Sierra Center Stage; Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers

Welcome to Sierra center stage because you live in a big group that's here in the battle brewing company in Chico California featuring intimate performances and interviews with legendary masters of our city roots music. This week the dance floor. You Rock says Rock and his band The mighty flyers great their distinctive west coast boogie woogie style DC area in a state with an ending. You don't want to miss. Tonight we're putting on a great show. We have the queen of American blues music. We make welcome right. As the mighty Blier. Come out the other night to have a good time. I.

Start to feel good all ready. For. Live TV. You. Know they've made a big mistake tonight. They made a big mistake. They had free beer in the back. You know we feel good. Let's. Talk about this. One. Coming. I've got to say. One. Of. My favorite. Got. Wahl-Bangor. Stonewall.

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I. You. Know you play blues music. You had to get into it because you loved it. Touch your soul and that's why you wanted to do it.

The business end of it always came second to a real blues player. So you know we really don't get too concerned about where we can get nowhere player. Yeah wish we did. Be nice but you sort of accept your role in life you know and if you ever do get lucky is something great but you learn to love the music for the music not for the money that you hoped you could make. Do. You think. I'm. Trying to keep. You

down. I. Do. When. I.

Do. You show. Me. One thing you. Do

in your do. You. We. Do.

We do. You. Got to play the harp or start a guitar. At about seven years old. Eight years on I'm Mastro with that till. My brother took me to see Jimmy Reed one in 58. I was 11 and he got me into the club on a weeknight. They serve food and

I told Jimmy Reed we got backstage on the break and he told Jimmy Reed out young man trying to play guitar. And Jimmy said well he looked like he needs something to go with it and he gave me one of his old heart. Well I started playing piano at four years old. My father was an Air Force and we moved over to England. He was stationed in England for three years so I thought it was good to start me on piano lessons so I started playing classical music. So anyway I played through my teens. And after I got out of high school everyone I knew in the 60s and everyone I knew all my friends were in bands or Oh come on you play piano play in our band I don't I don't know how to improvise I you know I play with sheet music I don't know what the heck you're doing. So just listening to hanging around and party and then one night I sat down the piano with him and I was just. Able to kind of feel what it felt like and let me.

Tell you what. We to see. Come on let's get. Going.

To. Sing. All the. Way. By. The. Way.

Most. People. Keep this is people

keep on. Talking about we're talking on. The. Ground. I help.

I don't know if you have to cry for help or you didn't me know about it. I. Mean. Come on. Come on. Well the only thing that really keeps you going is the same thing that kept me going at the start and that's the love of the sound of the music when you play it it is certainly traveling all over hell trying to get to where you got to be and are in this time and hurry up and go to the

next place. And it's certainly the money that you Horden away saying laughter is the sound of the music when it's right on the bandstand and that's about the reward that you learn to get. So when you get it you're happy. You don't need to be. You. Made me. You feel sorry. To me.

Ha ha. Ha. Judge. Judy I. Do. Yes you made me. Do it. For me. I called.

It. I. You I.

Do. So alone. My head is killing me. Ha ha. Do. You. Do

you. I. Do. Mercy. Mercy. Mercy mercy. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow. Pow.

You. Lose. On my instrumental. It does mean a lot to me because it was really my first my first great composition as far in the book vein because I was just because I was just loving Chicago blues Otis Spann that's the kind of music that's what I tried to learn that's what I loved and I would listen to the Boogie players and pick up little things. But then finally I had cumulated a few licks and I thought I'm going to give this a try. We were just in a local club and I just started off having had the intro and then I just started

playing. And by the end of that song people were on their feet. I went Whoa I got something here. This is good. This is really a good thing right now without any further preliminaries we're going to put you in the hands of the young lady and the young lady behind the drum. Saturday night. Live on the. The on

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I. Love. Her. I think my life was. Ordained to be what it is and you know some rough rough going a lot of times trying to make ends meet. But

musically I don't have any regrets of my life with Holly. You know I'm glad for what we got. I couldn't have done anything else any better. This is just what I do the very best. What my heart's most invested and so I would do it all over again. On.

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have a lot of can give you right off the bat. So anything that you can add to that sound. To get it a little bit more pleasing and enhance the tone. You've got to try and squeeze out of what you got with just a cheap microphone with your hands and the way in shape get me inside your mouth. Now see. But. You that you can add brought on that you know you can you can do a lot of things to enhance that so that one note sounds like more than one note. You've got to make that one sound like. A bigger note than it is when you're playing the harp and trying to get that tone. I just develop my sound from listening to the cats that I really love like you know George Smith and Little Walter and to really and found a way to go somewhere in between the two. Take it a little bit from me the one and putting a little bit of myself shake it up with a sack like you shake a fried chicken and don't get out. And when I dump it in the pan That's Rod piazza. So that's what you get.

I guess. Have. You built this to. Yourself. You. Just get. Down. To. It. I'll. Give you one. One.

Last. Suddenly. Stop. Suddenly stop it. I. Don't. Just. Want a little something. I mean she can. Just. Wait.

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hour. And. You give it. A. Lot.

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