The Greatest Non Hits

moe.: No Doy

• Chris & Tim • Season 3 • Episode 30

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Ever wondered how a band formed in the late '80s at the University of Buffalo could evolve into a powerhouse of the improvisational rock scene? We promise you'll gain a deeper understanding of moe.'s unique journey, from their humble beginnings to their album "No Doy." You'll hear about their ability to switch musical roles with ease during performances, akin to the likes of the Allman Brothers and Phish. With tracks like "Rebubula" leading the way, we explore how moe. captivated audiences with their intricate compositions and synchronized performances.

As we switch gears, the episode peels back the layers of the band's dynamics and sound evolution. We explore their successful business model, which allowed them to run their own music festival and foster a dedicated community of fans and musicians. Our conversation touches on their approach and commitment to crafting polished music that resonates both live and on record. We also reflect on musicians' contributions beyond the stage, spotlighting their good character and community service.

For a whimsical twist, we embark on playful tangents, from philosophical musings to clever quips about life and pop culture. We chat about the unexpected nostalgia tied to tracks like "Buster" and "Moth," and share how repeated listening uncovers new layers and emotions in the music. Whether it's the frogs croaking in the background of "four" or the complex structure of "Rebubula," our love for these tracks shines through. Concluding with fond mentions of "Spine of the Dog," we celebrate the cohesive ending of the album and the joy of discovering more with each listen.

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Speaker 1:

Well, what the hell is supposed to do, you moron?

Speaker 4:

All right. Thank you for listening to the Greatest Nine Hits. I'm Chris, and playing the song Rebubbula is my co-host, tim. This is from the song Rebubula on the no Doy album from Mo. That's right, mo, with a period. They're like an.

Speaker 4:

American jam band formed at University of Buffalo 89-90. And three classmates get together Rob Der, derek, al Schneier and Chuck Garvey. They get together, they're jamming in Buffalo. They just keep doing it and doing it for decades. This is their first commercial album release. They had a first record called Fat Boy. I guess it was released as a uh like on the improvisational rock scene. Uh, in the area they're, they're kind of a band somewhere in the fish and widespread spread panic area. But uh, they've uh been a hard-working touring band that have been together for years. They've made made a career, a good living out of it. They all raised families, mortgages. They talk about how they had no idea that they would be able to do this for a living and enjoy it so much, things like that.

Speaker 4:

They seem like really down-to-earth musicians who are just really incredible at what they do. They're in sync, they've been doing it for years and um you weren't going to listen to their very first uh release.

Speaker 4:

Um, so you know, in the past they've toured, they've put down a bunch of festivals, uh, woodstock 99. Uh, you know they go back. This is from 1996, this album They've been around for some time. We're going to listen to the whole album, rank the non-hits. I think we're just going to make all of them up for voting today. We're not going to. They feel like a regional band but they've got a national, international, wide following for sure. What strikes me is just the way they're so in sync with one another. They can play anything, they can change speeds and they do all those things. They can change speeds and they do all those things. And it's just sort of grown out of their beginning days. I think I read somewhere when they didn't have much of a, they didn't have a lot of songs written In the beginning, so they would just go into jams and so that's how they sort of became a jam band.

Speaker 4:

So, Really really good album. I really enjoyed it a lot. On this album, let's see there's a. It was four guys, so it was a derrick, garvey schneier and then on drums, chris mazer. So he's no longer with the band but he recorded on this one, so shout out to him. And the rest of the guys. They have this whole production team. I don't know if there's like a producer, John Porter, producer mixing Shout out to him. You know different engineers. The album cover is so weird. It's like this husky kind of guy that's got this weird clown makeup with almost like an evil grin. Kind of looks like the guy from Full Metal Jacket, like right, you know the guy who goes nuts. But to make it even creepier, he's got like this nail coming out of the right side of his skull right up above his eyebrow. It's crazy, I gotta stop looking at it. So it's really kind of starting to freak me out the more I look at it.

Speaker 1:

Jeez Anyway.

Speaker 4:

And you can tell Tim's playing. He's just got. Look at you. We did our first Steely Dan podcast. You weren't anywhere near as good as you are now. So we're going to want to get his two-centing, because he's seen these guys probably a dozen times, I think even more, and he can tell you how they play and how they play together. And I think, like the two guitar players saying something about, one can play rhythm while the other one does a solo and then you know they interchange roles.

Speaker 4:

You know throughout their shows and they play a lot of notes.

Speaker 4:

There's always tons of individual notes strung together. They all have them and they play in sync with one another. With all those notes, it's out of control. A couple of songs I like St Augustine If you look at the track list, she Sends Me 32 Things. St Augustine If you look at the track list like, she Sends Me 32 Things. St Augustine Bring you Down. Rebobula that's the fifth song. Spine of a Dog, moth Buster Four. Some of these songs are really long too. It's like Rebobula and.

Speaker 4:

Four are the longest. So it's going to be a great great show like Rebobula, and Four are the longest. It's going to be a great, great show. I am excited. We're going to yuck it up. We've got tons of sound clips. We're going to have some laughs, listen to some good music, play some John Travolta clips, a little Vin Travolta clips, a little Vinnie Bonarino. We're going to hear from him. He's going to give us some opinions and suggestions. Oh, he's got that 7 fret or fret 5. Whatever I don't know Is fret 5,. Whatever I don't know, is it 7? All right, a little something. Yeah, exactly Beautiful, beautiful. God bless you.

Speaker 5:

More, more, more money. Yeah, yeah, that's what they said on the album. That's right, a little sticker.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, you've seen them everywhere. Tell us how's it going. Said on the album. That's right, a little sticker. Yeah, you've seen them everywhere. Like tell us, uh, how's it going, by the way, yeah going well, going well. Yeah, oh my gosh yeah, wait, give us your thoughts, man oh well what didn't I say? That needs to be said well, let's see.

Speaker 5:

Does john travolta have any thoughts?

Speaker 6:

you know that if is the middle word in life no, he doesn't.

Speaker 5:

Um, no, no, no, yeah, it's one way or another, one way or another about it. This album should be known and should be out there. This is a solid display of music ship, and I think it might have been Chuck or Al. When asked about their role in society, they kind of deem themselves the modern day musicians or magicians I should say.

Speaker 5:

Oh yeah, like writing these songs, the jams are speculative and I think the jams come in the beginning or end, but they're very composed. This is a lot of composed notes. I would say that they play the songs similar to how they sound on the album. Pretty much they're already long. That's why the jam comes in and they more so make the songs while jamming, as opposed to jam on stage and play a different every time like fish or like. You know what I mean.

Speaker 4:

Yeah. So but I it's all kind of positive too, it's kind of upbeat.

Speaker 5:

It's not even thing. It is very positive music. Even their downer songs are just a sort of like a happy melancholy.

Speaker 7:

Okay, okay, yeah, in Buffalo it's you know, in the sleepy town of snowy Buffalo.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, shout out to Buffalo.

Speaker 5:

But yeah, I've seen these guys in in the club scene and in you know nine 30 club. I've seen them in you know at all good in West Virginia.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Uh where they played. Uh the the Mo all-star jam with special guests Grace Potter playing Cortez the killer which is a. Neil Young song.

Speaker 5:

And they've played shine on you, crazy diamond. I've seen in another year at all good Uh, and I'm just every time I see them I'm it's just bringing such a smile to my face because they're such amazing musicians and they really do have such a good time on stage and they don't mess up. They don't mess up. It's the craziest part. And Rob on bass, I mean they're just bass, I mean there's just yeah and vinny later. So this is the later percussionist, yeah, as well as jim uh laughlin on uh, notably on uh. What is it? The xylophone? Oh, so that's what he. So they link up with the key of the xylophone sometimes I was wondering yeah, because I knew that.

Speaker 4:

yeah, vinny was the, the guy who replaced the drummer.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, vinny, and Jim, they'll do little. Vinny and Jim jams later, and then the band comes back in and I think that's where the jamming comes in, sort of like the grateful dead drums aspect to it. Right, oh, how cool is that?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, well the drums and, like the xylophone, they the drums and the xylophone. They're all sort of in the same family and they all play on one another. So there's that interplay with the two rhythm guitar doing the interplay and then the bass is just the vocalist. It's kind of like a three-tiered system.

Speaker 5:

In a way, it is yeah, dueling guitars. Yeah, dueling percussionists, singular and dueling. Yeah, dueling percussionists and dueling percussionists singular and dueling.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, dueling percussionists and dueling guitarists. There's a lot going on. I know that's well. I can't wait to hear it again. I mean, I've just listened to this a few times and so we're gonna listen to it. Yeah, can we get into it?

Speaker 5:

and just uh, let's see, let's get a little john travolta in here.

Speaker 1:

Yeah up your nose with rebel, all right.

Speaker 4:

I like it.

Speaker 1:

All right oh.

Speaker 5:

Shout out to the corn lovers, the artichoke lovers, yeah, joggers, the artists.

Speaker 1:

The corn flake lovers. You want me to say that? Yeah.

Speaker 5:

She's got a butt like a pillow. That's not bad A little love song here. Yeah, starting off with a love song.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's so positive.

Speaker 5:

Sing something I love. Love Little Joey and Rachel. That's right, people still send letters. You write letters at all.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, that's what lovers did back in the day. You know love letters, I mean. They like kids nowadays Sending all kinds of pics.

Speaker 5:

She just sends you a text like got your love letters 20 years ago, I can't read a word. You were saying how you doing? Oh, what's her name? Nancy? Just say no.

Speaker 1:

Shout out to the freaks.

Speaker 4:

What a freak.

Speaker 1:

Shout out to Chaz.

Speaker 4:

What a freak Chaz from Wedding Crashes.

Speaker 5:

Love that laugh she's doing great with it, right? Yeah, you know, if you smile, you got a little surfer rhythm there. Yeah, when you're sad, if you smile when you're sad, it makes you happy, yeah. It tricks your brain. I think that's good advice just smile at people that you're pissed off at. Yeah increased tempo. Increase tempo. Yeah yeah, that's what I was talking about earlier, going up to 11.

Speaker 2:

In one way or another.

Speaker 1:

bow In one way or another bow For the rest of my life. Well, I wanna be a friend.

Speaker 2:

And I do it all the time, and one way or another I'm about to hit him.

Speaker 1:

Well, there's a love that smiles For the less she says she sends me.

Speaker 4:

Great hook, riff, yeah well, the downturn.

Speaker 5:

This is kind of Notice how the it's taking me on a ride. Yeah, guitar and the drum.

Speaker 7:

Perfect oh cool.

Speaker 4:

All right, this is 32 points, all the notes.

Speaker 5:

Chuck it now. This is Rob. This is rob yeah, they sound.

Speaker 4:

Those are like the guys at the barber shop.

Speaker 5:

You know, like those names it's like chuck and al are playing the same, one's low, one's high. Oh, there they go, there they go.

Speaker 7:

Every time I play, Every time I start talking about boxing. A white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out the ass. That's the one.

Speaker 4:

You were just saying you love Rocky.

Speaker 1:

Marciano Rocky.

Speaker 5:

Marciano. Marciano, is he from New York? Chill with me. Shout out to him. He listens to Moe. I've seen him at the Moe shows. Oh yeah, marciano's there.

Speaker 4:

He's like great, great band Child Logan. Logan Marciano. Thank God he's a good jam band.

Speaker 7:

That's a good jam band. Why are you going to the airport Flying somewhere?

Speaker 1:

What the hell is supposed to do you moron?

Speaker 4:

Shout out to the morons.

Speaker 5:

That's right Going somewhere. This was I remember actually being on the boat and somebody put the CD on and I was like what? Is this music and we were all just chilling on the speedboat. Shout out to Andy. Andy knows.

Speaker 4:

Well, this is high energy. Yes, it's such a rock album.

Speaker 5:

These guys can still play this live, Dude. The bass is phenomenal. Yes, it's such a rock album these guys can still play this live. Dude, the bass is phenomenal. Think about Rob, think about Al Again with this, like surfy, yeah, dramatical. Yeah, I mean these guys, they just they all look like barbers.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Just think about Like a, like a barber shop with these barbers and all of a sudden they just come out beautiful. It's some Raga, do some magic. Do you want me to send the next couple plays out? Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 5:

No, I like that. They're both. I mean Al's kind of bald. He has a big beard. Yeah, he doesn't cut the hair. They're both. I mean Al's kind of bald With a big beard.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, they're excellent with their hands and fingers. If they could do this, hand cut there. They should have the key to every city.

Speaker 5:

They have the key to To Portland. Apparently they never saw the it's not port-a-line. Apparently they never saw the it's not on their chain. This comes out of jamming, for sure.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I like how it's all country. I can see how this just made me a festival band. I can imagine just being in a festival and just dancing.

Speaker 5:

Oh, you almost know where it's going with the jam. But that's what you love about it. I mean, once you've heard these songs a couple times, you know what part it's going into and it gets you excited. I love this sort of like hectic shining chase. Oh cool, oh wow.

Speaker 1:

Here comes, johnny. I think about you, you Every time I think about you. I think about you, you Every time I think about you.

Speaker 5:

I think about you, you, every time I think about you. I think about you, you. Yes, the fans are morons, morons, morons. Yeah, I think Chuck explains that on the jam cruise he has an intro where he's talking about For those of you who don't know us we're morons, we're a buffalo. Our fans are morons and they follow us places sometimes.

Speaker 4:

So tell me, is there a particular song that they have or a group of songs that people love the most, like the Moe rhymes? I think, Do they favor a specific?

Speaker 5:

Spine of a Dog Rebobula and maybe. Oh man, I really like High and Low it's on one of their cars and tin cans High and Low at All. Good, but check that out.

Speaker 4:

Okay.

Speaker 5:

They also do a great cover of the Godzilla Go, go Godzilla. I forget, that's something band. Yeah, Blue.

Speaker 4:

Ice or Cold.

Speaker 5:

Maybe, yeah, I don't know. It's a one-hit wonder, I think no, godzilla is a song that Blue Ice or Cult. Maybe, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4:

It's a one-hit wonder? I think no. Godzilla is a song that Blue Ice or Cult sings. I think Maybe. Yeah, but no, I mean their original formative years.

Speaker 5:

Yes, a lot of these songs on this album. This one is a good one, man. I don't think they play it that much, but yeah, it'd be challenging.

Speaker 4:

I would think, yes, well, we'll move on, but thank you for that. That was good. Yeah, this is St.

Speaker 1:

Augustine.

Speaker 5:

All right, I got some it's a lot of religion.

Speaker 7:

Get the door. I'm praying, goddammit Whoa stop.

Speaker 5:

NASCAR fans love this song. Maybe there's a reason not to.

Speaker 4:

I just it's not a slam on Tebow or anything. I just think of Tebow when I hear this song, because it's St Augustine. He's related to God.

Speaker 5:

Shout out to Tebow does he reference God a lot in his interviews?

Speaker 4:

he's like he's good stuff like that.

Speaker 1:

They do a lot of like missions to people, families and people like do missionary work.

Speaker 7:

Do good deeds, things like that. Good character, yeah, good guy, amen, amen Shout out to Reverend Brown.

Speaker 4:

We'll have more from him later. Amen, amen, that's it. Shout out to Reverend Brown.

Speaker 1:

We'll have more from him. Later I'll be praying for that.

Speaker 6:

God damn it. I can't help Joshua. Fight the battle of Jericho, fight the battle of Jericho.

Speaker 7:

Fight the battle of Jericho.

Speaker 6:

There's a flaw, give it to him.

Speaker 1:

Get off the island. God is good yeah.

Speaker 6:

God is good. Yeah, god is good, god is good. Yeah, god is good. Yeah, god is good. Get the door, it helps.

Speaker 1:

Daniel, you're a lion.

Speaker 6:

Get out the lion's den, get off the island.

Speaker 5:

Slide. I think Chuck plays more slide than Al, but I might be wrong.

Speaker 4:

Oh, I'm sure they could probably do these songs equally proficient.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I bet they know them back and forth. It's their first album too.

Speaker 4:

Where would you put this album first?

Speaker 5:

I think I like it the most, you like it the most. Yeah, then maybe the Mo-Rod Tin tin tanning car tires Conk, shout out to Conk. It's a good one, it's a little different direction. I got you A little more effects on the conch, right yeah this one was catchy.

Speaker 4:

This is bringing you down downers.

Speaker 1:

I don't want to go to Duluth, I just want to leave this town. I don't want to know the truth I just want to bring you down here with me. I don't want to go home now, I just want to go home now. I just want to go home soon. I don't want to go home now, I just want to go home soon, amen.

Speaker 6:

Just go home. That's your home. Are you too good for your home? Answer me.

Speaker 5:

Amen Amen.

Speaker 4:

The 90s was a solid decade. Is there anything yeah?

Speaker 5:

For bands like these that were grinding it out on smaller records, just torn their ass off really. Yeah, some went for hits, some went for concert more concerts, concert, more concerts. You know, yeah, it's a strategy. I don't think a lot of people bought their albums, but they made their money touring, right, yeah well, it probably sounds pretty good yeah, it's pretty polished on the album. Obviously no, the album's polished.

Speaker 4:

I'm sure they're polished on stage as well.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, just kind of something about having the energy of a crowd.

Speaker 4:

Oh wow, it's being played in your presence, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Like a bonding kind of feeling.

Speaker 5:

So I put the bow down a bond inside of the Mo-Downs. Well, they also had the Mo-Down, which was a festival that they put on and had guest acts as well. So it would be like 35 bands and Mo was the premier band that would have sets every night, and then there'd be all these daytime and they ran it all. There'd be all these daytime and they, they ran it all like the mo people. So they did, they followed the fish like playbook for running their own festival.

Speaker 5:

Okay, and it was in new york, somewhere in upstate new york yeah, you sort of create what is a lot of people, yeah, yeah you have your own syndicate of bands production company, an in-house production company, or help with other production companies, and just go for it?

Speaker 4:

Sure, but they're sort of like incorporated amongst the whole team. Yeah, and all the other bands are sort of in a hierarchy.

Speaker 5:

To a certain extent. Yes, yeah, they support. Yeah, that's really again, it's their production. Oh, look up there, mind-bending musicality, yeah, yeah, go to their website, hoorg Very interesting. This is a beautiful ending. Yeah, we like music, we like to party. We wanted to put those two together.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, that was their quote. How cool. Yeah, I can see how it'd be fun playing in this band and doing it for a living. Yeah, good for them, these guys are winners.

Speaker 5:

They're just low profile, so chill yeah, yeah, that's a plus yeah it is.

Speaker 4:

They're like humble got like families and stuff.

Speaker 5:

Yeah I live in cincinnati, one of them now. Uh, chuck or al, I forget, yeah, always mixing them up barbershop, barbershop raga. Yeah, this is what you were playing earlier.

Speaker 4:

We get it. Yeah, this is what you were playing earlier. I get it oh yeah, this is, yeah, this is Allman Brothers.

Speaker 5:

It's got a little bit of it's progressive Allman Brothers. It's like progressive rock and Allman Brothers at the same time. Oh yeah, this is Rububula is like Fish's fluff head. It's like that 11-minute song that has so many little, tiny little parts and intricate like great drumming. Yeah, oh, this guy is so long in the band, right, he did a good job, chris, chris, chris.

Speaker 7:

Marza, acerza, acer, acer, acer.

Speaker 1:

We'll be love across the sea, Just like Tim Batson. My best of true Cause I'm Popeye from the island of the gun.

Speaker 5:

Slightly Popeye. I love it. See what this looks like. What's that? I think so yeah.

Speaker 1:

What was that?

Speaker 7:

Yeah, I can see the speed Like it's just good. It's like, oh shit yeah.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, listeners, check out the Warts and all too. That's their live Series the warts and all Warts and all Warts and all live. The first song on the first volume, uh head, it's like rip off all my limbs. The song starts after like four minutes. But it's this cool spacey I like to check it out. I had pretty much all the warts and all as well. I bought all those CDs, scored the band with album sales and live shows.

Speaker 4:

Man, you know, if I knew we were going to be talking about warts, I would have had some salt sound bites.

Speaker 5:

Fine, then let's get some warts. Hi, oh, hello.

Speaker 6:

Oh, hello.

Speaker 5:

Oh hello, oh Hello. Saul has warts. I eat lots of corn, Saul. Have you seen any good John Travolta movies lately?

Speaker 6:

I went to the Empire State Building and I can't see so good he's got big eyes as well.

Speaker 5:

That's all it does. Listen to the rhythm here. Listen to the rhythm here. Listen to the rhythm.

Speaker 1:

I kind of look a little chilly.

Speaker 5:

It is. That's sort of scratchy. I love the rhythm in this one. It's very hard today. It's tight.

Speaker 4:

Wow, that's incredible. Yeah, this part, oh wow, this is better.

Speaker 1:

It's blowing you away FX pedals.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, chucking it out. They've got to hit the FX pedal perfectly right in that part.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, this is the guitar interplay yes, they can do either of these parts.

Speaker 5:

Well, they probably tell each other what they're doing. Like you can do this for another song, I'm going to do it for this song. I doubt they swapped parts ever for this song. It would just be too crazy. Oh, you don't think they would? No, I don't think so, hell no.

Speaker 4:

Okay, I'm making that up. I mean maybe.

Speaker 1:

Wouldn't it be kind?

Speaker 4:

of cool if they could. I'm sure they could, just maybe for you know logistic reasons or whatever it is or maybe like playing it one way is more difficult for another person, so they just do it this way or that way, like yeah you're better on hammer-ons, I'm better on pull-offs.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, or?

Speaker 6:

what the hell is this guy talking about no, I get it.

Speaker 4:

I was just going to say I got a wart on my ring finger tonight. Can I not do the wah-wah part?

Speaker 5:

You got the whammy bar, yeah, yeah the whammy bar.

Speaker 6:

Hey help Joshua.

Speaker 5:

You got to help him.

Speaker 4:

Let's go home. These guys are freaks One way or another about it.

Speaker 1:

You know what bit we haven't done in a while. Oh wait, just a minute.

Speaker 5:

I just had to get that there's. You know, slinging them, it's slinging.

Speaker 1:

Right Up your nose, we do rub a hose.

Speaker 5:

I'm scary dogging it. You're just on a sea Looking for a mama. Yeah, siren song, love it Drum. Right now, chris, chris Mazer. Siren song Drum writing.

Speaker 4:

Chris Chris Mazer, I don't know what happened.

Speaker 5:

What?

Speaker 4:

happened to Chris. I like these guitars. Now they're playing the same thing. Jeez, what a freak. These guys are both freaks, they are freaks.

Speaker 1:

It's almost freaky to me. I'm going to go to one of their shows.

Speaker 7:

I have to go, I'm listening to Rob now Deeper and deeper, like that little Drum. Oh, it never stops, drumstick. I want to snag her.

Speaker 5:

Shout out to the East Coast Mamas.

Speaker 4:

You gotta love the East Coast Mamas.

Speaker 5:

Going down on the East Coast Mamas.

Speaker 4:

Deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper To help Joshua. Deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper. What the hell, joshua, slap that face, rip off all my limbs, poke out both my eyes, pull out my swollen tongue.

Speaker 7:

We're up in the sky and the siren song sweetly sucks me down to the ocean blue. Find my way back. Rip off all my limbs, poke out both my eyes, pull out my swollen tongue. We're up in the sky and the siren song sweetly sucks me down to the ocean blue. I'llly suck me down to the ocean blue. I'll find my way back to you. Find my way back to you. Find my way back to you.

Speaker 2:

Find my way back to find my way. Find my way back to you, alright, wow okay you need a palate cleanser.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, we need a little palate cleanser. What's the next song here?

Speaker 4:

Spine of a Dog. Is it Spine? Spine of a Dog, sorry.

Speaker 5:

Spine of a Dog, all right. Well, fonzie, can you give us a little palate cleanser?

Speaker 1:

One two, one two, three.

Speaker 4:

All right.

Speaker 2:

There you go. Let's go to the arcade. Love pinball machine. I can't tell the difference between my belly button or navel, ping pong pool cue or a foosball table.

Speaker 1:

You playing the foosball behind my back, whoa Gallop man with your fancy foosball brand.

Speaker 4:

Shout out to Waterboy.

Speaker 1:

Why is it? You ask me why.

Speaker 5:

I don't know the answer Shout out to Waterboy. No one knows. Yeah.

Speaker 4:

The hell with bassline here.

Speaker 5:

He's playing like sly bass line there. He's playing like slide bass.

Speaker 1:

That's weird, oh.

Speaker 5:

I love that you're going to do that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this is a crowd favorite here. Are you playing with?

Speaker 5:

your belly button again. They've overdubbed some Fence, some talking or something. Yeah, you hear that, yeah.

Speaker 4:

It's a great lyric these guys have to have like arthritis or something. You, old gallivant, with your fancy foosball friends, yeah, or you know clean eating.

Speaker 5:

I think Rob's eating clean after his bout with mouth cancer. He has mouth cancer. He's back. Oh, that's awesome. Oral falafel cancer yeah.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, it's like the the back of your throat. Yeah, it's like the Michael Douglas disease, like the back of your throat.

Speaker 2:

yeah, it's like the michael douglas disease. I am a pinball machine. I can tell the difference between my belly button or navel. Oh, shout out to Red Ping pong. Pool cue or a foosball table. Shout out to the ping pongers.

Speaker 5:

That's right. Bay Area Tennis Table Tennis Association. What's up, I'll see you.

Speaker 6:

Are you playing with your belly button again?

Speaker 4:

Ah, I like that.

Speaker 5:

All right, this is Boff Mothi. It's a.

Speaker 4:

Mothi yeah, this is Allman Brothers here. I know you picked that up?

Speaker 5:

Oh, definitely.

Speaker 7:

Do not fear me. Gypsy Shout for it. All I want from you is your tears.

Speaker 1:

The war that is was Sunday afternoon. Gypsy was held to prison and by the screen door from the moon.

Speaker 7:

Do not try, shrink me Gypsy.

Speaker 1:

Somewhere between the dark food and the moth in the kitchen screen door. I fell in love with the gypsy so I signed up for the war. It was a big one, the moth that is. She was the size of a baby raccoon. I pulled down the thighs to prison walls and we danced in the light of the moon.

Speaker 5:

This is one of my favorites, she knows everything about life.

Speaker 1:

She knows everything about living. You gotta keep living, man this is one of my favorites.

Speaker 4:

Gotta keep living man.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's got an easy voice too.

Speaker 5:

Are you serious? I think usually one plays with their effects. A high treble, high tone, right, a distinct tone. The other undoes their tone, makes it more flat, okay, and more effects a lot of the times. Oh, that's how they get. One gets the twang and one gets it's the antithesis, almost yeah, different the cutting countryness of the twang with one gets it's the antithesis, almost yeah, different cutting countryness of the twang the high tone and then the low tone, mid, mid tone and sort of a flange on it, a more of a I think I'm picking up on the winger.

Speaker 5:

You know, sometimes it might be difficult to walk a straight line with half in the bag and three sheets to the wind, so to speak. What's this Butterfly?

Speaker 7:

Are you going to the airport? Flying somewhere? How'd you guess? I saw your luggage, kind of like two and a half minutes.

Speaker 4:

What's going to happen?

Speaker 5:

I know right, the song could end there, but they don't.

Speaker 6:

Gotta keep living man. L-i-v-i-n.

Speaker 5:

And playing. They're maximalists with the notes.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, more is more Trummet, triumphant build-up here I like how it makes to go for now.

Speaker 2:

Also you have like really big eyes.

Speaker 4:

I don't get where that's coming from. Oh, you batted an eye.

Speaker 5:

Okay, you never even batted an eye. Yeah, a moth almost flew into my eye, my big eye.

Speaker 7:

And that freaks me out sometimes.

Speaker 1:

Thank you.

Speaker 6:

Gotta keep living man.

Speaker 5:

Like hey, guess what? And you're like what, and it's like bam, more life. It just never stops giving you more life. Nothing at all about life.

Speaker 1:

Now she knows everything about life.

Speaker 2:

That's life. Hey, you want another scoop of life, boy?

Speaker 4:

Shout out to Theo.

Speaker 5:

We have a little apocalypse. What is it Apocalypse now? Yeah, pal cleanser.

Speaker 6:

You know that if is the middle word in life. If you can keep your head when all about you're losing, there's a blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, I mean, I don't know, I can't, I'm a little man. I'm a little man, he's a great man.

Speaker 4:

Okay, wow, the Apocalypse. Now A little flashback.

Speaker 5:

I'm having flashbacks watching that movie. I know, and that's not good.

Speaker 4:

I'll be coming to this song. It's not a much happier place, Jeez what am I talking? That's very wrong. I don't know why.

Speaker 5:

You know, yeah, do they have bacon? Damn.

Speaker 4:

I'm sure they did. They have Spam.

Speaker 5:

Spam and Lucky Strikes yeah, something to live by yeah, living yeah. Until you're late 50s Hashtag no war.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, the war won't kill you. The spam will.

Speaker 5:

Oh, spam, it's good sodium. Make sure you have the salt to absorb the water you're not drinking. That's right.

Speaker 4:

You can do everything. Any bad thing all at once. They all cancel each other out. Yeah, it's like that.

Speaker 5:

All your organs are other out. Yeah, it's like that. All your organs are just laughing. Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 7:

Again almost two minutes the sky, say Pig. See the wind blow, say do or die. Just between you and me. My friend, he had a rotten twin whose evil knew no end Was a run from a letter of two. Hey, now Buster what you gonna do.

Speaker 2:

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.

Speaker 7:

Oh, what's happening.

Speaker 5:

Little ocean waves. Yeah, buster Little, les Claypool-esque lyrics right there.

Speaker 4:

Police officer. Police officer.

Speaker 5:

Les Claypool actually wears a pig mask, sometimes too.

Speaker 7:

Tangent, you remember the pig mask episode Seinfeld? Oh yeah, tangent, you remember the?

Speaker 5:

Big man episode Seinfeld oh yeah, big man, that was a missed opportunity.

Speaker 7:

Ah, next time, you know, redo, redo it, clear it Clear it Okay.

Speaker 1:

We'll start there.

Speaker 4:

What the hell is supposed to do you, moron? We can insert something, but let's be realistic. We're not going to do that. We're not going to do that.

Speaker 5:

I'm a little man, I know he's a great man. He edits.

Speaker 4:

Oh, no, no, no. Tim, you're the backbone, you're the heart and soul of G&H.

Speaker 7:

Yeah, gears crack, sputter, dance, mute, forfeit. An evil plan with a rotten stink Convince. Buster E Good, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. And when I noticed the airline ticket, I put two and two together.

Speaker 5:

And when I notice the airline ticket.

Speaker 4:

I put two and two together. I like this. It's like halfway in. Yeah, all this proggy stuff.

Speaker 5:

This is Soup's proggy. Soupy, ooh, okay, yeah, that kind of thing. So this, that part alone, if you freeze that, you could have like a intro to like a dance number almost. But then they go back to this proggy stuff. They're like no, no, we're going back. Chromatical proggy. This is when the crowd stops dancing at a jam hand show. I'm scared. This is when the crowd stops dancing at a jam hand show. I'm scared.

Speaker 5:

I wonder if you could watch from the back and just watch all the people that are dancing and also stop. This is the reflective moment. Or like maybe over the bathroom Well, I don't know you gotta pee sometimes.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, decisions have to be made. Get another beer, right. Da-da. Oh no, they're getting into. Yeah.

Speaker 5:

Poster, poster, nutbag. This is like a little bit of uh oh this is kind of like 2112 from rush like I think, yeah, buster's good, buster. This. This is definitely gonna be spoiler number one for me, I think Because of this part. This part is the bread and butter for me. I love when the band slows it down.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you too.

Speaker 5:

It almost sounds like a violin. I think this is that's Chuck or Alex.

Speaker 4:

Well, alex Lifeson from Rush plays like this, like the guitar part, it's this. It's from like late 70s Rush, but I mean they're borrowing it like that style play where you just interject it here and there. Yeah, and it works. Man, it's really good.

Speaker 1:

That's cool.

Speaker 5:

They know the tension and release part too. I mean, the drummer always kind of stays, except when the breaks happen, which is super cool, have you?

Speaker 1:

ever heard of Mess Up.

Speaker 4:

Mess Up yeah, I think they're like. They're possibly like they kind of like cut off?

Speaker 5:

Not really. I mean, I haven't noticed ever. Yeah, warts and all here, but Right, but, but they play it like this. Oh yeah, warts and all here, but they, but they play it like this. Oh yeah, if not even longer, in that middle part, where it's a little bit slower, they'll give an extra two or three minutes there, even to breathe for the band too. Know, it's a long show, like no shame.

Speaker 4:

But this is Al.

Speaker 5:

I want to say this is Al, Just look up videos of them. Look up Live Buster on YouTube. We should do that on YouTube.

Speaker 4:

we should do that it's hard to remember what guitarist plays each part. That's so British, it's kind of so cool. All right, this is the last one before. Yeah, some long-ass songs, man.

Speaker 5:

Oh yeah, for sure, For sure.

Speaker 1:

Yep, for sure. Yeah, yeah, did you see it? It was so easy. It's been so long that it's all been forgotten. It's been so long that I would not know Would you be my?

Speaker 5:

Good campfire song.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it sounds like the 70s British. Frog, empson, empson, tide. Yes, it's not his fault, it's not his fault. It's not his fault. It's not his fault, it's not his fault.

Speaker 5:

It's not his fault. It's not his fault. It's not his fault. It's not his fault.

Speaker 4:

It's not his fault. It's not his fault. It's not his fault. It's not his fault. It's not his fault, it's not his fault.

Speaker 5:

It's not his fault. Like yeah, full B those harmonies shout out to the dog owners. Shout out to the dog owners who own more than three dogs that's a lot a lot of dogs.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it is so easy, so easy Four years ago. Four sleeping dogs. It could not be true. Four years ago was a lifetime dream. Would you believe it? It was so easy. I'm prairie dogging it.

Speaker 5:

You hear the little talking in the background. I don't know. I like it, but that's another thing. A Pink Floyd used to do that.

Speaker 4:

They're doing weird shit.

Speaker 5:

I'm trying to listen to that.

Speaker 1:

I'm very dogging it oh sorry, just go out the window.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, yeah, well, the chances there's a solo in this. Oh, here it is. Ah, such a good break. I almost want to see him do more of this stuff, that sort of indie breaks. I love just tightness.

Speaker 4:

I mean, I can see all these songs as my favorite, depending on the mood that I'm in, right Probably. I mean a lot of these albums that we listen to. Sometimes you don't have a favorite, but sometimes it strikes you as your favorite when you're hearing it one time or another. I'm sure your list changes too, that's true.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I'm just going to wing it. I haven't really thought about it Because, like you said, even she sends me, you know, to bring you down.

Speaker 4:

Yeah those are great songs. All of these are great songs, but I go for this listen through. I think I've got my three, yeah.

Speaker 5:

I think I've got my three. Yeah, a little chamomile jam here. It's a nice listen. More chromatic Hammer-ons, pull-offs.

Speaker 4:

They must be tired after playing seriously. There's a little bit of red hot chili pepper as well. Oh interesting.

Speaker 5:

That last, you're pulling all sorts of flavors out.

Speaker 4:

Well, yeah, Like they borrowed the fish. With the harmony that sounds like a fish song.

Speaker 5:

The harmony. Like the different singings? Yeah, for sure. Like the different singings? Yeah, sure, I think there's four people singing too.

Speaker 4:

I'm sure it's the four of them contributing like a barbershop quartet, folding in a barbershop quartet into the song. Oh, oh, wow, I want to do some barbershop raga barbershop raga yeah exactly oh all right yeah, awesome, awesome. Uh. Well, we got some more song we're gonna talk over yeah, yeah there's like a hidden track thing kind of gonna come up, but we'll talk over it. You want to start it with?

Speaker 5:

your top three, okay, um, let me see the list again here.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, okay um, how do we do that here?

Speaker 5:

hold on let's frogs help me out here. Yeah, the frogs are.

Speaker 4:

Maybe something like that.

Speaker 5:

There we go yeah, okay, so I'm going to include oh man, man, this is tough.

Speaker 4:

I'm going to go 32 things as my number three great, great song yeah yeah, that was the song that hooked me originally to this band you know, when I got hooked to this band was to that same song as well, which was when we heard it just yeah, but there are two other songs that I thought that struck me, but that was like that's a great song.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4:

It's a strong hook and good like guitar playing. I mean, they're all they're playing hell of a guitar and all these songs, but that one stood out. So that's my number three as well.

Speaker 5:

Oh, nice, okay, Well, and I really do like the guitar, like sort of uh, what is it? The surfer guitar? And she sends me that's. And the saint augustine is good, bring you down great song. I'm gonna say rebobula, even though I played that one. I again, honorable mention, I'm going Spine of a Dog, number two. Yeah, yeah, this is tough. Yeah, that's fine. Final answer Okay yeah, it's a good crowd. Pleaser sing-along.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 5:

It has that weird bridge that's sort of trippy and weird yeah, oh, that that is.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I love that. You know I'm gonna go with. Buster is my number two. Oh man, it was uh. You know, we got to talking as we're talking and listening to it and it's like a kind of a song. I can't really describe it, but you could really it didn't you could probably hear that song a bunch of times and then get something different every time. Yeah to it. I feel can't wait to hear it again, just so you know in terms of what I can pick up.

Speaker 5:

It's frogs, I know, yeah, the frogs in the background. So good I kind of like that Okay. What's your number one. I'm going to go, cause you know I'm Timothy, I'm going to have to go moth Going moth, really yeah.

Speaker 4:

Holy, I didn't see that coming.

Speaker 5:

I'm going moth. That was kind of like a if I had four, it it'd be Buster, or maybe a tie between Moth and Buster is number one.

Speaker 7:

I like them.

Speaker 5:

You know, let's go with that for me.

Speaker 4:

A tie for Moth and Buster. I'm glad we're not kind of, because we did copy 32 thing. I copied it, you know. But yeah, that was going to be my number one. Mine's a top four this week. All right, you know I'm going'm gonna take spine of the dog out, because I do. I love that hook. Yes, in the in the middle of it. But that I mean, that's, that's my honorable mention. Uh, rebubula is gonna be my number what yeah, you love that.

Speaker 4:

I loved it, man. It was just, there was just so much music, so many, no, so many just things going on like there were yeah, tempo changes.

Speaker 5:

I'm glad somebody had to choose that one yeah it, it had to be mentioned.

Speaker 4:

I can see how you've probably heard it a bunch of times. Anyway, what was playing there the whole time was the end of that song.

Speaker 5:

There it is, with the frogs and all that. That's the whole album.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, and we wrapped it up nice and neat at the end of that song and I think that's a way to go out right. No-transcript.

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