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TTP #7a- Tourganic Shorts: Trumpet Player Eric Benny Bloom on the Importance of Gaining Knowledge and Taking Chances
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Eric Benny Bloom is the trumpet player extraordinaire from the bands Lettuce, Pretty Lights and his group Sonic Bloom. Eric is both hilarious and insightful when it comes to discussing health on the road.
In this conversation:
- What factors contributed to Eric making the transition to being vegan and how that affected his life overall and as a musician on the road
- What making the transition to a plant-based diet did for Eric’s trumpet playing
- Making the move to New Orleans and what continues to inspire him about being a part of the musicians community in NOLA
- Living as a vegan in New Orleans, a city traditionally characterized with a diet rich in animal products
- Show preparation, his diet on show days and eating before performances
- The importance of being truly educated about your endeavors and taking chances in life
Please take a moment to rate and review the podcast in iTunes and visit www.tourganic.com for more info on this episode and living healthy on the road
Tourganic Podcast Theme song 'The Path' written by David Bailis and this episode's musical interludes by Eric Benny Bloom
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Transcript
Introduction to Torganic Shorts
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Hey, what's up? It's Benny Bloom. Two, three, four. You know what I'm saying? Talking about Torganic here. Yo. This is Torganic Shorts, where I take select moments and quotes from the full podcast.
Meet Eric Benny Bloom: Versatile Trumpet Player
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My guest this week is Eric Benny Bloom, New Orleans-based trumpet player from Lettuce, Pretty Lights Live Band, and his own group, Sonic Bloom. Eric is simultaneously hilarious, enlightening, and insightful, and this is an episode you won't want to miss.
The Benefits of a Plant-based Lifestyle
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Everything spoke to me. Vegetarian or vegan eating was a simple no-brainer to fix your health and also do good things for the world. Everything that goes along with being vegetarian or vegan is just appealing, you know, energy and clear mind, you know, less burden. You just become a lot more efficient in every way. If you can balance that diet and just keep it right and sleep enough, you know, all the good things that come with being healthy, it's like, it's just the epitome I felt. I've never felt better.
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You mentioned the clarity that came from it. And do you think that going vegan changed your playing and helped your playing? It totally, no, not to be cliche. You could sleep three hours and you just feel different. Like your body is working, literally it's working differently. If you take all that product out of your body for five years, it's gonna act differently. Yeah, your energy
Parallels Between Music and Veganism
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level. Your energy level is through the roof and I'm crazy anyway. So it was just like up an atom and you're just a little stronger. I felt literally charged.
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Music and food are like the same thing to me. If they're not, if anyone says they're different, they're wrong. It's a fact. Well, I like to do what I need to do when you have to do technique and with the building blocks, but then... Right. All you know, oh yeah, here's Bob Marley. All right, I'm checking him out forever. Yeah. All right, let me leave that. And then I'm the oil Frank Sinatra. Here, check him out. Oh, woo dang, they're cool. You know, it's like you're a trumpet player just because you're, you know...
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Don't listen to Cliff Brown on Miles Davis. Don't just eat spinach and kale.
Eric's Journey with Lettuce and Veganism: A Personal Transformation
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What about microgreens? What about arugula? I love to learn and veganism really helps that.
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Dropped all the way, I was feeling good. I was going to the gym, my whole life changed. Literally, I joined lettuce, became vegan, got divorced. It was a good couple years, folks. But so, you know, and it was like, just the gift I kept on giving. Nothing else in my life was as true and showed results in my mental and emotional and physical being.
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and I make a big salad right before the show for like people, generally. You know, right there. Dude, a huge, fully alkaline kind of salad thing is gonna charge you really hard before a show.
The Charm of New Orleans and Food Habits
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But New Orleans is the gift that keeps on giving. The more you learn about the city, the more you're like, alright, cool, welcome home.
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There's two things. You want to live the longest and you want your people around you to live the longest. So how do you do that? Also, you want to play as best as a musician or whatever your job is. You want to be the best you can. How do you optimize?
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yourself to be the best you can so once again food food and drink whatever you're ingesting so learn about what you're doing it's like you're playing jazz music for a living or whatever you're gonna learn about all those jazz musicians you're gonna learn about every style and you're gonna do it as best you can so why would you not do that with food sustenance like learn about what you're eating even if it's just for yourself quietly learn about stuff research and then try it on yourself like
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Take a step. Take a chance. Try to cut something out for a little bit. Add more salads. Add more good quality whole food in your life. Just take a chance and educate yourself.
Engage with the Full Episode
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Check out the full episode with Eric Banne Bloom and take a moment to rate and comment on the show and iTunes. Until next time, peace.