we play before jill scott, and the next night we play before the too fighters. it's a blessing to be a cross-over band like that. we can play our music differently if we're playing before jill scott, think more funk, think more r & b, we still do the same music. we'll bring it in and play our music. >> you blessed and highly favored. that's what you are. that's what happens when you go up in new orleans. you get a little bit of everything that musical gumbo you talking about. >> even in new orleans. i grew up around the neville brothers. and there's my grandfather, my family, we grew up in the grass band community i got a chance to play with all these people as a kid, so i put all that in there. and then also being on tour with lenny kravitz out of high school, i took that and put it back with the new orleans gumbo thing. and it's always just keeping my ears open, and my mind open and learn. to me, music has no boundaries, i don't really know what the types of music -- it's just music to me. >> there's two types of music, good and bad. >> that's what keeps me, h