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 this is Hollywood Mike once again once again, yes good Am I supposed to be like impressed or you know, I could have stayed home with for this You could have you could have and I just I would have said hey, it's Ray the roadie and there've been dead there nothing Just nothing. Yeah.

Yeah, no, he said I'd start to cry and stuff. And yeah, you know, so what's going on with you? You do anything interesting over this past weekend? No, not really. Not really the weather wasn't all that great.

No, it kind of sucked Yeah, yeah, you know, even though this this podcast coming out later on Yeah, it's gonna April but the weekend the week that we recorded it why they're still kind of crappy Yeah, well, you know as long as we don't mention any dates then, you know, it's all relative. That's right. No dates.

No figs I'm I am Oh God. No I'm looking forward to this weekend though. Yeah.

Yeah, because we're gonna be celebrating somebody's birthday we are celebrating Pauly's 70th birthday man behind the The madness that's right The madness of them in our rush the dancing noodles and the rock and roll Chicago podcast does all the editing of the other podcast That's right. That's right. He's turning.

What is it is 70 Wow. No kidding. Yeah Wow, he doesn't look a day over 85.

No, not at all. Yeah, I didn't think so. We love you Pauly.

Yes, we do So besides that we're gonna be drinking some whiskey, yes, we will. Yeah, what's that gonna turn us into devils? Yeah, I think so. That's probably what will happen to us.

Yeah, I wonder why cuz we have the whiskey devils here joining us This evening. How you guys doing? Howdy Grab holding a microphone do this, you know, you don't have to fight over it at all Why don't you tell everybody who you are who's here tonight? Let your fans know. Yeah I'm Ferrara.

I'm the lead singer of the whiskey devils And then I have Eric to the right. Well, she went through that real fast She's like, I'm the lead singer and I'm Eric, you know, we got to put her out in front if she weren't so damn pretty We'd worry about her You know and you'll never forget a name like Ferrara, I mean that's one thing you can call Bob who's Bob? Yeah, Ferrara Oh, you'll remember that I immediately thought atomic fireballs. Yeah Pan So, my name is Eric floating I'm the I'm whatever.

I guess I'm the setup guy. I'm the Piano player the guitar player, whatever. I just kind of show up All right, okay, I'm Jim I'm the bass player and I'm also let's see.

I'm the weekends. I play with these guys and then I'm a polka DJ on the side a Polka DJ. Yes, sir.

Wow. He is known my friends. He is known in the poker He is the polka key polka DJ King Wow of McHenry, yeah You got not many people know that but yeah, you got the leader hosing and all that.

No, we don't do leader hosing No, no leader hosing. So what does a polka DJ do? Yeah, this podcast has just changed the hell with Wait a minute. So you literally all you play is polkas Actually, I spend polkas.

I'm involved with an with an internet polka radio station called the polka jammer Network In fact me and a friend of mine by the name of Jack, but Jeske out of Connecticut started this network back in January 2003 and it's grown to be pretty big We've got a pretty sizable following and I do it do a polka show on Thursday Actually Thursday night from set from 5 to 7 central time It's on a station called the polka jammer Network triple W that polka jammer network doubt or my show is called chainsaws polka madhouse Chainsaws polka madhouse awesome, you know, you need to schedule a podcast so we can just come and talk about the polka stuff We've had Frank Rossi and Eddie Carrozza on our show, I'm familiar with Eddie crosses Yeah, yeah Wow interesting we were going through a weird period at that time like let's get a couple of polka guys John candy in the back of a truck Well, that's really cool. Yeah, that is really I'm gonna have to check that out. So so how do you go from? polkas to whiskey devil mainly because The last several years that the polka field that I've been involved in for almost 30 years has been going It's been more or less going downhill and I stopped playing out with bands back in 2014.

So I started playing in church at the Church of Holy Apostles because I moved close to my folks back then and a few years ago I you know went to one of the masses over there and I happen to see check out the music director at the time his name was Fergal King and He had a pretty pretty interesting some pretty interesting music So I emailed them and I asked him do you guys are you guys looking for a bass player? And he says, you know, well, I'll tell you I want to come down check, you know Let's see what you're what you're about So I went down on a third Thursday afternoon at church and I you know We played we talked a little bit and I started playing then now I started playing the ten o'clock mass in church and so I was there for that what camera when I starting was like And I'm getting him getting a mind block over here folks So, but anyways, uh, he was he Fergal was there for like the first two years I was there and then a gentleman by name of Craig Colson. He's a Catholic composer Moved from Phoenix, Arizona. He came out here.

He's the current music director So now when he came in he added the eight o'clock mass to the ten o'clock. So now I'm doing two masses over there Yeah, so Wow and you and you are you listening to him speak? I am. Yeah, it's not Catholic.

It's Catholic. Yeah I Was born and raised in the north side of Chicago Maybe south I was I'm a South Sider I lived in Chicago Richard 13 years. So yeah, okay over by the jewels.

Yeah, I actually by Oklahoma That's why I took my Cubs hat off when I walked in here I Don't think I got that one out. So so who's the actual brainchild of Whiskey Devils? Well, this all started kind of on a whim Ferraro was playing in a in a rock band and I filled in for the keyboardist who had to leave after set one and Yeah, I heard this girl's voice and I was like, holy cow and about a week later The same guy Craig Colson kind of said hey this girl's thing about starting something herself So it went from there. We made a phone call We started talking and before you know it and it's the irony were called the Whiskey Devils and were made up composed of mostly church band members That's I met Eric, yeah, and that's how we met together and it just kind of solidified from there Okay, my question is the keyboardist had to leave after one set.

Yeah Because he had to go play at a mass later on night. Oh So this is planned. Yeah, this was planned Like can you fill in for me and I just yeah Wow, I mean, that's that means I that's church dedication.

I gotta go. God. I gotta go.

God's calling. Yeah Yeah, so is that the person that kind of started this whole band is I mean, yeah, I guess I guess the question is Who are we missing? I guess I started it. You started.

Yeah, because Yeah, I was playing with already rocks a different group and I met him or D rocks I think I've heard of that you might have yeah, okay I ended up leaving them and then I called Eric and I just said do you want to start a band with me because I Wanted to do something on my own we started and he got everybody else together and we started off in his garage Yeah, and then just started booking stuff. Yeah, that's usually the way it goes. Yeah, and there's five of you total Yeah, okay.

And so who are we missing then? Oh, we are missing Ben who would be the guitarist and then Nick who's the drummer? Okay, so this guy Craig that you're talking about is nowhere he's not in the picture anymore. No, no, okay Only on Sunday Okay. All right, so it's still church is that is that the thing is he's all church.

He's all church Gotcha. Okay. So when did the one did the one that does all come about? What year was it? Two years ago, right two years ago.

So it's all relatively new then. Yeah 2022. Yeah, okay Excellent.

Excellent. Excellent Other than church, what were you what were you doing? Prior that prior to that. I'll be honest.

I was doing nothing. Yeah, I've been a keyboard player my whole life I always wanted to be in a band and He was looking for people that had church commitments. Yeah, it's definitely I stepped in that one night and I haven't looked back Great.

It just kind of happened. So very appreciative for what happened. That's good And and what's the success been like tell us a little bit about that Has it been a rough road or what's been going on for you guys? You know, it just kind of we've had an amazing Amount of people that have really stepped up and really just helped us said hey Do you know what about this place you want to play for ours like an email? Guru emails places and next thing, you know, we we got hooked up with Joey Marco DeMarco who Joey DeMarco who's a guy who you don't know And That's the end of the story there and then he just started really liked what good feedback from us and then next thing You know that we just kind of took off.

Yeah, so you mainly playing up north or Venturing out. Well, we found another promoter Susie. What was what company she was? 1126 not Susie that's booking the matrix over here.

Yeah. Yeah. I know her.

Well, my band's played there twice. Yeah Yeah, it's a nice have you guys played there yet? Yep. Yeah, great place.

No loved it. It was great So she's got booked us a lot in the South suburbs. We play down here in Lyle and different places Downers Grove things like that Yeah, so well, we have guitars and we'll move She's opening up her own place in Downers is she really yeah She is and she's already hired our band to kind of open it up for her.

So I'm looking forward to that No, it's her own bar restaurant. I believe so. I don't have all the details, but that's why it was presented to me She's opening up her own place, which is pretty cool.

Awesome. You know a glockenspiel in there He loves I'm trying to find a rock band with a glockenspiel he loves glockenspiel The guys that were in here just before you guys he was doing some kind of weird guitar stuff He was just hitting harmonics and it sounded like a glockenspiel. I thought he was gonna jump out of his chair Kept hearing being president Yeah, right, so take me back let's let's go let's go back You know a ways and I know where you guys came from and what led you down this road to music So me, I mean, honestly, I I've just always loved to sing so I've been in a few different bands I did some musical theater And I just yeah, I mean, I I don't know I just I always loved to sing since I was little I've been singing My whole life pretty much And then I started in bands and that gave me more confidence and I got better and better and then I found him Being more I guess country-oriented.

Yeah, is that always what you've been influenced by? I pretty much grew up with country music. So I was a pretty influenced by it and just always loved to sing it I kind of connected with it So that's kind of where my heart and my passion is but you know, I'll sing other stuff too, right? Right. Who's your favorite? So I love Carrie Underwood Miranda Lambert Sugar land all the stuff we sing.

Yeah, right, right, right, right See that that tells me that I am so much older Because I remember I remember being of age when I would hear those bands going that's not real country music Cuz you know for me to go for me to go back to like who my favorite female country vocalist would I'd have to go back to like Reba McEntire. Oh, she's good Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly what about you I Was took lessons when I was a kid till I was about 14 and then just kind of let it go to the side and it Wasn't I was back in college and I just so happened to live in a dorm across from the music building and they they had a big grand piano on them in the in the Communal area so I'd sit down start playing the next thing the girls started coming. So you see And then they're like, hey, I got a I'm trying out for this musical this weekend Do you know Sun and Moon from Miss Saigon? Sure.

I'll learn it. Boom. Boom.

Boom. Next thing, you know Yeah, I'm spending more time in the music building than the physical education building. So it just kind of worked out So I did that I went back to school.

I got a music degree from the local community college Wow and Went from there and just kind of just been a closet musician up until about two years ago Did you you totally switched your major over to be a music major or oh, you don't even want to know I left school I left school to get my music degree only to get that to go back to school to get a Spanish degree So go figure, you know, I don't I can tell you Manko music time. I was this So you have a degree in music and you have a degree in Spanish, correct? And what are you doing now? I'm a day job. I work as a township deputy assessor So He probably should have gone and got a finance degree right right, right exactly and I also work for a brewery Crystal Lake Brewery and over in Crystal.

Okay. So, okay Wow chief taster. Yeah As much as I can Yeah, well, I've never heard of that combination before music degree.

Yeah and a Spanish degree. Yeah, he not only paid for one useless degree He paid for two. Yeah But damn it it looks good up on a wall Hey, you go and you you know, your college is about the thought process not necessarily right you're studying It's you know the truth.

So After you fell in love with Frankie Yankovic Actually Frankie Yankovic Slovenian I've been doing mostly Polish style, but anyways Their style Well, we're learning more about Polkas than I've ever thought. Let's see. So how far you want me to go with this? What was your inspiration for this for Polka, okay I when I was in when I drafted I went to Gordon Tech High School and That's where I picked a bass guitar because I wanted to play in the jazz band so I was I took some lessons and learned bass guitar, you know enough that I can read music and I was playing tuba in the marching band Originally when I start actually going going back to fifth grade.

I originally started on the trumpet I used to get in trouble a lot in school Talk back to the teachers and all that so my mom to sit, you know When my mom heard that they were starting a new band program, it's a st. Mary the angels in Chicago She decided put me in a band to get me out of trouble get me out of trouble and it looks like it worked So that so I started on trumpet I played for a couple years and then I had to get braces because it turns out I Was born with too many teeth so So was Freddie Mercury. Oh, really? WLS am 89 for when I was little that was a good station But anyways out so so then the band director suggested that you know, I tried an instrument with a bigger mouthpiece So put me on baritone and then he asked me would you like to learn bass clef? It's like, okay well, so did that following summer after right after seventh grade I start, you know taking lessons on bass clef and then Beginning of eighth grade.

There was it. I went to the band room. There was a tuba in the corner He says you're playing that as is what? It was a very heavy tuba that was bigger than me and it was all metal and I had a hard time trying to hold it so Going so I start so I basically went from trumpet to baritone to tuba and then I also picked up, you know You know regular acoustic guitar on the side to I start, you know Self-taught mostly self-taught on that Going then I went to Gordon Tech High School.

That's well, it's no longer Gordon Tech It's now the Paul College prep used to be an all these been all boy school and I went went for four years I started playing in the jazz. I start picking up start taking lessons, you know to play bass guitar Right before junior year and I got into the jazz band so I played with the jazz band for two years and then I managed to get a you know, There's to get managed to get into a music college because I would you know I didn't know what the hell I was gonna do right after high school So somebody said so I talked to a gentleman by the name of dr. Ben Stoner.

My my sister Diane was taking lessons for me. He suggested Vandercook College of Music So I says, okay, I can I could try this thing out So I so I applied over there got accepted. I was in the concert band.

I played up, right? I started learning upright bass because you know on the side, but I mean I managed to get proficient enough I was actually it put me got me in the concert band believe it or not Hmm, and so then I also played in the jazz band I went for it for two years and I had to drop out because there was certain I did not know me You know when I went to high school They didn't have music theory and I had a hell I had a hard time with the lot of the courses So so then I dropped out of there I start working a bunch of odd jobs The polka thing came up around a year after I left Vandercook I met a gentleman in one of the Think it's on the IIT campus by the name of Bill Gula who happened to play in the playing the senior jazz band and him And I well, I was introduced by the lead saxophonist in the in the Vandercook jazz band the a band That's what they called it and good saxophone player. But anyways So I started so we became quick friends and finally You know when I left Vandercook I decided to give I had the guy's number So I figured give him a call see if he remembered me and yeah, he remembered me and he says Oh, let's keep in touch about a month later Bill. His name is Bill Gula He asked me.

How would you like to audition for a polka band? I Says a polka band What is that? So he put so he came over to his house one time and he played me a couple tunes I says well, this is interesting So I decided that I took my bass guitar He gave me one of you gave me an album by by Joan by name of Joe Valega He had a bank of Joe Valega and his happy hearts and So I learned all that so Basically, I've learned most of the tunes on the album and what what hand what it and when I get to the audition What what is Joe Valega pull pull out all little Wally tunes that I never heard before And so so then then Joe I overheard him tell Bill's is oh, I I don't know if I can use them So I guess Joe took me under his wing. I went for I went for played with him for about a year and Then I then I got him then a bass player of another band called the Windy City Brass That was getting ready to leave He asked me if I wanted to take over so then I took over and I started playing playing him for a couple years And then I got an offer to go with a road band by the name of stash galunka He played a lot on the East Coast. So I started playing with him.

I think was like 1990 91 You're really deep rooted in polka. Yes. I've never I did.

This is a first for me. Yeah Yeah, it is no it no now when you were in school. Did you finish did you get a degree in music? No, unfortunately not so you couldn't go back and get a Spanish degree.

No, no, no I can't I can't even understand Spanish It would be a Polish degree. Yeah Let me tell you though like this guy is such a good musician There's been times where his iPad quits right if he's using an iPad and by sheer memory and perfect pitch He can pick it out Wow, and it's it's just been amazing. Sometimes.

I would think most people would clam up He goes through the whole song like no problem. Yeah, unbelievable. Can't teach it in school.

So You know, I kind of zoned out a little bit there because you mentioned the tuba Yes, actually that play actually that's how I got the well I got actually in the polka world the Bandlers gave me a name, right? Chainsaw, okay, and what happened was I bet it came out I guess when I was in when I was in Gordon Tech high school I was the only to a player and a hundred-piece marching band in height in Gordon Tech and I played the tuba so loud I all blew the entire brass and percussion And The assistant band director called me chainsaw because I played to as loud as a chainsaw Yeah, so, you know what you need to do if you if you've seen it already great If you haven't seen it, you have to go on Netflix Eddie Murphy's latest movie on Netflix. I was trying to find the name of it. It might be called Candy Cane Lane Okay, I'm not sure I love but he's got a he's got a son that plays tuba in the marching band, right? really and and and He Overlooks his schoolwork because he's so into his music and they're standing in the kitchen And of course Eddie Murphy goes into classic Eddie Murphy, right? And he says look you need to do something else other than playing it to playing it, you know You know playing in the marching band.

It doesn't say tuba yet playing in the playing in the marching band, you know Cuz you know You got to learn to read and write in the arithmetics and stuff like that and the wife is standing over there going Yeah, but he's good and he loves it doing he can make it big and he goes not on the tuba Tell me what tell me when was the last time you saw a band on stage and somebody said and on tuba is and they introduced the guy But it's one of the best scenes in the movie. It's so good. I had that I had that I had the I Had the video it and send it out to the horn section in Cadillac groove and say look at this Everybody absolutely loved it.

It was great So I'm dying to hear them. I want to hear this I want to yeah, I'm here some of this music because you know what, you know Polka bass lines aren't much different Let them get all tuned up 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 Are we ready? Yep, and for the first time tonight here are the whiskey devils Look it's my Oh I ain't settling Just getting by Oh We don't have the applause button anymore We don't We're gonna do it ourselves. That was fantastic I told Ray to take his headphones off to listen to you guys without him because So, you know these these microphones and these headphones can can hide a lot of things you guys sounded fantastic.

I really yeah Wow, excellent who thought that that power was gonna come out of that tiny body. Yeah She wears like she weighs like a buck five Janice Joplin. Oh Well, we may have to do that who whose song was that Sugarland that was sugarland.

Okay. All right. Excellent.

Wow, that was great. Fantastic Do you guys do any original music or you just do you just doing cover stuff? We're just doing cover stuff. Yeah Right now right now.

Well, do you have aspirations? He's talked about writing some stuff. So yeah We have a couple of the hopper that were I've been really inspired to start doing but they're not most of them aren't ready yet in the grist hopper I say what in the grist hopper in the hopper. Oh that hopper.

Yeah that hop but it was a grist hopper Yeah, you never know, you know, sometimes you just you just bring it to the band and let the band finish it for you That's right And then take all the credit. Yeah Are we gonna do that every ring by are we gonna go? Yeah, we're gonna go into that now That's isn't that the number one reason why what no the number one reason why bands break up is because of girls To would be number two would be I want songwriting credit and you didn't do anything on this. That's right That's what that's the other reasons why it's right.

Yeah, it's like like when I advertise a podcast and as a joint ray every week Yeah, yeah, so who picks the music? Is it all pretty much what you want to sing or? Yeah, mostly So who's responsible for blending it together with you said you mentioned stuff like sticks and stuff like that Is that all your idea as well? No, I mean we all kind of like put stuff together for the most part Usually I have the final say That's that's a different look that's a different local cover band I was going somewhere with that. So so I guess what's the approach like? I mean your name obviously Would would indicate that you're a country band or a southern rock band or something like that How do you use the the music that wouldn't fall underneath that country genre? Do you use it as kind of like for a surprise or shock value like people aren't gonna you know expected? Talk about your setlist a little bit and some of the other stuff that you do. Yeah, I mean pretty much I mean when we play out, I think a lot of times people think we're country, but then we just pull out everything I mean a lot of different stuff and people really appreciate that We've had a lot of people come up to us afterwards like wow We really like that you like play like pretty much everything, you know I mean like even Alanis Morissette like we do that one So that one We do that one angry girl song You know and then we do journey we do journey songs.

So okay What else are we doing the sticks my land Miranda Lambert Carrie Underwood? sugar land Name a few because I think I mean, I love country music love country music and blues my two preferred genres really Country and blues are kind of in the same category where you know You have to kind of make them palatable for everybody, you know And I think a lot of that has to do with the reason why we have modern country music nowadays And all of a sudden there's a guest rapper You know or the dubstep beats in country music, which I can't stand but I mean I understand it because you have to make it palatable For everyone. What kind of places are you guys playing? So we're playing everywhere. I mean a lot of The bars out in McHenry County and we've done some fests and stuff, so Just anywhere Yeah, I mean I really and we played at the Vixen out in McHenry County we opened for the hillbilly rock stars That was really oh, yeah.

Yeah, so we played there. We played at side outs Keith's reef. That's a really fun place.

I love playing that. Yeah, that place that place is so fun Yeah, so those are the places I think I enjoy playing because you know that there's there's a good crowd and people get into in They're dancing. Yeah, you know, that's just really feeds off the energy.

I absolutely love that place We I played there one time and it was just so unbelievably hot But God there was so many people there and to be standing on the back of a pontoon boat and an old trailer as your stage That's just the coolest thing on the planet God, how simple is that too? You know? Hey, we're gonna put a stage up Let's go. Let's go to the junkyard and see don't get that what they got laying around Let's tow it over to the edge of the river. No, that's just great.

That's exactly what it is It's it's absolutely hilarious Wow so when you show up to these places or people kind of refresh to find out that you're doing a little bit more than just Country or do people go there looking for country and they find rock and roll or how's it going? I mean, I think lately we've been having like we've been having our followers like come so they kind of know what to expect And then when new people are there I mean, we always get people come up to us afterwards and say that they love our set list You know that they love that we do. Yeah everything. I don't think there I've ever had people that are disappointed that I know of that you know Weren't happy like most of the time they're singing along because we play a lot of the songs that people know You know you hear on the radio or whatever.

So right? Yeah, right What would have to happen for you guys this year to say that this coming year was a really successful? Year for whiskey devils. What are you looking to do? Well, I was gonna say last year we did it because we operate in many different facets We'll do a duo trio quattro full band and I think last year we we played over Probably 80 some dates last year as it's some form of our band different variations different variations going through whatever Yeah, you know our goal, you know, I would be I think for and I've been talking anything over a hundred I mean, we just love to get out there. We would play every single weekend if we had right and there and and already You know, we looked at I think we're over 40 dates this year already booked.

So Yeah, we're just we're just so excited. It's starting to catch on. We just started.

We just bought we got merch. Yeah Alright, we just got hurt gotta pay for merch. We're the whiskey devils and we got our followers.

We're calling the whiskey angels. Oh They're white t-shirts with little wings on the back. So yeah Excellent.

Excellent. So so how do you how do you find a way to make sure that you keep the whiskey devils continuity together? When you might be performing as a duo or a trio? Yeah, it's um, there's some that I still believe that if it requires Just an unbelievable drumbeat, you know we kind of leave those out of the set, but What we really like is, you know, for example, we just started doing Talking about shock value. We do a summer summer Summer nights from Greece.

Oh, see that's cool They don't even expect that out of the out of the gate now suddenly do that and we play off it and the thing is When we do as a duo we do a lot of his and her harmony stuff. We do never say never Cole Swindle and What is that Laney Wilson? Yeah that song so we can you know, not a lot of bands have a You know guy and girl Kind of singing other doing duets and stuff. So we're working on a lot of stuff.

That's like that's totally cool I'm actually in rehearsals right now. I have another band Mike and the Snowmasters is my band We've been asked to actually play the Greece album live at a venue the whole album the whole album We're hiring extra singers and a whole bit for that night We're happy I mean we're gonna get a whole group of girls to play the pink ladies and sing all the backups and the harmonies and stuff and it's That's Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna be a lot of fun Are you just find the local high school that's doing it and hire all of them to come, right? Yeah, you know, yeah, I mean we're not doing the play.

We're not doing the play we're they're just doing a Greece night and We're live band is gonna be on stage performing this the you know The album live and we're and then we're gonna mix it in with other stuff too Like, you know, you know music from the era and stuff like that But we're gonna make sure we we hit all of the songs from the Greece album. That's gonna be a lot of fun So you guys That's you guys have to have a blast I can only imagine being in a place and you guys break out that song That's just got to be awesome because everybody from 21 to 81 knows That's pretty unique that's interesting we're gonna got other guy the other night We was just like we threw out money on the bar on the piano like around 60 bucks says play your favorite song We we did don't stop believing. I mean who doesn't love that song? Yeah, okay.

We put is that your favorite song? No, no, because you just did it for you know, it's a great crowd reaction, right? Yeah, they love it, but right Yeah, you got 60 bucks in your bag. That's right books. What is your favorite song? There's so many I don't even know Taylor Swift.

Oh god. Yeah, he has Taylor Swift now and I swear I'm kind of I'm kind of Taylor Swift out for the time Yeah, but you know, he said to me that we need to do some Taylor Swift songs No, no, no, and I've had more requests for Taylor Swift songs that is crazy. So I'm like, all right I guess you win this one for a minute So, but I don't know I think I really like our never say never that we're doing that we kind of feed off each other and play That together.

I kind of like that one by who that's Cole Swindoll. I think it's Laney Wilson. Yeah Okay, do it.

Yeah Again I'm showing my age because when when you said never never say never I was thinking mr. Big Which is a great song by the way Well, I think that needs to be the next one Why don't we do one little let him get tuned up and we'll be right back figured out Yeah, 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 we've got them for the second time tonight. We might be able to even coax them into a third time tonight Here's whiskey devils I told my friends when it comes to her when it comes to him Again, last time was the last time that time nearly did us in.

Yeah too much drama girl You're a match. You're gasoline. You just burned too fast Or we tried Didn't get Never say never with you.

I end up together with you. It's hello. It's heaven with you, baby Anything's possible.

The highs are unstoppable. It's so uncontrollable crazy We say we won't and then we do You got the looks that kill me Couldn't turn me on So keep turning me on and turn out the light who knows tonight Never say never with you. I end up together with you.

It's hello. It's heaven with you, baby Anything's possible. The highs are unstoppable It's so uncontrollable crazy You say we won't and then we do You're all I want Never say never with you.

I end up together with you. It's hello. It's heaven with you, baby Anything's possible.

The highs are unstoppable. It's so uncontrollable It's crazy We say we won't and then we do You're all I want. I never say never with you.

We say we won't Well, what's he used you're all I want I never say never with you That's old my mom I told my friends when it comes to her when it comes to him Yes, sir Wow, fantastic guys, that's freaking awesome. I love it. Very good It's so refreshing to have good musicians in the studio like this.

We always have good musicians in the studio I know I know but I mean we only interview good music This I'm really enjoying this. So am I they sound fantastic about the headphones. They do.

Yeah Wow crazy, I'm gonna have to get out and see you guys speaking of that. So, let's see This is gonna be coming out in it'll be out in April 16 April 16th the day after tax day. Yeah So, where are you guys gonna be playing? We guys gonna be playing it, you know mid toward the end of April Some people out to see you guys.

Yeah, definitely so they can so they can play some of nothing in front of a bunch of people Let's see around that time. Well, we're gonna be at site outs April 5th and then April 13th we're at Nico's Red Mill And then we are at offsides April 20th April 20th and what about after that after that? Yeah, we've got a couple of duos. It looks like we're gonna be at a Roma cafe April 26 and then Taylors on Toft April 27th, where's that Taylors on Toft? Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and how can people find all these dates so you guys got a website we do We have a Facebook page It's facebook.com for sweat slash whiskey devils band comm he's good at that That's where they can find all our dates that's where they can find Where we're playing, you know and stuff like that.

It's Facebook kind of your main calendar. It is right now Invites and everything right now it is. Yeah, we have a media girl.

That's gonna be building us a website So we'll have more coming in the future. But right now Facebook's our main thing I think I think Zuck was smart by putting that whole invite feature into Facebook because Everybody's going with the Spotify thing and and and you realize well or not Spotify. Um Twitter and snapchat and all that other stuff is which I which you can tell I don't do But and then people stop using it because You can't really advertise your shows on that stuff But you can put together the invites on Facebook and it gets out to a lot of people that way So that's good.

All right website. You got the you got the Facebook page and all that all that good stuff You guys got any videos and demos and stuff like that out on places like Spotify and other streaming services. No, I think our Our media girl is gonna be helping us with that to putting back together a kit.

What is it? We do on Facebook we do have some videos that people have taken so they can see some stuff there, too So it's not just our show dates, but there's you know pictures and videos and stuff on there, right? So but that's pretty much where we started and we're just going forward. I mean, it's it was a great I think it was a great first year. I think the second year is Great.

I don't know. So yeah, I'm good. It's only going up.

Yeah, that's good. That's good. You guys have a great sound Let me just the three only in here.

It sounds fantastic. It's harmonies are great and everything. Yeah, great I think we need to get one more.

I think they need to sing this home thing. That's right. Yeah, so Get their stuff together and we'll be right back.

I want to hear that voice again. I want to hear the power You're listening to the rock and roll Chicago podcast and here's whiskey devils doing their version of a Janice Joplin classic Busted Wait for a train Feeling near as my jeans It wrote us all the way When she I was holding my hand We sang every song that drive me For nothing left to do Well, that's all Bobby left me Yeah, feeling good was easy When he sang blues, you know feeling good was good enough good enough for me and my Bobby There Bobby shared the secrets of my soul Oh Yeah, Bobby baby Let him slip away But I I For me my Bobby I That's the whiskey devils, everybody. Yes, it is.

Holy cow. That was wonderful. Fantastic.

Thanks for coming out here tonight, guys. Thanks for inviting. Yeah, it's a pleasure meeting you guys and listening to you guys play.

I got to get out and see them Yes, everybody's got to get out and see them. Yes, they're gonna be everywhere all over the place. That's right.

Thanks a lot Thanks guys. Thanks for having us Well, there you have it Whiskey devils whiskey devils. They are whole bunch of little devils aren't they crap? They were good They're very good.

Very good. You know, it's I hope I I hope that I hope the Songs that they perform translate well on the recording. Oh, I'm sure they were great.

Yeah Yeah, I took off you guys couldn't see it But I took off my headphones just to listen to them without the headphones. I did too. They were they were great Wow, very very good.

Definitely want to see them. Yeah, I wish they'd well I hope they can play more down south here for some of our southern Listeners. Yeah, they're up north for sure big-time north.

There's a lot of places they can you know, they could book a gig I think they've got enough following to get out to like saddle up in Aurora or something like that Oh, I'm sure that'd be a great spot for them. Definitely. Yeah, definitely, but very good.

Glad they came out They drove a long way. They didn't I would really appreciate it that they made it all the way out here So as always thanks for listening and make sure you tune in every Tuesday for another exciting episode of the rock and roll Chicago Podcast see ya The rock and roll Chicago podcast is edited by Paul Martin theme song courtesy of M&R Rush the rock and roll Chicago Podcast does not own the rights to any of the music heard on the show. The music is used to promote the guests that are featured