Misadventures in Kyle's Musical Past

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Today we are going to be diving into some stories from my musical past. As some of you may know and have heard, I credit a lot of the first steps of me being successful as a storyteller and working from the stage to my time as a musician. I have a lot of different funny stories. I never became a super famous rock star but I definitely have a couple behind the music stories that I am really excited to share today. To really do these stories justice I wanted to bring on a friend and fellow musician, DJ Sammy Taggett from the Evolved Performer and the Evolved Podcast. He is taking the role of interviewee on today’s episode.

We discuss:

[02:20] The journey all starts with a single step when it comes to anything.
[02:43] Kyle shares how his love of music came about and how he found his first music teacher. He got his start playing in a worship band at church.
[04:41] The guitar brought a little bit of rebelliousness out of him. He shares a story of playing guitar during art class.
[05:37] Kyle shares a poem that he wrote during this art class about his friend’s drawing of a spider.
[07:23] He shares a story about playing at the Park City Jazz Festival.
[09:37] Playing at the festival opened up this whole world as he joined this band called the Cosmonauts.
[10:26] He shares a story about their band playing at Kilby Court. They made a fake identity of another band, recorded an Emo sound, played Classic Rock at the show, and got kicked out for the first time.
[13:10] New management took over Kilby Court and they were asked back but they got kicked out again after their bass player vanished.
[14:41] They were asked back for a third time about a year later under new management.
[16:23] Everything was going wrong and they were asked to leave again.
[17:37] The moral of that story is to choose your battles.
[18:05] Kyle share about another time that the bass player vanished and wrote an entire show called The Rock Opera, the night before the show.
[23:04] He has been through a lot of trials and tribulations on his own Hero’s Journey.
[24:10] There is something so wise about going full out, doing your own art, and you just don’t care what the world has to say. If you can bring that energy to what you’re creating and doing, that is what people connect with.
[24:36] Kyle shares about the frat house concert. It was halfway through and they had played all the songs they had prepared.
[28:34] The show he is most proud of is when he put on a fundraiser in Argentina.
[32:19] It is important when telling stories to bring people in so they can feel and sense it with you.
[34:05] A couple of years later through working with a startup and writing content marketing it felt like the musical energy had come back. He started building that and finding different opportunities to speak on stages, learn how to speak, and speak professionally and it called the same energy out. He built his life to be able to work and live from his laptop.
[35:12] Kyle shares about his new Transcendental Dance Experience.
[39:41] Telling and creating this kind of story elevates your own identity. A lot of times we have roadblocks in the way. Oftentimes these stories that are roadblocks for you right now, keeping you from accessing that true power of being the visionary are the ones that once transformed can be rocket fuel for yourself and energize you, and allow you to show you as this new person. These are often the ones that get people super engaged and connecting with you like they never have before.