82. How Do You Connect with Your Fans? Building Audience Energy with Andy Frasco
season 3, episode 22
Episode: 82
Chris Webb
Welcome to musicians tip jar where we talk about musicians and money. We ride on top of the message that creating great wealth is the result of following your passion and calling in life. I'm Chris Webb, joined by my co-host, the guy who always prefers to be on top of his wealth. Dave Tamkin.
Dave Tamkin
And thanks, Chris Webb. You only get to know what being on top is like after knowing what the bottom is like for so long. Thanks for having me back. By the way, I appreciate
Chris Webb
Today we discussed putting your message under your performance, allowing it to have a bigger impact. We continue discussing the inspiring journey of the powerhouse that is Andy Frasco. Today's quote comes from our guest, Andy. He said, Throw as much at the wall as you can. One thing is going to stick, I swear
Chris Webb
We discussed Colorado resident Andy Frasco’s rise to success, what that really means and the true value of it all. He has such a powerful story and more drive than anyone in this business. But just as treasure is often found buried in the dirt, nuggets and gems can be found in a dirty mouth. This is my way of warning younger viewers and those that might be sensitive to strong language to be aware that it's in the hills of today's episode, but there is some gold up in those motherboards. Let's go
Quote of the week
“Throw as much SH*T at the wall as you can, one thing is going to stick, I swear” - Frasco”
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Dave Tamkin
It was quite a while ago and I was driving with Mike Ligon. I heard your podcast, and I couldn’t believe the comments coming out of your mouth. My face hurt by the end of the ride down there, just from the huge smile that I had on my face. And to see the guests that you have is amazing. And people I've been fans of my whole life. And I definitely have that shyness around people I admire. .. Martin Sexton is a awesome singer-songwriter and when I get around him. I'm just like, Yes, sir. No, sir. And you are just yourself and unique and you don't give a shit. You can ask them anything. Let's talk about how this podcast started. What's the name of it? Why did you start it, and how much fun do you have doing it? Although I just heard you're trying to fit in 30 interviews in a short amount of time.
Andy Frasco
But you know, my idol before music was Howard Stern. i My mom, and dad would listen for hours in the car. I wanted to be a radio DJ since I was six years old. And I'm still now. I mean, I guess that's my backup plan, like I've always wanted to be a DJ, or like a talk show. I have a morning talk show. But um, I don't know, I was getting I you know, it was like, it was like, five years ago, I was just really into cocaine and having one night stands and just doing all this shit. And it was not; it was ruining my mental health. And I didn't know who I was. I was just, you know, just becoming this shell of a man because I've been drinking for the last 10 years of my life every day.
And so I had to tell myself, You're going to die, dude, like this isn't stable. You can't keep doing this like this. And I think, actually, my first manager told me that and I listened to him. I stopped doing coke. Got a therapist, Start taking mushrooms. And I had this idea because I love Michael Rapaport. He's loves sports talk. I felt like I was a good listener. When all my friends were crying and shit and telling me their stuff. Like, why don't I just do that? And because I need to be working all the time. I don't like having any free time. So, like, not doing coke and flirting and texting women all day. I had like six hours of my day free. does not do its shit. And I'm like, This is how people live. It isn't like getting wasted all day. And I'd said, All right, I want to interview people and talk about this.
Why? I am having anxiety, why I need to drink and why I need to do all this stuff as a touring musician, you know, to cope with the anxiety of this obscure job. Because, like, not a lot of people understand our life of being on the road living in a van and showing up to a diner that turns into a venue every day, you know, like waiting around eating shitty, oily food and drinking bigger because you're just bored. Because you're at a bar all day. And like, try to feel like a way of feeling like, I'm not just a crazy person; more people are trying to do this for their job too. So I started interviewing all my favorite musicians and just talking about them because I was too scared to go to therapy, but I wanted to, like, talk to people who are addicts who got through that to kind of get my brain, okay with having a therapist and asking people for help, because I don't like asking people for help. Well, I like to do it. It just really helped me understand that I'm a human too. And I'm not just some party machine. And, and it just made me talk like talking to all these guys like Keller Williams at first, like the first couple episodes were like Keller, Williams, Vince Herman, Carl Dent, and all these musicians to know that, like, all these OG dudes had to deal with the same Shimek
Okay, so I could ask for help. You know, sometimes we feel alone on this fucking ride. Because you can't talk to your parents about this. You can't talk to your girlfriend about this. You can't, you've got to talk to the guys who are fucking on the streets, doing that shit, like saying, Alright, yeah, that was a bad time. Let's look. And let's focus back on the music. One other job as well. You only work for an hour and a half, you know, two hours and everything else is just waiting around, Do your art. So it's like, You've got to learn how to cope with your anxiety, and me doing the podcast saved my life. Because first, it taught me how to listen, actually listen to people and not just be stubborn. And when people give you advice, you just say, Ah, that's not for me. And that taught me how to taught me how to communicate. I've never been the best communicator, I just put my head down and did the work. And it taught me how to communicate with my family. Now I'm the closest I've ever been to my parents because of this podcast. They listened to it and finally knew who I was. Like, because I've just held everything in my whole life and been working. So now they understand me, and they're getting older. And I just feel like we understand each other a little more just because I was just vulnerable on the podcast and talking crazy shit about my life, and it just taught me to know that I'm not alone with this. So yeah, I think I'm just so thankful that people listen to it. Did you get to
Dave Tamkin
Did you meet Howard Stern on the after the show? Because I heard I heard that in real time. I'm a huge Howard Stern. And when you you said you're going on it you know beforehand, but I caught that which was you know, I know that you're a huge fan was how to be even better for you.
Andy Frasco
Oh, yeah. And you know, Howard on fuck with the wrap up show whatever Gary's doing Howard and fuck with that, but because I love all those guests. Michael Rapaport, Baba Booey. I mean, Steve brand Dano is a huge JamBand fan who books all the music. So we got me on the Wrap Up Show short and Brian Schwartz my manager. Oh, he's from Boulder. I walked outside. I see a six five lanky Jewish dude. I'm like, holy shit. This is Howard Stern. I was bout to say hi. And he just walked where I best talk to nobody. I'm doing my job getting the fuck out of here. Oh, my. I respect the fuck out of that. Because that's who he is. And he's like, completely authentic on air. And that's who I wanted to be. I wanted to be completely authentic, not be afraid to ask hard questions and not be afraid to be silly. I mean, life isn't all have to all be serious when we're talking about some heavy shit. Let's like, let's loosen the table. Let's have let's have a dinner is I want to I want my podcast to feel like we're just having a dinner together.
Dave Tamkin
Well, Chris, Chris did say that about you before you jumped down. He he said that he's so authentic when he speaks on this podcast, and he found his unique voice. And just so you know, he's seen that kind of shit behind your back pocket.
Chris Webb
But it makes me think of when that movie came out. and how everybody didn't know what to do with that movie. But it feels so authentic to Howard Stern. Right? And I when I listened to your interviews, I got that same feeling of, At first, people won't know what to do with you because you know what I'm saying? And I don't mean that as a bad thing. I mean, in the same way that Howard Stern made this work, you have a very unique style, and that style becomes a little bit confusing. Maybe this is like the stages you go through listening to a podcast. The first like, am I offended? No. Is that That's funny. That is funny, actually, and then it's like wait, he's actually Saints that's a powerful, you like that. That was amazing. That was an experience. You know, that's kind of like the stages of an anti fiasco podcast.
Andy Frasco
And that's kind of how I approach my live show too. You know, like I've been, I do the silly stuff. I try to write the heartfelt things. I mean, that's, that's my goal in life is like to have, like, I'm obsessed with like, I love filmmakers. Like I love Wes Anderson. I love Bill Murray. I love Jim Carrey is of the world like the guys who are goofy, but then if you'd like take a deeper look at them. They're saying some book and philosophical stuff. I love philosophy. I was studying philosophy in college when I thought I wasn't going to be a musician. Like when I was like over the music industry side of it. I just love like existentialism and people kind of being themselves being weirdos and I loved like the whole I was I was super fascinated with all like that the hippies on the road because I never really did drugs until I was like 2021. So I was like, really fascinated with all these like Kara wax and, like the Grateful Dead Like, I didn't like their music, but I like the idea of them, you know? Weirdos like, they're at the Playboy Mansion. They're like dosing everyone that's kind of fucking like with acid just so everyone watching listen to them play music and like, that is fucking OG gangster shit. No. Like, I love those weirdos. You know, there's not I'm not saying like, drug people. I'm not saying that. I don't like those type of weirdos. But like I'm talking about, like, people were like, want to build an experience for everyone, or get them out of their little shell.
Chris Webb
That's a great point too, because it kind of comes back to the way you do your shows your shows and experience as well. Right? And that, I feel like you won't even end your show until you're sure that everyone in that audience is feeling something and that's you and helping them do things. And that's a really one of those things like I think the Grateful Dead. Maybe you aren't forcing people to take acid but you are definitely making people react, you are forcing them to react in a good way that makes them experience it. And the red rock show you mentioned. Let's talk a little bit about that. Because unfreeze you know those. This was this one you're talking about the one that I watched a little bit of the of the live video from that. And you guys did this whole creative thing where tell me about how that came about. I don't want to tell us Oh, we
Andy Frasco
did like a battle the band. We wanted to do a battle of bands because we we realized that no band has set up on the soundboard. And we wanted to do like a battle. But like no big deal of like setup on the soundboard Red Rocks, but like no one's like, ever done like a back and forth battle, those guys tried to sabotage us, they gave us all like their fucking kids instrument, and motherfuckers but that's the beauty of our friendship. Like we are like, we love each other. So I'm free boys. Those guys are my best best friends and like we live to fuck with each other. And we're like, Let's build an experience. We're because we all would do is talk to each other on on text groups. And like all UPS sending us dumb means, like, why don't we just do that for our fans? And like, make and like, show them our personalities that we're afraid to show them and it was so cool. So we did like these jams are like, Oh, you think you could play Rage Against the Machine that we do a rage? Oh, you think you play Prince fucky? Listen, it's just like, it's your building experiences like that, that people remember. I mean, that's, that's why I love live music like, I got sometimes I go to these shows, and I get so pissed off and people don't give the full potential of who they are as a person. You know, I love that. Like, you're not gonna get if you're gonna have acid show. I'm just gonna listen to your music while I'm working. You know, like, if I'm calling out, give me your full heart, you know? Yeah. And I was thankful that unfreeze Letta so yeah, let's just be weird because a lot of bands I throw these ideas at bands all the time like Get the fuck out of here.
Chris Webb
You know what it is? It's a Chicago thing that you I feel like you are attached to so much of a Chicago people. Right? Right. Right. We're open to a lot of shit, you know? Well, there's so many people that were connected with that What is your connection with Chicago? Is there any besides just all these musicians that we seem to mutually know?
Andy Frasco
Um, I think it's like when I was, like, earlier in my career, booking the shows like all I could get shows were were from like, Oklahoma State Stillwater, you know, Manhattan, Kansas, Kansas State and Lawrence, Kansas and Fayetteville, Arkansas. And all those, you know, like, they got like all the kids who go to the cause they're got to go to a big city to get jobs. So I think everyone like went to Chicago to like our first big city. Our first big city that we drew people in was Chicago because all these like kids got big jobs and went to Chicago so I just had a you know, a soft spot for Chicago because I'm all of the people that I grew up entertaining on Tuesday, you know, to dollar you call it, you know, blacked out with are all now adults and we're all so it's like, we just have fun And then I think and then from there, summer camp Music Festival got us a nice slot unfreeze festival. And I think like Stacey saw our show and he's like, we got to be friends and he came up to us and so he showed us like the Chicago world. And I just ever since I love Chicago, because it's like a great city. It's cold as fuck. I don't know how people live their great music scene. And people are like, in for cities, like a lot of people on the East Coast, West Coast are either passive aggressive or assholes. Like, Chicago is like Midwest friendly. Like, they'll have a beer with you or a car bomb. Like RAM dude. So yeah, shouts Chicago.
Chris Webb
Totally. So then what made you pick Denver as the place to live then?
Andy Frasco
Because I remember, I'm not even bullshitting you. Like, Denver was first major city that without a fan base gave me shows. I knew that there was some sort of energy, like 10 years ago, like, I think people are gonna start moving here for music like they did for Austin. And then I then we started, you know, touring, I come back once here is ukiyo DS and like all the hip and also more and more hippies are fun. Come here more more. You've been like what the fuck is happening. And then I signed with my manager. He's from Denver, Colorado five years ago, and he kept on pointing it poking my ear like Denver zip bro Denver's a they're going to accept your weird as like not a lot of cities are going to accept your word out of Nashville. He's like, You're too Jewish to go to Nashville. He got an award like the too big of an alcohol to go to New Orleans. Denver's it that was it. No, Mike any I finally gave in. And then I moved here three years ago, and I just fucking fell in love with it. All the people. I got my community I go to serve on days, like every fucking weekend, they got sports. And the music scene accepts me like I could go do like a live podcast at Ophelia or whatever, and we'll sell it out and me just talking in front of people. Or I could play the audio with my band. Or I could like, I felt like this was the city that whatever weird idea I had. I feel like they'd accept it. You know, a lot of cities will do that. And so I did the dance party here today.
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Dave Tamkin
You were live streaming a lot during it. Yeah, I was
Andy Frasco
like I was doing I didn't have my band because everyone lives in different places. So I'm like, fucking, I'm just gonna throw an 80s dance party. And Denver was like, Okay, we could do it in my apartment. Or we could turn into a party and it turned into that thing where we just have like, we'd quarantine with like, 15 people. And we just all live together. Our buddy Scott morels house, you know, Scott? Oh, yeah, from Cervantes. Absolutely. Lit. It was based it was a cult. We it was a cult we would just be taking acid and like looking at the lake and going down to the basement. Throw these dance party. Aloha Beach was a fucking cold it was the coolest thing ever. We you know, Scott is like, you know, Scott these like, he's the fucking best he like he's like, built this music scene with his hands you know?
Chris Webb
Yeah, and yet still sweet after all that he's still sweet and
Andy Frasco
like dealing with like, fucking spun out musicians at his house screaming I will survive 5am Like, strong man to do that.
Dave Tamkin
So with all these like skills that you've developed now, where you have 80s Dance Party, streamer, podcaster, entertainer, wonderful songwriter, and a great musician, no matter what year in life you were when you started. Thanks, bro. What kind of advice would you give to a younger musician? Especially because this podcast specifically is for first to fifth graders? What would you say? What would you say to a young musician? It's like I want to do this. Try everything.
Andy Frasco
Try playing country music, try playing you know, play everything and see what you like don't just pigeonhole yourself into just doing one thing. My manager always gets yelled yells me at be a master of something. Don't be a master or don't be mediocre at everything and I think that's bullshit children. Whatever the fuck you want. Okay, you want to be a podcaster you want to sing you want to do it all might as well like learn all these crafts and then bring it back into the one thing that you're putting your your life into, you know, it's like the dance party emcee stuff got me better being a copy better doing the gift of gab stuff before and after songs. You know, the dance party moves gets me better at doing the stick in the crowd with the horror and stuff you know, the interviewing and like learning about people's lives gets me better at when I could do I always at the end of the show say a speech about living in the moment and being being authentic with yourself all that stuff helped me learn the knowledge of giving other people knowledge of keep fighting for a dream. So all these five things I was doing the side project eventually all gets funneled back into my what most important to me is my music and my show. So like, might as well try all this other shit out. Let's like be in a jam band for a couple months, me sing some country songs with your girlfriend or do the whole Damien Rice thing with someone you love, you know, like, do all that stuff and then you'll learn what you want to do to keep your career go on I think throw as much shit at the wall as you can. One thing's gonna stick. I swear to God,
Dave Tamkin
that teacher that you had the complete saying is a jack of all trades is a master of none but at times better than a master of one. So it's oftentimes better than a master of one that everybody seems to forget to save.
Andy Frasco
does not tell me the reason. God dammit, I knew he's smarter than I am. He's always smart.
Chris Webb
Let tell us a little bit less last kind of couple questions here. Like tell us a little bit about what's coming up. What's on the table next, Randy Fresco.
Andy Frasco
I just signed a network deal with the podcast with volume.com which can Yeah, man that was I'd never signed a network deal before that was awesome. And that helped me stay in Denver because I was about to lose my house because I was broke as shit. And that was perfect timing. And, and then I'm on 15 festivals this summer. We're about to bounce our new record and may Grace out our first thanks, man, we got a record deal. And I'm really proud of this record. This is the most authentic. It was like the first time I've ever had a relationship. So I'm finally writing love songs. So just writing people to keep on keeping on. And that was nice to learn. I you know, we're broken up now. But it was nice to learn that I could love something other than myself and my music. And I think I really wrote about that in this new record. It's called lit optimist and that comes out and my first single comes out May 5, then we're on tour. We're doing a 70 We're doing our big fall tour we are that we always do start in September so I'm booked for like until like yeah, I got a year and a half
Dave Tamkin
so I'm gonna say seven dates. 70 days 20
Andy Frasco
I get I do 20 shows take 10 days off 20 shows take 10 days off 20 Show it take 10 days off for September. October November December.
Chris Webb
Nice and which which date is the view announced you read racks shit Yeah,
Andy Frasco
August 16 is opening for slightly stupid and then M eyes will tell you guys in Oh, I'm playing that boulder AAA conference. Oh, nice. Yeah, it's a cool lineup. I did that retro as far as sold out. So Brad talked with us. August. Yeah, it's cool. I'd never done the AAA thing. I heard it's fucking awesome out there. Were you playing fox? The fox theater with Lukas Nelson California honey drop. I don't know this for bands. I know Luke is on it. Oh, Jamie Hyatt us and delta Ray.
Dave Tamkin
I'll get tickets for that for sure. Because Nelson was he just played like the st. Julian. They had like a just a conference room for the AAA. Oh, nice. I wasn't sure if people were like handing out batteries. Or if this was something for a car insurance or you know, it wasn't rip. It was back for him for sure. But I didn't know what the AAA was. Got that joke I just got. But I still train at the fox like to eat three years ago. Maybe you said I mean, everyone there is just just ready for music. So
Andy Frasco
I'll be there. And I heard it's like all the radio promoters and stuff. I've never done something like this. Yeah. So hopefully we get I'm really proud of this new signal that's about to come out you do you it's about all the other laws with trans. Within Tennessee wrote a song about fuck you for trying to tell these people that they can't be who they want to be. And I'm really proud that my label soundly he's like, Alright, let's put this out immediately. Because, I mean, I think it's important. I mean, so weird what they're doing to the trans community right now. It's like, What? Are you kidding me? Just because they want to fuck off.
Chris Webb
Oh, that's amazing. I mean, what uh, I mean, usually when we ask somebody what's coming up next? That list isn't as incredibly long as yours. That is an amazing amount of things you got coming up. You're not You're not kidding when you say you like to stay busy.
Andy Frasco
I like to stay busy. And I got a for dev Denver's fucking expensive bro. Yeah, hey, just play music out here. lollygag like I'm horror myself out. dancin? I'm going I gotta make money to live in Cherry Creek. I'm like, What the fuck? Why am I putting this much pressure on me? My community I got a nice community and then I have all these like Cougar women like Hi, Andy got you some cookies. I'm like, fuck yeah. Like I respect
Chris Webb
them and they take care of their neighbors that their
Andy Frasco
MS. Raj and OSI I saw your article. I'm worried about all the drugs you're taking. I'm like it's all good. Mrs. Robinson. You know, I'm not taking that many drugs. It's just it's mostly a show. Okay, just Let me know if I mean I have a really good doctor. I'm like, Thank you. Thanks.
Chris Webb
You can tell us to do you actually put water in that whiskey bottles and talk? No,
Andy Frasco
no way. Because the minute people start calling me a poser, they're waiting to call me a poser. Probably people are waiting to like shit on my thing. So I just don't drink it as much. So like, I'm not gonna like before I used to like drink a whole bottle that now I'll drink 1/8 of it. And I got it. I got it dialed in. To me. People are watching me like, this is where you fuck up when you're on a microscope. This is this is why I love athletes, the best athletes when they're under a microscope, they execute you know, they stopped doing this shit like Kobe when that situation happened in Colorado is like you fucked up. And he realized he fucked up and he's like, I gotta execute if I don't ask you to. It's gonna be bad. So
Dave Tamkin
before we go, can I just read one more thing just for like a public service announcement for our listeners. Thank you Andy fresco. This episode is brought to you by the young elementary school children of the front range of Latter Day Saints and United Methodist Christ Saints Church.
Andy Frasco
Oh my God, my heart fucking drop. If it was this, like, I'm like, fuck to Christians. This podcast is sponsored by Methodist Church. Oh my god, I'm about to get canceled here. That happened to me in Florida. I played this church gig and I did an exorcism on stage. Okay, in St. Augustine, Florida. And they made me write a public apology letter to the city of St. Augustine, Florida. And they were going to publish it in the newspaper. And I was just total went total crazy mode. This is a first amendment or to blah, blah, blah. You Trump's been talking like this forever. And you're gonna bass a musician who likes to play. I was like, my man is like, just say your fucking sorry. Like, okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, sometimes my ego gets
Dave Tamkin
the best of me.
Chris Webb
It's been unbelievable talking to you. And I think we we will need you to have to have you back on again, because I wanted to continue talking about about how you sustain this intense schedule of yours. And maybe that can be the focus of our next one.
Andy Frasco
Anytime, boys. Anytime I love talking shop with y'all. You're the shit. Cheers, buddy.
Dave Tamkin
Alright, let's make some money
Dave Tamkin
never get to hear these episodes in, you know, edited until right before we do these. And this one stuck with me just left his podcast. And I didn't know like I couldn't remember where you're gonna start or where this was coming from. So I'm like, Oh my gosh, did he mess this edit up. And then like, pretty smooth transition. Pretty smooth transition.
Chris Webb
If you haven't checked out frescos podcast, we'll include it at the end here to make sure everyone can find it. But it is very entertaining. And it's doing very well.
Dave Tamkin
I mean, this guests are awesome. Yeah. This
Chris Webb
is an example. We talked in the previous episode about how when we're doing all the things that make us happy, and that we feel we're called to do, they all work together so well. And here he is, touring with all and meeting all these wonderful artists out there in the world. And then bringing them on to his show making a wonderful show about you know, the, the topics that are basically important to him.
Dave Tamkin
He calls his podcast world saving podcast. So Andy frescoes world saving podcast, so you can check that out at World saving podcast.com. One thing I appreciated was when he talks about doing so many different things in this music world. And, you know, podcasts being being something that, you know, he started four or five years ago, but it really helped him just to communicate better, and something that he wanted, you know, he needed to do more with his band. But obviously, it's a different kind of communication, because you're publicly speaking, and you know, how much we talk about, especially before the podcast of little things, like missing, or trying to just move the you know, just you know, just this just, and he's very well spoken. And after listening to all those podcasts, it's fun to listen to the first one and watch how his dialect just changes throughout the different podcasts because it gets better every single time. If you really want to be impressed with two people like yourself and me. Listen to our first podcast, which is you know, two people just trying something new for the first time but you have to show up and just have to throw some things at the wall.
Chris Webb
And it's a really good idea to focus on your communication skills, because you need them for anything you ever do. If you want to do it successfully, and it's funny, because we have this on the list of podcast ideas, by the way, to have an episode just focused on communication, because when you're on stage, you are going to lose your audience if you cannot communicate. And that's not just what you say it's how you sing. It's how you deliver the song, right? And now obviously, on his podcast, it's how much he can keep people feeling like we're having a fun conversation yet getting to, you know what the idea of this whole podcast is, which is getting to a meaning that's deep underneath. A lot of you know, stuff that is more light or even crude,
Dave Tamkin
he mentioned is giving your full heart to this live show. I really don't see him doing anything else with any other projects that he does either, though, that shines in his podcast, too.
Chris Webb
He is who He is all the time. And that's just so valuable. And that red rock show that we just discussed was so fun to see, because ImageNet was definitely his idea. You could see it all over it. You know that that that's the kind of out of the box way he thinks to get his audience to be entertained.
Dave Tamkin
We should have started commenting on this podcast before you heard this episode. Because much like the first time you met Andy, and there was this big puff of smoke. All the smoke were blown up his ass right now. It's just shiny of compliments to the end of this podcast. So I hope everyone can just visualize this cloud of smoke, that accomplishments for Andy Brasco.
Chris Webb
Well, we certainly agree with him when picking Denver as a home seems like a good choice. I do think the music scene here has grown a lot. And it's a good central spot to be able to fly to a lot of other areas of the country pretty quickly.
Dave Tamkin
It was nice to see how appreciative he was of Michael again, and giving him his first show here in Denver. And that is someone that he kept a relationship with, throughout all these years, and built his audience here. So it was nice that not only did Mike give him that opportunity when he was just first starting out, but continued to come back and work together to show him so much of Denver's community, just on a social level as well. You know, what
Chris Webb
was really fun. That was I was driving home the other day on the highway. And there's a giant billboard for that show. And there's Andy's name right up there on the Billboard, it's really fun to see,
Dave Tamkin
we know from him telling us that that wasn't the end goal. You know, the billboard wasn't something that he envisioned that he wanted to keep his eyes on the art of it. And he said, there's so many times as a musician, and something we asked him when you know what advice you would give to a younger musician, he's like, don't concentrate on the after effect of the finish line. The finish line is the music, keep continuing to run that race and show up and make some art.
Chris Webb
And if you are doing that, well, if you're making good art that you're proud of, that you're passionate about, and you are who you are, your message will naturally come through, you know, it's easy to forget that you don't need to get up there on stage. And say something very bluntly, you can build your message into your performance, just by being you. So you want to action step for this week is to go give yourself and your energy to a fellow musicians show support them, go experience what they're giving and lean on that community to keep yourself going. A lot of times as musicians need to be told to go see shows because if we're out, we're working. So it's a good reminder.
Dave Tamkin
And with that lean to find yourself, you know, to get some inspiration, show up and be that person that they can lean on as well. Let them know that you're there for them and be there for them not only for an audience, but help them out any way you can. Because Andy showed up for us. He's doing everything under the sun in his music career. He knows how important it is to build not only our career, but all the careers of the musicians that listen to this podcast.
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Go give yourself and your energy to a fellow musician's show, support them, experience what they are giving, and lean on that community to keep yourself going.
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