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 once again, it's Hollywood Mike.

Once again. Once again, it's Hollywood Mike. The Bears are out.

They are. Of the tournament. They're done.

They're done. That's okay, I don't feel bad though. No, I don't feel bad at all.

I never expect them to be in the playoffs. Nope, nope. I was hanging out with the family at Heroes West and they lost the game and everybody stood up and gave a standing ovation.

They said it sold your field. Everybody was clapping when they were leaving the field. Yeah, absolutely.

My son actually went to the game the week before. I didn't realize he was a fool. Yeah, I know.

No, the week before when they played. When they played. It was still cold.

It was still cold. It was freezing. Yeah.

And he didn't get home until, I don't know what time it was, but nobody left the stadium. They had to start telling people to leave the stadium after the game ended. Nice.

Because they were just all hanging out there and everybody's just been having a good time. Well, I'm looking forward to next year. Yeah.

Well, it's not like we've never said that before, right? Well, yeah, but they show some promise, but you know, they're all saying that what they did this year doesn't guarantee next year. Oh, right, right. But you know, you know, what was really weird about it is for the first time in a long time, we are going into the off season and nobody's talking about who's going to be coaching the Bears next year.

Right, right. Or who the quarterbacks. Or who the quarterbacks are going to be or anything like that.

I think the big talk is going to be who's leaving the team. Yeah, yeah, could be, could be. But you know what I saw something weird today though, was I woke up this morning, I'm watching ESPN and they were having this inquisition with the owner of the Bills and the, and the, like the president of their, their, their player personnel or whatever.

Like they were just grilling these guys. Like there was almost like a scandal as to why they. Well, they fired their coach.

Yeah. But everybody's like, why? I mean, he's been there for nine years. He's gone to the playoffs seven out of nine years.

Maybe Marv Levy's coming out of retirement. Yeah. I don't know.

Who knows? Yeah, I don't know. But I don't know. It was, it was kind of weird.

Yeah. But it was a lot of fun though. Yeah.

I mean, a lot of workaholics out there. They can't stop. There are a lot of workaholics.

Yeah. Yeah. Workaholics, you know, rockaholics.

Rockaholics. And we got the rockaholics. We got the rockaholics.

Yeah. How you guys doing? Good. All right.

We got Dean here. Dean. Dean's here again.

I wish we had a button where we could say someone's name and it goes, Dean just repeats it like that. Dean's fourth time here ties Greg Rapp. Yeah, it does.

Wow. With all time appearances. He's either a great musician or he can't stay in a band.

That's true. There could be a combination of both. Or he could be lost.

The answer would be yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. So what are you doing with these guys? I'm filling in on lead guitar. They need lead guitar player for a while.

And I said, why not? And they went with you. They went with me. All right.

So you guys aren't good musicians, are you? They're all kind of deaf. We're taking lessons. So what happened to the lead guitar player? Nashville.

Oh, wow. Said he's going to Nashville. No kidding.

Got the calling. Wow. You replaced a Nashville bound guitarist with Dean.

We got another guy too. Yeah. Okay.

And Ryan. Yeah. We got... So tell us a little bit about this band.

Oh, you got three guitar players. We had like three great guitar players show up within two weeks. And two of them are staying with us.

John Katke came out and he played a night with us. We don't even know how he heard about us, but he was there and played like a son of a... Can I say certain words? You can say son of a bitch. Oh, yeah.

Fuck yeah. You can say whatever you want. This is the internet.

Fucking incredible. Yeah. He nailed it.

Who was that you said? John Katke. Oh, yeah. Of course.

Yeah. And he's just a wonderful guy. He answered our Facebook post.

Yeah. We were in a bind for like a week. We didn't know what we were going to do.

And the best guy in Chicago shows up to play with us. So we felt pretty honored about that. Yeah.

Well, that was nice. That was nice. Man, you know what's weird is I feel like I'm on a boat.

This screen behind me, it's like constantly moving. It's moving really slowly. So I can turn it off.

Oh, I see what's happening. It's like going over to the side. I'm not looking at you when I'm talking.

Dramamine. Yeah. Yeah.

I forgot the dramamine. It's the craziest thing. Oh, thank you.

You turned it off. There you go. You didn't have to ruin the audience.

Oh, that's OK. They took our logo off anyway. Oh, did they really? Yeah.

Well, I guess it happens. It happens. I appreciate that.

So tell us about the band. How'd this whole thing come together? I called Johnny up. I've known Johnny for 40, 50 years.

Yeah. We used to work at McCormick Place together. We're both carpenters.

And Local 10. Local 10. Union.

Right. And I had a killer guitar player at the time. I says, come on out.

And he's like, I'm done playing. Music broke my heart. I'm like begging him.

And he's like, all right, I owe you a jam. Yeah. That's how it started.

Once he left his amp there, I knew I had him. It was COVID. Music broke my heart.

Nothing was going on. You said music broke your heart. Is that what you said? It sounds like a country band.

I didn't really say that. I think Fins has taken some liberties to say that. No, I had stopped playing.

I had two kids. And I was 45 years old. And I thought I would just go make sure my kids did well.

And it was very important to me. I had been playing with Super Mercado. And we were playing with Chip out on the East.

And when I came home, things were a lot different. And so now I have two awesome kids to prove that I did the right thing. And Fins called me up during COVID.

There's nothing really happening. And he had a guitar player. And we were going to play.

And I'm like, whatever. And it was great. And to start playing again after 12, 15 years.

And get our chops back. It took a little while. But yeah, the chops never really went away.

They just got a little sloppy. Yeah, it's like riding a bike. Yeah, exactly.

So do I have to do the whole bio here? Billy actually is quite the artist on his own right. I saw Billy singing at this place like a karaoke thing almost. I don't want to mention the place.

And I was like, man, he's incredible. We got to get him in a band. So I brought him with the band I had.

Me, Johnny, and this guy Phil. And they're like, nah, we're going to be rock stars. We're playing harder stuff.

He's too soft. And then after a while, I basically convinced them. And they're like, we got rid of the other guitar player.

And kind of formed a band with him. And it took off. Yeah, so what kind of stuff were you singing? Then they were like, no, he's too soft.

He was over there with the Engelbert Humperdinck and all that stuff. I forgot what they were doing. But I was never into like jam music.

So I was always into radio stuff, you know. So I think I was doing some Mellencamp, which I realized that John didn't like at the time. And I did some REO Speedwagon, Brian Adams.

We were doing like Robin Trower. Oh, OK, I see what you're doing. That's what you guys are doing.

And he comes along. He's this pop guy, you know, doing the top 40 and everything. And actually, I was playing with a band we called the Powerless Trio.

I was a trio, but I was an acoustic guy. I'm not ripping any leads. And well, one day my drummer couldn't make it.

So I called Craig. And, you know, so we started playing together. I did a couple of gigs that way.

Again, I grew up on Beatles and Stones and, you know, all the 80s stuff. I loved going with the Rockaholics because we started doing some Rat and some other stuff. We go from Van Halen to Rat to Rod Stewart to Journey.

So I can't get enough Journey. Because I was just saying that's exactly what Chicago needs. Yeah, there's just not enough of them.

They just had a sighting of what's his name the other day. He looks a lot different. Steve Perry? Yeah, Steve Perry.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, he looks like it looks a lot different. He does.

Yeah. Yeah. So so you're the singer.

A singer, yeah. Rhythm, acoustic guitar. OK, gotcha.

And Dean's the sometimes guitar player. Dean's awesome. And a lot of a lot of harmonies.

He's being very modest, he really is. John is the bass player with a lot of harmonies. Craig's the drummer.

And we got another guy, Ryan Nelson, who's been awesome. He's only practiced a couple of times, did our last gig when Dean couldn't make it. He would have been here, but he had to work late.

So with all of these guys, man, I think we're sounding better than ever. We've changed our list a lot. We haven't gotten to, you know, some of the harder stuff yet.

But I still play in tunes that everybody loves. We just did Ozzy Saturday. We did some Ozzy.

Crazy Train. And Billy can sing anything. He can sing all the Van Halen.

I mean, amazing. And Dean and Ryan bring so much more to the party, you know, bring different sounds all together, songs that we didn't consider before. And, you know, we really are rockaholics.

I mean, if it's a hit song, we want to play it. You know, if someone mentions something at a show, we'll try to have it down by the next show. You know, we're always working.

And it feels great to be playing, man. I'm 20 years old. Every time I put the bass on, I swear to God.

Right. Nothing hurts. You get up there.

Nothing hurts. Yeah. Well, something hurts.

But then as soon as you're done, you forget. Yeah, maybe the day after. Yeah, something like that.

It's the only addiction I need. It's moving the gear that kills you. Oh, God.

So I've always got tiny hands. You want to make a little sort, you know. So, you know, you got to move your own gear.

Someday I'm going to have a roadie. I swear to God. So what were you all doing prior to putting this band together? What were your influences? Where'd y'all come from? Well, you said you took some time off, right? You weren't doing really.

Yeah, I mean, I never, you know. I've been playing, you know, since I've been 19 professionally. So yeah.

Professionally. Okay. Okay.

Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Nice.

Nice. Tell us who you were with back when you were 19. I was in Teenage Radiation.

Teenage Radiation. I was a bonafide teenager. Yeah.

Playing, you know, every cover song that we could play. And so this rockaholic sings just seems like a good fit again. Yeah.

You know, then original bands after that, until I was 45, played with just about everybody Greg Potter and I could play with in Chicago. Greg's my lifelong friend. Probably one of the best drummers in the world.

Sorry, Craig. That's all right. He's really good though.

Yeah. And yeah, he's filling Buddy Ridge's shoes right now. Yeah.

Yes. So, you know, between Greg and I, we got to play with, man, so many great players. And I was young and I was up close to these real guys.

Yeah. And you see how they play and you see what they do. And I was just blessed to be in that spot.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We've had Greg in the studio. Craig and Kathy. Yep.

He's a character, that's for sure. Yeah, he is. Yeah.

Yeah. What were you doing? I moved to Missouri and I was in high school my senior year and got in a band that was like the biggest band in the county. And after graduation, we all moved to Texas.

And we did like the holiday in circuit for about five years and played all over. You know, that was a great training ground, you know, playing every night from nine to nine to one in the morning, six nights a week, you know, very polished. And, you know, as they do, things ended.

I moved back to Chicago and then the leader of the band, Doug Driesel, he ends up being Mickey Gilley's bass player for decades. No kidding. Wow.

Greenwood. Yeah. We just had a reunion a few years ago in Arkansas.

He owns a couple of radio stations actually down there. So I was doing good training. Then I didn't do anything musically for 40 years.

Holy crap. Wow. Till COVID.

Yeah. But he had drums. He never got rid of them.

No, but you know, I really didn't play. And I start going to open jams at Cousins, you know, and trying to, you know, fit in and play and play more than three songs without getting sore. You know, and then I called Jack.

I was hoping a band would call me and say, oh, we need a drummer. But so I was like, I'll start my own frigging band. Yeah.

Why not? You know, and so that's what I did. And it's worked out great. We've had other players in and out.

But, you know, the core of the band is, you know, Billy, Johnny and myself. Yeah, sure. You know, we've probably been together four or five years.

We started out as a trio at Straybar, that little place in Frankfurt. They didn't touch the walls if you put your arms out. But it went over very well.

They loved us. Right. A great response.

And I don't think there's been a show we haven't gotten a great response. No, we always get booked back. And you know, you're in a good band when the night's over and you're packing up and the owner comes out with the calendar.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it's like, don't leave.

Yeah. Right. Right.

So you think, you know, you did something right at that point. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. No kidding. So that's something that was all those years before that.

I never had that experience. Yeah. You know, and I was in, like I said, all these great players and all these great bands.

Well, this is a band that, you know. Right. It's interesting.

It's something I wasn't a part of. I would never was a part of the business or anything. I just showed up as a bass player.

Greg got us a couple of gigs and we would just go play with anybody and it was great. Yeah. But yeah, this is, this is a band where we work.

Yeah. Right. Right.

We work. We bring our own gear and we love showing off our gear. That's why Dean's so great.

Every, every practice, this guy shows up with some insane guitar. You know, like, oh, this is my Les Paul. Museum, right? Yeah.

I think he's borrowing shit around here. Yeah, could be. Could be.

So were you always a karaoke king or? No, I'm never really karaoke. I started actually, my cousin was, I mean, he, he could have been Eddie Van Halen. So he learned every Van Halen song and he had a tragedy in the family because he lived in Michigan, moved to Chicago.

He says, Hey Bill, you want to play bass and sing? I said, well, I don't know how. So he taught me every bass song. And then, so we did a power trio there.

We got in with Van Zeland Talent out of Little Chute, Wisconsin and traveled on a school bus for a couple of years. And he taught, we were learning songs while the drummer drove and, you know, it's like, okay, we got to learn some more songs for this gig. And it was fun.

But then like Johnny, I got, you know, back at home and just kind of put it down. Kids were little. And my second wife encouraged me, did some open mics again.

I really never played acoustic and wasn't a very good bass player. But so I did some solo shows and, you know, still offered solo shows, but I love playing with the band. Well, that's excellent.

Excellent. Dean, your turn to speak. What do you need to know that wasn't on the other three? Two or three podcasts.

That's, you know, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So did they just, they just called you up? Yeah, a mutual friend of his called me and said, hey, it's wintertime, you're bored, right? And I went, yeah.

He goes, there's a band that's looking for a guitar player. I'm like, well, okay. I'll do that.

And so I started practicing. Yeah, Tom Wilson. Yeah, give him a plug.

We love Tommy. Hold on. So this band's pretty much been together then? Two, three years? I don't know.

Since about COVID. Playing, you know, rock and roll, some pop, you know, a little bit, a little bit of everything, a party band, what'd you call yourselves? Yeah, we, we played to the women so that they're out there dancing. Isn't that amazing? No, really? To the women? Come on, a certain band plays to the women.

That's what I've been doing wrong all these years. Nobody leaves our show. People try to leave.

You see them put on their coats and we start another song and then sit back down. We need to unlock the door. Yes, I was going to say, you got to let the women, you have to let the women out.

There's always a line at the door. On the other side of the door. Every show we do, there's a line at the door.

Yeah, there is. Trying to get out. Yeah, and people are just screaming and screaming because they want to leave.

If we let them tip us, hey, you tip us, we'll let you out. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

That's right. Well, I'll tell you what, let's take a quick break and let's have them perform a little bit in the studio. All right, we'll be right back.

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We got the Rockaholics. Two, three, four. I was pulling double duty as the producer, sound engineer, and the boom operator.

And the boom operator, right. Gosh, you know, I hate to say it, but I'm no longer a fan of Saturday Night Live, right? But did you ever see like the older cast from like the early 90s? Oh, they were awesome. And they did the whole bit about the drunk people at karaoke night.

And, and it wasn't, it wasn't smooth operator. They sang, they sang Sue Sopolella. Did you ever see that program about drunk history? Oh, yeah.

It's on the road now. You can go get tickets and go see it. Give him the mic.

Mic, mic, mic, mic. That's not a microphone. That's part of the problem.

Need more cowbell. Oh, yeah. There we go.

Yeah, but I, that was one of my favorite Saturday Night Live episodes where all the karaoke people are drunk and they're messing up the lyrics. Sue Sopolella. It was great.

It was great. Very good. You know what was so funny about that, about this performance here was everybody was talking about, oh, we're rockers, man.

We're doing Robert Trauer and ACD, you know, and Van Halen, all this other stuff. And they come out with Rod Stewart. I've never seen anybody say, we're going to Rod Stewart.

Yeah. I've never once seen anybody. Wait.

Even when he was in Faces, even when they were in the area, when they rocked a little more, nobody was like, yeah. And I shortened up the second solo. I forgot about it.

Now the next, the next song is going to be Dave Edmonds. I better get some Engelbert Humperdinck out of somebody. Oh, definitely.

My next podcast, I'll do that. When I bring in number five. An Engelbert Humperdinck tribute band.

Right. Yes. With Glockenspiel.

The Flatbed Humperdincks. The Flatbed Humperdincks. Yes.

Yeah. Oh, gosh. So who's picking the music? I'm going to pick this one.

We're going to do a local. Wait, you're jumping ahead of yourself, man. Who picks the music for the band? Actually, we all do.

We all do. And, you know, we actually do research on finding out what songs to play. We don't just play what we want to play.

And we have our ways of finding out, but we see what works. With the crowd, you know, we just pay attention. And, you know, if I see a chick singing to the jukebox, I'll take note of what song that is.

Yeah, of course. I'll, you know, next practice, suggest it. But if everyone doesn't agree, we don't do it.

Because there's only about like two million hit songs to choose from. So it really doesn't matter. We do check hits too.

How many hits on like YouTube or plays and, you know, we've done everything from some punk music. Well, yeah, you have to. I mean, absolutely.

I mean, you know, why wouldn't you? You know, if you see a crowd of people going nuts to a song that comes on the jukebox, I mean, why not? You know, especially if it's something that's not part of. These guys are good enough to play a song that comes along. You'd be surprised, you know, a lot of bands will shy away from Boston or, you know, we want to play those songs because the people dig it.

Yeah, why not? Absolutely. Yeah. Pretty cool.

So what were you going to say now? I said, if I were, I thought we were doing another one. So I apologize. We will be, we will.

But when we do it, I was going to say, we'll do a little REO just because they're got to be part of this museum here, right? Oh, yeah. They got your breath. Oh, we do have an AED.

Yeah. So where, what was your first gig guys? When you all got together, you got your first gig. What was it? It was probably Stray as a three piece.

So like I say, powerless trio, uh, because it was, it was acoustic and, uh. It's for stray dogs. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. If anybody from the stray bar is listening, we are looking for sponsors.

There you go. Bob Blighter, uh, Bob Blighter's part owner. He was in, uh, American English and, uh.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Real nice guy. Yeah. What was the, what was your favorite gig so far? We played some, uh, events at the racetrack was really cool.

Joliet racetrack. Oh yeah. Corporate gigs, uh, condom exhibits.

Yeah. Their Christmas parties. When did you play the racetrack in Juliet? Two years ago, they called us this year, but we were busy.

Okay. It came through Brad Bothwell, Bothwell farms. Yeah.

There you go. There's another great place to go. Are you talking about the route 66 place? Yep.

Yeah. Yep. I thought they closed.

That's reopening. When I've already got my tickets. I wonder why they didn't.

No, they called us at the beginning of the year when we were booked on those, those dates. For three days. Right.

Right. We were booked. It's 4th of July weekend.

Okay. Cause I know I've played there a few times. I know we stopped and because I thought the place closed down.

When did it, when did it open up? The racetrack closed. The drag strip's been open. Yeah.

Drag strip and the dirt track have been open, but, uh, yeah, that's where we were playing. We're busy. Yeah.

We're so busy. I haven't had time to shave. We couldn't have been there.

And there's no hair on his face. Okay. Well, you guys are talking about some REO Speedwagon.

I want to hear some REO Speedwagon. But I want to see if they can play. I want to see if they can play an REO Speedwagon song other than the only one everybody else knows.

Oh my God. This would probably be it. What are you, a flying turkey truck? Now you're pulling out some old stuff.

That's what he'd say. It'll be off the High Infidelity album, I believe, which I used to love it as a kid. You've got to have the arena rock crowd for that song, man.

That's pretty good for four people in here or five. My 1940s Louis Bellson rushes. Oh no.

That's a first. I don't think I've ever seen anybody break a brush or a stick on an REO song. Go ahead and say it, man.

Not on an REO song, on what do you call this practice pad thingy? Yeah, I don't know. Cajun drum Geico. It's called Geico.

Yeah, yeah, we'll take it. Native lizard skin. Good thing he's a carpenter because he can fix that.

Local 10. Are they still paying you? If anybody from Local 10 is listening, we're looking for sponsors. They're listening.

They're the best, man. They're real Chicago. Come on.

You could get them to donate some time here, you know. There you go. That's why we're always looking for volunteers here for the museum.

We got it. That's exactly it. That's exactly it.

Weekends, always looking for carpenters, any kind of tradesman to come in here and help get this thing going. Tax deductible. Yeah, your time is.

And there have been some pretty famous carpenters, I don't have to tell you. And I don't mean Indiana Jones. I mean, yeah, the real guy.

Yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

So how are you guys making use of social media? Probably need to be better at it. But John's our guy, right? I mean, Dean was just telling us he's going to help us. And help us.

We need help. Well, yeah, we wanted to get to 500. I don't know anything about Facebook.

I got a chair right behind you. Yeah, I got the bass. Yeah.

When I stopped MySpace, when I stopped playing before MySpace was the big thing. And Mercado had a MySpace page. I still have a MySpace page.

Do you really? But I don't know. You know, that was all I remember. I mean, I still, you know, listen to music and everything.

I just didn't do an internet thing. So I had no social presence, media presence whatsoever. I'll fix you guys up.

But it's. And so, yeah, our guitar player that's gone to Nashville, you know, was in charge of that. And I got some rights to work it.

And it's fun. I mean, hell, I worked in the television business for some years. So, you know, video and things like that.

It's great. I love being around it. But Facebook's a really weird thing.

Before you finish that last song, you guys are already on our TikTok page. Oh, cool. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so I took over and we had like 100 followers. We got 306 and I'm as of today. And it's not a lot, but it's everyone on there, you know.

And you see them at shows. And we get a big crowd usually every time we play, which is beautiful. And it's all from there.

So they're true followers. Yeah, it's bonafide. Yeah, you're not getting anyone from Georgia or Michigan.

Unless we're going to play down there. Are you making use of it to, you know, put some invites for your shows, put together a calendar and schedule? Yeah, we're still, again, we're working at it. We need to get better at it.

We got a QR code now, which has helped a lot because you tell people at the show, just scan that. It takes us right to there. Follow us, please.

And that's helped a lot. But, you know, they still have to want to do it. And the fact that they do is a pretty good indicator.

Right, right. So if people want to find you, Facebook is probably the best place. We post this.

Well, they can't see that. You guys see it out there? Everybody see it in podcast land? Craig's the best. He puts the ads out.

You might see him around. If you're looking at billboards and bulletin boards and wherever. If you're going to buy a guitar, he's a hell of a guy to be in a band with.

So you're old school and you're running around like sticking shit on windshields. Well, sorry about that, by the way. Well, I'm the drummer, so I'm technical.

You know, I'm handicapped. I play the drums. No electricity needed.

So I had these printed up every show. So that we don't have to say in front of the bar owner, come see us next week at ABC Club. Yeah, that's never a good thing.

No, never cool. So I put them out in a literature rack. And here you go on our QR codes there.

There's my number. Call me, book us, you know. So where can people find you coming up? Our next gig is at Thirsty Beaver.

January 30th, Friday night. Great place to play. I got to get back home and really get a good place.

I have not been there since they've remodeled. Yeah, it's a lot bigger. The stage is great.

Yeah, I keep saying that. So we're on a Friday. We start at nine on the 30th of this month.

Then we're at Salad. You boys ever been to Salad Tap? No. Oh my God.

Where the hell is Salad? That's the coolest bar. Salad's a town with about 50 people. It should be on Guy Fieri's show.

Where is it? Salad. Salad is 50 people. It's right next to Beecher.

It's south. South of Beecher. Yeah.

Okay. That's the only thing I'll address. That's the home of Beecher Meats.

It might be the best food though. Or Beecher Woman's Club. It's going to be a fantastic kitchen.

It is there. I took a picture and I sent it to my friend. He's like, what are you doing there? There's a video on our Facebook page of us at Salad.

I think we're doing the Billy Squire song. The Billy Squire song. It's funny when you play there.

Like you play there in the winter. So if you got 50 people there, it's packed. You play there in the summer, they get 5,000 people outside.

Yeah, right. It's a big biker joint. It's beautiful.

Oh yeah. Thirsty Beaver and Salad Tap. You know the drill.

We're looking for sponsors. Right, right. Salad's the best.

The Beaver's the best. The Chill House in Frankfort. He said the Beaver's the best.

Run over everybody else's head. He said the Salad Tap, the Beaver's the best. I'm going to go to Salad Tap for the Beaver.

The Chill House is March 27. Yes, we just played there. Two days later, they booked us.

Where's the Chill House? Route 30. Route 30, right past Ryan's. Yeah, right across the street.

At Kitty Corner. We're from the south side. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

By my house. That's old school too. It's, you know, they got a stage and a PA, a sound man.

So it's a quick plug and play. Nice. It's all remodeled in there.

So they poured a lot of money into it. It's really nice. Nice.

Really nice. Like the old Haywires. Oh, you're too young.

Yeah, the old Haywires. Well, watching enough's enough at Haywires. Yeah, okay.

Wow, wow. You know, we're at JMO's Live. June 20th.

Oh, that's a nice place. That's a good place. Oh, that's right around the corner.

June 20th. There you go. Well, at least it sounds warm.

That's right. I'm going to write that date on my hands. Well, that's why I have the flyers.

Can I have that? Yeah, put that on your fridge. There we go. All right.

I am. And put it on TikTok. I don't know how to do that, but you guys do.

Rock a hole. Well, TikTok's videos actually, so. Yeah, we'll stick it on TikTok and everything, boy.

Take a video of it. All right. Yeah, well, that sounds good.

I'll tell you what. Thanks for coming out, guys. Yeah, thanks a lot, Dean.

This is great. Again, Dean. Is Dean here tomorrow, too? Actually, yeah.

He's got a cot set up downstairs. This is a wonderful place. Yeah, it is a fantastic place.

Oh, it really is. Thanks for having us. Yeah, I'm glad you guys were able to come out.

Hopefully, we get some people listening to this to come out and check you guys out. Definitely. Yeah, if I'm ever not working, I'll come out and see you guys.

There you go. Me, too. Where's your next gig? Yeah, we'll come see you, too.

My next gig isn't until next Thursday, I believe. We're at the Hollywood Casino in Joliet. Oh, awesome.

Again. Yeah, we take the month of January off normally, but we just have a couple because- We slow down in December, you know, the holidays. In January, it's cold.

Yeah. But we just played last Saturday, and we're playing this, not tomorrow, not this weekend, but next Saturday. Right, right.

All righty. Thanks for coming out, guys. I think we're out.

Great time here. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, gentlemen.

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