Social Distance Music Party Unplugged

Here we are. We're back again.

Woo! Did you miss us? It's been a whole week. Did you miss us? There's, there's, you couldn't see, you couldn't, you couldn't not see these faces in your dreams for a week, right? We are excited about today's show. We're going to tell you all about it. This is the first time we've had a world-class musician. Not to say that our other musicians haven't been wonderful and great because they have, but we tend to stay local with the exception of going to Australia, which was fun. And that was a fun show. And but today we're going world class for you guys. We're we're we're stepping our game up today. But speaking of

stepping, someone else is helping us step our game up. But yeah, totally.

And yeah, it's time to it's time to classy up the joint and welcome Raffi because I know you all are wondering where he is.

Oh my love loves going to leave.

This is not happening.

I don't even know what to do with myself right now.

You guys understand we have no idea about Raffi's interests ever.

This is

when I start drinking.

Me too.

Hey guys! And then

there were three.

Oh my gosh!

Is it almost six p.m.?

What?

What happened?

If you're not local, you have no idea. You just know him as Rafi. But here in the in the Bay Area, here in the South Bay, he's known by a specific name. He is known as King Rafi. And now you know why.

Wow!

Well, Friday, it's nunchuck time. We learned last week that he once upon a time knew how to use those.

So, so let me ask you guys, this has been, um, the 20th year of COVID Um, how are

you,

how are you, how are you guys, uh, doing? Gary, how, how are you doing right now? How are you doing with this?

You know, I'm— I think I'm where, uh, I think I'm where the majority, where I think most people are, uh, is We're done. We're done. And we're looking forward to getting back and moving forward. Luckily, everybody I know— I've not known personally anyone who's passed from COVID And for those of you who've had someone pass, my deepest, deepest sympathies. But I have known people who've had it, and everybody I've known has recovered. So, and some didn't even know they were sick until they got, you know, they were asymptomatic. So yeah, I'm looking forward to the summer. The good weather helps. And, you know, the idea of vacation, we're planning our vacation because we had vacations scheduled and then we had to cancel those and now we're rescheduling. And so, as I told you guys a couple of weeks ago, I don't think there's ever going to be a more important vacation than the ones we take this year. Yeah. So yeah, I'm fired up. I'm geeked up. And, you know, Fridays are— I'm blessed. I get to work. So I know some of you might be anchorless with Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So for me, I love Rafi. Rafi. So see, for me, it's wonderful that, you know, Fridays, Fridays at 5, this is a fun place to be for me. How about you, Rafi? How's things going?

Well, you know, um, besides more weddings, um, being, uh, what do you call it, canceling or postponing or whatever, besides Um, no business. Everything is great. Um, I had a great idea though today. It was really interesting. You know, the, um, because in, in California they're not letting weddings happen, anything over 25 people you're not allowed to have, right? Um, apparently there's— they haven't told us this, but apparently there's no dancing allowed if you have even 25 people because the, the, you know, the dance police are gonna come after you. Um, Anyway, you know, have you heard of that little town called Atwater, California? Have you ever heard of Atwater? It's in the Central Valley. No. So I don't know, about a month ago they decided they were going to be a sanctuary city and not follow protocol of the rest of the state. That was their version of being a sanctuary city. And, um, I thought, gosh, this could be— maybe we do destination weddings in, um, Atwater, California. Right?

You laugh. I think it's a brilliant idea.

Well, yeah. And then, you know, my buddy says to me— this is, this is the capper— so my buddy says to me, hey, we should do something like that. That'd be really cool. He goes, and I found this one company down there that might be able to maybe do some music if we needed an extra company. So I looked them up online and they had one review, this company, right? And I share this with you because it's Half comical and kind of not. Um, they had one review and it was a 1-star review on, on that, um, that site that has the first letter as Y and help.

YOLO?

Yes, thank you. Uh, it said, hired, uh, this company to start an event at 4:30, ended up starting at 6:10. Uh, then they were showing half-naked pictures of girls on their TV screen at a kids event. Uh, maybe that's why he has 1 star, and maybe that's why we're not doing weddings in Atwater, California.

Dude, dude, you could be— you literally could be their king. I mean, you show up and you're the best thing that's ever happened to Atwater. I mean, I'm just saying, Destination Weddings in Atwater, but without the nudie pics.

Thank you. We have—

guys, I want to hear about Atwater, uh, basically like I want to talk about, I don't know, anything else. But I also want to make sure that we bring on our guest. We have an epic guest today who's not from Atwater, and, um, and she is just amazing. I can't believe that we're gonna— we're gonna bring on, especially I pieced together— in honor of this, I pieced together my micro— my, my saxophone. Um, and no, I'm not—

will not play it.

I will not play it. I will not do this. And that's the last note I'm gonna do. That's it. You just heard it. That is the music from Bryan Kramer right there. So that was it. Let's bring her on and let's listen to some real saxophone here.

I hope you didn't make her cry.

Oh, I think I just brought her on right, right when, uh, she's like, no, no, no more.

World famous.

Can you hear us okay, Katya?

Katya?

Yeah, it was, it was distorting before. I don't know why. It's better now.

Well, here's—

okay, good.

Did we scare you yet, or are you okay?

Well, I couldn't really hear much because all I heard was distortion, so— but now it's I think it's better. I don't know where it's coming from.

Well, I think it's— I think it's Bryan's fault. I'm just gonna blame Bryan because—

The minute I blew on my saxophone, I cleared all the world's problems.

It's, it's still there, and I think it's when you are talking, Rafi.

Of course it is.

Oh yes, it's you. I think it's you.

Okay, I'll take this way. How's this?

Yeah, could you turn to the side and turn down your— can you turn down your backing music there, uh, Rafi?

Do I sound okay now, Katya?

No, it's still distorting, guys. I don't know who it is. So there's something— there's some noise. I don't know what it is, but it's— I don't know if everybody else hears it. You might want to check the messages underneath, or maybe it's just me on the phone. I don't know.

Yeah, that's— that's— now, as you know, we did— we did sound checks and stuff. We actually— we rehearse a little bit, for you— for those of you who don't know. And so everything was going well, and now we come live on the air, things go weird, which is one of the reasons I'm scared to death of driverless cars. That's me.

It's not disturbing when distorting— not disturbing, distorting— but it's disturbing me. The distorting is disturbing me.

It looks like the audience is not having a challenge, so the good news is we're okay on that end.

That's good. So then I just have to really concentrate to hear you guys. Yeah,

I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, um, let's see. I've got 2 out of the 4 of us, uh, muted. Is it still going on?

Uh, say something.

Hello? Hello?

Yeah, it's still there. Huh. Oh well, you know, a good thing we did a half an hour sound check.

Yeah, we did. We worked on this for a half an hour for it to mean absolutely nothing, but that's kind of cool. Again, women who've got around. Katja Reichermann. I mean, right here. I mean, world famous. Uh, you can, you can pull up her videos on YouTube and it will astound you. The people she's played with, we're going to talk about that. But literally a world famous, renowned saxophone player, and she's here on this show. No, you are. You don't get to be modest. You— I know you—

I'm exaggerated.

No, anytime that she's— yeah, yeah. Tell, tell Rod Stewart you're exaggerated.

Well, I don't play with them anymore, so—

But you did. And, and, you know, we were talking about that because you— I love the story. I was reading about you today. I've kind of, I've kind of stalked you for the last couple of days watching the videos and reading about you. Yes, it's wonderful. And, uh, you were talking about when you went to audition for that tour for Rod and his wife Penny. And what is that like? Auditions are hard enough anyway, aren't they? How long have you been auditioning? When's the first professional audition did you do? What age were you at?

Oh, well, you know, to answer that question, I honestly can't even remember any other audition than the one with Rod. Yeah. I, um, you know, you know that I didn't start playing the saxophone until I was 21. So I started really late. Yeah, I started really late in life. And I didn't, I didn't play any instrument before. So I really had to start from scratch. I didn't know how to read music, nothing. So, um, and that was, of course, when I was still in Germany. And, uh, but, but then I practiced For many years I practiced like hours and hours every day because I wanted to become a professional saxophone player. Of course, everybody said, you're crazy because that's not going to happen. So, but I was like, I'll show you, I'll show you it'll happen. So, but then I, yeah, my first band that I joined was when I was 22. I didn't really have to audition for. It was kind of a marching band, like 30 people and all kinds of levels. Of course, I completely sucked. I didn't even know how to play every key on the saxophone then yet because I'd only been playing for like a year. But it was okay. There were like super pros in the band but also beginners. Because the thing was, it was like a wild group of people just being wild and playing like cool arrangements like '70s music in the form of a marching band. But we weren't marching like, you know, in an order. We were just being crazy and dancing and, you know, jumping around. So that was my first band and I didn't really have to audition for that. You know, it wasn't like that big of a deal. And then, man, I don't remember. I mean, I've done a bunch of projects, but I don't remember any other. I audition like the one with Rod. And for that one, I actually only had an evening to prepare for, because I got the phone call, like, I believe it was a Thursday evening at around 5 in the evening from Rod Stewart's former MD, saying, hey— Yeah. You know, they already had another saxophone player that they were working in. for like a whole week. But apparently the last day, last day of rehearsals, Rod said, you know what, get me somebody else. And that's when the MD called me like frantically, hey, could you possibly come for an audition tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock? And I'm like, uh, let me check my calendar. Of course it was completely empty. Yeah, so then I just practiced all night and I went in for the audition. I didn't even think I was gonna get it. I, you know, I had absolutely— I didn't. It all happened like by complete surprise.

What song did you play for your audition?

I played— I remember it was Some Guys Have All the Luck and Downtown Train. Because back in the time there was a big, big huge solo in the concert. It was like a 4 and a half minute saxophone solo. Because Rod sometimes when he goes to change, you know, he needs somebody else to take the stage. So that was part of that show then in the time. So I did Downtown Train, I did Some Guys Have All the Luck, and I believe it was This Old Heart of Mine. Because I also played bari, you know, I also played bari. I played bari, you know, the bari parts, and then alto solo in Downtown Train and a tenor solo in Some Guys Have All the Luck.

Wow.

So let me translate for you guys. MD is music director, bari is baritone sax. I say that because I see my old— when I was in high school I was in the marching band and my drum major, Gary Bradley, Is watching and he just said hello. Very— keep them going. Uh, so that— you realize you just blew— is it Malcolm Gladwell, Ryan, who said 10,000 hours? Okay, you just blew his theory totally out of the water because you started when you were 21 years old and literally got your first gig a year later. I mean, that's— I, I don't care how well you downplay it, that's amazing.

Opportunity, opportunity, opportunity, and then you just crush it. That's all there is to it.

You know, I mean, you know, it didn't happen that easily, you know. I mean, of course, first of all, I had to move on the other side of the world. First I had to practice a lot to, you know, come to a certain musical level. Then I had to move to the other side of the world, which is not an easy thing. step to do. And then while I was here, I was in Los Angeles for 4 years before I got the gig with Rod. So I paid my dues, you know. I went out every evening, I found live clubs and introduced myself to people, said, hey, you know, I just moved here, can I sit in with you guys? So, you know, you have to kind of like work for it, you know. It doesn't just happen, you know, like— It doesn't just happen. So you really have—

you're just very talented. That's my part, is the fact that you did work for it and you had the talent to back it up. And really, we should display that talent because you hear us talking about her, but you don't have no idea how good she is.

I'm German. You know what that means?

You're precision-oriented.

Well, yeah, I'm, I'm dedicated. You know, when I, when I put my mind to something, I go for it, and I try to not let anything disturb me or be in my way. I just, I just keep going.

Yeah. Hey, awesome.

Well, I'd love to, uh, get everybody into the, into the music mood. What do you think? Are you ready?

Oh, you want me to play something?

Would you mind?

Yeah, actually, we want to hear Bryan play.

All right, so I'm gonna start with a track called Never Stand Still, which was the title track of my CD that came out in 2015. Of course, it's called Never Stand Still because this is the title track. So it's kind of fun and upbeat, and I hope you guys like it.

Awesome.

Here we go. I hope I'm not gonna mess it up. I haven't actually been playing these songs very much, so But, uh,

you'll do great.

Here we go.

Can't wait.

Wow, nice!

How does that sound?

It sounded great.

Yep.

You guys are so quiet.

No, we're— no, we're— we're— I'm thrilled by it. Again, I'm an old music geek, and I've been— I've been watching your videos and stuff like that, and I'm just thrilled you're here. I love— I love the tone you have, and I especially love— you have the easiest transition to the upper register. It's just amazing to me how you just make that so effortless, because I know that's not easy. That's that's a big time pro right

there. Hey, I just I want to get in the beginning of the song. I choked. I don't know if you saw that, but I I choked. I had to drink some water. My throat kind of like got messed up, but that is

a sign of a

professional neck neck in your skull. Never stand still.

Awesome.

That's awesome. And and I just want to give a quick shout out.

Are you saying something or Brian? I can't hear

you.

Oh, can't hear Brian. You can hear me.

I can hear you.

You can hear me, Brian. Talk. See if you can talk.

Hello.

No, I can't hear Brian.

How about me? Can you hear me okay? Or am I

distorting sound, guys? You guys need a sound engineer.

Yeah. Well, that's Brian.

Well, Brian. He's the

So, so Bryan is, uh, yeah, he's getting ready to, uh, he's gonna log back out and come back on and see if he can fix all the problems and stuff like that.

Uh, can we say hi to some people, Bryan? Do you mind?

No, go ahead.

Yeah, let's just listen to some shoutouts.

I can't hear Rafi either.

So it's just you and me now. So I'm still here, right? You can

still hear me?

Well, then that's cool. Yeah, Rafi was going to say hello to some people, so when he comes back— and I think, Brian, let's see, let's see if we can hear Brian.

Hello? Hello?

Yeah, there he is.

Okay, there you

go.

When in doubt, hit refresh. That's, that's— it just is what it is. I used to be an Apple tech in college, and somebody bring it— brought in their computer, and I, uh, and, and I asked if they just hit restart on their computer, and they're like, no, let's see how it goes. And we did, and the whole thing worked. And from then on, that's my first question. How, how is the refresh?

Yes, there you go.

That's the first answer.

So, um, I want to give it—

What's that?

Can you hear Rafi? I can't hear you.

You can't hear me?

Can you hear Rafi?

No.

Okay,

when in doubt, hit refresh.

You know, sign language, Rafi. I'm sure you can do sign language.

So Bryan has a thank you. So Bryan, do the thank you.

Yeah, I wanna— I just wanna thank, uh, Richard Greenwood. He, he helped hook, hook us up and got us connected. And so Uh, he's such a wonderful friend, and, um, I, I know him. I've known him for years. Uh, we worked in an ad agency together when I first started my first job, and we're still friends today. And I just, uh, value the fact that he, he connected us. So anyway, just a quick shout out to him.

Awesome. Um, Kate, can we send out—

He's a lovely person. I know. There he is.

Can you hear me okay now, Katya?

Yes, I can. Yes, I can. Yes, I can.

I guess you guys are wondering if we're live or not.

That's right.

Yeah, I know this is live.

This is live broadcast. It doesn't get better than this. When stuff goes right, it just rolls right along. When things go wrong, well, guess what?

It gets even better.

That's right.

Can we send— that's more entertaining for the people too. They want to, they want to kind of see like a train wreck so they can like laugh about it.

Absolutely. I'm an old NASCAR guy. I love the race, but come on, I love them crashes as long as nobody gets hurt. I love the crashes.

Oh my God.

So hey, can we say hi to some people who are, uh, tuning in? We've got Leanne Isaacson in Australia who's checked in with us, um, Sue Heimgartner in, um, New Zealand, and we have Jan Hawthorne in Jasper, Tennessee. Um, Joanne Krall, uh, says my daughter's also a former sax player, Heather. A little fact. Thank you. Uh, that's your wife, uh, Gary, uh, chiming in there. Um, let's see who else. Armin checking in. I think he— Armin, I think, lives in Scotts Valley area. Uh, Gary Bradley. Tiffany's back. Uh, Bob Hazelton from Corcoran State Prison, nice to have you on board. Um, really good friends. And, uh, I think— is that everyone? Tracy Lewis, Michelle Walker, everyone. Uh, Michelle Walker, look at that. Katya is amazing. Nice. I love it. So there you go. So how about that for those little, uh, acknowledgments? Does that work for you, Mr. Kramer?

It's all right.

Oh,

where did you get the courage from? Where did you get the courage to say, I'm 21 years old, I'm going to pick up a saxophone, and then I'm going to move from Germany to Los Angeles, and, and I'm going to do this, I'm going to give it a shot, and if I go up in flames, so be it? Where did you get that? Have you always been that way your entire life?

No, actually I wasn't. I grew up, I was super, super shy, like super shy. Like, I mean, if a guy, you know, like in my, you know, when I was 16, 17 and the boys came to talk to me, I would just be like, I couldn't get a word out. I would just blush. I was horribly shy. And I think I think the saxophone, it was meant for me to get over that shyness. Because, you know, when you're a saxophone player, you can't really be shy on stage anymore. It's like, especially when you play with a big star, you kind of have to, you know, get over that. I think that was my— that was the challenge. Maybe I chose that because of that. I'm not really sure.

Hmm. I think it's just fascinating. And the fact that there's a lesson there, kids. I mean, you can push through any limitation. And Katya did. I mean, that's just amazing. From being super shy to being on stage with Rod Stewart playing, you know, Do You Think I'm Sexy and Downtown Train. I mean, that's awesome.

It is amazing. Pretty cool.

And you played with so many people in the country world. You played with Brooks and Dunn.

I did, yeah. That was actually kind of fun. I got casted to— what's the past of cast? Casted or cast?

Casted. Casted,

yeah. Yeah,

you got cast. Or you got casted.

Cast is fine. Yeah, so they casted me to be in this video to the song called You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl. There's a big saxophone solo in it. And they were shooting the video here in Los Angeles at the Hollywood sign. So they were looking for a saxophone player. And, you know, I got the gig. So I show up there and, you know, we hang out, we just, you know, in between shoots and scenes, of course, you know, you just stand around and I start playing. And they were all like, what, you play? I'm like, yeah. I mean, I must say I was a lot younger then. And this was like probably 2004, so it's been a while. I was a little younger and a little hotter. So they looked at me and they were like, oh my God, you really play? I'm like, yeah, what did you think? I mean, you hired a saxophone player, no? And they're like, well, we thought you were just some kind of a model with a saxophone.

You know, at that time—

go ahead. No, so, and then they were like, well, great. So of course I ended up being in the video, but then they called me a couple of weeks later to also do some live performances with them. So I did the People's Choice Awards with them and the Country Music Awards in Nashville and the Today Show in New York also, which was freezing because, you know, that was outside and playing, you know, where I'm, you know, playing the saxophone outside and like— And like whatever, 20 degrees Fahrenheit, you know, you can't even tune that thing because it

hurts the lips. That's what I found.

So it was— that was quite interesting. But yeah, that was fun. They were like such nice guys. Super—

You know, here's a little— here's a little-known fact. Did you know at that time that you recorded with them, they hated each other? They ended up breaking up because they hated each other. And then they figured out that they were better together than they were apart, and they kissed and made up and said, we can make a lot of money together. But at that time, they weren't getting along.

I think they broke up right after that. Maybe, I don't know the year, but I think they broke up after.

So we could honestly label you the Brooks and Dunn Yoko Ono.

Oh my gosh.

The what?

We could label you as the Brooks and Dunn Yoko Ono.

He called you Yoko Ono because, uh, well, anyway,

you did— you couldn't hear me.

Sorry, I couldn't hear that.

I said we could label you as the Brooks and Dunn. Uh, the joke's over now.

How about we do some more music?

I guess. Yeah, let's, let's, let's not, uh, I don't, I don't know. That's over now, that joke or whatever it is.

Well, let's do some music.

Okay, I'm gonna switch saxophones.

Insert your own sax joke here.

I'm gonna do another one from that same record, Never Stand Still. This one is called Walkin' the Dog, and there's a great video out there if you guys go to YouTube. Just put in Walkin' the Dog and my name. It's, it's a really amazing video. I love that video. Every time I now see it, I still have to laugh. It's super fun, super funny. So anyway, I hope you like it. This is a longer song. Maybe we can— maybe I can fade it out at some point. I might do that. I might fade it out at the end.

I

might fade it out. Okay, cool. Here we go. Walking the Dog.

That's nice. Wow, Katja Reichermann, y'all. Wow, saxophone player. That is— that, that's my— that's my— one of my new favorite, uh, summertime jams now because I discovered that yesterday and I'm so glad. I told you when— before we went on the air, I said that's the one you have to play. Out of all the songs you listed, I'm like, you gotta play that one. So

this is your favorite song?

I, I love that. I, I enjoyed that, uh, Walking the Dog. I just— it's, it's just wonderful. So that's your new summertime jam.

You know, it's a simple song, but I, you know, that whole record was inspired by '70s soul, and so I wanted to create something that sounded a little bit like Junior Walker. Actually, on the record I'm playing tenor on this track, so it's more like a Junior Walker vibe. But, you know, you kind of get bored playing tunes on the same instrument, so I just like to break it up, change it up, you know.

That's why Raffi's got caution sign on.

So Katja, can you hear me okay?

Yes, I can. What do you have on your head? I need to put my glasses on.

We ask that every week. What do you have on your head?

Yeah, well, I ask myself that every day. Um, hey, so, Toto, is there any other instrument that you, like, as a kid wanted to play or messing around with, or was it literally just decided one day, I'm gonna play sax? Did that— did any other instrument pop into, uh, come into play, or no?

No, no. I wanted to play saxophone when I was 12. I love the instrument. I love the way it sounded. I love the way it looks. And, you know, at that time, well, you know, let's say in the '70s. I'm kind of old already.

Oh yeah, you're a boy.

When I grew up, I think I might be older than you guys.

Probably not.

But anyway, so when I grew up, like, and listening to the music in the '70s, there was saxophone all over, everywhere. You know, I don't know if you remember, Bryan, I'm sure you know David Sanborn. Like, he played on everything, like, you know, from Huey Lewis and the News to Al Jarreau, like Steely Dan, and, you know—

General Hospital.

All that music that I was listening to. What did you say?

General Hospital.

He did? For real?

Oh, I do remember

he played the whole intro song to the whole, the whole thing. That was it. That was his music.

I

knew my very— this is going to give away my age, and I can't believe I'm saying this live, and maybe I shouldn't say it, but now I have to say it because I just told everybody I was gonna say it. Um, my very first concert, my mom took me to Kenny G. There, I said it.

Wow,

wow, that is a lot of silence right there.

Look at Katya's face, that's what's great. Wow.

Yeah, I know, that just released a lot of information about me all at the same time.

What a nerdy little boy.

No, no, that can't be true because you say you went to a Kenny G concert. Okay, yeah, I went to a concert when Kenny G wasn't even Kenny G yet. When he was still Kenny Gronick, and he played in Jeff Lorber's fusion band. So Kenny G came later, so I'm— I must be way older than

you.

When, when he was Kenny B.

Hi. I went—

no, it was Kenny C.

Kenny C.

Oh yeah, how about this? I went to a Chuck Mangione concert before Feels So Good. Nobody knew who he was. But I did.

How did you know that?

Hey, did it feel good? Yeah,

well, it did because I went to go see. I went to go see Children of Sanchez and Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da. So yes, and my friends, my my my my lifelong friend Royce Harrison went with me, and he and he's watching right now. We remember the Chuck Mangione concert, don't we, Royce? And he asked me how my martini is. It's fantastic. I wish you were here to have one with me.

It's funny, you guys talk about— you guys talk about all the jazz artists and stuff like that. I'm sitting here thinking, I think of horn sections, I'm thinking of like Earth, Wind& Fire, Tower of Power.

Yes,

right.

Yeah,

dude, I, I go deep. I was sitting there the other day watching the, the videos. Uh, people forget Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa had a battle between the drums. They were both drummers, jazz drummers. And they did a concert series where they did battles. I watched that. I'm that weirdo that watched that.

Wow.

That's super cool. Yeah.

Hey, listen, and Maynard Ferguson— hold it, I've got to genuflect to Maynard Ferguson. I'm an old horn player so I have to—

see? I did not know this about—

I'm looking up something right now and I have to ask you a question. Has any of you seen Miles Davis live? I have a great story that I'm going to talk about. I wish.

I was never cool enough to see Miles Davis live. I didn't, I didn't discover how—

I didn't— I'm gonna show you something.

I didn't discover Kind of Blue until I was almost 30 years old.

Okay, so this is, this is pretty freaking amazing. You guys know that Miles Davis, um, he, he painted or he he was doing sketches, right?

He was an artist. Yes, he was an artist in every aspect.

Okay, so look at this. Uh, okay, how do I— how do I show— can you guys see this?

Miles Davis, he, he did a drawing of you?

So do you see that? I mean, it's kind of weird because it's backwards. It's like— but it's, uh, yeah, it's, uh, um—

Wow.

So it's got a— it says my name, and then here it says Miles. And as you can see, it's a stick person with a saxophone.

Oh yeah.

So the story behind this is really kind of exciting. I mean, I've seen— I saw him twice in concert, but I never met him in person. But a friend of mine lived in Los Angeles already. This was in the— well, I moved here in '97 to Los Angeles, so that must have been in the early '90s. So this friend of mine was here in Los Angeles and he was hanging out at a studio and it was my birthday. And this friend of mine, he memorizes everybody's birthdays. He's one of those people that is just really good with numbers. So anyway, so he's in the studio hanging out here in Los Angeles and he meets Miles Davis. And I had, you know, I had been playing saxophone already and my friend Herman knew that I was a big Miles fan. And so he walked up to Miles and said, hey, you know, my friend Katja, she's a saxophone player. She hasn't been playing for long, but, you know, she's a big fan of And it's her birthday today, you know, it would be great if you could, you know, somewhat like get her— make, I don't know, like record something for her or whatever. So that's when Miles painted this for me. And my friend didn't tell me about it. He, you know, when I saw him the next time, he gave it to me. So yeah, it's pretty special.

That is awesome.

Have you ever had it appraised? Have you ever had it appraised?

No, I haven't. Uh-uh. I mean, appraised and then what? You want me to sell it or something? I mean, I— no, just so—

well, because I watch Antiques Roadshow. You want to have the insurance value. You want to have the insurance value, right? So that, that is not worthless. That, that, that art piece by Miles Davis, I can tell you right now, is not worthless. It has a value to it, and you want to make sure, God forbid, house burned down, you had a replacement value on it. That's why.

Boy, you know, I never, I never thought our show, I never thought our show would go towards insurance policies. Today's show brought to you by Allstate Homeowners Insurance.

Well, the good news is she is way cooler than all of us because that is a really cool That is such a cool thing. Speaking of appraise, or maybe praise, why don't we do some more music? I want to make sure that everybody gets a chance to really hear some of the, some of the other stuff that you've got that is lined up while we still got you. Is that cool?

Yeah, of course. Okay, okay, so I'm gonna do is, uh, is a cover or a remix of Daya Think I'm Sexy. I don't know if you guys know, it's Daya, not Do Ya Think And it's Die, I Think I'm Sexy. And I released this track last year in November, and on the track that I released, Rod Stewart actually sang on it for me. He re-recorded the vocals for me personally on that track. So it was pretty cool. It's available on, you know, everywhere, everywhere like Spotify, CD Baby, and there's also a music video about it. But the version I'm gonna do now is without Rod Stewart. vocals, so it's gonna be an instrumental version. But, and this is a different, different kind of music. It's more EDM, like dance house, you know. Keep it up, get the party going, guys. Uh, put your dancing shoes on. Here we go.

Well, they're on, they're on. Phenomenal.

Wow. Nice clapping,

guys. Love it. You caught— you couldn't see it, but Bryan had his saxophone out and it was acting like he was playing. It was brilliant.

Yeah, there's a couple people here are telling me to put it down.

Yeah,

I won't bring it up again.

Yeah, I wish I'd seen that. Actually, I would have probably had to laugh, so I couldn't— I wouldn't be able to play. But

I, I want to thank you for allowing me to just sound like that.

What?

That the music was going on and you had the saxophone at your mouth? Yeah, I like that.

That's awesome.

That was amazing. I, you know what, I'm, I'm seriously, I, I think we could interview you, but I, I really think we should just do one more song and roll right into another one because everyone's loving this and we are, uh, we're, we're interesting, but you are way more interesting.

Yeah, the less, the less we talk, the more you play, the better the show goes.

Yeah, so I mean, this is, um, this will be our last song, boys, and I should say, uh, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, uh So let's go ahead and let's, uh, punch this thing out. What do you say?

Let's do it.

Hey, do we wanna—

can we take—

no, we got one more song.

Yeah, let's roll right into it.

All right.

Okay, cool. So here's another one from that, uh, Never Stand Still record. This one's called Buckaroo.

Bang!

Whoa,

whoa. Um, my wife is texting me behind the, behind the scenes. She's, she's like, oh my— I won't say what she's saying because it's, uh, it's, it's unbelievable. Like, wow.

I think we know the word. I think we know the word.

I want to know

what

she's

saying.

Well, holy moly.

Let's just leave it at, dude, she is seriously amazing in all caps.

My,

uh,

wow.

As I said, my old, my old band director Gary Bradley is watching, and he went on to major. He majored in, uh, in music and played sax, and he said she's better than me after 4 years of private lessons. I never came close to what she, what she does. So that's from another sax player of just ultimate respect.

Yeah, thank you, thank you.

And Armin is, uh, chiming in too. Phenomenal musician here in the Bay Area says, oh, she is hitting it— that— what is it saying? Oh, she is hitting that now, check it out. So he, he was loving your work. So nice, way to go.

So unfortunately, uh, we are out of time, but the good news is, is that she is, uh, gonna be on again. So I— everybody has something to look forward to about 4 to 5 weeks out from now. And, um, And and did you want to leave us off with anything? Is there anything that you wanted to share with everyone about where to reach you or or anything like that?

No, we'll save that for the next time. I know we're kind of like over over time, but yeah, I just want to let everybody know that I'm working on a new track, which but you know by the time I'll be on next, it's gonna be different. I'm very excited about this track. I really Really like it. I'm working on a video right now, so yeah, that's, that's it.

Good. Well, thanks again to Richard Greenwood for pairing us up and doing this, and you, you made a little boy's saxophone dream come true. I'm, I have thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you so much.

What little boy?

Little to old, old man now.

Okay.

This beats the Kenny G concert, that's what I'm saying. So,

all right guys,

thank you so much.

Thank you, that was awesome. Thank you.