 What's up YouTube, welcome to 2024. Super excited to be with you guys, be back with you guys. You know, we've been doing this for a long time together. So to be able to continue to make videos, I just wanna say thank you to you guys out there. You know, this is something that I love doing and I love that this is my job and I get to do this for you guys. So we're gonna get started with the video but today's gonna be a little bit different. This haircut is inspired by one of my clients. So I wanna tell you guys a little story about how this person became my client in the first place and then kind of go on from there and it really ties into the whole YouTube subject as well. I got a phone call randomly at the salon and it was somebody a little bit after COVID, I believe. And they said that they're in the entertainment business and that they were looking for a haircut. Well, you never know what that means. So didn't really think anything of it, especially in our town, people could be in the entertainment business in all different facets. So it really didn't seem that crazy. So anyways, their name obviously ended up in my book but I didn't even do any research of who the person was. Just kind of took it as a client coming in like I always would. And while I was cutting his hair, so he comes in, he's got long dark hair. He's wearing a mask. It was definitely during the time of everyone wearing masks especially I think you had to wear them in this salon. I don't really remember, but he was definitely wearing a mask. So I couldn't see his face, only could see the long dark, almost black hair. And we talked a little bit but I didn't question anything. I think part of this business is let the client share what they wanna share and just kind of do it. And honestly, I wasn't thinking anything that I didn't, wasn't thinking anything about this guy at all. So I was just cutting his hair like a normal guy. So I'm cutting his hair and then a little bit into the haircut. He says that he found me on YouTube. I saw my YouTube video so he really wanted to get his haircut at the salon. And a lot of you guys know out there like I don't really take new clients but decided to take him. So we start talking about COVID and he talks about how he's a musician and you know how it's been kind of like, I don't know, he didn't say tough. He just was talking about it being different. But he did say one thing that struck me as a little bit odd. He said he did an event over Zoom for St. Jude's I believe. And so that right away in my head kind of made me think well, if you're doing an event for St. Jude's like that's kind of a big deal. So that was kind of interesting. And then so I popped the question and said how do you like doing the virtual events now that everything's kind of virtual right now or would you rather play in front of people? And what he said to me was, and I'll never forget, he goes, Matt, I've played in front of four people and I've played in front of, I think he said 20,000 people. I don't really remember the amount but it was huge. It was a big number of people. So right then and there I was like, well, obviously that's kind of an odd, you know, not everybody gets to play in front of 10, 20, 30,000 people, whatever. So he goes, he's like, Matt, I don't know if you know but I was the singer for Journey. And I was like, the Journey? Like the band Journey? And he's like, yeah. And I was like, wow. And we're literally at this point done with his haircut. So was I nervous cutting his hair? No, because I didn't know who he was. He had a mask on and I was just cutting his long dark hair and I'm so glad that I didn't find out who it was until, you know, after the haircut was over basically. So anyways, I cut his hair, he liked it. You know, we took a picture together and that was, and I'm gonna say late 2020, possibly early 2021, but he's been my client ever since. Steve Augeri, he sang with the band Journey for quite a while after Steve Perry left. So it's just super cool to have him as a client, as a friend at this point. He found me on YouTube. So I thought kicking off this year of kind of just being grateful to be able to be on YouTube and make content and make videos and teach you guys haircuts. I thought it would be kind of fun to show you guys the haircut that I do on him. I'm not gonna do it on him on the video because I'm gonna respect his privacy. I don't need to, I can show you guys the technique without doing it on him, but just know that this is the haircut that I do on him basically step by step. And it's a fun haircut. If you like wearing your hair longer and you have that rock star vibe and you wanna kind of have a haircut like that, this is a great way to go about it. So I hope you guys enjoy the video. Let me know in the comments below what you think. And I'm just excited to be back guys. So let's get started. Here we go. All right guys, so make sure if you like this video then drop a like in the comments. That doesn't make any sense. You could just comment and let me know what you think. Hit the like button. Share this video with your friends. You'd think after all these years I'd know what to say. And also make sure you go check out our online store free saloneducation.com. I got a free seven day masterclass on there so you can sign up for that. Also any of the tools that you see on this video except for the Blend 40 Elite may not be released yet but you can definitely keep up to date on that as well. We got the Blend 20 Elite on there. We've got Elite Series, Pro Series, Scissors, tons of things you guys can go on there, purchase, support the channel, all of that. So thank you guys so much. And I'll see you guys on the next video. Thanks.