We’re In A Band!

Mike gets a new guitar. Jase falls alseep to the sound of sweet, sweet hellscapes. Nick saves electricity.

Our main topic this week is revisiting our favorite bands' first albums; Jase with Hanson, Mike with Green Day, and Nick with Rush. Learn about the bands and listen with us as we discuss these first albums in-depth and how they relate to the bands' modern relases.

Thanks to everyone who either deliberately comes out to see us ...

Jase argues with AI (and loses). Nick discusses economics. Mike reads obituaries! All around, a good podcast, compelling for all audiences! Nick tells us a dream (yawn) for like 10 minutes. As boring as it is, on the plus side, Jase is kind of a badass in Nick’s dreams (though, he chokes when it really matters). J bathes in hollandaise sauce amidst the band arguing the merits of clarified butter (ghee). Feetfinder makes its resur...

He initially changed it to The Middle, but lawsuits from Jimmy Eat World soon followed.

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Folks, we got a fun one for you this week! Mike plays guitar during the whole episode, demonstrating some super radical tones from his guitar effects processor. Our primary topic, which we don't even SLIGHTLY stick to, like, at all, is how we, as a cover band, try to play the right notes, but often fail; but does anyone other than musicians ...

...And then Mike showed up and was an amazing and natural bassist! ... But now he's on guitar... And Jase is on bass? What? What even IS this band?

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As we approach our 6th anniversary of being together as a band, we discuss how incredible our last show was (shout out to Gleason's in Peekskill) - how awesome the audience was, how toasted Jase was, etc. We even met up with another band who was playing next door (False Start) and s...

Thanks for joining us for this 25th and last and truly final episode of ... whatever this piece of crap is called! This is Mike's final episode as a single man - henceforth, he will pay taxes jointly; he will no longer masturbate solo (or he'll wait until she's asleep and express his true fetishes). He's eating for two, now, if you catch our drift. Mike's getting married! Of course, he'll be considering an annulment by the time thi...

Supposedly, it was just a phase...But let's be honest; it wasn't nearly the most shocking thing Mike or Nick has learned about me and it won't be the last (does that sort of phrase work here?). Thankfully, his stepmom doesn't listen to this podcast.

Anyway...

Happy birthday Mikey!! He turns asl68&^*&5jh years old on this episode! Old enough to be of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret somewhere downtown where a...

FeetFinder.com - now with over $5M in feet pics sold annually!*

Jase gets a new Ferarri. Mike accidentally gets conned into buying way too much Panera Bread liquids. Crash Bandicoot is the Jimmy Buffett of video games. Who's has transparent skin and be slammin' younger gash? Shout out to FeetFinder.com for their clever logo. This week, we talk about creating original music; a taboo subject for a cover band. Should creativity feel...

(Inside joke for the time J got extra sausage.) Mike's Panera Bread woes. Jase gets two flat tires in one day. Yes, synth stores do exist! The gang gets high on Spotify wrap-ups! What did we listen to? How has being in a band affected our Spotify algorithms? Jason can't count Tool music's time signatures... So, guys; it's the new year. Literally NOTHING has changed. What the fuck? Shouldn't everything be new? But nope. Same presi...

How much is it okay to drink during a gig? What's the ideal level of drunk for creativity? Nickolai finds "a Reddit" with an article that ... articulates the answer! Great! Now we don't have to think.

Nick has caused Mike and J to abandon all hope for a drummer that can play in time. Mike's route cause analysis of why Jase lived in Sioux Falls. The meditative war sounds perfectly demonstrate J's skull's war on his hair! All this an...

Gold's Gym - The perfect place to be bicurious AND find a contract killer!

What makes someone a superfan of a band? Can you name every album, EP? IN ORDER?!? Does it mean you have a tattoo? Or does it mean you stick by them through thick and thin? Should you force yourself to like an album by listening to it so many times you can't NOT like it?

What would your favorite band have to do - legally or morally - to make you not want to ...

The gang solves the middle east crisis. What conspiracy theory is most likely to be true? What is deja vu? Are we living in a simulation? What's the best Matrix movie? Learn how to use a good Shrek wig to look great and promote inclusion! Nick makes fun of J's tattoos, Mike talks shit about white women. Finally, at some point, we get into the real sausagy meat of this week's pod, the ten commandments of being in a band. We score ab...

Settle in for Nick's riveting subway story (the crackhead-filled mass transportation under NYC, not the sandwich shop that hires yester-fat pedos) featuring his inability to spell fentanyl. Jase bought Hanson shirts. We discuss cover band competition and cover bands with separate singers (okay, sure; they might play a tambourine here and there).

Mike works at the power company and Jase saw his dad's dick for the first time on Lake ...

Join us this week for another special post-gig podcast recorded at Denny's. We're exhausted, spent, drained, empty, and just about any other term that might apply to both a post-coital ballsack and a band that has just played their hearts out for the last 4 hours.

Nick wasn't able to join us this time (he had to go throw up so he could fit into his wedding dress), but we took the opportunity to talk mad shit about him. Fuck that gu...

Pro tip: skip the first five minutes!!!

Relentless spiders, Hudson Valley geography, Nick's newest eating disorder, Caribbean doctors doing BBLs - this week, we've got it all!

What music do you listen to when you're depressed or ... ate too much ice cream? Great news! YouTube probably has a channel just for you!

What does it mean to be a professional musician? When did we accept that we are nothing more than a fat old bald dude who...

Bruh...

This week, we thought we'd try something new. We decided to record 17,000 measures @ 669 BPM discussing why middle-aged woman diarrhea is worse (for some reason). From dick pics superimposed over spreadsheets, measuring dicks by weight, to poo on a plane... This fifth and final episode went off the rails almost immediately and never returned. Instead of discussing music, we spend an hour and 40 minutes discussing diarrhea. ...

Jase makes the Denny's waitress uncomfortable (again). Still no lawsuit or authorities involved, so, win? Rock down to (Mike's) electric car review. Nick's old Hungarian navigator shame's him into going the speed limit. What exactly is the 90's look? We lay out all of our political views at once! R.I.P., Jimmy Buffett - Nick (and ONLY Nick) will miss you and can name more than one song of yours. Whose dick weighs exactly 87 Courics...

Shout out to meat!

Following our gig at Newburgh Brewing Co. on August August 25th, we convened at Denny's in the middle of the night to replenish thousands of calories and discuss meat, Jerry Seinfeld, restaurants with fake soap money, how to pronounce "Porche" and other such impossibly important topics.

Come hang out with us for an hour or so and enjoy the sound of us eating while we entertain our delusions of grandeur. 

We love ...

Thank god our wives, girlfriends, and fiancees never listen to this podcast. They'd dump us if they weren't legally bound to us, soon to be legally bound, or financially dependent. But they're too busy doing taxidermy, tarot, or whatever the drummer's wife does (something to do with the mafia, probably?).

Today we discuss what it's like being in a band and in a relationship at the same. Pokemon evolutions, Game of Thrones, suicide,...

If you were in a band with twice as many songs in your repertoire than you can fit into the three sets comprising a typical gig, how would you choose what songs to place where? What song do you start the first set with to pique the sober audience's interest? What song do you end the night with make sure you leave a lasting impression to the party animals who stuck it out to the end?

In this special edition of "We're In A Band!", we...