Heroes in Business - Music Mayhem, Host, JoLowX, FT. Sean O'Reilly

Episode Date: January 15, 2022

Self-taught Harpist, Pianist, and musician Sean O'Reilly is our guest, he performed live for us, and it was amazing, also music by Yellow Swede and more. linktr.ee/humbkevibes23

Que es la que hay and welcome one more week to Music Mayhem. This as always is YOLO, J-O-L-O-W-X. And I'm just happy to be here. We are on the season. We are on the holidays. We are, I don't know, I can feel that. Even though I'm like, where I'm at, it's summer all year round, right? I'm in Puerto Rico. I'm in this beautiful island. But even though the weather dims out a little bit and you get like a breeze, you can notice, you can feel the difference. And everything around changes, you know, the mood changes. It's Christmas mood, it's holiday season mood.

If you don't celebrate Christmas, that's all right. But the mood changes anyways. And it is so nice to see how people take their extra time to be nicer to one another and whatnot. With that in mind, I have the show for today. We are glad to be here. We are thankful for all of you, for your support, for your social media interactions. And we just want to let you know that we are thankful for your support.

And with that, I want to welcome you to today's show. And with that, I want to welcome you to today's show. And I want to invite you to keep reaching out on Facebook, on Instagram. You can find the HBTV app on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter. you can find me on Facebook and Instagram as I mentioned before J-O-L-O-W-X Jolux

and let me know what you think what you would like on the show what kind of music you would like what kind of interviews you would like to have us play on the show that's what we are here for with that said what kind of interviews you would like to have us play on the show. That's what we are here for.

With that said, again, thank you. We have a great guest today on the show. Now we are going to the first music video. This music video is a cover. Nah, nah, nigga. Alright, and that was Kill Dre by Mr. Billy Albuquerque and that was so cool. I love like live music

and like, you know, the hitting of the drums and the intensity. It's so, so cool. Especially for me that I grew up on that, like Dr. Dre, Tupac, on the east side, Biggie, Junior Mafia, Wu-Tang. I just love all of that. It just takes me back, you know, a whole lot of memories, a whole lot of mayhem in my time. And I'm wearing a, you can see that. That's my Boba Fett mixed with some nice art over there waiting for the book of Boba Fett that is coming soon. I'm a geek and I'm proud of it so yeah let me know what what are you watching right now what kind of shows or TV series are you in or what movies are you waiting for I'm surely waiting for that new spider-man no way home movie that's all the expectations right now right is there gonna be one spider

man three spider-man's how many villains are gonna be five six is all madness is so crazy but actually it's gonna be fun if you are into that kind of mayhem talking all that we're switching the pace here a little bit with our next music video which is I believe in sunshine after rain. I believe in the miracle getting past this pain. I believe it all will be part of yesterday. I believe in sunshine Sunshine after rain Sunshine

Sunshine after rain After rain Sunshine Sunshine After rain I believe in I believe in I believe in I believe in I believe in sunshine After rain

I believe in the miracle Getting past this pain I believe in the miracle Getting past this pain I believe it all will be For yesterday I believe in sunshine After 8 I believe in sunshine Sunshine after rain Sunshine

Sunshine after rain Sunshine, I'll be right I don't know how long the road may be Keep on walking and soon you'll see Anytime it will make it through Know the sun will shine down on you Everything's gonna be alright Don't give up, not without a fight I believe in a brighter day

Happiness will come your way Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It's been a long time coming It's been a long time coming That I'll be home Over you It's been a long time coming It's been a long time coming

That I'll be home Over you Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, We have the brain If you haven't got the HBTV app, go and download that. You can see all the shows, all the content. There's film content coming into the platform, you need to be aware of. There's a lot, not just music, but content creation in general. So go download the HBTV app. Check them on the different social media platforms. HBTV app on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, everywhere basically. And to talk to me and Music Mayhem, that's J-O-L-O-W-X, that's Jolox. And there you can talk to me about everything relating to Music Mayhem and what do you want on the show, what would you

rather have as music-wise or entertainment because part of what we want is to have different other creatives on the show, creative people doing films and other stuff for who are creating all the different stuff, you know, influencers, filmmakers, video creators, creators on every level. So let us know what would you rather have or prefer to have on the show. With that said, this week we have a very special guest. His name is Sean O'Reilly. And this guy is awesome. He's a self-taught musician, pianist, and harpoonist not the one that but the one that you know he

plays the harp like like an angel and he can sing you will see after the interview, we will go straight into one of his music videos that I want to show you guys. It's from, as I mentioned, Sean O'Reilly and it's called Shelter from the Storm. It's a live session he recorded, and it's beautiful. So let's go to the interview. Let's meet him, and then let's go straight to the video. Let's do that. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I enjoyed recording it. All right, and let's do this.

All right, let's do this. All right, and here we are for our interview with Sean O'Reilly Band. Mr. Sean O'Reilly, thank you for being here. Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it. So, well, let's go straight to the interview. And the first question I always ask the people I interview is, who is Sean? And how do you get into where you at right now, like this point of your life with music? All right. So I guess how most people would know me now is I am a singer songwriter. I play a few instruments, but mostly it's the piano and the pedal harp. And I'm a self-taught musician. I never went to music school or anything like that. musician I never went to music school or anything like that just as a kid I mean my family pretty much everybody in my family is musical to some degree we all

love music I always loved it as a kid and I guess because I was a little bit more of the like nerdy tinkering type I got more into that side of music you know like how it's made. And so I got into playing instruments and composing, recording, all that stuff. Wow. And so you are self-taught, basically? Yeah. Yeah. What happened was my mother, she plays piano by ear, you know, in a kind of basic way. My mother, she plays piano by ear, you know, in a kind of basic way. And when I was a kid, my father plays guitar, again, you know, in a somewhat rudimentary way, not to be rude to his talents.

But so my brother and I, he first started trying to teach us guitar. And my brother, who's older than me, was much better than I was. And so then I saw my mom playing the piano by ear. And I asked her how she did it. And she just showed me a chord book. And really from there, I just learned for myself. Just sit there for hours and figure out how chords are made and how they change across the piano. And that's basically it.

That's amazing I mean I know people who are self-taught like on guitar and um you know like maybe playing the drums and whatnot but I mean I have seen you play and do your live performances and i would never thought that you you don't have like a like i was thinking you you were like a berkeley whatever like damn well i appreciate that i mean i think that um especially well now you, growing up in the age of computers, there are so many resources that you're not completely on your own if you want to learn on your own. You know, I had, before I started looking through the internet, I sort of had figured out generally how music theory works and stuff like that. But, you know, like, and you could, you could log on any of these YouTube sites and learn about, you know, I mean, jazz specific theory and all that stuff.

I bought a guitar two times in my life, twice in different periods. And I bought like the booklet and the, you know, learn yourself. And then I went into youtube both times i had to sell the damn thing before i smashed it because i tried i i really did but at some point it's like you know doremi i'ma smash you through the wall so you know you're awesome and you know it's amazing i didn't know that and so what makes you go uh choose the heart like it's a beautiful instrument but at the same time it's not an instrument that you see often being no so what makes you look into it and choose the harp well um so the harp has actually been a bit more recent

of a development for me musically but the truth of it is um i got into fixing up pianos, particularly. I would rebuild a few. This one behind me is about 50 years old. I didn't have to do much, but this one I fixed. I fixed more. I sold them. So I got into the habit of looking on, like, old auction sites. And I found a harp. It's back there.

It's about 100 years old. And I thought, well, you know, it's kind of like a piano, maybe I could fix it. And then if I could fix it, maybe I could play it. And so that's really where that came from. is a very modern idea of harp. So I guess what's interesting about the harp, similar to the piano, is the one that's 100 years old, most of the harps today are basically made the same way. You know, around the 1920s, they felt like they just got it right, and it hasn't changed until this company. This is a French company, and they made some subtle changes to it, but also, I don't know if you can see but there's a strip right here and those are pickups so this actually it can work like a regular harp like there's a microphone you can you can hear that it sounds like a regular harp but I can also plug it into amps and speakers and pedals and like an electric guitar sound so even though it it's i think the harp is definitely viewed as like

a super uh classical instrument there's a it's becoming much more of a contemporary instrument as well all right all right and how do you get into doing this live streaming that I see they arrange? They're basically like concerts because they're like over an hour. Yeah. Well. Because in your case, I've seen they're over, like you have been doing that longer than COVID, right?

Yes. I start, well, you know, I'm a product of the internet. I grew up with the internet. So I always liked it. And the thing is, you know, when I was playing, even just the piano, I always hated keyboards. I mean, I like playing out live, I do, but when you're used to real instruments something like a keyboard no matter how impressive what it does is you know or its possibilities it doesn't feel like a real instrument so and you play differently on them at least I do. So one way that I thought i could play my piano at home that

i loved so much for people was to play on the internet so a while ago i would start doing just monday nights uh i would you know get like a little webcam and try and figure out how to get my sound going and i would do those now when covet hit um i just did it every day for a while. I think for, I don't know, a few months, I was doing it every single day. And now I do a live stream on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And because I am naturally just kind of a nerdy person, I like to get in the weeds, even if I get a little mixed up. You know, I got really into trying to use, you know, get better picture, better sound. So I got into lighting and videography and all that sort of thing.

So like if you go back to the early live streams in the COVID, there would be like horrible camera problems and the cameras would look terrible. I'm much happier with where I'm at with the live stream now. and the cameras would look terrible. I'm much happier with where I'm at with the live stream now. But that's so cool because like a lot of people, including me, like we move into doing live streaming and like a lot of these stuff after COVID because, you know, the world shut down. And I have had people on the show

that they move into stuff like that exclusively because of, you know, the whole pandemic. But going through your channel, I noticed that you started before. So for you, it was like, you know, you premiered on this kind of thing before. It was something that you decided to do because you wanted. And then the world kind of like moved to feed what you were doing, right?

Yeah, they were all suddenly in the same boat as me. Yeah. For different reasons, but we all ended up there. And something else that I noticed watching you play, it's like, and I think going through the comments of people on your YouTube channel, it's like when you're playing either the piano or the harp you and I think that it helps us identify and go there with you it's like you are somewhere else it's like you're you move to

some other place and you are so into it and you can see like the passion when you play and now like how is that for you when you're playing like how how do you feel at that moment because I can see you're not just like looking for the next next note or like trying to complete a task you are you're doing you're making magic brother thank you well i try to um it it depends so um i do do uh a lot of requests and sometimes i don't know the song and so then i you know i am kind of just looking for the next note or trying to hear in my head what's supposed to happen. But in best case scenario, I have a good idea of what I'm playing.

It'll be songs I've written or songs I've played a lot. And there's an aspect where my hands will generally know what to do. They don't know precise notes that are going to happen, but if you know the structure of a song and how it's supposed to sound, and you know how an instrument works, then your hands will usually kind of work with you. They'll know the keys and where things are moving um and so yeah when i perform i guess um my aim is not to be perfect but to like uh

it's more about expression than perfection so yeah i'm usually trying to be in the mindset of whatever the the lyric of the song is talking about. If I have some kind of idea or interpretation on what that song is about, that's where I try to be. And so as a consequence, I do make a decent amount of mistakes on the livestream. If you like meltdowns, you can come see the stream, you'll find something you like. But, you know, I have to be okay with that because I'm not trying to be, give out the same performance every night that of a set list that I know by heart. You know, I don't think people would come back, you know, if I'm live streaming three nights a week and it's just me, you know, I haven't

streaming three nights a week and it's just me. I haven't really had the opportunity to have more musicians in here. It's something I'd like to do moving forward, but since it's just me, I need something, some kind of variation to the sets every night. And you're also a songwriter, right? Yes. right? Yes. How is that process about like writing? I mean, you're self-taught, you play, but how that came to be? I mean, you have an amazing voice as well. Thanks. The songwriting. Well, so I guess because the way I learn music, I learned it in a more foundational way in that, you know, I think when most people are taught music, they're taught to just learn specific songs. And so they, you know, they learn the sequence of notes to make that song, but I was learning what they

call chords, which basically make up music theory. And that's really how most people write songs nowadays, is they'll match chords with singing lines. So the mechanics of songwriting I actually could recognize probably earlier than somebody who would learn in a more traditional sense. For me, and it's still the same way, having a song actually be written, it requires an intention on some kind of message. an intention on some kind of message. So I guess another way to put it is like, you know, I could play, I could just, I think you can hear this, you know, I could go You know, I could write some kind of melody, but unless I have an idea

of some kind of lyrical ideas that I want to convey, I would forget that in 10 minutes. And so I was a teenager when I wrote my first song. But I remember it was a long time of just writing melodies and stuff. And since I never had some kind of message to express, they would just disappear. And so it wasn't until I was a little bit older and felt like I wanted to say something, maybe not the most profound thing, but something that, you know, songs would really stick around and become songs.

That is so cool. So, okay. And how can people like, where can they reach you through your social media and your YouTube channel? And, you know, for your live streaming, where can people go to see those streamings and reach you? So I try to be everywhere on the Internet. The places where I am most available, as in like if somebody wanted to message me, my Facebook inbox is fairly organized my Instagram DMs you can slide into my DMs I usually can see those all right and then I have a website Sean O'Reilly band comm and there's an email and I try to answer those. But I mean, I'm, I'm everywhere. I post a lot on YouTube. The live stream will go out to YouTube, it goes out to

Facebook live, it goes out to Instagram, it goes out to Twitch, and I've actually started getting out to Reddit. All right. You are everywhere. Yeah. So I try to get it everywhere. I mean, if you want to get in touch with me, there are some sites that I frequent more than others, but I try to meet people where they are, I guess. All right. So what is the Facebook, Instagram pages where people can find you?

Oh, yeah. So again, I've got pretty lucky. I mean, I guess sort of the unfortunate consequence of being sean o'reilly band is people usually expect a band and lately that's not been the case but the good part is is there's been no other so on all of my social media if you search sean o'reilly band is one word it'll be there the only exception is um like the streaming stuff spotify and all that uh i have an older album that shows up as sean o'reilly band but all of the new stuff uh is just sean o'reilly if you're gonna listen to the spotify spotify sean o'reilly everywhere else is sean o'reilly band

yes all right thank you so much for being here with us today. It's been awesome having you. I am a fan of your music now, man. Thank you. I really appreciate that. And it's been awesome having you. Thank you for being here. Thank you. And I don't know if this is abusing you, but can we have you play a little bit just to take, you know, for, for take you, take us out of the interview? Yeah, sure. I mean, I don't wait. Whatever you want, like, you know, just a short bit. Yeah. Let me, let me just. i know we didn't talk about this but i

mean it's there you're very good um you know what wait let me just turn on if i turn on my pedals pedals. Now the one thing I gotta tell you is my harp is probably not in tune, but it's what I have that's actually set up to kind of be heard. Let me just... Alright. You might actually end up hearing some extra effects that I won't. All right. You might actually end up hearing some extra effects that I won't.

So hopefully this works, I guess. So this song is called Your Heart Inside My Heart. The lyrics were actually lifted kind of vaguely from an E.E. Cummings poem. So we'll just play as much as I can. Thank you. Thank you. Here's a secret no one knows Inside my heart your heart still grows A seed I buried long ago And though the tides took you inside And though the tides took you inside My heart, your heart makes waves

To peaceful homes I swing And the deepest secret No one knows The tallest tree that's ever grown The strongest sea you've ever sown With your heart inside of my heart Your heart inside of my heart Your memory melts down like oil You're inside a little hole

A torch that keeps me from falling Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, The deepest secret no one knows. The tallest tree that's ever grown. The strongest seed you've ever sown. you've ever sown. Wish your heart inside of my heart, your heart inside of my heart. Now I see, one second, all your pages in my book.

You'll stay young and I'll grow old. is The tallest tree that ever bloomed The strongest to see you ever soon The people's secret not no one knows The tallest tree that ever bloomed Thank you. your heart inside my heart is yours inside my heart sean o'reilly everybody thank you so so much my friend thank you so much for having me that was awesome thank you man i'll see you talk to you later thanks When it rains it pours When you think you had enough To go and serve you a little more When this life seems a petty little chore

You can't tell if you're just tired or bored You wanna go home Just close your eyes Stay with me tonight Cause I'm on your side And I know I can make it all feel alright I can make you feel warm I'll be your shelter from the storm Shelter from the start Shiver from the start When you first sat down

Never gave a thought How the wind might wail The water so cold It leaves you dead meat pale And wave after wave's got you A ton in your tail Yeah, you wanna go home Home

Just close your eyes Stay with me tonight I'm on your side And I know I can make it all feel alright I can make you feel warm I'll be your shelter from the storm Shelter from the storm It's time to come home Come home

Home Come home, home, home Just close your eyes, your eyes Stay with me the night, the night I'm on your side, your side And I know I can make it all feel all right I can make you feel so warm I'll be your shield if I'm the storm Shield if I'm the storm She'll live on this storm She'll live on this storm She'll live on this storm I told you he was a great musician.

Told you he was talented. He learns that by himself. That's pretty amazing and the whole heart being able to being turned basically into an electric heart that's freaking awesome like I just love maybe because I love filmmaking so much I love when when you can use classical instruments into modern compositions of music so I just love all of that and he even performing for us a little bit and then jumping into the music video that was crazy guys I just love performers and I love when they give their talent so freely to us and it was just something beautiful and I appreciate that. So thanks to our guests Sean O'Reilly thanks to all of you for

we got through we slowly what you're leaving growing with us thanks for your comments for your compliments for your suggestions. And again, this is growing. We are learning as we go. But again, thank you. Happy holidays. We'll be here next Friday with more music mayhem. Again, HBTV app everywhere. Look for it.

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