Tim Snider Live — Violin, Loops & Pure Energy | Lauderdale Brewing 3.22.25

How's it going out there, everybody?

Hello!

Thanks for coming out to support live music today. This is awesome. It's my first time here at Lotter Ale.

Y'all make some noise for Hold My Beer.

They were awesome. And I want to thank Lotería for having us, having me. Us is me, myself, and I, I guess.

This song is called Hurricane. Oh, standing.

I'm still standing in the eye of the hurricane. Saudades, you.

It's good to be here. It's a little more humid here than Kansas currently. Y'all live in a beautiful place. So this is a song called The Traveling Man, and, uh, I wrote this about a dream that I had, but mostly it's a song about being barefoot. I'm a barefoot person. I know there's barefoot people here because we're in Florida, right? I mean, come on. One of the things I love about being a barefoot person is you meet other barefoot people. I see you. And there's a long, long drawn-out story to this one. I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna play the song. But maybe next time I come around here, I'll tell you the whole thing. But I always do like to invite everybody to take off your shoes physically or metaphorically, whatever works for you. I know that the floor could be gross sometimes, but we are outside. And what I mean by that is to let go of our burdens, let go of things, and just, just be. Realize that this is holy ground, that We're all here for a good reason, for music, to come together. Just leave your BS at the door. Can we do that? You guys with me? All right.

No shoes on his feet, no possessions to pull or to push. Pull or to push. He's just a traveling man, singing a song.

He spoke in whispers, but you know his words were strong.

A glimpse of divine, divine moment in time. I'm not sure, something in me changed. Something in me changed. It was just a— a Chinaman, a singer of soul. He spoke in a whisper, though his words were strong. Now he said, learn to be patient, we must. Learn to be kind. Take off your shoes, leave the troubles behind. He said, learn. We must learn to be patient. We must learn. We must learn to be kind. So I took out, took out my shoes.

Thank you so much.

All right, how we doing out there?

That's good.

Cool.

So, uh, this song is a song called The Steeple. I wrote this about Mount Shasta. On the other side of the country here, California. I used to live in a van and travel up and down the West Coast and spend time surfing and going in the mountains and camping and going to cities playing shows so I could go surfing and camping. Simple life was a good life. And this particular day I was, I was at Mount Shasta And I used to do this thing where I'd get over to the side of the road wherever I was around sunset, get on top of the van and watch the sunset go down in the plazas and, you know, thank the sun for the show, thanks for the day. And my wife, who I was dating at the time, she's from Brazil and she told me about this thing. Yeah, we got some Brazilians here? This is Florida, I mean, come on.

Yeah, okay.

She was telling me about how in Rio de Janeiro it's like a thing you go and you watch the sunset and you clap, you know, you like— and they're like, hey, let's meet at such and such bar after the clap, you know, it's like a thing. And I thought, that's so cool, why don't we do that here, you know? So I started doing it on my own. Everyone thought I was crazy, but whatever. And anyways, I was out Mount Shasta watching the sun go down and it lit up Shasta like a beacon. It was so incredible, so beautiful, and this song just kind of like downloaded in that moment. And I get to play it for you now. It's called the— it's called the Steeple. Also, have you guys seen my looping before? You guys know what I'm doing up here? Okay, I have a machine that I hit a recording button and it records whatever I'm playing, and I hit it again and it creates a loop, and that's how I'm able to talk to you and there's still music. None of it's pre-recorded, it's not— I'm not playing the tracks or computer or anything like that. Yeah, so it's fun, you know, you can do all kinds of things, do layers like this. Let's do it like a note. That was like 8 or 9 notes, but it's fun.

Just thought I'd get that out of the way so you guys know what's going on. Push and pull, deliberate in the motion. I thank God for creation, but is a gift just to exist? Feeling small in this vastness, but my heartbeat persists. Like a whisper, like a whisper in the stillness. Like a whisper, like a whisper. This is Life is a People, but that's all we get is people. They got so important, we forget that we're all equal. I'm not the first or the last.

May my judgment never steeple.

But I ask you, keep an eye, keep it steady, eye after the sunrise in the air. Oh, we keep churning forward, we keep churning forward, the seaboys.

with greed, with hatred and intolerance. Let us fight for the world of reason, a world of resurgence and progress, will lead to all men's happiness. In the name of democracy, give us all we want!

Thank you.

Thanks so much. I don't think I accounted for the heat here in my set list. I'm already sweating.

It's freez—

this is your cold? I'm from north of the wall, so I mean, come on, look at me, you know. I don't think it's not even the heat, it's just the humidity, you know. To be fair, are you guys cold for real though? Oh my God, wow, sorry. You ain't from around here, huh? All right, I'm gonna sing a song here. It's a love song I wrote for my wife for her birthday some years ago, and it's called By Your Side.

So much we've been through, still haven't loved it. It's hard to believe these years that go by.

Nothing's plain to me. You are my everything, you should know.

I'll be by your side, I'll be by your side. We used to talk all night. Nothing ever felt so right. Still, I've never met anyone like you. So in love, all the things to do. I'll be by your side, I'll be by your side, I'll be by your side.

And I could go on for days and tell about the stories, I tell of the ways you won my heart. I think you know it, and I think you listen when I say I forgot to mention, um, if you guys like this music, I do have some Merch and hats and stickers and CDs. I don't know who the hell has a CD player these days, but I still sell them somehow. So if you got a CD player in your truck or something, you know, you want to grab some music for it, it's just all over here by the lights in the soundboard here. Um, yeah, you can find me online and all that stuff. I got a website. All them things. This song is called Sometimes This.

You're there for me. Never be scared, remember to breathe. So hold in your hearts, you got to be bold. Look for the hole, more it can hold. Don't waste your pain.

Give me the truth.

Why we here? Why we suffering? Don't waste this pain. Don't you waste it. It can lead you to the water.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you, Jason Wasser. All right, I was thinking about taking a little break and, uh, doing another set in a minute, but how are you guys feeling? Should we keep going? Should we make a collective decision? Alright, I'm in if you guys are in. This one's called "Let Go Jump in the River." It's off the first album that I put out way too many years ago. Life's not about the destination, but those who know live like this.

Jump in, I got to let go. Jump in the river, let go. Jump in, you got to let go. Jump in the river. It's in the music, it's in the stories that we tell, it's in the pictures, it's in our hearts and in our heads as well. These days, just to remind us, though different on the surface, we still live, we still live for the same purpose. And our emotions still stir us. We're still here. Searching, understanding in this life. We're still searching, understanding. It's in the music. It's in the stories that we tell. It's in the pictures.

It's in our hearts.

It's in our heads as well.

This song is called Better World. I wrote the song shortly after becoming a father and just thinking about life and everything and how we're leaving this place for, you know, our children's children's children's children's children, you know. And I think it's interesting because I think we all want the same things in life, you know, we just argue about about how to get there. And, uh, I think it's really— it's a crazy thing, you know, like, uh, if we could just have a conversation and agree on, on being able to disagree, I think we could find some common ground. That's what the song's about.

Amazing.

We cannot agree on anything, baby. But by changing the world around us, it'll stay the same. We don't work on, don't work on change within. Gonna make a better world. Gonna make a better world. Gonna make a better world for my little girl.

Let's invest in our own health. Make it what we want to see.

Let's do it for ourselves. We will rise when we realize that we are one. Through the power that we hold. That's when the world is one. Now is the B.Y.W. Let's invest in our own health. Make it what we want to see. Let's do it for ourselves. We will rise when we realize that we are one.

Thank you, guys. Thank you.

So somebody asked me earlier today, um, if I get stage fright, and, uh, I actually wrote a song about having stage fright, and this is My first time on stage, I was 5 years old. As a little kid, I started playing violin because I saw Itzhak Perlman on TV, and I was like, "That! I want to do that!" So I ran up to my mom, begged for lessons, and I was a weird kid. I practiced a lot, and they'd tell me to go outside and play football with my brothers, you know, "Just stop. You need to go do something active." Yeah, this is active for my brothers. Anyway, I played a lot and I was so excited for my very first concert. I was 5 years old, classical concert. I had like my little tux and everything. Went up on the stage and the lights hit me and everybody's staring at me and I forgot everything I was supposed to do. I had the piece memorized, I was like ready, and I just forgot. I blanked out and I cried and I ran off stage and I was like, fuck this, I'm never doing this again, this is terrible. And, uh, took decades of like just facing my fear, just keep coming back, keep coming back. And, um, it was really interesting. I would do lots of weird things I wasn't even aware of, where I developed alter egos and come off stage and I was like, who is that guy? That's not really me. But I was just a coping mechanism, you know. And then I started playing in a band that did really well, and we got to tour all over the world and play for stages all around the world, big crowds, and all all this stuff and thought I had a handle on it, you know. I was like, I do this every night, I'm good. And one of the first times we had a really, really big crowd, it was like, you know, like 10,000 people in Australia, and it was like this massive sea of people. And I was like, I had this part in the show, it was just me solo for like 5 minutes, and I look over my bandmates, it's like, I'm terrified, I'm really, I'm really scared right now. And my boss kind of looks over at me, he's like, don't fuck it up. So I was like, great, thanks for pep talk, you know, got this. And, uh, got out there, and at that moment I started remembering something that my mom used to always tell me. She used to tell me, little Timmy, just remember you're always playing to an audience of one. And at the time I was like, Mom, come on, there's like people, everyone's staring at me, like clearly there's more than one. She's like, no, just you're playing to God, is what she's trying to tell me. And in this moment I looked out of the crowd and I saw it, like, 10,000 people were like one people. It was like, holy cow, this is— we are connected. I saw this tangible connection between all of us, and I was like, if that's the truth, why am I scared to share my heart, what's inside of me, with y'all? Because we're the same in a way, you know. Yes, we're different on that exterior, but there is this thread that connects us. Yeah, it's beautiful, it's amazing. And at that moment, I was just like, oh Oh cool, I'm not afraid anymore. And, um, I'd like to share that story just because I really do believe that all of us are here for a reason. We have something that we're here to do. Like, each of us have different talents, different interests, things that spark our creativity and these things. And it's important to follow those. We get one life, we get one chance of this, you know, make the most of it. And I think if we all did that, like, we would see the world we want to see. Um, and that's my 5-minute soapbox. Speech about that, and I'll play you the band's song. It's called Humanity.

So much is under attack now. Father's been trying to warn us. How long can we just ignore this? Can we just ignore this? Every battle has its consequence.

—raise their eyes and we'll see what the battle is. But humanity lies.

But now I weep and I cry.

I am made on terrified.

When so much is at stake, how much can we take? But I can only Be brave if at first I'm afraid, so I stand and show up. Screaming enough isn't enough, being enough isn't enough.

We got millions of warriors just holding their front lines. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and the babies crying. The ones in power only care about the dollar signs. And there's money in those politics, yeah, there's money in those pipelines. When we're leaking out Just consider what we get for free.

The value of our earth, water, and the air we breathe.

Keep that eye on the ground. We can learn this past behind. We can learn from our mistakes and plant humanity in time.

We are the 7th generation.

It's time to unite all the nations.—

we learn how to love one another, how to love one another. Each person so different from each other, and my purpose like pieces to both puzzles. And we learn how to love one another, how to love another. Each person so So different from each other and our purpose like pieces to a puzzle. Then we'll learn how to love one another, how to love one another. Each person so different from each other and our purpose like pieces to a puzzle. Then we'll learn how to love one another, how to love One another.

I got a couple more for you guys here. Ah, that fucked up the lyrics. Let's try that again.

Would you really give up before you got a chance to play the game? Play the game, play the game. That's too small and it's too big to make a difference. Go on, free yourself from the illusion that you're too small and it's too big to make a difference. Fusion of the best, nothing even less. Pay attention to how you feel. Who I mean, be yourself. Everything that's been holding you back, become a new person. You will eventually become blessed. Be yourself. Blessed. Be yourself.

Thank you, thank you so much.

Thank you guys so much.

Appreciate it. All right, in case you need any merch or anything, uh, my daughter's on Oh, you too? You're gonna help? Okay, sweet. Cool. I'm gonna play one more song and then just want to say thanks so much for, for having me, Otter Ale, and, um, it's really good to be here. Oh, sorry, I'm out of breath. That was, uh, that was a lot there. Um, this song's called My Whole Heart.

Hey, guess what?

We're doing really good, actually.

You guys are hired.

You want to come on the road?

Just me. It gets a little lonely. But I do have my wife and daughter with me on this trip, which is really cool. It's my daughter Ines, she's right over here. It's her birthday coming up, so we couldn't come out to Florida without spending a day going to Disneyland. She's turning 7, she wants you to know. She put up 7 fingers.

Big girl.

Just want you to know that all All the merch proceeds go to our Disneyland trip.

I have a heart and an empty soul and no more tears to cry. See, I put my faith in you like you told me to. Put your faith in me. Somehow we lost our Says in the space between, things never say what they really mean, what they really mean. So now I got hole in my heart that no need fixing, I got hole In my heart when she went away. I got a hole in my heart that no one's fixing. I got a hole in my heart when she went away. When she went away. Loving her, loving her, my whole heart. So now I got a hole in my heart that I know needs fixing. I got a hole in my heart. Where she went away, I take a hold of my heart. Cause I know needs fixing. Take a hold of my heart.

Jason Wasser.

So one of the things I love about music so much is that it's always there for you, you know. I think a lot of times we as humans don't go through life thinking about art, thinking about music, thinking about these things that make us human. You know, it's easy to get in the groove and just kind of go, and then, and then something happens. Like you go through a heartbreak or something, you know, someone breaks your heart, or maybe it's the opposite. Maybe you're so excited about something and you just got this emotion, you gotta let it out. And that's what music and art, that's where it comes in. That's where it becomes food, it becomes sustenance, it becomes so damn important to our humanity. And I feel like there's a war on art right now. And music and all this, and it's crazy to me because this is what— this is who we are, you know, and we can't lose sight of it. And I just want to scream that to the fucking rooftops, you know. But music's always been there for me in the hard times and the good times, and I'm so grateful for it. And I don't know who I would be or where I'd be without it. And, you know, just to be able to express myself in front of y'all It's just such a treat. So thank you so much for coming out and listening. And if it's all right with you, I'm gonna express myself a little bit here.

Cause I know he's fixing to take a hold of my heart when I go away.

Hey, thank you guys so much.

Thanks so much, Lauderdale, for having me. My name is Tim Snider. Y'all have a wonderful, beautiful night.

Thanks for listening. Appreciate it. All right, I'll go for Disney. All right, I'll go for Disney. You guys get this, right? What that means? On court for Disney. Disney money. Me. I'm just kidding, I'm kidding. Oh yeah, just kidding. Um, thank you guys so much, man. You know, we just— my wife and I just went to, um, a classical recital, and she's like, why after the thing does the conductor leave the thing and he comes back? And, you know, every time he goes and he comes back, it's so weird. I was just thinking as we were doing this, like, that whole thing— get off the stage, play more. But I'd love to play more one more for you guys if you guys want to hear another. Sorry, sometimes I overshare. I just say whatever the hell is in my head, and I hope that's okay. Just play. Just play. All right, this song is called Down the Rabbit Hole, and, um, it was inspired by Mr. Charlie Chaplin.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate or despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone. Good earth is rich. want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness of all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. Do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed.

The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes. Men who despise you and slave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel. Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men. You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men.

Thank you guys so very much.

My name's Terence Snyder. Be good to each other. Thanks again for listening. Much love. Cheers.

Cheers! Thanks, thanks, thanks again.

Cheers, much love.