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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest
Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky
World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival Featured Headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone, Alabama Shakes (Thursday), Phish, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White, Vance Joy (Saturday), Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Megan Moroney (Sunday), Plus Dozens More Rock, Americana, Bluegrass And Alt Rock Artists Along With Elevated Bourbon & Culinary Experiences.
The seventh Bourbon & Beyond welcomed fans from over 50 states and around the globe and over 120 music artists on five stages to Louisville, Kentucky over the weekend. The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival was held from September 11-14 at the at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky and featured an incredible music lineup of music legends and rising stars with headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone and Alabama Shakes on Thursday; Phish, Khruangbin and Joe Bonamassa on Friday; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White and Vance Joy on Saturday; and Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls and Megan Moroney on Sunday. The lineup also included Cage The Elephant, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Collective Soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iron & Wine, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Ringo Starr & His All Star Band, Pixies, Lake Street Dive, Dashboard Confessional, Foreigner, Blues Traveler and many others.
This year, Bourbon & Beyond’s newly expanded footprint doubled the square footage of past layouts, and made greater use of the Kentucky Exposition Center’s infrastructure, creating a more comfortable and resilient experience for fans. In addition, all festival passes included FREE access to amusement rides inside Kentucky Kingdom.
This year’s festival was packed with unforgettable performances, surprise collaborations, and historic moments that will be remembered for years to come. Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes.”
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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest
Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky
World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival Featured Headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone, Alabama Shakes (Thursday), Phish, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White, Vance Joy (Saturday), Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Megan Moroney (Sunday), Plus Dozens More Rock, Americana, Bluegrass And Alt Rock Artists Along With Elevated Bourbon & Culinary Experiences.
The seventh Bourbon & Beyond welcomed fans from over 50 states and around the globe and over 120 music artists on five stages to Louisville, Kentucky over the weekend. The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival was held from September 11-14 at the at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky and featured an incredible music lineup of music legends and rising stars with headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone and Alabama Shakes on Thursday; Phish, Khruangbin and Joe Bonamassa on Friday; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White and Vance Joy on Saturday; and Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls and Megan Moroney on Sunday. The lineup also included Cage The Elephant, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Collective Soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iron & Wine, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Ringo Starr & His All Star Band, Pixies, Lake Street Dive, Dashboard Confessional, Foreigner, Blues Traveler and many others.
This year, Bourbon & Beyond’s newly expanded footprint doubled the square footage of past layouts, and made greater use of the Kentucky Exposition Center’s infrastructure, creating a more comfortable and resilient experience for fans. In addition, all festival passes included FREE access to amusement rides inside Kentucky Kingdom.
This year’s festival was packed with unforgettable performances, surprise collaborations, and historic moments that will be remembered for years to come. Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes.”
Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness.
Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true. Why were
you young? This is the pipe Man here on the
Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm here with Tommy Bowe from yachtley Crue.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I love it. I had to almost start laughing there
because I do absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thank you, thank you. Yeah. We're happy to be in
Kentucky for the first time, and it's a beautiful weekend.
Let's say we're gonna have my yachts are here, the
whole fleet, the land. Yah, that's what we call our
tour bus, the land yacht.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh that's pretty cool and it's funny. So person writing
media here while and we were going over to interviews,
she was like, and how do you spell crew? She
for the same thing as a dods Ma. Sure, the
spell it ew or ui, Yeah, exactly. How many people
don't get that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, we get a lot of people thinking that we're
a Motley Crue tribute band or doing Motley Crue songs
in the yacht rock style, which were not, although we do.
I know that's for somebody else. We love Motley Crue,
obviously they have their place in the rock and roll history,
but we do take the yacht rock songs of the
seventies and eighties and rock them a little harder and
put a more modern edge on them.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So when did that whole idea come up to do that? Like, well,
I mean the literally set out.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
For those that don't know, the term yacht rock was
invented in the two thousands by a YouTube comedy series,
and so that was the thing that went viral on
the internet, and then Serious XM then put out a
yacht rock station. So the story goes is a few
of us in our band were in the hot tub
or drummer and our bass player with their wives and
(01:57):
they had the Serious XM yacht Rock channel on and
they were going, we should do a band of these songs, man, Like,
nobody's doing that, you know what I mean. And so
they did, and they got in touch with me and
we started a band. That was eight years ago now
and it's been like a rocket ride ever since since
our first show. It's crazy. People just love this music.
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, I'll tell you what I'm really impressed by too,
is like Jimmy Buffett gave you kudos.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, Well, the late Jimmy Buffett Rip. He signed us
to his label Mailboat Records. So our first record was
put out on Mailboat Records, and he just loved what
we were doing and it seemed to fit within the
mailboat world, right, the Jimmy Buffett world, and totally we
definitely aspire to have the kind of fans that he has.
You know, he has the Parrotheads or had I should say,
(02:46):
although the Parrotheads are still going strong. Yeah, yeah, they're
still going strong. Yeah. So we have creopies as our fans.
We call them creepies, and honestly, it's a similar thing
where they instead of dressing up when Hawaiian shirts, they'll
dress up in captain's outfits. Actually we still see some
Hawaiian in stance too. But we've had ladies dress up
(03:06):
as sailorettes and people wear flamingo costumes. We've had a
lobster at our show, like it's a rock lobster, and
so it's really caught fire with the fans and it's happening,
and honestly, it's a tribute to the bands that made
this type of music in the seventies and eighties and
they were just geniuses and studio wizards.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And I was listening to your stuff, and it's funny
because of course I grew up in the seventies and
the eighties and I'm listening to some of this stuff,
I'm like, man, this is really good. And what's good
about is it doesn't even sound like it's a cover,
even though I know the song Oh thank You Yeah,
and that's the sign of a good cover.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, this music is really kind of like jazz fusion
music in a way. It's rock like Steely Dan stuff
and yeah Toto. So thankfully we're all of our the
musicians in our band are pretty well rounded musicians. But
we definitely had to step up our game when we
had to cover these songs because it was like, it's
not twelve the twelve bar blues anymore. You gotta know
(04:06):
jazz chords, you gotta know jazz shuffle beats and stuff
like that. So we really had to step up our game.
And it's again, it's just a tribute to those guys
that were just like I always think about, like, how
did these guys learn this kind of stuff without YouTube,
you know, And like I was born in the eighties,
so I grew up in the nineties, but like I
didn't have YouTube back then, but I've learned so much
(04:28):
from YouTube the since it came out, you know what
I mean. I feel like all of us that play
instruments will go on YouTube and see other guys playing it.
But like these guys back then, man, they didn't have
that and they were just using their ear or they
saw the guy down the street, or maybe you had
your one guitar teacher in your town. So I'm always
impressed by that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I think it's the experimentation part like that you don't
see a lot anymore today, right, You know a lot
of things today are like programmatic when first it wasn't
back then. Even take a lot of bands from then,
and even within the same genre, they didn't sound the same.
They couldn't really like pick them as a specific genre.
(05:07):
You know, they could fit into multiple genres and they're
just experimenting when they're creativity.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That was definitely like I think that was maybe born
out of the sixties, I don't know where that. It
was like adelics and all that kind of stuff, and
it was the thing to do is to be as
creative as you could be. And you know what, we're
going to write a seven minute song and it's going
to be the single like that that just doesn't you know.
It's like I feel like the music industry is going
away from that a bit, and you know, hopefully it
comes back comes back around.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
People have the at tension span of half of gold.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And that is true. Yeah, the phones aren't helping, but
it is changing.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Like so there are bands now coming out with the
longer songs.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And it's rushing on and that's great.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
There's bands that are like similar to the seventies, bands
that are all of a sudden becoming popular now.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So everything comes back around. So and I'm sure the
kids that are growing up, they're digging into the old
stuff and see, and it's because it's great music. Honestly.
It's like you can't deny that. You can't deny what
the Beatles did, you can't deny what Eppelin did. You
can't deny what Black Sabbath did or what all the
out rock guys did. It stands a test of time.
So that's why we're popular.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, you know what else too is the fact that
I think maybe a lot of the listeners are sick
of not having musicianship right because.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That has and they don't even know, they don't know
what they're missing or longing for, but then when they
hear it, they're like, that's what.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I want, you know exactly, because like the musicianship of
the bands that you are coming from that you're influenced by, right, like,
was just incredible. And like you said, with jazz, you
better know what you're doing you play jazz.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Know when I was a teenager playing guitar, I remember
my dad saying you should try something else because you
suck the way he didn't realize what is doing. What
we were talking about is like I wasn't trying and
play notes chords like the scales were boring the shit
out of me. Yeah, I was just experimenting. I wanted
(07:09):
to see what I could do.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And there's a lot to be said for that too,
you know what I mean. There's a lot to be
said for just experimenting. And I don't think Kirk Colebaan
k new jazz scales, you know what I mean. So
it really is what you want to do. There's no
I believe, there's no right or wrong. But some people
get really into scales and our peggios and stuff like that,
and those guys end up being jazz players exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh it is, so how does it feel to be
here at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Man, It's so cool. This is probably our second big
time festival we've played. Yeah, I mean, we kind of
do our own headlining tours mostly, but every once in
a while we got offered to do one of these,
and we did Beach Life in Dando Beach, California, which
was a great weekend by the beach. But this is like,
we're excited. Man. It's just like, I'm going to drink
some bourbon. I think this weekend. I think you have to.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't even like bourbon, and when I come to this,
I'm like, okay, I got to drink some bourbon because
I'm right from talking at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But honestly, as excited as I am to drink bourbon
and play with all the other bands on the line,
I mean, Ringo's here, man, That's what I was going to.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Say earlier you mentioned the Beatles. Was it like knowing
that you're playing the same venue as Ringo?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Star, Like, come on, so many other artists and honestly,
we've shared the stage with This is a good time
to mention we've had guys yacht rock legends come up
on stage and play with us. And it's like We've
had Peter Beckett from Player come up and play Baby
come Back with us. We've had Elliott Larry from looking
Glass play Brandy with us. Sebastian Bach who's not a
yacht rock guy, but he came to our show in
Vegas and he came up and did Hotel California with us,
(08:40):
and that guy can still sing man. Oh yeah, he
still got it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Super talented. Yeah, and nice guy too, he still has
that voice.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, yeah, totally. And he was a great guy, really
nice to us. So yeah, I'm thrilled to be here
as a fan. I'm planning out my schedule on the
Apple like everybody else, like, Okay, once our set's done,
what am I gonna go see?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So well, it's funny too because I'm a Beatles freak too.
From a young age. I played guitar. I played drums
for nine years and who was it that made me
want to play drums? Ringo Starr and Peter Criss Cool,
you know both of them, and that was what like, oh,
I won't be that. And it's funny because I used
(09:17):
to do this festival every year and then there's this
other festival the same weekend usually that I started doing.
And this year I look at the lineup and I said,
and I saw Ringo Star. I'm like, oh, now what
am I gonna do? And I think the universe provided
because that other festival switched weekends this year.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It was like, Okay, that's a sign.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You could be here with Ringo, Starr and everybody else.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, and I believe Luke at Ther from Toto's playing
guitar usually plays with him. I'm assuming he's on this
Star because sometimes Ringo will change his lineup up. Yeah,
but I'm excited to see Steve played too, because he's
a studio legend and literally played on all those records
from back in the seventy all the boss S, gag stuff,
Michael Jackson, Thriller, the list goes on with him in
terms of obviously all the total stuff. So yeah, I'm
(10:09):
excited to see him and maybe I'll get to meet him.
That would be really cool. How wild I met his son? Actually,
his son, Trevor is a super nice guy and has
been to a bunch of our shows. And yeah, and
there's always oh, we got a hopefully they can't hear
that it's a loud playing, but yeah, anyway, shout out
Trevor Luke at there, and we love the Luke at theirs.
They're great, nice and Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The thing is too, is that it's just such a
cool vibe at this festival. There's so many different types
of music, is what I like about it. Yeah, it's
not just one thing.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's not just a country festival or a rock festival
or yeah, it's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, totally, it's totally Kentucky as far as on the
constat Yeah, it's like the total Kentucky vibe. Now, I
do have to say my home base is South Florida.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh nice.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I low upset because I looked at your tournades and
like Samford, that's the closest you're going to get.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
To on this off and I would say stay tuned
for early twenty six. I believe we will be doing
a few dates in Florida, but I'm not allowed to
announce that yet, but maybe off the air, I'll tell you. Yeah. Yeah.
But we've been to Key West, We've been to Fort Lauderdale,
both great.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I love Key West Man Key West well that's what
I was gonna say. I'm like, when I was looking,
I was like, why isn't Key West on this list?
Like that makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, we'll be there. We love Key West. So
that's always a fun party. Party atmosphere, what a place
to do it, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Have you ever done gigs on a yacht?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yes? Actually, well quite a few out of Marina del Rey,
which is a marina in Los Angeles, US. Oh really yeah,
well then you know it well yes, especially when we
first started, we got hired to play birthday parties our
wedding and on a boat that would go out through
the marina. And actually we played a friend's fortieth birthday part.
This is like early on with yachtley crew and one
(12:03):
of their friends that was on the boat with us,
with everyone saying, oh he's he just got drafted into
the NFL, like, oh, some rookie in the NFL, Like,
oh that's cool. I ever said I own it was
Patrick Mahomes. Wow, and that year he went crazy his
rookie year, And then we were like, that was the
guy that was on our boat. He saw his play,
So hi Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Good to see I'm a Giants fan, but he's my
favorite quarterback.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
He is awesome. I'm incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Love how he can run.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's incredible. Yeah, and he's and he's not just a
running quarterback though he can throw it to But anyway,
Oh yeah, we're turning this into a sports podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I know, right. I played I met. I played Madden
Football on Xbox and I always pick to be Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh that's smart. Yeah. Yeah, So tell.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Everybody how they reach out to you guys. I'm socials
on the web.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, follow us at gotli crew dot com. I should
also say that our new record, Sees the Night on
Earache Records. Shout out Earache Records. They've been great to us,
comes out September nineteenth. You can go on yachtikru dot
com right now and pre order it. There's all sorts
of different colors, a vinyl you can get, you can
order a CD, but it will also be in all
the streaming platforms September nineteenth. And we have our single
(13:16):
which was written by the great Diane Warren, who you
might know from Don't Want to Miss the Thing Bierosmith.
If I could turn back time, Share and countless all Thiss.
If you look at her wiki page, she wrote us
a song called the Pain of Losing You, which is
now in the Billboard Top twenty Adult Contemporary charts. So
go stream Pain of Losing You and.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
A badass song.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh thank you? You heard it? Oh nice?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That's my preparation for interviews is listening to the music.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah awesome, I love it. Yeah, Well that's all you
need to know, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Like how could you not? Like I do know other
media people that they don't even know what the music
sounds like. I'm like, how do you interview somebody and
promote their music if you don't know what?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Right? You gotta listen, you gotta listen supporting.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So it is a badass song.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thank you. I appreciate that. So we're really pushing that
right now and seeing if we can get it to
number one on the Billboard chart. That'd be great.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Let's do it. So if you're out there listening, check
out Pain I'm Losing You.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Definitely a final words you want to give the listeners.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Thank you for listening, and check out Yacht Lie Crue
and check out just keep yacht Rock alive. That's what
I'll say there it is.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It is alive and well and especially here at Bourbon beyond.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
With you guys here all right, glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Thanks so much, Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man.
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man
on w for CUI Radio
Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true. Why were
you young? This is the pipe Man here on the
Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm here with Tommy Bowe from yachtley Crue.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I love it. I had to almost start laughing there
because I do absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thank you, thank you. Yeah. We're happy to be in
Kentucky for the first time, and it's a beautiful weekend.
Let's say we're gonna have my yachts are here, the
whole fleet, the land. Yah, that's what we call our
tour bus, the land yacht.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh that's pretty cool and it's funny. So person writing
media here while and we were going over to interviews,
she was like, and how do you spell crew? She
for the same thing as a dods Ma. Sure, the
spell it ew or ui, Yeah, exactly. How many people
don't get that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, we get a lot of people thinking that we're
a Motley Crue tribute band or doing Motley Crue songs
in the yacht rock style, which were not, although we do.
I know that's for somebody else. We love Motley Crue,
obviously they have their place in the rock and roll history,
but we do take the yacht rock songs of the
seventies and eighties and rock them a little harder and
put a more modern edge on them.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So when did that whole idea come up to do that? Like, well,
I mean the literally set out.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
For those that don't know, the term yacht rock was
invented in the two thousands by a YouTube comedy series,
and so that was the thing that went viral on
the internet, and then Serious XM then put out a
yacht rock station. So the story goes is a few
of us in our band were in the hot tub
or drummer and our bass player with their wives and
(01:57):
they had the Serious XM yacht Rock channel on and
they were going, we should do a band of these songs, man, Like,
nobody's doing that, you know what I mean. And so
they did, and they got in touch with me and
we started a band. That was eight years ago now
and it's been like a rocket ride ever since since
our first show. It's crazy. People just love this music.
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, I'll tell you what I'm really impressed by too,
is like Jimmy Buffett gave you kudos.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, Well, the late Jimmy Buffett Rip. He signed us
to his label Mailboat Records. So our first record was
put out on Mailboat Records, and he just loved what
we were doing and it seemed to fit within the
mailboat world, right, the Jimmy Buffett world, and totally we
definitely aspire to have the kind of fans that he has.
You know, he has the Parrotheads or had I should say,
(02:46):
although the Parrotheads are still going strong. Yeah, yeah, they're
still going strong. Yeah. So we have creopies as our fans.
We call them creepies, and honestly, it's a similar thing
where they instead of dressing up when Hawaiian shirts, they'll
dress up in captain's outfits. Actually we still see some
Hawaiian in stance too. But we've had ladies dress up
(03:06):
as sailorettes and people wear flamingo costumes. We've had a
lobster at our show, like it's a rock lobster, and
so it's really caught fire with the fans and it's happening,
and honestly, it's a tribute to the bands that made
this type of music in the seventies and eighties and
they were just geniuses and studio wizards.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And I was listening to your stuff, and it's funny
because of course I grew up in the seventies and
the eighties and I'm listening to some of this stuff,
I'm like, man, this is really good. And what's good
about is it doesn't even sound like it's a cover,
even though I know the song Oh thank You Yeah,
and that's the sign of a good cover.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, this music is really kind of like jazz fusion
music in a way. It's rock like Steely Dan stuff
and yeah Toto. So thankfully we're all of our the
musicians in our band are pretty well rounded musicians. But
we definitely had to step up our game when we
had to cover these songs because it was like, it's
not twelve the twelve bar blues anymore. You gotta know
(04:06):
jazz chords, you gotta know jazz shuffle beats and stuff
like that. So we really had to step up our game.
And it's again, it's just a tribute to those guys
that were just like I always think about, like, how
did these guys learn this kind of stuff without YouTube,
you know, And like I was born in the eighties,
so I grew up in the nineties, but like I
didn't have YouTube back then, but I've learned so much
(04:28):
from YouTube the since it came out, you know what
I mean. I feel like all of us that play
instruments will go on YouTube and see other guys playing it.
But like these guys back then, man, they didn't have
that and they were just using their ear or they
saw the guy down the street, or maybe you had
your one guitar teacher in your town. So I'm always
impressed by that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I think it's the experimentation part like that you don't
see a lot anymore today, right, You know a lot
of things today are like programmatic when first it wasn't
back then. Even take a lot of bands from then,
and even within the same genre, they didn't sound the same.
They couldn't really like pick them as a specific genre.
(05:07):
You know, they could fit into multiple genres and they're
just experimenting when they're creativity.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That was definitely like I think that was maybe born
out of the sixties, I don't know where that. It
was like adelics and all that kind of stuff, and
it was the thing to do is to be as
creative as you could be. And you know what, we're
going to write a seven minute song and it's going
to be the single like that that just doesn't you know.
It's like I feel like the music industry is going
away from that a bit, and you know, hopefully it
comes back comes back around.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
People have the at tension span of half of gold.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And that is true. Yeah, the phones aren't helping, but
it is changing.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Like so there are bands now coming out with the
longer songs.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
And it's rushing on and that's great.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
There's bands that are like similar to the seventies, bands
that are all of a sudden becoming popular now.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So everything comes back around. So and I'm sure the
kids that are growing up, they're digging into the old
stuff and see, and it's because it's great music. Honestly.
It's like you can't deny that. You can't deny what
the Beatles did, you can't deny what Eppelin did. You
can't deny what Black Sabbath did or what all the
out rock guys did. It stands a test of time.
So that's why we're popular.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, you know what else too is the fact that
I think maybe a lot of the listeners are sick
of not having musicianship right because.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That has and they don't even know, they don't know
what they're missing or longing for, but then when they
hear it, they're like, that's what.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I want, you know exactly, because like the musicianship of
the bands that you are coming from that you're influenced by, right, like,
was just incredible. And like you said, with jazz, you
better know what you're doing you play jazz.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Know when I was a teenager playing guitar, I remember
my dad saying you should try something else because you
suck the way he didn't realize what is doing. What
we were talking about is like I wasn't trying and
play notes chords like the scales were boring the shit
out of me. Yeah, I was just experimenting. I wanted
(07:09):
to see what I could do.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And there's a lot to be said for that too,
you know what I mean. There's a lot to be
said for just experimenting. And I don't think Kirk Colebaan
k new jazz scales, you know what I mean. So
it really is what you want to do. There's no
I believe, there's no right or wrong. But some people
get really into scales and our peggios and stuff like that,
and those guys end up being jazz players exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh it is, so how does it feel to be
here at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Man, It's so cool. This is probably our second big
time festival we've played. Yeah, I mean, we kind of
do our own headlining tours mostly, but every once in
a while we got offered to do one of these,
and we did Beach Life in Dando Beach, California, which
was a great weekend by the beach. But this is like,
we're excited. Man. It's just like, I'm going to drink
some bourbon. I think this weekend. I think you have to.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't even like bourbon, and when I come to this,
I'm like, okay, I got to drink some bourbon because
I'm right from talking at Bourbon and Beyond.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But honestly, as excited as I am to drink bourbon
and play with all the other bands on the line,
I mean, Ringo's here, man, That's what I was going to.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Say earlier you mentioned the Beatles. Was it like knowing
that you're playing the same venue as Ringo?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Star, Like, come on, so many other artists and honestly,
we've shared the stage with This is a good time
to mention we've had guys yacht rock legends come up
on stage and play with us. And it's like We've
had Peter Beckett from Player come up and play Baby
come Back with us. We've had Elliott Larry from looking
Glass play Brandy with us. Sebastian Bach who's not a
yacht rock guy, but he came to our show in
Vegas and he came up and did Hotel California with us,
(08:40):
and that guy can still sing man. Oh yeah, he
still got it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Super talented. Yeah, and nice guy too, he still has
that voice.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, yeah, totally. And he was a great guy, really
nice to us. So yeah, I'm thrilled to be here
as a fan. I'm planning out my schedule on the
Apple like everybody else, like, Okay, once our set's done,
what am I gonna go see?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So well, it's funny too because I'm a Beatles freak too.
From a young age. I played guitar. I played drums
for nine years and who was it that made me
want to play drums? Ringo Starr and Peter Criss Cool,
you know both of them, and that was what like, oh,
I won't be that. And it's funny because I used
(09:17):
to do this festival every year and then there's this
other festival the same weekend usually that I started doing.
And this year I look at the lineup and I said,
and I saw Ringo Star. I'm like, oh, now what
am I gonna do? And I think the universe provided
because that other festival switched weekends this year.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It was like, Okay, that's a sign.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You could be here with Ringo, Starr and everybody else.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, and I believe Luke at Ther from Toto's playing
guitar usually plays with him. I'm assuming he's on this
Star because sometimes Ringo will change his lineup up. Yeah,
but I'm excited to see Steve played too, because he's
a studio legend and literally played on all those records
from back in the seventy all the boss S, gag stuff,
Michael Jackson, Thriller, the list goes on with him in
terms of obviously all the total stuff. So yeah, I'm
(10:09):
excited to see him and maybe I'll get to meet him.
That would be really cool. How wild I met his son? Actually,
his son, Trevor is a super nice guy and has
been to a bunch of our shows. And yeah, and
there's always oh, we got a hopefully they can't hear
that it's a loud playing, but yeah, anyway, shout out
Trevor Luke at there, and we love the Luke at theirs.
They're great, nice and Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The thing is too, is that it's just such a
cool vibe at this festival. There's so many different types
of music, is what I like about it. Yeah, it's
not just one thing.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's not just a country festival or a rock festival
or yeah, it's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, totally, it's totally Kentucky as far as on the
constat Yeah, it's like the total Kentucky vibe. Now, I
do have to say my home base is South Florida.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Oh nice.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I low upset because I looked at your tournades and
like Samford, that's the closest you're going to get.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
To on this off and I would say stay tuned
for early twenty six. I believe we will be doing
a few dates in Florida, but I'm not allowed to
announce that yet, but maybe off the air, I'll tell you. Yeah. Yeah.
But we've been to Key West, We've been to Fort Lauderdale,
both great.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I love Key West Man Key West well that's what
I was gonna say. I'm like, when I was looking,
I was like, why isn't Key West on this list?
Like that makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, we'll be there. We love Key West. So
that's always a fun party. Party atmosphere, what a place
to do it, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Have you ever done gigs on a yacht?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yes? Actually, well quite a few out of Marina del Rey,
which is a marina in Los Angeles, US. Oh really yeah,
well then you know it well yes, especially when we
first started, we got hired to play birthday parties our
wedding and on a boat that would go out through
the marina. And actually we played a friend's fortieth birthday part.
This is like early on with yachtley crew and one
(12:03):
of their friends that was on the boat with us,
with everyone saying, oh he's he just got drafted into
the NFL, like, oh, some rookie in the NFL, Like,
oh that's cool. I ever said I own it was
Patrick Mahomes. Wow, and that year he went crazy his
rookie year, And then we were like, that was the
guy that was on our boat. He saw his play,
So hi Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Good to see I'm a Giants fan, but he's my
favorite quarterback.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
He is awesome. I'm incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Love how he can run.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's incredible. Yeah, and he's and he's not just a
running quarterback though he can throw it to But anyway,
Oh yeah, we're turning this into a sports podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I know, right. I played I met. I played Madden
Football on Xbox and I always pick to be Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh that's smart. Yeah. Yeah, So tell.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Everybody how they reach out to you guys. I'm socials
on the web.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, follow us at gotli crew dot com. I should
also say that our new record, Sees the Night on
Earache Records. Shout out Earache Records. They've been great to us,
comes out September nineteenth. You can go on yachtikru dot
com right now and pre order it. There's all sorts
of different colors, a vinyl you can get, you can
order a CD, but it will also be in all
the streaming platforms September nineteenth. And we have our single
(13:16):
which was written by the great Diane Warren, who you
might know from Don't Want to Miss the Thing Bierosmith.
If I could turn back time, Share and countless all Thiss.
If you look at her wiki page, she wrote us
a song called the Pain of Losing You, which is
now in the Billboard Top twenty Adult Contemporary charts. So
go stream Pain of Losing You and.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
A badass song.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh thank you? You heard it? Oh nice?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That's my preparation for interviews is listening to the music.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah awesome, I love it. Yeah, Well that's all you
need to know, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Like how could you not? Like I do know other
media people that they don't even know what the music
sounds like. I'm like, how do you interview somebody and
promote their music if you don't know what?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Right? You gotta listen, you gotta listen supporting.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
So it is a badass song.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thank you. I appreciate that. So we're really pushing that
right now and seeing if we can get it to
number one on the Billboard chart. That'd be great.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Let's do it. So if you're out there listening, check
out Pain I'm Losing You.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Definitely a final words you want to give the listeners.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Thank you for listening, and check out Yacht Lie Crue
and check out just keep yacht Rock alive. That's what
I'll say there it is.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It is alive and well and especially here at Bourbon beyond.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
With you guys here all right, glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Thanks so much, Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man.
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man
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