Coming to you from the studios at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66, it's the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast. Hey everybody, it's Ray the Roadie and this is Hollywood Mike. A very tired Hollywood Mike.

A very tired Hollywood Mike. Yeah, it's gonna be a long week. It's been a long weekend.

Yeah, I was gonna say you've been doing a lot of driving. Yeah, a little bit of driving, you know, and you know for all of our listeners who have kids in college. Mm-hmm.

Why do they always bring their their baggage home with them? You know, it's not I don't mean real baggage. I mean, you know, it's like they come home for breaks and that's when the car breaks down. Yep, or they come home for breaks and one of them has the flu or they you know it's all they always bring something along with them.

So yeah, so this this weekend I was dealing with brakes. Brakes. On my son's car.

Yeah, had to go pick him up. Mm-hmm and we decided I took one look at the brakes and I started calling around and I said How much did you just do the brakes? Right, and I every place I went they wanted a hundred and sixty bucks a tire Wow to do to do a brake job and I finally found a a fire stone that said well We'll do it for a hundred because I said, you know what? I'm not gonna have it done if you're gonna charge me that much he goes we'll do it for a hundred So I said that's fine. We spent all afternoon in Bloomington normal and I said, you know what you live in an apartment here Just stay here They can get the car in tomorrow morning drive home today, so that's that's what he ended up doing So now what a pain in the butt.

Very good. Yeah, I'm glad he could make it tonight. I'm exhausted.

Yeah I'm tired. I was gonna be here by my lonesome. No, not at all.

I wouldn't would never leave you here by yourself We won't go there So tonight we have joining us one of the members of superfly redneck, how you doing man? The superfly read the superfly The original that's one and only that's right drummer Singer yeah as well. Wow, so he not only can do you know, you know, he can also do the rubber baby buggy bumper That's right thing all at the same time. That's for all of you who watch the zoom growing up as kids Not using zoom now, right right the zoom television show.

So where did this all start? I Always been a drummer. I started out as a drummer I since I got a picture of me on a diaper on my dad's lap looks like me and then I can see my little fat baby legs on there and it's me and uh And then my mom's side of the family They were all honky-tonkers back in the 60s and 70s so I just was brought up with it and then The whole thing playing drums and sing and I kind of started doing that probably 16. I'm 44 now the band me being the drummer and the singer was the singer didn't show up and uh, I kept I told the band if you ever need a guy to sing and say oh tonight's your night to shine and next thing, you know I sing the whole night and then He came back for maybe one or two give more gigs and then he didn't left and then I tried another guy out It didn't work and then I just stepped up and been doing it now for almost 20 years now Wow Yeah, I always wanted to be a fly on the wall when somebody goes to their parents and say yeah my dad I want to be a musician.

It's all great. What instrument you want to play and he goes the drums? Yeah And then of course the you know, the person to me would say son, I thought you said you wanted to be a musician Unless your day unless your dad or somebody's a drummer really right, right, right, right Does anybody in your in your family play the drums or do you just pick that all on your own? My dad was a drummer. Okay, there you go.

There's a drummer That my whole family my brother's a bass player. My other brother's a drummer My mom said she doesn't play but everybody else and her side all the all the males did my grandpa his two brothers up my uncle her brother Yeah, it's been a family thing growing up All drummers, no, no, they my grandpa didn't like me play the drums. He didn't want me to be a drummer He said boy, you gotta be out front ain't nobody gonna see behind the drums You know, but uh after he gave up on after was a then he'd be like my grandson can play any style of music You know on the drums, right? Right.

He knew I wasn't gonna not be a drummer. So your grandfather was a front man I assume yeah keyboard player Piano guitar singer. Okay.

Yeah. All right the entire family originate from Chicago Actually, my dad's side there. They're from Chicago Well, actually his family's from up north, Wisconsin and up and they came down here and he was born in Hammond, North Hammond That's where I'm originally from.

Okay, right on the border and on my mom's side Her by my grandpa the one that plays he was rich from Kentucky got banned from the county and there we go My grandma got banned from the county now, we're now we're getting now we're getting down Service I guess he kept getting into fights and stuff and gonna trouble and he said boy either you join the service or you're Barred from the county and Wow. He came up here with his brother and That's when they started a little rockabilly band back in the 60s Wow before DJ's where they'd have to play play music for everybody You know, you know, yeah, right, right, right. That's now now we're getting down to the nitty-gritty Know where I wanted to know where the whole country and honking talk thing came from because you know UP in Wisconsin not necessarily the Mecca for honky-tonkers, right? My dad was a rocker my mom's side that's the honky-tonkers, right, right, right What was the first time he actually played live with a band? Oh, man Playing like probably 13 and actually I was playing piano when I did that As my little brother was we want my grandpa had a family band with us and so the youngest one played drums It's easier for him to do the middle one played bass.

My sister sang and he played guitar Probably after that 15 K your parties and stuff, right? Right, you know and then working my way up from there and sneaking into bars at 17 and ever since yet I've been playing out Every weekend probably almost every weekend, you know, since 20, you know, since I was 20 I probably say since I could grow in a goatee Okay So what part of the Chicagoland area are you originally from? North in northwest, Indiana. I'm like right on the border. Oh, gotcha.

Okay, so now I'm on Country Club Hills these days I've been out there since 2010. Okay, it's a near the Twitter Center out there or what? I don't what they call it now Yeah, it keeps changing. Yeah changes names like every six months or whatever.

I still call it the world Isn't isn't that terrible? No, it's the world music theater I started calling it the Twitter Center for a little while, but then I couldn't know it's the world It's Comiskey Park. Yeah, it's the Sears building. Yeah, the Hancock building.

We got to look that up I have no idea what they're calling that amphitheater nowadays I what is that out there in Tinley Park? Isn't that isn't that a shame that you know That's the problem when you start changing the name of the thing so many times and so frequent, you know Everybody call that place out in Tinley Park. Yeah, it wasn't at the first Midwest Bank Because first Midwest got sold out to that new one that That new bank, that's a one One more. I don't know what that gets called.

No, there's a new bank Wow, that's that's quite a question. I don't even know what it's called anymore. Yeah, I don't even know Well one of these days we'll have to figure it out or something.

That's right. Take a drive by there. Yeah Yeah, so do you remember? the name or the place where you You know outside of you know playing, you know for like kegger parties and things like that Do you remember where the very first like actual music venue was that you played? Oh, yeah, it's still there JJ Kelly's in Lansing Oh, no kidding.

Okay, everybody's everybody's play there. Everybody's played JJ Kelly's. Yeah, absolutely Wow credit Union one amphitheater credit Union one amphitheater out there in Tinley Park.

Mm-hmm. Wow That's yeah. I mean, I guess that's not a very memorable name.

It's not really Well, JJ Kelly's what what year was that? Probably 96 maybe or something like that 96 97 probably. Okay. Okay.

Gosh, I used to hang out there pretty frequently It was probably about that time. I wouldn't be surprised if I saw you Yeah, I said a metal band back in the day and that was that was the spot to go home. What lug nut? No lug nut.

That's a great name Yeah, lug nut. Yeah. No, I don't I don't recall lug nut But now I work for a group of guys that were all from I mean the the office was located out in Downers Grove but the founders of the business were or Southsiders and That's where they always wanted to go and hang out and party.

That's what that's where they all lived and after work Everybody would head out there. I mean even though it was like 45 minutes away That's where they wanted to go because you know, the bosses are buying, you know, that's and gosh we were there every Friday So yeah small world small world. So how long have how long have you had? Well, first of all the name superfly redneck That that says a lot How'd that come about Kind of but you know could be coming out here to Chicago like good and I'm here and I'm from Indiana I just automatically assumed I'm hillbilly No, we don't know we don't do that at all do it no, no, no, but thanks for telling us you're from, Indiana Cuz we'll speak slowly No, I got friends from Indiana I tease them like that all the time I do We had a band here a few weeks ago that thought we were in Southern, Illinois they did They were like is 80 south or north of here yeah south, okay, then you're still good.

Yeah Yeah, we've never been out to Southern, Illinois before Southern, Illinois Wow, where were they from? They were they were from up north. They were like I think Lake Zurich area or some Chris Funny cuz I just kind of drove from that area. I kind of get it I mean because they had to be here about this time.

Oh, man. That's one hell of a drive. So yeah Wow well Yeah, no um no that says a lot of stuff And when I first saw the name of the band I kept I kept saying superfly symphony because we actually had them on the podcast Superfly symphony yeah And I kept seeing simply you know superfly symphony I'm like you know we've done these guys before we our rule is kind of like you know it's one podcast and you're done That's it and I was like and then I looked at it again, and I was like oh wait a minute superfly redneck Yeah, I thought maybe you were part of like a group of superfly.

You know Yeah, I'm really in the Motown and stuff like that okay, and and also I got my superfly Curtis I like to go from one extreme to the other like I can do Marvin Gaye go to David Alan Cohen and but in between then You know I'll do panther in a night even I'll do you know play that monkey music Yeah, I'm all over the board Yeah, it's like those scenes in Starsky and Hutch when huggy bear wear a cowboy hat yeah That's pretty much what it comes down to no And I thought the same thing because superfly symphony was talking about how they were trying to do like a spinoff band they were gonna They're gonna do like a disco band. Yeah, they were gonna call something else Yeah, maybe we're coming up with something like a country band so I thought it was superfly something else I'm gonna be one of those guys, but no it's come. No completely different.

Yeah, and you're your variety of music is Kind of kind of wide because I watched a couple of the videos and you guys went everywhere from you know And and I have to admit when I saw the name super when I realized it was superfly redneck I was thinking okay. This is gonna be another one of these bands You know they're where they're playing new modern pop country and stuff like that, but then the first song I heard was um Was rebel yell yeah, and I was like okay? That's cool cuz rebel yell kind of goes with the redneck thing And then I heard cumbersome so I was a seven married three yeah, right and then uh and then Billy Jean So yeah Oh White variety Yeah, that's right That's right, so are you for all practical purposes kind of like the band leader you're gonna put everything together Yeah, yeah, and how long is how long and it's only three of you, right? Yeah, yeah, three Yeah, so how long have you guys all been together then well the thing is I? I've started superfly running in 2010. I said this I'm gonna run my own band if I'm gonna hire two guys go with me and You know if they can't make it, then I'm just gonna hire a different guitar player I'm a higher different bass player because you know gigs are hard to come by as it is so right It's you know yeah, I can't wait for two other guys to say yes, or they can't you know right? And it seems weird at first, but I mean I've been doing for so long you know and and people have gotten used to it They're like oh, I've seen you with another guy I've seen you that guy before I've seen you But they all know that I'm gonna be the singer and I'm gonna be there Be running it there, and I have really good musicians as far as all the guys that play with me, right? I'm very blessed to have some of the best guys I could around So so what it truly is like what I said earlier.

It truly is you are the superfly redneck Oh, yeah, and you know and you can have you know You know Jim on bass and and and and mark on guitar and the next night. It could be Steve and Tom and Whatever it is yeah Boy somebody was a cruising by with the windows down And it's cold out. Yeah, yeah, not everybody can hear that cuz these microphones don't pick things up, but we hear it So yes drove past the building on the way here.

I saw a guy on our radio here. What yeah? No way coming down 30. I saw a guy riding on the Harley is you're crazy.

That's insane He must have been desperate to get that thing back home. Oh, yeah You know it must have been in the shop somewhere Yeah, I would be who because I know I know that's coming because you know I gave my son the Harley all right You know a couple of months ago, and I know he's gonna say can we go riding? Yeah, nope you're gonna get that one But it's sunny. I don't do choppers in the winter time.

I'm sorry Not at all so how many other guys do you have playing with you, but I guess I'll get about four guitar players before bass players. I did I switch around from that I can think of off the top of my hand okay I Mean how do you do that? Okay? You get a gig and you're like okay? Well now I need to put a band together. Do you have do you have your first call guys your second call guys? Do you kind of organize it that way yeah? I like to switch it up to so that we don't all get sick of each other you know okay? This that can definitely happen because I've used guys over and over and over and over And you know as much as I play two or three times a week.

You know you know each other's nerves here and there And sometimes it depends on where I'm playing in that where they you know if it calls for something that uh Maybe they want to hear a little bit a lot more older music or something and this guy knows a little bit more of the Style of that or even can the guy bring a few more people in you know can you get I bring a little bit more? You know a crowd say this guy lives by here, so I'm gonna use it Jerry for this gig or something right right? You know right okay? All right, and do you do you pretty much stay around in the area that you live in around the Northwest, Indiana, Chicago area? Have a lot of places I like to say I travel travel about it within an hour's distance around there somewhere around you know as you go But I we played in Sturgis two times playing Laconia, New Hampshire for bike week out there Sturgis, Michigan or the real Sturgis South Dakota at full-throttle saloon, okay? Actually all those were for the full-throttle saloon The friend of mine works over here at the forge. You know he's he's Beth. I'm entertainment buddy Frank He hooked us up with them guys, and then uh and Jesse from Jack was part of the deal nice Yeah, they really liked us and first we play with him Did a bike week Laconia bike was their 80th anniversary in New Hampshire is pretty awesome out there, and uh did the whole week out there? And then they said hey you guys want to come with us the Sturgis and we're like sure we're not the Sturgis when I'm did the whole week and then Then they did one like a bike weekend around Labor Day weekend.

I called the rock Thunder in the Rockies and Went out there did that weekend, and it was cool, and then the next year we did Sturgis again nice. Yeah, how long ago was that? That was 2011 and 12, okay, yeah That sounds kind of like a dream dream tour there. It really does so how did you get hooked up with that again who? for the rest of FM Entertainment, okay, he I think they were looking for a band that could do that.

You know something like that. Yeah, right right he's like I know and that could do that and We just we talked that we didn't know much about what was going to go on We'd kind of just say let's go and we went out there And it was a little hairy at first when we got to New Hampshire because it was chaotic you know that right they just basically set up a big tent and And then they spilled the bar up there stripper poles and stuff and everybody's running around you know like who do I talk to where's this? Guy and what do I do you know right right? And then you know after the day we the first day we I think we slept off the truck and I slept in a trailer and We woke up the next morning upon the guy we had to talk to and it was okay from then on so wow and this Was that was Laconia? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, that's another pretty cool bike rally Wow So y'all just kind of loaded up the truck or loaded up the van or whatever yeah, you drove to New Hampshire Yeah, wow that's cool. Well, and you played at the real full-throttle Yeah, and then we did the real one in Sturgis.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, and that when I pulled up and hey They said are you guys Molly Hatchet? Are you guys Molly Hatchet? We can be. I was like either you can tell it by Hillbilly or they drive a minivan too.

So the answer is always yes Doesn't matter the answer is always yes when they find out too late. You know we already had the girls You know we've all seen we've all seen the Blues Brothers So so full-throttle saloon, and I'm gonna precursors by saying is we have Listeners from all over the world actually our number two market is India So for people that don't know or understand what we're talking about here Sturgis and Laconia as well as these are huge biker rallies Mostly Harley-Davidson, you know you know motorcycle club type folks dressed in leather Or dressed in almost nothing at all And full-throttle saloon is pretty much a saloon that doesn't exist until Sturgis Right I mean I've driven through Sturgis when the bike rally wasn't going on and drove right past full-throttle saloon because it's so inconspicuous and then when Then when Sturgis is actually going on it's you know it's kind of like the big top of the circus It really is Sturgis itself the town is a ghost town. It's a ghost town.

There's nothing there fronts There's nothing the bars are closed everything's right, but boy those few weeks of the bike week look out Yeah, I mean they make they pretty much make their nut in three weeks Out of tours a week before a week of week after yep. Yep about an hour away from Deadwood Where they're located great great ride. I can understand why it's there, but all I said had to been awesome I mean, I went there many times.

Yeah, yeah, right, so you've played the main stage at full-throttle We we kind of passed wrong We were up like in the when you first walked into the bar like that's where we were like they were kind of the greeting Band, I guess you'd say So you get a lot of traffic coming through there. Just you know coming by it. It was pretty cool It was a and then a couple times.

They had like a little a little stage in the back there By the by the huge huge stage, but I didn't play the big big stage Which I could have that would have been really cool, but uh, but yeah the every day we played ahead had a gig every day I think we had like one or two days off, and then I think the day that we had off They asked if we could play again, so well You know we got make the money while you're there because we paid we got paid by each gig you know right right right right? And you had a long drive back home, and yeah, yeah, it was it got exhausting after the first three days I was like I heard Kenny Wayne Shepherd playing and I could go backstage. I was like he sounds good for my cabin Five more days to go here. I'm gonna chill so they put you up.

Yeah, they give you a cabin. Okay. Yeah, that's nice That is nice.

Yeah, I do I do that once or twice Yeah, I'd have to I'd have to load up the truck and everything else with all the gear that I need and I would have To trailer the motorcycle there. There's no way No way I'd be going to Sturgis without it. I used to ride all the time up there Yeah, because we stayed in Hill City, which is south of Sturgis, but 70 miles south right, but even down there.

It's just mobbed Yeah, oh, yeah, it's good. It is insane mm-hmm. Yeah I've actually been to Sturgis one time without my motorcycle and never again because I Made the mistake of having to go where I was I was at the M. I had to visit the Bathroom no, it was the South Dakota Like Department of Agriculture.

Okay for my for my day job. Okay for work for whatever for my day job and it was it was literally like Two days before Sturgis was supposed to come to an end and I was in Deadwood Wow So I was like I'm an hour away. Mm-hmm.

I have to go I have to go and see what's going on there. It was just it was it was insane but driving a car then Yeah, that was just gonna say that was that was the yeah, yeah No, the horrible part about is like we didn't realize like how mobbed it was gonna be the first year Yeah, just driving. There was like stop.

It's bad enough on a bike. Yeah alone being on a car in the car So the next year we stocked up on stockpiling everything we needed today Wayne Wayne going So right, right. You're listening to the rock and roll Chicago podcast I'm Christy from crime cave podcast I've had a huge interest in true crime since my days of watching marathons of snapped back in the mid 90s I needed an outlet to talk about the cases that have haunted me for a very long time With each episode under 20 minutes.

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Oh, yeah, I gotta bring that. What's that? What's what's that? It's legal here Yeah, what is this pot you speak of? But yeah, you know in case of beer and that's you know, we got her some Some survival food in that but other than that, it was just yeah survival food. Yeah, it's a peanut butter and jelly, you know Yeah, coffee.

So did you have the same guys go to Laconia and Sturgis with you or were these different guys? Yeah, it was the same guys same guys. Yeah, my original my original lineup. Okay, okay, which they still play with me to Okay, so so so you do have like a you do have an original lineup.

Yeah. Okay. Gotcha And so they're kind of like your first call or whatever.

Yeah. All right So it's because I was thinking with all those people. I mean, how do you handle new music? Rehearsals if you have to rehearse and and things like that, that's got to be yeah a challenge, you know And unfortunately, I we do very very minimal rehearsals Just learn learn your stuff at at home and you know, we come up if it's something, you know I mean if it's something we really want to be sharp for you know, then we do a rehearsal in that but We're playing the same songs, you know that we've been doing for you know, an arsenal of songs, you know So we just try to flip, you know, let's do something different a little bit each night, you know, right? We already know right? I there was one performance that I saw that I that actually enjoyed I think I think you were on Conga's So you kind of do like an unplugged thing and I thought I did that a lot to a two-man acoustic.

Okay. Okay All right. Yeah, that was I think you guys did a you covered can't you see on that one is what I saw That was pretty interesting to to sit down there and do the Congress in the whole bit.

Yeah interesting. I had you know, interesting concept It's kind of like almost like black label society. Yeah, or something like that, but it's one, you know one guy and throw together Whoever you want to put together You Do any original music at all? No, I know I don't actually I I always think about it But uh, but I never get around to it.

Well, I yeah, I mean, I guess it's hard to write a melody on the drums But yeah, you need some kind of collaborator to go along with that. Yeah. Excellent.

Excellent. Well prior to this band Did you play with anybody other bands prior to this? Oh, yeah Yeah, I've been playing in band since I was probably first band since I was 16 Okay, anybody we may have heard of I don't know there was young guys back in India Uh, I don't know. I play with the evil weasels.

Like I said lug nut back in the day was my metal band I had for a long time. I played with a popular band in Northwest, Indiana called insane. They were a cover band They were the head of it huge crowds and that was a lot of fun But I kind of been doing my own thing mostly for a long time now.

Okay, but yeah Yeah, I'm running the show and doing all that stuff. You do you're doing all your own promoting Are you booking yourself or do you have You do it all yourself. Yeah.

All right. Are you old-school or are you? embracing the technology and Yeah, I'm still from that era where I got I got whoopins and stuff, you know I could barely work a computer as it is I mean, you know, but I'm trying to get into it. Uh, I got some help from people and stuff too for that Yeah, so what works for you? You know you go in there you're you're looking for a gig because I mean that's got to be kind of a tough sell if Nobody knows who you are.

You're like, you know, yeah, we're you know, superfly redneck and okay. Well, how many are in your band? Well three, you know kind of thing and you know, honestly, I don't I don't seek out many gigs anymore like which I'm very fortunate usually people call me before I have to but yes been a while since I had to call out but Yeah, luckily I've been around and I try to get myself out there so much You know that that I've been heard of before which that helps to you know Keeping that name going and going for that, you know for this many years, you know, right, right What's the what's the place that you play the most? Oh It'd be hard to say. I Got I got my my standard stay once a month gigs here and there like around around the neighborhood I play in Tim Lee at a place called cousins.

Oh, yeah, and I got it once a month They don't cousins very well. Yeah, I play at a thirsty Beavers one of my regular places. No Kind of like the house been over there.

I Been friends with the owners before they even started the place, you know, yep. We know those guys very well. Also, you know the basin Big basin saloon leader.

Well, you know, you know my sound guy. Yeah Big dude named Eric He's he is he is the band that I'm in. He is our sound guy.

He got a member of our band Yeah, that's right. Yep. Cool guy.

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we're lucky to have a guy as knowledgeable Yeah, as him definitely.

Oh, I mean he's toured with guys like Tim McGraw and stuff like that, you know to have him Doing sound for us all the time and not have to worry about that. Oh, yeah, absolutely Is is really cool. So that's pretty cool.

You know, Eric Is that how you heard about us or do we do we? Seek him out. Mm-hmm. I can't remember How'd you hear about I may have been a seeker you were a seeker.

I might have been a stalker stalker I was gonna say You guys get around you guys get around man, and I I've heard about you guys from some other people's actually guy I think you guys played a wedding of a of a friend of a friend or something and But then I kept seeing you guys around and I heard you guys more and more I heard a lot of good things about you guys to well, you know, it's hard to check out of the bands You know when you're always playing. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

No and here I thought he was talking about you and me Oh, I did it first When did we when did we do a wedding? Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, okay. Excellent. Excellent.

So so if you if you play pretty regularly at the thirsty beaver in place Thank you. Got to have some kind of cool stories on that place Come on that's or any place that can remain nameless That's that's what we're here for man, that's what that's why we are here it's not my we're all sitting at the bar Just shooting the shit. That's all we're doing and you're gonna tell us about a story I think there's a lot more people have more stories about me than I can Rip my shirt off regularly.

I'm gonna get a gig, you know and stuff but uh, I Got that old-school 80s 70s old-school wrestler body Dusty Rhodes build so I I get a few in me and I start sweating I kind of just rip it off in us like flex the pics Yeah, like there's a fight going on sometimes it goes I was like, oh man, I'm so sorry about the fight that went on It's like actually I think we paid you more because of that How nice No, hey, you know that you know fight breaks out people get sweaty. They're thirsty. They got it by more beer That's right.

That's what it's all about. It's you know, we we are there to sell beer You know, the dancing is extra and I definitely got a got a beer drinking crowd The guys come out see me or some some drinkers for sure. Yeah, I'd have to see even the women are drinkers, too What happened to the Sturgis Laconia gigs? you know they We were gonna do them again and then Me and one of the guys that we were doing it with we kind of parted ways and then honestly, I just We're talking about doing it again, but it's it's a rough week It's just a really rough week and I don't know if I'd be up for it again, you know, okay Yes, you'd see you're in a cabin and that you know, it's not like you're in a hotel room and right up and uh You know, it's just it's hot.

Yeah. Yeah, and and then it gets really cold And yeah It's just it's a rough one Like the guys in my friends that I met from out of Tennessee big gun shout out to them guys Awesome ACDC tribute band, but my buddy how the guitar player goes. Yeah, we call it the big and nasty tour There's a lot of bike rallies, you know during a summer dip summer months and stuff like all over the place Yeah, you know we we had talked to the director of Arizona bike week two And he was really interested in us to just never really pursued it You know, it's a a lot a lot to you know Especially vacation time which are which are jobs and stuff like that to coordinate all that and just haven't really seeked it out yet But I'm not ruling it out.

But yeah, you know just find the railing and find somebody that's running it And yeah, you know my I used to go to one in September all the time up in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. Oh, yeah Yeah, my friends go there. Yeah the fall ride.

Yeah Ball yeah, one of my buddies has got a house on Mercer actually out up there. Okay. Yeah, I never been up to you We were talking about going playing up there, too It's the one that what's the one that goes on? Around here.

I think it starts over in Morris. Is it the freedom run or something? Oh, yeah, I've done a freedom run many many times. Yeah, it's around Morrison in our sales It ends over at the the Vietnam War wall replica or something like that, right? Middle-eastern Middle East conflict.

Well, that's that's that I went to that one Seneca. I think yeah, I think so That's Marcel's it's right next to Seneca though. Yeah, okay I mean, I brought that one up because I went to actually I probably went that one in a couple years and Jackal always plays That yeah.

Yeah, we used to play there with Jack live. I've opened up for Jackal a few times, too Actually, we open up for him on the Ager stage at in Colorado out there was pretty awesome Okay, it's cool and didn't have anybody to take pictures or any friends about But it's all up here, you know No pictures. It didn't happen then Yeah, you're like, yeah, right.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be kind of a cool little niche to have there that you're following we're following Biker rallies all over.

Yeah, yeah, pretty kind of cool popping around every weekend somewhere. Yeah. Yep No, yeah, I just wish those gigs, you know paid more But you know what, it's like well if you don't want it There's a thousand other people in line that are right if you're not jackal, you're not getting the money.

Yeah Yeah, that's exactly it. Yeah, because I mean, you know, it's it's it is a hassle I mean think about you, you know, you have to take probably a week off work at least Right, you got to get there some kind of way you got a haul your stuff there What if you don't have the vehicles to haul everything down that you need? You're right Yeah Now you're renting a vehicle and like you said you have to find a place to stay whether they're gonna put you up or not If you're lucky they're gonna put you up if not, you're finding your own true place and hoping that they're gonna cop you some kind Of way, right? I mean it it it takes a lot out Yeah, I understand why a lot of people don't do it. That's why that's kind of like a one-time thing, you know It's almost like a bucket list thing.

Okay been there done that don't need to do it anymore. Yeah, you know kind of thing Well, yeah so what else do you have coming up other than uh The bike rallies that we talked about you got anything on the on the books for the next few months coming up Yeah, we get just saw some bar gigs around the neighborhood and that in a you know This is the winter months in that summer months. I'll start probably venturing a little bit further But yeah, just some you know, the local tavern gigs.

I got a cousins this weekend coming up Play another look I play a lot of local places around the house, you know, it's nice to be home in 20 minutes, you know Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, we're coming up the big basin coming up next month Yeah hard to think I got so many, you know, it's hard to remember where I'm at, you know, right? That's a good problem to have yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm very fortunate.

Yeah, everybody was he said you were playing a few times a week Yeah, I do a solo thing even during the week That place by we haven't been Lothian called shamrocks. Oh, yeah. I got backing tracks And I just saying kind of like a lounge singer.

Oh, wow. All right, right, which is cool I did a lot of different stuff that I don't do with the band like I'll do John legend I'll do you know all kinds of crazy stuff, right? Right, right, and that's every week. Yeah every Wednesday.

Yep, everyone's there Very cool. Yeah, that's that's not too far from you. Is it? No, no, it's not that far.

Yeah and cousins did have you ever gone to the the Sunday afternoon Blues jam my cousin. I'm actually I was originally the I was original guy that started that actually Oh, no kidding Yeah, and then I I couldn't do him anymore Just got a little rough, you know what work and stuff and I asked my friend Billy Billy King got rest of soul Yeah, he took it over and just just really really took it way further and they're still doing in his memory Well, we we definitely definitely have shared Some stage time through osmosis, I guess. Yeah.

Yeah, I knew I knew Billy And Ron spin daddy Ragnus. Yeah. Yeah.

He was originally the bass player in Cadillac groove Oh, so I knew him extremely well and and Vic and that whole crew there. They're now just the fabulous Kings. They've yeah They've continued on You know the Billy King band without Billy King At Billy's request.

He said I want you guys to keep going on Yeah, so they kept doing it. We interviewed them about a year ago. I can't probably about a year Yeah on the pockets.

They were one of the first ones that That I brought in that you brought in. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so we definitely know some common people.

That's that's for sure Wow, X X or where can people find you? Social media wise Facebook's my the best place probably to hit us up super fly redneck. Okay. Yep No website stuff.

No, I don't do the website right now. Oh, that's right. You said you don't do the computers I'm like an old guy told me he goes I'm word of mouth that either mixture of break shit, and I guess I'm not doing too bad of the word of mouth But you know, but yes pretty soon I'm probably gonna do the website thing cuz not everybody's in the world's on Facebook and that and then right and maybe I'll get to The Instagram but most of my following is a little over 18 and stuff Yeah, I did find you on Facebook cool I'm sorry, so when I searched for some videos it it brought me to a Facebook link in order to see the video So I'm assuming that's your Facebook page.

Yeah, and then a couple of the links took me to you do have a reverb Yeah Like that that took me to reverb so we found you there as well cool, so I mean you're out there Yeah, and it came up pretty easily. I just started writing super fly when I got the red it pulled you up. So thanks That's a good thing, yeah, that's right.

That's right. All righty, man. Well, thanks for coming in.

Thanks for having me This has been a lot of fun pleasure meeting you likewise likewise guys. Thank you. Thanks, and there you have it Super fly redneck super fly redneck one guy one guy and puts it all together with a bunch of other guys Yep, whoever he needs whenever he needs him.

Yep, super fly redneck That is a cool name for a band, but I didn't it didn't dawn on me that he is the super fly redneck Yeah, and I really was wondering if they were he was part of maybe that super they were had a super fly thing going on You know or that a super fly symphony and they wanted to go do a disco version Then I thought I'm ever doing a redneck version Like under one big umbrella, you know, yeah, super fly bands, right and if the super fly organization decides to do that. Yes Don't forget where you heard that. That's right You heard it here first and you know any profits made from that would be appreciated by the podcast.

Absolutely that yes Yes, we would love that. We would love that. But no, he was an interesting interesting guy Yeah, because he knows what he wants to do and he's he's like, hey, you know what? It's me and you know, I'm not gonna deal with the old five six guys in a band exactly No three things and luckily he's got a bunch of guys that he can count on that right whenever he needs to right? Well, that's it for today Once again another fine episode of the rock and roll Chicago podcast tune in every Tuesday for another exciting episode See you then the rock and roll Chicago podcast is edited by Paul Martin theme song courtesy of M&R Rush the rock and roll Chicago podcast does not own the rights to any of the music heard on the show The music is used to promote the guests that are featured