to do t v is sponsored by garden house country blues series on beacon hill the third friday of the month petering alice stewart and special guest eric freeman on september twenty first lloyd jones and paul green on october nineteenth and bo memphis minnie's niece and special guest mary flowers on nov sixteenth you can find out more about beacon hill's garden house country blues concert series at brown paper tickets face book or at blues to do dot com or by calling two six three two eight zero six six two that's garden house country blues concert series yeah yeah and but i don't know about four years old the piano on my mom walked in the living room one day and she says it was planned sitting at the piano playing which is a dream where did you learn math and i said off the t harmony twelve ninety five years old and they're keepers man they're keepers he bought me the that's what got me started so change your life pretty much big brother just like it's a big brother yes you also talked about i don't know you know i was so into fusion and jazz at the time that i wasn't but i never listen to guitar players anyway to learn from my early on when all of typical stuff but yeah later on it was mostly drummers piano players in trouble players which i quit playing trumpet but that's what i listen to so do you play more the guitar i'm sorry you have a couple of originals you started with this is over spoon song that's personal isn't it could be i'm not going there hanging on is useless most of it most of all it's i don't remember oh i busted it mike somebody are doing it i love your arrangement of crossroads tell me how you got to that just through about four five six different arrangements of  or something it's just i grew up in texas it's hot you know that's just one last piece of clothing first cut as it were for the international blues challenge everybody trying to go to memphis these days and you guys got a good chance with this band big show coming up on august nineteen king and this outsiders rafael's going to be there so that's a how did you get into playing the bass i mean i just grew up in a musical family and that was the the chair that needed to be filled so yeah but  i kind of learned by watching and played church you know there was a b three in front of me and taking piano lessons when i was six years old so the man said watch my feet so i watched his plate keys with his feet and i knew the notes and so that's all a lot of the notes on the bass the one four five four came out right at the feet there i can relate to that i grew up with a mom doing or going to church in the same thing i was down there at her feet totally you know that story first hand so how old were you then oh i was probably early teens and i played drums in high school went to college and then well now when did you get into this professionally where did you know you had to do it professionally electrician by trade so that's always treated me you know i've always had that but played you know from twenty years old it was pretty busy in there when i moved up in this area and been very busy the last fifteen years or so in this area yeah you also say steve as well as play the keyboards and you have to nor over there you know north i've seen a north before but never have i seen someone with two north this is the brand of keyboard i'm talking about these are great they sound like a hammond organ and tell me about your your gear there they really do an outstanding job a swedish company the bottom keyboard just as hammond b three and other words it does parties a cheesy talian organs from the sixty's and also does a really good pipe organ but mainly b three is what people use and work and you know the top keyboard does beat three as well but you you have waited keys for the piano and you can't play the b three on the piano because you have to do all the smears and these run ups and it's just a whole nother action so that's that's why i drag around so much gear it to be more authentic  do this full time what got you into the keyboards you know it's funny you listen to the dean's story i've never really talked to him about that but really similar my mom played just played by ear and we always had a piano in the house you know five or six i just you know picked it up going to have a good ear for it never really took lessons i just kind of always you know learned after eckard and back in the old days you could check out big records from the library you know and check those out learn like you know classical song whatever i can find a way to go well you got the chops never unless i'm so sorry that's right we both grew up in vancouver washington well for you to never