Speaker 1: Hi, This is Chuck Brian coming at you from the
Alpha Quadrant and you're listening to the Shirley You Can't
Be Serious Podcast with Dean Jason.
Speaker 2: Anything else would be illogical.
Speaker 3: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
Be Serious Podcast. If you are a continuing listener, you
are expecting us to be talking about true romance and
full fiction. But I had some stuff this week and
we weren't able to get to that. Interestingly enough with
Jason and I talked about a concert in our last
episode that was coming up, and by golly, we decided
to go. So we are here today on the Shirley
you Can't Be Serious Podcast? And I got one question
for you. Are You Ready? Oklahoma City November two, twenty
twenty four, Creed kicked off there Are You Ready tour
and Jason and I made a surely night of it.
Speaker 2: The funny part is that we had no knowledge of
this until I looked at it.
Speaker 3: Like the day we were recording and you were like, hey,
let's go, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: You were dragging your feet a little bit and you're
a busy guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm not a big concert guy unless it's
a small venue or I'm going to be upfront. This
is going to be at the pay Com Center, which
houses all of the Oklahoma City thunder fans, so that's
a big place. I knew we weren't going to pay
the money to get upfront on the stage. Then I
saw that Three Doors Down was going to be a
part of the show, right, I was like, oh, I
got a lot of Three Doors Down on my playlist
on Spotify. And then I found out that Mammoth Wolfgang
van Halen is going to be the opener.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, let's do it as of the
clincher for you. I think yes.
Speaker 3: So we made a night of it. We invited Amanda Janic,
but I want to go.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We actually talked about making it a shirly event, just
throwing it out there and see if anybody wanted.
Speaker 1: To join us. Yeah, it was a little short notice.
Speaker 2: It was short notice number one, and it's long ways
to go, blah blah blah, so we just said I
would just go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Jason and I left together and we headed to Oklahoma City,
not just for the concert, but we made an entire
evening of it. We played video games and I'm talking
vintage video game. We had pizza, we had an incredible dessert.
Then we went over to the pay Com Center to
watch the events.
Speaker 2: Let me give a quick shout out to Flashback Retro
Pub in downtown Oklahoma City. Yeah, it's just this place
that has all these video games.
Speaker 1: No, it's kind of a bar.
Speaker 2: I mean, they've got drinks and stuff like that, but
they have all of them. Tron Donkey Kong, I introduce
you to Kangaroo Robotron.
Speaker 1: They have bad dudes.
Speaker 2: They have misspac Man and Cubert and Galaga.
Speaker 3: Street Fighter Cubert, all of them. Anything that you could
think of as a game from the eighties that you love,
it's probably there. And normally they charged a cover of
like ten bucks and you just walk in and the
video games are all free, and that includes original Nintendo sets,
original nes sets with TVs. The TVs are even a
little spotty, just like your TV was back in nineteen
eighty seven. So we walk in and nobody's at the door.
We walk up to the bar to pay our ten dollars.
I'm like, I don't think they care. IL must to
run the bathroom real quick, and by the time I
got back Jason had bought into that idea because he's like,
I stood there for five minutes. She didn't seem interested
in taking my money. So we got to play all
of our video games for free.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did.
Speaker 2: We spend about an hour there. Yeah, you kick my button, tron.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: I kicked your butt in Kangaroo. I couldn't get past
level two. And I don't mean like level two, I
mean the second stairway right.
Speaker 1: I right up the second ladder. It was awful.
Speaker 3: I'd never played that game before in my life, and
I don't think i'll ever play. Monkeys kept throwing the
apples out. I'd punched the monkey out, and he'd still
throw the apple.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, he's punched out. How's he throwing apples
at me? Yeah? And then we went like a block away.
Speaker 2: There's a great little pizza restaurant that we like, Joey's Pizza. Yeah,
And the problem was there was a monsoon between the
video game plays and the pizza.
Speaker 3: We walked out the door and this place is a
block and a half away, and we were trying to
decide what place to go to. We had been to
Joey's before, and we're like, Okay, there's this place and
that place. A couple of rain drops fall and I'm like,
let's just go to the pizza place. It's about to
start raining. And we walked three sets and the floodgates open.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean it was.
Speaker 3: Pouring like a waterfall on a We couldn't even make
it a block and a half. We had to sit
under a not completely secure awning. It was dripping down
the back of our shirts into our boots, and finally
we're just like, hey, it's not going to let up.
We just got to make a run for it. So
we entered the pizza place sopping wet, but the pizza
was hot and the food was good.
Speaker 1: It was good. Food was good.
Speaker 2: The shout out to Joey's Pizzera in downtown Oklama City.
Speaker 1: Check it out for sure.
Speaker 3: So then we made our way to the pay comm center.
Speaker 2: We forgot to mention how we had to pay to
get out of the parking lot.
Speaker 3: Right, So we pulled into the parking lot. It's like
five dollars to park and I was like, oh, dude,
no brainer, right, no brainer, because it's hard to find
spaces down in Oklahoma City. Yep, we pull in and
as I said, we were arcade for an hour. We
ate for an hour, so two hours max. We try
to leave and it won't scan your ticket. The little
arm won't come up, the little lights aren't twinkling art.
Speaker 1: And we like trapped in the parking lot.
Speaker 3: So we tried to back up and then it was like,
oh no, there's cars, I'm in this way. We can't
do that, and it wouldn't scan your ticket. Finally, I'm like,
just tit the thing that says lost ticket. It was
like thirty dollars. I'm like what, no, right, No, we're
not coming in on you give us a five dollars
deal and we're walking out at for thirty because your
machine won't work. I get out of the car, I
walk in front of the car and it's as though
they were watching us on camera the whole time, because
as soon as they saw me coming, that arm just
went right on it. You didn't even have to pay
the five bucks.
Speaker 2: It's like you used the force. He just raised it up.
Speaker 1: I got out ready to fight, and like it just
went wop.
Speaker 2: I'm like okay then, yeah, So we drive down the
road to the pay com center. Yeah, the monsoon has stopped.
We walk in to a crowd of mostly forties and
fifties our age folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there was a considerable amount of people in
their twenties.
Speaker 2: A lot of young people there, yeah, and a lot
of kids, you know, generational fans.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: And to be fair, it is the kind of crowd
that you might expect to see at a Creed concert
in Oklahoma City. I mean it was it was what
you want I'd expect in that circumstance. I was not
surprised by the look of the crowd at all. There
were some mullets, a lot of people wearing the Creed
T shirts, a lot of thirty year trash ear, jeans
and low cut tops, some mom boobs for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But what I loved about this show before we get
into the actual show part of the show, I think
I enjoyed looking at all of these people watch these
bands as much as I liked watching the bands. Yeah,
I mean they were in love. I saw a girl
that I mean, she had to have been twenty five,
twenty six years old, and she was rocking out. I
mean she's surrounded by forty to fifty year olds who
are all just sitting down to watch and she is
standing up and singing every word and is obviously just
in love with every note of every song that these
guys have. Yeah, we saw girls who, gosh, they would
look like teenagers to me down a few rows in
front of us, who were both standing up and rocking out,
just dancing and having so much fun. And then plenty
of the moms were up there just singing their hearts
out and having a great time. Everybody really, even guys,
saw a handful of twenty something year old guys who
are all just belting out the lyrics.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun, and the reaction of
the crowd was a lot of fun to watch. And
I'm a sucker for the single Longs, which we'll get
into here in a minute. But Wolfgang van Halen and
his band take the stage.
Speaker 1: Yes, right about seven seven thirty, I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you know any of their stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so one of their songs I've had for several years.
I mean, it's him, right, he played on the album.
He's the guy that played all of the instruments. And
the video for this song, I've watched it. It's like
five different hymns inside the recording studio played the guitar,
he's playing the bass, he's playing the drums, he's singing
the song. The song is called Don't Back Down. It's
off his first album, which came out in twenty twenty one.
He kind of split his set. He did six songs.
First three songs were off of this album, and the
second three songs were off of Mammoth WVH two.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's what I thought about him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know any of his songs, so I
just had to listen and enjoy. He's really gifted as
a singer. That kind of took me off guard. I
don't think his dad or his uncle could particularly. I mean,
Eddie would sing some harmonies and stuff, but it was
either Dave or Sammy, and then Michael Anthony was the
guy harmonizing typically. I was really impressed with his voice
for sure, And of course he can do just about
everything that I mean. I don't know if he could
do everything that he could do, but he was a
very gifted guitar player as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you told me you've seen him play Eruption. He's
played Eruption, right, And you kind of commented to me
that you were like, man, I wish he would have
done something original. Van Halen related. I think he probably
can play the stuff that his dad played, but he
has a different style, at least for the music that
he's playing in the set that they did. It's a
much more straightforward blues rock. I mean, he's very good,
but it is an entirely different style and technique than
Eddie played.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to say this nicely, but he
did not say the word van Halen. He didn't introduce himself.
He did not say my dad is Eddie. He didn't
say the word Valerie.
Speaker 1: He did nothing to sort of.
Speaker 2: Capitalize on who he actually is, right, which I think
is kind of a missed opportunity. But you were like, well,
I think he's maybe forging his own path, and I
get that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, look him up. And he's worth twenty
two million dollars. He doesn't need to capitalize on anything.
He's doing it because he loves doing it. I mean why,
I mean, if he didn't love doing it, you don't
have to do it, right, he didn't have to work
another day in his life if he doesn't want to.
So he must love doing it. And I think a
part of that is like you said, he's forging his
own path. He wants people to love his music, for
his music and his name as opposed to his dad's
or his uncles or anybody else. Yeah, okay, Plus he
got to play with them for a while, he did,
I mean with David.
Speaker 2: Sure, he replays Michael Anthony in the band as the
bass player.
Speaker 1: Right. He was great. I thought he was fun.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed him, very gifted. Didn't quite command the stage
like Dave or Sammy, but he's a young guy.
Speaker 1: He's working on it.
Speaker 3: He was still getting out there and getting after it
for sure.
Speaker 2: After he was done, they played six songs, like you said,
three from the first album, three from the second. Then
we got Three Doors Down.
Speaker 1: What a fantastic show that was.
Speaker 2: First of all, they have great songs that are well
recognized people could sing to.
Speaker 1: Kryptonite is a banger, right, yeah, when I'm.
Speaker 3: Gone Citizen Soldier. There were a ton of great bites
that they did.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I thought the lead singer for Three Doors Down was
so likable from the stage. Absolutely, he would say things
like God, bless you my friends. You know, he kept
calling us his friends. Yeah, and it was a very
you know, they're playing rock music, but it's sort of
a country boy kind of feel to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean they're from Mississippi, tiny town in Mississippi, yep.
And I say they the original band and all went
to high school together. He wrote Ryptonite when he was
fifteen years old sitting in his classroom one day. Over
the years, the other band members that were with him,
and there were only two others. That's why they're three
doors down or not with the band anymore. Right, it's
just him. He's the originator, and he's the only one
that's still a lasting member of the band. And he's
a guy who's our age. He was wearing a trucker
cap and blue jeans and a T shirt and had long,
luxurious hair coming out of the back. I don't know
if it was a mullet or if it was real
long hair, because he kept that hat on the whole time.
He literally looked like a guy you might see at
a truck stop.
Speaker 2: He looked like a gas station attendant has headed big.
Speaker 4: He was on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't even like it. Hit it big like
he's looked like a just blue jeans T shirt guy. Yeah,
it a great time.
Speaker 2: Now I was going to make a comment on the
fact that Creed has made a public statement we're not
a Christian band. The lead singer for Three Doors Down,
Brad Arnold, he got up and gave a little mini
church service.
Speaker 3: When we talked about Creed, they wanted to specifically say
we're not a Christian band. He started talking, and it
was what I expected to be kind of the standard.
You know, you find it within yourself to do this.
They started playing Away from the Sun right and he
described it as one of his favorites and often his
actual favorite song because he kept coming back to it.
He started talking about how sometimes you feel like you're
not enough, and and social media makes you feel like
you're not enough, and friends and family make you feel
like you're not enough. And let me just tell you
that you're enough. Words come out of his mouth because
Jesus Christ gave his life for you. And I was like, whoa.
He flat out just said.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ in a non vain way. It was impressive
to hear. When he was talking about the song away
from the Sun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I looked at it and it spelled Sun on
the album, but it's almost like he was saying it's end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said that in those opening remarks when he
was talking about being away from the sun, he meant.
Speaker 1: It in the Jesus sense, that's right, scene of God's sense. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, he also encouraged us to vote. And this was
before the election.
Speaker 1: This was November two.
Speaker 3: He started off by saying, we got an important election
coming up. It doesn't matter who you vote for. And
then he's like, well, yeah, it does matter no matter
who you vote for.
Speaker 1: Get out there and vote.
Speaker 3: Get out there and vote, and then said a few
more words and said, God bless America.
Speaker 2: The dude was so likable, so friendly, it was warm.
Speaker 3: We cannot do this without you, and I cannot tell.
Speaker 1: You how much we appreciate you. We are so proud
to be out here with our brothers.
Speaker 3: Are Creed. That was to compare the two shows of
Three Doors Down and Creed. Creed was polished, yes, and
the Scott Stapp talked to the audience throughout that just
like Brad Arnold did. But Brad felt like he was connecting,
like he was a guy you could just sit down,
hang them, have a beard with, hang out with and
he'd be an easy going, friendly guy.
Speaker 2: I totally agree, and I enjoyed both performances, but Creed
was more of a performance.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: They were about to take a trip, join us on
this journey, and he's like, welcome my friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God bless you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He was very Mississippi, and Scott's staff was very Jim Morrison.
He's still doing that thing where he kind of half
squats and it's like you're taken a snapshot of him
in the middle of a hip thrust.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's still doing that.
Speaker 3: He's got platforms up there so he can jump up
and stand tall, thank goodness. Though not one time did
he open his arms wide open.
Speaker 2: I told you I would have eaten that stuff up
as sixteen, seventeen, eighteen year old. Yeah, I want to
take a journey. Let's take a journey. But I'm fifty
years old. I'm like, just play the songs, dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just a guy. What are you doing right now?
Speaker 3: Speaking of that, you told me we've got a guy
who's a big fan that actually was working security. Yeah,
the infamous Chicago show where people then the band because.
Speaker 1: It was such a bad show.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we talked about this story. In last week's episode.
Scott's staff went crazy and was so drunk or so
high he couldn't perform, roll around on the floor and slur.
In his words, the fans got really upset. One of
their money back. Our buddy, Sean Niehoff reached.
Speaker 1: Out to me.
Speaker 2: He's like, listen, I was working security guard of that
at that show, but it was more than just fans
really kind of wanting their money back. The fans were pissed,
and he's like, I thought they were gonna riot. Like,
it wasn't just fans wanting their money back. They were
coming at the security guards going, we demand our money back.
Speaker 1: Because Wow, that show got out of control.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Sean even said, he goes.
Speaker 2: I sing in a band.
Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't go up there.
Speaker 3: And see I've only heard him one hundred thousand times
on the radio this year.
Speaker 2: Sean was ready to step in and save the night Man.
But he did say that it was very nerve wracking.
That was like one of the only times the show
ever got kind of out of control.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, and thousands of fans angry coming
at you.
Speaker 1: That's terrifying.
Speaker 2: And he said that he still is a fan of Creed,
but it was sort of painful to watch the frustration
on Mark Damante's face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're better than this. What are we doing, Harry?
You know how embarrassing? Right?
Speaker 3: Well, that was not the show that we saw. What
we saw it was an incredible show. If you have
a chance to go watch that Creed show. If if
you get a chance, it is worth the money, worth
the money to see the two opening acts alone. But
then Creed, they put on a heck of a show. Pyrotechnics,
fantastic sound, fantastic performance. The guys were getting along splendidly,
putting their arms around each other like I didn't since
any animosity between Mark and Scott at all, and Brian
Marshall's back with a band playing with them.
Speaker 1: It was a great show.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the setlist real quick, because I think
they've played some songs that they haven't played in a
long time, and they played their hits.
Speaker 3: So what do you got for me on this spide
So the first song that they played was Bullets. Then
they played Freedom Fighter and that's the first time they've
played that song in twenty two years. The last time
they played it was New Year's Eve two thousand and
two before their first breakup. Right, it was the first
time they played that song with Brian Marshall because they
had let Brian. I don't even think I mentioned this
story on our Creed episode, but Brian had gone on
some show and said Eddie Vedder wishes he could write
songs as well as Scott's Stapcan and they were like, dude,
what are you saying. Within a short amount of time
he was out of the band, but he is back
with them on this show. He played on Freedom Fighter,
which that came out with later. Then song number three
is Torn, then title of the tour are you Ready?
Then beautiful, and then the show really got cooking at
song number six, My Own Prison. Yeah, I mean it
went from good to great at that point and the
crowd went from grooven to pumping their fists.
Speaker 2: It was fantast and his voice travels like he's not
Vince Neil, I mean his voice he sounded like the CD.
Speaker 1: He didn't.
Speaker 3: You could tell that there was no autotuning going on
with any of the guys on the stage, no big
effects even they didn't have a lot of echo or
anything else to kind of cover bad singing. And Scott
Stapp's voice was like you said, like you're listening to
a CD.
Speaker 1: It was really really good. After that, they played what
If Well.
Speaker 3: They started that song by Mark TREMONTI got out there
and he's like, Okay, I see you guys are pumping up.
I just got to tell you this next song, I
want you to be even more pumped than you've been
the whole show. We got people all over the arena
tonight looking to find out who is the most pumped
up fan out there jamm into this song, and then
they played the song and at the end they gave
away a guitar to the most pumped.
Speaker 2: Fan, and the most pumped fan was a little kid
on their dad's shoulders, and they talked about how I
don't want to give this guitar and change your life
maybe you.
Speaker 3: Know justice Yeah, got her up on the stage. She
had been on her dad's shoulders, just going crazy, and
I'm guessing she was six or seven. She was a
little good. It was really cool, and they gave her
that guitar and she didn't have any fear of talking
to several tens of thousands.
Speaker 1: Of years up on stage.
Speaker 3: Here you go and it was very very sweet, very sweet.
After that, and they did Rain.
Speaker 2: That was one of their more recent songs. We didn't
cover that, but.
Speaker 3: Right, yes that was twelve full Circle. I think that's right.
And then they did one. Absolutely loved their performance of one.
They did What's this Life for? They start leaning heavy
into their biggest hits they do with arms wide open,
and then they close the show with Higher, and they
basically finish Higher walk off the stage and I turned
and looked at you and I was like, yeah, they
ain't done, and you were like, oh, yeah, they haven't
done Sacrifice or one last breath. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah,
they're gonna come back. Nobody was fooled. Nobody thought it
was the end of the show. Everybody did the appropriate thing,
started cheering loud. Sure enough, they came right back out
and gave us the encore.
Speaker 1: We want it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I told you, I don't know why he
did this. I think it's because maybe he's been criticized
or made fun of when he was singing with arms
wide open. I mean, it's one of their biggest hits.
It was a number one song, a huge song. Instead
of singing with arms wide old Bahn like he.
Speaker 1: Says on the CD, Yeah, he leaned real.
Speaker 2: Heavily into with arms wide old Ben. Every time you
did it, it just hit me funny, you know, guy
didn't pick up that. Yeah, it bugged me. But the
song was beautiful and it was great. And then from
that point for they blew the top off with Higher
That's the song everybody had been waiting. Then they come
back to the stage, of course, and you start playing
the entry part to One Less Breath and people going bonkers.
It's a slow song. People know the words, and he's encouraged, Hey,
sing along, let's do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole place is singing. One Last Breath.
Speaker 3: Makes the hair on the back of your next stand up,
It really does.
Speaker 1: It's so great. It's so great.
Speaker 2: Then they blast us with My Sacrifice, and the whole
place is singing My Sacrifice. You got the waterfall of
sparks coming behind.
Speaker 1: Him and it just blew socks off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they closed out the show with My Sacrifice. Mike
dropped moment.
Speaker 1: It was great. Yeah. The band was on point.
Speaker 3: Scott's voice was on point, Mark Tremonti's guitar was on point,
the sound design was on point, so that it sounded great.
I mean we were in not a fantastic area. I mean,
it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't. I mean it was
anywhere if you sat in that place, you were going
to hear some good music for sure. It was very
well set up and very well performed. Yeah, so let
me tell you tour dates. This episode is coming out
on Tuesday. They started in Oklahoma City. They've already hit
Little Rock, Kansas City, Nashville, Biloxi, Mississippi, Corpus Christi, and
Fort Worth tonight November fifteenth, and they're playing in Austin, Texas,
and then tomorrow night they're going to be in Bowisier City.
We're gonna have to hit James up and see if
he can.
Speaker 1: Go to that show. I'm a shime of texts.
Speaker 3: My guess is Hidden Tracks is probably already playing, or
he'd be there right. If you are in any of
these places in the next two months, definitely go check
them out. On November nineteenth in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Twentieth
is Detroit, Michigan, twenty second is Cleveland, Ohio, twenty third
is Baltimore, Maryland, twenty fifth is Montreal, twenty seventh is Toronto,
twenty ninth is New York, thirtieth is banger Maine. In
December on the second, Allentown on the fourth with Atlanta, Georgia,
and on the fifth they go to Orlando, Florida. I'm
pretty sure they've got one final show in Las Vegast
to close out the tour. My guess is it's going
to be a New Year's even.
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve in Las Vegas watching Creed. That'd be
a fun night.
Speaker 1: Heck yeah, Wood, Heck yeah Wood.
Speaker 3: So guys, obviously, Jason and I highly recommend the show.
All bands fantastic, Go see them. Maybe they can change
your minds about the quality of Creed on my are
they worth the hate? They've they to cut down a
few notches for me. They're playing some incredible music out there,
and Scott has got it back together again.
Speaker 2: Definitely worth seeing them live. Pay the extra one hundred
and two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: And go see live. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, guys, thanks so much. We will be
back next week with our Tarantino double feature of True
Romance and Natural Born Killers.
Speaker 1: We'll see you guys then. Thanks guys,