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Speaker 1: Lo, Las Vegas, Hello world, and hello, my loyal minions.
It is good to see you, and it's always good
to be seen. I am is he Presley. I'm the
host of the program, and it is called another f
and Podcast. Yes, it's been a little while. I'm sorry. Hey, man,
life gets in the way of shit. But uh, like
I said last time, we're gonna keep rolling. I ain't
going away. I'm sure a few of you might wish
that would happen, but hey, I ain't going anywhere. Motherfucker's
so cheers, welcome and uh the words of my close
personal friends, don't call Steve Austin Brack going for the
working man. Ah yeah, God that Micheltt Golden Light is delicious.
Have a glorious program for you today. My good friend,
the one and only Richie Kottson will be joining me momentarily.
We had a great conversation that you guys are going
to thoroughly enjoy. And if you're hoping he's talking about
poison and mister Big and playing without picks, say at
the interview for you, because we actually talk about other
stuff like his brand new record, Nomad, that comes out
on the twenty seventh, his tour that he is on
right now, which I just saw Saturday night. Was it Saturday?
I think it was Saturday, Counts a vamped. I got
dressed up. I got all dapper, because you know, yeah,
always dress up when you go to church. The show
was phenomenal as always, and very excited for you guys
to hear the record. I think you are going to
thoroughly enjoy it. I think you're gonna thoroughly end joy
The interview is Oh my god, I almost forgot hold tight.
Bear with me, folks.
Speaker 4: The book is out.
Speaker 1: Did I write this book?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Did I contribute to this book? Your goddamn right idea.
Raise your glasses from the good fine folks over at
the shouted out loud cast Zeus and Tom and my
good friend Joey Casata, the reason that I got to
meet Peter Chris. Yes, they were all part of this
bad Boy, along with a lot of my friends, a
lot of people in the industry that I know. Bruce
Cullick wrote the foreword. Close personal friend Sid Harmon. I
always got to do that for in the honor of
the great, said Harmon. But yeah, it's great, man, it's fun.
It's fun. Now, basically what this book is this fine
piece of paper, many pieces of paper. Basically we're just
talking about the kiss songs. They go through every record
and there's a whole bunch of us commenting on the
songs on the record. I think I did eight or
ten or thirteen of them, something like that. It's a
lot of fun.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 1: Check it out. Getting on Amazon, and in a couple
of weeks Tomas Zeus will be on the show to
talk about it. Hopefully Joey too if that all works out.
My appearance is If you were wondering where I Am
going to be October thirtieth, Soundcheck Live is back Hollywood, California.
Baby will be the one hundredth show. I do not
know who is playing yet, they haven't announced anything like that.
I just know it is happening at Lucky Strike on
Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood in Highland. Come on down and check
it out if you are in the area. And also
October eighteenth, the day before my birthday. Yes, the act
yearly Izzy's Birthday show is happening here in beautiful Las
Vegas at my favorite rock bar, Counts Vamped. Open enough
for my good friends. Enough's enough. It's going to be
a great night. If you were looking for a reason
to come to Vegas, that is an excellent reason to
come to Vegas. Come on down, have some drinks, support
and enjoy the coolest rock bar in the country. Counts
Vamped love that place. So yeah, there's that. And what
else do we got? I think that's all we got
On the books right now. But oh possibly might be
making appearance doing something at this guitar show which is
going to be happening in Las Vegas November eighth, ninth,
and tenth. So if you're a musician, I want to
check out a brand new guitar NAM type show, except
not as cluster fucky and big as NAM. As much
as I enjoy going to NAM. Don't get me wrong,
It's gonna be cool. It's gonna be a lot better
if you don't like a ton of people. And I
don't mean that as in there's not gonna be anybody there.
I mean that is in you know what it's like
walking through NAM. Freaking huge, multiple buildings, multiple levels, drum world,
just loud. So this is cool. I'm excited about this
and it's right in my backyard. I don't have to
drive to Anna. I'm for it. So that should be
pretty sweet. And hopefully get some stand up dates in
here soon. Should probably start working on that. Might be
a good thing, and coming up on the show I
will have now now now Brian Slagel will be on soon.
I'm gonna get that figured out. Might do that straight
from the Metal Blade Records Museum. Why not. We have it.
I work there every once in a while. Why not
do it there? It's pretty cool if you're coming to Vegas.
That is a cool thing to check out. If you
were into hard rock and heavy metal music, very very cool.
Metal Blade dot com, Slash Museum, and uh, Mike Varney's
gonna be coming up at some point as well. So yeah,
we ain't going away, We ain't going anywhere, but without
further ado, my good friend Richie Cottson will be joining.
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It'll be in here in the description right down there,
you know that thing with all of Richie's links, all
of my links like seven after seven Avenue, Pizza, Soda Stick,
lots of great stuff. As long as you enjoy the show,
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show and do want to help out, contribute PayPal. Is
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is down there too, head all that stuff up. And
there's rumblings that maybe under the covers might be returning
to the airwaves. Ain't gonna tell you where, He's gonna
tell you how because there ain't no deal in place,
but there's a chance it could be happening. And if
you are gonna come out here for my birthday, my
birthday show October eighteenth, come out a day early because
Adam Carolla will be at Jimmy Kimmel's and I will
be there October seventeenth, Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club Adam Corolla
seven thirty and nine thirty shows, just like he does
every single month. All right, folks, that's enough of me.
Let's go to church. Let's talk to Richard, Richie Cottson, everybody,
all right, and we are back and joining me for
the first time in a long time. Actually, I think
it's the first time since Smith's caught the Smith cottson
record Richie and is back on the show. He has
a brand new record, it's called Nomad, which is coming
out September twenty seventh. Currently on tour as we speak.
I just saw the show here in Vegas and it
was glorious as always. How are you doing today, Richie?
Speaker 4: I'm good. I mean Colorado springs in a hotel room
on a day off.
Speaker 1: What does your day off entail? What do you like
to do on your days off on the road?
Speaker 4: It depends on where I am. You know. Sometimes if
I am up for it, we go walking, you know,
try to get some steps in. And it seems that
happens more often in the European tours that I do.
Here it doesn't look like it'd be a great walking
opportunity because there's a highway right there, risky, right, But
you know, catch up on stuff, you know, I kind
of run a lot of aspects of what I do myself.
So I have work, you know, email type stuff and
you know, numbers and that sort of stuff, keeping track
of things, and so I stay busy. You know, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. And of course you get your
time for your football, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't really been paying attention to sports very much.
You know. I did watch the Eagles. That was a
good game for me, at least, not so much for
the other team. But uh, yeah, I haven't really been
watching a lot of it. Sounds crazy to say. Ever
since Kobe died, I kind of lost interest in it.
I don't know, I don't know. It's just weird. It
just took so much wind out of my sales that
I just don't really pay attention.
Speaker 1: It doesn't well, you see, now you just got to
turn to the dark side and come watch hockey.
Speaker 4: Maybe, yeah, maybe I have to go to a hockey game.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's funny. When my daughter was learning how to figure skate,
I used to take her to the rink in Burbank.
I think he used to live there, didn't you. Yeah,
but yeah, I used to take to the rink there,
and I bought a pair of hockey skates, and you know,
I got to the point where I go around pretty
quick without falling down. You know, I wouldn't just try
to play the game, right right, I see the appeal
of being on the ice for sure.
Speaker 1: Did you so you didn't skate as a kid.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I mean rollerskate, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh yeah, to Zana do of course. First of all,
congratulations on the record deal. When's the last time that
you had a record deal? Because you've been putting everything
out about yourself pretty much, haven't you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Smith Cottson record came out on BMG, and yeah,
the first Winery Dog record was on the first two
records were on a label. But my stuff, I've been
doing my own for a long time. I haven't done
a deal on my own for a very long time.
So there's probably fourteen or fifteen records out there that
I own outright, which is good for me. Uh, you know,
I I like it. I like those records being like that.
But this time around, the record was done, no mad
was finished, and I actually had started the process to
print vinyl because I wanted it in time for this
tour that I'm doing now. And uh and then no,
sooner that I put the order in, they said, hey,
you know, we'd be interested in partner you know, partnering
up with you and doing this, and so that's what happened,
and so it's great. What was really cool is that
the record is the record I would have made under
any circumstance, you know, because I think, I honestly think
that if I would have known that I was putting
a record out on a major label somewhere back here,
maybe I would have had that in my mind, you know,
which is not really what I want to have in
my mind. You know. I like the idea of just
the music this comes out, and so that this is
like the best of both worlds because I made the
record that I really would have made under any circumstance,
and and but I have the luxury of having a
label helped me get the music heard. So it's it's great.
It's the best of both.
Speaker 1: And you, I mean you you obviously do everything yourself
and you produce it yourself. Is there, when's the last
time you worked with the producer? And what do you
miss having any elements of working with the producer?
Speaker 4: Naturally that I'm doing this this interview, people start emailing me.
So you know, I've had good experiences and then I've
had frustrating experiences.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: The great experiences was working with Richie Zito, and he
and I are great friends, and we've done on three
albums together and it's great working with him. And you know,
the reality is is that the way I do music.
I hate saying it like this because it sounds different
than how I mean it, probably, but I do it
for myself. You know, I'm doing this because you know,
I have ideas and I want to hear what they
sound like coming out of the speakers. And I love
the process of getting what's in my head to come
out of the speakers, and I know how to do that.
I have the skill set that I've developed over the
years so that I can go into a studio alone
and come out with a sound recording that sounds like
what I envisioned. And so that's what I love doing.
And then from there, if it's something that I feel
is appropriate to share, I can release it in the
form of an album. So the idea of going in
with someone else, it doesn't even it's not that I
refuse it, it just it doesn't come into that equation.
It doesn't. It doesn't. It's not part of, you know,
of my thought process. It wouldn't make sense to me.
Now having said that, you know, the idea of having
someone that could be there to help do some of
the lifting. It could be cool down the road if
that person had the same vision as you. But it's
just such that the way that I that I do
this and for for the reasons that I do it.
That's the bigger thing, because you know, if you're working
with someone else, you're going to have a different end game.
You're going to have their desires and creative fantasies and
you're going to have yours. And then you know, you
might even get to a position where you discuss an
outcome as a goal. So I don't have any of that.
I just have the basic I have this idea, let
me see if I can bring it to life, and
then I do it, and I feel really really high
from that, you know, very I feel great from that.
And so that's like my little personal thing and it's
just how I work.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, is it difficult for you,
like when you do the Smith cottson or you do
the Winery Dogs, is it difficult for you to have
other inputs on what you're writing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course it is. But at the same time
I go into it aware of that's what this is,
and this is me participating in a collaboration. So it
actually is about this sort of group contribution. So I
adjust my mindset accordingly, and in that situation, you know,
I realize that, well, maybe there's something that I don't
really love that i'll accept, because maybe there's something that
someone else might not really love and they'll accept, and
maybe in that give and take something unique might happen
and something special might come out of it. So it's
not going to be my little baby, my little you know,
I don't use the word little to be diminutive about it.
But it's not going to be, you know, my vision.
It's going to be our vision, and I've agreed to
participate on that level. So sometimes, to answer your question, yes,
it's extraordinarily challenging because you may have something that you're
feeling instinctively that this is right, and somebody else, for
whatever the reason is, their own reason, may be like, well,
I don't really I don't feel comfortable, you know, So
you have to learn how to be in it. Now.
If I was me, which I am, and I had
to live in that environment permanently, I could, I wouldn't last.
But I can do it. As a point of no,
I'm doing this now for this reason because I want
to do it. I like the idea in this circumstance
of creating together and making something different that I wouldn't
have done if I was alone.
Speaker 1: Right, right, right? So, I mean what that said is
having projects like the Winery Dogs and Smith cottson is
it is it helpful for you to have those side
things going to concentrate on that and then go back
to the solo stuff.
Speaker 4: Not really, No, it's not helpful. It's just what happened.
And I mean, so nothing diminish anything or put anything
else as a priority. But when the Winery Dogs formed,
in my mind, I thought, oh, this is going to
be really cool to make an album with these guys,
and I was curious to see what we would do. However,
I wasn't like that was how I was looking at it.
But reality from other people's perspective was it was being
looked at as like a band, like an ongoing this No,
this is the future. And to me, I was just like, well,
this is a moment, and I thought, this is a moment.
Let's see what we do creative moment, and then I'm
going to go back to doing whatever it was I
was doing before. And what happened was is that it
came out. It was really well received, and so there
was a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of excitement,
which changed my perspective of it, and I thought, well, shit,
this is actually a lot of fun. I like this.
People seem to like it, you know, and so let's
do another album. So we did it, you know, we
made two albums and then from there it kind of
became more of a band thing. And I remember back
then the question was constantly, oh is it a band?
Is it not a band? And in my mind, I
just that was always a ridiculous question because my answer was,
what you're looking at it, you're listening to it. What
kind of stupid question are you asking? You know, you
know what I mean. It's like it's like, after biting
it into an apple, is there an apple around? Is
this an apple? Yeah? I just didn't make sense to me.
But then after that it became, you know, for me,
it's like I need to go back to doing what
I was doing before I missed myself, you know, I
missed my alone time and whatever. So and the thing
with Smiths coonsin it's very, very, very different because that
is just two singing guitar players getting together making some music.
It's not even it's not even a band. It's just
me and him getting together right in and playing and
let's see what happens, you know. So and it's all
good stuff, but none of it gets into this like
conf There's no confusion for me because at the core
of it, I've always been doing my own thing since
nineteen eighty nine, and that's that's how I've defined myself.
So I don't it's not a it's a thing for
people to look on the outside and say, oh, I
can point and say, well, he made that record, but
these guys he did this, that, this, that. But the
reality is for me, you know, I'm Richie Kottson, the
guy that writes songs and sings them and records them
and puts them out on albums. You know, it's that
simple for me. You know.
Speaker 1: We know when you were writing the Nomad record, it's
only eight songs, which which I love. It's like going
back to the old school of not having fifty songs
on an album. Joking of course, but but you know
it fits perfectly on vinyl. Was the was that The
original thought is I want to keep it like that,
just sort I can put it out on Vinyl.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, you know it was because what was what
happened was I got into a mode where I was
feeling like, you know, you're you're in the process of
making your album. I realized that, and then I thought
to myself, well, when I was a youngster, of the
albums I liked had eight songs on, you know, and
I made a list of like ten or fifteen albums,
I had eight songs and it was Vinyl, and it
was sideay, side B. And once I started formulating, I
have little pieces of paper around where I had like
some of the song titles and then some working titles,
and I was actually started sequencing, which I never did ever, ever, ever,
ever before, you know, but I had the ideas of
the songs, so I knew what was going to be
on the album, and I knew Nomad would close Siday,
and I knew Nihilis would end the record that I knew,
and I knew cheap Shots would open it. So then
I started looking at it as side ay and side
B and figuring out what would make sense, what songs
should I finish and where would it live? And so
that's really you know, you were very intuitive asking that
question because that's that's right. That's how I did look
at it.
Speaker 1: When you were writing for this record, and when we
talked after the show here in Vegas here, I told
you I have thoughts, and a couple of the thoughts
are there's some very roggy jazzy stuff on there. It's
my ear, yeah, and you, I just I don't think
i've ever heard you go down that kind of road.
Is that fresh for you or is that just something
that happened to me? How did that, the proggy jazzy
stuff come about.
Speaker 4: Well, it's been there on other albums. I mean, if
you listen, there's two albums I did with Greg Howe
that's full of that stuff. There's Intergalactic Fusion album that
I did. It's a solo record I did with Greg
Bissonette and Jeff Berlin. It's loaded with all tons of
odd time and polyrhythmic stuff. Actually where you know, the
drums are in five, the guitar riffs in seven, and
they're kind of meeting up every so many measures so
and and the first record I remember when I wrote
some of that stuff. Steve Smith was the drummer and
he was like, I don't know how to transcribe this
because it's just abstract unto itself, you know, so that
stuff has always been there, but you know, for years,
I really ignored a lot of that aspect and kind
of went towards the more vocal, singing driven stuff and
and I kind of abandoned a lot of that side
of what I do. And then I wrote the song
Nihilist and because I really wanted to break away from
the traditional middle solo section that typically you solo over
a chorus or a verse or you know, a simple
chord change, and so I just kind of went for
something different. And then I wrote the song Nomad after that,
and I thought, well, I'm not I'm not soloing over
you know, C sharp minor to a forget as I'm
bored with that, you know, I wanted to create something
that was different. So that's what you're hearing when you're
to your ear. You're calling it more of a jazzy thing,
which it makes sense, but that's where that came from.
And I also noticed that I get a lot of
pleasure out of playing with a cleaner guitar tone even live,
you know, when we have solo sections, I really look
forward to where I can kind of get quiet and
get away from some of the bombastic heavy. You know,
I'm kind of what I have tonight it's really bad.
Maybe that's part of it. There's something about like a
distorted guitar after a while can be nerve wracking, you know,
for me, So I'm really loving the ability to get
to clean it up.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you It's always like you got
some guitar players like it's just it doesn't stop. Then
there's guys like Randy Roads and Eddie Van Halen's like
they were tasty. They knew when to go and they
knew when to hold back. And I've noticed that with you.
You you know when to go and you know when
to hold back. How long did it take you to
kind of learn that feel?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm yeah? Do you know what you're saying?
I mean, I don't know that I would say that
about Ingvey because every time I hear him play, I'm
always very impressed with what he does and his phrasing
and his feel I think are impeccable. But I would
say that for me, when I got into that, it's
when I started taking singing more seriously. It changed my
guitar playing, and that probably happened maybe in my late teens,
probably around the time I turned from nineteen to twenty
years old. Around there, I started really taking singing more seriously,
and I did my second record where I was singing.
It changed my guitar playing for the better. Everything started
to make more sense. I felt more connected. My phrasing
was more related to something that was you know, that
in my mind that I could sing, you know, even
though I still play a lot of notes obviously, but yeah,
right now, but you know, yeah, that's when that happened.
Speaker 1: Uh when did you start writing this record? Because I
mean obviously you had the fifty for fifty for your
fiftieth birthday, and then then you had the smith Cotson
and you had another Winery Dogs record. Uh, so when
when did you start working on this?
Speaker 4: Well, Smith Cotson was pretty much done by the time
I turned fifty, correctly, Yeah, yeah, because yeah, I think
I feel like it must have been pretty much stuck
because now, yeah, in March it was finished in smith
Cotson was done in March of twenty twenty. That's when
the final stamp was Because I remember talking to Adrian
about the pandemic and asking him where they were going,
so h that was done, and then it was you know,
we got locked up. Yeah, and then and then and
then I went on and did some writing with Billy
and Mike for the Winery Dogs, so that was created.
I think we had two writing sessions. Had to have
been twenty one. You know, I don't you know, I
don't follow this timeline stuff. But to answer your question,
Nihilis was written a few years ago, and then Nomad
was written shortly after. So those two songs have been
around for a couple of years waiting for the right opportunity.
Cheap Shots was written this year. This is a test.
Insomnia on the Table was written this year, and no,
not on the table, Insomnia these doors, that's what I
meant to say. And then On the Table was halfway
written about a year ago and I never finished it,
and then I went back for the art k ives,
found it incomplete and finished it this year. That's the That's.
Speaker 1: So, was there a point where you're like, Okay, I'm
gonna sit down and write a record or was it
just fuck it, I'm inspired, I got to write a
song and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, so you know I had the Nihilist song
and Nomad Dunn wanting to release it. Not sure how
didn't think they were singles that would that would advance
my tour singles as part of an album. Sure, but
the first thing anyone heard from me after the Winery Dogs.
For whatever reason, I thought they would be better suited
to be on an album and be revealed in context
of a record mark. So there I'm thinking in terms
outside of being the pure recording artist sou But when
I when I wrote cheap Shots, I thought, Okay, I'm
gonna put this out as a single, and I did
to advance my European and then somewhere in there, while
I was home, I went back and listened to Nihilist
again and No Man, and then I started getting a
little creative and writing some of the other songs I mentioned.
And then I realized, sometime like in March, oh, you
might have a record. So I started working towards that
eight song album, which is how I got to where
we are.
Speaker 1: Right right and you are on tour right now. It's
like you said, you're in Colorado Springs. You have a
new drummer, Kyle Hughes, and ironic I met him six
or seven years ago. He had just moved to La
I went to a diner in North Hollywood, late night
thing all of a sudden happened and Harry shows up
with a seventeen year old kid from Britain who turns
out to be Kyle Hughes. How did Kyle come into
your life?
Speaker 4: Through Dylan my bass player, Darren Wilson, And so originally
my friend Dan for true was gonna do the European
tour and he had the dates conflicted with some family plans,
and so obviously, you know, the reality is I need
a person once I start a cycle. You know, I
don't want to switch switch it's exhausting. First of all,
I hate rehearsing, you know, my worst nightmare, and then
that check is right under it. So Kyle was available
and he came in. He knew all the music and
so he's on board for this album cycle for this
year and he's doing a great job.
Speaker 5: Yeah and uh, and like you said, he's young, and
he he's got the great attitude and he's a great musician,
great player, sings.
Speaker 4: So it's been a lot of fun. We have a
good time in the row.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what matters. Having fun, because if
it starts to feel like a job, then it's not
as fun anymore.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, well look I mean yeah, I mean I'm
not out here to have fun. I mean I can
have more fun staying at home, right doing a one off,
you know, at the cat and club. But you know,
you gotta you gotta be able to get along. I mean,
first and foremost is the music. The music has to
be right. But you know, you are out here, you're
living on a bus together, and you know it can
get it can become a grind, an unpleasant grind. And Luckily,
every time I've done these tours with my solo band,
it's always been fun and we kind of always operate
like this little kind of family, you know, enjoying time,
and this one is no exception. I mean, we three
of us get along great, and it's just a simple, fun,
easy going vibe. So it is fun.
Speaker 1: Do you like the bus tour as uh? Do you
for the bus tour? Or do you like the fly in?
Speaker 4: I hate flying. I hate it, hate it. I don't
like anything about it. I like anything about the airport.
I don't like anything about being on an airplane, unless
maybe I was flying it I wanted to get I was.
I was all set to go take flying lessons, and
my wife like went berserk, and I mean honestly, I
mean she got so great and so like, I would
look outside above our house and the little plants. He said,
that could be me. I'd be flying by now, yea,
and so so I would. I teased her, and I said,
you know, because she sleeps later than me and I
get up really early. And so I said, you know,
I had the conversation. I said, whatever, I said, I've
been I've been up three times now. She's like, what
do you mean I could have Santa Monica and I've
already been flying. I mean, I haven't the guy with me,
you know, but I flew over the house twice and
she's getting crazy, like you know, really really never really
had her mad, you know. It's funny. Yeah, but no,
I love the bus. I love it because I get
on there, I take the back lounge and make it
a bedroom.
Speaker 3: And uh, I.
Speaker 4: Actually get aggravated when we get to the hotel and
I gotta get off really because I gotta gather my things.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that makes sense. I was just kind of
curious because I know how expensive it is now, especially
do do the bus thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is expensive, but I mean, you know, it's
the way it is. I mean it's funny because everything,
everything costs more, but I'm not getting paid more. Guarantees
is still pretty much what they are. But you know,
I'm able to do it, so I do it.
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about because I know you're good
friends with you know? Have you and have you two
ever talked about working together?
Speaker 4: We did? We we did? Okay, Yeah, we wrote after
that one cruise. There was a cruise we were on,
and then he came out to my house a few
times and we had a few things that we never finished.
But there was one thing I played him a song.
I wrote a song called Forever. It's a pretty cool
hook line in the chorus and I had it's been
around for a while. And this is before fifty for
fifty and so we wrote a couple of things and
then and this is actually before Smith cottson and then
we he heard this song and he said, oh, I
got an idea for this. So he took my verse
and replaced it with something that he wrote and it
was pretty cool. And so that song exists. And then,
for whatever reason, we never released it. You know, time
went by and you know, I didn't put it on
fifty for fifty, so it's sitting there. I don't know
if it'll ever see the light of day, but you know,
it exists.
Speaker 1: Never know, Do you do you want to put it
out though? I mean it sounds like something that people
would love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, i'd put it out. Yeah, I mean there's
something I'm thinking about right now, obviously my own album,
but yeah, i'd love to put it out. I'm sure
we will at some point. I mean, obviously they just
put out a record that was really well received, and yeah,
I'm sure we'll put something out.
Speaker 1: So what what do you got coming up on those
after If you looked past the tour, what do you
what do you got on the back burner? I mean
I thought I saw something that you were writing with
Adrian again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think people are going to be pleasantly
surprised folks that are into that first album that we're
going to be coming with something, you know. Uh so
that'll be announced as the as we get close towards it,
you know, and some cool stuff going on there. No
Mad comes out next week or the twenty seventh I
guess right week right, and we're gonna have a couple
more videos. I did a video for the song No Mad.
Have you heard the whole record? You heard it?
Speaker 1: Yes? Actually I listened to it again twice this afternoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I did a video clip for No Mad. That's
you know, it's pretty cool. And then I did another
video clip for this is a Test, which is the
acoustic song.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love that song, and and my dog Rusty is
sitting next to me throughout the whole video. It's pretty funny.
Nice move. Yeah, yes, that's cool.
Speaker 1: And I do like the cover. You kind of stole
my selfie pose.
Speaker 4: I know, I h h yeah, that's how that's in
my yard. That's you know, that's what I see every
morning when I wake up. So it's not too bad.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that, Richie. I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: It's always good to see you. Always good to talk
to you, and good luck out on the road and
hopefully talk to you soon.
Speaker 4: Awesome brother, talk to you later, all.
Speaker 1: Right, see buddy, Oh, ladies and gentlemen, there he goes,
Richie Effin Cotson. What more can you say? Check out
the brand new record No Man, that is out twenty
seventh of this great month of September. Catch him out
on tour. If he is coming to your town and
coming to your area where your communities you've never seen
Richie live, you will absolutely be Lord and October seventeenth,
Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimme Alive. October eighteenth, Akatridden Taste really
my man opening up her Enough's up on My birthday show,
because my birthday is the nineteenth. Come out to Vegas,
have some fun. That is what it is all about.
October thirtieth, Hollywood, Hollywood and Highland Lucky Strike Live sound
Check Live, one hundred one hundred show. It's gonna be great,
be a Halloween party. I don't know what I'm gonna
wear yet, but I got some time to think about
that and hopefully see you guys next week.
Speaker 3: And check it out.
Speaker 1: Raise your glasses. Oh yeah, I forgot what I lack
in talent. I make up for a cock