
ยทS2 E44
San Francisco Filthcore w/ Deerhoof (Satomi Matsuzaki & Greg Saunier), Nick Rutherford & Derrick Beckles
Episode Transcript
What up is Bombing with Ergondre the only podcast braving enough to talk about the biggest disasters, failures and beautiful train wrecks in comedy, music, life, and whatever else explodes in our faces.
Speaker 2I'm your host, Eric Andre.
Duh.
Speaker 1We got two absolute legends of experimental rock, Stomy and Greg from Deer Hoof, with my partners in crime Derek Beckels and Nick Rutherford riding shotgun.
We bend all sorts of sounds on this episode, talking about their bombs over twenty years, bombs on tour, and what hot human excrements they've had thrown at them on stage.
The band's latest twentieth album, Noble and Godlike in Ruin, is available to stream everywhere except Spotify.
Speaker 2They've been bending.
Speaker 1Sound breaking rules and making beautiful chaos for over two decades, so who better to talk about musical disasters and glorious mistakes.
Speaker 3Enjoy Bombing Balming with Eric Andre.
Speaker 4Ladies, please give it for Greg.
It's tell me from Dear and hosts and Nick Ruther chas old friends.
Speaker 5I think there's too many people hosting this.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, okay, so we're big fans and we I have a podcast about bombing where I did anybody tell you guys anything?
Speaker 2You know?
I yeah, that's why you need to know.
We just asked like about your worst gig of all time, and I put I surrounded you guys with garbage, yeah, Junkyard instruments to make you more comfortable.
Speaker 1We just asked artists over there, like their worst gigs of all time?
What was the worst show you ever played?
Speaker 6I think in San Francisco?
Speaker 2What happened you guys started there?
Speaker 5Yeah, but now you're just throwing it right under the bus started bomb.
Speaker 2And now you hate it.
You turned your back on the people of San Francisco.
Speaker 6Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, no, you know.
Speaker 7We used to play improvisation, like noise improvisation and then yeah, and then I was on the floor heating like base with my like with sticks and stuff.
Speaker 6Yeah yeah, you know, just free, free improvisations.
Yeah.
Speaker 7And then there's like a really weird lady like like.
Speaker 6Was on stage like this in front of me.
My head is almost on the stage, so she was like ninety five ninety six start.
Yeah, and there was the bar called what not Igana?
Speaker 7What's the the perry was working there.
Speaker 6Yeah.
But anyway, she's like.
Speaker 2Anyway anyway, crawling towards you had on the stage.
Speaker 6No, she was right there.
Speaker 7I was on the band, the band with a higher level, higher level.
Speaker 2Was there a body attached to the head or is it just.
Speaker 6A it's ahead?
But she's like, why don't you sing?
Speaker 2Why said that's reasonable?
Speaker 8Are you going to start?
Speaker 6When you going to start?
Speaker 3Pretty?
Speaker 2People say every time this podcast.
Speaker 7San Francisco, there are always this weird audience.
Speaker 6You know, all the.
Speaker 2Reasonable question, though I don't know how weird that is all the time.
If you're banging on your base, when does it start?
When are you going to start?
Speaker 5Franciscans?
Speaker 2We have stuff to do, woman, my mother, it's not a dress for herself.
Speaker 8When are you going to still been obvious that we had started, I mean the passion with which we were engaged.
Speaker 2Yeah, has it been the same members the old Thomp since ninety four?
Speaker 8Not the passion however, just on YouTube since ninety four, we we still have.
Yeah, she joined ninety five and immediately she bombed.
Speaker 2And you're like, we gotta work with her for thirty more years.
Speaker 5She doesn't know how to start a show.
Speaker 3I like, what.
Speaker 4You want to work together for thirty more years?
Speaker 2So what happened to that lady?
Is she she died shortly after that show?
Speaker 6Probably she was just ahead.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's hard miss after the day after your show.
Speaker 8Yeah, do you remember the one time we played San Francisco?
We did return?
You know this didn't scar us, permit?
Speaker 9Did you leave your heart there in any way, shape or form?
Speaker 10What?
Speaker 2Okay?
Now, now I regret.
Speaker 5We're gonna We're gonna get him out of here.
Speaker 2Don't worry about that.
We're gonna get him and any Tony Bennett Reverend.
He's sponsored by Old Lady Catheters.
Speaker 1Now, you guys all live in four different cities.
How do you guys function in a long distance relationship?
Speaker 11And what is your deal with in San Francisco?
Speaker 8Continue to like San Francisco and continue to return.
Speaker 2That's not a very strong word.
You don't love it, though we love.
Speaker 8My point is that there have been times, over the course of our storied career in which we have played cities to which we have never opted to return.
And one of those cities not so far from San Francisco, but but another universe.
In terms of audience appreciation of what most people consider extraordinarily beautiful music, our music and that is modesto.
Speaker 2Califno be has a song?
Speaker 8Did that okay?
Could you recite the lyrics to me in full so that I.
Speaker 2Know I could do?
Speaker 5Could you do it in Farsie?
Speaker 2I could do it in Farsi, but I can't do the whole thing.
No, I don't.
I don't know.
That's all.
That's the only fact.
You really put me in a corner.
Speaker 5That's what this podcast is.
Speaker 2I feel like I feel like a headless woman had an experimental dy brought to you by Corners?
Speaker 5Is it?
Is it modesta like the Carrier Wife Capital of the World is true?
Speaker 2I think so it might be.
That's not very modesto of that.
So I'm trying.
Speaker 5To do the math and I can't put it together.
Speaker 2I don't.
I don't know.
Speaker 9Look modesto Spanish for modest I thought.
Speaker 3We were.
Speaker 2Well, mister know it all over here?
Speaker 8Whose flashlight was normally used to check identification, you know, to to accurately judge a person's age and whether they're allowed.
This is in the door in the Modesto.
Once we started playing exactly it was the size there was four bean bags in opening band was already sketchy biscuit I don't mean the band was sketchy, but the band.
Speaker 2They were, you could tell that they.
Speaker 8Didn't have full commitment.
Let's say the Trevor who was playing who was playing bass in that band, never really took his coat off.
Speaker 2Long.
Speaker 8Yeah, it's like in his mind he was already on the drive back home.
Once we got on there and began the door Man's by the second song, his flashlight was no longer pointed to identification.
It was pointed at the stage into our eyes, trying to get us to stop.
Speaker 11Yeah, Dorman's laser pointing me like that, you're a drone pilot.
Speaker 2Wow, a doorman only venue, have you?
They didn't know they did no research exactly.
Speaker 8No, this is this was in the mid nineties.
Speaker 2There wasn't research was a bottom.
You had to get a book cyclop library.
Yeah.
The Internet was just like ship stable to lamp posts.
Yeah.
Speaker 5Wait, so you've never been back to Modesta.
Speaker 8No, I mean if you.
Speaker 5Well, we got a surprise for you.
Speaker 2This here door Gary Dorman.
You have the door man he was on that door's not a health gut.
Speaker 5We got mister modest.
Speaker 12Tenjerine Allow, and we got you guys two tickets economy on them Tradesta.
Speaker 2Three year lease, a three year lease on a beautiful one bedroom indos you have to pay for We got the first month.
Speaker 5No bathroom, it's a communal bathroom.
Speaker 2Communal bathroom shared.
Speaker 5I think you've I think you've had enough acid.
Speaker 2You got to share the health of Yeah.
So Modesta was about, have you guys ever had any like bottles thrown at you?
How bad has it got?
Didn't anybody throw anything at you ever?
Speaker 13Know?
Speaker 7But you get your nos very calm on The people put pete in the plastic car and they throw in the air.
Speaker 2We do that here too.
Well yeah, sorry, we do that at my apartment.
But it's an active love the British version of putting a layer around somebody's neck.
Speaker 1Hawaiian initiate my apartments in the basement of Bearnheim.
Speaker 2So that's why the act it's an active couple.
There's a gay sex there's a famous gay sex club in Germany where the ship basement.
You gotta see.
It's the it's the modesto of Germany.
You know what I'm talking about?
Sure, sure you did it.
People's mouth for urinals.
Yea.
Yeah.
Speaker 8Bombing in Germany is that it's always a little more subtle.
They could say, oh, if they clap, they clap, they make it seem like they clap.
And then after the show they come up to you and say, I liked your show.
The snare drum was a little too loud.
I liked the show.
It was better last time, wasn't it.
Yeah, And this, this characteristic of the German music personality is so well documented and famous that somebody actually started a Twitter account called German Music Opinion.
Everybody just writes in, you know that, just at German Music Opinion, all the almost you know xerox, you know, identical experiences they've had post show with it with what theoretically are their own fans.
Speaker 2Yeah, like critiquing the Yeah.
Speaker 8But I don't know if you consider it a bomb.
It's definitely a deflation, but not expose.
Speaker 2So they just like taking a little break.
Wait, so you got pissed throwing at you in England?
Speaker 6No, No, that was a Blur.
Speaker 2We opened it was a blur.
It was a Blur because the piss got in your.
Speaker 6Eyes, not the band Blur.
Speaker 2Band Blur got pissed throwing at them and.
Speaker 5Us what the band blur through piss on you know?
Speaker 6The Blur piste on people.
Speaker 2What the band Blur peede on the audience.
Speaker 8You're thinking some other band.
Speaker 2They're not called Blur.
Speaker 3Audience.
Speaker 5Wait, so Blur the band was heckling the audience.
Speaker 1Wait, shows that you gotta put it up on the screen.
If that's wait, wait wait.
Speaker 2Tell us that tell us that.
Speaker 5I feel like we haven't gotten.
Speaker 2You gotta start over.
Speaker 6You know, it's just you know, in u K.
Speaker 7People get drunk towards the end of the festival.
So we played in Hyde Park right and we are like like first Bond and then.
Speaker 6Like Florence and the Machine and Blur played.
We can play.
Speaker 7But by the by the time by the time Blur came out, everybody was so drunk they started peeing in then they throw in the air, so it just spreads the clouds.
Speaker 6It's like a raining of.
Speaker 2Missed gathering at the jugg you know, insane clouds.
The people on stage.
Speaker 6Exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, of France very shy, and they just grew pretty shy in Paris.
Then he got to Vermont and Amster, so.
Speaker 9It's not as bad as it sounded.
They're just throwing piss up in the air and like letting it shower down on them.
Speaker 2It's a nice minute.
It's not.
Speaker 11It's probably refracting in the life.
Speaker 5That's a sign of respect.
Speaker 14You guys have a song called piss Rainbow.
You think, right, and let's hear some of it.
Now, let's hear a little bit of piss Rainbow.
How did you guys start as a band?
Speaker 2You existed, wait in ninety four, there's no research, So how could you start an event?
Speaker 6I didn't.
I didn't join until ninety five.
Speaker 2Couple weeks ago.
Well, ninety five, okay, ninety five.
Yeah, you're in the weeds between ninety four and ninety five.
Let's say ninety five.
Remember that.
Do you remember Book your Own fucking Life?
Did you guys ever ever use that?
You know what I'm talking about.
No.
It was like if you were in a band and you needed to book your own tour, there was this fucking phone book called Book your Own Life that had the phone numbers of every single punk, every venue, and every every band member.
Yeah, it was basically.
Speaker 9Every place that was basically was every place that was going out of business that would let a band play.
It's just like it was, denys.
It was like a pizza parlor going out of business.
Speaker 2Sure spirit.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 8First at a place in El Paso, where when we arrived hoping to meet the promoter a k a.
The person whose number was in the book, walked in completely empty, no pa system, nothing.
The only person there a bartender.
Okay, go to ask the bartender we're deer Hook.
They've never heard of deer we're playing tonight.
I did not hear mentioned the promoter's name.
They've never heard of that person.
And then yeah, we We waited for about an hour.
The promoter did show up, went into a closet, pulled out two microphones, put them on the stage.
Speaker 2Relief.
Speaker 8Okay, we're going to have this show.
We're going to get paid, set up the microphones.
Speaker 5Left, and Modesto was worse than that show.
Speaker 8No no, no, no no, I'm I'm stacking him.
Building to a climax.
The two people who saw the show came up after the word afterwards and wanted to buy a CD.
And what they really wanted at actually was they were they had just gotten out of the army and they wanted They were thinking, we're going to start a recording studio.
Can we have your settings.
Speaker 9Or rad your obsess You guys want to play Friday.
We just opened up this place, and.
Speaker 2So did they?
Speaker 5Did they get join?
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 5I'm just trying to keep the conversation moving.
Now I'm getting attacked.
Speaker 2They're about to come in, come in, got them.
Speaker 9You're acting like a woman's head, asking when are you going to start?
Speaker 2When they met, General Norman Schwartz Coffin pass deer Hoof was never the sick.
Do you guys get patriots from here on out?
When you when I met, When you guys met, do you remember what you were wearing?
Okay, that is yeah out just the thing you want to know.
He can't don't want to pay for this.
We're charging you whatever possible.
Do you remember what you were wearing when you first met?
Speaker 7No, Wow, Greig wasn't wearing much anything.
Shoes, yeah, so I thought, oh, it's a hippie band.
Correctly, Yeah, No, Tippy in the bathroom, they were disgusting.
Speaker 2They didn't like their ass.
Speaker 7It wasn't disgusting, but I had to always their hygiene was by Tippy before I go to practice, because there's no Tippy in the bathroom.
Did he cats always get into the closet.
Speaker 2And stuff and their filth core band.
Speaker 6But they had locks in Everything elements.
Yeah.
Speaker 2So there I filled the quirl with Justin Bieber elements ye.
Like yeah, So why did you decide to join such a filthy band.
Speaker 5The Shoes first time?
Speaker 6Yeah, they fed me.
Speaker 2They fed you.
Speaker 5You're starving.
Speaker 6I was a student, so I was starving.
Speaker 2You're confused, you're starving.
Yeah, she knew she was starving.
She wasn't confused.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, and they made they fed you.
Speaker 6Read and then like.
Speaker 2Bean Souper and like Harry Krishna.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2Basically they gave you.
Speaker 6I don't know.
Speaker 7So if you enjoy christian they can give you.
Speaker 2They give you.
They don't give you Bean.
They meet you at that door and they throw urine in your face.
Speaker 11They throw your Yeah, tell me if everything's okay.
Speaker 2Yeah, and trapping signal.
So you've been human traffic by DIRA for thirty years.
Speaker 8Yeah, and we got.
Speaker 3With Aridre with Aridre.
Speaker 1Okay, what are some of the worst international gigs you guys have ever played?
Speaker 5What are some of the worst nationalities.
Speaker 2People?
There?
You go, you gotta go Steve Miller style, Steven Miller Band ever played.
Speaker 8I was thinking the same thing, but it was too slow on the uptake.
Speaker 7But you know our first Like when I joined the band, there was a bass player, bass player Rob.
He went to g Allen show.
You remember the story he didn't His friend went show in San Francisco and then of course on the stage and then picked up the pool and punched what's friend in the face lunch.
Speaker 6Yeah, so the poop goes.
Speaker 11His story for you could imagine, I got like logistical questions.
Speaker 5So he stuck it to his knuckles first.
Speaker 9Smushing through his knuckles from the It's like brass knuckles.
Speaker 5But ship it's it's not like brass.
Speaker 8No, no, no, because brass knuckles.
It's just one and done.
Kind of just at an event he played a contact.
I think this was more like boom and then kind of opened.
Speaker 2It was like a Jackson Pollock painting.
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3It was alright.
Speaker 2And he ever watched his face again.
He's a super fan.
He's a face.
His face is going for one million egg on his face, already on his face, digested egg on his face.
Speaker 11So you you've been in Deer Hoof longer than yeah, and anybody really.
Speaker 2You were the first.
Speaker 8I wasn't the first, but the first, the first who exceeded me by one week.
Quit the band after you heard that gg Allen.
Speaker 2Story after he was on the podcast.
Speaker 11Has anybody who's quit the band then later been like, hey, can I come back again in the band.
Speaker 5You guys are killing it.
Speaker 8We are we're bombing.
Speaker 2What are you talking about today?
Last night brother.
Speaker 8So Rob moved to Berlin and I would say that we we did have a bit of a a bit of a what's German for faux pas?
Speaker 5Folk?
Speaker 2I don't know what.
Speaker 5Ah, it's a mistake.
It's a public mistake, social.
Speaker 8Embarrassment of a mistake that that causes you incredible amounts of shame.
And when I stepped up to the microphone while opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who if they weren't throwing things at us, it was only because they were more invested in the booing that they were doing.
Or would checking in a in a in a hockey arena in Berlin.
Speaker 15Uh, readers from Canada, I woke up from my ancient slumber.
Speaker 8Okay, yeah, so you know hockey, So you know what the acoustics are like in an arena.
You try to say, you try to express your excitement by saying Berlin is tice.
Berlin is hot, and I'm sweating.
I'm the drummer, and you know, I'm working hard and I'm excited.
You know, the Chili Peppers are coming.
This is going to be cool.
I'm sweating and I'm trying to describe the audience as hot.
What they hear in the blurred you know, it's someone like that other band blurred acoustics.
You've seen them, huge fans you have to talk about.
Speaker 2I don't want to go there.
You don't understand.
Speaker 8That's what you don't understand.
And on no other podcast would this story be appropriate to Is that in the blurred acoustics of a Berlin hockey arena, Berlin is tice.
Sounds like Berlin is Yeah.
Yeah, that did not improve our standing.
Speaker 2The audience.
Speaker 8Ship into the microphone to amplify a million times, and your people who only want to hear one Bili Pepper song.
Speaker 1Anyway, why are you saying Berlin is hot because that's kind of strange.
Speaker 2That's strange though, too.
Speaker 8Your vocabulary being less limits.
Speaker 2Berlin is great.
Speaker 5Thank you.
That is so close to I understand.
Speaker 8We come on on your show, tell vulnerably.
Speaker 2We criticized.
Speaker 9Sorry, we give you some German praise.
Speaker 2We're just We're the girls and girls the movie.
But also you.
Speaker 5Could say that Berlin is the ship.
Speaker 13It was.
Speaker 2What happens after you say Berlin is ship.
Speaker 16Accidentally the already somewhat attenuated level of interest in our band, which was not on anyone's ticket and was not on the website where they were touring.
Speaker 8Yes, but full tour, yes, but this was before the era of research in Germany.
They weren't able to figure out that we were on the tour.
They thought they were.
They The thing is I started.
They did not like it.
Version longer, version is the.
Speaker 7All Every opener is for red pippers.
I don't think fans like open.
Speaker 1They don't like they want to see they paid for who they want to see you open.
Speaker 2They're angry, you think.
Speaker 11Just then this shoeless hippie comes up.
Speaker 5Yeah, they don't know.
Speaker 2How to start this show.
Speaker 1They mean her there's than you to, right, Who are they mean her to?
Speaker 6I don't really.
I mean, they're so far away from the.
Speaker 9State associated so you don't care.
Speaker 1Like but he's like Berlady ship us a.
Speaker 2Sh and I don't care for the red Chili Peppers and I'm like, Hey, the Germans do like ship.
Yeah, they do like ship.
Speaker 1So it could have been a it could have been a you know, Grand Slam, but it sounds like this show is not The show is not good.
Speaker 8It became less uncomfortable when I saw the same audience also totally bored and looking at their phones throughout the entire chili until they hit one of two songs.
O man, So yeah, it was what was.
Speaker 5The song that they came to hear Californication dream of Telephone.
Speaker 17In Farsi, caliphone cash, This is beautiful under the Downtown got to get chili peppers.
Speaker 2Out of.
Speaker 1Our friend John Daily made a fake red chili rippers on That's quite good and you should listen to it.
Speaker 2It's very funny sounds.
It's like it's like it's just like he goes, don't get caught by the Alabama slammer.
Speaker 1And then goes coming down to Glen Glyn.
Speaker 2It's more run out of the Yeah, it's like the Dina.
Speaker 18It's like Alter Dinu babysitter Hallelujah.
Speaker 2I thought I knew you.
Speaker 5There.
Speaker 2Like funk Ai, they're kind of easy listening.
Speaker 11Yeah, that's the first contient I ever saw it was the Chilli Peppers proven really proven.
Speaker 2Yeah, proven FaceTime fleet right now.
I love that video that just came out.
Shut the fuck up.
Somebody came up to them and like he was like on Saint Mark Street and they go, hey, what's up?
What are you wearing?
It's like one of those like how much you pay?
What are you wearing?
Speaker 3Any fun?
Up?
Speaker 2Might have I record you for no reason.
He's very nice, he is, He's very nice.
So that's why it was like extra satisfying, not the.
Speaker 3Fu with a recondre with a recondre.
Speaker 2But you guys don't drink anymore.
Speaker 6I do drink.
Speaker 7You drink not so much by but you've put it back, Yeah, put it back.
Speaker 2You slam it back because you're wasted.
Oh that's a good question, really good hammered.
Have you been on stage?
Speaker 7But I it sounds like yes, yeah, bombing, bombing?
I did bomb one night.
Speaker 6What happened tour?
Speaker 3What happened you bob?
Speaker 2You drink?
Yeah, yeah, you've been burying the lead?
Okay, so what happens paying is a picture?
Speaker 7So after the New Year's even then there was like like a load of champagne because it's a new Year's Year and we played the show opening open for super Far Animals.
Speaker 6In super Far Animals, a manager brought us.
Speaker 2A lot of champagne.
Speaker 7Champagne strong, yes, because it's not like prosecco.
The alcohol level is strong, strong, first saying it's New Year's somewhere.
Speaker 11You know, yeah, we know that's in this case the.
Speaker 2Worst carbonation.
It's bullshit.
Speaker 1Champagne second fermentation.
That's a real bubbles are real fake bubbles.
That's interesting man.
Speaker 7That Yeah, you've been to champagne.
Speaker 2I've never been to champagne, but I've drank it and it gets you drunk.
So you're okay.
So you're in London, you're backstage.
The guy from Super.
Speaker 1Fuzzy fucking Time Bombs or whatever, he comes hot.
I'm sorry, it's something the bands that you've grown up with.
I'm insulting your best friends.
Speaker 2Okay.
So the guy comes up case case of champagne, got tons of champions, but he's got enough.
He's got enough, and you start what drinking right out the bottle or what?
Speaker 6No, No, it's just a little bit a little.
Speaker 2But you don't realize how drunk you get.
Speaker 7Yeah, and we're waiting for the fireworks.
But you know Tammis River, I mean it's so beautiful, right yeah, and then I you know me john My, you know our bond mats.
He doesn't drink so John he stopped after the three of us, just n.
Speaker 5He's still he.
Speaker 2Still he still drinks through his own.
Speaker 8Yeah, and we got so much fun.
Speaker 2I was like, if he was really addicted to her.
But I don't really think about this joke.
She'll be fine, especially because we do heroin at the end.
That's how we wrap That's how we wrap things up.
But okay, so you're drinking champagne, you're looking at the fireworks.
You're not really thinking about how much champagne is going down.
Speaker 7At some point, somebody is throwing a fireworks.
Speaker 8You know, it's a British.
Speaker 2I mean, come on down.
Okay, So people are.
Speaker 5We were throwing bombs at you?
Speaker 6Yeah, you're not just the little ones, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, just a little fire cracker.
Speaker 6Yeah yeah, you know those rats.
Speaker 2Yeah it's like black cats.
Speaker 6Yeah yeah, yea that yeah.
Yeah, but you were like, what, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 7Maybe we went back to hotel three or four in the morning.
Maybe maybe, but I mean we were all together, but I went into the elevator and sudden he felt, you know, bombing.
Speaker 2I felt, oh, I thought you were about to go on stage after your always.
Speaker 1I thought they were throwing crackers at you your waisted three or four in the morning, you get in the elevator, like, but where are you get on stage?
Speaker 2So it's fluids, we can make that happen.
So you were sober during the show, yeah, so it was after it.
But then you threw up in the elevator.
Speaker 6Yeah, but it was like everywhere.
Speaker 5It was a bomb so much in a champaign of my body liquid.
Speaker 11You're like a solo show, my body so much.
Speaker 8Audience audience like what.
Speaker 2You saw it?
Speaker 8Oh, I saw you row?
Speaker 5Oh boy, what's the movie?
What's the movie?
Speaker 11You just get out of the elevator, run to the room and just forget about it.
Speaker 6I told the people, because I mean it's obvious.
Speaker 2You told them you go.
Can you send more champagne to my room?
I lost half of my I spilled some from my esopagus.
I'm sending an elevator filled with barf down to the lobby.
Speaker 5I put a couple of guns in there and send it back up.
Speaker 2It's New Year's in London.
What are they going they expect there's gonna be some debauchery.
Speaker 6Thank you, thank you.
That makes me feel better.
Speaker 11But then people found your musician, your rock stars, like they want you to vomit.
Speaker 5It's the elevator.
Speaker 2Gregg sip with kim Meill t all night like a chicken.
You're like, you know, fucking Jim Morrison, you got you got to do the heavy lifting for the whole band.
You guys like mister Rogers.
Yeah, you're like Yellen and JJ Abrams.
Speaker 12Yeah.
Speaker 2I don't get it.
I don't get it, but it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 8It sounds funny, but what's.
Speaker 2The That's all I need, That's all I need.
This is a low bar production.
Speaker 5She had at hell.
You've never been on you never performed drunk.
Speaker 2Well, well, hold on now.
Speaker 7I think our first tour we did ninety ninety.
Speaker 2Five, ninety percent of it was drunk.
No, no, no, it's just I thought, that's what you're saying, are very short.
Ninety percent of it that was fucking no.
Speaker 7We didn't I didn't sing melody or anything, so you know, I didn't improvisation.
Speaker 2You didn't sing melodies.
Speaker 6I used to just improvise just screen.
Speaker 1You guys are real loose with it in ninety five.
Yeah, you were winning it for the first couple of years.
No, no, and then somebody goes, let's write a song just.
Speaker 7First tour because you know I even last two years.
Yeah, you know, I joined the bond and we went on tour.
Speaker 6So I don't have any you know what I.
Speaker 2Mean memory of it because you're drunk.
Speaker 7I don't have any kind of a professional attitude tours, the you know, playing.
Speaker 1When you guys start getting serious, when did the professionals have kicked?
Speaker 7Well, when I started, you know, singing.
Speaker 2Doing at first you started to see we're just screaming.
Yeah, when did you start?
We have video of like the earliest show.
Yeah, can you can you look up earlier like the earl like I want to see.
I want to see footage of like the earliest show.
Speaker 5The Headless Lady who asked when you're going to start?
She actually, yeah, when you started to drunk.
Speaker 7It's just I screamed so much.
I had one beer and then screaming I lost my voice.
Speaker 6You know, so I'm careful.
Speaker 2You know now you have and you whisper.
Speaker 8I just thought of another great bombing incident.
We're at the Filmore.
Okay, it's a big moment for us, the biggest show we've ever played at that time.
It's nineteen ninety six or ninety seven, and we're opening for Sonic Youth Dream Come True.
We're playing the show.
Unlike the shows with the Chili Peppers.
It's going quite well.
People seem to like it.
We get to one really quiet part of one song in which so Tony, for the final time in our career, does scream, and it's an extraordinarily exposed moment of utter silence in which all instruments fall to no sound whatsoever.
It's pin drop level of concentration in the San Francisco audience, who now love.
Speaker 2Us Germany is ship Germany?
Speaker 8That was not said, he to the situation, So tell me does the scream?
And then from the far end of the film, were all the way at the other end, somebody.
Speaker 2Goes, she goes, and then we hear this.
Speaker 8It's like, it's so embarrassing, you know, it's the most exposed moment imaginable.
You know, it was like a total like gong show, you know.
And then we get to the end of the performance and as we're passing sonic youth like we're getting off stage and they're coming on.
They're like, oh did you see Nicholas cage?
Heckling question by the way show.
Speaker 2And then we didn't believe it.
Speaker 8And then our friend's roommate, our friend was at the show.
You your actual roommate, and she came to the show.
Tell that part of the story, you tell that part really well, this is not this maybe the fifteenth podcast.
Speaker 7She got on the bus on the way back, you know, thirty thirty eight gear or something.
Speaker 6But then Nicrol's cage came after she sat.
Speaker 2Down into Europe, but.
Speaker 7Into the bus Geary thirty eight Geary bus where my roommate.
Speaker 2Was from What's going home?
Speaker 6You know, because I put her on the guest list and stuff.
Speaker 7But she's like she doesn't help the coins, you know, you know, classic Nicholas.
Speaker 6You needed cash.
You know, it's like, hey, someone got you know that money for me.
So like my roommates I heard.
Speaker 8Here, your roommate was the one to get it.
Speaker 2Sounds like he was nickel.
Speaker 8Wow, good night everybody.
Speaker 5We gotta get him.
Speaker 2Out of here.
Oh I'm fucking dizzy.
Wells left to be said any other bombing stories you like to throw in there.
Speaker 1So we have people call in with problems and we have the guests try to help them with their problems.
Speaker 2Okay, let's hear this guy's bombing story, because I don't.
Speaker 10Know this is a So my brother and I we used to go to the y m C A swummer camp back a swummer camp consumer.
You know, pretty white lady you know she would take it.
Yeah, the sleepovers on the weekends.
So I pull up, you know what I mean, getting some pizza.
I was like, yo, I've never had five slices of pizza, so I pounded them in, you know what I'm saying.
Next thing, I know, to go to the swimming pool for like you know what I'm saying, the evening activities.
Lo and behold a whole pull full of like one hundred kids.
You know, I'm assuming that all of a sudden, the pizza started talking.
Next thing, I knew, I got five slices of cher all over the British everybody gets out on.
Speaker 2The one weird.
Speaker 11So do you guys have anything to say to that?
Speaker 8He said, that was a pretty white lady at the y m c.
A.
He said he was going to the y m c A.
Speaker 2His voice was hot.
Speaker 8Yeah, so where did he go wrong?
Speaker 2Which he turned right?
No?
Speaker 8No, no, that was the result.
What was the mistake?
Speaker 2Five slices?
Are you even paying attention?
And he doesn't normally eat five slices?
He established that that's what guys are, Just like I got a sound intelligence, So just throw in some is there somebody?
Is there anything better than that haunting fucking what was spine shattering?
Butthole clunching?
Prison confession?
Speaker 1Yeah, anyway, I'm getting the electric chair later, but I wanted to confess this crazy pizza story a lot of people before.
Speaker 19Let me tell you a story about pizza.
I'm about to get lethal, but I wanted to make one, but Judge said I could make one final from prison.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 13First of all, love the fact that this is a seven one six number.
Go Bill, here's my bombing story.
When I was in high school, I used to volunteer around the holidays at UH, this daycare program for adults with disability UH.
And I remember one year, sixteen seventeen, we were playing bingo with some of the adults and the Wham song Last Christmas was playing and everyone was kind of singing along to it, and I had been chatting to this one.
Speaker 2Guy playing Bengo with him for a.
Speaker 13While and I felt like we had a good rapport going on.
So when the line give it to someone Special came on, I thought it would be really cute to point to him and sing the line.
So the song said give it to someone Special, and I pointed to him and I said, like you, and this.
Speaker 2Man looked me dead in the eyes.
Speaker 13And said, the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Speaker 2And I said, this is jazz.
I don't know, and.
Speaker 13I just thought it would be cute and funny.
I should mention that we all wore Christmas themed costumes, so I had a big Rudolph nose on and my face basically turned as red as that nose.
So he proceeded to tell me, you know what, you look special with that nose on.
And there are very few nights where I try to fall asleep and don't think about that story.
Speaker 2So, uh yeah, all right.
Speaker 1Well, Trouble Murderers called it Trouble Sleepy Murderers called it.
Speaker 2There's a death row.
Speaker 11In a staphole segment on the show for a while, giving given.
Speaker 5Guys a voice, I really appreciate.
Speaker 9That you guys are letting people bomb when they tell a story.
Speaker 18There, I go, all right, listen up, we got some special for you.
Speaker 1Got a burning story that you're itching to tell about when you bombed or absolutely fail in life.
Speaker 2Now's your chance to tell me all about it, Babo.
Speaker 1I want to hear your worst, most cringe worthy what the fuck was I thinking?
What just happened moment?
So pick up your phone and dial seven one six Bombing.
That's seven one six two six six twenty four sixty four and leave me a voicemail and we.
Speaker 2Might just play it on a future episode.
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