Reby Hardy on Broken Hardys Bound For Glory Entrance, Bray Wyatt Piano Version, Music In Her Life

Welcome everybody to the ropes and riffs podcast.

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I'm your host, John Kiernan, wrestling entrance theme song composer.

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Today's guest is none other than Reby Hardy.

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You may know Reby Hardy from lots of different places from WWE, from her time in TNA and

impact wrestling as part of house Hardy with her husband, Matt Hardy.

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You may know her from Gothic baby as well.

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but you may forget sometimes that she

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had done music and played Matt and Jeff Hardy to the ring during their Broken Universe

series, as well as had done a rendition of Live in Fear for Bray Wyatt during the Broken

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Universe or the Woken Universe happening in WWE.

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So we're gonna talk all about those different things.

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We're gonna talk about some of the stuff that she's done in music and all that much more.

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So without any further ado, thank you so much for listening to this episode and now we're

gonna jump into our interview with Reby Hardy.

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Reby Hardy with us today.

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How's it going?

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Hi.

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This is such a cool interview for me because as everybody listening knows, we talk about

music, we talk about wrestling, we talk about entrance themes, and you're somebody that on

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screen, behind the camera, behind the keyboard, you've done like so many different things

in just, not even just wrestling, but just in you, in Reby Hardy's universe, as we say.

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I'm excited to talk to you all about music and some of the contributions that you've made

to that within the wrestling ecosystem So let's just get started right off the bat So many

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people have seen the piano playing that you've done for a couple of these different

introductions You had the ability to play within the broken universe You've had the

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ability to play which will get into both of these for the woken universe within

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the Bray Wyatt Ecosystem and Matt Hardy Ecosystem, but let's just start right off the bat.

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Tell us a little bit about your musical upbringing.

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Wow.

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So I grew up in a 17 floor apartment building where you could find one of every slice of

life on every different floor.

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And my dad was a superintendent of said building.

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So on the seventh floor was a piano teacher that my dad and my mom had become friendly

with.

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And every time we would see her in the elevator, this is what they tell me from the time I

was born.

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They would say, can she start lessons yet?

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And I'd be like,

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like one and she'd be like, not yet.

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Like she's got to know her ABCs.

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Like for some reason, my parents like had it in their head, like she needs to do piano

lessons.

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I don't know.

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It's like a prophecy.

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I don't know why.

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So they would keep seeing this, this little Bolivian woman in the elevator, like, she's

three.

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Can she do lessons yet?

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Can she her ABCs?

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And you know, no, not yet.

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So then finally I could do my ABCs and they sent me off to the seventh floor where I went

once a week.

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pretty much for the rest of my life until I became a teenager.

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And she was so strictly classical only, which part of me at the time, I was like so upset

because I wanted to play like pop music.

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wanted to do like Britney Spears covers.

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You know, I wanted to do the Titanic theme song.

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And she was so old school and so just like, no, only the classics, only the masters.

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So I grew up with just like this classical piano.

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only like music education.

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And that's that's where it all started for me.

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And then I ended up transferring schools in my second year of high school to LaGuardia in

New York, which is a lot of people know it as the Fame School from the movie Fame.

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And my big flex in music is that they only accept two second year students.

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to the music program per year and I was one of the two auditions that got in that year.

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I don't know how because- Because you classical music, that's how.

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You gotta thank the person.

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I don't know, I feel like everybody did, bro.

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The competition was so insane.

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I've never been more intimidated in my whole life, bro.

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But yeah, somehow made it in and that was great.

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I learned violin as my mandatory secondary instrument.

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And unfortunately, I did not graduate because I ended up getting married.

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was like a child bride at 16.

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It's a long story.

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So I did not graduate from there.

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But that's sort of my musical training in a nutshell.

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But you know what's funny too, and I talk about this a lot of the times with, you know,

students that I have, as many of you know, my wife and I also run a music school.

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And one of the things that we've really tried to inspire in students and really try to

tell families when they come in is my wife has her master's in piano performance.

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Mine is in commercial music, so technology, things like that, but like in composition.

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And you know, one of the things is for me, it's always been like, you should always have a

strong fundamental foundation in something, but like an A minor chord is an A minor chord,

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whether you find it in Beethoven or Alicia Keys.

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And it's like, so long as you're doing something where you're able to deliver like the

theory and the knowledge from that side, for me, I've always been like, let's rock on

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whatever you want to rock on.

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And I know for a fact,

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That's more of a modern philosophy of it because yeah, even when I started when I was like

nine, 10, that wasn't a thing.

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Even with like electric guitar, was like, you'd find somebody who's like in the back of a

shop or something like that.

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And they're like, cool.

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I learned by ear.

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So let's learn kryptonite.

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That's a story, ladies and gentlemen.

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But, you know, it's just like, as you go into the world of music, you can be a proficient

musician.

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But I think we're starting to see that as many classical musicians as there are.

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You know, as good as it is to have the fundamentals, I think we're in a much better

mentality shift to say, there's all this music out there.

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There's amazing pop.

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There's amazing rock.

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There's amazing classical.

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You know what?

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So long as you've got your basics down, play whatever you want, man.

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Resonate with what works with you.

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Yeah, I agree, man.

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I fought that tooth and nail, but she stuck to her word.

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She held her ground.

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So it was just classical for me.

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But you know what?

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In a way, I...

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influenced me not only musically, but it's so funny because it influenced like my

aesthetic, me as a person.

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Like, you know, we've kind of got, I've got the whole Gothic baby book that I do and the

whole aesthetic that we have in our home.

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And a lot of that came from just like the music that I was playing.

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And I associated that with like old literature and like classic movies.

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And it all kind of had this film noir vibe to it.

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So in a way that really inspired like,

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my Phantom of the Opera phase that like stuck with me for a lifetime.

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So I guess it ended up working out.

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Of course.

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Yeah.

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There's these little influences that just over time you're just like, you know what?

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Yeah.

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And by the way, too, the fact that you have that classical background too, it probably

makes it super easy for you in a lot of scenarios.

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Now you're able to hear something or even be able to read it a little bit and just be

like, hey, that's actually not super crazy.

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Like one thing that I find with a lot of musicians is

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The self-training stuff is totally cool, but the more of a basis you have, the less scary

music becomes to learn or to write.

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You're just like, it's this.

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Okay, great.

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Let's figure out what makes it really cool, but you can sit down in a scenario and be

like, great.

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Here we go.

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It's basically this, this, this, and this.

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So for you, it probably makes it easier to by ear pick a lot of these things up too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You're totally right.

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I agree.

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So in talking about all of that,

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One of the things from a bit of that classical background is the theme that we'll start

here because we'll try to go chronologically.

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And by the way, if there's anything that I missed out that you want people to know, just

be like, hey, I also did this thing remember more than me, honestly, this point.

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Stuff happens and it's it's behind me.

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don't even remember.

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A lot of times people come up to me at like conventions and stuff like, I love when you

did this.

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And I'm like, I forgot that even happened.

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So I'm going go with you.

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So for me, one of the first times that

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i think we saw a lot of classical music involved in wrestling was with matt hardy in the

broken universe right and you know there is the third movement going on with his lot of

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fast piano playing he's telling jeff he's just like i'm gonna beat you up final deletion

that whole thing week we all know about that as the wrestling fans do check it out ladies

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and gentlemen if you haven't already but then as time has gone on you were able to play

matt hardy to the ring and i forgot to mention this part but it all ties together

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You ended up doing the third movement and then you ended up doing a rendition of Jeff

Hardy's obsolete two.

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So walk us through a little bit of what it was like the process of you going, you know

what?

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I want to go ahead and play this, not just a digital keyboard, ladies and gentlemen, an

acoustic piano.

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They rolled that out on TNA impact.

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They did.

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And that was on stage.

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That was super cool.

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I can't believe that was able to happen to where the baby on my back on top of it.

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I was like, oh my God.

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Well, from the beginning, it's funny because years before the whole Broken Universe had

even happened, I had gotten into a phase where I wanted to do wrestling covers on piano.

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And I kind of wish I had been documenting this because I feel like it really would have

popped off.

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But it was really before I was doing like my social media stuff.

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But I had done a whole compilation of every one of Matt's themes.

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And he's got a billion because he's had a million gimmicks even before the Broken Thing.

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And I did a compilation of his themes on piano.

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And it's funny, I have it uploaded to my Facebook.

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It looks so ridiculous.

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It's like me on my little electric piano, like in my bedroom, like everything looks crazy.

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But it ended up pretty much being that that's what that was.

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Even the beginning, the very opening notes of when I first played Matt and Jeff out, when

we first started doing the piano entrances, especially the Bound for Glory one was the big

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compilation one of all of their themes and the obsolete.

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The beginning, and Matt was really adamant on this, this was like his one input.

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He's like, I want the Hardy Boys theme in there.

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I'm like, Matt, you realize this is like a single guitar riff that the Hardy Boys, how the

fuck am I going to play that on the piano?

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Like this is so sense.

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So I tried to do it like really slow and dramatic.

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And honestly, no one realized that's even what it was.

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wonder, I did you did anybody?

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don't know.

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Like literally maybe two people out of like hundreds that I've spoken to.

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I can't live was actually the notes for the opening.

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my gosh.

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I can't live for the moment and I caught some of the other ones, but like, yeah, no, but

the thing is too, and this is where we're gonna get a little bit theoretically heavy,

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ladies and gentlemen, the key that it's in, like the Hardy Boys theme, I'm pretty sure is

in, it's in like D or something like that, right?

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Like D minor or something like that.

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And all of a sudden you have this music that's in, not that key.

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Four octaves higher and mega legato.

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So if people don't, mean, I know it's there and it is literally, mean, once I say it,

you'll probably be able to hear it, but like it is, that is what it is.

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But see also the way that you tied in obsolete into that whole performance too, it's

everything is kind of just like a step up.

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So you going right into E minor with obsolete, it fits so well that one.

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So I can imagine you're sitting there, you're like, that was great.

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But I don't know, man.

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first one.

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knew what Obsolete had to be in because I knew that Jeff needed it to be in a certain key

because Jeff was singing it.

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So from that, I had to kind of build the song backwards in changing every key to be able

to lead up to the key that Jeff was able to sing in.

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So that's how that happened.

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A lot of people don't know this either.

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Originally, and this whole thing was Billy Corgan's idea.

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He was kind of running the TNA behind the scenes at that point.

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and he wanted me to sing it.

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And I was like, my guy, what?

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Like I can sing it.

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I would be happy to sing it.

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I would love to sing it.

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I should like, what an amazing opportunity, right?

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Like sing and play the piano on TV, stunt, like what a flex, right?

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But I'm like, I feel like the wrestling fans would rather hear Jeff sing it.

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And it was almost like a little back and forth because he really wanted me to sing it for

some reason.

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And I'm like, I get it, I get it.

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But trust me on this, let me, not that I'm like calling the shots or like making the calls

or whatever, but I was like, I really think

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that people would rather hear Jeff sing it.

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And then it could be like the three of us and it would make sense.

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And he could be like, you know, on the piano singing it and Matt's there being crazy

because he can't do anything else.

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Then I'm playing the piano.

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So, and I'm so glad that we ended up doing it like that because that ended up being so

iconic and just such a moment.

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Yeah, it fits so much.

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And like you're talking about it also, not just from the musical side, but from what the

people are expecting from the visuals, from all of that.

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And like,

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You know, it would be really cool to have Reby Hardy basically being the show.

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But in that moment, you had the capability to be like, you know what?

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It's about the Hardy family.

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It's about we're doing the whole universe here.

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So, yeah, that was a great call.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah, I'm so glad.

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And it's funny because I'm a huge like Twilight Zone fan.

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I've always have been.

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And my favorite episode, you know, people say, Twilight Zone fans, that you could tell a

lot about a person from what their favorite Twilight Zone episode is.

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So my favorite Twilight Zone episode has always been, and I have myself on record saying

this like 10 years ago, over 10 years ago, the obsolete man, it just speaks to me.

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It's so, you know, so another thing was at that time, I think Game of Thrones was really

popping off and the season had just aired where they were like shaming the queen through

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the town and they were going, what were they saying?

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I don't even know.

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I don't even remember what they were saying.

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What were they saying?

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I forgot.

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They were shaming the girl through the town and they were like, whore, whatever the hell

they were saying to her.

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And that idea was kind of like shaming Jeb, saying obsolete, obsolete, like running him

through the crowd, saying obsolete.

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And he had an original song that he had done, I guess, with his band.

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I don't know if it's called obsolete or if there was just obsolete in the chorus or what,

but that's totally how that ended up integrating all together and becoming a song and

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becoming part of the entrance.

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was like...

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Twilight Zone, Game of Thrones, Jeff's random thing, my favorite episode, and all like,

magically came together.

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So I'm so glad.

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Yeah, and even talking about that, the first time that I had heard Obsolete, I was just

like, yeah, this is something they came up with because in story, they ripped away

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everything that Jeff was and they did the Brother Nero.

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You you all know that.

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But like, you started playing it and I'm like, my God, this is like, how do you even come

up with something for that?

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Probably just off the melody.

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And then I look up

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the album that Jeff put out and I'm like, wait, so she took that and put that here.

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to have a song.

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mean, but like, what are the odds, right?

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Because it just, it really was like cosmic.

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It just fit together.

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And I didn't even know that song existed.

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I didn't even know he had, I've never listened to any of his stuff.

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So it was just meant to be, I guess.

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So when you go to do the Bound for Glory series or the Bound for Glory performance, and

there's this conversation of, okay, they're going to do this entrance at what

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Do we come to okay?

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Rebby's gonna play us to the ring.

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Is this something going into that that it's like hey, it's a big match So we're gonna do

it bound for glory being one of the bigger TNA impact things or is this something where

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Matt's like no We should we should bring in my wife to do this awesome rendition for us

Like what is the connection between that between it Billy?

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It was Billy Corgan who made that call?

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Yeah, and I'll always be so grateful to him because again so iconic but I found out a week

before and I was like

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Oh my God, oh shit, oh shit.

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Like have to write an arrangement, like make it make sense, you know, put it together with

everybody that's going on.

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And then also I had to time it.

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And that morning, Bond for Glory specifically was so crazy because number one, that

morning I found out I was pregnant with my second baby.

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Oh wow.

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week before that, I found out it was happening period.

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So I had to like make gear and, I originally was going to be wrestling.

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I was going to be a huge part.

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It was going to be like this.

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tag team match, like I was going to be physical with Rosemary, it's gonna be a whole

thing.

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I had to make wrestling gear.

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I had to make, I had this like vision for like a big sweeping train coming out of the

piano and stuff.

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So I had to make that ridiculous thing.

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That morning I find out I'm pregnant.

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I'm like, my God, my God.

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But it was funny having to time it cause it's obviously live and I don't know how fast or

slow the boys are gonna go.

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They don't even know they're, you know, it's different every time.

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They'll tell you one thing, it'll be something different.

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So I'm over here like.

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trying to keep my tempo, right?

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Trying to like make it make sense, trying to add on measures if I need to, like looking

over my shoulder, like are they at the ring yet?

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Are they gonna delete?

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Are they gonna touch the crowd?

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I'm like freaking out every time I have to play this song live because every time it was

different, I'm like, can we just like figure out what we're gonna do in a set time?

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But it was different every time it was the most stressful thing in the fucking world,

especially Bound for Glory, because on top of that, I had to take off my big dramatic gown

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that I had made.

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and I had to make it myself into the ring.

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I had to finish the song, let them do their thing, come into the ring.

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And then I had to get taken out because I couldn't even participate in the match like we

had planned because I was pregnant and finding out that morning.

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that whole day was just so many moving parts and so many things happening, somehow we

pulled it together.

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Somehow we made it work.

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It's funny though that you mentioned, like you had to figure out the timing and little

things because if people remember the ending when you went or when the boys were in the

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ring, right?

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You're doing these arpeggios in E minor.

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You're doing all this stuff.

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And pardon me when I was watching.

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Going on and on, because they won't fucking stop moving.

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You're just like, I'm doing these things.

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I'm crossing the hands.

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You guys good?

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You guys good?

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Yeah.

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stop this.

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Guys, come on.

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Let's go.

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Can you please And then we're here.

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No, because that's the worst.

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Imagine I hate dead air, right?

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And especially when you're live, that's like everyone's worst nightmare.

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So imagine being in the ring and no music, silence, nothing.

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So I was like, fuck, it's really on me.

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Like I can't tell the vibe.

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It's That's awesome.

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And so now we go from doing that and Matt makes his way back to WWE with Jeff and

everybody there.

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And as the broken universe turns into the woken universe and everything is brought into

there, there's this feud that starts up with Bray Wyatt because why wouldn't it?

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Right?

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Bray is amazing.

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Matt and them had such an awesome feud and everything going on.

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And yet again, you get the ability to be able to play another entrance theme, Live in

Fear, which in terms of just themes in general, nerding out for a second, that's one of my

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favorite themes of all time.

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And apparently it was either a library track.

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I'm pretty sure it was a library track from Mark Crocer.

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And I just think I'm like, man, there's so many iconic themes over time.

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But the fact that that one was like a library track that they're like, here, this is just

perfect.

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It's just, it was such an awesome theme.

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And then for you to be able to transition it into a piano rendition, how does that come

into play?

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I couldn't believe it.

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Honestly, I thought, you know, my little

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moment at TNA was gonna happen and that was my 15 minutes in music wrestling and that was

it for me.

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mean honestly produced by Billy Corrigan, I'm like I'm good I could die happy tomorrow.

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But when WWE decided they wanted to kind of bring the whole broken universe characters and

all, senior Benjamin, you know my dad, the kids, me with the piano, I thought wow this I

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cannot believe this and that was so stressful because that's the first time I've ever

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had to record my music in a studio.

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had to find a studio.

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Of course, everything is last minute, right?

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So within, I had two days that I had to write this again, write this composition, like do

my rendition of Brace thing, find a studio in the middle.

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We live in the middle of, but fuck nowhere, North Carolina.

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It's not like I'm in New York and I can just, book a studio.

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I called five different places.

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The place I even ended up, it was the craziest spot.

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Anyway.

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So get to the studio and I had to like record it on my own.

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I was so nervous.

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I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

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The producer there is so confused.

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Like he's like, it's too much pedal.

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It's too much.

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You know, I'm like, I don't care.

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This is how I do it.

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Like, shut up.

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Like I don't want your feedback.

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Hit the button, friend.

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Oh, yeah.

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My guy, you know, put the thing makes it.

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But yeah, that that was so cool.

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Get it over to them last minute.

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And we ended up shooting like in the forest in the middle of

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the Hardy Compound on an electric piano.

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The track had already been done by them.

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So I think they had it kind of playing on a Bluetooth speaker in the background while we

were filming it.

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But that was so cool.

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And it was really great to...

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I love that song.

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I loved his song.

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So was cool that it was a song that I actually like.

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I love minor keys.

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I love slow and dramatic and emo and melodic.

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So it was really perfect for me.

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And looking back, it's like even...

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I can't even listen to that song.

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honestly now.

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Like, Bray, what happened to him really fucked me up at Mattoop for a while.

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I think I'm still fucked up over it, honestly.

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But it's just so crazy that I have that connection there.

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And he loved it.

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And it was so cool that he loved it.

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And it meant so much.

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I was going to say, I feel like Bray would probably have heard that song and was just over

the moon with it because he was so about his character.

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While I've never gotten the opportunity to meet him, unfortunately, you know, so many

people that are in my life have, and everybody, including yourself, have nothing but

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amazing things to say about him and being able to work with him.

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And it was just, you know, even for me, when I go and perform on stage, many people may

see that the pants that I have are totally the black version of his pants that had the

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birds coming up it.

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So for me, Bray was such a big part for me too.

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And I remember hearing that piano thing and just being like, man.

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you couldn't get a more perfect, like if you told somebody create a piano album of just

wrestling themes, I think that was probably the most honest and the most real that you

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could have gotten and the closest you could have gotten to the most perfect one.

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I think it was fantastic.

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Thank you.

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my God.

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That was actually my first time working with like an arrangement too, because I added

synthetic violin, which I've never done.

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I'm always just like straight piano or from doing something, I'm just dicking around and

no one's ever going to hear it.

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But that was cool, like adding that, was like, I need like a little bit more like depth,

like richness, like drama.

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And I added the synthetic violin there and that was really cool.

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So thanks.

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When you did that, and correct me if I'm wrong, I may have heard this incorrectly, you

went into the studio to record that.

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Did you have something already written out for it or you were in the studio listening to

it going, okay, cool, here's what I'm going to do with it?

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That morning.

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Literally, I just kind of had it in my head what I was gonna do and I had it in my head

I'm gonna kind of have a backing track to add like a little bit of harmony and a little

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bit more depth with those violins that I like added in myself mind you like I added that

in post like in iMovie or some shit like mixed it myself Yeah, so so ladies and gentlemen

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understand that that piano rendition of live in fear was basically done that day.

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That's crazy

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Yeah, it really was very, very, very stressful because I also just as a musician, as a

musician, not that I'm a career musician, but I'm thinking like, this is my moment.

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Like this could be probably the biggest stage that my original music's ever going to be

on.

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if I mess this, like it could go really great.

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And this could be the first thing on a resume of a

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great lucrative career, maybe if I want to go down that path a little more seriously in

the future, or this can be my biggest flop and then I'm a joke and everyone, you know,

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there's so many people to this day who are like, she wasn't really playing the piano.

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She was just pretending.

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And I'm like, like literally what you can hear me fuck up.

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Like, what do you mean?

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what do you mean?

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So it's like, I, you know, as something that had been part of my life for pretty much my

whole life before I was even consenting to wanting to be in music, you know,

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It meant a lot to me personally, not just as a, this is a cool moment and cool wrestling

and TV.

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was kind of like, it's sort of like everything in your life has led up to this.

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Like this is, this is your moment here.

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Like don't fuck this up.

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So yes, a very stressful day.

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man.

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I'm just envisioning you in the car and like, I don't know if you were there with matter,

you were there with other people, but you're just in the back or you're in the front and

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you're driving.

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Like this happens to me.

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There are some times where I have.

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X amount of time to write a theme for somebody or to write a piece for film or whatever.

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Or there are some times when someone goes, hey, we need it like 10 minutes ago.

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And I'm like, all right, great.

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So you're sitting there like making dinner or doing whatever or driving somewhere.

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And this seems like it's kind of the same way for you.

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For me, when I'm doing that and I don't have anything in front of me, I still kind of have

the guitar in my head because my primary is guitar.

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And I'm just like, OK, cool.

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Here's what this would look like.

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This key, this, this, and this.

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And so by the time you sit down at the instrument,

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You kind of have a general idea of what you're going to do and then your hands are going

to kind of do the thing and you hope that they do the thing the way that you need them to

427

00:26:14,426 --> 00:26:15,626

do the thing.

428

00:26:15,706 --> 00:26:17,406

But yeah.

429

00:26:17,646 --> 00:26:18,306

Oh my God.

430

00:26:18,306 --> 00:26:19,166

Literally.

431

00:26:19,166 --> 00:26:19,666

Yeah.

432

00:26:19,666 --> 00:26:30,046

I don't think I have like the the technical like music theory to be able to like Beethoven

style, like sit and write on a keyboard.

433

00:26:30,046 --> 00:26:31,706

You know, that sounds a little crazy to me.

434

00:26:31,706 --> 00:26:36,814

So it's kind of a lot of like hearing things in my head and then playing in my head by

ear.

435

00:26:36,814 --> 00:26:40,794

just dicking around till it hopefully works out.

436

00:26:40,794 --> 00:26:45,174

Luckily I had a really great piece to go off of in the first place.

437

00:26:45,234 --> 00:26:46,074

Of course.

438

00:26:46,074 --> 00:26:55,374

And now I know that you said at the beginning of our conversation here, you had said, hey,

I want to go ahead and do a record of just piano renditions of just wrestler entrance

439

00:26:55,374 --> 00:26:56,314

themes over time.

440

00:26:56,314 --> 00:26:58,794

I still need to look up the one that you've done already.

441

00:26:58,794 --> 00:27:02,734

But if you were to go back or go forward, because

442

00:27:02,734 --> 00:27:08,954

time moves this way and say, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and put together a small

record full of those.

443

00:27:08,954 --> 00:27:13,374

Are there any that just off the top of your head, you're like, oh, I'd love to do this

one.

444

00:27:13,374 --> 00:27:22,054

We have some obvious ones that, you know, you may include or you would have included like

the two that you've done already, but are there any that you're just like, I haven't done

445

00:27:22,054 --> 00:27:22,574

that one.

446

00:27:22,574 --> 00:27:24,334

That would be sick.

447

00:27:25,734 --> 00:27:28,754

really like the song.

448

00:27:29,925 --> 00:27:31,385

it's like from the 90s.

449

00:27:31,385 --> 00:27:33,606

It's like from the 2000s.

450

00:27:35,234 --> 00:27:36,352

I don't know anything about wrestling.

451

00:27:36,352 --> 00:27:37,687

I'm so sorry.

452

00:27:42,342 --> 00:27:43,183

no.

453

00:27:43,183 --> 00:27:45,595

You know who's I would see that would be really cool for you to do.

454

00:27:45,595 --> 00:27:52,281

You'd probably knock out Nakamura's like easily cause he has that whole like, it's really

cool.

455

00:27:52,281 --> 00:27:52,651

Yeah.

456

00:27:52,651 --> 00:27:57,925

It's I'll send it to you afterwards, but yeah, he's done too.

457

00:27:58,266 --> 00:28:00,367

the one they do in WWE is really cool.

458

00:28:00,367 --> 00:28:03,080

It's, it's an a minor.

459

00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:08,823

You see me do that every now and again, I have perfect pitch, but I have to kind of sing

the note to be able to see the and things like that.

460

00:28:08,823 --> 00:28:10,518

So I'm just like, so

461

00:28:10,518 --> 00:28:11,319

It's an A minor.

462

00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:12,340

It's really cool.

463

00:28:12,340 --> 00:28:14,262

It's got like this Japanese flair to it.

464

00:28:14,262 --> 00:28:17,345

But he had one he used in New Japan called Subconscious.

465

00:28:17,345 --> 00:28:18,836

That one's really cool, too.

466

00:28:18,836 --> 00:28:22,900

It's really upbeat, very Japanese sounding, obviously, because their composer does that.

467

00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:24,602

But it's a really cool one.

468

00:28:24,602 --> 00:28:26,103

I think you'd crush that.

469

00:28:26,103 --> 00:28:26,944

my gosh.

470

00:28:26,944 --> 00:28:27,695

cool.

471

00:28:27,695 --> 00:28:28,576

Thank you.

472

00:28:28,576 --> 00:28:31,138

Yeah, I would love I would love to try it.

473

00:28:31,138 --> 00:28:33,620

It's just I've got so many things on my plate.

474

00:28:33,620 --> 00:28:35,566

It's I don't know how I get.

475

00:28:35,566 --> 00:28:37,487

through the day, honestly.

476

00:28:37,487 --> 00:28:39,668

It's one of the things that I really wanna do.

477

00:28:39,668 --> 00:28:44,613

And I bet someone's gonna end up beating me to it because I've been saying this for years

and haven't done it.

478

00:28:44,613 --> 00:28:47,936

But I need to just do it before somebody else does it, honestly.

479

00:28:47,936 --> 00:28:48,576

But you know what?

480

00:28:48,576 --> 00:28:49,527

Someone else could do it.

481

00:28:49,527 --> 00:28:51,999

No one's gonna do it like you and you're not gonna do it like them.

482

00:28:51,999 --> 00:28:52,919

So that's super cool.

483

00:28:52,919 --> 00:28:54,821

It'll be all original to that.

484

00:28:55,962 --> 00:29:01,358

But the cool thing also is even with the piano stuff that you've done, you have...

485

00:29:01,358 --> 00:29:04,818

in what I would say a very eclectic taste in music too.

486

00:29:04,818 --> 00:29:13,918

Like you do your live streams over on socials and all that you're putting together, as I

was saying over on TikTok, this crazy costume for your kid where it's literally just like,

487

00:29:13,918 --> 00:29:15,098

I don't even know.

488

00:29:15,098 --> 00:29:17,417

You're just like, oh yeah, I'm piecing this together.

489

00:29:17,417 --> 00:29:18,098

It's this.

490

00:29:18,098 --> 00:29:20,098

I'm like, I don't even know where you would start.

491

00:29:20,098 --> 00:29:28,218

And you've got this crazy, awesome, like electronic music, almost MSI style, let's say,

and very like all over the place.

492

00:29:28,218 --> 00:29:28,374

So.

493

00:29:28,374 --> 00:29:32,798

You have such a wide variety of music that you seem to love.

494

00:29:32,798 --> 00:29:36,400

What are some of the musicians that for you, you're like, I love this.

495

00:29:36,971 --> 00:29:37,382

man.

496

00:29:37,382 --> 00:29:43,627

You know, I guess I'll reference my like Spotify raps or my Apple music or whatever.

497

00:29:43,627 --> 00:29:46,088

I am going to go ahead and ask you something Spotify.

498

00:29:48,171 --> 00:29:49,532

Number one is bad bunny.

499

00:29:49,532 --> 00:29:53,575

My number one influence is always going to be Latino music.

500

00:29:53,575 --> 00:29:54,546

I'm Puerto Rican.

501

00:29:54,546 --> 00:29:57,098

that, that ties in a lot to.

502

00:29:57,098 --> 00:29:58,489

everything that I do, really.

503

00:29:58,489 --> 00:30:13,750

And then it's a lot of, I don't know, it's a lot of like slow and melodic and my favorite

band is Muse, for example, right?

504

00:30:13,750 --> 00:30:18,834

They have the alternative, The Rock, but they have a ton of classical influences in there.

505

00:30:19,338 --> 00:30:21,926

So kind of that's like my vibe, I would say.

506

00:30:21,926 --> 00:30:23,427

then I can get with that.

507

00:30:23,427 --> 00:30:24,798

Yeah, that's awesome.

508

00:30:24,846 --> 00:30:28,669

Anything dramatic, I feel like, is kind of my thing, for sure.

509

00:30:28,669 --> 00:30:37,976

And Muse goes from like, Absolution, where it's just this ridiculously grand piano to

like, supermassive black hole to all these things, like, feel like when- choir, like,

510

00:30:37,976 --> 00:30:46,863

yeah, just all- When you turn around and you were just like, what should a band be when

they group people together, instead of just like, they have to be this style.

511

00:30:46,863 --> 00:30:48,304

Muse is like, all of it.

512

00:30:48,304 --> 00:30:50,645

When I write something, let's try it.

513

00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:56,049

That is literally like, I don't think you could get any better musically than Muse.

514

00:30:56,049 --> 00:30:59,310

In my opinion, that's like the epitome.

515

00:30:59,310 --> 00:31:03,153

If I had the talent, if I could do that, that would be what I would do for sure.

516

00:31:03,153 --> 00:31:03,743

That's so.

517

00:31:03,743 --> 00:31:05,394

That's awesome.

518

00:31:05,394 --> 00:31:13,378

Now, in terms of any other places that you've had your music placed, because like you

said, you're doing a lot of other things.

519

00:31:13,378 --> 00:31:18,061

You've done the Bray Wyatt theme, you've done the Broken Universe theme.

520

00:31:18,061 --> 00:31:20,662

What else in music would Reby Hardy

521

00:31:20,662 --> 00:31:22,523

like to do in their life?

522

00:31:22,523 --> 00:31:27,165

Not even just tomorrow, but what other things in music where would you like to see it take

you if it could?

523

00:31:27,626 --> 00:31:32,868

You know, I see things happening for other people and people.

524

00:31:32,868 --> 00:31:40,172

know that comparison is the thief of joy, but you can't help but see sometimes other

people doing stuff and you're like, why are you doing that?

525

00:31:40,172 --> 00:31:41,523

Like, why not me?

526

00:31:41,523 --> 00:31:43,813

You're not even like I do that a lot.

527

00:31:44,588 --> 00:31:45,689

And I'm on TikTok a lot.

528

00:31:45,689 --> 00:31:47,070

So that happens a lot on TikTok.

529

00:31:47,070 --> 00:31:56,929

I see people with like, you know, one viral video and the next thing they're a musician

with like a crazy pre-perses beat or something, you know?

530

00:31:56,929 --> 00:32:01,633

So I would love to do something like that, but really do everything myself.

531

00:32:02,194 --> 00:32:11,161

Maybe like a, my dream is to do like a Halloween track, sort of like akin to Mariah Carey

has like her Christmas theme, you know?

532

00:32:11,714 --> 00:32:12,325

Christmas.

533

00:32:12,325 --> 00:32:20,280

I would love to do a Halloween track in the same vein, just to kind of go with my home

decor and the goth aesthetic and the music and everything.

534

00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,142

I feel like that would be really perfect one day.

535

00:32:23,142 --> 00:32:29,727

now you see that she has the accompaniment now to, all I want to Christmas is you now in

2024.

536

00:32:29,727 --> 00:32:35,952

She broke out of the gothic thing and she's like, it's time for So there was a little bit.

537

00:32:35,952 --> 00:32:37,842

I'm like, that's amazing.

538

00:32:37,842 --> 00:32:39,333

Yeah.

539

00:32:39,333 --> 00:32:40,174

Cool.

540

00:32:40,376 --> 00:32:45,600

Well, I would love to hear a Halloween written inspired by and composed by Reby Hardy.

541

00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:46,410

I've got it.

542

00:32:46,410 --> 00:32:47,508

I've got it in my notes.

543

00:32:47,508 --> 00:32:48,742

I need to find a producer.

544

00:32:48,742 --> 00:32:49,339

Is it you?

545

00:32:49,339 --> 00:32:50,493

Do you want to do the song?

546

00:32:50,493 --> 00:32:51,634

I am so down.

547

00:32:51,634 --> 00:32:52,755

I'm always down for that.

548

00:32:52,755 --> 00:32:53,986

Let's do the song.

549

00:32:53,986 --> 00:32:54,886

Let's do it.

550

00:32:54,886 --> 00:32:56,177

That'd be great.

551

00:32:56,296 --> 00:33:08,105

Now, before I let you go today, one other question that I ask everybody who's ever come on

the show is if you had to make a Spotify playlist and you had to choose three songs that

552

00:33:08,105 --> 00:33:09,198

represent you,

553

00:33:09,198 --> 00:33:11,998

What would those three songs be?

554

00:33:12,338 --> 00:33:13,358

Gosh.

555

00:33:13,438 --> 00:33:16,338

Um, it's always the hardest question I ask everybody.

556

00:33:16,338 --> 00:33:18,258

Everyone's like wrestling.

557

00:33:18,258 --> 00:33:19,118

Let's talk music.

558

00:33:19,118 --> 00:33:19,338

Yeah.

559

00:33:19,338 --> 00:33:20,218

I won this title.

560

00:33:20,218 --> 00:33:20,418

Yeah.

561

00:33:20,418 --> 00:33:24,298

This guy, whatever you're asking me about the music that represents me.

562

00:33:24,298 --> 00:33:25,598

What are you doing?

563

00:33:25,918 --> 00:33:26,618

know what?

564

00:33:26,618 --> 00:33:37,298

I might be the only person who actually has answers ready to go because I have a playlist

that I want played at my funeral.

565

00:33:37,298 --> 00:33:38,702

Oh, all right.

566

00:33:38,702 --> 00:33:43,226

So I have a set list of songs that I want played at my funeral.

567

00:33:43,226 --> 00:33:48,451

And I guess that would be as close to representing a person as anything else, right?

568

00:33:48,451 --> 00:33:54,736

So the songs are Flight by Sutton Foster.

569

00:33:55,877 --> 00:33:57,799

It's a duet between two girls.

570

00:33:57,799 --> 00:34:06,466

It's like just nearly acoustic, but it's very like kind of what you want your spirit to

end up being like what you want to be.

571

00:34:06,906 --> 00:34:09,848

And then I would say New York State of Mind, Billy Joel.

572

00:34:09,848 --> 00:34:10,989

Great one.

573

00:34:11,710 --> 00:34:13,531

And the third one, I don't know.

574

00:34:13,531 --> 00:34:15,191

I'm still getting there.

575

00:34:15,252 --> 00:34:18,193

But maybe something from Phantom of the Opera.

576

00:34:19,135 --> 00:34:22,556

Maybe wishing you were somehow here again, something like that.

577

00:34:22,577 --> 00:34:24,758

Or think of me, I don't know.

578

00:34:24,758 --> 00:34:26,139

Something like that.

579

00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:27,650

See, that'd be a great one.

580

00:34:27,650 --> 00:34:30,172

We've always joked about for my funeral, what would you do?

581

00:34:30,172 --> 00:34:32,504

It'd be like Frank Sinatra's My Way, probably.

582

00:34:32,504 --> 00:34:32,994

I don't know.

583

00:34:32,994 --> 00:34:35,246

Yeah, that's a great one.

584

00:34:35,246 --> 00:34:36,426

I love that.

585

00:34:36,608 --> 00:34:47,404

Yeah awesome and you know what to that that playlist of what songs would I have at my

funeral is just that also fits the aesthetic You know, I'm psychotic though.

586

00:34:47,404 --> 00:34:52,547

I'm I'm I'm to the point where and I'm and I'm thinking god, you know I live life like

this all the time.

587

00:34:52,547 --> 00:34:59,490

I could die tomorrow I feel like that's why I have my my hands in so many different pools

of water at all times because I'm like Well, if I don't do it now, what am I gonna do?

588

00:34:59,490 --> 00:35:02,012

I'm gonna die tomorrow.

589

00:35:02,012 --> 00:35:05,673

I need to just go ahead and do it just like my fucking piano wrestling album.

590

00:35:05,674 --> 00:35:06,530

I want to

591

00:35:06,530 --> 00:35:08,451

Horde the songs myself.

592

00:35:08,992 --> 00:35:10,173

Yeah.

593

00:35:10,173 --> 00:35:11,574

So drama, right?

594

00:35:11,574 --> 00:35:12,155

The drama.

595

00:35:12,155 --> 00:35:20,982

Imagine like you're singing your own curated playlist, set list of songs at your own

funeral with your own voice, your own track.

596

00:35:20,982 --> 00:35:22,103

I think that would be great.

597

00:35:22,103 --> 00:35:23,044

I think, you know what?

598

00:35:23,044 --> 00:35:24,085

It's my it's right.

599

00:35:24,085 --> 00:35:27,568

Your final party might as well just go out with a bass.

600

00:35:27,568 --> 00:35:29,389

It'd be crazy.

601

00:35:29,389 --> 00:35:34,958

It's so funny, too, when you're a musician, because you think of things like that, too,

both from an artistic side, like, man,

602

00:35:34,958 --> 00:35:37,458

What would what music would I have at my funeral?

603

00:35:37,558 --> 00:35:38,398

Huh?

604

00:35:38,438 --> 00:35:41,458

Maybe I can play the music you're going to hear.

605

00:35:41,558 --> 00:35:49,378

Man, literally do do do every do every part do every yeah, every instrument, do every

melody, right?

606

00:35:49,378 --> 00:35:52,998

Harmonize with yourself and then see if anybody notices.

607

00:35:52,998 --> 00:36:01,078

And I you know what it would notice, but unless like someone's leaving and they just hear

they're like, wait, this was such a beautiful thing that wait, is that Reby?

608

00:36:01,078 --> 00:36:01,898

What are we doing?

609

00:36:01,898 --> 00:36:02,990

And then they're like.

610

00:36:02,990 --> 00:36:08,210

at the wake for like another 20 minutes like, my God, the water well start again.

611

00:36:08,290 --> 00:36:10,170

Oh, God.

612

00:36:10,170 --> 00:36:14,130

And you have a piano at you have your piano in your home, I'm assuming.

613

00:36:14,310 --> 00:36:15,490

have four.

614

00:36:15,490 --> 00:36:17,230

Yeah, you have four.

615

00:36:17,430 --> 00:36:18,050

I'm insane.

616

00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:24,436

I have an antique upright piano from 1864 in my dining room.

617

00:36:24,436 --> 00:36:30,611

Then the next room over, which I can't wait until my kids get a little bit better at music

because then we could do dueling panels.

618

00:36:30,611 --> 00:36:33,692

The next room over, I've got my baby grand.

619

00:36:33,713 --> 00:36:39,857

And then in our room where the wrestling ring is, we've got a white baby grand.

620

00:36:39,857 --> 00:36:45,542

And then I've also gotten electric piano, which is where I've recorded the majority of the

tracks, which is so insane.

621

00:36:45,542 --> 00:36:52,086

Aside from the studio track that you hear for the Bray Wyatt theme, I recorded everything

on my little rinky dink.

622

00:36:52,206 --> 00:36:55,586

Electric piano from Sam Ash in Raleigh, North Carolina.

623

00:36:55,586 --> 00:36:58,246

It's like a $400 piece of shit.

624

00:36:58,806 --> 00:37:00,906

And literally that is what I've recorded on.

625

00:37:00,906 --> 00:37:03,126

I tell people that they're like, this is what you use.

626

00:37:03,126 --> 00:37:05,226

I'm like the ghetto, know, but.

627

00:37:05,226 --> 00:37:06,706

don't feel bad about that at all.

628

00:37:06,706 --> 00:37:13,166

I've talked to the boys from Downstate and Cody Rhodes theme kingdom that was written and

recorded on a hundred dollar guitar.

629

00:37:13,166 --> 00:37:14,986

Like don't feel bad at all.

630

00:37:14,986 --> 00:37:15,766

right.

631

00:37:15,766 --> 00:37:16,578

Yeah.

632

00:37:16,578 --> 00:37:17,088

You know what?

633

00:37:17,088 --> 00:37:18,469

It's not the instrument.

634

00:37:18,469 --> 00:37:22,980

Like, yes, it's cool to get expensive instruments if you can, if you can ever afford it.

635

00:37:22,980 --> 00:37:26,821

But at the same time, it's about the creativity, what you do with it.

636

00:37:26,821 --> 00:37:27,581

And you know what?

637

00:37:27,581 --> 00:37:33,383

People can make a $2,000 instrument or a $20,000 acoustic piano sound terrible.

638

00:37:33,383 --> 00:37:36,724

And people can make a $100 guitar or something even like that.

639

00:37:36,724 --> 00:37:37,704

Sound awesome.

640

00:37:37,704 --> 00:37:39,505

All I need is a damper pedal, really.

641

00:37:39,505 --> 00:37:41,235

I'm good.

642

00:37:41,235 --> 00:37:41,926

That's a shirt.

643

00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:43,636

All I need is a damper pedal.

644

00:37:45,288 --> 00:37:47,970

Well, Reby, it has been absolutely awesome chatting with you today.

645

00:37:47,970 --> 00:37:49,151

Thank you so much for your time.

646

00:37:49,151 --> 00:37:54,524

I know there's a little bit of a different conversation than a lot of people may have in

the wrestling industry.

647

00:37:54,524 --> 00:38:05,211

But again, with someone with such your background, such musicality and such an interesting

road within the world of artistry, I'm so thankful that we had this conversation today.

648

00:38:05,211 --> 00:38:06,342

Thanks.

649

00:38:06,342 --> 00:38:06,702

my God.

650

00:38:06,702 --> 00:38:07,602

Thank you so much.

651

00:38:07,602 --> 00:38:08,313

This was cool.

652

00:38:08,313 --> 00:38:10,164

I wouldn't have done any other wrestling thing.

653

00:38:10,164 --> 00:38:11,605

So this worked out.