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INK Joins the show · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Feva Tequila Seltzer, the number one heart Seltzer in the world and the official
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  like since Welcome Back Day drinking with Dog. That music you heard is
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  the single Mary from the band Ape who I've known now, I don't know
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  twenty years years, twenty years, I think easily twenty years. To my
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  far left is Steve Gonza. What's up? Brother from Egg right now?
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  Gonza? The brother's gones, he's both. Gonza would see all yeah,
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  it's a gone. Yeah hell he was yeah yeah, And of course Rich
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  Macella shake hands on the seconds. What's going on? Oh? You know,
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  man, living life, family time, kids, like we were talking
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  a little earlier, that's what consumes now. But uh, religiously we still
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  get together every Wednesday Thursday night with really Oh yeah, yeah. We're in
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  and out though, man, we know we have on our agenda going thirty
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  minutes. You know we're out of there. Can I say, like twenty
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  years ago, like you and I look different? Yeah, these fucking Tuesdays
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  looking not fair? Gods is like he's getting younger. I know, I
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  was went on. Yeah, nineteen eighteen. Yeah, oh yeah, over
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  here, hold on, I gotta switch seats. Yeah, you know,
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  yeah, so I think I I think I met you before I first saw
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  you guys play back in the day. Yeah, so my you know,
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  going out and around, you're you're like a Staple and Millford Cohen I and
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  stone Bridge, Phil and John I think from growing up in the area and
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  probably mutual friends. Right. Just my wife worked at Archie Moore's as she
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  was going through grad school. Her sister Stacey worked over that SBC, that
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  whole crew. You know, Alison Shay was a good friend of mine back
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  in the day from a yeah, bringing back some names should tag everybody.
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  Yeah, but you got to shout out, yeah I dated her, but
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  come on, that's fine, great, yeah great, yeah, yeah,
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  you know we we missed. You know. Street was a great club,
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  you know, part of our road tie man. I remember when Door well
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  he was stone Bridge too, but yeah he was both. But I've probably
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  countless times had mentioned Daniel Street on this show. And it was a short
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  lived spot, but it was it lived. And when we first opened it,
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  and I give Phil all the credit in the world, we didn't know
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  what we were doing and we were doing comedy night, and we were doing
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  you know, we had fans obviously, but it wasn't it wasn't what it
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  was at the end, which I wish it was at the beginning because I
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  think it'd still be here. Yeah, And we were just trying to find
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  ourselves. We had burlesque nights, we had you know, you know,
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  all sorts of weird kind of crap coming through. And then the story that
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  John went to like Berkeley and his you know Richie kind of like hooked,
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  you know, did the right thing. Hey, you know, guys,
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  I'm gonna invest in this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, is
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  it that fact? Yeah? And John was such an it sound guy.
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  Yeah, and set up that whole. I mean, I had, guy,
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  I know, you guys know you've used it, but I had some
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  of the now national acts come through with it, like I've never seen a
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  better system. So the story about Daniel Street, if I was going to
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  describe it, yes, you know, any original local band like us,
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  you know, dies to play a Toad's Place because you know, Haven County,
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  right, So we played toadst Place. But Daniel Street like just you
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  know, came out of the woodwork and it was it was it was like,
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  honestly, it was like another mini Tod right around the corner from us,
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  because we're Milford. Every Toad's corner pocket which pocket scene when the fun
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  Bags used to be there all the time. Yeah, man, simple gym,
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  simple gym. Friends of ours, John Goodyerald Good, that whole crew.
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  I remember when I was going to Sacred Heart and I went after these
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  guys the sports page down the street Thursday nights, Simple gym and play there.
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  Fucking line was down there. You know those bands like you to mention
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  a few, you know, Derek and the Fun Bags were the ones that
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  first invited ink you know this cover and got us into Toad's place and then
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  cover never ever played to cover all original forever. What I was saying was
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  mega cover band like Derek in the Fun Bags is the kind of band we
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  got under, we original band, but we got under them because you know,
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  they invited us to Toads And once you start playing Toads, you're playing
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  to a lot more people. And Derek and Fun Bags used to sell that
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  place out and they put us on never forget this story. They put us
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  on a toads Our very first show. Uh, and you're the first slot
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  back in the day was the week slot because you didn't want to go on
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  early nine o'clock, right, And I'll never forget Scott White, which was
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  the guitar player at the time. He came up to me show and we
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  were our first show of Toads and he goes, dude, there's like like
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  over two hundred tickets for Ink in the Box already, And because we we
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  just drew very well, and they just kept inviting us back and we played
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  they played almost Yeah, we played within constantly and H and then we got
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  h hooked up with Simple Gym, all great fans of ours. Yeah,
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  and then later on Unforgettable Fire would shout out, you know, just like
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  yeah, we we keep that same system and we're still open for really good
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  covering tribute bands, like we just open up for Earth. Opus runs that
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  band, which is a Black Sabbath killer bands. You know what. Great,
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  He's the one that after the whole COVID thing with Toads. Opus is
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  the one that got us back into Toad's place recently for our twenty five year
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  anniversary show. So yeah, it's great to be shout out to Opus.
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  So he's been a staple in the Connecticut, New Haven Sea from absolutely before
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  the Gargantua Soul days. Was he blind Justice Sir Chris Key's was blading.
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  I'm not sure if he played drums. He may have played Drugs for Blanche.
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  I always remember opens for g Soul, and I always when I when
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  I first met Opus, I said, bro, I just want to tell
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  you you and the guys that Gesaul are the ones that inspired Stephen and I
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  absolutely from Stanford to Milford and we weren't playing yet. We went out.
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  It was at the gathering, the gathering and Milvil was playing the gathering and
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  my brother's like, oh, band, Gargans I was playing at at the
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  gathering, did you want to go? And we walked in all original kick
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  ass band. We were driving home that night and we're like, we're doing
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  it. We're gonna put together. Absolutely, That's how the first time I
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  saw there was at the gathering. I used to work. I used to
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  do sales at company in Branford, so I worked say with Bozzie Jason Bozzie,
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  which was in uh Gargans Soul at the time. I never forget he
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  invited me and said, hey, come to my show. It's right and
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  where you live in Milford, I said, where at the gathering? You're
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  like, who plays the gas? It was like a restaurant there put the
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  crazy thing about us. I went there and I was with me and they
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  went on. My fucking jaw dropped. I was like what at each other?
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  It was awesome and it was like a heavy riff and you know,
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  and honestly, I remember going back to salad saying, bro, let's let's
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  get something going like that. That was cool. The same thing happened.
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  It was all original. It's all these you know, these steps. And
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  then then we came up to see a living color at Toad's place I was
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  at and it was there there a couple of times in the video for Open
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  Letter to the Landlord, and we it was vivid. It was that tour
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  and we looked at each other and we're like, we got to play this
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  joint. And then later on we played Toads and then we opened up for
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  a Living Color after a couple of times. So yeah, so it was
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  like, yeah, it was a cycle. It's really was that like in
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  uh oh the first time he saw it, first time I saw yeah,
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  yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I always I always
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  tell this story, so I'm gonna stick to it is look ink, twenty
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  five years, we've always been all original. We've never played a cover.
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  That doesn't mean absolutely. Here's the thing, and this is my story and
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  I'm sticking to it, is that if you've been to the Derek and the
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  fun Bag show, which we went last month to see them all again any
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  other they're better than ever. If you've seen Unforgettable Fire play, and you've
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  seen all these tribute bands play simple Gym, you see all these guys play
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  Earth, You're like, Honestly, me personally, I don't speak for myself.
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  I can't compete with that. I can't learn their masters that, But
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  I mean I know I could write a song we could jive. So we
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  do. We stick to the original because honestly, the competition with tribute bands
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  and cover bands, it's just so huge that you know, we stick to
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  our original songs that we got a nice little following that follows us around,
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  and we're happy with that. So it's fun doing the original stuff. I
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  don't think I can see you guys singing. I don't think I could do
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  it better than the I can't do it. But and you and you need
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  to be in the studio like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and all
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  the new pop songs going out. Well, the worst was years ago when
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  we were playing you'd have the drunk motherfucker up front played free bird Man.
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  You know that would kill us changes you guys, Yeah, I was that.
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  I was that guy once you guys remember uh Living Trust right? Yeah?
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  Course, so sorry, party and Keith and So and Justin and Matt,
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  well, Matt's the drupper and fun back. Matt came out and to
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  support us out of the Blue blew our minds. Two shows ago he shows
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  up and then and then the following week he plays James Jamison. Yeah,
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  yeah, that's so that that's actually owned by one of our Scott, one
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  of our used to be Scott. We were used to be our sous chef.
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  I'll tell you that. I gotta tell you the Corner Pocket story,
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  which is a good story, so I'll never forget. We played Corner Pocket
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  our very first time, and uh we went down there, we're setting up
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  and everything, and all of a sudden, just before we get ready to
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  click our ams on, you were all set up, the owner comes up
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  and he tells you out my shirt and he goes, hey, you guys
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  play covers too, and I looked at him like, we don't, but
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  do me a favor and just go sit down in the back. Let us
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  do our thing and see the hot amount of people we bring in, and
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  then you decide if you want to have us back, right, And sure
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  enough we mobbed the place. At the end of the night, he's given
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  us that I forget the name of the owner. I don't want to move.
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  I don't think it was Joe, you know what it was Joe after
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  Joe was Neil. Yeah, and they they're the ones who really brought so
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  that same night, that same night, guys, if anybody knows, Gary
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  doesn't have to show Yeah, I know, just so you know, just
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  so you know, Derek and thumb Bags were the ship at Corner Pocket and
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  all of a sudden there was a night that they weren't playing and Chris michels
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  Michael's he comes in, you've got there? And yeah, he comes in
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  and he saw us and he saw that we were packing. He came right
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  up to me and said, hey, like, we'd love to have you
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  open us a toast, And I said, okay, who are you?
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  Said drinking the fun bas We were so excited and they just took us under
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  our wing. You know, we were opening for them all the time,
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  and we went from nine o'clock to ten o'clock before we were just before them.
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  You know, eleven o'clock was the best slot. That's the headliner at
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  the time, right, But ten o'clock slot was two hours. You know
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  what, no, lie, I mean we were drawn easily one fifty two
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  hundred people every time you played as an original band, and it just never
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  stopped. Of course, you know, as as you play, you know,
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  numbers, especially in Connecticut, numbers go down. But we just played
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  there last week forty fifty people. And you know what, it's great if
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  you have four or five bands on there that draw that you got a you
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  got these crowd. My story, hold on is I'm gonna tell a good
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  story. I didn't tell my story tequila tequila time. So the boys we
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  got three of Ego's tequila. I'm gonna tag them on Instagram. I don't
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  know who they are. No, my story is quick because you're talking about
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  my snot assholes in the front row. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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  So Living Tross is playing at the Knitting factory in New York City and they're
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  on one of the floors. I don't remember, but it was a bus
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  trip. Yep. So we're fucking pregaming. We're on the bus. I'm
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  kind of like dating a girl that fucking knows already and all this stuff.
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  So worlds campies with it. We're having a great time. Kind of last
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  thing I remember as I was on stage like mouthing one of their songs back
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  to the crowd, and I remember turned to my left and Alreaty's just shaking
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  his head at me. Now, if anyone shakes ahead to anybody, should
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  all be all of us shaking our head already. But I fell in that
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  moment. I'm like, holy shit, I'm I'm the guy right now,
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  I'm the asshole. I put my head down, I went down, and
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  then I woke up like like somewhere on nine ninety five on the bus,
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  like and they're all like, what the fuck were you doing? And they
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  were like keeping you know, like it was just fun. But I'm like,
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  ye, yeah, there's that guy once like yeah, hey man,
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  we have a lot of respect for living trust they I aint he was great
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  voice, he had a great stage presidence, great voice. Yeah, that
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  first album they had was I still have I still listen to and it's just
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  a shame. Already did a project for us too. I already did a
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  project with all. I wrote a song, Ink arranged the whole thing in.
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  It was for Tom Swanson when he passed and we did it at Scott
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  White STUDI. But we thought it was a good idea to invite some great
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  UH singers that were in other bands that we liked, and Arty was first
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  on the list. Party was for some list. We have great several artists,
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  several several arts many many fifteen people, males, females. I love
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  about like that community. You know a lot of community. You know a
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  lot of like like people in certain fields like you all like spend. Like
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  the restaurant. It was the same way, sure, like someone you get
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  like you know, huts from Archie Moore's got a bad accident and they helped
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  you, like a huge fundraiser. All the bartenders donated tips. And I
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  know the music injurtyes the same way. It's a family, you know.
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  Yeah, that's the whole thing is that it's it's competitive to a certain point,
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  right and then you know your family actually you're competitive, but you know,
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  if someone needs something, you know, whether a drum's thrown or a
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  cowbell or something like that, sure you help them out. We had a
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  bunch of people from you know, the local area, you know, Lori
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  from the Naples, Steve Rodriguez, you know, a bunch of the guys
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  were on that song. And you know Scott White. You talk about you
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  know, contribution and stuff. But Scott did that song free studio time.
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  But he was smart because we in you know, wrote the song. We
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  had a bunch of special guests. It was at least a handful of at
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  least five or six singers on there. Andre was there a documentary, Yeah,
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  we have, we'll send it to you. The video of the song
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  isn't documentary. But the whole point, the whole point was, you know,
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  Scott did the free studio time. But he was smart because he knew
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  that I was bringing in because I invited the singers and me being the singer
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  of the band, I was inviting the singers on to help me sing the
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  song. And they're seeing the studio, Yeah, they're seeing the studio,
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  and they you know, ended up seeing the story studio and getting the studio
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  time, so it's worked out for him too. It was excellent and Scott
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  did a cameo on it too. He did break didn't Yep, Scott did.
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  Scott's an awesome guitar. You know he once threw his guitar and do
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  you remember this story. I don't remember that song. Yeah, Daniel Street
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  Jesus. I never heard that he threw his guitar into the crowd and crack
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  some lady and then you kidding. I never heard that story. Lawyers,
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  lawyers getting involved and all that kind of ship, you know that. Yeah,
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  yeah, let's cut down a little bit. We'll cut them. Matthews
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  ed that album producer was already been settled. Yes, we had uh back.
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  Yeah, we got real close with Scott. He did an album for
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  us when we were a power trio and uh we actually invited him to our
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  New York show. I think it was CBGB's or the Continental. He came
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  me the jam with us. It was on like Wednesday night from Uh.
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  We used to we like Living Trust and many of us we used to do
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  that circuit. Right. You'd go in on a Tuesday night play to a
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  record company if you were lucky enough with two people in the audience. It
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  was Arleans Grocery, the Continental, CBS, The Hills, Horror of Our
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  Bat. What was the show that these are the Underground Grocery? Did I
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  say that the Underground the circuit back? Yeah, four or five? Everybody
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  act Underground. You're playing the talent Scouts absolutely, yeah, yeah, all
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  of them. Yeah, Act Me Underground was the show where we we showed
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  up. We loaded in. There was nobody in the club because it was
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  New York City working at a Tuesday night. Tuesday night, we pull in
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  and a guy comes up to us and he said, hey, you you
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  know ink, So yeah, he goes, he make sure you play that
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  song Monster tonight. I'm like, who the hell is this guy? We
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  find out that he's fill with Sony from Sony Records. Yeah, we came
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  to see you guys tonight. We're like, holy shit. There was absolutely
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  nobody in the club on a Tuesday night, right, but we don't think
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  anybody vinegar. So he sat us down after for breakfast and he's like,
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  you know, is there any way that you guys can write more, like,
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  say like green Day. We're like, no, no takes anyway,
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  but he literally gets green Day. But we're like no, but like we
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  would rather feel at what we believe in rather than succeed at It's like Google
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  Dolls. Google Dolls were a fucking punk rock band and somebody said to them,
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  hey, you wanted to sing something a little more. But the last
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  thing they said to us, I mean they selld out whatever, they made
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  their money. Yeah, they got away from there. The last thing they
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  said to us before the midnight coffee or whatever was hey, we're gonna be
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  back in touch with you because we're gonna figure out what we're gonna do with
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  you guys. So we you know, we're all calling our girls and call
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  like this is it? Man? You know, I guess what. We
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  never got the call, but you know what, you know, like I
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  said, you don't know the reasons behind it, but it was just a
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  great journey. We we weren't looking for stardom. We were just looking to
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  have fun. And you know, we were recognized by by some some companies,
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  but just wasn't right time. And my story is I was you forgot?
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  I was fan. Oh yeah when they were there first we have the
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  white stripes, Yeah, yeah, we had a Yeah, it was it
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  was for people, and I was yeah, and I was doing my thing,
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  trying to start a band, and it's funny, you know, I
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  hate to talk about me. I'm not an I type of guy, but
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  I would play, and you know the story, Guns, I would always
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  say both no, sorry. After the band I was in would come off
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  stage, people would walk up to me and say, hey man, you're
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  a really good bass player. And I don't want to hear that. I
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  want them to hear hey man, you guys are really good, and I
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  would I would. I was at every INK show front row and they were
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  doing their thing. I was doing my thing. And then when you guys
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  were four piece, it was still Originals, right yeah. Richie would call
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  me literally the day. Every day after a gig, he would call me,
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  Guns, you guys are unbelievable. I love you guys, you know
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  you know yeah, And we became really close friends, all three of us.
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  And then fast forward, I fired the rest of the band except for
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  my brother, right okay, and Steven's like, who are gonna get you?
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  Fire your brother? Are you? Are you ink? I know,
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  I don't know. Listen Here's I don't listen, but I don't listen,
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  Jeremy, listen, this is the honest tooth about ink all right. Sally
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  is the founder of the band. Sal has been playing drums in high school
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  before I even knew how to spell guitar, right, But he was always
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  the drummer. He played with all the best players in high school. To
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  name a few, you know, Billy Monopoly, the Ronnie Russo, all
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  those guys were great guitar players and stuff like that. And I used to
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  go watch in my parents' basement. Sal always rehearse with these bands. And
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  finally one day Sally turned to me, his little brother, and he was
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  like, why don't you like take up guitar or something like that. You're
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  always You're always had every goddamn rehearsal, right, So I said, that's
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  a good idea. So I took up guitar. And this is the honest
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  truth is, I'll never forget. It was a college time. Then,
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  I just, you know, my first year in college at some basic chords.
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  And I told my guitar teacher at the time in Stanford, I said,
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  just teach me enough chords so I could get to my brother's band,
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  because I have this opportunity. Right, So, look Sally had rehearsal coming
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  or the guys were coming home from college at the time, and they all,
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  we're gonna show up in my mom's basement and Sala's drum set set up.
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  So he said, Steve, make sure you bring your your get your
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  amp and stuff set up. So I'm sitting up all early and stuff like
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  that. I plugged in my guitar and the other guitar player came in,
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  the bass player came in. They started setting up, and I was already
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  ready and they looked like, who's this guy. So I just like belt
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  it out a rift that I that I wrote, and they all stopped and
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  they were like, what the fuck was that. The whole rehearsal was like
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  them playing the sack. So that's how it really started. It's like sal
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  was like, Steve, I didn't know, like you can write. I
• 22:49
  just had the immy that I can do that. And then so so so
• 22:52
  fast on the six second cushure in the day around the phone. So I'm
• 22:57
  in a band. Six second tell Milford guy John Whitaker, great vocalist,
• 23:02
  great singer. We we start a band. We're doing our thing. We
• 23:06
  go up to Hartford, we record at Planet Sound where the Pixies recorded.
• 23:08
  Great, great Great Tunes right, better than anything I was doing before Soris
• 23:15
  great band. At the time, we're getting ready to start booking shows.
• 23:18
  Cool because I know Ink and maybe we could open for Ink. Right,
• 23:22
  So never forget the day. I'm on the phone with John. This is
• 23:25
  before cell phone, brother. I thought this was a six second story,
• 23:27
  not in a six second six second. So I'm talking to John. We're
• 23:36
  talking about what we're gonna do. Sally calls me. He goes, uh
• 23:38
  member total phone. I clicked over, Oh god, yeah, clicked over.
• 23:44
  I know, clicked over, gons what's up man? What are you
• 23:45
  doing? Is? Yeah, Hey, Richie, we just we just fired
• 23:48
  our bass player and singer. You want to join the band, I said,
• 23:52
  Gons hold on, clicked over, I said John, and quittin six
• 23:53
  second Cris I, I love your brother, but I gotta go do this.
• 23:57
  I go, Gons, I'm in. That was on a Friday.
• 24:03
  I had to learn twelve songs Toads for Toad's Place. I walked out in
• 24:07
  front of three hundred people at Toad's Place. Yep and Jeremy, you know
• 24:08
  what you did and you Jem, you know what the best thing ever happened
• 24:12
  to this band? You know why because honestly, for twenty five years we've
• 24:18
  always been on the same page of what we want to do. Richie's like
• 24:22
  we're all about originals, our brother's brother. We always consider Richie a long
• 24:26
  lost pass kind of and it's true, it's probably the best thing ever happened
• 24:30
  to us, because I mean, look Sala and I. You know,
• 24:32
  they say families we have the same breath. Bands. Bands break up,
• 24:34
  but families don't. And you know, Sally and I have always been close
• 24:37
  together. And like I said, when I was writing Everyff in the Basement,
• 24:41
  Yeah, but you know when I was writing ever Riff in the Basement
• 24:45
  and the guys were like following what I was doing, so like figured out,
• 24:48
  He's like, holy shit, I invited my brother into the band.
• 24:51
  I know he's going to take it over. So you're almost like you're like
• 24:55
  you're almost like a like a like a prodigy, a prodigy. Like like
• 24:59
  I tried guitar, right, I tried it with the guy that teaches downtown.
• 25:02
  Couldn't play his name one, I won't even say his name, but
• 25:06
  I thought he was not that I can compare him to any other guitar teacher.
• 25:08
  But I thought he was terrible. He literally just played in front of
• 25:11
  me and said do that, and I'm like, wait a second. And
• 25:14
  that was kind of how my lesson went. And it was cheap, and
• 25:17
  I guess you get what you pay for, but I realized how fucking hard
• 25:22
  it is when you got big hands. I don't, so I'm like trying
• 25:25
  to, like, you know, I just I couldn't. I tried.
• 25:29
  I tried, and I just gave up. And Phil Conine at work and
• 25:32
  John his brother, were like, dude, just stick with it because one
• 25:36
  day you're just gonna sit in the couch and all of a sudden started to
• 25:38
  lick and I just kind of gave up. And I was just doing it
• 25:42
  just I wanted to learn something. I wasn't trying to start a band or
• 25:45
  anything. But listen to your story and how like you just kind of,
• 25:48
  you know, in college, picked it up when you had a million other
• 25:52
  things you were thinking. I honestly think that all bands have like someone that
• 25:56
  could really write a good riff or a song. I mean I and I
• 26:00
  was just say I consider myself a songwriter before a guitar player. I mean,
• 26:03
  just trust me when I say this. And people listen to this,
• 26:06
  They're going to say, and I could honestly say that, you know,
• 26:10
  there's much better guitar players out there, of course I have. You know,
• 26:14
  people think, oh my god, I saw you on stage. You're
• 26:15
  amazing. You know. Maybe it's the way I move and the way I
• 26:18
  make it natural. But I'm a songwriter before anything. I love songwriting.
• 26:22
  You know. I put together a riff. How it all starts is you
• 26:23
  know, I'll put together a riff. I'll make sure I could sing to
• 26:26
  it, because we're a trio. I got to sing and play at the
• 26:27
  same time. I'll present it to these guys and forget about They turned the
• 26:30
  song into something that I never thought it would be. I mean, really,
• 26:34
  the arrangement, that whole production, where it justifying it Like we give
• 26:41
  it to Richie, we say, Richie, ritify it, you know,
• 26:44
  because she puts his base to me and before you know, for long days,
• 26:48
  man, you didn't want to do it. That's another good song fit.
• 26:51
  Look, so that song was when I was trying to think of yesterday
• 26:53
  when I when I were today, Yeah, when I texted you, because
• 26:56
  I texted camp you last night. Yeah, I said, what the is
• 27:00
  the name? And he's doing good. I don't what the brother, what
• 27:03
  the fuck is the name of the song that's always in Like, we'll sit
• 27:06
  by his pool side and we'll just like still to this day, and it
• 27:10
  was take a ride with me ride, so he like he's like, yes,
• 27:15
  I'm like I was just like a humming, but I wouldn't I couldn't
• 27:17
  remember the lyrics. But then four long days what we used to joke about
• 27:21
  because that was when our ship ended on Sunday, we had four long days
• 27:25
  of drinking ahead of us. So we would say, yeah, that song
• 27:33
  the one thing, the one thing that uh that amazes me. And I
• 27:37
  know that the band could attest to this is that, you know, when
• 27:41
  we have a set of songs that we're doing for the year, let's say
• 27:44
  say there's twenty songs we have ready, right, we always ask like our
• 27:47
  fans, our fans are you know, following people like us, you know,
• 27:49
  And we were noticing that our fans are people that we met at shows
• 27:53
  like that like the music. It wasn't like people from high school coming to
• 27:56
  see you because oh, you're in a band. It was people that like
• 27:59
  the music and that it was always about the music. Organically got but we
• 28:03
  noticed that when we were asking people like online, the Facebook made a big
• 28:06
  difference in it was my space when it first started the online stuff, we
• 28:10
  would ask people what's your favorite song? We noticed that it was always a
• 28:12
  different song. Every person had a different song that they liked. It was
• 28:17
  really cool. But the the but the Four Long Days story was was really
• 28:25
  good. You know, sometimes as a songwriter, sometimes you write something right
• 28:30
  and you're like, wow, this feels like to me, like a really
• 28:34
  catchy song. It's gonna go big for our following right, and then we
• 28:40
  end up playing it out and it's really not right. Because sometimes I think
• 28:42
  that it's good. Then just the opposite happened with Four Long Days. The
• 28:45
  funniest story behind that song is I wrote the initial ref and then Richie put
• 28:51
  in like the verse of it, which is just like a bassline, and
• 28:52
  I was just hitting the chord and singing, and we started playing Four Long
• 28:56
  Days on Everfrika. It was that Bobby's studio ups It was a rehearsal studio.
• 29:00
  We were playing it there and we played it a couple of times.
• 29:03
  I don't know. After the third time, I just I just went to
• 29:06
  the band and I said, I don't like this song. It's just not
• 29:08
  working for it. And Richie he pissed us off because Richie and Salaz are
• 29:14
  like doing it. I'm like the fuck. Richie and sal were like,
• 29:17
  no, this is fucking catchy. Just keep going going right, And I'm
• 29:21
  just gonna show you how I could be wrong too, because it's a song
• 29:22
  that I can't we can't get rid of. It was so funny because then
• 29:26
  we wound up playing it out and it and he came back and he said,
• 29:30
  I have to admit it actually turned into, you know, something bigger
• 29:34
  than I thought. So Four Long Days is most of my songs about a
• 29:37
  relationship. It doesn't have to be my relationship. It could be my brother's
• 29:41
  relationship or her story that Richie told me, or my cousin whatever. It's
• 29:44
  about relationships most because it connects with people, right, and I'm pretty good
• 29:48
  song. But if it's about my relationship, you know, it's it's it's
• 29:52
  very uh, you know, sensitive. But that for four Long Days is
• 29:57
  Four Long Days is about long time relationship, relationship that I was in that
• 30:03
  you know, was sickening to me. For four Long Days did lasted four
• 30:07
  Long days well, like to lose a guy in ten days. They were
• 30:10
  like fucking four days and how lasted five days probably would have killed me,
• 30:15
  but four days, four long days. So like just a tribute to you
• 30:18
  guys. Like when when camp, when you guys were like always like you
• 30:22
  guys probably played Daniel Street four times a year years yeah right, yeah,
• 30:30
  And you know, after after the first kind of couple of times we saw
• 30:33
  you play, especially wintertime, the summertime we were actually we were at Stonebridge
• 30:37
  later time. Yeah, uh, we'd like, you know, to be
• 30:41
  a couple opening acts whatever. Then you guys would come on and you guys
• 30:45
  do like what a twelve song set maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, and
• 30:49
  uh back and they would pretty much know every song as where bartend We're going,
• 30:53
  and like so many people are like like you guys are like singing along
• 30:56
  with these guys. It's awesome. Due, right, I don't know about
• 31:02
  an It was like, you know, and then those those two songs though,
• 31:07
  like with like still Stick. When I first met you, I felt
• 31:10
  like I had to win you over maybe yeah, like I can't be that
• 31:14
  way, no, seriously, like it was so cool, like you know,
• 31:17
  hey, I thought you were selling Urner from got Smack Whenever Fair very
• 31:23
  peril from this. I got that at Ohegan. I'll send you that video
• 31:29
  youself. But uh yeah, I mean it was like, you know,
• 31:33
  to see the people that were working at Daniels getting into us because I see
• 31:37
  bands all the time. Yeah after why you think, oh yeah, they're
• 31:41
  probably numb, but you know, for you guys to come up those yeah,
• 31:44
  I was gass and you know, I'm like, man, this is
• 31:47
  awesome. Yeah, it's it was. It was great. And like what's
• 31:49
  funny is like a lot of the big acts, like national acts would come
• 31:52
  through and they like it's just weird. I don't know, it's it's funny
• 31:57
  how the music industry works was like like like what's his name, Tim,
• 32:01
  Dave Matthews band guitarist Tim Reynolds. Right, they phil booked him there and
• 32:07
  it was like fifty dollars a ticket and maybe sixty people showed up for the
• 32:14
  fucking guitars that Dave Matthews wild and he didn't play one Dave Matthews song.
• 32:19
  It was all him just doing his own ship. And by halfway through there
• 32:22
  was ten people left and the dude's like this fucking tall and I'm just like
• 32:28
  weird man. And then the guitar Zach Myers have shined down was they were
• 32:32
  touring through town and Phil booked him, same kind of thing, but people
• 32:37
  stayed because he played Chinaut music and he was awesome. It wasn't a great
• 32:43
  crowd for us, but you know, we hung out, we signed autographs,
• 32:45
  we drank with us. We had a good time with him, you
• 32:49
  know, and then like Lemonheads were there and we literally got to had marry
• 32:57
  him up on stage with guns, which actually was here. Yes, we
• 33:00
  opened for them that night. That was an excellent night. And it's just
• 33:04
  weird like some of these shows and like like you guys would pack the place
• 33:07
  and and and so I never understood like or or or I could never gauge
• 33:13
  how my night was gonna go unless I knew like Ink was there or fun
• 33:19
  felt that way because any of those shows we were like to right right,
• 33:22
  that's so good to hear Jared. You know, I never I really never
• 33:27
  knew that that you felt that way. So that was worth coming down here
• 33:30
  to hear that. Yeah, thinking, and I say, you know,
• 33:32
  when when you first messaged me on Facebook, like oh I took this show
• 33:36
  up. I'm like, first of all, I'm like yes, and I'm
• 33:38
  like pissed I didn't think about it first. And then I'm like, we
• 33:43
  gotta get you guys on a Sunday outside. Yeah, I mean maybe too
• 33:47
  late this summer, but like or even inside in the wintertime. Uh,
• 33:51
  you know, get you back in there, because that would be awesome.
• 33:53
  Borrow owners always used to ask us or selling me. So always was the
• 33:59
  one that books the show. Oh but I'm always the one that gives Sal
• 34:01
  like a couple of words like, hey, tell him this. And I
• 34:04
  always told Sally said, if an owner asks you, like or asked ink,
• 34:08
  hey, how many people you're gonna bring, we always said the same
• 34:12
  answers that we'll outdraw your regular crowd. We always have because following. You
• 34:19
  know, it's because you do too. So if you bring fifty of your
• 34:22
  following, we would be honored to bring it all back home to downtown Milk
• 34:25
  for to do a stonebridge. And you're the funny thing about that tagging out
• 34:30
  to what Sal was saying is you know we always outdrow a club's following is
• 34:35
  I'll never forget. I don't want to mention names, but I told the
• 34:37
  club owner. I said, look, if you can't bring anybody, I
• 34:42
  could get fifty people to come to my house, right, And we did
• 34:45
  that. I had a basement gig of my house. We bought seventy five
• 34:49
  people in my basement and I invited him. Yeah, no match names.
• 34:53
  I said, come on down the size of the I think I think he
• 34:57
  stopped in too, and his eyes were like, let's see, I don't
• 35:00
  bring seventy So my point is I don't mind bringing fifty seventy five people to
• 35:04
  your club, but come on, bring twenty five years one. Right.
• 35:07
  But now what we do is like back in the day, are our the
• 35:10
  the cycle we had or the chemistry wherever you want to call it was.
• 35:15
  We knew we were doing the pocket toads Daniel Street and we were good with
• 35:20
  those three once a quarter each one and then just one rinse repeat. I
• 35:28
  mean that's kind of the hard part with us now is is you know,
• 35:31
  we booked the shotdowns or the hazard counties, and everyone else is trying to
• 35:36
  book them, and we're like, we don't want you guys playing Anthony D's
• 35:39
  on Friday. Stone Bridge on Saturday. We said if Ozzie Osborn was playing
• 35:45
  Toads every weekend, you'd probably go the first three or fourth I like massive
• 35:54
  square guards. Right, let's say saturation. While we're talking about clubs,
• 35:59
  let's let's shout out the showcase of inc has always wanted to play. And
• 36:04
  the crazy thing we got really spoiled because our very first show was like in
• 36:07
  West Haven, a club, and we hired a sound guy. We probably
• 36:12
  got paid. We we got paid, We got two hunch we got paid
• 36:15
  two hundred dollars and we used to give the sound guy two hundred and fifty
• 36:19
  dollars, so we weren't make any money. But guess what the first time
• 36:22
  we brought in a sound guy with these big speakers, we could go back
• 36:25
  Dutchess diner. What was that called? Yeah before cha waiter man? Yeah,
• 36:35
  d wait so Jared, what happened is we we couldn't go backwards.
• 36:37
  So then we start to learn more of the fact that hey, you know
• 36:40
  there's clubs like Toad's Place what or Demon Street? Yeah, built in sound
• 36:44
  systems. But what this year we have some great showcases. We play the
• 36:47
  Seller, which has a great he let your rock out. That's actually one
• 36:52
  of my questions is what are your sellers. We played Theater, which is
• 36:57
  a big accomplished seller that was last year. But we've been getting invited to
• 37:01
  brand new venues that we've never played before, like James we did, Whenever,
• 37:07
  Red Door we did them. But Jamison and Jamison was a big deals
• 37:09
  and I'll tell you why because Crystal Jamison is known to not bring in original
• 37:15
  lass. Again, you know they're not no, they don't bring in original
• 37:17
  lass, right, they don't And we and we were one of the first,
• 37:22
  which is like weird to me, like like be a point of how
• 37:23
  many people you're gonna bring on the weekend like we have we have cover bands
• 37:28
  and I don't want to name the ones that don't draw because I'm not that
• 37:30
  kind of person. But it's like really like like you know, a lot,
• 37:35
  a lot of the reason why we stopped doing bands kind of this is
• 37:37
  my theory. It's stone Ridge in the wintertime is because you know, they
• 37:40
  go on at ten and some of the bands we had basically they would get
• 37:45
  a crowd tops tops forty or fifty people, but after the first set they
• 37:50
  go home. Yeah yeah they're older, yeah, you know not or if
• 37:52
  they stay, they're getting a water or a coffee, and it's like we're
• 37:55
  not paying, Like this is not making me money, and I don't care
• 38:00
  a the owner's money. Yeah, I went out the tip money. I'm
• 38:02
  here that I've always I've always said to interest, if if Ink plays the
• 38:07
  front fourrier of Stopping Shop, we'll bring fifty people because people want to come
• 38:10
  out and see our music, and we appreciate that. But the shows that
• 38:14
  we're doing this year that are like the Showcase. Showcase shows to us are
• 38:19
  a great sound system and a place that allows us to play our original music
• 38:22
  and let our people come in have some dreams and stuff like that. And
• 38:25
  those clubs are right now. This year is the Sellar, Toad's Place.
• 38:30
  We're back in there, Jamison, we played, and we're gonna play Crystal
• 38:32
  Bees this Saturday. Looking for promoted this Saturday, Saturday, So I think
• 38:37
  fifteen eight pm sharp, APM shar Yeah, we're playing open Jeremy. What's
• 38:45
  really special about this show is, you know, normally when you say Showcase
• 38:49
  we played for thirty minutes at Toad's or forty five minute set at the Cellar.
• 38:53
  We're playing an hour and fifteen. So everything we got recently, it's
• 38:58
  gonna be a special show and we're up worry about you guys, Can you
• 39:00
  hold up for that long? Yeah? I think I'm good. Yeah,
• 39:04
  Yeah for me another shadow, it's me too, It's me too. I'm
• 39:07
  doing a lot of dancing on stage too with my petal homage rum. There's
• 39:12
  no such thing as not being physical. Yeah, yeah, you're natural.
• 39:15
  Thank you. Yeah, it's going to be a special show because I'm a
• 39:17
  big STP fan and we're opening up the dogs dumb love. I can't wait
• 39:23
  to go to one hundred and eighty five pounds and he finished, Yeah,
• 39:29
  but I want to give a shout out to is it Mark Saber? Yep,
• 39:30
  Saber. He's the one that contacted us to get us in that Crystal
• 39:36
  Bees. I've been there several times before to see some bands have a great
• 39:39
  stage, a great sound system, you know, when you're an original band
• 39:43
  like us, that's the kind of place you want to play. The lights
• 39:45
  and they have a sound check. Ye. So we go on to eight
• 39:49
  pm. We're excited about that. We're going to play everything we got in
• 39:51
  our current lineup, maybe a surprise here and there. So I have so
• 39:53
  we'll talk out for the show for a little bit. I have some ideas
• 39:55
  about about stone Bridge and getting in there because we do. We do a
• 40:00
  lot of guys just names that we've been thrown across the table all night.
• 40:02
  I'm sure you can jump into one of their shows on a Sunday though,
• 40:06
  yeah, man, because our Sundays are getting pretty big down there. Like
• 40:08
  we did a Nashville Night this past Sunday which was shot down open for uh
• 40:15
  what's it? Uh, Zach and Fried which is the zoo. How's the
• 40:19
  draw on a Sunday? You know, people winding down and like, well,
• 40:22
  the beauty about Sundays is we're pretty much closed by nine. Yeah,
• 40:27
  like we're done, Like the first man will go on at four. If
• 40:30
  it's just one band, they'll go on a five, they'll play one break
• 40:31
  and go to eight and then we're done. Son work Monday. Yeah,
• 40:36
  Sundays we used to try to go late and then people are just shot tapped
• 40:38
  out, man, the long weekend. So why why I bring the DJ
• 40:42
  in? And we started saying, listen, let's let's let's let's get the
• 40:45
  everyone loves brunch now for the last ten years. Yeah, let's get the
• 40:47
  go right into the amazing, amazing By the way, that stuff. I
• 40:52
  have nothing to do with that. I was bragging them out their lobster role
• 40:55
  today, a bunch of guys at work. You know what's funny is that
• 41:00
  I won't name other restaurants, but our lobster roles. You can't beat it.
• 41:01
  Can't beat it. Well, be able to beat the price somewhere else.
• 41:05
  But you're not the same question. I mean, I gotta take a
• 41:07
  mortgage out to have it. But it's a great. It's a great.
• 41:12
  You just told me you fucking leveled up. Come on, man, you
• 41:15
  guys play there. I'll give you. I'll give you percent offa my daughter's
• 41:24
  reception. We love we love stone Breakers A. Yeah, that's Richie and
• 41:30
  John Phil you. Oh you guys have been great to Yeah. Absolutely so
• 41:36
  you know I'm forgetting names, enough names tonight. I'm Italian. I'm a
• 41:43
  guy, all right. So one not thing but about you guys. Then
• 41:46
  we'll get into some of my random up topics for the show, but each
• 41:52
  of you, one at a time. What's what's the like the favorite show
• 41:54
  slash place you've played? Who cares who you open for? Or if you
• 41:59
  were the headliner? Favorite show you ever played? I have to go with
• 42:04
  with Wall Street. The reasons, yeah, it was last year Evertember.
• 42:09
  Yeah, in the video is a video right. The reason why it is
• 42:14
  just a great, cool place and the fact that an old high school friend
• 42:16
  of ours, Tony Drug from Leeds Lord, invited us there and I think
• 42:22
  it was it was their reunion or they were coming back to play with Lee's
• 42:25
  Lord. And the fact that he picked us the play and we went on
• 42:29
  just before them. It was a great crowd, great stage, great sound
• 42:32
  system. So yeah, one of my favorite places. Nice. So that's
• 42:37
  definitely as well. I loved Wall Street because I know not only because Truth's
• 42:43
  and Lee's Lord invited us on. It was an honor to play with them,
• 42:45
  but also it was it was something that we've been wanting for for a
• 42:50
  very long time. We always wanted to play a really nice theater. We
• 42:53
  would love to open a show over at the Amphitheater. Yeah, play that
• 42:58
  would love to play that stage. Was uh, was definitely in just an
• 43:02
  amazing time. It's interesting though, because as much as I love a big
• 43:08
  stage, and I can remember back in the day when we first started playing,
• 43:12
  I heard make Jagger Safe from the Rolling Stones. You know that you
• 43:15
  know what's your favorite what was your favorite show? And he named like some
• 43:19
  very small you know, uh venues in England, you know, And I'm
• 43:23
  like, why would you choose that? He played like stadiums, you know,
• 43:27
  But I could understand that, you know, the electricity in the in
• 43:30
  the end of the scene in a small club, you know. So I
• 43:35
  love Wall Street. It was an amazing show. Like I said, it
• 43:37
  was an accomplishment for us. But I do love the the smaller, intimate,
• 43:42
  intimate settings too, of of of clubs as well. So I'm gonna
• 43:46
  go with Wall Street though my favorite how many how many people? This total?
• 43:52
  Four or five hundred? About ninewelved I think I've seen. So we
• 44:00
  played there with the sun bag? Are we played there with the fun bags?
• 44:04
  Those hundred people. I loved all of our fucking shows from the minute
• 44:08
  we got in our first rehearsal drawing flies right, yeah, like ship on
• 44:13
  flies. That's another story we could tell you. But my favorite show was
• 44:17
  the first show that I came out having played to ten fifteen people at shows
• 44:22
  and then joining these guys and walking out to a thousand people at toads that
• 44:27
  you came in at a good time. But that's many many years, right,
• 44:31
  but shake like I remember playing the first time, but by the time
• 44:37
  we got to like Ricky take here, you know Ritchie and he came in.
• 44:40
  Man, he showed us. We played with him. We played one
• 44:45
  song. We actually lured them in on New York's Eve. We said,
• 44:47
  learn this song, learn this song. He take these They're okay. Yeah,
• 44:55
  that one song with us you proposed, right, there's the test run.
• 45:00
  Yeah, I think I think we can. Uh, I think we
• 45:04
  bring him in. He brought him in. Chere me, I gotta comment
• 45:09
  and one more thing because I thought about it after I said Wall Street.
• 45:14
  Of course Wall Street was the amazing stage and stuff like that. But one
• 45:17
  of my favorite shows was when Sal fired the other lead singer of Ink and
• 45:23
  he told me, I said, so we got a show coming up,
• 45:25
  but it was a frog pond. He goes, he's gonna he was gonna
• 45:30
  sing and he said, you are right. So I had like big shoes
• 45:32
  of Phil because I had to like rearrange the songs so that I could sing
• 45:36
  and play at the same tan back then, firing people, I mean,
• 45:39
  honestly, he's he's the founder of the band. But the best, the
• 45:45
  best part of The end of the story was that, you know, I
• 45:51
  was always a little worried about singing and playing at the same time. So
• 45:53
  I arranged some things and he gave me that mic He gave me that lead
• 45:57
  front man role. Right, I'll never forget. We played the show,
• 46:01
  and then after the show, I was packing up. I looked at him
• 46:04
  and I said, You're never never leave it. You're never gonna take this
• 46:07
  away from me. Brother, No, I said, You're never gonna take
• 46:09
  this away from me. I said, I'm going to be a leasd singer
• 46:12
  from from now because I love man. It was like a fucking a high.
• 46:15
  You know, I've never done drugs, and I said, that's my
• 46:17
  high. It was like, it was awesome that I'm actually singing this,
• 46:21
  you know, lyrics that I wrote because before I write him out and give
• 46:23
  it to another guy. But once he did that, it wasn't it wasn't
• 46:28
  conveyed the way like Stephen would sing him with the passion and then the you
• 46:30
  know, whoever was singing the songs at the time wouldn't melody. Now,
• 46:37
  be honest, what he just said that at the time, were you like
• 46:42
  fuck yeah, oh yeah, I knew, like like like listen to you
• 46:45
  saying I wanted shit forever, but well, what really happened was, what
• 46:50
  really happened was is that there was this one song that I wrote that I
• 46:54
  went to the olderly singer at the time. He just if we played a
• 46:57
  twenty song set, he'd sing nineteen songs and I'd say, hey, I
• 47:00
  just want to keep this one song for myself. I want to sing it.
• 47:02
  So he would sort of like, go get a beer, and I
• 47:04
  would step to the mic and and never forget. Like people were like,
• 47:07
  hey man, you just stepped to the micro. Maybe maybe they do like
• 47:13
  me. Even the sound guy which new music, who is the old singer?
• 47:17
  I'll google it. Yeah, blew up. I'll tell you what we
• 47:22
  of you. We have a few before I got out of the garage.
• 47:27
  We were a garage bat stories of who came to audition. Had one guy
• 47:34
  comes to an audition magician dude, no, don't even mention that. But
• 47:38
  there was one I gotta mentioned this. He was an audition and Sal's garage,
• 47:43
  right, and he brought his piece this which is bigger than him.
• 47:45
  I'm like, dude, you're not in a band. He was carrying a
• 47:49
  Piaces show he was fucking awful time. You know, Oh my god,
• 47:59
  it was something back we kids on my door. Yeah, I've said I
• 48:05
  don't want to buy an not for the no Eureka back. This was before
• 48:10
  a really harsh voice too, maybe an think of somebody. This guy leit
• 48:15
  just so you know, you don't even know who this guy. He looked
• 48:16
  like you, I know a guy named like that. You approaching close?
• 48:21
  He looked like, I got I gotta listen. I got more fun.
• 48:23
  Thanks you. Where have you been a three piece for twenty five years ago?
• 48:27
  But over the years we have been offered to be a four piece on
• 48:30
  many occasions? Yeah? How many times I played keyboard? Many times we've
• 48:35
  come off stage and somebody would walk up. You guys really good. You
• 48:37
  know, you guys are really good. But I actually took this fucking thing
• 48:42
  the whole wrong way. If you just had if you just thought, if
• 48:45
  you just had some if you just had some keyboards in your sword, right,
• 48:50
  or hey, you guys should be good. If you had a little
• 48:52
  mandolin. Yeah, and then they man, then dude, Yeah, it
• 48:59
  never feels you guys, I saw you said that. I was, you
• 49:00
  know, searching your music on iTunes. And stuff, and or I think
• 49:06
  I was on YouTube and I saw you in a video with like a girl.
• 49:08
  Yeah, so I was a piano player, yes, and you were
• 49:10
  saying she was absolutely yeah, so you no, I have let's I can't
• 49:17
  remember her name. It was late night research last night, Steven didn't.
• 49:21
  I can honestly say I'm I'm a songwriter before yeah, and uh, you
• 49:25
  know, there are some songs that the truth is, there are more on
• 49:29
  the lighter side. I mean, like Ink is a hard rock band,
• 49:30
  and we decided we're gonna go play a showcase for forty five minutes. It's
• 49:35
  gonna be a rock and right, we just want to rock out. So
• 49:37
  some of the lighter piano songs that or they started on an acoustic song.
• 49:40
  And I have a good friend of mine, so the first one of those
• 49:45
  you kind of really, I mean we played some lighter songs like uh as
• 49:50
  more as the piano version. Yeah, I think I had a piano on
• 49:52
  like Maron song. But the whole point is there's a lighter side that I
• 49:54
  have. I mean all songwriters had that. Yeah, I like a rock
• 49:58
  out, real hard on my mesa stat Then I go back and I say,
• 50:01
  you know, let me let me guitar, and if something comes out
• 50:05
  that I like, you know, and it doesn't fit in, we're not
• 50:07
  gonna you know, we're not gonna come out with pianos and violins at a
• 50:10
  to show. We're just not going to do that. You know. I
• 50:14
  just saw it Disturbed, and you know, I love Disturbed. The first
• 50:17
  time ever saw him, they were up at Mohegan and you know, he's
• 50:21
  got that new ball that he did with the lead singer Heart what's your name?
• 50:23
  And uh, yeah Wilson but he had Wilson. Yeah, but he
• 50:28
  had the girl from the band that played it before them come out and sing
• 50:31
  it and it was fine, like whatever. Yeah. Like but I like
• 50:38
  the point you're saying, because like when I go to see like my favorite
• 50:42
  bands, uh, we're your favorite band? Uh? Stain Disturbed? Did
• 50:49
  you in piece? Did you ever guess Aaron Lewis's country ship? Uh,
• 50:53
  we'll see. What's weird is yes? And no to out there for you?
• 50:57
  Well like that, like the song Massachusetts and like some other songs that
• 51:00
  where Kana he was doing a Stain was still around before they came back.
• 51:05
  I was like, oh cool, like a ballot. When I go see
• 51:07
  him. And I saw him at Mohegan Sun with my mom. My mom
• 51:08
  like knows him. Yeah, he used to do the little cabaret shows there
• 51:13
  on around Christmas time and sat front row. My mom got me tickets and
• 51:17
  like, you don't even think about it. And then all of a sudden,
• 51:20
  I remember reading an article in like one of those rock magazines or whatever.
• 51:24
  It wasn't Rolling Stone, fucking It was one of those magazines though,
• 51:28
  and uh, yeah them exactly, and uh it was it was. It
• 51:32
  was an interview with Aaron and at the end, the interviewer asked him,
• 51:37
  you know, what do you say to your fans that don't like country?
• 51:39
  And he goes sorry, and then he went country for a few years.
• 51:44
  And I always kind of back and he does both and it's all good.
• 51:46
  You're a rocker. You liked your hull. I'm a rock yeah. Yeah,
• 51:50
  Like I grew up in the you know, in the eighties with Motley
• 51:52
  Crue and Poison and Yea all that ship, and then I went into the
• 51:55
  grunge phase and nine yeah all that. I mean, if I really appreciate
• 52:00
  rock now, which I don't think it's enough coverage, you know, if
• 52:04
  I was gonna comment on that. The honest truth is it fills the void
• 52:07
  for me as far as when I'm on stage with these guys, I want
• 52:10
  to rock out and be hard rock. But if someone wants to listen to
• 52:15
  like a song that I wrote that's a piano acoustic version, well maybe a
• 52:17
  female vocalist with headphones, I really probably wouldn't do that live, right.
• 52:22
  It just doesn't just give you the draw. So that's sort of like I
• 52:24
  mean, even with the songs that you saw on YouTube. I notice it's
• 52:29
  Solar s C from Ink, right, because I'm just the lead singer Ink,
• 52:32
  Ye have it doing a song with a female? Yeah? No,
• 52:36
  I just it's it's you know, to me, I love rocking out and
• 52:39
  like I said to you today and I was like, hey, you know,
• 52:43
  if that that song is fucking I want to put in my car and
• 52:50
  sing it for you right here. If not, we'll have to get to
• 52:54
  you. We have it on CD. No. Well, actually when you
• 53:00
  bring me swag, it's Daniel Street. Absolutely absolutely we got stuff from you.
• 53:07
  Yeah, we did you know that We've recorded a live CD. Joe
• 53:09
  Town record US Live Daniel Street. You showed me the bootleg I saw the
• 53:15
  bootleg video. Yeah, I showed him Forgive Me from Yeah. I love
• 53:20
  that song. I want to bring that song like that lovely brick behind him,
• 53:22
  right, can we all agree that? Yeah? Come, cheers,
• 53:31
  cheers, Jeremy, thank you to Daniel Street Nines. Yeah. I love
• 53:39
  everyone that works at Eli's. They're all friends of mine. They're good people.
• 53:44
  But I thought, I thought that when when they bought it. Granted
• 53:47
  they didn't buy it from us, they bought it from the Rigiones in between.
• 53:51
  Yeah, but when they changed it all to what it ISNLS. Yes,
• 53:57
  so they bought it in Richie. They bought it from Richie and then
• 54:00
  they used to Yeah, same guys. Yeah, yeah, the brothers,
• 54:06
  the brother ye, Nick and Neil, And I thought when when we like,
• 54:12
  I remember, we finished and we're getting ready to open, like a
• 54:15
  week before we opened, and I don't know, I forget who. I
• 54:17
  can't remember who we had playing there or whatnot. But we me and Camper
• 54:22
  behind the bar and we're stalking the bar and we're putting the bottles up in
• 54:24
  the top shelf. Yeah, fucking I stood back. I walked to the
• 54:28
  other side and it's just the fucking floor stage to right in the fucking bar.
• 54:32
  I had three tiers of backbar. It was like one of the sexiest
• 54:37
  things I've ever seen. So I told them, I'm all, I like
• 54:40
  bear Bones, like my motor cycle, my drum set. I like we
• 54:45
  had opened. It was just bear You could go back in time, because
• 54:49
  it's always easier looking in the room shore. If you could go back in
• 54:52
  time, what do you think you guys would have done differently to keep it,
• 54:58
  keep it alive or no? Time caught up, the record industry trained,
• 55:01
  the music industry changed. Can I can I? Can I tell you
• 55:06
  what it was after the show? Yeah, it has nothing to do with
• 55:07
  it, Okay, Yeah, I didn't know, yeah, George, George,
• 55:14
  Yeah, it's called yeah day drink of Dog after dark, after dark?
• 55:16
  Ye. Who's the one who owned Knickerbockers? Was that Nick? Or
• 55:21
  Neil? So? Neil owned Neil own Kangaroos, which was our bar,
• 55:28
  got Nick? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's my story
• 55:31
  about Nick. I'll never forget because, let's face it, we mobbed Knickerbockers.
• 55:37
  They didn't know what the hell to do with all the people. This
• 55:38
  is when the back room was there, right, yeah, Glass, yeah,
• 55:42
  yeah, right, there where the kitchen. Nick actually said Nick drinks.
• 55:52
  Nick said us down. He was like, let's have a drink.
• 55:54
  He said, let's talk about what this ink is all about. Because he
• 55:58
  saw people coming in right, so I under forget. I sat right across
• 56:00
  us. Throw some money then sign us. He'll get us a deal or
• 56:04
  whatever like that. He's like, I don't know anything about the music business
• 56:06
  because he was a restaurant. Yeah, but he was such a nice So
• 56:08
  who was who ran the bar? Sort of? That's the daughter and Martin
• 56:13
  Martin Martin. Yeah, Martin Martin now owns diesel in New Haven. Yeah
• 56:17
  yeah, yeah, and uh but yeah, like just no, my buddy
• 56:21
  of Rob Hartman helped out. You know Ron Milford, Robbie racing Robs Yeah,
• 56:28
  yeah, yeah, a shout out to Rob Harvis, Yeah, my
• 56:31
  man. Yeah he's racing boats now, but he was there. He was
• 56:36
  I remember when he did the floors Danish. I gotta tell, I gotta
• 56:37
  tell my West Haven story. It's just good. It's not that long when
• 56:43
  you at cheld a guy so ready for this year really quick, I gotta
• 56:50
  start crossing some of this ship off. But hey, it's real quick.
• 56:52
  I'm here for you guys. I heard him. It's real quick. I
• 56:54
  heard him say, usually I go about an hour, hour and twenty.
• 56:59
  I feel pressure. He just gave me the fifty minute side, so not
• 57:01
  about twenty minutes left. It's a real quick three minutes. It's the funniest
• 57:06
  story. I thought it two and a half hour show. But my point
• 57:07
  was played two and a half hours. You lose listeners. I'll work and
• 57:15
  we're going to put this up so here it is so uh like I said,
• 57:21
  I'm not going to mention any names, but uh ink played west Haven
• 57:23
  for the first time, and we what do you mean you played in west
• 57:28
  Haven? And I think it was called Mickey's it was called Wickid's right,
• 57:31
  And we played there and we did well. We did well, and at
• 57:36
  the end of the night time and at and at the end of the night,
• 57:40
  I would always go to the manager and say, hey, look backing
• 57:45
  up. You know you'll pay us with agree money. Yeah exactly. We
• 57:50
  were always nice, right. But the funniest part of the story is the
• 57:53
  manager. The manager said to me, he said, well, you know
• 57:57
  to me, no, Well let me, I I went, I was
• 58:00
  fucking thirty years ago, right. He collected Sala went to go collect,
• 58:06
  right, and I guess so Sal came back to me. Sal was on
• 58:09
  his collection, right, Sal came. Sal came back to me and he
• 58:14
  said that the manager said that the owner said that we didn't bring enough people
• 58:17
  to make the pay that we did. I said, so I'll handle this,
• 58:21
  right. So I went up to the manager and he was a nice
• 58:24
  guy, and I asked, what you were asking back then? Probably have
• 58:27
  five hundred bucks. Yeah, five hundred bucks, so I'll give us.
• 58:31
  Yeah. But the sound guy was two fifty, you know, so we
• 58:34
  were just like I said, let me handle this. So I just went
• 58:36
  up nicely to the manager. I said, listen, we agreed at the
• 58:37
  beginning of night five hundred bucks. So you don't want to have us back
• 58:40
  here, it's fine, but I'm not leaving here about five hundred bucks,
• 58:44
  right. And I looked it right in the eyes, right, and he
• 58:45
  said, well, you know, I spoke to the owner. I said,
• 58:47
  well, where's the owner? Tell him to come out of the kitchener.
• 58:51
  No, he's home, I said, put him on the phone,
• 58:52
  right. So the manager picked up the phone and he's talking to the owner
• 58:58
  and I hear the owner say, you tell that skinny motherfucker that if I
• 59:02
  got to get up there and come down here, I'm gonna throw him and
• 59:06
  drag him all over the bar. And the manners was like, no,
• 59:09
  that's the wrong guy, that's the other guy, and sudden, here's he
• 59:19
  probably told me said this the motherfucker's big. That's up. And then of
• 59:23
  course the managers said, well, the owner said that you'll never play West
• 59:27
  Haven again. We lost the club's pizza. So I don't know the war
• 59:40
  got around about that, man mis the warn't got around about that story pretty
• 59:44
  fast. And I know he's ever a questioned, you know, we don't
• 59:45
  ask what it's something like back in the day. That kind of made you
• 59:47
  realize how to negotiate ahead of time, how to like kind of figure out
• 59:52
  like I don't really want to play for how many people I bring, Like
• 59:55
  I mean, you guys are so new and young like that. But it
• 59:59
  was never like he never said, you know, he didn't say places.
• 1:00:01
  Yeah, we agreed on so that he wanted to renig on the age because
• 1:00:07
  he thought it was that busy. I said, it doesn't work like that,
• 1:00:09
  you know, I mean, if you want to get out, your
• 1:00:10
  people have to understand or should I say club owners have to understand is that
• 1:00:15
  you are paying us for entertainment. Whether we bring a thousand people, brother
• 1:00:21
  one hundred people, you owe us money for entertainment, right, Okay.
• 1:00:24
  This is a big debate when when the play, when the place is past,
• 1:00:28
  you know you want to you want to give us a little extra that's
• 1:00:30
  great too, And we don't. It's not how we robbery. We don't
• 1:00:32
  go in there and say we want right gods. It's a big debate amongst
• 1:00:37
  our music brethren out there, cover band treatment, band's originals. This is
• 1:00:42
  something that gets going on Facebook a lot where the topic comes up about you
• 1:00:46
  know, what the fuck with you know some of the club owners right like
• 1:00:50
  yeah, So let me say one last thing about Daniel Street. And this
• 1:00:52
  is right before we close, not right before, but this is where I
• 1:00:55
  give fill all the credit in the world on how we operated business. Shout
• 1:00:59
  out Phil Cone. So we we've so. One of the biggest stresses we
• 1:01:04
  had was hiring bands that you know ship they you know, Billy Joel Tribute
• 1:01:08
  wants three grand And how do we gauge how much we charged the door?
• 1:01:13
  Uh? What if it's a rainy night, just like any other you know,
• 1:01:15
  like a like a patio, like what do we do? Yeah,
• 1:01:20
  and he he got to I think it was Manic Mark Productions. And I
• 1:01:22
  forget the name of the other company. And and I think he nailed it.
• 1:01:27
  He he got these two companies that would promote for us, get the
• 1:01:30
  bands for us. Obviously you confer with Phil, do you guys want yours
• 1:01:34
  come in? We would get the bar. They did the door, but
• 1:01:37
  they paid the bands we had. We didn't have to feel Yeah, perfect,
• 1:01:42
  that was all. You got the bar. So we just got the
• 1:01:45
  bar, open the doors, bring the guys in if we have. I
• 1:01:47
  think Tim Reynolds might have been one of them that we didn't have to pay
• 1:01:51
  for. That was probably five thousand dollars and fucking fifty people showed up.
• 1:01:53
  Hey, if the fifty people were drinking, that was good for us.
• 1:01:57
  We didn't care. They've the promoter lost money. You have the pressure of
• 1:02:00
  all that ship. Are we going to grease? Yeah? And that's how
• 1:02:04
  he was running at the end. To my knowledge, I believe that's how
• 1:02:06
  it was going. Ink has always made a staple and I think the local
• 1:02:09
  era because number one, straight up, I mean I think we're cool guys,
• 1:02:14
  we're friends with them. You know, we bring people. I told
• 1:02:16
  you we're gonna we're gonna bring at least forty to fifty people, even if
• 1:02:21
  we play fucking stopping shop. I mean, seriously, they don't care stopping
• 1:02:23
  shop. Stop getting that. That was my favorite gig. We shut down
• 1:02:32
  stopping top. Matter where we play, where the road, it's no matter
• 1:02:37
  where we play, we're gonna drive anywhere. And then on top of that,
• 1:02:40
  we don't ask for you know that much money just for money? Did
• 1:02:44
  you know what the going rate is? So yeah, man, we all
• 1:02:45
  work, we all went to college where we're not fucking bread on the table
• 1:02:52
  shirt. Yeah I think makes five six hundred bucks for money. Yeah,
• 1:02:59
  yeah, that's you know what I mean. We spent the long money brother.
• 1:03:05
  Yeah, the first couple of years we were paying soundman so we can
• 1:03:08
  sound phenomenal. It was never about the money to make it twenty five bucks,
• 1:03:13
  you know, never about the money. So all right, we guys
• 1:03:15
  ready, yeah, got to move on. Yeah all right? So uh
• 1:03:19
  real quick though, but this Saturday, what was it called again? Crystal?
• 1:03:23
  Eight pm? Eight pm? Guys, can I do this? If
• 1:03:27
  if anyone listening wants free tickets? Sure is that? Or is it even
• 1:03:30
  a ticketed event? It is a ticket. You know what, if anybody
• 1:03:32
  is listening, I'll put because there a list, I can just throw them.
• 1:03:36
  I mean, I doubt anyone that I know is going to drive to
• 1:03:37
  Southington, But yeah, I just know. I'll let yeah, I'll let
• 1:03:42
  them know. You guys anyway, hit us up twelve years ago today is
• 1:03:45
  the reason why I'll never see Dave matthews Man again live. Ever. I
• 1:03:49
  was never a huge fan of Dave matthews Man. But twelve of us,
• 1:03:52
  not twelve of us, maybe eight of us printage? Huh you go into
• 1:03:57
  the meadows on this one? No, oh good, no, no that
• 1:04:01
  I wasn't there. Twelve years ago to the day, eight of us borrowed
• 1:04:05
  a friend's suburban and drove the Jones Beach. I'd never been there before,
• 1:04:11
  heard it's awesome, and it fucking We were the first car in the lot
• 1:04:15
  and like one in the afternoon, ready to tailgate grills the whole night.
• 1:04:17
  And it fucking poured all day. Oh jeez, So we literally were like
• 1:04:21
  huddled up, we were soaking wet. The beach was right there. I
• 1:04:25
  actually bought like a Jones beach. The only one they had left was like
• 1:04:28
  a purple tie die or something. I bought that fucking still soaked. We
• 1:04:32
  get in. They got our seats were like under the overhang. They weren't
• 1:04:35
  like great seats, so they're on the overhang and they played the slowest fucking
• 1:04:42
  set ever, like just painful, Like like, guys, you know everyone's
• 1:04:48
  tailgates for you. You know, it's been literally dumping rain off fucking day,
• 1:04:53
  get the spirits, switch the fucking playlist up. You're not here tomorrow
• 1:04:56
  night. We're up the fucking MSGS. And I was so fucking pisted,
• 1:05:00
  and I'm like, you know, I was probably like drunk then kind of
• 1:05:04
  hungover. They got drunk again and I'm like this this fun want to go?
• 1:05:08
  So I for him off and it came up in my Facebook today twelve
• 1:05:11
  years ago today, Are you serious? Ship? I'm like, damn,
• 1:05:15
  that is funny. Oh man, So yeah, so there's that real.
• 1:05:19
  I'm gonna run through all this ship really quickly. Please do please do what
• 1:05:23
  would you rather? What? What? What? What's worse? Caitlyn Clark
• 1:05:27
  not in the US Olympics or Joey Chestnut not in the hot dog eating contest.
• 1:05:30
  God, the Caitlyn Clark being so so in the fucking news now,
• 1:05:34
  and uh see, if you start going down that path then it gets probably
• 1:05:40
  political. So I'm gonna stay away from that. So fuck that Joey Chestnut.
• 1:05:45
  Yeah, Joey Chestnut. Yeah, I wanna be honest with either one
• 1:05:47
  of those. Mon Okay, Kayln Clark's the female basketball player that got snubbed
• 1:05:51
  for the Olympics, and Joey Chestnuts, that hot dog eating guy. I
• 1:05:55
  do remember that fourteen years a row, and he signed on with feet.
• 1:06:00
  I don't know whatever the fake meat company is. It's like a fake meat
• 1:06:04
  so he's eating fake winers now and they, per his contract, they won't
• 1:06:08
  let him eat real ones. I'm like you so that he's banned from the
• 1:06:12
  Nathan's hot Dog Contest. Wow, I've watched Joey Chestnut do his thing and
• 1:06:16
  it's fucking impressed. This guy's seventy six hot dogs in like three minutes.
• 1:06:24
  He's like skinny, like, yeah, you know what though he preps he
• 1:06:29
  probably yeah, you gotta eat like seven PiZZ like Rocky against the Russian Crazy.
• 1:06:34
  Yeah, you know, I would like to get I'm going to bring
• 1:06:38
  it up at the end of the show, but it only gets it.
• 1:06:41
  Yeah. No, I think you can have an unpolitical debate about it.
• 1:06:44
  You can't just just about you can't. You can't, but I can't.
• 1:06:47
  Well, I know I could go either way. Ye on that Did you
• 1:06:54
  guys see the kid that was tased on the baseball field last night? No?
• 1:06:57
  No, so so a kid jumped on I think it was Cincinnati,
• 1:07:00
  jumped on the field and then a fucking backflip. Okay, okay, nd
• 1:07:04
  he was getting chased and he got tased, but he did a backflip before
• 1:07:08
  he had on the field. Yeah, and got tased, and obviously you
• 1:07:12
  get automatically arrested in these situations. To court the next day. So he
• 1:07:17
  gets to court this morning and the judge says to him, everyone thinks you
• 1:07:20
  landed that back that back flip. The municipal court judge William Mallory told Handon
• 1:07:27
  during his appearance the morning. Cincinnati inquire and the kid says back to him,
• 1:07:30
  pretty sure I did. And then they dropped all the charges. Yeah,
• 1:07:35
  that is so fund probably that's pretty well. I will do a little
• 1:07:44
  politics slightly. Did you guys see Biden at the Jude team thing yesterday.
• 1:07:47
  It's terrible, terrible. He is what what do they put him on the
• 1:07:54
  part of it is his hands, His hands don't fucking move and then he
• 1:07:58
  like tried to make the fist the fist up the guy's next to him.
• 1:08:00
  Yeah, is he a lizard? What's going on with the whole thing,
• 1:08:02
  like like that whole conspiracy theory? Yeah? Is he part of lizard with
• 1:08:06
  the mask on? Yeah? What what was that show we grew up on?
• 1:08:11
  V? Remember that show? V was like a mini landed a loss,
• 1:08:17
  never lost, sling the lands. Stephen and I grew up. We're
• 1:08:23
  sixties babes lost. Yeah, hold you guys, I'm fifty seven, fifty
• 1:08:27
  seven fucking Christ and you're what fifty one? Oh man, so you're fifty
• 1:08:32
  five? You know what. I'm the fucking younger. Fuck you, Matthews.
• 1:08:35
  Don't say a world I'm the youngest there. Who will you know?
• 1:08:39
  I'm leving the youngest, you know what? The guy tell me to know
• 1:08:42
  who Eminem was. I look around the table, so I got really look
• 1:08:45
  around the table, and I see a bunch of forty year olds. Yeah's
• 1:08:47
  see thirty five? Yeah, speaker yourself rich Yeah, it was rough.
• 1:08:51
  Watch it was rough watching him. That was so weird. Yeah, it's
• 1:08:55
  like it's like, it's is it too late to replace him as the Are
• 1:08:58
  they going to put in Harris? I guess they can't put in new Cavin
• 1:09:02
  Newsom. Yeah there, you know, I guess they're gonna run with them.
• 1:09:05
  Yeah. Well then you got to worry about the old Swan event.
• 1:09:10
  Right, what's at the Blacks event? As we get into that, because
• 1:09:13
  well that he hears me. Listen, we lost power in Trumble last night.
• 1:09:16
  I heard you like bitching about it, and I saw you last night,
• 1:09:18
  like, oh my god, everyone you lost give you a like though,
• 1:09:28
  I'm like like, I'm like, Richard, did you pay you?
• 1:09:32
  I Bill, I paid for out of trouble. Uh. We're like,
• 1:09:40
  oh here now ship my house. The Russian warship just breezed by Miami.
• 1:09:49
  Yess yeah. Uh. Now this is not shocking to me because two weeks
• 1:09:56
  ago, when Trump was getting basically, you know, convicted of of made
• 1:10:00
  up charges, Biden slipped under the fucking radar that he was allowing Ukraine to
• 1:10:06
  use United States military operations inside of Russia. I'm very aware, and now
• 1:10:12
  all of a sudden two weeks later, a Russian battleship is basically thirty miles
• 1:10:16
  off the coast of my end. They're gonna go flex their muscle man.
• 1:10:18
  Yeah, yeah, that's what listen. They did it. And I said
• 1:10:21
  this two weeks ago. I'm like, this is not good. This is
• 1:10:24
  this is They're they're not going to not answer this. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:10:27
  well they can because we're not going to do anything with the current situation in
• 1:10:31
  the White House now. And I think they, I mean, they just
• 1:10:33
  look at us a laughing stock. You can't even get out of our own
• 1:10:35
  fucking way this country. And speaking of that, they arrested eight ISIS members
• 1:10:42
  coming across the border. Well they didn't have him at the border, but
• 1:10:45
  that's where they came across. Yeah. Well and like that, how I
• 1:10:46
  fin La New York and not knowing the story right, but saying coming across
• 1:10:50
  the board, they caught him and what they did with them, they just
• 1:10:54
  deported them. Yeah, they'll be back, they'll be back. We'll be
• 1:10:57
  back for a happy hour tonight. Yeah that's all good. Oh God,
• 1:11:00
  where else am I not? I had Leah Thomas. Do you know who
• 1:11:03
  Leah Thomas is? Yes? Well, so so she is a he and
• 1:11:09
  a swimmer. Swimmer, yeah, the one that was so yeah. She
• 1:11:14
  he was trying to apply to competing the Women's Olympics swimming and uh was denied.
• 1:11:19
  Today common Sense ruled that she was not allowed to swim against other women
• 1:11:27
  in the Olympics, which you know, what's funny is like I've been following
• 1:11:30
  the story for a long time. She really went a lot. Yeah,
• 1:11:33
  like she was actually losing the women. So I don't actually need to be
• 1:11:36
  olympically eligible to like, you know, but interesting. You know. Uh,
• 1:11:42
  Kevin Spacey, you remember Kevin Spacey Yeah, yeah, the little diddler
• 1:11:45
  action but yeah, a little action. He was on Pures Morgan last night
• 1:11:48
  crying that uh his houses. Uh though he was good in The Negotiator,
• 1:11:54
  dude, one of my favorite movies. Yeah, Negotiating actor. After I
• 1:12:01
  was so devastated when this news hit because he's the one, He's one of
• 1:12:03
  the guys. I'm like, great, man, Kevin's face great in that
• 1:12:09
  great And I was dealing with DUT's penis and the dude I don't killing himself?
• 1:12:12
  Remember outbreak? Serious? Yeah, yeah, I don't even hear about
• 1:12:15
  Yeah. Man, was he in the whole guys are so sid movie.
• 1:12:17
  Yeah, yeah, he guys are so right. Yeah, he's been a
• 1:12:21
  lot of good ship. Yeah. And the show, well, they have
• 1:12:25
  to actually cancel it because of all this ship that it was on, like
• 1:12:28
  Joe Gamson anyway, So he was crying about losing his house and can't pay
• 1:12:31
  his bills and he owes all his lawyers money and I don't feel bad for
• 1:12:34
  him. Yeah, he's an odd character, yes he is. And what
• 1:12:40
  do I think they know? A good actor? But you know, hold
• 1:12:45
  on one second. I think, all right, this is it? All
• 1:12:46
  right? So I used to do we'll finish on this. I used to
• 1:12:49
  do when I first started this show. For about the first year, I
• 1:12:53
  did a little bit called Douche of the Week the week okay, and for
• 1:12:57
  whatever reason, you know, it ended up being Lebron James and I'm like,
• 1:13:01
  oh, we're Biden. It was like one of the two, and
• 1:13:02
  I'm like, I really got to find something different. And I think Lebron's
• 1:13:06
  time has kind of faded. Biden's faded, Like literally, do you think
• 1:13:13
  Lebron is gonna go where his son goes? Eventually? I think his son
• 1:13:15
  either goes to the Lakers, this year or it or no, I mean
• 1:13:20
  I know, I don't I don't know. I don't think so. So
• 1:13:25
  they don't end up at the same team at some point. I think it's
• 1:13:27
  this year. I think it's like he stays. I think he stays in
• 1:13:30
  L A H and Bronni. Bronnie either gets drafted or he's a free Asian
• 1:13:33
  and signs and never plays. They get to travel together and then he sails
• 1:13:38
  off in his sunset. So he used to do Thus of the Week.
• 1:13:41
  So two things one thing, and you guys can absolutely be like it's not
• 1:13:45
  really somewhere interested in. But I you ever watch the Dan Patrick show.
• 1:13:48
  You know Milford he used to record yeah, right about the sea, so
• 1:13:55
  he had Goaron Wow. So he used to he does this little skit it's
• 1:14:01
  called stat of the Day. So he had war come on and then you
• 1:14:04
  know, he interviewed him all that ship and then he had to record the
• 1:14:08
  Basically they went like start the start of the day like that with like guitar
• 1:14:11
  riffs and ship. So I'm like, maybe the Poison Inc. Next time
• 1:14:14
  they're in studio could do like, you know something Douche of the Week,
• 1:14:16
  Duche to the Week and something like that, and I want to bring duche
• 1:14:20
  to the week back, all right, and again you guys don't have to
• 1:14:24
  do it whatever, but like you guys are thinking about it when you take
• 1:14:27
  it fucking two minutes, you know, and just fucking send me a PD
• 1:14:30
  or whatever. You got to send me a download file of it, and
• 1:14:31
  I'll play that every time on the On that note, my duche of the
• 1:14:39
  week was back to the Catlin Clark incident. And my duche of the week
• 1:14:42
  is the United States Women's nationals selection committee that didn't put her on. And
• 1:14:47
  I don't watch the w n B A. I do watch yukon women's basketball.
• 1:14:53
  I never watched Olympic women's basketball. I feel they didn't put her on
• 1:14:58
  for a lot of political reasons, for many reasons. But what I found
• 1:15:01
  out yesterday, do you know who the head of the women's selection committee is?
• 1:15:06
  No? Jen Rizzotti, No way? Yes? Who played at you
• 1:15:12
  come? Yes? Yes, I had no idea and the like, there's
• 1:15:16
  kind of this thing where like Dran Sarasie came out and said, oh,
• 1:15:20
  well she's not she's in her root awakening, Like should Sarazi be on the
• 1:15:24
  team. She's fucking forty two years old. Probably not. This has gone
• 1:15:28
  on since I'm a Diyar sports fan, just so you know, like I
• 1:15:30
  follow it all and fuck the Yankees, but fuck they're good. Fuck Dallas
• 1:15:36
  and they're gonna suck salad all Boston. Yea Celtics. You're actually tipping off
• 1:15:43
  it about two minutes, Eddie Bras if you're watching this one, yeah,
• 1:15:48
  Eddie knows Dallas is gonna suck go Cowboys. So anyway, so so we
• 1:15:53
  can actually do a quick sports discussion, a fucking douche of the week post,
• 1:15:57
  just name a name. I just want you to shout somebody, because
• 1:16:00
  you haven't done it in like three minutes. What do you want me to
• 1:16:01
  do? Let's just name a name. George Flney perfect because he's just been
• 1:16:04
  naming names all night. It figured it's been for the town what we do.
• 1:16:08
  So anyway, so when I fot out s Risotti, I'm like,
• 1:16:11
  oh, this makes perfect sense. Like if Kaitlyn Clark played for Yukon,
• 1:16:15
  there's no way in doubt she'd be on this fucking Olympic team because Geno Rman
• 1:16:18
  would have pushed or excuse me, Rima would have pushed for Risotti Yukon's hot
• 1:16:25
  right now, why if you try to grow One of the mission statements of
• 1:16:29
  the US Women's Olympic team is to grow the game. And I know that
• 1:16:33
  the US Olympic Committee is non association with WNBA, but they are basically taking
• 1:16:38
  all w NBA players. So let's call spadess bade here and you don't take
• 1:16:43
  her, which would like NBC, who was airing the Olympics, has gotta
• 1:16:48
  be fucking so pissed if kateln Clark was playing, even if she was like
• 1:16:53
  Christian Latner in ninety two on the Dream team that never really played. But
• 1:16:56
  you're a big Duke fan, so you watched Kaitlyn and they played in what
• 1:17:00
  was it? It was Barcelona? Then here, right, so they're in
• 1:17:02
  they're in France, so which means the games will be on probably early afternoon,
• 1:17:06
  the primetime games will beyond like three o'clock here, two o'clock here,
• 1:17:11
  everyone whatever, put on a weekend, whatever the case may be. They
• 1:17:14
  blew a golden opportunity to grow this sport. That there was a there was
• 1:17:19
  a website that that did a poll, how how unlikely are you to watch
• 1:17:25
  a women's Olympic game without Caitlyn Clark In ninety five percent of them said I
• 1:17:30
  will not watch Kaitlyn Kirks should know with ice Cube to the Big Three and
• 1:17:35
  started women's Big Three. He fucking offered her money. She turned it down.
• 1:17:40
  She's gonna turn it down because she's good. She's good. She watches
• 1:17:43
  part of the system. She's got to do. What's part of the system.
• 1:17:46
  I would go with ice Cube, baby, I mean she may now
• 1:17:51
  he gets what if ice Cub came back to her tomorrow and say he gets
• 1:17:55
  dicked around, That's that's a whole thing, the whole Yeah. I mean
• 1:17:57
  I can't get into that either though. I'm sorry the big Like, have
• 1:18:00
  you watched the UFL yet? No? I turned it on the other day.
• 1:18:03
  It's the coolest thing is the cameras, like the drones that fly.
• 1:18:09
  Yeah, but you know eventually he's like, that'll be in the NFL next
• 1:18:12
  year. The drones will be flying, like, oh, that's awesome.
• 1:18:15
  Yeah. I just it's so hard to compete. The are monopolies and there's
• 1:18:19
  no I don't care, like I'm not gonna watch the g League or you
• 1:18:24
  know, like I don't well you say that now, but what ice Cubes'
• 1:18:28
  biggest argument is nobody will get behind them if it's doing that through pickup hoops.
• 1:18:31
  I don't go down to the fucking local, Like I don't know,
• 1:18:34
  like like those guys are bothers, dude, they like it's it's it's like
• 1:18:38
  the rules are weird. Like I don't know. I've watched it. I
• 1:18:42
  watched it because it's like sometimes it's the only thing on on CBS on a
• 1:18:44
  Sunday before I go to work at two o'clock. You know, I'm like,
• 1:18:46
  all right, and I know some of the players because their old school
• 1:18:48
  Nash. I'm all right, I don't watch this a little bit, but
• 1:18:51
  I don't know, Like it's just it's the four majors and I'm with you,
• 1:18:57
  man, But think about think about media. Right at NBCCBS, ABC,
• 1:19:02
  they were want millions of dollars the Olympic. Yeah, they don't think
• 1:19:05
  how did they think about so? I think about record companies. You had
• 1:19:09
  your Big Five, you had Sony, you know Columbia and listen, all
• 1:19:15
  things change all that one do You never know? Man? You know somebody
• 1:19:18
  posted that if during on a women's Olympic game, if Caitlyn Clark posted a
• 1:19:25
  reel on Instagram. She would get like ten times more reviews than the game
• 1:19:29
  at one and that's what that's the way the world is. Yeah, like,
• 1:19:34
  yeah, it's a great point. So all right, that's my spiel
• 1:19:38
  for the rest of the day. Cool. That's my fresh, brand new
• 1:19:42
  Douche of the Week starting every week again. Now, all right, Douche
• 1:19:44
  of the week. You know what you know? I brought it back because
• 1:19:46
  you guys are back. Are we doing this? No? No, like
• 1:19:50
  you guys are my old school like, thanks for having us, man.
• 1:19:55
  It's a pleasure now, pleasure being here. Thank you so much, man,
• 1:19:59
  Steve, love you guys. Man. Actually, I don't even have
• 1:20:02
  a guest next week, a couple. I'm trying to pick between the two,
• 1:20:04
  so I can't really promote enough for you. You got I'm asking I'll
• 1:20:09
  be after the show. I can't talk after. I don't know if you
• 1:20:13
  guys got curfused. I'm good at kids in the fucking I got something I
• 1:20:16
  got some time tonight. Yeah, good, all right. I told my
• 1:20:19
  girlfriend, well she's half hour ship he sleeps. Yeah, there you go.
• 1:20:24
  I'll get home. She's what times you get the last time, like
• 1:20:26
  nine thirty passed out fucking midnight at twelve thirty. Hey, you know why
• 1:20:32
  I can say this because she doesn't listen to the shows My ink this Saturday.
• 1:20:38
  Say it again Christmas eight pm AP Follow them on Instagram, Facebook,
• 1:20:45
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• 1:20:50
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• 1:20:55
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• 1:20:58
  it's been four long days, babe. Yeah, I love it, alright,
• 1:21:01
  Matthew, shut it down. Love it