Episode 153

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13th Sep 2024

Don Jamieson Joins the Fun: Rock, Comedy, and Crazy Concert Memories - Who's Your Band Episode 153

"Who's Your Band?" Podcast Episode 153! Comedians Jeffrey Paul and Sean Morton with special guest, stand-up comedian Don Jamieson!

On this week's episode of "Who's Your Band?," we're joined by stand-up comedian, and That Metal Show host, Don Jamieson! We discuss concert t-shirts, Van Halen, watch clips of Corey Feldman and Rock of Ages, talk about the NFL, working on rock cruises, That Metal Show, Terrorizing Telemarketers, and so much more! Don't miss this hilarious episode of "Who's Your Band?"

Transcript
Jeffrey Paul:

Welcome, everybody, to Hoosier Band.

Jeffrey Paul:

I am Jeffrey Paul.

Jeffrey Paul:

I'm joined by my co host, Sean Morton.

Sean Morton:

Hi, beautiful.

Sean Morton:

How you doing today?

Jeffrey Paul:

Sean, what are you doing?

Jeffrey Paul:

Showing off the guns?

Sean Morton:

Me?

Sean Morton:

No, I got this in.

Sean Morton:

And you know where I got this at?

Sean Morton:

Forever 21 in Beverly Hills when I was out there in February for $2.

Jeffrey Paul:

How'd you get that for $2?

Jeffrey Paul:

It's a great shirt.

Sean Morton:

Cause it sucks.

Sean Morton:

It's fucking ugly as shit.

Sean Morton:

You don't see the rest of it, but $2?

Sean Morton:

I brought this all the way back from frigging laden.

Jeffrey Paul:

I don't know, two years ago, I went to the stadium tour, and I get there and, you know, they have all the shirts and, you know, poison had the best one.

Jeffrey Paul:

I thought they had the best set of the night.

Jeffrey Paul:

And so I bought this poison shirt and I fucking lost it.

Jeffrey Paul:

And I was never.

Jeffrey Paul:

I went online to see if I can get it, and it cost me $60, too.

Sean Morton:

I can remember, you know, how in our lives we have to go through so much shit like, you just.

Sean Morton:

Certain things just stick in your brain.

Sean Morton:

wild shirt at Giant Stadium,:

Sean Morton:

And I brought it down to that stupid water park in Seaside Heights.

Sean Morton:

And because I was a fucking fat little kid, I kept my shirt on all the time.

Sean Morton:

And then I was soaked.

Sean Morton:

I was completely soaked from going on all the water rides.

Sean Morton:

And I took it off and put a clean shirt on and I left that fucking thing there.

Sean Morton:

It haunts me 35 years later.

Jeffrey Paul:

It does, because you can't find those shirts anymore.

Jeffrey Paul:

You know, those great, great classic shirts.

Jeffrey Paul:

Um, I want to get started with this today.

Jeffrey Paul:

I love our guest.

Jeffrey Paul:

He's not only a great comic and knows everything about music, but he's also, like, one of the best guys you're ever going to meet.

Jeffrey Paul:

I really sincerely say that.

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's introduce our buddy, Don Jameson.

Don Jameson:

Hey, what's up, boys?

Don Jameson:

I love all the concert shirt talk.

Don Jameson:

And, yeah, nowadays with the prices at shows, you can't afford to.

Don Jameson:

To leave your t shirt behind or lose it somewhere.

Don Jameson:

My girlfriend and I went to see John five at the Gramercy in New York about three months ago, and she bought a double cost amigos and tonic.

Don Jameson:

I think it was literally, like $48.

Jeffrey Paul:

Is that the same gramercy that also owned by Madison Square Garden and Beacon?

Sean Morton:

I think so.

Sean Morton:

They do the same family.

Jeffrey Paul:

Because that's about right.

Don Jameson:

I forget.

Don Jameson:

But.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, but, you know, but that's one thing.

Don Jameson:

It's.

Don Jameson:

You know what?

Don Jameson:

She was like, I'm just going to have one drink the whole night.

Don Jameson:

So it was like, fine.

Don Jameson:

But we get up into the showroom now, the lights go down, the show starts, and everybody now jockeys for position, and someone just slams, you know, right into my girlfriend's arm.

Don Jameson:

Half the drink spills out.

Don Jameson:

That's like $24.

Don Jameson:

I go, I only had $20 in my.

Don Jameson:

My wallet.

Don Jameson:

I would have rather you robbed me.

Don Jameson:

You spilled more alcohol than money I had in my wallet.

Don Jameson:

So it's.

Don Jameson:

It's crazy, but this is how bands, you know, not with their booze, but with the shirts that, you know, most bands are t shirt salesmen for a living.

Don Jameson:

You know, that's how they're actually making money, which, you know, it sucks.

Don Jameson:

They don't make it on the music anymore.

Don Jameson:

They make it selling you cotton.

Don Jameson:

So I try to always buy a t shirt when I go to a show whenever I can, but I hold onto it for dear life.

Jeffrey Paul:

Same, same, exactly.

Sean Morton:

I bought three the other night, went to see Blackstone, cherry and nonpoint, and I bought two Blackstones and a nonpoint shirt because, you know, the money's going right to them.

Sean Morton:

There's, you know.

Sean Morton:

Yeah, a lot of them are having cool merch.

Sean Morton:

Frickin non point.

Sean Morton:

Had a non point cassette player, like, a little mini, like, portable cassette player that you plug into your auxiliary, which I thought was fucking phenomenal.

Sean Morton:

What a great idea.

Sean Morton:

I've never seen that before with a band.

Sean Morton:

I thought it was really cool.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think bands got to get kind of creative with the merch because I think the whole record industry has really, like, flip flopped.

Jeffrey Paul:

Because I remember back in the day, you would, like, put out your album and, like, you'd make your money off of points from the record.

Jeffrey Paul:

And, like, now, like, I think bands almost given them music away for free.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, that's pretty much what's going on.

Don Jameson:

I, you know, Sean, I was going to go to that show, but I had, I had Tom Kiefer at Star land on Thursday night and then Sammy Hagar Saturday night at the art center.

Don Jameson:

I'm like, I love non point.

Don Jameson:

I love Blackstone Chariot.

Don Jameson:

Just, you know, I'm like, I'm 57.

Don Jameson:

I need.

Don Jameson:

I need a day off in between, man.

Sean Morton:

But I'm sure I will tell you, you would have had a lot of room to roam around.

Jeffrey Paul:

Oh, really?

Sean Morton:

I have been a Blackstone Cherry fan since their first record, and I never got to see them.

Sean Morton:

And, like, two years ago, me and my buddy went down to the Vogel in Red bank.

Sean Morton:

Right.

Sean Morton:

And Domino.

Sean Morton:

I'm telling you, if 45 people were there, it was a lot.

Sean Morton:

Like, we walked up.

Sean Morton:

I walked out with a guitar, pick a set list, a drumstick.

Jeffrey Paul:

I snapped through the encore.

Sean Morton:

I got the bass.

Sean Morton:

Whatever we wanted, we got.

Jeffrey Paul:

How much would tickets like?

Sean Morton:

$30.

Jeffrey Paul:

Really?

Jeffrey Paul:

So it's not even the price of.

Sean Morton:

The ticket, but, like, star land.

Sean Morton:

Jeff, you mean you've been there a million times with me, too.

Sean Morton:

It's like they curtained off both the sides, like, all the way up to the sides.

Sean Morton:

Like, only that center bar was wide open and the floor was empty.

Sean Morton:

Like, it mean maybe 500 people were there.

Jeffrey Paul:

Every time you and I've gone, it's always been jam pap.

Jeffrey Paul:

But we also went to go see Zach Wilde and.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, and dirty honey.

Jeffrey Paul:

How was the Tom Kiefer show?

Don Jameson:

It was great, man.

Don Jameson:

His voice sounded killer.

Don Jameson:

And, you know, the band he has now, he's had, like, for 15 years.

Don Jameson:

And as much as, you know, I was always a fan of Cinderella back in the day.

Don Jameson:

Of course, he plays a ton of Cinderella songs.

Don Jameson:

This band is so much better than Cinderella ever was in their heyday.

Don Jameson:

I mean, you know, they had a.

Don Jameson:

They basically had a touring drummer who, you know, they wouldn't even let play on the studio albums.

Don Jameson:

Cause he just didn't, you know, have the precise chops for it.

Don Jameson:

And this band that he has now is just.

Don Jameson:

They just kick ass, man.

Don Jameson:

They're just, you know, this.

Don Jameson:

This group of musicians from Nashville, and there's a million great ones down there, and it's great, man.

Don Jameson:

It was really.

Don Jameson:

It was really cool to see those guys.

Don Jameson:

Really good crowd for Thursday.

Don Jameson:

I don't think it was quite sold out, but it was definitely a lot busier than the show you saw, Sean and.

Don Jameson:

But his.

Don Jameson:

With all the vocal problems he's had over the years, man, I'm so happy to hear him just singing.

Don Jameson:

So great.

Don Jameson:

So spot on.

Jeffrey Paul:

I saw him.

Jeffrey Paul:

Mark, Don, you know Mark?

Jeffrey Paul:

Rick Adona.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, of course.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

Rick Adona and I went last year to see Keefa.

Jeffrey Paul:

It was Kiefa winger and Karabi.

Jeffrey Paul:

We missed Karabi because we wound up before.

Jeffrey Paul:

Before Winga was done.

Jeffrey Paul:

We must have been at least, you know, ten in, and we just had, like, a kill time.

Jeffrey Paul:

We're in the first row.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, it was just great.

Jeffrey Paul:

I just thought Cinderella.

Jeffrey Paul:

I could go.

Jeffrey Paul:

Kifa was.

Jeffrey Paul:

Was really great.

Jeffrey Paul:

I want to go.

Jeffrey Paul:

I've been wanting to see him again.

Jeffrey Paul:

And I just had a show on Thursday night, but I would have gone.

Jeffrey Paul:

How was Hagar?

Don Jameson:

It was good, man.

Don Jameson:

He played a lot of deep cuts this time.

Don Jameson:

Usually when he does comes around with the circle, it's just all hits.

Don Jameson:

But yeah.

Don Jameson:

Great summer show.

Don Jameson:

Sammy sounded great.

Don Jameson:

They had Joe Satriani playing 75, 77.

Jeffrey Paul:

He's 70 I think.

Jeffrey Paul:

Wow.

Jeffrey Paul:

He sounded good.

Don Jameson:

Sounded amazing.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

Jason Bonham on drums and Michael Anthony.

Don Jameson:

And Michael Anthony singing the old Roth stuff which was great.

Don Jameson:

So wow.

Jeffrey Paul:

Speaking.

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's get into it for a second.

Jeffrey Paul:

Don Van Halen or Van Hager?

Don Jameson:

Oh, Van Halen for me personally.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

How about you, Sean?

Sean Morton:

Um, I like, I'm a Van Hagar fan.

Sean Morton:

This is, again, Jeff and I always bring this up and I don't mean to do this all the time but you got to remember this is where my age comes in too.

Sean Morton:

Because when, you know, David was gone, I was only twelve maybe.

Sean Morton:

No, no, less than that.

Sean Morton:

I was probably like eleven.

Sean Morton:

So when Van Hagar came onto the scene I'm like, you know, the late eighties I was getting really more into music at that point.

Sean Morton:

kind of the first album I had:

Sean Morton:

But I think ou 812 was the one that really started me on the, on the path where I realized I liked Hagar a little more.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think he's the better singer but I think you may have the better songs with Van Halen.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, that's what I, that's what I noticed.

Don Jameson:

But again, you know, Sean probably would have really Dugdez, you know, a lot of the Van Hagar deep tracks that they played, you know.

Don Jameson:

But to me, yeah, to me it's the, you could see the difference in the deep tracks.

Don Jameson:

You know, I think the Dave deep tracks are way better and way more well known than the Sammy ones.

Don Jameson:

But for me it was cool to hear some other stuff.

Jeffrey Paul:

Like what, what'd you consider a deep track, don?

Don Jameson:

Um, they have the song 7th seal.

Don Jameson:

I think it's off balance that they played.

Don Jameson:

hey played a lot of stuff off:

Don Jameson:

A couple of songs I didn't even really know.

Jeffrey Paul:

So you did summon nights.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, summer nights.

Don Jameson:

But that's a fairly popular one.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

Best of both worlds, right?

Don Jameson:

Yeah, they did that.

Don Jameson:

They did the song:

Jeffrey Paul:

That's a good one.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

So it was good.

Jeffrey Paul:

They do dreams.

Don Jameson:

No, he got a lot.

Don Jameson:

Sammy said that was he, sammy's honest about.

Don Jameson:

He goes I can't sing it anymore.

Jeffrey Paul:

Love walks in.

Don Jameson:

Did they do love walk?

Don Jameson:

They did that and they did right now?

Jeffrey Paul:

Right now.

Jeffrey Paul:

Well, right now is carnal knowledge.

Jeffrey Paul:

That great song.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

How was Satriani, man?

Don Jameson:

Yeah, you get, dude, you know, he's a genius in his own right, and I.

Don Jameson:

But I know, like, I know from being around Joe a lot, he's such a humble guy.

Don Jameson:

Like, you could tell this whole time, he was just, like, so genuine about playing the solos the right way, you know, to pay tribute to Eddie, you know?

Don Jameson:

And that's.

Don Jameson:

That's one of the things I love about Joe is he's just, you know, he's.

Don Jameson:

He's a guitar God in his own right, but he absolutely, you know, he still, like, you know, bows to the greats that came before him, so, yeah, I loved it.

Don Jameson:

He was, you know, great addition in there with Sammy.

Sean Morton:

That's kind of how I felt when we saw Zach filling in the Pantera last year or two years ago, you know, because, you know, Zach, you know, Satriani has his own sound completely, and Zach has his own sound, too.

Sean Morton:

But the way he was playing all the Pantera songs, trying to keep it as close to.

Sean Morton:

As close to the original versions as they were, instill throwing his own little spins on them.

Sean Morton:

But I feel it was kind of the same way.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, I thought that was great.

Jeffrey Paul:

And I thought the drummer, you know, the anthrax drummer who filled in was excellent as well.

Sean Morton:

He was amazing.

Don Jameson:

I haven't seen.

Don Jameson:

I haven't seen it yet, but I will say, like, if.

Don Jameson:

If you were gonna do it, those were the.

Don Jameson:

Those are the two guys exactly the number one choice in both those open positions.

Don Jameson:

So, you know, people.

Don Jameson:

You know, I'm still a little undecided on.

Don Jameson:

I know a lot of people are, but at least I know, like, the right people are in there doing it, so.

Don Jameson:

And I'm glad it's.

Don Jameson:

I mean it people, you know, a lot of people.

Don Jameson:

I got to see Pantera a whole bunch of times, and a lot of people haven't.

Don Jameson:

And nowadays, man, do you.

Don Jameson:

Some bands have one original member, no original members.

Don Jameson:

So to say they have half original members.

Don Jameson:

It's almost a badge of honor now.

Sean Morton:

I saw five times in eight days, like 90, probably 97.

Sean Morton:

It was them cold chamber and machine head moving from Boston to New York to Jersey to Philly to DC.

Don Jameson:

Wow.

Sean Morton:

It was just fucking.

Sean Morton:

The shows were just completely insane.

Sean Morton:

People don't understand, like, when you see a lot of these newer bands and, like, they have a big, like, tick tock presence or a big online presence and things like that.

Sean Morton:

Back then, there was nobody in the metal era that was holding a candle to pantera live.

Sean Morton:

Those shows were just an absolute experience every single time.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, we get back what Don was saying about, you know, you don't have original members and bands.

Jeffrey Paul:

Last week at PNC, like, the big show was sticks and foreigner.

Jeffrey Paul:

And I think between the two of them, there's one original member that's hard.

Jeffrey Paul:

One original.

Don Jameson:

Like, even Tommy sticks two and sticks.

Jeffrey Paul:

No, he's not original.

Don Jameson:

No.

Don Jameson:

Tommy Shaw and no, he's not original.

Jeffrey Paul:

He joined later on.

Jeffrey Paul:

He joined on Grand Illusion, the albums before he was not in the band.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay, James Young.

Don Jameson:

I'm thinking that you're right.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

No, technically, you're right.

Don Jameson:

I'm just thinking of the classic lineup that everybody knows.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay, so let's give it to Tommy short.

Jeffrey Paul:

You have Tommy short, James Young, and no one in foreigner.

Sean Morton:

This is what I deal with on.

Sean Morton:

This is kind of like when you're on the show with Eddie Trunk and you think, like, you know a lot about music, then Eddie pulls something out of his fucking ass that you've never heard in your entire life, and you got to forget three minutes later, this is every fucking week I got to deal with this shit.

Sean Morton:

m Sticks had for breakfast in:

Jeffrey Paul:

Again, that was my era, man.

Jeffrey Paul:

I loved sticks.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, I love them.

Jeffrey Paul:

But.

Jeffrey Paul:

Speaking of bands, Adam, let's cue this up.

Jeffrey Paul:

Don, this Tuesday, tomorrow night, we're considering seeing this guy.

Jeffrey Paul:

Can we play a little bit of this video for Don and Sean?

Jeffrey Paul:

Yep.

Jeffrey Paul:

Getting it.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, let's.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

I'm very curious about you guys opinion on this guy.

Sean Morton:

Get high for this.

Jeffrey Paul:

You should probably.

Sean Morton:

Here we go.

Don Jameson:

You don't have to.

Sean Morton:

Peer pressure, dog.

Jeffrey Paul:

All right, here we go.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you guys know who this is?

Don Jameson:

Oh, yeah.

Sean Morton:

Corey Feldman.

Sean Morton:

How great is this guy got tomorrow?

Jeffrey Paul:

This is tomorrow.

Jeffrey Paul:

He is on Loserville.

Sean Morton:

I think I might be joining you.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, this.

Jeffrey Paul:

Do you know this song?

Jeffrey Paul:

Essential and millennial.

Jeffrey Paul:

This is like a day in the life of Corey Feldman.

Jeffrey Paul:

This song will be played tomorrow.

Jeffrey Paul:

This video, I believe, is shot in his house.

Jeffrey Paul:

He has good hair, though.

Jeffrey Paul:

Look at him.

Don Jameson:

God, I wish I was second handing on Sean's vape right now.

Don Jameson:

I can't watch this film.

Don Jameson:

You're going, but you're going for the train wreck, right?

Don Jameson:

I mean, that's.

Jeffrey Paul:

I'm going for the pure music.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, of course.

Jeffrey Paul:

Like, there's a video now, if you go on YouTube, and we were trying to find it before, where he plays with a track, and he admits it because he says it makes the sound better.

Jeffrey Paul:

So this will be playing underneath.

Jeffrey Paul:

But they played the track before he came out and they show him yelling at the band and.

Jeffrey Paul:

But there's always some type of malfunction in the Cory filming show.

Jeffrey Paul:

Like, even in this video.

Jeffrey Paul:

Watch.

Jeffrey Paul:

He's having a hard time putting on the glove.

Sean Morton:

You know what scares me is the fact that you watch this enough to realize that the scene where you have the trouble with the glove.

Jeffrey Paul:

Do you have any rabbit holes of Corey Feldman?

Jeffrey Paul:

I've gone down.

Sean Morton:

I don't want to know.

Sean Morton:

But now I know never to check your hard drive.

Jeffrey Paul:

Oh, I've watched him at, oh, look who's at it.

Jeffrey Paul:

Look who it is.

Don Jameson:

Oh, who's that guy?

Jeffrey Paul:

Sean Astin from the Goonies.

Jeffrey Paul:

You get it?

Don Jameson:

Yes, I was, I was, I was mesmerized by Corey Feldman's Michael Jackson outfit.

Don Jameson:

Considering, considering the guy molested, I wouldn't be wearing the clothes of the person who molested.

Sean Morton:

All right, I think we gotta tap out of this.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

What do you, what do you, what do you think of the music?

Don Jameson:

Horrendous.

Jeffrey Paul:

You don't like it?

Don Jameson:

That's, that's brutal.

Sean Morton:

That was pretty rough, Jeff.

Jeffrey Paul:

I was trying to decide between this and come back King which is his opener?

Don Jameson:

Yeah, that's the opener.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, I've heard that song.

Don Jameson:

I've actually heard before.

Don Jameson:

But you're going for the train wreck.

Don Jameson:

I mean, that's why they're opening for Limp Bizkit, right?

Jeffrey Paul:

That's the deal, yeah, he's, he's, I think they have three bands before Limp Bizkit, and he's the first one on the, and he does maybe about six songs.

Sean Morton:

You know what's great about Lynn Bizkit, though?

Sean Morton:

It's one of those bands that no one will ever admit that they ever really liked.

Sean Morton:

You know, they were a fucking hit machine in the late nineties and early two thousands.

Sean Morton:

And, you know, and people always just give them a lot of shit because of the gimmicky kind of aspect to it.

Sean Morton:

But I'll tell you what, 25 years later, there's not much I would still put on from that, from that genre.

Sean Morton:

I would definitely still put a limp Bizkit song on once in a while.

Don Jameson:

And it's crazy because they'll have 15,000 people at the art center tomorrow, but not one of them will ever admit that they like them.

Don Jameson:

But they're all buying tickets and they're going, and it ain't for Corey Feldman.

Don Jameson:

Although again, I see if Corey Feldman was going on direct support to limp Bizkit, then I would go, but I don't want to go inside at 530, watch Corey Feldman.

Don Jameson:

Then I got to sit through what, at least more other bands before Limp Bizkit, you know, like Lover Boy opened for Sammy Hagar and I.

Don Jameson:

So we just, like, we were listening out in the parking lot, and that was good.

Don Jameson:

I was a.

Don Jameson:

That was good tailgating music, you know, they sounded really good.

Don Jameson:

But we didn't go in.

Don Jameson:

We didn't want to be in that early.

Don Jameson:

So, I mean, you're going to be in there a long time tomorrow if you go.

Sean Morton:

That's.

Sean Morton:

I've noticed the older we get, the.

Sean Morton:

We really got to, like, every fucking band on the show.

Sean Morton:

And, like, there's a show coming up in AC, it's a clutch.

Sean Morton:

Rival sons, Fu Manchu and Blackstone Cherry.

Jeffrey Paul:

That's a good show.

Sean Morton:

So that show up is at seven.

Sean Morton:

I'm going to be there at seven because I want to see all four bands.

Sean Morton:

But, like, the Blackstone Cherry show the other night, it was two other local band.

Sean Morton:

I mean, not local.

Sean Morton:

I'm sure they're on tour with them, but, like, I'm not standing around and sitting for that extra hour and a half, 2 hours, wait until the band come on.

Sean Morton:

I managed to time it perfectly.

Sean Morton:

The last bit, the last song of the second band was on non point, was on ten minutes.

Sean Morton:

I was a very happy fat boy.

Jeffrey Paul:

No, it's a good hack.

Jeffrey Paul:

When you go to PNC is if you don't want to, like, go in and.

Jeffrey Paul:

But you still want to, like, tailgate a little bit, is go into the live nation tent, the vip tent.

Jeffrey Paul:

You know, it's very easy, you know, to get your name on the list there.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you go and you get drinks of food and everything, and you can even watch some of the band on the monitors there.

Jeffrey Paul:

So it's not.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's not a bad thing to do.

Sean Morton:

Or you can do what I do is buy a house 15 minutes away, door to door to PNC, and show up 15 minutes before the fucking show starts, too.

Jeffrey Paul:

You could do that, too.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, I'm going to sell my house, so I can do that every summer.

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's switch gears here a little bit since we've been talking music.

Jeffrey Paul:

Don, you're a big football fan, right?

Don Jameson:

Yeah, absolutely.

Don Jameson:

Unfortunately, I'm a Jets fan, but I guess that's still considered football.

Jeffrey Paul:

I'm not sure it is considered football.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's considered high quality football.

Jeffrey Paul:

You're a big football fan.

Jeffrey Paul:

You did work on inside the NFL, right?

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yes.

Jeffrey Paul:

I want to get your thoughts on this season, particularly jets and giants.

Jeffrey Paul:

What?

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's start with the jets.

Don Jameson:

Well, my joke is, you know, that Hope Aaron Rodgers last at least twice as long this year, you know, and.

Jeffrey Paul:

That'S a good fucking joke because that's what that be.

Don Jameson:

Eight plays.

Don Jameson:

So, you know, I was surprised he came here, man, because, you know, he's, I like him.

Don Jameson:

You know, I mean, you can't take, whether you like him or not, you can't take away how great he has been.

Don Jameson:

But I don't know what he can do for the jets.

Don Jameson:

Is this going to be another Brett Favre where we're getting the guy at the end of his career?

Don Jameson:

He's just getting that one last payday and, and they're going to go 500 or can he elevate this team?

Don Jameson:

I mean, they improved the offensive line.

Don Jameson:

Their defense was already really good.

Don Jameson:

So there is a chance, but, you know, he's got to stay upright and whatever he's got to do, if he's got to go hide in a cave for a month or, you know, freeze himself in a block of ice like David Blaine, whatever it takes to get through the season, let's get it done and we might have a chance even at the playoffs.

Jeffrey Paul:

Am I winning my bet with Florentine?

Sean Morton:

You guys are so adorable Jet fan, but you're the same shit every, you.

Jeffrey Paul:

Know, not just, no, it's not.

Sean Morton:

Everybody stays healthy.

Sean Morton:

We got a chance.

Jeffrey Paul:

Not, it's not the same because this, this, this is the year.

Jeffrey Paul:

So, don, I have a bet with Florentine.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay?

Jeffrey Paul:

I have, I say the jets are going twelve and five, but as long as they win ten or more, I win.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think that's a lock.

Sean Morton:

That's.

Don Jameson:

Didn't he go off on you on stage for saying that?

Jeffrey Paul:

He did say that.

Jeffrey Paul:

He did a 15 minutes rant on how delusional I am about delusion.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, but, but I'm, I'm 100% right this year.

Jeffrey Paul:

There is, this is, this.

Jeffrey Paul:

Listen, if you go through the rosters of the NFL and you look at the jets schedule, which I've done, okay, they could, they could.

Jeffrey Paul:

If everything breaks right, they can easily go eight and two, but I don't think they go any worse than seven and three in their first ten games.

Jeffrey Paul:

Speaker two.

Don Jameson:

I'm not going to be that bold.

Don Jameson:

I'm not.

Don Jameson:

Listen, Sean, you know, I can be delusional, but that's highly delusional.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's not highly delusional.

Sean Morton:

61 episodes, right?

Sean Morton:

161 episodes.

Sean Morton:

We're at Jeffrey.

Sean Morton:

This is their fourth preseason of NFL.

Sean Morton:

Four fucking years in a row I'm hearing this bullshit, and you know I'm going to hear at the end of the season.

Sean Morton:

Well, you know, we had a lot of injuries.

Jeffrey Paul:

No, no, no, not this year.

Sean Morton:

We lost because points.

Sean Morton:

Shut up.

Jeffrey Paul:

We got it.

Jeffrey Paul:

We got it covered.

Jeffrey Paul:

We got backups.

Jeffrey Paul:

We got backups like last year, you know, Rogers goes down, it's over.

Jeffrey Paul:

Roger Rogers doesn't have to play all 17 games.

Jeffrey Paul:

He could sit out four of them.

Jeffrey Paul:

And the jets will still be all right.

Sean Morton:

They'll do that at $175 million a year?

Sean Morton:

Sure.

Jeffrey Paul:

They want to go far in the playoffs.

Jeffrey Paul:

Listen, everything.

Jeffrey Paul:

If everything breaks right, they can go to the Super bowl.

Jeffrey Paul:

Why not?

Sean Morton:

They almost had nuts.

Sean Morton:

She'd be my uncle.

Sean Morton:

What the fuck does it difference?

Sean Morton:

Does it make?

Jeffrey Paul:

What do we think about the Giants?

Jeffrey Paul:

Anyone watch the hard knocks?

Sean Morton:

No, I haven't watched it yet.

Don Jameson:

No.

Don Jameson:

My buddy Eddie trunk is a die die hard giants fan, and I think even he's on the fence for this year.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, I don't know.

Don Jameson:

You know, it's.

Don Jameson:

I think this is kind of a make or break year for them, right?

Don Jameson:

I mean, either they got.

Don Jameson:

Either they take a step up, or I'd say tear it all down.

Don Jameson:

Man, it just, just hasn't been that good.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think they got the.

Sean Morton:

I don't have any, like, I don't go into it every year with, like, the rah rah bullshit.

Sean Morton:

I don't at all with.

Sean Morton:

Basketball is the only sport that I'll do that with.

Sean Morton:

I can't do it with baseball, obviously, because I'm a Yankee fan and we know how to win, unlike the Mets.

Jeffrey Paul:

But we were winning five one when I came down.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, six one now.

Sean Morton:

It's okay.

Jeffrey Paul:

Nice.

Sean Morton:

It's okay.

Sean Morton:

You guys deal with that.

Sean Morton:

Yeah.

Sean Morton:

Football is, like, I'm not one of those people who ever go like, that far deep into, like, Jeff always, like, you got to join the fantasy football league that we do with the comics.

Sean Morton:

And I'm like, no, I like pussy.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

Don, you want to join the fancy football league this year?

Don Jameson:

I'd rather Zack Wilson blow me than join the fantasy.

Jeffrey Paul:

We could arrange that, too, but come on, it's really cool.

Don Jameson:

It's not really.

Don Jameson:

What's really cool about it.

Don Jameson:

It's dungeons and dragons for sports.

Jeffrey Paul:

We have drinks.

Don Jameson:

You have drinks.

Don Jameson:

I have drinks, too.

Don Jameson:

I don't know.

Jeffrey Paul:

There's drinks.

Jeffrey Paul:

There's food.

Sean Morton:

Okay.

Sean Morton:

We can go to a bar.

Sean Morton:

Continue.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay.

Jeffrey Paul:

Oh, also we have, um, hookers.

Sean Morton:

We can reach that, too, real quick.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

So there's pussy.

Jeffrey Paul:

There's a little something for everybody.

Jeffrey Paul:

We do it at black Betty's.

Don Jameson:

Ah, yes.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay.

Jeffrey Paul:

So now at all.

Don Jameson:

At a depressing place.

Jeffrey Paul:

No, no.

Jeffrey Paul:

It.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's good for you.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's good for your self esteem.

Jeffrey Paul:

I walk out of there, feel better about myself.

Sean Morton:

Yeah, exactly.

Jeffrey Paul:

And then I start rethinking my life choices.

Jeffrey Paul:

All right.

Jeffrey Paul:

I'm trying to think of it.

Jeffrey Paul:

If it's too early to talk about this in the show now, fuck it.

Jeffrey Paul:

I want Adam.

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's show this to Don because.

Jeffrey Paul:

And before we do, Don, you're a big movie fan, right?

Don Jameson:

You know what?

Don Jameson:

I'm not really.

Don Jameson:

I'm not a huge movie fan.

Jeffrey Paul:

But you like movies?

Don Jameson:

No, I do.

Don Jameson:

But I'm like.

Don Jameson:

I still have a dvd player.

Don Jameson:

I still basically watch the same twelve movies that I own, you know?

Jeffrey Paul:

Well, I'm sure this is one of the movies that you enjoy.

Jeffrey Paul:

Can we.

Jeffrey Paul:

Can we show the opening scene of this movie?

Jeffrey Paul:

Because I'm.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think this is one of our favorites.

Sean Morton:

Yeah, let me just pull this up.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, pull it up.

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's.

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's show, like, this is a.

Jeffrey Paul:

This is.

Jeffrey Paul:

This is a really good scene, too.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's a lot of fun and.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, it has all the elements that we.

Sean Morton:

Jeff, by the way.

Jeffrey Paul:

What's that?

Don Jameson:

I.

Sean Morton:

So you really suck at stalling.

Sean Morton:

Well, are you guys ready?

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

He knows we're going to show this, and it takes him five fucking hours to pull.

Jeffrey Paul:

Pull it up.

Jeffrey Paul:

Let's go.

Jeffrey Paul:

There you go.

Jeffrey Paul:

Do you know who that is?

Don Jameson:

I know what the movie.

Jeffrey Paul:

Oh, this is a great movie.

Jeffrey Paul:

Don, you want to tell him?

Don Jameson:

Rock of age.

Jeffrey Paul:

Come on.

Jeffrey Paul:

This is good stuff.

Don Jameson:

Jeffrey, please don't ever tell Jim Florentine you like this movie.

Don Jameson:

Speaks to you again.

Jeffrey Paul:

Now everybody on the bus is going to sing.

Sean Morton:

Oh, God.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, they're on the bus, so they're motoring.

Jeffrey Paul:

You don't like this?

Don Jameson:

All right, Jeffrey's trolling now.

Don Jameson:

I know what's going on.

Sean Morton:

Yeah, you think?

Jeffrey Paul:

Is this cr.

Jeffrey Paul:

How cringe.

Don Jameson:

This is Gayer than Zach Wilson.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay, I think this.

Jeffrey Paul:

Adam, pull up the next.

Jeffrey Paul:

Next clip.

Sean Morton:

I like to introduce my new podcast called that damn band show with my co host, Don Jameson.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think the only thing worse.

Jeffrey Paul:

Well, not worse.

Jeffrey Paul:

The movie was the worst thing I've ever seen.

Jeffrey Paul:

I saw this live on Broadway.

Sean Morton:

It was great.

Jeffrey Paul:

It was not great.

Sean Morton:

I saw it with Constantinople.

Sean Morton:

I liked it.

Jeffrey Paul:

You thought this was great?

Sean Morton:

I thought it was really good.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, on Broadway?

Sean Morton:

Yeah, I saw it on Broadway.

Jeffrey Paul:

Come on.

Jeffrey Paul:

It was.

Jeffrey Paul:

It was fucking retarded.

Jeffrey Paul:

The only.

Jeffrey Paul:

The only thing had, like.

Jeffrey Paul:

This was like, the rocky musical, which I also saw.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay, in the rocky musical had a song called, at least they didn't break my nose.

Jeffrey Paul:

That's a real.

Jeffrey Paul:

That was a real musical number.

Jeffrey Paul:

Now, I think this is the worst scene ever filmed in music history.

Jeffrey Paul:

No, it's coming up right here.

Jeffrey Paul:

This is.

Jeffrey Paul:

This is.

Jeffrey Paul:

This is beyond brutal.

Don Jameson:

Totally out of control.

Sean Morton:

But, Mitch, this ends tonight.

Jeffrey Paul:

Now, I think this was actually filmed on the sunset Strip.

Jeffrey Paul:

You see Deb, Debbie Gibson's in the background.

Jeffrey Paul:

You see her there.

Jeffrey Paul:

And Sebastian Bach is there.

Jeffrey Paul:

Kevin Cronin from there.

Jeffrey Paul:

He is.

Jeffrey Paul:

Kevin Cronin.

Jeffrey Paul:

Did you see him?

Jeffrey Paul:

There you go.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

Without this city on.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, they mean that shit.

Jeffrey Paul:

But you think the holy rollers are going to take it?

Jeffrey Paul:

How embarrassing is this, being a co.

Sean Morton:

Host in this podcast?

Jeffrey Paul:

Absolutely.

Jeffrey Paul:

Another look at will footy have to run back and forth with the microphones.

Sean Morton:

All right, can I just go on record and say, I don't hate that song?

Jeffrey Paul:

You didn't hate that clip?

Sean Morton:

No, the clip is fucking atrocious.

Sean Morton:

I'm saying the actual song itself, I don't hate that song.

Sean Morton:

And it gets a tremendous amount of hate.

Sean Morton:

I think it's a catchy pop song.

Jeffrey Paul:

We're not going to take it or the other.

Don Jameson:

No.

Sean Morton:

We built this city by Jefferson starship.

Jeffrey Paul:

I don't think it's bad.

Sean Morton:

Oh, a lot of people think it's one of the worst songs it's ever recorded.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's like saying people hate nickelback, and Nickelback doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

Sean Morton:

Let me tell you.

Sean Morton:

Great documentary, by the way.

Sean Morton:

It's on Netflix.

Sean Morton:

I don't know if you guys Don.

Jeffrey Paul:

Not a fan of Nickelback?

Don Jameson:

No.

Don Jameson:

I was still cringing at that scene.

Don Jameson:

I went and saw it on Broadway, too, and it was funny.

Don Jameson:

The blonde guy that was in one of the shots, his name's Joel Hoekstra.

Don Jameson:

And.

Don Jameson:

Oh, yeah, yeah, Joel plays.

Don Jameson:

You know, he played white snake, and at that time, he was actually playing a night ranger.

Don Jameson:

Joel was in the Broadway.

Don Jameson:

The Broadway show.

Don Jameson:

And I was friends with Joel.

Don Jameson:

I still am.

Don Jameson:

But he was out the day that I went.

Don Jameson:

And they sent me and Jim and Eddie from that metal show all down there to see it.

Don Jameson:

Cause they want.

Don Jameson:

VH one wanted to do this big thing with it.

Don Jameson:

And at the intermission, I left.

Don Jameson:

It was so bad.

Don Jameson:

I couldn't sit through the whole thing.

Jeffrey Paul:

You really left?

Jeffrey Paul:

Earned intermission?

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

There's one point where this girl is pretending she's handing out the flyers, like, on Sunset Boulevard for all the bands.

Don Jameson:

You know, they put the posters.

Don Jameson:

They used to put the posters up, and she throws them all up in the air.

Don Jameson:

And all these Midwest housewives and stuff are, like, reaching up, trying to grab them, and there was one left, and it was just right down in front of me, and I wouldn't even acknowledge that it fell in front of me, and all these women were just glaring at me because they wanted that thing so badly.

Don Jameson:

And then I just stepped on it and ripped it.

Sean Morton:

It's like, I refuse to ever get up and do the wave at a fucking stadium.

Sean Morton:

Or I flat out refuse.

Sean Morton:

I plant myself.

Sean Morton:

I refuse to move my arms or.

Jeffrey Paul:

Stand up and try and get a free t shirt.

Sean Morton:

Yeah, I'll do that shelf on my.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, yeah, I'll buy a t shirt.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's okay.

Don Jameson:

Your t shirts are only $2, so you don't have to worry about it.

Jeffrey Paul:

Fuck, yeah, dude.

Don Jameson:

But, Joe, so Joel was.

Don Jameson:

Joel was out on tour with night Ranger, and his friend was filling in on guitar on that show.

Don Jameson:

By the time I got to the corner of, like, 46 and Broadway, which is maybe five minutes, my phone rings.

Don Jameson:

It's Joel.

Don Jameson:

He goes, I heard you just walked out of the theater.

Don Jameson:

How did you know?

Don Jameson:

You're in, like, Des Moines.

Don Jameson:

My fill in said he saw you wouldn't leave at the intermission.

Don Jameson:

I go, dude, that's so bad.

Don Jameson:

He goes, I'm sorry, man.

Don Jameson:

He goes, when I'm there, it's a lot more rock.

Don Jameson:

And I go, nah, don't worry.

Don Jameson:

It's not you.

Don Jameson:

I just.

Don Jameson:

You know, musicals just.

Don Jameson:

I don't know.

Don Jameson:

They're just.

Don Jameson:

Musicals of any kind are corny to me.

Don Jameson:

So needless to say, we never did anything on that metal show with it.

Don Jameson:

And they even offered us to play, like, roles, standing at the bar in the background, and we were all like.

Jeffrey Paul:

You should have done it.

Jeffrey Paul:

No, no, you have to sit through.

Don Jameson:

The show every night.

Jeffrey Paul:

No, you should have been in.

Jeffrey Paul:

You should have been in the Broadway play in the movie king.

Jeffrey Paul:

That'd be great.

Jeffrey Paul:

You could be, like, pumping your fist and you're really angry because you're not going to take it.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, well, we built rock.

Sean Morton:

Did you take, like, an extra fucking moron pill tonight?

Jeffrey Paul:

If you had the be honest show, if you had the chance to be in Rock of ages, you wouldn't do it.

Sean Morton:

Oh, fuck, yeah, I would.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

So what's wrong with that?

Jeffrey Paul:

I think Don made a big mistake.

Sean Morton:

I don't want to say that he.

Jeffrey Paul:

He could have been in Rock of ages.

Jeffrey Paul:

He could have.

Jeffrey Paul:

He could have been standing alongside Debbie Gibson screaming we were not going to take it.

Jeffrey Paul:

Or maybe he could have been the guy who comes downstairs because there's a scene which we didn't show, but there's a scene where Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin are singing I can't fight this feeling anymore while they're singing into a brush.

Jeffrey Paul:

They're singing into a brush and looking at each other's eyes.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you remember the classic line like, you could be the guy who comes downstairs and says, hey, there's a delivery.

Jeffrey Paul:

And then Alec Baldwin says, I'm busy.

Jeffrey Paul:

And then you would go with what?

Jeffrey Paul:

And then Alec Baldwin goes, fallen in love.

Sean Morton:

How many times have you seen this fucking movie?

Jeffrey Paul:

Seen this movie anytime it has ever come on cable.

Jeffrey Paul:

Apparently it is a remote drive for me.

Sean Morton:

Do you make a nice little cup of chamomile and.

Don Jameson:

A bubble bath?

Jeffrey Paul:

It's, oh God, it's so bad.

Don Jameson:

The worst visual I've ever had in.

Sean Morton:

My life is Jeffrey sitting in a fucking bubble bath on an iPad watching Rock of age.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

Drinking some tea, you know, cleaning my toes.

Don Jameson:

Alec Baldwin should have shot himself after that.

Jeffrey Paul:

But that is, that, that could be.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, I think every scene in that movie is the worst scene I've ever seen.

Jeffrey Paul:

And I had on a different podcast, I got into such a big thing with Dustin Shafin over this because he's like, you know, it's a pretty good movie.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's good, you know, it's rock.

Jeffrey Paul:

And I'm like, it's still garbage.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's brutal.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's terrible.

Jeffrey Paul:

But speaking of things that aren't, or at least I would like to know more about it.

Jeffrey Paul:

I know one of the cool things you do, Don, is you do a lot of these rock cruises.

Jeffrey Paul:

How are those?

Jeffrey Paul:

Is it difficult to do stand up on them?

Jeffrey Paul:

Do the, do, you know, do the people want to hear your stand up and, you know, they like you, but, uh, are you going there just kind of like mc the events?

Don Jameson:

Yeah, but we do comedy shows on the cruise.

Don Jameson:

And it's good, you know, people like it because it's a.

Don Jameson:

n the morning till, you know,:

Don Jameson:

in the morning.

Don Jameson:

So, you know, there's always, there's other stuff where you could just take a break where you don't need to hear the music.

Don Jameson:

Maybe Q and A's with the bands which we, you know, we host.

Don Jameson:

And, you know, they do contests.

Don Jameson:

There's a.

Don Jameson:

So you think you could shred contests where cruisers bring their guitars on and they go up and they, you know, they all compete.

Don Jameson:

And there's a celebrity panel of judges, and I'm usually on that.

Don Jameson:

And then the stand up shows people like, because now what we're doing, too, is we're.

Don Jameson:

We're getting on every cruise, a rock star to do stand up for the first time.

Don Jameson:

So people really go crazy for that.

Jeffrey Paul:

So who have you seen do it?

Jeffrey Paul:

I know the singer in Queens.

Jeffrey Paul:

Reich has gone up, and he's pretty good.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, Todd did great.

Don Jameson:

The last cruise was.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, it was Todd Latorre and Red beach from winger.

Jeffrey Paul:

Oh, wow.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

And both guys did great.

Don Jameson:

Both totally different guys.

Don Jameson:

You know, Todd, much more cerebral.

Don Jameson:

You know, Reb just, like, just filthy, you know, but both super funny.

Don Jameson:

And I got Kip Winger to do it the year before that, which was really great, because the first thing when I emailed him about it, he just wrote back two words, ask Reb.

Don Jameson:

Because he knew Reb could do it.

Don Jameson:

He knew.

Don Jameson:

Reb does impressions.

Don Jameson:

Reb does voices.

Don Jameson:

Reb's got a million, like, dirty stories he loves to tell.

Don Jameson:

And I said, no, that's the whole thing.

Don Jameson:

I know Reb could do it and wants to do it.

Don Jameson:

I want you.

Don Jameson:

You're like, the hot bartender at a strip club that nobody can get.

Don Jameson:

I want Kip first.

Don Jameson:

Then I'll go on to somebody else.

Don Jameson:

If I can get Kip, I can get anybody.

Don Jameson:

And I finally got him to do it, and I remember we sent him the first draft of what we wrote up, and he just.

Don Jameson:

Right back, just writes back, like, a half hour later, this sucks.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think it would be good if he did, like, some self deprecating humor about himself.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, that would be awesome.

Don Jameson:

When I got him back on FaceTime and we went through it, then he goes, okay, yeah, I wasn't reading it that way.

Don Jameson:

He goes, I still want to retweet some stuff.

Don Jameson:

And then when he did it, he sent me a really nice email saying, thanks, man.

Don Jameson:

I'm glad you hung in there with me.

Don Jameson:

I was on the fence, but I.

Don Jameson:

He goes, that was.

Don Jameson:

That was an amazing experience.

Don Jameson:

So it was cool.

Don Jameson:

You like, like, kid winger or not, you know, he.

Don Jameson:

He was.

Don Jameson:

He's.

Don Jameson:

He's an interesting guy, and he was not afraid to be self deprecating.

Jeffrey Paul:

You talk about a guy.

Jeffrey Paul:

We talked about nickelback before and limp Bizkit.

Jeffrey Paul:

You talk about abandoned a guy who didn't deserve the unwarranted blowback.

Jeffrey Paul:

Pushback, you know?

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, Kip Wing is definitely that guy.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

I mean, you know, he was nominated for a Grammy for best orchestral composition.

Don Jameson:

Like, he's writing operas and stuff now.

Don Jameson:

He's a really talented guy.

Don Jameson:

But his band was known for one.

Don Jameson:

They have.

Don Jameson:

They had a bunch of hits.

Don Jameson:

But the song everybody knows is she's only 17.

Don Jameson:

Which, the first time he came to see me, when we were on the cruise, he walked in the room and I had to say something because everybody kind of turned around and was looking, and I go, yeah, there he is.

Don Jameson:

Kip winger, famous for the song, she's only 17.

Don Jameson:

When you got the number one song about being a pedophile, that's a crazy band right there.

Don Jameson:

And the place went nuts.

Don Jameson:

And he started, and then he turned around, he laughed, and then he was walking out, and I go, bye, Kip.

Don Jameson:

We'll see you later.

Don Jameson:

Kip wing was the original R.

Don Jameson:

Kelly.

Don Jameson:

Everybody give him a hand.

Don Jameson:

And I still do that bit once in a while in my act, too, if we have a good rock crowd.

Don Jameson:

But, yeah, no, he's cool like that, man.

Don Jameson:

He's.

Don Jameson:

He's not.

Don Jameson:

He's not stuck on himself, but, yeah.

Don Jameson:

And that band's better than, you know.

Don Jameson:

If you ever go see that band, they are really great.

Jeffrey Paul:

I saw him last year.

Jeffrey Paul:

They opened for Kiefer.

Jeffrey Paul:

But you've done that metal show.

Jeffrey Paul:

You did that Jameson show, which I was, like, fortunate enough to go on a couple times.

Jeffrey Paul:

What are some of your favorite rock stars that you got to interview and who were some that said no or you just couldn't get that you would have liked to?

Don Jameson:

Well, when we did that metal show, you know, we never got Eddie Van Halen.

Don Jameson:

We never got Ozzy.

Don Jameson:

We never got anybody in Van Halen.

Don Jameson:

I mean, not.

Don Jameson:

Well, I shouldn't say that.

Don Jameson:

We did get Michael Anthony, we did get Sammy, but we didn't get, you know, either.

Don Jameson:

Neither the Van Halen brothers.

Don Jameson:

Although it was funny because, you know, when we used to have the guest guitar players, Eddie sent his EVH equipment, the amplifiers, and all that stuff over to us to use.

Don Jameson:

And we were hoping eventually, first he sends the equipment and maybe a pair of shoes and a pair of pants, and then maybe eventually Eddie himself shows up.

Don Jameson:

But he never did.

Don Jameson:

Ozzy never did.

Don Jameson:

So, yeah, those guys, pretty much.

Don Jameson:

But the guys, you know, the guys that get the most.

Don Jameson:

Most eyeballs are the guys who are completely unfiltered.

Don Jameson:

So, you know, like, when I did that I just posted that Jameson episode on my YouTube channel with an interview I did with Ted Nugent about a year and a half ago.

Don Jameson:

Uncle Ted, that gets that by far blows every interview clip out of the water.

Don Jameson:

I mean, it was like at 10,000 instantly after I.

Jeffrey Paul:

Why is that?

Jeffrey Paul:

Why him?

Jeffrey Paul:

Speaker one?

Don Jameson:

Because whether you like Ted or you hate him, you got to watch because you want to see what the hell he's going to say.

Don Jameson:

And guys like him or Phil Anselmo, Marilyn Manson, Dave Mustaine, these are guys who will say anything that comes to their mind.

Don Jameson:

They're totally unfiltered.

Don Jameson:

And those are the people that make the best guess because people have to tune in whether they like them or they don't.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think part of, like, the secret of you is that you have.

Jeffrey Paul:

I don't think this could be taught.

Jeffrey Paul:

You have a unique way of making your guests feel very, very comfortable.

Jeffrey Paul:

And, like, you know, when I watched you interview, like, I'm sitting there and you're just, you know, you're very authentic.

Jeffrey Paul:

And I think that comes across, and I think these guys know it and they trust you.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, well, I don't.

Don Jameson:

You know, we don't want to shit on anybody necessarily.

Don Jameson:

But you also, you know, they're.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, we always said, like, when we do, when we did that metal show, we gotta still be able to talk freely if we don't like something.

Don Jameson:

But it doesn't mean you have to crap on someone to make a point.

Don Jameson:

So, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't really have anybody on that.

Don Jameson:

I wasn't sort of a fan of or trying to learn a little bit more about.

Don Jameson:

You know, I had a bunch of young, up and coming bands on the show, and, you know, I was like, yeah, I wanted, you know, I want to learn about these guys, too.

Don Jameson:

So I always have fun.

Don Jameson:

You know, I try to do something a little bit different, but I had twelve rock and roll hall of Famers on my, my silly little podcast, so I'm really proud of that.

Don Jameson:

And now I'm doing a new thing with Keith Roth called Rock Strap, which is us interviewing rock people about sports and interviewing athletes about rock now.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

Who'd you have on the last one?

Jeffrey Paul:

I think you had the.

Jeffrey Paul:

There wasn't ace freely, was it?

Don Jameson:

No, we did David Bryan from Bon Jovi.

Jeffrey Paul:

That's it.

Jeffrey Paul:

David Bryan, first episode.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

But we have eight of them taped now, so, you know, we're going to be rolling them out every week.

Don Jameson:

And the David Bryan one is on there.

Don Jameson:

Just look up rockstrap, apple music, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts and just, you know, I've interviewed so many people, man, so I wanted to do something different where it's not just, you know.

Don Jameson:

So tell us about the new album.

Don Jameson:

Is this your best album yet?

Don Jameson:

Are you going to tour on it?

Don Jameson:

Like, it's, you know, it gets.

Don Jameson:

It gets kind of monotonous after a while.

Don Jameson:

So to have, you know, David Bryan come on and just talk about the giants for a while, you know, he's a big New York Giants fan.

Don Jameson:

That was cool, you know, and I like that spin on it.

Don Jameson:

And the same with athletes, these guys, you know, we're all sports fans here.

Don Jameson:

We hear those dumb interviews.

Don Jameson:

Oh, yeah, we're going to.

Don Jameson:

We're coming back tomorrow.

Don Jameson:

It's a team game and, you know, it's a long season.

Don Jameson:

Blah, blah, blah, blah fucking blah.

Don Jameson:

You know.

Don Jameson:

No, they want to come on and, you know, they want to talk about rock and going to concerts and.

Don Jameson:

And all that stuff, man.

Don Jameson:

We had Jerry Jeremy Roenick on.

Don Jameson:

That's an episode coming up, you know, legendary hockey player, Chicago Blackhawks.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, he just wanted.

Don Jameson:

He's just a massive, massive music fan.

Don Jameson:

He's friends with.

Don Jameson:

With a million different rock people.

Don Jameson:

So you get.

Don Jameson:

You really get a lot more out of them, especially athletes, when they don't have to talk in sports cliches.

Jeffrey Paul:

I was always really impressed with Piazza.

Don Jameson:

His love for metal, so deep, you know, and.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, and I've been to a few concerts with Mike.

Don Jameson:

I mean, he's, you know, when he gets in that mode, he forgets who he is.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, but it made you like him more as a player because he was like a guy like you could relate to, right?

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

When I used to go out to.

Don Jameson:

When I was working at MTV back in the early days, I used to go to LA a lot to work on, you know, different special events for MTVs.

Don Jameson:

And I would always go catch Dodger games.

Don Jameson:

Cause I love Piazza.

Don Jameson:

And I was like, this guy comes up to metal all the time, you know?

Don Jameson:

And obviously he was already a star by then, hitting tons of home runs.

Don Jameson:

And when he came, like, when he came to the Mets, man, I couldn't believe it.

Don Jameson:

I'm like, we never get that guy.

Don Jameson:

And not only is he a great, great, absolute hall of Fame player, he's a metalhead.

Don Jameson:

And then to actually meet him and become friends with him, too, was amazing because him and Eddie were good friends, because he used to listen to Eddie's radio show, right?

Jeffrey Paul:

He would even come into the studio and guess now I was a big fan of that metal show.

Jeffrey Paul:

I loved it.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, it was the only show that really, like, spoke to, like, guys like me and wanted to, like, hear more.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, you would never see these on the late night shows, but I.

Jeffrey Paul:

The one episode that really stands out to me, and it was very eerie, was the Janie Lane interview because you guys had him on.

Jeffrey Paul:

And then I think it was two weeks later, he passed away.

Jeffrey Paul:

Did you notice anything about that?

Jeffrey Paul:

Is there anything you could tell us about that episode that maybe, like, did you see this coming?

Don Jameson:

No, he was actually.

Don Jameson:

So.

Don Jameson:

He was.

Don Jameson:

He was sober, I think, like, he said six weeks at that point, and he was in great spirits, man.

Don Jameson:

And I talked to him for a while after the taping, and I really liked him, man.

Sean Morton:

He.

Don Jameson:

I didn't really know him before.

Don Jameson:

I'd met him a few times, but I really liked him.

Don Jameson:

I'm like, wow, I really hope this guy can hold it together.

Don Jameson:

He just seemed like a real bright guy, but he was obviously tortured.

Don Jameson:

And I'll tell you, man, what people asked me about episodes, I was proud of that one.

Don Jameson:

Definitely.

Don Jameson:

I was, because I hosted a benefit that his brother put together.

Don Jameson:

He's from Akron, Ohio.

Don Jameson:

Him and Marilyn Manson were both from the same area.

Don Jameson:

And his brother Eric, you know, asked me to come out and host a tribute to him, which I did.

Don Jameson:

And the first thing he said to me is like, thank you so much for taking my brother for a walk down memory Lane one last time, because I know how much fun he had doing it with you guys, and you treated him with so much respect.

Don Jameson:

And I was like, yeah, cool.

Don Jameson:

That means a lot.

Jeffrey Paul:

We had.

Sean Morton:

Me and my best friend always had this thing about Jamie Lane.

Sean Morton:

I think he was probably one of the most underrated songwriters.

Jeffrey Paul:

Oh, yeah.

Sean Morton:

That rock of that rock era of, like, the late eighties and early nineties.

Sean Morton:

I mean, some of the things that he wrote, man, just, you could still listen to on the radio any day of the week.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, well, he got, you know.

Don Jameson:

And his angst, a lot of it came from, you know, he.

Don Jameson:

They had a similar thing, like winger.

Don Jameson:

You know, winger got pigeonholed as she's only 17 band, and winger, Warren got pigeonholed as the cherry pie band.

Don Jameson:

And, you know, he hated that because you're right, Sean.

Don Jameson:

He could write some really deep, lyrical stuff.

Don Jameson:

And that song, you know, was a kind of a.

Don Jameson:

You know, obviously it was a huge hit, but those lyrics were ridiculous.

Don Jameson:

I mean, you know, we all know that.

Don Jameson:

But.

Don Jameson:

So I think he, you know, he.

Don Jameson:

I think it bummed him out that at least, you know, look, that song made him a great living.

Don Jameson:

But you know, he would have loved Uncle Tom's cabin.

Jeffrey Paul:

Or that's, I think that is to.

Don Jameson:

Be the biggest singles of his career.

Jeffrey Paul:

Uncle Tom's cabin is like, I think is their best work, man.

Jeffrey Paul:

That is that Mount Rushmore song.

Jeffrey Paul:

Say it again.

Sean Morton:

My story about Uncle Tom's cabin.

Sean Morton:

I was a sophomore in high school and we had to do an original oratory thing.

Sean Morton:

And of course I was not the great.

Sean Morton:

Not that I wasn't the greatest student, I had a other activities that I enjoyed a lot more in high school.

Sean Morton:

And so.

Sean Morton:

And I'm like, I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna write about.

Sean Morton:

And I'm like, this guy has no idea, Warren.

Sean Morton:

So I basically wrote the lyrics out.

Sean Morton:

So just for the record, let's get this story.

Sean Morton:

See, me and my uncle Tom were fishing and it was getting pretty.

Sean Morton:

I wrote the whole thing out of.

Sean Morton:

So then like, you know, we hand the thing in and like a week later it starts going around and he's like, yeah, this is a great, a great assignment.

Sean Morton:

But I gotta tell you, one student really stood out.

Sean Morton:

His best writing of the year by far.

Sean Morton:

I want to read Mister Morton's assignment.

Sean Morton:

It was called Uncle Tom's cabin.

Sean Morton:

I'm like, oh, fuck, he's got to call me out.

Sean Morton:

And as soon as he says it, my best friend's next to me going, are you fucking kidding me?

Don Jameson:

And he read the whole lyrics.

Sean Morton:

Just completely outlived that.

Jeffrey Paul:

That's a stir.

Jeffrey Paul:

Did you ever tell Don how you would upgrade your seats at Madison Square Garden?

Sean Morton:

No.

Sean Morton:

No?

Sean Morton:

Okay, so here's what happened.

Sean Morton:

So my buddy used to work at WDH, he was the metal dj over there, and he would get us tickets for everything all the time.

Sean Morton:

So got us a whole crew of us, the Metallica.

Sean Morton:

Metallica tickets when they had a volbeat open for them a couple years ago.

Sean Morton:

So I was partaking a little bit in the parking lot.

Sean Morton:

I had me, you know, Joe Fernandez?

Don Jameson:

Yeah, of course.

Sean Morton:

Okay, so it was me and Joe Fernandez, my friend's sister in law and his best friend.

Sean Morton:

We get stuck two rows from the top.

Sean Morton:

I'm like, it's okay, the free seats, whatever, we're cool, you know, Joe's stone cold sober.

Sean Morton:

I am fucked up beyond belief at this point.

Sean Morton:

So the girl's like, we got to go to the bathroom.

Sean Morton:

And I'm like, well, you know what, let's do the gentlemanly thing and let's escort them down there.

Sean Morton:

And so, like, I'm barely getting down those steep stares at MetLife, I'm fucked, right?

Sean Morton:

And as soon as we go down our exit, we see guest services, and I go, guys, come here.

Sean Morton:

And I walk up to them, and I go, do you guys have any other seats?

Sean Morton:

And the girl goes, why?

Sean Morton:

What's the matter?

Sean Morton:

I said, look, I don't want to want to say this out loud, too loud, but I'm kind of a pretty famous comedian, and it's my friend's birthday, pulls out her license and goes, here.

Sean Morton:

And she goes, you give me tickets for a show.

Sean Morton:

I go anytime you want.

Sean Morton:

You get vip.

Sean Morton:

Honey hands us four tickets.

Sean Morton:

She goes, you enjoy.

Sean Morton:

I looked down 14th fucking row on the side of the stadium.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you gave it tickets to the comedy cove.

Sean Morton:

Exactly.

Sean Morton:

But we wound up getting open up a whole side section, and we were down.

Sean Morton:

We went 14 rows down, and the section was completely open.

Sean Morton:

So then I took all four tickets.

Sean Morton:

I'd run up, I'd bring three more friends down.

Sean Morton:

I'd have them, I'd grab the four tickets, run up, bring three more friends down.

Sean Morton:

We had the whole section to ourselves right alongside the stage.

Sean Morton:

And Jeff hates that story.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's so crazy.

Sean Morton:

I would never do that for him.

Jeffrey Paul:

We didn't.

Jeffrey Paul:

We wouldn't have to, because we would have good seats going in.

Jeffrey Paul:

So that leads me to this.

Don Jameson:

Oh, it's more fun to get over.

Jeffrey Paul:

You know, I used to do that when I was a kid.

Jeffrey Paul:

We would get, like, the 400 sections of Master square garden, then jump down off from that section, and then try and go all the way down as far as possible.

Jeffrey Paul:

We used to get really far.

Sean Morton:

Joe Fernando said, if I.

Sean Morton:

If I heard that story, I would make fun of you so bad, because.

Sean Morton:

But because I was there, and I got to receive the 14th row ticket because that.

Sean Morton:

It was the greatest fucking thing I ever saw.

Jeffrey Paul:

But so this leads me to this another thing.

Jeffrey Paul:

Like, my son loves it.

Jeffrey Paul:

He turned his friends in college onto this.

Jeffrey Paul:

The terrorizing telemarketers.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay?

Jeffrey Paul:

So if you get, like, a bump, uh, from Connecticut, you could thank my son Ryan to that.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay?

Jeffrey Paul:

Everyone at the University of Connecticut who hangs out at University of Hartford, who hang, who hangs out with him, they're all into this.

Jeffrey Paul:

Now that's terrorizing telemarketers.

Jeffrey Paul:

Um, how did you guys make those?

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, did you just sit around all day waiting for telemarketers to call?

Jeffrey Paul:

What was the process?

Jeffrey Paul:

And then.

Jeffrey Paul:

And how many did you have to go through to get, like, some real good ones?

Don Jameson:

Well, we're still doing it.

Don Jameson:

And, yeah, like, nothing's really changed.

Don Jameson:

It's just like, you know, Jim and I are almost like a band going into a studio.

Don Jameson:

Like, we, we put one out, like, a year and a half ago.

Don Jameson:

We have seven volumes of them.

Don Jameson:

So for if people like prank calls.

Don Jameson:

And of course, our thing is, they're all incoming.

Don Jameson:

They're all telemarketers bothering us.

Don Jameson:

So, you know, we always feel, you know, and they're scum, of course.

Don Jameson:

So we always feel like, you know, we have every right to, you know, just mercifully, you know, annoy these people.

Don Jameson:

But, yeah, like, we hadn't made one for three years before that.

Don Jameson:

And when we plugged in the landline in, Jim in Florentine's basement, like, literally a minute later, the phone started ringing.

Don Jameson:

Like it was like they had been calling for years.

Don Jameson:

But, you know, he didn't have the phone plugged in.

Don Jameson:

And then the minute he plugged it in, the calls started coming in.

Don Jameson:

We started recording them.

Don Jameson:

We just do them on, like, a little radio shack, like, mini cassette recorder, you know?

Don Jameson:

You know, and then we just digitize them in the computer and edit them.

Don Jameson:

But, yeah, you know, it depends, man.

Don Jameson:

You know, you get, sometimes you go, you do, like, seven calls in a day and you don't get any the other times.

Don Jameson:

You know, you do seven calls and you get three great ones.

Don Jameson:

It just depends.

Don Jameson:

It's all on the reaction, right?

Don Jameson:

It's like, because they have to.

Don Jameson:

It's all fear of the mind because they have to believe whatever premise Florentine and I are going with now, is.

Jeffrey Paul:

That, is that already determined that what you're going to do?

Jeffrey Paul:

Or do you guys just kind of, like, play off of each other?

Don Jameson:

It did.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

It depends.

Don Jameson:

It depends because, again, we don't know how they're going to react.

Don Jameson:

So sometimes we'll come up with a loose concept, but they might not be responding.

Don Jameson:

So then we'll change direction, but we know each other comedically so well.

Don Jameson:

You know, I'll see.

Don Jameson:

I'll go, okay, he's changing it up here because it's not working the other way.

Don Jameson:

And then.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, and then we'll just start riffing on it and, you know, just, you know, just silly stuff, man.

Don Jameson:

It's amazing.

Don Jameson:

And the last one we put out went to number one on the itunes charts in comedy.

Don Jameson:

So, you know, to be a guy in his mid fifties with a number one comedy album of prank calls, God.

Jeffrey Paul:

Bless America, you're like the Lou Abbott of this because you are such a fucking buster.

Jeffrey Paul:

The dude that really.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think about this so funny.

Jeffrey Paul:

He's on the phone, and you pop in.

Jeffrey Paul:

You done yet?

Don Jameson:

He's still on the phone, dude.

Jeffrey Paul:

And, you know, the thing is just.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's very convincing.

Jeffrey Paul:

So I could see where someone.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you get.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you keep doing it, and the guy is getting more and more agitated.

Jeffrey Paul:

That's a funny one.

Don Jameson:

And Jim's just acting like there's nothing wrong with me busting in literally every 5 seconds.

Don Jameson:

Like, no, I'm still on.

Don Jameson:

Like, he doesn't get aggravated at all.

Don Jameson:

It's up to the telemarketer to get right, right.

Don Jameson:

And he finally does, which is great.

Jeffrey Paul:

And then the two of you guys contradict each other.

Jeffrey Paul:

He wants it.

Jeffrey Paul:

You don't.

Jeffrey Paul:

Or something.

Jeffrey Paul:

Something.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, yes.

Don Jameson:

No.

Don Jameson:

I don't know which.

Don Jameson:

Found out from my buddy dizzy Reed, who plays keyboards in guns n roses.

Don Jameson:

He said, axl Rose.

Don Jameson:

That's his favorite one.

Don Jameson:

Like, he's played the calls for Axel, and he goes, his favorite one is yes.

Don Jameson:

No.

Don Jameson:

I don't know where the telemarketer asks a question.

Don Jameson:

Jim always says yes.

Don Jameson:

I always say no.

Don Jameson:

And then our friend Chuck, who did it with us, said, I don't know.

Don Jameson:

And we just.

Don Jameson:

We drive the first telemarketer nuts.

Don Jameson:

And then they put the supervisor on, and I always love that because they, the supervisor was like, I'll handle this now.

Don Jameson:

And then we drive him off the phone, too.

Jeffrey Paul:

So you gotta hear these, Sean.

Jeffrey Paul:

These are so frickin funny.

Jeffrey Paul:

But, like, you are.

Jeffrey Paul:

Like, it's like you.

Jeffrey Paul:

You don't have any mercy.

Don Jameson:

Well, like, what do you.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, I mean, that tension's funny, you know?

Don Jameson:

I mean, it's not so funny unless there's tension.

Don Jameson:

My favorite one from the new album is the COVID mask, one where the telemarketer needs information.

Don Jameson:

He goes, well, my roommate has the information you need.

Don Jameson:

And I.

Don Jameson:

And I.

Don Jameson:

Come on.

Don Jameson:

I'm like, yeah, get started.

Don Jameson:

So that three.

Don Jameson:

And he's like, wait, what'd you say?

Don Jameson:

And just, I heard a three in there.

Don Jameson:

He goes, I need more than a three.

Don Jameson:

I need all the other.

Don Jameson:

He's.

Don Jameson:

He's got Covid.

Don Jameson:

He doesn't want to.

Don Jameson:

I'm not vaccinated.

Don Jameson:

So, yeah, I don't want him, you know, to take his mask off, and we just drive the guy crazy.

Don Jameson:

And I just, as he's about to get the information, the mask muffles it again.

Don Jameson:

And, yeah, that guy, I can't imagine he lasted the full day.

Jeffrey Paul:

I think another one that classic.

Jeffrey Paul:

You're not on this one, but it's a long one.

Jeffrey Paul:

The record.

Don Jameson:

The what?

Jeffrey Paul:

The record.

Don Jameson:

The record.

Don Jameson:

Right.

Don Jameson:

That's what.

Don Jameson:

Jim, that's the whole.

Jeffrey Paul:

Right, I know what you're doing.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

What's the.

Don Jameson:

It's.

Don Jameson:

What's the paper?

Don Jameson:

The record.

Jeffrey Paul:

The record.

Jeffrey Paul:

What?

Don Jameson:

The record.

Don Jameson:

Okay.

Don Jameson:

Do you want it?

Don Jameson:

Do I want what?

Don Jameson:

The paper.

Don Jameson:

What is it?

Don Jameson:

The record.

Jeffrey Paul:

And what, this goes on for, like, nine minutes, and then the supervisor comes on, and then he plays a completely strange.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay, put the other guy back.

Don Jameson:

Right.

Don Jameson:

Whenever somebody else comes back on, then it's always like, no, everything was going fine.

Don Jameson:

I don't know why the guy put you on?

Don Jameson:

Put him back on.

Don Jameson:

What?

Don Jameson:

Was just about to close the deal.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's so good.

Jeffrey Paul:

These are so good.

Jeffrey Paul:

Well, thank you.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, man.

Jeffrey Paul:

So before we let you go, you have, I think, is it now five cds out?

Jeffrey Paul:

Five stand up cds, yeah, five stand up cds.

Jeffrey Paul:

You've done them in different locations.

Jeffrey Paul:

I know you did one.

Jeffrey Paul:

You did at a speakeasy.

Jeffrey Paul:

You know, it was a small, small one.

Jeffrey Paul:

The last time we had John, which was.

Jeffrey Paul:

Oh, my God, four years ago in the studio, you were doing the one that looked like the Saxon album.

Don Jameson:

That's the one.

Don Jameson:

I didn't.

Don Jameson:

Speakeasy in Los Angeles.

Don Jameson:

Literally an illegal club that, you know, set up like an old, you know, speakeasy, like from the thirties, you know, with the bar and, you know, stage, full sound system and everything.

Don Jameson:

And they put on shows in there.

Don Jameson:

And I said, God, that's.

Don Jameson:

That's the place I want to do it.

Don Jameson:

Because what a great ending it would be if the cops, like, raided the place and pulled me out of there.

Jeffrey Paul:

And then, I mean, I just think things come to you because you're hanging out and you said, no, it'd be a great place.

Jeffrey Paul:

We're a good drink.

Jeffrey Paul:

McSolley's and the new ones live from McSoli's.

Sean Morton:

That's great.

Don Jameson:

Sleep till McSorley's, a play on the motorhead classic live album, no sleep till Hammersmith.

Don Jameson:

And, yeah, within an hour of day drinking, you know, I had.

Don Jameson:

McSorley's agreed to let me do my special there.

Don Jameson:

They've never done anything like that there before.

Don Jameson:

I got Motorhead to give me permission to use the font and the actual artwork from no sleep till Hammersmith.

Don Jameson:

I got metal blade to agree to put it out, and I got Phil Campbell to agree to play the guitar intro on here.

Don Jameson:

Former motorhead guitar player.

Don Jameson:

So in an hour a day drinking, like, I got all that done, and it was just meant to be so, you know, don't ever say, you know, can't get anything done.

Don Jameson:

Day drinking.

Don Jameson:

I got a lot done that day.

Jeffrey Paul:

And really, really funny stuff.

Jeffrey Paul:

And the best thing about, I mean, there's so many good things about, about Jameson, but one of the cool things that he does is he'll work this stuff out in, like, these small little places, and, like, you know, you really get to see, like, the process, like, you know, as he's doing it and then how it all kind of comes together and how great it sounds on these cds.

Don Jameson:

I'll do it.

Don Jameson:

Well, thanks for all the good words, man.

Don Jameson:

You know how I am, man.

Don Jameson:

I just, you know, especially getting older, dude, you know, I don't want to, you know, you got to talk about the crazy shit in the world.

Don Jameson:

We all do, right?

Don Jameson:

But I don't want to be the old guy that get off my lawn guy, right?

Don Jameson:

I want it to be funny.

Don Jameson:

Like, I had these 23 year olds at the comic strip on Friday night, a whole, like, 15 of them at a table.

Don Jameson:

I go, they're going to hate my guts.

Don Jameson:

They laughed more than anybody in the room.

Don Jameson:

And I was, in my mind, I'm going, I'm making fun of you people specifically for the last ten minutes.

Don Jameson:

And then one guy came up to me after, he goes, that was amazing.

Don Jameson:

He goes, he goes, I know you're, I know you're making fun of our generation.

Don Jameson:

We're awful.

Don Jameson:

I get it.

Don Jameson:

You know, he goes, but me and my friends are cool.

Don Jameson:

We love shit like this.

Don Jameson:

So, you know, I want people to laugh at this stuff, but I don't want to preach to him, man.

Don Jameson:

I've seen too many comics, especially now that everything's fucking political.

Don Jameson:

They're, you know, they're scolding their audiences like, no, come on.

Don Jameson:

I, you know, you got a guy fucking, who've been hanging sheetrock for 40 hours that week.

Don Jameson:

You know, he just wants to, you know, drink whiskey and fucking, you know, listen to music at his house.

Don Jameson:

His wife made him go out to the comedy club.

Don Jameson:

That guy wants to laugh, man.

Don Jameson:

He doesn't want to be lectured on who you should vote for in the next election.

Don Jameson:

So that's just what I try to do, man, and, you know, just try to make it funny for everybody.

Don Jameson:

And if people don't like it, you know, fuck it, you know, most of the people who are triggered now, they stay home anyway, you know, and fight with people online.

Jeffrey Paul:

It's true.

Jeffrey Paul:

Anyway, I don, I can't thank you enough for coming on the show, man.

Jeffrey Paul:

We really appreciate your time and doing this, folks.

Jeffrey Paul:

The CD is called Don Jameson live from McSolly's.

Jeffrey Paul:

You can buy it anywhere cds are sold.

Jeffrey Paul:

Can you download it?

Don Jameson:

Oh, yeah.

Don Jameson:

It's on iTunes.

Don Jameson:

And then you can get it on vinyl@experiencevinyl.com.

Don Jameson:

so, yeah, I go old school, man.

Don Jameson:

I can't wait to get the vinyl.

Don Jameson:

And the only thing McSorley serves is their ale.

Don Jameson:

McSorley's ale, light and darken.

Don Jameson:

That's all you can order there.

Don Jameson:

So the two variants of vinyl are McSorely's light ale color and McSorelli's dark ale color.

Don Jameson:

So if you're a vinyl junkie like me, you got to get both of them.

Don Jameson:

You know, you got to get both.

Jeffrey Paul:

Variants at your shows.

Jeffrey Paul:

You're going to be selling that type of merch.

Don Jameson:

Absolutely.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah.

Jeffrey Paul:

You got to do it.

Jeffrey Paul:

Listen, go see Don live.

Jeffrey Paul:

He's great.

Jeffrey Paul:

You know, get the cds.

Jeffrey Paul:

Support Don Jameson.

Jeffrey Paul:

Support us.

Jeffrey Paul:

Yeah, support us.

Jeffrey Paul:

We got.

Jeffrey Paul:

We got the Sean Morton comedy taping coming up in a month, less than a month.

Jeffrey Paul:

August 20 month.

Sean Morton:

Saturday, August 24 at the Dojo and Morris plains.

Sean Morton:

Jeffrey is opening up the show for me.

Don Jameson:

Right.

Sean Morton:

We officially have 15 tickets left until we're sold out.

Jeffrey Paul:

So it'll be sold out.

Sean Morton:

By the time this airs, it's going to be sold out.

Sean Morton:

But I am also going to release this on vinyl to Dom, because, like yourself, I am a fucking record junkie.

Sean Morton:

I got a thousand vinyl in my living room, and I'm going to spend a tremendous amount of money out of my pocket just to have one copy of my own vinyl.

Don Jameson:

Exactly right.

Sean Morton:

That's it.

Don Jameson:

Lemmy says on one of.

Don Jameson:

One of their later live albums, he's like, this song, this next song was a big hit for us.

Don Jameson:

I have 10,000 copies in my house.

Don Jameson:

And that's.

Don Jameson:

That's our attitude, right?

Don Jameson:

It's like, you know, as.

Don Jameson:

As long as we can hold it up and go, look, I made an album.

Don Jameson:

I don't care if I sell one, copy it, you know, I'll spend the money and I'll have the stack in my house.

Don Jameson:

But, yeah, to me, there's nothing cool.

Don Jameson:

We'll have to do a whole vinyl show sometime.

Jeffrey Paul:

Know what?

Jeffrey Paul:

Before.

Jeffrey Paul:

Before we go, when I.

Jeffrey Paul:

When I was just about ready to graduate college, okay, I used to.

Jeffrey Paul:

I used to listen to records all the time.

Jeffrey Paul:

Okay?

Jeffrey Paul:

And when I was listening.

Jeffrey Paul:

Listening with headphones on, and I would look at the line of notes and read everything, and I started writing down the addresses of, like, where.

Jeffrey Paul:

Where they came from.

Jeffrey Paul:

I wrote a just.

Jeffrey Paul:

I sent a resume and a cover letter to CB's records on a Wednesday.

Jeffrey Paul:

The following Tuesday, I got a call on my answering machine.

Jeffrey Paul:

I saved it.

Jeffrey Paul:

Woman Martina Washington from human resources three weeks later, started working with CB's records.

Don Jameson:

Wow.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, that is.

Jeffrey Paul:

That was the.

Jeffrey Paul:

There was so many great things about vinyl.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, I love being able to get something within 3 seconds of wanting to hear it, but there was no better feeling than, I think.

Jeffrey Paul:

It was, like, easy.

Jeffrey Paul:

The Tuesdays or Fridays where they would have the new releases and you would.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you.

Jeffrey Paul:

And you would go, like, to your record store and you would get it.

Jeffrey Paul:

So, like, when Priest came out with, like, turbo Lover, you know, it was the album turbo or anything that would come out.

Jeffrey Paul:

I mean, you remember how excited you were to, like, get it and open up the album.

Jeffrey Paul:

The record.

Don Jameson:

Yeah.

Don Jameson:

Cause they didn't start playing, you know, now they start playing, you know, putting out singles, like, six months ahead of the album.

Don Jameson:

And so you already heard, like, five songs off it by the time it came out.

Don Jameson:

Like, we didn't know when the records were coming out.

Don Jameson:

And then by the time we heard, you know, it'd still be four months out and you'd be waiting.

Don Jameson:

And you, like, you save up your lawn mowing money, you know, because you knew in September, you know, Judas Priest screaming for vengeance was coming out.

Don Jameson:

And you waited the whole summer.

Don Jameson:

I can't wait for this album.

Don Jameson:

And you'd be so invested in it.

Don Jameson:

And you're right.

Don Jameson:

Once we got it, we consumed everything in it.

Don Jameson:

The thank yous, who, which band members thanked who, and which other bands did they thank?

Don Jameson:

And all that stuff was, you know, now you would have had to committed it to memory, like baseball cards on Instagram, you know.

Don Jameson:

You know, nobody mails letters anymore.

Sean Morton:

But I want to ask one last question.

Sean Morton:

What do you think of the band category seven?

Don Jameson:

I've had the album for a while because obviously they're on metal blade as well, and so am I.

Don Jameson:

And I know the guys.

Don Jameson:

It sounds amazing.

Sean Morton:

Right?

Sean Morton:

John Bush, the old singer from Armored Saint and Anthrax with Phil Demel, was the old guitar player from machine head.

Sean Morton:

It's a brutal fucking record.

Don Jameson:

Yep.

Don Jameson:

Jason Bittner on drums from shadows and overkill, former guest.

Don Jameson:

Right.

Don Jameson:

And you're.

Don Jameson:

And your Staten island buddy, Mike Orlando on guitar, on the other guitar, who's amazing.

Don Jameson:

So, yeah, that's exciting.

Don Jameson:

There's a lot of good music that's been coming out.

Don Jameson:

And still to come out.

Don Jameson:

So, yeah, this, you know, people, I listen.

Don Jameson:

I.

Don Jameson:

I'm at an advantage.

Don Jameson:

I get sent a lot of music, which is great, and I listen to all of it, man, because I just.

Don Jameson:

I like all kinds of stuff, but if I like it, I buy it on vinyl.

Don Jameson:

You know, that's what I do.

Don Jameson:

You know, it's like you.

Don Jameson:

You could email it to me and I'll listen to it, and if I like it, I'm instantly going out and buying it on vinyl.

Don Jameson:

Again, great way to support the band, especially if you get it off their website.

Don Jameson:

You know, that money's going directly to them.

Sean Morton:

Absolutely.

Jeffrey Paul:

Do that.

Jeffrey Paul:

Every week, I'll go down some bands website, whether get a t shirt or.

Jeffrey Paul:

Or just some type of merch, just to help support these bands.

Jeffrey Paul:

Don, once again, man, thank you so much for coming on.

Jeffrey Paul:

We really appreciate it.

Don Jameson:

Yeah, Jeff, thanks for everything.

Don Jameson:

And, Sean, good luck with your taping, man.

Sean Morton:

Thank you, brother.

Jeffrey Paul:

All right, take care, everybody.

Jeffrey Paul:

We'll catch you next time on who's your bandaid?

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