And for anyone who isn't familiar with Chess Fever, how about if you tell us a little bit about the band and what drew you to the music of the band? The band,

well... you know the band draws a lot of folks in and still draws a lot of folks in and it uh it just kind of came to me out of uh out of somewhere and um Americana at its soul you know but at a at its heart rock and roll so being a musician I've just found myself gravitating towards it and you know ultimately I got really involved to playing the band's music out of a quest to play in other bands that were like, well, if you want this gig, uh, and this is at a time when I was living in LA and I was actively looking to play in other people's bands, get hired in other people's bands, be a part of other cool bands for this one particular band that I really wanted to be a part of.

They're like, you got to, you gotta get the band you gotta know what this is coming from and i didn't really get it and know it and yeah and uh there was a bassist in the group who really helped mentor me and was like well you're gonna learn figure this out and if this can make sense and everybody put up up on cripple creek like on youtube and we watched the video and i was like whoa okay i think i can do this i think i get what's happening here and you know and Thus began that.

I grew up, I remember my dad early on rented the last wallets on Laserdisc for like Thanksgiving one year.

I was like, what the hell is this?

What made you want to recreate that experience and what did you hope to capture that the studio recording couldn't?

Yeah, well, it's, you know, kind of in the name, there will always only ever be a last waltz, the last waltz that has ever existed that is there.

So, you know, much like there's, you know, centuries later interpretations of Beethoven's knife or, you know, Mozart and Bach, it's kind of a way to... freshen up and bring this catalog into now with an open-ended book of what that means as this this has now been interpreted in the 21st century whereas the last waltz is of the 20th century so it kind of seemed apropos of doing something and obviously this the a big component of this is that it was recorded live at massey hall And the initial catalyst of it was doing a show at Massey Hall.