August 30, 2023 • 38 mins
Long-time pals, Eric and Mac talk about bombing as a musician. Mac discusses his most epic fail of all time which involves being in a gargoyle stance on an amp. Plus, they reminisce about their time at Coachella 2015 and how it has evolved over the years. A word of caution to this episode: don't drink too many gin martinis.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Bombing with Eric Andre, the podcast where I
talk with friends, comedians, musicians, and other creative people about
their worst moments on stage and getting shot on by
a live audience. And we have our first musician on
the show. I talked to my good pal Mac DeMarco.
Crazy talented. He's toured all over the world and shared
his music amongst endless fans like passing out pieces and
(00:21):
freaking out the neighborhood. Let's time to this conversation about
his life on the road and what wild shit he's
scene on stage. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast
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(00:47):
Eric Andre. So what's the worst you've ever bombed?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I have a list with are there's some you know?
I was thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The three questions I asked every guest what's the worst
ever bombed on stage? What's the worst bomb you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I once saw cap Power live and she ripped their
piano and a half or whatever it is. I just
made that story up. So what's the worst you've ever bob?
What's the worst bomb you've ever seen? And what is
the most wasted you've ever been on stage? You know?
I had one guest on whose answer to that last
question was on stage with Mac DeMarco, was really, yeah,
(01:21):
DJ DJ Doug Pound, Oh yeah, that's the most waste
you've been on stage? You had like the little beer
section or something you'd.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Have people see it's called the bestro table. You sit
people on stage and get them wasted. He doesn't drink
that much, he said. He got hammered out of his
mind and then out of nowhere. You were like, Doug,
why don't you get on the drums and play through
this next? And he was like he's not a drummer.
He rarely drinks.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And he was like annihilated in front of a fucking
arena of billions of fans. Just yeah, fucking you're years ago,
but you were like you were, You're happy as a clam.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's I mean, you know, it's like I don't. It's
funny because yeah, probably my worst bomb and the drunks
I've ever been those might be the same story.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
We'll tell us a tell.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
There's like so many times I was thinking about it too,
because it's like, you know, I think about what it
means to bomb in comedy versus music, and it's like
I feel like there's a difference where, you know, like
in music, I feel like there's a soft bomb, like
if you play a song that the crowd doesn't really
know or they don't really care, you play it and
they're like okay, right, and it's like that's kind of bombing.
(02:29):
But then there's like the kind of you know, then
there's like some of these stories that I'll tell you
here where it's like savagely something savage happens and everyone's
kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Like what it's like, yeah, yeah, like like when Prince
used to open up for the Rolling Stones and people
would throw bottles.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, that would be like got off that stage. And
then with you know, I don't know, comedy, it's like
you such, it's like such a closer connection or it's
like a more intimate connection, I think, or like I
don't know, person, I don't know, it depends, but let's see.
I have a little list here. I was thinking the
there was one instance we played at we were doing
I think three nights at the Teargram Ballroom just downtown
(03:06):
in LA And the first night, I don't really know
why it happened. I don't know what happened, but I
got like really really really drunk on stage and I
was in a bit of a mood. Sometimes you get
into mood, you know, I write these songs that mean
something to me. You know, it's like sometimes you get
you get emotional, which I think, I think those are
(03:27):
the best kinds of show. Like, here's the thing too
about this show is like some of my friends will
be like Jesus Christ, like what was that? And then
other other friends will be like that was the most
the best show I've ever seen you do. But I
guess essentially what happened we I think we kind of
stumbled through most of the set, and then we got
to this point where we were kind of jamming up there,
and I had taken my shirt off and I was
(03:51):
kind of crouched like a gargoyle on top of my amp,
like staring out at the audience, and I had I
had made everybody sit down, and they were all sitting down,
and for a long time, I would I was turned
and the bestro table was right there, like we were
talking about with Doug Pound. But I was turned around
for a while and I had the microphone in my mouth,
like the whole bulb of it, and I was just
screaming and screaming into it. And then I turned around.
(04:11):
Kids would try to get up and I'd be like,
it's not like fucked like And at one point I
put a cigarette out on my chest. Yeah, the scar
is here. If you can see that, that little white patch,
the scar is there. Yeah, but I put this smoke
out of my chest like fully pushed in, which I
had never done before. It really hurts. I mean I
didn't really feel at the time. Next day was horrible,
(04:33):
but Drigger whiskey, Yeah, Jamison used to be my weapon
of choice. But there was all of that, and I
remember just and it was getting to the point where
it was kind of like the music wasn't even sounding
like music anymore. People had been sitting on the ground
for a long time. It was just confusing. And then
my mom and my mom wasn't there, and I'll get
to that, but there was one girl in the middle
of the crowd and she I remember she stood up
(04:56):
and everyone uls was on the ground it's probably you know,
like six hundred person venue or something like. You know,
she stood up and she was weeping, and she just
spent what the fuck are you doing? Bag?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And then.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, deeply, deeply disturbed.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She wanted she wanted some nice tunes. You were like,
g it was.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It was so brutal and yeah, and then the next
you know, the show finished, we went home. I remember
getting a call from my mom in the morning that
I was being like, is everything all right, sweetheart? Like
it had made the rounds of the internet, like Mac
played a real raw one last night.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know, it's just okay, O, no are concerned for you?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, exactly. But then the show we did the next
night there was great, so you know, it was redeemed,
I guess. But I remember pulling up to the venue
that like the next day, because it's a residency, it's
not even like we did this insane thing and we
can just leave town. It's like nope, coming back the
next night, pulling in and one of the guys that
worked at the venue is like, pretty interesting show last night, man.
I was like, yeah, yeah, pretty weird, and he just
(06:02):
went prett embarrassing and I went.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh, really, he said that to you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
That's rude. I mean, you know, whatever would.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He say that to the fucking artist that has a residency.
What are you gonna do? Keep that tearsself, I don't
agree with that guy. That's fucking passive aggressive. That'n't even
passive agresses. That's aggressive.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, I guess so, But you know what, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm sensitive to that kind of shit. One time I
was doing stand up in Alabama and I spilled ranch
salad dressing all over the stage. And the guy that
ran he wasn't even the guy that ran the club.
He was just like a random guy that worked there.
Was so angry at me and mopped between I had
like a eight o'clock show and a ten o'clock show,
And then he took out a mop bucket and he
(06:47):
stared daggers at me as he mop up the ranch.
That wasn't that much, honestly, it was like besides of
a dinner plate. Yeah, And I was like, okay, I'm sorry,
and I went and I grabbed the mop and I
mopped the rest of the the ranch up and like
finished the mopping, and then and then I mopped the
second show. Its like it's going to happen again at
the second show, and I mopped the other one and
(07:07):
he was still poudy about it. I was like, the
fuck you Alabama man.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, I don't know. Some people just don't have you know.
I remember there was a kid. There was a kid.
Where were we in DC? I think? And we played.
He was really excited to he was working at the show.
I think he was doing merch for us, and I
used to do this thing where I hit the microphone
into my chest like this just I don't know why,
some kind of caveman shit or whatever. But after the show,
(07:32):
I went up to go say like, oh, thank you
so much, like if you want any merch, like you know,
like that, you know, thank you so much for working
with us. But he was like disturbed by me because
I mean, I don't know, maybe he has some I
don't know what it is, but he thought that they
were gunning shots every time. I was just kind of like,
it's a mac Marco's show. You know, It's like we're
not you know, it's like it's not even I don't know.
Maybe maybe he had an experience that made him feel
(07:54):
uncomfortable in that way. But it was kind of like,
you don't know. He wouldn't even look at me after
the show, and I was kind of man like, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So what is this bestro table? Do you serve food there?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
The bistro table was invented at this venue in Toronto
years ago, probably in like two thousand and eight or nine.
One of the first tours I ever went on this
venue called the Horseshoe Tavern Legendary Tour at Toronto Venue,
and it was kind of like, you know, I used
to I don't know, It's like it's like whin. I
had some friends and it was like we put a
table on the stage and I bought them some pictures
(08:25):
and they just sat there while we played and they
get to enjoy. Yeah, they get to enjoy this shit.
It's like the ultimate VIP experience, you know. And it
kind of snowballed. And we've been doing it for years
and years and years.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Do you still do it?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We will do it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah? Do you do it every show?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It depends.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I want to be on the b strow table.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Next time we play in La can be at the Beast?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Can I make little drinks?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah? Well that's the thing. Sometimes the promoters are really
about it, and they're like, there's this one guy in
France actually that does our shows there and he gets
a nice tablecloth and he gets flowers and the food.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I loved that.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, the only problem is sometimes we don't, you know,
I need to put like little speakers over there, because
when you're standing on the side of the stage and
there's no pa like, it just kind of sounds like
you're like, well, I'm at the show, but I can't
hear it down then it's going. So it's like kind
of the you know, the shittiest place to watch from,
but it's also tight. But but yeah, no, it's been Actually,
there's an interesting story about the be Strow table in
(09:18):
La that long time ago, probably like seven years ago.
We were playing a couple of nights at the Fonda
and there was a kid i'd met him at on
the street in Highland Park, I think maybe in front
of Future Music or or some music store something, and
him and his girlfriend. I was like, oh, you come
to the show, no problem, And I got them on
the guests as they came, and they came and sat
at the Bestrow table and I think they're, like Doug
(09:39):
was saying, like they I don't know if they drank
that much, but there's a lot of booze around and they.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Is it fans. There's friends of yours at the be
Stow table.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Friends usually fan. I don't know. It's kind of like
whoever is or it depends, you know, now it's usually friends,
I would say, but you know, it just depends. But
they were sitting up there and yeah, and the kid
got hammered, and I, you know, I didn't see him
till after the show. Well, yeah I didn't. I noticed
he was kind of drunk at the table, but there
was like twenty five people at the table or something.
So anyway, I go finish the show. Great rock show, really,
(10:09):
you know, nailed it home. Everyone was loving the rock music.
And I go down the stairs and I see the
kid's girlfriend and there's a stretcher and there's the kid
and they're pulling the white sheet over his head. And
I was like, oh god, your like someone died at
my show. But no, he wasn't dead. He wasn't dead.
He was just he had like alcohol poisoning or something,
or you know, had like thrown up or something. They
(10:30):
were taking him out, like I don't know why the
white sheet, but it was like I was like kidding, Yeah,
it was crazy. I was coming off this light. I
was like, yes, like I'm a rock star. Then you
go downstairs like oh my god, like like right at
the bottom of the stairs. It was so brutal, but uh, yeah,
it's pretty. You know the beastra table sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's cool. It's SUPERBCT. So you're putting cigarettes out on yourself. Yeah,
and then the guy the next day said that was
embarrassing or whatever. Did you go into the next set
the second day like straight as an arrow sober or
were you still in that mode where you were like
(11:12):
like iggy pop like on PCP.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No, it was more sober. The next night was like
really wholesome somehow, like John c Riley introduced us and
we had well your bass player one time before he
stopped page right Pierce Pierce yea.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He used to drink. He was so drunk. One time
at the bar he stuck all four fingers up. My
ass cracked. When I was talking to with Gal at
the bar. Out of nowhere, he like crammed and he
wanted to stop. He was like trying to cram his
like hand into my ass and I was like, and
I was so drunk and it was so violating and shocking.
(11:49):
I like snapped on him. I was like, get the
fuck away, and he was like.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And then I don't even know if I would have
been there for that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You weren't there. You were And then like the next
week he came out of my house and I play
upright bass, and it's expensive instrument, and it's it's a
it's a fragile instrument, a cheap upright bas is ten
thousand dollars and they go up, yeah, two hundred and
fifty k. You know, my teachers, the bases they played,
they had to take that mortgages from the bank basis.
It's expensive instrument. I don't mind people playing it, but
(12:20):
you gotta be a little bit careful. He's wasted and
he's like grabbing it, he's flopping it around and just
you know, six days ago, stuck all four fingers in
my ass. I was like, get out of my house.
I kicked him out of my house. I kicked out.
I was like, get away from me.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, he's not drinking anymore, making for the bask Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The next time I saw he was like, oh yeah,
I don't drink anymore. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's what happens sometimes when you when you when you
finish all of your allot of drinks and then you know,
there's all his drinks. He finished all his drinks real early.
God bless them, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
God bless but what he was drinking, he was like,
fucking goddamn.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
A great story of Pierce. Once we were playing in Australia.
This is kind of a bomb, I guess, but Pierce
and Andy, Pierce, we used to used to get into
quite a mood on stage sometimes too. I love this
man still today. He's one of my best friends. But
but he there was a night we were playing in
Australia and it was near the end of the show
and him and my guitarist Andy were looking at each
other and Pierce was kind of he was just not
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having it, like he was just not having a good
time on stage, didn't want to be there. And Andy
was kind of egging him on, like why do you
just leave then? Like why don't you go? Like come on,
like what are you gonna do? You know? And Pierce
was like fuck it, and he took his bass off
and left the stage. I didn't even notice, yeah, but
like right near the end of the show and I
was like, oh, I didn't really know what's going on.
So I got there was that some of the guys
from that band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard were there.
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So this guy Cookie, I was like, Cooky, cook, get
up here and play the last song. He was like,
I don't know, and I was like, it'll be fine.
Dorn Pierce left and he went to the green room
and he grabbed two beers and ahead of broccoli for
some reason, just really drunk and was like I'm out
of here and tried to leave out the front door,
and the bouncer was like, you can't take those beers
out of here, and he's liked make me and the
(14:03):
guy grabbed the beers out the bottom, so it like slashed,
you know, the little beer bottle capital slashed his like
tendon hero open. There was blood all over the place.
I don't know what he was doing with the broccoli.
But the next day we were supposed to go to
that like wildlife conservatory place where you like hold the
koalas and stuff. And I remember in the morning waking
up and I hadn't seen him for the rest of
(14:23):
the night. But waking up in the morning and everyone
being like, so are we going to the petting day?
I was like, no, Fred, not like not today, not
not after last night. Sorry about that was.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
His hand all funked up.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, he was out of these fucking cuts all.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Over his but he had to play, he had to
play an instrument. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I think luckily it was his right hand so that,
you know, it didn't go much his brutal Yeah, yeah,
he was, you know, it was a wild child.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, you know who the most stressful guys to drink with.
Have you ever drank with the jack jackass guys?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I've never even really met met the I remember you
were over here at one point and you when you
came over, you came in and you were like surveying
the backyard because you weren't sure where and when they
would be. Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Like I was at tiki bar with Knoxville and I
had sandals on, which I'd never have. Yeah, and I'm
not paying attention, I'm talking it. I was Jeff Germaine.
I'm talking to Germaine, and my left foot feels like
it's having like the worst allergic reaction, like just like inflamed.
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I'm like, God, what the fuck? My left foot feels
like I must be having an allergic reaction. I'm feel
like I'm having a stroke. I looked down. My whole
left foot is on fire. Knoxville got like a bottle
of one fifty one rum and matches, and he's like
just pouring one fifty one all over my foot and
throwing matches at Wow, and you can't stop it out.
(15:52):
You're just stomping it around.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's like it's amazing, though, you know, that's like it's
just the way it should be. I think with those guys,
you know what I mean like that, because how old
is he now? He's like in his fifties or.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Something fifty, the early fifties.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And he's still lighting people's feet on fire.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's great. And you gotta like the whole crew. It's
not just the guys on the cast. It's like you
always have to have like your your beer like this
because they pee, they take out their dicks at the
arm pee in your beer while they're talking about like
Frank tow is drinking a beer and then like and
then like Tom toothless, Tom, who's not even on he's
(16:31):
a camera operator like Pee all in towns Beer. The
key is you can't you can't act nervous around them,
and then when they do prank, you just act gotta
act cool because the more you stress, the more they're
gonna be like.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wow, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, that's it's tough. Yeah, Pee and fucking fire.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
With a Dre.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
With Adre. That's what's the worst bomb you've ever seen?
Have you ever seen a performer tank just eat a
bag of shit on stage?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Trying to think of like a really like maybe a
musical one.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I saw like Aril Pink early Ario Pink shows every day.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That was kind of what he did though at that
but you know he would just pull up with the
boombox and people would be like this isn't even good,
Like fuck you, this isn't good. You know, it's just
like this sucks. So I don't know, I feel like
but that. But it's like charming in a way as well.
It's like if you saw those shows. I saw one
of them back in the day, but I remember my
friend Cody was just like, yeah I saw it the
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other day and Montreal like it fucking sucks, and I
was like.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Cat power Cat power would notoriously mount down on stage
all the time too. She would she would have a
really tough time. She would unravel.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I mean see that there's like a difference because I
remember seeing there was a band called fuck Are They
called a garage band from Montreal. They came over to
Vancouver and they were playing. It was this big deal,
like when garage was kind of really having its moment,
like two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight or whatever,
and maybe two thousand and nine even and what were
they called I can't remember, but but that in that instance,
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it was like the drummer was just so hammered that
like they couldn't, Like the whole band is like trying
to play in the drummers just can't can't get in there.
Which is it just like it just didn't sound like
music at all. You know, there's instances like that where
it's kind of like technically impossible. But then there's the
ones where it is just like h meltdown status like
(18:44):
screaming at the audience.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I have a friend Sean that used to you know,
I love this guy as well. I just recorded a
record for him a couple of years ago. But back
in the day he would have you know, Sean Nicholas Savage,
he would he would. He had some shows, some difficult
shows where he would get quite angry at that. Actually,
on tour with us, I hope he doesn't minded I'm
telling these stories. But there was a tour where he
he was in the van with us the whole time,
and he had he would he would use olive oil
(19:08):
in his hair to slick it back. He was looking
good on the story in an Italian suit, slicked his
hair back every day. He's kind of you know, very uh,
kind of a cloud snowmy style look. Sometimes you know,
a very skinny guy, like beautiful guy. But I remember
there was this one we played in Glasgow or something,
and they didn't have normal olive oil. We're playing at
a pizza restaurant, but they had like the pizza olive
oil spicy, so it had like the peppers in it
(19:30):
and stuff. So Sean he got mad. There was no
hot water in the green rooms. He was frustrated about that,
and then they didn't have the olive oil. They only
had the pizza of olive oil. So he took a
cold shower and then he smelled like a pizza cause
he uses pizza of olive oil and he just got
that night though, I think it was like a we
had just a mess of shit happening that, you know,
that tour, and it was that was one of the
you know, I feel like our fuse was quite short,
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but somehow he had a dress when we played that night,
and he was like crawling around and just screaming, and
it was like it was just punishing, you know, punishing
the people that came to But even that, it's like
I love the punishment like them.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
To me, it's like the most entertaining show.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
To me, it's like, yeah, somebody Steve.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh no, I saw a super cut of Steve Lacey
taking people's iPhones out of their hands, like breaking them one.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
But even that, it's like, you know, that's one of
those things we're onlinecause I've seen those clips and I
love Steve too, He's my my good buddy. But it's
like with that, it's it's kind of like people are like,
like I am so angry at you, Steve, Like I paid,
like right now, we're living in this in this world
where it's kind of like I paid for your.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Record Outraged Economy.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, I I own you well that and it's like
it's like I I should have a say, you know,
it's like I am your fan and I paid to
be your fan.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So but it's like, no, you let him break your phone.
I like, I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I love him camera Like fuck yeah, Steve, like get
it because it is you know, it's annoying. You know,
it's fucking annoying. You know, but it's I don't know,
it's like even that like but that's what I'm saying,
is like a diference between the music bombing and the comedy.
But I don't know. Bombing is such like it's such
a very particular thing, like it's I don't know. I
(21:10):
think that the worst is when something happens that is
out of your control and then you can't reel it
back in. Yeah, you know, like like say for like
and then it just gets.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
All like technical equipment like yeah, audio going down or that.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's kind of like I think back to like when
we saw radio Head at Coachella, like I don't know,
five years ago or four years ago whatever, and uh,
and the P eight has kept shutting off and the
first time you're like, oh, that's cute. The PA is
shutting off, and then it happens again and again.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Radioheads PA, Well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, the console is exploding or something, and like, you know,
even you can even see it in the guys. I
mean they're professionals, they take care of business or whatever.
But you know, it happens two or three times, and
you get to the point where you're kind of like
you're like, yeah, I don't know if I have any
more like cute jokes about the ship being fucked, Like
the shit's just kind of fucked, you know what I mean.
It's like at that point, it's kind of like like
you get that. Yeah, Yeah, I feel like I had
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it so badly recently. What was it? The cringe? It's
almost Yeah, the cringe is what I That's what I
search you for. That's what I love.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, I heard Frank Ocean was having a tough time.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That was I Yeah, I was there for that as well.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Danny buddies with Bunny Blanco. He said the show was amazing.
He goes, I don't why everybody's get.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
People really loved it. I didn't stay for the whole
thing just because I was like I don't want to
wait for the traffic, but uh, I'm out. I'll say
that some components of it, like his voice sounded amazing.
It was just like there's parts about it where you know,
there was a lot of waiting, there was a lot
of it was strange.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
It was really strange. I think Cochella is a tough crowd.
Don't you think Coachella is a tough coachell is? We did?
We performed at Gouceella together. That's right, we performed Atella together.
Never forget the.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Theremin and the Giant. It was at twenty inch deal
the Giant.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But it's don't you think that Coachella is a tough crowd.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Coachella is like not a music crowd. It's like a
butt cheeks crowd. Like it's like, you know, everybody's there
with like barely any clothes on, and like it's more
about getting the photos and ship. Yes, I mean, Frank
Ocean is like you know those butt cheek people like
do know about Frank? Like they love Frank.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's so fun. It's such a funny, you know what
I mean? So what is that are you describing? Like
the southern California girl with a flower crown and the
big time but cheeks are just out. They don't even
know the bands, they're just they're.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Fuck like that. I have a problem with the butt
cheek people.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I have a problem with the but cheek people, the
budgeting people. They're low cutie pies, but they're fucking they are.
They are the stereotype of the southern California ding dong
oh yeah. Like, And that's my problem with the Coachella crowd.
I don't think anybody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's very hot. Here's my here's my issues with Coachella.
I'll tell you one of the best festivals ever played.
Fucking uh b c. Pemberton, British col.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, I've heard that's a nice one.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Under been there, But Pemberton, all Pacific Northwest outside land
festivals of San Francisco's amazing, Sasquatch, all those like, all
those like rural Washington state kind of festivals amazing. The
weather's amazing, the landscape's amazing. Indio, California, Coachello Valley is
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just a flat, brutal, hot, brutal nightmare strawberry farm. It's
just a fucking strawberry farm.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Butt cheeks everywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And then ding Dong's from Orange County and Arizona in
La La ding Dongs gorgeous idiots coming for miles around.
I don't know, it just feels a little too cool.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's not even cool, Like it's like, but it's not cool.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The irony is it's not cool. But it feels like
it feels like girls with flower crowns that are like
this rave is important, man, exactly, and it's like is important.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
It feels expensive in a way, you know what I mean,
But it kind of it's like it's like greasy in
a way. But here's the thing is, I talked to
my friend Jania that a couple of weeks ago, and
he was saying that he went to Cochelle. He'd never
really been in music, vessels, guys, a painters, a good
pel of mine, and the you know, he was saying
that he he went with this stay with this guy
that you know, I think is an art dealer or something,
and they had the real they had the lux Coachell experience,
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Like the guy's got a humongous house on a golf
course and there's you know, chefs and like just a
million dollar experience, you know, and like the artists don't
even have that there. You know, it's like I you know,
you like in a dusty trailer or something, and like
we all caterings closing, It's like, oh, can I still
get dinner? It's like sorry now, you know, it's like
you know, it's like it's it's I don't know, it's
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But that's the whole point too, is that you can
you can essentially buy the artist experience a cochelle. You
can like buy an artist pass, you can buy a
VIP pass whatever. So it's enticing to these people. But
that's why I love it. You know, it's like the
you go for the celebs, you know, you go to
people watch. Although the first couple of years we played,
I was looking for the wrong celebs, Like I'm looking
for like Jack Nicholson or something like. You know, you
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got to look for the contemporary, the TikTokers, You got to.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Look for your eyes feel for Jack.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean I would I saw, you know, you go
to Lakers game, that's where you see Jack. Yeah, you
ever see that photo of him at the Lakers game
where him and his buddy brought homemade chili to eat
and he just spilt it all over his pants.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's so and he's just.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Sitting there like a shit, Like, what do I do now?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Jack with aericnre with aericndre, what's the well you already
said the most wasted you've been on stage.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I don't know if that was the most wasted. There's
definitely been other instances where I've just been I mean
it's like, you know, it's it's funny getting into the
swing of Like there was about a year and a
half or two year period where I would drink a
full two six of Jamison on stage every night. It
was like I would just.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Are those early tours or are those your early tours?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
No, this is like this is like maybe you know
the two albums ago, last album? Yeah, so it's like
but you build our nerves or just for fun. I
think it was just like, well, let's just see how
far down this road we can go, you know, But
it was there were there were nights. I remember we
played a show I think it might be the only
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show we ever played in Pittsburgh and we just played
for I mean, we played the songs we were gonna play,
like my songs, and then I was so so like
it just erupted into this like jam thing. I like
don't remember the show at all, but there's videos of it.
We played for like three and a half hours or
something Like a lot of it is just like kind
of weird slow jamming, and I'm making people say I'm
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like Turkey, and they're like saying Turkey back to It's
this whole thing, and I just remember, you know, the
show was finished. I'm laying on the back the back patio.
There's like a masseuse there giving me a massage. I
don't know, it's just like there's a blur of this
era where it's like, you know, there were a lot
of shows where I couldn't walk after the show, and
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that was like that.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You know, do you think toe to toe drink for drink,
cigarette for cigarette? Did you ever surpass post malone or
were you guys to kind of neck and neck for SIGs.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Post party with this? One time we parted would Post
in Tokyo. We were both playing at Fuji Rock and
we took him to this.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Did any smoke four to five packs a day?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I wouldn't be surprised. I mean I never I'm sure
that if I was at you know, if it was
the right Music festival, and we played early enough in
the day, like four packs wouldn't be out of the four.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
That's eighty cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, it's a shitload, I mean, but it's like, you know,
here's the thing. I bet it's the same a Post too.
When you're posting, you got SIGs. Everybody's having a sig.
You go through four or five packs, I don't know,
but there, I mean, there was a long time where
I was smoking at least two packs a day, which
is like, that's a lot of cigarettes, you know. But
but Post, I remember there was a nut yet We
took him to Beat Cafe. This guy Kato man In
in Tokyo. He runs this bar named Beat Cafe. And
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we went there with Post and me and all my guys.
We drank. We all drink a lot. A lot of
us were from Canada. It's like it's kind of you know,
that's that's the.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, it's a nation founded by alcoholics.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Exactactly.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
John, what's what's your George Roshing called Johnny apple Seed?
What's like Johnny Appleseed? He's got the big schnas.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
John McDonald, John McDonald, John McDonald, have you seen that guy?
Schnas that guy drank his face into an explosion exactly. Yeah,
but I know, so you're drinking in Tokyo Post.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, we were with Posts and we were drinking in
there and Post, I mean Post there was it got
to the post gets hammered. I don't know if he
does anymore. I haven't seen him in quite a few years,
but but he was like on the ground, like rolling
around and we had that. There was a point where
we were all hammered too. We had to go to security,
like don't you think like maybe you should take him home?
Like you can't stand up now, what's going on? So
in that one instance, we I would say, we out
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drank Post nice. But he's a he's a beer man,
like he loves to drink the bud night guy. Yeah
that was interesting too. That year he actually had like
palettes of bud Light flown into Fuji Rock, which is.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Like rough bud Light.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, Japan Japan's got good like light light beer, Like
why not just drink that? But he is a he
loves his bud Lights.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So bud Light's tough.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Man, It's easy to drink. I think that's the thing.
It's like a casual doesn't make you feel full, doesn't
make you drunk too fast.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
But also I like drinking to get drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'm like, exactly, that's the whole thing. I never really
thought that there was any you know, I mean the flavor.
Never I don't know, fancy cocktail.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
It's just kind of like the faster the you know.
That's why jamison is so great. It's because it's it's
quite easy to drink, and you can drink it fast,
and it's kind of like the Coca cola hard alcohol
or whatever. And then there you are.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I'm a big rum guy, I'm a rum. I'm part
pirate rum. Rum is mine.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'll say this. This is another instance of me being
really hammered on stage that I'm just remembering. My friend
Mollie Lewis. She's a whistler and she was doing the show.
Do you mean she's like a whistler, she's a whistlership,
you know, she's like she could yeah, she's crazy, really
good whistler. And she was professional. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
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yeah yeah. And she was doing a whistle show down
at Zebulon like not far from you know, the zone
in La and uh and she wanted me to come
and sing this Frank Sinatra song, a song called Change Partners.
This was years ago, and I don't drink gin really.
I was a whiskey guy or tequila guy or whatever.
I love so but I was like, I'm singing a
Frank Sinatra song tonight, I'm gonna drink Martini's. And so
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I just started drinking these. Jim Martinez, I think I
had like maybe twenty maybe twenty gin, and it was this.
It was fucked up.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Martini is basically just Gin with a little remove.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It was like that. The performance was okay, and I
had a nice time there, but I was so drunk.
And say it was what happened after? You know that
plays Astro diner down the street from the so I
was there. I was one thing led to another. Was
hugging my friend, you know, he had to leave. I
don't know. I ended up falling through one of the
stained glass windows was at Aftra Diner. But but my
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I also had my my cock and balls out of
my jeans for some reason. So I fell through and
as soon as I fell through, I was like it
was so sobering. All of a sudden, I was like, oh, Okay,
time to get up and go tell them that I'll
replace the glass, and I like start walking in, but
cure my girlfriend was like like stop stop, and I
was like what and she had to like she pushed
my balls back in my jeans and hipped the jeans up,
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and then I walked in. I was like, I'm so
sorry I've destroyed your and I actually I paid for
the windows like two hundred bucks, like it took like
months and months and months, and then to get it.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
They have staying that windows like a church.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
These low there's these low ones. Yeah, I mean I
think that place has been there for a long time,
but they kind of know me in there now because I, yeah,
fell the acids.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Windows like twenties zebul.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, brutal, But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Were you ever a cocaine guy? Where you big coke? Coke?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, There's a lot of big drinkers are like they
like sniffing the they like sniffing the stuff to kind
of get them die.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah. I never you know, it's funny, It's like I
never really became that much of a drugman.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You were popping mally shelf and pingers.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I mean there's been music festivals over the years that
for sure, you know, but but it's like I never
I never really seeked it out. I guess it was
always just kind of like I suppose, I suppose I
will Yeah, no, probably, yeah, some of those I mean,
especially with the Malli and that. You know, it's like
you just don't know what you're getting sometimes and you know,
you end up having a insane We have had some
insane experiences. But I remember just watching we watched Outcast
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at a festival in Belgium, and we had all the
whole crew had taken some pills that some kid had
given us, and we're just in that little there's that
little turret or like the little like mote or whatever
that you know, from the front of house to the stage,
and we're all in there holding the railing like watching
out Class play, like just so terrified and like so
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so high. Yeah, horrible.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's kind of.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Drug is whippets. I've probably done millions and millions and
millions of whippets.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I've never done whippets, but I have a lot of
friends that have indulged in that. It's is it similar
to like poppers?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
No, I think poppers is the poor man's whip poppers.
VHS cleaner, like it is true huffing chemicals. Nitrous oxide
is not only food grade, but the dentist gives it
to you when they give you a dental procedure. They're
not giving they're not giving you VHS cleaner. So I'm
very Uh, I'm a whippid advocate.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's medical. I like that, that's medical stuff. I feel.
We there was a while we knew this guy and uh,
just speaking about interesting drugs. At this point. There was
a guy named Bruno that used to take us around
when we go down to Brazil, and he would still
but we'd have been down in a long time, but
he used to have this He never sat down. This guy,
he's like a very you know, very fit bald man.
Wore a nice little hat. He had this amulet he
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would always wear and he and we'd ask about it.
He'd be like, you can look, but like no touching.
And he was always kind of dancing like this. And
he never sat down. He was always standing up. Even
if we're driving. We would drive like four hours doing
their city. He'd stand up in the in the you know,
the van the whole time. But he had this, uh
this it was like a little tin of like brown
powder and he used to sprinkle a little bit like
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right there on his hand, and you know, it's like
some kind of like brown cocaine. I was like, what
the fun Bruno? What is that? It was apparently like
the crushed up roots of like an ancient tree gets
yell jacked up. It's some crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's so cool. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
That's so cool. That guys sounds like the coolest guy.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
He's cool. He had a lot of good times and Bruno,
he's a great guy. Montelvo that's his last name. Great guy.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
What more can we say? I mean, the craziest thing
you've done is like acupuncture and you got to like,
what do you gotta do like explode semen and your
girlfriend or something.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
No semen allowed, where you explode the uterus? No semen allowed?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I don't know? I said, like he you know, doctor
Kim is like he speaks English, but he's he's Korean
and he's like cell so it's kind of like you
know I was, I said. When he said that, I
was like like edging, and he went, Okay, you know,
we didn't really meet in the middle on it, but
he says a lot of crazy things. You know, yesterday
he told me some cool ones where he was kind
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of like, he say, sandwich work, never sandwich while working.
Never never sandwich time, work time. I was like, okay,
I respect that. Do not eat when you work, make
it separate, do not the other thing he says all
the time. He says, I should become a CIA agent
so I can get the license to kill. Then I
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can kill my boss. Because my boss is stressing me out.
I don't think he realizes that I'm kind of like
a you know, I kind of am the boss. But yes, insane.
He's fully insane. And I lay there and I let
him just shove me full of needles. Actually, one of
the ones that he put in my arm yesterday, my
hands kind of fucked up from it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
So I think some of those needles are dirty. I
did acupuncture a few times. I'm like, I feel like
they're reusing some of these needles.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
I don't like a few times gives me the fucking
Hebrew gis a little bit.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah. The cupping has you have you ever done the
blood cupping?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, he like stabbed my foot three times and I
was like, ah yeah, and then he sucked all this
blood out and he's like, you have a fever in
your liver, but don't worry. I'm sucking it up now. Okay, brutal,
but you know, kind of cool. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I want to hang with this guy in Bruno.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah, Bruno and doctor Cam That would be a wild.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
What a tour Brazil with both of them. I love it, Mac.
What's left to be said?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I don't know. Thank you for having me on your show.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, thanks man, Thanks thanks. It's a new show and
we're figuring it out as we go, and that's cool.
You are a phenomenal guest, and you know I love
you and I will be back in l A in
a couple of weeks. And let's go to fucking Astroberger
and crashing absolutely crash the windows, Belismo bellissimo, all right,
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Eric Andre. So what's the worst you've ever bombed?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I have a list with are there's some you know?
I was thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The three questions I asked every guest what's the worst
ever bombed on stage? What's the worst bomb you've ever seen?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I once saw cap Power live and she ripped their
piano and a half or whatever it is. I just
made that story up. So what's the worst you've ever bob?
What's the worst bomb you've ever seen? And what is
the most wasted you've ever been on stage? You know?
I had one guest on whose answer to that last
question was on stage with Mac DeMarco, was really, yeah,
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DJ DJ Doug Pound, Oh yeah, that's the most waste
you've been on stage? You had like the little beer
section or something you'd.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Have people see it's called the bestro table. You sit
people on stage and get them wasted. He doesn't drink
that much, he said. He got hammered out of his
mind and then out of nowhere. You were like, Doug,
why don't you get on the drums and play through
this next? And he was like he's not a drummer.
He rarely drinks.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And he was like annihilated in front of a fucking
arena of billions of fans. Just yeah, fucking you're years ago,
but you were like you were, You're happy as a clam.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's I mean, you know, it's like I don't. It's
funny because yeah, probably my worst bomb and the drunks
I've ever been those might be the same story.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
We'll tell us a tell.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
There's like so many times I was thinking about it too,
because it's like, you know, I think about what it
means to bomb in comedy versus music, and it's like
I feel like there's a difference where, you know, like
in music, I feel like there's a soft bomb, like
if you play a song that the crowd doesn't really
know or they don't really care, you play it and
they're like okay, right, and it's like that's kind of bombing.
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But then there's like the kind of you know, then
there's like some of these stories that I'll tell you
here where it's like savagely something savage happens and everyone's
kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Like what it's like, yeah, yeah, like like when Prince
used to open up for the Rolling Stones and people
would throw bottles.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, that would be like got off that stage. And
then with you know, I don't know, comedy, it's like
you such, it's like such a closer connection or it's
like a more intimate connection, I think, or like I
don't know, person, I don't know, it depends, but let's see.
I have a little list here. I was thinking the
there was one instance we played at we were doing
I think three nights at the Teargram Ballroom just downtown
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in LA And the first night, I don't really know
why it happened. I don't know what happened, but I
got like really really really drunk on stage and I
was in a bit of a mood. Sometimes you get
into mood, you know, I write these songs that mean
something to me. You know, it's like sometimes you get
you get emotional, which I think, I think those are
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the best kinds of show. Like, here's the thing too
about this show is like some of my friends will
be like Jesus Christ, like what was that? And then
other other friends will be like that was the most
the best show I've ever seen you do. But I
guess essentially what happened we I think we kind of
stumbled through most of the set, and then we got
to this point where we were kind of jamming up there,
and I had taken my shirt off and I was
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kind of crouched like a gargoyle on top of my amp,
like staring out at the audience, and I had I
had made everybody sit down, and they were all sitting down,
and for a long time, I would I was turned
and the bestro table was right there, like we were
talking about with Doug Pound. But I was turned around
for a while and I had the microphone in my mouth,
like the whole bulb of it, and I was just
screaming and screaming into it. And then I turned around.
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Kids would try to get up and I'd be like,
it's not like fucked like And at one point I
put a cigarette out on my chest. Yeah, the scar
is here. If you can see that, that little white patch,
the scar is there. Yeah, but I put this smoke
out of my chest like fully pushed in, which I
had never done before. It really hurts. I mean I
didn't really feel at the time. Next day was horrible,
(04:33):
but Drigger whiskey, Yeah, Jamison used to be my weapon
of choice. But there was all of that, and I
remember just and it was getting to the point where
it was kind of like the music wasn't even sounding
like music anymore. People had been sitting on the ground
for a long time. It was just confusing. And then
my mom and my mom wasn't there, and I'll get
to that, but there was one girl in the middle
of the crowd and she I remember she stood up
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and everyone uls was on the ground it's probably you know,
like six hundred person venue or something like. You know,
she stood up and she was weeping, and she just
spent what the fuck are you doing? Bag?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And then.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, deeply, deeply disturbed.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She wanted she wanted some nice tunes. You were like,
g it was.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It was so brutal and yeah, and then the next
you know, the show finished, we went home. I remember
getting a call from my mom in the morning that
I was being like, is everything all right, sweetheart? Like
it had made the rounds of the internet, like Mac
played a real raw one last night.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know, it's just okay, O, no are concerned for you?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, exactly. But then the show we did the next
night there was great, so you know, it was redeemed,
I guess. But I remember pulling up to the venue
that like the next day, because it's a residency, it's
not even like we did this insane thing and we
can just leave town. It's like nope, coming back the
next night, pulling in and one of the guys that
worked at the venue is like, pretty interesting show last night, man.
I was like, yeah, yeah, pretty weird, and he just
(06:02):
went prett embarrassing and I went.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Oh, really, he said that to you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
That's rude. I mean, you know, whatever would.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He say that to the fucking artist that has a residency.
What are you gonna do? Keep that tearsself, I don't
agree with that guy. That's fucking passive aggressive. That'n't even
passive agresses. That's aggressive.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, I guess so, But you know what, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm sensitive to that kind of shit. One time I
was doing stand up in Alabama and I spilled ranch
salad dressing all over the stage. And the guy that
ran he wasn't even the guy that ran the club.
He was just like a random guy that worked there.
Was so angry at me and mopped between I had
like a eight o'clock show and a ten o'clock show,
And then he took out a mop bucket and he
(06:47):
stared daggers at me as he mop up the ranch.
That wasn't that much, honestly, it was like besides of
a dinner plate. Yeah, And I was like, okay, I'm sorry,
and I went and I grabbed the mop and I
mopped the rest of the the ranch up and like
finished the mopping, and then and then I mopped the
second show. Its like it's going to happen again at
the second show, and I mopped the other one and
(07:07):
he was still poudy about it. I was like, the
fuck you Alabama man.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, I don't know. Some people just don't have you know.
I remember there was a kid. There was a kid.
Where were we in DC? I think? And we played.
He was really excited to he was working at the show.
I think he was doing merch for us, and I
used to do this thing where I hit the microphone
into my chest like this just I don't know why,
some kind of caveman shit or whatever. But after the show,
(07:32):
I went up to go say like, oh, thank you
so much, like if you want any merch, like you know,
like that, you know, thank you so much for working
with us. But he was like disturbed by me because
I mean, I don't know, maybe he has some I
don't know what it is, but he thought that they
were gunning shots every time. I was just kind of like,
it's a mac Marco's show. You know, It's like we're
not you know, it's like it's not even I don't know.
Maybe maybe he had an experience that made him feel
(07:54):
uncomfortable in that way. But it was kind of like,
you don't know. He wouldn't even look at me after
the show, and I was kind of man like, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So what is this bestro table? Do you serve food there?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
The bistro table was invented at this venue in Toronto
years ago, probably in like two thousand and eight or nine.
One of the first tours I ever went on this
venue called the Horseshoe Tavern Legendary Tour at Toronto Venue,
and it was kind of like, you know, I used
to I don't know, It's like it's like whin. I
had some friends and it was like we put a
table on the stage and I bought them some pictures
(08:25):
and they just sat there while we played and they
get to enjoy. Yeah, they get to enjoy this shit.
It's like the ultimate VIP experience, you know. And it
kind of snowballed. And we've been doing it for years
and years and years.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Do you still do it?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We will do it?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah? Do you do it every show?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It depends.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I want to be on the b strow table.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Next time we play in La can be at the Beast?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Can I make little drinks?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah? Well that's the thing. Sometimes the promoters are really
about it, and they're like, there's this one guy in
France actually that does our shows there and he gets
a nice tablecloth and he gets flowers and the food.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I loved that.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, the only problem is sometimes we don't, you know,
I need to put like little speakers over there, because
when you're standing on the side of the stage and
there's no pa like, it just kind of sounds like
you're like, well, I'm at the show, but I can't
hear it down then it's going. So it's like kind
of the you know, the shittiest place to watch from,
but it's also tight. But but yeah, no, it's been Actually,
there's an interesting story about the be Strow table in
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La that long time ago, probably like seven years ago.
We were playing a couple of nights at the Fonda
and there was a kid i'd met him at on
the street in Highland Park, I think maybe in front
of Future Music or or some music store something, and
him and his girlfriend. I was like, oh, you come
to the show, no problem, And I got them on
the guests as they came, and they came and sat
at the Bestrow table and I think they're, like Doug
(09:39):
was saying, like they I don't know if they drank
that much, but there's a lot of booze around and they.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Is it fans. There's friends of yours at the be
Stow table.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Friends usually fan. I don't know. It's kind of like
whoever is or it depends, you know, now it's usually friends,
I would say, but you know, it just depends. But
they were sitting up there and yeah, and the kid
got hammered, and I, you know, I didn't see him
till after the show. Well, yeah I didn't. I noticed
he was kind of drunk at the table, but there
was like twenty five people at the table or something.
So anyway, I go finish the show. Great rock show, really,
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you know, nailed it home. Everyone was loving the rock music.
And I go down the stairs and I see the
kid's girlfriend and there's a stretcher and there's the kid
and they're pulling the white sheet over his head. And
I was like, oh god, your like someone died at
my show. But no, he wasn't dead. He wasn't dead.
He was just he had like alcohol poisoning or something,
or you know, had like thrown up or something. They
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were taking him out, like I don't know why the
white sheet, but it was like I was like kidding, Yeah,
it was crazy. I was coming off this light. I
was like, yes, like I'm a rock star. Then you
go downstairs like oh my god, like like right at
the bottom of the stairs. It was so brutal, but uh, yeah,
it's pretty. You know the beastra table sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's cool. It's SUPERBCT. So you're putting cigarettes out on yourself. Yeah,
and then the guy the next day said that was
embarrassing or whatever. Did you go into the next set
the second day like straight as an arrow sober or
were you still in that mode where you were like
(11:12):
like iggy pop like on PCP.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No, it was more sober. The next night was like
really wholesome somehow, like John c Riley introduced us and
we had well your bass player one time before he
stopped page right Pierce Pierce yea.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He used to drink. He was so drunk. One time
at the bar he stuck all four fingers up. My
ass cracked. When I was talking to with Gal at
the bar. Out of nowhere, he like crammed and he
wanted to stop. He was like trying to cram his
like hand into my ass and I was like, and
I was so drunk and it was so violating and shocking.
(11:49):
I like snapped on him. I was like, get the
fuck away, and he was like.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And then I don't even know if I would have
been there for that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You weren't there. You were And then like the next
week he came out of my house and I play
upright bass, and it's expensive instrument, and it's it's a
it's a fragile instrument, a cheap upright bas is ten
thousand dollars and they go up, yeah, two hundred and
fifty k. You know, my teachers, the bases they played,
they had to take that mortgages from the bank basis.
It's expensive instrument. I don't mind people playing it, but
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you gotta be a little bit careful. He's wasted and
he's like grabbing it, he's flopping it around and just
you know, six days ago, stuck all four fingers in
my ass. I was like, get out of my house.
I kicked him out of my house. I kicked out.
I was like, get away from me.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, he's not drinking anymore, making for the bask Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The next time I saw he was like, oh yeah,
I don't drink anymore. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's what happens sometimes when you when you when you
finish all of your allot of drinks and then you know,
there's all his drinks. He finished all his drinks real early.
God bless them, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
God bless but what he was drinking, he was like,
fucking goddamn.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
A great story of Pierce. Once we were playing in Australia.
This is kind of a bomb, I guess, but Pierce
and Andy, Pierce, we used to used to get into
quite a mood on stage sometimes too. I love this
man still today. He's one of my best friends. But
but he there was a night we were playing in
Australia and it was near the end of the show
and him and my guitarist Andy were looking at each
other and Pierce was kind of he was just not
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having it, like he was just not having a good
time on stage, didn't want to be there. And Andy
was kind of egging him on, like why do you
just leave then? Like why don't you go? Like come on,
like what are you gonna do? You know? And Pierce
was like fuck it, and he took his bass off
and left the stage. I didn't even notice, yeah, but
like right near the end of the show and I
was like, oh, I didn't really know what's going on.
So I got there was that some of the guys
from that band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard were there.
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So this guy Cookie, I was like, Cooky, cook, get
up here and play the last song. He was like,
I don't know, and I was like, it'll be fine.
Dorn Pierce left and he went to the green room
and he grabbed two beers and ahead of broccoli for
some reason, just really drunk and was like I'm out
of here and tried to leave out the front door,
and the bouncer was like, you can't take those beers
out of here, and he's liked make me and the
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guy grabbed the beers out the bottom, so it like slashed,
you know, the little beer bottle capital slashed his like
tendon hero open. There was blood all over the place.
I don't know what he was doing with the broccoli.
But the next day we were supposed to go to
that like wildlife conservatory place where you like hold the
koalas and stuff. And I remember in the morning waking
up and I hadn't seen him for the rest of
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the night. But waking up in the morning and everyone
being like, so are we going to the petting day?
I was like, no, Fred, not like not today, not
not after last night. Sorry about that was.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
His hand all funked up.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, he was out of these fucking cuts all.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Over his but he had to play, he had to
play an instrument. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I think luckily it was his right hand so that,
you know, it didn't go much his brutal Yeah, yeah,
he was, you know, it was a wild child.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, you know who the most stressful guys to drink with.
Have you ever drank with the jack jackass guys?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I've never even really met met the I remember you
were over here at one point and you when you
came over, you came in and you were like surveying
the backyard because you weren't sure where and when they
would be. Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Like I was at tiki bar with Knoxville and I
had sandals on, which I'd never have. Yeah, and I'm
not paying attention, I'm talking it. I was Jeff Germaine.
I'm talking to Germaine, and my left foot feels like
it's having like the worst allergic reaction, like just like inflamed.
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I'm like, God, what the fuck? My left foot feels
like I must be having an allergic reaction. I'm feel
like I'm having a stroke. I looked down. My whole
left foot is on fire. Knoxville got like a bottle
of one fifty one rum and matches, and he's like
just pouring one fifty one all over my foot and
throwing matches at Wow, and you can't stop it out.
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You're just stomping it around.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's like it's amazing, though, you know, that's like it's
just the way it should be. I think with those guys,
you know what I mean like that, because how old
is he now? He's like in his fifties or.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Something fifty, the early fifties.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And he's still lighting people's feet on fire.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's great. And you gotta like the whole crew. It's
not just the guys on the cast. It's like you
always have to have like your your beer like this
because they pee, they take out their dicks at the
arm pee in your beer while they're talking about like
Frank tow is drinking a beer and then like and
then like Tom toothless, Tom, who's not even on he's
(16:31):
a camera operator like Pee all in towns Beer. The
key is you can't you can't act nervous around them,
and then when they do prank, you just act gotta
act cool because the more you stress, the more they're
gonna be like.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Wow, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, that's it's tough. Yeah, Pee and fucking fire.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
With a Dre.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
With Adre. That's what's the worst bomb you've ever seen?
Have you ever seen a performer tank just eat a
bag of shit on stage?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Trying to think of like a really like maybe a
musical one.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I saw like Aril Pink early Ario Pink shows every day.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That was kind of what he did though at that
but you know he would just pull up with the
boombox and people would be like this isn't even good,
Like fuck you, this isn't good. You know, it's just
like this sucks. So I don't know, I feel like
but that. But it's like charming in a way as well.
It's like if you saw those shows. I saw one
of them back in the day, but I remember my
friend Cody was just like, yeah I saw it the
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other day and Montreal like it fucking sucks, and I
was like.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Cat power Cat power would notoriously mount down on stage
all the time too. She would she would have a
really tough time. She would unravel.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I mean see that there's like a difference because I
remember seeing there was a band called fuck Are They
called a garage band from Montreal. They came over to
Vancouver and they were playing. It was this big deal,
like when garage was kind of really having its moment,
like two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight or whatever,
and maybe two thousand and nine even and what were
they called I can't remember, but but that in that instance,
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it was like the drummer was just so hammered that
like they couldn't, Like the whole band is like trying
to play in the drummers just can't can't get in there.
Which is it just like it just didn't sound like
music at all. You know, there's instances like that where
it's kind of like technically impossible. But then there's the
ones where it is just like h meltdown status like
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screaming at the audience.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I have a friend Sean that used to you know,
I love this guy as well. I just recorded a
record for him a couple of years ago. But back
in the day he would have you know, Sean Nicholas Savage,
he would he would. He had some shows, some difficult
shows where he would get quite angry at that. Actually,
on tour with us, I hope he doesn't minded I'm
telling these stories. But there was a tour where he
he was in the van with us the whole time,
and he had he would he would use olive oil
(19:08):
in his hair to slick it back. He was looking
good on the story in an Italian suit, slicked his
hair back every day. He's kind of you know, very uh,
kind of a cloud snowmy style look. Sometimes you know,
a very skinny guy, like beautiful guy. But I remember
there was this one we played in Glasgow or something,
and they didn't have normal olive oil. We're playing at
a pizza restaurant, but they had like the pizza olive
oil spicy, so it had like the peppers in it
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and stuff. So Sean he got mad. There was no
hot water in the green rooms. He was frustrated about that,
and then they didn't have the olive oil. They only
had the pizza of olive oil. So he took a
cold shower and then he smelled like a pizza cause
he uses pizza of olive oil and he just got
that night though, I think it was like a we
had just a mess of shit happening that, you know,
that tour, and it was that was one of the
you know, I feel like our fuse was quite short,
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but somehow he had a dress when we played that night,
and he was like crawling around and just screaming, and
it was like it was just punishing, you know, punishing
the people that came to But even that, it's like
I love the punishment like them.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
To me, it's like the most entertaining show.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
To me, it's like, yeah, somebody Steve.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh no, I saw a super cut of Steve Lacey
taking people's iPhones out of their hands, like breaking them one.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
But even that, it's like, you know, that's one of
those things we're onlinecause I've seen those clips and I
love Steve too, He's my my good buddy. But it's
like with that, it's it's kind of like people are like,
like I am so angry at you, Steve, Like I paid,
like right now, we're living in this in this world
where it's kind of like I paid for your.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Record Outraged Economy.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, I I own you well that and it's like
it's like I I should have a say, you know,
it's like I am your fan and I paid to
be your fan.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So but it's like, no, you let him break your phone.
I like, I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I love him camera Like fuck yeah, Steve, like get
it because it is you know, it's annoying. You know,
it's fucking annoying. You know, but it's I don't know,
it's like even that like but that's what I'm saying,
is like a diference between the music bombing and the comedy.
But I don't know. Bombing is such like it's such
a very particular thing, like it's I don't know. I
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think that the worst is when something happens that is
out of your control and then you can't reel it
back in. Yeah, you know, like like say for like
and then it just gets.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
All like technical equipment like yeah, audio going down or that.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's kind of like I think back to like when
we saw radio Head at Coachella, like I don't know,
five years ago or four years ago whatever, and uh,
and the P eight has kept shutting off and the
first time you're like, oh, that's cute. The PA is
shutting off, and then it happens again and again.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Radioheads PA, Well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, the console is exploding or something, and like, you know,
even you can even see it in the guys. I
mean they're professionals, they take care of business or whatever.
But you know, it happens two or three times, and
you get to the point where you're kind of like
you're like, yeah, I don't know if I have any
more like cute jokes about the ship being fucked, Like
the shit's just kind of fucked, you know what I mean.
It's like at that point, it's kind of like like
you get that. Yeah, Yeah, I feel like I had
(22:02):
it so badly recently. What was it? The cringe? It's
almost Yeah, the cringe is what I That's what I
search you for. That's what I love.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, I heard Frank Ocean was having a tough time.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That was I Yeah, I was there for that as well.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Danny buddies with Bunny Blanco. He said the show was amazing.
He goes, I don't why everybody's get.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
People really loved it. I didn't stay for the whole
thing just because I was like I don't want to
wait for the traffic, but uh, I'm out. I'll say
that some components of it, like his voice sounded amazing.
It was just like there's parts about it where you know,
there was a lot of waiting, there was a lot
of it was strange.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
It was really strange. I think Cochella is a tough crowd.
Don't you think Coachella is a tough coachell is? We did?
We performed at Gouceella together. That's right, we performed Atella together.
Never forget the.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Theremin and the Giant. It was at twenty inch deal
the Giant.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But it's don't you think that Coachella is a tough crowd.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Coachella is like not a music crowd. It's like a
butt cheeks crowd. Like it's like, you know, everybody's there
with like barely any clothes on, and like it's more
about getting the photos and ship. Yes, I mean, Frank
Ocean is like you know those butt cheek people like
do know about Frank? Like they love Frank.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's so fun. It's such a funny, you know what
I mean? So what is that are you describing? Like
the southern California girl with a flower crown and the
big time but cheeks are just out. They don't even
know the bands, they're just they're.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Fuck like that. I have a problem with the butt
cheek people.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I have a problem with the but cheek people, the
budgeting people. They're low cutie pies, but they're fucking they are.
They are the stereotype of the southern California ding dong
oh yeah. Like, And that's my problem with the Coachella crowd.
I don't think anybody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's very hot. Here's my here's my issues with Coachella.
I'll tell you one of the best festivals ever played.
Fucking uh b c. Pemberton, British col.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, I've heard that's a nice one.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Under been there, But Pemberton, all Pacific Northwest outside land
festivals of San Francisco's amazing, Sasquatch, all those like, all
those like rural Washington state kind of festivals amazing. The
weather's amazing, the landscape's amazing. Indio, California, Coachello Valley is
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just a flat, brutal, hot, brutal nightmare strawberry farm. It's
just a fucking strawberry farm.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Butt cheeks everywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And then ding Dong's from Orange County and Arizona in
La La ding Dongs gorgeous idiots coming for miles around.
I don't know, it just feels a little too cool.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's not even cool, Like it's like, but it's not cool.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The irony is it's not cool. But it feels like
it feels like girls with flower crowns that are like
this rave is important, man, exactly, and it's like is important.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
It feels expensive in a way, you know what I mean,
But it kind of it's like it's like greasy in
a way. But here's the thing is, I talked to
my friend Jania that a couple of weeks ago, and
he was saying that he went to Cochelle. He'd never
really been in music, vessels, guys, a painters, a good
pel of mine, and the you know, he was saying
that he he went with this stay with this guy
that you know, I think is an art dealer or something,
and they had the real they had the lux Coachell experience,
(25:12):
Like the guy's got a humongous house on a golf
course and there's you know, chefs and like just a
million dollar experience, you know, and like the artists don't
even have that there. You know, it's like I you know,
you like in a dusty trailer or something, and like
we all caterings closing, It's like, oh, can I still
get dinner? It's like sorry now, you know, it's like
you know, it's like it's it's I don't know, it's
(25:32):
But that's the whole point too, is that you can
you can essentially buy the artist experience a cochelle. You
can like buy an artist pass, you can buy a
VIP pass whatever. So it's enticing to these people. But
that's why I love it. You know, it's like the
you go for the celebs, you know, you go to
people watch. Although the first couple of years we played,
I was looking for the wrong celebs, Like I'm looking
for like Jack Nicholson or something like. You know, you
(25:55):
got to look for the contemporary, the TikTokers, You got to.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Look for your eyes feel for Jack.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean I would I saw, you know, you go
to Lakers game, that's where you see Jack. Yeah, you
ever see that photo of him at the Lakers game
where him and his buddy brought homemade chili to eat
and he just spilt it all over his pants.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's so and he's just.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Sitting there like a shit, Like, what do I do now?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Jack with aericnre with aericndre, what's the well you already
said the most wasted you've been on stage.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I don't know if that was the most wasted. There's
definitely been other instances where I've just been I mean
it's like, you know, it's it's funny getting into the
swing of Like there was about a year and a
half or two year period where I would drink a
full two six of Jamison on stage every night. It
was like I would just.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Are those early tours or are those your early tours?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
No, this is like this is like maybe you know
the two albums ago, last album? Yeah, so it's like
but you build our nerves or just for fun. I
think it was just like, well, let's just see how
far down this road we can go, you know, But
it was there were there were nights. I remember we
played a show I think it might be the only
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show we ever played in Pittsburgh and we just played
for I mean, we played the songs we were gonna play,
like my songs, and then I was so so like
it just erupted into this like jam thing. I like
don't remember the show at all, but there's videos of it.
We played for like three and a half hours or
something Like a lot of it is just like kind
of weird slow jamming, and I'm making people say I'm
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like Turkey, and they're like saying Turkey back to It's
this whole thing, and I just remember, you know, the
show was finished. I'm laying on the back the back patio.
There's like a masseuse there giving me a massage. I
don't know, it's just like there's a blur of this
era where it's like, you know, there were a lot
of shows where I couldn't walk after the show, and
(28:01):
that was like that.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You know, do you think toe to toe drink for drink,
cigarette for cigarette? Did you ever surpass post malone or
were you guys to kind of neck and neck for SIGs.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Post party with this? One time we parted would Post
in Tokyo. We were both playing at Fuji Rock and
we took him to this.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Did any smoke four to five packs a day?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I wouldn't be surprised. I mean I never I'm sure
that if I was at you know, if it was
the right Music festival, and we played early enough in
the day, like four packs wouldn't be out of the four.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
That's eighty cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, it's a shitload, I mean, but it's like, you know,
here's the thing. I bet it's the same a Post too.
When you're posting, you got SIGs. Everybody's having a sig.
You go through four or five packs, I don't know,
but there, I mean, there was a long time where
I was smoking at least two packs a day, which
is like, that's a lot of cigarettes, you know. But
but Post, I remember there was a nut yet We
took him to Beat Cafe. This guy Kato man In
in Tokyo. He runs this bar named Beat Cafe. And
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we went there with Post and me and all my guys.
We drank. We all drink a lot. A lot of
us were from Canada. It's like it's kind of you know,
that's that's the.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, it's a nation founded by alcoholics.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Exactactly.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
John, what's what's your George Roshing called Johnny apple Seed?
What's like Johnny Appleseed? He's got the big schnas.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
John McDonald, John McDonald, John McDonald, have you seen that guy?
Schnas that guy drank his face into an explosion exactly. Yeah,
but I know, so you're drinking in Tokyo Post.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, we were with Posts and we were drinking in
there and Post, I mean Post there was it got
to the post gets hammered. I don't know if he
does anymore. I haven't seen him in quite a few years,
but but he was like on the ground, like rolling
around and we had that. There was a point where
we were all hammered too. We had to go to security,
like don't you think like maybe you should take him home?
Like you can't stand up now, what's going on? So
in that one instance, we I would say, we out
(29:46):
drank Post nice. But he's a he's a beer man,
like he loves to drink the bud night guy. Yeah
that was interesting too. That year he actually had like
palettes of bud Light flown into Fuji Rock, which is.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Like rough bud Light.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, Japan Japan's got good like light light beer, Like
why not just drink that? But he is a he
loves his bud Lights.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So bud Light's tough.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Man, It's easy to drink. I think that's the thing.
It's like a casual doesn't make you feel full, doesn't
make you drunk too fast.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
But also I like drinking to get drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'm like, exactly, that's the whole thing. I never really
thought that there was any you know, I mean the flavor.
Never I don't know, fancy cocktail.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
It's just kind of like the faster the you know.
That's why jamison is so great. It's because it's it's
quite easy to drink, and you can drink it fast,
and it's kind of like the Coca cola hard alcohol
or whatever. And then there you are.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I'm a big rum guy, I'm a rum. I'm part
pirate rum. Rum is mine.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'll say this. This is another instance of me being
really hammered on stage that I'm just remembering. My friend
Mollie Lewis. She's a whistler and she was doing the show.
Do you mean she's like a whistler, she's a whistlership,
you know, she's like she could yeah, she's crazy, really
good whistler. And she was professional. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
(31:05):
yeah yeah. And she was doing a whistle show down
at Zebulon like not far from you know, the zone
in La and uh and she wanted me to come
and sing this Frank Sinatra song, a song called Change Partners.
This was years ago, and I don't drink gin really.
I was a whiskey guy or tequila guy or whatever.
I love so but I was like, I'm singing a
Frank Sinatra song tonight, I'm gonna drink Martini's. And so
(31:28):
I just started drinking these. Jim Martinez, I think I
had like maybe twenty maybe twenty gin, and it was this.
It was fucked up.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Martini is basically just Gin with a little remove.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It was like that. The performance was okay, and I
had a nice time there, but I was so drunk.
And say it was what happened after? You know that
plays Astro diner down the street from the so I
was there. I was one thing led to another. Was
hugging my friend, you know, he had to leave. I
don't know. I ended up falling through one of the
stained glass windows was at Aftra Diner. But but my
(32:02):
I also had my my cock and balls out of
my jeans for some reason. So I fell through and
as soon as I fell through, I was like it
was so sobering. All of a sudden, I was like, oh, Okay,
time to get up and go tell them that I'll
replace the glass, and I like start walking in, but
cure my girlfriend was like like stop stop, and I
was like what and she had to like she pushed
my balls back in my jeans and hipped the jeans up,
(32:23):
and then I walked in. I was like, I'm so
sorry I've destroyed your and I actually I paid for
the windows like two hundred bucks, like it took like
months and months and months, and then to get it.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
They have staying that windows like a church.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
These low there's these low ones. Yeah, I mean I
think that place has been there for a long time,
but they kind of know me in there now because I, yeah,
fell the acids.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Windows like twenties zebul.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, brutal, But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Were you ever a cocaine guy? Where you big coke? Coke?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Not really?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, There's a lot of big drinkers are like they
like sniffing the they like sniffing the stuff to kind
of get them die.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah. I never you know, it's funny, It's like I
never really became that much of a drugman.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You were popping mally shelf and pingers.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I mean there's been music festivals over the years that
for sure, you know, but but it's like I never
I never really seeked it out. I guess it was
always just kind of like I suppose, I suppose I
will Yeah, no, probably, yeah, some of those I mean,
especially with the Malli and that. You know, it's like
you just don't know what you're getting sometimes and you know,
you end up having a insane We have had some
insane experiences. But I remember just watching we watched Outcast
(33:27):
at a festival in Belgium, and we had all the
whole crew had taken some pills that some kid had
given us, and we're just in that little there's that
little turret or like the little like mote or whatever
that you know, from the front of house to the stage,
and we're all in there holding the railing like watching
out Class play, like just so terrified and like so
(33:47):
so high. Yeah, horrible.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's kind of.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Drug is whippets. I've probably done millions and millions and
millions of whippets.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I've never done whippets, but I have a lot of
friends that have indulged in that. It's is it similar
to like poppers?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
No, I think poppers is the poor man's whip poppers.
VHS cleaner, like it is true huffing chemicals. Nitrous oxide
is not only food grade, but the dentist gives it
to you when they give you a dental procedure. They're
not giving they're not giving you VHS cleaner. So I'm
very Uh, I'm a whippid advocate.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's medical. I like that, that's medical stuff. I feel.
We there was a while we knew this guy and uh,
just speaking about interesting drugs. At this point. There was
a guy named Bruno that used to take us around
when we go down to Brazil, and he would still
but we'd have been down in a long time, but
he used to have this He never sat down. This guy,
he's like a very you know, very fit bald man.
Wore a nice little hat. He had this amulet he
(34:44):
would always wear and he and we'd ask about it.
He'd be like, you can look, but like no touching.
And he was always kind of dancing like this. And
he never sat down. He was always standing up. Even
if we're driving. We would drive like four hours doing
their city. He'd stand up in the in the you know,
the van the whole time. But he had this, uh
this it was like a little tin of like brown
powder and he used to sprinkle a little bit like
(35:05):
right there on his hand, and you know, it's like
some kind of like brown cocaine. I was like, what
the fun Bruno? What is that? It was apparently like
the crushed up roots of like an ancient tree gets
yell jacked up. It's some crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's so cool. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
That's so cool. That guys sounds like the coolest guy.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
He's cool. He had a lot of good times and Bruno,
he's a great guy. Montelvo that's his last name. Great guy.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
What more can we say? I mean, the craziest thing
you've done is like acupuncture and you got to like,
what do you gotta do like explode semen and your
girlfriend or something.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
No semen allowed, where you explode the uterus? No semen allowed?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I don't know? I said, like he you know, doctor
Kim is like he speaks English, but he's he's Korean
and he's like cell so it's kind of like you
know I was, I said. When he said that, I
was like like edging, and he went, Okay, you know,
we didn't really meet in the middle on it, but
he says a lot of crazy things. You know, yesterday
he told me some cool ones where he was kind
(36:14):
of like, he say, sandwich work, never sandwich while working.
Never never sandwich time, work time. I was like, okay,
I respect that. Do not eat when you work, make
it separate, do not the other thing he says all
the time. He says, I should become a CIA agent
so I can get the license to kill. Then I
(36:34):
can kill my boss. Because my boss is stressing me out.
I don't think he realizes that I'm kind of like
a you know, I kind of am the boss. But yes, insane.
He's fully insane. And I lay there and I let
him just shove me full of needles. Actually, one of
the ones that he put in my arm yesterday, my
hands kind of fucked up from it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
So I think some of those needles are dirty. I
did acupuncture a few times. I'm like, I feel like
they're reusing some of these needles.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
I don't like a few times gives me the fucking
Hebrew gis a little bit.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah. The cupping has you have you ever done the
blood cupping?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, he like stabbed my foot three times and I
was like, ah yeah, and then he sucked all this
blood out and he's like, you have a fever in
your liver, but don't worry. I'm sucking it up now. Okay, brutal,
but you know, kind of cool. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I want to hang with this guy in Bruno.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah, Bruno and doctor Cam That would be a wild.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
What a tour Brazil with both of them. I love it, Mac.
What's left to be said?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I don't know. Thank you for having me on your show.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, thanks man, Thanks thanks. It's a new show and
we're figuring it out as we go, and that's cool.
You are a phenomenal guest, and you know I love
you and I will be back in l A in
a couple of weeks. And let's go to fucking Astroberger
and crashing absolutely crash the windows, Belismo bellissimo, all right,
(37:57):
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