76: The Gates of Song feat. Waterbury Mesivta [TATTY MY KING]

hi my name is Rafael offski and welcome to the RAB arlovski show whether you are listening on tour anytime or wherever you listen to your podcast welcome on board as many of you guys don't know it's actually my father's Hebrew birthday today and he has no clue or filming right now and we want to sing you about happy birthday happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday to every birthday a birthday our hops hi this is Deborah Lansky and welcome to the raviolo ski show now as you know there is a tradition on the rubbery Olaf ski show dating back to 2019 we're on Shabbos Shira we have a musical episode remember last year we had the Australian kangaroos singing their song about Shabbos and I helped them really publicize and get out there because they only had 50,000 views before they came on my podcast and after that they had about 51 so it was really on target so we have a special musical treat view this week and before I say anything else we'll just stop let the music tell the story and so replace I if you would start us off with one number which I think only has 1.2 million views and I'm sure most of my audience has never heard of it because most of my audience really never leaves the house and the only thing he ever watches me so voice I if you will [Music] I was told to speak to you [Music] maybe you can tell me I am [Music] I've been lost you long to know my only hope is that [Music] go [Music] they Mikey let go of me never let go [Music] I am here to speak I'm starting to see now [Music] Stan taking part in your path and now walking down your path even with the questions I have to [Music] it gives me up to know that I [Music] I'll reach out for you and take it [Applause] [Music] daddy my king [Applause] never let go of me ever my key father don't ever let never let go of me ever let ever let go [Music] [Applause] unbelievable all right so before we continue I have to give a shout out to my sponsor I just saw the musical episode we should start right 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she DoCoMo org sha s the number for Shi DD u CH I am dot org to sponsor a DAF on behalf of a single and if you don't have a single immediately in mind trust me there are plenty in Claysville who need your support okay so who do we have with us today is that a question or a statement but the try again hi would wherever this today excellent we from uh I've heard of it and you are from broccoli no I've heard of it too and now you say I haven't had you on before yeah never yeah go to a game yard where lofts keys are very common name but as it happens most you who there is in fact my son and thank you very much I had something to do with that and my father's yard site is coming up on your site in Swat and Moshe hood of course was named for him so that's a very special he they gave him when shortly after he was born my my daughter's came up with a name oh-yo because my father his name was Moshe I am so he's what if you do don't call my Sh so I was very careful to this day only the calm Moshe Hooda and my kids felt that was too long so they shortened it to mayou so um I heard what name he'll be performing under you guys gonna do this professionally like go out onto the circuit do concerts you know perform or you guys gonna get like a real job and do some of your lives well we at Lenny Solomon on and he was an accountant he gave that up to go into music full-time and he felt that a coach broker gave him a koa and he wanted to use it I mean you guys are clearly extremely talented who wrote this one talk to you my king how what are you saying with this song governing that's it this is a diverting something from me at least yeah beautiful and it obviously reached a lot of people obviously touched a lot of people now all of you guys went to Waterbury high school yeah right the music is associated with I mean I've heard early Kalish speak about um music on occasion yeah what is the role that that plays in the whole whatever experience which is an experience obviously I think it's uh whatever is a place to express and if you're writing songs and you're singing music you're expressing so they have a lot in common then what if you have any musical skills it was a disadvantage they throw you out very nice so now you guys are learning in Israel and do you want someone to give $100 to the shots Bushido camp you guys know yet any soon soon ok so you keep them in mind this doobies right all right so you wrote songs too no you just have an incredible voice and you're able to I just think they credit so that's it trust what I've been doing that for most of my life and it works great but you the you artists also a couple of them yeah song since I was young so I always I remember started in the shower you know just like in your head and then like slowly I picked up an instrument so I enjoy writing I would find that an instrument in the shower especially if it's electric is pray for her dangerous situations alright so uh so what what what song a you got you want to give to the world know this there's thousands of people who are watching this podcast I could be many of them are new audience to you I know that you only have like a slightly over a million people watch you guys but you know my my audience is clearly much more discerning and intelligent and dedicated than anybody who listens to you guys we're gonna expose you to the wider world and and from this trust me after that hundred dollars you guys will find it unbelievably powerful up you know I'm gonna be great so oh man that's the way you want it okay so what are we gonna do let's do another song back there was though I think a good song choices that we sing a lot of times in your Shiva and water Barry and her baby killers came in was probably sitting at like 20 30 times a fish is very into the song era and back to like what the what musical road news so this is Vishal Chellis officially but we kind of took it over yeah oh well [Laughter] yeah so basically rabbit killers a lot I think music in Waterbury it's not it's not just like there's there's water very and like they have like nice music guys sing I think like music is water berry and what I mean by that is like it there's not not there's a there's a there's not a day that like there doesn't pass where where there's not music song whether if it's Annie muster or or just randomly the river comes just pop you over because I just once when he was in the middle of uh mr. Shue said he just had everybody sink yeah yeah so that that happens every day like he's very cuz he explained once that songs and water berry they're not just any people asked like why you keep saying repetitive songs like in the same five songs like Sarah killer said it's very it the songs were singing it's not we're not just singing a song or it's representing yeshiva I think I think Hathi my king is not well I think that would sing I like it feel like a you know Malkina with hockey my king we're saying we're diving that Sean was saying like what we're asking our Shannon novice halt uh Sarah mineral I quit were we're we're diving which I think that's that's the essence of a Shiva the zyre courage says that the shark Nagina are next to the sherry Chuba and music has the ability to reach in the summer in a different way not gain is none which is the 50th level that takes you to gun even so it's powerful so go ahead take it away [Music] yeah [Music] yeah [Music] they'll again [Music] like [Music] [Applause] [Music] my yes mommy is she was [Music] girl they like it Islamism imei CA me [Music] laughs easy [Applause] [Music] now I gave my meter and girl they liked it I read an album years ago yeah yeah a couple years ago how did it sell yeah yeah so those were all songs were composed by any of us made it no this was like a long yeah so what we do another one working on it we just did you like songs one sided single is very into singing yeah singles you don't even know what that means when I was growing up we used to buy a 45 rpm record a song a one set in the song of the other side we used to put them on and I say listen to songs that come with the release her or this was way before beepers don't know papers you know if it was fancy had like a little stack that would let him drop down and you know and then the little arm would go over and did I'll play the play the record and that was as far as a cat you know today it's it's all everything's digital it's a whole different world well though I'm told that there were people who DAF could hold on to a an old record player because they say the sound of a record is better than the digital sound they make modern records now which are like a thing to have yeah I'm not enough of a Bucky of music to tell you this but people tell you that the music that comes off of a record is is a as a deeper sounder than that which is recorded which I find all you believe cuz you can create anything you want to come on grim we're dead that's the story yeah so so so what what did they tell you about music and water besides the fact that obviously they would use music yeah but what did they try to encourage you or they encouraged you to do the music right I only encouraged the sports they have they have sports legs or a carriage tell me they think the sports leagues very seriously you know and yeah the sports and the exercise but we should be healthy mind and body right so they obviously encouraged amusing so what's the what does he tell you about music what is music supposed to be well good question very much right that's why I have this job what is that achilles tell us about music well I guess I before expression imagine that though is that that's definitely that's definitely true I told this story with a bee right bird when I was out in LA so sometimes either invite me of my house from his house for dinner I was I was about he would come home and he'd sit down at the piano honey we just talked to play I didn't recognize any of the tunes and I said to his wife what's he playing and she said his day he could just sit down and turn his day into music the only other time I ever saw that is that I had a counselor when I was in camp who was a classical guitarist and he used to sit down and play these very you know nothing moderns very complicated pieces but you can see he was just losing himself for the music no so-so music obviously has the ability for self-expression but it's gotta be more than that right because so is poetry or art or you know that's definitely a gift also from a sham I don't really know how making songs work specific needs right yeah it's all you you play oh yeah it's interesting it just seems to come to you if at least when you're writing music it's not like you're trying so hard to specifically write a song it kinda is just there if I pick up October and or any of us it's not there's not a sit down and say I'm going to write a song ya know can't happen which by the way there are are people like I'm are you professional like a lot a lot of music that we're listening to now is like there's like a saying like a said said artists writing a happy song or a happy hour in like you cut all like songs that sell now it's like okay we need 10 songs let's write songs that's nice very force right Paul McCarthy once said that there was a group called the Beatles so McCartney one said he says I really thought that we were like this counterculture like you know it just you know not material I think he says me and John would sit down and say let's write a swimming pool let's try the right story that we know is going to be a hit and be commercial and you know so this is this is not the sort of techno music that seems to be so popular today I mean this is what more like the eighth time cats yeah so so song just comes to you how many songs have you written couple 15 20 just in the past week now it means - so you think II think - and you were saying 15 20 so there's right - do those do it so a couple of means like be - 10 and 20 that's yeah I guess so how many of those were produced one one excellent yeah how many hits did you get well I um no not that often it was basically whatever was in a couple more than a couple Wow so so you get something rigid on something that's that that says you know that would bury the essence of what you guys are trying to bring your cross you know in a song [Music] that's sense of what guys are trying to bring the crossers know what you guys are bigger than everybody you can all you can only talk to the people who are here that's always uh you know I I had somebody once who said to me you know goes oh so you're at operative relationship bureau I said I wouldn't say that and Ramesh's certainly wouldn't say that but I was one of the people who said this year for a very long time you know in fact at one time somebody was upset at Reformation they were trying to take it out of me you know and I said to him I said you're angry at the king and you want to kill the Jester you know even a guy you know I'm nobody and till the stir of my shine he said it's really very funny that wasn't exactly what I was looking for but we certainly agreed it reminds me when I was on a panel I remember I shouldn't mention the name although I used to say with his name I'm a more careful but a very famous well-known person in Kirov you know we'd be on a panel and I said you know we agree on one point we disagree on another we both agree that he is a lot of worthwhile things to say we just disagree whether or not I do and I'm okay with that you know because you certain people are just enthralled by the sound of their own voice when I was going to speak at the a good if I had that good of voice I'd be absorbed by my voice when I was going to speak of the a good convention so there's a concept be prepared to read late because people just can't believe that they're speaking if they could at convention and they just can't stop they just so taken with with the experience okay so that's that's this your is your intro where you can play which we do we're so maybe I'll maybe you should leave this long yeah I don't know her very songs well turn it into low degree obviously the whole idea is that there's a music to whatever right that's the idea I learned in a limb fishing you see but we also had we had we couldn't you know write her a coma to me the worst when somebody who just is clearly not tuneful and they managed to take something and turn it into something so incredibly painful it's better be on you I don't have to go together it's not as bad in Israel what are these swivels and some of these guys are just like having mobility no all right losers Matt and precious where it's really goes it's videos so good speak speak for your music since you guys obviously have nothing to say about anything else so that's fine told you there's a lot of Valley cities holding that let's go absolutely not yeah supposedly you play also yeah how'd you learn guitar that's good how did you learn your turn my older brother he wouldn't get tired I have no idea how did you oh you're tired oh you two kind of taught myself I don't know your I thought your father blocked you too but it did but I was like oh there's a way around there at the time look at that ice putting it like rigors Rimmel Kate was said many many years ago there's a tumblr relationship for many years so he cometh certainly Shapiro's house and he sees on the refrigerator with a magnet is a picture no whoever the youngest kid was went to God and drew a picture of like you know you know they figured he made gracious it was the son of the moon and the stars you know so he says I didn't know there but my sure holds that you can draw a picture of the Sun the Moon of the stars he says what you learnt is the revelation doesn't know what's going on in his house and he took it down so uh listen I can't be held responsible for everything and especially you know Russia is number ten in the family and you know my my oldest son Yakko who's been here before we're often say you know if that wasn't you would have killed me and it's true but you reach a certain age where you just don't have don't worry he did he killed me many yeah feel like stop it no okay come back yeah don't play with the knife alright you just do old you don't have the strength you know there was a young young parents and all the parents all the parents have more experience and less stamina it was like that line from Willy Wonka the Chocolate Factory yeah well it goes wait stop come back that's what it's like guarantee eternally okay [Music] I've been trying to gather my the colors in my life I just want to speak but they're black and white to me there but I can white to me ha first [Music] I've been trying to gather my son because in my life I just wanna see but the black and white to me either black-and-whites me me me back bring me back show me that I can that I can I've been in the dark for so long so reveal bring me Oh Oh God [Music] so really bad pretty bad show me that I can that I can I've been in the dark for so long so maybe I'll bring the Oh [Music] nice bring us all gringos bring us all ragazzo bring us all Oh I thought I was then what everyone's and I heard a retailer speaking and he was saying something about why he prefers songs with English words I think he said he likes to mix also like the Hebrew and why is it what is the guys could understand I think it makes it more real to us I think like just because English so it's so interesting you know because this is issue of taking tsukimi and and making them into songs and like people always say do we need another official tea I should borrow you know environment you know those kind of things but these are all very original and they're really expressing something in an original way okay I'm gonna say something else you just feel free to not at the conclusion what do you what do you want to write this song about connection to Jen that's it we're not doing about relationships with people oh that's also good it's also good but the song that is inside of you is a song to a Kurdish powerful yes yeah and your songs yeah I think the same I think I think yeah like the connection like all from above yeah it's a it's an amazing thing because you know the most fundamental point of all of you the sky is to be able to have a cache with a coach powerful and when I'd learned to come time we've had a play boards was Oshima used to sing it's possible for a guy to sit and learn in yeshiva a whole day and that once think about it could grow because if you didn't come up in the sugah you know who's thinking about you know and these tobert replenishment Levites who would be working on a secure it's got something you'd be learning it get up go over to the Armco dish take the Perot Chris hold it say it's Fela you know and sit back there and I see where we left what was that laughter I'm not the CEO whenever he gets up because at first the art takes the protis it says little tulip money tens Riley speaks more relevant it's because you know when you when you lose the most important thing and that's what ends up happening the most important thing so mr. Sharma says Anna's like them are the most important things of the things that we tend to forget now we don't put emphasis on and things slip away so now you guys are learning in each show what's the plan what happens next just learning you before so the thumb is playing going to brisk actually just like a matter I didn't know this yeah it's certainly a new development in your musical direction when you go to brisk some of the greatest risk and it would be good and coming to mind it's like starts to being it's I when I looked at was I am I mean you know so the rabbi sons to Vegas these guys came out of home time it was definitely in fact I went saying a cyclic lena and rabbi sharkman who was in both of those groups you know sent me a recording from the rabbi sons of where they recorded a circle of clean it was you know so by us but I remember we would sometimes do any go down and they would say this is from slobotnik you know like they you know some of some of these tunes that they as a messiah for I was giving a sure once yeah I was giving it in the shul when we were I was teaching a class about the diverting human ever in governing and I started to do the negative four over show tonight uh yeah yeah yeah yeah and everybody joined in and the place was shaking and I couldn't I couldn't go on with the class I was literally shaking I went into the office and one of their pain bilang Santino we didn't use a redundant ceases what's the matter Tom what happened he says well that's you know the demotius says that the gunam that we use on Rosh Hashanah have the power to be my or us to Juba this was the tune itself that's the power of the bigot so it's this amazing thing sending like one of the ways to brink it will I remember I remember what you told me this once that like there's different ways that you would Capri mushiya and one of the ways are through music someone says but I don't know exactly I don't know if there's a part I just don't know the position my said I don't know that it's must be a famous thing in but I don't know it doesn't mean anything about maybe that the poet Anya came to a town and everybody had you know they prepared questions for him you know C says first let's sing a you know the story know he's Irish and he sings this and all the questions you know think everybody realized the answers to their questions it just it just brought you a sense of clarity that the talent is a guess so that's unbelievable right by sight what can I tell you a coach broker gave me a special gift I never learned how to play an instrument my parents never got me lessons and you could sing goodness I accuse me I can sing but I don't have a trained voice go high and I can go let's face it you know nobody is going to listen to me for my music that's for sure and and and I never let it play an instrument which to me is like I always wished smoke flavor I'm just doing with slang Australia so remember we were blue one said it comes it's I think I was sitting there playing a guitar and he says it's so beautiful to have an instrument you can just pull it out with a group of people and play and and everyone can be sing along I said yeah he says that's why I love to play the drums but it doesn't really have the same thing unless you're watching bad don't-don't-don't anyway it's like a triangle yeah I put myself a professional tambourine okay that's pretty yeah yeah because it's as long as you're gonna hold the beat it's not too hard to play the tambourine you know there must be a real science to what it is you know but I can play pin Berean and the kazoo but that's about it but to be able to my my son-in-law avi Liberman plays the keyboard you know just fit we sit at the keyboard where it would party time yeah such an unbelievable thing yeah we had a guy when I was in yeshiva 1975 who's learning how to play the trumpet we used to like him in the McLaren see until you learn yeah when I wanted to learn drums I don't remember I went to lessons for a couple months and then by the time I started practicing there was a very big rejection from her my family was very [Music] wise like that my kids end up in waterbury but anyway thank you very much love you anyway no it's a promise is a tough thing to have to practice violin in the 1950s there was a TV show called I Love Lucy Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz yeah anyway so they have a kid little Ricky and they find a drum set and you just see the whole day he's praising throw rum-rum-rum and they get up in the morning and they're walking to the beat amazing thing anyway all right um I think we're out of time so for this week we we want to thank everybody who's been watching this special musical episode we want to thank our extremely talented musical talent for this week and and if you want to find out more about the show you go to my website very lousy calm you can add comments see my upcoming event schedule contact me directly if you want to join the online Duff yo me or Mozilla 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