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May 12, 2022

Warren Zeiders | Happy But Not Satisfied

Warren Zeiders | Happy But Not Satisfied

On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with country music artist, Warren Zeiders.  At only 22 years old, he’s quickly come onto the country music scene in an unconventional way.  Like most of us, he had some time at home to create during the pandemic.  Though he hadn’t performed professionally, he was encouraged to post cover songs on TikTok and Instagram.  His views on TikTok shot into the millions.  Warren then started to receive requests for original music.  Then, after only a couple of years of using social media to get his music out there, he now has a record deal, over 300 million combined streams and views, as well as a brand new album (717 Tapes).  I’m happy to sit down with Warren to talk story and to share the unconventional story of an artist that we’re going to be hearing about for some time.  

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

0:05:27 - Country Music in Pennsylvania

0:09:46 - Creating "Ride a Lightning"

0:14:52 - Discovering Music Passion Without Familial Influence

0:20:18 - Fans Shaped My Musical Journey

0:24:23 - From Bedroom to Stage

0:25:59 - Timeless Themes in Music Lyrics

0:33:08 - Music Career and Family's Reaction

0:42:00 - Seven Questions

 

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Transcript

Warren Zeiders:

I picked up a guitar in sixth grade.

 

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Warren Zeiders: You know I was like this could be cool to

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: pick up and enjoy.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I like music and you know guitar is the

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: instrument that the ladies seem to like the

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: most.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: If you can sing and play guitar, the ladies

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: are normally interested.

 

 

 

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

 

 

 

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Hey, welcome back.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: How are you?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Why to have you back for another episode of

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I hope your week is going great so far.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And, just in case you're listening to this,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: during the weekend, hopefully you're doing

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: something fun relaxing, walking the dog,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: hanging out by the pool, exercising,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: whatever.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Thanks a lot for bringing Story and Craft

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: with you.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And just in case you're brand new to the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: show, my name is Marc Preston.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Thank you very much for checking it out.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: This episode really cool.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Warren Zeiders, a new country music artist.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: He's only 22 years old and his story very

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: cool.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: He started off in kind of an unconventional

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: way.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know, during the pandemic, we were all

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: given a lot, of us were given a lot of time

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: to do something creative, or we just had

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: more time on our hands.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Warren took that time to take his you know

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: his love of playing the guitar and decided

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: to start putting cover songs out on TikTok

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: and Instagram and before you know it, he's

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: got like millions of views.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Two years later he's got a record deal and

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: over 300 million combined streams and views

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: and a brand new album 717 tapes.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: So I'm enjoying the opportunity to bring

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: this story to you Because, even if you're

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: not really big into country music.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: This is a kind of a cool story about how

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: things are different Now.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know getting a record deal, you know

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: getting out there, getting people to listen

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: to you Kind of different from when I was

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: coming up.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Artists had a different path to becoming

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: well-known.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Now, if you're a big country music fan,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: check them out on Spotify or wherever you

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: listen to music.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And, of course, if you go to

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Storyandcraftpod.com, you can check out all

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: of his social media links Kind of a big

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: deal, considering he got started on social

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: media.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: We've got the TikTok and Instagram, got his

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: website as well.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And, of course, you want to find out more

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: about the show.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Storyandcraftpod.com.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Find out my social media links, send me a

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Also, send me a voicemail.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You can actually do that through

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: StoryAndCraft.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: So let's get after it.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Today it is Warren Zyder's Day right here

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: on StoryAndCraft.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Hey, I like your hat, by the way, thank you.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Yeah, sorry, I'm traveling today.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: No, if you travel and that problem means

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: you're working.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: If you're working, you're probably having

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: some fun, so that's a good thing.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Yes, sir, now you're a Pennsylvania guy.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Are you still in Pennsylvania or have you

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: made the move to Nashville, back and forth

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: between?

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Pennsylvania and Nashville.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: But speaking of Pennsylvania, that's where

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: the 717 comes from, so that's my area code.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So people think it's 717 or 717, but the

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: 717's where I grew up.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I was going to ask where that came from.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: So thank you for beating me to the punch on

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: that one.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: That's really cool, man, congratulations.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I've got so many questions for you today

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: because you're kind of one of the first

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: music acts, artists that I've had an

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: opportunity to speak with that has kind of

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: come up in this new era.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Well, I mean, for your generation guys, not

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: at all just then, but for your generation,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: you know, with TikTok and Instagram and all

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: that, and you know, when I, back in the day,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: when I was working, you know, when I worked

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: on the radio years ago, man, you just had

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know, you didn't have the access to the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: social media thing.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: That just kind of makes life a little

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: easier and I actually think it makes the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: opportunity for newer acts to show up on

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: the scene and kind of get noticed.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And TikTok worked out well for you, didn't

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: It did, it did.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: You know, I think personally myself, I

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: wouldn't go the route of saying easier, so

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: to speak I think we have more access to a

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: lot of people by the finger by our

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: fingertips.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: definitely accessibility, absolutely.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Accessibility yeah, I think accessibility

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: and I think the outreach is undeniable.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: By the click of a button you have the

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: chance to reach millions and I think that

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: there's a lot of beauty in that and it's

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: given a lot of artists like myself a chance

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: and a voice to touch on that.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Really, you have that accessibility, but

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: it's not easy to, so to speak, because I

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: think that it does take hard work.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: There's a lot of thought process into

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: everything.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Oh yeah.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Oh, definitely, there's where I probably

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: misspoke, yeah, when I said that it was

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: None is ever easy, especially.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: No you're good, you're good, you're good,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: especially for, like you know, comics on

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: the road or people.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: There's a lot of hustle involved, there's

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: an understatement, but I think what's

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: amazing is that for this era, if you got

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: the skills, you got the chops, talent,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: desire, man, the ability for you to carve

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: out your own space is kind of there.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: But now I'm going to be honest, this is no

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: snobbery at all.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: This is actually admiration for for the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: folks of Pennsylvania me being from Texas,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: of course I recognize Nashville, another

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: country hub, and I know there are parts of

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Mississippi and Alabama.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I never thought of Pennsylvania as being a

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: real hotbed for country.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You're sort of kind of like an ambassador

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: now and many of us like, oh really,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: pennsylvania's got a country scene.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Was that your genre growing up?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Is it what you were listening to?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Is it what was always on the radio?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Was that?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Was country always your thing?

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: down the Nashville a lot of people asked

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: the question Put it.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: To put it this way where the hell did you

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: find a country, country, boy from

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Pennsylvania?

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: And I'm like, okay, country doesn't just

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: exist down in the south, in Texas, in

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Nashville and all these places.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: There's country everywhere you go and you

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: can find anywhere.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: And I think that you know having those

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: conversations it's.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: It's funny because people think of

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh but I'm like

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: outside of that it's nothing but country

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: land and I still in some some redneck stuff

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: growing up my entire life.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So yes, to answer your question, country

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: music was a huge part of my life growing up.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: My grandparents listen to my mom had in the

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: house, but also on top of that I grew up in

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: church so I listen to a lot of Christian

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: music so I touch on a lot of that in my

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: song lyrics and stuff to when I'm writing

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: my music.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And also my dad was a huge rock and roll

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: guy like Garth Brooks.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Garth Brooks is big inspiration, I think,

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: is kiss.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know, when I look at people, when that

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: enjoy country, it's not just that they're

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: living the lifestyle, it's just that

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: something resonates with them.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: And I think that my daughter, emma, who's

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: 16, who Is you know, I'm sure she wishes

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: she was here right now so she can meet you.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: She is the only one of my kids love, she

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: loves country.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I mean, she's very much a city girl, the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: only one I think of her friend groups

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: really big in the country.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: The thing about it is it's almost like an

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know it's stories, the lyrics Are they

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: yours?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: For the most part?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Are you collaborating with somebody on the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: on the song writing?

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: yes, so I do a lot of co-writes.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I think that that's when I do my best work,

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: because I'm working with really talented

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: people.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: But also I'm a huge extrovert and I love

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: working with people and I think that you

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: know, whether it's my idea when I come to

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: the right, or if they have an idea and I

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: resonate with it.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I said this is definitely something that I

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: want to touch on or talk about, whether

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: it's a, it's a verse that they have, or if

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: it's just a song title, and I'm like that's

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: definitely something that I think that I

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: should be Putting out there for my fans to

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: hear.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: But yeah, man, I kind of like what you said

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: about the whole, the whole country thing

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: and Garth Brooks is, I guess, influence you

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: said was kiss.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I think that it's funny because you said

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: you're you know your daughter's kind of a

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: city girl and she's a country fan.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I think that the thing for me really

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: finding out, you know, kind of getting to

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: this whole scene, there's a lot of love,

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: there's a lot of hate.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: You know, everyone's got their own opinions

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: and everything like that and on how they

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: view the whole country scene and more or

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: less for me, one of my favorite comments

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: that I get on my videos and people who talk

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: about my music is a lot of people who say

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: that they're not even country fans.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: They just kind of like my music.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I think it's cool because I'm able to

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: dabble in these Marcets and find these

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: people who might have not been once country

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: fans, but now they're kind of interested

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: and I think that's.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: There's a lot of beauty to that to just

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: show people a new genre and kind of bring

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: them into a new type of music and new style.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: The songs you know on the 717 tapes, and I

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: like the fact you use the word tapes.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: The irony is you certainly didn't grow up

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: in that era with cassette tapes, you know.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: But you know.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Thank you for tipping the hat to those old

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: people when you're sitting down writing the

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: songs.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I have always been curious is it the, is

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: the lyric, or is it the melody that you

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: come up with?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: That really is a genesis of the song.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know what I mean.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Is it the story you're coming up with or

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: are you just?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: They're kind of noodling on the guitar and

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: going.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: You know, I got a song idea.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Now you know.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So to touch on the 717 tapes and a fun

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: story.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So ride the lightning was only the second

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: song I've ever written in my life and I was

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: my first time being in Nashville and it was

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: a co-write.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: It was over zoom and it was with Eric

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Pazley and Rob Crosby.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: And Eric Pazley was someone who I really

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: looked up to.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I loved a lot of his music as an artist and

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I know he's done really great work writing

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: for others as well.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So there was definitely some nerves there

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: going into that position as the newbie in

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: town, you know it being your first time,

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: but you know, I think for me, I think a

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: melody speaks a lot to me too, and you know

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I have a lot of rock and roll influence in

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: my music and you know I kind of like those

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: more gritty, darker kind of melodies, so to

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: speak, the darker chords and more minor

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: records.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So whether it's a melody or it's a song

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: title, but I think I can't remember I don't

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: want to take credit for it because I love

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: to get credit where credit is due I can't

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: remember if it was Eric or Rob, but someone

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: throughout the song title Ride a Lightning,

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: and I was like that is, that's a really

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: cool idea and what we did was we

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: piggybacked that idea off of the first song

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I wrote and recorded in my bedroom on the

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: run.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So if you listen to that song yet too, or

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: listen to lyrics, it's kind of a my version

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: of a murder ballad in a sense.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: But you know that song Ride a Lightning has

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: transcended so much off of a simple line.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: Mama always said I was born on the wild

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: side because you know, I wasn't daredevil

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: growing up I never knew my limits.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I was getting hurt, whether it was broken

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: collar bones, broken arms, you know, fall

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: out of trees and getting impaled by sticks,

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: like I've had my fair share of injuries.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: But you know I grew up just just doing a

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: bunch of bunch of crazy, crazy and dumb

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: yeah.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: What was the kind of the track you're on?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Or was it like, ok, I'm going to do music.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Is that something that was always on your

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: mind?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Or was just like as something I do for fun?

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: Or was it something that you decided is

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: like, ok, this is not just for fun, this is

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: going to be a passion.

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: I want to see where I can take this thing

 

 

 

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Marc Preston: to answer that question.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: So, like I said, I did grow up in church.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: That's kind of where I found my love for

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: music.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I was never in the church band, never in

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: the church choir, I just merely had a love

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: for singing in the church pews and that's

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: kind of where I found my love of.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: That's how I really connected with my faith

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: and then it started to sprinkle into other

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: things in my life that I found, whether it

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: was Christian music or rock and roll.

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: I really found that music allowed me to

 

 

 

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Warren Zeiders: feel a lot of things and that's how I

 

 

 

356

 

00:12:29,277 --> 00:12:30,240

 

Warren Zeiders: connected with a lot of things.

 

 

 

357

 

00:12:30,622 --> 00:12:33,240

 

Warren Zeiders: So my entire life I was an athlete.

 

 

 

358

 

00:12:33,806 --> 00:12:35,179

 

Warren Zeiders: So I played lacrosse for 12 years.

 

 

 

359

 

00:12:36,023 --> 00:12:39,643

 

Warren Zeiders: I ended up going to college to play, but

 

 

 

360

 

00:12:39,683 --> 00:12:41,587

 

Warren Zeiders: before that I picked up a guitar in sixth

 

 

 

361

 

00:12:41,627 --> 00:12:44,293

 

Warren Zeiders: grade and it was something that I just kind

 

 

 

362

 

00:12:44,374 --> 00:12:46,458

 

Warren Zeiders: of, you know I was like this could be cool

 

 

 

363

 

00:12:46,478 --> 00:12:49,588

 

Warren Zeiders: to pick up and in the joy I like music and

 

 

 

364

 

00:12:50,049 --> 00:12:52,156

 

Warren Zeiders: you know, guitar is the instrument that the

 

 

 

365

 

00:12:52,217 --> 00:12:53,240

 

Warren Zeiders: ladies seem to like the most.

 

 

 

366

 

00:12:53,461 --> 00:12:54,871

 

Warren Zeiders: If you can sing, a, play guitar, the ladies

 

 

 

367

 

00:12:54,911 --> 00:12:56,200

 

Warren Zeiders: are normally interested.

 

 

 

368

 

00:12:56,460 --> 00:13:00,670

 

Warren Zeiders: So so I went to guitar player route and it

 

 

 

369

 

00:13:00,690 --> 00:13:03,801

 

Warren Zeiders: was something I did on the side, learned

 

 

 

370

 

00:13:04,864 --> 00:13:06,808

 

Warren Zeiders: how to play through YouTube and stuff when

 

 

 

371

 

00:13:06,848 --> 00:13:08,712

 

Warren Zeiders: I had a chance, because I played lacrosse

 

 

 

372

 

00:13:08,832 --> 00:13:11,977

 

Warren Zeiders: all year round and I was fully committed to

 

 

 

373

 

00:13:11,998 --> 00:13:12,200

 

Warren Zeiders: my sports.

 

 

 

374

 

00:13:14,551 --> 00:13:17,573

 

Warren Zeiders: Fast forward my freshman year college, I

 

 

 

375

 

00:13:17,593 --> 00:13:18,179

 

Warren Zeiders: had two concussions.

 

 

 

376

 

00:13:20,486 --> 00:13:23,333

 

Warren Zeiders: So I had some really some thinking to do

 

 

 

377

 

00:13:23,373 --> 00:13:24,977

 

Warren Zeiders: because I ended up being my seventh total

 

 

 

378

 

00:13:25,197 --> 00:13:26,059

 

Warren Zeiders: over the span of 12 years.

 

 

 

379

 

00:13:28,612 --> 00:13:29,938

 

Warren Zeiders: So I had some like you've had seven

 

 

 

380

 

00:13:29,959 --> 00:13:30,220

 

Warren Zeiders: concussions.

 

 

 

381

 

00:13:30,763 --> 00:13:32,793

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, not all major, but you've just been

 

 

 

382

 

00:13:32,833 --> 00:13:34,059

 

Marc Preston: born to make your mother worry.

 

 

 

383

 

00:13:34,079 --> 00:13:36,777

 

Marc Preston: Oh, yeah, oh yeah for sure.

 

 

 

384

 

00:13:37,381 --> 00:13:40,657

 

Warren Zeiders: But yeah, I've been, I've been a little bit

 

 

 

385

 

00:13:40,677 --> 00:13:41,200

 

Warren Zeiders: more into the music.

 

 

 

386

 

00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:41,581

 

Warren Zeiders: I've been.

 

 

 

387

 

00:13:41,782 --> 00:13:43,762

 

Warren Zeiders: I've been beaten, I've been bruised pretty

 

 

 

388

 

00:13:43,802 --> 00:13:44,907

 

Warren Zeiders: good from playing lacrosse.

 

 

 

389

 

00:13:46,764 --> 00:13:48,750

 

Warren Zeiders: But you know, everything happens for a

 

 

 

390

 

00:13:48,790 --> 00:13:49,011

 

Warren Zeiders: reason.

 

 

 

391

 

00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:49,721

 

Warren Zeiders: I believe in it.

 

 

 

392

 

00:13:57,334 --> 00:14:02,681

 

Warren Zeiders: So, fast forward, covid comes around and I

 

 

 

393

 

00:14:02,701 --> 00:14:05,906

 

Warren Zeiders: had just given up something that I pretty

 

 

 

394

 

00:14:05,946 --> 00:14:07,174

 

Warren Zeiders: much identified with.

 

 

 

395

 

00:14:07,530 --> 00:14:09,595

 

Warren Zeiders: I did it for so long that it became a part

 

 

 

396

 

00:14:09,615 --> 00:14:14,755

 

Warren Zeiders: of myself and I was kind of like, okay, so

 

 

 

397

 

00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:16,259

 

Warren Zeiders: what's the next step for me in life?

 

 

 

398

 

00:14:17,870 --> 00:14:20,316

 

Warren Zeiders: And COVID comes and we all like we can't do

 

 

 

399

 

00:14:20,336 --> 00:14:21,620

 

Warren Zeiders: it, we can't do anything, we can't go

 

 

 

400

 

00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:22,001

 

Warren Zeiders: anywhere.

 

 

 

401

 

00:14:22,450 --> 00:14:27,222

 

Warren Zeiders: So I started to go back to the guitar and

 

 

 

402

 

00:14:27,283 --> 00:14:29,809

 

Warren Zeiders: singing, which I was always doing, just

 

 

 

403

 

00:14:29,929 --> 00:14:33,018

 

Warren Zeiders: never, like never really putting myself out

 

 

 

404

 

00:14:33,058 --> 00:14:35,093

 

Warren Zeiders: there, and I just was.

 

 

 

405

 

00:14:35,234 --> 00:14:36,642

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, one day I was like you know what,

 

 

 

406

 

00:14:37,105 --> 00:14:38,672

 

Warren Zeiders: maybe I'll start throwing some stuff up on,

 

 

 

407

 

00:14:38,832 --> 00:14:41,258

 

Warren Zeiders: you know, instagram, tiktok and YouTube

 

 

 

408

 

00:14:41,298 --> 00:14:43,931

 

Warren Zeiders: just for fun, just to, you know, kind of do

 

 

 

409

 

00:14:43,991 --> 00:14:45,697

 

Warren Zeiders: something, kind of connect with people.

 

 

 

410

 

00:14:46,770 --> 00:14:50,318

 

Warren Zeiders: So I did that, and little did I know that

 

 

 

411

 

00:14:50,378 --> 00:14:52,021

 

Warren Zeiders: it would lead to this.

 

 

 

412

 

00:14:52,082 --> 00:14:54,375

 

Marc Preston: A year later, Let me, let me think on the

 

 

 

413

 

00:14:54,415 --> 00:14:56,711

 

Marc Preston: top of your right there, the fact you said

 

 

 

414

 

00:14:56,812 --> 00:15:00,560

 

Marc Preston: a year later that that it's a trip, because

 

 

 

415

 

00:15:00,580 --> 00:15:02,304

 

Marc Preston: I'm going to go back to my radio days, man,

 

 

 

416

 

00:15:02,370 --> 00:15:04,616

 

Marc Preston: I remember when people the hustle man going

 

 

 

417

 

00:15:04,676 --> 00:15:06,501

 

Marc Preston: radio station, radio station, radio station,

 

 

 

418

 

00:15:06,810 --> 00:15:09,658

 

Marc Preston: the artists who were trying to get airplay,

 

 

 

419

 

00:15:09,778 --> 00:15:10,982

 

Marc Preston: and it could be a beat down.

 

 

 

420

 

00:15:11,130 --> 00:15:11,973

 

Marc Preston: You don't know what city you're in

 

 

 

421

 

00:15:12,053 --> 00:15:15,054

 

Marc Preston: sometimes, and this is going on for a long

 

 

 

422

 

00:15:15,115 --> 00:15:16,218

 

Marc Preston: time, but you're saying a year.

 

 

 

423

 

00:15:17,090 --> 00:15:18,915

 

Marc Preston: I think this is a good example of like

 

 

 

424

 

00:15:18,975 --> 00:15:21,441

 

Marc Preston: cream can rise to the top, and this era was

 

 

 

425

 

00:15:21,461 --> 00:15:23,436

 

Marc Preston: social media in a way that it never has

 

 

 

426

 

00:15:23,496 --> 00:15:24,792

 

Marc Preston: been able to before, and I think that's

 

 

 

427

 

00:15:24,932 --> 00:15:25,394

 

Marc Preston: very cool.

 

 

 

428

 

00:15:25,890 --> 00:15:26,712

 

Marc Preston: And I'm not just saying that because of

 

 

 

429

 

00:15:26,732 --> 00:15:28,417

 

Marc Preston: you're with me, of course, right now.

 

 

 

430

 

00:15:28,557 --> 00:15:32,637

 

Marc Preston: But listening to your album, everything,

 

 

 

431

 

00:15:32,678 --> 00:15:34,311

 

Marc Preston: man, everything I'm going through I'm like

 

 

 

432

 

00:15:34,331 --> 00:15:36,211

 

Marc Preston: man, it's got a little different vibe, it's

 

 

 

433

 

00:15:36,232 --> 00:15:37,146

 

Marc Preston: got a little different story.

 

 

 

434

 

00:15:37,551 --> 00:15:40,363

 

Marc Preston: It's rare that I listen to an artist and go,

 

 

 

435

 

00:15:40,403 --> 00:15:42,050

 

Marc Preston: wow, okay, I want to know what else they're

 

 

 

436

 

00:15:42,110 --> 00:15:43,033

 

Marc Preston: up to.

 

 

 

437

 

00:15:43,053 --> 00:15:45,220

 

Marc Preston: You know, was your family musical at all?

 

 

 

438

 

00:15:45,891 --> 00:15:47,456

 

Marc Preston: What's your, what's your, what are your

 

 

 

439

 

00:15:47,476 --> 00:15:48,940

 

Marc Preston: people's background as far as you know,

 

 

 

440

 

00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:50,433

 

Marc Preston: their vote, your parents' vocation, and

 

 

 

441

 

00:15:50,533 --> 00:15:51,135

 

Marc Preston: stuff like that.

 

 

 

442

 

00:15:53,510 --> 00:15:55,657

 

Warren Zeiders: No musical background whatsoever.

 

 

 

443

 

00:15:55,697 --> 00:16:00,400

 

Warren Zeiders: My friend, I think that no one was ever

 

 

 

444

 

00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:01,142

 

Warren Zeiders: really a singer.

 

 

 

445

 

00:16:01,550 --> 00:16:04,856

 

Warren Zeiders: My dad could carry a semi tune, I guess,

 

 

 

446

 

00:16:05,117 --> 00:16:07,742

 

Warren Zeiders: singing in church, but there was no one

 

 

 

447

 

00:16:07,822 --> 00:16:09,652

 

Warren Zeiders: ever who played instruments.

 

 

 

448

 

00:16:10,374 --> 00:16:12,640

 

Warren Zeiders: No grandparents, actually.

 

 

 

449

 

00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:13,262

 

Warren Zeiders: No, that's a lie.

 

 

 

450

 

00:16:13,350 --> 00:16:15,998

 

Warren Zeiders: My grandfather played bass guitar, but no

 

 

 

451

 

00:16:16,078 --> 00:16:16,660

 

Warren Zeiders: one was ever.

 

 

 

452

 

00:16:17,803 --> 00:16:20,531

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, no one was ever pushing music

 

 

 

453

 

00:16:20,651 --> 00:16:24,040

 

Warren Zeiders: onto me in the sense of oh hey, you know I

 

 

 

454

 

00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:24,642

 

Warren Zeiders: played guitar.

 

 

 

455

 

00:16:24,810 --> 00:16:26,416

 

Warren Zeiders: I did this, like you know, you want to try

 

 

 

456

 

00:16:26,437 --> 00:16:26,718

 

Warren Zeiders: it out.

 

 

 

457

 

00:16:26,890 --> 00:16:28,294

 

Warren Zeiders: It was just kind of something that I found

 

 

 

458

 

00:16:28,815 --> 00:16:32,934

 

Warren Zeiders: on my own and you know I believe it.

 

 

 

459

 

00:16:33,135 --> 00:16:33,918

 

Warren Zeiders: Good Lord, how to plan?

 

 

 

460

 

00:16:34,571 --> 00:16:36,857

 

Warren Zeiders: And here we are today.

 

 

 

461

 

00:16:37,177 --> 00:16:37,699

 

Warren Zeiders: It's crazy.

 

 

 

462

 

00:16:38,340 --> 00:16:38,902

 

Marc Preston: It really is.

 

 

 

463

 

00:16:39,410 --> 00:16:40,714

 

Marc Preston: What kind of work did your, what kind of

 

 

 

464

 

00:16:40,734 --> 00:16:41,376

 

Marc Preston: work did your dad do?

 

 

 

465

 

00:16:41,397 --> 00:16:42,179

 

Marc Preston: What did your folks?

 

 

 

466

 

00:16:42,219 --> 00:16:42,850

 

Warren Zeiders: do so.

 

 

 

467

 

00:16:43,011 --> 00:16:45,619

 

Warren Zeiders: Actually, I grew up in the business world,

 

 

 

468

 

00:16:46,170 --> 00:16:49,079

 

Warren Zeiders: so my parents had two restaurants as I was

 

 

 

469

 

00:16:49,119 --> 00:16:50,694

 

Warren Zeiders: growing up, my dad had apartments.

 

 

 

470

 

00:16:51,750 --> 00:16:54,017

 

Warren Zeiders: My dad sold investments my early childhood.

 

 

 

471

 

00:16:54,910 --> 00:16:57,715

 

Warren Zeiders: My mom's a CPA, so she's now a CFO.

 

 

 

472

 

00:16:57,930 --> 00:17:00,996

 

Warren Zeiders: So she works as a CFO now.

 

 

 

473

 

00:17:01,056 --> 00:17:03,461

 

Warren Zeiders: Just recently changed corporations a year

 

 

 

474

 

00:17:03,481 --> 00:17:05,572

 

Warren Zeiders: or two ago, and then now my dad for the

 

 

 

475

 

00:17:05,592 --> 00:17:08,599

 

Warren Zeiders: last 14 years has been running car

 

 

 

476

 

00:17:08,619 --> 00:17:09,141

 

Warren Zeiders: dealerships.

 

 

 

477

 

00:17:10,210 --> 00:17:11,047

 

Warren Zeiders: So oh, really.

 

 

 

478

 

00:17:11,992 --> 00:17:13,256

 

Warren Zeiders: I kind of you and I have that in common.

 

 

 

479

 

00:17:13,276 --> 00:17:14,560

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, my father did the same thing.

 

 

 

480

 

00:17:15,992 --> 00:17:18,437

 

Warren Zeiders: And I kind of I grew up in this world of

 

 

 

481

 

00:17:18,518 --> 00:17:23,910

 

Warren Zeiders: seeing just every single day businesses and

 

 

 

482

 

00:17:23,970 --> 00:17:25,878

 

Warren Zeiders: just kind of learning the lingo and just

 

 

 

483

 

00:17:26,018 --> 00:17:29,010

 

Warren Zeiders: you know all this stuff that you know it's

 

 

 

484

 

00:17:29,171 --> 00:17:31,470

 

Warren Zeiders: not easy running a business, so to speak.

 

 

 

485

 

00:17:31,751 --> 00:17:32,934

 

Warren Zeiders: It's a lot of work and you know being an

 

 

 

486

 

00:17:32,994 --> 00:17:34,116

 

Warren Zeiders: entrepreneur and stuff like that and

 

 

 

487

 

00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:37,253

 

Warren Zeiders: putting yourself out there, but a lot of if

 

 

 

488

 

00:17:37,293 --> 00:17:39,021

 

Warren Zeiders: it wasn't for my parents and you know my

 

 

 

489

 

00:17:39,082 --> 00:17:41,211

 

Warren Zeiders: upbringing and everything that they taught

 

 

 

490

 

00:17:41,251 --> 00:17:42,916

 

Warren Zeiders: me growing up I wouldn't be the man I am

 

 

 

491

 

00:17:42,936 --> 00:17:46,455

 

Warren Zeiders: today, and my grandfather too.

 

 

 

492

 

00:17:46,515 --> 00:17:47,477

 

Warren Zeiders: he was always a huge.

 

 

 

493

 

00:17:48,178 --> 00:17:48,960

 

Warren Zeiders: I have a lot of.

 

 

 

494

 

00:17:49,301 --> 00:17:51,112

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm very fortunate and it's been awesome

 

 

 

495

 

00:17:51,153 --> 00:17:53,744

 

Warren Zeiders: for me to grow up in a world where I've had

 

 

 

496

 

00:17:53,784 --> 00:17:55,752

 

Warren Zeiders: really awesome male role models in my life

 

 

 

497

 

00:17:56,314 --> 00:17:57,659

 

Warren Zeiders: who really supported me and, you know,

 

 

 

498

 

00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,530

 

Warren Zeiders: pushed me forward in this life whether it

 

 

 

499

 

00:18:00,591 --> 00:18:02,557

 

Warren Zeiders: means I had to be a better man and just you

 

 

 

500

 

00:18:02,577 --> 00:18:03,780

 

Warren Zeiders: know in today's world and stuff.

 

 

 

501

 

00:18:04,391 --> 00:18:07,602

 

Warren Zeiders: But my grandfather growing up you know my

 

 

 

502

 

00:18:07,642 --> 00:18:09,890

 

Warren Zeiders: mother and you know my aunts didn't really

 

 

 

503

 

00:18:09,970 --> 00:18:11,932

 

Warren Zeiders: have a lot growing up, but my grandfather

 

 

 

504

 

00:18:11,972 --> 00:18:13,957

 

Warren Zeiders: was constantly on the road working three

 

 

 

505

 

00:18:13,997 --> 00:18:14,438

 

Warren Zeiders: jobs.

 

 

 

506

 

00:18:14,739 --> 00:18:15,642

 

Warren Zeiders: He was going all week.

 

 

 

507

 

00:18:16,171 --> 00:18:17,533

 

Warren Zeiders: He'd be lucky if he got a chance to come

 

 

 

508

 

00:18:17,573 --> 00:18:21,601

 

Warren Zeiders: home on the weekends to, you know, see my

 

 

 

509

 

00:18:21,982 --> 00:18:23,692

 

Warren Zeiders: mother and my aunts and I think that

 

 

 

510

 

00:18:23,772 --> 00:18:26,423

 

Warren Zeiders: hearing those stories and even seeing how

 

 

 

511

 

00:18:26,483 --> 00:18:28,953

 

Warren Zeiders: hard he worked as I was growing up as an

 

 

 

512

 

00:18:29,013 --> 00:18:31,784

 

Warren Zeiders: early child, I was always with him, whether

 

 

 

513

 

00:18:31,804 --> 00:18:33,631

 

Warren Zeiders: we were working in the garage together or

 

 

 

514

 

00:18:33,711 --> 00:18:36,479

 

Warren Zeiders: projects, you know, outside, hunting and

 

 

 

515

 

00:18:36,499 --> 00:18:37,241

 

Warren Zeiders: all this kind of stuff.

 

 

 

516

 

00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:39,719

 

Warren Zeiders: I think that seeing all those things really

 

 

 

517

 

00:18:40,180 --> 00:18:42,850

 

Warren Zeiders: formed me into you know the way I see the

 

 

 

518

 

00:18:42,910 --> 00:18:44,176

 

Warren Zeiders: world and everything today.

 

 

 

519

 

00:18:44,571 --> 00:18:46,135

 

Marc Preston: You know I did notice, speaking to your

 

 

 

520

 

00:18:46,155 --> 00:18:47,559

 

Marc Preston: grandfather I had such a wonderful

 

 

 

521

 

00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,273

 

Marc Preston: relationship with mine as well it sounds

 

 

 

522

 

00:18:50,294 --> 00:18:52,122

 

Marc Preston: like you're really a spot on young man when

 

 

 

523

 

00:18:52,142 --> 00:18:53,568

 

Marc Preston: it comes to you know 22,.

 

 

 

524

 

00:18:53,629 --> 00:18:56,310

 

Marc Preston: I'm saying young man, I'm not that old, you

 

 

 

525

 

00:18:56,330 --> 00:18:56,531

 

Marc Preston: know.

 

 

 

526

 

00:18:56,732 --> 00:18:59,423

 

Marc Preston: I realized that kind of in the moment, kind

 

 

 

527

 

00:18:59,444 --> 00:18:59,986

 

Marc Preston: of like you did.

 

 

 

528

 

00:19:00,046 --> 00:19:02,033

 

Marc Preston: It's important to soak that up, like right

 

 

 

529

 

00:19:02,073 --> 00:19:04,941

 

Marc Preston: now, because you miss it when you don't

 

 

 

530

 

00:19:04,981 --> 00:19:05,281

 

Marc Preston: have it.

 

 

 

531

 

00:19:05,490 --> 00:19:07,114

 

Marc Preston: So it's great that you've got those

 

 

 

532

 

00:19:07,174 --> 00:19:09,800

 

Marc Preston: inspirations of people around you and it's

 

 

 

533

 

00:19:09,820 --> 00:19:11,091

 

Marc Preston: showing up in your music and I think that's

 

 

 

534

 

00:19:11,131 --> 00:19:12,435

 

Marc Preston: the beauty of country.

 

 

 

535

 

00:19:13,898 --> 00:19:15,652

 

Marc Preston: When it comes to lyrics, you really can

 

 

 

536

 

00:19:15,692 --> 00:19:16,656

 

Marc Preston: pull from your own life.

 

 

 

537

 

00:19:16,910 --> 00:19:18,249

 

Marc Preston: 717 tapes, man.

 

 

 

538

 

00:19:18,651 --> 00:19:19,935

 

Marc Preston: I don't know if I've actually I think I've

 

 

 

539

 

00:19:19,955 --> 00:19:21,199

 

Marc Preston: gone through the whole album.

 

 

 

540

 

00:19:22,010 --> 00:19:23,235

 

Marc Preston: Do you have anything new coming out?

 

 

 

541

 

00:19:23,450 --> 00:19:24,493

 

Marc Preston: Because you know, now you got, now you got

 

 

 

542

 

00:19:24,533 --> 00:19:25,676

 

Marc Preston: me, now you got me hungry man.

 

 

 

543

 

00:19:25,717 --> 00:19:26,439

 

Marc Preston: What's coming up soon?

 

 

 

544

 

00:19:27,330 --> 00:19:28,554

 

Warren Zeiders: So I just I don't know if you saw it, but I

 

 

 

545

 

00:19:28,574 --> 00:19:31,161

 

Warren Zeiders: just had this 717 tapes volume to drop last

 

 

 

546

 

00:19:31,250 --> 00:19:35,178

 

Warren Zeiders: week, so I have a volume two out now with a

 

 

 

547

 

00:19:35,258 --> 00:19:38,790

 

Warren Zeiders: new with one of my favorite songs that I've

 

 

 

548

 

00:19:38,810 --> 00:19:39,553

 

Warren Zeiders: put out so far.

 

 

 

549

 

00:19:40,370 --> 00:19:42,892

 

Warren Zeiders: It's called Wild Horse and that song's been.

 

 

 

550

 

00:19:43,113 --> 00:19:44,477

 

Warren Zeiders: It's been really cool to see how my fans

 

 

 

551

 

00:19:44,497 --> 00:19:45,580

 

Warren Zeiders: have connected with that song.

 

 

 

552

 

00:19:46,410 --> 00:19:48,557

 

Marc Preston: So you started playing and putting stuff on

 

 

 

553

 

00:19:48,597 --> 00:19:51,516

 

Marc Preston: TikTok and where were the people that were

 

 

 

554

 

00:19:51,556 --> 00:19:52,459

 

Marc Preston: starting to follow you?

 

 

 

555

 

00:19:52,930 --> 00:19:54,892

 

Marc Preston: Did you notice any trends Like, where were

 

 

 

556

 

00:19:54,932 --> 00:19:56,677

 

Marc Preston: people coming from that started, that

 

 

 

557

 

00:19:56,717 --> 00:19:57,680

 

Marc Preston: started adding up to?

 

 

 

558

 

00:19:57,700 --> 00:19:59,393

 

Marc Preston: They were just like over a million people

 

 

 

559

 

00:19:59,433 --> 00:20:00,155

 

Marc Preston: or something like that.

 

 

 

560

 

00:20:00,196 --> 00:20:00,697

 

Marc Preston: Am I correct?

 

 

 

561

 

00:20:00,898 --> 00:20:02,001

 

Marc Preston: That's just like so heady.

 

 

 

562

 

00:20:02,210 --> 00:20:03,519

 

Marc Preston: I can't get my head around the fact that

 

 

 

563

 

00:20:03,559 --> 00:20:04,948

 

Marc Preston: you know if I'm doing anything with my

 

 

 

564

 

00:20:05,029 --> 00:20:06,194

 

Marc Preston: phone that a million people see.

 

 

 

565

 

00:20:06,415 --> 00:20:09,208

 

Marc Preston: You know what was the on ramp for people to

 

 

 

566

 

00:20:09,248 --> 00:20:12,600

 

Marc Preston: kind of get to really start getting into

 

 

 

567

 

00:20:12,661 --> 00:20:12,741

 

Marc Preston: you?

 

 

 

568

 

00:20:13,230 --> 00:20:14,785

 

Marc Preston: Or did you notice that whenever a new song

 

 

 

569

 

00:20:14,825 --> 00:20:15,148

 

Marc Preston: came out?

 

 

 

570

 

00:20:16,211 --> 00:20:16,973

 

Warren Zeiders: The on-ramp.

 

 

 

571

 

00:20:17,654 --> 00:20:20,758

 

Warren Zeiders: The short version of it is I was posting

 

 

 

572

 

00:20:20,819 --> 00:20:24,464

 

Warren Zeiders: covers on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube

 

 

 

573

 

00:20:24,544 --> 00:20:28,720

 

Warren Zeiders: and stuff, and they were only 15, 30-second

 

 

 

574

 

00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:29,221

 

Warren Zeiders: snippets.

 

 

 

575

 

00:20:29,410 --> 00:20:33,418

 

Warren Zeiders: And again, I was just doing it for fun in

 

 

 

576

 

00:20:33,458 --> 00:20:36,564

 

Warren Zeiders: my back half of my junior year of college

 

 

 

577

 

00:20:37,171 --> 00:20:39,496

 

Warren Zeiders: and then leading into my summer I mean

 

 

 

578

 

00:20:39,516 --> 00:20:41,581

 

Warren Zeiders: leading into my summer and then my senior

 

 

 

579

 

00:20:41,621 --> 00:20:42,913

 

Warren Zeiders: year of college, figuring out what I want

 

 

 

580

 

00:20:42,953 --> 00:20:47,096

 

Warren Zeiders: to do with my life and I was just posting

 

 

 

581

 

00:20:47,116 --> 00:20:48,559

 

Warren Zeiders: covers of stuff that I was learning and

 

 

 

582

 

00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:50,623

 

Warren Zeiders: stuff that I was listening to and really

 

 

 

583

 

00:20:50,683 --> 00:20:51,384

 

Warren Zeiders: resonating with.

 

 

 

584

 

00:20:53,014 --> 00:20:55,881

 

Warren Zeiders: It wasn't until my fans, my followers,

 

 

 

585

 

00:20:57,124 --> 00:20:59,811

 

Warren Zeiders: turned into fans and they were like, hey,

 

 

 

586

 

00:20:59,911 --> 00:21:01,997

 

Warren Zeiders: this is cool and all, but we don't just

 

 

 

587

 

00:21:02,077 --> 00:21:05,495

 

Warren Zeiders: want 15, 30-second snippets, we want full

 

 

 

588

 

00:21:05,555 --> 00:21:07,534

 

Warren Zeiders: versions of your covers, we want original

 

 

 

589

 

00:21:07,574 --> 00:21:07,915

 

Warren Zeiders: music.

 

 

 

590

 

00:21:08,313 --> 00:21:08,759

 

Warren Zeiders: I mean, were they?

 

 

 

591

 

00:21:08,779 --> 00:21:09,590

 

Marc Preston: saying that to you?

 

 

 

592

 

00:21:10,071 --> 00:21:11,696

 

Marc Preston: I mean, were they sending you notes and

 

 

 

593

 

00:21:11,756 --> 00:21:13,220

 

Marc Preston: saying we want more?

 

 

 

594

 

00:21:13,761 --> 00:21:14,122

 

Marc Preston: Oh, okay.

 

 

 

595

 

00:21:14,230 --> 00:21:15,695

 

Marc Preston: So they were really interactive with you

 

 

 

596

 

00:21:15,715 --> 00:21:16,558

 

Marc Preston: and telling you what they wanted.

 

 

 

597

 

00:21:16,578 --> 00:21:17,240

 

Marc Preston: To hear, right?

 

 

 

598

 

00:21:17,771 --> 00:21:17,871

 

Marc Preston: The?

 

 

 

599

 

00:21:17,911 --> 00:21:20,014

 

Warren Zeiders: biggest thing I could say right now that

 

 

 

600

 

00:21:20,335 --> 00:21:22,739

 

Warren Zeiders: any artist should take away, and it's so

 

 

 

601

 

00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:23,160

 

Warren Zeiders: simple.

 

 

 

602

 

00:21:24,803 --> 00:21:25,844

 

Warren Zeiders: Listen to your fan base.

 

 

 

603

 

00:21:26,391 --> 00:21:27,374

 

Warren Zeiders: It's as clear as day.

 

 

 

604

 

00:21:28,017 --> 00:21:29,631

 

Warren Zeiders: More than ever, Listen to what they have to

 

 

 

605

 

00:21:29,672 --> 00:21:34,278

 

Warren Zeiders: say, because my fans really guided me on

 

 

 

606

 

00:21:34,318 --> 00:21:38,004

 

Warren Zeiders: this last year of I'll call it a journey

 

 

 

607

 

00:21:38,024 --> 00:21:40,755

 

Warren Zeiders: because it has been one, and you know, I

 

 

 

608

 

00:21:40,835 --> 00:21:42,239

 

Warren Zeiders: listened to what they wanted from me.

 

 

 

609

 

00:21:42,910 --> 00:21:44,556

 

Warren Zeiders: So when they were like, hey, we want this,

 

 

 

610

 

00:21:45,371 --> 00:21:48,271

 

Warren Zeiders: so I went ahead, I started.

 

 

 

611

 

00:21:48,993 --> 00:21:51,257

 

Warren Zeiders: I went to Guitar Center one night, grabbed

 

 

 

612

 

00:21:51,277 --> 00:21:52,078

 

Warren Zeiders: two microphones.

 

 

 

613

 

00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,763

 

Warren Zeiders: An interface had no idea what I was doing.

 

 

 

614

 

00:21:55,391 --> 00:21:56,395

 

Warren Zeiders: I plugged them in.

 

 

 

615

 

00:21:57,111 --> 00:21:59,355

 

Warren Zeiders: I was putting pillows and towels around in

 

 

 

616

 

00:21:59,395 --> 00:22:05,111

 

Warren Zeiders: my room and soundproofing the room and I

 

 

 

617

 

00:22:05,171 --> 00:22:08,698

 

Warren Zeiders: did my whole acoustic cover album in my

 

 

 

618

 

00:22:08,738 --> 00:22:10,481

 

Warren Zeiders: bedroom and they were all one takes.

 

 

 

619

 

00:22:10,902 --> 00:22:12,973

 

Warren Zeiders: No editing, nothing, it was just me singing

 

 

 

620

 

00:22:12,993 --> 00:22:13,596

 

Warren Zeiders: with playing guitar.

 

 

 

621

 

00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:15,656

 

Marc Preston: No, are you serious?

 

 

 

622

 

00:22:16,238 --> 00:22:18,013

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, with that setup.

 

 

 

623

 

00:22:18,273 --> 00:22:21,179

 

Marc Preston: Man, I was going to ask you, for somebody

 

 

 

624

 

00:22:21,199 --> 00:22:22,402

 

Marc Preston: has a recording studio here.

 

 

 

625

 

00:22:23,230 --> 00:22:23,531

 

Marc Preston: I was.

 

 

 

626

 

00:22:23,752 --> 00:22:24,777

 

Marc Preston: That actually was a question.

 

 

 

627

 

00:22:24,850 --> 00:22:26,337

 

Marc Preston: I was curious about the gear setup.

 

 

 

628

 

00:22:26,390 --> 00:22:27,515

 

Marc Preston: You know what was your, what was your

 

 

 

629

 

00:22:27,555 --> 00:22:27,856

 

Marc Preston: choice?

 

 

 

630

 

00:22:28,010 --> 00:22:29,895

 

Marc Preston: You know, just out of curiosity there are a

 

 

 

631

 

00:22:30,155 --> 00:22:31,538

 

Marc Preston: good handful of people listen to my show

 

 

 

632

 

00:22:31,558 --> 00:22:32,581

 

Marc Preston: that are a little bit of gear heads.

 

 

 

633

 

00:22:33,671 --> 00:22:36,015

 

Marc Preston: Mike, the interface, what did you

 

 

 

634

 

00:22:36,055 --> 00:22:38,160

 

Marc Preston: originally start with and what are you

 

 

 

635

 

00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,603

 

Marc Preston: using now for your home setup?

 

 

 

636

 

00:22:40,290 --> 00:22:41,772

 

Warren Zeiders: So I had.

 

 

 

637

 

00:22:42,793 --> 00:22:46,018

 

Warren Zeiders: I was again too for a guy who was in

 

 

 

638

 

00:22:46,058 --> 00:22:48,541

 

Warren Zeiders: college and was trying to figure out what

 

 

 

639

 

00:22:48,561 --> 00:22:49,743

 

Warren Zeiders: he was going to be doing with his life

 

 

 

640

 

00:22:50,103 --> 00:22:51,205

 

Warren Zeiders: after he graduated.

 

 

 

641

 

00:22:52,370 --> 00:22:53,693

 

Warren Zeiders: I didn't really have again.

 

 

 

642

 

00:22:53,713 --> 00:22:56,619

 

Warren Zeiders: I didn't have the knowledge of what

 

 

 

643

 

00:22:56,820 --> 00:22:58,563

 

Warren Zeiders: equipment to buy, what gear to use.

 

 

 

644

 

00:22:58,810 --> 00:23:02,460

 

Warren Zeiders: I just kind of looked up some stuff and was

 

 

 

645

 

00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:03,242

 

Warren Zeiders: like, okay, cool.

 

 

 

646

 

00:23:03,450 --> 00:23:05,996

 

Warren Zeiders: So I went to Guitar Center and the dude

 

 

 

647

 

00:23:06,036 --> 00:23:09,191

 

Warren Zeiders: there was like hey, sm7b, this is some,

 

 

 

648

 

00:23:09,352 --> 00:23:10,595

 

Warren Zeiders: this is some of the people like to use.

 

 

 

649

 

00:23:11,096 --> 00:23:11,818

 

Warren Zeiders: You want to try it out?

 

 

 

650

 

00:23:11,838 --> 00:23:12,479

 

Warren Zeiders: I was like cool.

 

 

 

651

 

00:23:12,981 --> 00:23:13,682

 

Warren Zeiders: So I got that.

 

 

 

652

 

00:23:14,051 --> 00:23:15,550

 

Warren Zeiders: I don't know what the other Mike was, it

 

 

 

653

 

00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:18,878

 

Warren Zeiders: was another SM, it was another Sure Mike

 

 

 

654

 

00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,594

 

Warren Zeiders: that I used to mic my guitar and then I

 

 

 

655

 

00:23:22,654 --> 00:23:23,437

 

Warren Zeiders: used the focus right.

 

 

 

656

 

00:23:23,951 --> 00:23:28,335

 

Warren Zeiders: So that's what I did and I had two mics.

 

 

 

657

 

00:23:29,218 --> 00:23:29,720

 

Warren Zeiders: That was it.

 

 

 

658

 

00:23:29,890 --> 00:23:33,139

 

Warren Zeiders: I used Ableton Live Press Record and it was

 

 

 

659

 

00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:33,620

 

Warren Zeiders: all.

 

 

 

660

 

00:23:33,740 --> 00:23:35,273

 

Warren Zeiders: One takes, no editing.

 

 

 

661

 

00:23:35,534 --> 00:23:39,185

 

Warren Zeiders: I didn't know how to do clips or do a sing

 

 

 

662

 

00:23:39,225 --> 00:23:40,750

 

Warren Zeiders: this verse numerous times.

 

 

 

663

 

00:23:40,910 --> 00:23:43,199

 

Warren Zeiders: It was all unedited, just super raw.

 

 

 

664

 

00:23:43,350 --> 00:23:44,735

 

Marc Preston: There's so many people, I'm sure, listening

 

 

 

665

 

00:23:44,755 --> 00:23:47,515

 

Marc Preston: going damn you, you know, because you know

 

 

 

666

 

00:23:47,535 --> 00:23:49,260

 

Marc Preston: you're not picking up the most expensive

 

 

 

667

 

00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:49,621

 

Marc Preston: stuff.

 

 

 

668

 

00:23:50,252 --> 00:23:51,370

 

Marc Preston: It's very democratized.

 

 

 

669

 

00:23:51,410 --> 00:23:52,984

 

Marc Preston: You pick up the gear, just what you needed

 

 

 

670

 

00:23:53,025 --> 00:23:53,570

 

Marc Preston: to make it happen.

 

 

 

671

 

00:23:53,650 --> 00:23:55,236

 

Marc Preston: Now the question is what have you done as

 

 

 

672

 

00:23:55,296 --> 00:23:56,219

 

Marc Preston: far as upgrades?

 

 

 

673

 

00:23:56,299 --> 00:23:58,041

 

Marc Preston: Now, something tells me you've kind of

 

 

 

674

 

00:23:58,082 --> 00:23:59,190

 

Marc Preston: upgraded your setup a little bit.

 

 

 

675

 

00:23:59,270 --> 00:24:00,094

 

Marc Preston: What are you using now?

 

 

 

676

 

00:24:00,510 --> 00:24:04,921

 

Warren Zeiders: So now I don't really have a home studio.

 

 

 

677

 

00:24:05,081 --> 00:24:08,898

 

Warren Zeiders: Now I'm normally spending time with

 

 

 

678

 

00:24:08,958 --> 00:24:11,052

 

Warren Zeiders: producers and stuff like that, and whether

 

 

 

679

 

00:24:11,132 --> 00:24:13,398

 

Warren Zeiders: it's in a studio or it's in their home

 

 

 

680

 

00:24:13,438 --> 00:24:16,755

 

Warren Zeiders: studio, I still have the same setup I have

 

 

 

681

 

00:24:17,477 --> 00:24:21,035

 

Warren Zeiders: at home If I'm doing work tapes or demos

 

 

 

682

 

00:24:21,216 --> 00:24:21,837

 

Warren Zeiders: that I want to do.

 

 

 

683

 

00:24:23,130 --> 00:24:27,760

 

Warren Zeiders: But for me here's another fun story that

 

 

 

684

 

00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,571

 

Warren Zeiders: people might that might want to say damn

 

 

 

685

 

00:24:29,631 --> 00:24:30,552

 

Warren Zeiders: you, Rai.

 

 

 

686

 

00:24:30,572 --> 00:24:34,319

 

Warren Zeiders: The lightning was recorded at a place

 

 

 

687

 

00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,051

 

Warren Zeiders: called sound emporium down in Nashville and

 

 

 

688

 

00:24:38,212 --> 00:24:41,159

 

Warren Zeiders: I think I did three vocal passes and three

 

 

 

689

 

00:24:41,199 --> 00:24:45,116

 

Warren Zeiders: guitar takes and then my manager didn't

 

 

 

690

 

00:24:45,136 --> 00:24:47,942

 

Warren Zeiders: really know what to do because I was still

 

 

 

691

 

00:24:48,002 --> 00:24:50,256

 

Warren Zeiders: super new and I was trying to figure things

 

 

 

692

 

00:24:50,397 --> 00:24:50,497

 

Warren Zeiders: out.

 

 

 

693

 

00:24:50,610 --> 00:24:54,057

 

Warren Zeiders: We used the $10 mastering online and just

 

 

 

694

 

00:24:54,658 --> 00:24:57,990

 

Warren Zeiders: did that and just just shipped it out and

 

 

 

695

 

00:24:58,071 --> 00:25:00,056

 

Warren Zeiders: that song has become what it is today,

 

 

 

696

 

00:25:00,096 --> 00:25:02,894

 

Warren Zeiders: which is that makes me chuckle because good.

 

 

 

697

 

00:25:02,914 --> 00:25:03,637

 

Marc Preston: Lord's got a plan.

 

 

 

698

 

00:25:03,910 --> 00:25:05,495

 

Marc Preston: Now the other question I got for you let's

 

 

 

699

 

00:25:05,535 --> 00:25:06,619

 

Marc Preston: go back, because you didn't mention

 

 

 

700

 

00:25:06,679 --> 00:25:06,980

 

Marc Preston: something.

 

 

 

701

 

00:25:07,370 --> 00:25:08,555

 

Marc Preston: I'm not going to let you get away with it,

 

 

 

702

 

00:25:08,930 --> 00:25:10,557

 

Marc Preston: but you said that the girls like the guitar.

 

 

 

703

 

00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:16,800

 

Marc Preston: Now, how much of a trip is it that you're

 

 

 

704

 

00:25:16,820 --> 00:25:19,491

 

Marc Preston: doing this now and you're on a stage and

 

 

 

705

 

00:25:19,511 --> 00:25:20,956

 

Marc Preston: you got a lot of people is loving on you

 

 

 

706

 

00:25:20,976 --> 00:25:22,260

 

Marc Preston: that they've been seeing you online.

 

 

 

707

 

00:25:22,310 --> 00:25:24,858

 

Marc Preston: Now it's it's how many pinch you got to

 

 

 

708

 

00:25:24,918 --> 00:25:26,272

 

Marc Preston: pinch yourself moments, or are you going

 

 

 

709

 

00:25:26,292 --> 00:25:27,256

 

Marc Preston: through on a daily basis?

 

 

 

710

 

00:25:28,551 --> 00:25:31,617

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, you know what's funny is I did

 

 

 

711

 

00:25:31,657 --> 00:25:34,622

 

Warren Zeiders: this, picked up a guitar in sixth grade for

 

 

 

712

 

00:25:34,642 --> 00:25:39,198

 

Warren Zeiders: the ladies, but 70% of my demographics is

 

 

 

713

 

00:25:39,258 --> 00:25:40,500

 

Warren Zeiders: male listening to my music.

 

 

 

714

 

00:25:41,830 --> 00:25:43,155

 

Warren Zeiders: So I've really captured the male

 

 

 

715

 

00:25:43,175 --> 00:25:44,914

 

Warren Zeiders: demographic and I think it's all because of

 

 

 

716

 

00:25:44,955 --> 00:25:45,791

 

Warren Zeiders: my mess, I think it's.

 

 

 

717

 

00:25:46,233 --> 00:25:47,858

 

Warren Zeiders: I think a lot of it is the type of music I

 

 

 

718

 

00:25:47,878 --> 00:25:49,431

 

Warren Zeiders: make and you know, I'm going to still make

 

 

 

719

 

00:25:49,692 --> 00:25:51,956

 

Warren Zeiders: the music that I make, but it's.

 

 

 

720

 

00:25:52,117 --> 00:25:53,860

 

Warren Zeiders: It's been funny to see how much it's

 

 

 

721

 

00:25:53,941 --> 00:25:54,702

 

Warren Zeiders: resonated with.

 

 

 

722

 

00:25:55,510 --> 00:25:56,856

 

Warren Zeiders: I like to call it brotherly love.

 

 

 

723

 

00:25:57,651 --> 00:25:59,177

 

Warren Zeiders: You know I got a lot of, a lot of the gents.

 

 

 

724

 

00:25:59,610 --> 00:26:01,074

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, like I said, I picked out notes in

 

 

 

725

 

00:26:01,334 --> 00:26:03,760

 

Marc Preston: your, in your, in your lyrics that make so

 

 

 

726

 

00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,462

 

Marc Preston: much sense.

 

 

 

727

 

00:26:04,750 --> 00:26:06,876

 

Marc Preston: Thing is, it's kind of timeless, timeless

 

 

 

728

 

00:26:06,936 --> 00:26:08,973

 

Marc Preston: themes, you know, relationships, things

 

 

 

729

 

00:26:08,993 --> 00:26:10,670

 

Marc Preston: like that to the people that influence you.

 

 

 

730

 

00:26:10,710 --> 00:26:12,335

 

Marc Preston: And it's like I said, lyrically, man, I

 

 

 

731

 

00:26:12,476 --> 00:26:13,680

 

Marc Preston: love, love, love what you're doing, man,

 

 

 

732

 

00:26:13,770 --> 00:26:16,358

 

Marc Preston: and I'm, and I told my daughter, emma, that

 

 

 

733

 

00:26:16,378 --> 00:26:18,273

 

Marc Preston: I was speaking with you and then, you know,

 

 

 

734

 

00:26:18,374 --> 00:26:20,120

 

Marc Preston: so we immediately put on a song in the car.

 

 

 

735

 

00:26:20,250 --> 00:26:22,156

 

Marc Preston: And then, you know, and yesterday's, when I

 

 

 

736

 

00:26:22,197 --> 00:26:25,287

 

Marc Preston: went through the album and I was like spot

 

 

 

737

 

00:26:25,367 --> 00:26:27,314

 

Marc Preston: on, my friend, spot on, now, I want to know

 

 

 

738

 

00:26:27,374 --> 00:26:29,362

 

Marc Preston: who was influencing you though, musically,

 

 

 

739

 

00:26:29,884 --> 00:26:32,094

 

Marc Preston: country wise and just in general, when you

 

 

 

740

 

00:26:32,114 --> 00:26:33,979

 

Marc Preston: were a kid coming up, what bands or acts

 

 

 

741

 

00:26:34,019 --> 00:26:34,641

 

Marc Preston: were you digging on?

 

 

 

742

 

00:26:35,090 --> 00:26:38,477

 

Warren Zeiders: So you, know from the first ever concert

 

 

 

743

 

00:26:38,577 --> 00:26:41,342

 

Warren Zeiders: that I ever experienced in my life, which

 

 

 

744

 

00:26:41,382 --> 00:26:42,324

 

Warren Zeiders: I'll remember forever.

 

 

 

745

 

00:26:42,710 --> 00:26:46,096

 

Warren Zeiders: I went with my dad and we went to go see

 

 

 

746

 

00:26:46,276 --> 00:26:48,900

 

Warren Zeiders: Jeremy camp, who was someone, Christian

 

 

 

747

 

00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:50,423

 

Warren Zeiders: artists, who I grew up listening to a lot,

 

 

 

748

 

00:26:50,944 --> 00:26:52,854

 

Warren Zeiders: and Toby Mac, so two artists that were

 

 

 

749

 

00:26:52,895 --> 00:26:53,878

 

Warren Zeiders: playing a lot in my house.

 

 

 

750

 

00:26:53,950 --> 00:26:56,116

 

Warren Zeiders: So Christian music was a huge influence for

 

 

 

751

 

00:26:56,156 --> 00:26:56,296

 

Warren Zeiders: me.

 

 

 

752

 

00:26:58,510 --> 00:27:01,376

 

Warren Zeiders: Rock and roll, rock and roll wise.

 

 

 

753

 

00:27:01,717 --> 00:27:03,220

 

Warren Zeiders: As you can probably tell, I do have a lot

 

 

 

754

 

00:27:03,260 --> 00:27:04,522

 

Warren Zeiders: of rock influence in my music.

 

 

 

755

 

00:27:05,190 --> 00:27:06,272

 

Warren Zeiders: I was a huge Motley crew.

 

 

 

756

 

00:27:06,653 --> 00:27:09,019

 

Warren Zeiders: Ac DC, quiet riots, get a row.

 

 

 

757

 

00:27:11,050 --> 00:27:13,339

 

Warren Zeiders: You know I could kiss was one of them.

 

 

 

758

 

00:27:13,530 --> 00:27:14,634

 

Warren Zeiders: I mean, I could go on and on.

 

 

 

759

 

00:27:15,910 --> 00:27:17,136

 

Marc Preston: I loved rock and roll.

 

 

 

760

 

00:27:17,330 --> 00:27:18,775

 

Marc Preston: There's a lot of guys of a certain age,

 

 

 

761

 

00:27:18,895 --> 00:27:20,620

 

Marc Preston: close to my age, like all right, all right.

 

 

 

762

 

00:27:20,770 --> 00:27:22,434

 

Marc Preston: You know guys giving an out of the air of

 

 

 

763

 

00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:24,139

 

Marc Preston: bands and some of the guys who are you know

 

 

 

764

 

00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:25,482

 

Marc Preston: of that era.

 

 

 

765

 

00:27:26,272 --> 00:27:27,716

 

Marc Preston: I can hear some of it too.

 

 

 

766

 

00:27:27,816 --> 00:27:30,695

 

Marc Preston: And what you're doing Now fast forward to

 

 

 

767

 

00:27:30,735 --> 00:27:30,936

 

Marc Preston: now.

 

 

 

768

 

00:27:31,170 --> 00:27:33,176

 

Marc Preston: Who are you listening to is when you got

 

 

 

769

 

00:27:33,196 --> 00:27:34,921

 

Marc Preston: your Spotify playlist locked in.

 

 

 

770

 

00:27:35,090 --> 00:27:36,095

 

Marc Preston: Who do you dig on right now?

 

 

 

771

 

00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:38,874

 

Warren Zeiders: Yeah, and you know I didn't touch on it too,

 

 

 

772

 

00:27:38,914 --> 00:27:40,860

 

Warren Zeiders: but, like Hank Williams Jr and John Denver

 

 

 

773

 

00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,658

 

Warren Zeiders: was a huge one my mom went to West Virginia.

 

 

 

774

 

00:27:43,810 --> 00:27:46,396

 

Warren Zeiders: So I swear to God, I've heard country roads

 

 

 

775

 

00:27:46,817 --> 00:27:48,200

 

Warren Zeiders: over a zillion times.

 

 

 

776

 

00:27:50,190 --> 00:27:53,039

 

Warren Zeiders: So, and you know, cash and all those boys

 

 

 

777

 

00:27:53,691 --> 00:27:54,072

 

Warren Zeiders: I've heard.

 

 

 

778

 

00:27:54,734 --> 00:27:56,831

 

Warren Zeiders: I just have so many influences and, but,

 

 

 

779

 

00:27:57,111 --> 00:28:01,419

 

Warren Zeiders: honestly, a lot of modern day influence to

 

 

 

780

 

00:28:01,459 --> 00:28:02,961

 

Warren Zeiders: tip my hat to the people, like you said,

 

 

 

781

 

00:28:02,982 --> 00:28:03,963

 

Warren Zeiders: who are in my playlists.

 

 

 

782

 

00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:06,176

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm a huge Morgan Wallen fan.

 

 

 

783

 

00:28:06,690 --> 00:28:08,056

 

Warren Zeiders: I love what he's done with the show.

 

 

 

784

 

00:28:08,310 --> 00:28:09,874

 

Warren Zeiders: I love what he's done with the genre and

 

 

 

785

 

00:28:09,894 --> 00:28:11,978

 

Warren Zeiders: what he does in his own way in his own

 

 

 

786

 

00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:13,782

 

Warren Zeiders: realm of country music.

 

 

 

787

 

00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:16,556

 

Warren Zeiders: Huge, tyler Childers, zach Bryant, co

 

 

 

788

 

00:28:16,596 --> 00:28:19,832

 

Warren Zeiders: Wetzel, parker McCollum you know those

 

 

 

789

 

00:28:19,892 --> 00:28:22,296

 

Warren Zeiders: Texas cats, you know those beat I just

 

 

 

790

 

00:28:22,356 --> 00:28:22,616

 

Warren Zeiders: there's.

 

 

 

791

 

00:28:23,518 --> 00:28:25,981

 

Warren Zeiders: The list goes on and I draw from so many

 

 

 

792

 

00:28:26,122 --> 00:28:28,345

 

Warren Zeiders: aspects to modern day punk rock.

 

 

 

793

 

00:28:28,630 --> 00:28:30,374

 

Warren Zeiders: You know there's some dudes who are coming

 

 

 

794

 

00:28:30,414 --> 00:28:34,642

 

Warren Zeiders: up who I'm a huge, huge fan of as well in

 

 

 

795

 

00:28:34,682 --> 00:28:35,204

 

Warren Zeiders: that scene.

 

 

 

796

 

00:28:35,370 --> 00:28:38,279

 

Warren Zeiders: I, just to put it simply, I'm in country

 

 

 

797

 

00:28:38,339 --> 00:28:41,357

 

Warren Zeiders: music, I love country music, but I love

 

 

 

798

 

00:28:41,417 --> 00:28:42,180

 

Warren Zeiders: music as a whole.

 

 

 

799

 

00:28:42,410 --> 00:28:45,598

 

Marc Preston: I think Morgan Wallen is you mentioned that

 

 

 

800

 

00:28:45,718 --> 00:28:47,061

 

Marc Preston: it's my daughter is going to just jump up

 

 

 

801

 

00:28:47,081 --> 00:28:47,623

 

Marc Preston: and down for joy.

 

 

 

802

 

00:28:47,810 --> 00:28:49,156

 

Marc Preston: Well, she never really jumps up and down

 

 

 

803

 

00:28:49,176 --> 00:28:49,457

 

Marc Preston: for joy.

 

 

 

804

 

00:28:49,530 --> 00:28:50,856

 

Marc Preston: The closest she gets to it is like, hey,

 

 

 

805

 

00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:53,114

 

Marc Preston: cool, you know, now, right now, you're on,

 

 

 

806

 

00:28:53,374 --> 00:28:56,882

 

Marc Preston: you're on tour and I saw that all your 2022

 

 

 

807

 

00:28:56,902 --> 00:28:57,763

 

Marc Preston: dates are sold out.

 

 

 

808

 

00:28:59,066 --> 00:29:00,028

 

Marc Preston: This is your first tour, man.

 

 

 

809

 

00:29:00,048 --> 00:29:00,850

 

Marc Preston: You're only selling it out.

 

 

 

810

 

00:29:00,950 --> 00:29:01,995

 

Marc Preston: That is bonkers man.

 

 

 

811

 

00:29:02,331 --> 00:29:04,784

 

Marc Preston: So what is that like for you now being on

 

 

 

812

 

00:29:04,844 --> 00:29:06,291

 

Marc Preston: tour, where you were in your bedroom, now

 

 

 

813

 

00:29:06,331 --> 00:29:06,512

 

Marc Preston: you?

 

 

 

814

 

00:29:06,813 --> 00:29:08,238

 

Marc Preston: Now you're on a stage of spotlight.

 

 

 

815

 

00:29:08,370 --> 00:29:10,651

 

Marc Preston: You got everything wired up and now you're

 

 

 

816

 

00:29:10,892 --> 00:29:11,052

 

Marc Preston: now?

 

 

 

817

 

00:29:11,092 --> 00:29:12,976

 

Marc Preston: You were a bona fide country performer.

 

 

 

818

 

00:29:13,450 --> 00:29:15,039

 

Marc Preston: How does that feel when you're on stage?

 

 

 

819

 

00:29:15,761 --> 00:29:17,606

 

Warren Zeiders: So you know.

 

 

 

820

 

00:29:17,686 --> 00:29:20,934

 

Warren Zeiders: So the way we set up this first tour that

 

 

 

821

 

00:29:20,974 --> 00:29:23,761

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm doing, we wanted to go play these

 

 

 

822

 

00:29:24,082 --> 00:29:26,828

 

Warren Zeiders: smaller club rooms and we wanted to make

 

 

 

823

 

00:29:26,888 --> 00:29:32,481

 

Warren Zeiders: this a very coming off the screen from what

 

 

 

824

 

00:29:32,541 --> 00:29:35,930

 

Warren Zeiders: I built online to making this really

 

 

 

825

 

00:29:36,591 --> 00:29:39,459

 

Warren Zeiders: personal atmosphere with my fans.

 

 

 

826

 

00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:42,585

 

Warren Zeiders: Whether it's a 300 seat room or whether

 

 

 

827

 

00:29:42,685 --> 00:29:45,991

 

Warren Zeiders: it's a 400, 500, you know, my first show

 

 

 

828

 

00:29:46,151 --> 00:29:47,834

 

Warren Zeiders: was a 700 cap room.

 

 

 

829

 

00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:50,246

 

Warren Zeiders: You know that feeling and I'm actually not

 

 

 

830

 

00:29:50,286 --> 00:29:50,768

 

Warren Zeiders: mic'd up yet.

 

 

 

831

 

00:29:51,260 --> 00:29:52,528

 

Warren Zeiders: So we're still, we're using wedges and

 

 

 

832

 

00:29:52,569 --> 00:29:53,615

 

Warren Zeiders: stuff like that and it's just.

 

 

 

833

 

00:29:53,797 --> 00:29:55,064

 

Warren Zeiders: It's just me and a guitar player.

 

 

 

834

 

00:29:56,525 --> 00:29:57,931

 

Warren Zeiders: We're just going out there on the road to

 

 

 

835

 

00:29:57,951 --> 00:29:59,819

 

Warren Zeiders: acoustic guitars and it's been awesome to

 

 

 

836

 

00:30:00,060 --> 00:30:02,647

 

Warren Zeiders: see and we're pretty much putting on a rock

 

 

 

837

 

00:30:02,687 --> 00:30:04,532

 

Warren Zeiders: concert with two acoustic guitars and

 

 

 

838

 

00:30:04,552 --> 00:30:07,425

 

Warren Zeiders: people screaming every single song back to

 

 

 

839

 

00:30:07,466 --> 00:30:10,372

 

Warren Zeiders: me, which is such an indescribable feeling.

 

 

 

840

 

00:30:11,340 --> 00:30:12,642

 

Warren Zeiders: You know I had a lot of nerves.

 

 

 

841

 

00:30:13,324 --> 00:30:18,313

 

Warren Zeiders: Finally, you know, it became real for me.

 

 

 

842

 

00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:21,350

 

Warren Zeiders: You see the numbers on the phone, you see

 

 

 

843

 

00:30:21,391 --> 00:30:22,738

 

Warren Zeiders: all this stuff, you see how people are

 

 

 

844

 

00:30:22,758 --> 00:30:24,825

 

Warren Zeiders: connecting and the streams and stuff, and

 

 

 

845

 

00:30:25,125 --> 00:30:26,228

 

Warren Zeiders: it's amazing to see.

 

 

 

846

 

00:30:27,340 --> 00:30:29,003

 

Warren Zeiders: But that moment I stepped on stage for the

 

 

 

847

 

00:30:29,043 --> 00:30:33,252

 

Warren Zeiders: first time, that's when I knew I was born

 

 

 

848

 

00:30:33,392 --> 00:30:33,973

 

Warren Zeiders: for doing this.

 

 

 

849

 

00:30:34,881 --> 00:30:35,722

 

Warren Zeiders: I was meant to do this.

 

 

 

850

 

00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:44,323

 

Marc Preston: I'm curious, what surprised you?

 

 

 

851

 

00:30:44,564 --> 00:30:46,489

 

Marc Preston: You know, from going from doing what you're

 

 

 

852

 

00:30:46,510 --> 00:30:48,945

 

Marc Preston: doing, you're streaming your music and now

 

 

 

853

 

00:30:48,965 --> 00:30:50,430

 

Marc Preston: you're here, now you got a record deal.

 

 

 

854

 

00:30:50,922 --> 00:30:52,668

 

Marc Preston: I mean, this is wonderful for you, man.

 

 

 

855

 

00:30:53,261 --> 00:30:54,486

 

Marc Preston: I want to say congratulations.

 

 

 

856

 

00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,745

 

Marc Preston: I know how good it's got to feel.

 

 

 

857

 

00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,246

 

Marc Preston: But what was something that did surprise

 

 

 

858

 

00:30:58,307 --> 00:31:02,019

 

Marc Preston: you about you know, now you're now this is

 

 

 

859

 

00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:04,024

 

Marc Preston: not just you in your bedroom, now this is

 

 

 

860

 

00:31:04,104 --> 00:31:06,990

 

Marc Preston: you making an in-person connection with

 

 

 

861

 

00:31:07,010 --> 00:31:07,652

 

Marc Preston: fans and stuff.

 

 

 

862

 

00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:09,523

 

Marc Preston: Anything surprised you or, like you know,

 

 

 

863

 

00:31:11,066 --> 00:31:12,349

 

Marc Preston: take you by surprise at all.

 

 

 

864

 

00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,207

 

Warren Zeiders: I think for me, one of the big surprises is

 

 

 

865

 

00:31:17,728 --> 00:31:20,413

 

Warren Zeiders: I do a meet and greet after my shows and

 

 

 

866

 

00:31:20,660 --> 00:31:21,243

 

Warren Zeiders: completely free.

 

 

 

867

 

00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,864

 

Warren Zeiders: I want to do it and I'll, some nights, meet

 

 

 

868

 

00:31:24,085 --> 00:31:27,772

 

Warren Zeiders: 100, 400, 500 fans who hang around to do

 

 

 

869

 

00:31:27,792 --> 00:31:28,313

 

Warren Zeiders: the meet and greet.

 

 

 

870

 

00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,449

 

Warren Zeiders: A big surprise for me is standing in that

 

 

 

871

 

00:31:31,550 --> 00:31:33,898

 

Warren Zeiders: line and meeting these people who have

 

 

 

872

 

00:31:33,999 --> 00:31:37,147

 

Warren Zeiders: followed me from before I even put out my

 

 

 

873

 

00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:40,316

 

Warren Zeiders: first song, who were like there from day

 

 

 

874

 

00:31:40,637 --> 00:31:43,004

 

Warren Zeiders: one and they're like hey man, I knew this

 

 

 

875

 

00:31:43,044 --> 00:31:44,862

 

Warren Zeiders: was going to happen, I knew you had

 

 

 

876

 

00:31:44,942 --> 00:31:46,466

 

Warren Zeiders: something early on and they just had

 

 

 

877

 

00:31:46,586 --> 00:31:50,062

 

Warren Zeiders: followed this entire time before they knew

 

 

 

878

 

00:31:50,163 --> 00:31:52,823

 

Warren Zeiders: it, before I did, and I think that there's

 

 

 

879

 

00:31:52,843 --> 00:31:54,895

 

Warren Zeiders: a lot of beauty in that that these people

 

 

 

880

 

00:31:54,995 --> 00:31:56,623

 

Warren Zeiders: saw something in me that I didn't even see

 

 

 

881

 

00:31:56,663 --> 00:31:58,992

 

Warren Zeiders: in myself when I was just doing it.

 

 

 

882

 

00:31:59,675 --> 00:32:01,883

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, for fun, really, and obviously I

 

 

 

883

 

00:32:01,903 --> 00:32:02,947

 

Warren Zeiders: still have fun doing it.

 

 

 

884

 

00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:05,306

 

Warren Zeiders: I think another thing is, too, is hearing

 

 

 

885

 

00:32:05,326 --> 00:32:08,899

 

Warren Zeiders: the stories of how people have connected

 

 

 

886

 

00:32:08,940 --> 00:32:10,865

 

Warren Zeiders: with my songs and how much it's.

 

 

 

887

 

00:32:11,988 --> 00:32:14,975

 

Warren Zeiders: No, it's been amazing to hear how my music

 

 

 

888

 

00:32:14,996 --> 00:32:18,366

 

Warren Zeiders: has helped soldiers come back for more and

 

 

 

889

 

00:32:18,426 --> 00:32:21,698

 

Warren Zeiders: deal with their PTSD and, you know, making

 

 

 

890

 

00:32:21,718 --> 00:32:22,944

 

Warren Zeiders: sure that I give them all the love in the

 

 

 

891

 

00:32:22,985 --> 00:32:24,535

 

Warren Zeiders: world and thank you for your service and

 

 

 

892

 

00:32:24,595 --> 00:32:26,843

 

Warren Zeiders: thank you for everything that you do to

 

 

 

893

 

00:32:26,884 --> 00:32:29,209

 

Warren Zeiders: allow me to live in a country like this and

 

 

 

894

 

00:32:29,409 --> 00:32:30,391

 

Warren Zeiders: make the music that I make.

 

 

 

895

 

00:32:31,140 --> 00:32:36,212

 

Warren Zeiders: It's hearing the stories of how one day, I

 

 

 

896

 

00:32:36,273 --> 00:32:39,300

 

Warren Zeiders: was in my bedroom learning how to play some

 

 

 

897

 

00:32:39,420 --> 00:32:42,888

 

Warren Zeiders: songs for fun to now making music that I

 

 

 

898

 

00:32:43,189 --> 00:32:46,082

 

Warren Zeiders: love and hang my hat on, and it's it's

 

 

 

899

 

00:32:46,163 --> 00:32:50,457

 

Warren Zeiders: giving people an outlet and something to

 

 

 

900

 

00:32:50,497 --> 00:32:52,142

 

Warren Zeiders: connect with and resonate with and help and

 

 

 

901

 

00:32:52,864 --> 00:32:54,348

 

Warren Zeiders: aspects of their life that I never could

 

 

 

902

 

00:32:54,368 --> 00:32:54,930

 

Warren Zeiders: have imagined.

 

 

 

903

 

00:32:55,923 --> 00:32:57,209

 

Marc Preston: Well, I do think it's that social media

 

 

 

904

 

00:32:57,229 --> 00:32:59,279

 

Marc Preston: thing that gives people that access to you

 

 

 

905

 

00:32:59,299 --> 00:33:00,786

 

Marc Preston: to be able to give that immediate feedback.

 

 

 

906

 

00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:02,327

 

Marc Preston: So, like you said before, listen to what

 

 

 

907

 

00:33:02,347 --> 00:33:03,131

 

Marc Preston: they have to say.

 

 

 

908

 

00:33:03,292 --> 00:33:05,683

 

Marc Preston: And now you are, you know you're responding

 

 

 

909

 

00:33:05,703 --> 00:33:06,366

 

Marc Preston: and it's.

 

 

 

910

 

00:33:06,647 --> 00:33:08,134

 

Marc Preston: And now do you find yourself?

 

 

 

911

 

00:33:08,214 --> 00:33:09,540

 

Marc Preston: When you are in that hotel, you are on the

 

 

 

912

 

00:33:09,641 --> 00:33:09,822

 

Marc Preston: road.

 

 

 

913

 

00:33:10,184 --> 00:33:11,873

 

Marc Preston: Are you writing stuff right now or are you

 

 

 

914

 

00:33:11,893 --> 00:33:12,516

 

Marc Preston: just kind of keeping the?

 

 

 

915

 

00:33:12,698 --> 00:33:14,222

 

Marc Preston: Are you writing and creating or are you

 

 

 

916

 

00:33:14,297 --> 00:33:16,045

 

Marc Preston: just kind of focusing on what you're doing

 

 

 

917

 

00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,868

 

Marc Preston: right now and getting your current library

 

 

 

918

 

00:33:17,948 --> 00:33:18,249

 

Marc Preston: out there?

 

 

 

919

 

00:33:18,761 --> 00:33:21,347

 

Warren Zeiders: I am focusing on what I'm doing at the

 

 

 

920

 

00:33:21,387 --> 00:33:25,107

 

Warren Zeiders: moment and when I get an opportunity.

 

 

 

921

 

00:33:26,110 --> 00:33:28,258

 

Warren Zeiders: I've kind of backburnered writing for a

 

 

 

922

 

00:33:28,298 --> 00:33:30,563

 

Warren Zeiders: little bit because I am on the road and I'm

 

 

 

923

 

00:33:30,603 --> 00:33:33,970

 

Warren Zeiders: trying to to focus on this aspect of what

 

 

 

924

 

00:33:33,990 --> 00:33:34,812

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm doing right now.

 

 

 

925

 

00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:39,309

 

Warren Zeiders: But I have written a lot this last year of

 

 

 

926

 

00:33:39,479 --> 00:33:42,290

 

Warren Zeiders: music that needs some touch up, needs some

 

 

 

927

 

00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,667

 

Warren Zeiders: things for me to, you know, reflect back on

 

 

 

928

 

00:33:44,747 --> 00:33:45,770

 

Warren Zeiders: if there's things I need to change.

 

 

 

929

 

00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,326

 

Warren Zeiders: But I got a lot of fun things in the works

 

 

 

930

 

00:33:49,289 --> 00:33:51,744

 

Warren Zeiders: that'll be coming out soon and you know I'm

 

 

 

931

 

00:33:51,784 --> 00:33:53,229

 

Warren Zeiders: excited for what's to come.

 

 

 

932

 

00:33:53,962 --> 00:33:55,046

 

Marc Preston: Well, the question is what do your folks

 

 

 

933

 

00:33:55,066 --> 00:33:56,762

 

Marc Preston: think about it now, Now, now, now they're

 

 

 

934

 

00:33:56,782 --> 00:33:58,867

 

Marc Preston: going from like their lacrosse playing kid

 

 

 

935

 

00:33:58,947 --> 00:34:01,032

 

Marc Preston: who's dorking around with his guitar in his

 

 

 

936

 

00:34:01,092 --> 00:34:01,253

 

Marc Preston: room.

 

 

 

937

 

00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,447

 

Marc Preston: Now he got a son who's on tour and a record

 

 

 

938

 

00:34:03,568 --> 00:34:04,290

 

Marc Preston: deal and everything.

 

 

 

939

 

00:34:04,521 --> 00:34:05,484

 

Marc Preston: What do your, what do your folks think

 

 

 

940

 

00:34:05,524 --> 00:34:05,926

 

Marc Preston: about this?

 

 

 

941

 

00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:11,891

 

Warren Zeiders: My parents were completely confused very

 

 

 

942

 

00:34:11,951 --> 00:34:15,820

 

Warren Zeiders: early on because at first it was numbers on

 

 

 

943

 

00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,488

 

Warren Zeiders: a score screen and they didn't understand

 

 

 

944

 

00:34:18,528 --> 00:34:18,849

 

Warren Zeiders: it either.

 

 

 

945

 

00:34:20,925 --> 00:34:24,583

 

Warren Zeiders: And it was you know, that's cool, like okay.

 

 

 

946

 

00:34:24,744 --> 00:34:26,280

 

Warren Zeiders: So you got some people following you, you

 

 

 

947

 

00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:28,927

 

Warren Zeiders: got some people viewing, viewing your

 

 

 

948

 

00:34:28,967 --> 00:34:29,508

 

Warren Zeiders: videos.

 

 

 

949

 

00:34:31,420 --> 00:34:31,902

 

Warren Zeiders: They were very.

 

 

 

950

 

00:34:32,303 --> 00:34:33,728

 

Warren Zeiders: My parents are the most supportive people.

 

 

 

951

 

00:34:33,860 --> 00:34:35,425

 

Warren Zeiders: Actually, my parents have been to every

 

 

 

952

 

00:34:35,445 --> 00:34:36,328

 

Warren Zeiders: single show I've played.

 

 

 

953

 

00:34:37,060 --> 00:34:38,745

 

Warren Zeiders: They've traveled to every single show and

 

 

 

954

 

00:34:38,825 --> 00:34:40,630

 

Warren Zeiders: they're actually selling my merch right now.

 

 

 

955

 

00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:42,146

 

Marc Preston: So your parents are selling your merch.

 

 

 

956

 

00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,387

 

Marc Preston: I said is that is well, you do have two

 

 

 

957

 

00:34:44,407 --> 00:34:45,390

 

Marc Preston: parents that are business people.

 

 

 

958

 

00:34:45,580 --> 00:34:46,804

 

Marc Preston: You know, they got a whole that got that

 

 

 

959

 

00:34:46,845 --> 00:34:47,788

 

Marc Preston: whole angle going on.

 

 

 

960

 

00:34:48,341 --> 00:34:50,467

 

Marc Preston: Now, do you have any siblings, or are you

 

 

 

961

 

00:34:50,507 --> 00:34:51,349

 

Marc Preston: the only child there?

 

 

 

962

 

00:34:52,220 --> 00:34:54,646

 

Warren Zeiders: I have a younger sister who's following

 

 

 

963

 

00:34:54,686 --> 00:34:57,131

 

Warren Zeiders: more in my mother's footsteps and she's at

 

 

 

964

 

00:34:57,151 --> 00:34:58,964

 

Warren Zeiders: school, in college, for accounting.

 

 

 

965

 

00:34:59,145 --> 00:34:59,607

 

Marc Preston: Oh, okay.

 

 

 

966

 

00:35:00,020 --> 00:35:01,024

 

Marc Preston: So what does she think about having the

 

 

 

967

 

00:35:01,044 --> 00:35:02,067

 

Marc Preston: brother who's doing this thing now?

 

 

 

968

 

00:35:02,620 --> 00:35:04,666

 

Warren Zeiders: She's got a love hate relationship with it.

 

 

 

969

 

00:35:06,380 --> 00:35:08,901

 

Warren Zeiders: I was always the extrovert growing up so I

 

 

 

970

 

00:35:08,941 --> 00:35:10,185

 

Warren Zeiders: always did most of the talking.

 

 

 

971

 

00:35:11,180 --> 00:35:17,263

 

Warren Zeiders: She was always more of the quiet one, so

 

 

 

972

 

00:35:18,986 --> 00:35:19,847

 

Warren Zeiders: it's been a little bit.

 

 

 

973

 

00:35:21,370 --> 00:35:23,133

 

Warren Zeiders: She's not a big fan of people coming up to

 

 

 

974

 

00:35:23,193 --> 00:35:25,245

 

Warren Zeiders: her and saying, hey, she doesn't want the

 

 

 

975

 

00:35:25,627 --> 00:35:27,102

 

Warren Zeiders: attention she doesn't like when people come

 

 

 

976

 

00:35:27,122 --> 00:35:29,266

 

Warren Zeiders: up to her like, hey, you're more inside her

 

 

 

977

 

00:35:29,286 --> 00:35:31,886

 

Warren Zeiders: sister and that whole fun thing.

 

 

 

978

 

00:35:32,241 --> 00:35:33,413

 

Warren Zeiders: But I think she's happy for me.

 

 

 

979

 

00:35:33,715 --> 00:35:34,876

 

Marc Preston: You know that's got to be such a weird

 

 

 

980

 

00:35:34,896 --> 00:35:36,257

 

Marc Preston: feeling for, like you know family.

 

 

 

981

 

00:35:36,277 --> 00:35:38,199

 

Marc Preston: Suddenly now, especially in this era of

 

 

 

982

 

00:35:38,259 --> 00:35:39,760

 

Marc Preston: social media, where somebody can just like

 

 

 

983

 

00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,022

 

Marc Preston: take off, like what you've done is go from

 

 

 

984

 

00:35:42,062 --> 00:35:43,524

 

Marc Preston: something just you know number, like set

 

 

 

985

 

00:35:43,564 --> 00:35:45,846

 

Marc Preston: numbers on a phone, to now you're like on

 

 

 

986

 

00:35:45,886 --> 00:35:46,206

 

Marc Preston: tour.

 

 

 

987

 

00:35:46,346 --> 00:35:47,307

 

Marc Preston: You know what.

 

 

 

988

 

00:35:47,347 --> 00:35:48,888

 

Marc Preston: Do you have any dream venues, somewhere you

 

 

 

989

 

00:35:48,908 --> 00:35:51,010

 

Marc Preston: really want to play, like because you said

 

 

 

990

 

00:35:51,030 --> 00:35:52,912

 

Marc Preston: these are smaller venues, it's acoustic

 

 

 

991

 

00:35:52,972 --> 00:35:53,312

 

Marc Preston: mostly.

 

 

 

992

 

00:35:54,237 --> 00:35:55,801

 

Marc Preston: If you could play anywhere, what kind of

 

 

 

993

 

00:35:55,841 --> 00:35:56,121

 

Marc Preston: you know?

 

 

 

994

 

00:35:56,322 --> 00:35:59,479

 

Warren Zeiders: a huge place for me that I want to play I

 

 

 

995

 

00:35:59,499 --> 00:36:03,555

 

Warren Zeiders: would say hometown Hershey Park Stadium.

 

 

 

996

 

00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,420

 

Warren Zeiders: I think it's just, it'll be a really full

 

 

 

997

 

00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,603

 

Warren Zeiders: circle moment for me to play that venue one

 

 

 

998

 

00:36:11,643 --> 00:36:17,708

 

Warren Zeiders: day, just because of you know being I want

 

 

 

999

 

00:36:17,728 --> 00:36:19,110

 

Warren Zeiders: to go watch high school football games

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:19,150 --> 00:36:19,350

 

Warren Zeiders: there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:19,390 --> 00:36:21,755

 

Warren Zeiders: Growing up, going to Hershey High School, I

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:22,456 --> 00:36:24,921

 

Warren Zeiders: spent so much time going to Hershey Park

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:24,961 --> 00:36:25,261

 

Warren Zeiders: growing up.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:25,321 --> 00:36:26,964

 

Warren Zeiders: I think there's a lot of history there for

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:27,004 --> 00:36:29,308

 

Warren Zeiders: me and I think that it'll be a it'll be a

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:29,368 --> 00:36:31,191

 

Warren Zeiders: cool experience for me to go back there one

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:31,211 --> 00:36:33,575

 

Warren Zeiders: day and, you know, play that venue.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:34,116 --> 00:36:34,538

 

Marc Preston: Going home.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:34,578 --> 00:36:34,698

 

Marc Preston: Man.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:34,718 --> 00:36:35,641

 

Marc Preston: That's always a big deal.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:35,922 --> 00:36:37,326

 

Marc Preston: Now you got people who watched you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:37,546 --> 00:36:38,148

 

Marc Preston: You know online.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:38,188 --> 00:36:39,231

 

Marc Preston: Now they're coming to concerts.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:39,271 --> 00:36:40,334

 

Marc Preston: What's something that people want to know

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:40,354 --> 00:36:40,555

 

Marc Preston: about you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:41,436 --> 00:36:42,658

 

Marc Preston: Maybe let's say a top question.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:42,699 --> 00:36:44,221

 

Marc Preston: You get asked or you know something.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:44,281 --> 00:36:46,966

 

Marc Preston: People try to pick your brain on that, both

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:47,006 --> 00:36:49,430

 

Marc Preston: in the comments and the in person.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:49,755 --> 00:36:50,838

 

Marc Preston: When's more music coming?

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:52,541 --> 00:36:54,324

 

Warren Zeiders: People, people want to, people want an

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:54,465 --> 00:36:55,347

 

Warren Zeiders: album, they want it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:56,876 --> 00:36:57,818

 

Marc Preston: They want more from me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:57,939 --> 00:36:59,343

 

Marc Preston: Apparently, I did the same thing or asked

 

 


Speaker:

00:36:59,363 --> 00:36:59,884

 

Marc Preston: the same thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:01,217 --> 00:37:02,862

 

Marc Preston: What was it like when you first heard your

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:02,922 --> 00:37:03,243

 

Marc Preston: song?

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:05,156 --> 00:37:06,719

 

Marc Preston: I say radio because it used to be a big

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:06,779 --> 00:37:08,582

 

Marc Preston: deal when you first hear your song on the

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:08,662 --> 00:37:09,082

 

Marc Preston: radio.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:09,163 --> 00:37:10,886

 

Marc Preston: Now it's like my kids are all about.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:10,906 --> 00:37:12,708

 

Marc Preston: You know Spotify and all that, and TikTok

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:12,789 --> 00:37:13,149

 

Marc Preston: obviously.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:14,136 --> 00:37:15,839

 

Marc Preston: But what was that like for you the first

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:15,859 --> 00:37:17,763

 

Marc Preston: time you heard your song play under a

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:17,823 --> 00:37:19,626

 

Marc Preston: record label and it's in its out there?

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:19,686 --> 00:37:21,008

 

Marc Preston: What was that feeling like for you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:21,575 --> 00:37:22,457

 

Warren Zeiders: I think that it was.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:23,198 --> 00:37:25,563

 

Warren Zeiders: It was an awesome feeling and you know, to

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:25,623 --> 00:37:31,180

 

Warren Zeiders: touch on it, I have this mindset of an

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:31,801

 

Warren Zeiders: athlete.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:32,082 --> 00:37:32,503

 

Warren Zeiders: I have a.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:33,605 --> 00:37:34,667

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm sure there's other people out there

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:34,687 --> 00:37:35,329

 

Warren Zeiders: that have it too.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:35,715 --> 00:37:38,300

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, I've I've talked to some people

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,147

 

Warren Zeiders: who think that, like Riley Greene, for

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:42,187 --> 00:37:43,509

 

Warren Zeiders: example, he was an athlete.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:44,476 --> 00:37:46,680

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm sure I think, chase Rice, there's some

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:47,140

 

Warren Zeiders: other people.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,222

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, I have a.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:48,242 --> 00:37:51,687

 

Warren Zeiders: I have a very certain mindset about the way

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:51,748 --> 00:37:55,478

 

Warren Zeiders: I view what I do, and it's all because of

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:56,559 --> 00:37:59,103

 

Warren Zeiders: whether it's discipline, it's drive, it's.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:59,203 --> 00:38:01,747

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, I have all these things inside of

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:01,787 --> 00:38:03,509

 

Warren Zeiders: me that sports all led to.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:03,549 --> 00:38:05,697

 

Warren Zeiders: In this moment, you know, hearing it, it

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:05,737 --> 00:38:08,121

 

Warren Zeiders: was awesome, but there was also this

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:08,202 --> 00:38:12,189

 

Warren Zeiders: feeling of like OK, I got this.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:12,997 --> 00:38:16,551

 

Warren Zeiders: How can I show them that I deserve to

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:16,591 --> 00:38:17,535

 

Warren Zeiders: continue to be put on here?

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:18,096 --> 00:38:20,643

 

Warren Zeiders: How, what's the next song that I can?

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:20,703 --> 00:38:22,187

 

Warren Zeiders: You know, I take the wins.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:22,755 --> 00:38:24,758

 

Warren Zeiders: One of my favorite sayings that I have is

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:24,959 --> 00:38:29,165

 

Warren Zeiders: happy but not satisfied, because I and

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:29,185 --> 00:38:30,527

 

Warren Zeiders: that's something about, if you haven't

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:30,547 --> 00:38:32,190

 

Warren Zeiders: heard money song edge Wild Horse.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:32,655 --> 00:38:35,137

 

Warren Zeiders: I talk about chasing a wild horse, and the

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:35,177 --> 00:38:36,759

 

Warren Zeiders: concept of that song is, you know, is

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:36,879 --> 00:38:40,182

 

Warren Zeiders: always chasing after chasing your dreams

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:40,903 --> 00:38:46,308

 

Warren Zeiders: but never being fully fulfilled, because

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:46,328 --> 00:38:50,332

 

Warren Zeiders: there's always things for us to develop and

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:50,392 --> 00:38:52,754

 

Warren Zeiders: grow in in our lives and be put into

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:52,814 --> 00:38:53,555

 

Warren Zeiders: uncomfortable situations.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:53,955 --> 00:38:57,039

 

Warren Zeiders: And I think a lot of my life this last year

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:57,659 --> 00:38:59,061

 

Warren Zeiders: I have been put into uncomfortable

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:59,101 --> 00:38:59,782

 

Warren Zeiders: situations.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:59,902 --> 00:39:02,645

 

Warren Zeiders: But I like that because, again, I went from

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:02,705 --> 00:39:05,028

 

Warren Zeiders: someone who was learning how to play covers

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:05,048 --> 00:39:07,450

 

Warren Zeiders: in his bedroom to now full fledged on a

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:07,490 --> 00:39:10,539

 

Warren Zeiders: tour, like you said, record label, all this

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:10,619 --> 00:39:10,940

 

Warren Zeiders: stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:11,220 --> 00:39:13,685

 

Warren Zeiders: And you know I've just taken, I've taken

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:13,705 --> 00:39:15,228

 

Warren Zeiders: the bull by the horns and I've taken this

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:15,308 --> 00:39:17,778

 

Warren Zeiders: life and you know I'm like you only get one,

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:17,918 --> 00:39:19,420

 

Warren Zeiders: you only get one time around on this world.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:19,481 --> 00:39:22,405

 

Warren Zeiders: So I'm just going to go for it and you know

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:22,645 --> 00:39:24,227

 

Warren Zeiders: I've taken every opportunity I could get

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:24,348 --> 00:39:25,790

 

Warren Zeiders: and make the best I could of it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:27,357 --> 00:39:29,743

 

Warren Zeiders: And you said it was happy but not satisfied.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:29,803 --> 00:39:31,327

 

Marc Preston: Right Is happy but not satisfied.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:31,575 --> 00:39:32,597

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, I want to make sure I got that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:32,617 --> 00:39:33,158

 

Marc Preston: I like that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:34,822

 

Marc Preston: But, warren, what I want to do, man, I'm

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:34,842 --> 00:39:36,005

 

Marc Preston: just kind of wrapping up with you here.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:36,025 --> 00:39:37,187

 

Marc Preston: You know, because I know you're on the road,

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:37,855 --> 00:39:39,779

 

Marc Preston: I would call my seven questions, always ask

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:39,939 --> 00:39:41,081

 

Marc Preston: everybody the same questions.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:41,502 --> 00:39:43,325

 

Marc Preston: A little bit extra insight, kind of one of

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:43,366 --> 00:39:44,908

 

Marc Preston: those get to know you kind of things.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:45,575 --> 00:39:48,900

 

Marc Preston: Number one what is your favorite comfort

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:49,261

 

Marc Preston: food?

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:49,581 --> 00:39:51,264

 

Marc Preston: That thing that if you're on, if you're out

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:51,304 --> 00:39:53,607

 

Marc Preston: on the road, kind of brings you back to

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:53,667 --> 00:39:54,168

 

Marc Preston: your center.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:54,288 --> 00:39:54,709

 

Marc Preston: You know what I mean.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:55,615 --> 00:39:57,638

 

Warren Zeiders: Honestly it's going to.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:58,299 --> 00:39:59,782

 

Warren Zeiders: I don't even know, but I'll go.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:59,802 --> 00:40:02,286

 

Warren Zeiders: This is going to be my answer A good burger.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:02,887 --> 00:40:04,410

 

Warren Zeiders: Burgers are always my thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:05,036 --> 00:40:07,522

 

Warren Zeiders: A good burger will put me in, you know,

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:07,662 --> 00:40:09,586

 

Warren Zeiders: won't make me angry, it'll put me in a good

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:09,606 --> 00:40:09,787

 

Warren Zeiders: place.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:11,076 --> 00:40:11,817

 

Marc Preston: Funny you brought that up.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:11,898 --> 00:40:14,062

 

Marc Preston: I'm somebody that thought that burgers are

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:14,102 --> 00:40:16,627

 

Marc Preston: not meant to be fancy, the same way pizza

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:16,687 --> 00:40:17,148

 

Marc Preston: is not meant to be.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:17,188 --> 00:40:19,894

 

Marc Preston: It's just a good off the grill.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:19,914 --> 00:40:22,259

 

Marc Preston: Somebody cooking on charcoal man, it's a

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:22,319 --> 00:40:23,723

 

Marc Preston: backyard burger Will beat out most

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:23,783 --> 00:40:24,765

 

Marc Preston: restaurant burgers in my book.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:26,557 --> 00:40:27,720

 

Marc Preston: Now, if you could sit down with three

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:27,780 --> 00:40:29,024

 

Marc Preston: people, you're going to sit down for a cup

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:29,044 --> 00:40:30,527

 

Marc Preston: of coffee, beer or whatever have you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:33,806

 

Marc Preston: Who would three people be that you'd want

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:33,826 --> 00:40:35,632

 

Marc Preston: to hang out with for a few hours and just

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:35,692 --> 00:40:36,575

 

Marc Preston: kind of talk story with?

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:40,439 --> 00:40:42,661

 

Warren Zeiders: I think my grandfather, who I never got to

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:42,721 --> 00:40:46,905

 

Warren Zeiders: meet because I've heard so many stories

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:47,246 --> 00:40:53,392

 

Warren Zeiders: about how my dad and him had a relationship.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:53,595 --> 00:40:56,800

 

Warren Zeiders: I think I owe a lot to him for raising my

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:56,820 --> 00:40:57,381

 

Warren Zeiders: dad right.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:03,836 --> 00:41:05,278

 

Warren Zeiders: Yeah, I think I'd be him and my dad would

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:05,298 --> 00:41:07,741

 

Warren Zeiders: be two of them I don't know who a third one

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:07,761 --> 00:41:09,043

 

Warren Zeiders: would be because I think I would just love

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:09,063 --> 00:41:12,266

 

Warren Zeiders: that experience to sit down at least with

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:12,306 --> 00:41:16,431

 

Warren Zeiders: those two to just talk about how my dad was

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:16,491 --> 00:41:18,934

 

Warren Zeiders: raised and hear his side of things and

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:18,954 --> 00:41:19,575

 

Warren Zeiders: stories and stuff like that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:19,755 --> 00:41:22,040

 

Warren Zeiders: I think that would be a really cool

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,906

 

Warren Zeiders: experience for me to learn a lot about the

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:24,926 --> 00:41:26,389

 

Warren Zeiders: grandfather I never got to meet.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:26,735 --> 00:41:28,158

 

Marc Preston: Everybody is a little bit different and I

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:28,218 --> 00:41:29,721

 

Marc Preston: think sometimes it comes back to families.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:30,363 --> 00:41:31,745

 

Marc Preston: You want to know your DNA a little bit

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:31,785 --> 00:41:34,757

 

Marc Preston: better, absolutely Now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:34,978 --> 00:41:36,761

 

Marc Preston: Going back in time or even currently

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:37,503 --> 00:41:39,687

 

Marc Preston: growing up was kind of your celebrity crush.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:42,077 --> 00:41:43,779

 

Warren Zeiders: I guess the one that just came to the top

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:43,799 --> 00:41:45,161

 

Warren Zeiders: of my head would probably be Jennifer

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:45,221 --> 00:41:47,384

 

Warren Zeiders: Aniston growing up and watching the show

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:47,464 --> 00:41:47,905

 

Warren Zeiders: Friends.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:48,786 --> 00:41:50,408

 

Warren Zeiders: My mom loved that show too, so it was

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:50,488 --> 00:41:51,810

 

Warren Zeiders: always running in our house.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:53,458 --> 00:41:55,043

 

Warren Zeiders: So I'll give Jennifer the shout out.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:55,595 --> 00:41:56,437

 

Marc Preston: That's a perfect answer.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:56,939 --> 00:41:58,142

 

Marc Preston: Now let's say you're going to be going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:58,162 --> 00:41:59,265

 

Marc Preston: an island for a whole year.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:59,575 --> 00:42:00,976

 

Marc Preston: Okay, now again, you don't have streaming

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:01,097 --> 00:42:01,457

 

Marc Preston: nothing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:01,497 --> 00:42:04,440

 

Marc Preston: Man, I know it's ironic considering who you

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:04,580 --> 00:42:06,883

 

Marc Preston: are, but you got to go there and you do

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:06,903 --> 00:42:07,864

 

Marc Preston: have a DVD player.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:07,924 --> 00:42:11,568

 

Marc Preston: So what an album player, a record player,

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:11,928 --> 00:42:14,491

 

Marc Preston: what album and what DVD are you going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:14,511 --> 00:42:14,991

 

Marc Preston: bring with you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:16,876 --> 00:42:20,440

 

Warren Zeiders: Man, this is a one DVD.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:21,762 --> 00:42:24,685

 

Warren Zeiders: Man, that is tough because that's a movie

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:24,705 --> 00:42:26,447

 

Warren Zeiders: that you got to watch over and over again.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:31,416 --> 00:42:31,917

 

Warren Zeiders: You know what?

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:32,217 --> 00:42:33,379

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm just going to throw it out there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:34,801 --> 00:42:39,287

 

Warren Zeiders: And actually you know what Star Wars Empire

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:39,307 --> 00:42:39,828

 

Warren Zeiders: Strikes Back.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:40,850 --> 00:42:41,491

 

Marc Preston: That's a good one.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:41,595 --> 00:42:43,422

 

Marc Preston: You know the aficionados of Star Wars, you

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:43,442 --> 00:42:44,828

 

Marc Preston: know a lot of people say that was the best

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:44,888 --> 00:42:45,792

 

Marc Preston: of the original three.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:45,952 --> 00:42:46,535

 

Marc Preston: All right, cool, cool.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:47,116 --> 00:42:48,259

 

Marc Preston: Now what album would you want to bring?

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:48,279 --> 00:42:49,462

 

Marc Preston: I know this is going to be kind of easy.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:49,482 --> 00:42:50,645

 

Marc Preston: They're going to be really hard and really

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:50,685 --> 00:42:51,166

 

Marc Preston: easy for you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:51,635 --> 00:42:54,358

 

Warren Zeiders: Yeah, this is because I've never had to

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:54,518 --> 00:42:55,920

 

Warren Zeiders: even think about a question like this.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:57,362 --> 00:43:00,846

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm going to go with Morgan Wallin's double

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:00,966 --> 00:43:01,206

 

Warren Zeiders: album.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:01,487 --> 00:43:03,209

 

Warren Zeiders: There's a lot of great music in there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:04,010 --> 00:43:08,101

 

Warren Zeiders: It's new, it's fresh and there's a lot of

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:08,141 --> 00:43:09,063

 

Warren Zeiders: bangers he's got in there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:09,263 --> 00:43:10,426

 

Warren Zeiders: It's the first thing that comes to the top

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:10,446 --> 00:43:10,787

 

Warren Zeiders: of my head.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:11,836 --> 00:43:12,958

 

Marc Preston: Awesome, Awesome, Okay, so cool.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:12,978 --> 00:43:14,361

 

Marc Preston: Now the next question is if you're going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:14,381 --> 00:43:16,546

 

Marc Preston: be from time you get up to the time you put

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:16,566 --> 00:43:18,270

 

Marc Preston: your head down on the pillow at night.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:18,591 --> 00:43:20,495

 

Marc Preston: What's the definition for you of a perfect

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:20,515 --> 00:43:21,157

 

Marc Preston: day Like?

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:21,177 --> 00:43:22,923

 

Marc Preston: What are the component parts of a perfect

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:22,983 --> 00:43:23,565

 

Marc Preston: day for you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:24,155 --> 00:43:28,299

 

Warren Zeiders: I would say good meals, healthy eating.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:31,601 --> 00:43:34,704

 

Warren Zeiders: I would say making sure, whether it's you

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:34,744 --> 00:43:37,706

 

Warren Zeiders: know writing a cool song or you know making

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:37,746 --> 00:43:39,988

 

Warren Zeiders: sure that I got to spend time in the studio

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:40,408 --> 00:43:43,231

 

Warren Zeiders: or you know I'm out there on stage playing

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:43,251 --> 00:43:44,992

 

Warren Zeiders: for hundreds of people and being fans of

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:45,012 --> 00:43:45,272

 

Warren Zeiders: stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:45,915 --> 00:43:47,698

 

Warren Zeiders: I think a big thing for me, too, is always

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:47,738 --> 00:43:48,819

 

Warren Zeiders: getting a great workout in.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:50,201

 

Warren Zeiders: Workouts are huge to me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:51,042 --> 00:43:55,007

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm really big into, you know, physical

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:55,047 --> 00:43:57,310

 

Warren Zeiders: health, but also mental health.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:57,550 --> 00:43:58,351

 

Warren Zeiders: It's a big thing for me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:58,615 --> 00:44:01,562

 

Warren Zeiders: I think that going to the gym is not only

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:01,602 --> 00:44:02,644

 

Warren Zeiders: just a physical thing for me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:02,804 --> 00:44:06,092

 

Warren Zeiders: It is very much so a mental thing, and you

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:06,112 --> 00:44:07,354

 

Warren Zeiders: know pushing boundaries and pushing

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:07,374 --> 00:44:07,575

 

Warren Zeiders: yourself.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:07,796 --> 00:44:10,362

 

Warren Zeiders: So I would say those are some good things

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:10,382 --> 00:44:10,903

 

Warren Zeiders: to touch on.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:10,963 --> 00:44:13,490

 

Warren Zeiders: And, you know, catching up with family and

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:13,530 --> 00:44:15,374

 

Warren Zeiders: friends when I get a chance to check in and

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:15,435 --> 00:44:15,535

 

Warren Zeiders: stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:16,417 --> 00:44:17,319

 

Marc Preston: All right, perfect, Perfect.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:17,359 --> 00:44:17,841

 

Marc Preston: I like that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:18,041 --> 00:44:20,668

 

Marc Preston: Now, last question, though if you were to

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:20,988 --> 00:44:22,973

 

Marc Preston: jump in a DeLorean, you know you can go

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:23,014 --> 00:44:23,575

 

Marc Preston: back in time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:24,057 --> 00:44:26,103

 

Marc Preston: I usually say to when you were 16, but it's

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:26,143 --> 00:44:27,408

 

Marc Preston: not that long ago for you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:27,428 --> 00:44:28,451

 

Marc Preston: So if you want to go back a little bit

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:28,491 --> 00:44:29,575

 

Marc Preston: further, do an important time in your life.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:29,675 --> 00:44:31,137

 

Marc Preston: You've got like two minutes with yourself.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:31,618 --> 00:44:34,461

 

Marc Preston: What piece of advice are you going to give

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:35,263 --> 00:44:38,267

 

Marc Preston: a younger you that you think is going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:38,307 --> 00:44:40,149

 

Marc Preston: get you on an even better track in life, or

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:40,209 --> 00:44:41,511

 

Marc Preston: make life a little bit easier for you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:41,896 --> 00:44:43,299

 

Warren Zeiders: You know what I got to get answer for this.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:44,542 --> 00:44:45,885

 

Warren Zeiders: You're right where you're supposed to be

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:48,596 --> 00:44:50,538

 

Warren Zeiders: and I believe in that because, in what I

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:50,578 --> 00:44:52,519

 

Warren Zeiders: believe, everything happens, everything is

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:52,539 --> 00:44:54,401

 

Warren Zeiders: supposed to happen for a reason and you

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:54,441 --> 00:44:58,745

 

Warren Zeiders: know as kids and as parents want to protect

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:58,805 --> 00:44:59,425

 

Warren Zeiders: their children.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:00,426 --> 00:45:02,288

 

Warren Zeiders: I believe that you have to learn from your

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:02,348 --> 00:45:04,390

 

Warren Zeiders: own mistakes and you have to go through the

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:04,450 --> 00:45:08,213

 

Warren Zeiders: highs and lows and to just grow as a human

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:08,253 --> 00:45:08,573

 

Warren Zeiders: being.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:08,775 --> 00:45:11,559

 

Warren Zeiders: So I think that I would tell some cool

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:11,579 --> 00:45:13,461

 

Warren Zeiders: stories, but I would just tell myself

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:14,403 --> 00:45:16,646

 

Warren Zeiders: everything is going the way it's supposed

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:16,666 --> 00:45:16,926

 

Warren Zeiders: to go.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:17,707 --> 00:45:19,630

 

Warren Zeiders: Just continue to believe and believe in

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:19,650 --> 00:45:19,790

 

Warren Zeiders: that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:20,695 --> 00:45:22,058

 

Marc Preston: That's perfect, my friend, perfect.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:22,078 --> 00:45:25,666

 

Marc Preston: Now, once again, the 717 tapes volume one's

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:25,746 --> 00:45:26,127

 

Marc Preston: been out.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:26,568 --> 00:45:28,813

 

Marc Preston: Volume two came out last week, I think.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:28,833 --> 00:45:30,277

 

Marc Preston: Ride lighting and burn it down, I think

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:30,317 --> 00:45:30,517

 

Marc Preston: that's.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:30,577 --> 00:45:32,101

 

Marc Preston: Those are songs that were stuck in my head.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:32,141 --> 00:45:33,444

 

Marc Preston: Yesterday I was moving around the house is

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:33,464 --> 00:45:35,428

 

Marc Preston: like I was literally humming your music.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:35,575 --> 00:45:36,476

 

Marc Preston: I was like where's this coming from?

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:36,576 --> 00:45:37,957

 

Marc Preston: Oh, she was listening to a song a little

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:37,977 --> 00:45:38,317

 

Marc Preston: while ago.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:38,677 --> 00:45:40,278

 

Marc Preston: I think that's kind of like the unspoken

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:40,358 --> 00:45:41,359

 

Marc Preston: sign of a great song.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:41,419 --> 00:45:42,700

 

Marc Preston: It just kind of gets stuck in your head.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:42,860 --> 00:45:44,265

 

Marc Preston: You know the melody or the hook or whatever.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:44,325 --> 00:45:45,590

 

Marc Preston: Have you got me?

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,846

 

Marc Preston: But, man, I certainly appreciate you taking

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:47,866 --> 00:45:50,412

 

Marc Preston: time out to sit down with me today,

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:51,122

 

Marc Preston: especially on the.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:51,162 --> 00:45:52,627

 

Marc Preston: Where are you right now, by the way, as

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:52,647 --> 00:45:53,810

 

Marc Preston: you're in the car moving about?

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:54,060 --> 00:45:55,125

 

Warren Zeiders: I'm in Georgia right now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:57,024

 

Warren Zeiders: I just got done playing Eddie's Attic and

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:57,044 --> 00:46:00,212

 

Warren Zeiders: then I'm playing in Rome, georgia, tomorrow

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:00,232 --> 00:46:00,392

 

Warren Zeiders: night.

 

 


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Warren Zeiders: Yes, sir, I appreciate you.

 

 


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Warren Zeiders: Marc, Thanks for having me on man.

 

 


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Marc Preston: All right, there you go, warren Zeiders.

 

 


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Marc Preston: He's got a real cool thing going on.

 

 


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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed his music.

 

 


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Warren Zeiders

Musician

Warren Zeiders’ shadowy country music is powered by a steady supply of grit, honesty, and muscle. Hailing from central Pennsylvania, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter delivers outlaw sermons in a gravelly voice beyond his years. His music is suited more to the vast wilderness of his home state than the bright lights of Nashville, injecting a healthy dose of Heartland ethos into the honky tonks of Music City. But it’s that space he lives in—between lonesome outsider and magnetic performer—that helps him relate to listeners from all walks of life through songs fueled by unshakeable soul-searching.

As Zeiders himself puts it, howling the opening lines of his haunting single, “Ride the Lightning”: “Mama always said I was born on the wild side—one foot in the flames and the other tryin’ to walk the line.” A dusty and resonant acoustic guitar booms through the empty room, the only other sound on the desolate recording. It’s sparse, but Zeiders’ powerful voice is a force that rises well above any noise and cuts to the heart of anyone in earshot.

“Every walk of life you go through—it doesn't matter how good of a person you think you are—you're always going to be fighting demons for the rest of your life,” Zeiders says about the darker aspects of his music. “You're always going to have sin.”

He comes by his love of music honestly, falling under its spell through the hymns he sang in church pews as a kid along with the music he absorbed from Christian radio. He remembers his mom’s love of country radio with Hank Williams Jr. and John Denver… Read More