04/12/2024
“So you're telling me one day that it turns out that playing stringed instruments runs in your family and you didn't know it.
Told my grandpa, he played everything under the sun that was stringed, and nobody else. I think he was the only real musician in the family. And then just kind of skipped it, maybe skipped a generation, I don't know.
Yeah.
Like everybody in my, all the Wiebe’s are, she's a Scot now, but we're talented people. Like she's a good crocheter. My mom, she can do all sorts of stuff.
Dad was an artist, stuff like that, but no musicians though.
You just really took to it when you started playing?
“Yeah, especially once I learned the scale.
It was just addictive. I just played Stevie Ray Vaughan's tracks over and over and over again, until I basically synced up as much as I could with him, stuff like that.
Play till you get bored. It's a weird saying, but it worked for me. Well, when it's boring to you to play a blues solo, then you're obviously pretty good at it.
Yeah. Then it's just making money. It becomes a job and then you're like, oh, I didn't pick this.
So do you have plans to make a band or to play, to record an album or play out with people? Besides doing this fabulous gig where you do music for a podcast.
As awesome as it is, honestly, I would love to do a lot of stuff. I guess it's how to meet the right people or one person. Maybe it's kind of that I'm not lazy but shy and a combination of lazy because I know I can talk to people.
Is it also that collaboration would bring their type of music to the forefront? Maybe it wouldn't be as fun?
Yeah, it helps having a second voice to talk to, like another musician to talk to. Just him being there and jamming with me would make me play something that I wouldn't normally play by myself.”
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