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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:26

GAP YEAR : Stop College / Keep Learning / Life according to Musician Jasper Nelson

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Where are you? And from there, we're going to do all sorts of twists and turns because I really want to focus in on your story, but also your music. Okay. Thanks

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Jasper Nelson
@Jasper · 3:08
I feel very fortunate of the connections I've made, the connections I had that let me do what I did, but also the ability to do what I did to have parents who were fortunate enough to give me the opportunity. So right now I'm in Madison, Wisconsin, doing music, working tirelessly with my band, get gigs. We have multiple shows lined up for the fall. I would say probably ten shows. And it's been really incredible
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:39

Favorite outside moment

Can you tell us a little bit about National Pardes during COVID the ones you did get a chance to go to www. Were they officially open, or did you have to kind of like, sneak in? What was your favorite experience outside? Can you take us to that favorite experience
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Jasper Nelson
@Jasper · 4:38
Net, the big one that we were relying on, but yeah, we camp for probably two months without paying for a single site, and that, I think, is the way to go. You get a lot more like isolated campsites, and a lot of them are just as beautiful and not as noisy except for Moab. Those ones are kind of noisy. But yeah, I would say that Utah was incredible. The national parks are incredible, but so are the state parks
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:35

The musical landscape of your trip

And maybe point to some songs that happened during this year that you could point to when you wrote them or what inspired them or kind of the environment that you were in when music came to you in general, because I know it's such a part of your daily ritual, and it's like sort of what you love to do and you love to share it
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

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Jasper Nelson
@Jasper · 3:13
Like, I vividly remember listening to a band out of the UK's album, a band called Fontaine DC. That was definitely an important record for our trip. Definitely listening to like, listen to Williams, listen to a lot. We listen to a lot of Neil Young, a lot of this classic stuff, but then also listen to Lightning Hopkins and Mississippi. John Hurt was definitely a big one
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