The Music of Greg Mihaly
The Beach Maniac Island Music Podcast
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Takeaways:
'Sunshades on 30A' was intentionally written for the Trop Rock genre.
Collaboration has been a key focus for Greg in his recent work.
Music evokes similar feelings across different genres.
Greg's style is rooted in rock, influenced by 70s and 80s music.
Trop Rock welcomes diverse sounds and influences.
Greg's upbringing in Pensacola shapes his music and lyrics.
He aims to create music that resonates with beach culture.
The Trop Rock community is supportive and inclusive.
Greg's upcoming EP will feature a mix of traditional and heavy rock influences.
He values the connections made through music and looks forward to future collaborations.
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Greg Mihaly has captured the attention of Trop Rock fans with his hit song Sunshades on 30A. But as a Rock/Alt-Rock artist and bass player at heart, his music brings new layers to Trop Rock.
Greg wrote Sunshades on 30A with plans to pitch it to other Trop Rock musicians. He even pitched it to Jesse Rice. However, Jesse said he wasn’t lookiing for new music at the time and actually already, very coincidentally, had his own song in the works about Highway 30A. So Greg released it on his own. “And I would like to thank Jesse Rice for passing on that one because it’s turned out to be a pretty good song for me,” Greg said with a laugh.
Greg, who lives in the Pensacola Beach area, drove up and down Highway 30A to inspire the song. “I put myself in a vehicle when I was writing it and kind of drove myself around the area. What's over there? What's over here? And so I just kind of really mapped out what anyone would see if they spent enough time down there.”
His song, A Little Bit of Everything, is about the many influences and styles working their way into music, particularly country music. “It's a love piece about bringing everything into a genre and everybody just, you know, get together, having a good time, listening to, whether it's trap beats or rock riffs or, you know, soulful singing or whatever it is, it all can exist under one umbrella.”
Lower Alabama Way has the elements of the quintessential beach song but has a deeper meaning. Greg recalls when his family moved to Pensacola and he first heard that part of the Florida panhandle referred to as Lower Alabama. “Yeah, as a youngster that was the first time I ever heard that term was Lower Alabama and … since I've been writing songs I figured that there was always going to be a chance for me to write that song about Lower Alabama and so a few years ago I went ahead and brought that one up and developed it.”
Covered in Sand is about the beaches in the Pensacola area but, “on a grander scale, the baked-in message in this one is the message of abundance and bounty and sharing.”
And My Beach embeds even deeper meaning. “This song really speaks to just the bipolar nature of the of the happiest you can be and the saddest you can possibly be all in the same place for completely different reasons and you just try to keep going. That song really is, even though it sounds like a fun song, it's really a song that's got struggle and conflict kind of laced into it.”
Other songs, like Stroll On, also mix beach themes with more gritty rock vibes and philosophical messages. “So to me, beach music, with what I grew up on, that setting and that feel, there's a lot more allowance for some really, really heavy grungy content there. And so it's still here. I'm still trying to bring it.”
Greg, who is booked for Meeting of the Minds in October, said he is very appreciative of the way the Trop Rock community has welcomed him and his music. “I'm looking forward to finally getting out amongst some of the folks that have been supporting my music for the past few years, and getting out to these festivals and concerts is going to help me do that. So I'm definitely stoked about that. Definitely excited.”
“So I guess if there's any send-off message I have, it's thank you. It is just thank you for everything, and I'm going to keep putting music out and hopefully everyone will keep requesting it and I really hope to see more people more often at some of these events that you were talking about and yeah, just looking forward to what things lie ahead between my new music and collaborations, again, that I'm working on as well that I can't wait to tell you about. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun going forward. I'm excited.”
Podcast Transcript:
You probably know Greg Mihaly from his melodic, Trop Rock tune, Sunshades on 30A. In that song, Greg takes us on a musical tour of the iconic Highway 30A in the Florida Panhandle, singing about the white sand beaches, emerald waters and the laid-back charm of the beach towns dotting the Gulf Coast. While Sunshades on 30A has become his signature song in the Trop Rock world, Greg's music stretches far beyond that. He blends gritty rock, coastal vibes, and introspective lyrics into a sound that's truly his own, something he highlights in another standout track called A Little Bit of Everything. Greg Mihaly, welcome to the Beach Maniac Island Music Podcast.
Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here, Bill.
All right, and you're joining us from Pensacola, Florida, is that right?
Yep, Pensacola Beach, Florida, is where I'm based out of, so yeah, that's where I am, yep.
All right, and that explains Sunshades on 30A. So I want to talk more about all of your music and how you got to where you are today, but first I want to jump right in and focus on Sunshades on 30A. Tell me a little bit about that song and what's the inspiration behind it.
This was probably, not probably, this was absolutely the first really intentional song that I wrote that was going to be a Trop Rock song. I know you went back and probably listened to a bunch of other stuff that I've done along the way that spans. There is a breadth there. But with Sunshades on 30A, it's definitely a different beast because this was the first one I wrote intentionally to be a Trop Rock song. It's also the first one that I've written, you know, semi-recently that I really planned on sharing with somebody else and expanding into, you know, the Trop Rock community and to some other artists, you know, through collaboration. I remember I was talking with Kenny Tice who's over at Radio Trop Rock now and we were having one of our little conversations on Saturday morning and we were just talking about who was doing well in Trop Rock and we had mentioned Monallo and Jesse Rice and stuff like that and I just decided that was kind of going to be my day that I was going to go in and really start a song that could be a collaborative song, and so that Saturday afternoon I started writing that song and by Monday the song was done already past the point of really needing collaboration or whatever, you know, I was like, okay, well I'll just go ahead and demo this up anyway, maybe somebody else will want to cut it, because again, I'm writing this for someone else. And so I demoed it up, and by the time I got done demoing it up, I realized that I kind of had a record. So I went ahead and put it all together and mixed it and sent it out to the streaming services, and so that's how it came to be. But it was supposed to be a beach vibe, Trop Rock song that again, I was going to collaborate and share with someone else, and it ended up just kind of turning into another one of my songs. So that's how it got here.
Why did you feel you were writing it for somebody else from the get-go?
For the past few years, I have been writing all by myself. I start writing the song, I record the song, I track the song, I mix the song, I master the song, I put the song out. And that's what I've been doing really since probably 2021, 2022. And so I just figured it was time for me to start reaching out. you know, because I've always wanted to collaborate with other folks. It's just, you know, my process is very, you know, straight line when it's, you know, when I'm the only person in the room. So it made it easy to get through things. But again, you know, I, I like being on teams. I like collaborative projects. So again, I was going to do this. I was like, it's going to be, you know, maybe in the style of Monallo or Jesse Rice or something like that. And that's where I got it. And I was wanting again, you know, because this Trop Rock thing is such a vibey and community based thing that I just couldn't wait to work with some other artists. And there are projects like that that are in the works in their infancy right now that I can't wait to tell you about at some point. But no, that song was going to be the thing that I pitched to Monallo, that I pitched to Jesse Rice or whatever. I actually, I did pitch it to Jesse Rice, strangely enough, there's a little story I'll tell on him.
It's a great story and it just shows you what he's, you know, I can't wait to meet him one day. Fantastic dude. And of course, you know, he works with, you know, friends of mine, Jax Bowers and James Drakes as well. But about a week or so after Sunshades on 30A came out, of course, you know, I don't have a huge following yet or anything like that. So I'm like, you know, it'd still be better off if somebody else cut this song. And I still think, you know, I can hear somebody else singing it. So I reached out to Jesse Rice and I was just kind of like, you know, like you've never met me before. My name is Greg Mihaly and I've got this song called Sunshades on 30A. Sounds like it might kind of be up your alley if you're, you know, wanting to record it. Now keep in mind this was last December that I was doing all this because Sunshades on 30A came out in late November. Well, he responded, you know, very, very quickly thereafter and was very nice, very gracious. He said, believe it or not, you know, well, number one, I'm not looking for songs right now because I've already got my whole next EP and LP at least written out and strangely enough I've got a song called 30A that's coming out on my EP that's gonna be out in a month or two so he's like I already kind of have the 30A song but you know thanks for thinking of me and so anyway he got back to me was real nice about it and wasn't interested in cutting that song but so I just kind of left it out there and then within a couple of months it started creeping on its own. It started doing real well at Radio Trop Rock with the listener requests and everything and so that's how it got to where it was and I'd like to thank Jesse Rice for passing on that one because it's turned out to be a pretty good song for me.
It’s a great song.
Yeah, well thank you, thank you, thank you.
And that's just a weird coincidence that you both had Highway 30A songs developed at the same time, completely independent, right?
Totally bizarre, totally bizarre, you know, to hear back he's like, not only do I not need songs, but I've already got a song about 30A that's coming out in about a month or two, so.
So tell me about what inspired you specifically about that song. You're from that area, you've probably been up and down the road a million times. Tell me about that.
The song was really inspired by, and again, it's getting in that Trop Rock state of mind, getting that visualization. One of the reasons that it actually kind of reminded me of, it's like, what am I seeing right now? What are you seeing? What are you smelling? What are you feeling? All those things. And keeping it in that Trop Rock vibe.
Also, you know, the setting that you put yourself in when you're writing it. I put myself in a vehicle when I was writing it and kind of drove myself around the area. What's over there? What's over here? And so I just kind of really mapped out what anyone would see if they spent enough time down there. You know, it's just like, you know, my favorite road runs left and right. You know, that's that east-west span and just talking about all the memories, at least for me, that exist in this general area and things that anybody who's been here at least once will be like, yeah, I remember that, I remember that, I remember that. And so just really putting it in that beach setting, in a cruising down the road type vibe and feel for that song. And again, that's one of those things - like Jesse Rice has that song called Cruise, you know, that he co-wrote that did really well with Florida Georgia Line. And so again, that's the mentality I was. It was just in the, just the riding around a beach town and area, what am I seeing and what do I love about it? And that was the inspiration behind that.
And then you came up with a great melody to put it all together with.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So once you write the song, how does it get traction on the Trop Rock charts and the stations? How does that come about?
Well, the first thing that happens really is I try to reach out to some of these Trop Rock stations. Now, I had had some songs that were being played on some stations, but the really big station that it blew up on was Radio Trop Rock, of course. And they had actually, I had told them about the song, I think maybe sent them an email, just kind of like a one-off email saying, I've got this new song out. Sometimes, you know how emails go, especially nowadays. I think sometimes three quarters of the emails that I even send sometimes just go completely unfielded. So you never know whether or not somebody got the email or whatever. I guess it was like either late December or early January when they reached out to me. They said, hey, we've got some listeners that say that we should be playing this Sunshades on 30A song on Radio Trop Rock, you know, can we do that? And I'm like, heck yes, you can do that. Yes, please, please, please, please, please. And so they started, they put it into their rotation. And then by the end of January, I think, well, it would have been the first week of February when they released their Buzzn’ Dozen list. And I didn't know about this yet, but I got a call or a text rather from James Drakes, Manalo.
He said congratulations on being number three this month. And I'm just looking at this text like, number three for what? I mean, thank you, but what are you talking about? And so it took me a second to figure it out. I went on Facebook, and sure enough, there it was. And then the next month, it was number one. And then the next three or four months, it hung out at number two. And I think this past month, it dropped down to number 10.
Wow.
We're still talking six months in the top ten and five of those six months were in the top three, so I was very, very, very appreciative that they that they picked that up and that that it resounded so well amongst the listeners, so that was fun.
That's amazing. ... And do you personally get feedback from fans of the Trap Rock genre?
I do, I do. And that's the cool thing about Facebook and about technology nowadays is it doesn't even take a fan letter to get mailed across the country anymore. I mean, somebody can just drop into your comments or drop into the DMs and say, hey, good job on this or that or whatever. So yeah, I do get feedback from people directly and it's all been good.
So Sunshades on 30A is a little bit different than a lot of your music in the past. When I listen to some of your other songs, there's a lot more grittiness to it in a lot of cases, a lot more guitar riffs. And you have a song called A Little Bit of Everything, which I think is sort of a musical autobiography of yours. Can you tell me a little bit about that?
Yes, that one was and yes, it really does talk about just pulling from everywhere. And, you know, again, it's another song about, you know, just getting everybody together, you know, no matter where you're from, no matter what your influences are, we've we've all got something in common and, for the most part, we all love the same things about music. Music does the same things for all of us, no matter what kind of music it is that you enjoy. It's evocative, the same feelings, the same memory recalls or imagery or whatever it is, music is music and it moves you. It moves different people no matter what it sounds like. And so, yes, this was truly the draw on everything. And rather than being a hate piece about all these things coming into a genre. It's a love piece about bringing everything into a genre and everybody just, you know, get together, having a good time, you know, listening to,whether it's trap beats or rock riffs or, you know, soulful singing or whatever it is, it all can exist under one umbrella.
So how would you personally describe your style or your sound?
I would... I don't know... I guess it would be... I mean, they're all really done in the context of a rock band. So I would still... I guess I would still call myself a rock artist or an alt-rock artist. You know, whenever I do these productions, I always have in mind a band setting. You I grew up on recordings from the 70s, records made in the 70s, records made in the 80s, and the early 90s, and always were like very band oriented. I want to, when I hear something coming out of the speakers, I want to hear a band playing rather than just an artist singing. So I think that's why it's been so easy for me. And again, it's what I grew up on. So this guitar, typically guitar driven, heavier rock stuff. Of course I loved a lot of 80s pop music and 90s pop music too. But it's just easy for me to create in that style because that's where I've got the most time under the hood. I cut my teeth on Soundgarden and Alice in Chains and Helmet and Rat and all that old school rock stuff and so that format certainly persists in the package that I'm delivering.
It's a really interesting mix of sounds, and like a musical journey from that to Trop Rock. It seems like a long trip from one place to the other.
It is. It is a long...it is kind of a long span. I'm fortunate though in that I haven't had to... I don't feel like I've really had to build a bridge to Trop Rock though. Because I kind of feel like I'm still doing what comes naturally to me. And you know, that was another thing that I was considering when, you know, when wanting to collaborate more is...you know, every Trop Rock song isn't going to be a song that I'm going to cut necessarily with my name on it as an artist, but that doesn't mean they aren't great Trop Rock songs, that just means somebody else needs to be singing it. And so, again, that was one of my reasons for wanting to branch out is, you know, I want to write way more songs than I would ever even put on one of my albums, and so, again, you know, that speaks to why I wanted to reach out and collaborate because I write more things than I would ever record for myself and rather than that stuff just going to waste it just needs to find its way to the right artist.
So what are some of the other songs that you have that would fall into the chop rock genre?
Well, another one that got picked up strangely... okay, so Lower Alabama Way is probably the other one that we can't not mention when it comes to Trop Rock because again, that is the quintessential point your truck down south, go to the beach, put your toes in the sand, sunscreen on your nose, all the typical cold drink in your hand, you know, shake up the mixed bag of Trop Rock themes and pour it out and it's like, cold drink, sunscreen, and you put them in the song. But no, really, and there is a little bit more behind this than just a mixed bag of Trop Rock themes. It really echoes my, it reflects my trip down to Pensacola. The first time I heard this region referred to as Lower Alabama was when we were moving down here from from up north and my dad said, all right, it’s time to go to Lower Alabama, and I was like I thought you said we were moving to Pensacola Florida and he goes, same difference.
Hahaha.
So anyway that was the first time I ever heard that term Lower Alabama and it's weird if you've ever done that drive down 65 you know the feeling because you come all the way down through, you know, whether you're coming through Tennessee or over through Georgia or whatever, you know, that drive down 65, it's just pine trees and asphalt for so long. Pine trees and asphalt, pine trees, and you just keep going south and you just keep going south and then once you dead end, you dead end into the most beautiful beaches ever. So like you literally go from Alabama to straight-up tropics feel. Anyway, yeah, as a youngster that was the first time I ever heard that term was Lower Alabama and just kind of all my life, you know, since I've, well, since I've been writing songs I figured that there was always going to be a chance for me to write that song about Lower Alabama and so a few years ago I went ahead and brought that one up and developed it. But yeah that's the other Trop Rock song and that was the first song that got picked up by Trop Rock at all. And so that was my first Trop Rock spin was Lower Alabama.
How about covered in sand?
Covered in Sand, yeah, that's my most recent release. Again, with a lot of my songs, there's the ground level meaning, and then there's the 30,000 foot view meaning. And, you know, Covered in Sand just kind of came out of...I was wanting to write another Trop Rock song and it just came out of... there literally is sand everywhere. If you live down here or near here... there isn't one place you can look and not find some sand. So that's really where that came from, was the whole covered in sand thing. Now, of course, the basic view of that is, there's sand everywhere. Yep, there is sand everywhere. But on a grander scale, the baked in message in this one is the message of abundance and bounty and sharing and things like that too.
And appreciate the things that you have.
Exactly, exactly, exactly, exactly. And just appreciating what you have, and if you truly believe in the concept of bounty, that you shouldn't be afraid to share.
That's wonderful. And then you have a song called My Beach.
Yep.
Sounds very Trop Rocky.
(laughing) It sounds a lot more Trop Rocky than it sounds. Yes, that one is a very... and you gotta keep in mind, you know, these songs were written... well, not all of them, but all those off of Supernatural, that album, and all the stuff off of my Lower Alabama Way EP, they were... all the songs were written before I even knew the term Trop Rock. I was just writing the things that I knew, the things that compelled me to write, and my beach, my hometown, the setting, the backdrop against which I grew up, kind of a big deal, because that's where it's here. And so I started writing that song and, you know, of course if you've heard that song you know that it has really pretty floaty escapey parts the are you headed to the seaside but then it's also got some really brash, almost jump scare, kind of like there's one part where I put the guitar part probably about two or three DB too loud just so it would jump so it was that that song was really intended to be very... it was kind of written to fight with itself in a way. And so, you know, when you come up in a setting like this, and of course, you said it sounds very tropical and it is, you know, the themes in it, you know, reference, you know, of course, this beautiful beach down here, but I guess it's really the case with anyone's hometown, regardless of the visual beauty of it. If you spend enough time in one place, good things are going to happen to you there. Bad things are going to happen to you there. You're going to learn a lot of lessons there. You're going to win things, you're going to lose things, you're going to, you know, life's going to happen there. And so this song really speaks to the just the bipolar nature of the of the happiest you can be and the saddest you can possibly be all in the same place for completely different reasons and you just try to keep going. That song really is, even though it sounds like a fun song, it's really a song that's got struggle and conflict kind of laced into it.
Yeah.
But then again, you know, it's got the beach themes, it's got people, you know, things that people can identify with in it. It's got the ukulele part in it. That actually ended up being one of the songs that hit Trop Rock radio, you know, kind of early too was when, again, when Kenny Tice, you know, picked that one out of the bunch and it's kind of a non-traditional Trop Rock song. But he was like, this is a Trop Rock song nonetheless. And I'll never forget the first time I heard that song coming out of Trop Rock radio speakers going, wow. That was really the biggest stretch so far, you know, from a musical feel part and what was, you know, acceptable in Trop Rock. And, you know, again, that's been the best part about Trop Rock is I haven't really had to change anything that I'm doing. I just really have to do more of what it is that I'm doing. And they welcomed me in and said don't change a thing we love what you're doing even though it's different, welcome aboard. And again it just speaks to the breadth of the Trop Rock genre or umbrella.
And your song, Stroll On, is that sort of similar that way? Kind of a gritty song that is somewhat Trop Rock?
Definitely definitely. You know, it's got the themes, it's, you know, strolling down the beach with opportunity and reach, I don't want for nothing, I got everything I need. It's just kind of like a carefree song, but it's also a song about motion, and motion begets motion, momentum begets momentum,to keep going, to keep trying to not stay in one place for too long, to keep improving yourself. Yeah, I guess that's just a song about carrying on. And that one was a lot of fun, because that one's got some different feels in it too. It's got kind of like a funky-ish verse, almost, I've heard it described as kind of more Chili Peppers type verse. And then it goes into that really stompy chorus that would almost be, I don't know, I guess I'd have to describe it more Rage Against the Machine than anything else too, because it's pretty slammy. But again, because of the lyrical content, because of the overall feel, hard rock has always been beach music to me. A lot of folks say Beach Music is, you know, it's Buffett, it's Kenny Chesney, it's Zac Brown and they're not wrong, they are absolutely right, but when you grow up on the beach everything you hear is beach music so all of the songs that I was listening to riding around with my dad or whatever, you know like all the Jefferson's Starship is beach music to me, ACDC is beach music to me. A lot of this really heavy rock stuff is what I do associate in my mind with beach themes because again this was the backdrop of my upbringing and so I draw probably more beach correlations to heavy metal and hard rock music than some folks do because again that was that was the soundtrack of my upbringing against this beach backdrop. So to me, beach music, with what I grew up on, that setting and that feel, there's a lot more allowance for some really, really heavy grungy content there. And so it's still here. I'm still trying to bring it. Yeah.
Very interesting. It adds a lot of messages and philosophy and nuance to beach music, to trop rock music, that a lot of the songs don't have. They're fun songs, but they don't necessarily get into those more serious messages.
Yeah, yeah, you know, Jane's Addiction is beach music to me. Incubus is beach music to me. It's a lot of fun, this whole, this Trop Rock genre, because again, I can write what I want. I don't have to change. I just haven't, I haven't had to change a bit. I don't feel like I’ve had to come out of what has come naturally to me.
For me to still be producing things that, you know, Trop Rock is like, hey, yeah, we like this too, we're putting it on. So, you know, I'm just, I'm fortunate and happy that Trop Rock has welcomed me as it has. Yeah.
So tell me a little bit about yourself. Where were you born and raised and how did you find your way to Pensacola?
Originally, but I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and so I was there for a little while. My dad was civil service DOD and so we just kind of went from Naval Base to Naval Base. So while I wasn't a military brat, I was really young when we moved from Cleveland over to Maryland for a while - we were in because my dad was at Pax River - and then once he was done there, you know, spent a few years there, he had the opportunity to come down to Pensacola, to transfer to Pensacola NAS. And so, again, this would have been the early 80s, but yeah, I was down here in Pensacola by the early 80s because my dad, you know, worked at the Navy base down here. And so that's how I originally got down here from up north. Now, we still used to go up to Ohio twice a year because that's where my dad's family is all from, you know, where my mom's family is all from. So we still went up there every Christmas and every summer. you know, we still, I still kind of feel like I have a bit of a home in Ohio because we did go back there so often. But that's how I got down here to Pensacola originally was Dad getting the old base transfer and being able to come down to Pensacola NAS because he wanted to go to the beach.
So you've been there a very, very long time, since the 1980s.
Good place to be. Very, very, very long time. You know, I left for a little while. I went to high school, graduated high school, went to college, graduated college. And then for a little while, I actually did leave town. I lived for a little while in the New York area. I spent five years in Atlanta. Then I spent another three years in Nashville. And then I came back here again in like, 08 or so.
So I spent about 10 years moving around out of town, playing in different cities and stuff like that. So I haven't been here my whole life, but I am back now. This is my first, in the past few years, this has been my first real attempt at a solo project and just going ahead and doing everything myself.
Now that you've been kind of introduced or welcomed into the Trop Rock community, have you had a chance to play at any of the Trop Rock festivals or house concerts?
I am starting to get those opportunities now, thankfully. And you mentioned the house concerts, you mentioned all the festivals. I can't wait to get more involved with those, hopefully as 2026 rolls around and kind of, you know, things book out really, really early. So you do have to plan far in advance, but I'd like to do some more of those things coming up. The big deal though, you know, for me coming up this year is the fact that I got invited to play Meeting in the Minds. So this will be my first year at ...
The Big One.
I know, I know, I'm so happy. It's like I haven't been at a Trop Rock Festival yet and then you get invited to that one. I'm like, yeah, yes, please. So yeah, I'll be playing out there and super, super excited about that. Really excited about being out there and meeting people hugging and high-fiving and shaking hands of the folks that I only kind of know through the Facebook chats or through whatever, because they've requested whatever. Anyway, I'm looking forward to finally getting out amongst some of the folks that have been supporting my music for the past few years, and getting out to these festivals and concerts are going to help me do that. So I'm definitely stoked about that. Definitely excited.
And you're working on some new music, including some Trop Rock music?
I am. I will hopefully have, my intention is to have another Trop Rock EP, well, my version of Trop Rock EP, out by the end of this year. Now, keep in mind, now it will roll up some of these singles that I've had, so, you know, I'll probably take 30A and Covered in Sand, put them on this EP, and then I've got about three or so more that are in the works, that if I can get them wrapped up and hemmed up and I can get all these, all five of these sounding good in a volume together, I'll try to have that out before Meeting of the Minds. I don't know if that's going to happen yet or not, but that is the intention and yeah, I would count on seeing something by the end of this year, no doubt, no doubt. Ideally it will be an EP that comes out before Meeting oif the Minds, but don't hold me to that one quite yet but I'm going to do my best to get it out.
What kind of flavor can we expect from those songs? Will they be more traditional Trop Rock or will they be more like stroll on with rock influence, heavy rock influences?
They're going to be a bit on the heavy side. They will. Now, 30A will be... Sunshade's on 30A will be on there. Covered in Sand will be on there. But then there are... there are a couple... I think I've got four that I'm kind of juggling right now. Three of the four will make it. But yeah. And there's even one song that's in excess of five minutes long, which is unheard of anymore. I mean to get any song that's even any more than, you know, four minutes, 4:20 or 4:30 is kind of a long song anymore. But so yeah, I've got one that's gonna even run over five minutes. So if that tells you anything about, you know, what the rest of that EP is gonna sound like, it's going to be a little bit unusual. The Sunshades on 30A and Covered in Sand will be the most mainstream sounding songs on that EP most likely but I'm really liking where these other songs are going to and so I think you'll dig it. It's just one of those things I can't really tell you about, what it is. You're just going to have to hear it and then see for yourself.
Look forward to it. So where can your fans find your music and follow your journey?
They can, well I've got a website, gregmihalymusic.com is my website. Probably the, and I don't do a very good job about this, this is another thing that I definitely need to improve on going forward is my social media presence. But my social media handles are gregmihalymusic, gregmihalymusic, at gregmihalymusic everywhere. So Instagram, gregmihalymusic. Facebook, at gregmihalymusic. YouTube music, at gregmihalymusic.
That's where you can find all the music and any updates on the things that I will be doing. This where I'll go to post shows or anything like that, yeah, that's the best place to find me.
All right, any other final shoutouts or beachside wisdom you'd like to share with our listeners?
None right now. I mean, other than to say, you know, this Trop Rock journey has been fantastic. There's no way that I can sufficiently express how thankful I am to not only the folks who are listening, but to a lot of the people in this industry and a lot of the musicians who ... I don't know ... I've worked in rock circles, I've worked in country circles, I've been in a lot of different settings with a lot of different sets of folks. Good lord, man, this has been just such a nice... Trop Rock has been this nice, you know, warm jeans out of the dryer on a cold winter day. For someone who's been playing music for so long, you know, doing a bunch of different things and then I get into this and it finally feels like... it kind of feels like... it finally feels like you've set the hook. It finally feels like you've engaged with something that wants to play back. So, you know, Trop Rock fans, awesome. Trop Rock musicians, awesome.
I I've just had nothing but great experiences with these folks in Trop Rock. So I guess if there's any send-off message I have, it's thank you. It is just thank you for everything and I'm going to keep putting music out and hopefully everyone will keep requesting it and I really hope to see more people more often at some of these events that you were talking about and yeah, just looking forward to what things lie ahead between my new music and collaborations, again, that I'm working on as well that I can't wait to tell you about. It's going to be fun. It's going to be fun going forward. I'm excited.
Great, it is a very special group of people. It's a special community is what it is.
It absolutely is. It absolutely is.
Well, thank you, Greg. It's been a pleasure talking with you and I look forward to hearing more of your music down the road.
Thank you! Yeah, you too. Look forward to putting something out, All right, thanks, take care.
All right, talk to you later, thanks Greg.
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