VCS Vol 2026 #31 with Billy Ray Rock

time, isn't it? You know, in doing the research that we've done and taking a read on all the things that you've accomplished, I kind of go to the statement that you've been there and you've done that.

You have got some incredible experience in this industry.

Can you tell us a little bit about where you've been?

Well, look, I came in to this game a while back.

during the mid-late 90s, or as I like to call it, the booty-shaking era.

That's when they had the booty-shaking.

Shake that booty, shake that booty, shake,

shake, shake.

We like that.

Yeah.

So I gravitated towards that because that was almost simultaneously kind of a break from gangster rap and a lot of hardcore genres.

Sure, sure.

And so I kind of embraced the dance and the fun.

And just kind of stuck around there, man.

And, you know, and came out of that, you know, I grew up around a lot of diverse music.

You know, little town we had, we didn't have a lot of... variety of stations.

So one station, I had to play everything.

So one minute, it might be the Ohio players, and they would go from that song to the Moody Blues, and then back to Earth, Only Fire, and then back to Paul McCartney.

So it was all over the place.

And so as I was kind of evolving in music, man, I was like, I love rock.

And you know, it's a funny stat.

I told a buddy of mine the other day, I go, do you know every, just about every huge rock and pop song from probably, you know, 90, really through the 80s, but certainly into the 90s and the 2000s, encompass a kick-ass rock guitar solo.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.