The Greatest Non Hits
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The Greatest Non Hits
Keller Williams: Laugh
Stepping into the musical world of Keller Williams feels like discovering a secret society where genres blend effortlessly and musical innovation takes center stage. His 2002 album "Laugh" captures the essence of this jam band pioneer at a pivotal moment in his career—six albums deep and confidently expressing his unique musical voice.
Williams stands apart as a true musical architect, crafting intricate sonic landscapes through his revolutionary looping techniques. Long before looping became mainstream, he was creating full-band sounds as a solo performer, layering bass lines, percussion, and harmonies with impressive precision. "Laugh" showcases this technical prowess while never losing sight of the soulful, funky heart that makes his music so engaging.
What makes Williams truly special is his refusal to be boxed into any single genre. Throughout "Laugh," he weaves together threads of folk, jazz, bluegrass, reggae, and rock with playful lyrics that range from the absurdly funny to the surprisingly poignant. Songs like "Freaker by the Speaker" demonstrate his funk sensibilities, while "Bob Rules" reveals his bluegrass influences with references to game show culture. The instrumental pieces, including "Hunting Charlie" and "Mental Instra," highlight his considerable chops as a musician without becoming self-indulgent.
The album perfectly captures Williams' quirky personality and storytelling gifts. Whether he's commenting on the music industry itself in "One Hit Wonder" or spinning bizarre tales in "Kidney in a Cooler," his distinctive voice shines through. This authenticity has earned him a dedicated following that appreciates musicianship and creativity over commercial success.
Ready to discover why Keller Williams has maintained such a devoted fan base for decades? Dive into "Laugh" and experience the work of a musician who follows no path but his own. Once you've experienced his unique blend of technical brilliance and playful experimentation, you might just find yourself joining the ranks of his appreciative fans. Share your favorite tracks with fellow music lovers who value artistic integrity and musical innovation!
I have some sad news to report. A small puppy, not unlike Lassie, was just run over in the parking lot.
Speaker 2:And now it's time for the comedy stylings of Homer Simpson.
Speaker 3:Are you ready to laugh? Poor dog I said are you ready to laugh? Quiet, you awful man.
Speaker 4:All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris and playing the song Vabiace from Keller Williams' album. Laugh is my co-host. Tim Laugh is the sixth studio album by Keller Williams, which was released in 2002. And that's going to be the album that we're going to listen to today. It's got 15 tracks, really 14.
Speaker 4:The last one is like a reprise of the first song, which is Freaker, by the Speaker, and Keller Williams is a jam bandrise of the first song, which is freaker by the speaker, and, uh, keller williams is a jam band kind of a guy, um, that I wouldn't say. You know no hits. You know there's no hits on this album. You know he's more of a, he's kind of got a, he's got a following within the jam band scene which is a kind of a culture in itself. And, uh, he's um really unique and talented musician, um, but he's, you know, for people who aren't familiar with him, he's really known for like an innovative style. Um, he's got impressive skills, multi-instrumentalists, um, a lot of genre blending. You know they're rock jam. There's folk. There's alternative rock. There's rock jam, there's folk, there's alternative rock. There's all kinds of stuff in his music Bluegrass, some electronic music, some rock. You know references, you know in pop culture all over the place, but this is back in 2002. So you know we're going to like we do on every album, you know, we'll listen to all the songs. Tim and I are going to give you our three favorite non-hits from this one. A lot of Bob Barker in this one References to Palm Pilots. Again, that was a big thing back then. Old Lady from Carlsbad is the name of the song Alligator Alley. We're going to have a lot of fun. We've recorded some funny sound clips, got a little Ryan Lochte in there for a song called Alligator Alley. Freak Show, good stuff.
Speaker 4:One other interesting thing about Keller Williams is he's kind of like a looping pioneer. He does a lot of loopy like with his multiple instruments. He'll play like a riff and then hit a loop, play another instrument while the other uh, the looping from the bass, guitar, drums, whatever continues to play. He's uh, he did a lot of that. But I mean, I mean I guess we all do that to an extent. I mean we even do it on the show from time to time, but he was a real pioneer of it. So he's credited for being very creative in that way.
Speaker 4:Apparently, I guess he's a self-taught musician, learned to play guitar, other instruments, by ear, very individualistic approach to music, I'd say, um, and interesting, like for a guy who's, you know, not a household name. He's got a lot of albums and a really good musician, you know, and, granted, popularity doesn't necessarily always equate to credibility, and this guy's got a lot of chops, he's got a lot of credibility with me. I'm not a big fan. Tim is a huge fan and he's seen him, I think, multiple times. He was in town recently. I didn't go, but Tim went. Maybe he can give his take on that. So, yeah, this is the sixth album he still has. He's got a bunch of albums. I think he came out with an album just a couple of years ago, so, but he's still out there, he's still touring and, uh, a lot of good musicians um play on this album. One person or one, you know, the, the bass player on this. I think his name the guy who plays bass on this is Ty North, I think is what it was.
Speaker 4:Anyway, yeah, there's some instrumental pieces on this album and, yeah, the bass, I think it was. I hear a fretless bass on a couple of the solos, I think at least. So he also collaborates on a couple of the solos. I think at least he also collaborates with a lot of other well-known artists String Cheese Incident, bob Weir, plays a lot of festivals, that kind of thing. He's done a tribute to Tom Petty. I guess they call it Petty Grass, so I guess it's a bluegrass and a Tom Petty kind of a thing. It's part of his tribute to his music. So really innovative stuff, a lot of it that I haven't gotten into much but I'm sure after this I'll listen to this.
Speaker 4:I listened to this whole album a few times this week and it grows on you. It's not too heavy. He seems like a really laid back down to earth kind of a guy. I think Tim was telling me a story about in his early days just living out of a van. But you know, I guess you know I think the guys from String Cheese Incident, I guess I think, like the guys from String Cheese Incident, I guess, have really elevated him. I guess they've really resonated with his music and really helped him grow and build a following of his own. So I can completely see both sides of this where he's not a household name but at the same time really well respected and liked by a dedicated, small but dedicated fan base.
Speaker 4:So and again, like those elements, there's bluegrass, there's folk, reggae. I guess jazz I do. I hear a lot of jazz in this album. Fredericksburg, virginia is where he's originally from. Reggae, I guess. Jazz I do.
Speaker 4:I hear a lot of jazz in this album. Fredericksburg, virginia is where he's originally from. Went to Wesleyan College, virginia, wesleyan in Virginia Beach. I'm just reading from Wikipedia. He's toured with a bunch of other bands besides those. Umphreys McGee Probably knows Mike, my nephew George Shout out to George. He's probably a big fan. I guess he moved out to Colorado after college. I think he's played gigs just for ski passes. I think that was another thing Tim told me about. I don't know. There's a lot to dissect here. There's a lot to. There's a lot to dissect here. There's a lot to listen to. We're gonna have fun. This is gonna be a good episode. Like I said, we've got some funny sound clips. We're gonna listen to all the songs rank our top three. At the end. Tim's putting his guitar away. He's gonna get. He's getting adjusted. His dog is over here. We're at my house. He's like I don't know he's going off the rails already.
Speaker 5:You can kind of hear him panting in the background. He's like all right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's like so he's got the mixing board in front of him. He's adjusting his mic.
Speaker 1:Exactly right, there we mic. Exactly right.
Speaker 4:There we go. All right, A little Bob Barker there. Tim, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:bud.
Speaker 1:Exactly right.
Speaker 4:Putting his headphones on turning his mic up.
Speaker 5:Exactly right here. All right, how are you doing man? Doing good, doing good. That was challenging to play Doing good Doing good. That was challenging to play, you know. Just to summarize, get the minor riff of that one was there's really no resources to learn Keller Williams because he's flying by the seat of his bucket shorts. Sure, you know, maybe the shorts have uh extra pockets. I think he's a he's a cargo shorts man, but uh well, he's a funny guy, he's hilarious.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, is he like on stage? On stage Very quirky.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 4:Uh, he Improvises, yeah, he he goes.
Speaker 5:At set break, somebody came up behind me, scared the shit out of me. He was all playing while he's doing this and he's like you gotta play some cold play, man. And then. So we had a half the audience go. Uh and then, and then the other it was that was for the females, and then the males were doing watermelon avocado, watermelon avocado, and then when he's bringing everybody together. So we basically helped him cover his kooky version of Coldplay whatever song that was.
Speaker 5:I got you. You know what song that is, but he's hilarious. I mean, he forgot a verse and he's like ah, you know, he shook it off. Well, he's been doing this for a long time songs.
Speaker 4:Well, he's still out there. I mean think about the longevity you know in order to keep doing this for so many years. His discography goes all the way back to like the mid 90s and he's still putting out albums and he's still, he's still touring and so I'm sure he makes a fairly decent living I think so you would think, but uh, it's about he's totally a freak.
Speaker 5:I mean he's just, he's crazy, what a freak. I mean yeah he likes his early days. He's always talking about his pack of camel, like sure you know what a freak and living out of the blaze of bago, which is, you know, his Winnebago. The blaze of bago. The blaze of bago.
Speaker 4:Okay, so he's a pothead, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:Excellent guitar player. Yeah, and he had a 10-string guild, that's just sort of crafted for his sort of playing bass and rhythm and lead all at the same time.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 5:With his sort of pull-offs and up and down the fretboard, the sliding. I mean he's very animated, Gotcha.
Speaker 4:Okay. Well, let's get into it, man, because we've got a lot of songs to cover. I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out, man. So let's get into it, man, because we got a lot of songs to cover. I'm freaking out, I'm freaking out man. So well, here you go. Here's like the big bass. Wait, is this Ty North, or do you?
Speaker 5:think that this is Keller. This is all Keller. Others fill in the gaps, okay, but if he's playing it live the studio I don't know about, I was just reading from the Wikipedia page of the album.
Speaker 4:It said Tye North on bass, but it's probably. He plays all the instruments. Like you said, they're all fill-ins. He composes every day.
Speaker 6:Oh, shout out to Cameo Word up, Then right into a backspin. Freaker Never seem to get enough Priceless expression when space is possession, like yeah, that's the stuff. Classic chip, I like it that way. You're just freaking out here. What a freak.
Speaker 2:Are you some kind of freak?
Speaker 4:There's always that one guy by the speaker going nuts. He's probably had memories of being up on stage watching someone in a purse and going nuts. Oh yeah, Festival crowds are kind of like that. Yeah, you see that one purse, kind of drunk but really into the music.
Speaker 6:Rave girl with a lollipop binky and a face full of metal.
Speaker 5:Keller has a rave song where he on later albums.
Speaker 6:check it out. I guess Just floored the pedal. Her mental clearance is high Are you mental? But the overpass is low. She ducks her head and holds on tight. When she gets through, she lets go, let's go. Let's go, let's go. That's the stuff.
Speaker 3:You got good stuff here. Classic chip I thought you were going out there with a loaded gun.
Speaker 5:Alright, just watching him play, it's like.
Speaker 4:My fingers hurt Watching him play.
Speaker 6:It's like my fingers hurt. Yellow shirt bouncers gather in the corner. I feel like the room just got a little warmer.
Speaker 4:Yep, the bouncers are converging on him.
Speaker 6:What up with that? But don't worry, yo, I got your back.
Speaker 5:It tells a story too.
Speaker 6:It's like this is big as the both of us, Big all the arms. Big as a school bus Everybody on the bus. It tells a story too. It's like it's cool Everybody on the bus Good.
Speaker 3:That's like going out there with a loaded gun.
Speaker 6:Shout out to something about Mary, ah, about Mary Ah. That's what happens when you feel the sound. But if that was me, I would be on the ground. I would not get up. I would dance on my back, throw my legs up in the air like I don't care.
Speaker 5:Who did the windmill in basketball?
Speaker 6:Who did that? I bust into a windmill. The windmill dunk and right into a backspin. Yeah, I don't know. Jordan, I'm in here with firearms. Never seem to get enough Priceless expression when space is possession, like yeah, that's the stuff I just burned. They try to steal me. I'm fine, hold me for my life and I'll die. It's good in the day, these babies can go off, but it's perfectly normal at night. It's good in the day.
Speaker 1:I like it that way.
Speaker 6:But it's perfectly normal at night.
Speaker 5:You think it's going to end there, but he does the sort of ambient, sort of solo at the end. I love this song, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Not familiar with fire huh, classic chip, that's like going out there with a loaded gun.
Speaker 5:Is that like?
Speaker 4:Chris Elliott. Is that what his name was? I'm not sure. Yeah, he was hilarious in Son About Mary.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the guy with the the face was breaking out. He's got the boils Exactly. All right, this next song.
Speaker 6:Why can't I?
Speaker 3:One hit wonder.
Speaker 4:Gotta give it a shout-outs to wonder wonders.
Speaker 6:Oh that you steal from a block away. What is the deal? I heard this song four times today, real to real, back by heavies in LA. No, he's been keen. Overplay is the only way. Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly is the only way. Oh, devita, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:And the guy with DeVita Shout out to AHA. Oh so superb. Take Davida.
Speaker 6:Shout out to A-Ha Take on me. Shout out to Dexy's Midnight Runners 15 minutes, it's all me. You're hurt.
Speaker 3:You're hurt, real fucking bad. You're hurt. Shout out to.
Speaker 6:Nate and Cherry For Buffalo Stains. Modern English Shout out to Tainted Love by Soft Slick.
Speaker 4:Shout out to I Want Candy. Shout out to Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 6:Can't forget him, is that just I don't want to blow it.
Speaker 5:He's kind of making fun of himself, right he's.
Speaker 6:Shot to David Letterman's life. Yeah, shout out to David Letterman's laugh. Yeah, shout out to.
Speaker 4:Dexy's Midnight Runners.
Speaker 6:Come on, eileen, come on.
Speaker 5:Eileen yeah.
Speaker 4:That's so, brandy, you're a fine girl. Come on, eileen. Yeah, that's a brandy, you're a fine girl. Shout out to Looking Glass.
Speaker 6:What a good wife, you would be In and out All right, you can't feel, you can't, you can't feel, you can't feel, macarena, macarena what't?
Speaker 5:Simple little ditty, simple little ditty. Get Macarena, macarena with a simple little ditty.
Speaker 6:Los Del Rio.
Speaker 5:We have a power cleanser after this song too. Okay, I'll stop the hands and the Thin air. Yeah, thin air.
Speaker 6:Oh, why can't I Latch onto your brain and be that one song that drives everyone insane? Yeah, in thin air, this could be a hit From a black away. What is?
Speaker 5:the deal.
Speaker 6:I heard this song five times today.
Speaker 5:This could be a hit. We should make this a hit just out of irony.
Speaker 4:I don't know if we have that power to do that. I know you're right. I wish we did.
Speaker 5:Overplay is the only way. Overplay is the only way Overplay is the only way.
Speaker 6:Overplay is the only way. Overplay is the only way. Overplay is the only way. Overplay is the only way. Overplay is the only way. What the fuck is he talking about?
Speaker 4:No, we know what he's talking about. You overplay the song, and that's what gets it popular. That's how you get a one-hit one.
Speaker 6:Ice Ice Baby was just played all the time, 15 minutes or so In and out. Nobody gets hurt In and out. This baby was just played all the time You're hurting real fucking bad.
Speaker 2:But you ain't dying.
Speaker 6:You ain't dying.
Speaker 5:Are you a doctor?
Speaker 6:Oh, yes, all right, let's do the palate cleanser.
Speaker 1:All right, you freakers doctor oh yes, all right, let's do the palate cleanser? All right, he's, you know, he's a, that's a one hit wonder, two hit wonder all right, shout out to cameo.
Speaker 4:Didn't he have like a cod piece? I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 5:I'm a salmon guy. He had a salmon piece.
Speaker 4:This is baby making music. Shout out to Jacko Pistorius yeah, Jacko.
Speaker 5:All I need is some. Yeah, Jacko, All I need is some tasty waves, cool buzz and I'm fine.
Speaker 4:This song is called Hunting Charm this is excellent.
Speaker 5:Shout out to the runners. Oh yeah, really good running or exercise. It's got that continuous sort of jazzy yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's got that continuous sort of jazzy. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:This might be where Ty plays. Based on this, I don't know.
Speaker 4:I hope so. Yeah, he's good, ty North.
Speaker 3:It's just tight, yeah, drums, check it, check it, check it, check it. Is it tight north? It's just tight, yeah, drums, check it, check it, check it check it.
Speaker 5:Mmm, you know where it's going. It's going mouth trumpet. That's another thing. He's got up his sleeve Mouth trumpet.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay. Yeah, I was just going to say you'll hear it. I mean, all trumpets are mouth trumpets, aren't they?
Speaker 5:Well, he doesn't actually have a trumpet. Maybe these are actual trumpets actually. Let's see, Are these actual?
Speaker 4:trumpets. This is Wikipedia. Let's go to laugh. Are these actual trumpets? Yeah, this is Wikipedia. Let's go to laugh. Are you ready to laugh?
Speaker 5:Because he does do the mouth trumpet. It's a trombone.
Speaker 4:Oh, wolf Quinn Shout out. He's probably doing the mouth trumpet with the real trumpet, yeah.
Speaker 3:That's what's going on. It's loaded.
Speaker 5:It's loaded. I'm all thumbs tonight. Yeah, it's alright.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the bass is super low.
Speaker 2:I like how they low it, oh God.
Speaker 4:It's getting crazy. Yeah, shout out to Wisconsin Infomaniac and Mike Crotty Shout out to Crotty on the flute, on the jazz flute.
Speaker 2:There's no flute on this one, though.
Speaker 5:I bet.
Speaker 1:This is Taylor.
Speaker 2:Probably it's a great song. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Hunting Charlie. All right, this is going to be a tough vote. Yeah, I have no idea. I think you always like, whenever you do your song, it's always like a hint as to where you're going to go with your vote.
Speaker 5:I really do like the instrumentals on this, but we'll see Kidney in a Cooler at the end would be the hit to Keller Williams fans.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm, cooler at the end would be the hit to Keller Williams fans.
Speaker 2:Okay, that was good.
Speaker 4:And the next one. This is Alligator Alley. Shout out to Ryan Lochte, Florida Gator.
Speaker 6:Oh man, it feels so weird to be dry. Yeah, you don't want to swim in an alligator alley, that's so cool.
Speaker 4:Shout out to the swimmers out there, Sure Shout out to the backstrokers the breaststrokers.
Speaker 5:All the uh, All the other strokers.
Speaker 4:Yeah to all the strokers out there, keep on stroking.
Speaker 6:Wait, just a minute.
Speaker 4:Shout out to the air boaters. I'm on the search for excitement.
Speaker 5:The imaginary boaters.
Speaker 6:And I set Willie free Willie.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that was me. You just said all the alligators free killer.
Speaker 6:What the hell man? I'm stroked down Alligator Alley Flipping to the freestyle. Try to pick up some speed. I would never swim an alligator.
Speaker 4:I wonder, if people do that, I guess you ain't dying.
Speaker 5:I always thought it was more of a survival thing for me. I would never be a competitive swimmer, I would just be a survival swimmer. I swam in high school. Now that my legs are breaking down You're a soccer player I'd be willing to swim some strokes.
Speaker 4:I mean later on in life. It doesn't break your joints down.
Speaker 6:Yeah, now we're going into something. No, now we're going into something. Now he's chained up.
Speaker 4:I don't know, yeah, I don't know where this is going. I think.
Speaker 2:Where'd you get this jacket?
Speaker 3:I got this in the network Let me Shout to Spicoli.
Speaker 5:Oh the network. Let me Shout out to Spicoli oh the racket. Good, open chords here. Subtle lines in between Subtle. I bet Jonathan would like this song, oh yeah.
Speaker 6:Rollerball Jonathan. Oh yeah, rollerball Chattin' with the fan, so I don't die Doin' the backstroke down. Alligator Alley, flip it to the freestyle. Try to pick up some speed. Ain't no time for breaststroke. I gotta get my ass to the other side nice, uh, simple chord Swim for your life.
Speaker 4:It's a nice, simple chord, simple chords there, swim for your life. It changes up the speeds, naturally. This is really good. This is a good song. I always thought I'd be a good Florida hood. All right, yeah, that's a great way to end that one.
Speaker 2:All right, that was all too good.
Speaker 4:Good job.
Speaker 3:Hey, bud, let's party, Okay, so yeah, hey bud, let's party.
Speaker 4:Okay, so, yeah. So this is because this song is called Spring Buds, tasty waves, cool buds and he's fine. But this is very it's a tender ballad.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we have a tender Tender one here, yeah, so On the last naked day of winter.
Speaker 4:On the eve of a fateful thaw. Every good album's gotta have a power balance.
Speaker 6:I wasn't imprisoned in frozen tears.
Speaker 4:It's not even a power, it's just a balance. It's not a power balance. Of heartbroken love, I think power is just a balance, not a power balance. Heartbroken laws.
Speaker 3:L-A-W-S. Not loss, not heartbroken loss.
Speaker 6:That was a nice play on words. This guy's a poet.
Speaker 4:Shout out to Scarface this really is Class A shit.
Speaker 2:Class A shit.
Speaker 3:It's beautiful, it's beautiful.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 4:People have their lighters on. Oh yeah, I don't think he plays this live. Maybe he have you heard any of these songs on this album live? Any shows you've been to Kidney in the?
Speaker 5:Cooler, okay, maybe Bobby Hachet.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 4:One of those crowd favorites in the Keller Williams community.
Speaker 2:For sure.
Speaker 4:Freaker by the Speaker. Yeah, it's a big one, it's a hit. I could see that. I don't know.
Speaker 5:Good drum on this, our altered states.
Speaker 6:Oh, mm Good drum on this, and sweet lightning struck.
Speaker 4:And the earth opened up. The earth opened us, not opened up Like spring.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Shout out to the gardeners out there.
Speaker 4:Shout out to the poets Digging that last simile.
Speaker 5:They're digging it. Huh, the poet gardeners are digging their last in Sinaloa, yeah.
Speaker 6:Oh man In the sacred heart, share everything We'll blossom through. The spring spring star of the morning shines now on her own two wings then sweet light does it.
Speaker 3:Then sweet lightning struck, there's a slap, mm-hmm, did you hear that? Yeah, it does. Like a, can the earth overcome A?
Speaker 4:slap rhythm. Yeah Well, that means employing a lot of different bass techniques, like spring.
Speaker 5:Does it on all. Like the whole, it's pretty cool. Then, sweet Lightning's Drum, I'll give you a topic Getting a little verklempt.
Speaker 6:Like spring.
Speaker 4:The song Spring Buds by Keller Williams. Discuss.
Speaker 5:Amazing, okay. Buds by Keller Williams. Discuss Amazing, oh God, okay.
Speaker 1:God, that chokes me up.
Speaker 5:We're on to Mental Instra.
Speaker 4:It's called Mental Instra.
Speaker 5:Are you mental?
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 5:It's going to get wild here. This is more than half minutes, more than half a minute.
Speaker 4:Prowess on this.
Speaker 5:This is Keller.
Speaker 4:This isn't tied, it's all. Keller, I got in a knickerbatch. It's tolerable, officer and harmonics. We'll have an axe coming at you. Some people will be getting riddles.
Speaker 5:This is wild. This is good. He does the tune and back Right, it's so he's employing heavy metal techniques.
Speaker 6:Sure and acoustic Ah.
Speaker 5:His googly ass flute.
Speaker 4:Sounds like Joni Mitchell.
Speaker 6:Help me.
Speaker 4:I think I'm falling in love with you. Are you mental?
Speaker 3:What the fuck is he talking about? What the fuck?
Speaker 4:Shout out to Mike Crotty on that flute thing, crotty.
Speaker 5:Cry, crotty, crotty, crotty. I'm going to cry karate, karate, karate.
Speaker 4:Not to be confused with Ryan Lochte, you're the next contestant on the Price is Right. So it changed the tempo up because up and down, up and downs. I like this change. You know where this is going.
Speaker 5:Bangers, bangers only. Yeah, it's kind of headbanging.
Speaker 3:Acoustic. Mom, I am going to rip off your head and shit down your neck perfectly placed all right, yeah exactly right it's gonna be a little laugh.
Speaker 4:Don't let this play out yeah we're streaking All right Now. This is the next song. It's Babiace. This is the one that Tim was playing earlier.
Speaker 2:It's a little.
Speaker 4:Letterman background there. Letterman Leno Oprah on there letter letterman leno oprah this is the song for the runners and the walkers just walking, make sure you have your walking shoes.
Speaker 5:If you're walking, you're running shoes.
Speaker 4:If you're running, okay adjust your head buds a little bit, a little loose ah, let's party with those head buds.
Speaker 5:Wild card hey.
Speaker 6:Why is everybody so tense? It's a party disregard for the uptight runner uptight runners.
Speaker 4:No, not our audience, not our it's gonna reference the movie Rollerball 1975 about the future, which is 2018. Dystopian corporate takeover kind of thing, James Caan.
Speaker 6:Shout out to the.
Speaker 4:Jonathans out there From that movie.
Speaker 6:Jonathan, jonathan, precision. My mind is clear. As a race car driver's, I cannot afford a poor decision. I like this place. I don't want to leave much better than reality.
Speaker 3:This wasn't meant to be a game.
Speaker 4:A little clip from the 75. John and Ben. John and Ben.
Speaker 5:John and Ben. Lots of pull-offs and hammer-ons. Slides Endless, endless slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs. Slides, endless, endless slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs. All day, all day.
Speaker 6:I mean Keller's arms are it's are just very big.
Speaker 5:He's got some ham hocks no no, yeah, he can play.
Speaker 4:He's got to be strong to do that. This is your kind of a song. This is your deal. This is good.
Speaker 6:Yeah, for you.
Speaker 4:Some of the little too. There's a little bit too much of that. It's a little too noodley to each his own. There's gotta be a little pushback. You can't just like love everything yeah, it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5:It's almost playing off of like heavy metal. Well, yeah, in a tongue in cheek, kindcheek kind of way, is that?
Speaker 6:what the intention was. I think it is Okay.
Speaker 5:It was all about how good he was, how fast he was. Exactly, yes, when he plays. There was one song that he covered. It was a classic rock song and then he got to the solo and he just went. He stopped the whole song, did like one, two, three, four notes, and then and then he went, and then he went back to the song because the solo was just too insane for him to actually cover it I got you he kind of just we know he can play, so it's not about I gotcha okay.
Speaker 4:So this one's called Bob Rules this is about Price is Right.
Speaker 6:There's all kinds of references.
Speaker 1:Price is Wrong Bitch, exactly right.
Speaker 6:Shout out to Bob this is the bluegrass tune. This is one of the Good mandolin playing.
Speaker 4:It's the bluegrass tune.
Speaker 6:There's one mandolin playing there. Shudder Danny nicely, the mandolin Fools. It's the Mitsubishi Mirage four-door sedan with a clutch. Call my name and sit. Come on down. You're the next contestant. Oh my God, I was hyperventilating.
Speaker 1:We've all been there, you're just fucking out here.
Speaker 6:I hope I do not wake up from this dream. It was what it was.
Speaker 1:After all, we have been on for 35 years. 35 years, yes, and it has never happened?
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was a reference to a guy who bid. One guy bid $1,000, and then the last guy to bid he bid $9.99.
Speaker 5:It's a dumb thing because you can't go over.
Speaker 4:But he guessed it right, like right on the nose. It wasn't the only time that it happened. Stairmaster machine yeah stairmaster machine, our beloved.
Speaker 5:Put me down, son, and feast your eyes over there.
Speaker 6:The sliding doors were a brand new car. I was as happy as I could get, for it was a brand new car, a Chevrolet Chevette. All because the voice of an angel that belong to right Call my name and say you're the next contestant. Oh my god.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, I was hyperventilating.
Speaker 6:I hope I do not make a promise. The price is wrong. Bitch the price is wrong, bitch what Hi.
Speaker 5:That's what I would do. Hi Mom, my mom, price is right, ma, ma Ma.
Speaker 6:Ma Ma.
Speaker 1:Hi, hi, mom Rod leapt from the stage into the audience.
Speaker 4:The best swing. You have two high prices. The third one says $1. And then the fourth guy says $2. I've seen that before, that's sad, you can't guess $1 too early. You have to be the last person. The person that's been up there the longest gets to pick last because he gets the favor of knowing what everybody else picked. It's gotta be embarrassing when you're picked right in the beginning and you go the whole way without making it up on stage.
Speaker 5:This is a reference to.
Speaker 4:Gunsmoke? I think yeah, something like that.
Speaker 6:Westerns, so it's bluegrass and western at the same time. There it is they have a different games.
Speaker 4:I like Quanko, that was good. The rock climber.
Speaker 6:The yodeler.
Speaker 2:The wheel.
Speaker 6:Showcase show. The wheel, who did not like the showcase and passed it on over to me, crunching the numbers. I tried to remain calm how much is an all-expenses-paid trip to Guam Guam? Before I could answer a banging game to my door, the housekeeper said you must leave now or pay more. You have no good. I guess that I fell back asleep and slept right through that show. But the next time I'm in LA, you know where I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1:Exactly right.
Speaker 6:And hope for the voice of an angel that belongs to Rod Roddy. Come on down. I've called my name and since come on down, you're the next contestant. Hey, this wasn't meant to be a game. I hope I don't hyperventilate. I hope I do not wake up from this dream.
Speaker 1:You're just freaking out here.
Speaker 5:Which is what it will be.
Speaker 3:Oh God, oh God Okay.
Speaker 4:Alright, this one's called Freak Show.
Speaker 6:Look at you some kind of freak With the people on the outside, don't?
Speaker 6:know, I think the bond goes here, the tent goes up Is that what this is? And the tent comes down and all that they see is the show. The ladies on the horses look so pretty and the lions are all looking real mad and some of the clowns are happy, you know, some of them are sad. But underneath there's an expression how am I funny like I'm a clown? How am I funny like I'm a clown? I am you, you, how I mean? Funny like I'm a clown. It's about freedom. It's about faking. There's an art to the laughter, there is a science. You need a lot of love and compliance. You need a lot of love and compliance. Welcome to the freak show. Here we go. It's just another freak show. Welcome to the freak show. Here we go. It's just another freak show. Here we go. Welcome to the freak show. Here we go. It's just another freak show. Here we go. Welcome to the freak show. Here we go. It's kind of Hawaiian. Here we go.
Speaker 5:Welcome to the freak show. A little too repetitive. Another freak show, here we go. This is one of his big encore songs that he plays usually okay what a freak we live to hear the slack jaw gasping.
Speaker 6:We live under a halo of held breath, and when the children raise up a giant shield of laughter, it's just like they're fending off death and we can see how they do.
Speaker 6:At the end it's like you're spent the clowns will all take off their makeup and all the people will all go home life on the outside funny. No elephants, no sequence, no parading around. Yeah, the circus comes and the circus goes and they're stuck in this fucking town. Yeah, this piece is called Don't Lick my Love, pump Hi and compliance. You need a lot of. Welcome to the Freak Show. Here we go. It's just another Freak Show here we go. Welcome to the Freak Show, here we go. It's just another Freak Show here we go.
Speaker 4:Welcome to the Freak Show. Here we go. It's just another Freak Show, here we go.
Speaker 6:Welcome to the Freak Show here, we go, it's just another Freak Show. Here we go. Welcome to the freak show.
Speaker 5:Here we go. It's just another freak show.
Speaker 4:Here we go. Welcome to the freak show. Here we go. It's just another freak show. Here we go.
Speaker 6:Welcome to the freak show. Here we go. It's just another freak show. Here we go. Welcome to the freak show. It's just another freak show. It's mandatory Welcome to. I love applesauce.
Speaker 4:Getting back to the jazz, here we go. It's called Galavance. A lot of songs on this he's really good.
Speaker 6:Yeah, he's really good, yeah, driving and a-diving, dreaming and denying.
Speaker 2:Dream the diffusion Of the dying disillusion.
Speaker 3:Very poetic, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's original. Put a lot of thought, craft into the words, the lyrics. It's a lost art.
Speaker 5:He's not afraid to not have it fit perfectly.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 4:That's an art in and of itself. You don't have to rhyme exactly, it goes for it. Eminem does that too Flabbergasting.
Speaker 5:Yeah, eminem, in comparison to Keller Williams, love that well, I mean two different genres, but that's what makes them good, is that they they can fit.
Speaker 4:Words in Neil Peart rushed it yeah, words that don't normally fit and they don't necessarily rhyme. The way you can make them rhyme and have it all fit together, that's the that's the art, that's the genius part.
Speaker 6:Fit into a theme. People don't do that. Yeah, I know, flabbergasting Galavantine.
Speaker 4:It's probably one of the least. Filler songs Listened to song, but not bad.
Speaker 2:I kind of liked it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was a filler, you're right. What is that? What's that? In the background, not bad, I kind of liked it. Yeah, it was a filler, you're right. What is that? What's that tobacco? It sounds like he's swishing his mouth with water or something I'm sure he is Like gargling. Definitely this one is called. God is my Palm Pile. There you go, see. It's like oh God, oh crap.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I was playing this song and my dog started barking about barking In a disturbed way. Yeah, this part, the sort of throat singing, oh, this part Disturbed. So if you have animals and they're sensitive to this one, my dog seemed to this one yeah, my dog seemed to not like.
Speaker 4:Well, that's him kind of talking into the computer frame thing Keep forgetting what that thing is called Auto.
Speaker 5:Yeah, auto Tune, no Well.
Speaker 4:It's not the Vibra Slap. That's the Wi-Fi, though, okay.
Speaker 5:This is like a modern version of Pun Her Too the Mongolian throat singers Throat singers.
Speaker 4:I just wish he didn't have that part in it.
Speaker 2:It was such a cool transition, but that was a little too much.
Speaker 3:Ha ha ha, it's getting louder.
Speaker 4:That's not us. That's not us. That's not us fucking around Boxing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 4:This would be very radio friendly. This is an egg. No, I know why it's not an egg. But I mean it's a good.
Speaker 3:It's a little harsh, but it's a good.
Speaker 4:It's a little, it's a little harsh, but it's got some good stuff. Almost tolerable, yeah, it's almost tolerable.
Speaker 1:Much soft money Can I expect to collect in exchange for my core values?
Speaker 5:We've got crooked here, this is called crooked.
Speaker 6:I ain't crooked, although I follow the path of least resistance. No, I ain't crooked, although I follow the path of least resistance. I just try and do my thing and maintain my existence, maintain, maintain.
Speaker 5:I ain't stupid.
Speaker 6:Although I did not complete all of my schooling. No, I ain't stupid.
Speaker 4:He does a lot of accents.
Speaker 6:Although I did not complete all of my schooling. I ain't crooked, I ain't stupid.
Speaker 4:I thought he graduated from Weston Virginia Wilson. Maybe he dropped out.
Speaker 3:They had so much fucking money in there, you could build a house out of stacks with a hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 2:I got to cry.
Speaker 3:Let me have a few minutes. Let me stop this.
Speaker 4:Eh, no one wants to hear it. Richard makes it.
Speaker 2:I don't want to mess with you.
Speaker 6:Richard Nixon, Although I may appear to be shaking, I ain't waking to the faking baking partaking and the headache and corn flaking. I ain't faking baking. What the fuck is he talking about? But my mama tell me that it's true. What, Hi?
Speaker 3:And right now, which one of you is mom One thing is for sure I'm lucky, I got you.
Speaker 4:Mom, I'm going to rip off your head and shit down it, I'm having a right.
Speaker 3:You can take a penny from the tray From the crippled children.
Speaker 6:No, that's the job. I'm talking about the tray, the pennies are for everybody, oh, for everybody. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, those are whole pennies, All right. I'm just talking about fractions of a penny, okay, but we do it from a much bigger tray. We do it a couple of million times.
Speaker 4:Shout out to the Office Space fans.
Speaker 1:Hey buddy, how you doing this is Chickahop. That's. Fred Collins Just wondered if the monthly policy.
Speaker 4:What are the chances?
Speaker 1:that.
Speaker 4:Jennifer Aniston's Keller Boys fans.
Speaker 5:Name is Laurel Trappin' and his name is Chickmunk Trappin'. What?
Speaker 1:are the chances that Jennifer Aniston's Keller?
Speaker 3:Boyd's family. You take a pen from the tray, from the crippled children.
Speaker 4:No, that's the jar I'm talking about the tray.
Speaker 6:What the fuck is he talking about? You know, give me a call back sometime when you've got some chance and we'll talk about some tramps.
Speaker 5:That's probably an actual call that I didn't quite pick it up.
Speaker 4:What's going on in there?
Speaker 5:I have no idea.
Speaker 4:Why don't you give me a call back.
Speaker 6:Let's talk about it.
Speaker 4:Fraction of a penny From the crippled children no no that's the jar.
Speaker 6:I'm talking about the tray.
Speaker 4:We've all been there at the gas station, don't touch those pennies.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I get squeamish. I just try and do my thing and maintain my existence. You just try and do your thing and maintain your existence.
Speaker 4:Right by those horoscope roll-up things by the counter.
Speaker 6:What else is up there there's?
Speaker 4:like dirty pennies, the jar the horoscopes Some ho-hos. Yeah, the cigarillos.
Speaker 5:I always thought I'd be a good Florida whore, all right.
Speaker 6:This is called Old Lady from Carl's Garden. It's only a minute long. It's kind of cool, very charming, talking with an old lady down at the corner bus stop Talking about Jesus and how her heart he won. Talking with an old lady down at the corner bus stop. She said expect you a miracle, for today you done All right, and now we're going to a kidney and a cooler.
Speaker 4:This is a Of all the plays aside from Freaker by the Speaker. This one's got the most listens. So far, so good, Good bass playing.
Speaker 5:He's getting a little picky on this. A little picky, a little pick up and down Perpendicular.
Speaker 6:A break in the schedule. Sufficient cool, think. Well, we thought we were doing the right thing. Now can I be too picky and shy on a Sunday? Then I'd walk the mechanic with the perpendicular teeth, perpendicular teeth, perpendicular teeth, perpendicular teeth. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Perpendicular teeth. Perpendicular teeth.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, oh yeah, perpendicular teeth, perpendicular teeth, perpendicular teeth oh yeah, about 17th hour they pulled us up in the bay and foggy, too, started taking down the hood. Sailing now, yes.
Speaker 4:They're waiting for their car. That's what's going on.
Speaker 6:We're going to sail.
Speaker 4:There's got to be a story behind this, I guess.
Speaker 6:Only two days later, on the way down to Deep Ellum, we broke down in Oklahoma, where a wind come behind the rain. We got towed to Calgary where a woman's car took priority. She had a kidney in a cooler, so two nights we had to stay so she could deliver the kidney.
Speaker 3:Deliver the kidney.
Speaker 5:That sounds awful. Deliver the kidney. I think it's just a song out of some mixed up travel plans. Things are going wrong. There's a lien of cooler. I'm sure it happened.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, oh yeah. Well, if you go down to Deep Ellum to the gypsy tea room, tell them I'm broke down in Perry and I'll try to make it back soon. Well, if you go down to Deep Ellum to the Gypsy Tea Room, tell them I broke down in Perry and I'll try to make it back soon. Oh sweet mama, your daddy got them.
Speaker 5:Deep Ellum blues. Now he's going right into a completely different song.
Speaker 6:Oh sweet mama, your daddy got them deep. Villain bleeds. Now I know I will be paying on the concept after it's through.
Speaker 5:He puts the nod right in there, right but there's something I got to do.
Speaker 6:It's pretty rare A big-ass bus with a satellite dish, A double-decker, double-wide. What I wish I a dream-opened eye.
Speaker 5:That this be true. Oh, get ready for some raps, yeah.
Speaker 6:My double-decker double-wide, my double-decker double-wide, my double-decker double-wide, oh yeah, my double-decker double-wide, my double-decker double-wide, my double-decker double-wide. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, my double-decker double-wide, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, it's gonna have two ice makers and both refrigerators, a silent but violent generator To run the subwoofers and the disco ball, the escalator up to the dance hall On the second floor with a giant skylight, a driving range and a cool jet light For skinny dipping right after the show. Oh damn. Perpendicular teeth Double-decker.
Speaker 4:Little America.
Speaker 6:I will work for my double-decker double-wide Perpendicular teeth in Little America. Deliver the kidney in my double-decker double-wide Perpendicular teeth in Little America. Deliver the kidney in my double-dagger double-wide Perpendicular teeth in Little America. Deliver the kidney in my double-dagger double-wide Perpendicular teeth in Little America. Deliver the kidney in my double-dagger double-wide. Deliver the kidney In my double-decker A double-wide Perpendicular teeth Little America. Deliver the kidney In my double-decker Double-wide Perpendicular teeth.
Speaker 4:Little America, little America.
Speaker 5:Double-decker, double-wide, the traditional Freaker reprise. Yes, but the traditional, amazing.
Speaker 4:All right. So the reprise is going to play in the background. We're going to turn it down a little bit. We'll give our top three. We need to speak, all right. So what are you thinking, man? Let's get into the top three and we always start with you. So do you know what your top three?
Speaker 5:is. I think my top three has got to be One Hit Wonder. Just because you know what are we doing here? We're doing greatest non-hits. How can it not be on my top three, one-hit wonder?
Speaker 4:Of course, yeah, it's a great song, I agree, that's your three Catchy, you know sort of drones on and overplay is the only way.
Speaker 5:I kind of like just the composition of that one Really good song.
Speaker 4:You know some of these songs. He's really, really talented. Don't get me wrong. I just it's like sometimes less is more, sometimes more is more I like. One of the things I liked about this is the the instrumentals, and so, like my number three is going to be one of the instrumentals. It's going to be mental in straw oh, amazing, that'll be nice.
Speaker 5:This is great. I knew you would like that one I did.
Speaker 4:I liked it a lot. You know, there was like a lot of tempo changes and it was like it was just cool, it was just like very easy to listen to and, uh, just kind of cut through all the noise. And so that's my number three. Okay, yeah, what about your number two? What do you think?
Speaker 5:I mean I love Freak Show because I mean I love Freak Show because excellent lyrics it really does. Keller is that guy that will make a song about the roadies. You know the carnival behind the show. Yeah, he really is a working man's musician and I think, yeah, there's a lot of freaks in the jam jam world and he also pays homage to them and, okay, they kind of make his career.
Speaker 4:So no, that's a good one, that's a. You're going deep with that. Um well, first of all, before I get my number two is freaker by the speaker again. Are these all non-hits? Yeah okay, I'm gonna go number two. Fre the Speaker.
Speaker 5:Nice, it had to be on there yeah.
Speaker 4:It had to be on there, and so it's a little bit newer to me than it is for you, and so that's going to be my number two.
Speaker 5:Okay yeah, really catchy yeah, and obviously a lot of these songs on a different day could be in the top three, my top three For the listener's point of view.
Speaker 4:I mean.
Speaker 6:It's hard I want.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm going to go Hunting Charlie just because I like the jazzy weirdness. Yes, yeah, I've always loved that song so much on this album as sort of a sleeper. It deserves to be on there. It's sort of jazzy. Obviously, kidney In Cooler is a great sing-along. If you've got kids and you need a good sing-along song, that's a good one. And obviously Bob Yatche Galavanting was great, crooked, great song. I'm going Hunting Charlie for that.
Speaker 4:Okay, one spot Right on. I'm going to go with One Hit Wonder. Nice, I liked it. Yeah, it was just I don't know. I just think the way it's constructed and it's not too much, it's not overbearing, oh, and it's not too much, it's not overbearing, and it's smooth, and it's really good listening.
Speaker 5:Well, maybe I want to make Alligator Alley my number one, I don't even know.
Speaker 4:Well, what are you going to change that Alligator?
Speaker 5:Alley, I'm striking it off.
Speaker 4:Well, I mean, are you backing out the other two? Are you backing out One Hit Wonder out of it, or are you going to go? No, are you backing out one hit wonder out of it. Or are you going to go, or are you just going to take your number one out of it all completely.
Speaker 5:Yes taking number one out of it completely Hunting Charlie is out. Okay, you wanted that to be a spoiler. Alligator Alley, it's a beautiful song.
Speaker 4:It is. It was a great song.
Speaker 5:See how hard this is for us. It is hard, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4:All right, we got some good songs in there. Great album, great artist.
Speaker 5:Hope you enjoyed the show. Put it in the jar, put it in the tray.
Speaker 4:We're talking about the tray. That's the jar. We're talking about the tray. Kellett Williams is the tray. String Cheese is the jar. He's the tray. Hope you enjoyed it. Keep listening, take care.
