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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Hi there, Detroit Wheels.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey it's Bones, Jimmy Bones.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
How the heck are you my friend?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm doing good? How are you, my friend?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm doing well. It's good to talk to you, of course.
Jimmy Bones, longtime member of the kid Rock band. Do
they still call it the Twisted Brown Trucker band?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
They do? We are still Twisted Brown and trucking.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How many years have you have you been with kid
Rock now, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's pushing thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, we're getting there. We're getting there. Man.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That is that is amazing. That's absolutely amazing. Thirty years
you guys have been jamming together.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wow wow wow, Yeah, pretty much the same band all along. Yeah,
stepping the eyes have all been there, you know, the
whole run and everything.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
And that's great. So how's your family doing?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Family is doing great. We're doing really good. We're actually
getting ready to head town, get out of town to
do our annual Branson, Missouri table Rock Lake Week that
we do on fourth of July every year.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh wow, that's always fun. I'll bet right.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Wow, oh it is it is. Yeah, there's like thirty
of us in one house. It's my wife Lee and
then my brother in laws and their families and kids
and now grandkids and you know, ever growing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I saw, yeah, I saw, your daughter just had a birthday.
I can't believe how big she is now.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh my god. Yeah. Well, yeah, they do that, they
tend to.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I guess I know that a little bit. Well, I
know you've got some new music coming out, and I
want to get to that in just a second. But
I didn't get a chance to make it out to Hastings, Michigan.
So how is the Rock the Country show out there
in Hastings with all those great bands.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, Hastings was one of the biggest of the Rock
the Country draws. I think we put over the weekend
in the neighborhood of mid sixty five thousand, maybe close
to seventy thousand into a rural area that with the
(02:13):
population of about sixty five und you know, so you're, yeah,
we're bringing these things in. I mean a facility was great.
You know, we're doing these at like State fair, County
Fair kind of situations, the grounds and everything, and this
is the second year of the Rock to Country and
(02:35):
it's just been a huge success the last two years.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You know, you've got some new music out, whole lot
of rock and roll. Tell me a little bit about it,
and how many songs have you recorded? Now?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
There are we're getting finished. So those two I recorded
early part of last year, did the bed tracks, and
we did those over at Tino's Joint, you know, at
Funky D Records. That's Garabalonik on guitar and Johnny bbdangegon
(03:09):
drums and Dennis Burke on bass. And I had those
songs written POLLI rock and roll and like a fever,
and they're just like, you know what, I've got all
these songs written, and I need to really start finishing
these things up and getting them released. And so yeah,
(03:30):
we put those two out, and then I've got about
four or five more in the same situation where we've
got the bets pretty far along and just got to
do some some spit polishing up, and I'm just going
to release them as singles as we go, and then
once they're all out, I'd like to put it together
(03:52):
as a CD package, can include a couple of more
that won't be released as singles, and even possibly include
the two that I put out at the beginning of
two thousand, Bittersweet and through hell, for heaven's sake, possibly
go on the same thing, and you know, at the
(04:14):
same time, i'd love to put it out on vinyl too.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, now I would love to see that myself. Funky
D Records. Tino Gross over there, of course, has a
great facility, beautiful label, So yeah, I don't think he'll
have any trouble getting that thing pressed to vinyl, except,
you know, maybe for the weight to get it pressed.
But outside of that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
There is quite a way. So we started those there
and then I've been finishing up out here closer to
me and Brighton. I had Garrett Balonik Studio, cheap sound studios.
Logistically it's just a little bit easier for me to
get it done out there, and it's like two minutes
away and not dealing with any traffic and everything. Got
(05:00):
a great facility, and I actually did the vocals for
for bit or I'm Sorry for through a whole lot
of rock and roll and like a fever over at
Garrett's place, and Garrett played all the guitar on on
all of these ones. I got the core of of
you know, Alice Cooper's Last you know, Detroit Stories and Breadcrumbs,
(05:21):
and then the guys that that we went in and
did the rock Spell record with Dick Wagner producing, so
Garrett was on A and B and uh so keep
it rolling that way, man.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, you got you got some of the best of
the best on this uh on this track, in on
these tracks, do you know this?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, you got some of the you know, usual suspects too,
like nothing nothing too shabby, like having Johnny b back
you up on the drums and Dennis on bass.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's kind of surreal having having Be and you know,
and even on the snake Bit and Wander record at
Be and Jim McCarty on that. But I remember back
in the day going getting out of work and driving
down to the Royal Look Music Theater is a beautiful
early early summer day and driving my Delta eighty eight
(06:19):
with the windows open and go and get my tickets
to go see the Rockets. And and at that point
in time, that was my dream to play piano in
the Rockets, you know. So now it kind of come
full circle, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, now they're playing for you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So yeah, that's it's fun, man, It's all it is.
It's just all great rock and roll, and those guys
are just, oh my god, legendary, global, world class.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Oh yeah, world class right here in the backyard you
can call and Detroit. So are you planning on any
solo shows to you know, go along with this music.
I know you're out there touring with kid rock, but
what about you know, some of your own stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, when we wrap, we got three more of the
rock the Country shows. I'm going to the last part
of July. I do have a show with my band,
Snake Bit Wanderers, and we're gonna be doing the Lafontaine
Stage in Milford. They've got a Thursday concert series that
(07:26):
they run every Thursday night and ours is July thirty first,
and it's right there in the Central Park in downtown
Milford and that's the La Fontaine Stage. So yeah, we're
gonna we're gonna be rocking Milford and it'll be a
great everybody, come on out. It'll be a fun night.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So anything else planned? What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Releasewise? I got my sleeve for this Christmas?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh okay, wow, yes, sir man. Christmas songs are becoming
very popular again.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So well, I can't tell you too much about it
right now, but here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
it's pretty well done. I've got to do a couple
of little tweaks on the mix, and then we've got
something cooked up that we're gonna release, and you know,
we'll keep our eyes when I make my my I
don't know, every other week going to Costco. Once we
(08:23):
hit just passed forth with July and they put the
Christmas trees out and all of that, and then they
start playing Christmas music like right after Halloween. You know,
they keep bumping it up.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
They do. Yeah, you could forget Halloween. They don't even
promote that anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It's you know, oh yeah, Well my comes in from
trick or treating and she throws her bag of candy down.
You know, she's eleven. She's like, okay, let's go get
the Christmas decorations out, and I'm like, get pumped up
breaks a little bit. We haven't even had Thanksgiving yet.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So, Jimmy, when you're writing your own music, yeah, does
it start out that way or does it start out
with you know, you writing something that might be for
the Twisted Brown Trucker Band, and then you know, you go, no,
maybe I'll keep this, or how does that work with you?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's a good question. I mean it starts out with
me usually playing. It's funny because as a piano player,
I usually have a risk going that I'm picturing guitar playing,
so largely as a piano player, I don't play like
a piano player. I play probably more like a guitar player,
(09:43):
you know what I mean, risks wise, you know, and
try to imagine that, so things come out a little
bit differently. And yeah, I love the way Keith Richards
writes riffs. Angus Young Wrights riffs. All the great guitar
players right around riffs. So that's usually how it starts
(10:04):
with me, as opposed to, you know, coming up with
some piano esque core changes or something like that, you know,
ballady sort of thing. But you know, but in the
case a bit or sweet, you know, obviously that's something
that's that's more of a ballad. So yeah, that can
that started out as a you know, pretty much a
(10:26):
straight you know, like like let it be kind of vibe,
you know, piano driven things. So but I won't lie.
A lot of these I do, right, and then I'll
pitch them to Bob. And there's been a few where
he's like, hey, I want this, I want that, you know,
(10:46):
and uh. Sometimes he's like this is really great. I
love it. But then it's not like, hey, I love it,
but I want to and I want to cut it.
And in those cases, I'm like, all right, well, I
want the stuff to I want people to hear this.
So that's when I that's when I breathed. All the
rest of the life.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I was gonna say, Bob had a pretty big ballad
esque hit at one point, so you know, ballads are
still pretty fruitful, there's no doubt about it. But I had,
you know, honestly, I had thought when you put out
Snake Bitten Wandering, I thought that was a song that
could have flown for the band.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know what, that actually did get messed around with
in the studio for one of the records, and for
whatever reason, it just didn't really make the cut. He
loved the riff, you know, the I mean, that's right up,
Bob Zaley. He loved it. Now, I will say that
(11:50):
the one that from Snake Bitten Wandering from that record
that did turn into a kid rock release was bring
It On Over. And he loved that from the second
that he heard it. And then it just kind of
we messed around with it and then laid there for
a while, and then I released it on snake Bit
(12:10):
and Wandering, and then after that record was released, we're talking.
He's like, we still got to do that, bring it
on overtrack, and he ended up writing the lyrics, rewriting
the lyrics, and I saw my music, but he rewrote
the lyrics with with Loretta Lynn and it turned in
to Shoose Your Baby Now rocker.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh oh okay, So I got a third.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So I got a one third code write with with
Bob and with thet uh.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, not too shabby there, my man.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I'm honored. I'm deeply honored to be, you know,
to share, to share any kind of code write with
with anybody of that stature. Man.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So, you've got a few more dates left of the
Rock the Country.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Where where are those going.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
To be at? Let's see where Ashville, Kentucky, two fall,
South Dakota and then the last one July twenty fifth
in Anderson, South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Now has anything happened on there that you know? With
the bands? How are all the bands meshed together? Because
my goodness, you've got everything from Nickelback, Leonard Skinner, Travis Tritt,
I mean, how does how does all that chemistry work
out there?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And don't forget Afro Man, he's been he's been on
the majority of them too. You know, I didn't even
know that. Yeah, last year, I mean we had we
had you know, Travis Tritt, Leonard skinnerd Hank Williams, drun
Nelly was on dates. Gosh man, you know really you know, uh,
(13:52):
Big and Rich with Scretch and Wilson, Brantley Gilbert you know.
So yeah, it's a great lineup and it kind of revolves.
Not everybody's on all the same ones, you know, and
then the off nights. Last year we switched over. This
(14:14):
year it's been nickeled Back on our off nights. But
it's always a Friday Saturday thing. So if we're headlining Saturday,
then they're they're okay headlining. Yeah, of course it was
Jason Elting.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, some of my friends are out there and
they said it was just, you know, every act was fantastic,
every single one sou Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Oh yeah, that's they've been really really killing man the
whole thing. It's been a great, great run and everything,
and crowds are phenomenal. We're getting I mean a lot
of these are. You know, on on our nights, we're
seeing anywhere from high twenty thousands up to forty thousand,
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and you know, depending on the side of the place
and everything else.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, yeah, we were giving away some of those tickets
and you could just feel the energy through the phones.
I mean they were lit up. I mean I knew
that Hastings, Michigan was going to be a zoo. So yeah,
it doesn't surprise me that it was one of your
biggest ones, if not the biggest.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well it's Michigan too, so everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Of course, And you're still a Michigander, right, you haven't
moved to through and through.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I was born in Detroit and raised on the East
Side and up in the Thumb a lot on the
family farm, and you know, but yeah, I will stay
in Michigan for the rest of my life. Well, I
love Michigan. I love the changes.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, I just wanted to touch base with it, Jimmy,
because I'd heard the new stuff, especially a whole lot
of rock and roll, and I just thought, wow, you know,
you just keep getting bigger and better as a writer,
and it doesn't surprise me that a lot of your
stuff Bob steals. But uh, yeah, no, I think it's
fantastic that you know, you've got your own solo stuff.
(16:10):
You were and then I saw that the b and
Gross and Burke, we're all on it. So I just
wanted to, you know, congratulate you and and let the
people know that they need to get out there and
check out some of the Jimmy Bones rock and roll
from Detroit. How do they, uh, where are they finding
your music right now?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well? You can right now, you can, uh if you
like to buy downloads, you can get those right on
Jimmy Bones dot com. Buy the MP three downloads. If
you're streaming, it's on everything, Spotify, Apple Music, iHeartRadio, Near
(16:51):
and Dear to your Heart. Yeah, let's see where else, Uh,
you know, pretty much everything. There's this one called Deezer
that I've heard of. I've never been on it, but
you know all of those YouTube YouTube music. Okay, yeah,
you can get you can get to it pretty much
anywhere with the streaming, and then watch out for the
(17:14):
for the CD. Once I pulled the put the full
comp compilation out. We're finishing up another one. I got
another one that I'm hoping to release by August. And
that's not that's not the holiday things. This is another
rocker and uh, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So these shows, these Last of the Country shows, the
rock the country shows. Is that going to be it
for the year or are you guys gonna you know,
recircle around and and do some rock stuff or is
that going to kind of be it for the year
this year?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's all that I know of. I don't have anything
on the calendar, but that doesn't mean I couldn't get
an email tomorrow. Yeah, other handful of days, you know. Yeah, yeah,
I can either confirm nor DENI.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Hey, do you ever get a text that says, hey,
come on, you can join me and Donald Trump and
play golf for.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, no, because he knows that I'm not a golf Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, all right, yeah, to say something else. But I'm
glad you said that.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, he knows I'm not a golfer, but he Yeah,
I think he keeps that pretty much, you know, that's
he keeps that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
No, I don't blame you, though I would. I would
carry his golf clubs to hang out with that.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You know, Marl, you had to be a fly on
the Wall.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah. Well, Jimmy Bones, you have a great one, my man.
Enjoy those concerts and uh continued success with your writing
and your recording and uh just fantastic job.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I look forward to hopefully seeing you here soon.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well, thank you, and that's that's very kind words coming
from the doc of rock himself, who I've listened to
for a long long time in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, I guess we've been listening to you for a
long long time. Two thirty years with the band, so yeah,
we got to watch each other's backs, all right, brother,
all right, Well, thanks for checking in with Detroit Wheels
today and like I said, continued success Jimmy Bones on
Detroit Wheels, all right, thank you,
Yeah, Hi there, Detroit Wheels.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey it's Bones, Jimmy Bones.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
How the heck are you my friend?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm doing good? How are you, my friend?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm doing well. It's good to talk to you, of course.
Jimmy Bones, longtime member of the kid Rock band. Do
they still call it the Twisted Brown Trucker band?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
They do? We are still Twisted Brown and trucking.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How many years have you have you been with kid
Rock now, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's pushing thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, we're getting there. We're getting there. Man.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That is that is amazing. That's absolutely amazing. Thirty years
you guys have been jamming together.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wow wow wow, Yeah, pretty much the same band all along. Yeah,
stepping the eyes have all been there, you know, the
whole run and everything.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
And that's great. So how's your family doing?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Family is doing great. We're doing really good. We're actually
getting ready to head town, get out of town to
do our annual Branson, Missouri table Rock Lake Week that
we do on fourth of July every year.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh wow, that's always fun. I'll bet right.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Wow, oh it is it is. Yeah, there's like thirty
of us in one house. It's my wife Lee and
then my brother in laws and their families and kids
and now grandkids and you know, ever growing.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I saw, yeah, I saw, your daughter just had a birthday.
I can't believe how big she is now.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh my god. Yeah. Well, yeah, they do that, they
tend to.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I guess I know that a little bit. Well, I
know you've got some new music coming out, and I
want to get to that in just a second. But
I didn't get a chance to make it out to Hastings, Michigan.
So how is the Rock the Country show out there
in Hastings with all those great bands.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, Hastings was one of the biggest of the Rock
the Country draws. I think we put over the weekend
in the neighborhood of mid sixty five thousand, maybe close
to seventy thousand into a rural area that with the
(02:13):
population of about sixty five und you know, so you're, yeah,
we're bringing these things in. I mean a facility was great.
You know, we're doing these at like State fair, County
Fair kind of situations, the grounds and everything, and this
is the second year of the Rock to Country and
(02:35):
it's just been a huge success the last two years.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You know, you've got some new music out, whole lot
of rock and roll. Tell me a little bit about it,
and how many songs have you recorded? Now?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
There are we're getting finished. So those two I recorded
early part of last year, did the bed tracks, and
we did those over at Tino's Joint, you know, at
Funky D Records. That's Garabalonik on guitar and Johnny bbdangegon
(03:09):
drums and Dennis Burke on bass. And I had those
songs written POLLI rock and roll and like a fever,
and they're just like, you know what, I've got all
these songs written, and I need to really start finishing
these things up and getting them released. And so yeah,
(03:30):
we put those two out, and then I've got about
four or five more in the same situation where we've
got the bets pretty far along and just got to
do some some spit polishing up, and I'm just going
to release them as singles as we go, and then
once they're all out, I'd like to put it together
(03:52):
as a CD package, can include a couple of more
that won't be released as singles, and even possibly include
the two that I put out at the beginning of
two thousand, Bittersweet and through hell, for heaven's sake, possibly
go on the same thing, and you know, at the
(04:14):
same time, i'd love to put it out on vinyl too.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, now I would love to see that myself. Funky
D Records. Tino Gross over there, of course, has a
great facility, beautiful label, So yeah, I don't think he'll
have any trouble getting that thing pressed to vinyl, except,
you know, maybe for the weight to get it pressed.
But outside of that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
There is quite a way. So we started those there
and then I've been finishing up out here closer to
me and Brighton. I had Garrett Balonik Studio, cheap sound studios.
Logistically it's just a little bit easier for me to
get it done out there, and it's like two minutes
away and not dealing with any traffic and everything. Got
(05:00):
a great facility, and I actually did the vocals for
for bit or I'm Sorry for through a whole lot
of rock and roll and like a fever over at
Garrett's place, and Garrett played all the guitar on on
all of these ones. I got the core of of
you know, Alice Cooper's Last you know, Detroit Stories and Breadcrumbs,
(05:21):
and then the guys that that we went in and
did the rock Spell record with Dick Wagner producing, so
Garrett was on A and B and uh so keep
it rolling that way, man.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, you got you got some of the best of
the best on this uh on this track, in on
these tracks, do you know this?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, you got some of the you know, usual suspects too,
like nothing nothing too shabby, like having Johnny b back
you up on the drums and Dennis on bass.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's kind of surreal having having Be and you know,
and even on the snake Bit and Wander record at
Be and Jim McCarty on that. But I remember back
in the day going getting out of work and driving
down to the Royal Look Music Theater is a beautiful
early early summer day and driving my Delta eighty eight
(06:19):
with the windows open and go and get my tickets
to go see the Rockets. And and at that point
in time, that was my dream to play piano in
the Rockets, you know. So now it kind of come
full circle, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, now they're playing for you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So yeah, that's it's fun, man, It's all it is.
It's just all great rock and roll, and those guys
are just, oh my god, legendary, global, world class.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Oh yeah, world class right here in the backyard you
can call and Detroit. So are you planning on any
solo shows to you know, go along with this music.
I know you're out there touring with kid rock, but
what about you know, some of your own stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, when we wrap, we got three more of the
rock the Country shows. I'm going to the last part
of July. I do have a show with my band,
Snake Bit Wanderers, and we're gonna be doing the Lafontaine
Stage in Milford. They've got a Thursday concert series that
(07:26):
they run every Thursday night and ours is July thirty first,
and it's right there in the Central Park in downtown
Milford and that's the La Fontaine Stage. So yeah, we're
gonna we're gonna be rocking Milford and it'll be a
great everybody, come on out. It'll be a fun night.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So anything else planned? What else is going on?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Releasewise? I got my sleeve for this Christmas?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh okay, wow, yes, sir man. Christmas songs are becoming
very popular again.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So well, I can't tell you too much about it
right now, but here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
it's pretty well done. I've got to do a couple
of little tweaks on the mix, and then we've got
something cooked up that we're gonna release, and you know,
we'll keep our eyes when I make my my I
don't know, every other week going to Costco. Once we
(08:23):
hit just passed forth with July and they put the
Christmas trees out and all of that, and then they
start playing Christmas music like right after Halloween. You know,
they keep bumping it up.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
They do. Yeah, you could forget Halloween. They don't even
promote that anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It's you know, oh yeah, Well my comes in from
trick or treating and she throws her bag of candy down.
You know, she's eleven. She's like, okay, let's go get
the Christmas decorations out, and I'm like, get pumped up
breaks a little bit. We haven't even had Thanksgiving yet.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So, Jimmy, when you're writing your own music, yeah, does
it start out that way or does it start out
with you know, you writing something that might be for
the Twisted Brown Trucker Band, and then you know, you go, no,
maybe I'll keep this, or how does that work with you?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's a good question. I mean it starts out with
me usually playing. It's funny because as a piano player,
I usually have a risk going that I'm picturing guitar playing,
so largely as a piano player, I don't play like
a piano player. I play probably more like a guitar player,
(09:43):
you know what I mean, risks wise, you know, and
try to imagine that, so things come out a little
bit differently. And yeah, I love the way Keith Richards
writes riffs. Angus Young Wrights riffs. All the great guitar
players right around riffs. So that's usually how it starts
(10:04):
with me, as opposed to, you know, coming up with
some piano esque core changes or something like that, you know,
ballady sort of thing. But you know, but in the
case a bit or sweet, you know, obviously that's something
that's that's more of a ballad. So yeah, that can
that started out as a you know, pretty much a
(10:26):
straight you know, like like let it be kind of vibe,
you know, piano driven things. So but I won't lie.
A lot of these I do, right, and then I'll
pitch them to Bob. And there's been a few where
he's like, hey, I want this, I want that, you know,
(10:46):
and uh. Sometimes he's like this is really great. I
love it. But then it's not like, hey, I love it,
but I want to and I want to cut it.
And in those cases, I'm like, all right, well, I
want the stuff to I want people to hear this.
So that's when I that's when I breathed. All the
rest of the life.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I was gonna say, Bob had a pretty big ballad
esque hit at one point, so you know, ballads are
still pretty fruitful, there's no doubt about it. But I had,
you know, honestly, I had thought when you put out
Snake Bitten Wandering, I thought that was a song that
could have flown for the band.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know what, that actually did get messed around with
in the studio for one of the records, and for
whatever reason, it just didn't really make the cut. He
loved the riff, you know, the I mean, that's right up,
Bob Zaley. He loved it. Now, I will say that
(11:50):
the one that from Snake Bitten Wandering from that record
that did turn into a kid rock release was bring
It On Over. And he loved that from the second
that he heard it. And then it just kind of
we messed around with it and then laid there for
a while, and then I released it on snake Bit
(12:10):
and Wandering, and then after that record was released, we're talking.
He's like, we still got to do that, bring it
on overtrack, and he ended up writing the lyrics, rewriting
the lyrics, and I saw my music, but he rewrote
the lyrics with with Loretta Lynn and it turned in
to Shoose Your Baby Now rocker.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Oh oh okay, So I got a third.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
So I got a one third code write with with
Bob and with thet uh.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, not too shabby there, my man.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I'm honored. I'm deeply honored to be, you know,
to share, to share any kind of code write with
with anybody of that stature. Man.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So, you've got a few more dates left of the
Rock the Country.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Where where are those going.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
To be at? Let's see where Ashville, Kentucky, two fall,
South Dakota and then the last one July twenty fifth
in Anderson, South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Now has anything happened on there that you know? With
the bands? How are all the bands meshed together? Because
my goodness, you've got everything from Nickelback, Leonard Skinner, Travis Tritt,
I mean, how does how does all that chemistry work
out there?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And don't forget Afro Man, he's been he's been on
the majority of them too. You know, I didn't even
know that. Yeah, last year, I mean we had we
had you know, Travis Tritt, Leonard skinnerd Hank Williams, drun
Nelly was on dates. Gosh man, you know really you know, uh,
(13:52):
Big and Rich with Scretch and Wilson, Brantley Gilbert you know.
So yeah, it's a great lineup and it kind of revolves.
Not everybody's on all the same ones, you know, and
then the off nights. Last year we switched over. This
(14:14):
year it's been nickeled Back on our off nights. But
it's always a Friday Saturday thing. So if we're headlining Saturday,
then they're they're okay headlining. Yeah, of course it was
Jason Elting.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, some of my friends are out there and
they said it was just, you know, every act was fantastic,
every single one sou Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Oh yeah, that's they've been really really killing man the
whole thing. It's been a great, great run and everything,
and crowds are phenomenal. We're getting I mean a lot
of these are. You know, on on our nights, we're
seeing anywhere from high twenty thousands up to forty thousand,
(14:58):
and you know, depending on the side of the place
and everything else.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, yeah, we were giving away some of those tickets
and you could just feel the energy through the phones.
I mean they were lit up. I mean I knew
that Hastings, Michigan was going to be a zoo. So yeah,
it doesn't surprise me that it was one of your
biggest ones, if not the biggest.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well it's Michigan too, so everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Of course, And you're still a Michigander, right, you haven't
moved to through and through.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I was born in Detroit and raised on the East
Side and up in the Thumb a lot on the
family farm, and you know, but yeah, I will stay
in Michigan for the rest of my life. Well, I
love Michigan. I love the changes.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, I just wanted to touch base with it, Jimmy,
because I'd heard the new stuff, especially a whole lot
of rock and roll, and I just thought, wow, you know,
you just keep getting bigger and better as a writer,
and it doesn't surprise me that a lot of your
stuff Bob steals. But uh, yeah, no, I think it's
fantastic that you know, you've got your own solo stuff.
(16:10):
You were and then I saw that the b and
Gross and Burke, we're all on it. So I just
wanted to, you know, congratulate you and and let the
people know that they need to get out there and
check out some of the Jimmy Bones rock and roll
from Detroit. How do they, uh, where are they finding
your music right now?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well? You can right now, you can, uh if you
like to buy downloads, you can get those right on
Jimmy Bones dot com. Buy the MP three downloads. If
you're streaming, it's on everything, Spotify, Apple Music, iHeartRadio, Near
(16:51):
and Dear to your Heart. Yeah, let's see where else, Uh,
you know, pretty much everything. There's this one called Deezer
that I've heard of. I've never been on it, but
you know all of those YouTube YouTube music. Okay, yeah,
you can get you can get to it pretty much
anywhere with the streaming, and then watch out for the
(17:14):
for the CD. Once I pulled the put the full
comp compilation out. We're finishing up another one. I got
another one that I'm hoping to release by August. And
that's not that's not the holiday things. This is another
rocker and uh, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So these shows, these Last of the Country shows, the
rock the country shows. Is that going to be it
for the year or are you guys gonna you know,
recircle around and and do some rock stuff or is
that going to kind of be it for the year
this year?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's all that I know of. I don't have anything
on the calendar, but that doesn't mean I couldn't get
an email tomorrow. Yeah, other handful of days, you know. Yeah, yeah,
I can either confirm nor DENI.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Hey, do you ever get a text that says, hey,
come on, you can join me and Donald Trump and
play golf for.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well, no, because he knows that I'm not a golf Oh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, all right, yeah, to say something else. But I'm
glad you said that.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, he knows I'm not a golfer, but he Yeah,
I think he keeps that pretty much, you know, that's
he keeps that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
No, I don't blame you, though I would. I would
carry his golf clubs to hang out with that.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You know, Marl, you had to be a fly on
the Wall.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah. Well, Jimmy Bones, you have a great one, my man.
Enjoy those concerts and uh continued success with your writing
and your recording and uh just fantastic job.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I look forward to hopefully seeing you here soon.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well, thank you, and that's that's very kind words coming
from the doc of rock himself, who I've listened to
for a long long time in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, I guess we've been listening to you for a
long long time. Two thirty years with the band, so yeah,
we got to watch each other's backs, all right, brother,
all right, Well, thanks for checking in with Detroit Wheels
today and like I said, continued success Jimmy Bones on
Detroit Wheels, all right, thank you,
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