The Greatest Non Hits
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The Greatest Non Hits
The String Cheese Incident: Born on the Wrong Planet
Imagine the colorful tapestry of sound you get when bluegrass, rock, jazz, and funk are all woven together. That's precisely what the original lineup of The String Cheese Incident achieved with their debut album, "Born on the Wrong Planet." Reflecting on the evocative performances of Bill Nershey, Keith Mosley, Michael Kang, and Michael Travis, we celebrate the band's vibrant energy, exploring how they earned their dedicated Cheeseheads fanbase. You'll hear tales of philanthropy and humor, painting a picture of their spirited festival vibe and musical versatility.
Ever wondered how a band can seamlessly fuse traditional Americana with modern flair? Our discussion on an Americana band, whose tracks like "Texas”, “Jellyfish" and "Resume Man" continue to turn heads, offers some answers. We delve into their evolution and collaborations with artists like Tony Furtado and Keller Williams. Personal stories of captivating performances and band interactions highlight their technical skill, passion, and authenticity, resonating with the charm of Telluride, Colorado, and beyond.
From the surreal imagery of Elvis Presley jamming with a didgeridoo to pondering the whimsical exploits of Pepe the King Prawn, this episode is packed with humor and creativity. Picture astronauts munching on ham, egg, and cheese while discussing jazz fusion and Eric Clapton—it's all part of our playful narrative. As we navigate through musical musings, small-town escapades, and live performance tales, we bring you a unique blend of storytelling that's sure to entertain.
Hello Earth, hello, what If that's the Earth where the cunt can pick a heck of a money?
Speaker 2:You are on Mars, isn't that lovely? Yes, very curious.
Speaker 4:Yes, All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris and playing. What are we playing? Born on the Wrong Planet? Yes, the song Born on the Wrong Planet from the album Born on the Wrong Planet from the String Cheese Incident. All right, thank you so much for joining us. Uh, we're gonna. We're gonna cover a band that's, uh, under the radar somewhat. You know a big part of the jam band scene and this is their debut album from their 1996 first studio album, released january. Released January 1996 at Akashic Recording Studios.
Speaker 5:So yeah, the.
Speaker 4:String Cheese Incident jam band bluegrass. This is a band that's known for their eclectic blend of musical styles. It's not just bluegrass, or whatever.
Speaker 4:I mean it's rock, it's bluegrass, it's jazz, there's electronic music in there. They really fill out a lot of space. Tremendous musicians. They were formed in the same year, 1996, in Crested Butte, Colorado. The original lineup is the personnel on this band, which is Bill Nershey on acoustic guitar and vocals. Keith Mosley is the bass guitar player, vocals the two elder statesmen, I would say the band. There's also Michael Kang, who's mandolin violin player fills in a lot of the space. And incredible musician, arguably the best of the lineup. They're all great. And michael travis, who plays percussion conga drums, provides vocals, multiple instruments. And there's some additional personnel that fills in. There's a tony furtado that plays some banjo, paul Armstrong plays a Hammond organ.
Speaker 4:Liza Oxnard does some backup vocals, jamie Genover on bongos vocals and the didgeridoo. We'll talk a little didgeridoo later. There's Maya Dorn on flute. Stacey Bublow does some additional vocals and does some other the the flig dig. So, uh, the production team, uh, I guess the string cheese incident themselves produced this. But uh, jamie, you know we're contributed.
Speaker 3:Steve McNamara did some mastering et cetera.
Speaker 4:So anyway, uh, we're going to do what we always do.
Speaker 3:We're going to do what we always do.
Speaker 4:We're going to listen to all the songs. We're going to give you our top three, not hits at the very end. We're going to have a bunch of laughs along the way We've got.
Speaker 5:We've got an ode, a shout out to the Cheeseheads.
Speaker 4:This is what the.
Speaker 5:This is the name of the following the Cheeseheads.
Speaker 4:Little Wisconsin Overtone, but uh, shout out to the cheeseheads oh god, oh crap shout out to the wisconsin nymphomaniac there she is right there and uh, yeah, so we've got all that and more coming um. But yeah, again the musical style. It's a band that's known for their fusion of genres, combining elements of bluegrass, rock, jazz, funk. You can hear it in Tim's playing there. It's the performances, though.
Speaker 3:Now Tim, I've never seen them live.
Speaker 4:I've heard their songs at parties and all great.
Speaker 5:But I think you really need to see them live in order to really understand what they're all about.
Speaker 4:Tim could probably elaborate a little bit more on that. I think he's seen them about 20 times. They're very energetic, they're really fan-friendly and you can even hear it when you listen to the songs. Energetic, they're really fan friendly and you can even hear it like when you listen to the songs. They're kind of long songs, festival-y kind of songs that just go on for a long time but and you're just like running through the crowd. Yeah, you're running to get a beer or whatever. You know getting back and everybody's in a good mood, um, but anyway, what else can we say about this? Um, this is one of a few studio albums.
Speaker 4:There's another one called one step closer, that we made out in 2005 uh, song in my head. It was in 2014. I've had a ton of songs in my head this week. I was watching. I was watching like the lyle and eric menendez. Uh, they have like a netflix documentary, so I saw that there's a lot of millie vanillie in that and those songs are now like can't get them out. Hopefully this will. This is definitely help. That was brutal, um, but getting back to the band, um, I guess they're really good guys.
Speaker 4:Apparently they're into philanthropy. They've been involved in various charitable efforts and initiatives, often donating proceeds from concerts to support environmental and humanitarian causes. God bless them. It's definitely a cool thing. It's a part of the culture. When you go to the festivals and jam bands. Everybody's super smart and cool and all that. Yeah, they play festivals like Bonnaroo, electric Forest, high Sierra Music Festival. I don't know if Tim's ever been to any of those. I'm sure he has. Yeah, I can hear Wrong Planet in that. That's good. So before he wraps it up, again, thank you for listening. Thanks for downloading us. Wherever you download your podcasts, continue to support us. You know, hit us up and the like. Tim's going to wrap up.
Speaker 3:He's going to join us.
Speaker 4:And what else. I would say, yeah, there's just several songs on this album that, like Texas Jellyfish you know, later on in the album those are really good songs. Um, you know what are some other ones? Yeah, I mean, land's end was good. I mean, even resume man was decent. I thought bigger isn't better. It's kind of an ode to clapton, but but let's hear what Tim has to say. How you doing bud.
Speaker 6:Hey doing well. Hey shout out to the aliens out there, Don't go taking us over too quickly. All right, at least listen to this album, Okay.
Speaker 1:Pardon me, Tom, but could you rent me a U-Dry flying saucer? I've got to get back to the Earth.
Speaker 2:The Earth, oh, the Earth will be gone in just a few seconds.
Speaker 6:Keep us around, okay, that's all we ask, that's right. Keep those flying saucers WD-40'd for us, okay, that's right.
Speaker 4:Give us your expert opinion on this album. What's your deal with it? Cause you have a better affinity to the band.
Speaker 6:So we want to hear from you. Yeah, I've seen again cheese and small clubs and you know theater venues uh the hippodrome Baltimore DC um festivals. What do you like about them?
Speaker 4:What's your hook with them? I think Because we did Mo last week. You said you like these guys better?
Speaker 6:I think, it's hard to. Yeah, I think I like cheese a little bit more than Mo. But what they do is they really distill old Americana music and they bring it into the 21st century.
Speaker 6:They're constantly trying to evolve with music and they will throw a crazy electro set into what they're doing and they play bluegrass and they'll be like before they play. We're going to play some more bluegrass and they'll be like before they play the. We're gonna play some more gold bluegrass for you after like these crazy rock, like spiraling, you know effects jams.
Speaker 6:So uh, kyle hollingsworth, uh that he's not on this one, but he's not on this one, but he was um, he's from maryland and was uh taught by, I think, my high school piano teacher or something like that they took private lessons. There's a tie there, travis. I met Bill and said what's up? Kind of got like stage fright when I met him. It's just like.
Speaker 5:Hey, you're great, I like he's like cool. Thanks.
Speaker 6:I was like I like what you do. He's like cool, thanks. I was like I like what?
Speaker 4:you do, he's like uh-huh. And then that's when rody politely removed you from there well, big gulps, see you later.
Speaker 6:I mean, he's just chill. I I don't know, that's cool. I mean this band is uh, yeah and kang, with the way he plays guitar, mandolin and violin is just with vigor, with this crazy passion, the guy's you know Berklee, you see Berklee, he's been an EMT. You said he's had an interesting life, ski patrol Cool, definitely an athlete, a good person, an amazing musician. I can't say enough about these guys. They're just so humble and chill, that's awesome. What else yeah?
Speaker 4:No, I mean, I think that says it all yeah no, I mean, let's listen, man, let's do it, let's get into it. This is Black.
Speaker 6:Cloud. This is the very first song. These naughty computers. Oh at, these naughty computers. Oh dread these computers.
Speaker 4:Very bluegrass-y. A lot of notes. Yeah, they want to preserve Americana, they want to preserve bluegrass. Bring it between your center. How much more black bluegrass Bring? It to 21st century.
Speaker 5:How much more black could this be? And the answer is none Is that good?
Speaker 4:Is that good? Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 5:Black clouds rolling up the valley.
Speaker 6:Black clouds covering up the sun. Play his banjo on this. Black clouds rolling up the valley. How can I be short, john? It's Tony Furtado. Tony Furtado, yeah, they also collaborate with a lot of artists Keller Williams, okay.
Speaker 5:Rivers rushing through the canyons collaborate with a lot of artists Keller Williams, okay.
Speaker 6:They all harmonize again, like Fish and Mo. I think Nershi, keith and Travis and Kang all sing.
Speaker 4:Right, it's sort of like a barbershop quartet, like layered on top of it. You know Barbershop braga. Yeah, I mean it's good though, but it is. It is barbershop. Yeah, this is Michael is Barbershop, yeah.
Speaker 6:This is Michael. Yes, Michael K. He also plays guitar excellently and it's a truncated guitar. He's kind of smaller. Yeah, he's a smaller guy, Michael.
Speaker 4:Travis does a good job too. Okay, I see they've got a wider range than Moe, maybe. Yes, for sure they're from Buffalo. These guys are from Telluride, colorado. It's more authentic in terms of the country, yeah.
Speaker 6:They're mountain folk, they're mountain banjoists.
Speaker 4:They're ski people. Yeah, this is very ski Mountain Nice.
Speaker 6:Tony. Shout out to Vail oh my gosh Shout out to Beaver Creek. They do little mini ski festivals at the foot of the mountains, a lot of it, telluride especially. Yeah, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 1:And a lot of their audience is there A little hard to repeat, it's technical. They are technical.
Speaker 5:A lot of notes.
Speaker 2:Let's make a choice now. Stick together or go our separate ways, Rolling on the river. That's where she'd be.
Speaker 4:I like that. Don not split in there.
Speaker 1:Hey, I know what might be fun.
Speaker 4:Shout out to Don.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, this is what we'll do. We'll have a song, we'll all sing. You know, one of those roundy, roundy things.
Speaker 4:There's a lot of roundy roundy things on that one. That was good.
Speaker 6:Going round and round Black clouds. Well, we'll start out with these escargots. Alright, we're getting classy here. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4:Shout out to Three's Company Alright. Next song Born on the Wrong Planet. Are we ready this?
Speaker 1:is the Trigger, a Martian exploration vehicle, alright, this is the Trigger, a Martian exploration vehicle, all right man, george Washington man.
Speaker 2:He was in a cult and the cult was in Aliens man. You didn't know that.
Speaker 4:It's a great movie.
Speaker 1:Laser-focused Yep Dazed lasers, earthlings, and this one not without intelligence or technological education?
Speaker 2:Oh, these computers they're so naughty.
Speaker 4:What about the?
Speaker 6:horns. Where's that? Um, there's no credits for the horns.
Speaker 2:So complex.
Speaker 4:I could pinch them.
Speaker 6:It's just horns overdub. Oh, maybe it's the piano. Uh, vocals, vocals.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, if it was a like from a keystrap, show it to Liza Liza, liza, liza Maya. Liza Oxen Maya.
Speaker 3:Dorn Stacy Butler.
Speaker 6:Yeah, we got some female singers here. All right, shout out to the stargazers out there.
Speaker 4:You've got to love the stargazers.
Speaker 6:Stargazing Little stargazing music.
Speaker 4:He shot the Keith Mosley too. He's rocking this one and now it goes to the guitars. It's probably Nershey. Yeah, this is Nershey. He wrote this song as well. He wrote Black Clouds and this one.
Speaker 6:I feel like Black Clouds is a modern day classic. Honestly.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 6:For a folky bluegrass number. You'd think it was covered, but it's an original. That's what's cool about it. Yeah, it sounds like a cover. Yeah, that's pretty cool. But then, yeah, these are their sort of jam, filler mo kind of songs, although they don't play this that much what the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 3:I?
Speaker 1:don't have any eggs coming at you. Hold on, people. I think I get griddles, all right.
Speaker 2:I don't got my space suit.
Speaker 3:Well, that you're now can be what I consider the past.
Speaker 2:What the fuck is he talking about? Your now can be what.
Speaker 1:I consider the future.
Speaker 6:I'll get my spacesuit and your now is every bit as valid as my now Shout out to the people living in the moment here.
Speaker 2:That's right, Maybe preferably not in front of a computer. But hey, I like this organ.
Speaker 3:It's kind of like me Then we learned that the past must be real.
Speaker 2:I must admit that I felt that way once or twice before.
Speaker 3:Where. I can't think what to say as I walk into a control. Oh, for sure.
Speaker 4:The backup singers and that hand and organ from Paul Armstrong. I think that was him yes, shout out to.
Speaker 6:Paul, that's right In the dance.
Speaker 2:The future must be real.
Speaker 3:They could be your now.
Speaker 4:Okay, yeah, that was another song.
Speaker 3:What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 4:Sit. The next couple plays out champ.
Speaker 6:I'll bring my space suit. Hold on, we've got a little paddle cleanser for the next song, which was written by who was that? Tim O'Brien here we go. All that shit is fucking bullshit oh that was strong.
Speaker 4:Okay, okay, yeah, no, I like that. That was a good palate cleanser. Now this is Lantern. Very interesting Instrumental, at least in the very beginning, I can. This is a good festival song.
Speaker 6:Yeah, this is their Magnus Opus, magnus Opus, magna Opus. And now it's like their Magnum Opus, magna Opus.
Speaker 4:It's like their Magnum Opus.
Speaker 6:This is their Magnum Opus. Okay, and it's not even their song. It was written by Tim O'Brien. I know, I didn't even know that until he did this. I thought it was their song. It is now, I guess. Yeah, I didn't even know that until he did this.
Speaker 3:I thought it was their song.
Speaker 4:It is now, I guess. Yeah, I guess. So he wrote it for them. Well, he's just like a bouzouki player. No, he plays a lot more Mandolin fiddle, banjo mandichello. He's released more than 10 studio albums. Good for him, we should check studio albums. Good for him, we should check him out. What a song.
Speaker 6:Also, the tempo is a little bit easier on this one. Travis is trying to speed it up, but the band's like slow down there, guy, oh yeah that's true.
Speaker 6:The drums do sound like they're playing a little bit ahead if anybody was born on a different planet, it was definitely Travis. Michael Travis, why do you say that? Oh, he's just got that intense crazy eye when he plays his head's moving around his tongue. That intense crazy eye when he plays His head's moving around His tongue is flinging out of his mouth most of the time. It's a spectacle.
Speaker 4:He's a spectacle. Yeah, I haven't seen any videos or anything like that.
Speaker 6:Yet I'm surprised, his head doesn't fall off sometimes. How much he moves his neck, his head doesn't fall off sometimes.
Speaker 4:How much he moves his neck. They should do a Michael Travis bobble at night. Yeah, they should. I haven't. I could make a little extra coin on the side Speeding up the tempo. This is cool. The festival is in full swing. They could almost pair this with a Renaissance festival too.
Speaker 2:Hey, we can't even get into like a second-rate hotel, I mean a second-rate motel, you think?
Speaker 4:Yes, very curious, very interesting, no, it is. This is interesting stuff for sure. Who's playing the guitar here? This?
Speaker 6:is Kang, is it Kang? Okay, this is guitar, which I don't. Wikipedia has it wrong because he plays guitar on this. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, kind of this is his little tiny guitar.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's playing electric guitar. Uh-huh, and there she is acoustic Mm-hmm. He's usually electric guitar.
Speaker 6:And there she is acoustic. She's usually always acoustic. Sometimes he'll plug in the Fender Strat, okay, and the audience will cheer that.
Speaker 4:As one does in the other.
Speaker 6:It's a nice melody Similar to Remobula, don't you think Kind of, yeah, a little bit. Yeah, it's in that same kind of key. It's overlapped Like C or G. Yeah, it's not as fast as Remobula. It's not as fast as Remobula, again also like Fluffhead or Fluff's Travels for the fish people. All these songs are kind of the same vein of construction, these long flowy parts. Bill sounds great here.
Speaker 4:Oh, how cool, Love that ending man.
Speaker 6:That's right Killer. Yeah, I feel like that song could have gone in more minutes, but I know it's.
Speaker 4:Uh, it's so good, it is good. All right, this is the remington right. Hank, penny hank remington song.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I believe so, any Hank.
Speaker 4:Remington song yeah, I believe so. Yeehaw, yep, pink Penny. This goes all the way back to. Let's read about Pink Penny a little bit here. Yeah, it's a western swing genre. He was a comedian best known for his Backwoods character, that plain old country boy on TV with Spade Cooley. He was married to country singer Sue Thompson, sue.
Speaker 6:Sue.
Speaker 4:Hank Penny.
Speaker 1:Well, so long as we've got some time to kill, I think I'll have a beer. I don't have no beer.
Speaker 5:Like a boy.
Speaker 1:Wow, is this for Toto?
Speaker 6:Yeah, this is Tony. Tony is amazing. I think they cut this track to like give Tony some some cheese to cut on here. I hope so he's cutting on some cheese. Yeah, he's killing it. Does he ever go on tour with him too? No, I don't think so. Sorry if I'm cutting on some cheese there too. Chris, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Oh, no, I haven't.
Speaker 6:Oh, you haven't heard anything. Yeah, you haven't heard Smelt. Yeah, okay, I mean, I haven't smelt it, so that's just my BO If it isn't smelt.
Speaker 4:Then it isn't delved. You know, it's like a Tree falling in the woods, kind of thing.
Speaker 6:Yes, this has like a Less, quite Less Paul kind of thing going on Sure.
Speaker 4:I'm glad they took it from the old West West on swing. This guy, penny, had some other hits. Get Yourself a Redneck and Bloodshot Eyes.
Speaker 6:Steel Guitar Stop, that's a plane right there. Oh, we got Susie.
Speaker 3:I wonder what Susie would think of this. Oh me Susie Chapstick, hey Susie Chapstick.
Speaker 4:Hey brother, she was probably from there somewhere. Yeah, she's from Telluride, susie Chapstick she was cute.
Speaker 1:Somebody's been down here with the ugly stick.
Speaker 6:No, the cute stick.
Speaker 4:Chevy yeah, she was an alpine ski racer.
Speaker 3:Freestyle ballet early 70s.
Speaker 4:Susie Chapstick. Keith is getting it.
Speaker 6:Did you hear Keith right there?
Speaker 4:She's from Rutland Vermont, Okay.
Speaker 6:It makes more sense Shout out to Keith on that one.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, he was killing it.
Speaker 5:Try not to get into too much troubles, okay, okay.
Speaker 4:Alright, this is Resume. Damn that.
Speaker 2:They were wailing on that, it feels better.
Speaker 6:Shout out to the job searchers out there Excuse me Russell, but I believe I requested the hand job. Shout out to the Wayne's World fans out there Got to put the explicit label on Get your hands to work On a resume, all right.
Speaker 5:You don't want to say that during a resume. I'm your man. He said I work the door, I load your gear, when your boys get thirsty I'll go for beer, and if it ever breaks down I can even fix your van. This is Keith. Yeah, so good oh he's on sync. I work. Right down the road I got a melon stand. Yeah, the bassist I set up in a shady spot. I sell watermelons in a little good pot. Last year I made damn near 30 grand.
Speaker 4:Yep, keith, mostly he's the one who wrote? It. You're right yeah.
Speaker 6:Yeah, bill, this is Kang. That's Billy, this is Kang Got it.
Speaker 1:They had so much fucking money in it.
Speaker 4:Shout out to.
Speaker 5:What's his?
Speaker 4:name my cousin.
Speaker 5:Joe Pesci.
Speaker 4:Joe Pesci on the sound clip.
Speaker 5:Dollar bill. You know, done it all when I've been around, had a lot of good jobs, seen a lot of rough towns. Like to offer you my services for hire. How much soft money can I expect to collect in exchange?
Speaker 1:for my core values.
Speaker 5:Sang bass in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Speaker 3:He's a resume.
Speaker 5:man, he's a resume man. If he can't do it, I don't know who can.
Speaker 6:It says right here it says right there, don't be lying 50 years on the job and the man's only 45. It's got that extra five years of experience.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 50 years on the job and man's only 45. Cool what the hell.
Speaker 5:Is that the things that started feeling a little weird when he looked at Mike and took a swig of beer and said what's with the lady? She really blows my mind. Well, so long as we've got some time to kill, I think I'll have beer, but it wasn't exactly the help we hoped to find. He's a resume man. What the hell is that man? What?
Speaker 3:the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 4:Fuck it.
Speaker 1:We'll have an ex coming at you. Hold on people.
Speaker 5:We've got new gritties. No one can it, says right here here. It's qualified 50 years on the job and the man's only 45.
Speaker 4:50 years on the job and the man's only 45. Wellness anxiety how we breathe, can directly influence the brain. All right, nice little palate cleanser at the end there, tim. All right, keep it going. We're moving along, and Elvis' Wild Ride is the next one.
Speaker 3:The King, your very own Big Girl Band.
Speaker 4:Big Girl Five Alright, alright, little.
Speaker 1:Elvis. There the image is one thing and a human being is another.
Speaker 4:He's trying to say my image is one thing, I'm a different person.
Speaker 6:He's a different person. He was an interesting character. Maybe an alien. Maybe an alien. Yes, it was the gold belt that made me think you were an alien.
Speaker 4:That sounds about right, I'll go with that.
Speaker 6:Elvis, what do you think about Kang's mandolin here?
Speaker 1:Oh, y'all never done sound too much.
Speaker 6:Elvis, elvis.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 6:Elvis, we're going to cut you off here.
Speaker 4:Elvis, what was your favorite Bible passage? I want you to hold on to God's unchanging hand.
Speaker 1:God help Joshua fight the battle of Jericho. Yes.
Speaker 6:Yeah Kang.
Speaker 4:It's like that.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's disintegrating with this jam. The drop on you is my disintegrating pistol and brother, when it disintegrates, it disintegrates, disintegrates.
Speaker 6:Disintegrates Again. Very technical.
Speaker 4:A little hard to repeat. Oh, is that the? Is that the Aborigine thing?
Speaker 6:Yes, the aboriginal.
Speaker 1:I was born In that.
Speaker 4:USA. Alright, thank you. Thank you, Billy Billy, Billy Crystal Doing Sammy Davis Jr. We'll have an ex come.
Speaker 1:And ask you about people. There you go. It's doing Sammy Davis Jr. We'll have an egg scum. Actually Hold on. People, there you go.
Speaker 6:I've got my space suit. I wonder if the astronauts love a ham egg and cheese.
Speaker 4:The Elvis is wild ride. You know, this is kind of growing on me. It's almost put me in a trance.
Speaker 1:Probably never down south too much, elvis.
Speaker 6:He's going crazy. Elvis, you're cut off. We never agreed to have you as our guest. Okay, I know, stop time traveling, elvis.
Speaker 4:Cut it out. That was the first time there was Elvis and a didgeridoo in the back.
Speaker 6:Apparently with dinner. Elvis even eats with the beat.
Speaker 1:I heard you should have seen me at dinner tonight when I was going In tempo. Oh yeah, I went up to the bathroom and did a little didgeridoo.
Speaker 4:I never swallowed anything Didgeridoo.
Speaker 3:You should have seen me at dinner tonight, man In tempo, oh yeah, climbing up the bathroom.
Speaker 1:I never swallowed anything. Didgeridoo, didgeridoo, old son of a.
Speaker 4:Whoa, I need a didgeridoo after that. Okay, all right. All right, bigger is better is the name of this next one.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, russell, but I believe I requested the hand job, yeah.
Speaker 4:So this is Bigger Isn't Better, but it's got like the same lyrics as like the next song.
Speaker 6:It doesn't right now, it's got it the same lyrics as like the next song doesn't
Speaker 3:right now it's it's got it, no, okay I don't know what that was now we got some like jazz fusion going on.
Speaker 6:Yeah with.
Speaker 4:Eric Clapton. It sounds like Clapton singing.
Speaker 6:It does sound like a little Clapton. Yeah, I think this is maybe Kang singing.
Speaker 4:Oh, really Wow.
Speaker 6:He's really talented Jeez. I like this one a lot.
Speaker 4:I do too. He's got a relaxing tempo too. I can spend the afternoons all alone.
Speaker 3:Don't need much, Don't you know, I don't need a TV. I can see what's right. All you people, you're trying to sell the land. You don't see the problem.
Speaker 1:You don't seem to understand To win is making one big mess the problem. Hello, I am Pepe the King Prawn again Pepe the King Prawn.
Speaker 3:Bigger is it better.
Speaker 6:Money is enough in that. Are you as big as a shrimp, or is a prawn as?
Speaker 4:Prawns are usually bigger than shrimp.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, but it's not always better.
Speaker 4:Yeah. The point of this song, king Prawn. I'm'm sorry, we're auditioning for a spokes shrimp. Yeah, you can't be a prawn, be a spokes shrimp I am actor, I can do shrimp okay I'm a prawn but I can do shrimp.
Speaker 6:I can be a shrimp pepe is always smoking hash dude that guy, that prawn, I tell you incredible.
Speaker 1:No, what's this? What's this I can do? Happy, okay, he's happy, I am happy, that's great, great, okay. No, no, wait, wait, I should.
Speaker 4:This is like his resume in a way. Oh yeah.
Speaker 6:This reminds me of like some Schofield sort of like government mule-y, schofield-y, really.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 6:Song.
Speaker 4:Yeah, government-y.
Speaker 6:Sort of Schofield-y Government. Mule and Schofield have that sort of band collab.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, yeah, it's a different band.
Speaker 6:yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1:It is melancholy, okay, melancholy, all right.
Speaker 6:But uh, oh, I'm Mellen Cully, okay, alright, this is see these jams. I don't think they ever play this live, pepe. Cully M Cully, I don't know, I don't even know if that's a guitar, you can hear it on acoustic, and then Kang's on his little mini guitar.
Speaker 4:There's some feedback. A little while ago Maybe that was just feedback on a guitar. Oh, you know, like feedback on a guitar. Oh, you know, like that screeching earlier.
Speaker 6:They have the Hammond organ on this one too.
Speaker 1:I am so melancholy again.
Speaker 3:That looked exactly like happy.
Speaker 4:I am so melancholy.
Speaker 6:How can you be melancholy and listen to the cheese incident? It is very unpleasant.
Speaker 1:Well, I only took the one acting class again.
Speaker 6:You don't have to act to like this. I would think Pepe would dig this oh yeah, he'd be in the front row Getting a heart attack. Kang would jump down. Give him a little CPR.
Speaker 3:Resuscitate his puppet ass. You can always Now we do pension, get the Wisconsin.
Speaker 4:Nymphomania copy too. Oh yeah, do a little CPR or something like that. Oh God, oh.
Speaker 3:God, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, please, that's all right.
Speaker 3:Just read what you have there oh crap, oh crap.
Speaker 6:What it is, bro, what it is, I'm from out of town. We'll get there.
Speaker 3:Number two no, try to get out, but I don't have a heart. Leave all my friends, make you stand, oh crap. Three, try number three.
Speaker 6:This is long. This is a long John.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is good because winter is coming. I can use these long Johns, okay, okay.
Speaker 6:Johnny Cash, johnny Cash.
Speaker 2:Here's a song that's guaranteed to make you feel good all over and over and over again, about Johnny Cash and his close friend.
Speaker 3:Why not try? This is like cartoonish this is yeah, this is like.
Speaker 6:This band isn't a show, yeah.
Speaker 4:They're wailing now.
Speaker 5:Our new number three variety platter, where's he going?
Speaker 2:Yeah, where is he going, johnny?
Speaker 5:Cash is on the train and he ain't never coming back. No, that's some heavy shit, man.
Speaker 2:No, no man. Well, well, well. I saw John laying on the track. Asked the boy when he's coming back. Said I don't know, but when I do I'll bring Elvis to the party with you all All.
Speaker 3:Hello man. Yeah, you ain't gonna know.
Speaker 4:You ain't gonna know. So there's, like this crossover, johnny Cash and Elvis. That's me then. Thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 3:Gave all these hippies permission to be here.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, All the whole. Oh no, yes, the all the the whole. Oh no, yes, the whole railway and I was holding my cat and we were going up and the whole, oh my god, the whole.
Speaker 6:Yeah Kang Railway. Oh god, the choo-choos and the and the mandolins, oh God, oh. God, I need an adult, that's what I think about festivals. These little kids running around oh my gosh, it's insane Festival parents God bless them. I know how you doing.
Speaker 4:Got a ring with your little dog? Yeah, this is amusing.
Speaker 6:Is that casino money? How's that casino money coming on this song?
Speaker 1:Now are you funny? Like I'm a clown, I amuse you.
Speaker 6:No, no, joe, Joe, you're good man, yes, you amuse us, but just chill, god. Just dance with the hippies.
Speaker 4:Come on, hey, I keep saying your name, I give my advice to Judge Reinhold.
Speaker 3:Oh wait, just a minute.
Speaker 6:See, here's Kang again. Multi-dimensional, multi-verse.
Speaker 3:A gay couple. Truckers call the fire department. This one's out of control.
Speaker 2:Drive the train, drive the train, drive the train on down the track that track. Drive the train to that burning ring of fire. Oh, on down the track, johnny Cash is on the train. He ain't never coming back, johnny Cash.
Speaker 6:Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash. Shout out to the conductors out there.
Speaker 2:Johnny Cash don't smoke cash. He's at that line on the track, johnny Cash is on the train and he ain't never coming back, johnny.
Speaker 6:Cash, johnny Cash, johnny Cash. Train sound is not an original audio. Yeah, it's just a hit.
Speaker 3:Never coming back.
Speaker 5:Never coming back the train and he ain't never coming back. How much more black.
Speaker 4:Could this be? The answer is none, none. All right, what are we?
Speaker 6:looking at oh man, what do we got next?
Speaker 4:What are we doing, lester? Oh, the Coconut song All right. This is kind of Caribbean right.
Speaker 5:We're going down south too much.
Speaker 6:We're going down. We're going down south on this one. Yeah, we're going down. We're going down south on this one. Yeah, we're going down. Antigua, yeah. Bahamas, aruba, jamaica, tom Tom's Hot Tail.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 6:You know, get some Cayman Islands Cranberry juice.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:A little punch.
Speaker 6:A little Goon Bay, smashay smash. Little daiquiri. Yeah, hurricane, coconuts, coconuts all day.
Speaker 4:I love the hurricane the train, not like milton King.
Speaker 1:Kong. I'm sorry, we're auditioning for a spokes shrimp, I can do shrimp okay.
Speaker 6:Shout out to the shrimp eaters. Yeah, what is this? Yeah, I mean, this song just broadens their mass appeal, calypso sort of Right. Do they have any steel drums? I don't know, didn't service. I don't think travis plays steel drumming. There's a conga conga. Yes, definitely conga. It's a conga steel drum. That'd be cool if they included that there. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Jamie Janover on this, I'm sure.
Speaker 4:Yeah, playing bongos. Yeah, Well, she's the one who did the didgeridoo or? Is it a guy? I don't know. It could be either one. I don't want to get into Jamie's pronouns or anything. I just you know.
Speaker 3:Jamie did a great job on these things. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1:Hmm, good, hmm, gender Edible. No, yeah, that was fine. What's this, what's this, what's that?
Speaker 4:Jamie's gender is irrelevant in this conversation.
Speaker 6:Keith knows, you know Keith's one of those names, you don't get wrong. Yeah, there's a lot of female Keiths out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, lot of female keith keiths out there yeah, shout out to the female keiths out there. I can do happy okay yeah, yeah yeah, are there any female tims?
Speaker 4:I don't, tim is almost all. Yeah, I don't know, chris, yeah, it's ambidextrous, goes either way, that's true, lefthanded, right-handed, yeah or yeah, elvis is Androgynous.
Speaker 6:Elvis is androgynously, ambiguously, ambidextrous, ambidextrous, androgynously ambidextrous.
Speaker 4:A mammarouser ambidextrous androgynously ambidextrous, a man or a sir forget him or her?
Speaker 1:or whatever it may be, don't get my spacesuit it's time for androgyny don't get my spacesuit here comes Pat.
Speaker 6:I thought that you're now.
Speaker 3:I was born in that USA.
Speaker 1:You can't go. All the plants are going to die.
Speaker 6:Shout out to the plant people.
Speaker 4:That's like a clip from every movie I saw in the 70s.
Speaker 3:I know what might be fun.
Speaker 4:All right, this is digging in.
Speaker 2:Hey, we can't even get into like a second-rate hotel, I mean a second-rate motel, you dig.
Speaker 4:Like a boy. This reminds me of Coming to America.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, it's a good song, it's more congas More flutes.
Speaker 2:Joshua, what the hell is that that's a didgeridoo.
Speaker 4:Yes, it's Jamie Genova. That's a didgeridoo. Yes, it's Jamie Genova, like all over the place.
Speaker 5:Big girl bed, big girl five, all right.
Speaker 6:Thank you, cousin Jesse, big girl high five, or big guy high five to Jamie. Breathing is a safe and effective way of fighting death and death-related symptoms. Shout out to the breathers. We're doing it here. Born on the wrong planet. This is like a set break song.
Speaker 4:It's a palate cleanser in and of itself. Not that long it's only A little more than two and a half minutes A little hard to repeat, it's technical.
Speaker 2:Oh these computers, they're so naughty and so complex.
Speaker 3:I could pinch them.
Speaker 5:How much more black could this be? Yes, how much more black could this be?
Speaker 2:Very curious, very interesting.
Speaker 6:I know Chandler likes this. Chandler, hey, wait, hey, he really likes this one. This song evades his privacy. It's good, okay, just like his roommates. Oh, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, nice All right, nice Alright.
Speaker 4:This song is something else, yeah this is. This is a welcome escape from the conga drums.
Speaker 1:Say uh, excuse me, Holmes, aha, what it is, bro, we're from out of town, no shit.
Speaker 4:Okay, well, that's a time.
Speaker 1:So long as we've got some time to kill, I think it's a nice image.
Speaker 6:It tells a story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tells a story, yeah.
Speaker 4:Time to kill. I think I'll have a beer.
Speaker 2:So you're having beer in mushrooms and you're in Texas now. Okay, so you're running into the army. Pardon me, this is not good, pardon me.
Speaker 6:Everybody just chill.
Speaker 3:Man Chill.
Speaker 1:Pardon me, I wonder if you could tell me how to get back on the expressway. Fuck your mama. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:But she wouldn't listen. Listen, she was calling the cops Cause her gutter had been smashed. And the next thing I knew. I walked outside there were police all around Asking who was driving the vehicle. Can I see your license? What you doing in our town?
Speaker 1:Pig oink oink police officer.
Speaker 2:Get me out of this small-time Texas town, cause I don't wanna be stuck in jail when the sun goes down. But you can't bust me if you don't know what you found. What's going to happen?
Speaker 4:next.
Speaker 6:Pardon me. Yeah, it's. That's why I love this. They set you up for this little story and then they have a solo like Right, and they leave you wondering.
Speaker 4:So they're gonna search the car.
Speaker 2:What are they gonna find? I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. They're gonna find the mushrooms, yeah well.
Speaker 6:It's a cooking mushrooms, mushrooms. Yeah, well, it's cooking mushrooms, come on yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm tired of this, Grandpa. That's too damn bad. You keep digging.
Speaker 6:Digging those jams.
Speaker 2:Digging those jams and our little stash. But they didn't know what it was and let us go Minus 80 bucks in cash Woo.
Speaker 5:Try not to get into too much trouble, because I don't want to be stuck in jail.
Speaker 2:When the sun goes down. You can't bust me If you don't want to be stuck in jail when the sun goes down, but you can't bust me If you don't know what you found.
Speaker 4:No, Wow, they were lucky.
Speaker 2:Get me out of this small town. It sounds like a true story.
Speaker 6:Oh, I'm sure I'll be running as soon as my feet hit the ground.
Speaker 2:It sounds like something plausible. You can't bust me Cause you don't know what you found.
Speaker 6:The premise is excellent. It's like a. It just goes. This song, this is definitely one of their.
Speaker 4:Well, it's long but it's pleasant, you know, it keeps you wondering, it keeps you engaged.
Speaker 6:For live performances. Texas is always up there. Yeah, as a set closer, or?
Speaker 1:Somebody's been down here with the ugly stick.
Speaker 6:You're all beautiful in Texas, okay, oh, I didn't know that that was directed towards Beautiful women.
Speaker 4:Shout out to the Texas women.
Speaker 6:Travis is in the jungle, travis. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up Back in the jungle.
Speaker 4:It's insane how good Travis is. That's a cool jam right here.
Speaker 5:Could've used a little more cowbell.
Speaker 4:It's true.
Speaker 6:Oh, this is Kang on his little effects and guitar. I don't know why they don't credit guitar for guitar on this Wikipedia. They're wrong. That's not right. Just check out live performances of it, You'll see it. The guitar just looks so like it piques your interest because it looks like a mandolin. But it's not, I know. But when?
Speaker 4:I'm listening to this. You can hear just a little bit of David Gilmour. Oh, a little Gilmour.
Speaker 6:Interesting. When I'm listening to this you can hear just a little bit of David Gilmour. Oh, A little Gilmour Interesting I'm hearing a little bit.
Speaker 4:Wow, it's just Pink Floyd-ish, like that part, like shining a crazy diamond. Whoa, a little bit in there, wow, you heard.
Speaker 6:I don't know, am I making shit up? No, that's, I'm hearing the same thing.
Speaker 2:That's cool, Micah boy.
Speaker 6:The sustain that he keeps is really good. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4:Except for Blue Wave.
Speaker 6:If you listen to this band with that auto-generator, that little sound wave thing that they used to offer for like Windows Media Player, oh, it's so good. Sure, yeah, just like.
Speaker 3:What the fuck is he?
Speaker 6:talking about the auto generator that you know the abstract lines that they make.
Speaker 4:It's cool how they put those congas at the end. Wow, Okay, this last one. This is the last song You're doing great. It's Jellyfish Interesting. Now we were talking about Pink Floyd and now they start this off with a clock Kind of like. All right, yeah. Here we go, this guy's hungover on tequila.
Speaker 1:His brain is a jellyfish.
Speaker 2:We don't have no beer, just tequila. Just a jellyfish in the ocean in my head, because I drank too much tequila and I woke up seeing red, and now all I really want from life is to crawl back into bed On account that my brain is just a jellyfish in the ocean.
Speaker 4:Who's singing this?
Speaker 2:Well, I woke up this morning and the phone was ringing. My boss was talking, just kept on talking like a vacuum cleaner, Like a barking dog, like a headache screaming in my mental. Five Pulled out my pants, had to toss the door but the room began to spin and I fell Not sure. Come with us to Santa Fe.
Speaker 4:Okay, so he's in the back of the Saab. He's supposed to be going to work. They're expecting him. He's got a hangover.
Speaker 2:Sounds miserable.
Speaker 4:It's too awful, shout out to Alice from Ice a dreamboat. It's too awful, she talked to Alice, that's why she chose.
Speaker 2:It's only a dream, mary's mom.
Speaker 6:Oh.
Speaker 2:About to do some harm.
Speaker 4:I don't know what it's for, like a mouse, oh wow. So he escapes. It's only a dream.
Speaker 2:This guy's going back to work Cause I drank too much tequila and I woke up seeing red, and now all I really want from life is to crawl back into bed On account that my brain is just a jellyfish in the ocean of my head.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's like beer. Is it fattening? Yeah it hurts.
Speaker 4:Alright chatty Latinas.
Speaker 1:Forget it If it's like beer we'll have some Three tequilas, sure sure. Chevy Latinas Forget it. If it's like beer, we'll have some Three tequilas, sure sure amigo.
Speaker 2:I arrived at work earlier the next morning. They said where have you been? Because the boss has been roaring. Never mind that. Listen to what I say, If you drink too much tequila.
Speaker 5:Stay at home the next day. Try not to get into too much trouble, okay.
Speaker 4:I like the horn part. Is it just like a generic thing that they're laying over it?
Speaker 6:I think they have a horn guy. I just don't know who they're giving credit to this. Yeah, who's the horn guy? It's not on there. It's too awful. It's only a dream, santa Fe. Yeah, yeah, I'm digging this. This is, I know, the horn. I'm digging this. This is another horn. Check out the carnival 99 version of jellyfish. And Texas is on there as well. All listeners check out carnival 99. That's the classics.
Speaker 6:15 minute miss you really good, takes you on a journey yeah, I'll have to check it out David Attenborough, he loves cheese, he's a cheese head ok, I did not know that.
Speaker 4:So is he's a cheesehead.
Speaker 6:Okay, I did not know that so is. Uh, what else is a cheesehead?
Speaker 4:Sandra Bullock probably Sure, why not yeah.
Speaker 6:Our jellyfish. A life spent drifting in the empty ocean could be a lonely one, but not for this jellyfish.
Speaker 4:Alright. Okay, we're at the end, man, Good listen. So now we gotta bring it full circle. Top three Are you ready? Let's see here. Alright, Top three in the waiting.
Speaker 6:And Are you ready? Let's see here. All right, Top three in the waiting, and since they're all up for debate. Ideally this would be easy, but it's not.
Speaker 4:It really is. There's a lot of good songs on here, but I know what my three are.
Speaker 6:They haven't changed All right a lot of good songs on here, but I I know what my three are. They haven't. All right, I'm gonna go number three.
Speaker 4:It's gonna be land's end okay, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, great song it's got to be on there.
Speaker 6:Okay, that's your number three. Takes you away another dimension like that verydo-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Like that beginning, very rhythmic, very meditative. That's my three, yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay, my number three is going to be Jellyfish, the one that we just heard oh okay, yeah, I can see that for you. Well, I like the story. You know this is kind of new to me, like that song, and as I read it it was just it drew me in instantly. I want to know where. You know I like the stories that they're telling in these you know, things yeah Kind of tall tales or whatever you know, based off of real life event kind of things.
Speaker 4:And we've all kind of been there where you got a really bad hangover and you got abducted and you come back to work the next day. It's like this is all happening while you're having a hangover. You're being all cool about it, and so that's why it's my number three.
Speaker 6:Okay, all right, yeah, I mean number two, oh, man, and definitely I'm going to give bigger isn't better to another listen and Johnny Cash. Those both deserve honorable mentions, I agree. Um, and black clouds, obviously honorable mention. It feels feels wrong to not include them, but they're all great songs. Um, and we'll throw Lester, had a coconut in there for mention, but yeah, really it was different. I agree, I'm going Texas.
Speaker 4:Number two Okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Nice.
Speaker 6:It's such a good song, it's this journey, it's the getting out of, getting out of dodge, but also, you know, taking some risks and your risk, uh, and you know, getting out of your comfort zone and also, yeah, getting away with it, I guess right, in a way, there you go yeah beating the system is kind of good yeah, that was that sort of like the yeah, you, yeah, that's true, because they get out of it.
Speaker 4:My number two is Land's End. And I like the trippiness of it and it was very melodic and kind of soothing at times. But it takes you on a journey and you go to different places and the music is yeah, you go deeper and deeper, and that's why that's my number.
Speaker 6:Down music is yeah, you go deeper and deeper and that's why that's my number two hell, yeah, all right, yeah, well then, I guess you know the jellyfish is going to be my number one. It is, yeah. Shout out to janicek for teaching those lyrics on the soccer, soccer pitch in high school. To get me into string cheese, man. You gotta know string cheese, yeah, man.
Speaker 3:You got to know string cheese yeah.
Speaker 6:It's like you know, get almost indoctrinated with these jam bands early. Yeah, and uh, yeah. I mean seeing them is just a phenomenal experience.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'd love to see so many cool people so many. Yeah, it's just a, it's like a, like a plot is a good it, but it's a good environment, it's a good atmosphere, good music, positive, that kind of thing.
Speaker 6:Yeah, tight eyes.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 6:How many clothes everywhere?
Speaker 4:All right, it's great. My number one is going to be Texas. Oh yeah, it's just a great song and I like the story. Again, great storytelling and you're wondering what's going on. And it's kind of hilarious at the end where they beat the man because they don't know what they found.
Speaker 6:And Alice, and Alice's mom.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 6:Oh no, that's Texas yeah.
Speaker 4:Well, that's my number one. Yeah, in Texas. Yeah, that's a part of it.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I get those two confused, but yes, All right man. Well, are you all right, man, well, you're gonna put a bow on this, let's just tie it up real tight here we go.
Speaker 4:All right, it's tied. Yeah well, everybody, thanks again for listening. Keep keep listening, keep downloading. All right, jam on, have a good one bye.
