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Well this edition of the Music Zone we welcome in our purveyor of feel-good, positive rock and roll, he's open shows for Tom Petty, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan. He's also Pacific Recording Artist and my dear friend, please welcome Vermont's own Chad Hollister. Thank you, Pitts. Thank you. Thank you. What an intro. I'm blushing. I'm smiling. All by now that people are smiling, you know, the scrunched up eyes, you know. Yeah. Thanks for having me, man. Great to be here. I'm glad you can make it in. In the Music Zone. The Music Zone here from Orca Media in Montpelier, I'm so psyched that this is happening. Yes. So tell me, I know everyone's out of work because of COVID, et cetera. What are you working on right now? Well, my beautiful wife, Katie O'Rourke, whom you know well, and I just did a rock and paint, which is Katie guiding you through a painting and myself playing music kind of in between and so on in our lovely marital banter, which is, I will say, more positive than most. We don't give each other a hard time or extremely in love, really, kind of like you and Amy. And so that went really well. That was this past Saturday, and we'll be doing one a month of those, and we're going to do one that will be, of course, Katie O'Rourke, a St. Patty's Day influenced painting. I might learn a couple of Irishy tunes on top of my songs, but that'll be St. Patty's Day weekend there, and so that's exciting. And then I've really been focusing in this time learning how to get my music to TV and film and sync. So I'm taking a course. I'm going back to school and learning from a gentleman out of Los Angeles, and it's incredibly eye-opening. You and I were talking at length before the show, and there's so much to it, and as much learning what not to do as what to do in the biz. So it's exciting, exciting. So my hopes in this next year is to really get some of my music placed into TV, film, and sync, and possibly some ads, but just a long endeavor that takes, I think that's one of the things I've learned most of all is it doesn't happen right away. Like most things. Well, and it's about so much of what you're so wonderful at, hence this show, I'm very excited for you by the way, and proud of you. But it's all based on relationships, like life in general. And so that if you develop a relationship with one of these music supervisors and they know that they can trust you, then they'll come back to you again. So it's good. So that sounds like almost like a whole different side career or a whole different chapter of your career. It is, it is. I mean, I'm definitely, I'm never going to stop playing, but this, because I have not been able to play live and I miss, I really, really miss seeing people's faces and just watching their energy. You can only get so much energy pulled off of Facebook Live or off of Zoom. The Zoom's cool because you can see people's faces. And I really enjoy that, but I really miss the people. But when that comes back, that'll be beautiful. But in the interim, I'm hoping that this will just help with income and just also notoriety. More people, of course, getting it into TV and film would broaden my audience too. So yeah. All right. Good. So tell me, how does one go about the process of opening a concert for Bob Dylan? How does that happen? Well, it was amazing. I mean, those shows, the Petty and the Dylan and Paul Simon were all down in West Palm Beach, Florida. And we had garnered a fan at the Coral Sky Amphitheater. She ran the amphitheater. And so I happened to call her on a good day. Her name was Laura. And she was a big fan of the band. And she said, I have some shows that I'd love for you to open. And I was like, well, what do you have? And she said, well, I've got Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and my jaw dropped. And then she said, and then I have Santana. And then she said, and I have Tom Petty. And I was like, ah. And she said, and I said, do I have to pick one? She said, no, you can pick two. Oh my god. And so, you know, I love Carlos. But you know, for me, the Dylan and Paul Simon, it was like ridiculous. And of course, the Petty is almost even more ridiculous. I'd say the Petty would be my pinnacle pedestal. So you know, that was really incredible. And the Dylan and Simon was a solo when it was actually a stage outside of the theater. The SFX Levi's Concert Series is what it was. And so I did that one solo. And then the Petty one, I hired a good friend of mine from Florida called Big Sky. They're no longer playing together, but they're still good friends of mine. Amazing band out of Gainesville, Florida that we met on tour. So they backed me up and played all my tunes. And then got in their RV and headed up to play a frat party that night. They took off. But yeah, so it's really just luck. And again, relationships, we will notice a common theme. I can guarantee in your wonderful show and our conversations of just developing relationships. It's great to hear your sponsors. I mean, I'm a fan. I just, at my house today, I just said, oh, Katie, good, you've got more tincture from Aramed. So we're real. Relationships and timing is the key. So we're going to hop over to the Magic Music Studio. Tell us about the song we're going to hear. Well, you know it. And you, I think, performed with us during that show when I debuted at the Barry Alper House. And years ago, my wife, Katie, she was then my girlfriend was working in Killington. And she said, I showed up one night with flowers. And she said, what are these? And I said, well, in my eloquent days of a long ago, I said, I don't know. And she said, well, they're flowers for no reason. And so it took me 20 years to write this song. And this is Flowers for No Reason for my wife, Katie O'Rourke. All right, Chad Hollister on the Music Zone with Pitz Quattrone. Flowers for no reason. Don't matter the season, because her smile, it really is. So every day I gave her flowers for no reason. The feeling is so, so pleasing. I can feel that ache in my heart from miles away. Every day when I wake, heart's about to break. That fiery blue-eyed ginger is lying right next to me. She gave us two kids and this life. I never dreamt it'd be so right. Here we are still laughing and crying. And all the beauty of what's become. See, flowers for no reason. Don't matter the season, because her smile, it really is. Oh, every day. Flowers for no reason. The feeling is so, so pleasing. I can feel that ache in my heart from miles away, miles away. She's weeding out in the garden. I'm mowing this here lawn. Ryan Bow, they're catching toads in our so-called pond. See, we're all growing, not really knowing. As it curves, we seem to turn down these dirt roads towards the sun. Flowers for no reason. Don't matter the season, because her smile, it really is. Oh, every day. She gave her flowers for no reason. The feeling is so, so pleasing. I can feel that ache in my heart from miles away, miles away, miles away, miles away. That was Chad Hollister. Flowers for no reason right here on the Music Zone with Pitz Quattrone. And so Chad, tell us, I saw some things online last summer. No gigs, obviously, but you got a little bit creative. And we're doing some gigs out on your back deck with a cookout. And tell us about that. Yeah, so just with the whole pandemic, Primo and I, for those of you who don't know, Jeff Perremsky is our lead guitar player and one of my best friends in the world. And his nickname is Primo. And he and I, there was just no, we were on tour in Colorado when the pandemic hit in March, right about now, a couple of weeks from now. And so we canceled the tour, came home a week and a half early, and he was at home. I was at home, everybody was quarantining. And so we did that. And I did a lot of Facebook Live stuff. And then once the weather became warm, we were, I think, the backyard or the gathering capacity at that point was 50. So we just started a backyard concert series. And we would have at most 40 people. It was a whole thing. Katie, they would come to our yard, come to our house, and a boatie would bike them in. And then Katie would park them. We could put about 10 to 12 cars in our area here. And then we could put about 10 more at our neighbor's house, Martin and Lacey. That's still our shared driveway. So we would put them in their driveway. They would park on their lawn. It was amazing. And so it just created this thing. It was $20 a ticket. And people would bring their own drink. We rented a porta potty, basically, for the whole summer. Cool. Pretty much. It's incredible. Great deals. It's hard, again, for porta potty rentals, by the way. There it is. So we then just kept doing them. We did, I think, about seven or eight. The final one numbers were real light, so I just did it solo. But Primo and I had a blast just getting to play together safely. And so the backyard concert series was a hit. We're definitely going to do it again this summer. And didn't do any crazy reaching out. They filled up pretty quickly with our friends and family. Because we also wanted to know who was coming and know how that they had been being safe, which is a big issue right now of still not getting too complacent. Like, listen, we're going to be fine. Hey, there's chances that you don't have it, and I don't have it, so we can unmask. But it's not smart. So that was a real great happening. And so another creative thing you did, I think it was a couple of years ago, and maybe folks don't know about this. But you did a round the country RV tour with your family for six, eight months? Six months. Yeah, Katie O'Rourke is my wife, a local artist. And she has a studio in town. She's been doing incredibly through these times, which is we're really thankful for. And she and our daughter Riley, who at the time was, let's see, 13, and Bodie was 11. And we bought an RV and we hit the road for six months. We started beeline it right after Spruce Peak, the show there, which was on Feb Something. Or no, that was back when it was in January. Sorry, so yeah, January, it was like January 18th. So on the next day, we RVed Albany and then beelined it down to Florida. And then came, spent a good, probably a good month in Florida, because the fan base there is really big. So what were you doing? You were making stops along the way. What was happening in each place? It was a great question. So we would do, I would do gigs, kind of backyard vibe gigs, house concerts, basically. Sometimes in backyard, sometimes in people's homes. Of course, it was before the pandemic, so we could do whatever we wanted. And then I would also do songwriting workshops in schools. So I did from a Catholic school in Sarasota to a grade school in Santa Fe, New Mexico to Steamboat Springs songwriting workshops. So it varied. But I basically would go in and encourage the youth anywhere from third grade up through high school, encourage them to write songs. And we would create a song on the spot. All right. Within, sometimes we just had a day, a few hours. Sometimes we would have multiple days. But that was really one of the big focuses was to go into schools and do those workshops to help, of course, to help pay for the tour. But just for the experience of doing that, one of my local heroes, John Gale Moore, has been doing it here for years. And I've done it a little bit with my good friend Chris Gruen. And we used to write the songs for the plays at Doty Memorial where our kids used to go. So it was a wonderful way to kind of tie it all together. Katie would do a little bit of her art in different cities as well and get people painting. But it was crafty and a great way to get into the communities that we were visiting. Instead of, we would usually stay with friends in friends' driveways. Because we used the motor home as home. It was our home. So we would really, even if they offered their home up to us, we had a little dog named Butch. Are you sure you want Butch staying with you? Yes, exactly. And so we stayed in the motor home. And it was an amazing six months. The kids, despite them saying, ah, whining about it once in a while, they still bring up stories from it all the time. They'll remember that forever. It was incredible. So cool. I strongly encourage it if you're ever able or thinking about it. So many people say, I just wish I could or something. And just do it. We planned for a while. And we saved up for a while. And we had our good friend, Blue Fox, who was in our house, taking care of it. And so yeah. Excellent. Yep. Another creative way of getting the music out there. It is. It is. Hit the road. So we're going to jump back over to the music studio for song number two. What can you tell us about that one? It was written many, many years ago. I put it on an album actually called Long Haired Boy, which I still get grief about. And the title track was World Tree. And World Tree came from Mickey Hart's book that I strongly encourage everybody to get that loves music and loves rhythm. And it's called Drumming at the Edge of Magic. And it talks about the World Tree, which is basically signifies the other world. So in talking to you about this, and it's so funny that that is the song that's in the key of E, because it speaks so much like pits. You live and breathe through a World Tree almost every day and teach that to people. So this is pits as World Tree. And so it has grown. I was just telling you how it has grown into the band. Chris Peterman wrote the horn parts. But now it's become kind of a band staple and a band favorite and a crowd favorite. So this song, featuring the man, the myth, the legend, Pitzquatrone on didgeridoo, is World Tree. All right, here is Chad Hollister on the music zone with Pitzquatrone, World Tree. I would love you all just to just join in with me. My shamanic is your name. To the world tree. I need a few things to get my way to the World Tree. And I was hoping and I was hoping you might help me. Eat out some sweet vibes, shallow. Lots of positive energy. Look at the air bubble, air bubble. Scare bubble, air bubble. We's going to be on our way, yeah. We're going to be on our way. And to the world, to the World Tree. All just to, just to join in with him. Well, my shamanic journey to the world, to the World Tree. This music has got to take me to the other worlds. Yeah, be a cheetah, or it might be a lion. Wow, might even be a little squirrel. Yeah, got to get away, escape this day. I'm going to leave my own funky groove. Yeah, we's going to be on our way. That's right. We're going to be on our way to the world, to the world. To the World Tree. One mile to the World Tree. Yeah, body, body, body, body, body. My shamanic, our shamanic journey to the world. Let's go, boy. A dog, dog, a dog, sausage, dog. A dog, dog, sausage, dog. A little, a little, little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little. A little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little. OK, welcome back to the studio here. Music zone with Pitt's Quattrone. And so, Chad, I just want to basically say, ask you briefly with a little bit of time that we have. What's next? Are you writing some new songs? What's happening? I am, and I, you know, the honest answer is I'm not sure in that with the focusing to TV and film, I will be crafting these songs kind of with that in mind, but also as an artist. So there might be some TV film versions and then my own versions. And I'm not sure if I'm going to release them as singles or as a record. I've never released an EP before, which is just basically a shorter version of the record. But there will be new music. I'm focusing also on my YouTube channel, which is just chat holister. You can please head on and subscribe. I'm doing the songs and as well as the stories behind the songs, which is kind of cool. And so just more music to come and and please be ready for when live music happens again, because we're going to come out in force. Yeah, it's going to it's going to explode. Yeah, we are all ready to present. And folks are so chomping at the bit. Yes, sir, to come out and see experience live music once again. So true. So it's it's going to happen soon and hopefully sooner than than later. Yes. Yes. So folks want to get in touch with you. Where do they need to go? The best spot is through my website, which is Chad music dot com. All right. Chad music dot com for my own Chad Hollister here on the music zone with pits, Quattrone, thanking our sponsors. Once again, Aromed Essentials specializing in CBD tinctures and pain, reducing topicals, essential oils and diffusers, glassworks for smoking and a new organic Vermont grown hemp buds bar. Check them out. Aromed Essentials, eight State Street downtown Montpelier online at AromedEssentials.com and by phone 802-505-1405. And remember to mention to Lauren and her staff, as well as our friends at Snapdragon Flower Farm in Danville that you heard about them right here on the music zone with pits, Quattrone. That's about all the time we have today, friends. I'll be back next time with some more music right here on the music zone with pits, Quattrone.