Speaker 1: Hm, you want to make some more.
Speaker 2: He's over there, coming from the guy that eats potato
Speaker 2: chips while I'm doing a live read.
Speaker 1: You couldn't hear that? You can what a hearing because
Speaker 1: you're sick.
Speaker 2: No, we're with microphones, dumb ass, and you eat potato chips.
Speaker 1: You can hear my potato chip eating.
Speaker 3: Being dead serious, I could not.
Speaker 2: Thank you being mean, and you know what I got.
Speaker 1: You know what I think I did. I was like,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't bother Dwaite with this, and I choked on
Speaker 1: my chips a little bit. Okay, so I choked, almost died.
Speaker 2: What it was? The name chip?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 1: Thank you Bill Keeling for texting your support to the
Speaker 1: show even though we'd been sick.
Speaker 2: I think Bill killing might be the better looking of
Speaker 2: the two. I agree between John, it's.
Speaker 1: A bit close close. The sun is the best looking
Speaker 1: one of e all. I don't know which brothers is
Speaker 1: the sun that's on the forest.
Speaker 2: Do you suppose that they ever when they were.
Speaker 1: No, So I will ask this question. I would why
Speaker 1: do they make Okay, you're already sick. They give you
Speaker 1: the medicine. You get the medicine, and God bless all
Speaker 1: the people that work at pharmacies, Like, really, but why
Speaker 1: do they make the packages where you can't get the
Speaker 1: out of the thing. So you're sick and all you
Speaker 1: need is this medicine, but you can't get the you
Speaker 1: can't peel it back, and if it peels back a
Speaker 1: little bit, it's only peeled like a quarter of the way.
Speaker 1: And now you've gotta go. I gotta go get a knife.
Speaker 1: I have to get a knife to undo the package
Speaker 1: to get the pill that's supposed to make me feel
Speaker 1: better because I'm sick.
Speaker 3: By the way, they're gonna pull the cotton out. Sometimes too,
Speaker 3: they put in something.
Speaker 1: Not even the bottle. I could deal with that, but
Speaker 1: the ones, the ones that are the pills that are
Speaker 1: in each individual little uh bubble, right, they're in each
Speaker 1: individual bubble, and you have to you can't poke it through.
Speaker 1: If you poke it through, you can break. I broke
Speaker 1: one of the pills and was like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is what? Why the hell? We're already sick. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure that White and I were fantastic sick people last week.
Speaker 1: We definitely were like we were gracious and never got upset,
Speaker 1: not not at once, and I would get irritated with
Speaker 1: someone with chew ice loudly.
Speaker 2: I just sput nick, just made my notes super large.
Speaker 3: If you had your if you both surveyed your wives,
Speaker 3: who who do you think would say was the more
Speaker 3: needy husband last week?
Speaker 2: I think we're a lot of as different. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: are alone.
Speaker 1: Leave me alone, that's all. I just leave me alone.
Speaker 1: Just leave me alone, that's all I want. Don't talk
Speaker 1: to me, leave me alone. I'm sick.
Speaker 2: Well. For example, when I started to feel just a
Speaker 2: little bit off Sunday, Susan was in the basement. Let me.
Speaker 2: I walked down. I stood on the stairs, said, honey,
Speaker 2: I'm not feeling real well. I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm
Speaker 2: done for the day, just in cases it's the flu.
Speaker 2: And there I stayed. I mean I stayed there until
Speaker 2: Thursday after Soon.
Speaker 1: Here's what John, maybe a year later in your life,
Speaker 1: you become a cataker and you have to take care
Speaker 1: of Dwight and Tony because our wives have left us
Speaker 1: and we're sick and elderly. Now so here, let's give
Speaker 1: you some advice because I'm not giving you the advice
Speaker 1: as if I'm giving my wife advice. Do you understand, Yes,
Speaker 1: this is different this is different. But so the natural
Speaker 1: reaction is to ask the person that's sick. The first
Speaker 1: thing you ask in the morning, is feeling better? Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: don't don't know, because if the person feels worse or
Speaker 1: status quo, the words ring through your ears. So here's
Speaker 1: what you need to do. You ready as the care
Speaker 1: as the caretaker of too elderly, Tony and Dwight, because
Speaker 1: our wives left.
Speaker 2: Us right and we're sick. It's coming.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing in the first of the morning. Hey,
Speaker 1: don't talk to us, b if you're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: What do you need?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Nothing, Okay, that's that's that's what. This is the exchange
Speaker 1: that needs to happen. Do you need anything? No, I
Speaker 1: will say this, that's it. That's exchange.
Speaker 3: I've already gotten used to that with the pregnant wife
Speaker 3: right now. Yes, that's a lot of times that she's
Speaker 3: not set, when she's not feeling the best. It's what
Speaker 3: do you need?
Speaker 1: What do you need? Don't go hey, you're feeling better, No,
Speaker 1: I'm growing a child. No exactly. And now think about
Speaker 1: people that just got what we have when they're pregnant,
Speaker 1: because they can't take half the stuff that's true. They
Speaker 1: can't take medicine. They got to.
Speaker 3: Fight her headache stuff or whatever it might be. You
Speaker 3: can't do migraine medicine.
Speaker 1: Pregnant women can't do it. I feel for single parents
Speaker 1: that get as sick as Dwight and I were last week,
Speaker 1: and we still are to a start extent, but we
Speaker 1: as sick as we were. Man, people have kids. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: what do you do? You got to suck it up
Speaker 1: and get and take care of them while you're hallucinating.
Speaker 1: It's crazy trying.
Speaker 2: To figure out what I did with spot nick. I
Speaker 2: made my notes large and so, but it's not large
Speaker 2: enough to read without my readers. With the readers on now,
Speaker 2: they're blurry.
Speaker 1: Uh. Wendy's is a good restaurant. It used to be
Speaker 1: my favorite burger.
Speaker 2: It's not anymore used to be, you know, because they
Speaker 2: make their employees say, do you want a Biggie size it?
Speaker 1: They still they do want a biggie size that.
Speaker 2: You want a biggest size they want it?
Speaker 1: Takes it there.
Speaker 2: Maybe already a Biggie sized it for me.
Speaker 1: So they have gotten creative with their frosties.
Speaker 2: See that Why that's a bastardization of frosty.
Speaker 1: Chocolate Frosty's is about as good as a gifts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now they have this is right down my alley
Speaker 1: and I might go get one today. A Wendy's thin
Speaker 1: mint frosty drops on Friday.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was like it's a couple of months too late.
Speaker 1: Look, if it wasn't, it doesn't seem like it's.
Speaker 3: Like a Christmasy type of thing.
Speaker 2: If you want a blizzard, just go get a blizzard.
Speaker 1: Then that's a good point. I mean, the blizzard is
Speaker 1: the greatest sizard is the greatest invention. Nothing will make
Speaker 1: people feel happier than a blizzard. And I don't care
Speaker 1: which one you order. The chocolate extreme with extra stuff,
Speaker 1: that's it, baby, that's the thing. Whatever, if it's the
Speaker 1: chocolate peanutburger, guy, I don't care, the birthday cake, whatever
Speaker 1: is good. It's the greatest dessert.
Speaker 4: DQ.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, But I think this thin mint butter frosty could.
Speaker 2: Be thin Minton.
Speaker 1: Well, it's gott a buttery Girl Scout cookies again, I
Speaker 1: bought some the other day. Made it a lot easier
Speaker 1: with Venmo. But yes, I'm gonna I gotta wait till Friday,
Speaker 1: I guess, but I want to get that bad boy.
Speaker 2: I gotta figure out how to fix this thing in
Speaker 2: the commercials. But in the meantime, survey came out with
Speaker 2: America's all time favorite movies. I'm suspect on a lot
Speaker 2: of these.
Speaker 1: Uh, international movies, American movies.
Speaker 2: American movies, American movies. Is there any other kind?
Speaker 1: Yes, they love movies all over the world.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, here's the movie. Uh, this famous from Germany.
Speaker 2: It's called Nasferatu. Oh really, yeah, there's no words.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So Covenant numbers? Hango, you got ten?
Speaker 1: And who ranked?
Speaker 3: We're back to that again, staying far away from your
Speaker 3: studio today.
Speaker 1: Listen, Terry Miners, if you're listening, I get it. We
Speaker 1: love you and you're Howard Hughes. But we're gonna spray
Speaker 1: the hell out of this place. But if I'm you,
Speaker 1: I might think i'd be I might be thinking doing
Speaker 1: the show from that.
Speaker 2: I don't think he might be. Oh, well, you're right,
Speaker 2: we've been off hever.
Speaker 1: Yes, but anybody listens to us right now ahead is
Speaker 1: going to be like, dude, those guys are still sick.
Speaker 2: I'm still not kissing Susan.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Cruz was weary of letting you in this movie, he.
Speaker 1: Ran out of Look, we always want to Cruz to
Speaker 1: leave as fast as he can because he hovers. But
Speaker 1: today he did not hover. He went see guys bye,
Speaker 1: all right, have a good show, have a good show.
Speaker 3: Bye bye.
Speaker 2: Okay, dude, I still have a kiss, Susan, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, so kenyways Sheppard's Bomb of the Hour. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I will say this, So ten movies I don't
Speaker 1: know who grated him? Are there? Most of these were
Speaker 1: gonna know or not.
Speaker 2: You we're gonna know them all, but you Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: a number ten, I'm in there like swim. We're on
Speaker 2: this one, okay. Godfather, Yeah, great movie. Yeah, that should
Speaker 2: probably be the top ten.
Speaker 1: Number one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, number nine is star Wars.
Speaker 1: Give me a Godfather? Was ten?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh come on, star Wars. No, this list is already.
Speaker 2: Be a star Wars as you can't have.
Speaker 1: Star Wars ahead of the god original star Wars.
Speaker 2: Yes, star Wars. Yeah. Before the seventies, yes, that's called
Speaker 2: a new hope it star Wars.
Speaker 1: Star Wars what?
Speaker 2: Okay? What did it to say on the movie posters
Speaker 2: in the seventies.
Speaker 1: Star Wars and New Hope. No, I did not.
Speaker 2: Yes it did, it says Star Wars.
Speaker 1: No, actually on the little dun and when it came
Speaker 1: in with a little script that came in a thing
Speaker 1: it's in episode four.
Speaker 2: No it did, Yes it did. Who reads that grip
Speaker 2: research it? But probably when I went to Star Wars,
Speaker 2: they started out like, oh god, oh great words.
Speaker 1: It is widely known that the dialogue in the three
Speaker 1: first Star Wars movies is so bad that all the
Speaker 1: people involved say, yes, it's the worst dialogue of any
Speaker 1: popular film in history.
Speaker 2: So I haven't seen it since. I guess maybe back then.
Speaker 1: It's it's good movies movies. Look, it changed my life.
Speaker 3: I love Star Wars long until they remake the original trilogy.
Speaker 2: I bet that happens.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to. I mean, you can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean that was when it was cool, all right,
Speaker 1: So I can't believe Godfather was beaten out by Star Wars.
Speaker 1: But give me number eight. This should be fun, this
Speaker 1: should be great, this should this is a this is
Speaker 1: not a list of crap, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: This is where it comes apart like a Chinese motorcycle.
Speaker 1: It's gonna lose my patience.
Speaker 2: I think you ready. Number eight Fast and Furious.
Speaker 1: Oh, stop it.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a one of Stop it.
Speaker 1: There are ten Fast and Furious, and just because each
Speaker 1: one of them made a billion dollars doesn't mean any
Speaker 1: of them are not trash. Trash, you're telling me Godfather
Speaker 1: was ranked lower than Fast and Furious.
Speaker 2: Number seven Home alone and it's okay, I.
Speaker 3: Should be included in a separate list for Christmas movie
Speaker 3: you it's.
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen it all the way through. I
Speaker 1: can't get through it. I think it's dumb. I think
Speaker 1: it's I'm sorry. Everyone loves that movie. They love that kid.
Speaker 1: I thought it was stupid. The kid's so smart. Why
Speaker 1: not why not just call the police instead putting legos?
Speaker 1: I don't like the vaudeville comedy anyway. The handles Hot.
Speaker 2: Number six. I haven't seen this, but I bet it's
Speaker 2: a damn good movie. John Wick.
Speaker 1: John Wick is good and does not belong on this list.
Speaker 2: Uh number was this list.
Speaker 1: Made by the dumbest people on planet Earth?
Speaker 2: As I said mentioned earlier, I accidentally deleted the source
Speaker 2: and I apologize you. Sometimes when you have a high
Speaker 2: fever and you do show prep. Yeah, it doesn't work out.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe you update your twenty year old laptop.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with this laptop.
Speaker 1: Everything's wrong with the laptop.
Speaker 2: I could just figure out what I did to make
Speaker 2: everything so damn big. Okay, so this number number five
Speaker 2: is dirty dancing?
Speaker 1: Still okay, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Number four, The Lion King, Number three, The Titanic, Number two,
Speaker 2: The Wizard of Oz and number one Forrest Gump. Where's Jaws?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: First of all, where's a cool hand?
Speaker 4: Luke?
Speaker 1: Several of these movies were cultural, I mean, not icons,
Speaker 1: but changed culture. Forrest Gump changed culture. Then in the
Speaker 1: nineteen nine three that movie came out and it flipped
Speaker 1: people out. When they put Tom Hanks's character in with
Speaker 1: LBJ and mixed the old black and white videos together.
Speaker 1: People didn't understand that technology. They're like, how did they
Speaker 1: get Tom Hanks's video in with the old LBJ video?
Speaker 2: It was witchcraft.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what people said. That's witchcraft. There's no way
Speaker 1: you can do that. It's one of the best movies
Speaker 1: of all time. I get it, but you can't. Godfather
Speaker 1: is Niece Knuty number one, and I don't mind putting
Speaker 1: Forrest Gump number two and Wizard of the Oz. It
Speaker 1: was a game changer for the nineteen forties.
Speaker 2: Actually, instead of Wizard of the Oz, they went with
Speaker 2: the Wizard of Oz instead. Oh what, yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: was it called the Wizard of Oz, not Wizard of
Speaker 2: the Oyes. They they recently renamed it.
Speaker 3: That's the director's cut.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, listen, I got a movie I want to
Speaker 2: pitch to you. This movie is called The Wizard of
Speaker 2: the Os. It's about enchanted head brush.
Speaker 1: Thank you, bad Tony Venetti. That's the worst list there is.
Speaker 2: Uh, where's Coah and Luke? Where's Casablanca?
Speaker 1: Casablanca is I would I would say it's so impactful
Speaker 1: and it's the greatest one liner film of all time.
Speaker 1: I like the any comedies on this list? What did
Speaker 1: I miss comedy?
Speaker 2: Argue that home Alone but.
Speaker 1: I can't home alones on it can help be on
Speaker 1: this list.
Speaker 2: I think that's it. I think that's the only thing
Speaker 2: that you could.
Speaker 1: They put this list together just to piss people off.
Speaker 2: One interesting note they put at the bottom. It says
Speaker 2: the average American estimates they've watched their favorite movie thirty
Speaker 2: eight times over the course of their life. I would
Speaker 2: say that's low for me when it comes to Jaws.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've watched and we watched Jaws every year.
Speaker 2: Well, plus, if you're skipping around you see TBS and
Speaker 2: there it is, you got to stay on Jaws. You
Speaker 2: can't just change the channel.
Speaker 1: Did you see the son of who plays Robert Shaw.
Speaker 1: Robert Shaw is an identical twin to his dad, Robert Shaw,
Speaker 1: and Robert Shaw was a known alcoholic. I don't think
Speaker 1: he was the greatest dad, and I believe so that
Speaker 1: his kid even says my dad was an a hole.
Speaker 1: But he's probably abusive and all that. But he looks
Speaker 1: he's a dead ringer and he's doing some sort of
Speaker 1: play or musical or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I saw the picture. I never read
Speaker 2: the article.
Speaker 1: But he's dressed as Quint.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's I speak of the twins. We're supposed
Speaker 2: to have the Keathing Brothers on last week, but we
Speaker 2: didn't because of the flu.
Speaker 1: Well, and the mayor called again because we were playing
Speaker 1: best of people were fooled. Yeah, the mayor calls said, look,
Speaker 1: tomorrow's of Valentine's Day. We're bringing in Rachel with the
Speaker 1: mayor and I can't we can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: y'all planned, I went, well, we have planned to hack
Speaker 1: up our lungs into a trash can because we're sick.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get the mayor back on for a
Speaker 1: de facto read do Valentine's Day with the mayor and
Speaker 1: his wife.
Speaker 2: Rachel, boy, your your voice sounds so silky.
Speaker 1: And I will say John she she gives, She gives
Speaker 1: the eye to Dwight. Yeah, in front of the mayor.
Speaker 1: Too awkward.
Speaker 2: In all fairness, Rachel Greenberg does stare at me, but
Speaker 2: it's mostly out of morbid curiosity of what I might
Speaker 2: be or pity. Yeah, pity, it's not a it's not
Speaker 2: a good stare.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the video of the humpback whale that
Speaker 1: swallowed the Kayaker?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that not the scariest thing?
Speaker 3: Jonah all over?
Speaker 2: But no, his name was Jonah the guy stop it.
Speaker 2: How weird is that? There's no way His name was
Speaker 2: Joan damn it, you got me and his last name
Speaker 2: was Kayak. How weird was that?
Speaker 1: But it's scary? Is that not the scariest thing? I
Speaker 1: got swallowed by a whale?
Speaker 2: That's what you get. You go in the area.
Speaker 3: If he came back out, alive.
Speaker 1: He did come back out alive.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they spit him out the the uh the way.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's not a hang on, hang on something,
Speaker 1: am I I'm gonna spit him out. They got it
Speaker 1: on video, dude, Okay, wow, I mean seriously, I think
Speaker 1: these kayakers.
Speaker 2: That's what you get for getting out of the ocean.
Speaker 2: And a kayak.
Speaker 1: He's wrong with the rowboat.
Speaker 2: Dumb ass? What the hell? Would just just look at
Speaker 2: it from the beach. You know, it's perfect get in
Speaker 2: the ocean a dinghy, of course. I also like to
Speaker 2: get it a dinghy small, little Do you like a
Speaker 2: small dingy or big dingy?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 1: Well, a small dinghy is a kayak.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like a big dinghy.
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Speaker 1: w h A S. Is that the greatest guitar rift
Speaker 1: in history? Baby? Is that the greatest guitar riffing?
Speaker 5: Is?
Speaker 1: It's a legitimate question. Yeah, stop back like an idiot.
Speaker 1: I think I'm not like an idiot. Stop with that face.
Speaker 2: You're so stupid.
Speaker 1: Dig My ode Well, you're embarrassing yourself in front of
Speaker 1: Kenny Wayne Shepherd. You always do.
Speaker 2: You can't embarrass yourself in front of a student of yourself.
Speaker 2: Kenny Ways. I talk Kenny Wayne Shepherd everything he owns.
Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to prove it. Hey, Kenny Way Shepherd,
Speaker 2: isn't it true that I've taught you everything you know
Speaker 2: about guitar?
Speaker 4: Uh? Probably not true.
Speaker 2: You listen budging.
Speaker 1: He's not even willing to go along with your charade.
Speaker 2: Way Gratz, He says, you missed one hundred percent of
Speaker 2: shots you don't take. I had to take a shot listen.
Speaker 2: Kenny Way Shepard loved you for years, man. I still
Speaker 2: remember being in all because it took a date to
Speaker 2: go see Aerosmith and you were the opening act. You're
Speaker 2: very young. I don't think i'd even drink at the time.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, but quite impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The first time I interviewed him, he played Phoenix
Speaker 1: Little Tavern and he was a kid. You were a
Speaker 1: kid and you couldn't get into Phoenix Hills shot at
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Ye sign your first record deal at thirteen, right.
Speaker 1: Playing a gig you could get into.
Speaker 4: I signed it at sixteen. Actually, you're a kid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it happened pretty quick, man. I put my band
Speaker 5: together when I was fifteen, signed a record deal at sixteen,
Speaker 5: recorded my first album at seventeen, graduated high school, hit
Speaker 5: the road and never looked back.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: I got to tell you. There's so much to get
Speaker 2: to man. So you know, through your career, I think
Speaker 2: you've opened up for the Stones. I saw you with
Speaker 2: Van Halen. You know, the Eagles. I'm not a musician,
Speaker 2: and I do play guitar, but very very poorly. And
Speaker 2: occasionally when the wife and are out they'll say, hey,
Speaker 2: come up, do the song. And I'm never more self
Speaker 2: conscious when there's a real musician out in the audience.
Speaker 2: How much pressure was that on you when you got
Speaker 2: to go out and open up for The Stones and
Speaker 2: all these other bands? Does it get into your head
Speaker 2: at all when you're young or do you push it
Speaker 2: out somehow?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: It can.
Speaker 5: I remember like the first time I ever got on stage.
Speaker 5: I was thirteen years old down in New Orleans on
Speaker 5: Bourbon Street with my dad and some of his friends,
Speaker 5: and we went to go see this guy, Brian Lee.
Speaker 5: He was kind of a staple on Bourbon Street, a
Speaker 5: blind blues guitar player, and we've seen him many times before.
Speaker 5: But this evening one of my dad's friends said, hey,
Speaker 5: why don't you let this kid get up and sit
Speaker 5: in with you and your band? And I had never
Speaker 5: been on stage before. Oh, in that moment, I was petrified. Oh,
Speaker 5: Like you know, I remember walking up there and I
Speaker 5: thought to myself, you know what, this is either going
Speaker 5: to go really well or this is I'm going to
Speaker 5: stail spectacularly and I will never do this again. And
Speaker 5: I did the first song because I was really shy.
Speaker 5: If you look at the early pictures and videos of
Speaker 5: me when I was a teenager, I had long blonde
Speaker 5: hair and I would kind of let it hang down
Speaker 5: and cover my face. I kind of would hide behind
Speaker 5: my hair. But anyways, I played the first song, he
Speaker 5: gave me a solo, and I got a standing ovation.
Speaker 4: Oh, and he let me.
Speaker 5: Stay up for the rest, and I played with this
Speaker 5: guy till like three o'clock in the morning, and that
Speaker 5: gave me the confidence to move forward.
Speaker 4: And I never really looked back.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can overthink things and you can mess
Speaker 5: yourself up, or you can just have faith and get
Speaker 5: up there and see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So that night, when you're thirteen, you get on with
Speaker 2: this spectacular blues guy and you wind up play until
Speaker 2: three o'clock in the morning. I guess at that point
Speaker 2: it gets in your blood and you're done. That's all
Speaker 2: you can do, right.
Speaker 5: Well, that's all I wanted to do that At that point,
Speaker 5: I thought maybe I could actually do something here with this,
Speaker 5: you know, And so it kind of went from there
Speaker 5: when I was fourteen. Not long after that, we went
Speaker 5: in the studio and did my very first recordings that
Speaker 5: helped me eventually get a record deal.
Speaker 2: Talking with Kenny Wayne Shepard and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about where you can see him. I saw Josh McDermott
Speaker 2: or we had Josh McDermott on the show two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and then I saw you were going to be playing
Speaker 2: on this tour. I thought, wait, let's get Kenny Wayne
Speaker 2: Sheppard on too. Do you find it? I think as
Speaker 2: a testament to Jimmy Hendrix and his music. We lost
Speaker 2: him at age twenty seven. We only had him for
Speaker 2: a number of years, but the end fifty plus years later,
Speaker 2: we're still listening to his music. We're still celebrating his
Speaker 2: music in a big way where you and other artists
Speaker 2: are going out on tour and playing his music. I
Speaker 2: know Steve Rayvaugh had a big influence on you, but
Speaker 2: obviously Jimmy did too. How did you get turned on
Speaker 2: to Jimmy Hendrix and how much did he influence you
Speaker 2: on your career?
Speaker 5: Well, Jimmy's definitely one of my top five all time
Speaker 5: musical influences. He's right up there with Stevie Rayvaughan. I
Speaker 5: got turned on to Hendricks through my dad. I mean,
Speaker 5: my dad was a dish jockey. He was on the
Speaker 5: radio like you guys, ah and yeah, he was programmed director,
Speaker 5: general manager and on air personality.
Speaker 2: So well director of like he's not on the line,
Speaker 2: is he already?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: But you know, I grew up listening to music like
Speaker 5: twenty four to seven, and my dad did a lot
Speaker 5: of different formats over the years, so we listened to
Speaker 5: all kinds of music. But he's the guy that turned
Speaker 5: me on too, Hendricks. And as a guitar player, learning
Speaker 5: how to play the instrument. I mean, you hear Jimmy's.
Speaker 4: Music and you go, wow, how did he do that?
Speaker 4: What's that sound?
Speaker 5: And and you know, I would sit in the living
Speaker 5: room learning how to play his songs, but I listening
Speaker 5: to the records and memorizing songs note by note, and
Speaker 5: he literally watching Jimmy and finding these old videos of
Speaker 5: him performing and listening to what he did because he does.
Speaker 4: What I do is I take blues.
Speaker 5: Music as the foundation of my music and then I
Speaker 5: try and like you know, interject different things to make
Speaker 5: it sound new and current and fresh and exciting and different,
Speaker 5: and that's what Jimmy did. Jimmy really pushed the boundaries.
Speaker 5: He took blues and he ran with it, and he
Speaker 5: didn't allow himself to be like stuck in a box.
Speaker 5: And so he gave me permission to do that with
Speaker 5: my music.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of names out there too
Speaker 1: that we you know, we always used to make these lists,
Speaker 1: you know, Dwight and I started out rock radio, and
Speaker 1: we obviously would do what we're doing now was more
Speaker 1: talking politics and stuff. But Prince, for me, like I
Speaker 1: never put him on a list until later like I was,
Speaker 1: because he is. Where's your take on the not the
Speaker 1: non because you always have your list. There's Eddie van Halen,
Speaker 1: you're on that list, Stevie Ravaughan down to we go
Speaker 1: down the list, but Prince has been added to that list.
Speaker 1: What's your take on that? And there's there is there
Speaker 1: another name we're forgetting or need to put on there.
Speaker 5: There's always names that we're forgetting. I mean, there's always
Speaker 5: incredible guitar players. There's guys that are incredibly talented whose
Speaker 5: names never get brought up on those kinds of lists,
Speaker 5: you know. I mean every year I had a band
Speaker 5: with Stephen Stills for a few years, Wow Project Wow.
Speaker 5: And you know, Stephen Rolling Stone does their Top one
Speaker 5: hundred guitar players of all time, and Stephen is always
Speaker 5: on that list, and they've never put my name on
Speaker 5: that list, and he would always he would always remind.
Speaker 4: Me of that, you know. And so it's like there's.
Speaker 5: Always incredibly talented musicians, you know that may not get
Speaker 5: that level of recognition, but Prince certainly one of them.
Speaker 5: And one of the things about Prince is like, you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, the guy saw he had it all.
Speaker 4: He was total package.
Speaker 5: He could play every instrument right, he could play bass, guitar, drums,
Speaker 5: he could sing, he could dance, I mean, but his songwriting,
Speaker 5: it was just incredible.
Speaker 4: His vocal was incredible.
Speaker 5: And I mean, yeah, he's definitely one of those guys.
Speaker 5: But people generally bring up the names, like for me,
Speaker 5: I always talk about Hendrix and Stevie and bb King
Speaker 5: and Albert King and Freddie because those were the guys
Speaker 5: that are the core components of the sound that I've
Speaker 5: created based on what I learned from those people.
Speaker 1: Kenny Wayne Sheppards, who were talking with this morning on
Speaker 1: President's Day, a lot of people off today. But it's
Speaker 1: a great conversation, and it leads me into this, which
Speaker 1: is he brought up your dad. Your dad's in the
Speaker 1: industry with it, if I'm sure he had enough cases,
Speaker 1: because look, not everybody starts out as a phenom in
Speaker 1: rock and roll like you that doesn't end up an
Speaker 1: attic in either sorry he commits suicide or drug addicts
Speaker 1: or whatever happens. Was your dad part of that to
Speaker 1: where it kept you level headed and you never ended
Speaker 1: up on that side of things?
Speaker 5: Well, I certainly went down that path to a degree,
Speaker 5: Like I have not had a drink of alcohol or
Speaker 5: put anything stronger than advil in my body for twenty
Speaker 5: two years.
Speaker 1: Oh good for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah you quit it like twenty five, right, didn't you
Speaker 2: get sober twenty five years old?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 5: So you know, that just goes to show, like you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, look, at a certain point, you're young and
Speaker 5: curious and stuff, and when you become a musician, especially
Speaker 5: in the world of rock and roll, you look at
Speaker 5: it and you go, oh, this is what I have
Speaker 5: to do this if I'm going to be a.
Speaker 4: Legitimate rock star.
Speaker 5: Right yeah, And it's actually not a great thing. But
Speaker 5: you know people think that you have to do this, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because they say the music comes from a dark right, right,
Speaker 1: like a dark place, and you got to be depressed
Speaker 1: to write good music, right, I mean that's what you're
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of it and just raising hell and
Speaker 5: you know, trashing hotel rooms and you know, it's like
Speaker 5: you want to be like Keith Richards and you want
Speaker 5: to be like the Eagles where they take a chainsaw
Speaker 5: and cut a hole in the room.
Speaker 1: To make a joining room.
Speaker 4: Right, you know, it's like it all sounds fun.
Speaker 5: It all sounds like really fun and exciting until somebody dies, right.
Speaker 5: And so for me, I just knew that, like I
Speaker 5: had reached a point at age twenty five, like something
Speaker 5: had to change.
Speaker 4: And thankfully I was able to make that change. Not
Speaker 4: a lot of people are able to and some of
Speaker 4: those people are no longer with us. So my dad helped.
Speaker 5: My dad helped me keep me grounded as much as
Speaker 5: my mom did because because of the way that I
Speaker 5: was raised.
Speaker 4: Like, I had never walked around with a big ego thinking.
Speaker 5: That I invented all of this, right, So I was
Speaker 5: always grounded. But as far as that stuff, the extracurricular
Speaker 5: side of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Man, I dabbled in that stuff and then I had
Speaker 5: to to stop to it. And I have to say, like,
Speaker 5: my life is tremendously better without that stuff. So and
Speaker 5: I'm making some of the best music I've ever made today,
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt on that. I got to tell you.
Speaker 2: And I remember seeing Steve or Yvon. I used to
Speaker 2: go see Steve or Yvon every year when he would
Speaker 2: come to town. And the last time that I went
Speaker 2: to go see him, it was that tour that he
Speaker 2: did with Jeff Beck and it was the one where
Speaker 2: he was sober, and he was He was amazing to
Speaker 2: watch when he was on junk or whatnot. But then
Speaker 2: when he got sober, it was even more powerful. You
Speaker 2: got sober? Did that strength we're both Christians on here.
Speaker 2: Did that strengthen your relationship with Jesus Christ when you
Speaker 2: got sober?
Speaker 4: One hundred percent? I knew that.
Speaker 5: One of the things about about the twelve step programs
Speaker 5: that are out there is that it is a spiritual program.
Speaker 5: And you have to know they don't push one religion
Speaker 5: or anything like that onto anybody. It's a God, they
Speaker 5: say it's a god. Of your understanding, so you can
Speaker 5: choose Jesus, so be it. If it's something else, you know,
Speaker 5: they allow that. But the reality is is that like
Speaker 5: we've reached a point where we have to tap into
Speaker 5: a power far greater than ourselves to do for us
Speaker 5: what we could not do for ourselves. And I knew that,
Speaker 5: like in order, because a million times, like you know,
Speaker 5: I'd have that night where it's like, oh, I'm never
Speaker 5: going to do this again, and then night I would
Speaker 5: do it again. And so I kept trying to to
Speaker 5: not do things and wound up doing them. So I
Speaker 5: couldn't do it, you know, on my own accord. So
Speaker 5: I had to have something helped me in ways that
Speaker 5: I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 4: And to me, I knew that that would be God.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent. I knew I had to have God,
Speaker 4: you know, I had to.
Speaker 5: Allow him to be more active in my life, because
Speaker 5: I knew he was always interested in being active in
Speaker 5: my life.
Speaker 4: But he's not going to force himself on you. You
Speaker 4: have to like open up to him.
Speaker 5: And so I knew that was going to be part
Speaker 5: of the equation one hundred percent from the very beginning,
Speaker 5: even before I learned that was part of the program.
Speaker 2: And you were talking about how you're making some of
Speaker 2: the best music. I got to tell you your dirt
Speaker 2: on my Diamonds volume too if I want to. I mean,
Speaker 2: just spectacular stuff. But let's talk about this Hendrix Experience tour.
Speaker 2: Experience Hendrix Tour, I've got it's hard to pick a
Speaker 2: favorite Jimmy Hendrick song. And by the way, you're playing
Speaker 2: on this but uh, it's hard for me to pick
Speaker 2: a favorite. I mean, Voodoo Child's won, but I think
Speaker 2: if six were nine is probably my favorite. Do you
Speaker 2: have a favorite, uh Hendrix song?
Speaker 4: Well, I have a lot of favorite songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean historically we've ever since I formed my band
Speaker 5: when I was fifteen, our last song of the show
Speaker 5: has always been Voodoo Child, and so that's kind of
Speaker 5: become a synonymous with my concerts and the fans expect that.
Speaker 4: It never gets old for me.
Speaker 5: But like, if you think about how little time he
Speaker 5: was actually writing and recording music and how many legendary songs,
Speaker 5: I mean, Purple.
Speaker 6: Hayes, Foxy Lady, Voodoo Child, Little Wings, Stone Free, and yeah,
Speaker 6: all this stuff, it's just like really incredible, Uh, what
Speaker 6: he's created.
Speaker 5: In such a short amount of time relatively, and so
Speaker 5: there's a lot of great songs to choose from.
Speaker 2: How many dates are you doing on this tour? Because
Speaker 2: it's got all kinds of great spectacular musicians on there.
Speaker 2: I will say that the closest this is coming is Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: Ohio on March eleventh. But how many dates do you
Speaker 2: think you're going to do on this Kenny?
Speaker 5: I think there's we're out for a full month, and
Speaker 5: I think we're doing twenty seven shows in that month.
Speaker 4: We're working pretty hard, and.
Speaker 5: You know, who knows, maybe we'll do another leg at
Speaker 5: the end of this year, maybe next year or whatever,
Speaker 5: but I know we're doing I think we're doing twenty
Speaker 5: seven shows on this part of it.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, Kenny, Wayne Shepard certainly grateful for your music.
Speaker 2: You're one the hell of a musician and your concerts
Speaker 2: are really fun. Catch him on this experience. Hendrix Tour Cincinna,
Speaker 2: Ohio is the closest coming to March eleventh. Kenny, have
Speaker 2: done the show before and we're always grateful. I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: manreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, sir, Hey, thanks for having me, guys. I
Speaker 4: appreciate the support.
Speaker 2: Yes, talk again, bro soon there you go, Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
Speaker 2: what do we have, Elan, No, no, no, we're good.
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 3: We're good for
Speaker 4: W A twos