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The Boys Are Back In Town · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to Tigs Bits. This week we're talking about
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one heck of a weekend that the three of us had.
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We were all able to finally hang out and be in the same place at
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the same time. We had a blast visiting, so
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we're going to talk a little bit about that.
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There was a Taylor Hicks concert that was mixed into all of this
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at the floor Bama in Orange Beach.
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Blacy came down and the handler had just gotten back into town
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after being on the road for a couple of Justin Moore shows and
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and I was there in orange. Beach with my family on
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vacation, so all the stars aligned in Alabama is the good,
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Jamie Johnson says. Gentlemen, it's good to see you
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boys again. And Jr.
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I wish that we were doing this live in your studio.
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You're absolutely wonderful and glorious, studio man.
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How are y'all doing? Oh.
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Man good. Yeah, I'm good, brother.
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Yeah, I'm glad you guys got to come over.
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I mean, let's don't oversell it here.
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I mean, it ain't that fancy, but.
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It's a it's a it's big and it's got room and it's it's cool spot
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for us and we definitely will do that I think.
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I think I know you and I talked about it while we were at the
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floor Bama. I know you son.
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You told your son Riley, you said you mark it.
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Next year we're gonna do the podcast for that stage.
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Right there. So no pressure, no pressure.
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So that's. That's on my list of things to
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get done, but we should be able to get that handled, which would
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be awesome. To do it there, but definitely
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want to have one here and sometime at my studio.
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Glad you guys got to come see some of my stuff.
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I know we were talking about all my little memorabilia things
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and. I do have a lot of cool stuff.
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Unbelievable. Yeah.
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Unbelievable. A lot of stuff.
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But then I went over to and you got to see him play the other
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day and I've talked about him on here another podcast.
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My friend Mike Diamond, he was from Pensacola who plays at the
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Floor Bamba, but his father was a musician who originally played
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on the. First time they ever had a stage
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at floor Bam in the late 70s with Jay Hawkins.
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Diamond's dad was playing bass for Jay and Diamond was 10 years
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old playing out in front of the Floor Bam on dune buggies before
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that was. When you could have fires on the
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beach in the late 70s, So anyway, and his dad was also a
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pro wrestler so that's how the whole tie in in the area, so I
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went to his house yesterday. And it's always like you think
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you got something cool you see somebody else's, like you got a
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nice truck to somebody with a nicer truck pulls up next to
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you, right. Well, I went to Diamond Studio
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and uh Oh my God. He's got me smoked.
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He's got. I'll send you some pictures.
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I mean the Lynyrd Skynyrd posters from the from the 80s
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and 90s but signed by all of and pictures of him with them and
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all the Merle Haggard and. Like he has a decree from the
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city of Muskogee, OK, proclaiming that this is Merle
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Haggard day. The only one of those ever was
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from that day in whatever 70 something.
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Wow, that's crazy. And I mean, he gave me this when
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he worked with Merle Haggard for a long time before Merle passed,
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but. He gave me this Merle Haggard
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hat pin that like there's, you know, there was only so many.
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And they were, they were on their way out.
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But he grabbed a few and he's like, I don't give these out
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often. I know you need it.
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I was like, buddy, you know I will treasure it.
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So anyway I say all that to say, yeah, I I I love my studio and
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it was great. But some it's like somebody's
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always got a better with. You know what I mean?
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It's like you think you're it's like if you if you go to the bar
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do you think oh I'm Billy badass I'll whoop everybody.
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There's always somebody tougher. You know how to do it.
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So. So it's coolest stuff.
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As I got Diamond, he brought me back down to earth and humbled
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me a little bit when I got to go see his collection and he's got,
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and he did give me some good ideas though with the lighting
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stuff and also just with sound dampening, you know, like you've
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got the the sound panels behind you.
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Blasi, you know I've got some of that stuff, but I need to
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integrate it more to the room because it is a little boomy and
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like you've mentioned before, Tigs that.
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You know, the fans and the Echo and that kind of stuff, but it's
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a work in progress. It's a big room.
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It's a lot bigger than than I even even thought it was.
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But man, it it's so freaking cool.
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I mean it. Chad and I, we were talking last
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night. We just, we visited for a little
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bit, just all the old albums. That's one of one of my
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takeaways is us. As you have the old albums, you
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can't see that in the shot. It's looking at you or it's
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behind you or in front of you. You're looking at it.
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But I took a picture of it and and you'll see that now if
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you're watching this. And I I said I don't have time
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to thumb through all of this, but I will zoom in in my picture
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and see exactly what these albums are.
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And good God, that is country, solid country gold throughout
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that whole deal. And you can tell they're worn.
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There's little you know the papers cracked in places like
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those are the Real Deal records. It were those.
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Your grandparents or where they where do you collect them over
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the years? Yeah, they come from.
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Yeah, no. When I first moved to Nashville,
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I lived on Wayne Mills couch out Nolansville.
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And then the first time I moved in with someone or had my own
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room there was with our former drummer and drummer
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extraordinaire, engineer, now classic car guru, David Brian
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Gulliver from Tuscaloosa. AL I moved in Gulliver's house.
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He lived in a studio house off Wedgewood Ave. in Nashville,
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right by the fairgrounds. And I moved in a room there with
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him and he was old school from the late 70s, eight early 80s
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era when he was in high school and and getting in the music
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business. So he had the most kick ass
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record player stereo combo I've ever seen for an adult to this
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point. He's basically the first
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professional, somebody who worked in the music business
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that I was that close with. But he had the he had like a
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stereo like I had, but it was all integrated.
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He had the cool. Square remote control.
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We're talking about 2003. He had the square remote that
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you touch it and it would control anything up there.
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Oh, yeah, like you didn't know anybody that had that then you
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know what I mean? Like he could, he could turn up
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the radio. Play like the the stick of the.
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Record player with or he could turn the TV.
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And it was all integrated. It was just real cool.
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But he had all that vinyl. He turned me on to the ZZ Top
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and the deep cut Led Zeppelin and all the cool stuff that I
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learned about from that classic rock, because he was real
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classic rock and solid gold country, Dwight Yoakam, Buck
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Owens, that type stuff. So I got into it there listening
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to him because I never. I had some albums over the years
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because I did have a few when I was little, You know, I had like
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Thriller and The. The The Chipmunks Christmas
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album. And you know.
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Some stuff. My Donald Duck, whatever.
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My parents are the little blue record player, you know, and and
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that's why I had that. But I've never really got into
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it because we were CD's and tapes when I was growing up, you
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know, But he had all that. So we started digging through it
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and man, I I reloved how good those records sound.
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And then he would show me like hidden tracks on albums when you
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keep playing it at the end and then right minute later a new
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track kicks on and stuff like that.
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So I really liked it then and when we said when, when.
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We had a house fire actually and he had just moved out and had a
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we had a house fire and some of his stuff was still there and
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lost some. And I had started collecting a
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little at that point, but I really got into it when I wanted
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to find. This is pre iTunes as well, so
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if you wanted certain stuff you just couldn't find it.
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Everything wasn't on a CD or a tape where you could get at the
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big store so I had to start diving.
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But you got a thing. Again, this is mid 2000s, the
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new record. Craze had not happened yet.
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So I could go to these stores in Nashville, Grimy's or wherever
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and they had like $0.50 record days.
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On Tuesdays and stuff you could buy all any records you want for
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$0.50 and then other days that they're usually like 2 or $3
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even for a good record might be fine.
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So I racked up on all the cool stuff and then I also bought
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some off of, you know, if I'd see somebody selling a basket of
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records, I'd say if 20 bucks how it's worth 20.
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I see what they got and that's where I found.
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Like my Jackie Gleason records and some big band jazz stuff
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that I didn't know existed was was sifting through that and and
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and finding that, but so basically going back to your
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question, yeah, just to collect it as an adult just because of
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love of how good they sounded and how unique they are.
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Like you're saying looking at the album comes and open them up
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and reading the stuff and and it just doesn't translate.
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Yeah, you don't get that anymore.
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You you can, but you have to. You know it's just you don't go
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to a record shop and then all the goodies are just in that in
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the format that it comes in and and I think that's why they're
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that craze is kind of coming back is people still want that
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physical media you know I I have a buddy of mine who.
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He still listens to everything on CD, he still buys CD's, he's
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anti MP3 and Spotify. And all of that.
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He's just like, I don't want my music that way.
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I want and and honestly they say do sound better.
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I mean, you know, yeah, even if I have 3, they're compressed.
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Compressed, yeah. It's just, it's not as dynamic.
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It's not as warm. Like you play these records,
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man, you play and they say the hissing and popping, which,
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yeah, that's part of it. Some too, but it's really just
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the warmth of the. That's right.
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The stuff coming through, it's just.
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There's no degradation in that sound.
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That is the pure sound that it was the way it was when it was
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recorded on that day. You know, I like, I love that.
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I think there's actually a Steely Dan album that has that.
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In the notes it says this album is not meant to be Eqed or
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changed anyway. This album is meant to be played
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on a balanced stereo just the way it is.
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Basically, they're saying this album's perfect.
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Don't try to be your own little BJ and add some bass to it or
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something. No, just play it.
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It's. Better just play it exactly.
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I think that's. One of those big steely dad
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records. But you know, that's funny, you
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know? And now I remember a lot.
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I know a lot of kids are into albums now.
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I know Justin's oldest daughter. That's all she wanted for
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Christmas this past year as a record.
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Player my my daughter too. She got a record player and then
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she's gotten some records. She she found Eleanor Rigsby.
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Beatles. 44 at A at a thrift shop that she paid a dollar for
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like brand new mint condition. And then I was like I think I
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should look this up. That thing's worth 2 or 300
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bucks. It was just somebody.
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Yeah. So that kind of got her into it
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a little bit more of looking for albums and and things like that
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and of course now the modern. You know nowaday artists, those,
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they come out with those things too, which is cool.
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She's a big Harry Styles fan. So yeah, the first shout out on
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Tigs bits to Harry Styles, right, But.
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Yeah, and and and Taylor Swift, you know, I mean, she said.
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Like, I mean, we put Justin puts all his stuff on vinyl now.
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I think there's been a few recently we've done on vinyl
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that we didn't even make CD's for.
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Oh wow. Because they don't.
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Sell more vinyl and I saw a thing where this is the first
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year. Maybe it was last year that
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vinyl outsold CD's since. But.
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I would believe. It.
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No, I totally believe it. My 16 year olds all into it as
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well. I mean, for the last two or
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three years, man, he's just everywhere he goes.
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He's looking for for vinyl, you know what I mean?
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And everything. I think it's like we're saying
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the everything, the look of the stuff.
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I mean, because you get to pick it up and look at it, you know
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what I mean? It's a big, it's not a little
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square on a CD and it's not the little thing on the.
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On a, on a iTunes or whatever your Spotify, it's the big
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album. And we always said that in
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touring world, in merchandise. When I work with those indie
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rock bands and stuff, they always did vinyl.
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And I always asked why they were like well, because if you're at
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a, if you're at a club show and you've got this little CD on the
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wall, you know, and you can't really see that hanging up.
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But if you've got this big vinyl hanging up on the rack at the
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merch booth, you're like ooh, I can even see that across the
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rim. So yeah.
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It's it's an art. It was an art in the 70s,
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sixties and 70s and 50s, sixties, 70s and before them,
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but really in the 70s, sixties and 70s complete art form in and
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of itself. It's good to see that kind of
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coming back. I think that only helps the
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music industry and it it just. It's something that you can
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feel, touch and see, and people are buying them that don't even
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have record players. They just like to display them.
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Yeah, I mean it. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
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It. They're pieces of art.
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Yeah, well, that's what I was going to getting at the Swift
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thing. She's smart on her as she is
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with a lot of things, business wise and entertainment stuff.
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She she put her last album out and made it in five or six
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different colors. It's the same album, just the
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vinyl is. Pressed.
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They're buying five of those things.
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Five of the same exact record. And they're not opening them,
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they're collecting them. They're like, you're saying
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they're putting them up on their walls, take their pictures with,
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but they have a blue, 1A, red, 1A, pink, 1A, yellow one or
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whatever. Different one, because it's just
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all these. It's all the vinyl beads they
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pour into the thing. They melt, press them out so you
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can do whatever. What color you want.
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So she was that was instead of making six albums, she made one
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album, made it six colors and she's got enough die hard fans
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where they're super fans that are going to buy them.
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All that's. Awesome man.
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Exactly genius. It really, it really is, man.
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And then of course not to not to stick around too long on Jr's
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studio, but man behind him. Of course we can see these
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pictures that are in the shot, but don't sleep on the pictures
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that are outside of the shot. I mean, you've got all kinds of
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stuff, Drive by truckers and more Hank and more, more
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everything. Those lanyards I spent 20
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minutes looking through. I looked at all of them.
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The tours and those lanyards that are behind him and the
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things that he's been to just blow your mind, man.
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It's a good issue of music. And it ain't all country, you
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know? It's not just country music
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either. Most of it is, but not all of
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it. And then he's got those pics
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sitting there in front of him, The one that jumped out at me,
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of course. The Bellamy Brothers.
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Awesome. I think you told about that.
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But you have an Alice In Chains. Pick there that we briefly
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touched on. Where did you get that thing?
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I believe I got this from a guy who was a guitar tech for them
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who would be somebody in Alice In Chains name start Jason or.
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Jerry or Jerry? Jerry Cantrell.
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That's probably. It's probably Jerry Cantrell.
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That's it. That's it.
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Just Jerry. Oh, man.
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Yeah, just Jerry. Freaking Awesome, man.
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I know what's awesome. About that studio though, it's
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so there's the main room and which I always thought, Jr. that
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was like just an attachment of your garage to your house that
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you had kind of pimped out. Oh no, it's it's like a 2000
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square foot building. And what's behind him is like a
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maze of rooms. I mean that that's what I got
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lost. And I thought we'd moved into a
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whole different. I thought we'd somehow worked
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our way through a tunnel into his house.
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You know, it's just room to room and then you go into his closet.
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Where his touring clothes are, that's.
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Just where he keeps his. Clothes, the touring out there
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and also found a couple of cool things with that jacket from
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Charlie Daniels that were you know numbered one through you
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know through the band and and and everybody there and you got
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#1 you know Charlie's. Charlie's.
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Jacket. Yeah, he actually wore that.
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New Year Cowboy Christmas, New Year's Eve 1983 at Billy Bob's
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in Fort Worth. That's unbelievable.
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Unbelievable. The vintage Alabama jacket.
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We didn't have time, but I've got you talking about the pics
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and stuff. Y'all got bags of pics from over
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the years from different. People.
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Anybody. You.
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Think of I was just looking through here and I kept a bunch
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like I've got the original John party ones.
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Our first tour we ever did. Because I knew because I knew
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John was going to be big When I first met him I was like this
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kid plays his cards when I met Jackson one day and.
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Or nothing gets in your way. Sometimes things outside of your
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control can derail your career, but John is not.
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John's having a very successful. Career.
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And I'm glad I saved a hundred of these picks cuz they're gonna
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be worth $10 a piece on eBay. What day would pop all retire?
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Yeah, they are. I think they're gonna be wearing
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a little more than 10 bucks. You don't.
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It's one of my one of my favorites and one of my favorite
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bands on the road today, Muscadine Bloodline.
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Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, got that from Chucky.
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That's great. But anyway, yeah, I've got a
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bunch of stuff. Like I said, as cool as my stuff
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feels, and it is, and it is cool.
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And I know you guys when I went over to diamonds yesterday, I'm
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like, you know, it's just like it's just like when you get your
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it's like when you get your truck clean, you're like, man, I
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got a good looking truck. My truck still looks pretty
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good. Then you pull out to the first
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red light, the guy comes right next to you to brand new 250
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with all the bells and puzzles, you're like, oh hell, never
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mind, so. But anyway well thanks guys.
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Yeah I'm glad you guys got to came over.
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You mentioned it earlier Tigs we.
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We got to go to our brewery. This was kind of a spur of the
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moment thing. You were coming to town as Blasi
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and I knew that because you're bringing your wife and kid over
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to spend a few days and relax on the beach.
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And I was going to be in on Friday, so we were like, yeah,
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we'll try to come up with something and then Blasi, you
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know, he's always got something going on, whether it's being a
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right wing social media, a mega * or or just being a great
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family. Man and and.
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And and and a member of the community taking care of
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business and doing things and going places.
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But they had gotten back. You were in town.
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I said, well, I'm cherise flew in Saturday from California.
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So I said, well, maybe we'll hook up Sunday.
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So then I put a text out and I was like, well, let's go to the
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brewery tomorrow afternoon. You know, it's right.
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It should be chill. So I got up there at 3:00 or
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4:00 in the afternoon just a handful of cars, which was
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perfect. I was like, yeah, coast is
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clear. Then Blasi takes hey, I'm in
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route. I made.
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I changed the plan. I'm coming that way.
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And then you were going to come around 5 Tigs, but in that time
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we had a couple of other of our buddies, our buddy of the
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Gryces, the Ramseys, several other friends end up showing up
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bringing the kids. So we had a big group of kids
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spanning some ages, young ages there, and it was really a great
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little afternoon. It was a little warm, but we
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had, we were in the shade, they had the food truck, we had some
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beers. Had live music plans.
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Sean Sean Williams. Sean Williams, she is fantastic.
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I think she's from north around the New Orleans area originally,
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but I've seen her play in the area a few times.
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Yeah, she's and she's got some great stuff on iTunes.
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Her records Sean with a W Sean Williams.
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Check her out if you guys get a chance because she's got some
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really good albums on on iTunes. It's it's cool.
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It's kind of indie Rocky. I don't know.
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I like. It yeah, I love that vibe.
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It was. It was fantastic.
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Super cool place. The kids had a freaking blast.
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It was. You know, just a just a great
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time. All the ladies enjoyed visiting.
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We check with each other. Every, which is always good for
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us guys with the wives and girls get along.
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The show can continue everybody we we have full permission to to
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sail on, which is great. As you get older, you guys know,
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because as you get older. It doesn't really matter what
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you like. It's whoever your wife can hang
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out with and get along with that.
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You're end up going to hang out with him, your best buddy.
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If his wife, your wife don't get along, you probably hang out
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with him very much. That's right, Luckily all ours
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get along. No doubt, No doubt.
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So we leave there we we enjoyed hung out, ate a little bit and
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all of that and we move. We transitioned from the brewery
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over to Jr's house. Where we got to see yet the
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compound which. Was right out about dark.
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I guess I was right out about dusk dark.
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And you guys all jumped in the trucks and I had the kids with
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me and Reese and this Bobcat. And yeah, it's as you as y'all
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trying to explain to Y'all why we're at the brewery.
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It's literally, what, 3/4 of a mile?
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Right. Across the street.
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It's just right across the street.
18:53
Once we got there and we got the just kind of fanboying over Jr's
18:59
studio, we just Blacy. Being the right wing guy that he
19:05
is just just he fires up the old fires up the old phone and ends
19:12
up jumping on Alex Stein's Sunday night show basically to
19:19
to to kind of jump in and and hopefully help to resolve this
19:23
Alex Stein and Bubba the Love Sponge drama which.
19:28
Jr. and I are not maybe as well versed on blacy you want to hit
19:32
on. That Jr. is 0 versed on but but
19:36
but if it involves blacy I want to know because I got his back
19:40
1000. Percent.
19:41
That's right. He's in on.
19:42
I need to know. I want to know because if it
19:44
comes up, I got his back on whatever issue he whatever fight
19:47
he tries to pick. So.
19:48
So I was listening. But hey, you got to give me a
19:50
little credit to Blacy. When you decide you want to do
19:52
this, we kind of. We're like, yeah.
19:53
And I. You like, You think we should?
19:55
And I was like, if you want to, brother, the studio's right
19:57
there. We got Internet.
19:58
Just knock yourself out. And as soon as you got the
20:00
chair, I started Pit Crew. And you, man, I had you a stand
20:03
for your phone. I got you a light going.
20:04
I got you the power. And here's some whiskey.
20:06
Let's go. Let's do this thing.
20:07
It was great, man. I mean, we already shut down the
20:09
studio and moved. It, moved into the yard, and I
20:12
saw that notification. I was like, Alex Stein's Live
20:14
Right Now, boys. I was like.
20:16
You know, I feel like I could hop on there.
20:17
You'd probably put me over there pretty quick and man Jr. just
20:21
wanted to action there. Started getting everything taken
20:23
care of, setting me up. I mean, get my phone mounted up,
20:28
bringing everything in, get the studio ready.
20:31
And what we we were on there probably 5 minutes and then
20:33
boom, Oh yeah, we're in the call.
20:35
You know Chad Blasey, the one man Posse had had made an.
20:38
Entrance. He tried how you wore You wore
20:43
that. You wore the the world famous
20:44
Power Glove. He tried to give you a little
20:46
shit about it. But jokes on him, he didn't know
20:49
what a damn Power Glove. Is he just lost?
20:51
He lost telling you can he could play a piano with it or a
20:53
guitar. Yeah, you can see laser beams
20:56
through it. You can cancel people through
20:58
it, Alex, that's, you know, you just lost a bunch of.
21:01
These kids on not knowing that one, buddy.
21:03
Yeah, yeah, I was a little. I was a little surprised and
21:06
disappointed that he didn't know what the hell that was.
21:09
And then I'm like, wait, I don't know how old this dude is.
21:13
Only, like 30 or 30. Yeah, I mean, he doesn't know
21:16
what the hell it is. We tell you a secret.
21:17
If you're going to be in this world of outside stuff and be a
21:20
loudmouth and be provocative and all that stuff, you better have
21:22
some rounded knowledge on most topics.
21:24
Yeah, because yeah. You because if you, you go up
21:27
against a hard hitter like Blasi and if he was really on.
21:30
You know we had a few beers that night if he was really only want
21:32
to bury oh he'd have chewed him up and spit him out.
21:34
You just there's something all that all that vigor and energy
21:39
can't replace knowledge and wisdom you know it just can't in
21:42
certain fields and and anyway it was funny though but they yeah
21:46
and they they were they were funny on there and it because I
21:49
queued up the speaker so we could hear I kind of missed your
21:51
audio up back to him but so we could listen in on their call
21:53
and. Bunch of jibber jabber.
21:55
But you know they those guys are looking for a fight.
21:58
They just want to pick. They want to argue, they want to
21:59
be, you know let's just get into something we can all and it was
22:07
fun listening to him and then when Blacey came in he had his.
22:10
Chad Blossey, the one man posse Rick Flair, super fly Jim
22:15
Superstar Billy Graham, Dusty Rd. spiel going on his wrestling
22:18
promo and it was good he gave you.
22:21
He gave him nothing but love because as soon as he saw it was
22:24
you, he said. Oh there he is.
22:26
So yeah. Oh, it was.
22:27
Fun man. We got to get in there, mix it
22:29
up, get him to talk about the Bubba feud that's going on.
22:32
I guess where he skipped Bubba show the week before.
22:34
He had a standing 9:15 to to come on the show and skip to
22:38
show for another show. Which Bubba viewed as a lesser
22:42
show and and fired Bubba up, man.
22:45
And it's funny to listen to this going down and he's like yeah,
22:49
Bubba's just a little butt hurt and yes, I'm up dude.
22:52
Honestly you kind of did like last minute jump out to go on
22:56
kind of a smaller show. You might want to apologize, you
22:58
know. Or at least just acknowledge,
23:00
hey, I wanted to do this with more.
23:02
I don't want to do your show, just shoot him straight.
23:04
That's another thing going about this kid trying to play both
23:06
sides and he lost because yeah, he's on a lesser show and he was
23:10
initially in the wrong because he confirmed this time to be on
23:13
this something, wasting everyone else's time to be ready, and
23:15
then he bows down South. That's really you're you need to
23:18
suck it up. Take that one, Alex.
23:20
Which? Which It was wonderful.
23:22
Blasi comes in, and I mean. As we know, Blacy's Bubba army
23:27
all the way. He's got Bubba's back on this,
23:29
but he likes Alex too. But you know, somebody needed to
23:32
be that neutral person in the party.
23:35
Maybe they could bridge that. Little bit of voice.
23:37
Together. Yeah, well we said it.
23:40
Well that's why Bubba first picked you up.
23:42
You just spit facts Blacy you don't you're not you're not
23:44
picking a side really. You're just saying hey this is
23:46
the this is what happened. These are the parameters this is
23:49
the standard protocol on that. It's not my opinion.
23:53
It's just a simple, right? Wrong.
23:54
Yeah, that's it, you know. Yeah, and right and right here
23:57
you'll see the video that we are talking about where Blacey
24:01
confronts Alex and tells Alex that he needs to apologize to
24:06
him. So enjoy this clip.
24:08
Yeah, you see, Bub is all mad. He's just trying to cause a
24:10
bunch of fake Internet drama for no reason.
24:14
He's just mad at me because I whatever, rescheduled.
24:16
And he doesn't think Sheilly's a big show or whatever.
24:18
He thinks his shows bigger. It's just it's just a stupid
24:23
thing. Well, you know what?
24:24
Hey, here's the truth though. Alex, Bubba likes you a lot.
24:27
Man. I've listened to Bubble a long
24:29
time. He did.
24:30
He loves you a lot, He. He sees you as a good buddy and
24:33
he he had a bad day that day, man.
24:35
He had an IRS day where he found out like his accounts got
24:37
seized. He had to have attorneys.
24:39
He had to pay like. Exactly.
24:40
I didn't hear that. I didn't hear that earlier.
24:42
Is that what happened? Wait, what happened?
24:44
He had because he, Bubba, is going through all kinds of
24:46
financial issues. I mean, he got it.
24:48
He's got a tough. Yeah, he's like they jumped on
24:50
him that day and then you didn't show up.
24:52
Dude, dude, you hurt his feelings.
24:54
Just being honest, you know? I mean, y'all were buddies and
24:56
he just got his feelings hurt, man.
24:57
You know, he's I was a good dude.
24:59
Talking to Lummy. It's funny too, because I've
25:01
been talking to Lummy that morning.
25:02
I was like, oh dude, I forgot that I woke up early.
25:04
I was like, oh, I forgot. And he just, I guess, I don't
25:07
know. And then I guess he didn't tell
25:09
Bubba I went on surely show, which that's why Bubba got mad.
25:13
But dude, if we're going to be fine, he's going to be butt hurt
25:15
about it. Just apologize to it, man.
25:18
He think it's funny. He thinks the world of you.
25:20
He knows you're a pimple and blimp.
25:21
You're going to big Dang places, man.
25:24
Oh, you know Alex Stein this Saturday night?
25:28
Is on a fight card in Nashville TN is going to be this dude
25:32
ain't never fall like but he is I believe that he is fighting
25:37
some other modine who some other YouTube personality from like
25:41
over in Europe or somewhere it's flown in and they're fighting
25:45
Saturday night so he's in Nashville this week and and part
25:48
of me I I've got to be in Nashville on Sunday.
25:51
I don't fly until Sunday. I wish I'd have known this
25:53
before. I'd have probably flown in
25:54
Saturday because he actually. He said he'd give me all the
25:58
tickets I want if I want to come, like he's got tickets
26:00
there, but I'm not. I'm not going to be able to make
26:03
it. I thought about it.
26:03
I was like, no, no, I can't get up there.
26:06
But I will be watching that fight because there's a free
26:08
stream that he's going to have some of this.
26:10
Watch, watch Alex. Do you know the Do you know the
26:14
Modine? What does he look like?
26:16
He could go or do you don't know anything about?
26:18
I think Modine looks more, you know, more athletic than Alex.
26:20
Alex doesn't look like the most athletic guy.
26:22
I saw some of his training videos this past week and.
26:25
I don't know, man. Alex, it's got it my size.
26:27
But Mo's a little, a little quicker, a little more agile and
26:30
usually athletic. Yeah, yeah, so.
26:32
He give out because you'll give out a win and drop those hands
26:35
and then it's over. Well, maybe we need to send Alex
26:37
a Power Glove. Maybe that'll give you the extra
26:41
to take out his. Opponent.
26:43
Hey, and I'll tell you what, I'm gonna proclaim a challenge here
26:46
if he somehow wins this. I got a social media buddy
26:48
that's a social media star to His name's Logan Webb, the old
26:51
Sidewinder. And if, if, if.
26:54
If he somehow pulls this off, I'm putting my money up and I'm
26:57
sponsoring Logan to give him the old Sidewinder.
27:01
I like it and I don't know if y'all know who Logan Webb is,
27:04
but that's my buddy. I'll check him out on Instagram.
27:05
He's gonna give you a couple of them Sidewinders.
27:09
And we got we. And he's got an army of rednecks
27:12
that'll come fill it up too. So I'm putting that out there in
27:14
public knowledge of suit. Whoever wins this.
27:15
Y'all want to fight a real social media star?
27:17
Y'all. Get my old buddy the Sidewinder.
27:20
I like you, man. I like.
27:21
It but but I won't send us the link to that too because I want
27:24
to at least watch the clips or highlights or something.
27:26
I will absolutely, man, absolutely.
27:30
Well, that was great, but I'm glad.
27:31
But I'm glad you did jump on Blasi because it was a, you
27:34
know, it was, you know, you got to get the piece in there.
27:36
We were all here. We were milling around anyway.
27:38
We had the stuff. Here might as well do it.
27:40
And you got to see, you know how I operate in my studio and and
27:43
just get some more love out there for the TIGS Bits podcast.
27:47
Ultimately that's that's the goal with doing all these other
27:50
things that that Blacey's doing than I do and that TIGS does on
27:53
the side. And with different things we do
27:54
on social medias to get everybody wanting to spread the
27:56
love on this show. Because we're going to have a
27:58
lot more content. We'll have a lot more guests, we
28:00
have all kinds of fun stuff and people drop by and jump in and
28:03
we're going to do this thing a lot.
28:04
So go back and listen to the old episodes, but get ready for a
28:06
lot of good new episodes. Go to Tigs Bits calm you go
28:10
check out the Instagram page. I got links on Jr. the Handler,
28:14
so y'all. Just make sure to stay engaged,
28:15
tell your friends, tell your family.
28:17
If you've got somebody you're hanging out with and they leave
28:19
their phone around, go on the little purple app, touch on it,
28:22
search for Tigs Bits going and subscribe and download for them
28:25
too, because they're going to want to have this stuff.
28:27
But but I want to say that first.
28:29
Yeah, I would do all this to get more people listening to this
28:32
show because we're gonna have more fun content like that.
28:34
And it's been a fun ride so far and look forward to growing with
28:37
everybody out there, but. Thanks for everybody so far, but
28:40
spread the word. Tell your friends, click rate,
28:42
like, subscribe, all that good stuff.
28:44
Absolutely. Absolutely.
28:47
And then and then to kind of to wrap this up, we on Saturday Jr.
28:53
had come back into town and we're in full blown vacation
28:58
mode at this point in time. I was with some friends and
29:00
whatnot, but it worked out last week whenever we recorded.
29:05
Towards the end of the recording, Jr. had mentioned
29:09
that he was going to be at the floor Bama and that Taylor Hicks
29:12
was going to be playing that the floor Bama on Saturday.
29:15
Well, I got excited and you guys will see that clip here in a
29:18
here in a minute of me getting excited.
29:21
And there's a good little ending to that clip too.
29:23
Too good to cut. We have to see it.
29:25
I had to cut it out of the episode last week, but we're
29:28
putting that in this week for sure.
29:30
But but got to go down to the floor Bama.
29:33
It's been a long time since I've been there.
29:35
There probably 10 or 12 years and man it is that the floor
29:40
Bama has not changed and but the area down there absolutely has.
29:44
I mean it used to just stop at the floor Bama and there weren't
29:48
buildings or anything else past that and that is not the case
29:53
anymore if I didn't know. That, that's where it was.
29:56
I would have just driven right past it and missed it, you know,
29:59
I mean it's. Just it gets kind of.
30:00
Buried in there now? Yeah it does, but but man,
30:04
inside it just the same as it always was.
30:07
The coolest bar in America. It ain't even close.
30:11
You can bring your kids in, which is fantastic till what,
30:15
5:30 or so. So you know they keep it kid
30:18
friendly until then it's it's just a an absolute fantastic.
30:24
Fantastic time and we got there early enough to have good seats
30:27
and stuff like that and we were hanging out and got to watch.
30:30
Got to watch Jr. do a little bit of work on the stage with Taylor
30:34
Hicks, as you'll see right here. But Taylor was playing, but man,
30:39
look. I think that Taylor Hicks is one
30:42
of the most underrated musicians in all of America, at least
30:46
underrated singers that there is.
30:49
He's one of the best singers that I've ever heard in my
30:52
entire life. And I kind of tell that story
30:54
here in a minute of of the first time that that I was able to see
30:58
him. But I was a big fan of American
31:00
Idol back then, whenever it first started, you know, Carrie
31:04
Underwood had just come out of it and.
31:06
Especially I mean she's the biggest name and Kelly Clarkson
31:09
and Fantasia and you know it was it was doing well.
31:14
Taylor went the. First male artist to win.
31:16
That's right, he was, He was. And and Simon Cowell did not
31:20
like him at all in his audition. I watched that yesterday was
31:23
just kind of reminiscing on some of that.
31:26
Through him throughout the entire season, man.
31:28
He really did. He really did what?
31:30
And the reason why is he just realized, I do believe that
31:34
there's. He wasn't going to be a pop
31:37
star. There just isn't that.
31:39
That isn't what he's designed to do.
31:41
But if you want some soul and you want to hear, you want your
31:44
heart to break or you want to hear some real depth in music
31:49
and dude, that guy's got it. He absolutely does.
31:53
And but it was, it was really good to see him, to just just
31:57
see him perform. His voice is as strong as it was
32:02
20 years ago. And he has a new song that that
32:05
he came out. He played it that day that's
32:07
only been out for three or four months of the porch song or Pork
32:10
Porch Swing is the name of that song.
32:13
And it's freaking good, dude. It was just absolute.
32:16
Blast to to hear him play, you know.
32:19
I heard you were fanboy and up there right in front row and
32:21
everything. Is that right?
32:24
Look you. Know aviators on inside the
32:28
building, Tigs was having a big old time.
32:31
Yes, I was. I had a good time, you know.
32:33
Absolutely. You know, I mean most people
32:37
kind of associate me with acts like Pantera and Metallica and
32:42
311 and stuff like that, but and here I.
32:47
Am Tura. Oh, I like them.
32:52
But. But here I am, just as excited
32:56
as if it's freaking Elvis Presley up there.
32:58
I don't know what it is about him that.
33:00
That I'm just always liked. It's just his soul.
33:03
That's what it is. He's Soul Patrol.
33:04
I just like Soul Patrol Soul. Patrol and you know, I can say
33:07
this, I've known Taylor 20 something years.
33:09
When I first started working with Wayne, he was a regional
33:11
act, playing out of Birmingham area with, you know, a bunch of
33:14
mutual friends. And he would jump up and play
33:15
harmonica with Wayne and Wayne would jump up and play with him
33:18
and he was always really good. There's no doubt about it.
33:20
I always knew he was talented as good.
33:22
I was a lot younger and had a different perspective on things,
33:25
but. Going back now, watching him the
33:27
other night, he it's like a lot of like Dallas Moore.
33:30
I've talked about it before. They've always been some of my
33:32
favorites. And hell even with Justin you
33:34
know his voice on his first records to the one now has
33:36
changed. So you're going to progress and
33:38
hopefully grow as an artist. Man.
33:40
Taylor's show the other night was so good.
33:42
The band was so good. The songs the the vibe, his
33:46
voice, you know, we hung out for probably an hour before he went
33:49
before I walked him downstairs to go on stage and got to catch
33:52
up a little bit and. You know he he just sounded
33:54
great, was in good spirits. Everything was good.
33:57
It's a friends and family there that day and when he got on
34:00
stage he blew me away again for about the 20th time over the
34:03
years And I was just, I was happy, not surprised because I I
34:09
knew he was always good, but I would say just even more excited
34:13
or or. Just reminded me, remembered me
34:15
how good he actually was and. Just wowed you again.
34:19
And yeah, that's kind of amazing in itself.
34:21
Somebody you've seen that many times and you got wild again by.
34:23
Yeah, and well, and watching him too, because I've seen him a
34:25
handful of times since then, but never in like full band mode
34:29
because I've never seen him play a big show since he was on Idol.
34:33
You know, he went out to the Vegas residency and did this and
34:35
that. And I've told people this
34:36
before. Outside of shows I've worked, I
34:38
ain't been but by like 15 concerts in my life because I've
34:41
been in the business since I was 21 and. 22 So I just hadn't been
34:45
to a lot of concerts outside of the ones that I've worked.
34:48
So I haven't gone to Taylor's. I've known friends in his band
34:51
and obviously him, but getting to watch him now as a
34:54
professional, with a professional band and being
34:57
done, haven't done it for this long at a high, high level, man.
35:01
It was impressive. And yeah, that was that.
35:02
Was as good as it gets. Yeah, I mean he he's definitely
35:05
a professional and I'm going to say something that I think will
35:08
ring true. I still believe and he's had a
35:10
number one song back whenever he came out of Idol and his album
35:14
went to number one or two. I mean he and he's had platinum
35:17
or whatever he but you know he's done done well initially.
35:21
But I still think that that dude is going to have him an original
35:26
number one song that resonates with everybody makes the pop
35:29
charts and all that, but it ain't going to be poppy.
35:32
It's just going to be that soulful voice of his, something
35:35
with like an Otis Redding type of vibe kind of deal.
35:39
I don't know, maybe I'm stepping out of place, but I really and
35:42
truly think that that dude will have a monster hit or two at
35:47
some point because. He may look like he's a little
35:49
bit older, but the dude's my age, which I mean, I guess is
35:52
getting a little old, but he's still got a lot of years left.
35:56
We're not as old as Metallica yet, you know what I mean?
35:59
And I love them and I ain't, not as they are still absolutely
36:02
freaking crushing it. But he, he's still got 15 or 20
36:07
years. He's at the midpoint of his
36:09
career, in my opinion, you know, and and he can do so many
36:12
things. And an interesting thing I
36:14
didn't realize we talked about Saul's Juke joint.
36:18
On our show and we talked about some BBQ places.
36:21
I didn't realize that he was one of the coowners of that place,
36:25
which I thought was was pretty interesting.
36:27
I didn't know that, yeah. When they when they had, I think
36:30
they had Saws and I may have the order wrong, they had Avondale
36:33
and you had one in Homewood and they opened a third one and it
36:36
was the Juke joint. And I think that's when Taylor
36:38
came in and they partnered and I don't know the depths of that
36:41
partnership. It's just that one location or
36:43
if he's now a full investor in the whole franchise.
36:46
But yeah, he's a he is, he is a part owner there and I know they
36:49
have more of a stage set up there so they could do bands and
36:52
music outside of just BBQ. So yeah, and I didn't realize
36:57
that the owner, what's his name, Wilson.
37:02
Sorry, ass Wilson. Yeah, I mean, I didn't realize
37:04
that he had died a couple years ago either until the other day.
37:06
And JD had told me I was like, man, I was not aware of that,
37:10
so. Yeah, any.
37:11
Anyways, a follow up to the Saul's BBQ.
37:14
That's a good way and that's smart on him to to to diversify
37:18
your portfolio when you start doing well, you know, do put
37:21
some over here, do this, do that.
37:22
You know it's funny talking about before I walked Taylor
37:24
down to the show that night, man, he had some good stories
37:27
backstage talking about his time when I because I told him, you
37:30
know he told us ahead of time that he was going to Hollywood
37:34
or what are going on the next round or whatever.
37:37
And I remember we got that news one night in the van, Wayne told
37:39
us. But we couldn't tell nobody,
37:40
obviously. So I had to tell my mom, but I
37:42
had to swear to secrecy. You know she.
37:44
Could be because it was going on.
37:45
It was a big deal then there was no there was no finding out and
37:48
she knew the whole time but but we didn't know he's going to win
37:51
it that time But he told me first time I'd heard this some
37:54
of that kind of stuff like you're saying the Simon because
37:56
he had asked he looked out before they went to win or if he
38:00
went out there to to figure out who was going to be the last one
38:03
and. Something with the security
38:05
guard, he said, Where's Simon? He said he's probably down at
38:07
UCLA trying to round up a few more votes for Catherine or
38:10
something. And so he kind of got it blown
38:13
that he knew he was going to win right before he went on.
38:16
So he even said he's like, when I get out there, you could tell
38:18
I'm like, I'm happy, but I'm like, I'd already just got the
38:20
news broke. So it kind of ruined my moment.
38:22
But we'll we'll get Taylor on sometime.
38:24
We'll get. Swap numbers again.
38:25
I got his new number, so we'll make sure we'll get him on at
38:28
some point and get him to try to tell maybe.
38:30
I'm sure it's past the stages of.
38:32
You know, whatever it. Can be.
38:34
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be great.
38:36
We were real pumped up about it because again, I used to, I told
38:38
this before, but Snapper Heads was a little Bar and Grill right
38:41
down the road, and he used to play there all the time.
38:43
And I remember when I found out he was on Idols, I went there
38:45
for Wednesday or Thursday nights when he's supposed to be there
38:47
and he wasn't there, you know? And I was upset.
38:49
But there's a group of us that used to go watch him and we all
38:52
got into it and we all downloaded this whatever, It's a
38:56
website or software on our computer.
38:59
And it was this auto call and we would call in and vote.
39:01
We would get in like 3 or 4000 votes each and we would just hit
39:05
this button and it would just dial and vote, dial and vote.
39:08
I mean we were all, he had a huge support like that.
39:11
Oh yes, the House. You know, it's funny talking
39:16
about playing there. When I was walking back over as
39:18
he was playing, I had to go across the streets.
39:20
When I text you Tigs that I had some other work.
39:22
I had to go across the street, get another.
39:23
And then I was coming back and there was two guys coming up and
39:26
I heard them kind of making their little comments.
39:27
They were like, yeah, I guess everybody.
39:29
Big American Idol fans that are here, the guy from American
39:31
Idol, and I heard him talking, I said we know he got his start
39:34
here and they were like, really? They were like, yeah, he's from
39:36
Birmingham. I said he used to play here all
39:38
the time before he got the American Idol there.
39:40
No way. I was like, yeah, he played here
39:42
a couple nights a week for years until he got the American Idol
39:44
thing. So.
39:45
I guess a lot of people didn't realize that that he's from
39:47
Birmingham and there's not just a random American Idol person
39:50
playing the floor hammer. That's why I don't.
39:52
Think that any that he was not playing, it was not related to
39:55
American Idol. Why he was there was.
39:58
And it was, and it was. And he was kind of like before.
40:00
He said we got a good house down there.
40:01
I said Oh yeah, it's going to be full, brother and shit we got
40:04
down there. You couldn't put another person
40:05
in the Dome. It was packed and and rockin
40:08
and. But yeah, I thought that made me
40:10
think when I was walking over because I assumed.
40:12
You know, most I guess people don't do the back story but if
40:15
you look, he's from Birmingham, he played on the coast as Blasi
40:17
saying that over there when he's you know or lived and he's
40:20
played all over the the southeast for years before the
40:23
college circuit, all that stuff before idol.
40:26
So that was the tie in there. It's just not a random idol
40:28
person playing there. It's it was a home he was.
40:31
Playing at home and his piano player, his piano player Brian,
40:35
who I've known for a long time. He plays in other bands he was
40:38
with. He's been with him since day one
40:40
as far as. The after post idol and Brian
40:44
said that's the only shows he does with him now or the floor
40:47
Bama couple floor Bama shows they do a year and he uses a
40:49
different touring band when they go do other stuff because most
40:52
of those guys have relocated back to Alabama as well.
40:55
I think Taylor said he's in Nashville, but we got to talking
41:01
and he was thinking, you know, he's like, I've thought about
41:03
that not having to live in Nashville anymore.
41:05
And I was like, I mean I'm not in the creative space that you
41:08
are, but. I make it work, you know?
41:11
And he's. Like you can feel pretty
41:13
creative down here, yes? So I gave you one of my wife's
41:16
business cards for real estate cards like, hey, let you're.
41:20
As you should have, as you should have.
41:21
So but it was great. It was good to catch up with
41:23
him. I I yeah, I take him.
41:25
I got him on stage and went got him some drinks and was sitting
41:28
him some drinks they were get going.
41:29
Then I look over there's tigs just smiling with his shades off
41:32
watch the handler handle. I mean, look, I was and I have a
41:36
video. And I'm like, man, I'm looking
41:39
at Taylor Hicks. I'm looking at my boy Jr.
41:41
This is a perfect try. Triangular point here.
41:44
This is the floor, back floor, back.
41:48
My wife, my son's with me. You know, the only person
41:51
missing my daughter. She was staying here, watching
41:54
our little weenie dog taking care of her, and she was having
41:57
to work. You know how old is your
41:58
daughter? My.
41:59
My daughter's 20. Oh, I got you.
42:01
OK. Yeah.
42:02
She's or she'll be. She's about to be 20, so yeah.
42:05
Grown up, grown up but. She's yeah, but she would have
42:07
been by herself and all. Riley didn't maybe necessarily
42:11
enjoy the entire Flora Bama experience the entire time as a
42:15
10 or 11 year old kids. Maybe wouldn't.
42:19
It's more for your parents. That was our time.
42:21
But my daughter would have been in it just as much as I was.
42:25
She would have loved it. But Riley had a good time.
42:27
It was fun catching up with your son.
42:29
You got a great kid. They're all you all.
42:30
Everybody who brought their kids over had great kids.
42:32
It was fun. They all interacted and played
42:34
and hung out. And then and then I remember we
42:36
got over here and Riley's like. This is where you do the Justin
42:39
Moore Podcast. I was like, well, we used to.
42:41
It's been a while, but we. Used to from time to time.
42:45
Every day we wrote them on the side by side that I lookout and
42:48
then they're just hanging out over there.
42:49
I play it on their phones and stuff.
42:51
So that was it was a great time and yeah, just a great weekend.
42:53
I'm glad we got the Tigs, Bits, trio all together and one place
42:58
at one time for the first time. Many more to come.
43:01
And we actually got some pictures we'll put up and all
43:03
that fun stuff, but that's where I know we've got next.
43:06
I've got to get on the road, but I know we're going to try to
43:09
have some guests coming on the next couple episodes.
43:12
And lots of fun, more other fun content in general.
43:15
But like I mentioned earlier, everybody hit that reminder
43:18
notification button, all that fun stuff, so you'll be notified
43:21
when the next episode drops. And yeah, lookout for Tigs bits,
43:25
because we're coming, baby. Oh yeah, we're coming.
43:27
We're coming and and check this video out.
43:30
This is this is the video from last week kind of seeing me geek
43:34
out getting the news that Taylor Hicks was going to be playing at
43:37
the floor Bama and it ends with a little something special and
43:41
I'm not going to ruin the surprise but it this, this
43:44
episode will end very strong. Stick with us for three more
43:48
minutes, like, he says. Like subscribe, review, rate, do
43:52
all of that stuff and keep on coming back.
43:55
Lastly, lastly, thank you to Bowl Boss Rouses and everybody
43:58
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44:02
Sponsors a Saturday. I'm supposed to go to floor
44:04
Bama. Taylor Hicks is playing for
44:07
4:00. O'clock.
44:08
Yeah, if you want to come, I'll get y'all hooked up.
44:10
Whatever. When is that?
44:12
Do you got ball games? Is that why you're in town?
44:14
No, no. We're just coming to hang out
44:17
coming month. No, no.
44:19
This is my son. So my son got invited.
44:23
He came there about a month or so ago, right?
44:26
At school, went out, let out a buddy of his dad, got a condo.
44:31
He works over there doing stuff anyhow, so.
44:34
So your son got the hook up for you.
44:36
Your son's working angles already.
44:37
Yeah, my son got the hook up. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
44:40
Yeah. Aren't you keeps on?
44:41
So we're going with them instead.
44:43
We're staying with them at their condo.
44:45
But my Taylor Hicks story is that LSU will played Alabama and
44:50
Tuscaloosa a couple years after he won American Idol.
44:54
OK, I freaking loved Taylor Hicks, dude.
44:57
When it threw that that American Idol run, I loved his voice.
45:01
I still love his voice. I loved everything about him.
45:04
And then he was playing in some bar in Tuscaloosa and it was, it
45:09
was postgame. LSU had had beaten Alabama.
45:13
So it was just the LSU people out that night, and this is
45:17
prior to Saban. This was in the, you know, 2007,
45:20
maybe 6-5 somewhere in there. Everybody knew I was like a
45:24
Taylor Hicks fanboy. And I was wearing the hard, that
45:28
hard hat that's back there. I was back in the day.
45:31
I wore the hard hat to games. Oh, I got one.
45:34
Taylor Hicks signed that hard hat.
45:36
It's it. Yeah.
45:37
So I'm in this bar that night. He comes on.
45:40
They're like special guest Taylor Hicks.
45:43
I mean, this is like the most random thing of all time.
45:45
It's. Unbelievable.
45:50
Oh yeah, for the sake of a thumbnail missing out here.
45:56
You got a choice. Please tell me you have a
45:58
gladiator hat from Troy. You have a gladiator's helmet?
46:02
Football. Helmet like you put that.
46:04
On this, what we're doing when we do our football preview, this
46:08
is this is how. We see.
46:09
We got to get you. No, blacey, we have to get you
46:12
the gladiator helmet. Like the S with the third.
46:16
Yes. Oh, yeah.
46:18
Yeah. Get you the real Trojan helmet.
46:21
Yes. So this is so.
46:23
I'm so glad that we that Taylor Hicks is once again come in to
46:28
just save the names, yes. I'm coming to Troll, Patrol,
46:33
Patrol Patrol. Oh yeah.
46:36
Oh, I'm in.