 Here it is, episode number 715 of Let There Be Talk. Today is September 18th. Welcome to the show. Thank you for joining me. All kinds of things to jump into today. It will be a solo episode, but I do have some insane guests coming up here in the next few weeks. I don't really want to talk about it yet, but you will love all of them. And I want to thank you for taking the ride on the solo episodes. I've been having a great time doing them and kind of gives me a little time to stretch out and let you hear who the fuck I am. Anyway, welcome aboard. I hope you had a good weekend. I had some good shows. I did six shows over the weekend here in Los Angeles three Friday, three Saturday, and they were great, great shows actually. Awesome audiences. The weather's kind of cooled off. Finally not a thousand degrees. We still got the $6 and 29 cent gas. So yeah, that's pretty fucking cool, right? Speaking of that, thank you to the Patreoners out there. Oh my God, thanks for your support. And oh, I wanted to give a shout out to the great, hold on, let me get this together. Frank Bernacke. Thank you so much for your donation to the show and it means a lot to me. So Frank Bernacke and all of the Patreoners. I will be doing a Zoom tonight on the Patreon if you are a Patreoner Monday tonight, September 18th, around 6 p.m. Pacific time. I will be doing a live Zoom where you can hang out and shoot the shit with old man Dean. Anyway, so yeah, six shows over the weekend, which were fun. And then Sunday night, which was last night, I was asked to conduct the Q&A at the premiere of Mr. Jimmy. If you've listened to the last few episodes, I had Peter Dowdon who directed this documentary called Mr. Jimmy. And just a great, great story of passion. Go back and listen to the episode if you haven't heard it. Try to see this film, MrJimmyMovie.com. You can find it, but it's crazy. It's basically about this guy who becomes obsessed with Jimmy Page and basically dedicates his entire life becoming Jimmy Page. It's wild. The premiere was at the Chinese Theater, the world-famous Los Angeles Movie Theater complex. And I went down there, hosted the Q&A. It was just great. And it was wild. They had a red carpet, of course. Red carpet's always weird. Sometimes when I go to red carpets, they just, they don't know who the fuck you are. Like you get called, they're like, hey, you wanna come down and do the red carpet? I never really liked doing that because nobody knows who I am, you know what I'm saying? It's like maybe a small, small bucket of people in the world know who I am. And I'm grateful for that. But it's uncomfortable when you're walking the red carpet and you got a lady next to you holding a sign, Dean Delray comedian, and they still don't know. So they got their cameras up, right? They're ready. And then you come down and they're just kind of waiting for the next person. You might have one person take a shot just in case you become famous later. They have it in their archive. Yeah, here he is at red carpet in 2004. But this was great to go to and support this and see the people that are so into Zeppelin. Zeppelin is such a juggernaut still to this day. And it was cool to talk to Mr. Jimmy. There's a translator there. So I was doing the Q and A through the translator, which is always wild because you know, you're like, hey man, so in 75 Jimmy Page broke his fingers and it's known as the broken finger tour. And he played pretty sloppy. So when you do 75 era Jimmy Page, do you play sloppy like that for 75? And then the translator tells him the question, and then he comes back with a long like five minute answer and then translators writing down all this stuff. And then she tells me what he says. It's always weird, the audience is just sitting there like waiting, just like, mm-hmm, okay, yep. And then the answer comes about six minutes later. But oh, Mr. Jimmy, what a cool human that guy is. Wild thing that happened while I was there that I did not expect. This is the crazy thing about LA or just life really when you're out and about in the entertainment world and you're constantly grinding. You never know who the fuck you're gonna meet. It's so wild. But there I am doing the red carpet and Randy Johnson, the big unit pitcher, probably most famous for Mariners slash Arizona Cardinals, I guess I would say. I mean, we had him on the Giants' last season ever, but he was just a dominating pitcher in Major League Baseball coming in at like fucking six, nine or something. If you look at the photo, I'm already short, but I feel like I've been shrinking over the years. And if you look at the photo of me, big unit, Mr. Jimmy and Peter Dowd, I look like this to shrunken man. Like I'm five, six, but next to the big unit, I look like I'm about five, three. And when I wear sneakers, I look extra small, which I've never been insecure at all of being short. It's never fucking bothered me at all. It's actually been a blessing since my life has been travel on airplanes. Thank God I'm not fucking tall because these seats on the airplanes are just awful. They get smaller and smaller. You're just kind of like, I'm five, six and I'm in there going, this sucks. I couldn't imagine the big unit flying commercial. You'd have to only go first class. So all your flights are always like 5,000 to 10,000. There's no way that guy could fly coach. Anyway, he fucking blew in for the movie. And it just reminded me of that arrow. I used to love baseball. I still like a little baseball. I like watching it just burned out or listening to it. I just love the Giants. I loved going to the games back in the day. I love Pack Bell Park, which is named some other fucking thing now. But I just love that it's kind of a great decompressor. A lot of people think baseball is boring. Those are probably the same people that think reading is boring, because it's slow. It doesn't necessarily have a lot of action, but that's the good thing. You go out with a buddy, you eat some fucking shitty hot dogs. I never, ever eat hot dogs. Unless I'm at a game, I'll have a hot dog. Hot dogs are bizarre to me. It's not something I ever, like it was hot dogs and hamburgers. I would never choose a hot dog over a hamburger, especially when you're growing up poor. The hamburger was like deluxe. Like we're having some fucking cheeseburgers. Oh my God. But you go to the ballpark and you just fucking forget about everything and just chill out there and watch these guys fucking throw. I've sat behind the home plate a lot of times and you watch these pitches come down and the movement, the wackiness, the whole thing about a human throwing an object and the other person has to fucking hit it with a piece of wood. That is the most prehistoric shit going on right now. Still right now in 2023, a guy throws something, the other guy's trying to hit it with a piece of fucking wood and then people gotta catch it. It is so fucking crazy. Big unit threw 102 miles an hour at his peak. 102 miles an hour. I don't know if you've ever been to the batting cages. That's another thing I used to love to do. I'd go to the batting cages and just fucking not even train them for anything. Just fun to swing the bat. And I even did it up to about five years ago. I wouldn't mind going again, but after my next surgery, I'm always afraid to do anything. But you go to the batting cages and you get in a 60 mile an hour batting cage and they fucking come at you like missiles. You can't believe what 60 is like, 102 miles an hour. I mean, the training that it takes to hit that or a fucking wacky knuckleball that right after 102 miles an hour comes at you like at 70 miles an hour and you're just like, oh fucking, the knuckleball is just dancing all over the place or a curveball that looks like it's way the fuck like above your head like a ball and then it just swings in or a sinker. All these fucking things that some fucking weird guru dad taught his son in the backyard, you put your knuckles on it like this and then you let it go in this. It is wild that people have learned to throw a ball in all these weird fucking, you know, this weird junk pitches as they recall. Man, the guy, that was the thing we were playing baseball. This guy's got a lot of junk. Got a lot of junk, man. You get up there and you just, you just can't even fucking believe what the ball's doing. So to meet the big unit was fucking an honor, man. The guy's a rock and roll hall. He is a rock and roll hall of famer actually. He's a baseball hall of famer. He's won the World Series against the Yankees. He's thrown no hitters. He grew up in Walnut Creek, California. He's a Bay Area guy. He's only 60. It's so funny these baseball guys when you're young watching them, you don't even realize the guy's only three years older than me, you know, at the time, like I was 18, let's say. He's like 22. You just don't think of guys. It's like when I was growing up watching comedy, I just thought the dudes were old because they had sideburns and fucking long hair and they parted it on the side. I always thought that fucking John Belushi was like 40. Saturday night, I thought he was like, you know, 30s, 40s, but big unit, man. Those pictures back in the day, you know, when Ryan, big unit, all these dudes that were just fucking unreal, Raleigh Fingers, just their names, their looks, big unit have like fucking long hair. He'd come out to rock music. He's retired now. I asked him why he was at Mr. Jimmy and he said that he went over to Japan like 20 years ago to play in some kind of Japanese All-Star game or something and went and saw Mr. Jimmy by, just by chance at a club 20 years ago. Mr. Jimmy has been doing Jimmy Page for 43 years. It is nuts. So big unit, Randy Johnson, it became a giant fan and it's been following his career every since, which is wild. So catch Mr. Jimmy out there on tour right now with Jason Bonham and great to meet you, big unit. He is now a full-on photographer and go to his things. It's RJ51photo, I believe is his Instagram. And he is just an incredible photographer now and all these years, he's been into rock and metal. He's been shooting concerts most of his life for fun. He's got some amazing fucking photos that are right up there with anybody's photography of the legends, Jim Marshall and all those guys. This guy has got some insane great photos of like Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer, man. The class, he shot the clash in 82 on that Who Clash Tour Rock the Casbi era, unbelievable. And of course he's been shooting rock photos ever since, he's got some amazing Cornell. He's got some amazing Rush photos. And then he's got some killer photos of just humans and animals. It is wild, man. Living a good life that guy, man. He made a lot of fucking money. A lot of money, man. He signed a deal for 52 fucking million with the Mariners. And on his final season with the Giants, he signed an eight million dollar deal for one year. Can you imagine working one year, eight million after your agent or whatever in taxes, you get like, I don't know, let's say six million, just one year. 52 million plus eight million plus a fucking other five million here or whatever, commercials. The guy's fucking, hopefully set, I'm sure he is, man. I can tell he's just out living his, he's out living his best life. He's just living the best life. So it was great to meet him. And it's always while you never know who the fuck you're gonna meet when you're just out and about doing life. Let's get into some stuff here. All kinds of things to talk about. You too recorded a new song, a video for a new song in Vegas yesterday called Atomic City. Guess it was wrote after the nickname of Vegas back in the day when they were doing all that nuclear testing back there, nuclear bombs. The old Atomic City, they're gearing up for their residency at the Sphere, which I said I will be going to with a fistful of mushrooms and reliving my octongue baby tour at the Oakland Coliseum back in the day. I cannot wait to see this, even though Larry Mullen will not be playing because of the back surgery, he did play in the video yesterday, which is great to see Larry there. He looked good too, man. He fucking had guns. He's just back there. Larry is a type of guy that looks like he'd never ages. And their edge was playing some strange hollow body, which is unusual to see, but they were filming the video. They shot it twice. They did a pop-up concert down in Old Town, Fremont Street. Same spot they did, still haven't found what I'm looking for. Right there, many years ago, going back and reliving some U2 history. Song didn't sound bad. I can't really tell because it was some phone footage, but it did sound like Call Me by Bondi. And I think Debra Harry might be calling Bondo with a little bit of royalty kick down there, man. The chorus was very reminiscent of Call Me, but looks like we're gonna have some new music from U2. And looking forward to hearing that. I'm always interested to hear what they do. Last few albums have been okay, but some of their records, a lot like I said with the Stones, have like one or two incredible songs. So we always know we're gonna get something good from them. I'm looking forward to seeing that Spear concert. I have to say that name of that venue, Weird Spear, because it's just such a weird name. I can't believe it's not like Metropolitan Life Insurance Spear or, you know, Golden Gram Serial Spear. But it's going to be cool. And it's cool to see U2 doing cool shit. Somewhere along the way, U2 got a bad rap. They got like the, they got the Tom Cruise, I would say. They got Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise making great, great films, great actor, just a killer box office, absolute super icon. And then he jumps on a couch on Oak for Winfrey. I love this girl. And then people are like, he's a freak. What a freak. He jumped on the couch and he was like, what? That's what you're fucking looking down on Tom Cruise for. And U2 kind of got Tom Cruise when that iPhone, new iPhone came out and it came automatically with the U2 record and one of the records I can't remember now was years back and then everybody was angry at U2 and it's like, hey man, this is a big deal. Just go press delete if you don't want it. And if you do want it, you got a free fucking record. It's already impossible to make it in the music business these days. So fucking hats off to them for thinking of something outside the box. You know, oh, they fucking hijacked my phone. I don't fucking like those dicks. I was like, relax. I mean, I can't even tell. I was reading just a couple of days ago. Now bands can't even really afford to tour. So there's gonna be no money for musicians at all. They lost all the money from the free downloading and streaming. There's no record sales anymore. And now they can't afford to tour because the gas and the crew and the flights and the tour buses and the insurance and the hotels are all a fortune. So now they can't even afford to tour. The venues are taking fucking a giant chunk of their merch, you know, a cut of their merch. It's fucking, it's getting awful out there, people. And I guess people just really don't care until one day they don't have anything to do. And they're like, hey, man, I don't really have anything to do. What happened to concerts? Well, you know, you just didn't want to pay for the music fucking man. It is getting grim out there. I don't know if it's getting grim. In general, like life just seems like it's fucking way out of control. Like there's tons of crime and there's tons of gloom and doom and everything costs a million dollars. I know that's for a fact, but I don't know if it just seems way more intensified because the social medias, that's all they seem to show us. You know, once in a while, I'll get a video of like, you know, a cat getting saved by a man, you know, 500 feet up in the air or a dog making someone happy or whatever. And you just look at this video for a minute and it makes you so fucking joyful inside. You're just like, oh my God, this is chipping away all that fucking coal on my heart. Look how beautiful this is. This is amazing human gave this person $500 in a grocery store that had no money. You know, I just saw this video, this guy's like, hey, if you give me $5, I'll give you this lunchbox and with whatever's in it and people are like, get the fuck out of here, which I get, somebody talks to me in a grocery store. You just become so jaded because you're just like, this guy's a fucking weirdo, something in the lunchbox, what's in there? Anthrax, fentanyl, fucking poison, a snake, you know, that's how fucking, that's how guarded we'd become as humans. And he handed it to this old woman and had $500 in there. And she was just crying, you know? And they're like, I need more of this in my algorithm. You know, I've got like 17,000 smash grabs and car robberies and road rage videos. And then I'll get one of these and I'll just be like, this is beautiful. Thank you, fuck, oh my God. I don't know, I was asking my friend over the weekend, I go, am I the only guy paying for shit? I feel like a sucker. People just walking in, grab stuff at the grocery store and the mall, not paying, nobody does anything. I'm over there in line, waiting in line to pay. I'm like, wait, do we not have to pay? Is that, if I don't have to pay, I got no problem paying my bills, you know? I got all this fucking free shit. I can eat bad. Anyway, it's a wild world out there and I just try to stay positive. And I think most of you that listen to this try to stay positive too. It's the only thing he can do, you know? Only thing he can do. Anyway, so, big love out there to you too. Looking forward to going to see and that and hearing what you got coming up next here. Lots of stuff here to dive into, still solo episodes, nothing but love for you guys tuning in every week. I saw on Instagram, speaking to Instagram, that some company finally has the flying car. And man, I think that's one of the things that look at the most on Instagram is cars. Guy was driving by me yesterday. I put it up on my Instagram. He had like one of those 1972-ish Ford Mach three, or Mach Mach three. Mach one mustangs convertible, the long cigar body ones. That's like a weird era Mustang. Not as weird as the Charlie's Angels Mustang too, that small little mom Mustang. Remember they came out with that in the 70s? Mustang too, compact and cool. Not even close to cool. And one of the Charlie's Angels had one, but the long cigar early 70s ones, are starting to grow on me. It's weird how you hate cars growing up. Like you're like, oh, that one's ugly. And then as you get older, you're kind of like, man, I kind of fucking, I couldn't understand the design of that. Look at that. You drop the rigidness of like, I only go Dodge Challenger 440, hemi. That's all I like, it's hemi. Everything else is stupid. Camaro 68, RSSS 396, that's all I go. And then as you get older and these cars are on the road, you know, that car's from like 1972. Here we are in 2023 and you see a cherry version of the car. Even if you see a beat up version, you're amazed that that car is still on the road. You ever see like a 80s Toyota Celica? It's not like a special car, but you see one now and you're like, fuck, that's fucking cool to see that fucking 80s Celica? I mean, how many are on the road still? And Toyotas are bulletproof, but you just don't see them anymore. And to see just a car that's not your, you know, suit like a Ferrari or a vintage Porsche or a vintage Lamborghini or Mopar, to see a car that wasn't that popular and to see it on the road still and cared for it. You're like, God, that's all sin. You just didn't love with it. You're like, fuck, I could drive that. That guy was driving by me. It was a convertible and I was filming him. He could see I was filming him. And I just gave him the, yeah. He goes, yeah. He's just out on a Sunday enjoying his fucking cigar Mustang. Purple, it was purple with white stripes. It was beautiful. Anyway, so I love cars, of course. Everybody knows that. So this, here comes the flying cars. Finally, some car company. What's it called? ALIF or ALIF, A-L-E-F. They got a $300,000 flying car. And this is the funniest fucking part about it. You can put down a $150 deposit right now. $150 deposit on your $300,000 flying car. What are you fucking out of your mind? Just make the deposit like 50 grand. Because why waste people's time? You know, your company's time of like, well, we got another deposit for 150. Are you kidding me? Why do you make the deposit fully accessible like the cars like six grand? It's 300 grand. And who's the lunatic that doesn't have the money but puts down a deposit anyway? Just in case I win the lottery or you know, they're cruising around work. Yeah, they're at Burger King working. I put down my deposit on the ALIF flying car. Put down 150. So gonna be a little light on rent this month, but I got my deposit on the $300,000 flying car. Oh my God. Both people are lunatics. The guy putting down the deposit and the dude, the company, the dude that came up with it, like let's just make the deposit like 150. But I mean, it could almost be a scam. They get like 10,000 deposits and then they're not even a real company. They just shut down the website and fully pocket like a ton of money. I don't know who the fuck ALIF automobiles are. I don't know who they are. You just fucking put down their credit card info. Here's my 150. You have no idea. You haven't seen the car. You haven't been to the brick and mortar factory. Nothing. And you just go and deposit. That's a great scam, right? It's right up there with that Vegas. They got hit by these hackers, Blackcat or something over the weekend. Did you see that? They just went on somebody's LinkedIn, got an employee's name. Then they called MGM and they're like, hey, this is Jimmy Smith. I forgot my sign in. They go, look at Jimmy Smith works here. Yeah, yeah, I'm just trying to sign in here at home. And then they just give the fucking info to the hackers and then they hacked the entire fucking casino, turning off slot machines and the power. Oh my God, it's fucking crazy. That easy. And then they asked for a ransom of like 6 million or something. Oh my God. So why not just build a Delray's flying motorcycle? Just put down a deposit of 50 bucks. I'll be delivering these things in 2025, the flying motorcycle, hit up my PayPal. Oh fuck, man. That's not a bad scam. Just shutting it down after two months, leaving with the money. You're not even remembering your deposit because they're not due until 2025. So sometime late 2024, you realize you can't make rent and you kind of want to get your deposit back and the fucking website doesn't work anymore. God damn, but anyway, I watched the video on it. It's so funny. It's just like a, it's just a, it looks like a bad video game. And they're like, flying cars. It just takes off. And it's just a two-seater, fully electric. It goes like 300 miles driving, 110 miles flying. And the car just pops up and just goes over a few cars and traffic then just goes back down. And I was like, this looks like a bad video game. There's no video of like a real one, like a guy going, here's the real prototype, nothing. And then they just showed like, it's in San Francisco Bay area where the car's being made. They just show a bunch of these flying cars going over the Bay Bridge on top of it, above it with like these kind of flying like road cones. So, you know, which way to go. And there's like 80 cars flying one way, 80 flying the other. I'm like, this is fucking jive. Anyway, the flying cars are finally coming. We'll see. We will fucking see. Everybody, my buddy's got a great bid on that. A mirror cake, go look up a mirror cake flying car. Funny ass comedian, old friend of mine. Anyway, flying cars are coming, buddies. Interesting thing. I've just been, you know, it seems like my life is just Instagram. I don't know how addicted you guys are, but it's either Instagram. I don't really go on any of the other social medias ever. I've never been a Facebook guy. There's a fan page up that I just put up the podcast each week. And then Twitter just became a shit show now over the last five years from the politics. And Threads is weird. It just seems like it's no man's land. Threads, so I don't know. But I love Instagram. Everybody knows I love it. I'm always on it talking about it. But there was a video that popped up of Mark IV from the Black Crows, formerly of the Black Crows, a friend of mine. And one of what I consider one of the greatest guitar players of all time in my lifetime of seeing live and concert and recorded. Some of the leads that he's laid down on those Black Crows records over the years, stuff like My Morning Jacket. My Morning Jacket. My Morning Song. My Morning Jacket, great fucking band. My Morning Song, Remedy, Wiser Time. Just thematic, incredible, incredible leads over his history in the Black Crows. Then of course, Getting Fired, severe drug addiction. And then pulling himself out of the addiction. Later on, rejoining the Black Crows to the complete joy of every Black Crow fan ever. Steve Gorman and Mark Ford back in the band. Another solid long run. Then Mark Ford out again. Maybe some, who knows? Maybe some drug problems. Maybe some life problems. Whatever it is. Over all these years, he's completely been a survivor and I've been watching these videos lately and he has absolutely just pulled it out and out there touring a three piece band. It looks like it's three piece. Maybe there's a keyboard player that I can't see, but he's just playing at just a fucking monstrous high level. And I'm watching this video and he's out just doing a small club tour. He played like Nevada, California last weekend. Then he's in like New Mexico, small rock clubs. And like I said earlier in this show, how hard it is to tour. And there's hardcore Mark Ford fans showing up. I'm a hardcore Mark Ford fan and I've always fucking loved this guy. He played with my band for a couple of shows, a live recording and shit. He's been on the podcast two times and he has just absolutely blown my mind with his originality, his amazing tone, his unbelievable love of rock. And he's, you know, he did the Neil Young thing recently where he's playing all classic Neil Young songs and just a fucking crushing player. And it is sad to me in this day and age that he's not in the black crows. And I know I don't like to really bring that up because it's just old news and it's been talked about over and over, but it's amazing to think about these incredible players and the chemistry that they have amongst each other. And if they're not together, it's just that constant like, wow, how can you, I understand it's a money thing with most bands and it's also a personality thing and stuff like that. But it is a rock and roll is a rough thing to do. I get it. It is hard to have band members and especially if you got two brothers that fight with each other and then you have other guys that take sides with either brother and it becomes this fucking poisonous thing, but it is wild. And that's why I always promote all these bands that I love right now, instead of complaining about who's in the black crows. I've said it over and over, but it is unbelievable to see the level of playing that Mark Ford is doing on his Instagram. And then it got me thinking about the black crows and I didn't even realize without an announcement, they have two new players again, a new guitar player and a new drummer without even, they had the guy from Earthless and they had a different drummer for the, you know, when I saw him at the Troubadour a couple of years back when they announced the Shaker Money Maker anniversary tour. And then just without a nowhere, there's two new guys. And let's see here. It is Cooley Simmington, who played with Afghan Wigs for a little bit. He's played with Connor. He's John Doe. He's played with, who else has he played with? Let's see here. Oh, Sparta. He was in Sparta. He's Nashville, but I think he lives in Nashville. Okay. Anyway, so new drummer out of nowhere and then a new guitar player out of nowhere. Nico, this guy's from Brazil, I believe. Nico Barasiatu. I don't know how to say his last name, but I think he played in Rich's solo band. If I'm not mistaken, plays a kick ass, like a three pickup Les Paul SG. Just two new players out of fucking nowhere. Where's the other guys? And it doesn't matter anymore. The other guys do not matter in the black crows at all. It's the brothers and whoever. Nobody, nobody even seemed to mention it in any of the, you know, they play two shows with Aerosmith, but then Tyler's voice is blown out right now. So they're taking six dates off, but not one fucking mention of like, I'm watching the video and I go, who are these guys? And then I went to the black crows current page and Wikipedia to see, yep, there's the two new guys that are playing and then Sven's still on base. But then I start looking at former players. It is incredible. The list of former players is fucking nuts. Of course, the great, great legendary Steve Gorman to not have him in the band, just unbelievable. Then Johnny Colt, we know he, you know, he played for the golden years. Mark Ford, Eddie Hirsch, rest in peace. Eddie Hirsch, sorry, Eddie Hirsch. Eddie Hirsch, one of the greatest B3 players ever seen. They had Oddly Free for a while. Andy Hess played base for a while. They had some guy, Bill DeBrow, that was the guy that I saw in New York who opened the first black crows reunion and they fired him immediately after the New York run and got, he was not good in the black crows. They got Gorman back by the Atlanta gigs. Rob Chloris, keyboards 0607, no idea who that is. Paul Stacey, he's a fucking, he did those incredible Chris Robinson solo records. New Earth Mud, that guy's fucking great and great producer. I love Chris Robinson's New Earth Mud more than CRB all day long. Adam McDougal, who, you know, was on keys for a while. Luther, the slide, the great slide player was there for a while. Jackie Green, which was bizarre. Friend of mine, great singer, songwriter. He played guitar. Tim LaFabrie, I fuck up everyone's names, touring only from 2019 to 20. I don't even know Tim, but he must have been in there in between Sven. Raj Ola on drums, no idea. Isaiah Mitchell, that was the guy from Earthlings. Joel Robinow, keyboards 2019, 22. Brian Griffin, drums, touring session drummer, 2123. That was that drummer that I saw. So tons of members. And sorry, I fucked up a lot of your names. I suck at names, but, you know, it is wild to think about. There's just two new dudes in the black crows. It doesn't even fucking make the news anymore because now I think it's just kind of people just going, oh yeah, the brothers fired another guy or whatever. It's just wild. But like I said, I don't sit there and go, you know, they should have these guys in. If I, you know, I just go see new bands. I just go see Marcus King. That's my black crows of 2023, you know? I go see Neil Francis. It's definitely a hard game with personalities. And thank God I do comedy because I've been there in my lifetime of switching band members. And a lot of times it wasn't about firing band members. It's just couldn't afford band members. They had to go make a living playing in some other bands, which I fucking get it. And then you're constantly thinking about, God, I wish fucking Ronnie Crawford was on this gig playing drums. But anyway, black crows, two new members, really wild. I wanna close the show out with a little conversation here. I was backstage at that comedy store. And I got a Miles Davis hoodie from a friend of mine recently and I just love the Miles Davis hoodie. And I was talking to Tom Papa backstage, fantastic comedian. And he said, Miles Davis, cool hoodie. Yeah, I just been listening to a shitload of Miles Davis in the last six months. Just really, it's funny to think about as you get older. I've always loved Miles Davis, certain arrows. I was way into the live at the Fillmore, the weird abstract Miles Davis. And it would come and go in my life, Miles Davis or Curtis Mayfield, Curtis is not the same, but I'm just saying, you get into these obsessions to where you're like, well, I just listened to Curtis Mayfield now and I just chill, and at 57 years old and trying to relieve a lot of clutter in my mind with this past year and just being fucking just brutal and good. It's like massive ups, massive downs. I dove deep into Miles Davis again. And I think he's just gonna be there for the rest of my life now. I'm at the Miles Davis era of my life. That's how old I am. How old are you? I'm Miles Davis, daily years old. That's how old I am. And it's funny, it's not for everybody. And I used to do this bit where I go, jazz fans are dicks. You ever meet one at a party that like, what kind of music do you like? Oh, I like metal, music for peasants. I like jazz. And then I would say something like, yeah, well, I got friends. Yeah, it was some kind of early Delray joke that I loved, you know? Cause that would be a jazz fan, you know? Jazz fans are kind of, they're a different type of person. The person, I'm talking about a person that only listens to jazz, where they look down upon any other music. We're speaking about that. What about that fucker from Rolling Stone magazine, man? Speaking of looking down on music, who would have thought that this fucking guy would just turn out to just be a fucking fool moron? Like just insane comments against like Joni Mitchell and Janice Joplin and Grace Slick and blues artists and stuff. What the fuck, man? I can't even believe that came out of a guy who started Rolling Stone, a counterculture magazine that celebrated, you know, multicultural love and battles against Vietnam War and a celebration of the hippie era of Hendrix and Santana. Hispanic man, a black man and hippies who were considered complete, you know, dirt people. I mean, I can't even fucking believe what this guy said. It's unreal, man. Anyway, so the jazz fan, you know, those type of people that just kind of look down on all music, but jazz. And I mean, I get it. If you're just a full-on one thing, I meet people all the time out there. People that are only heavy metal. There's people that are only hip-hop. There's people that are only country. I never understood it. And it's just like I've said years and years on the show, I don't only go see comedy movies. I don't only eat burritos, you know? Like, who doesn't want tons of variety in your life? It's so fucking boring if you don't. It's crazy. Anyway, Miles Davis. It's not something that you just, it's like the dead where you're like, where do I start? Miles Davis just has like a hundred fucking records on Amazon music. It is crazy. And I always loved Miles Davis on and off because I just thought, you know, when I started to get into kind of almond brothers and jamming, I was always fascinated by Miles and the people that played with him and the jams that he did. He was just a, he is king jam. This guy is so abstract and wild and so much fucking mood and heart and flavor coming out of this guy. His wild man, he died in 91. I never saw Miles Davis. It's weird to think about how you could have saw Miles Davis in the 80s. No problem. You know, Miles Davis to me just seems like such an old soul. It seems like something that was straight up 60s. And you don't even think about like Miles Davis was out touring in the 70s and 80s just playing. And you know, I remember diving deep into Miles Davis back in the day. He was a huge Ferrari fan. He loved Ferraris. I was like, that's fucking cool. He's talked about how he would just get in his Ferrari and drive up around an upstate Connecticut or something and just free his mind and hear the engine. And I loved the fact that he owned a couple of Ferraris and he just, he'd tour and then come home and drive these Ferraris. And I love those great Jim Marshall photos of him in the boxing ring. Just in his look, those fucking glasses he'd wear. But to get into Miles Davis music, it's just like where do you even start? So I would say there's, it just depends what you wanna hear out of Miles. And I'm gonna give you some surface beginner Miles. Now for me, if you have Sirius XM, Miles Davis has a station. He doesn't, he's not no longer with us, but there's a Miles Davis station. And it's pretty incredible. You just put that on and let it fly and see if it grabs you. I don't think there's no way not something's not gonna grab you out of Miles Davis. You're just listening to it like, oh, this is fucking cool, what is this? So for a long time I was Miles Davis live at the Fillmore. And that is a really hard listen because it's really abstract. The horn playing is crazy. It's like, it's crazy, fucking crazy jazz. But I think for maybe a beginner you wanna get in, here's some of my list. Of course, kind of blue is totally famous and that's kind of an era of Miles that is straight up jazz, you know? Bitches brew another era that is, you know, classic Miles. But for me, if you wanna get into it, check out on the corner. There's two versions. There's on the corners, super complete deluxe, which I just throw on and let it fucking fly. And then there's regular on the corner. Art work is fantastic on the cover. Just unbelievable. But this record for me all day fucking long, every day really, really has seemed to have been an easer on my mind. And it also kind of helps you think outside the box. I play a lot of Miles Davis, then I wanna write some bits. I can kind of, you know, it opens up my mind to think a little different way. But give yourself a fucking, a little dose of pleasantness, little dose of pleasantness with some Miles Davis, man. Go give it a check out. In person, Friday night at the Black Hawk. I love the name of that record. That's a club in San Fran back in the day, the Black Hawk. And the record, in person, Friday night at the Black Hawk. That'd be a great comedy special. In person, Saturday night, second show, comedy store, Dean Del Rey. Anyway, speaking of that, I'm going to be in Utah this weekend at Boxcar Comedy. Please buy some tickets and come out. If you know anybody in Utah, let them know. I'm gonna be there. It's only two shows. It's one Friday, one Saturday. And this club is brand new and they're really fucking cool people. So do yourself a favor. Get a ticket on my website, deandelray.com. And if you want to join the Patreon, that's patreon.com slash deandelray. And there's merch on my website also, by the way. And I hope to see you at the Boxcar Comedy. And then the funny pages in Colorado Springs. That's coming up. And then a lot of shows of Bill Burr, of course, the Madison Square Garden, which is on November, I think that's the 10th. Yeah, let me look real quick. And the garden, there might be a few tickets left on that. I'm just, fuck man. Yeah, the 10th is the garden. And a lot of other shows, man. It's coming out. The year is winding down with a lot of great shows. I hope to see you guys out there. Can't thank you enough for your support. And I appreciate it. Like I said, there's some very, very cool guests coming up on Let There Be Talk. And I'm just not gonna tell you who they are right now just because whenever I do that, I seem to jinx myself. So no longer am I doing that, but in the meantime, like I said, I really appreciate you guys enjoying the solo episodes. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel and leave a review on iTunes. It really helps, believe it or not. Some kind of bullshit where if you review and like something, it puts it up on the charts higher. We're at number 60 this week on iTunes. Pretty fucking good. All right, the candles are lit, my friends. 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