Alright, just give us another minute while we get everyone up to the stage and then I'll kick us off. Thank you.
So we have most everyone here. Chris Differ was having some issues with technology. He does have an iPhone. I told him to download the app. He was trying to
join from his browser. So let's see if he shows up here shortly in the audience. If not, we can go ahead and get started. Let's give it another 30 seconds or so. Thank you.
Fantastic. Alright, so it looks like we have a good start here. Good afternoon from Miami Beach, USA. Home of Bitcoin, 2023. Today I saw a dolphin plow into a giant manatee here on Biscayne Bay. I'm told he did not do it on purpose though, dead jokes.
come with the territory folks. Welcome everyone to crypto is community web 3 music edition hosted by our friends at the Diffinity Foundation. If it runs on a blockchain we talk about it every week in this space. So if you're building something awesome on a blockchain we would love to hear your web 3 story. We are a blockchain inclusive space we
feature people and projects building on all chains. That said, please do give a follow-up to Finity. And of course, please follow all our featured guests today. Remember to tag your friends and tell them to give this space a replay if they are music lovers or if they are interested in music on the blockchain. I am joined today.
by two co-hosts. But I think first Jesse, I see P. Jesse who's on the other coast of the USA, Jesse, how is the LA Dream today? The LA Dream is so good William and I don't mean to brag but I win Salsa Live music this week and I
And I just had an incredible time and was just so reminded of the power of music to bring people together that music is like food in that it's a
universal that ties people together. And I just continued to be extremely excited about crypto and NFTs and the ability of technology staff to like cross international fiat regional cultural borders and bring people together. So I'm super excited to hear about trash.
I'm really excited to talk to Scott Page. I'm hoping to extract a few more employed stories out of him. Again, and I love his last show in Los Angeles too. So yeah, thanks for having me here. I'm really excited to talk about all this. Thanks, Jess. You do have a lot of background noise there. I'm going to try and keep the intro short today in respect to everyone's time.
But, you know, look, we have a music industry that's in crisis. We have streaming platforms like Spotify that has been undervalued in original music. Musicians are struggling more than ever before because this one size fits all model of music distribution is just not working. Musicians are frustrated, fans are disfigured,
connected. And most importantly, something that we've talked about before with Scott especially is, "Visitions are not getting compensated properly." So if you agree with me, raise your fist, give some purple hearts there. We're going to talk today to the founders of Tracks and Masai who offer a completely new model of music
Museum. Deep in the jungles of the United Kingdom, Chris is known for being a founding member of the legendary band Squeeze. He is also continues to tour and record music, but he's doing a lot of mentoring with up and coming songwriters through songwriting workshops. He's got an amazing autobiography
called some fantastic place. My life in and out of squeeze. He's got a pretty darn cool podcast called I never thought it would happen. He's had on stingy's head on Tim Rice, he's had on Nick Lowe and many more. Chris, thanks for joining. How is the weather on the other side of the pond this evening?
Hi, if you can, can you hear me? Okay, it's the weather's good. Well, loud and clear. Hey, thanks so much. Look, it's sort of been walking on eggshells because growing up in the 80s, squeeze was one of my favorite bands and I'm so happy to have you with us and I'm so excited.