June 10, 2025 • 51 mins
We dive into Chris's epic weekend house party that evolved into a 24-hour rager, complete with barbecue, fire pits, and an Umphrey's McGee concert adventure.
• Chris hosted an all-day party that transformed from a pre-concert gathering to a sunrise after-party
• The crew traveled to the Riverside Theater via city bus, where Chris befriended and smuggled a stranger named Isaac into the concert
• Tony experienced his first Umphrey's McGee show and shares his honest impressions as a first-timer
• The group reminisces about the dangers of flipping through CD binders while driving compared to today's voice-activated music
• Party highlights included outdoor fire pits, projector setups, and guests partying until sunrise despite the time change
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Howdy, what's up everybody.
Thanks for tuning in this week.
I am your main host, tony.
I'm here with my co-host, chrisand our tech guy jay that's why
I don't get to talk anymore,and uh I thought we turned off
this mic can you hear us frombehind the glass, sergey I'm
(00:50):
giving you a thumbs up right nowall right, today's episode is
brought to you by radio shack.
Radio shack, that's where weget all our tech gear.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah have you ever seen a radio shack open?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
nothing lately.
I think they're done.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, they're probably online radio shack was
like the only place you could goand buy one of those tape decks
that plugged into your cdwalkman for the car oh yeah I
know you're talking about, orlike the cassette tape with the
wire.
Yeah, yeah, the wires I boughtone of these things called an rf
modulator.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Once you ever hear one of them yeah, it's the one
you plug into your cigarettelighter.
It's for when your car doesn'teven have a radio tape deck.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It just had a radio.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Like 88.2 AM or some shit, hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I had one of those once while I was waiting in line
with a bunch of cars.
It was in a line that was goingto last for hours.
We weren't going to move.
So everyone was kind of hangingout outside their cars and I
just went up and down the 10cars behind me, 10 cars in front
of me, and told them all toturn to the radio station.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So all the cars were playing the same music and it
turned into a party in thestreet pretty legit dude, you
know everybody talks about howdangerous texting and driving is
, but if you think back to theday when we started driving,
flipping through 300 cds, in agigantic book, while holding
(02:11):
this 15 second anti-skipprotection disc and walkman you
had.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The binder is sitting on your lap, but resting
against the steering wheel ofyour car doing 70 miles an hour,
as you're flipping discs, notthis one, not this one trying to
find life after death.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Biggie's album and you're just going through.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh keras one tupac but not the edited one that your
friend left in the fuckingsleeves all seven bootleg
wu-tang clan cds you got likeyeah, it was worse when it was
all burn cds and they all didn'teven have names on them.
They were just like stickers ora way you wrote something and
you're like is this.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, you had to put them in a portable cd player
hope that your little cassetteplayer with the cord is fucking
working and then find the righttrack.
Dude, it could take up to 10minutes to get a song to play.
Yeah, now, when you're in yourcar, all you gotta do is say,
okay, google play justin bieber,whatever the fuck you're into,
(03:15):
yeah you're not wrong yourandroid does that respond?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
or when you say that, does that respond to that, not
mine.
What is I?
Got it turned off?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
mine does, I don't need nobody's.
I was gonna say what if it mine?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
does.
I don't need nobody's, I wasgonna say what if it?
Started playing.
I don't need nobody listeningto what the fuck I got to say
yeah, you got he's got tape andeveryone would record their
voices for other people tolisten to.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's ridiculous towards.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Like my voice is magical, it is, it is, it is
worth something, so anyway uh, Ihad quite the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It was uh, let me hear, it was uh, it was a very
interesting time.
So one of my best friends inthe whole world invited me and
my other best friend to agigantic party, and I mean this
party going to last from likenoon to noon, like it was come
and go as you please, it waslike 24 hours.
(04:08):
The invite even said like dude,stay at my house, you can sleep
on my hardwood floor.
I got a basement couch downthere.
You fucking have it.
You can have my kid's bedroom,I don't care.
Anywhere you want to stay over.
Man, where was your kid?
And uh, uh, so I went to it.
(04:30):
But my other friend decidedthat he had better shit to do.
Like nothing, like nothing.
He probably sat at homewatching old modern family
reruns.
I don't know, I don't know whatthe fuck he does sounds.
He's lame as fuck idiot he'sgood on tech oh, fucking idiot.
(04:55):
So anyway, my brother chrisinvited me to his house and it
was an exciting it was a rager,I was so excited for this party
I had I wouldn't go as far tosay right like would I picture
rager well, it turned into it bythe end of the night it's
slightly different from what itwas, but it was exactly like I
(05:19):
hoped and imagined.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yep in my head I uh, this concert was coming and I
knew it was coming.
And then I was gonna have somepeople over because I was like,
hey, guys, if we're all coming,you might as well meet at my
house rally out.
And then dan, my friend dan waslike we should get ld's
barbecue.
And that's when it all changed.
He's like I got I got 50 buckson it.
(05:42):
I'm like, all right, this is in, I'm in.
Then I just invited everyone Iever met at concerts that I knew
was coming to this.
Not everyone, but I'll behonest, I only got like I had a
near 80% success rate of peopleI invited to the people that
came.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's good, that's hard yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, and I was even at the end.
I'm like I I gotta stop, like Igotta stop going further wide
and like the person thatcouldn't come.
One of them lives in nashville.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Four of them lived in iowa well, they don't want to
go, so they were gonna come, butwhat two of them were anyways.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So then this party became a party dude and then we
got food and then I was like wegotta buy.
I gotta buy some beer, somesodas.
Well, if I'm gonna have thismany people, they're probably
gonna be outside.
I gotta set up an outsideliving room with a fire.
Then I was like, well, they'regonna do that, might as well put
people in the garage.
So I set up the fuckingprojector, made a playlist on
youtube.
People said they were gonnabring cookies, people cookies.
(06:43):
People were saying I'm going tobring this.
Then I'm like, well, how am Igoing to move these people?
Awesome, we can take my busthat I take to shows.
So I got everyone decided.
I put on the fucking invite.
What did I say?
Transportation will be provided.
Provided.
Join the adventure.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
City bus and it turns out, yeah, it's the city bus.
There's a bus that runs by myhouse, it's the Blue Mound
Connect 1, and it goes fromnearly my house straight down
Blue Mound to nearly the venue.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What if someone else in your neighborhood had the
same idea and the bus wastotally, completely packed?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You'd have to wait for the second bus Every 15
minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Okay, yeah, all right .
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So, yeah, I'll let you keep going here, let me set
the scene.
Set the scene so, as you mighthave heard on previous episodes
about what time I typically getto parties, I was told this
party's gonna start 1 pm, so I'mlike, perfect, I'll be there at
four my first guest was uh, dan, but he brought the food and
(07:51):
that was at about 12 30, andthen I think the next one was
evan and, uh, kellen, kellen.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, kellen and Kellen.
They showed up pretty earlybecause he had to leave and then
it was kind of from there,everyone kind of started showing
up, but yeah, 4 o'clock, so Itrickle in.
How many people were there, doyou think when you got there?
Probably 20.
Really, you did get there kindof late.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, it was about 20 .
It was the perfect amount.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'll let you know at one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Everything was set up and uh, I turned a corner into
his driveway and I looked downthe driveway and I pictured
exactly what I imagined.
Or I seen exactly what Ipictured nice.
I seen an outdoor fire goingand 20 white people standing
around holding beers in front ofthem, nodding their heads while
(08:46):
they talk exactly what Ipictured sounds uh, it was still
daylight so nobody could seethe projector that was running
the music, but it was there.
Yep um great spread of food.
First off, did you tell yourmom I was coming?
No, did she know I?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
didn't know you were coming until the fucking day
before anyways Right right?
No, I don't know if I told her.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I didn't know, because your mom pulled up about
half hour after I got there.
She came in, gave me a huge hugand told me that she brought
peanut butter bars for me.
Nice, does she just bringpeanut butter bars to all your
events, hoping that I'm going tobe there?
Maybe, or did she like slightlyembellish the truth?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
to me.
I think she embellished thetruth.
Dude, I felt so special.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Really quick, Tony, really quick.
The last time we talked aboutthis, you had plans.
What happened with those plans?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Weeks were confused and she thought it was the
spring break weekend, so youdidn't have plans.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Then you didn't have plans.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We did have plans, but it wasn't out of town plans.
She thought I was referring tothe weekend where taking the
kids and going with othercouples to Chicago to go to that
.
What were your plans that?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
you had for this week , past weekend, that you had to
break.
I had to go.
No, the dates were screwed up.
I know, but I'm saying you saidyou still had plans.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We had plans during the day we had to go over to our
campground.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Oh, so you could make this both, both of those things
happen.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Decisions were made.
Yes, jay.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yep decisions were made, yeah, but he wanted to go
to the campground.
To what?
Check that the tires on yourfucking vehicle are not flat?
No, or flush the toilets.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
What the fuck did you have to do?
One of our true friends wasbuying a place up there and they
wanted help looking over it, some and my other friend were
going there to help them look atthe trailer and find out if it
was a good purchase or a badpurchase, which is great because
your dad for the other frienddidn't show up, so, um, but yeah
(11:04):
, I had to help out anotherfriend.
So, uh, I go to chris's and wehang out and I get there sun's
out, it's gorgeous, you know,it's like it's like slightly
sweatshirt weather, but that allchanged very rapidly as the sun
went down.
Yes, as the sun went down, itgot outright cold, and chris is
(11:27):
a he's a man of preparation.
He had two fire pits goingalong with an outdoor heater
very near the fire pit, and Istood in the middle of those two
, yeah, and that's how I gainedmy warmth I also had the entire
basement room that we made, ormy wife made, heated down there
(11:50):
tv on down there same playlist,yeah no, I banged my wife on
that couch nice I don't thinkyou were the only one to get
lucky on that couch
Speaker 1 (11:58):
that night, but then also the whole first floor of
the house.
So people just didn't want togo inside.
They didn't want to I did spendsome time inside, I think.
Okay, there was a lot of people.
There was the food attraction,the outdoor fire attraction,
like people were kind of spreadout, you know, but yeah, it was
(12:29):
a great little party everyonehad I oh, everyone ate, I think
I did.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Uh, we know I had.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
We know that, tony I had left over a few ribs, uh, a
whole chicken.
I had a whole chicken which Iwas fine with.
I ripped it apart yesterday andput it all bags in the freezer.
It all in bags in the freezer.
Put all the bones in thefreezer.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I guaranteed Michelle , that you were going to come to
the podcast with leftoverbarbecue today.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I was close to it.
Like I said, I froze thechicken for soups later.
I'm pretty excited about italso.
But yeah, all the brisket wasgone, all the pork was gone,
cooked some pizzas on the backend.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But you know I got to mosey around.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I got to talk to Chris's mom, chris's wife, you
know.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You got to go into a separate room with Chris's wife.
I met a couple of his close andpersonal friends.
You know, almost like meldingtwo worlds together.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Dude, there was like eight worlds there.
That's what was so awesome.
So I had podcast guy there.
I had party bus Steve and hiswife, who have run party buses
to fish every year for like adecade and they always have a
gathering at their house andthen you get on the bus and go
and I was excited to have themto one of my parties.
(13:46):
You know, return that favor.
I had guys guys from umphreysmostly, but like one was from
chicago and one group.
All these people didn't knoweach other but knew each other
kinda, so it was really cool tofucking melt Then like Dan from
high school forever ago.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Is that long hair Dan ?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, long hair, dan.
Okay, he's been my buddy since.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, I know there were at least two Dans and I'm
assuming by the amount ofCaucasian.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Both of them have long hair.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Dan Ojeda is the photographer.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, cameraman Dan I figured by the amount of whites
there.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
There were several dans, not just yeah, what's with
you in color man?
I don't see color I don't know,man.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do only have pretty much white friends, though it's
a fact, I did make a new friend, so so, tony, yeah, we to get
there.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So we're hanging out at the party and I hear a
familiar voice a voice I hearevery week peek his head out of
the door and yell 20-minutewarning.
Everybody talked about it.
They're like well, what's in?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
20 minutes.
What's?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
in 20 minutes 20-minute warning.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You got to warn people otherwise they don't know
how to go.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Five minutes later, 15-minute warning Almost to the
second, I'm shocked.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I was not.
I don't remember this.
This is the point.
I don't.
Yeah, start things.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Start forgetting and then, 20 minutes later, five
minute warning we made the busyou gotta give people these
warnings like that who are youtalking structured?
Uh, because we had to leave theparty had to end at seven
o'clock.
We had to start moving towardsour nest, next destination and I
had to prep people so fiveminutes later, on the dot I'm
(15:47):
talking about chris chris walksback out and he's like everybody
start walking.
Right now we gotta go to thebus and and thank god there was
a bus, because at no pointshould most of those people have
been driving anywhere.
I needed that to be a fact and,uh, I parked about a block away
(16:11):
from chris's due to the heavyroad, the heavy road parking
from all the guests at the party.
And when you show up threehours late, you know you're
gonna have to park away.
How far away did make it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I was hoping we would make it.
All the way up the road I didsee people across the street and
up the other side I was up theside street, how far?
Uh, four cars, okay four carsso first or second driveway are
only there yep, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So everybody's funneling out now and walking.
Chris is walking, he's leadingthe pack and he's walking
backwards and I'm I'm face toface with him and we're about 10
feet apart and I'm kind of atthe beginning of it.
I'm walking to my car, I'm notwalking to the bus, but we're
I'm kind of in a big group andchris is walking backwards
(16:58):
holding a beer with a top shelfstories podcast koozie on it
sounds right and he's almost intears and he goes.
This is the best day of my lifehell yeah, and he's trying to
take pictures of people walkingto the they're extremely blurry.
I've seen those pictures and uhuh, they take the bus down there
(17:23):
and I had to drive.
I knew I was going to have toleave a little early, but I
heard rumblings of Chris makinga lifelong friend on that bus
ride.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He's not a lifelong friend.
He did subscribe to the podcast, but I never grabbed his phone
number, so I can only meet upwith him once again.
So I'm on the bus.
The bus is a city bus, it's theConnect One runs down Blue
Mountain.
It's a beautiful situation forme.
It's $2 a rider and just likeevery other bus, but it doesn't
(18:02):
stop very often and it fliesdown the fucking road.
So we're on the bus and Ishowed Jay a video and you can
tell everyone's on there and,like Tony said, all my compadres
are Caucasian.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I don't think completely, but maybe the first
thing I said when I saw thevideo.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
There was one guy on the bus.
There was two guys on the bus.
There was two guys on the buswhen we all loaded on and there
was 15 of us maybe 20 of usgetting on the bus.
Two guys on the bus, one ofthem, my friend chris.
He lives in tosa.
He rode a bus from tosa tothere and perfectly timed it.
Wow, so that when, that, whenwe got on cause I told them what
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bus we were taking.
It's crazy and, as Tony justsaid, I made sure to get
everyone out on time to get onthis bus, cause if we would have
missed it we would have been 15minutes delayed and we didn't.
We had 15.
We didn't have a half hour forsure, yeah, and I wanted to make
sure this was a smoothexperience for everybody.
And I wanted to make sure thiswas a smooth experience for
everybody.
So I don't know if you heardthat, tony, one of the guys on
the bus was my friend.
(19:06):
The other guy was just this guyand he's just sitting there and
I was like I got to know whatthis motherfucker thinks With
all these people hopping on thisbus.
He probably takes, because youcould tell he was like in work
clothes, he was in a bigCarhartt jacket, winter hat.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
You showed me that video and the first thing I saw
was this one black guy lookingdown.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You just said you don't see color.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That time I did because there was like a sea of
white people.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So here I am.
I'm like you know what?
I'm going to go see what thisguy thinks of this.
I'm like what do you think, man?
Have you ever seen all this?
I don't know how exactly I saidthe first thing but then he was
nice, his name was isaac, wewere talking for a little bit.
I'm like, what are you doingtonight, dude?
He's like I'm just on my wayhome from work.
I'm like, how do you thinkabout maybe changing that and
(19:54):
coming to a concert with?
us he's like I don't know manand I said I'll tell you what I
do.
This sometimes, in fact a lotof times, when I'm on the way to
an Humphrey show in an Uber busride, walking through the
street going to the store beforethe show, I always invite
people.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I mean you're going to put their tickets.
Hey Isaac, I'll buy you aticket.
You want to go to the show?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And he's like yeah, oh, my God and I was like
awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, this is my crew .
Try to recognize a couple ofthese fuckers, maybe by what
kind of hat they're wearing orwhatever, because they'll all
know you from the bus and thefact that he's the only black
guy at this entire concert.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, I think he probably may be Except for a few
of the security security I givehim the details.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm like it's at the Riverside Theater.
The bus that we're getting offgets off right there.
We're going to walk in there.
I have to go to the box officeto get my ticket.
Everyone else has it on theirphone, so just follow me.
Remember those people follow me.
That's actually kind of crazy.
I was shocked that he did itbecause he was in his work
clothes.
He said that his exit wouldhave been about three stops
(21:06):
prior, so it wasn't like farfrom him, from his house or
wherever he was going.
Anyways, I was like Isaac,you're with me.
But here's the scoop.
I told him before we got on,you know, past his stop.
I said dude, I have a pitticket.
They don't have any of thosefor sale, so you're going to be
in a different area.
So I'm, I'm getting you thisticket to the show, but you
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don't even have to hang out withme after.
You can, but you don't have to.
You can do whatever the fuckyou want.
You know, I'm just getting youin the door.
Um, yeah, he, uh.
We got in and I told him I waslike I'll sneak in by where
we're going, but you just got tokind of follow my lead.
Well, they didn't even havefloor tickets, they only had
balconies.
So he was on a completelydifferent floor of the building
(21:47):
than us.
I'm like don't worry, dude,come with me, go get my
wristband, got mine.
I'm like give me your ticket.
He gives the guy a ticket.
The guy goes Give him my ticket, isaac.
So Isaac goes back through theline again and remind you he's a
black guy and there's likeeight black guys in the whole
building of 1,500 people.
So he goes and tries it and theguy goes no, this ticket's just
(22:10):
used, it's got the scratch onit.
I'm like, all right, never mindthat, let's try plan B.
Plan B I said Isaac, take thispill.
I know these people at thevenue.
I go to a lot of shows here.
That's dave working the doorthere.
I'm going to make eye contactwith him, shake his hand.
You walk behind me pretendinglike you're gonna show your
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wristband, like you already gotone, and walk in and as soon as
you walk past me I'll say bye todave, put my arm around.
You will walk down the aisle.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
My god, you did all this for a stranger.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He does it.
He's like dude, that wasfucking awesome.
How did you do that?
I said it's all about doingwhat you do.
You look at the people in theeye.
They couldn't look at you.
He was looking at me and I toldyou what to do.
You acted as if you had yourthing.
Always act as you want to comeand go.
We got to go past these otherpeople now into the pit.
(23:04):
They're a little stricter and Idon't know who they are.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
They normally work for the actual security team.
It already seemed like it washard to even get past that part.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We're going to do the exact same thing, man, except
for this time I'm going to havemy arm around you to start,
because we got to get tight here.
So we just fucking went rightthrough Same situation.
Hung to get tight here, so hejust fucking went right through
same situation, hung out for awhile and then I didn't see him
until set break.
I was outside and I was likedude, what happened to you, man?
He's like they wouldn't let meback in there.
I'm like you gotta try, dude.
(23:33):
And I didn't think he made itback in.
But then one of my friends toldme that he did.
She saw him set break washanging out with him a little
bit you're're like you need todiversify.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You need to diversify your friendship.
I need to get a little darkerfriends here.
I try.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Anyway.
So that was my bus ride.
Got everybody down there good.
Tony's ride in was good.
How was the show?
Tony, you had never been to seeHumphreys McGee and.
I've gone 134 times or whatever, and you guys always make fun
of me for let me hear yourhonesty, tony, and don't fucking
lie so here's, here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's not my, I don't want to hear a deal off it.
He doesn't have to fluff Idon't want to hear you.
There's no deal.
I don't want to deal.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Here's the deal no I don't want to deal.
I agreed to go to this showbecause it's important to my
friend.
Okay, I've never heard thisband's music.
I didn't know what it was gonnabe.
I I didn't know what to expect.
I had no expectation, exceptfor it was a show at the
(24:35):
riverside that I blindly agreedto go see or chris playing uh
songs for you every time you cuthis hair and you just don't
listen.
He doesn't play that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
No, I don't play it.
Well, you've played it in thepodcast several times.
I've heard it several times, soI just decided not to listen.
Probably.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
It can be basically background music.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
You don't remember me asking Chris, when is the
singing start?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I go to the show I I walk in and it's as advertised
it is a convention of thecaucasians.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It is exactly like what do you say about 70 percent
male?
It may be 80 probably of allthe jam bands they call them jam
bands.
This one's a little heavier, alittle more aggressive ish than
most jam bands will.
I mean they got two leadguitars.
For Christ's sake, Double kickdrum drummer.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Do they move around a lot?
Do they jump around a lotduring shows?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Not a ton, no Okay so that's a solid.
No, well, I mean, the oneguitarist likes to dance while
he plays a little bit.
But when you say dance, I meanlike what?
It's not his hips, or yeah,move forward backwards.
Yeah, pretty much okay.
But uh, what I was saying is uh, a lot of other jam bands have
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like hot hippie chicks yeah,yeah, and old deadheads and
stuff like fish.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
This is.
This is 34 to 60 year males.
Yeah, it's pretty muchSurrounded in a sea.
So we went in, they startedplaying and the first song they
did.
I kind of got like sublimevibes from them, like it was.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Did you get like pop, reggae type, not shit, sort of?
I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That's the.
It has reggae and the way thattheir sound is you could like.
They're so instrument, heavy,very technical.
You cannot.
You cannot hear anything he issaying.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It's very hard to hear the lyrics, lyrics,
especially if you don't knowthem?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
yeah, but it was my luck that everybody in that
arena knew every word okay,everyone's singing along.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You can hear, you listen to everyone singing along
to the music, so and I don'tknow if this is true.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Correct me if I'm wrong, chris, but about seven
minutes in to the first song,the words stop and it goes into
like a half hour jam session andand then, randomly, the words
just pick back up.
I think it was the same song.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's very possible there are some songs that I mean
they've done like four songsets where each song is like 30
minutes let me ask you this,tony because you're an observer,
you see things other peopledon't, because you really anyway
.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
So when that jam session was going on and you
looked around at the people,where there are people just kind
of like just throwing theirhead down, bro look around in
the air and just like justhippie style you ever seen the
old videos.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You ever seen the old videos of the churches where
the people speak in tongues?
And everybody's just running upand down the aisles jumping up
and down, rolling back in herhead's arm.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Uh, there was, there was a lot of that, hell yeah so
their arms are in the air,probably 45 to 50 percent waving
them like you just don't carewith my finger in the air,
poking it, screaming at the air,with my hand holding a.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Pabst.
There's some people freakingout and some people just like,
yeah, just find it kind offlowing to the music.
Well, here's the thing Somepeople punching the fucking air
kicking.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
So there was a lot of marijuana smoke running through
the crowd and and I mean a lot,yeah, and I don't even so the
way that this band is with theirlight show and all that I don't
think marijuana was the primarydrug of the show either.
I mean, I think this is I thinkthis show is a little bit more
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geared toward acid mushroomsthan it is the calming effect
that my second hand marijuanahigh was.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, man, a lot of people like to use these shows
as an excuse or reason, and itis kind of a great example of a
place to do like a mushroom oracid situation.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, it had very much acid vibes a lot of I don't
know.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A lot of people do it .
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, it's a big thing I keep, I keep, so good, I
keep seeing that the churchthing in my eyes.
With a bunch of hairy dippiesFucking tie-dyes on no just like
someone preaching, and there'slike five or six people that are
insanely running aroundpunching the air.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Like, yeah, praise God, lord Jesus.
That's kind of how it wasbecause everybody there, so I
feel like me and the guy fromthe bus were the two people that
didn't know the band there.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I mean there were at my party going to the show.
There was at least six peoplethat I can think of right now.
That never been to the showbefore.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So I would and I feel like I'm not being out of line
here but 80 of the articles ofclothing from the way stop were
previous shows.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Umfrey's mcgee gear I don't wear umfrey's stuff to
Umphrey's shows but a lot ofpeople do Like it's a sporting
event.
Like you know how you peoplewear a Packers jersey to a
Packer game.
People wear old show gear tothe show.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You don't wear anything from Umphrey's McGee at
the show Not typically.
That's crazy, because you'llwear our fucking podcast shit.
Just to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, that's true, that makes wow, I don't know it
was.
It was almost to the pointwhere I felt out of place people
like to show off their like itwas a husband and wife who were
and I use this term looselysitting next to us.
It was a husband and wife um, Isat next to them because we
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were on an aisle end and she wasthick and her and her husband
had had homemade umphreys mcgeeclothes they looked fucking bad
and, uh, me and my wife played agame because we got we did get
there like a half hour earlierthan the show started.
(31:42):
We had some time to kind ofmosey along and looking at the
different types of people there.
I always say I don't judge, butI secretly do, sure, and I
played this game with my wifefor a half hour until she was
just sick of me.
What do you think that guy doesfor?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
a living.
I was going to ask you employedor unemployed?
Was that the game?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
It was well, I probably assessed 20 people, but
14 of them or so I guessedTyler's Work at a used road
bicycle company restoringhandlebars, the curly ram horn
(32:27):
handlebars.
No see, this is like everybodyhere works on bicycles for a
living.
What the fuck.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Like yeah, that's not true, though, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Chris is like I'm high on the white corporate
ladder.
Yeah, see.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I mean, that's the thing.
It's like people just turn thatswitch like it's drag night and
they just change into thisthing.
My favorite game at things likethat and festivals is to go to
the ATM machine and grab acouple of the receipts and then
bring them out and tell people Ipicked this up at the ATM
machine how much did they takeout and how much do they have
left.
That's my favorite game and theones at the music festivals are
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like they took out twentydollars.
They have negative eighty threedollars.
Oh then you'd find some of themwhere it's like he took out 20
bucks and he's got 14 grand inthe checking, like what the fuck
is this guy?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
yeah, so, uh, we, we went and found some seats and uh
, there were seats.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I thought he said it was some type of standing crowd.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Can I give this set list, or should I wait for that?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I want to wait for it for a second, okay that's good
so so the front from the stageout to about 30 feet was just
open, standing room only that'severything beyond that is a seat
, but I'll tell you, nobody sitsthis is one of the oldest
theaters in the city ofmilwaukee.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Why is it again the riverside theater?
It was once used for likepresidential things.
It was used for all kinds ofdifferent shit.
Yeah, it's like 200 years oldyeah it just recently got
converted, like 60 years ago, tomusic.
They used to do movies, silentpictures and shit there.
That is yeah but uh when we'rewalking right.
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Is it beautiful?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
yeah, it's fucking awesome when I was walking in um
I decided that, uh, I seen themerch table and I'm like I think
I'm gonna get a momental forthis grand occasion so I can
look at it and always thinkabout the wonderful evening I
spent with my friend Chris.
Right you just?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
want to say best, like he's like his lips went
together with because I waslooking at you dead in the eye.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I'm earning it man, we started as farmers only but,
but I go out there or I I get tothe merch table and I walk
right up to it like I do atthings like that, and I was
warned that the line actuallystarts back there.
Yeah, someone yelled at you.
So so they would let peoplelike there was a hallway in
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between it and they would likewave one person over to come to
the merch table at a time.
And I looked at the line and itwas a fucking thousand hippies
that deep because people wantthe poster.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Each show gets its own poster a lot.
Not every show gets its ownshow poster, but when they do,
they're normally by a knownartist.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
In the poster game print a game, but yeah so people
wait because they're afraidthat's gonna sell out so I
waited until the music startedand, and they were about 30
minutes into an 80 minuteinstrumental, yep and I ran back
out there.
How?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
long is the show?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
so everybody at the show on these instrumentals,
even like they're air guitaringthe right chords Like these are
known instrumentals.
They're not like they're justup there fucking around, Like
these are, like they'll play thefirst chord to a half hour
(36:04):
instrumental and people be likeeverybody jumping in the air
Like, yes, I came here to hearthis.
But I went out, walked right upto the merch table and I went to
go get a poster and I'm like,fuck, yeah, this poster is
amazing.
So you waited until that long,ass.
There was no line once themusic started, oh, they all
(36:26):
scattered back into the, got it,got it into the crowd and I'm
like now's my time to pounce andI go up and uh, I'm like I'll
take three show posters and uh,you bought three of those.
Well, I was going I was gonnabuy several until you find the
price and then I go how much arethey?
(36:47):
And he goes 70 and I'm well,that's not bad for three or
something, and he's like each.
And I said put two of them backand do you negotiate.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So tell the size of this poster so people don't know
.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
understand that this could be a standard concert
poster.
It's 18 inches by 24.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
It's actually smaller than a standard.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
It's not like the movie posters.
You go get at.
Walmart.
It's small, it's not big 18 by24.
But it's an amazing piece ofartwork.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I will say you keep calling them prints, but you
don't roll prints up into a.
You do when you buy it at aconcert, you're supposed to take
it out of there right away, assoon as you can.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, so it doesn't fuck up like his, it's fucked up
, right, all the creep stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
But the posters, you buy them, the prints, I call
them posters too.
I'm just fucking around, butpeople get pissed, I don't give
a shit.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
But yeah, you get them a tube and you got to carry
them around.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yep, no, no, I mean I mean you can't, you can't carry
them around, not not in that no, it has to be, it'd get fucked
up.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So we were about three hours into the show.
How okay, it's not true butwait, wait, it's only three
hours long okay, it shows I wasthen like two and a half hours
into the show and chris.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Before you say some before you finish.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
There's no openers just add no, this was because
they play so long.
This was an evening withumfrey's mcgee.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
They will have openers, but this was an evening
like that show would be likeeight hours long there might
potentially be an opener that'slike 45 minutes.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
There might be a.
There might be a fresh, freshopener it's 20, then an opener
that's like 45 minutes.
There might be a.
There might be a fresh, freshopener it's 20, then an opener
that's like 45, and so then,yeah, the first hour and a half
and then umfries will play onesong.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, don't play this, don't play the same, it'll still
be an hour they will play twoset three hour shows 200 times a
year.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
How many songs they play in a show?
Four.
So this time, this time, theset was started with the song
called plunger, which is one oftheirs.
13 days, which is one of theirs.
Bottomed half, which is one ofthem.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
What do you mean?
One of theirs?
Then they all be one of theirs.
They covered a song calledjesus, etc.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
By wilco.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
It was the first time they ever played it, so you got
that gem, whappy sprayberrywhich is one of them, also
announced that you've heard thissong, but we've never played
this song yeah and then theyjust went into it.
Have you heard that?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
song.
Yeah, then they played a songcalled space funk booty, but
they included jump around teasesfrom house of pain yeah, this
was after the intermission,right?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
no, not yet this was before.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Then they played 40s theme, which is a fucking fan
favorite.
That's one of my favorites1940s.
It have words yeah, that's theone where they talk about that
barbecue sauce and that chickenwing.
Throw it on the deep fire,guaranteed to set your ass on
fire.
All right, then they then itwas set break.
Did you stay in this, in thistheater, and listen to the set
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break music?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
because that's a big thing people track that shit set
break they play.
They give you a half hour to gopiss, go take a small playing
no wait, it's, it's they playmusic on there.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Okay, thank you, and it was all rap music which I
thought was I went outside.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I always go outside.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I thought was for sure, like Isaac Just a track
that the Riverside has on tapfor this.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
There is a whole thing about set break, music in
all bands like this, but thenset break came back.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I mean I didn't picture them playing you and
that booty they will.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
They'll do that.
They even have.
They do rap, they have.
They call it with the.
The guy who plays the bongosthat everyone jokes doesn't do
anything.
Andy farragh, he really does,but everyone jokes he doesn't
because playing his ass off.
He's actually my one of myfavorites.
But so he comes out as mcpumpernickel Makes sense and
raps and we'll play a rap songNice thick bread, set to All in
(40:55):
Time, which is one of theirs, aclassic, that one everyone was
singing, I'm sure.
Song Concessions, yeah.
I've seen people crying.
Then they played Layla.
Yeah, they'll cry during All inTime.
They will Layla.
Did you catch the layla?
Layla is when we left withclampton layla.
Then they played 1348 with uhyyz rush teases.
(41:17):
Then they played rock and roll,part two, slacker, 1348.
Then they went on a small breakfor an encore.
They they came out and playedParty and Peeps, which is one of
their songs, then finished Allin Time.
So they started the set too withthe song played a bunch of
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different songs, went off for abreak for a minute, came back
out, played another song andthen finished.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
So that's like 10 songs, so that averages 30
minutes.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
The last rock and roll of part I left at like 11.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
I'm wrong, I'm not 30 minutes.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So I don't know when it ended Probably like I don't
know, we made the bus.
I wanted to make.
So I don't know when it ended.
So, yeah, man.
Then everybody came back to myhouse after we took the bus home
.
We apparently missed the firstbus, we thought.
But then there was steve and,uh, his wife were still there,
(42:16):
uh, waiting for the bus.
I have another friend who livesin the neighborhood okay, a
couple blocks east of me, whoalso takes the bus to the show
steve, the guy that does theparty bus for the fish shows.
So we saw them.
We see them on the bus home alot, or I do, I guess.
Um, and then we got back to myhouse, man, and fucking cranked
(42:37):
it back up, cranked it up bigtime, like there was 20, still
15, at least still there.
Courtney came, you know,courtney, yeah, she came with
her boyfriend because she had towork all night, but she was
there waiting for us.
Uh, katie was asleep.
My dog got dog sat by rianneand mindy.
(43:00):
They took my dog.
I was there when they took thedog and then, uh, we partied
fucking hard outside and thatwas dark out.
The projector was working.
Everyone was fucking loving it.
Then we were cranking the music.
Fire was fucking blazing.
Nick was just feeding the fire.
It was colder.
No one wanted to go insideagain.
We made a bunch of food up thepasta salad.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
We got eaten up a bunch of food it is kind of
weird when everybody's outsidefor you to start.
Let's take this inside, whereit's 40 degrees warmer.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Right, I wasn't going to make anybody do anything.
But I often thought through thenight.
I'm like do people realize theycan come in here?
I went into Kate.
I'm like people know they cancome inside, right.
So?
Speaker 2 (43:50):
did your mom come back to your house after?
Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:54):
They took the bus home with us.
Yeah, I think yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
And then she went home.
Or did she crash out on yourbasement floor?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
She stayed for a while.
Oh yeah, I do remember Travissaying that my mom, oh, my mom
telling me that her and Leslie,my aunt, who, which is her first
show, yeah, Um, we're at myhouse after thinking like well,
can we drive?
She would you drive.
And then Travis was like uh,girls, like, if you got to talk
(44:21):
to each other about it, justtake an Uber.
And so then they took an Uberand my mom came back and got her
car in the morning.
But we partied so hard that Ithink at about three katie got
up, came outside now this isthree, but there was a time warp
there where we lost daylightsavings hour.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, during my party, whichsucked because then it was 3, 30
(44:42):
and kate's out there and she'slike I forgot to get up.
We were supposed to.
We're going on a cruise and shewas supposed to, uh, register
us at midnight.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
She slept the whole, the whole reason.
She said, the whole reason.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
She wouldn't come is because she had to do this, and
then she slept through thefucking alarm.
Go to the show she, she bailedon me, just like you.
She had the dumbest fuckingexcuse it was even worse.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
It was even worse than oh, you're gonna work for
28 hours.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
So we're partying hard.
Kate gets up, we're stillpartying.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
She went back to bed, so you guys can still go on the
cruise right, Because?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
she was convinced.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, she got up at 3.30 and did it she was
convinced that if she didn't login exactly at midnight, we have
the perfect spot.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
No cruise on the 10th .
Speaker 3 (45:27):
No, we have the perfect load.
Is it just you two?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
and my kid, yeah, kid cool so, yeah, we're partying,
and I had about what must havebeen.
After katie went back to bed,the neighbor's lights turned on
and I don't know if they weregetting up for work, if we got
them up, but that didn't stopthe party, we just kept fucking
going what time did you party?
Till and then eventually peoplestarted like I don't know,
(45:51):
maybe I was the one who was likelet's fucking shut this bitch
down and we moved it inside.
What time was that we wentinside?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Four, three, probably yeah, four or five.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Four or five.
Nice Dan complained that hecouldn't sleep because it was
too bright in my house, so thattells me that he went to bed
after the sun came up.
He goes what do you got?
No blinds.
I'm like, what do you mean?
He's like it was so bright inyour house when I tried to go to
bed.
So, yeah, I got inside, blew upa bunch of air mattresses.
Yeah, dude, it was a fuckingparty in the morning.
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It was brutal.
Courtney cleaned up, which wasawesome, nice, so, like it was,
I mean, it was still a fuckingmess but there was at least four
bags of garbage she had alltied up and shit like that and
uh, I didn't do shit yesterdayor sunday and then monday I
finally got my act together andcleaned it all up and shit.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Went back to being an adult, all right.
So overall, I give theexperience a seven out of 10.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah, we're not writing shit, no more.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Tony, I would be honored if you invited me.
Every time they came within 25minutes of my house, fuck yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Is Madison coming?
But I'm going to tell you I'mnot sure you live out west Does.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Madison count.
That's out of town, bro, is it?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
From where you are.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
It's almost a horse apiece that's getting a hotel at
that point it's about the same.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
He's still like an hour and 40.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Does Chicago count.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Chicago's way out Fuck.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Chicago's closer than Madison, isn't it?
I don't Chicago, for should Iactually need to go to Chicago
for that?
Being said I'm in Chicago allday tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
I was pretty happy.
You called I think it wasMonday, we talked and you were
like if they came to town again,I'd go.
And then you said if theytravel, I don't know why you
would travel necessarily, or I'mnot going to travel, or
something you said and I waslike, well, it's not not always
the travel, it's at the partyand the people that you go with.
Right, tony Cause, most halfthe people that were there I met
(47:52):
traveling to fucking shows youstill have not said.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
You're rating shit now, so you have not rated the
band.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
I gave the experience a 7 out of 10.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
No, rate the band.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Rate the band Well.
Considering I couldn't hear anylyrics and I don't know
anything they do, I'm going togive the band a six.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Here's what I got to do for you.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
But I'm going to give the party.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
So what I always need to do and it's always very
helpful for shows I've been toto give a re-listen.
So I'll get you the fuckingability to listen to the show
where you'll be able to hear thesoundboard quality lyrics, not
the guy next to you, not the tooloud drums, not the nothing,
it's fucking prime sound.
(48:38):
You'll hear the lyrics.
You'll hear the little chingsand the changs.
You'll catch the drift of whythey were going with the jam and
why it changed and when itchanged, and you might
appreciate it more some justdon't umphreys is hard to get,
it is real quick.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
It's organized chaos, I agree.
I agree, we we were telling our12 year old about the show.
We left out all the mushroomsand acid.
But we told him about the showand he goes what?
What kind of music was it?
Speaker 1 (49:08):
It's impossible to categorize.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
And there's no answer to that right.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Do you know what I say?
When people say what kind ofmusic do they play, I
immediately change it to whatkind of music do you like?
And whatever they say, I saythey play that Because they can
do it all.
They have country songs.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
So we played a couple of their songs I thought it was
trash.
And no, it was actually.
I like that.
I like the alexa version ofstudio stuff it was.
It was all covers.
Oh and listen, dude, this thisis the craziest shit ever.
(49:47):
They'll play the music from onesong and sing the words to a
different song.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
Dude, I went to a concert.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
Different genres, it's mashups bro.
Bro, it is listening to twodifferent radio stations at the
same time.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
I forget what that album's called, but they used to
do concerts, especially aroundHalloween, and they used to do
them in Milwaukee where theythey did mashups and we would
mash up costumes.
I was dr house party once.
My brother was silent bobbarker like dude massive massive
(50:22):
, silent that album's calledzonkey, where they they put on
the album.
Then, after all these halloweenmashup shows they used to do,
they put on an album of allthose tracks and they called it
zonkey.
It's a donkey and a zebra, Idon't.
It was pretty fucking cool.
All right, you like that shit.
See they, they musicianship forthe masses, what they call it.
(50:44):
They do a lot anyways.
Anyways, I'm fucking glad youcame, tony.
I hope you had fun.
I'm so glad you came, Tony,Gotta get you next time bro.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
One day, there you go .
Speaker 3 (50:56):
That's his polite way of saying don't even fucking
ask me Shut up, tony, I neverwould not want someone to ask me
to do something, never.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
You just have the ability of not showing up to it.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
Shut up.
This is your enjoyment of topshow stories with your host,
tony, with the most uh, chrisfoot the stories and jn tech.
Let's see you next time.
Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Howdy, what's up everybody.
Thanks for tuning in this week.
I am your main host, tony.
I'm here with my co-host, chrisand our tech guy jay that's why
I don't get to talk anymore,and uh I thought we turned off
this mic can you hear us frombehind the glass, sergey I'm
(00:50):
giving you a thumbs up right nowall right, today's episode is
brought to you by radio shack.
Radio shack, that's where weget all our tech gear.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah have you ever seen a radio shack open?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
nothing lately.
I think they're done.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, they're probably online radio shack was
like the only place you could goand buy one of those tape decks
that plugged into your cdwalkman for the car oh yeah I
know you're talking about, orlike the cassette tape with the
wire.
Yeah, yeah, the wires I boughtone of these things called an rf
modulator.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Once you ever hear one of them yeah, it's the one
you plug into your cigarettelighter.
It's for when your car doesn'teven have a radio tape deck.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It just had a radio.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Like 88.2 AM or some shit, hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I had one of those once while I was waiting in line
with a bunch of cars.
It was in a line that was goingto last for hours.
We weren't going to move.
So everyone was kind of hangingout outside their cars and I
just went up and down the 10cars behind me, 10 cars in front
of me, and told them all toturn to the radio station.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
So all the cars were playing the same music and it
turned into a party in thestreet pretty legit dude, you
know everybody talks about howdangerous texting and driving is
, but if you think back to theday when we started driving,
flipping through 300 cds, in agigantic book, while holding
(02:11):
this 15 second anti-skipprotection disc and walkman you
had.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The binder is sitting on your lap, but resting
against the steering wheel ofyour car doing 70 miles an hour,
as you're flipping discs, notthis one, not this one trying to
find life after death.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Biggie's album and you're just going through.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh keras one tupac but not the edited one that your
friend left in the fuckingsleeves all seven bootleg
wu-tang clan cds you got likeyeah, it was worse when it was
all burn cds and they all didn'teven have names on them.
They were just like stickers ora way you wrote something and
you're like is this.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, you had to put them in a portable cd player
hope that your little cassetteplayer with the cord is fucking
working and then find the righttrack.
Dude, it could take up to 10minutes to get a song to play.
Yeah, now, when you're in yourcar, all you gotta do is say,
okay, google play justin bieber,whatever the fuck you're into,
(03:15):
yeah you're not wrong yourandroid does that respond?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
or when you say that, does that respond to that, not
mine.
What is I?
Got it turned off?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
mine does, I don't need nobody's.
I was gonna say what if it mine?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
does.
I don't need nobody's, I wasgonna say what if it?
Started playing.
I don't need nobody listeningto what the fuck I got to say
yeah, you got he's got tape andeveryone would record their
voices for other people tolisten to.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's ridiculous towards.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Like my voice is magical, it is, it is, it is
worth something, so anyway uh, Ihad quite the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It was uh, let me hear, it was uh, it was a very
interesting time.
So one of my best friends inthe whole world invited me and
my other best friend to agigantic party, and I mean this
party going to last from likenoon to noon, like it was come
and go as you please, it waslike 24 hours.
(04:08):
The invite even said like dude,stay at my house, you can sleep
on my hardwood floor.
I got a basement couch downthere.
You fucking have it.
You can have my kid's bedroom,I don't care.
Anywhere you want to stay over.
Man, where was your kid?
And uh, uh, so I went to it.
(04:30):
But my other friend decidedthat he had better shit to do.
Like nothing, like nothing.
He probably sat at homewatching old modern family
reruns.
I don't know, I don't know whatthe fuck he does sounds.
He's lame as fuck idiot he'sgood on tech oh, fucking idiot.
(04:55):
So anyway, my brother chrisinvited me to his house and it
was an exciting it was a rager,I was so excited for this party
I had I wouldn't go as far tosay right like would I picture
rager well, it turned into it bythe end of the night it's
slightly different from what itwas, but it was exactly like I
(05:19):
hoped and imagined.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yep in my head I uh, this concert was coming and I
knew it was coming.
And then I was gonna have somepeople over because I was like,
hey, guys, if we're all coming,you might as well meet at my
house rally out.
And then dan, my friend dan waslike we should get ld's
barbecue.
And that's when it all changed.
He's like I got I got 50 buckson it.
(05:42):
I'm like, all right, this is in, I'm in.
Then I just invited everyone Iever met at concerts that I knew
was coming to this.
Not everyone, but I'll behonest, I only got like I had a
near 80% success rate of peopleI invited to the people that
came.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's good, that's hard yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, and I was even at the end.
I'm like I I gotta stop, like Igotta stop going further wide
and like the person thatcouldn't come.
One of them lives in nashville.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Four of them lived in iowa well, they don't want to
go, so they were gonna come, butwhat two of them were anyways.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So then this party became a party dude and then we
got food and then I was like wegotta buy.
I gotta buy some beer, somesodas.
Well, if I'm gonna have thismany people, they're probably
gonna be outside.
I gotta set up an outsideliving room with a fire.
Then I was like, well, they'regonna do that, might as well put
people in the garage.
So I set up the fuckingprojector, made a playlist on
youtube.
People said they were gonnabring cookies, people cookies.
(06:43):
People were saying I'm going tobring this.
Then I'm like, well, how am Igoing to move these people?
Awesome, we can take my busthat I take to shows.
So I got everyone decided.
I put on the fucking invite.
What did I say?
Transportation will be provided.
Provided.
Join the adventure.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
City bus and it turns out, yeah, it's the city bus.
There's a bus that runs by myhouse, it's the Blue Mound
Connect 1, and it goes fromnearly my house straight down
Blue Mound to nearly the venue.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What if someone else in your neighborhood had the
same idea and the bus wastotally, completely packed?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You'd have to wait for the second bus Every 15
minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Okay, yeah, all right .
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So, yeah, I'll let you keep going here, let me set
the scene.
Set the scene so, as you mighthave heard on previous episodes
about what time I typically getto parties, I was told this
party's gonna start 1 pm, so I'mlike, perfect, I'll be there at
four my first guest was uh, dan, but he brought the food and
(07:51):
that was at about 12 30, andthen I think the next one was
evan and, uh, kellen, kellen.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, kellen and Kellen.
They showed up pretty earlybecause he had to leave and then
it was kind of from there,everyone kind of started showing
up, but yeah, 4 o'clock, so Itrickle in.
How many people were there, doyou think when you got there?
Probably 20.
Really, you did get there kindof late.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, it was about 20 .
It was the perfect amount.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'll let you know at one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Everything was set up and uh, I turned a corner into
his driveway and I looked downthe driveway and I pictured
exactly what I imagined.
Or I seen exactly what Ipictured nice.
I seen an outdoor fire goingand 20 white people standing
around holding beers in front ofthem, nodding their heads while
(08:46):
they talk exactly what Ipictured sounds uh, it was still
daylight so nobody could seethe projector that was running
the music, but it was there.
Yep um great spread of food.
First off, did you tell yourmom I was coming?
No, did she know I?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
didn't know you were coming until the fucking day
before anyways Right right?
No, I don't know if I told her.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I didn't know, because your mom pulled up about
half hour after I got there.
She came in, gave me a huge hugand told me that she brought
peanut butter bars for me.
Nice, does she just bringpeanut butter bars to all your
events, hoping that I'm going tobe there?
Maybe, or did she like slightlyembellish the truth?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
to me.
I think she embellished thetruth.
Dude, I felt so special.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Really quick, Tony, really quick.
The last time we talked aboutthis, you had plans.
What happened with those plans?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Weeks were confused and she thought it was the
spring break weekend, so youdidn't have plans.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Then you didn't have plans.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We did have plans, but it wasn't out of town plans.
She thought I was referring tothe weekend where taking the
kids and going with othercouples to Chicago to go to that
.
What were your plans that?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
you had for this week , past weekend, that you had to
break.
I had to go.
No, the dates were screwed up.
I know, but I'm saying you saidyou still had plans.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We had plans during the day we had to go over to our
campground.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Oh, so you could make this both, both of those things
happen.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Decisions were made.
Yes, jay.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yep decisions were made, yeah, but he wanted to go
to the campground.
To what?
Check that the tires on yourfucking vehicle are not flat?
No, or flush the toilets.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
What the fuck did you have to do?
One of our true friends wasbuying a place up there and they
wanted help looking over it, some and my other friend were
going there to help them look atthe trailer and find out if it
was a good purchase or a badpurchase, which is great because
your dad for the other frienddidn't show up, so, um, but yeah
(11:04):
, I had to help out anotherfriend.
So, uh, I go to chris's and wehang out and I get there sun's
out, it's gorgeous, you know,it's like it's like slightly
sweatshirt weather, but that allchanged very rapidly as the sun
went down.
Yes, as the sun went down, itgot outright cold, and chris is
(11:27):
a he's a man of preparation.
He had two fire pits goingalong with an outdoor heater
very near the fire pit, and Istood in the middle of those two
, yeah, and that's how I gainedmy warmth I also had the entire
basement room that we made, ormy wife made, heated down there
(11:50):
tv on down there same playlist,yeah no, I banged my wife on
that couch nice I don't thinkyou were the only one to get
lucky on that couch
Speaker 1 (11:58):
that night, but then also the whole first floor of
the house.
So people just didn't want togo inside.
They didn't want to I did spendsome time inside, I think.
Okay, there was a lot of people.
There was the food attraction,the outdoor fire attraction,
like people were kind of spreadout, you know, but yeah, it was
(12:29):
a great little party everyonehad I oh, everyone ate, I think
I did.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Uh, we know I had.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
We know that, tony I had left over a few ribs, uh, a
whole chicken.
I had a whole chicken which Iwas fine with.
I ripped it apart yesterday andput it all bags in the freezer.
It all in bags in the freezer.
Put all the bones in thefreezer.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I guaranteed Michelle , that you were going to come to
the podcast with leftoverbarbecue today.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I was close to it.
Like I said, I froze thechicken for soups later.
I'm pretty excited about italso.
But yeah, all the brisket wasgone, all the pork was gone,
cooked some pizzas on the backend.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But you know I got to mosey around.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I got to talk to Chris's mom, chris's wife, you
know.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You got to go into a separate room with Chris's wife.
I met a couple of his close andpersonal friends.
You know, almost like meldingtwo worlds together.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Dude, there was like eight worlds there.
That's what was so awesome.
So I had podcast guy there.
I had party bus Steve and hiswife, who have run party buses
to fish every year for like adecade and they always have a
gathering at their house andthen you get on the bus and go
and I was excited to have themto one of my parties.
(13:46):
You know, return that favor.
I had guys guys from umphreysmostly, but like one was from
chicago and one group.
All these people didn't knoweach other but knew each other
kinda, so it was really cool tofucking melt Then like Dan from
high school forever ago.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Is that long hair Dan ?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, long hair, dan.
Okay, he's been my buddy since.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, I know there were at least two Dans and I'm
assuming by the amount ofCaucasian.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Both of them have long hair.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Dan Ojeda is the photographer.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, cameraman Dan I figured by the amount of whites
there.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
There were several dans, not just yeah, what's with
you in color man?
I don't see color I don't know,man.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do only have pretty much white friends, though it's
a fact, I did make a new friend, so so, tony, yeah, we to get
there.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
So we're hanging out at the party and I hear a
familiar voice a voice I hearevery week peek his head out of
the door and yell 20-minutewarning.
Everybody talked about it.
They're like well, what's in?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
20 minutes.
What's?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
in 20 minutes 20-minute warning.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
You got to warn people otherwise they don't know
how to go.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Five minutes later, 15-minute warning Almost to the
second, I'm shocked.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I was not.
I don't remember this.
This is the point.
I don't.
Yeah, start things.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Start forgetting and then, 20 minutes later, five
minute warning we made the busyou gotta give people these
warnings like that who are youtalking structured?
Uh, because we had to leave theparty had to end at seven
o'clock.
We had to start moving towardsour nest, next destination and I
had to prep people so fiveminutes later, on the dot I'm
(15:47):
talking about chris chris walksback out and he's like everybody
start walking.
Right now we gotta go to thebus and and thank god there was
a bus, because at no pointshould most of those people have
been driving anywhere.
I needed that to be a fact and,uh, I parked about a block away
(16:11):
from chris's due to the heavyroad, the heavy road parking
from all the guests at the party.
And when you show up threehours late, you know you're
gonna have to park away.
How far away did make it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I was hoping we would make it.
All the way up the road I didsee people across the street and
up the other side I was up theside street, how far?
Uh, four cars, okay four carsso first or second driveway are
only there yep, okay.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So everybody's funneling out now and walking.
Chris is walking, he's leadingthe pack and he's walking
backwards and I'm I'm face toface with him and we're about 10
feet apart and I'm kind of atthe beginning of it.
I'm walking to my car, I'm notwalking to the bus, but we're
I'm kind of in a big group andchris is walking backwards
(16:58):
holding a beer with a top shelfstories podcast koozie on it
sounds right and he's almost intears and he goes.
This is the best day of my lifehell yeah, and he's trying to
take pictures of people walkingto the they're extremely blurry.
I've seen those pictures and uhuh, they take the bus down there
(17:23):
and I had to drive.
I knew I was going to have toleave a little early, but I
heard rumblings of Chris makinga lifelong friend on that bus
ride.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He's not a lifelong friend.
He did subscribe to the podcast, but I never grabbed his phone
number, so I can only meet upwith him once again.
So I'm on the bus.
The bus is a city bus, it's theConnect One runs down Blue
Mountain.
It's a beautiful situation forme.
It's $2 a rider and just likeevery other bus, but it doesn't
(18:02):
stop very often and it fliesdown the fucking road.
So we're on the bus and Ishowed Jay a video and you can
tell everyone's on there and,like Tony said, all my compadres
are Caucasian.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I don't think completely, but maybe the first
thing I said when I saw thevideo.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
There was one guy on the bus.
There was two guys on the bus.
There was two guys on the buswhen we all loaded on and there
was 15 of us maybe 20 of usgetting on the bus.
Two guys on the bus, one ofthem, my friend chris.
He lives in tosa.
He rode a bus from tosa tothere and perfectly timed it.
Wow, so that when, that, whenwe got on cause I told them what
(18:45):
bus we were taking.
It's crazy and, as Tony justsaid, I made sure to get
everyone out on time to get onthis bus, cause if we would have
missed it we would have been 15minutes delayed and we didn't.
We had 15.
We didn't have a half hour forsure, yeah, and I wanted to make
sure this was a smoothexperience for everybody.
And I wanted to make sure thiswas a smooth experience for
everybody.
So I don't know if you heardthat, tony, one of the guys on
the bus was my friend.
(19:06):
The other guy was just this guyand he's just sitting there and
I was like I got to know whatthis motherfucker thinks With
all these people hopping on thisbus.
He probably takes, because youcould tell he was like in work
clothes, he was in a bigCarhartt jacket, winter hat.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
You showed me that video and the first thing I saw
was this one black guy lookingdown.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You just said you don't see color.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That time I did because there was like a sea of
white people.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So here I am.
I'm like you know what?
I'm going to go see what thisguy thinks of this.
I'm like what do you think, man?
Have you ever seen all this?
I don't know how exactly I saidthe first thing but then he was
nice, his name was isaac, wewere talking for a little bit.
I'm like, what are you doingtonight, dude?
He's like I'm just on my wayhome from work.
I'm like, how do you thinkabout maybe changing that and
(19:54):
coming to a concert with?
us he's like I don't know manand I said I'll tell you what I
do.
This sometimes, in fact a lotof times, when I'm on the way to
an Humphrey show in an Uber busride, walking through the
street going to the store beforethe show, I always invite
people.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I mean you're going to put their tickets.
Hey Isaac, I'll buy you aticket.
You want to go to the show?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And he's like yeah, oh, my God and I was like
awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, this is my crew .
Try to recognize a couple ofthese fuckers, maybe by what
kind of hat they're wearing orwhatever, because they'll all
know you from the bus and thefact that he's the only black
guy at this entire concert.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, I think he probably may be Except for a few
of the security security I givehim the details.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm like it's at the Riverside Theater.
The bus that we're getting offgets off right there.
We're going to walk in there.
I have to go to the box officeto get my ticket.
Everyone else has it on theirphone, so just follow me.
Remember those people follow me.
That's actually kind of crazy.
I was shocked that he did itbecause he was in his work
clothes.
He said that his exit wouldhave been about three stops
(21:06):
prior, so it wasn't like farfrom him, from his house or
wherever he was going.
Anyways, I was like Isaac,you're with me.
But here's the scoop.
I told him before we got on,you know, past his stop.
I said dude, I have a pitticket.
They don't have any of thosefor sale, so you're going to be
in a different area.
So I'm, I'm getting you thisticket to the show, but you
(21:26):
don't even have to hang out withme after.
You can, but you don't have to.
You can do whatever the fuckyou want.
You know, I'm just getting youin the door.
Um, yeah, he, uh.
We got in and I told him I waslike I'll sneak in by where
we're going, but you just got tokind of follow my lead.
Well, they didn't even havefloor tickets, they only had
balconies.
So he was on a completelydifferent floor of the building
(21:47):
than us.
I'm like don't worry, dude,come with me, go get my
wristband, got mine.
I'm like give me your ticket.
He gives the guy a ticket.
The guy goes Give him my ticket, isaac.
So Isaac goes back through theline again and remind you he's a
black guy and there's likeeight black guys in the whole
building of 1,500 people.
So he goes and tries it and theguy goes no, this ticket's just
(22:10):
used, it's got the scratch onit.
I'm like, all right, never mindthat, let's try plan B.
Plan B I said Isaac, take thispill.
I know these people at thevenue.
I go to a lot of shows here.
That's dave working the doorthere.
I'm going to make eye contactwith him, shake his hand.
You walk behind me pretendinglike you're gonna show your
(22:31):
wristband, like you already gotone, and walk in and as soon as
you walk past me I'll say bye todave, put my arm around.
You will walk down the aisle.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
My god, you did all this for a stranger.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He does it.
He's like dude, that wasfucking awesome.
How did you do that?
I said it's all about doingwhat you do.
You look at the people in theeye.
They couldn't look at you.
He was looking at me and I toldyou what to do.
You acted as if you had yourthing.
Always act as you want to comeand go.
We got to go past these otherpeople now into the pit.
(23:04):
They're a little stricter and Idon't know who they are.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
They normally work for the actual security team.
It already seemed like it washard to even get past that part.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We're going to do the exact same thing, man, except
for this time I'm going to havemy arm around you to start,
because we got to get tight here.
So we just fucking went rightthrough Same situation.
Hung to get tight here, so hejust fucking went right through
same situation, hung out for awhile and then I didn't see him
until set break.
I was outside and I was likedude, what happened to you, man?
He's like they wouldn't let meback in there.
I'm like you gotta try, dude.
(23:33):
And I didn't think he made itback in.
But then one of my friends toldme that he did.
She saw him set break washanging out with him a little
bit you're're like you need todiversify.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You need to diversify your friendship.
I need to get a little darkerfriends here.
I try.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Anyway.
So that was my bus ride.
Got everybody down there good.
Tony's ride in was good.
How was the show?
Tony, you had never been to seeHumphreys McGee and.
I've gone 134 times or whatever, and you guys always make fun
of me for let me hear yourhonesty, tony, and don't fucking
lie so here's, here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It's not my, I don't want to hear a deal off it.
He doesn't have to fluff Idon't want to hear you.
There's no deal.
I don't want to deal.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Here's the deal no I don't want to deal.
I agreed to go to this showbecause it's important to my
friend.
Okay, I've never heard thisband's music.
I didn't know what it was gonnabe.
I I didn't know what to expect.
I had no expectation, exceptfor it was a show at the
(24:35):
riverside that I blindly agreedto go see or chris playing uh
songs for you every time you cuthis hair and you just don't
listen.
He doesn't play that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
No, I don't play it.
Well, you've played it in thepodcast several times.
I've heard it several times, soI just decided not to listen.
Probably.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
It can be basically background music.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
You don't remember me asking Chris, when is the
singing start?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I go to the show I I walk in and it's as advertised
it is a convention of thecaucasians.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It is exactly like what do you say about 70 percent
male?
It may be 80 probably of allthe jam bands they call them jam
bands.
This one's a little heavier, alittle more aggressive ish than
most jam bands will.
I mean they got two leadguitars.
For Christ's sake, Double kickdrum drummer.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Do they move around a lot?
Do they jump around a lotduring shows?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Not a ton, no Okay so that's a solid.
No, well, I mean, the oneguitarist likes to dance while
he plays a little bit.
But when you say dance, I meanlike what?
It's not his hips, or yeah,move forward backwards.
Yeah, pretty much okay.
But uh, what I was saying is uh, a lot of other jam bands have
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like hot hippie chicks yeah,yeah, and old deadheads and
stuff like fish.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
This is.
This is 34 to 60 year males.
Yeah, it's pretty muchSurrounded in a sea.
So we went in, they startedplaying and the first song they
did.
I kind of got like sublimevibes from them, like it was.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Did you get like pop, reggae type, not shit, sort of?
I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That's the.
It has reggae and the way thattheir sound is you could like.
They're so instrument, heavy,very technical.
You cannot.
You cannot hear anything he issaying.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It's very hard to hear the lyrics, lyrics,
especially if you don't knowthem?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
yeah, but it was my luck that everybody in that
arena knew every word okay,everyone's singing along.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You can hear, you listen to everyone singing along
to the music, so and I don'tknow if this is true.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Correct me if I'm wrong, chris, but about seven
minutes in to the first song,the words stop and it goes into
like a half hour jam session andand then, randomly, the words
just pick back up.
I think it was the same song.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's very possible there are some songs that I mean
they've done like four songsets where each song is like 30
minutes let me ask you this,tony because you're an observer,
you see things other peopledon't, because you really anyway
.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
So when that jam session was going on and you
looked around at the people,where there are people just kind
of like just throwing theirhead down, bro look around in
the air and just like justhippie style you ever seen the
old videos.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
You ever seen the old videos of the churches where
the people speak in tongues?
And everybody's just running upand down the aisles jumping up
and down, rolling back in herhead's arm.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Uh, there was, there was a lot of that, hell yeah so
their arms are in the air,probably 45 to 50 percent waving
them like you just don't carewith my finger in the air,
poking it, screaming at the air,with my hand holding a.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Pabst.
There's some people freakingout and some people just like,
yeah, just find it kind offlowing to the music.
Well, here's the thing Somepeople punching the fucking air
kicking.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
So there was a lot of marijuana smoke running through
the crowd and and I mean a lot,yeah, and I don't even so the
way that this band is with theirlight show and all that I don't
think marijuana was the primarydrug of the show either.
I mean, I think this is I thinkthis show is a little bit more
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geared toward acid mushroomsthan it is the calming effect
that my second hand marijuanahigh was.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, man, a lot of people like to use these shows
as an excuse or reason, and itis kind of a great example of a
place to do like a mushroom oracid situation.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, it had very much acid vibes a lot of I don't
know.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A lot of people do it .
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, it's a big thing I keep, I keep, so good, I
keep seeing that the churchthing in my eyes.
With a bunch of hairy dippiesFucking tie-dyes on no just like
someone preaching, and there'slike five or six people that are
insanely running aroundpunching the air.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Like, yeah, praise God, lord Jesus.
That's kind of how it wasbecause everybody there, so I
feel like me and the guy fromthe bus were the two people that
didn't know the band there.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I mean there were at my party going to the show.
There was at least six peoplethat I can think of right now.
That never been to the showbefore.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So I would and I feel like I'm not being out of line
here but 80 of the articles ofclothing from the way stop were
previous shows.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Umfrey's mcgee gear I don't wear umfrey's stuff to
Umphrey's shows but a lot ofpeople do Like it's a sporting
event.
Like you know how you peoplewear a Packers jersey to a
Packer game.
People wear old show gear tothe show.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You don't wear anything from Umphrey's McGee at
the show Not typically.
That's crazy, because you'llwear our fucking podcast shit.
Just to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, that's true, that makes wow, I don't know it
was.
It was almost to the pointwhere I felt out of place people
like to show off their like itwas a husband and wife who were
and I use this term looselysitting next to us.
It was a husband and wife um, Isat next to them because we
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were on an aisle end and she wasthick and her and her husband
had had homemade umphreys mcgeeclothes they looked fucking bad
and, uh, me and my wife played agame because we got we did get
there like a half hour earlierthan the show started.
(31:42):
We had some time to kind ofmosey along and looking at the
different types of people there.
I always say I don't judge, butI secretly do, sure, and I
played this game with my wifefor a half hour until she was
just sick of me.
What do you think that guy doesfor?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
a living.
I was going to ask you employedor unemployed?
Was that the game?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
It was well, I probably assessed 20 people, but
14 of them or so I guessedTyler's Work at a used road
bicycle company restoringhandlebars, the curly ram horn
(32:27):
handlebars.
No see, this is like everybodyhere works on bicycles for a
living.
What the fuck.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Like yeah, that's not true, though, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Chris is like I'm high on the white corporate
ladder.
Yeah, see.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I mean, that's the thing.
It's like people just turn thatswitch like it's drag night and
they just change into thisthing.
My favorite game at things likethat and festivals is to go to
the ATM machine and grab acouple of the receipts and then
bring them out and tell people Ipicked this up at the ATM
machine how much did they takeout and how much do they have
left.
That's my favorite game and theones at the music festivals are
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like they took out twentydollars.
They have negative eighty threedollars.
Oh then you'd find some of themwhere it's like he took out 20
bucks and he's got 14 grand inthe checking, like what the fuck
is this guy?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
yeah, so, uh, we, we went and found some seats and uh
, there were seats.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I thought he said it was some type of standing crowd.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Can I give this set list, or should I wait for that?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I want to wait for it for a second, okay that's good
so so the front from the stageout to about 30 feet was just
open, standing room only that'severything beyond that is a seat
, but I'll tell you, nobody sitsthis is one of the oldest
theaters in the city ofmilwaukee.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Why is it again the riverside theater?
It was once used for likepresidential things.
It was used for all kinds ofdifferent shit.
Yeah, it's like 200 years oldyeah it just recently got
converted, like 60 years ago, tomusic.
They used to do movies, silentpictures and shit there.
That is yeah but uh when we'rewalking right.
(34:15):
Is it beautiful?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
yeah, it's fucking awesome when I was walking in um
I decided that, uh, I seen themerch table and I'm like I think
I'm gonna get a momental forthis grand occasion so I can
look at it and always thinkabout the wonderful evening I
spent with my friend Chris.
Right you just?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
want to say best, like he's like his lips went
together with because I waslooking at you dead in the eye.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I'm earning it man, we started as farmers only but,
but I go out there or I I get tothe merch table and I walk
right up to it like I do atthings like that, and I was
warned that the line actuallystarts back there.
Yeah, someone yelled at you.
So so they would let peoplelike there was a hallway in
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between it and they would likewave one person over to come to
the merch table at a time.
And I looked at the line and itwas a fucking thousand hippies
that deep because people wantthe poster.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Each show gets its own poster a lot.
Not every show gets its ownshow poster, but when they do,
they're normally by a knownartist.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
In the poster game print a game, but yeah so people
wait because they're afraidthat's gonna sell out so I
waited until the music startedand, and they were about 30
minutes into an 80 minuteinstrumental, yep and I ran back
out there.
How?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
long is the show?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
so everybody at the show on these instrumentals,
even like they're air guitaringthe right chords Like these are
known instrumentals.
They're not like they're justup there fucking around, Like
these are, like they'll play thefirst chord to a half hour
(36:04):
instrumental and people be likeeverybody jumping in the air
Like, yes, I came here to hearthis.
But I went out, walked right upto the merch table and I went to
go get a poster and I'm like,fuck, yeah, this poster is
amazing.
So you waited until that long,ass.
There was no line once themusic started, oh, they all
(36:26):
scattered back into the, got it,got it into the crowd and I'm
like now's my time to pounce andI go up and uh, I'm like I'll
take three show posters and uh,you bought three of those.
Well, I was going I was gonnabuy several until you find the
price and then I go how much arethey?
(36:47):
And he goes 70 and I'm well,that's not bad for three or
something, and he's like each.
And I said put two of them backand do you negotiate.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So tell the size of this poster so people don't know
.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
understand that this could be a standard concert
poster.
It's 18 inches by 24.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
It's actually smaller than a standard.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
It's not like the movie posters.
You go get at.
Walmart.
It's small, it's not big 18 by24.
But it's an amazing piece ofartwork.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I will say you keep calling them prints, but you
don't roll prints up into a.
You do when you buy it at aconcert, you're supposed to take
it out of there right away, assoon as you can.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, so it doesn't fuck up like his, it's fucked up
, right, all the creep stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
But the posters, you buy them, the prints, I call
them posters too.
I'm just fucking around, butpeople get pissed, I don't give
a shit.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
But yeah, you get them a tube and you got to carry
them around.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yep, no, no, I mean I mean you can't, you can't carry
them around, not not in that no, it has to be, it'd get fucked
up.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So we were about three hours into the show.
How okay, it's not true butwait, wait, it's only three
hours long okay, it shows I wasthen like two and a half hours
into the show and chris.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Before you say some before you finish.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
There's no openers just add no, this was because
they play so long.
This was an evening withumfrey's mcgee.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
They will have openers, but this was an evening
like that show would be likeeight hours long there might
potentially be an opener that'slike 45 minutes.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
There might be a.
There might be a fresh, freshopener it's 20, then an opener
that's like 45 minutes.
There might be a.
There might be a fresh, freshopener it's 20, then an opener
that's like 45, and so then,yeah, the first hour and a half
and then umfries will play onesong.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, don't play this, don't play the same, it'll still
be an hour they will play twoset three hour shows 200 times a
year.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
How many songs they play in a show?
Four.
So this time, this time, theset was started with the song
called plunger, which is one oftheirs.
13 days, which is one of theirs.
Bottomed half, which is one ofthem.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
What do you mean?
One of theirs?
Then they all be one of theirs.
They covered a song calledjesus, etc.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
By wilco.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
It was the first time they ever played it, so you got
that gem, whappy sprayberrywhich is one of them, also
announced that you've heard thissong, but we've never played
this song yeah and then theyjust went into it.
Have you heard that?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
song.
Yeah, then they played a songcalled space funk booty, but
they included jump around teasesfrom house of pain yeah, this
was after the intermission,right?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
no, not yet this was before.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Then they played 40s theme, which is a fucking fan
favorite.
That's one of my favorites1940s.
It have words yeah, that's theone where they talk about that
barbecue sauce and that chickenwing.
Throw it on the deep fire,guaranteed to set your ass on
fire.
All right, then they then itwas set break.
Did you stay in this, in thistheater, and listen to the set
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break music?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
because that's a big thing people track that shit set
break they play.
They give you a half hour to gopiss, go take a small playing
no wait, it's, it's they playmusic on there.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Okay, thank you, and it was all rap music which I
thought was I went outside.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I always go outside.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I thought was for sure, like Isaac Just a track
that the Riverside has on tapfor this.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
There is a whole thing about set break, music in
all bands like this, but thenset break came back.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I mean I didn't picture them playing you and
that booty they will.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
They'll do that.
They even have.
They do rap, they have.
They call it with the.
The guy who plays the bongosthat everyone jokes doesn't do
anything.
Andy farragh, he really does,but everyone jokes he doesn't
because playing his ass off.
He's actually my one of myfavorites.
But so he comes out as mcpumpernickel Makes sense and
raps and we'll play a rap songNice thick bread, set to All in
(40:55):
Time, which is one of theirs, aclassic, that one everyone was
singing, I'm sure.
Song Concessions, yeah.
I've seen people crying.
Then they played Layla.
Yeah, they'll cry during All inTime.
They will Layla.
Did you catch the layla?
Layla is when we left withclampton layla.
Then they played 1348 with uhyyz rush teases.
(41:17):
Then they played rock and roll,part two, slacker, 1348.
Then they went on a small breakfor an encore.
They they came out and playedParty and Peeps, which is one of
their songs, then finished Allin Time.
So they started the set too withthe song played a bunch of
(41:37):
different songs, went off for abreak for a minute, came back
out, played another song andthen finished.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
So that's like 10 songs, so that averages 30
minutes.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
The last rock and roll of part I left at like 11.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
I'm wrong, I'm not 30 minutes.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So I don't know when it ended Probably like I don't
know, we made the bus.
I wanted to make.
So I don't know when it ended.
So, yeah, man.
Then everybody came back to myhouse after we took the bus home
.
We apparently missed the firstbus, we thought.
But then there was steve and,uh, his wife were still there,
(42:16):
uh, waiting for the bus.
I have another friend who livesin the neighborhood okay, a
couple blocks east of me, whoalso takes the bus to the show
steve, the guy that does theparty bus for the fish shows.
So we saw them.
We see them on the bus home alot, or I do, I guess.
Um, and then we got back to myhouse, man, and fucking cranked
(42:37):
it back up, cranked it up bigtime, like there was 20, still
15, at least still there.
Courtney came, you know,courtney, yeah, she came with
her boyfriend because she had towork all night, but she was
there waiting for us.
Uh, katie was asleep.
My dog got dog sat by rianneand mindy.
(43:00):
They took my dog.
I was there when they took thedog and then, uh, we partied
fucking hard outside and thatwas dark out.
The projector was working.
Everyone was fucking loving it.
Then we were cranking the music.
Fire was fucking blazing.
Nick was just feeding the fire.
It was colder.
No one wanted to go insideagain.
We made a bunch of food up thepasta salad.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
We got eaten up a bunch of food it is kind of
weird when everybody's outsidefor you to start.
Let's take this inside, whereit's 40 degrees warmer.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Right, I wasn't going to make anybody do anything.
But I often thought through thenight.
I'm like do people realize theycan come in here?
I went into Kate.
I'm like people know they cancome inside, right.
So?
Speaker 2 (43:50):
did your mom come back to your house after?
Yes?
Speaker 1 (43:54):
They took the bus home with us.
Yeah, I think yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
And then she went home.
Or did she crash out on yourbasement floor?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
She stayed for a while.
Oh yeah, I do remember Travissaying that my mom, oh, my mom
telling me that her and Leslie,my aunt, who, which is her first
show, yeah, Um, we're at myhouse after thinking like well,
can we drive?
She would you drive.
And then Travis was like uh,girls, like, if you got to talk
(44:21):
to each other about it, justtake an Uber.
And so then they took an Uberand my mom came back and got her
car in the morning.
But we partied so hard that Ithink at about three katie got
up, came outside now this isthree, but there was a time warp
there where we lost daylightsavings hour.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, during my party, whichsucked because then it was 3, 30
(44:42):
and kate's out there and she'slike I forgot to get up.
We were supposed to.
We're going on a cruise and shewas supposed to, uh, register
us at midnight.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
She slept the whole, the whole reason.
She said, the whole reason.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
She wouldn't come is because she had to do this, and
then she slept through thefucking alarm.
Go to the show she, she bailedon me, just like you.
She had the dumbest fuckingexcuse it was even worse.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
It was even worse than oh, you're gonna work for
28 hours.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
So we're partying hard.
Kate gets up, we're stillpartying.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
She went back to bed, so you guys can still go on the
cruise right, Because?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
she was convinced.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, she got up at 3.30 and did it she was
convinced that if she didn't login exactly at midnight, we have
the perfect spot.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
No cruise on the 10th .
Speaker 3 (45:27):
No, we have the perfect load.
Is it just you two?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
and my kid, yeah, kid cool so, yeah, we're partying,
and I had about what must havebeen.
After katie went back to bed,the neighbor's lights turned on
and I don't know if they weregetting up for work, if we got
them up, but that didn't stopthe party, we just kept fucking
going what time did you party?
Till and then eventually peoplestarted like I don't know,
(45:51):
maybe I was the one who was likelet's fucking shut this bitch
down and we moved it inside.
What time was that we wentinside?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Four, three, probably yeah, four or five.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Four or five.
Nice Dan complained that hecouldn't sleep because it was
too bright in my house, so thattells me that he went to bed
after the sun came up.
He goes what do you got?
No blinds.
I'm like, what do you mean?
He's like it was so bright inyour house when I tried to go to
bed.
So, yeah, I got inside, blew upa bunch of air mattresses.
Yeah, dude, it was a fuckingparty in the morning.
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It was brutal.
Courtney cleaned up, which wasawesome, nice, so, like it was,
I mean, it was still a fuckingmess but there was at least four
bags of garbage she had alltied up and shit like that and
uh, I didn't do shit yesterdayor sunday and then monday I
finally got my act together andcleaned it all up and shit.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Went back to being an adult, all right.
So overall, I give theexperience a seven out of 10.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah, we're not writing shit, no more.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Tony, I would be honored if you invited me.
Every time they came within 25minutes of my house, fuck yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Is Madison coming?
But I'm going to tell you I'mnot sure you live out west Does.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Madison count.
That's out of town, bro, is it?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
From where you are.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
It's almost a horse apiece that's getting a hotel at
that point it's about the same.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
He's still like an hour and 40.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Does Chicago count.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
Chicago's way out Fuck.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Chicago's closer than Madison, isn't it?
I don't Chicago, for should Iactually need to go to Chicago
for that?
Being said I'm in Chicago allday tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
I was pretty happy.
You called I think it wasMonday, we talked and you were
like if they came to town again,I'd go.
And then you said if theytravel, I don't know why you
would travel necessarily, or I'mnot going to travel, or
something you said and I waslike, well, it's not not always
the travel, it's at the partyand the people that you go with.
Right, tony Cause, most halfthe people that were there I met
(47:52):
traveling to fucking shows youstill have not said.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
You're rating shit now, so you have not rated the
band.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
I gave the experience a 7 out of 10.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
No, rate the band.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Rate the band Well.
Considering I couldn't hear anylyrics and I don't know
anything they do, I'm going togive the band a six.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Here's what I got to do for you.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
But I'm going to give the party.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
So what I always need to do and it's always very
helpful for shows I've been toto give a re-listen.
So I'll get you the fuckingability to listen to the show
where you'll be able to hear thesoundboard quality lyrics, not
the guy next to you, not the tooloud drums, not the nothing,
it's fucking prime sound.
(48:38):
You'll hear the lyrics.
You'll hear the little chingsand the changs.
You'll catch the drift of whythey were going with the jam and
why it changed and when itchanged, and you might
appreciate it more some justdon't umphreys is hard to get,
it is real quick.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
It's organized chaos, I agree.
I agree, we we were telling our12 year old about the show.
We left out all the mushroomsand acid.
But we told him about the showand he goes what?
What kind of music was it?
Speaker 1 (49:08):
It's impossible to categorize.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
And there's no answer to that right.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Do you know what I say?
When people say what kind ofmusic do they play, I
immediately change it to whatkind of music do you like?
And whatever they say, I saythey play that Because they can
do it all.
They have country songs.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
So we played a couple of their songs I thought it was
trash.
And no, it was actually.
I like that.
I like the alexa version ofstudio stuff it was.
It was all covers.
Oh and listen, dude, this thisis the craziest shit ever.
(49:47):
They'll play the music from onesong and sing the words to a
different song.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
Dude, I went to a concert.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
Different genres, it's mashups bro.
Bro, it is listening to twodifferent radio stations at the
same time.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
I forget what that album's called, but they used to
do concerts, especially aroundHalloween, and they used to do
them in Milwaukee where theythey did mashups and we would
mash up costumes.
I was dr house party once.
My brother was silent bobbarker like dude massive massive
(50:22):
, silent that album's calledzonkey, where they they put on
the album.
Then, after all these halloweenmashup shows they used to do,
they put on an album of allthose tracks and they called it
zonkey.
It's a donkey and a zebra, Idon't.
It was pretty fucking cool.
All right, you like that shit.
See they, they musicianship forthe masses, what they call it.
(50:44):
They do a lot anyways.
Anyways, I'm fucking glad youcame, tony.
I hope you had fun.
I'm so glad you came, Tony,Gotta get you next time bro.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
One day, there you go .
Speaker 3 (50:56):
That's his polite way of saying don't even fucking
ask me Shut up, tony, I neverwould not want someone to ask me
to do something, never.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
You just have the ability of not showing up to it.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
Shut up.
This is your enjoyment of topshow stories with your host,
tony, with the most uh, chrisfoot the stories and jn tech.
Let's see you next time.
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