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, how you doing Ray? I'm doing great. That's good The weather is beautiful outside It's so funny that you're saying that because everybody goes bitching about the weather today everybody I call today We're like, you know the wedding the weather just kind of sucks here.

I'm like, you gotta be kidding me Are you hanging out in the same place? Yeah that I'm hanging out in there. Yeah, but you know, it's tomorrow It's gonna be raining. It was raining yesterday and stuff like that.

Be happy for one day Weather what's wrong with you? Take what you can get This is your cargo complain about everything just look at the sky and say oh, yes Yeah, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was amazing. I know it was no contrails from the plains or nothing It was gorgeous.

I mean you a great summer day. It was a fantastic day Fantastic speaking of oh, yes. Oh, yes.

Yes. Yes. What do you like? Did I say something? Oh, yes.

Oh, okay I think these guys are oh, yes, they are. Oh, yes, they are. They are.

Oh, yeah. Are you well, let's welcome. Oh, yes We asked them to work oh, yes into the conversation and they did it So tell the people who's talking here, well, I'm Matt publicus and we've got I'm Brian Sheridan bass player Vocalists for oh, yes, the only two that can make it down today, but that's why we not only we wanted to be here Yeah, like we we drove that.

This is the coolest place in Joliet it is along with that prison, which has got a halfway Halfway to Halloween haunted house coming up. Oh, we had a hell of a salad. Where were we? There's a great Chicago pub great salad.

Oh, yeah That's a that's a cool little that's a cool little pub over there That's that's probably the the the pub that started the whole like open jam night here in this area Yeah, and you know the singer-songwriter nights in the hall. Yes, you're ever back around this this way Yeah, you know again check out when they're open mics are and stuff. In fact, there might be one What what what what what what what Monday is it? What Monday is this the third six is this the no, this is the second second, I don't know I don't know something like that.

I don't know Somebody was ready to play. Yeah. Yeah, maybe tonight there might I think tonight is their open open mic Well, they spoke and they should advertise on the pod.

Yeah, they should advertise on let people know they spoke very fondly of Ron Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, the salad was very good. Yes.

Yes. Well good. Very good I don't believe they had salads.

Do you believe? Photo Yeah, they had a salad but they had like three bourbons That is which isn't that's nothing wrong with that. No that no, that's so what was your bourbon of choice? Well, they had makers mark. We asked for a little Buffalo trays, but they didn't have any Buffalo trays So we'll makers mark I think and we had a little Jameson.

It's an Irish pub So we went with their I thought we want their house bourbon. No, we didn't makers mark and what was Jameson? What was their house bourbon? And it was I thought we went with I thought we said surprises, but I could be wrong You're drunk. So we're gonna have to go there just to find out what their house bourbon is and see what it yeah It was it was good.

Whatever we had was very good. She did a good job with it. Her name was Catherine Kathleen Very Irish next door here.

We just tried a makers 46 a few weeks ago, and that's really good It is good and reasonably priced. Yeah, I'm talking at Vinny's or actually I found everything here to be very reasonably priced You know, it was Joliet's a beautiful little place to hang out. It's a Hamlet Well specifically this area because I mean we're right across the street from the Forge.

Yes, they're getting ready for a concert right now We were told that we we don't know but okay whoever told us we take their word for it I believe it's crowbar. It is crowbar. Maybe somebody's gonna come after you and said somebody get me a crowbar There's a lot of long hair and camouflage pants standing in line out there right now when I walked in so there is I think I believe that yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, but no, this is a great little area right here because you're right around the corner from The Rialto would right over there famous. You're in the muse.

You're in the route 66 rock-and-roll Hall of Fame a museum right now This is a great spot because he knows right over here casinos over there. Yeah, it's just pure history Yeah, pop culture history beautiful. So did you drive past the new prison or the old prison on the way in? You know, I don't think we drove past either now I know the old prison because as I mentioned in the beginning my family were big haunt people So we go to the halfway Halloween haunted house at the old Joliet State Prison.

I believe it. Yeah, I don't think I I've seen the new which they're not doing Which by the way, I don't believe they're doing anymore because they've they are turning the old prison into almost like this Not a shopping mall, but like an entertainment center in a way So they've started having things like outdoor concerts and I guess what would have been the prison yard the courtyard or whatever They're taking people on tours. If you if you go online and actually look at it There's actually designs and and like like architectural draftings of what they're planning on doing with the prison and all the events that they're having there No last year last year.

We went to the haunted house. They had the haunted house last year I think last year is the last no, they're still doing it because I bought tickets last really Yeah, it's May 2nd and 3rd, but other than the haunted house. It's empty.

It just sits there Yeah, but the haunted house is okay. Okay, there's a better one in Lockport I've been to that one. That one's better fantastic.

It's the one by the prison house, okay But now yeah this year when we came out of that one by the prison We looked across the street and the gate was open where we're blue She walked out. Mm-hmm, and I see people with lights and like what the hell's going on So we walked over looked in guy comes up. Are you here for the light light? Something around like what are you talking about? It's like 15 bucks to get in They give you a flashlight you go and explore the whole prison.

That's cool. Yeah, that was that was more fun Yeah, it's spooky. Oh, yeah, of course it is and that prisons owned by the Joliet Historical Museum Which is right across the alley from us So they they run they're taking care of that and actually the new the new prison the Stateville, right? They're tearing it down.

I just heard that. Yeah, that's what I heard Well, that's actually been there a long time It has because because when the Blues Brothers movie came out the old prison was already closed down, wasn't it? I believe so too. So when was when was when was Gacy fried? He was fried in It was in the it was in the 90s.

Actually, I think it was dying. Okay, so then it was still open then Yeah, and it was still open. That's why they used I thought he fried at Stateville.

I think I think he did too I don't think he was at the yeah, I don't think he was at that prison really. Mm-hmm Well, I wish we had something like on our hip or right here on our table where we could look that up But there was a reason there was a reason why during the scene they when Belushi walked out of the prison There was a reason why they used the door that they used because that that's not actually the front entrance to the prison, right? Right, it's more like a side entrance and they kind of made it look like it was the front door to the prison But it's not well the old Joliet prison closed in 2002 Hard to believe that was open that late. Yeah Wow, I I'm I thought I thought they fried Gacy at the old prison Hmm because when you when they were showing all the protests and stuff on the right, it was that yellow line Was it protesters it was celebrations.

I mean, no, no there there was there was actual there was really there was both Yeah, both there was like, you know, death penalty is a sin and then there there was then they were like fine Where's the new prison? So the new prison is is between well, it's What's what would be the road it's 52 isn't it's no it's it's between what we would call Larkin at this end It's Weber Road or Larkin you can actually get off that Weber Road if you're on I-55 and then and then at the the border to the south is Part of Route 53, right? It's actually further north than the old Joliet prison. It's and then it's West Across the river. So did the old Division the old one was just up the old one was like from the 1800s.

I mean it was just obsolete But it was at it was it was being used up to 20 up to 20 2002 2002 And now this new one they're gonna the new one is we do I think that one opened to like 1920 Yeah, but they're tearing that down rebuilding any big any big breakouts any any history here? Well, John Wayne Gacy was executed at the Stateville Correctional Center in 1994 according to Google. Yeah Okay 1994 right? Yeah, I was in 90s. Yeah 94, but I mean you're so close to it right now the the old prison You are so close to it.

It's literally just a couple blocks and we saw that direction The old one we saw it coming out of the the pub I think where we had our food No, no, no, you know, you couldn't you couldn't see it from you got a couple miles You're about 10 minutes away, but it's not it's not out of your way It's just a couple blocks that way and I wouldn't take him by because you'll drive right past it. Yeah, I love Matt He has not seen the Blues Brothers yet. Really? Wow, so we're gonna have a viewing party I'm gonna take him past there and we have one musician who's never seen the Blues Brothers Wow And we have another musician who's never been to Nashville.

Oh And we have two great friends calling that out on a pot I'm not saying to call you out. I'm saying it that I can't wait to watch We might be best friends Matt has a place in Nashville. So I think this is you know meant to be nice.

Nice. That's that's perfect No, you're gonna love you watch it the whole way home Because they do they do have the lights up still so you'll still be able to see a little bit of it But it's it's all this old limestone and look I think at one point in time. It was some type of a fort I don't think that started as a no.

No, it was built as a prison. It was built by the prisoners themselves To work I mean to build their prison looks like it looks like an old fort. It's like digging your own grave, right? How about it? That's painful.

Yeah. Yeah kid. Wow.

Amazing. Well, thanks for coming. Yeah I don't know we need to talk music All the history and stuff associated with the music in this area was the matrix that we met at the matrix in Naperville We did we met it that we met at the matrix in Naperville and what made me go up to these guys Was you know, we hear this all the time We have cover bands on on the the program all the time and every single cover band says this thing the same thing Well, you know, we like to put our own spin on stuff and I always think to myself Yeah, but you know what? There's a fine line between putting your own spin on a song and just not playing it, you know correctly, right? But you guys actually do that.

Yeah, it's actually kind of put your own little spin on things and it made it very Interesting it kept everything, you know songs that you hear over and over again Just for some reason it sounded fresh again when I heard you guys doing it. So we were unaware we were doing that We just kind of try to be ourselves and Play it the way it comes out and I'm glad you said that thanks. We do actually try to do that Yeah, yeah, make it our own.

Yeah, right, right and everybody says that but nobody really Does but I can honestly say that you guys do that now who's missing you there's there's many more people in your band Yeah, what for more people in your band? I don't like to talk about them. Yeah, if they're not if they're not here screw them They had the opportunity, right? There's an old friend of mine TJ's our drummer, okay We've got Doc Watson. His real name is Robert.

Let me guess. He's a keyboard player. He's a keyboard player Every keyboard players named doc.

Yeah. Yeah, they know a lot of everything. They're very technical keyboard player in Canada His name is doc Interchange him.

Yeah, we can we borrow your dog. We could yeah. Yeah, we could do what kind of doc easy because ours is an amateur gynecologist He probably say the same In fact, it's part of the show because I'm an amateur gynecologist and proctologist, you know I'm self-practiced and self-taught and I'm thinking to myself.

How do you self-practice proctology? Yeah Tony Jordan's our guitar player. He's the newest guy in the band. We just met him a couple years ago And then Brian's very own daughter Caitlin is our female vocalist that we were yes We were looking for we're trying to bring a female into the band and Brian and I have been playing for so long I've known Caitlin since she was a little girl and as she grew Her her talent and her experience on stage just completely took off and she's a perfect fit for our female vocalist See now it's all coming back to me because I remember having this conversation with the people that I was sitting in at the table You know, one of the other guys looks at me.

He goes I think that's his daughter You Wouldn't guess from looking at her because she's beautiful and I'm not I've got a radio face But I like to say that she gets her her looks from her mother and her talent from me. There you go Yeah, I'm saying that whether it's true or not. Yeah Yeah, we had another band in here a while ago We're the gal her dad was the drummer in the band and he was older than her I mean she was a younger gal and like they'd be taking a break and be standing on the side of stage guys that come You know making some remarks about her, you know, this and that and this and that and they're like, he's like, yeah Yeah, and then they'd look at him say, you know, I'm her dad.

Yeah We're lucky to have her well you have to because you know, we're men we know how men are like that's right pigs We're all pigs. That's right Yeah, we're always on my eyes I'm on guard let's put it that way but I there was a gig that we did recently last Year where I couldn't make it and she was on the show and there was a situation where someone was getting a little too Forward if you will and I she told me every guy in the band was there for me dad Like you don't have to worry. So how old is she 23? Okay.

All right, so she's not like 18, but yeah Young woman Five foot nothing. Yeah. Yeah, she is.

She's she is tiny. Yeah. Yeah, she is.

She gets her height from me, too She handles herself. Well, so is she now a full-fledged member of the band? Now when I saw you guys was was that one of her first performances she so Katie was with us and then She was still in college. And so she would she was going to Florida International University, which she's graduating from in a couple weeks I'm going down to Miami to see that so when she was gone, we would have fill-ins people who would kind of fill in so Yeah, kind of like since September of last year.

She's come back more full-time Okay to be the only singer. Yeah, Jim. Yeah, and I remember when you guys told me that story as well See, it's all coming back now.

Yeah, it makes it easy because we've been we'll do some acoustic stuff Yeah to fill gaps on the schedule and she's been singing with us for a long time. So it just it was easy and It just fit, you know, you know how it is being right bands the chemistry It's easy to start a band real hard to keep them together. Oh, yeah this group we have going it's The chemistry we're friends were you know friends first five working professional dads, right? Right live in live in our passion.

We we know we're not going on tour, but we take it seriously, right? Yeah, and it's fun and and we we don't see an end, you know, we're just kind of getting started Yeah, you know I in the past 20 years I've been in two bands and prior to that. I was like in 20 bands. I was gonna say that's amazing Yeah, yeah, and I think a lot of it has to do when you get to be our age You know, like you said, we're all dads, right? We're all professional working dads all fathers I have two kids about the same age as your daughter in the whole bit Okay, and it wasn't until you know, I was in my mid 30s that putting together a band All right, it was no longer about the egos, right, you know You know It was no longer about the leather pants and the pink guitars or whatever who's all about the music and hanging out with people that You like to hang out comes medicine.

Yeah, it's your it's your golf. That's right, right? That's exactly what it is. I how many times I say that I say it a lot.

Yeah Yeah, no, no doubt about it. It becomes your golf. It's your therapy It really is but even I mean and I agree with that saying but it's like even More than golf like people say it's a hobby and it is but it's like the most passionate hobby You can possibly have yep, you know, I also think the amount that we play right, you know, I never played golf that much Yeah, it's impossible not to make it Professional when you're playing 50 60 times, of course, you have to have a professional approach to it Otherwise, you're gonna get a bad reputation.

They're not gonna book. Yeah, you're not gonna have your repeats You know, we play the bars to get the privates right and when we're getting our weddings and our that's what it's all about Right the country clubs in the corporates. I'm literally what I call I'm in spring training right now and I'm sure as musicians you can relate When you get up on that stage and it's 90 degrees outside and you're doing a two three hour show You have to be in good physical shape.

Yes, you do So you I'm working out watching where they eat because I know that the summer season is coming and you have to be ready Yeah, it's and it's an endurance. It's a physical activity. If you're gonna put on a good show, you're not just standing there You're moving around you're singing you're pushing it out.

You got to be physically ready for it. Yep Yeah, you absolutely do as we were comparing it about, you know It's like golf or any other hobby or something like that. If if you wake up on a Saturday morning and you You're scheduled to play golf and you're running a fever and you're not feeling right.

Guess what? You're not going to play golf, right? But you're still gonna have to figure out how to make that gig. That's right. Cuz I mean, where you gonna find a fill-in At that point in time, I mean you can't call that a hobby.

No, I mean that that's a job at that point We've all played those shows where we were sick. Oh god. Yeah, I remember having a and this is a little gross But I remember having a empty beer pitcher on the side of a stage because I had I was you know Throwing up.

Yep, and I had it on the side of the stage for when I had to have a situation that was extreme Yeah, but made the show there was no way out of it, you know, probably not the safest thing But this was in the 90s when we didn't care so much about that type of thing Yeah, something happens to you as soon as you get on that stage and you play that first song or the first chorus of the first Song. Yeah, I don't care if you got a hundred and three fever Yeah, I don't care if you've got Flint you call your buddies the morning You say I don't know how I'm gonna make it through the show Yeah, something the endorphins something takes over something happens and at the end of the night you're like, well When's our next show? Yeah, wait. Yeah, right at least for me.

That's how it goes Maybe there's something in that instead of instead of you know, taking Sudafed or whatever when you you know Just go to the doctor get a shot of epinephrine or something like that You need something to get you through cuz it you're exactly right it that's exactly what happens Yeah, it's the first chord. You feel 100% better. Yeah, I played it I played a show a few years ago when you heard boom Right, you're like what the heck's going on? Well, the bass guitar the is feeding back right because the bass player just took his guitar dropped it didn't turn the volume down Anything boom and you see him running in the bathroom with one hand I'm really appreciating your sound effect at the beginning of that story now It was in key too.

I'll tell you what if you if you if you've never heard feedback from a bass guitar rig I swore all my feelings fell out It did all of a sudden you hear this Feedback from a bass guitar rig and my eyes rolled back in my head and I almost passed out I'd put my hand back on the on the drummers, you know drum kid He's like, what the heck are you doing? And he looked at me and realized oh shit. Mike's about to pass out. Yeah That is earning your stripes That's right radio.

You play you're a musician as well, correct? Yeah, I don't I don't play with any bands You're not digging. No, no, not since my 20s 30s. Maybe what's your instrument guitar? Yeah, what kind of John or what music? Okay, Oh rock rock.

What's your favorite rock band? old and new He's gonna say M&R rush watch There's a ton of them, I mean, I don't really have one favorite and new there really aren't any new Not not in a way like a rock band, yeah back in like 70s 80s that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah same question What's yours old and new? Oh gosh, so my favorite song So it's funny cuz in the band Matt and I were best buddies.

We became great friends through all this He's 100% country if I'm not mistaken, right man, and I'm a hundred percent like I'm a metal guy So my current favorite I guess new band. Oh, they've been around for a while is avenged sevenfold. Oh, yeah Yeah, love that.

Just great band just came back from Knoxville, Tennessee saw them there I've seen them in LA this year, Arizona Huge fan. I even have a Johnny Christ Schecter bass. Wow.

No, yeah, two of the five string in the four string old I So I was brought up like the band that just absolutely blew my mind and made me want to be a musician Of course for a lot of people Van Halen when I heard Eddie's guitar playing and then I heard the harmonies to The harmonies were such a big part of Van Halen. I was sold that was it. I was hooked Yeah, so that'd be my old and new.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

What about you? You said you're all country Well, so I grew up, you know in the 80s hair hair music. So Bon Jovi. Yeah was my biggest influence that That's what made me want to be a musician play guitar Saying this kind of stuff, right Cinderella Bon Jovi we're talking like 86 right when the Bears won the Super Bowl is when I started getting into music, right? Um, but as I got older I was turned on to some songwriters, you know, like Phil Vassar.

I don't know if you know these names Yeah, but Phil Vassar's an incredible songwriter. He goes he's written a lot of stuff for God come on John. They're married to Faith Hill.

Oh He wrote a lot of songs that he would perform and then currently, you know, I'm very very much into Morgan Wollin It's some point, you know, does he not have friends that says hey dude, don't throw the chair What are you doing? I don't know if like ego gets where you think you're invisible or I don't know Is he trying is he trying to live the outlaw country thing? I am trying so hard So hard to support him It's just hard Yes back in the day the stories of all these rock bands were like Corsic Van Halen trash in a hotel room and it was Kind of went with the territory, but that's gone. That is gone. So when you hear it now, it's very out of the ordinary, right? But when you throw a chair over the Yeah, it's bad yeah, yeah, I mean can you imagine what that what happened to that chair when it hit the pavement? I mean there could have been shrapnel flying everywhere.

I was gonna hit somebody Yeah, but it's the country me It's the songwriting the lyrics the stories that this country's artists can get in four minutes that personally I'm just talking personally I can't find in any other music right right Bon Jovi touches on everything You know some never say goodbyes if you listen to those lyrics, it's cute There's a way you listen to don't miss your don't miss your life by Phil Vassar Yep, tell me if you don't get choked up after four minutes for the four minute mark on that song Well, you know Ray Charles always said the reason why Ray Charles, you know dove into country music is because it was for the stories You know, yeah people went to see Ray Charles play country music because of the stories. Yeah, that's that's Don't think you're getting out of this. What's that yours? Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely We should try to guess You probably never would you probably never guess I want to say old go-goes. Oh, you got it. I even got the boots Yeah, I do have their first album on China Yeah, I couldn't guess what is it old and new, you know I had I have such an eclectic musical taste because really because my father Good, but my father was not a musician at all.

My mother was the piano player But my father would he had a great stereo and he would come home from work and whatever He felt like playing that night and this was back in the days where we still had 45s and spindles and turntables, right? So he'd take a stack take a stack of them on there and throw a stack of 45s on there and he would go Through in a half-hour period before dinner. He'd go through Jackson 5 to Led Zeppelin, you know to to Boston to Van Halen They need swing back around again and there be like the OJ's and I mean just just awesome different music Yeah, you know always in the house, but I think old band the first band that made me go. Holy shit I want to do this.

I really want to do this is my friend's older brother brought over on vinyl Led Zeppelin's physical graffiti. Yeah, and I heard that and I was just like man I'm hooked on I heard houses of the holy and all that stuff. I guess absolutely loved Love that out.

The musicianship is off the charts. The writings out the charts this thing is everything's out the charts Yeah, yeah, and then and then what really turned it up for me. See I see I'm different than you I was never attracted to Guitar players like Eddie Van Halen.

Mm-hmm that I wish I had half that talent, but that sound just never spoke to me Mm-hmm. It was in I think it was 1992 or 1993 I went and saw a buddy guy for the first time live at the Milwaukee County Fair Yeah, and he played what I think I think it was just a three-piece and he was so loud and that guitar was so searing I looked at my wife and I said That's the way I want to sound. Yeah, you know, that was that was that was it Yeah, he's great.

I Got to be around him Through some other musical projects and I remember I wanted to meet him so badly yeah, and I went up to him and I said hello and It just kind of ended there. He didn't say much back to me say Brian. No, he's just like, okay, you can go now One of my one of my good friends has worked as a sound guy at his club and knows him knows him pretty well And I've gone and seen him at his club in January several times buddy guys legends Yeah, and and I actually spent about you know, five ten minutes talking to him as a fan I mean, you know, I never once told him up to this point that I was a musician myself and He must have thought I was an idiot for the first five years that I knew him because I couldn't put two words together Yeah I was like a complete idiot around at a point where I would start approaching him and he tried to come up with some kind Of reason like oh, you know, I gotta go And finally I was able to talk around us similar experience so I gotta ask you then being a buddy guy fan Stevie Ray Vaughn, yeah thoughts feelings Many yeah Stevie Ray Vaughn fan.

Oh god. Yeah, I don't I don't know what to say about that I mean, that's like, you know, that's I don't even know how to answer that in a good way. Yeah Untouchable, I don't even know how to answer that we could have an entire podcast of What is it about Stevie Ray Vaughn? That makes you love him.

There's so many different things. Yeah, so I had tickets to his last show at Alpine Yeah, and I just gone to Vegas and I lost a few dollars and I came home and my buddy said hey We got Stevie Ray Vaughn Alpine tonight. I said, you know what dude sell my ticket So, you know, they say you shouldn't have regrets in life One of my biggest because that was the last show I had were you there the same thing I was there Did you what do you mind had an extra ticket asked me if I wanted to go I thought about it And you know, I'll catch him next time.

He comes through right? Yeah big mistake. Never again. You were there.

I was there I was there. I drove with a friend of mine and He drove back home and you know long story short. It was a middle of the week I was a student at the College of DuPage okay, and I had to get up and go to school the next day and I always used to drive the same way because I grew up in Like the like the Bloomingdale Roselle sure area off of Gary Avenue and I mean I would take Gary Avenue like all the way into downtown Wheaton and take the back roads and cut over and get into Glen Ellyn and go to go to COD and I get to around like st.

Charles Road and Where the Wheaton bowling alley is. Mm-hmm, and I'm listening. I would always listen to remember Eddie and Jobo in the morning I met Eddie at a gig a couple last summer.

Yeah. Yeah. He's a nice guy.

Yeah. Oh, yeah Yeah, I would always listen to them in the morning I liked their morning show right but they would never play stuff like you know on right nothing like that No, and then all of a sudden around and it's a different attitude in the morning, right? And this is around I don't know 830, you know, nine eight forty five something like that and they're like, yeah We're playing, you know music by Stevie Ray Vaughan and I'm thinking that's kind of cool because he had the concert going on last night You know, I don't know The wee hours in the morning. I was like what? Yeah, you've got to be kidding me I was like wait, no, and I mean literally just there.

I was just I was literally just there like Adam I Walked through my door at like two o'clock in the morning and fell asleep real quick because I knew I had to get a musical Hi, and then I pull over and these are the days of payphones, right? I pull over and there's a payphone in the parking lot, you know lift up my you know, the account Center Council I'm looking for all the quarters that I can find. I am calling everybody. I know is it true? What the hell happened right is true.

What the heck happened? What the heck happened? Oh, I I was I then his birthday is October 3rd, I think or October 4th So he died August 27th. Thank you think it was 1990 Yeah, and I was devastated and I didn't go so I had a regret and I drove all the way to Dallas with three buddies Yeah went to his grave. I stuck a guitar pick in his headstone.

Wow Yeah, I stayed the night party with some friends in the Dallas area and drove home. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah I've got you know truth be told My my guitar rig might why I should say the my first guitar rig that I bought for myself That was actually what I consider to be a professional rig is a sunburst Stratocaster because that's what Stevie played Right and it's a fender amp because Stevie played a ray of you know fender ramps and the Marshall amps in the whole bit but I got Iverness to screamers because Stevie played an Iverness so I nailed it here with the Question and and I played GS GHS boomers because those are the strings that Stevie put on his guitar and that's that's it, man That's that's it. It's the tragic story too. He gets cleaned up puts out that unbelievable album.

Yeah clean Yeah, and it's probably one of his best. Yep, and then it's over and nobody Close with that style since no, not really not in his way Well, yeah, there's there's there's a few I think Kenny Wayne Shepherd comes pretty damn. Yeah, Kenny Wayne Yeah, Christie, my Chris Duarte comes pretty damn close.

There's some people out there still he broke through Yeah, the way those guys haven't yeah, you know even as great as they are. There was something about Stevie He broke through to the masses. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, he made blues Palatable for everybody accessible. Yeah, right.

Yeah. Yeah Yeah, he didn't want to do it, but the greatest thing that he ever did was play guitar for David Bowie Yeah, let's dance that that put him on the national stage, right? It really did it did well You know what? I think I'd like to hear some music now. I think so too.

We're talking about it I'm not hearing it. We're talking all kinds of all kinds of stuff. So why don't we take nothing close to Stevie Ray Vaughan? Let's Take a little break here and we'll come back to some music.

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Very good. They're gonna cost you $5 a ticket There's gonna be a $10 cover charge to get in the day of the event and for your $10 We will give you two more additional tickets as well as some Cadillac groove swag and the lucky grand prize winner will win the band Cadillac groove and winner must be present to win and so remember that and Cadillac groove will play for whatever Event it is that you would like for us to play for you know conditions do apply. That's true We do have to get out there and get your tickets right away Hey Mike, yo, are you ready? Oh, yes hit it Ooh, I need you love it.

I guess, you know, it's true. I Hope you need my love, babe Just like I need you Hold me Love me. Oh me Love me.

I ain't got nothin' but love, babe eight days a week Love you every day girl always on my mind One thing I can say girl. Love you all the time Hold me Love me Love me You We You To show I care Need you love me. I guess, you know, it's true.

I Hope you need my love, babe Just like I need you Hold me Love me. Oh me Me is a week You To show I care love you every day girl always on my mind One thing I can say girl. Love you all the time Oh me Love me Eight days a week You know that can go on into a Beatles fan, oh, yeah Yeah, I was a huge Beatles fan and for the harmonies and the songwriting now, that's I'm a Paul guy You know, I like both just like I like Van Halen with David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar just two different things I like John Lennon and I love Paul McCartney, but if I had to pick I've always been a Paul guy now Maybe that's cuz I'm a bass player.

Mm-hmm, you know, I was never a Beatles fan. I don't know if it was But but Mike I respect like there are six but I don't know if it's cuz of my age I don't know how old exactly you are, but I was not a Like the Bon Jovi years were the Beatle for oh my god, yes Religious just I'm just like I can't think of anything before that that really Neil Diamond you're huge Yeah, I'm a great point. Yeah, I'm growing up with my parents Neil Diamond really really influenced the heck out of her Absolutely.

As a matter of fact, the name of the band came from Neil Diamond. It did. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah Yes all the time that was a catchphrase and I in my family growing up my dad played in a tribute band, oh, yes Constantly say oh, yes, so it turned into a tagline is a yeah kid in my house Yeah, guys want pizza tonight? My mom be like, oh, yes.

Oh, yes I mean it turned that's where the name of the band came. So that's pretty cool, you know, Tommy Eurek Oh, yeah, so tell me you're a great guitar player. Oh, yeah, we were sitting around trying to stick a name with the band He's like, why don't you guys just call it? Oh, yes Saying it all the time.

It's like a constant branding. We're like, that's a pretty good. Oh, yes, and I gotta confess when we were talking about Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Yeah, and I was thinking about guitar players, right? Our guitar player Tony Jordan has a lot of I can hear a lot That's what made me fall in love with our guitar player when we found him in the church, you know, the church players Well, we weren't a church, right? Right. He plays it sure. He's a church Rocker and this guy can play guitar Tony Jordan.

Yeah. Yeah, and he leads the band in prayer sometimes the other guitar player that comes to mind is Tommy Eurek, you know Tommy. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. He's got a great style a great feel really different than what you'll hear Just his own style. So yeah, he makes great faces when he's playing You gotta make you have to make great guitar.

Just an original dude, man. He's a good guy. Good friend, too Yeah, hi, Tommy.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're not yeah, we're not Gonna talk about Stevie Ray I'm gonna I'm gonna resist talking about Stevie Ray again because we can talk about go get a new podcast to talk about him forever Yeah, absolutely But you know what the you know I don't know Tommy as well as I know his brother John and I may have yeah, I may have seen Tommy once or twice But I I'm familiar with his playing and I know his sound and you know, there's a common thread Amongst those guitar players where we named earlier like like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, which we know would be another one The common thread is man these guys They realize that the mojo is not in the gear.

I mean, yeah, they all have good amps They all have I mean they all play Fender Stratocaster guitars, right? Everybody's playing the same, you know fender, you know twin amps or twin reverbs or whatever the or the Marshall amps or whatever But it's not you know, the the Marshall stacks or anything like that It's the combo amplifiers most of the time and everything and it's all in their fingers, you know, everybody's ending of the strings It is it absolutely is and that that common thread is you know Anybody that sounds like themselves with the gear that they have without being overly distorted or over driven or whatever and just knows how to Milk the tone out of their gear. That's that common thread. Yeah, that's Tommy York.

Yeah There's a lot of great guitar players, you know in our local circuit. Yeah, we Really? I'm in the Midwest for music. I mean you find some of the best musicians in the world, right? Oh, yeah Yeah, oh absolutely within within a 10-mile radius of where we are right now There are so many session players that we can name that that have been interviewed You know on this podcast and everything before and and you know I don't say it enough about him, but the the guitar player in in Cadillac groove a guy named Scott Evans It's one of the best guitar players you will ever hear Professional amateur what I mean, this is the kind of guy that warms up playing Satriani songs I mean Sure, yeah, so so tell us a little bit more about your set list because it's a little bit of everything I mean That's obviously a song that you sing lead on you guys do the harmonies on and you've got to have some other stuff as well Because your daughter's gonna be singing and stuff.

Does everybody in the band sing first of all, or is it just it's So Matt's the lead vocalist male vocals Katie is the lead Female vocal and then I'm doing a ton of harmonies and the keyboard doc is doing a ton of harmonies I think the thing that Matt you could take over but the thing that really gelled with Matt and I we I was brought into another project that he was in and They really didn't have a lot of harmonies in that band and then I came in for me That's the thing I love to do more than anything probably even more than playing bass as I love singing harmonies and he and I on Night one news instant it was instant and so The set list is a little bit of everything But we're gonna throw harmonies all over the place even if they were never there in the original recording We're putting them in that we don't overdo it, but there's a lot right Which goes back to your one of your original comments about how we kind of put our own little I hate to use the word Spin because everyone uses it but yeah, we have a goal Let's play the song the way that we hear it the way that is comfortable for our vocal and however it comes out It's gonna be ours, right? And that's what we do pretty well And it was it was instantly when Brian we've all sang with a lot of people in our lives you you include in But when we started gigging together it kind of came it kind of came out for listen. It was good It's been great since yeah And so we pick that Beatles song because it's just two-part harmonies all the way through right, right, you know Yeah, but Doc Watson on keyboard, you know, he's got a real high. Yeah, he breaks glasses Pitch perfect, you know, you can like hum you could play something.

Oh, that's a Bizarre when it comes to like harmonies like you'll find like these weird Harmonies that just you know, like wow that that does work. Yeah, so he's really good at that. He's got a really high He throws a real nice high harmony in there So yeah, there's really four singers in the band to be honest with you.

Good good So it sounds like Doc's the guy in the band that will always they'll say something like hey Tell me a g-string. Yes And you just want to turn around That practice we at least have and we do a lot of video in a lot of recording of our practices So we can go back home and woodshed in our cars while we're driving to work our particular harmony part, right? Right. That's that god bless doc.

That's doc You know, he'll record our practices and send them to us and be like, here's your third. Here's your fist Oh, yeah, god bless him. He's really talented Well, you know you have to have somebody like that in every band Somebody has to be the musical director in every band and you know true because otherwise you got you know In your case six different people all playing something the way they think that it should be playing in six different ways Yeah, it's totally cool not to switch gears real quick, but have you ever heard of Gonna plug it.

You've heard of live at Matt's barn No, okay. So I would like you to and all your listeners. I'm assuming you were the mat Do me a favor and I think what we can do is yeah, we might be able to get again I'm I'm spitballing here, but maybe a live Podcast out of the live at Matt's barn But before we go for and have you play you have to come there You have to first you're gonna YouTube it and you're gonna see what we're doing.

You ever seen live at Daryl's place? Yeah, it's a local total ripoff that the complete ripoff. It was born out of kovat to be honest Tyler Holcomb in there. We've had our we've had Marty Craven.

We've lost an AdWords. We've had vocalists from the voice from brass from the past from the past Pino Farina Tommy you're the list goes on and on when you go on that and I'll shut up about it You'll be like, holy wow cow all live video audio We take three takes and we pick the best take out of the three. Yeah, we don't expect it But it's wrong.

It is what it is. We bring you in a showcase you great. Yeah, I'd love to do that Oh, it's so great.

That sounds like a lot of fun. It's a lot of whiskey Yeah You have to bring me Yeah, you're coming right whether you like it or not you're gonna be in it right after that you're gonna start gigging again It's you're playing guitar. I'm kind of leaning towards glockenspiel these days.

Yeah He's trying to find a band that we were he's trying to find a glockenspiel. We did find one a couple Yeah, I'll go kind of yeah, we did find a Wow. That would be a first live at Matt's barn I don't mean to go sideways on that, but no no, that's okay It's a very cool thing actually live at Matt's barn and it was born out of kovat because as you know as a working musician 2020 came and we lost every gig we had for Practically a what year and a half or something like that and we were going stir crazy And you know, we were trying to be respectful of the you know You know keeping a safe distance and he has a giant barn and we're like, let's go to bar We can all stand six feet apart You know just to be respectful to the whole situation and let's bring some artists in and we'll be the supporting band Or sometimes it'll be our band right and it might have started.

Oh, yes, it actually did start Oh, you might have a band might have originated out of that barn saying, you know, what? Wait a minute We're doing so because we're the same guys from up. We've been playing together for over a decade This band's two years old, right, but we've been playing together for like a decade playing in the barn Yeah, right, right, right the other the other thing if I if you don't mind me mentioning you guys remember Steve doll Gary Meyer Oh, yeah, of course. I still listen to his podcast.

Okay, so then you've probably seen us on the house band We're the house band. Oh, yes is the house band of the the Gary Meyer podcast. Oh, no that not him Oh Steve doll.

Okay, you got to check Gary out, you know after the divorce some people went one way some people I went both ways again, Sammy Hagar I like I love Steve doll. I will say I have gravitated towards Gary he did his podcast for free for many many years, but now I'm actually a paid subscriber and He came across us. I'll be honest.

I pitched us and he loved it and we became the official house band. So we do live at Matt's barn videos on the he does a Friday cocktail show, which is live on YouTube and You can watch it live and sometimes we'll be on doing what we just did playing a song live like this, right? Right, and so you were the whole band the whole band sometimes or just us. Yeah Yeah, well, you know then I'll tell you what I'll make a deal with you I'd be more than happy to do that But then that means you guys have to agree to participate in something else that we're trying to put together We're in the process of looking for a venue and we're gonna find one I think we're pretty darn close to it but what we want to do is we want to do a like weekend long music festival featuring the acts that have been on this podcast and and and it's it's completely I mean Free meaning.

Yeah, we can't pay you guys. No, that's okay We want to do is we want to raise funds for the museum podcast and the Automatic, you know, and I think that'd be a great way to do it There's a great theater that I'm trying to work on to get some people Don't people there and if we can start it on a Friday and go all the way through and continue it through a Saturday to a weekend-long festival will promote it on the Gary Meyershaw bring it We'll promote the hell out of it We'll raise more money before the show and at the show and a lot of those bands that you just mentioned who have been To your barn have actually been on this podcast We I mean, yeah, we'd be honored to do that. Yeah, we would yeah, we have Marty and those guys You know, you know not too long.

I just listen. I was just I was great. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I think I think we got a path Forward that's pretty cool. Yeah, you guys are gonna be episode 198.

Ooh, that's our lucky number 198. Yeah. Oh, yes play that in the lotto tonight.

Can you do that? Can you play three numbers? I have no idea pick three pick three If you need a fourth and just add a zero there's your That's right. So before we get ahead of ourselves, I think we need to hear another song for I think we do Yeah, we need to do that We gotta think of one should we do a Bon Jovi song since we talked about Bon Jovi if you want to I mean if you Want to kill me you can go ahead Truth which one you want to do I was thinking Making the one with the highest harmony. No, no, you could do it.

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And in that time, yeah, baby, whispers, baby, it's OK. It's OK. She said, we gotta hold on to what we've got.

It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not. We've got each other, and that's a lot for love. We'll give it a shot.

Oh, we're halfway there. Oh, living on a prayer. Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear.

Oh, living on a prayer. Living on a prayer. Insert guitar solo here.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. She says, we gotta hold on, ready or not. We live for this fight.

It's all that you've got. And I say, oh, we're halfway there. Oh, living on a prayer.

Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear. Oh, living on a prayer. Very nice.

OK, they might make me a Bon Jovi fan and a Beatles fan. Whoa. All in one night? I'm giving the silent applause right there.

Dang. Rubbing my fingertips together like that there. Trying to pick all the bands you don't like now because we went so heavy with the SRV.

Now we just want to piss you off. Would you like to hear some Wagon Wheel? We got some Wham coming up next. Oh, God.

Yeah, you know what? Wake me up. Would you please? No, actually, what I'd like you to do is play Wagon Wheels and then follow it up with Tennessee Whiskey, please. Yes, please, Tennessee Whiskey.

That's his favorite. He's calling off the set list. It's in our set list.

Lose it, fast. God, you know, God, that was a great song when it came out. But if I never hear it ever again in life, it'll be too soon.

We call it the brown-eyed girl of modern day. We all reach that point with brown-eyed girl where like, if I never play this song again, it'll be too soon. Great song, just overplayed.

Wagon Wheel. And then when everybody started going into I'd Rather Go Blind from there, OK, the first time you heard it, OK, that's great. But now everybody's doing it.

And then I came across a band one time. I don't even remember them. I think I was out of town on a business trip when I saw this band.

They did it in reverse. They played I'd Rather Go Blind by Etta James and went into part of Tennessee Whiskey. And so they were like, yeah, we do it a little differently.

Yeah, no. No, you just reversed it. It really doesn't change it that much.

How do you feel about medleys? You know, I think medleys are fun if they're done like once in an evening, once in a performance. But God, not for like an entire set, you know? Because you can't get into the song. Right.

Right when you're like, oh, I love this. It's moving on. Well, I'll admit, we do one in Cadillac groove.

We start off with, you know, when I'm thinking of music, I can never think of titles. Bruno Mars. Uptown Funk.

Uptown Funk, right there. Tell me you go into town. I know what you go into, Walk a Dinosaur.

No, we don't. Actually, we go into You Dropped a Bomb on Me by the Gap Band. Oh, we're stealing that.

OK. And then we play about, I don't know, about the verse, chorus, verse, chorus of that song. So it's not really a medley.

It's not 30 seconds of it. We get all the way up to like the interlude part of Uptown Funk, where he goes back to the do-do-do part, right? OK, so you get far into it. We do.

Which is good. And then we play about 25% of the Gap Band song. And then we play the entire song of The Bird by The Times.

Oh, nice. You're 10 minutes. Yeah.

And then we go right back. We finish it off with Uptown Funk again, by going into that part where he kind of talks to the crowd a little bit, and it finishes up there. That's great, man.

So Mike, we do a 9 to 10 minute 70s medley. And we do it verbatim. That's perfect.

Yeah. But it's got a lot of songs in it, and it's the exact medley that, who does it? Come on. We stole it from Boogie Nights.

Boogie Nights. OK, OK. And we do it exactly the way they do it.

OK. And for the first time ever, I get a piece of mail, OK? Addressed to me. Mail, not email.

A cease and desist letter. A mail, a piece of mail. Sort of.

With my name on it, no return, and a stamp. OK. And I open it, and it was, I thought it was a prank.

Right. And it was a very nice written about our band, but don't play that medley anymore. Because, it kind of.

It was a paragraph. It was literally a paragraph that said, love the band, great energy, don't play that medley anymore. And I've got to be honest, I respect, like, I wish that I can meet this person.

We're pretty sure. I would love to know who it is. We're pretty sure the drummer wrote it.

And I would not be upset. Yeah, right. I think it's wonderful.

I think that's how you grow, you learn. Yeah, yeah. So if you're out there, please say hello.

It's got to be someone you know, just be like, I'm going to fuck with this guy. I don't know. I don't know.

We don't know. I don't know. But we get a lot of compliments on it as well.

So I don't know. Open the air. No, you know, I think medleys are OK if they're done tastefully in the right spot.

Yeah. You know, there's several bands out there. People are going to think that I'm talking about one band, because they actually go out of their way to announce that they're doing, I think it's 60 songs and 30 songs.

30 songs. We all know who you're talking about. Right.

But they're not the only band that does it. I've seen many cover bands that will do, and they could be ripping them off. But they do like a 20 to 30 minute medley.

Yeah. And people start looking at their watch and stuff like that. It literally happens.

I mean, I'll be honest. I've seen it in the nine to 10 minute medley, where people are like, OK. OK, what's next? Had my fill of that.

What's for dessert? You know? Yeah. Right. And we use ours as a way, a lot of what we call our schtick.

You know? A lot of it develops live. Yeah, organic. It's not like we're sitting around trying to figure it out.

And when we see something that works, we just keep adding it into the set. Well, that started off as just uptown funk with us. And then we tried with, I mean, there's so many things.

It's one chord that you're jamming on, right? You can do almost every 70s disco song to that. But we found a few that actually work. And the reason why it started is because it's the second set.

And everybody's dancing. And we want to keep them dancing. And we know that it's a good 10, 12 minutes where everybody's just dancing and going freaking nuts.

You know, set lists, there's a science to these set lists. And it's a challenge to find when are you going to break it down a little bit, when you're going to bring it back up. And we find ourselves, a lot of the times, where we're contracted from 7 to 10, two sets, small break.

We find ourselves just looking at each other going, we're not breaking. Can't break. We're going three hours.

Three hours. Because they're up, and we're not going to lose them. So we'll go.

Quite frankly, it's more work to take the break, I find. Because then you have to get yourself back up again. You know what I'm saying? Where we just keep playing.

So we almost never take a break, unless we're forced. Are you a singer? Yes. So you could maybe relate to this.

During your break, do you find talking almost more damaging, stressful on your vocal over a loud crowd, trying to say hello to your fans like this? Talking is always more damaging on your voice. I'd rather sing than yell over a crowd to say hello to the, and again, this isn't me being rude to them. I want to hug and kiss all of them out there.

But it's hard for me to talk for 30 minutes during a break. I really play. Yeah.

No, I definitely don't. I try to take my breaks and hide to an extent. Self-preservation.

But I mean, I have to tell you, there's no way I would be able to do three hours straight through. I'm the lead singer in their band. We do, in three hours, we'll easily do 36 songs.

Yeah. I do 30 of them. I sing 30 of them.

That's Matt pretty much. Yeah. Although, you've gotten a nice little break now with bringing Katie in.

Our previous band that we were in, Matt was the full-time vocalist. So if we did a three-hour show, he was doing three hours. Now that we have Katie, she'll do a good chunk.

I actually get a few lead vocal spots that I get to do. We should have done a song. You want to do a song? No.

Want to do a full song? Pretty soon. Come on. Yeah, oh, yeah.

Come on, you kill that one. Do it. I was a vocalist in a band who was all instrumental, though.

Oh. Well, I used to say that I was waiting for the dad joke. I was waiting for the dad joke.

He's the king of the dad joke. I was waiting for it. Here's another one.

You know, when you're, I was a background singer in a band. Every time I got closer to the mic, or a backup singer, every time I got closer to the mic, they'd say, back up. Back up.

Second dad joke. No, that was just a music joke. So the drummer in my band, Andy Diakoumas.

How you doing, Andy? Greek boy? Oh, yeah. Boy, definitely. You got it there.

Definitely. I'm speaking Greek now, Dan. He says, yesterday, we're at the open jam.

And he says, hey, anybody know what side of the turkey has more feathers? And everybody's like, no. He goes, outside. Some common sense still prevails.

Just not in Congress, but everywhere else. So let us know, what do you guys got coming up this August and September? People can get out and see you right away. So August is a great month for us.

We do a, one of our biggest shows that we absolutely love is called 56 Music Fix. And it got the name, this is in Mount Prospect. Their zip code is 60056.

It was started by one of our friends, Kelly McCarran. And it has just taken off. It's big.

So all of the local bars and restaurants host. And there's music everywhere. Tents outside.

We play at a venue called Mrs. P and Me, which typically only would have acoustic stuff inside. But they get a giant tent. Mrs. P on me? What? What kind of place are you playing? It's not that website.

Not that website. That was clever, because nobody will forget it now. Mrs. P and Me.

Oh, and. It's www.ponme.com. That scared me for a second there. Whoa.

I was thinking about going. I thought, I'm not going to. I bet you that website exists.

We're going to go buy that domain real quick. So they put a big tent up there. We've been headlining that thing for quite a few years now.

What's the date this year, August? We're there August 17th. It's named after the zip code, 56. Yep, 56 Music Fix.

And every single bar, venue, pub will have a band in that town that entire weekend. And we headline the greatest night of them all on that Saturday at Mrs. P and Me. And it's a great night.

That's August 17th. We usually take the stage around 8 o'clock. So that's an awesome show.

You want to be there. Great show. And then if you can't make that one, we've got a lot of other great ones.

You could come to the Hawthorne Woods Fest on September 7th. It's always a great one. And then it's going to be our third or fourth year at Sundance Saloon, the Fall Fest.

It looks like we're going to be starting that one too. Yeah. That's September 13th.

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Say it for the alpha generation. But you've got to make sure you put the word band in. It's got to be ohyesband.com or elsewhere.

Some crazy things will pop up. ohyesband.com. You'll get our schedule. You'll be able to see some live videos and learn a little bit about us.

We're looking for followers. All right. Yeah.

Excellent. Excellent. So are we going to get a Folsom Prison Blues out of you? If you really want it.

Take us out with the Folsom Prison Blues. I'm trying to remember the words here. You want them? I got them.

No, I got it. I got it. We've got to buy those domain names.

Maybe, yeah. www.keyonme. I did not expect to do this, son. Now we can do it.

www.ohyesband. Yeah, seriously. ohyesband. It's interesting.

So I just got to say, because I'm looking out from this beautiful studio here at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum merch area. And I am definitely getting the Abe Lincoln Illinois. And I emphasize the noise.

Everyone knows, of course, you say Illinois. But it's Illinois, because it's rock and roll. And he's got, Abe Lincoln's got some headphones on.

I am getting that shirt tonight. He's got the Wayfarers sunglasses. And it's Illinois, I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S-E.

It's like going to Jules. Yes, the Jules. Of course.

They are hip to be squared. Well, before we forget, we thank you guys for having us. Well, thanks for coming out.

What a blast. It's been a pleasure. And we're honored to do it.

And we're going to spread the word. And we are definitely going to do the fundraiser. I will be in touch.

Yeah. Yeah, I should have tried to get my Johnny Cash mode here. I hear the train a-comin', it's rollin' round the bend.

I ain't seen sunshine since I don't know when. And I'm stuck in Folsom Prison. Time keeps draggin' on.

But that train keeps a-rollin' down to San Antone. When I was just a baby, my mama told me, son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man at Wal-Mart just to watch him die.

21st century, when I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and I cry. Can you take me to Nashville there, Matt? Oh, yeah. I wish I brought my fiddle, except you don't, because I don't play fiddle, so it wouldn't be very good.

Seen him in a fancy dining car, they're probably drinkin' Starbucks, smokin' big cigar, well, I know I had it comin'. I know I can't be free, not me, Matty. Well, see those people movin', that's what tortures me.

Tommy Weirich, where are you? We could use you right now. Ba-ding, ba-dum, ba-ba-ba-dum. Mike, you should've brought your guitar.

That's okay, that's okay. We got this. All right, Brian, take your last verse.

You ready now? Here we go. Well, they freed me from that prison in that railroad. That's where I want to stay, that lonesome whistle, blow my blues away.

Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh, yes! Yeehaw! We are not a country band. I love that guy.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. That's them.

For a minute, I thought we were doing a podcast about Stevie Ray Vaughan. That's what I thought for a while. That's I think I went out and I went out and had a drink and came back and you guys are still going at it.

We're still talking. Yeah. But, you know, I love that, though, because that's what this that's what this is.

We always say that people can go out and see their band. Yeah. But the people who see them all the time want to know who they are, who they are, what they do, what what they like, what they don't like.

Yeah. And now everybody knows where the name came from. That's right.

It was from a Neil Diamond tribute tribute band. His dad. Oh, yes.

That's pretty wild. And, you know, like I said, like I said, they kind of do their own thing like that version of living on a prayer was pretty unique. Yeah, really good.

It was. And, you know, that's that's what they want to do. They want to, as he said, now you want to call us men.

They want to do it their own way. Right. And make it sound good the way they hear it.

So I think they're doing a good job. Yeah. You know, works for me.

Yeah. They did well. Like I said, I saw them and asked them to come on the on the program because I think I thought I needed something around here.

Yeah. That's right. And not just arm candy.

That's right. Yeah. All righty.

As always, thanks for listening to the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast. And look every Tuesday for another exciting new episode. See you next week.

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