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That's the same as the Venmo. So uh we got
we got the uh fall down go bloom story out
of the way. That was the obviously the big story
of this week. But I did have a chance to
give you know, let you guys know what happened this weekend,
this past weekend, so we'll give you a little recap
of that. Then we're going to talk about Counts Vamped
closing and that's very very sad. It makes me very
very sad. But if anybody has four point three million
dollars and wants to keep it running, please feel free
to give it to me so I can do that.
It's only four point three mil. I mean, some of
you fuckers have it in their fucking couch cushions. That's
me listening to all of you laugh right now. So
the drive there was fun, believe it or not the
way I went, And I was going to give you
a review on the new Firehouse song. I'm sorry I
have to say, like Stone call Steve Allison Firehouse and
the new Fast Pussycat songs. But I'm gonna wait until
next week so I can listen to them a little
bit more. But yeah, the drive there was uneventful. Left
here at five a m. On Thursday, got to Sturgis
at midnight because I did stop and have a nice
ic cold Hams with my good friend Connor. Connor Balducci,
great fucking hockey name, and he is a part of
Locke Custom Guitars. You can find them in the in
the description there. Check them out talking guitars, talking van
Halen guitars because they make Van Halen builds that are
unbelieve And they are going to be here in just
a couple of weeks in Las Vegas, May thirtieth, thirty
first and June first at the Las Vegas Guitar Trade Show,
which I am hosting and Uh yeah. We had a
couple of Hams. I had, Oh my god, Old Chicago,
the pepperoni, pizza, roll bite things that they have unbelievable.
I haven't had them in years because we don't have
Old Chicago out here, and apparently a lot of the
Old Chicago's have closed now. They are in Gillette, Wyoming.
So that's where I stopped. It's about an hour and
a half from Sturgis, and I have not had that
in a long time. And a lot of people, where
the hell did you find in old Chicago, because like
the old Chicago back in Saint Cloud where I'm from,
that's gone. That's a Sammy or that's a house of
pizza now, and house of Pizza is unbelievable, all you
New York fucking pizza snobs out there, that is true
Midwestern unbelievable pizza tavern cut greasy. Oh oh yeah. So
I stopped and had a beer with him, caught up
a little bit, and to see them in a couple
of weeks, and got a case of mcgolden Light for
them and a case of Ham's because I care got
disturbed us about midnight, got into my room and I
was out like a light up, bright and early, six am,
six point thirty something like that. I was on the
road by seven, did a quick radio hit with the
morning show on Rocking one oh one, my old station,
promoting the show on Saturday. Last Saturday, and then i'd
made a stop in Sioux Falls. I had lunch with
my close personal friend Ron Keel move your feed. I
was name dropping. Always good to see Ron. He lives
really close to a grub and pub, a choke and
puke and we stopped and had a burger and it
was delightful, and Ron is always great to see Ron.
He took me up with this great record, Keel World
on vinyl. He just give me vinyl, just gave me vinyl.
We went outside fire a long dart. He's like, well,
come on, let me give your package. All a sudden
he's looking at his truck. He's like, somebody stole your
fucking package. It's gone, and he looked to go. It
was sitting right by the door. He was in the
casino and had to go out to have a long dart.
He brought it out with him and set it down
and forgot it. But hey, South Dakota, I was still there,
so great to see Ron. We talked about some business
stuff that I will tell you guys about soon. Let's
just say I may be back in the air chair, uh,
doing one of my old shows on Ron's radio station.
So we'll see, we'll see. Very excited about that. Yeah,
I got to got to a nooka Minnesota and we
had ack rehearsal a night before the show. One quick
rehearsal in. It was fine, It was good. It was fun.
Good to see Johnny Strutt, who I have not seen
any year. Well, I haven't seen any of these guys
in years. Johnny Strutt has never played with AK. Our
original drummer Minnesota, Pete Campbell was unavailable, so Johnny Strutt
filled in. It was his first time sitting in with
the act boys, and I had a good time. Original
guitar player Mick Ritella and El Bergstrom, the original bass player.
So it's kind of we almost had a full reunion
of the original lineup, which would have been cool, but
Pete was unavailable Mother's Day weekend and he had his
kids that weekend, so he was unavailable. Of course, his
family is more important than rock and roll, and so yeah,
I got caught up. Stopped at a liquor store, got
me some michelob Golden Light because God bless it, and
I went and crashed. Got to Saint Cloud with DJ
Beef himself and his wife Erica, and Mark and Lisa
from Chicago came up, sat up, had a couple of
beers and was out Saturday morning. Went to see some
old friends at the Ultimate Bar and Grill, Ultimate Sports
Bar and Grill and Waite Park. I got to catch
up with Tom, the owner, who I have not seen
since I think the last time. I don't know if
I saw him last time I was there, but always
great to catch up. Had a delicious make Love Golden Light,
and I was killing time because I was meeting Petie
and the Great Babu as you guys know if you're
longtime listeners of the show. And my friend Jason Pluff,
who co wrote seven hundred Miles of Memphis with me,
went to Bravo Burrito. If you're ever in Saint Cloud,
make sure you hit up Bravo Burrito. Ladies and gentlemen. Unbelievable, unbelievable.
So I got to catch up with those guys, got done,
went and hung out at the house for a little
bit and then boom, it was on to the red
carpet for loading and sound check and all that, and
it was just great reconnecting with everybody because this is
the you know, the Press bar reunion show. Press of
course burnt down five years ago and changed ownership a
couple of years before that. My math may be off,
but that's I think that's what I remember. But yeah,
I haven't seen Spit and the Slow Children guys in
a long I think the last time I saw them
was at the Press many moons ago. Then the Passion
guys showed up, which was great. Reunited those guys. They
have not played together as Passion in thirty years. All
but Brendan was there. He was out of town. He
had a prior commitment, but it was great to see
those guys. And then Duff showed up with the drums.
Soundcheck was on reconn, the doors open and there's all
the old Press people. It was fucking beautiful. Kern was
one of the managers at the Press. He started after
I started working there. Great dude. He's a manager over
at the Ultimate Sports Bar and Grill now doing great
for himself. Great to see him. Christy Kandle's old bartender
from the Press, Spider old Bouncer was there, and a
bunch of the old regulars and I I think I'm
probably missing something. It was a whole whirlwind of a night,
just people everywhere. We played. We did good. It was fun.
It was a good set. No major fuck ups except
for me skipping New York Groove and forgetting about it,
but we did it as a fake encore. Everybody played great.
It was awesome. Crowd. Dug It Rick from the carpet
dug it and some cat was there and me to
sign his Ace Frailey CD. Yeah, asked me, is he
Presley to sign his Ace Frailey CD? Because I have
an Ace Frailey tribute band. Well that was pretty cool, man,
that was pretty cool that. Oh my god, old school
Jeffy was there. If you guys hung out with the press,
anybody hung out with the press, you know, Jeffy a
little little dude. He was just a fucking monster. He
was a blast, super nice guy. And it was great
to see Jeffy and a bunch of the regulars from
the Press. It's funny, It's funny. My friend Gary Gary Nystrom,
him and his wife Calli of course, were there, all
the Press girls were there, and uh, it's like two people.
People ask me about what's Danny the Count Coker like
and what's Adam Carolla like? And the truth is they're
like they are. There's no act, there's no bullshit. That's
how they are and that's why I like them. That's
why I fucking respet. But it's fun. Get it's weird
because I'm just this kid from Saint Cloud. I just
happened to be very lucky and know a bunch of
cool people, and people ask me about it, and still
it's just like they're just my friends. You know, it's
just weird. I mean, it's not it's it's weird that
I say that. I know it sounds dumb. It's probably
like name dropper, but no, it's but it's cool. It's
cool when people ask you that kind of stuff. But
it's still like, dude, I'm just Tommy from the Press.
Nothing special. But Slow Children rocked. It was great to
see them. The Passion reunion was fucking great, and then
we did the Slave Raider jam at the end with
Duff and Matt Maleine. Both Duff and Matt played a
band called Freak at the Press every Wednesday night, and
then our pal Greg Keene day before the show, I'm like, hey,
actually I think I was. Yes, it was a day before.
It was Friday. When I was driving to Minnesota. I
was hitting him up because apparently he knew Slaver Atter stuff.
So he jumped in. He filled in and filled in
that second guitar thing really well, and Mark from Passion
played the main guitar and there was no rehearsal. We
jumped up, we did it. We did four songs, We
did what do you know about rock and Roll? We
did young Blood, we did Bigger Batter Boulder, and we
did make some noise to close the night. And it
was it was. It was good. It was. You know,
it's a tough weekend when you've got fishing opener, which
if you guys are not from the Midwest, don't realize
how big of a weekend that is, and Mother's Day
weekend and that's always the same weekend. But the crowd
that we had, considering that stuff was going on, it
was great. There's no complaints. Yeah, it would it would
be nice to have a few more people in the house,
but we did all right. We did all right, and
we're looking at hopefully doing something next year as well,
hopefully closer to the date of the fire to make
it so it would be in We'll see, we'll see.
I'm not getting ahead of myself yet, but let's just
say talks are in motion. Talks are in motion. So, yeah,
there was that I hung out on Sunday. I was
gonna leave on Sunday, but I was just so beat.
I was so dead after the show. It's weird. You
don't realize until you get old how much playing an
hour set takes audia. It is, especially if you don't
do it that often. So I was hurting for a
certain brother and then it's like, ah fuck, I have
to go up and pretend to sing slavery as songs
and move. But it came out great. Came out great.
So I ended up staying on Sunday, which is great
because I got to see my mom for Mother's Day,
had a dinner with her and my stepdad Devin and
his daughter Miche. So my stepsister and I drove down
to Mancato and I dropped off that beat her head
because it is getting retired, and brought the sum bitch
with a whole trip. So you guys saw a lot
of sbitch pictures that there was a special subbitch video
that I put up on the Patreon that's only going
on the Patreon, and he showed me the insides of
the new amp he is building me. So hopefully, hopefully,
fingers crossed, I'll have it by the thirtieth of August
for a gig that has not been announced yet, but
hopefully this week that should be announced and that would
be here in Vegas. Yeah, you know, I did the
drive to where did I stayed in Denver the first night,
got hammered and found a bar that was a block
away from the hotel, JD's Bait and Tackle bar and
pub grill thing. I'm a bobber. Music was fucking terrible,
but a beard a shot at jack was ten bucks.
So I got shit canned. I got shit house. Do
you know me as a professional drinker, you know, not
your guarden variety, more of the professional level alcoholic I partook.
I stopped in North Platte and had a burger in
a dive bar. Brought some bitch in there with me
and people were like, some guy comes up to cheers me.
He's like, sorry about your dad. I'm like, huh, oh,
the sum bitch. Oh no, that's not my dad, that's
the sum bitch. What do you mean. Oh, he's a rescue,
he's a good Will rescue. And they thought it was
fucking hilarious. So some bitch is a definitely a conversation starter.
God bless the sum bitch. Then yeah, then you guys
know what happened after I left Denver. I am feeling better.
I am still in pain. I did work today and
I think that was actually good because I think stretching
out a little bit helped. It still hurts to breathe,
it still hurts to cough. It doesn't hurt as bad
getting in and out of the car. I think I
have that down to a tee. But we'll see what
happens tomorrow. But no, it's good. I'm still hurting, but
I have to work. I have no choice. There is
no choice. I have to work. You know, you don't
have health insurance, you don't have savings. You hurting? Are
you hurt? Are you injured? Well, I'm injured, but go
to work, tubby. So I went to work today and
it was all right. It was alright. So there's no
not working now. Unless I have a setback, and who
knows what these kind of injuries, these rib injuries that
could happen very very easily, but whatever. But then we
woke up to the news today of Counts vamped announcing
that they are closing as of June twenty eighth. They
have a bunch of shows lined up. Night Ranger is
going to be there, Warren d Martini and Stephen Pearcy
of Rat are going to be doing a show, Lover
Boy is going to be doing a show, and they
are shutting it down with as you would expect, and
there's no other possible way to do it, but with
Danny and Counts seventy seven because it's his place and
he should shut that somem bitch down. And it's shocking news,
really really shocking news. I read it in a haze
and I went back to sleep, and I got back
up and h then you know, the posts just kept
comment and comment and common and it this hurts this
not because we play there, and we only play there
a couple of times a year, you know, so it's
not like it's a it's a you know, steady gig
for us. But these guys, thanks to Stony Curtis and Danny,
They and Corey and the and the city. They they
took me in like I was family. They took me
in like I belonged. They welcomed me with open arms.
You're one of us. And everybody I met from hanging
out there, it's great people. Great people that run the place,
great people behind the bar, great people at the door,
security guys, waitresses, everybody, Donnie the manager, all great people.
And they treat me like family. And I'm just some
fucking schlub from Saint Cloud, Minnesota. So many great bands
come through there, you know, as we know, a lot
of the eighties bands play there. That's I mean, it's
the fucking rock club of Las Vegas. It's my favorite
fucking rock club. Rainbow's different because Rainbow's not a Rainbow
is a bar and grill. Yes, it's got the history, YadA,
YadA YadA. Whiskey's great. I love those guys over there.
Viper Room great. I love it. But Vamped is home.
Vamped is home. Everybody, the sound guys, the lighting guys,
it's that bar is home. And to see it's shuddering up. Man.
I tried don Perry Yon there for the first time
when I first moved to La, me and my girlfriend
Lena Norwegian gorgeous. How I landed her? I have no
fucking idea. She was in La with me for the
first couple of months and then first three months, and
right after I moved there, right after we got our
spot in the hurt locker, we drove up to see
why and tea and after the show, of course, the
band was in. The band was in the VIP area
and they invited us in. Corey came out. And I
didn't know Corey at the time. I just knew her
was one of the owners because I didn't know where
he Danny yet and handing me a glass of Don Peignon.
You've never had Don peignon. Wow, that is what champagne
is supposed to taste like, you know, the cheap ass
shit that you usually get on New Year's Eve, YadA, YadA, YadA.
You get that champagne taste, and then you get the
bite afterwards. This stuff there is no bite, no bite
at all. You get the tae. It's smooth, it's bubbly
like it's supposed to be, and then it's just gone unbelievable.
And Danny and Corey were always so great to me.
My birthday show is every year, letting me do that.
You know, we open up for Enough's Enough last year
and the year before I think, God did we do Yeah,
we did one on my birth for my birthday. Of
the year before that was I think was that the
one that No Hallworth was on. It was in May
of last year. But uh, it's gonna be missed. It's
a sad day for rock and roll. But that doesn't
mean somebody's not gonna swoop in and buy the place
and keep it like it is. There's a lot of
people with a lot of money. You have four point
three million dollars you can save Counts Vamped. It's a
great piece of real estate. It's off the strips. You
don't have to deal with the strip bullshit. That's one
of the things I like about it, So you don't
have ridiculous prices. Good people, great place, Counts Vamped. I'm
going to miss you, but like I said, hopefully somebody
comes in and saves it. You know, even if they
change the name, you know, keep that great rock bar
where it is and where it should be. So all
right there it is. That's your show for the weekend
and Patreon folks, I'll probably get you at least one
more show this weekend because I don't plan on doing
a whole hell of a lot next week. Hopefully you
can get Tom and Zeus some shouting out loud cast
on board and finally get that episode done. I was
so hoping it would get done this week, but sometimes
schedules just don't work, and that's all there is to it.
And make sure you check that those guys go out
and next week I will also give you a saboo
rest in peace. So I haven't gotten to that yet
and that's my bad. But everything going on with the injury,
YadA YadA, YadA, listen to me, oh my for injury.
But thank you guys for the support. We will see
you Patreon folks this weekend, and we will see the
general public next week with more shenanigans, more chicanery and
uh oh shit, we still have to do another dating
tips of porn stars. I haven't forgot about that, all right,
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