The local musical group Begging Angels from rochester ny.
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Kappa Joe Radio is a former military broadcaster that aims to inform and entertain the community, veterans, and their families. They provide news and information about veterans' benefits and new options available. Rochester Free Radio is a streaming service that can be accessed through their website or the TuneIn Radio app. They offer various shows and events and can be followed on Facebook. Shakin' Up Rochester is a radio show that aims to give good vibes and have conversations. The hosts discuss their weekend activities, including visiting a wildlife rescue center and celebrating Christmas. They also talk about healthcare becoming more profit-oriented and mention a seminar on alternative healthcare. The show promotes their Facebook page and a church that holds services at 1 p.m. on Sundays. The hosts introduce the guests, Kelly and Todd Romig, who perform as the Begging Angels. They talk about how they started as an acoustic duo and now have a full band. The name Begging Angels comes Kappa Joe Radio. Who are we? Former military broadcasters on a mission to inform and entertain our communities, veterans, and their families who serve the United States in any and all branches of the service. Why do we do it? To bring you news and information that can make a difference in your day-to-day world. Listen to Kappa Joe Radio to discover important changes in veterans' benefits, news that affects us, and new options that are available to our community as well, all blended around a music mix that tells us where we've been. Kappa Joe Radio. Fridays, 4 to 6 p.m. on Rochester Free Radio. WRFZ 106.3 FM. Here's some good news from Rochester Free Radio. Alexa, play Rochester Free Radio. Rochester Free Radio from TuneIn. Streaming 24 hours a day. Go to our website, rochesterfreeradio.com, or directly to the TuneIn Radio app. No matter where you are, now you can enjoy WRFZ 106.3 FM. Hi, this is the real Jeff Moulton, the host of the ABC Saturday Night Oldies Party, heard right here on Rochester Free Radio every Saturday night at 8 o'clock Eastern. It's all done and fun, and we play the hits and not such hits from the golden era of Top 40 Radio. We have special guests, and you can follow along on Facebook. It is all courtesy of our supporters, Sound Source 161 North Drive in Rochester, and Gary Bond, CPA. So row up the carpet and get ready to relive the good times of rock and roll. That's Saturday nights at 8 Eastern at rochesterfreeradio.com, the TuneIn Radio app, and WRFZ 106.3 FM. Shakin' up Rochester, shakin' up Rochester, you won't be against me, I'm shakin' up Rochester. Good evening, shakers. Thank you for tuning in to Shakin' Up Rochester, where we are taking back the radio. We are here to give you good vibes and live the conversation. I'm your host, Lorena Love, with special co-host tonight, Musical Gene. Good evening. Hey, good evening there. I love your outfit. Thank you. Very notes. Noteworthy, right? What is that, treble clef and a quarter note? Half note? Something like that. She dressed the part tonight, that's for sure. So what happened this weekend? Anything exciting? Yes, I went to Wild Wings Wildlife. They rescue wild animals like birds and even a mountain lion and two foxes were there. Where is this at? In Mendon Ponds Park. Oh, really? Yes. I didn't know that. It was a Christmas gift from my friend Ann, so we had a personal guided tour. Oh, wow! An hour long and got to meet some of the creatures. Oh, that's cool. That's different. I've never heard, oh, okay, something I never knew that they had in there. You'll have to go. Okay, I'll check it out. And they're non-profit. Oh, okay. So they depend on help from the community. Oh, yeah, throw them some money. Throw them some cash, people. The birds would love it. Yes, they would. So what else? Anything else exciting? I celebrated Christmas with a friend's family and we had wanted to celebrate on Christmas Eve, but because of the blizzard in Buffalo, we never made it. Oh, right, yeah. Well, how did that go? That went very well. Well, that's good. Is the snow melted there now or what? Pretty much. Pretty much, is it? Yeah. I was wondering that because I was like, so much snow. I didn't know what was going on over there. I haven't seen any pictures, really, or anybody that I know that's out there, really. So, yeah, it was a pretty cool weekend. I had Monday off from work, thank God. I was like, yeah. I know you liked that. Yes, I did. Well, I had to take my friend's mom shopping. So he's in Germany right now, so I have to take her shopping. So I do that like once a week. What kind of shopping? Grocery shopping. She can't drive or not, you know. She's here visiting from India. So, she's pretty much, she's at my mercy, the poor woman. What does she think of this place? Oh, she's been here lots of times. Yeah, she's been here. Yeah, yeah. She's been here. They speak better English than we do. You know what I'm saying? Yes, they do. They know more things than we do. It's like, they've been all over the world. They've been in Europe. They've been everywhere. More than us, you know. We're like, oh, okay. But no, they pretty know more what's going on than we do. But Friday, I went to a seminar in health care. It was real eye-opener, which I already knew because I work in the field. But they're saying that health care is really turning into a profit business. The doctors are becoming more of salesmen than doctors. So, which I find, yeah, that's pretty much true. They're pushing, you know, the shots and all this nonsense. But they said if your doctor doesn't, you know, respect your autonomy, they're breaking the pillars of ethics. Right, you don't have a choice. Right. And there are some of them that are not because they're being pushed to do this for profit. So, this is what's going on. The bottom line. Yeah, the bottom line. It's all about the money. So, the next seminar is going to be at Bethel Church on East Avenue on March 10th. So, if people want to know what's really going on, you know, this clinic wants to, they want to start an alternative health care clinic where they don't have to deal with all that nonsense. So, they're trying to get the ball rolling. So, they're going to start doing this. And it's, you know, it's like great because they've been meeting for about over a year. And so, they're getting a lot of doctors and nurses and whoever involved. So, hopefully, we'll have an alternative than having to go to these wonderful hospitals. How true. Yeah. So, all right. Well, you know, what we do is we like to remind our listeners that they can find us on Facebook under Shaking Up Rochester 106.3 FM. Please like and follow our page so you can keep up with the current shows and events that we have. So, we're always having something going on. Right? Aren't we? So, just a punch in the head if you want to see what's going on. And also, if you're looking for something to keep your spiritual life high, the Book of Acts Church meets on Sundays at 1 p.m. That gives you a chance to sleep in. So, you know, I think if more churches started at 1 o'clock, you'd probably get a lot of the younger people in. Right? I usually go at 5 p.m. Yeah. So, there you go. Yeah. Because, you know, you're out there. You know, you're having a good time. You know, you probably would get more people. So, you know, I think it's a good time to go. You know, well, 5 is even better. There you go. Or some church is probably better off on a Saturday. I don't know. Another night. Who knows? But, you know, the Book of Acts Church is not your boring hum-dum-dum church. They're actually praying and seeing miracles and healings. They do what the apostles did. That's their creed. And they're located at 5660 West Henrietta Road, West Henrietta, New York. That's 1 p.m. on Sunday. All right. So, let's tell people how they can call in tonight if they have questions for our guests tonight. Let's do that. Okay. All right. If you want to call into our big studio hotline here. Now, people, if someone's on the phone, don't try to call because we only have one line. So, you'll get a busy signal. So, just call back. Okay? You can do that at 585-417-5435. I'll say it again. I'll grab a pen. That's 585-417-5435. And for you shy types, that you can call the text line. If you want to comment, ask a question on the text line. That's 585-760-9539. I'll say that one number one more time. 760-9539 for the text line. Okay. Sounds good to me. Sounds good to me. All right. Okay, Musical Gene, would you like to introduce our guests for tonight? I certainly would. All right. I'm feeling the halo effect already and I just met them. Yes. I'm happy to introduce and welcome Western New York singer-songwriters Kelly and Todd Romig. They're also known as Begging Angels. And they have found a way to fuse the good life by fusing music and marriage together. And they know how to leave their fans begging for more. That's a good one. I like that. Welcome, Kelly and Todd. Well, good to be here. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Oh, yes. You're welcome. Oh, boy. Someone's calling already. That better not be one of my smart aleck friends, I'll tell you that. All right. Let's see. Oh, they hung up. I guess it was. It's probably Joe Vannelli. Joe. Is that the Joe in your band? Yeah, that's our drummer. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Well, how are you guys doing tonight? Thank you for having us. Oh, yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for coming on. I was like, yay. Because I've been hearing bits and pieces about you guys out in the community. And I'm like, who are these guys? Right? Yeah, we got a reputation, I think. We're getting up there. Yeah. I don't know if it's a good one or a bad one. I think it's probably not good. Okay. They don't call us the drinking team for nothing. So how long have you guys been playing? So we actually started out as an acoustic duo, just me and him back in 2015. And we actually started out doing open mics and doing mostly original music. And then it kind of turned into what we have today with our full band. We still do the duo. We do trio and full band. But we throw our originals in there still. Yeah, we still like to hang out and do our acoustic thing. It's pretty special for both of us. How did you get your unique name? The name actually comes from a Chris Stapleton song. We are huge Chris Stapleton fans. And he's got a song, When the Stars Come Out. And there's a line in it where he says, begging angels for a sin. And something about it kind of just sat with us. And we're like, we kind of like that name. And I think it will intrigue people and ask questions. And a lot of people who are Chris Stapleton fans, they know immediately that it's from a Chris Stapleton song. I think we did like a poll through our family. And it didn't go over well. Yeah, they didn't like it. But we did it anyway. Right, it works for you. Six years later, somewhere around there. Yeah, that's a good run. How did you two meet? We both worked at Wegmans. And I had met Kelly by hearing her sing in the back room. She was back there writing a schedule or something or other. And I had come back there for my night shift. And she was back there singing. And I was like, wow, you have a really nice voice. And I think from there it just sort of took off. At least that's how the story goes. Right, you discovered her. I thought I was all by myself back there. I was stalking her. It was sort of a surprise. That's the story. Absolutely. And here we are almost 20 years later. Congratulations. That's wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have a favorite place to perform? Honestly, there are so many places that we love to play because the venues and the owners and the staff and the people that go there have been so fantastic to us. But I will give one little shout out to, obviously, Ridge Runners because that's, I think, the first place that let us play, just the two of us, without ever hearing us, having any idea if we were any good. They were like, yeah, come on down and play. And now we play there probably. We've been playing there once a month for probably the last seven years. And then also a shout out to Russell Station in Greece because we're going to be doing our Writers in the Round and showcasing other local singer-songwriters here in Rochester, which we're super excited about. And is that this Thursday night? It is this Thursday, January 19th. It's going to be from 7 to 9. And for the first one, we're going to be featuring Patrick Glantz, Jim Drew, and Josh Ketchum. And we're super excited because we kind of started out with people, I feel like, doing us a favor. Amanda Ashley used to have an open mic back at Firehouse Saloon, and she let us get up there and play our originals. So we feel like this is kind of our way of going full circle and giving back and having them come and play with us now. I saw you had Max Dowd once. We do. Yeah, Max will be there with us as well. We've got a great lineup of people. We actually have a Writers in the Round hosted by Beggin' Angels Facebook page. People can hop on and like that. The full schedule is up there, all the events. We took the summer off, but there will be nine of them throughout the year. We have Vick's on the show here, him and his mom and his father. We love Max. He's a super talented young kid. Yes, he is. And his parents are fantastic. We love them. Oh, yeah, they are. We just started throwing the idea around of Original Music Round, and honestly, the feedback was incredible, so we felt like we had to do something with it. So Kelly's taken it upon herself to really dig her heels in on this thing, and she put in a lot of work on it. It's fantastic. Thanks. Welcome. He's so nice to me after 20 years. Can you believe it? He better be. Yeah. Is there anything you'd like us to know about your band members, Tom, Jim, and Joe? That they're the best. We love them. They're like family to us. So we've had a couple band members that have come and gone. We've loved everyone that we've worked with. You know, people have kind of left to do different projects or different things, but I think where we've landed right now, like I said, we're like family. We get along well. We play well together. We all have the same kind of, like, vibe. We like the same kind of music. So we are super blessed to have the three of them, and, yeah, that's Tom Smith and Jim Osterman and Mr. Joe Giovinelli. Yeah, and how long has Jim been with us? Four years now, I think? Yeah, a little over four years, I think, yeah. Fantastic guitar player. Thomas Richard Smith is probably the most underrated bass player in Rochester, and Joe Giovinelli, as far as I'm concerned, being a drummer, is probably the best drummer in Rochester that I've heard. We're biased, but we love him. He's just got a really good feel to him, and, yeah, he just does a great job. Every one of them. For sure. And don't forget that Tom adds some harmonies for us, which we really love. So we have that third part harmony that we were kind of craving for a while there, so it was kind of exciting to have him join the band and add that to our set list for us. Yeah, it's good that he can find people he can play with and get along with, because I hear that's still like a big problem. I knew there was a big problem like that. Yeah, like people can't, I don't know. I think artistically, if you're not all on the same page, absolutely. I think it can be hard to work with people if you guys don't. Like I said, if you don't like the same style of music or you don't have the same vibe, for sure, I think it can be difficult. And, you know, sometimes we've been pulled in different directions by people that we've played with, and I think they've felt the same about us, but Todd and I were pretty set from the beginning of where we wanted to go with this, because we both really come from very diverse musical backgrounds, and we really wanted to make sure that the songs we played, we loved playing them. I want the crowd to like the song, but I want to like what I'm singing, too. Yeah, we want to be able to put that much effort into what we love and what we're singing. So it may be a little selfish, but we tend to do a lot of songs that we love, maybe not so much that feeds into the crowd. The funny thing about it is everybody may not know who Ashley McBride is, but when they come to our shows, you can see them singing it and getting into it, and we're sort of exposing the people to our music as well. So it's a real cool thing. Do you have a favorite original song that you perform? Yeah. What do you want to do? I don't know if we're playing right now, but I do know that my favorite original song is Good Life. Oh, okay. That's the one I listened to today. Oh, is that the one? Yeah, because I'm looking at some songs up here for the break, so we're going to take a break at 630, and then you guys are set up so they can play. Perfect. Then I'll play a song called Good Life. I guess I'll just pick one out of this wonderful menagerie of tunes I have. Let me ask, here's a question I want to know. When someone's auditioning to be in a band, how do you know if they're the person you want? How do you know? I feel like they need to buy into what you're trying to do as well. Everybody has their own ideas, and there's got to be a vision where we're going forward. If they buy into it, you can feel that within a band, instead of having that division where everybody's pulling separate ways for things that they want to do personally. With the guys we have now, I feel like everybody's bought into what Kelly and I do, and it's just gone out there. With the practice and the shows we pull and like that, it's just all worked out. So is it like more than one audition? Say if you audition for a band, what's the process that you do? Say if you're auditioning a drummer. Ours was tough. Was it tough? Yeah, because I have an idea when it comes to a drummer and a rhythm section, and I have an idea of what I'm looking for. So it's real hard to get that with four or five songs. But honestly, I have a vision of how I want my band members to be, how they look, how they come, or look at practice and everything else. I know that I spotted Joe at Nashville playing for another band, and I was just like, that guy has the look. He has the style, the drum set, everything that I sort of wanted to have in my band. And so I approached him and asked him, and that just sort of happened. And when you come over for an audition, we usually give them about four or five songs to learn, and we'll just come over and they'll play them. And you'll know right away whether it's going to work or not. Oh, okay. Because I always wondered that. Because I used to hang out with some musicians my boyfriend back in the day was, but he was a jerk. That's unfortunate. Yeah, I was like, why are you guys, why are you, you know, they're telling them to turn down, I don't know, whatever. But yeah, I always wondered that. You know. You know when you first meet them. Yeah. You know when you first play with them. Right. And you'll know right away. I feel like Todd and I are both pretty good about reading people. Initially. And I usually get a vibe for someone almost right off the bat. So I think that helps because I don't think you'll even audition somebody if you don't feel that instant connection with somebody. You feel like you're going to get along with them. I don't want to waste their time having them learn songs and coming over and doing the audition. So I feel like with our three band members now, it was like an immediate, we like these guys. I remember with Jim, he was playing for another country band out there, and we used to go see him all the time. And I was like, I always loved this kid. His guitar playing is amazing. I always felt like he was very underrated. And it just came up that the band broke up, and I called him, and I was like, hey, man, let's just jam out and see what happens. And he came over, and it was an instant fit. So he's been with us ever since. Same thing happened with our bass player, Thomas Richard Smith. Their band broke up, and I had messaged the – They moved. Yeah, they moved to Kentucky. Yeah. And so I messaged the singer of that band and asked him. He was the brother. Would Thomas be interested in trying out? And he's like, you know what? He was just asking me about you guys the other day. So I called him up, and it was an instant connection. So it was perfect. And then with Joe, like I said, we'd seen him in another band. And I do believe the first audition we had with him, he might have called up and japped on us. Is that true? I do think he did not make the first one. But we gave him another shot. We were like, you know what? This kid's worth it. Let's try him out again. And he finally made it over. And, yeah, it was instant connection right there. So. That's good. Yeah. Yeah, so each one has its own little story. So pretty cool. Good. What is your creative process when making music? Oh, Lord. In performing. Other people, they're doing our own. It's kind of a little different, I think, for each of them. But for performing other music, I think I relate a lot to lyrics. So lyrically, if I'm not into a song, I probably don't want to sing it. And that's why I think Todd mentioned, we always make a joke that we're selfish musicians because we really kind of have stuck to doing the music that we want to do and hope that people gravitate towards it and learn those musicians. You know, I do songs by Ashley McBride and Margo Price and some Laney Wilson we're going to be adding in. And people may not know them, but the hope is that they like the vibe, they like what they're hearing, and then they kind of jump on board with what we're doing. And it's worked for us so far. And I think writing is a whole other animal. Yeah, I feel like our set list has evolved over time. Like we'll try it out on a crowd, and if it works, it works. If it doesn't, we go back to the drawing board. And it's just sort of gotten better with each show and each month that goes by. We just add and subtract. I mean, I think we have like 500 songs now to choose from. Ones that work, ones that haven't worked, you know. Some of them, not all the time, you're going to hit a home run. Some songs we pick, they just don't go over well, and so we sort of ditch them and put them on the back burner. And sometimes we revisit them, and it works. And then we're like, why did we get rid of this song? Sometimes they need a break, though. Right, depends on the crowd. Absolutely, yeah. But you have a core. You have a course, a bunch of your songs that really work. And so you sort of build around that. And, you know, this whole thing's been a learning process for me. And even writing a set list is its own art. You know, you've sort of got to know the ebbs and flows and how to put things in and where to take them out. And sometimes you need to improvise. If the crowd's not feeling it, you've got to sort of add some things. Or if they're dancing and getting into it, well, you've got to keep going with the dancing song. Right. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Have you ever met any of the performers of the songs that you cover? We actually have had the opportunity to do a lot of meet-and-greets over the years, which has been fun. But they're usually brief. But I think the best one we ever did was the eat-and-greet with Zac Brown Band. So they actually do a thing where they do the cooking and make barbecue, and then you sit down at picnic tables with the Zac Brown Band and hang out with them and eat. And I sat across from John. The bass player. Yeah, and he was talking about his kids. He's pulling out his phone and showing me pictures of his kids playing. And I'm like, this is the coolest meet-and-greet we've ever done. And the rest of them are kind of mostly take a picture and you get two seconds to talk to them. But it's still pretty cool to get to meet all these people and then watch the show. Yeah, we got to meet Ashton McBride and then a guitar player from Blackberry Smoke, which was really cool. So we're huge fans of them as well. Yeah, we've met Miranda. We've met a ton of artists that we really are inspired by. And I'll say every one of them were wonderful too. Yeah, Musical Gene was on here last week with her and her friends and they were going through all the people they met. They met a bunch of people. That's awesome. Yeah, pretty wild. It is inspiring. It is. It's even better when they're nice to you. It sure is. They're actually like real people. Right. I've only met one I didn't like, but I won't bring up who it was. Okay. Not even initials. JJ. Oh, JJ. Okay. Oh, I think, is it a woman? No, it's a guy. Oh, it's a guy. Okay. I love his music, but he is just, I think some people are suited for the meet-and-greets and some are not. Right. Some should probably stick to just being on stage. There's different flowers in the garden, right? And it could be that they just don't like that environment. In fact, we saw a show with Gretchen Wilson, and she was like, you know, I just don't like him. It gives me anxiety. So she just opted out of doing it, which I, you know what, I can appreciate that. At least she was honest about it. That's true. I do feel like James Hetfield from Metallica has the same issue. It's just more of a privacy thing for him instead of people always coming up and doing what they've got to do. So it can be tough. It can be tough. I give a lot of respect to some of the performers. Some of the performers out there that really go out of their way to meet their fans and everything else, because it is hard. Definitely in this day and age, it's super hard, you know. There's a lot of things going around. COVID. Yeah. Yeah, so. Do you guys find you get, like, any anxiety before you go on stage or anything? Do you guys? Every single time. Even seven years later, yeah. I still get anxiety every time, but I think it's a good anxiety. I think I feed off of that nervous energy, and once you hit that first note, I feel like it kind of just falls away. Oh, okay. Yeah, I feel like if you don't get nervous, then I would be more concerned about that than getting nervous, you know. Yeah. Getting nervous is pretty cool. Yeah, we're super invested in what we do and making sure that we put on a good show. So I feel like that's where the nervousness comes from. It's like we have to put on the best show tonight, and it doesn't matter if we're playing to 10 people or we're playing to 1,000 people. I want to give the best show possible. Yeah, that's true, because we go through a little anxiety here getting everything set up for shows. Yeah, we get a little like, oh, hey, you know. But, you know, since you guys are in, we're all fine now. We're good. Like, I would probably get more anxious doing this radio show than I would playing in front of a crowd, you know. Yeah, you were saying that. I was like, I don't know. People are out there. They're having a good time. They're drinking. When you're here, you're, like, by yourself, you know. It's sort of. Yeah, it depends. Well, yeah, it depends sometimes. Some kind of things happen, what I can't say. I would say, for sure, when we first started, I got more anxiety about talking in between songs than the actual performing. And a friend of ours, Joey Allen, used to have us come and do these national shows where we would kind of split it with him. And he would laugh at me because, you know, I'm belting out a song, and then I'd go to talk in between, and I was really quiet, and no one could hear me. And I'm like, I don't want to talk. And he's like, you have to talk, you know. And it just kind of becomes second nature after a while, but it does take a little while to get that out of your system. Or you're just trying to figure out something to say, maybe. Yeah. You can't think of anything at the time. Like, you know, I know sometimes my mind goes blank. You're like. Absolutely. Like, what am I saying to these people? Or are they even listening to me? Or do they even want me to talk? You know, just all these things start running through your head. Well, they want you to talk, because I know when I'm watching the band, I like, like, we once saw a KISS tribute band, and we love because they're so interactive, and I like that about them. And it's like, no, we love to hear people talk. Yeah. I think now we joke and say we do a comedy. We always make a joke that, oh, we're going to do a comedy show later in the week, because him and I will start bantering now and kind of picking on each other. And that was kind of an art, I think, we learned throughout the years, for sure. Yeah. The being married thing sort of comes into play there, and you can joke back and forth on, I don't know, whatever happened during the week or whatever, and you can get some people laughing. Cool. Yeah. You seem to have a dedicated fan base from what I saw on Facebook. Do you have an official fan club? We don't have an official fan club, but we do have the drinking team flogo, we call it. Flogo. Yeah, flogo. Kind of, you know, the slogan that we use. And it's just a joke, because we literally always do a shot of Jack Daniels before we perform. So now it's just kind of known, and sometimes people bring us multiple shots throughout the night, which can get a little crazy, but it's fun. And we just always like hanging out with our fans. And honestly, we never even usually call them fans. We just call them family, because they're like family to us. We've known them for years, and they've been super dedicated to us. So I think that's why I get nervous before every show, because I feel like they give so much to us. I want to make sure we give just as much back to them. Yeah, and we play their birthday parties and Fourth of July picnics and whatnot. So it's definitely a family-type environment. You come to our show, everybody loves each other. It's personalized. Yeah. Now, do you guys have like a pre-ritual before you get on stage? Like, what do you do? Like warm-up, you know? Shots. Shots? Pretty much. That's pretty much it. Pretty much it, yeah. That's our ritual. Pretty much shots of Jack. I go with this logo. It's the logo. What's your favorite shot? Just regular old Jack Daniels. Oh, you like the new Honey Jack? I love that stuff. I don't do a lot of the flavored stuff anymore. No? Yeah, we just kind of stick with the good old Black Jack. I can't do that anymore. Can you? I don't know. I can't do that shot anymore. I think we went through our Jack Fire phase and then we sort of moved on from that. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Jack Fire. I had some of that and I threw up all night long. That'll be one way to get off of it for sure. Yeah. Our friend Shannon over at Smokin' Hot Chicks likes her some tequila, but I can tell you me and tequila can't hang. Yeah? I can drink some Jack and be okay, but I drink some tequila and it's a whole other person. I know. Isn't that fun? That's like when they have fireball. It turns you into a crazy person. I don't know if you guys ever experienced that. Oh, really? I like fireball. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Me and my friends, we stopped drinking it because it turned us into kookiness. Like, we were like, wah! I just think some of them have a different effect on you. You should come to our shows. Oh, yeah. We'll be there. We're going to check you guys out. We'll give you some fireball when you come. Okay. No, no, no. All right. Well, it's 630. How about let's take a break and we'll give you time to set up, and then we'll be back and we'll hear some of your songs. Perfect. Sounds good. All right, Musical Gene. Let's talk about some things that are happening. I have to promote some of the stuff here. Mrs. Margaret Kane is having a protest down at City Hall for the voiceless for Verona Street, for the animals. Good. So that's going to happen Thursday at 6 o'clock. They would like you to call City Hall and sign up to speak. They would like that to happen. I'm just trying to find the phone number here. I have the phone number. I'm just going to find it. I should have done this before, but, you know. So, people, if you're into animals and you want to see your tax money that's being sent to this animal shelter be used wisely, you should meet outside at City Hall at 30 Church Street at 6 o'clock for a pre-council protest, and they'll provide the signs. But they need you to register to speak to the City Council by calling 428-7338 or email council at cityofrochester.gov. So I'll say it again. Call the number 428-7338 or email council at cityofrochester.gov. Go down there and help these animals. When we're giving tons of money to these shelters and they're not doing what they're supposed to do, there needs to be accountability. That's for sure. What do you think, Jean? Those poor animals. Yeah. It's something else, right? Also, someone else sent me a thing to promote for their, I guess this lady here is promoting trafficking. Ms. Julie's School of Beauty is trying to start a school of beauty for victims of human trafficking, and she's going to have a fundraiser Saturday and Sunday, February 18th and 19th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Strathalen Floor Ballroom. And if you'd like a vendor space, you can. That's $100 per day and a raffle item donation. They'd like you to contact them. You can contact her at Ms. Julie's School of Beauty on Facebook, or you can email melissatwig.mjsb at gmail.com. That's a lot there. It is. I think they need another email. I think they do. They get more user-friendly. Yeah. There's no phone. Where's the phone number? All right. Melissatwig.mjsb at gmail.com if you would like a form application to be a vendor. Okay. So that's that one. Okay. I guess that's all we all have to say. All right. Okay. Is that all we have to say? Okay. All right. If you would like to get in on a conversation tonight, people, you can call us at 417-5435. I'll say that again. If you guys want to call in, don't call in while they're playing the music. Call in while we're talking. That's 417-5435. And if you'd like to text, you can text anytime. That's 760-9539. I'll say it again. If you want to text a comment or anything, that's 760-9539. Okay. Are you guys getting set up? We were going on a break. That's why I said you were set up. All right. We're going to take a little song here, and let's play this song. Oh, A Good Life is the Best Revenge. Let's see how that sounds. Let's see if we can get that to play. All right. There we go. There we go. There ain't no good life. Not the one that I lead. The more I fight the sadness, yeah. It only seems the more that I grieve. Well, I look back on the good times. And some lost part of me, I want to know. Tell me, why is it so? Well, just because I don't pray. Lord, that don't mean I ain't forgiven. Just because I'm alive, that don't mean I'm making love. I'm going to get myself together. I'm going to try, die, and attempt. Talking about the good times, slipping by. Yeah, I'll tell you now. I don't even know where the last month went. Well, I can't make no money, baby. Well, because my money's already spent. And I know where it went. I said, it went on that damn ramp. Well, I don't need trains, baby. I need more money. Well, I want a lover, but I don't need a buddy. Well, I don't need a buddy. Is it already over with? Oh, no, OK. OK. All right, folks. We're going to hear Begging Angels. What song are you guys going to play first? What song? We're going to do our original Can't Give Up. All right, hit it. Can't give up These tears fill my eyes All the pain I can't decide Feels so hard to breathe Emptiness consumes me In the middle of a war No one will fight and fall They say the damage is done The battle's all but won My heart is hit to the floor Not sure if I can take much more Angels need to run To the dawn of time
