65: The Lone Arranger (feat. Lenny Solomon of SHLOCK ROCK)

[Music] hi I'm doing allow ski and welcome to the rabbi Olaf ski show and whether you're watching over our friends at our anytime or wherever you watch or listen to your podcast we're so excited to have you along with us we have a sponsor this week and I'm reading his sponsorship by Raphael house key I really enjoy your show which I get to listen while I commute to work there are a lot of people who listen when they commute to work that's better than the people who watch as they commute to work unless they're on the train or a bus in which case it's okay but otherwise keep your eyes on the road yeah I'm someone who tries to read she Duke him for those of you who don't speak Yiddish that means he makes she doe him you know that little translation over there matchmaker matchmaker kind of match old woman she's going around going the veggie dish television is fine goes Jurgis who is the time and so I see first hand how many singles them such a hard time therefore I'm sponsoring this podcast that through school cetera and kiddush Hashem Hashem should have Ramona's and since everyone is evil be karov Wow isn't that beautiful it is beautiful and sort of keeping with the theme I have an old friend Noah freed who asked me to give him a shout-out because he just got engaged to bruffey Markowitz so I guess you didn't realize it but the pub the sponsorship I had already come in before you got engaged so viced us you're the first recipient of this tremendous Brava and in me a sham there should be many many she'd of him and if you suddenly find that things are going well for you let us know we'll happy to give you a shout out and bring you here to of clays fellow here on the reveal our ski show and as you know if you take a look on the episodes that usually get the most views it's always guests because there's always so much of me that people can take it's been that way since I was little you know I used to make money from my music people used to pay me not to sing but but the fact is that I have this quistis in our first guest episode of the year of our second year of the revealing ski show and I have been waiting a long time for this one this is a special one I didn't have him in the first year because I didn't know if I would keep going so now that I'm here for a second year I forgets could I to bring him in we have with us a legend of the Jewish music world and that is my good friend Lenny Solomon thank you it's a pleasure to be here it's a pleasure it was a pleasure to have you it was a pleasure being had but we go back what 40 years yeah we're talking 37 37 years 37 years I was 12 when I first met you I always say if Superman can get a room reboot so can I so anyway but so you have I mean at this point you're an institution of Jewish music but you started you know everyone knows much rock rock rock rock is a public institution and but you actually started before that you have Florine first of all how'd you land a plane so my father yes no but my father Oliver Shawn took me for accordion lessons nice career could've been a good hyun-jung missions I must tell you are you ready well my friends the accordion lessons accordion was the in instrument it was 1969 I was 8 years old so you know we all behave I live owns everything what about I'm Lawrence Welk although it wasn't really my audience but no no Israeli it would always be like these two Israelis yeah why had a guitar went on an accordion you know yes anyway so I took 10 years of Cornelison years yes yeah of course did you ever use it and yes I use it I use it all the time I use it on special occasions I take it when I was 15 I started my piano lessons because what happened was is the accordion kind of fell out of favor let's say it became a little bit of a laughing instrument yeah it wouldn't have worked so when I was 15 I started taking classical piano I took three years of piano and then when I was 18 I went to Queens College it took 60 years 60 years 60 credits of music in conducting and sight singing in theory and so I have this musical background now my father all of a show how did you take the piano I love the piano yeah the classical music not not as much because I you know I played Jewish music I grew up playing Jewish music four chords yeah I guess was but it but you could play you could use more than function I should point out they always used to make fun of Jewish music is four chords now I don't know what that means they actually music they actually would say three courts a minor D minor E minor or D minor G minor a major whatever it is they say those kind of a comma yes he's he would play songs he would just this past week he would play songs with two chords with three chords so someone told me that he actually said he really could do more he was actually quite gifted right but he wanted to make songs that were easy for people who I follow and sing along yes pop music I still never was I'm you so kind when he would sing that yeah if you walk into any audience we've got was humongous right today's classical's we put 80% of the music that we sing his hits really yeah still I think so maybe a little less now because it may be a little bit less but the thing he would write with two three chords because three chords is pop it's pop its simplest form of music music for the mass when you go to the to the radio and you listen to music it's three chords yeah a lot of the time a lot of the time not Queen no no not not Queen but they also have some simple songs you sip simplicity sells people want to be able to sing it and they want to be able to hear most Jewish music today you can't sing today it's over produc overproduced I mean now again you know I'm at that age and I was that I was one of years ago they knew how to write a song they stopped knowing how to write music in 1989 so I could get that crotchety you know but I do believe that today's music is overproduced and and it you can't say how many songs no I don't I don't I don't the last what's the last song that became a hit where you're singing so you have this remake of hatov October okay those are the rather may have alright but that's from Pensione Shankaran budgets so our and Rahzel it was it your night on or on one of them we did it right or you have the and cemre said that which does have any word Mandarin and then I and then I'm nine nine nine i and so this is old stuff the newer stuff is not really I got it some of it if you if you strip away everything is there's a tool there right but you really if that's right you know I used to do this with my kids because they used to say it's not true out but you know and I used to bring an example now key a left enough she Sai right now she's are okay he left her key a lesson app she saw broke now she sorry okay and they didn't believe me so when I used to I used to be on the radio V here and I would doing parsha for sure to half an hour you know so I made him play it for my kids [Laughter] well that's the thing that's the guitar solo that heavy guitar solo and I need to have that or good sax solo you want you know so okay so you so I play the piano you took the right like a fish to water yeah I and and when I was I also went to a camp a day camp in Long Island called use day and what was you ever hear of it never okay so you stand hand I am I don't know I don't know I was but it was it was in the second when I was in high school do you think is what I do but I over we didn't have a car so we took a bus with school bus you noticed but the such a great camp that I improved piano playing like 2,000 percent cuz all you did was play piano in the morning and sports in the afternoon it was a federation Campbell's one of those I wore yarmulke or baseball cap there were a lot of non Jewish kids there and every time at lunch they would have artists come and give concert so I actually saw Harry Chapin mmm give a concert you know at at this place that was a big effect on me was a big you know I grew with my piano playing that way so he took this in college yes you can like although this was in high school this campus you went to college he took yeah it was serious can arrange yes I can and I have well there were 39 you do your own arrangements yes there were 39 new buddies yeah you're the Lone Ranger anyway I'll be the straight man so but then it was 20 years old and I got a phone call from avi Feinberg I have you 400 my first drummer and he said to me Lenny how'd you like to go to an NCS wash of a tone and I said what's and here's why because I grew up from from birth but with its own youth center in few Gardens and it was a yeah cashews and they did not take kindly to a bar bar bar bar bar bonel they were not happy about it I don't know but that's where I came from I came I knew know sucked we were like crazy all in Ursula you down the hall 5 McGillis I became about koi from 17 to 22 every part from the age of 17 to 22 yes of course you haven't go run now - I do 30 years over 30 years I dive in for the element but the thing is is that you you I always tell people you can't go out of the box until you've been in the box you need to learn the rule that's a big problem a lot of people because they're coming in and they don't know what what reality is yeah here's a deep cut for you you were you there was there was a guy called the great Ballantine he was actually well he was on Mikhail's maybe he was the guy con man yeah yeah yeah anyway he used to do a pari in vaudeville you do a parody of a magician and he would do like key little magician but all the tricks would go wrong yeah he says he'd show up in a town when they hadn't seen a magician they just thought he was a bad magician if you don't know what you're parroting if you don't know where you're coming from then you don't appreciate it right anyway so you're in the box I was in the bus and then an 81 I started playing NCS workshop at Toms if I would wander your life I watched people get up on chairs on shops and they would go let's go to the shoe land of anyone we think yeah yeah would be you and then and then they did other things and then other people did think I said you know I can do this and that's how she la croque the original was born now you know I got it but yeah would you get it from yeah I got it from there was a guy grabbed by Effie Buckwald yeah yeah yeah you know sure and he used to do why you seminar and he would do this at the way you seminar he would dress up hiko himself the full of bull Arriba and he would sing parodies these were these were the originals imagine me a rub my love I go to show all night and day and sit and pray and like a field of grass roots way and then we'd say oh well the first one was shaking up saving yes shake it up baby now shake it up zing and I think how the human wrote that it was his ale Numenor was the original uncle Moishe really yeah wrote wrote that but I think was a lumen and I used to see him saying I can do this and it was you know the the the Ruach dancing part Oh again only gets you into it if you're already there right so if not is I right tremendous catalyst so that's why I always used to say this was the conduit from the reggae the secular world to the world of Jewish music was schlock rock or parodies recommend to rejects country you see in the steel hoppers all those guys that I grew up on and then I was so make on then and so I started writing my own and now but before that there was cash share so cash share was my Hasidic band and and once we peeled sweet pill wasn't my partner and then we had Joey Friedman we had a lo mejor wits and the left the band and you own a Lloyd came in and then Joey left the band that Jonathan remember came in so we had three albums you but you got the trouble with that one too cuz you put in apparent hit me with your best shot Oh trouble yeah I go away I got a lot of things I got a lot left you gave a key Lou now I'm truth I didn't know that this was gonna be a career in the Vegas right the vacancy I'm just so mainstream they had this song oh yeah you know what that is yeah I do these are the origins of Jewish music which is a lot of it is taken from European from Kaiser marches from I heard that right the Inc hello Cana that everyone did was a Napoleonic March I don't know what I heard mouse or was a Gregorian chant no no no no no no right and I don't alum oh no no no no no no in other words since it's all but in Calcagno is a march well we have been in exile for 2,000 years so we've been running around from country to country the playbook I don't think it's a coincidence that smarty music sounds Arabic yes and not only that you never get them going oh yeah and they would say and thus marauding would say the robber they would say it is an obligation of the Jewish musician to take the best Arabic songs and put it to the words of the Fela and the words of this Murad and that and that yeah I see really link well I don't think I only get my but Emily I think if they came up with that on their own oh my god but and so so you with you with Kesha yes and Kesha I wrote this samatha that became a standard I don't know what people don't do more of a summer together I mentioned this in my circus podcast that there's only one um hurrah come on who your kimono the Sookie's never follows and it is so annoying really where is it from you know that's cowboy come on yogi yogi before you start to the skin starts to crawl you know all of the songs are like that you can't sing know these songs sometimes you know I was I had a simplest Tiger where they saying salve a you shoe is Yakko one hour straight if I rang yes well this ride was this path I've seen emotion MS mr. reso MS I've seen them sing that all right five minutes that's right how about look at you saying that Jochen wants to give the phone because it's basically the same tune just in the different key rami Strasse sax player b plays in a band he told me he was at the Colin Stalin Simmons mr. wave up with the band and they played the same song for one hour right and he said it was unbelievable I go what do you mean it was unbelievable it must have been bored out of your mind how do you keep doing the same thing over and over that's a gift when they can do that you know you know what you know what it is you know what this song uh ha train oh my you don't even know how to get out of it it's certainly once you get into it it never ends because you can dance forever you know but live in Yemen are ma how long can you sing that for well we'll let you know what that was you know that that album live in Yemen number was on the kazakh album from lava I'm freed five hit songs out of the ten sold a hundred thousand copies that was broke records yes it was because that was Kazak that's a new thing I don't know what else was on there before there were five hit songs on that album now but you don't secretly omit any more live in Yemen is not a cloud it didn't make it into the into the are you they sent it here more because over Netanyahu oh that's right that's right when he became he went right Minister yes he came with a theme song I don't mind if somebody wants to write me a theme song I am open anyway so so yeah you have you have Kesha and you could not want the band members we had a turnover but it's very interesting we had a turnover album now how did that come so that was in between in between now before in one parody on with it right man you can you did one parody you got into trouble so that's it maybe I should do a lot more of this no no I really AM trouble I just work rumors I heard rumors that oh they don't like this I heard people would like take the album at a race to the last song yes I got that I don't want to say what you Shiva did that but I I heard cuz it so that is what I do now to do a whole album well it seems like this a new but no because there's nobody who is doing this for real in other words no nobody's already put out heroine touring they weren't too worried about a bunch of albums how many P country is at least four or five think yeah but they weren't touring in other words they were really in New York and Brooklyn see the thing is what batch lock rock the greatest thing about is that I have played all 50 states I played 2000 shows I've been to South Africa nine times with you once in South Africa and eight times in Australia and 20 times in England and Canada every city except for Winnipeg hmm haven't been to Winnipeg in a to hear that when a bank old okay if you would fight the outcome but anyways I went to Jagan I'll even go to a winnipeg jets game if you want me to anyway so the with the Edmonton yes and Calgary and you worried about meant over you think we're the biggest cold Calgary was freezing Calgary was so cold how come oh so cold anyway I don't know the punch like that anyway so but the thing was is that lock rock what happened was a shock because shock I was supposed to be a comedy I said okay I'm gonna go with my friends we're gonna make this album right here's the thing it was a now what's interesting directors are rejects was just straight late Sunnis it well it was it was nothing unitary comedy right but there's nothing redeeming in it no well I don't right now country yes II had that song deaf man in the stable yeah which you loved that's a no they have a lot of powerful songs contrasting a lot of evidence but they didn't really tour and so much outside of Brooklyn College Queens College so I had this in me that I loved Jews and I love man sees what meeting that here of things yes because from 81 to 88 I did all the regions and it started with New York Region and you and my second region Long Island region then I went to seaboard then I went to Virginia then I went to Central East and and Canada and all these every place I went everything that Virginia used to be its own region you all Virginia was yeah it was Ray who City Richmond and Richmond in Norfolk and Newport News those three but anyway so what happened was is that I put at the Salish like I thought it would be comedy and then three months later I get this letter dear Lettie my brother who hates Judaism is listening to your album around the clock keep up the good work and then I got another letter like that and then I got a letter that said if the ax bar Bernal knew what you did to it he'd be rolling in his grave and then I said Wow first thing is I didn't get something the apartment had a lot more problems than pronounce it right it's Abravanel it's done it's like Abravanel right it's not a bar when I grew up really when I grew up as a bar mil to barber Nell we think your sweat I've been there Gardevoir learning reaching for teacher carbonell ba-ba-ba-ba vanessa once I got those letters I said to myself wow maybe that's what this is for so I put out a second album then had them under the hook and I thought gosh and then I started getting calls for concerts now this isn't between Kishore - and Kesha 3 Kesha 3 came out was called Kazakh and was the last album that I would do with Kesha and the last happen but we put out because schlock rock became its own living in January of 1988 and this one Kersh bar who he I had no plan to do this I thought you were my Hampton well then I had left counting an 85 so from 85 already I'm doing only music do you regret that no you're kidding you could have been an accountant how'd you arrive first cuz I still do accounting why because I do my own books ok come on you know but I'm also gonna count and I gotta figure out how much money my kids are spending I don't even stand a chance in fact when people give me money I just burn it out everywhere that's yeah so the thing is is that yeah I so yeah so with the the Gershwin said this is what you're going to do I had no advertising no demographics no business plan no anything back up the truck what did your parents say so this is this money to send you to school oh so you an accountant you had a real job you on the do you know how much flack to becoming an actual normal person and suddenly you say mom dad I decided to leave accounting and to develop a band called schlock rock to do parody albums so you would this is what and then I like sit on the floor like light a candle my father brought me in at when I was 18 and he said label cuz my name is label are you'll a label I want you to go to Julian label exactly when you says Libby's Libby's Libby's on the label label label you will like it like it like it on your table table table and that's why I think Lenny that is why we came lady I was incinerated when that commercial caveman anyway so the thing is is that what happened was is that my father called me and I was 80 and he said I want you to go to Julliard get your masters in music and become a full-time musician this is what he told me I said dad how am I gonna make a living and this is the proof that no eighteen year old kid ever listens to their parents I went to Queens College a major in accounting who he told me they'd become a full-time musician so he knew he knew that I had this talent but I didn't expect it how do you get how do you make a living in music so there were five people making a living in music at that time doing he said you're a lord you're slow if I don't support you you're going to be a failure you didn't owe your life and there was no and I really tried to live up to that anyway well you've surpassed it so you know then I cry in my sleep but it's nothing anyway so mat my father knew I would become a full-time musician and when I was 24 and I left the counting and I picked the music he was very happy and it cutters bar who basically tripled my salary and he and from here one as a third year accountant who hadn't passed the CPA hmm - a first year musician and and I never looked back and I just kept going and going and going and that was the that was the miracle I mean I I told you that I wanted to talk about a chef because Hashem sets everything up he said everything up for me now how many kinds is did you do a year 100 shows a year from 88 to 96 and that doesn't even include when I was in gypsy and I was doing public schools I would do something you know at each place I could have done three concerts you know cuz you played a if you go to a school you play first a kid in the garden through fourth and fifth through eighth and ninth through twelfth they break it up because you're not gonna play the same songs for each one and it really it became a living it was I couldn't believe it Wow I couldn't believe it so there I was back when people used to buy albums yes so that was a bit it's a big problem then people should know the impact of nobody buying music anymore only taking downloads is that I personally have to create a 501c3 so that I could raise sponsorship to make albums to make videos to make you know it's called the four corners project and the mission is to reach the Jews scattered to the four quarters of the world he told me that he puts out an album I guess he does our gold way he doesn't mean this might if he didn't get help you can't do it cuz nobody bought you you spend all this time in write but you can album one guy buys it you know and then they make a copy of it right and they we don't want to we don't want to complain and fetch we shouldn't I I you know it doesn't look good but I will guys in the back of this rule saying who what the Kurds under the kiddush I'm already that guy I'm going to what tune is a using for kedusha prepare you can't prepare as most of kedusha it's a wedding play someone sing some wedding songs during conditions it I do that all the time actually yeah my father may be used to do that too my father was a cousin and he worked for the IRS so he was in both so he'd say he was that you've seen that tune again you're being wooden yeah we're gonna take you down he actually told me to writing indeed nephesh yeah before he passed away he hasn't he said writing knew you need that fresh we were sitting a child shut us I go dad what's wrong with this one you know everybody's doing the standard when you arrive I'm on he goes I don't like it write a new one so he passed away two weeks later suddenly one of those you know sudden right I wrote a indeed nephesh that came out on an album of mine in 2004 it's a set it's Mara D it's Mizrahi because Beit Shemesh you have a lot of Moroccan so it has an influence on you and it was recorded it's beautiful it's a beautiful song and and I whenever I go to a community I teach it and and they and they learn it but you know the the greatest thing about the the schlock rock career is that I have seen the Jewish community yeah you know you really yeah you covered you know you remember when we were in Cape Town together sure that was unbelievable it was an unbelievable experience really unbelievable because you have the opportunity to reach out and touch souls and also you learn from them they tell you stories and that you you know now there is a counter-current in society today against going for song parodies yeah I can think of a couple of people who've gotten into trouble and I've been banned because they take garnishes songs and they write English words to it and write well yeah yeah that's true out mentioning any names no there's no no we don't have to but they look you know you had sorry gosh kapha it's a toughie what do you you know but you see but you didn't do this to go and like you know have fun in a consonant you did this to each piece no I never played consonants I've never played what you know I play maybe once I was just to play like to every three years so one every year and a half and that would be you know somebody who just asks me as I don't advertise to play weddings I don't I don't really want to play with that was why I left you home that was the that was the when V and I sleep it was a great guide a great friend and we yes he is and we were we were at the this crossing this is this point where I wanted to be you know I wanted to go into concerts and he wanted to be a Hassan Abed and I said I don't want to play Hassan is that's not why I was created I mean I don't know why I was good I mean you know what why not but this is what my neshama told you use these songs to teach to teach ya not only I mean I could tell you stories that you wouldn't believe I mean that that I can't even believe like I was in Boca Raton just over the summer a guy stops me I was in a supermarket cry stops it was Lenny Solomon I used to live in Oakland I'm I'm relocating to Boca Raton I owe my Judaism to you these are my three sons that he takes a selfie and I've got stories like that all thrown careless no yes from so parodies from song parodies you know the the the two points that I that I should send this first of all see at the dish mayor because borough if a person wants to do Russell nutshell because Berlin gives you whatever it is the out of Navarre that used to say because I never asked whether I can do something I asked whether something had to be done and I knew it could it would give me the chaos to do it right and and the other thing is that sir cottage says that the showering neguin are next to the sherry chuva and music speaks to people in a way that that's different than words you can get away with a message through music that you if you speak it you can't always get it's true in its way from now I don't want to be singing the podcast thanks great podcast from my bar laughs key every year I hope that you listening and I should tell your friends and watch it next week cause the fun just never read but you know that you have to tell this story about how we had this conversation I was an accountant and we were to shove a tone and so Lenny was the bet he'd come in play in NC s why the band used to play this tremendous role because like at the end you'd make Abdullah and that was like the most dramatic presentation of the Shabbos you say Dola and makeup done the Nance was the banner go you would give the message before give the message of the message I came already left us cuz the message was so good at changing I don't remember what it was but it doesn't matter I can't get any money and somehow I wanted to be one of the I haven't been doing what you believe is right right and not just you know following the the crowd I bet I'm giving the same message for 40 years I don't really changed I'm not that creative and that's it follow you have to you have to do what's right don't follow the crowd you know the the the phrase that I always use is you know everybody does what everyone does because that's what everybody does you know right and that's true that showed me was not true in your case no nobody did what you know and and I'm still out of the box because I wrote this musical on safer Danielle so why because I was in Phoenix Arizona in 2007 and this guy says to me 'have you ever learned safer Daniel not nobody learns safer than you know of course I'm alone so then I read it and I said oh my god they're drawn about the action this is this is we need to write and all of a sudden Hashem opened up this door and I write like this by the way I write songs like this I wrote 29 songs in eight weeks between March 2012 to May 31st 2012 I finished a musical called Daniel in Babylon you got the kimchi nation yes of course with the kitchen a stone well there's this there's this thing with where fire is the devil's only friend no no no so at the end he goes I see an angel cadets are sings oh it's you know I threw in three but there are four of them I see an angel right that's that's the punchline the the leading up to it when they get thrown into the fire it's just that this this conversation in music when I wrote I wrote a rock opera so there's no talking everybody sings one song like a myth it's like lame is it's like a vida it's like Joseph those three so I'm trying to admit for the last seven years I'm trying to make a Hollywood movie I have a director everybody is over the red cast over there after that I have that I just need an investor so that's the one thing I'm doing that's it's incredibly difficult and Hashem spoiled me because I mean how much money you need to make this seven million dollars if anybody's out there I would like to make the Daniel film Daniel and Babylon it's going to change the world it's and it's I call it a lock rock for the entire world now it's all original music but it's teaches it teaches the story of Daniel the first six program you will know everything that happened and the first thing most of you songs that I do music you do Barry look half an F F an F for every parody album that I released that released an original album now we're off to 39 so the 40th album was gonna be an original album honey Judy right mingled it was it was a big low you mean he loves 4d I mean we've got a lot of airplay they've got a lot of airplay in Israel on that it was like one of the first songs that I that ever made an impact here because I made out 23 years ago but and and you who is it I'm a Jew that's mad gamma duo had nothing to apologize to right I'm a son of Abraham I believe in the Promised Land shouldn't you shouldn't you so they asked me Shiva bet I'm a gamma duo were also big influence on me right because they were the first 1975 nine you know they were around 75 in the 80s I remember seeing them and they asked who they weren't really a parody band they just took they came from a real rock ya know they were original background and they yeah and they just use their player today I didn't write parodies my zaydis an original song my Zadie lived with us in our parents home used to laugh he put me on his knee that was a great song that makes everybody cry that makes everybody cry tremendous impact and also album rosenbloom that asked for yeshiva band fan you know how them D the McCauley everybody wanted to play that song first class and I ever did yeah I was so nervous because you know what I was doing and Moshe short oh he was the cousin right here okay so I'm you know I think he's gonna be singing like you know you know you know all the standard you know so I'm going over my notes and all the sudden I hear a guitar my face turned white and I just see the whole audience I have lost control the room anyway yeah it's unbelievable we had him at the last convention in lessons he's my convention they came Moshe short and whoever from the ass but he brought with him so but yeah so now so you said I did all these concepts till 1996 whatever 96 96 I moved to is now when I moved to Israel then I would tour five six times a year and I would set up concerts for like Hanukkah 16 shows 19 days poor him those are the two big seasons and then the rest of the year you kind of treaded water that was where I made my big bernisa and Habad became my number one employer that was the most unbelievable thing to me yeah you know where all of a sudden because why because you go to Montgomery Alabama or Birmingham Alabama or this was Jewish and you have to reach out well that's not about what they thought or not though then how do you reach how do you talk to somebody who has never experienced any Jewish music you give them slack Rock mm-hmm that speaks to them and that's I I think that's what happened the the kibosh looked and realized that I was like a kebab person even though I'm not you know so this one till when how is this the concert suit so you know pretty much until last year at this point I think and you can tell albums anymore nobody can tell no no you know I don't even bring albums anymore now we do sell downloads but it's a dollar a song so okay great you know oh we did 40 bucks this month 20 bucks it was a good month no complaining I'm not complaining I want to sound like a better musician no better musician I'm a better speaker anyway I knew this is gonna be anyway so that's it then so now no no at this point a big picture this one you cast your eyes up to a shaman you say okay Shem what's next so we have this not-for-profit organization that I made said it that is the four corners project and it does the same thing that schlock Wright did but it does it in a not-for-profit model so people can sponsor an album or sponsor a video or sponsor a musical or a be able to base my whole career on nonprofit really we're a nonprofit organization we didn't planted that way yeah well we had an out so they said we don't have any private jets is what you're saying so now what you're doing is just trying to get the money to put this something yeah the oh man yeah and also the other projects yeah I have a lot of project but I want to write a musical called Rama howl the musical I want to do that I want to do I want to do a musical understand the irony event that because we are right now nope what's the irony the irony is that the room how I used to write play yes yes that's the irony yeah and obviously the plays when when you have a play starring people like to Ferris and knits up you know that this ain't you know this is not an eroded in the time playing I want Italian he was born in Padua yes he was so I think he must have written in an Italian yeah but but but he I was just used theater as a means to be able to communicate his ideas and that's what he would very often he would sperm in as if Akua we was like a little hats a gap between to write that was the bigger the say huh and right yes yeah it's unbelievable yeah so he was unbelievable so I wanted I wanted to do why I'm the musical show musical no but I would call it ROM hollow musical and I would do his life and and then I guess fascinating I know and and and tragic because he only lived 39 years yeah but and those were not easy years no because because he did they didn't they couldn't deal with him because of uh the shop lights me coming out of the shop that Swede door yeah you know you know but that was his his essay on I guess well maybe he was the people's lease I only couldn't handle the you know but uh well as I do research into it and when I write it I hope one day a sham will let me write it because it's it the really everything happens to rush yet oh I'm getting you know getting religious acids in the only no but I that's true nothing happens without Gazzara ly0 sell you you know you need i translate them yes yeah you need a rubber stamp from God or else it ain't happening and I see you have a coded part you have wanted to be a vehicle to bring turn to the people and the coach bro who gave you that opportunity and it's it's unbelievable I mean I've I stood back in or over the years watching which we've been able to accomplish and we're looking forward to to the movie and to the musical and to all the other accomplishments and what can I tell you Lenny it was such a privilege to have you here this week and maybe we'll get together again and we'll have to jam you know we will and when we jam I must I have to present you on behalf of the chakra organization with the 30th anniversary slack rock tisha oh my gosh yes this is it it's not like going to the White House to getting a hockey jersey but uh well you know a baseball jersey they give up they always give the president his own baseball jersey I spoke to trumps people and he comes on I'm gonna get a mega hat ft is impeached off a lot more time on his head [Laughter] privileged ladies and gentlemen Larry Salomon very much institution and that's it for this week you can find out more about this show a trivial offski calm where you can make comments find out about my upcoming events schedule contact me directly and if you'd like to sponsor an episode reberty Laskey that come slash podcast i'm raviolo ski I'm Lenny Solomon and is the raviolo ski show [Music]