Hey guys, how's it going?

Sam here with James Quinlan in New York Sea and he's been cool enough to come down and hang out with us in the studio. And we've been getting a few up and coming players, which you are, how old are? 28, 28. Yeah, yeah. Upcoming, do you reckon you're upcoming-ish? Upish, yeah. When do you reckon you hit the age where you're not upcoming? 30? I don't know.

That's a...

When's the line in the sand? I mean, people make it, you know, young, you know, in the 20s and the 40s, you know, 60s. There's no... How did you end up in New York City? Well, um, so I grew up in Miami and moved here after college.

I actually worked on a cruise ship in Europe for six months. Oh, really? Yeah, after school. So, like, well, after you went to school in Miami? Literally the day after graduation. I was on a plane of Barcelona, yeah, which is fun. But I did that for six months and then saved up that money. I always knew I wanted to move to New York. So I took the first

flight that I could after the cruise ship and used all that money and basically survived rent-free

for about a month and a half. Yeah, it's that expensive. It's either that expensive or you drank

mostly money on the ship. What was it like? What was it like on the ship? Just like a load of people ask sort of like, you know, the cruise ship thing like, what was your experience? Well, for me, it was, it was a good time right after, right after college. It was good transition time because like I was, I knew I was leaving Miami, changing cities. Yeah. And, uh, it was, you know, it's a good way to see the world. and we were just with the dinner band, so we would go, we'd have the whole day free. So we were on, like, Positano and, I've done it, yeah. We had some time in the Caribbean too, which is cool. So we would just play at night and as long as we were back on the boat, by like, you know, six you know six as long as we didn't miss the boat

yeah yeah yeah yeah i think it's part of the uh experience oh definitely yeah yeah yeah

i crossed a jet ski oh yeah yeah i was in the uh i was in the caribbean and um it was our last

our last um we'd be in the caribbean for like two months it was our last last time, last day in the Caribbean. Bear in mind I was only like 20, so, you know, young and foolish. And we've been, you know, having a few beers all afternoon. And decided to take the jet skis for a spin. Bad idea, crushed a jet ski. Got held in the back of a car. And anyway I survived it was fine. Lived a tell the tale. Yeah, lived a tell the tell. What was your experience on there? Did you think it was like a really positive experience? Do you, have people asked you the same kind of thing like that? Yeah, well for one I mean the cruise ship is it's hard to describe to people who haven't done cruise shifts because I, I mean, if you do it, it's, you know, there's certain...

I made some really great friends that, you know, I still consider some of my best friends. All over the world, I can call them up and... Did you do the full six months, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did four and a half in the Mediterranean and six weeks in the Caribbean. Go ahead, yeah. And, yeah, there was, the experience was, it was mixed.

I mean, you know, there was, uh, the experience was, it was mixed.

I mean, you know, it was, um, it wasn't the most creatively fulfilling music, but also I kind of

took it as an opportunity to make something exciting happen. Like, um, obviously you have nothing

but time to practice and practice and practice. So that was, that was good. But also, I actually played on the

epic, which is one of the biggest ships in the water. We had 30 musicians on board.

Is I 19? It's 19 stories. Yeah, 19, I think, maybe 20. I don't know. They keep adding

more levels to it. Two and a half thousand passengers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had full capacity

with 6,000 passengers. No, sorry, 6,000 total. Yeah. Would you recommend it for... passengers and yeah yeah yeah we had full capacity with six thousand passengers uh no sorry

six thousand total yeah yeah would you recommend it for to students that are leaving you if

if you if you're in a transition in your life it's it's a great thing to do if you know if

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