'm detecting a little bit of Paul Simon there a little bit I didn't know a little bit of Paul Simon a little bit of Dan Fogelberg Okay, who's I believe is actually a member of the Illinois Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum He's yes.

Yeah, I believe he's inducted in the Hall of Fame. Yes. He is.

Absolutely. Yes. Yeah, you got an opportunity You might get inducted someday That was for me And a poster on the mirror So, when did you write that? Oh god, what was that tooth? CD was released in 2005.

That was 2005 on that one. So Shortly before that. That's right.

It was yeah, you guys said you had some album had a couple albums Oh, what was the band name at the time when when that thing? It was okay. All right. I got a couple copies.

I get three years. Oh, yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, it's good We love how sales Anymore I don't know I guess everything's usually gonna pay people to take them Well, you know sometimes you do that, you know, you got to get it out some kind of way, that's right Um, I mean, are you guys set up on anything like Spotify or anything like that? No, no No, yeah, I'm telling you you should you know, people say people say that all the time.

They're like, yeah, you know We just got a few songs. We're not gonna do this. You never freaking know I mean there are people that we have actually had on the podcast and there's people that I see on a regular basis and Nobody knew who the heck they were and they put one song on Spotify and next thing, you know, they're getting calls Hey come play my club in Nashville.

Yeah, you know it it happens. There's yeah, there's so many people around here You never know, you know, not to say that you're gonna make it famous or anything No, you don't go into it with that attitude, but it'd be a cool road trip It might pop into some playlist or something or you know, somebody's just searching around looking for something new Yeah, yeah, so tell us a little bit about that song. What's the story behind it? it was just you know, pretty much what it sounds like I Was squeezed for time, you know once what happens at time and it's one of those things that just came real natural I mean, it was one of those songs.

I wrote that song like one night, you know, and that usually doesn't happen I've got some that are still in the box for years, you know, right? They still haven't come out yet. But yeah, it was it was like a one-night song. It's like, okay This is it just seemed logical and it's like, you know, it's I still have the original Paper someplace, but yeah, right, right, right.

So that's what it was. Sometimes it happens, you know that way You know, you know everyone everybody I think everybody who writes has something happen like that where you sit down next thing You know in 10 minutes, you have a song. Yeah, right.

They come in spurts. Sometimes are you the main writer? I'm the last one we did we split Rob did a lot of the writing. I I mean some of the earlier stuff that we did I was Melody or lyrics guy.

I Have to put the progressions down first, you know you Yes, it's melodies. Okay, I struggle with lyrics a lot. Okay, you know I say sometimes sometimes they come naturally and it's like that and then I'll agonize for months here sometimes, right? You know, you know everybody everybody would be able to write a song if they could just rhyme.

Yeah, you know You know and just because you can rhyme Doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna make a great song. Although it's worked for Adam Sandler for decades. Yes Well, that's good that's good what was the name of that album did that was matter of time that was the title Okay.

All right. Well, you guys should put that out. I'm telling you shit So what were you guys doing about that time? 2005 you guys are recording and you're recording an album.

You must have had some kind of Aspirations, you know, that was we were playing out a lot at that time A lot of shows actually it was the early 2000 I was actually I came across I suppose we talk about members suburban nightlife magazine. Yeah. Oh, yeah we were like In the top.

Well, you had to be top five to be enlisted but like all over the place that the one year I was working with two or three different projects and every one of them was like Right there at the top. I just pulled it out. Oh my god, what happened? So at that time we were you know We're real busy at that time it was acquaintances, yeah But but we were a lot of bar gigs.

I was doing a lot of stuff with with Ronnie in the Rockets Which was a blues thing Out in Galena a lot. So I was busy with that we went out to Galena a couple at least once a month and you know, these guys had come out once in a while to It's working with another gal Debbie Welsh. We were playing a lot of stuff.

I mean just crazy, you know 20 years younger and just You know, yeah, I think and even back then I think They weren't having seven day a week bands and bars yet at that time ready No, I kind of went away in the 80s, right? We can go any night of the week Sunday Tuesday with it going to bar. There's a band playing right now Mm-hmm. Yeah, it definitely isn't like that anymore direct more and more people are Cutting it out, you know, unfortunately, you know, and you know, I was that that's a good conversation to have You Know especially what you know, we got four guys sitting around a table here been doing this for a long time it used to be Bar owners would provide entertainment for their patrons as a you know, what in the business world we call it a value-add You know when you give something, you know When you give something that they're not paying for really if you're not charging the cover charge or whatever and it's a value-add It's something to add to the value of the experience of visiting that it that establishment.

It's not looked that way anymore You know, it's it's all about how many people can you bring with you? You know, how many how little can I get away with paying you? For the maximum amount of people. Yeah, you know that you can bring them and am I right or right or wrong? What do you play for exposure? You know, there are websites all over the place about Smartass comments that you can make the bar owners that say things like that You know, but you know in people I love when people sit around and talk about why I said this to a bar owner one Time no, you didn't You know cuz you probably because you probably didn't play there. I was gonna say was that your last time you play there? Yeah, yeah, exactly, but you're exactly right because one of the famous ones that goes around is well, I'll tell you what you own This bar and restaurant.

I'm gonna have 20 people at my house friends of mine for dinner Why don't you come and cook dinner for everybody for the exposure? You know kind of thing. Yeah people. Yeah, I've heard that one Yeah, you know, I'll guarantee you didn't you didn't say that to a bar before even back in the day Even the bar owners they would push the entertainment You know whoever's playing at their bars to get people in now They just sit back and who you gonna bring who are you gonna break? No, yeah, so it's up to you to fill it up, right and I did have this I you know, I did have an honest conversation with a with a bar owner one time where You know, he tried that, you know, well, you know, we didn't have a lot of people here we didn't make enough money to pay you guys and instead of instead of Taking the attitude and saying yeah bullshit I know this table over here had a hundred, you know, you know hundred dollar bar tab instead of taking it that way You know, I said well, let's let's talk about that You know, it's got to be mutually beneficial and this is what we did, right? We advertised the show we advertised your place We invited people to come to it and the whole bit I didn't know if I was gonna have anybody come out because I've never been here before most of the people that Come out to see us have never been here before I took a chance on whether or not they were gonna like your bar And how that was gonna reflect on me You know, you know kind of thing and Did he did he pay me what he promised? No, because I said, you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna throw this guy a bone, right? You know make sure we all go home at $100 in our pocket and cover our bar tab You know, it's got to be mutually beneficial for everybody.

But you know, let's face it I just spent three hours setting up and taking this crap down. That's what you're paying me for You know, so man, so where's your favorite places to play? I Love you know, well We do a lot at Miss Kitty's saloon. We have yeah in the past.

That's that's usually I mean, that's it's Home, it's home. It's home. Yeah, it's home.

There's there's some places in Galena. We used to like to play a lot in Galena Yeah Music scene out there. Oh, yeah like to say, you know I mean, we're how I was playing out there a lot before it was much of a Lot of places to play and now it's like you walk down the street and there's oh, he's a legend out there But I mean, that's a I mean, that's a that's a hike from Darien.

Oh, yeah It is that's almost get a hotel room kind of distance. It's Since the the whole covert thing. There's it's it's been shooting a few and farther between in places.

I'm thinking. Yeah really like to play there's Trying to think of some of the places in the past And I have potters and Naperville is always fun. Yeah, this is great.

Yeah, right right places in Glen Ellyn. Oh really cool Daniels places some of those places, right? Oh, yeah, I remember that place. Yeah You guys have always been a three-piece No Well, a lot of times we would bring on a fourth another guitar slasher in one case we had a guy that was multi-instrumental the keyboards and Mandolin a guy from Nashville, yeah, no nice yeah, we'd have a fourth and I always loved that because I could play the acoustic guitar on several songs and instead of you know, the electric constantly and It added a nice, you know diversity to it, right, right Damn, I was hoping he said they'd bring a fourth in as a glockenspiel He's trying to get I'm Tom trying to find some band that's got a glockenspiel, you know We're gonna have to specifically target.

Let's put a glockenspiel rock band. Any yeah any band have a glockenspiel I think it's time for another one. I think so, too.

How about another original? Which one would you like to well? Get it together and we'll be right back You're listening to the rock and roll Chicago podcast I'm Christy from crime cave podcast I've had a huge interest in true crime since my days of watching marathons have snapped back in the mid 90s I needed an outlet to talk about the cases that have haunted me for a very long time With each episode under 20 minutes. I shine a light on some of the most bizarre cases in the last 50 years Join me in the crime cave They call in circles, this is one of Rob's creations, I'm gonna try to get through it as much as I try Well, I have my voice here I Recognize I'm saying You guys missed it that was the glockenspiel song that was That could easily roll a glockenspiel on there. I couldn't have been a glockenspiel He was making the guitar sound like a blockage.

You're a they'd be off like a bullet in Munich That was that was actually pretty cool it was very cool and I was getting I was getting hints of white bird Paper white remember that song. I was hearing being by the done being Think that every time The band was called it's a beautiful day. They had the song white bird Yeah, I do remember that I was getting that little feel from that yeah, yeah No, I was getting that a little bit too and that you're saying it It had a 60s a little 60s 60 sound to it like Yard early or yard birds when they tried to go pop.

Yeah, and Eric Clapton left the band, right? I'm late 60s folky. I'll tell you missed you missed it. That should have been the glockenspiel Now is that on the album? Did you record that that is on it? You need to go back and rerecord a glock with a glockenspiel.

You're gonna find one first And then send it to him. So he'll stop Podcast Wait long enough. I'm sure somebody will donate one to the museum I Learned something just a random thing.

I learned something the other day that you know what they're not all trombones have a slide No, they have valve trombones. They have valve trombones. I was like, what kind of witchcraft was that Wow? It looked like somebody's brass bed with buttons on it, right? Because because I said I said I'm the slide trombone, right and I said well That's kind of redundant isn't because I'm gonna be around the trombone your slide and I got corrected I got corrected by horn players.

Oh, no You should not talk of things that you would you do not understand and then there's the sax. It looks like a gold clarinet, all right That's the Kenny that's the Kenny G thing, right? saxophones like Mozart Like a clarinet. No, but it's a saxophone unless but Kenny G did it differently.

He played it out the side of his. Oh, yeah Yeah, completely different sound so it was a it was a it was a gold clarinet that he held like a flute And had an airbag like like a So, so how so how many albums do you guys have is it just the one or you said a couple of yeah Okay, a couple things. Yeah, so three three so now that song was on the same album as So when was the last out or when was the first and when was the last time that would have been the last one That was less Trang man, you guys got to get back in this way.

Yeah, we do. We've been talking about it for decades, right? Yeah So so the first album came out what that was I wasn't well, I was in college. So I wasn't doing a lot with this.

Um, I didn't last so that was Early 90s. So what was the difference between the music then and then the last album of 2005? Well, Rob did a lot of writing on the last one music wise a lot of the ideas were kind of floating around for a while anyway, and I don't know Maybe get different, you know influences from some of the newer stuff that comes out not that I really Listen to a lot of the newer stuff or the current stuff Or into the yeah, I don't know. It's hard to say really but nothing crazy.

Like oh, yeah, we first started out We're like this hair metal band Nothing like that, right? So it's so it's all the continuity is all pretty much been the same over the years and yeah, and if we do live shows like there was another project I had the prehensile tailband, which Was a little heavier and we throw some of those songs into our live Performances to as far as some of the original stuff, right? So, yeah, but sometimes, you know, you write something down you put it together and you just can't go any further We just let it go, you know in 10 20 years later Now you bring it back Yeah, a lot of stuff I have on the plate is I think more versed to be instrumental some of it. I mean Right, which Maybe I can pull the lyrics out of the box and see what fits. Yeah Somebody else listens to it and says hey, I got something for you.

Yes. That's that is true. Yeah.

Yeah I like writing stuff by myself and then And you know just saying here. This is the song I just played for the band And they're like, well, what do you want the bass line to be like? I don't know. I'm not the bass player What do you want to be doing the drums? I don't I don't care.

I'm not a drummer, you know kind of thing Right, right exactly right right, right. Well, hey You guys remember anything off that first album first cassette For those of you that don't are too young to know what a cassette is It's a rectangular shaped hard plastic case with two little holes and a little tiny reel-to-reel tape thing in it It's right that you could wind up With a pencil Right that came out after the 8-track, yeah, was it after the 8-track I think cassettes were around at the same time But a tracks were hot for a while. Yeah, they should have sold a matchbook with every 8-track you bought Keep it from double tracking and stuff And then when you listen to it and then halfway through the song it clicks and goes to the next track and then you listen To it on the radio and go what happened to that click? Yeah, my father actually got when I can't remember how old I was I Think I was in about third or fourth grade My father came home with a brand new State-of-the-art Fisher stereo that kind of looked like this thing on on the shelves behind us over here and it had a It had a regular cassette player and it had an 8-track Oh, and it was at the end It was at the time when everybody was buying 8-tracks and I remember my dad saying I've got an 8-track player Like he's he thought he had the coolest thing on the planet Mm-hmm, and then like a month later.

Nobody was buying 8-tracks I know I was gonna buy a CD player and Gals dating at the time says why you don't own any CDs Why why of course that's why I'm buying a CD player, right? And then that lasted for about give me an excuse yeah, yeah, why do you buy guitars cause They're there. They're there. That's right Right But so getting back to the first cassette.

Yeah. Yeah, which yeah, can you think of anything? Oh, yeah, some of those songs might have been Some of the more I don't know original Because I mean they said they had some stuff prepared, right? What talking yeah Yeah, so yeah, we're gonna throw them. We're gonna throw put them on the hot seat right now and find out How that's gonna go.

Well, I can do The future song what okay, we'll be right back. Okay You're listening to the rock and roll Chicago podcast And here we go again the Mets bros band One Damn Oh There you have it the Mets bros the cassette years he's still he loves those glockenspiel sound He's very harmonious, you know, you're you're right the the the newest or the oldest song sounds very yeah close to the latest song That's uh, well, sometimes there's the first ones that you're right there and yeah every do you put everything into it, you know? It gets harder as it some of the high notes that I tried the same You are a little older now. Yeah Well good stuff guys, yeah, definitely I know you guys said you don't have nothing planned out now because your brother and stuff But when a time comes where can people find you? Presence on Facebook myself and then rich Matt's of course The website's really not doing anything right now, you know if I have people's emails I said I shoot out emails that let people know where I'm playing or Okay, we're playing a lot of cases.

So Yeah, all righty. Well, then they can look for you on Facebook fine. I'll find out We'll find you that's right You can't hide anywhere.

All right. All righty guys. Thanks a lot coming out.

I appreciate Take take care. All right, and there go the bros the Mets bros the Mets bros not the Matzah bros. No, that's her matzah balls That's when I first looked them up.

I Kept coming up as matzah Yeah, the the Mets bros the Mets bros band with a lot of original material Yeah, a lot of original, you know, and it seems like they just need to get back on the horse a little bit They do, you know, they do. I mean they got three albums. Yeah, you know, they they need to move that Yeah, and I hope everything works out with them.

They they mentioned they one of the brothers is He'll some dealing some health issues, but he'll be back again They'll be out playing again, and maybe we'll get a chance to go catch him. So maybe they'll record something by the summer Yeah, that's what I told him. There's no way in hell again anything by summer, but it's great to see I you know I really enjoy a band that's still trying to you know, play some original stuff Do you know be yourself right? This is you know, I can anybody could do a cover.

That's right be yourself That's right. So make sure make sure you get out there and see the Mets bros band somewhere around They're not playing anywhere now, but they will be this summer. So check them out then as always Thank you for listening to the rock and roll Chicago podcast.

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