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#147 - Classic Seger Band - Tribute to Bob Seger · The Chris and Mike Show

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This I hear. It we don't.
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Seriously. You.
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Got the live button clicked. How do?
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Should be music. There should do you hear the
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music? No, no.
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We don't. Nobody hears the music but me.
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You're the only one that hears the music.
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All right, well, you know, I'll, I wonder if it's going to be, I
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wonder if it's going to be a glitch in the matrix.
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Then let's see what happens. Nope.
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It let me pause it. Hey, boys and girls, this is
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Chris and Mike Show. I'm Chris.
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He's Mike. And we have Darren here.
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Who's all the way? Where you at Darren?
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I'm in UK, Eli or Ellie UK, which is about two hours out of
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London, and we're on tour right now with the Classic Seger.
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Yeah, and then what's your role in classic Seger, man?
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Are you the singer? I'm the singer, I'm the great
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Bob Seger and we got a nine piece band and we're having a
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great time over here. Right now you write all the
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music, all the songs, everything.
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Well, primary songwriter. I wish I'd be a little bit older
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right now, but. I love your hat, by the way.
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That's awesome muscle strolls. Oh yeah.
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Oh, right now we, yeah, we're very.
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Fond of that music? Got to record there a few times
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so every time I go there I pick a new a new you've.
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Recorded at Muscle Shoals. Yeah, a couple Times Now we
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whenever we do a show in the area, we always book.
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And because Bob Sneaker had a huge history there, he record a
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lot of his music with the swampers in the in the same
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room, same equipment. So we just struck a relationship
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with them and we get to go. We go there, try to go for once
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a year. That's a pretty amazing
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building. Have you have you ever met Bob?
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No so he lives where I live in in Canada we're about 45 minutes
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from Detroit right on the river not be ever heard of port here
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in Michigan. That's where right across and so
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Bob he's still currently pretty close and one of used to keep is
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a boat in Sarnia. So I, I know so many people who
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have, who have mechanics in the Marina or and he said he was the
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best guy ever and very down to earth, but I was never, ever
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invited to the Marina to meet him so.
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I kind of, I, I kind of feel, I feel like he would be a very
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down to earth, just old school, you know, leave, you know what I
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mean? I just he, since that I've seen
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him live, he's fantastic live. Just, and I saw his farewell
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tour and it was like he didn't miss a beat.
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That's like I was listening to a record, you know, aside from
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some of the little different things he did during the songs.
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But from us, from a vocal standpoint, he was spot on.
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Yeah. You've seen it.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You had to have seen him live a few times.
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Right. Yeah, I've seen him a handful of
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times. The first one in 9096, I think
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it was when we first came out of his reti.
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You know, he gave it up for a few years to spend time great
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raising his kids. That's the.
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Tour I saw Darren. Yeah, that was amazing.
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And Kenny Earn off was on drums, which is a huge fan of him.
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And yeah, so that was probably one of the best I've seen.
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And but yeah, he's very family oriented.
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You always see him in Detroit. He's always at the Lions games
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or a Tiger game or at a concert. He's very, he's just living
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retired and living his life. Well, you know, what stood out
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to me was when Kid Rock inducted him into the Rock and Roll Hall
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of. Fame that was not amazing.
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Was just spectacular. He talked about how he was a
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family man and how he had every last dollar he ever made because
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he wasn't out there, you know, living that rock'n'roll
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lifestyle or whatever. He was just writing great songs
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and kicking ass. Yeah, he nailed that induction
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there. Yeah, it was pretty good.
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So you guys play music too? Absolutely.
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Yeah. The song you were supposed to
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hear at the beginning. What you'll hear when you hear
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the podcast. OK.
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That, that, that'll be our song. OK, Yeah.
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Sometimes, sometimes you have technical difficulties.
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But yeah, Chris and I met in the early 90s and we played for many
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years together, wrote a lot of songs, played with some great
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people like the Marshall Tucker Band and Pat Travers and Tony
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McAlpine and oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's the classic secret
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Facebook. What a what a backdrop, man
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Beautiful. Not sure that is it's.
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That's rock'n'roll right there, man.
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Yeah, that might be downtown. The soundboard Casino in Detroit
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that might be. It doesn't matter.
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It's badass. Dude.
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You know what I'm? Just trying to myself, I haven't
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seen that one a bit and that's a that's a great.
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Such a great stage. It's it's your cover photo on
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your Facebook page, man. Oh yeah?
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Well. He's like, yeah, how much I pay
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attention. We've moved.
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On since then. Yeah.
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Hey, let me ask you a question real quick.
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Darren, you're out there portraying Bob Seger.
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What kind of legalities are involved in that?
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Are you sanctioned by his management or?
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No, we've been pretty good. And I mean, there's the tribute
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band is very popular right now, so everybody's in the same boat.
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So when we sell tickets for shows, we have to pay his
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licensing company a fee that's set up through with a, you know,
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BMI. So can all these various places
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and it's a percentage of the tickets and whether Bob sees the
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money or not, but the publishing company does.
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And that's legality. We we do everything when we do
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videos, we have a couple of YouTube videos out.
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We always put, you know, music written and performed by Bob
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Seger. And there's, I think most of the
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artists. I've never heard any trivia band
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have any issues. OK.
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Now that leads me to another question though that Chris and I
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have a problem with, because obviously we like to talk to
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musicians and we have to play music on here.
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When you release clips of you guys playing his music, you
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don't get any kind of copyright problems from YouTube or is it
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because you have management that already has that set up to pay
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those licensing fees upfront? Do you know that answer that
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question? It's so whenever we upload a a
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clip, YouTube does your due diligence and obviously Bob
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Seger's publishing companies signed off that you people, he,
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he doesn't care basically either accounted and passed the checks.
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There's no copyright issues. You guys are doing all the right
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things up front and he knows that.
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And believe me when I tell you he is getting paid by his
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publishing company. That yeah, I'm sure, yeah.
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Does he even know he exists? Maybe he does.
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I I'm not sure. But you know, I'm sure his
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management knows everything's above board anyway.
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And again, even here and in the UK, looking at the the Ticker
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reports, yeah, that has to go to the the, the publishing
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companies get their cut and what more can we do?
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No, that's really cool. I mean, you guys are doing all
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the right things. I just asked out of my own
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selfish curiosity because, you know, back in the day when we
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were playing cover songs in bars and stuff like that, and Chris
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and I never did that. We were an original band.
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But I've played well. We did do a couple covers.
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We did Roadhouse, we did Cash Cash Fever.
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Back then, nobody cared. There wasn't all this.
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You know, the only way that people are making money is
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through basically what you guys are doing, being out there
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touring and selling tickets to shows, right?
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Because there isn't a lot of money on the streaming, there
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isn't a lot of people actually buying physical copies of music.
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You got a few holdouts like Chris who still to support the
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cause and he buys everything from everybody and God bless
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him, right? But I buy the whole album,
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Darren, when I go and I buy the whole album.
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I just don't buy one song because to me, like, like back
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in the day when we had to buy albums right in CDs and and
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cassette tapes, you bought it for one song and then you had
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all these surprises because the artist would just release one
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song to get you to go buy the record, right?
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And then sometimes the lesson songs were right.
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So, so right, so prime example, when Pearl Jam dropped, I think
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it was even flow. First I was like, yeah, it's a
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decent song, but then they dropped a live I'm like, fuck, I
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love that song. So that probably to go buy the
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CD, which I opened the lyrics up and from a from a vocalist
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standpoint, that's what hooked me the lyrics because you can't
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really understand better half the time, but the lyrics hooked
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me. And so that's my gig.
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So I just don't want to stick myself in a box of oh, just one
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song. We had phenomenal dude on the
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show. I don't we Mike and I don't know
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why this guy's not not top of the charts in the country music
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world, because he's just phenomenal.
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Dave Noodle. He's got a song, The Lord of the
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Devil, that if we played it right now, you'd be like,
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that's, that's top 20, Dave. Noodle, right?
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Dave Noodle. Yeah, NUDO right, but have had I
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just bought that one song, I wouldn't have known the rest of
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his stuff. So I bought his one of his
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albums and then that song was just a single, but I drew to
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that song right away. But just just cause the title,
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man, the Lord or the devil that just spoke to me and I, I just,
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it's one of those songs, dude, that just you, you listen to it.
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If you Google it when we're done and and listen to it I I'd be
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shocked if you don't have the same feeling.
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Like why isn't this guy top 10? It's not even that.
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The rest, like the rest of his music, is outstanding and it's
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totally great quality country music.
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Yeah, kind of a it's kind of Americana country.
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Rock, Yes, Yeah. It's.
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A style he's from Idaho. But what Chris, the reason we
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keep harping on this one song and the reason I think you'll
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have the same feeling, Darren, is when you hear it, it's like,
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why is this not in movies, commercials, TV shows?
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It just has that this is America and this is, it's almost like
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this is a what human beings struggle with kind of song, you
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know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Good. I'm definitely.
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Always listened looking for new music to to listen to and and I
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miss that you were talking about albums, buying albums and
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growing up and every paycheck and teenager go running this in
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Canada big thing was Sam the record band and that's where we
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went to buy the albums and. Yeah, yeah.
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Tower Records in America. Yeah.
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But that's how it was. That was that was the cool thing
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about it. And before MTV came along, then
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when you went to concert, you still had the chills.
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You know, when when the band, the house lights come off, you
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know, and, and you're staying in the crowd.
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You've never seen these guys in person.
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All you don't know what they look like.
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And then they're real people, dude.
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They're real people, right? The lights come up and the
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fucking electricity in the crowd goes crazy.
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And you know, hands in the air and you can't hear the first
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song because everybody's streaming.
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Yeah. The kid, the kids nowadays, they
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don't get that. They don't know because it's
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you're so flooded with social media like, you know.
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You know the set list before you go ahead of time and and I'm
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guilty for. That story, that.
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We are too. I do too.
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Yeah, I do too, but still. That's actually a subject that's
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never come up musically on this, and Chris just nailed it.
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These kids today will never know that feeling that the three of
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us had of standing in the middle of that arena when the lights go
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down and you hear either the first drum beat or the first
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guitar chord and people like just went crazy.
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They lose their shit, man. Yeah.
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My first concert, already 7 1/2 years old in 1977, my mom
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brought me to the Kiss and Teenage Dude, and that was
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pretty good. Yeah, that was that was a good
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introduction to live music. Absolutely.
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My my my first concert. This is embarrassing.
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Was Men At Work? This summer.
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Well, at least Poison is fucking, you know, they hit a
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pinnacle in the hair rug. Like, here's a minute work
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concert. OK, we're we're at the man
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House. Am I down with Phoenix?
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Which is better than we're the Colosseum.
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OK. And I shit you not, nobody was
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standing. It was Men At Work about, I
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don't know, half an hour, 40 minutes to the show.
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They turn on all the fucking lights in the stadium, OK, All
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of them in the in the right. They they drop a giant map in
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front of the drum riser. OK, you got Colin Hayes standing
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there on his microphone pointing to the map, telling the world
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Will Australia is. I'm like, if this is
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rock'n'roll, I don't fucking like it, man.
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I don't like. It and then that next, that next
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Christmas, I think, I think my brother got me either Kiss
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Dynasty or Destroyer. And I'm like, oh, this is
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rock'n'roll. Yeah.
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And then it went it went up from there.
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But yeah, that was my first concert.
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And then my first real concert was Cheap Trick, which, you
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know, is much better than Men At Work.
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So. Oh yeah, I was, I was drugged to
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Men At Work. Cheap Trick, right, right.
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Cheap Trick. I willing went to go see you.
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So yeah, it's funny you say Cheap Trick, because that's who.
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You don't have that like Mike's point.
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I went on a tangent. Sorry, Squirrel.
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ADHD moments while we're here, you know?
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But I do like tribute bands. I didn't know that what you said
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about the tribute and how you have to pay licensing fees and
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stuff because the only. Well, this app for sure.
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Right. Well, because you figured the
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Van Halen tribute because they go all over the world, right?
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Atomic punks. Yeah.
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And I don't really. Those are the you and classics.
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Classic secret and atomic pumps are only two I can really think
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of from a tribute band standpoint.
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I mean, there's that that Pink Floyd tribute, right?
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I think what are they, Australian Pink Floyd?
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Yeah. Oh, we lost Aaron.
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We'll ask Darren. He'll be back.
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He's across the ocean and he is. Across the ocean.
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I don't know if you know this, that the underground Internet
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cable, which is more of the Internet than anything that runs
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underneath the ocean, got cut not that long ago.
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So make sure there's a repair that's keeping it going right
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now. That might be, you know, slowing
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things down. I noticed he wasn't uploading as
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fast as you and I. Oh, huh.
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Is that what happened a couple days ago?
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A couple days ago there was all kinds of shit going on.
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Yeah. And the last time you and I
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talked about we both had cellular and you had Internet
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problems when you reported the mayor that day.
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Yeah, that was right around the time that they said there was a
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they claimed it was like a terrorist.
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You know, somebody actually cut it on purpose.
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Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, You know, even like the
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Pink Floyd light show that I went to see when I lived in
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Phoenix, they would have to pay, obviously.
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Yeah. Some sort of a percentage of
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their ticket sales to. Yeah, so why we're waiting, why
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we're waiting for Darren to come back, We would be remiss if we
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didn't talk about this. The 30 arrests made from current
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and past players and referees in the NBA, which is directly
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connected with the mafia for a 30 year operation of corruption.
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This is why when they brought when they brought gambling into
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sports, I was weary. Nobody feels more vindicated
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than steel right now because he's literally been saying it
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since probably the late 80s or the early 90s for sure, but that
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shit was fixed. Well, and think about it when
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the Suns had the run with Steve Nash, all the bullshit calls
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they got against them. Remember when Robert Ori body
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checked him into the to the scoring table and there was not
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a flag or not a not a not a whistleblown right.
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So you got to look back now and think, OK, how many of these
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championship runs are Tate? I don't think the.
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Bull is, you know what conversation.
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What if you think about watching an NBA game and there's 2 1/2
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minutes left? He always uses somewhere around
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2 1/2 minutes. As an example, your team could
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be down by 22 points and end up winning by 10 points.
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That doesn't happen in basketball.
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If you're playing basketball the way it was intended to be
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played, all you have to do is watch college basketball.
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If you're down by 22 points with 2 1/2 minutes left, you're going
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to fucking lose. Right.
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It's so. It's no different than the
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Giants being ahead of the Broncos 18 points with six
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minutes left. There's been two NFL
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commentators come out and say the calls.
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Look at that. Score from the first quarter to
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the fourth quarter, it's like Broncos 00000000 and then all of
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a sudden it's 13. 28 Yep. And there's two NFL commentators
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that they've come out and vocalize the fact that they
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think that the calls that were made during that that 6 minute
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span were bullshit. I'm sure a lot of it has to do
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with the gambling and the numbers and the spread and shit
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like that. I mean, I don't know cuz I don't
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really. I don't gamble like you do, but.
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No, but we can speculate. That's why we're here, right?
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And I, yeah, I completely agree with your speculation.
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And there's there's becoming too many examples.
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So now you and I within this NFL season have talked about $1.1
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billion being bet on the Packers money line, which was a record
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money line right for any single. Team right, Right.
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And now we're talking about your beloved New York Giants
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basically having the game in the bag in any other NFL season 30
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years ago. 1602 games played where the team is ahead by 18
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points in the fourth quarter with less than 5 minutes left.
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Wins the game. That was the first time it ever
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happened, correct? Right, that was the first time
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A-Team lost. There you go.
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What's that tell you? This exactly?
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It's just it's I like the fact that that this NBA stuff that's
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going on that I thought I was going to get more out of that,
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that LeBron is is in that conversation.
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I kind of did get a little kick out of that myself, to be honest
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with you. I got booted up.
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I think I'm back though. Laflop the Queen, the king of
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Flop. So you know.
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Here's the Here's the trouble, though.
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Who is everybody's hero in the NBA?
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Michael Jordan What does Michael Jordan like to do more than
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anybody on? Earth Gamble.
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Oh, Gamble so his. Name is probably going to come
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out somewhere. So here's the thing.
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I I had this full conspiracy theory back when Jordan stepped
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away for two years. Tell me, OK, so so because he
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gambles like crazy, we all know he gambles like crazy, but he
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never gambled on the game. He gambled to the golf course.
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That we know of, right? Right, Right, right.
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Right. Do we know?
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So I think, I think he owed money to some bad people.
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Yes, and that's why his dad was killed.
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Oh you and still agree on that one too.
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Speculation. I'm not, you know.
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We talked about that back in the day.
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I agree with you too. Yeah, yeah, 'cause he was found
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in a on the side of the road in a Cadillac, right.
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And then Jordan steps away for two years and goes plays
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baseball to take the attention off him and then comes back
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because I'm, he paid the debt or there was enough gap between or
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there's something with him and the commissioner saying, hey,
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you got to step away for two years or we're going to fuck up
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your legacy. I love Michael Jordan.
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Yeah, I, I just there's, but just like you.
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Asked of us. He has some skeletons in his
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closet, right? Right.
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There's nobody enjoyed watching play basketball more than him.
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I wasn't a Homer Bills, the Bulls fan.
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I, I born in Illinois. So I've watched them, you know,
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religiously as much as I watched the Sun.
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So it's kind of 1 and 2. Sure.
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Me too. But if you look back over 30
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years and all the controversies dropped, just an NBA and there's
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people are so tired of the NBA now, which I can I totally get.
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I haven't watched the NBA in years.
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I gave up after Barclay and Ange and Marley and all those guys
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are retired. That was yeah.
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I haven't watched it since then, literally.
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I think, I think I stopped the year before COVID because I was
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so tired of LeBron being the face, even though Kobe should
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have been the face because Kobe was still alive.
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They were still just, you know, LeBron, LeBron, LeBron.
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It just, it just changed, man. The game changed.
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And if all these allegations are true, This is why the game
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changed because it turned into money.
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It turned into how can we make money?
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How can we, how can we beat the spread?
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I mean 30 people man from coaches and players and and
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referees and shit. But, you know, as people here,
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I'll play devil's advocate as people lose their mind over all
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this, put yourself in that same position.
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And this is what I like to call human nature, right?
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This is what people do. Yeah.
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And it doesn't matter what subject you're talking about
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when you put that much money in front of a relatively small
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group of people when we're talking about the 7 billion
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people on the planet, Right? Right.
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So a relatively small number of people control the NBA in
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relation to humanity, right? Look at the amount of money
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they're controlling. It's just greed takes over.
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That's why it's one of the seven deadly sins, right?
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Yeah. It's not an accident that it's
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in that group. So it does.
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All I'm saying is it doesn't surprise me and it shouldn't
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surprise anybody else, believe me.
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No, your church, your politicians, your business, if
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they're at the level of the NBA, they're all corrupt too.
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On some, at some level, they just are.
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Yeah, somebody's got their hand in the pot.
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Somebody. Yeah, absolutely.
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It has to be. And I think it's on a level that
21:38
that we haven't even really touched on yet because of, of
21:41
what's going to go down, you know, and no.
21:44
I thought it was fucking crazy, man, Just that it went that far
21:47
and they actually got enough evidence to say, OK, yeah, we're
21:50
making indictments now. Yeah, like we're fucking it up,
21:54
man. We're going to fuck you all up,
21:58
which is good. So I really think though, I
22:00
think it doesn't stop at NBA. Like I said, I think it goes to
22:02
the NFLI, think it goes to baseball.
22:04
Of course it does. And which is the hypocrisy of
22:07
Pete Rose. And that's kind of would explain
22:09
why that was the guy Shoshana, we didn't talk about this, but I
22:13
don't know how to say his name, but his.
22:15
Yeah. But his game where he his six
22:17
innings pitched and three at bats with three home runs and
22:20
3RBI S. So here's a fact that most
22:23
people laughed at when they found out that the Dodgers paid
22:27
750 million, or 7. 100 million, we broke it down.
22:31
Remember, we broke it down per bat.
22:32
Yes, we did, lady. $76,000 per bat.
22:35
They've already made their money back per Yeah, Oh yeah, yeah,
22:39
almost double. Right.
22:40
Almost double. It's crazy.
22:42
And look Darren's back. Oh, you can come back, brother.
22:44
Did you see me come back a minute or two ago?
22:47
We did. Oh no, I've been trying to.
22:49
Better than you were talking sports, I think.
22:51
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we're filling the gap
22:53
because you know the whole thing, because the whole thing
22:55
went down yesterday. I don't know if you know that or
22:56
not, but the NBA, there's 30 coaches and officials and and
23:00
and players past and present that got all, all got arrested.
23:03
Oh, I did hear something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:05
Connection with the mob and the, you know, just the whole world's
23:09
fucking falling apart, man. Massive indictment, yeah.
23:13
Yeah, no, that's. That's.
23:16
Yeah, with the time change here, 5 hours, we're getting things
23:18
later. And yeah, yeah.
23:21
So what time is it there? It's, it's, it's 9:30 in the
23:24
morning in Arizona. What time are you?
23:26
5. 30 for me and 5:30 in the afternoon.
23:29
OK, Wow, wow. OK, that's cool.
23:32
Yeah, we had. We had some people on.
23:34
We got a show tonight at 7:30, so I'm looking forward to it
23:37
and. Where are you playing?
23:39
It's called the Maltings. The town's Ely, it's called.
23:43
It's a venue's called the Maltings.
23:45
It's a cool little place and. Is it like a theater or?
23:48
Yeah, this is more of a theater. So last night we played in AI
23:51
call it a cathedral, but over here it's just a a small church.
23:54
But it was to me, it was a it was a grand one in North
23:59
America. But as I'm.
24:00
Sure, it was beautiful. It's coming into town here.
24:04
There was a real cathedral and I, it was like triple the size
24:07
and I. Oh, I bet.
24:09
I hope I have time to tour it in the morning in the morning, but.
24:13
Yeah, my wife loves Old Catholic, old Catholic stuff,
24:16
old Catholic churches and things.
24:18
Yeah, this one last night was built between 1485 and like
24:24
1510, so it's pretty. Yeah, it's pretty old and.
24:28
How long have you been doing this, Darren?
24:31
I think we're just around 4 years.
24:35
Wow. So just come in, there's put
24:38
together just, you know, during the COVID stuff there, we put it
24:43
together and we kept on. We had the show's book and it
24:45
kept on being delayed. I think the first show got
24:47
delayed three times because we couldn't get in the venues and.
24:53
How many shows a year are you averaging?
24:56
This is not so much this year we we're shooting for 40, but I
25:01
think we're at like 30 or so of this I, I not sure, but I think
25:06
this few less this year. OK, so here I have I have a
25:09
picture of the band up. Can you see that?
25:11
Yes, yeah. You want to, you want to, you
25:13
want to introduce your bandmates.
25:15
Sure. I think everybody, there's
25:18
almost everybody's in there now. So there's myself to the guy
25:23
with the long hair on the one side.
25:25
That's my brother Ian. Yeah, the guy on the side of me
25:29
is Rob McLaughlin. He plays piano.
25:30
And then we had drummer in front of the the Lounge beer beer
25:36
cooler. There is a Steve McLaughlin.
25:38
He's no longer with us. He's fantastic B3 player though.
25:42
And Chris Molino, the other sax player.
25:46
Then you got to live Gogas vocals.
25:48
Andrew Brody does vocals and guitar.
25:50
Then Roberto Jasmonde is a guitar player in the back
25:54
corner. And everybody's, everybody's
25:58
great. It was a great calm combination
26:02
of positions and we complement each other and.
26:05
Nice. Yeah, I bet you do a sound
26:08
justice with all those instruments.
26:10
Man, yeah, that's awesome. There you go.
26:12
There's with the instruments on cue, Mike.
26:16
Yeah, that was good. You got, yeah, you got the
26:19
backup vocals, you got the sax, the guitars, bass.
26:21
Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely you
26:24
do. Because Sugar has such a fat
26:26
sound, man. Oh, that's why I love.
26:28
It, I mean, yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, there's a lot of
26:32
personalities, don't let me tell you, but it's.
26:34
Sure there is. Sure there is.
26:36
That's the part of being in a band.
26:37
Man, yeah, there is. You guys would know that and
26:39
that. But we know when we get on stage
26:41
it's, you know, put everything beside and yeah, yeah, it's
26:45
great. So what?
26:47
What? What's I want?
26:48
I got one. Yeah.
26:50
What is the most received song you guys cover?
26:55
It's got to be turn the page. OK, OK, I figured, but I just
26:59
thought I'd ask. Yeah, then then depends where
27:02
you are. If you go down to the Detroit
27:04
market where we we, we try to play that at least once a year.
27:08
There's some you know that's where Seeker got his sure God is
27:11
starting. There is a lot of old time they
27:14
they do not even acknowledge a silver bullet ban.
27:16
They want to hear pre we well, we do a lot of that as well, but
27:21
and that's cool. We're getting us more receive
27:23
than turn the page, but we still have to throw in the five or
27:26
six. You know the Hollywood Knights
27:28
turn the page. Old time rock'n'roll against the
27:32
winners, withdrawal to me or impeccable thongs.
27:35
Yeah, yeah, Ironically, the one I don't like, I don't like, I
27:40
don't like old, old time rock'n'roll.
27:42
I just, I think Tom Cruise ruined it for me on Risky
27:44
Business and I've never liked it since.
27:46
Yeah, it took, it took a few years to get back.
27:50
We love playing it because the sax solo, we do that, sure.
27:53
Same as Seger does. Every time I saw Seger, it's
27:55
like the 5th or 6th song and he does it on purpose.
27:58
Does it get to place going nuts early?
28:00
You'd think that would be an encore song.
28:03
Yeah. And so we well, 4 songs in,
28:06
we're warmed up and then we do that and that's when the place
28:09
just really starts going nuts and.
28:13
Nice. Yeah, it's fun to play.
28:14
It's a fun song to play. I I admit it.
28:16
And guitar and sax solos, really good solos in it.
28:22
So it just but I know what you mean.
28:25
The Tom Cruise. Movie, I think the I, yeah, I
28:29
think, I think the logo, man, it's kind of got the whole
28:31
classic car into it. You still got the kind of
28:33
default. Logos.
28:34
Awesome. The Detroit ties, if you want to
28:37
go that far, you know it's. Cool.
28:39
Yeah, it's taken. So if you if you get a Bob Seger
28:41
one, it's similar but different. You know, we don't want to copy
28:44
it, but it's the same, same style and yeah and yeah.
28:51
Yeah, I like it. That's all your pictures, man.
28:53
That's all the photos from your cover.
28:55
Those were all your those were all your cover photos over the
28:57
years, just so you know. So, hey, why we got this pulled?
29:00
Yeah, why we got this pulled up, boys and girls.
29:01
You can find them on X at Classic Seger.
29:04
You can find them on Instagram at Classic Seeger Music.
29:08
You can e-mail them at infoclassicseager.com.
29:11
And then of course, the website isclassicseager.com, which I
29:13
kind of figured it would be, so that's cool.
29:16
So here's some stuff from you guys played this place.
29:18
I played it last night. Really.
29:21
You play? That's freaking cool, dude.
29:23
That's beautiful, that is. Wow.
29:26
Well, if you go to the next picture, you'll see it from the
29:28
outside. Oh.
29:29
Wow. Wow.
29:32
That's amazing man, just to have that experience is so cool.
29:36
Yeah, that's the church. That's what, yeah.
29:39
That was last night, yeah. He's.
29:40
Right, that would be a super upgrade in America.
29:45
That's fantastic, man. Yeah, and it's all I was worried
29:49
about the sound in that, but it was all, if you saw that last
29:51
picture, it's all wood. See, there's a lot of wood in
29:53
there. So it's warm and oh.
29:55
I bet it sounded amazing. And after this was Ireland,
29:59
Yeah, I was in Ireland. And you all you could say, all
30:01
you said was all I can say Ireland is wow.
30:04
Did you have potatoes? Did you get some potatoes?
30:06
Because. We had a lot of there, but they
30:08
because they would, they came to party.
30:10
It was. Oh yeah.
30:12
Oh yeah. Compared to.
30:14
Motherland loves the loves the Guinness now the ale.
30:17
They like to get their piss on for sure.
30:18
Yeah, we've had a few. We had a few pints while we're
30:21
there and but yeah, the Dublin crowd was so like North
30:26
American, like they would, they came, they liked their concerts
30:29
a lot. The Rialto.
30:32
Yeah, I go. There you go.
30:33
Classic Seger. Right on.
30:36
Yeah. See, this is the cool thing
30:38
about Facebook, man. We can pull it up and share your
30:40
stuff and oh, where'd that go? Oh, this is your.
30:43
Oh, this is your shows. OK.
30:45
You'll have to be up the next time you're in Chicago.
30:47
I'll come up and see you, Darren.
30:49
Yeah, so you're familiar with Rialto?
30:52
Oh yeah, I grew up. Yeah, we're.
30:54
Both familiar. I just.
30:56
Moved back here. Oh man, I wish we would have
30:58
done this in August. I'd have come seen you.
31:00
Yeah, it was at the beautiful venue.
31:02
Like it's one of the nicest in the in the country.
31:04
Quite a few shows there. Oh yeah, it's beautiful.
31:07
Absolutely. OK, so I'm just scrolling.
31:10
I'm you guys keep talking. I'm just scrolling through the
31:11
show so people can see it. Yeah, yeah, I think.
31:14
That's are you wrapping up in April 25th or does it take a
31:18
break and go back on the road? I see it stops right here.
31:21
So that's oh, you're on the like a there's more added.
31:25
That's just all we have, OK. And now it's good.
31:28
I think your screen might be frozen dude.
31:31
Mine. Yeah, cuz if you're scrolling,
31:33
we're not seeing you scroll anymore.
31:35
You're stuck on like November. Yeah, that's why I'm kind of was
31:39
wondering I'll. Stop sharing then.
31:41
I'll stop sharing then. No, you're fine.
31:42
I should fix No cuz I should fix it then.
31:44
Yeah, there you go. You weren't.
31:48
The screen was. Oh, OK.
31:50
I just. I just like to share.
31:51
You know, I'd like I told you before, Darren, we're all about
31:54
sharing. No.
31:55
That's great. Folks that are on the show, you
31:57
know. Yeah, no, I think this is really
31:59
cool because this is like a cover band on steroids right
32:04
here. You're representing one person
32:06
and you've taken it to a level where you're playing some really
32:09
cool shows, man. I mean, how many people get to
32:12
go tour Europe as a musician on any level?
32:14
That's really. And I'm hoping so, but I'm
32:19
putting this together as like one of EU tribute bands.
32:22
I don't know any of this. Done it.
32:23
I'm I've done so many calls from other tribute bands just wanting
32:28
and I'm sure it's going to be fun when I get back.
32:29
How do we do this? How do you And I've made some
32:32
great contacts to you. So I'm hoping it just paves.
32:35
You know, I've I've already made mistakes on this tour coming
32:37
over here. You know, you learn the next
32:39
time you go back, you look smarter and sure, I'm hoping
32:42
that some great promoters here that we can bring some more over
32:46
because obviously there's incredible musicians in North
32:50
America, bands, Ezra is here. But you know what's if we can?
32:55
So let me ask you this. Obviously you did it because
32:58
you're a huge Bob Seger fan, but did you see a niche in the
33:02
market that there wasn't a Bob Seger tribute band?
33:05
Is that one of the reasons you picked it, or just more so
33:07
because you were such a huge fan?
33:09
I'm saying a little bit of both. Always a huge Seeger fan and
33:17
there was there wasn't so obviously from up in Canada.
33:20
There was only one at the time that was doing it like I can say
33:24
at this level and they split for a bit and there was and I I saw
33:29
that and I so I thought the and COVID is going on.
33:33
So I said that there's nobody doing in Canada too much and and
33:37
now they're back together that band and they're fantastic band
33:40
as well. I just I'm sure we butt heads at
33:43
venues sometimes, but we're all doing the, you know, doing it
33:47
for the same thing, playing Bob Seger music and but the yeah,
33:51
there's. Can I raise a?
33:53
Suggestion. Sure.
33:55
When you do your next tribute band, because you're from Canada
33:58
and Chris is going to turn this into a drinking game, he knows
34:00
where I'm going with this every time we talk to Canadians.
34:04
Tell me about The Tragically Hip.
34:06
Put one of those tribute bands together.
34:08
Yeah, there's enough over here. It's like, really?
34:10
Oh, they're they're. Dude, they are like, you have no
34:14
idea how popular this band is in Canada.
34:16
Like the Canada loves. They have a day named after
34:19
them, Yeah. They it's funny, I never took.
34:23
Off in the state. They didn't never took off and
34:27
they I don't know if that was. Except for me.
34:29
And my, except for me in my own little world and the dude that I
34:33
had a friend that used to fly around the country repairing
34:36
robotics equipment. OK, he used to fly around the
34:39
world. So he went to Canada and he
34:42
actually saw The Tragically Hip in concert back in the 80s.
34:47
He bought their cassette at the time and he brought it back and
34:49
he said, dude, you got to hear these guys, they're right up
34:51
your alley. Because I like songwriting kind
34:54
of bands where nobody is the star, right?
34:57
The song is the star, and that's The Tragically Hip.
35:00
The song is the star. There is no star in that band.
35:03
No other. Than you know gourd would be for
35:06
you guys. You know, Canada embraced him.
35:09
Yeah, they sure didn't. He passed away a few years ago
35:11
now, but so I saw them first time.
35:15
It used to be a bar in Sarah called the Campbell St. station
35:19
where all the upcoming, you know, the the was on the
35:21
rotation and The Tragically Hip came in there on a Monday night.
35:25
This was before they were anybody and.
35:28
Been there, done that. They played and we got the tape.
35:31
We can't find the tape that the sound man gave us because we
35:33
would not. So they were doing old stone
35:36
stuff, the Monkeys, you know, like you're stepping Stone and
35:39
Mary Mary. They just, I think the only
35:43
original they played that that show at that time was of their
35:46
first album, the last American accent.
35:48
There's a song, But we hung out with them.
35:51
We were in the band. They came over our house.
35:52
So the the the guitar player Baker, I was kind of seeing a
35:57
girl at the time. So he stole that girl from me
35:59
that night and a couple weeks later they're getting ready to
36:05
hit a day off. So he hitchhiked from Toronto
36:07
down to Sarnia, 3 hours to feed this girl and they brought him
36:09
over to my house. So we're carrying on doing doing
36:12
stuff all night. Then we had to drive him back at
36:15
3:00 in the morning to Toronto, get on the tour of us.
36:17
But that's my tragically up story.
36:20
But. That's awesome, man.
36:22
I bring up a band. He has a personal story.
36:24
I love it. Yeah, I don't have a lot, but
36:27
yeah. They're one of my favorites out
36:29
of Canada for sure. Yeah, yeah.
36:31
They never made. I don't know if there's their
36:32
management or what why they just didn't take off the states.
36:35
They I know they tried. So with the same, it was the
36:39
same as seeker in the early 70s, like around Detroit.
36:43
He sold more albums than The Beatles.
36:45
But then he would go and Florida very well, but he'd go in the
36:48
outside the Midwest and like you'd play in front of 30,000
36:52
people. He'd trade the next day, he'd be
36:53
playing maybe 1000 people and nobody That was the same with
36:57
the hip he was they're playing in the Toronto say and 20,000
37:01
people, then Chicago and probably the luckiest 500
37:04
people. I, I it's.
37:06
Yeah, and all that. It was kind of it's, Yeah, it's,
37:09
well, I think it's just the music because it's Alter Bridge.
37:11
I'm sure you've heard of Alter Bridge, right?
37:12
The, the basically the, the band Creed with Miles Kennedy as a
37:15
singer. That Creed's huge in the United
37:17
States, right? Creedo, Creedo fill Madison
37:19
Square Garden three nights in a row.
37:21
No problem. Alter Bridge will play a 2500
37:24
seat venue here and pack it. Then they'll go overseas and
37:27
they'll sell out Wembley three nights in a row.
37:30
So what's the difference between Alter Bridge and Creed?
37:32
It's just a vocalist. Miles is a better singer in my
37:35
opinion. Stabs a little, you know, office
37:37
rocker, which is cool because I love Creed.
37:39
When they came out because our band was, we people ask what we
37:43
sounded like. I was like, well, we always, we
37:44
were kind of Creed before Creed was Creed just from the writing
37:46
standpoint and lyrically. And I had a better range than
37:49
stop. But it's it's it makes no, it
37:52
doesn't make any sense, right? Because you have the exact same
37:54
core musicians, just Miles Kennedy, who has a better voice,
37:57
better range, and can do a lot more vocally than Stop could
38:00
ever do. But in the United States,
38:02
they're just like, yeah, OK, you know, 5-10, maybe 15,000 seat
38:06
venues. But overseas they venues.
38:09
But you know as well as I do that it timing is everything,
38:12
man. Oh, absolutely.
38:13
Chris is right. And I wear this with a badge of
38:16
honor and I have for a long time.
38:18
We had their idea long before they did.
38:21
We also, I also had the idea of Evanescence long before they
38:24
did. They got there before I did,
38:26
right? I said if you take a kick ass
38:29
tight metal band and you put a beautiful woman with a great
38:32
voice in front of that band, it'll sell like hot cake.
38:35
Yeah, it's good. So in the middle of the grunge
38:38
revolution, Chris and I were like, if we just play straight
38:41
ahead rock'n'roll, people are going to eat it up because
38:44
they're going to miss it at some point.
38:45
And they did. So timing is everything too
38:47
right? Yeah, Yep.
38:51
And, and the fact that we wrote how we wrote, we didn't write.
38:54
We write like like how Bob Singer writes.
38:56
It's life. You don't it's not a lot about
38:58
getting laid and partying. And you know, it was we wrote
39:01
about life. Everything that I wrote about
39:02
lyrically had had had reason behind it and substance behind
39:05
it was just, you know, it wasn't, you know, we weren't Van
39:08
Halen lyrically, right? You know, we're beautiful girls
39:11
and shit because Van Halen did that.
39:12
Yeah. You don't need another Van
39:13
Halen. We always say there's nothing
39:15
wrong with that. We love listening to that as
39:17
much as. Anybody.
39:18
We wanted to say that if you really listen dive into Bob
39:22
Seger songs. He was talking about getting
39:23
laid a lot. He.
39:25
Oh, he is. He is.
39:26
But the way he does it, yes, right.
39:28
That's what I'm saying. Kind of like Bob Scott did in
39:30
ACDC. It was very innuendo when he was
39:34
in the band. And then if you think about it,
39:36
when Brian Johnson came in, the man, they were like, fuck it,
39:38
we'll just say this is what we're doing.
39:39
Right, Right. Right.
39:41
But I always appreciated Bond Scott's innuendos, just like Bob
39:45
Seger's innuendos. Like the song that would get me
39:48
going for Bob Seger, if you play that one, is her strut.
39:51
I love that, too. Yeah, that's the attitude of I'm
39:54
going to get that chick without being gross about it.
39:58
Right. Yeah, that's a good song.
39:59
Yeah, we're not doing that over here now, but we do that quite a
40:03
bit. That's a great song.
40:04
But. Tell the boys you're going to
40:07
throw it in the set list tonight.
40:08
For we could. We could, yeah.
40:10
I like that one. It yeah, got a great groove to
40:13
it. Yeah.
40:15
Excellent guitar. Like I'm a guitar player, so I'm
40:18
going to gravitate towards a really cool guitar parts.
40:21
Yeah, that's one of the heavier one that's from Against the
40:23
Window. I'm thinking that's one of the
40:24
heavier songs on it and. For sure.
40:27
Yeah. The one that would, the one that
40:30
really makes my hair stand on end is Night Moves.
40:33
And just because I was a kid during that time when that came
40:36
out and you were at that, we were all at that age, you know,
40:39
that he was talking about it. Just I love the feel of that.
40:44
We always talk about the space between the notes, right?
40:47
There's so much space in that song.
40:49
It just, I don't know, it's one of those perfection kind of
40:53
moments, you know? Yeah.
40:55
So yeah, he recorded that one in Toronto, that song.
40:59
The rest of the album was done in Muscle Shoals we talked
41:01
about, but he Jack Richardson was a famous producer out of
41:08
Toronto. He worked with guess I guess who
41:11
anybody like you the list and they they just wanted to change
41:16
up. So he went drove all the Toronto
41:18
to meet him and he's a started strumming that he said this is a
41:21
song we're going to work tonight.
41:22
So he didn't. One night he brought positions
41:24
back in, never met Seeger, any of them, and they recorded that
41:29
and drawn A1 night. Then he drove back-to-back to
41:31
the States and that was the biggest song, that's what.
41:34
That's crazy. I don't.
41:35
Know that's what made it for him, yeah.
41:37
Night Moves is the one that broke him out.
41:39
Yeah, so live bullet album. Right on.
41:41
Yeah, the live album came out in 76.
41:44
Yeah, my bullet and that started to get some traction and then
41:49
about six months later, Night Moves album came out and that's
41:51
just and this that song particular and then it all says
41:54
rock Main Street on it. Rock'n'roll never forgets.
41:56
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Main Street's the
41:58
coolest song. Oh yeah, yeah.
42:00
Yeah, there's another one that just the space between the
42:03
notes, you know? Yeah, keep it.
42:05
Keeps you lulling along with the tune all the time.
42:10
Yeah. So that's one of the ones we
42:11
when we first found it, which Muscle Shoals we played, we
42:14
record. And then you had that stents at
42:19
the same piano, some of the and this song probably was not
42:23
played in this room again since 1975.
42:26
And you just, it was just, you know, it's a nerd musician
42:29
moment, I guess, but. Well, there's a great no.
42:31
There's a great example talking about a nerd musician moment.
42:34
If you speed that song up, even like two or three beats a
42:38
minute, it would ruin the whole song.
42:39
That's a great example. For musicians and songwriters,
42:43
tempo is everything. Right.
42:44
Yeah, it's having a great, having a great producer with
42:49
him, Punk, Punk. Andrews was always his manager
42:52
and producer and they had the right people.
42:54
You need somebody listening for that, you know, make sure you're
42:56
And I'm sure he had his own. He knew that himself as well.
43:00
But you're 100% right. That's what it ruined that song.
43:07
Yeah, I'm one of those musicians who I've always been open to
43:09
constructive criticism because I, you know, I just, I know I
43:13
don't know it all. And I count on those people that
43:16
Chris will say that sometimes when we're writing songs, it's
43:18
like it's either too fast or too slow.
43:20
I need you to speed it up, man. I'm running out of air.
43:23
You know, he'll make a joke about it instead of, you know,
43:27
there was no egos in our band. So instead of being an asshole
43:30
about things, we would just say it in a funny way.
43:32
He's like, you got to get through that section a little
43:34
faster. I'd, you know, I've only got so
43:36
much breath. I'm a human being, you know?
43:38
Yeah, Yeah. No doubt, no doubt.
43:43
Yeah, so how, how many more dates do you have left on this
43:46
tour? I think we have 7 shows left
43:50
while we're here in a week and 1/2.
43:52
So it's a lot. It's busy.
43:54
And the coolest thing though, and it's coming up on Monday, we
43:59
get to read, we're talking about being able to record their
44:02
Muscle Shoals. I think this trump's out for us
44:06
nerve positions and we get to record at Abbey Road Studio now
44:10
and Studio 2. So when you go record, like when
44:13
you record a Muscle Shoals and now you're going to record at
44:15
Abbey Road, what are you? What are you recording?
44:16
You just doing covers, are you? Doing we're just doing seeker
44:18
promo, we're doing our promos and do videos and I don't care
44:21
for recording there. I just want to sit in that room.
44:25
That's so. Cool, I'm with you man.
44:26
Just a nerd. Look at the gear.
44:28
Hey turn everything on, I want to see the light.
44:31
Yeah, but that's a lot of the same equipment.
44:33
And studio, Studio 2, that's the The Beatles one.
44:37
That's where they recorded 99% of the stuff.
44:40
And right on, they said if that one was booked, this is months
44:45
ago, they said if you can't have that one, we can offer you
44:47
Studio 3. And I'm looking at that wall.
44:49
That's where Dark Side of the Moon was next and recorded.
44:51
So that would have been a good second.
44:55
There was a show that I used to watch.
44:57
I don't, I can't find anymore. It's called the it's, it was
44:59
called Inside Abbey Road. And they would have.
45:01
They would have. That's how I was introduced to
45:03
Damien Rice. Do you know who Damien?
45:04
Rice. Yeah, I know the name.
45:05
Yeah, OK. Irish, Irish singer.
45:08
He's fantastic. Do you?
45:12
Oh, what the hell is his name? I'm going to butcher the name
45:16
Gerardo Clay or something. A really cool soul RB guy, but
45:19
had a rock hit flip to it. Goo Goo Dolls was in there.
45:25
It was one of those things I like watching.
45:30
Not so much rock humidities, but I like, I like like I could, I
45:32
could. Mike and I have talked about
45:34
there needs to be a streaming platform with just access to all
45:37
the musicians, all their stuff, all their videos, their tours,
45:41
all the genres of music. Just like an MTV on steroids,
45:44
because MTV sucks ass now. But it's just something where
45:46
you could dial up. Like you can go to YouTube Music
45:48
and I can dial up shit, but it'd be cool just to have Alphabet
45:51
Cadillac boom. But it was really cool, just
45:54
music. Right.
45:55
But it was really cool because you were inside the studio,
45:57
right inside Abbey Road. And they would show the whole
46:00
studio sounds, Then the bands would they'd play a song and
46:03
then they would talk about the studio experience and talk about
46:05
the song. They'd only do like 3 songs and
46:08
it was usually two or three bands per the, the, the 40
46:11
minute episode and they'd all play two or three songs.
46:14
But it's really cool because you could just kind of you could see
46:17
as a viewer the impact that being in that space has on them
46:21
because it's like so much history, so much music has come
46:25
out of that building over the years and the spirits that's got
46:27
to be in there and the vibe and just because that's the biggest
46:31
thing about us two years, right? The vibe and the and and just
46:33
how you feel when you walk in and just, you know, it's like
46:36
the first time we played the Mason drug this place in in in
46:39
Phoenix. I didn't realize that Pearl Jam
46:40
was on the stage and I'm they have these photos all over the
46:43
all over the bar inside and of the bands that played.
46:46
And so before the show, I was walking around and looking at
46:49
the band. My holy shit, Eve, Eddie stood
46:50
there, you know, and at the time Eddie Vedder was one of my vocal
46:53
like, Oh, so that one. Went through there, Nirvana went
46:56
through there, Tool went through there just.
46:59
Amazing. Huge bands that went on to sell
47:01
millions and millions of records.
47:03
Yeah, and you can you and you feel that, right?
47:06
You feel the vibe, you feel the like when when my last band is
47:09
and we recorded 4 songs at Dolly Parton studio in Nashville and
47:13
you walked in and you just, you just knew.
47:14
Like holy shit, there's the hallway between the the vocal
47:19
booth and the the band part because everything was recorded
47:21
live and and the producers room, you know the boards and shit.
47:24
The whole hallway was written and autographed and signed.
47:27
Yeah, I love that. And and and you can't recognize
47:30
some of the signatures right, because you're sloppy, but you
47:32
know I can I see my hand, my signatures on a wall in Dolly
47:36
Parton pseudo. But it was just so you just felt
47:38
it right. You just you just felt like this
47:40
place is just you're just like something's going to happen
47:42
here. That's bad ass because you're in
47:44
this element where all these creative juices have gone
47:47
through and they've and they've left a piece of their soul on
47:49
the wall and that just bleeds into everything.
47:51
Cheesy, I know, but that's. Just no, I exactly know.
47:55
Yeah, Less if we record on Monday.
47:57
I just want to be in that room and look at the yeah.
48:00
Yeah, just laying the floor like, oh.
48:02
Yeah. And that those are some, those
48:04
are feelings only a musician can understand, right?
48:07
Because if somebody who has has not put the passion of a
48:10
lifetime into music that the three of us have, they would
48:14
just be standing there going well, yeah, I mean it.
48:16
It's cool. But.
48:17
Yeah, but like my wife, my wife brought her about.
48:19
I'm pointing, you know, I'm a little kid and she's.
48:21
Yeah, that's cool. That's that's something you're
48:25
staying on a carpet, you know? Interesting.
48:30
Yeah, that's. Awesome.
48:33
Yeah, but you got to be nerds about something, and there's
48:36
worse things. There is, absolutely, yeah.
48:40
Yeah, so it sounds a healthy addiction.
48:42
It is. So what's the future for Classic
48:44
Seger Darren? We're just booked.
48:49
We're booked just starting into 2027 and wow, we're just, as I
48:57
mentioned, we talked about Night Moves album and I mentioned a
49:00
live bullet. They both turned 50 next year.
49:03
So we're doing some, we're going to do some dedicated shows of
49:07
just doing those albums and just switch it up a bit and just see
49:15
what happens. Yeah, we're just booking and
49:17
cool. I'm going as long as we can.
49:22
We don't know if we're done tomorrow or we're just going to
49:25
go as long as we can. So is this all your guys's full
49:29
time jobs or do you plan this around jobs that you have?
49:32
Most little of both. A lot of people are retired and
49:41
some of us like myself with all we do and a few people have jobs
49:45
that they can book around. OK.
49:48
So with we we give as much notice and we we play with sub
49:53
positions as well that fill in. So if we have enough time, and I
50:00
think we've used almost everybody, you know, if we need
50:02
a guitar player can't make it, we have musicians as know the
50:06
material that sets in so. Well, I was just curious because
50:09
it seems like at the level you guys are playing it, it wouldn't
50:12
be a full time job for most of you at least, yeah.
50:15
It it is and but you know, people have family vacation
50:20
stuff too. So yeah, we just, it's very
50:22
common that we use a sub player and we prefer the original guys
50:27
obviously and it's because. Yeah, you get used to playing
50:32
with the same guys, right? Sure.
50:33
But it's fun playing with new people too, so.
50:36
Sure. Yeah, yeah.
50:37
So I'm I'm I'm showing your website as you guys are talking.
50:40
So I'm on the I'm on the the song list.
50:43
So these. Are beautiful loser.
50:45
Come on, how did I forget? That Yeah, right, right against
50:47
the win down below. Yeah.
50:49
See, there's another one Chevy could have ruined against the.
50:52
Wind for everybody. Don't let them do that.
50:53
Roll me away. Roll me away.
50:56
Roll me away. Fantastic song.
50:57
Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
51:00
Yeah, Romeo Way's pretty. I mean, you were talking about
51:04
the biggest, that one very well well known song and right,
51:09
right, OK, so. I see one there.
51:12
Hold on one second, OK. Give me your opinion on
51:15
Shakedown. Amazing song to play our.
51:20
Guitar player just shreds in it. You got to listen to the you got
51:25
to listen to the live version. Is that the Yeah, there's a live
51:31
version that he does. It's different from the Beverly
51:33
Hills Cop. It's, you know, it's yeah, he
51:36
played yeah when he played Shake down here.
51:38
On the on his farewell concert that that did it got the crowd
51:41
rolling. Strut was funny.
51:43
The story is sold. He told about her strut.
51:45
He didn't realize that was being being played in the strip clubs.
51:49
And then in the year that they came out, one of the 80s, I, I
51:52
want to say 88, don't quote me. He won a Grammy or something for
51:55
that or American some some award based on that as they had the
51:58
most plays on the radio or something.
52:01
And so when he's talking about it to the crowd, he's like, he's
52:04
explaining all that and you know, we're like, what song is
52:07
he talking about? And then he's like, I'd love to
52:09
watch her struts, you know, and but they made sense, right?
52:13
But stripper picks up that song. Absolutely.
52:16
What are they doing? They're strutting.
52:18
Oh, the great roof word too, so I may.
52:21
Not have heard that song in a strip club.
52:23
Myself, right? We may or we may or may not
52:26
have. Yeah.
52:27
That song just needs to be updated.
52:29
I'm glad you showed that. You're welcome.
52:31
I'm here to help Darren. A lot of new stuff we.
52:34
We do other than that. He provides a great public
52:37
service, Darren. Yeah.
52:38
Yeah, I'm here to help. You gonna send me the?
52:41
Bill. Mate, no.
52:43
Not at all. Just you ever come to Arizona?
52:45
Reach out and I'll bring the wife.
52:46
We'll check you guys out. Absolutely.
52:48
You ever go to Chicago? Reach out to Mike.
52:50
We'll love that. Come hang out.
52:51
Yeah. You know, this is.
52:52
That's the cool thing about this is I really.
52:55
Hope that you know, I know you guys are going to keep playing
52:57
so when you come back around again, if you're near Chicago or
53:00
Peoria, it's cool to be able to come out and see you guys.
53:03
You know, we've had comedians and musicians and really like to
53:07
pay back, you know, and 100% you guys do definitely.
53:11
Make it happen. And yeah, it's too bad we
53:14
didn't. Like you said, we just played
53:16
outside Chicago there last month.
53:17
That would have worked out fine. Yeah, it's crazy.
53:20
That picture is that recent. That's awesome.
53:24
That stage is. Just and there's and there's my
53:26
favorite one. And that's how we're going to,
53:28
that's how we're going to wrap this puppy up, boys and girls.
53:30
That's Darren from Classic Seger.
53:32
Check them out. Classic segerband.com.
53:34
They're booking shows and playing shows until 2027.
53:38
They're going to start doing some 50 anniversary tours
53:40
related to night moves and the live the live bullet, correct?
53:44
Correct. Yeah, correct.
53:46
So. We wrap up every show like this.
53:47
If you're feeling sad, depressed or suicidal, don't do it.
53:51
Go scream at a pillow. Go run, go journal, go work out.
53:54
Call somebody. If you can't get a hold of
53:55
somebody, text 988. Someone will miss you.
53:58
You will leave a hole in someone's heart because someone
53:59
does love you and care about you.
54:01
And tomorrow is a better day with you waking up in it for the
54:04
Chris and Mike show. I'm Chris.
54:05
He's Mike and that's Darren from classic Seger.
54:07
Check them out live. I'm sure you'll be blown away.
54:10
Super nice guy. We love to have you on the show
54:13
when you come back to the States sometime in the next in 2026.
54:16
Let's get you back on and and we can talk more about your your
54:18
European Tour and how fantastic it was.
54:20
Sound sound like a plan. That sounds awesome.
54:23
Appreciate it. Guys, thanks again for coming.
54:25
On Darren, appreciate it. Thanks.
54:27
Peace. Love you brother, love you to
54:29
your brother. Peace.
54:44
Behind. Your eyes take.
55:03
A moment. Come down here, we haven't found
56:41
salad and sand from fighting. Wait for the dead when it's
56:49
closure out of the wind. You ain't no creaser.
56:54
We'll play and smile. You could you put on the
56:58
almighty day. You got a dream true in your
57:03
life to keep a soul in every man.
57:09
Take the trail behind your eyes. Feel the soul evolution now.
57:14
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
57:26
Take a moment. Look at you.
57:29
See you, see you fight the battle into you more clear.
57:59
You gotta. You gotta.
58:01
You gotta. You gotta.
58:03
You gotta.