Widespread Panic: Ain't Life Grand

Ever found yourself head-nodding to the deeper cuts of an album, the ones that don't hit the charts but still strike a chord? That's the journey we take with Widespread Panic's "Ain't Life Grand," reveling in the tracks that have woven their way into the fabric of our musical wardrobe. My co-host Tim and I swap stories, weave in a bit of humor about our fictional favorite band 'Localized Calm,' and pay homage to the rich soundscape that turned a non-commercial album into a cult classic. From the band's early days in the bustling Athens, Georgia music scene to the vibrant mandolin strings of John Bell, we unpack the layers that make this album a fan favorite.

Strap in as we dissect the groovy "porno vibe" of Widespread Panic, a sound that's anything but mainstream. We reminisce about the late Michael Hauser's guitar legacy and how Jimmy Herring continues to honor it with every strum. In a blend of musical musings and belly laughs, we explore the intricate pedal steel of John Keane, and how Herman's keys integrate to create a tapestry of sound that paints pictures from Mardi Gras festivities to the comical hat tips to characters like Glenn Quagmire. Our conversation is a jam session in itself, celebrating the storytelling lyrics and the infectious energy you can only get from a live performance.

To cap it off, there's nothing like a good travel mishap to remind you that life, indeed, can be grand. We share a personal airport fiasco that'll have you laughing in commiseration, and then it's on to how the smooth tunes of Steely Dan can be the perfect balm for those travel blues. Agree or disagree, we dive into the debate about the place of lengthy solos in music, echoing the spirit of variety that keeps a set list fresh. And just when you think we're wrapping up, we toss in a little pop culture, honoring the cool Mr. Freeze - because who doesn't love an anti-hero? Join us for this episode, where the laughs are plenty, the music dissection is deep, and life - well, it's just grand.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:05

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

Speaker 3 0:38

All right, thank you for listening to Greatest Not Hits greatest non-hits. I'm your host, chris, and playing Airplane from Widespread Panic's Ain't Life Grand album. It's my co-host, tim. And before we get things started, man, I just want to give a shout out to some friends that I hung out with over the weekend. I've got my Hooters visor on and just pumped from the bachelor party this weekend. Shout out to JC, jeff, ben James, kyle, mike, ryan, tyler, elliot, yeah, lou. Shout out to all you guys Thanks for a great time this weekend. And here's a little inspiration for you here. Fidelio, all right, that was for you guys. Uh, thanks for a great time this weekend and a little. Uh, here's a little inspiration for you here.

Speaker 1 1:27

All right, that was that was for you guys.

Speaker 3 1:30

Uh, a little inside joke there, but uh, nonetheless, uh, thank you so much again for listening. It's not about me or the bachelor party weekend. This is about widespread panics. Ain't life grand album, and, uh, we're going to go, we're going to go, gonna go deeper and deeper here. Um, it's probably one of their best albums. Maybe, if not the they're my favorite album. This uh released september 6, 1994 and it's uh, no big hits. I mean, the song he life grand, I guess, has some notoriety, but beyond that there aren't really any hits on this album. We're going to say that these are all non-hits. We're going to listen to the whole album, have some yucks, have some kicks, and then at the end we're going to rank our top three of the songs that didn't get any love. But we love them and we're glad you're along the way with us. So, with that said, just to give a little bit of a background, the band Widespread Panic is I think, they're another Athens Georgia band.

Speaker 3 2:37

So they're sort of along the framework of the B-52s, 70s, rem, the 80s, widespread panic in the 90s. So I mean shout out to Athens. You know they were killing it around this time. I mean, I was kind of, I was sort of I was there to see it all. I kind of moved on. I kind of left around 94. But you know, this album really resonates with me.

Speaker 3 3:08

I think it's gotten tons of critical reception. I think Trouser Press wrote that, although the chorus comes straight from the Bon Jovi cliche book, heroes Musters, a mild version of Pearl Jamams taught emotional ambience. So anyway, ton of good songs. There's a song called little kin ain't life, grand airplanes. The third song with tim is playing there. Uh, can't get high. It's a hidden track as well, waiting for the wind to blow down a tree in my backyard. The boys in this band John Bell, guitar, mandolin and vocals. John Herman, keyboards and vocals. Michael Hauser passed away early pancreatic cancer in 2003. He wrote some of the songs and played guitar vocals. Original member Todd Nance Domingo Ortiz. Dave Schools on bass guitar. Todd Nance on the drums. Domingo Ortiz I think he's the guy that's playing the bongos in a couple of these songs. Pretty, I mean it's. Yeah, this is a good album, man, I like it a lot. I guess there are some guest performers David Blackman on the fiddle, eric Carter on vocals, adrian Fish on vocals I do hear some choruses in some of them.

Speaker 2 4:42

Raise the.

Speaker 1 4:42

Roof I'm thinking that's where they're at.

Speaker 3 4:48

John Keane, guitar, pedal steel vocals. Dwight Manning on the oboe, Sweet David Barbie, david Barb, assistant Engineering, marshall Beverly, art Direction. Anyway, this is another third album, fourth album. So anyway, yeah, so this is like I don't know, third album, fourth album album cover. It's kind of crazy. It's sort of like another collage. You know Tim's into the collages, so I'm thinking he's, he might have an opinion, he might have something to say we're gonna bring him on in a second here.

Speaker 3 5:27

He's going to wrap it up for us and give us his two cents. I think he wanted something to the effect of what was it, man? What did you want? There was another band called the Local Calm or something like that. It was sort of like the, the antithesis of widespread panic, you know. So that was uh, okay, how you doing, bud, hey, I'm just trying to get it together. Trying to get it together trying to lift off here.

Speaker 4 6:02

Uh yeah, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 6:04

So lift off that's no, no I you know I like sounds like airplane me I like widespread panic, but I prefer the localized calm.

Speaker 4 6:12

They're also a local band from athens around that time. Um more chiller, a little more elevator music. I yeah, I never heard of that man okay, it they don't exist. Yeah, but yeah, we have a great show. I love the Widespread Panic. Shout out to the Spreadheads.

Speaker 3 6:34

Shout out to. They were kind of a band like that Sort of like their jam band Rock. They drew from a lot of influences, almond Brothers, all of those, I think even Trucks, dwayne Trucks oh yeah, he's stuck down. Influences almond brothers, all of those, I think, like even uh trucks, duane trucks and oh, yeah, they're trucks, yeah, they're all sort of overlays, yeah, there's.

Speaker 4 6:52

There's sort of like a family tree going on there. I'm playing on my warren haynes signed, uh, washburn guitar tonight.

Speaker 3 7:00

Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, you got this.

Speaker 4 7:02

Yeah, got the signature on the it's got side there, it's got some uh, it's got some sauce. It's good. I'm just uh really, really digging this album. I bought this album on a cd, I guess, when I was probably about 17 and it lasted a while before. Yeah, it scratched or somebody stole my cd thing out of my car had a lot of cds, a lot of burned cds.

Speaker 3 7:32

Where did you burn a lot of cds back in the day or uh oh no, that's actually burn that disc, yeah um, no, yeah, I used to burn cds, you know all the time, yeah and yeah, this is uh I mean I never burned this one, but, uh, I you know it's from that era 2000s 2000 2010, somewhere in that range yeah, I remember getting the you know the cd out yeah yeah, like lining up spotify yeah, I like this album cover.

Speaker 4 8:04

It's kind of like a watercolor-y sort of uh van gogh-ish sun with the band and like what looks to be like some cool little street yeah, there's a car in there or something. They're poking their head out. I don't know. It's kind of it's good, it's a good thing.

Speaker 3 8:23

Um, yeah, I think well, I think it's, you know it's. It goes with the name. Ain't life grand?

Speaker 4 8:29

yeah, what's the central focus of this album? What do you think it's like? I don't know.

Speaker 3 8:35

I I think it's just life experiences and yeah generically referenced on that yeah, just take it all in, kind of a thing. Yeah, that's what life is and it's what you make of it. Let's have fun despite all the struggles, and let's play the hand that we're dealt with, because life is like 10% of what happens to you and the other 90% is how you respond to it, kind of a thing.

Speaker 5 9:03

Life just keeps happening.

Speaker 3 9:06

Yeah, what's his name?

Speaker 4 9:09

Theo.

Speaker 3 9:09

Vaughn, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 9:12

Life is life.

Speaker 5 9:13

It's just life.

Speaker 3 9:14

Yeah, it's just life.

Speaker 5 9:17

Life is like hey, guess what?

Speaker 3 9:20

That's life.

Speaker 4 9:23

Yeah, no, I love this album so much and definitely very juicy guitar solos.

Speaker 6 9:31

You like the juice, eh.

Speaker 4 9:33

It's definitely some shredding, the shreddability and the upward of downward, of really covering the neck, and then even the last song. I mean kudos to hauser for really being such like I was talking. We were talking earlier about how he's such a note smith and a note crafter and he's like uh, he really does and he's talking about schools, right well, schools is the basis, but yeah, yeah, he's a notesman too yeah, he plays a six string modulus which and he plays almost lead bass throughout these songs, almost kind of like phil lesh style.

Speaker 4 10:09

Um, very jammy, yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Uh, very technical bassist um yeah dominga is on that. If you ever get a chance to see some of his drum solos on uh youtube, he's a drumming wizard, that guy well, is he also playing the bongos on? He's got a whole kit he's got this, he's got crazy kit over the years. That looks like a wall of drums and he's in like this little l and they have him next to the drum. Another the other drummer, um, who's holding it down schools all right.

Speaker 3 10:43

No, no, you're right. What right? What is the bass player?

Speaker 4 10:45

I gotcha here look it up there. Todd Nance RIP he passed away 2020?

Speaker 3 10:55

I think yeah, he left the band in 2016. He may have known what was up.

Speaker 4 10:59

Well, rest in peace, and Michael Houser he's held down and John Herman on key is uh really, john bell's voice is uh, it's pretty harrowing. I mean it's. It's got that guttural sort of um yeah, well, let's hear it, man what say yeah, let's go for it. Yeah.

Musical Analysis and Nostalgia Discussed

Speaker 3 11:35

I think I need my freedom. Thanks, Brad.

Speaker 4 11:38

Hamilton, we're off the mark here.

Speaker 3 11:41

Well, yeah, it's kind of like this porno vibe, you know.

Speaker 6 11:50

Don't do that, please, please, don't All right.

Speaker 4 12:01

End of his days in bed.

Speaker 6 12:18

It's just a womanizing kind of.

Speaker 4 12:21

Ooh, daddy's last hard break. What does that mean? Ah, this solo the effects on this. What is it?

Speaker 3 12:32

Is that Hauser? Yeah.

Speaker 4 12:36

Piercing notes A little frying pan, flamin' eggs coming at you A little frying pan.

Speaker 6 12:51

Flamin' eggs coming at you.

Speaker 3 12:55

Can't wait for the griddles we lost Mama's eyes.

Speaker 4 12:59

Mommy Mama, mama, mama's eyes, mommy Mama.

Speaker 6 13:05

Mom Younger, hands Younger hands.

Speaker 2 13:14

Ooh.

Speaker 3 13:15

Wait just a minute. I'm Mr Han. I used to play trivia, my name or whatever. It'd be like hand solo. You know it was a crowd pleaser. That's good. Yeah, it's incredible.

Speaker 6 13:58

It's hard work. I'm just really angry.

Speaker 3 14:00

I'm angry at Michael Hauser's pancreas.

Speaker 4 14:03

I know.

Speaker 3 14:06

It'd be nice to have him around. Who knows what he could have.

Speaker 4 14:10

So under-known.

Speaker 3 14:12

Yeah, who knows what he could have created thereafter.

Speaker 4 14:15

I know it's Jimmy Herring is on guitar now. They had someone else in the interim as well.

Speaker 3 14:24

Yeah, a hell of a interim as well, yeah, a hell of a guitar player too, yeah.

Speaker 6 14:40

All right, Howell.

Speaker 4 14:43

I love this, just like John Bell's voice and hauser's uh yeah guitar just intermingling here with schools. Listen to schools for a second right here.

Speaker 3 15:01

This is such a ripper okay, there's like all these like farmer's daughter's references going on. You know, there's like this whole narrative of I don't know yet.

Speaker 4 15:36

Yeah, kind of a farm with a horse yeah, horses, dogs are.

Speaker 3 15:43

they're mentioned throughout the whole album.

Speaker 6 15:45

Oh, thanks, I'm a horse, not a guinea pig.

Speaker 3 15:55

It's cool that synth is doing that while he's holding that note so cool, I hope they got good riddles Okay there you go Holding that note so cool. I hope they got your riddles All right. There you go.

Speaker 4 16:12

There is nothing more to be added to it.

Speaker 3 16:17

Oh, good timing on that last clip.

Speaker 1 16:21

All right yeah we are out of the gate.

Speaker 3 16:25

Strong to quite strong.

Speaker 4 16:27

Jeez. So what do you think of that one? I mean when we talked about doing this. I mean when you hear that opener it doesn't sync with the lyrics on Spotify. Most of these songs don't, so check them in due time and go over these again, because Great lyrics.

Speaker 3 16:47

Yeah, we kind of skipped over the whole farmer's wife.

Speaker 4 16:50

Very JJ Cale, almost kind of like that classic-y badge Eric Clapton, jj Cale kind of thing.

Speaker 3 16:58

Can you imagine if Hauser and JJ Cale played together?

Speaker 4 17:00

That would be kind of cool or like was it Mark Knopfler or something. Oh, wow there we go All right.

Speaker 3 17:07

Wow, you're blowing my mind, man.

Speaker 2 17:09

Well, hey, you got to meddle with it, chet Atkins.

Speaker 6 17:16

Rolling doobies.

Speaker 4 17:22

Rolling bye John Bell on Mandolin as well, john Bell.

Speaker 3 17:34

JB. Good shout out. Single successful guy. That's right. What's your job? All-american burger wife in the mirror asshole harry.

Speaker 6 18:07

Asshole Harry.

Speaker 3 18:09

Harry.

Speaker 4 18:17

And I've got to be fair to myself, Lisa.

Speaker 3 18:24

What's up with Judge Reinhold over this? Ripping guitars off? Is that just me? He's a spread. Head for sure he's ripping guitars off. Is that just me? He's a spread head for sure.

Speaker 6 18:33

He is a spread head, I got a nickel.

Speaker 4 18:46

Oh my god, you're 18, right. Oh my god, you're 18, right. It's a good gig.

Speaker 6 19:01

It's Pain like bread Pain like bread Pain like bread. Alright Hamilton, Uh-oh.

Speaker 3 19:22

A little slide guitar. What is that? Not a dodo, not a dodo.

Speaker 4 19:29

Pedal steel John Keene. Oh wow.

Speaker 6 19:45

You're liking the juice, eh.

Speaker 3 19:47

Ah yes, the runny juice Artwork shout out to James Michelopoulos.

Speaker 4 19:53

Oh nice.

Speaker 3 19:55

You're lagging the juice, eh.

Speaker 4 19:59

John Dennison Keene also worked with REM and Indigo Girls. Oh really, the Pedal Steel, oh.

Speaker 3 20:07

Well, he did production and engineering engineering Too, so he probably worked on Air arms as well. Yeah, or he'd be sort of like A utility.

Speaker 4 20:16

Shout out to Herman Right now on Keys.

Speaker 1 20:18

Yeah.

Speaker 4 20:27

And then back to.

Speaker 3 20:28

Schools. He's walking in, I know right, yeah. And then back to the schools.

Speaker 7 20:30

He's walking in.

Speaker 1 20:31

I know right, lisa, I want some.

Speaker 6 20:55

No, please, sir, I want more.

Speaker 4 20:58

More riffs. I love the sprinkled piano here. How do you not move around?

Speaker 3 21:12

when you see this live, oh, this must be incredible live.

Speaker 4 21:18

I know.

Speaker 6 21:23

Does it feel good?

Speaker 4 21:35

It feels In my mind I was a child. Yeah, there's kind of that's a good one. I like that.

Speaker 3 21:46

There seems to be like a Mardi Gras aesthetic to this band. Oh for sure, like, look at the colors of the thing, like the beads. What you gotta do to get the beads, bingo.

Speaker 2 21:58

You know, it's like that kind of vibe, you know.

Speaker 3 22:01

So yeah.

Speaker 4 22:07

All the passengers had fish? No, all the passengers are passing out.

Speaker 7 22:19

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain, Glenn Quagmire. We're looking at about a four and a half hour flight time today. We've got clear skies, good visibility.

Speaker 6 22:53

I don't know how to be so slow.

Speaker 7 22:57

The temperature in Atlanta is 64 degrees.

Speaker 4 23:04

I still write letters. I like writing letters.

Speaker 3 23:08

That's noble, it's fun. Yeah, what about you, glenn?

Speaker 7 23:14

The flight's going to be a little longer than we've expected. We've got some very strong headwinds Giggity it feels. Flight attendants, please prepare for takeoff.

Airport Travel and Music Experiences

Speaker 4 23:55

Okay, Ocean.

Speaker 3 23:57

Woman. This reminds me of my flight yesterday. It's just it was a nightmare. What are you gonna do?

Speaker 4 24:05

Just wait and suck it up. Oh yeah, I mean.

Speaker 3 24:07

You gotta go to the bathroom and all of a sudden there's something like Just life just keeps.

Speaker 5 24:10

Oh yeah, I mean, you got to go to the bathroom and all of a sudden there's something like Just life just keeps happening.

Speaker 3 24:13

Oh sorry, yeah, no, it was also.

Speaker 2 24:16

Oh wait, just a minute.

Speaker 3 24:17

It was that it was like on an airplane. What are you going to do?

Speaker 4 24:21

Or you have to change outfits and just like smash up the whole, all the walls. Oh God damn it. Yeah, oh, tommy boy, that is such a funny scene. They destroy so much just equipment and set in that movie.

Speaker 6 24:40

God.

Speaker 4 24:43

Yeah, that scene was classic I feel like it's the airport two hours in advance.

Speaker 3 25:11

It's like no Well, I don't know. Well, the problem is like if you go into the parking lot, you know what if they don't come?

Speaker 4 25:17

for a half an hour. Then that, yeah, it depends if you park or you get dropped off right exactly if you're dropped off, you're in gold, right yeah, on the way back it's tough because you gotta like coordinate again. Right yeah, it's tough because you've got to coordinate again, Right yeah. Or just take a cab. Luckily we're not that far from the airport.

Speaker 2 25:36

Yeah, a lot of people are it sucks.

Speaker 3 25:39

It's like 50 to 70 for most people. Yeah, that's what it seems. That's what I paid here, that's what I paid there. Yeah, people are listening. In the future they're going to be like that's nothing, just give me one of those references.

Speaker 4 25:53

Yeah, I don't mind flying. You know, everyone needs to get their shit together and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight.

Speaker 3 26:05

Oh boom. Yeah, you beat me to it.

Speaker 5 26:07

Yes.

Speaker 3 26:08

You button hooked me.

Speaker 4 26:09

Yeah, I beat me to it. Yes, you button hooked me.

Speaker 3 26:12

Yeah, I did, I buttoned him, I'm hooking him. Yeah, I'll get it, you're on top of me.

Speaker 4 26:17

This is a Can't get high, can't get high.

Speaker 3 26:24

Kind of sounds like the Boston Rag. Oh, and then there's also the what is it Dropkin, or something.

Speaker 4 26:33

What is it? Oh, boss of rag. Oh, and then there's also the was it drop game or something. Oh yeah, this is blood, can? It's a? It's a cover. That was also in athens a local band.

Speaker 3 26:39

Right, this is their song and they're covering yeah, you want to toggle the rags.

Speaker 4 26:43

You gotta toggle the rags. Yeah, this is more the Boston.

Speaker 6 26:49

Quite no.

Speaker 3 27:04

Can't know. This one Not quite the same time signature.

Speaker 4 27:13

Yeah, it's a little faster.

Speaker 3 27:18

Yeah, that was the Boston Rag. Steely Dan 1973, countdown to Ecstasy Song 5.

Speaker 4 27:24

Yeah, we got a steely head. Yeah, it was a spread head and a steel head. You're a steel head, I'm a steel head. You're a steel head, I'm a steel head. You have a spread head, more a spread head than a steel head?

Speaker 2 27:37

Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 27:39

Yeah, you slant, I guess you slant spread, I slant steel. I'm digging all this, yeah.

Speaker 6 27:50

Well, isn't that special. Oh, thank you.

Speaker 4 27:54

A little bourbon and gin Not on the same night. Whoa what the hell. I'm sober every night.

Speaker 6 28:01

I can't get high, can't get it right. Rolling doobies.

Speaker 3 28:11

That just makes me laugh. Let's see if I can get that Boston Drag chorus.

Speaker 4 28:25

Yeah, get it.

Speaker 6 28:27

Bring back the Boston Drag Kind of it's almost.

Speaker 3 28:32

Yeah, it's there. I get it Kind of it's almost. Yeah, it's there yeah.

Speaker 4 28:48

Sometimes their solos get a little bit rambly. I will say or the, you know what I mean. Yeah.

Speaker 3 29:00

Well, no, I'm starting to just think about Steely Dan and the overlapping In some ways Of them. But that's the brilliance of this band. Yeah, you can like draw a connection. We should hear it solo of them. This is the brilliance of this band. Yeah, you can draw a connection. We should hear it solo. And it's still like this original.

Speaker 4 29:19

Let's play it solo in between this.

Speaker 2 29:23

Between now.

Speaker 3 29:26

Let's sing it acapella.

Speaker 4 29:33

Acapella, you say Maybe Tim Cabella.

Speaker 6 29:39

Don't do that, please, please, don't, don't do that.

Speaker 5 29:53

Life just keeps happening. Life is like hey, guess what? And you're like what? And it's like bam, more life. It just never stops giving you more life. That's life. Hey, you want another?

Speaker 3 30:14

scoop of life boy.

Speaker 4 30:16

He is on another level sometimes.

Speaker 3 30:17

Yeah, shout out to Theo Vaughn.

Speaker 4 30:19

Whoa. Ain't life grand, you know. It just keeps coming at ya. Here's Heroes, heroes. A lot of family ties.

Speaker 6 30:46

Little Ken Johnny little brother, I like the image. It's pink.

Speaker 4 30:57

Green, you hear the spoons? It's got the metal chest on the ribbed metal chest with the spoons. Oh, cool who's that Uh, domingo, domingo, yeah Domingo.

Speaker 3 31:14

He's playing bongos and stuff like that too, or is it?

Speaker 4 31:17

Yeah.

Speaker 3 31:18

Okay.

Speaker 4 31:19

He moves around like he's a he's a drum wizard.

Speaker 3 31:23

Yeah, he's a utility so cool to watch. Yeah, he's just like Filling in the gaps. So cool to watch. Yeah, he's just like filling in the gaps. He's playing the hell out of that thing. Whatever you call it, he's wearing it and playing it. He's bouncing around.

Speaker 4 31:42

He's wearing it for sure. Wild smile, wild smile big man dancing.

Speaker 3 31:53

I was just thinking of that, how good it was, making me feel.

Speaker 6 32:02

Mr Freeze Shout out to Arnold. That's right.

Speaker 4 32:29

Or anti-heroes, that's right.

Speaker 6 32:38

I'm going to sleep after my demands. It's winter fiber here in Gotham, that's funny.

Speaker 2 33:01

Yeah, hauser man.

Speaker 4 33:05

It's almost metal. It's like it's. It's never.

Speaker 3 33:08

I don't know it's almost like it's like it's, I just never, I don't know.

Speaker 4 33:11

It's almost like deep purple-y. Yeah, ritchie Blackmore, it is kind of like the way he solos.

Speaker 3 33:17

He does? He plays very smooth, yeah, yeah, seamless.

Speaker 4 33:21

It's just a slight southern chord difference that he plays.

Speaker 3 33:26

Yeah, it's still swaying, yeah.

Speaker 6 33:30

Ah, yeah, ah Jeez.

Speaker 4 33:34

He's going to school in us all.

Speaker 6 33:36

Yeah, feeling schooled, this is going to be tough. Back to school, back to school.

Speaker 2 34:08

Oh.

Speaker 6 34:08

I don't know if school's playing those notes, man, back to school, back to school.

Speaker 3 34:16

Seriously he's getting. I'm going back to school.

Speaker 4 34:19

You're bouncing on the bus. I know, with those bouncy blasting bass offs.

Speaker 3 34:27

And that fine piece of bass.

Speaker 6 34:31

Well, isn't that special.

Speaker 4 34:37

No, no, it's like a little kid that just doesn't want to go down for a nap.

Speaker 6 34:43

No, no, nobody makes me bleed my own blood.

Speaker 4 35:01

Nobody. Sometimes you gotta get down and dirty to be a hero. Yeah, skin your knee a little bit, twist your ankle, do something oh, that end, I love that end too.

Speaker 3 35:19

Did you hear that? Yeah, all right we have that you know, okay, like the, the thing is shifting here, you know, with the ranking and whatnot.

Speaker 4 35:27

I know some of these songs should be hits, but they're just.

Speaker 3 35:32

This album is kind of under the radar for most uh, right, exactly, but it might come down to like which guitar solo was better. I don't know true is that what you used?

Speaker 6 35:46

to do that yeah the bongos For sure.

Speaker 4 35:57

Yeah, the bongos do it for me on this song Grew up in Waco, Texas, oh okay, he was a teenager when he got a drum kit. Okay, he was a teenager when he got a drum kit. He played his first professional gig at 15 at a bar with his uncle Cruz's band.

Speaker 3 36:18

Shout out to Baylor.

Speaker 4 36:24

Bongos Congas Timbales, a shallow single-headed drum with metal casing.

Speaker 3 36:41

He's just playing this, the whole song. Just never letting up, is he? No I mean it takes a lot of skill. I mean it takes a lot of skill.

Speaker 2 36:53

What if he gets a bongo wrong?

Speaker 3 36:54

It seems like there's a low margin there.

Speaker 7 36:58

That's baby-making music. That's what that is.

Speaker 3 37:00

That's right there you go Get the door.

Speaker 6 37:13

I'm praying, goddammit.

Speaker 3 37:18

We were Chastity and the Brat In our own.

Speaker 6 37:25

Let's go home. Raise the roof, raise the roof, raise it. That's go home. That's your home. Are you too good for your home Home?

Speaker 2 37:47

Most of the studies division. This is going to be tough.

Speaker 6 37:54

Answer me Run deeper Way, way down.

Speaker 2 38:22

There is nothing worth to be added to it. Sir, I want some.

Speaker 4 38:55

No, oh, did we just go back to school? On that little Back to school we did, we got schooled right in that little interlude there.

Speaker 6 39:09

Strong, be strong, strong be strong.

Speaker 1 39:21

One minute 30 seconds oh, wait just a minute and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. Risen.

Speaker 6 39:42

Risen, risen.

Speaker 5 39:46

Single successful guy, a single successful guy.

Speaker 6 40:06

I think I need my freedom.

Speaker 4 40:09

I love that. Yes, a little, a little power cleanse. That was great, well done. All right. Now we're back to rippage. We're back to shredding and ripping. Call the fire department over here. What the heck is going on? Mr Freeze, you heard from Arnie. He freaking loves this song. He's lifting weights, freaking out.

Speaker 3 40:39

Mr Timberlow, let's hear it about Mr Freeze. What's the song called the Juice. This is Junior. Oh.

Speaker 6 41:00

Junior. All right, let's go, not me Today. Junior, I love your child. I swear I love you. Let me have some Junior Mints in the Junior. Have you seen your grandfather lately?

Speaker 4 41:36

He's ripping it man, I know.

Speaker 3 41:38

It's like at the end of the day, it's about the guitar solo.

Speaker 4 41:42

It makes me want to go home and get my guitar.

Speaker 6 41:44

Let's go home.

Speaker 4 41:50

Other guitar my child yeah.

Speaker 3 41:56

He is.

Speaker 4 41:57

I mean, he ties it together Really does. He's raspy, raspy like Ugh. I mean, I get goosebumps with this stuff, I know.

Speaker 3 42:11

Yeah, this is yeah.

Speaker 4 42:13

this is their best album I mean a lot of I think there's I don't know, there's a lot of good albums. Their live albums are really good too, that's. The other thing is like listening to a whole album or like a whole set of the soundboard.

Speaker 3 42:34

Quality is pretty cool too, because they flesh it out even more would you say that they're sort of a like a band who gets better in some ways with different lineup changes, like over the years or just doesn't get affected in the way some people do.

Speaker 4 42:51

I think Jimmy Herring definitely guitar solos very similarly to Hauser in the technicalities that he wants to achieve in his playing. It's very, very, very similar to Hauser already. So it's weird because they're like it's a great replacement. That's almost like spitting listening image if that makes sense.

Speaker 3 43:18

It's like living through.

Speaker 4 43:19

Yeah, I mean it's good stuff. He's got a note like a million synapses away, that he's going to hit at the end and like his brain's just like today Junior. But he's still playing like a million miles a minute at the same time, like it's almost like closing your eyes and just being able to like wield the axe, so like just perfectly. You know, I know, it's just sort of like jackpot.

Speaker 3 44:04

It's like a jackpot.

Speaker 4 44:10

You can tell they've mastered the guitar it's like I'm deeper. You can tell they've mastered the guitar it's like I'm deep.

Speaker 6 44:25

Way, way down. All right, let's go Out of my case, motherfucker. Hey, no towels man, oh nice.

Speaker 7 44:42

Nice.

Speaker 3 44:50

Alright, we're at LA.

Speaker 4 44:56

Shout out to the small town of LA, shout out to Long Beach, shout out to Uncle Johnny.

Speaker 3 45:12

I'm sure it'd be nice driving up and down the beach.

Speaker 4 45:15

Oh my gosh Listening to this. This is a good Laguna Beach song.

Speaker 3 45:19

Yeah, all the beaches, redondo Suburb of.

Speaker 7 45:23

LA.

Speaker 4 45:24

Yeah, though they would hate if you called them a suburb of LA.

Speaker 3 45:29

Well, yeah, it's kind of insulting it is, I mean not that LA's bad.

Speaker 4 45:31

They're coastline. They've got the prim proper.

Speaker 3 45:35

Yeah, they want to be their own thing. Independent, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 45:40

Ortiz is crushing it on this as well. We're asking Spotify for the lyrics, and Spotify's like.

Speaker 2 45:51

Oh wait, just a minute.

Speaker 3 45:56

That's a good one man. I like that.

Speaker 6 45:57

I got a nickel.

Speaker 4 46:07

Altitude is 64.

Speaker 3 46:11

in Atlanta it's 64 in Atlanta.

Speaker 6 46:20

Well isn't that special.

Speaker 4 46:27

It's got that creepy. Who is on this extra horn? Here, oh, dwight Manning on oboe, okay. Warren, here, oh, dwight Manning on oboe, okay.

Speaker 3 46:41

Oh nice, shout out.

Speaker 4 46:45

I think that's what that is right.

Speaker 3 46:46

Yeah, I thought he was calling Mr Ten below. I'm Mr Ten below.

Speaker 6 46:51

This is when Everybody in the audience I thought you used to call him Mr Ten Malone. I'm Mr Ten Malone.

Speaker 4 46:55

This is when everybody in the audience sits down and Rolling doobies, exactly. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic Prayer and swearing. Get the door. I'm praying goddammit. Oh, love that.

Speaker 3 47:27

Yeah, gotta give a little love to Todd Nance, right.

Speaker 4 47:30

Todd is Todd and Domingo yeah.

Speaker 3 47:42

Together, todd and Domingo together. Yeah, it's like a Taser's Choice moment amongst bros, especially that part.

Speaker 4 47:53

Whoa, that was trippy.

Speaker 2 48:14

This is going a song at like a.

Speaker 3 48:17

Orange Strip Club or something. Yeah, this is what they play in the strip clubs in Orange County.

Speaker 4 48:25

Alright, let's go. Are we going? Let's get some tickets. Get some plane tickets, we'll get some aeroplane tickets.

Speaker 3 48:32

Yeah, that's right. Meet our buddy Richard Nixon IV. Get some plane tickets. We'll get some aeroplane tickets. That's right. Meet our buddy Richard Nixon IV. He's like the Gen Z of Nixons. I'm deeper Way, way down. Oh, that was fun, it's good. Oh, that was fun, it's good.

Speaker 4 48:56

Oh man.

Speaker 2 49:00

Okay.

Speaker 3 49:02

All right, yeehaw, all right. Which one is this Tim?

Speaker 4 49:06

We got Blackout Blues.

Speaker 3 49:09

Blackout Blues. Oh nice Black Album.

Speaker 6 49:18

Oh nice.

Speaker 3 49:22

Gradually, that's okay.

Speaker 6 49:25

Call me out, love the night.

Speaker 4 49:36

Yee-haw? No, not at all. Come on in.

Speaker 2 49:39

What do?

Speaker 4 49:41

you need.

Speaker 2 49:41

Why not?

Speaker 4 49:42

Want some tea. What do you want?

Speaker 2 49:43

Yeah.

Speaker 4 49:44

Why are you in my house? I'm sleeping.

Speaker 3 50:01

This is a song that sounds like it's about a drunken bachelor party. Everybody's staying in the same house and it's craziness the whole time. Barbershop rocker.

Speaker 6 51:01

It is a little barbershop Rock, isn't it? Gotta keep your head up. You know, I think we're riding on our last days Like the dark coast down the strait. Gradually, Gradually, let the horseshit of the external world fade from your awareness. No thanks, I'm a horse, not a guinea pig.

Speaker 4 51:36

I'm a prairie dogging it, it's way down there. I know it's way down, that colon.

Speaker 3 51:44

I know people love this song. It's just not doing it for me. I don't know why.

Speaker 4 51:48

I know I just can't. It's a little like typecasted. I feel like Derek Trucks needs to be like on it. I don't know.

Speaker 3 51:59

Junior, have you seen your grandfather lately?

Speaker 2 52:06

Jacked it twice since I've been here.

Speaker 3 52:11

A little foreshadowing there, huh.

Speaker 6 52:15

Get the door. I'm praying, goddammit.

Speaker 4 52:19

Wow, we're. This has a long one. It's kind of it's grueling If If you're already not into this, it's like oh God.

Speaker 1 52:31

Well, isn't that special.

Speaker 4 52:32

Yeah, it's like it's where you go to the bathroom break.

Speaker 3 52:33

It's where you go get God. Well, isn't that special. Yeah, that's where you go to the bathroom break. That's where you go get beers or something. Yeah, but I appreciate what they're doing here. I mean, I know it's like this is really hard to do when you're riding on that last leg like the dark holes down the stream.

Speaker 1 52:57

No thanks.

Speaker 6 53:01

Think we're riding on our last day Like the dark holes down the stream.

Speaker 1 53:10

Wait for him. I'm doing it for his dog.

Speaker 7 53:13

No mother An actual dog, in and out of. I'm doing it for his dog. No mother, an actual dog.

Speaker 4 53:19

You're drunk at a bar and your dog needs to go out. Go home.

Speaker 3 53:24

I'm prairie dogging it.

Speaker 2 53:32

Wait.

Speaker 4 53:41

It's a little bit. It keeps going and going. Alright, let's go Put my head up Off the ground.

Speaker 3 53:50

There's like no escaping. You just gotta Put my head up Off, just gotta.

Speaker 4 53:55

We're used to Not this Usually Okay.

Speaker 3 54:08

That was good. I mean great. It is good Musicianship for sure. Yeah, it's just a little long.

Speaker 2 54:12

Yeah, it's like this little long yeah.

Speaker 3 54:14

It's like this other cool vibe that was going on otherwise. But maybe this is their palate cleanser, I guess Sometimes you've got to change it up.

Speaker 4 54:24

That's what I'm trying to do. We're on.