S4: E17: Dave Schulz (Goo Goo Dolls, Berlin, Wang Chung, Fastball) - The Grand Funkster of the Funk Dolls

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Wed, May 31, 2023 7:06PM • 1:00:01

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SPEAKERS

Randy Hulsey, Dave Schulz

Randy Hulsey  00:02

My guest comes to us this evening from the City of Angels by way of Buffalo, New York. Hey everyone, it's Randy Hulsey with backstage pass radio, and I hope everyone is doing well. My guest is a pianist, vocalist, producer, composer, recording artists and has lent his talents to world renowned musicians like Bo Diddley, Stevie Wonder, Macy Gray and pink just to name a few. He's been around the world twice as the keyboard player for the Goo Goo Dolls, and we will find out what's happening in the world of day Schultz. When we come back. This is backstage pass radio, the podcast that's designed for the music junkie with a thirst for musical knowledge. Hi, this is Adam Gordon. And I want to thank you all for joining us today. Make sure you like subscribe and turn the alerts on for this and all upcoming podcasts. And now here's your host of backstage pass radio, Randy Halsey. Dave, it's great to see you, man. Welcome. How are you?

Dave Schulz  01:06

Doing? Good. How you doing? Randy?

Randy Hulsey  01:08

I'm gonna Good. Well, I'm glad the schedule is finally connected. And here we are.

Dave Schulz  01:13

Yep, the planets are finally aligned.

Randy Hulsey  01:16

When you got too busy guys, things like that happen? I guess. Right? You have to expect that. Yeah. Well, I know you, I know you're busy these days, you've got a lot of shows lined up, How's life treating you, man is all going well for you.

Dave Schulz  01:29

Everything's going well, finally getting to it. Well, I shouldn't say finally, about 10 years ago, got to a place where I wasn't having to do the daily hustle that I got so used to doing since I was you know, 19 or 20. So like, it's the projects, I used to do the projects that landed in my lap, where now I can actually seek out projects. And it's, you know, just a little bit of maturity there. So it's, it's, it's good, you know, so So basically right now I'm kind of pretty much doing a little bit everything I want to do, you know, a little bit of scoring a little bit bit of touring session work. I'd like kind of a little bit of each musical sort of piece of the pie. So that that makes me happy. You have a lot of irons in the fire, right? Yeah, yeah. And a lot of the connections that might have made, for example, hypothetically, only, like 20 years ago, maybe one of those came back, you know, it always comes back around like a boomerang. So I feel like I'm really enjoying the work these days. That's,

Randy Hulsey  02:27

well, that's good. And it's good that you're busy. That's always a good thing in missions world, right? I guess sitting around just doing nothing is never a good thing for anybody. Whether you're a music Yeah, garbage man or whatever, it doesn't really matter, does it?

Dave Schulz  02:42

No. I mean, you know, they always say the joke is, you know, music being in the music business is recession friendly. Because when people get depressed, they want they want to go out and listen to music. So it's like you can you can't lose. That's right. That's right. Like, I mean, during the pandemic, I mean, I just kept busy making videos, even though it wasn't doing shows, yeah, go able to do some fun stuff, you know? Yeah.

Randy Hulsey  03:02

And, you know, I've had a lot of conversations around that. And while sometimes we moan and kind of bitch about, you know, phones and technology and all that think about what the pandemic would have been like, without all of that where you could actually still kind of work right, you could send files still do records that

Dave Schulz  03:24

I've fully, fully on board with that theory. Yeah, it was a total Lifesaver forever for everybody. For sure. They don't realize it, but some people don't realize it, but I appreciate it.

Randy Hulsey  03:34

Yeah. Right on. Well, I wanted to give a quick shout out to a mutual friend Stacy Steele for helping put us in touch with one another. So thanks to thanks,

Dave Schulz  03:43

Stacey. Thanks for hooking up, man. Awesome. Yeah,

Randy Hulsey  03:47

Stacy and myself and Tina, all went out and saw the Psychedelic Furs at the household. About a week ago. So that's the last time i i saw Stacy, but we run into each other at least once a week probably, you know, being in the music scene here in the

Dave Schulz  04:05

in the Yeah, one of my great friends is their front of house, Robbie, he for a Psychedelic Furs. There's always one degree in the music business, you know, but, but um, he produced a bunch of songs on my solo album. So he's a great friend. Exactly.

Randy Hulsey  04:19

Nice. Well, going back to the early days in Buffalo, it's my understanding that your dad was a musician. And is it safe to assume that his influence kind of gave you your kickstart? Kind of is that kind of where you got your kickstart in music was from Yeah,

Dave Schulz  04:39

but it was unbeknownst to me, so to speak, because he died when I was nine. And, you know, he did try. He did attempt to teach me the guitar. While he was live, he was essentially a piano teacher. He did teach me a little bit of guitar and there was there wasn't Suzuki violin in kindergarten. So I had but that was a kind of a standard thing for a lot of kids wasn't anything special pertaining to me. It was a conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Buffalo, but he was more like buffalo pops, which is a subset of that. And I think that just by default me, you know, having mom taking the kids to these concerts, it just kind of osmosis, you know, just got into my subconscious. But the irony of the story is, is that I didn't start learning piano until after he died. Okay, so it was literally like, I think we die when I was nine, but like, about 11 years old is when I started really diving into the piano. I think I didn't like the guitar because it made my fingers hurt. And I was just kind of like, a kid. I just didn't. That was my that was my logic. Sure time. The piano came really easy for me really quickly. Like I think I was in eighth grade when I learned like the C sonata by Mozart, like within like six months or something. Yeah, I think my sister always reminds me that I'm not sure if that's totally true. But

Randy Hulsey  06:02

the keys on the piano are a little more forgiving on the fingers than the guitar strings. Right. I agree with the guitar.

Dave Schulz  06:08

Yeah, the guitar hurts more on the fingers. But the piano hurts more in the brain. You know, our clay will probably be fine on that. But

Randy Hulsey  06:16

you know, yeah, well, a lot of people come to me and say, Hey, man, I'd really like to learn to play guitar. Do you have any recommendations like either by way of guitar or you know, somebody to teach it. And I said, you know, you really have to want to play because you're going to get to this point where you go and you spend the money on the guitar and you come back and you put it in your lap. And you play it for five minutes. And it's no big deal. But after you've played it for like an hour or two hours, there's going to be these things we call blisters that happen. Fingers and it's going to it's either going to make you or it's gonna break. You absolutely think that that's where a lot of people fall out of love with guitar really quick. The people that really love it, build the callus and pass that and they become guitars. But you know, there's the saying, I think Steve Miller said it. Back in the day, you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Right. You got to get those before you get through the pain and really start to enjoy playing the guitar.

Dave Schulz  07:14

Absolutely, yeah. No, I respect that a lot. It's just for whatever reason, in my young brain at that age, that was that's where I was, was naturally led. So yeah,

Randy Hulsey  07:22

it was mom, a musician as well. I know dad was a pianist,

Dave Schulz  07:26

but not really. The choir. He ran a lot of choirs, like he was a church guy. He did a lot of glee clubs and heavily involved in the local church community organist and glee club director and you know, I'll just have a laundry list of amazing things that he did. Yeah. But my mom, I think was very musical, but not a musician. But she sang really well sure in the choir. And well, the main musicians in my family were myself, my brother, Bob, who is, you know, he's won a few Grammys, doing percussion for you know, for a lot of new music. When I say new music like like, guys like Steve Reich, you know, and just, he's amazing. I look up to him and my sister Gretchen is a great funk soul, I should say, Americana. So jazz singer in Buffalo. And you know, she's still rocking it out there.

Randy Hulsey  08:19

That's awesome. Well, it's funny because I read Steven Tyler's memoir. And he said, You know, when he was young, his dad was a pianist, also. And yeah, where he got the love for the piano was sitting under the baby grand or the grand that they had in their home. And that's yeah, it's instilled in him just sitting as a young boy underneath the piano while his dad play,

Dave Schulz  08:40

which is really 30 years later get Dream on. Yeah, exactly. Isn't that correct? So one of the best keyboard intros ever?

Randy Hulsey  08:46

I know. Is it fair to say that your big break came? I guess maybe sometime around? It was late 90s, like 98 ish. When you call from a musician by the name of Robbie, is that?

Dave Schulz  09:01

Absolutely true. Robbie take and John Resnick, both of the leaders of the Goo Goo Dolls and that's pretty much their band. So Robbie was the guy that actually called me. So he that that was a life changer for me because I was pretty much doing the local thing and buffalo. I was successful at it in the sense that I had a following. And I was hired by a lot of local bands. But I think I feel like I reached a cap where I just didn't know what else I could do there anymore. Buffalo's got great musicians. Look man, I'm telling you like world class because the weather sucks so bad, that they sit inside and shed all day. Then, you know, April rolls around and you know, Tommy comes out of the base, and he's like, heavy. So like I was suffering, like I had an ambition. I wanted to get out of town. I had just gotten a regular job as a computer programmer, believe it or not, because I just happen to be good at it. I was able to do it. I was always I've always been a bit of a geek. It was sort of my My backup plan was to be a computer programmer. So I went to actually went to school for it got a degree in Computer Information Systems. I was playing gigs, four nights a week. Ironically, the reason I chose that degree was because all the classes started after for a lot of business people would do those classes. Sure. The earliest one was like 12. And that was great for me. So like, you know, I mean, it was just a way I could do get this degree and be a musician. Maybe I was a bit cocky. I didn't think I needed to go to a place like Berkeley or Juilliard, even though I did entertain those thoughts for a while, right. I just didn't go all the way with it. But fate will have it. I guess, you know, I've never used the computer science degree never. I actually got a job. I did get a job at the RAF building downtown, doing programming, but they trained me for a month. My first day of actual work was the day Robbie called me. Okay. He's like, Hey, dude, do you want to come out to Woodstock and play with us? I'm like, yeah, so they were peaking at that point. Okay. And I had to quit the job after a month of training. And the guy who trained me was kind of mad, but I think he understood he was like, you gotta go. Sure. And he was pissed for about two minutes. And then he was like, happy. Another developer was ironic, you know, there's the date. It was the literally the day I started real work. And, you know, I just remember hearing his message on the voicemail. And I was just like, I gotta go, wow.

Randy Hulsey  11:30

Well, that's a pretty cool call. It's interesting, because it sounds like you and I are kind of poured out of the same mole. So I kind of got started as a classical pianist, right? That's kind of start. And then and then I got to this age where? Okay, how are you going to pick up girls as a teenager playing classical piano? First of all, you can't take a piano to a party, right? So you got to find something that's portable, right? So that's when I flipped over to the guitar. But I like you was not a programmer, but I spent 17 years of my professional career as a as a IT consultant, a computer systems guy, right. I was never a developer, but I was on the infrastructure.

Dave Schulz  12:09

It's similar. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.

Randy Hulsey  12:12

So developers are weird people. Man, I can say that, because I was never a developer, but

Dave Schulz  12:17

I'm aware to check it out. I have an anecdote. I have an anecdote to that stigma, which always used to piss me off that the piano players couldn't get girls. I was like, actually, you may be wrong about that. So I want to show my album cover on the show. At some point, you'll you'll have a little chuckle right on. I think it speaks for itself, because you look at the cover and you it'll answer all your questions.

Randy Hulsey  12:42

I hear you. Well, that's

Dave Schulz  12:43

exactly what you just said.

Randy Hulsey  12:45

Yeah, I know. It's interesting. Because I think that it was maybe when I left the classical teacher that I was with, to more of a pop teacher. The first album that I wanted to learn was Styx, Paradise Theater, that's that was the one that that got them wrong with that, right. Yeah. Little Dennis the young. Yeah. Well, I guess that call from Robbie. I mean, that was life changing for you. Was it not?

Dave Schulz  13:12

Yeah, I mean, like I said, it was it was, I think on Friday, I had played at a bar in front of 80 people 200. And then like, by Sunday, I was at Woodstock in front of like, 60,000. It wasn't the actual Woodstock show. It was it was called the day in the garden. Okay, it was it was honoring Woodstock. It was in the Thau or whatever you say it, but it was in that it was in that field. So it was the same spot and they were it was it was Woodstock adjacent, I call it but it was still like a ton of people. It's like 60,000 70,000 people. So he's Yeah, it was my first time playing anything like that. And actually, there's a YouTube video that I think is still out there. But they really just call me to play one song, which is the funny part. He was he literally had me fly all the way out there to play one song, which was Iris, which was their big hit, I'm sure. But they needed the strings. They wanted to play the strings live instead of being an attract. So I was hired to do the strings. Okay, but it's still fake. I'm doing it on a keyboard. But I mean, still. Yeah. Hey, it was real. It was better than having it on a tape. That's right. Oh, you know, I did that one song. It was mind blowing. I was like totally in heaven. And then basically they, they put me up at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. And I was kind of laying around the next morning and they decided they want to keep me on the tour. So the funny thing was, I had brought a duffel bag out that didn't have a zipper on it. Because I was I didn't realize I was going to LA that day. And I just kept that same bag. And I bought new clothes. And I stayed there for like, I don't know, a month for rehearsal, and then I went back home for a little bit and came back out on tour. So always be prepared.

Randy Hulsey  14:43

Dave, you should always be prepared. You should have gone wild that that you're gonna stay forever, right?

Dave Schulz  14:48

Yeah, I've learned a thing or two since then among travel tips, but it was I was pretty green back then. As they say,

Randy Hulsey  14:57

yeah. Well, tell me your thoughts on this. cuz I had somebody interviewed me on a podcast. It's been a couple of years, but they said they I think one of the questions was, Do you get nervous playing in front of people? I think that all people that are not musicians have that question, right? And I said, You know what, I don't really care. If there's 3000, or whatever, it doesn't make me nervous. I'm more nervous playing for two people.

Dave Schulz  15:27

I was just gonna, three.

Randy Hulsey  15:29

Would you agree with this? Or not? Okay.

Dave Schulz  15:32

Absolutely. I used to say to my, to my mom, I'd be like, you know, she's up. She'd be all like, blown away. What's it like playing it? You know, like the HF festival in Baltimore that we played the Googles. It was like, it was like 80,000 people or 90,000. And I was just like, there was so many that I couldn't see them. I didn't feel totally connected. Sure. That was not nearly as nerve racking as playing my first hotel piano lounge gig when there was like three people sitting around. That was really a new thing for me. So like, I totally agree with you, like, the less people the more nerve wracking. Well, and

Randy Hulsey  16:04

you would probably agree to, right, yeah. When you're on stage with a band, you know, if you make a mistake, the band covers you up. I mean, no, nobody will hear if you you know, Miss fret, you know, or you play, you know, something half a step sharp or what I mean, it's no big deal. But when you're sitting there, and it's you in the piano or me and the guitar, they hear everything, right. There's no hiding behind anything,

Dave Schulz  16:29

which enhances my view that comedians have it the hardest. I mean, just all the guy has a stool and a microphone and a bottle of water. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. You know, I never complain too much. And I look at comedians, I'm always blown away.

Randy Hulsey  16:44

Yeah. Well, at least people don't heckle us like they did. mediums, which is a good thing that's probably break all of our spirits. But you spent about two, what was it two, two and a half years on the run with the Goo Goo Dolls? Is that is that? Does that sound right?

Dave Schulz  16:58

I want to say almost two years, like most right under two years, like because what was supposed to happen was there was a six month tour for Dizzy up to girl. I did that tour. But as the tour was going on, the singles kept hitting. So like, you know, slide came out, black balloon came out, Dizzy came out, and they were all in the top 10. So each time you have a top 10 single, I mean, I had never been on a ride like this in my life, like, ever like so each time they did a single we have to do the whole run again, like the whole world tour. Like, you know, David Letterman. All the TV shows. Rosie O'Donnell at the time, you know, ponent O'Brien so so each time a single was put out, they had to do all the promotion for it. And it was just a six month hypothetical tour, it turned into a reality of two years almost. Well, I wasn't complaining. I mean, it was great.

Randy Hulsey  17:46

Isn't it interesting? That usually is not the case for every band, but a large number of those bands. Yeah, they come out with this their freshman effort. Like I mean, think back to Boston when they released the debut album. I mean, it was just like, every song was a great songs within Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I think there's this the whole the sophomore effort that freaks everybody out, like, am I gonna repeat the same success? But the interesting thing? You know, you are out on the desert? Yeah. Does he have to? Yeah. Was it the fifth or the sixth album from that?

Dave Schulz  18:23

I think it might have been, you know, I shouldn't know that. You know, you can do research on it. I think it's five or six. You're correct. It's one of those two,

Randy Hulsey  18:28

I think. I think it's the sixth. But, you know, the interesting thing is that this this was a record six albums into their run. And this was a five time platinum. Yeah, that were in the US. And I think it even went double platinum in Canada and possibly a way Yeah. Yeah, it was a gold. It was gold in New Zealand and the UK. But yeah, I mean, what a six effort that was,

Dave Schulz  18:55

I mean, this, I realized now that that was a wild ride. I haven't written anything like this since because it was just one of those magical, where the planets were aligned with those guys. And I just happen to be lucky to be on that tour with them when it all happened for them. You know, there was I remember a couple of shows that we were like, number one of the country that moment, you know, just craziness. Like, I don't know if it was Italy, or I can't remember the exact where it was, but there were some moments like that. And, you know, so went from meeting nobody to meeting the world, just via this success these guys had. So it was really, really humbling experience. You know, so that's, and then, you know, after that tour was over, I got the bug, and I couldn't really go home. Sure. I remember I remember actually did go home and I was sitting in a bar somewhere. And I was just like, I can't stay here, man. I've seen too much. So that's when I made the move to LA.

Randy Hulsey  19:48

Yeah, that's probably got to be a little nerve wracking. Like you come off a world tour for two years with a band that was just like blowing it up. And you come back I'm not I'm not going to put words in your mouth or I'm not going to assume. But you come back and like, what did you have lined up when you came back? Like it

Dave Schulz  20:07

was almost like getting out of jail. I was like, What am I going to?

Randy Hulsey  20:12

Say, I've got a mainstream myself back into the civil world. Right. Like, how do you do? That's interesting.

Dave Schulz  20:17

Wow. Yeah. So but I just I kind of decided pretty quickly that I was gonna move, you know, so I just, I just went out there and did it. I hit the pavement, and I kind of like, you know, when you're in LA, everyone's on tour. Everyone's coming off a tour. No one's gonna give you any special treatment. Yeah. So it wasn't like I was cool or anything. I just went there, like a new person. And I just, I just hustled it, man. Yeah, that's what you got round up. And it was cool. I mean, I would, I would definitely drop the name. Like, if it helped me, but that doesn't guarantee anything, you know? Yeah. But it just doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt. I was always trying to build my resume, basically, you know, Oh, yeah. So, to this day,

Randy Hulsey  20:53

that would almost be like me saying that, you know, when I got my first break, when I got my first big name artists on my show, you know, I could never sit here and say, Well, you know, I'm never gonna drop in that. I mean, you have to I mean, that's how you it's part of the business.

Dave Schulz  21:12

There was a guy, I won't draw. I won't say his name. But there was a guy that that you know, that after six months of knowing him, he asked me a question was, how come you never hooked me up with gigs? I said, I was just telling what a great what a great musician he was. So it wasn't anything about his musicianship. But the point being he never wanted to go and hang out and meet people. I said, you have to do you got to do the hang, man? Yeah. Because like, if no one sees you, you got no FaceTime. You're not gonna get anywhere. You're gonna be stuck in your basement. I'm a big supporter of that. You gotta you gotta be out there.

Randy Hulsey  21:44

You got to be lobbying, right? Always be politic. And

Dave Schulz  21:49

yeah, I'm not a good. It's like things done. No, no, I asked to gigs, man. I mean, when Chung I asked them 10 times, because to live and die in LA is my absolute favorite song from the 80s. Like, it's my favorite. Yeah. And I running into the guys and just kept bugging them. Finally, they feel like you know what, man just commonplace.

Randy Hulsey  22:11

Here's the thing. So I told you that I was an engineer for a long time, I moved over into the sell side about 20 years ago, 15 to 20 years ago. And that you've you hit it spot on we as salespeople, whether your widget is it, or garbage bags, or music, if you're not out there talking about your product, Who the hell's gonna buy anything from you, at the end of the day, right? You have to ask the questions. Can I go out on tour with you? Can I sell you this or, you know, you know what I like, You got to always kind of be pimping. If you don't, if it

Dave Schulz  22:45

fails, I gotta tell you something. Robbie changed my life. But there was a guy named Lance diamond, who was also involved in Goo Goo Dolls. He was a lounge singer. And I gotta give him credit, because when he was fighting racial barriers, trying to get he was a black singer. And he was when he was trying to get into white clubs. He had to go in there and tell him play for free and say, This is why you need me. Sure. And that was his thing. And over time, he would get the gigs. But you know, it was it was a little bit. Yeah, I mean, you got it. That's

Randy Hulsey  23:14

yeah, he had to knock the doors people. Yeah,

Dave Schulz  23:17

there's people that are on my mailing lists that are probably like, oh, man, this guy day, he won't stop sending emails. There was a time when I was a bit of a spammer. But you know, I'd had to do what I had to do to get my name out there. So I get it.

Randy Hulsey  23:28

What did the years on the road with the Goo Goo Dolls teach you about yourself? And about really life on the road? For that matter? What did you learn during that time, when you went out with those I learned a lot.

Dave Schulz  23:40

I mean, you know, how to navigate personalities in a small bubble. You know, and just, that's an invaluable thing that you that you've that I took with me, in all the musical situations I've been in because I've dealt with a lot of different sort of groups of people and different sort of cliques where I have to sort of navigate, and I never really looked like a metal guy and never looked like a pop guy, I always had this sort of neutral sort of thing that I was always very kind of proud of, I could slip into a situation unscathed. That really has been the foundation of, I think whatever success might have is that I have I'm able to play with a lot of diverse artists musically that have maybe different images. But I'm able to still fit into those different images

Randy Hulsey  24:32

they call chameleons, right? Yeah, kind of kind of change to do whatever you need to do at the end of Yeah,

Dave Schulz  24:39

and like that's something I definitely learned on that. Oh, another thing I learned which is a technical thing, I learned how to sing my ass off. Because I was singing kind of before then but the Google has really put me to work singing backups and all those hits. And it was a lot of work. It was it was high notes and sustain notes and stuff and on a big stage in front of a big crowd, so that was definitely a great musical thing that I learned. And I also learned how to create parks for songs that didn't call for, for example, didn't call for keys I would have to create parks for those songs so that I wasn't just standing there doing nothing on the stage, because technically the Guru's only had maybe eight songs that they actually had keys on the needed me for but I, you know, the set was 18 songs, I had come up with stuff. So that was really cool. Because I would come up with like, you know, Hammond B, three parts that maybe complemented the guitar, something that didn't get too much in the way, but still added something of substance to the like, show so that there's musical things and obviously a shit ton of travel tips. I mean, obviously, a bad thing I think that I got from that maybe it was just I started develop a little bit of a sleep issue, because just touring in general will mess up your cycle for sleeping. Well, if you're, you know, creating revenue no longer exists.

Randy Hulsey  25:58

Yeah, yeah, I get it. I mean it, especially if you're crossing time zones, and I know the older I get, the less tolerant I am of time change, right? I mean, you get the time lag is just it's bad. It's a chance to catch up from that.

Dave Schulz  26:12

Yeah, there was one week where I think we did Japan, Germany and Australia in the same week. And I remember just waking up in Milan, Italy. Not knowing where I was. It took me a minute, and I was just like, wow, okay, this is crazy. I haven't had it like that, since that was a really excessive monitor traveling on a tour. You know, I liked my life now because it's balanced between some touring and I'm always working because I'm kind of a workaholic. But that's just, it's not killing me to do all this work. Well,

Randy Hulsey  26:46

what everything's great in moderation, right? Balance going

Dave Schulz  26:49

on right now. I think some people will probably tell me I'm crazy for saying that. But yeah,

Randy Hulsey  26:54

I know that I draw in your intro. I dropped some names people that you'd work with what artists are you currently supporting these days? Like I think you did something recently if in correct me if I'm wrong. Okay. Did do something with APR wine recently?

Dave Schulz  27:10

Oh, no, no, no. Let me clear that up. Okay. So the artists that I'm currently playing with is the playing with Berlin for the last 14 years. Okay, Terry, none in Berlin. It's great because the original main three guys guys and girl are back together. John Crawford, David diamond, Terry Nan, those are the the original trio of core of that band. So it's a legit show. And I'm proud to be a part of that. I've been, you know, I've been with them since 2000. I guess eight maybe it's 15 years. Well, anyways, I remember because I quit smoking cigarettes that you're cold turkey now. So I also play with the sweet which is actually Steve priests, the sweet. He just passed away. But his, his wife and family endorsed the band. So that's a great, a great, great band, and really good musicians and a killer show. I love I love that show.

Randy Hulsey  28:06

Now. Now. Let me let me pause you real quick. So when you say the suite, we're talking about the same suite Ballroom Blitz Love is like oxygen or is it a suite?

Dave Schulz  28:17

It's the same suite. Okay, gotcha. But, you know, there's people that will be on both sides of the fence as to whether they support it or not. I mean, I'm not going to argue it's it's it's definitely an interesting situation. But I can't say to the band kicks ass and it's a great show. That's right. And then Wing Chun, which is like I said, I told you I practically begged them to be in the band. I guess I I did a good job. So now I'm in the band. So that's been about four years maybe. So Wang Chung is great. We're doing a thing called last 80s Live. We're headlining it coming up in August of last 80s live.com to see those dates. Berlin. Okay, I said Berlin. Sweet link to him. I'm playing with fastball, which is a 90s ban. The cool thing about fastball is that they were opening up for us on that insane Goo Goo Dolls tour. Okay, so I've known them since way back that they weren't the only open them but they were a big part of it based out of their Austin, Texas, Austin. So again, I'm not a member of any of these bands. I mean, I'm a member of I mean, I guess you can say I'm a member of Berlin but, but I'm not like I'm usually hired as a keyboard keyboardist vocalist, okay, so just to be clear, but the wonderful thing about that, that I don't complain about is that it supports my original endeavors. So

Randy Hulsey  29:44

any work it's good work, and we'll talk about some of those things

Dave Schulz  29:47

should we carry is another one that I play with. Okay. All the time. She has a different band she's touring with right now but I just did a tour with her and Bri darling from the from the band Fanny. So we there's there's always something cooking in the fire. You know, right now that's what's happening. There's a big one coming up that I can't speak about. I thought it was going to know, but I still don't know. Okay. I'll tell you what I know.

Randy Hulsey  30:08

No worries. No worries. Well, I think I think you've made the move to LA was it around 2000 2001 Sometime around then is that in between 2000? Yeah. Okay. Do you remember when you ran into Stacey and met Stacey steel? Do you remember that?

Dave Schulz  30:26

Oh, man, he's gonna kill me. I don't remember. Like, where I ran into most probably the rainbow. Yeah. I mean, we were all hanging out there back then. I mean, I looked across the street. I lived next door to let me on Herot Avenue, right across from the Roxy, which is next door to the rainbow. So it was a pretty wild area. Yeah.

Randy Hulsey  30:45

I think he was doing some kind of music showcases out there. If I don't remember the story, I had him on my show. I don't remember now. This was like season one and season four now. So I've slept since then. But

Dave Schulz  30:58

he's always been a cool guy. Every time I ran in the chat, you know? Yeah,

Randy Hulsey  31:02

for sure. Well, no, I I assume is the piano your main instrument? Is that what you do? Okay.

Dave Schulz  31:09

Yeah, I'm not one of these guys that plays like, I'm not like friends playing 28 instruments at play. I play piano keyboards and I sing my butt off. And that's, that's my, that's what I have to offer. You know, I had toyed you know, I should have learned how to play the guitar, and I'm still going to do it. You know, there was a time where I think Billy Duffy had asked me possible go on tour with the cult, and this was way back 2005 or something and I couldn't, I couldn't I didn't get the gig because I didn't play guitar. Okay, so I think he wants someone to do guitar parts and keyboard parts. Now if I had learned that, maybe it would have had that gig. Yeah. So yeah. But I've just really focused on being as good of a keyboard player as I can. And, you know, when the fancy hits me to add something to the, you know, think to, I'll do it, you know, whatever.

Randy Hulsey  31:55

Well, it's interesting that you brought up the cold. I was just talking to somebody the other day and I made the comment that, in my opinion, I think Ian Astbury is one of the best frontman out. Yeah, I've always loved the call, Greg.

Dave Schulz  32:09

And let's not forget Angela more from fishbone. He's

Randy Hulsey  32:11

amazing. Yeah, for sure.

Dave Schulz  32:14

No doubt about it. Well, I've been friends too. Yeah.

Randy Hulsey  32:18

Well, I believe, I guess sometime after making that move out to LA, you started hosting, I believe it was called an All Star Jam in LA, which led Yeah, residencies, share with the listeners. How those jams turned into being some residents.

Dave Schulz  32:35

Yeah, a really big part of my life. A very proud part of my life that I kind of did up until about five years ago, maybe longer, like six years ago, but I was doing it really consistently. Since about 2001. There was a promoter named pumpkin pie who was had a Tuesday night. Hang at in Copeland's backstage Cafe, which was in Beverly Hills in Copenhagen was Brother Stewart from the police and his brother miles, IRS records. So he had all these cool, like, you know, all the tables were like, you know, have laminates under them on a glass finish. And very, almost like a mini museum of sorts, with the Barnet rock'n'roll museum. So basically, Tuesday nights, she did her night there, and she allowed me to do a jam one night, it turned out to be very successful. And I kind of kept doing it for 15 years, you know, like, I'd start that thing on Tuesday nights was a big thing. But then I kind of expanded to the mint. Did a couple of plays called the Edison and did some of the Viper Room. Did some of the rainbow actually upstairs Believe it or not? So I was I was pretty pretty involved in those jams for a long time. We've always had great musicians and you know what not?

Randy Hulsey  33:56

When you say jams, I want you to define a jam for a maybe a casual listener of the show. That's not a musician. When we say jam, are we talking a you just bring in music, you just improvise and you just play certain albums cover songs, define a jam to the list,

Dave Schulz  34:20

to be honest with you. In retrospect, none of them were really jams. Technically, I would basically but I'll explain why. I'll explain in a second. So basically, I would hire a bunch of musicians that I wanted to keep the caliber up I always was very specific about who I wanted to hire or not hire but have involved and I would send them material you know songs to do and who's playing on what songs now we would stretch out within those songs because of the nature of the music. So instead of doing a cheap trick song like dream police we're doing Jungle Boogie by cooling the gang which by nature lends itself to a Extended jams. But yeah, you know, it was, honestly, it was a little bit misleading to some people because it wasn't just a jam, it was actually an organized show by me. And these, this small group of musicians, and I wasn't just letting anybody up there. Okay. I was very proud of the quality of it. Okay. And that's kind of the reason I stopped doing it. Because the quality in my opinion was was high enough where I just wanted to leave it on a good note. Okay. Almost like when a band, like the police, we stopped at five albums. It was like, perfect. But

Randy Hulsey  35:33

we're being a sports guy and just going out on a winning season, right? Yeah.

Dave Schulz  35:36

Yeah. I mean, not not saying any names. But a lot of these. There's a lot of jams that popped up around LA, and it almost became like, way too much. Yeah, like, six different people running jam every week, every day of the week. And it's like, everywhere you go, there's a jam, quote, unquote. Yeah. And I was just like, you know, I'd rather just not do it anymore. Because it was, what I did was what made me happy and proud. So leave it at that.

Randy Hulsey  35:59

Yeah, I guess it kind of got watered down. If you get too many of anything, it gets watered down and saturate. And the

Dave Schulz  36:04

other ones were fine. We're all good. It was just just for me, personally, I was over it.

Randy Hulsey  36:09

Yeah. I wanted to talk briefly about the producing portion of your career, share with the listeners. For those that may not know, what does a producer do, Dave? I certainly know. But we're talking about, you know, maybe there's a life fan out there that is not a musician and doesn't know the difference in engineering and production and recording, what does a producer do?

Dave Schulz  36:38

Well, a producer is really doing whatever you can do to get the final product to match what he hears in his head be that communicate with engineer on those issues. Or bringing a certain musician that might further that cause or have comments, certain conversation with a singer that helps her to express herself differently, or in a more more of a way that maybe she's not comfortable with. It's all about a lot of its personality, a lot of its, you know, working with different personalities, being able to be able to get the best performance out of those people, as opposed to just a technical thing, engineering, which is very, very technically based, you know, how do I get this guitar sound? How do I get this drum sound, you have to know a certain amount of that to be able to communicate with those people. Kind of like in computers, right? If you're systems analysis, you have to you have to know how to talk to each level to make your final exact presentation. So that's kind of how a producer is, it's a word that gets a bit overused. You know, a lot of people will say, their producer if they're making a record on a laptop in their bedroom, but they're not really dealing with anybody else but themselves and their laptop, so that I feel like it's really a people's game. Learning how to work with a lot of different people have a lot of different talents, almost like a director film. So I don't produce all that much, but the one that the few things I've done I'm very proud of, so I'm probably gonna get more into that. You know, after this year, would the

Randy Hulsey  38:12

word visionary

Dave Schulz  38:16

be certain people like the generic Todd Rundgren was a visionary, you know? I haven't achieved that yet. I think I could be okay. I'm just being humble. Yeah, I definitely have visions. I have ideas of what I want to do for sure. But I have a full budget and opportunity to realize that yet. Okay. So that's, that's definitely on my plate.

Randy Hulsey  38:39

I guess the production does this happen in your own studio in your home? Or do you well, it

Dave Schulz  38:45

can happen wherever you want to happen. I mean, like, for example, when I did a track with Sheree curry, what the world needs now is love. It was that song by Burt Bacharach, we did it over the pandemic. You know, I started the track in my living room, she sent me vocals with her son Jake helping out on her end, it was this pandemic times. And then, you know, I sent what I had to guy named Randy Cook, who had a drum studio in his backyard. So he sent over his tracks. Everyone's working together, just not in the same room. That's where you want to go back to that whole beauty of the technology thing. But it was, I guess, my I had the final say on how the thing sounded, you know, so I guess there'd be, that would be a production thing. Like, how do I want the drummer to play? How do I want her to sing? Do I want to use this mic or that mic? I mean, do we want to cut this bridge? Or do we want to add, do I have extended verse, how much of the original are we going to stay true to are we going to change some of the chords? Yada, yada, that's really what it is all about. I mean, so I guess arrangement would be part of the producers job, you know? Yeah. Sometimes producers hire and arranger work, then they don't have to do that. But I just happen to be a guy that likes to catch

Randy Hulsey  39:54

up so well. It's interesting because I think so much of this takes place now. I had Knibbs Carter, the bass player for Saxon on my show and he said, you know, their their latest album, Carpe Diem was all just file sent back and forth, or nobody was named

Dave Schulz  40:14

these days. I mean, back then you'd be back in the 80s. You'd be in a room with a bunch of people now. Probably a lot easier because you don't get to deal with egos. Just send the file.

Randy Hulsey  40:25

That's right. Eliminate the ego that way? Yeah. For sure. Well, I think your studio, you call it the Dave cave. Is that correct? Okay. Yes. And who have you produced out of the Dave cave? Can? Is there some artists that you would like to share or can share that you've produced for out of the Dave? Well, I

Dave Schulz  40:44

mean, I think Sheree curry is probably the, the, the most popular one, you know, and I honestly, like I've done stuff with, with great guests, for example, like I did a solo track myself. That was a cover of what's the new radical song, you get what you get, but it was it was cool, because I was able to bring in all these people. I had a distinct son, Joe on it. Joe Sumner, who's on tour with Sting right now. Angela morefrom, Fishbone was on it. bumblefoot was on it on guitar, who actually didn't even meet, just literally an email situation, but he was great. Prairie prince from the tubes was drumming on it. So that was me producing sort of an ensemble piece. Okay, if that makes any sense. It does. So I get all these people that I look up to. And I kind of bring them together in one track. So I'm producing artists now that I can't speak about, but that, you know, that's what you asked about how it gets done is I think I've covered it. Sure.

Randy Hulsey  41:45

Yeah. No, I think you had a run at the sunset. Marquis. Can you talk a little bit about your involvement there?

Dave Schulz  41:54

Yeah, absolutely. As most people probably know, the Sunset Marquis is just a legendaries place. I think the reason that a lot of the rock stars and people hold up there is because they wouldn't get bothered by fans that could just be comfortable there. And they got this little thing called bar 1200. And upon the entrance to the hotel, and it used to be called the whiskey, no relation to the Whiskey a Go Go, but it's great. I've been playing in there. You know, up until about four months ago, I've been there for about four years, maybe even longer. I'm not really good with timeline, so forgive me, but I feel like it's been about four or five years. But I had some moments in there, man, like I'm playing in there. And there's like five people in the room. Right. And I'm doing Be My Baby from the Ronettes, my own male version of it, and the guy, some random guy walks up to me, says so Hollywood, he's like, Oh, yeah. You did my songs and justice. And it was it was the guy that wrote the song. Really. It's the kind of people that would be like, you know, hanging out in this lounge, and I was like, wow, okay. You know, Billy Bob Thornton would come in and play. One time I did more than words by extreme and there was literally a couple in the room. There's nobody else in the room. And it turned out it was Gary Sharon and his date. You know, had on like, you know, in Cognito and we're sure, suddenly I'm playing his own song to him. I didn't even know he was in the room. You know, it's like, wow, I had a lot of great memories there. I'll probably go back there at some point.

Randy Hulsey  43:20

And and you were it sounds like you were doing it on a piano which it was never a piano song to begin with. Right?

Dave Schulz  43:27

Oh, all my stuff was on piano. I've been doing like, I've been doing Sex Pistols and Beastie Boys why? I was my whole thrill was to just reinterpret the song. You know? That's awesome. I was,

Randy Hulsey  43:40

will talk to me about I believe that one of your current projects is into the frequency. Correct? Yeah, so

Dave Schulz  43:47

that's an artist named Rudy Celli, who is a cellist slash vocalist from Miami, who now lives here. And we did a record called into the frequency it was the name of the band as well. We didn't name the record, but and it's, it's one of my I'm one of the things I'm most proud of. It's, again, not to be boring. But we did that. At the time. We made that record. She was living in Miami. So we did the whole thing on internet, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Talking on the phone, and that was kind of a call the trip, pop, sort of classical record. You know, with the ethereal tones. It's got a lot, a lot of mood. And I guess you would classify it under under Trip hop, I think, okay,

Randy Hulsey  44:37

and how did you get in contact with Rudy? Like, how did that relationship began?

Dave Schulz  44:43

Oh, well, I was doing a showcase for a friend of mine, Jennifer in down in Miami, who was friends with a guy named Fernando Perdomo who's a great artist in his own right, and they were all friends and basically, Rudy was on the gig. We met in rehearsal, and we just clicked. I think she pulled me into a card to players playing some demos after the rehearsal. And I was listening to him. And I was like, This is awesome. And, I mean, it was already she didn't really need me, you know, it was already done as far as I was concerned, but we just bonded and we just, I think we redid some of her songs. I added a lot of keyboards and sort of layers to it. And then we just ended up becoming a team. And that was that, you know,

Randy Hulsey  45:30

so it's literally a duo, correct?

Dave Schulz  45:33

It's a duo? Electronic duo. Yeah. I would call it like it's not a club, do a safe category name.

Randy Hulsey  45:39

Right on and about how long have you guys been kind of paired up there?

Dave Schulz  45:43

Oh, five years. Okay. So it's been a while. We'll probably do another thing soon. It's about that time. I just honestly, I've been so busy doing gigs. I've been on this sort of live kick lately. That I've been enjoying it so much. And I've just been so consumed with that. Yeah, I got to take a step back one of these days and start thinking about these original projects.

Randy Hulsey  46:08

That day. Well, you're also current with Dave Schultz in the front dollars. Correct. That's a current.

Dave Schulz  46:14

Oh, yeah, that's, that's ongoing. That's more like a live thing in LA. We don't really play much outside of LA but it's just a fun. It's a fun gig. It's one day I woke up and I realized I knew all these great female musicians. I'm like, why don't we make a show out of that? It was that simple. And I looked at the Robert Palmer video Addicted to Love Like that's how you do it. My girls can play exactly. Not going to be supermodels, earring guitar. So I kind of got inspired by that. And we made a show out of it. It's it's really fun.

Randy Hulsey  46:43

So it's all female excluding yourself of course,

Dave Schulz  46:46

right? People get mad when they see it. Out there. Yeah.

Randy Hulsey  46:52

Hey, don't hate the player. Right? Don't say well, how many females are in the group? I think it's kind of this big production, isn't it? Right like you have late

Dave Schulz  47:03

band including me. So that's seven girls, you know, bass drums, keys, SATs trumpet to female vocalist. It's not a set band. It's a rotating cast. Okay. And, you know, we had caught your recommended tour with Rod Stewart for many years. You know, Joey Joey Shetler who was with the kind heaven orchestra with Perry Farrell and porno for Pyros drummer, Daniel Thompson who's out with KT Tunstall right now, yeah, bass players Zuri Appleby, who's a great friend who is from my hometown is out with Lizzo right now. So it's a really like when I say these girls can play I can Yeah,

Randy Hulsey  47:39

right on. Well, the first time I ever heard KT Tunstall is I saw her on live from barrels house and I love that episode. It was a great episode. She's fabulous singer. And

Dave Schulz  47:50

I want to be on the show.

Randy Hulsey  47:52

Yeah, very good. Well, I had Elliot Lewis on my show a couple of weeks ago, who was the longest tenured musician on live from barrels house. Yeah. And I think he just stepped away from Holland oats after 20 years. I think he had a long time with you know, the average white band and

Dave Schulz  48:10

I'm funny. I emailed the manager of Holland oats as soon as I heard that, asking him if I get the gig and they already got somebody but I was, you know, I gave it a shot. Grilling. Wow.

Randy Hulsey  48:19

You're always pimping bait. You're always FIFA, man. I dig it. And I lightened up on that one, huh?

Dave Schulz  48:28

I think I was a few days late on that man. Yeah. Well, listen,

Randy Hulsey  48:30

I watched the I think it was the PK of the funk dolls. And it was rocking. It was really cool, man. It was upbeat. Is it? Is it really just kind of like the funk and like a Motown feel that that that group has is really nothing else is that it?

Dave Schulz  48:48

It's what we want it to be. We don't just be funk. I mean, like, it's really up to us what we want to do and what the girls want to do. But generally it's it's funk, soul r&b, from like I say, the early 70s to now. So you know, we got to get coming up at vibrato on June 22, which is her ballot perks. He owns it, it's in Beverly Glen. His daughter Eaton runs it. She's an old friend of mine, she used to hang out at backstage Cafe when I was playing back there way back when and that's how, you know, that's an A great example of a relationship turning into something fruitful years down the line. But yeah, that's a good show. It's essentially I'm not gonna lie. It's essentially a cover band, but it's, it's played by great fantastic female musicians and people

Randy Hulsey  49:32

that would be cool to see live. Well, I may

Dave Schulz  49:35

make a record with him one day. I mean, that's what Okay, that's an example of an original project that I would actually consider like, an original album with this great group of women. The amazing I just haven't done it yet.

Randy Hulsey  49:48

Well, when you got 78,000 irons in the fire, you know, you gotta you gotta you gotta find what you want to really do you know, at the end, gotta calm down, man. Yeah, well, like I said, it's good to have options right at the Yeah, into the day, you're not sitting there saying, Well, I got this one thing going on and I'm really busy with you got a lot of things going on. And that's that's

Dave Schulz  50:06

that's kind of is great. Well, I was getting at before when I was saying I was content these days is that I feel like I can sit back and breathe and just choose the next day. Sort of. I mean, live music, you got to book it to three months in advance, but I'm saying generally speaking, I can sort of steer my course. You know, yeah, yeah. Okay. The Funk dos thing is definitely in the top 10 things I want to do for sure.

Randy Hulsey  50:32

You know, I also did the CO Video Star stuff on YouTube. I was watching that earlier today. And especially fond of the you get what you give video that that great job on that. You mentioned that earlier in the show. Yeah, this was an old song. The new the new radicals, right, which I think what that was what a late 90 song or something. Yeah. So

Dave Schulz  50:56

they, like fastball. They were one of our opening acts with Google. I mean, the Google's at that time had a lot of opening acts. I mean, it was it was all over the place. But the new radicals and fastball are more memorable to me. Maybe because I was a real serious fan of both those bands. Yeah, I love the songwriting. I mean, Greg Alexander's amazing producer. Now he's become a great producer, but, but I don't even know if he's heard it. Honestly. I gotta send it to him. But that was just a song that stuck with me. When I first heard that song. Like, blindly like not even knowing who it was. I thought it was like Todd Rundgren is like it's such a Ron Rooney vibe. And I'm such a huge Todd fan. And I found out it was new radicals. And then and then they were opening for us. And I was like, wow, this is cool. So that song has a special place in my memory.

Randy Hulsey  51:42

Yeah. Why we did it. What you know who I thought it was at first and I was never I'd really never knew the new radicals. I didn't follow that kind of music. But yeah, that sounded like something that maybe the Traveling Wilburys would do. You know? Yeah, maybe? Like a Jeff Lynn kind of sound Oh,

Dave Schulz  51:59

definitely. fan too. So Rundgren, Jeff went all those guys are like my heroes. So yeah. It had a lot of good elements. Yeah.

Randy Hulsey  52:08

Well, what other projects do you have going on or coming up that maybe you'd like to share with the listeners that I didn't cover that I didn't unearth that that may be coming up that you'd like to chat about?

Dave Schulz  52:22

Well, so I made this record called Connect, which I'm pretty proud of. I mean, if you want to get into that, this is off the record. If you wanna get into that, it's probably a good idea. I want to I want to make a follow up to that record. Okay. That's the whole thing I had, you know, on the on the original one, I had Tony Levin, I had heroes again, people that I was beyond humbled to be working with. I had Daniel Lanois on it, who was a major producer and hero of mine, Tony Levin was on it. Bernard Fowler, who sings backups at the stones is on it. Randy cook isn't on drums. It was a great record. And it was a great experience. That front of house guy from Psychedelic Furs I was telling you about. He produced half of it. Okay, so he did five songs on it. So yeah, I think I'd want to get back to that state of mind of where it was when it created that I just want to I want to follow that up. That record was called Connect. Okay. So it'll be some kind of theme that draws on that. A part two of sorts, you know, very cool. Not a separate album, but like a continuation. So that's, that's what I want to do.

Randy Hulsey  53:23

And then from a live show perspective, what's coming up that you can talk about?

Dave Schulz  53:29

Oh, yeah. There's a great Berlin tour coming up with we're opening up a culture club for seven weeks. So that okay, so five of those weeks? I think it's July 12. Through, you know, August 30. I'm gonna say, but it's Howard Jones Culture Club in Berlin, called let it go to her. You just Google that you'll find it. And that's gonna be great. And

Randy Hulsey  54:01

is that all stateside? Dave? Is that all in the United States side? So yeah,

Dave Schulz  54:05

so July? Give me a second, July 12. Through? I'll tell you right now. All right. July 13. through August 20 is the state side tour, opening for college, a club. And Howard Johnson Berlin is sort of like taking turns doing direct sport, okay. And then there's two weeks in Australia. September 2 through 15th. With Culture Club, that's just Berlin and Culture Club. And then you know, I'm doing the spot dates. I'm doing a last date. He's live with Lane Chun, which starts on August 10. So I'm kind of doing a lot of different stuff, a couple of dates with fastball. You know, the best thing for me like if anyone's interested to see what I'm doing, I post my calendar on my website, okay. And it's kind of like Updating as much as I can remember to do it

Randy Hulsey  55:02

sure you take care of all those updates yourself, have somebody doing it for you. Okay.

Dave Schulz  55:07

I, you know, there was a time when it was scatterbrain. And I decided to hone in on that. And I started making these graphics, because I was working on different people. And it was like, you know, I would just make one graphic a month that has all the dates, which are subject to change, but it's the most comprehensive I could get at that moment. I agree. I do that once a month on my website. And it helps everybody.

Randy Hulsey  55:28

Yeah. And then you send that out on. I guess your mailing list gets us. Yeah, yeah. Now, did you just play you? Did you just play a show recently at the Arcada theatre and in science, so

Dave Schulz  55:41

that was with sweet, sweet. Okay, now we're opening your April one. Okay. That's what it was. Okay. Yeah. Did not play with April while we were opening. Okay. Okay. It was a great show. Those guys were super cool. They were. It was awesome. It was a great show.

Randy Hulsey  55:55

Well, I'm gonna be there in Chicago. I think it's the second week of June, I'm actually going to be there with Bethany and Graham seeing their show with Arcada. So at the same place you played right into that venue, but I think it's really cool. Yeah. So I've only missed you by a couple of months there. But anyway, where can the listeners find? Dave Schultz on social media and the internet? What's the best place to go and find what Dave has going on?

Dave Schulz  56:26

Okay, so a few albums that I have, I've put on my website in the Listen section, Dave Schultz music.com into the frequencies on their connects on there. I'm not selling them. I'm just putting them on their streaming. Because I just like people to hear it. That's just my that's my personal viewpoint on that. I don't mind that. So that you can find me on pretty pretty much all the major channels, you know, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, all have the same handle. It's Dave Schultz music, and people I spell my name wrong. They put a T in there, so make sure you spell it right. D eight, D E, Schulz music. And that applies to all the handles. So that applies to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. As far as music, you can, you know, Apple Music, Spotify, all the major, you know, outlet some up there. I've got an on my website as well. Dave Schultz music.com. You can check it out everything and all the social media handles are linked on my website, obviously. So if you just want one stop shopping, go to my website.

Randy Hulsey  57:34

Awesome. Awesome. Well, that's great that you were able to get all your handles the same across the different parts. That's rare. That's rare that that

Dave Schulz  57:41

I had a goal to do that. Because, you know, I'm not gonna say the names that'll confuse people. But I had different versions of that. And it was like driving me nuts. And I finally just put everything the same. And luckily, I was able to get it.

Randy Hulsey  57:53

Yeah. Well, I think there was so I spent 17 years in professional hockey, right. And there was an old hockey player from the 70s. Philadelphia flyer mine by the name of Dave Schultz.

Dave Schulz  58:05

Don't I know it? Yeah.

Randy Hulsey  58:08

Buffalo you know about Dave Schultz. Right?

Dave Schulz  58:11

Either people, or have a hockey player. I'm like, Nah, man. I'm just a keyboard player. Dude. Murdered by my brother. I'm not the wrestler. I'm still here.

Randy Hulsey  58:21

Right on. Right. Well, Dave, listen, it's been a pleasure talking to you and getting to know you, man. I wish you continued success with everything that you have going on. And you certainly have plenty of going on. And if you ever find yourself in Houston look, Stacy and I up if you will, and grab a coffee or a beer.

Dave Schulz  58:42

I would be happy to to get you on the list for that show. If you want to see the Houston show or whatever, just let me know.

Randy Hulsey  58:47

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