Hey, this is Paul Martin and Ray the roadie for the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast coming to you from the city winery on Randolph Street in Chicago. Well, no, not really. Well, kind of.

The interview is the interview. We're not there now. We're not there now.

No, no, no. But but who do we talk with there? The Freddie Jones Band. Yes, we did.

We talked with Marty, Marty Lloyd and in Goose, Goose Point. Yep. And we'll talk to them.

Got some great insight on the background of the band and where they've been, where they're going and what they what they're planning on doing. Definitely. Yeah, exactly.

Same thing as where they go. Exactly. Exactly.

It was a good time is a lot of good stuff to talk about there. Yes, it was very interesting. Some some interesting stuff.

The Freddie Jones Band is a well-established band. Been around for quite a while now. Nineteen ninety, I believe this guy, Freddie Jones, is the guy to really put it together originally, I understand.

No, I don't think so. Oh, well, listen to the podcast. He'll find out the truth.

I guess you will. Let's go. So let's do it right now.

Let's do it. Hey, we're meeting today with Marty Lloyd from the band Freddie Jones. Yeah, clap, clap, clap.

Thanks. City Winery. How are you doing today, Marty? Doing great, man.

It's great to be back here, obviously back home in Chicago. This is your first show here. I mean, since recently, well, we haven't played in Chicago.

I don't remember Goose. I think you're about two years ago. I saw you here at City Winery.

We were here last November last year. Oh, that's right, you were here. Yeah, no, no, November we played out.

United. That's right. Neighborhood, Arlington Heights.

United, yeah. That's close. So we try to stop through Chicago at least a few times a year, obviously.

But, yeah, we were here in November, so it hasn't been that long. We've got Goose LaPointe with us today. Yeah.

Ah! Listen to the roar. Welcome to the show, Goose. So tell us a little bit about the show.

Michael J on guitar. Michael J. And what's his name again on bass? Oh, that's right, Rich Ross is on bass. Yes, so that's the lineup.

That's the newest, latest, greatest lineup. And I would say it's the best lineup the band's ever had. Ever.

Which is, I'm proud to say that that's how this band has operated for a long time, especially over the last five or so years, which is like constantly trying to make sure that we're improving and getting better and having the best people around, the best. Because the hang is a big part of it, right? Right. So, you know, the band has gone through a lot of changes over its entire history.

Right. A lot of people don't remember that, but the lineup has changed a million times. You started, what, in 1990 or something? Yeah, about then.

We started down in South Bend, Indiana, pretending to go to college and pretending like our aspirations were to transfer into Notre Dame like good kids. And the band started, and I took off and came to Chicago and wanted to play bars and, you know, do it in the big city. Now, were you from Chicago originally? I grew up around the southern tip of Lake Michigan on the beaches in Long Beach, Indiana.

Long Beach, right? Yeah. Right there, okay. It's a mecca for music icons to come out of.

Everyone knows. Long Beach, Indiana, that's where they come from. I lived in Beverly Shores for a while, and it was great.

It was great. About a block off the beach, you could walk to the beach. Beverly Shores, that's right there.

Yeah. Everybody's on their bongos on their patios. And, you know, I mean, around the rest of the country.

I tell people, you know, when I grew up, I grew up on the beaches. I'm a beach kid in Indiana. They're like, oh.

No beaches in Indiana? I'm like, oh, I'm being serious. There's beaches there. And I refer to it as the Indiana dunes area.

Now, do the dunes suck you up? Yeah. Someone said the beaches are, there's no beaches this year. No, they've eroded pretty bad.

That's what I heard. That's terrible. Oh, well.

So how did this all get together back in 1990? What happened? Marty, what the hell happened? Why? How did this happen? Now, so, you know, there were a couple of us who had played in high school bands together. I grew up down there. A lot of Chicago kids, their families had summer homes down there.

So, like, the population was in flux, you know, throughout different times of the year. And so I had bands that I had put together that were down there full time, right? You know, your basic high school bands that would play at parties and dances and stuff like that. And then also in the summertime, you know, some other kids would come down there and spend the summers, and we would throw something together also.

So I was always in, like, a couple different bands. And some people that were from one of those, you know, we ended up running into each other in South Bend and started the band there together. Okay.

And then I moved into the city, and a couple people followed me into the city, and then we all ended up in this apartment across from Wrigley Field, you know, just completely goofing off. It was like Animal House, practically. And we were playing bars, and then it was everyone driving their own car, packed with stuff to, like, Big Ten schools, you know, driving down to Illinois and Indiana and, you know, all over, playing colleges, and we made a little CD of our own.

We're selling it out of the trunk of the car. Right. And we end up playing a show at the Park West, and it's opening up for Widespread Panic.

And Capricorn Records was there. So they invited us down to Nashville to meet with them, and we did a showcase at the Exit Inn in town down there. We met Justin Neibank.

They introduced us to the producer and some other folks that were in their circle, and that was it. Next thing you know, we're literally weeks later. We're in the studio waiting for the night, before we'd even signed a record deal.

Like, we're in the studio finishing the record. We come back up to Chicago. We're playing the Horde Fest at what was the World Theater back then.

All right. We're signing our record deal backstage, after playing our set, while the record is in the can, done, already. Wow.

So that's how quick... Kind of backwards. It was, but it was kind of like out of a movie, too. You know, like, sitting there across from Phil Walden at Capricorn Records in Nashville, and he's perched up in his big chair behind his big desk, and we're like, you know, five little kids on the other side of the desk in, like, tiny little chairs.

Like right out of a movie. Now, Justin, you mentioned Justin Ebake. Yeah.

How many albums has he worked on you guys? I've done four with him. So, you know, the big first one, Waiting for the Night. Right.

The second one, North Avenue Wake Up Call. Right. And then I did a solo thing with him, Marigold.

And then we did the latest one with him, which is Never Change. Right. And that, I think, summer of 15.

I mean, it's already been a little while that that came out in the summer of 2015. He's a heavy hitter, yeah. Oh, he's great.

And he's the, you know, he's just... It's maybe sometimes a little tough for me to realize that he's as important in the music industry as he is, because he's just my buddy. He's just our guy. Yeah, he's a good guy.

He's most importantly a good friend rather than, you know, first and foremost. And he's also just incredibly gifted. Right.

And he gets to work on some of the coolest projects, you know. I just ran into Cheryl Crow, like I was telling you guys, out in California on Saturday. I was at their show, and I got a chance to talk for a little while with her and exchange some stories about, hey, we've been working with some of the same people recently in the last few years.

And she did that awesome country record with him. And I came out around the same time, like 2015-ish, I think. So he gets to work on some fun stuff.

And he's a talented guy, and I'm sure we'll be hooking up from time to time for more projects. Are you working on an album right now? No, not a full album. We try to get through Nashville as often as we can, and we try to get a new song or two down each time we go through there.

And we're also recreating some old catalog songs, so we'll pick one each time, do a remake of it. And where they end up, you know, probably just handing them over to fans more than anything. Just YouTube videos and stuff like that.

So we've got four that are ready to go now, so we're just finishing those up. And one of them we've been playing in the show. Okay.

A new song, so. I was going to ask you what we're going to hear tonight, but I guess we'll have to wait and see, huh? Mostly Foghat covers tonight. Awesome.

And maybe in a daydream, we'll see. And some Sheryl Crow, maybe? Well, I wish. I've got to tell you, I was at high school basketball game last night.

And we got there a little early, and they started playing some music. And they played Dust in the Wind or something by Kansas and a couple of other things. And all of a sudden this talking man, I went, wait a minute, that's Freddie Joseph.

I go, hey, that's the band I'm interviewing tomorrow night. Oh, no, that's great. And we played in a daydream.

I was just texting with Lynn Bramer today from XRT. You know, he's graduated on from the morning show. He's retired from doing that.

So I thought, I meant to reach out to him days ago. I'm like, since you don't have to be on the air tomorrow morning, why don't you just come out and hang out with us? And you don't have to worry about getting up early. He's busy tonight with The Big Shot.

The Big Shot Black Crowes. So he can't make it. So speaking of XRT, how crucial were they in playing some of your stuff and getting the band out there? Oh, I mean, absolutely.

I mean, it's across the board, nationally, just in general. Our band was very reliant and lucky enough to have radio airplay. A lot of bands from our 90s genre didn't really rely or they didn't have as much radio airplay.

They built more of a cult thing. Whichever one works is fantastic. Some of those bands had a long, slow, wonderful burn of success.

And they never needed that. They just had rabid followings and a cult kind of thing. But with us, it was pretty heavy on radio.

And XRT, obviously, was at the forefront of it. Aspen, Colorado in general, became home away from home very early. And little KSPN out in Aspen was one of the first stations to play us.

And that just sort of started this little kindling kind of thing. And it was in trade magazines, I think they were talking about it. And I'm like, oh my God, the phones ring when we play this one song by this band from Chicago.

And I think Richard Milne had been playing us on local anesthetic here in Chicago. And then that kind of grew. So XRT was obviously the first big station to push us.

And so we kind of considered them, obviously, family. And Chicago home. You guys are one of those bands.

There's very few of those bands. But you're one of them who sounds great live as well as you do recorded. Oh, that's good to hear.

I've watched some of your live stuff on YouTube and your website, whatever. And I listen to the recording and I listen to the live stuff. And it sounds great live.

And so you're one of those bands that just has a great live sound. Well, in those days, a lot of the earlier material in those days, you would kind of collectively pull together what songs that you had new at the time and go through them. And Justin and us would sift through them.

And then we'd kind of quickly do what was pre-production back then. Like, everyone, you're going to play this part. You're going to play this part.

And we'll just go in there and start tracking it. And then you'd go out and start playing these songs live. And over the years, these songs develop and develop and develop.

And I would hope that they probably end up being better songs down the road than when you recorded them. That's kind of like you're just putting them in the library. Like, here it is.

This is what the basics of the song are. We put it in the library, the catalog. Hopefully some of those get played on the radio.

But then they really develop in the live show over years. A lot of the catalog songs now that we're playing have been retooled. Again, we kind of push ourselves to make them better.

What are some of your favorites of your own songs? Dust in the Wind, Free Bird, a little song I wrote years ago. I know from that one tonight. Yeah.

No, I mean, they never get old. I mean, some people ask me, even in a daydream, like, do you still like playing that song? It's like, oh, are you kidding? Oh, yeah. That song, for years, really didn't have all that much of a structure.

It just sort of went with the night. And so it never got old. And it still has that kind of feel to it.

We're not really sure, in the outro of the song, when it's going to resolve. Something different happens along the way almost every time. And then we know when it's going to resolve.

I remember you said that you wrote this to change your mood. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, people go, oh, my god, that song makes me so happy.

And it got me through a lot. It's so sunny. And I'm like, well, that wasn't necessarily the case.

I was writing it in my friend's kitchen with his guitar, looking out at a dreary day in the Midwest. And it was, man, the song just kind of happened. And it had been coming for a while.

But the song really kind of happened as a reaction to some pretty dull. To a dull day, I'd say. A dull day.

Yeah. Pretty much so. And it was a Tuesday morning.

Well, I think Tuesdays are great for writing songs. That was truth. At least I was truthful on that, right? I mean, Keith Urban says, like, I've read this quote of his, and it made so much sense.

He's like, sometimes we don't write as a reaction to how things are. Literally, we write to how we wish things were. And it's like, yeah, that's it.

Right. You often write how you wish the relationship was going. Instead of how it actually goes.

Yeah. Yeah. Or you write about how you wish you were with someone or with a situation.

Make sense? Yeah. Yeah, it does. So how long were you guys playing in the Chicago land area before you finally branched out into the rest of the world? I don't know.

We were probably, I mean, at least a couple years. We were just really just around here. We were sitting on bar stools, you know, playing for beer money.

I've seen you guys back in the day. At sports bars. Right.

Like, that didn't really go on much, and a lot of the real venues wouldn't have us. They didn't think we were, you know, serious enough. Whatever their reasons were, I don't know.

But it was very difficult for us to get into real music clubs in Chicago at first. And so our friends at sports bars would have us. We kind of gained some popularity with, you know, just bringing our acoustic guitars.

And then it was like, well, we put a stage in and lights, and, oh, cool. The next thing you know, they've installed a PA in these places. And it kind of felt like, in those days, that was the start of a different kind of venue in Chicago.

At sports bars, they'd also have live music. Right. That Linkin Park kind of crowd.

Right, exactly. When did you guys leave Chicago? A couple days ago. Now you're back.

Now you're back. No. I mean, everyone, I moved out to California in 2002.

And just a couple guys ended up in Atlanta. And now we have Nashville and a couple of us in L.A. and Denver. But, you know, it was early 2000s that people started to scatter away from the weather.

I followed you for a long time, and then you kind of, like, disappeared. We did. We had, I think, like five years where there was no band playing at all.

And everyone was off kind of doing different things. And we got back together to play an event for the Boys and Girls Club. I think that was 2005.

And then that's kind of when it was, well, let's just do this on our own terms. We'll just get together once in a while. And there were a few spikes along the way.

You know, we would record something. I think we did a live album where we put a few new things on there too. But, you know, this is for real still.

And, again, most of the last handful of years. It has not been easy. It hasn't been easy to access people who know of the band nationally.

Right. You know, rolling through towns, and it's like everyone is outraged now. Right.

And they're not glued to social media wondering where Freddie Jones' band is necessarily. Exactly. So it's kind of, it's not a rebirth, but it's definitely getting people back engaged.

And I think they come to see the band, and I think they're a little surprised at how it's developed. We're still out tonight. Yeah, now we're seeing people come again.

I mean, we just did a Midwest and Northeast run of dates. And, I mean, all these great old friends that we got to see that came out. The crowds were great.

And I was like, man, this is kind of happening again. It's kind of a cool feeling. You guys are back on the road in the last, what, four or five years you've been doing this? Yeah.

Since when the last album came out. Yeah, that came out 2015, and we've been out playing those songs since. I mean, it took us a little while to figure out, like, hey, not everyone out there, they're not going to know the new songs.

Right. You can't shove it all down their throats. Right, right.

So now it's like, oh, okay, we have to sprinkle those in here and there. And, you know, a couple of brand new ones. And you don't have XRT all over the country to play it for you.

That's right. But you know what? I mean, again, we were so lucky to have radio back then. The KFOGS in San Francisco, and KVCO in Colorado, and Cities 97 up in Minneapolis, and just these great AAA stations that were such a great fit for us back then.

And it was a way for us to connect with all the other artists from our genre. Right, right. We'd all be in and out of these same stations.

Right. And now we see each other, like the other night out in L.A., seeing people from that era, and talking about the stations and the people, and all these same familiar faces that we all get to see once in a while. Tell me about how many dates of the year do you do about now? We'll probably do maybe, like, 50 this year, something like that.

That's a good number, right? Not bad at all. I mean, it's not 250, but it's not 50. But you know, when you get to this age, 250, you kind of like it.

Yeah, and we fly. We're not parading around in a bus and doing that anymore, but it's a little easier for us to fly here, fly there. Everyone jump in a SUV and zip around and call it a day.

Right. I saw you at the Castle Theater down in Bloomington. That's all I know.

Oh, you were just—that's the one we just— Yeah. We just played there. Yeah.

I didn't make it. I saw you were down there. Oh, yeah.

I live down that way. Oh, you do? Yeah. That was a great night.

Really great night. It's a cool little theater. Cool little place.

And then Indianapolis we played, and that was— We haven't played in these places in a really long time. I don't think we've played in Indianapolis in, like, 20 years or something. That's a fairly long time, right? Would you say 20 years? You know, we're going to come here every 20 years whether we need to or not.

And it was great. I mean, it was really great. And so it feels like we're the new booking agent now, so they're getting us around to the right places again.

So you've kept a name out there all these years. You've kept—I mean, yourself, basically. You've kept the band going.

I noticed—did you play— you did a set with some of the guys from Sonya Dada back around about 20 years ago or so, wasn't it? Yeah. Great friends of ours. We've played a bunch of dates together.

Because I know Phil Miller real well. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I like Phil. He's a great guy. Yeah, good guitar player.

Yeah, he is very good. So, Goose, tell us a little bit of your history. I mean, I was filling in three years ago at this point.

I subbed, and I haven't left. That's what happens in this band. It's a spiderweb.

I've done a couple shows, and everything just bonded. Where are you from? Syracuse, New York, originally. But I'm in L.A. now.

But, yeah, so I've been brought into the group. I'm one that likes to know the roots of a band when I'm part of a group, so I went back and listened to original recordings a lot and the original lineup, Simon on drums and all. I try to incorporate a lot of that into what's going on today, but also be myself, you know? Be honest with the music.

So you've been playing... You were out there playing before that. Yeah, I've been playing my whole life. My father was a drummer, so he kind of handed down the sticks.

That's cool. Yeah, I've been fortunate. I guess I should mention I got into this group because Rich Ross, our bass player, he was the one who had me come in and sub.

I know Rich from Nashville, where we both lived for a few years, four or five years. We played with Josh Grayson at the time, who was a country artist, and he was playing with Marty, and he thought I'd be a good fit, and here we are. He's being very modest.

He's a freaking monster on drums. Thank you. He's great.

He's very good. Had you heard of Freddie Jones before you got together with him? You know, I'm pretty sure I've heard of Pandora because I'm a big Dave Matthews band. I used to cover the samples back in the high school band.

But I don't know, not off the top of my head, honestly, you know. But the genre I'm really familiar with, so for me, it's pretty easy to walk in and start just being myself because I grew up loving Carter Guilford and Dave Matthews Band and drummers alike. You know, a little tasteful, groovy, but kind of has like a percussion flavor to it.

So what comic strip did Freddie Jones come from? Oh, here we go. And that's a clever way to angle into that subject. That's never been done that cleverly.

Thank you, thank you. He's a clever guy. Yeah, so there's a real story about how we got the name, and then there's all the stuff that we made up along the way because we thought that the real story was super boring.

And some of the guys in those lineups in the early days, they couldn't, not even really, it got so deep into the crazy stories that some guys didn't even know the original story on how it actually started in India. Yeah, I can see that, yeah. We would come up with these crazy stories, and someone out of the blue told us that.

They're like, oh, the guy in Scooby-Doo, his name is Fred Jones. So people started making these cartoons of Freddie Jones band with the Scooby-Doo van and all that. And we weren't part of that at all.

That was people making that stuff up. We got a kick out of it. I just remember T-shirts made.

As long as you get the name out there, right? Yeah. I just started talking about you. The real story came from a college joke that we just took and paid forward.

And we just didn't think it was that interesting at the time. But it came from this college band, and they were just friends of ours. But they graduated and left the school, and they had a band called the Pat Giblin Band down at Notre Dame.

Okay. And Pat Giblin was not in the band. He was their buddy.

And they practiced in his basement or something. And he became a big man on campus. He had a freaking band named after him.

And everyone was like, Oh, Pat Giblin. His friends named a band after him. So they all left, and I'm like, God, wouldn't it be funny if we took it a little step further and named a band after someone maybe fictitious.

And everyone would be wondering who this person is. And I'm like, Freddie is something. Who cares? And someone said, Jones.

And I was like, Oh, yeah, Freddie. The Freddie Jones Band. That's kind of funny.

We never thought we'd have to answer a question about it. We were just dumb college kids. Pretend college kids.

Well, I'm sure everybody comes in and they go, Which one's Freddie? Which one's Freddie Jones? I didn't think we'd have to be in radio stations around the country. And I think it used to say on the prep information before we got there, Don't ask them about the name of the band. That's what the first question was.

So, about the name. Well, we at least waited until we got there. At least you referenced one of the fake stories.

Exactly. That was good. Then you said this happened back when you were back in school.

Now I was thinking, Okay, it's going to be like Leonard Skinner. You named it after some teacher. You didn't even have to ask the question.

You just had to reference one of the fake stories. That's right. And let me go with it.

Cleverly done. Thank you, thank you. Well done.

So, you guys are heading out to Denver, I see, tomorrow. And then you're going to be off for about a month. Yeah, it's been so grueling.

Tonight's the first night of the tour. Tomorrow's the last night of the tour. We need a break.

We need a month off. Wow. Two nights in a row of this.

Tough, isn't it? Yeah, two. Yeah. In two different cities.

Yeah. The frozen tundra of Chicago and the moderate climate Denver. And back home to the sunshine.

There you go. Thank goodness, huh? Yes. So last night we were, we have some friends who have an Airbnb here by Wrigley Field.

And when it's not baseball season, instead of getting hotel rooms, we, you know, they gave us a really good break on this great Airbnb house. It's just, it's amazing, right? We love this place. And we'll continue to love it.

But these things happen, and last night the heat broke. Oh. And you got two of us from California.

Yeah. 8 p.m., probably. Pulling into town.

And we're all, like, hanging out. After dinner, we had me and Francesca for dinner. We walked over there.

Yeah. We're like, you know, it's kind of getting chilly in here. And we're like, oh, no big deal.

We're, like, pushing the heat up. And we're looking at it, like, man, we've got this thing set on, like, 80. It's not doing anything.

What is it? It's dropping in temperature. Oh. 67, 66, 64.

So we woke up this morning. It was 50 degrees in there. Oh, no.

Oh, boy. It sucked. And we were huddled around the damn stove.

Yeah, yeah. With the door open to the stove. Like, drinking hot tea.

I mean, it looked like, like the Germans were bombing outside. Like, it's a bunker or something. We were camping for sure.

It's all, it's fixed. They fixed it today. So is there any chance at all of seeing another Freddie Jones album? I don't know.

I mean, it could be. I don't know. Give Justin Ebank a call and ask him if he'd like to do one.

I got him on speed dial. It'd be fun to do another one with him. That's for sure.

He's my favorite. We did that last one, and it dragged out. It took a lot longer than we had planned for various reasons, and it wasn't really musical.

It was just a lot of dynamics that came into play. And the relationship business-wise changed a little bit as far as record label and producer and all of that. Those were kind of all intertwined during that album, and so that's all shifted around a little bit, so it would take some doing to figure out how to do it again.

So it's not like we wouldn't all want to jump in and do another one. It'd be great. It just would involve figuring it out.

Right, right. But I don't, you know, are albums really, truly any more... No, no, no. It's not like the old days.

They've gone away. They pretty much have. It used to be where you toured to back up an album, and now you don't do that anymore.

And I don't mind that. I don't mind it not being revolved. I don't mind it not revolving around albums as much as I miss that cool experience of looking through, looking through liner notes and photos and all that stuff.

I mean, that was so cool to do that. But this was a little different. It's like we're doing it, we're just, on this trip, let's just add a flight and go zip through Nashville and get that song that we've been talking about, get that recorded.

Get it done. And just get it out there, you know. So we've got a handful of them now that we're ready to start trickling out there.

Okay. And it's, I don't know, there's something to be said for doing it that way too. I mean, the whole... You get the reaction as you go.

Yeah. Right. When you write, do you include a lot of the band in it, or do you basically come with a song and you've got the song pretty much set in your head the way you hear it? Oh, I do everything all by myself and give them no credit whatsoever.

I play all the instruments too, by the way. At the same time, yeah. And the band photos, just pretty much me and, you know.

We're in the background. Yeah. Me and my dog.

And... What? No, I mean... No, I mean, it's... I mean, I may, like these few that we've been working on were songs that I wrote a while back. And we did batches that we were delivering. Even after the last album came out, we were still sending songs to, you know, the upper, up the top brass in Nashville.

Yeah. A.K.A. Justin and people we were in a relationship with. And... But the album finished and it, you know, got packaged up and it's done.

So we had all these songs and... So some of them are newer, some of them are older, but that's what the new batch is kind of made up of. And then we all get together and figure out how we want it to sound and the groove. Right.

And it's, you know, it's a lot of work to figure out. Right. And the way we did this, this batch that we just did, was we took one old catalog song, redid it, and then like three new ones.

And it's an exercise to see how... Someone told me years ago, they're like, it's pretty easy to take a hit song and make it sound like a hit song. You know, it already existed. So it's easy to play the guitar part.

You can make it better or change it some, but it's already there for you to reference as opposed to the brand new thing that you just pulled out of the sky and you have to spend time figuring it out. Right, building and forming it. Yeah, the formula for it and the secret sauce.

What's the secret sauce going to be on it? It's a real contrast to like have that song sitting there next to something that's brand new that you pulled out of thin air. Right. It's kind of a cool exercise.

Does anyone else in the band do any writing? I mean... Yeah. Print songs? Yeah, these guys all write stuff. They all are well-versed in recording and have their own studios and everything.

I mean, Michael J and Goose, these guys have their own studios and they're in them every day. That's what they do. Yep.

We contributed to the songs he's referring to, the last three or four songs. We've contributed a lot of time and effort into just making it become something. Right.

We had the advantage of playing these songs out live and kind of creating them live on the spot with the audience. The other way around. Yeah, in reverse.

In reverse. Live first. Yeah.

Yeah. So it kind of crafted itself and then we went in the studio and recorded it and it's like we've been playing it for the last 20 years. It was a really cool process.

But they're really good. You'll hear them tonight. Cool.

Cool. Yeah. Well, thank you.

If anybody wants to get in touch with you or find out where the band is at, they just go to Freddy Jones. Well, first of all, did you guys buy tickets for tonight? Yes, we did. You know, it's sold out.

Yes. Just making sure. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to go.

No, I know. We made sure we bought tickets. I'm pretty sure you're on the guest list, right? Did Rich take care of you? No, I bought tickets.

I was joking. You bought tickets? Yeah, I bought tickets. Oh, my God.

We'll be buying you guys drinks tonight then. I was joking. You can erase that.

I shared last night's Facebook video hoping to win a couple of tickets. Then we brought a couple of chicks with us. Yeah.

It's too bad. All my guests are not making it tonight. Someone's sick.

Someone can't make it. I want to clear that up. I went in and brought my wife.

Your wife? Why wouldn't you bring a chick? Well, yes. I don't know what's going on. What do you mean a couple of chicks? So we can find you on freddyjones.com? freddyjonesbandofficial.com official.com Yeah, freddyjonesbandofficial.

That way we know. That it's official. It's very official.

If it's so official, you wouldn't believe it. I can imagine. And on Facebook.

And on Facebook. freddyjonesbandofficial is the Facebook with the blue check to it. You got it.

Instagram. We're all over the place. Very good.

Well, thanks for your time, guys. It was a lot of fun. Thank you.

Looking forward to tonight's show. Yeah, have a good show. All right.

That's all. I got a secret about something Don't make you smile But you can't tell No one that I bought She was like a star Cause nobody noticed From this place to China It's got a sparkle Cause it's filled with diamonds We'll go dance up on the roof So it winds up there is no Freddy Jones. There is no Freddy Jones.

No Freddy, no Jones. I was waiting for him to show up for the interview. I know.

That's why I was waiting, waiting. I'm like, is Fred going to be here or what? No, no. But we talked to Marty and Goose.

And we learned quite a bit about Freddy Jones Band. Definitely. And how their music has evolved.

I mean, some of the songs you heard 20 years ago, they're still playing, but sounding a little bit differently. Got a little different twist to them. Yeah.

Music always evolves. Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

So be sure and check us out at Road to Rock Radio. Correct? RoadtoRockRadio.net every Monday at 6 p.m. featuring one of our podcasts. That's right.

And we want to thank the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66 for helping us out here. You say route, huh? I say root. It's a route.

Is it a route? I don't know. I'm kind of rooted in my roads. Well, it's not a root.

Not a tree root. No, it's not. It's a root.

Like, get your kicks on Route 66. Like, root. Root, yeah.

Like, Root and Tootin. Root and Tootin. Yeah, Root and Tootin.

Wasn't he like some kind of emperor or something? I believe he was. King Root and Tootin? Yes. Yeah.

So, yes, Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66. Yes, or Route 66. Or Route 66.

Thank them for providing us with this wonderful studio space. I guess you get your kicks on Route 66. You do.

You do. So, you know, I guess either or is accepted. Either or.

Either or. Neither nor. It's like coupon or coupon.

Yeah. Sausage or sausage. Well, it's sausage.

Or water. Or water. We're from Chicago.

It's sausage. It's sausage. It is.

You know, over there by Kaminsky Park there. That's right. Okay.

All righty. Well, we'll see you guys soon. Okay.

All right. Thanks for listening, everybody. Have a good one.

Bye.