 Hello, and welcome to this week's Patreon bonus episode with Mr. Chris Georgienus. Chris, welcome to the bonus episode. Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah, man. You're a cool guy. I think you do a lot of really neat stuff. Thank you. So, again, thanks for being here. But the thing we're talking about here is things you can't prepare for. Like freak, like acts of nature kind of things. Go ahead and just jump in. What are we talking about here? All right. So this one was very unique in the sense that it was just a typical bar gig. We used to play a lot on the Cape. It was September, mid-September-ish sort of post-summer season. And we're playing. We had a pretty good crowd going. But again, it's not the heat of summer or anything like that. So it wasn't fully packed like it usually gets. And then about two miles down the road is this big resort where they have lots of weddings. And what happens is after a wedding, the wedding crowd decides, hey, we still want to party with the end up coming to this place called the Woodshed in Brewster, Massachusetts. So it's out on Cape Cod. And all of a sudden you look up and there's all these beautiful people in tuxedos and a bride and all, you know, it's just, boom, all of a sudden it's like instant party. Okay. Yeah. I always had a GoPro going. And after the show, the guitarist, now we're all set up sort of it's a small bar and we're all set up against the wall, on the stage, but against the wall. So it's not like typical bandmates in front of me type of thing. We're all just here and the crowd is right up against you. And which is, I love gigs like that. Anyway, long story short, the guitarist says to me, I had a hard time playing tonight because it was a guy that was part of that wedding party right next to me on the other side of the guitarist from me who is clapping a lot and he had no sense of rhythm. And we're playing like snow by Red Hot Chili Peppers where it's a difficult guitar riff and they have a metronome completely off time in your ear, off to the side, was difficult. And so I just said, I didn't, I had no idea. He's like, how could you not have heard him? I'm like, I just, because we're really loud. I don't know. I'd never noticed him. You're playing, yeah. So he says, check the video tomorrow or whenever. I think it was like three days later, I finally load up the video and I'm looking at the footage and I'm realizing, oh my God, he didn't oversell this at all. This guy was really, really bad. And I realized I had to do, I had a launch premiere pro start taking the footage and I edited it down to about two minutes of his highlights, right? But I'm watching it back and it's not funny enough yet because we're really loud and you can't really hear him and the GoPro captured a lot of the night. So I started zooming in on him and that wasn't enough. So then my animation skills came into play and I had animated like sonic waves coming off of his hands as he, as he clapped, right? So that usually focused in the hands. And then it still wasn't funny enough. I'm like, what is it? What is it? And because every time he clapped, again, you couldn't hear him because the band drowned him out. So then I just captured my own clap. And so now level wise, the band is here and his clap is up here. So now you not only hear him louder than anything else in the room, you see the sonic waves coming off and I just focused in on this thing. And it's two minutes of him completely off time, varying BPMs all over the map and he's just doesn't care. And it's funny, I think. I brought my son in and I said, hey, Bobby, check this out. Just let me know if it's even remotely funny. Within 10 seconds, he's like, dad, you got to post that stuff right now. So I did, right? I'd love to see that. I'll show it to you. All you have to do is go to YouTube and go and search on YouTube for no rhythm, dude, because I posted it and like two or three days later, I think I was away for the weekend like on a like guys golf trip or something. My guitarist calls me. He's like, dude, have you checked the video? I'm like, why? What's going on? He's like, it's it's going viral. We're getting usually we'll get like, God, we'll get exactly 881,000 views. Exactly. Most of our videos had like 200 views or 16 views or something, right? And I'm looking at every time I refresh, it jumped up another 500 views and I'm like, oh my God, he says a viral video company contacted him and says, we want to license it right now. We'll pay you 500 bucks. We want it. It's hot. We got to jump on this. And I said, do it. Who cares? It's just, but then I panicked because I realized, oh, wait a minute, we don't know this guy. I could be, you know, attacked for like blame for cyberbullying somebody. Who knows? It could be. We're embarrassing him. Maybe even he's, you know, autistic or spectrum or who knows? And it's so I realized, all right, wait a minute, before we sign anything, we got to make sure we either have to take this down or get approval from him. So somehow we were able to locate the bride and groom through like email. I don't know how we did this. Thanks to the internet, we were able to figure it out. I think maybe because we knew they came from this big resort called Ocean Edge and it was a wedding. We got the name, Google, Facebook, email, boom. And I sent them, I sent her an email saying, hey, look, we're really sorry. But if you go to this YouTube URL, here's somebody you know, because he's with your party and it's going viral. And if you want us to take it down, we will. And I don't know. I think the next day she responded and the reply was, this was the greatest wedding present I could have ever asked for. That's hysterical. Oh my God. He's my cousin and he's seen it and he's fine with it. And so we're like, okay, boom, $500. And yeah, we got it. It's like just under 900,000 views. It hasn't reached a million, but man, oh my God, the comments are hilarious. I don't know. A lot of people thought it was fake, you know, of course. Yeah, that looks, I mean, from looking at it, that's, it's hard to fake that kind of his look of just like, and he did it all night. No one, no one fakes that all night, maybe for half a song, but no one fakes it all night, right? And I love how your guitarist is just, he's right next to him. He's standing exactly. Exactly. So that was extremely unexpected. Like what kind of like local cover band gets almost a million views on YouTube for whatever reason, not for your music, not for playing a cover of a chili pepper song or whatever, you know what I mean? So that was very unexpected. It's kind of like now it taught me the lesson that if you want to see something go sort of viral, you can never set out to make it viral. It just, it's always going to be an unexpected, handheld kind of spur of the moment spontaneous shot. My friend Jerome Dupree, who used to play with Morphine, I was at his studio one day. He had this crazy contraption where he had like a timbali drum with no bottom head and he kind of combined that with a high hat, drilled a hole through the center of the head and put the clutch through that. And he was manipulating the tension of the head with the pedal and altering its pitch. And I just quickly grabbed my phone and took, I don't know, 30 second video and that got tens of thousands of views on Instagram. I feel like I saw that. That's one of those just like every drummer, there's videos that go around where like, I mean, I'm on there a lot from being on social media, but it's like, yeah, you just see these things and it becomes like just a part of it. And I think it's because sometimes if there's a video that's overproduced and it looks really well edited and it's been color graded, it loses something, right? It's not as, I don't know, it doesn't feel, it just feels processed. So I think that's one of the other things I've learned is that if you can just capture something in the moment and it's haphazard and it's in the viewer feels like, oh, I'm seeing this for the first time too, like everyone else, then it means more and it gets more views. But that's one thing I've learned. It's not always about how great we performed. It's like, it's the guy who can't clap next to you. He's the one that gets all the attention. Yeah. Well, what you're saying really goes back to the animation styles of like home movies and like Dr. Katz where it's very paralleled to like the Simpsons and things like that at the time. It was like, which I absolutely die hard lifelong Simpsons fan, but it's very, it's just the opposite. It's squiggly, it looks not quite as polished, and that's what I loved about it. And that was sort of the mentality behind those those TV shows and the animation styles, Dr. Katz especially, where they said, you know, we don't want it, we don't want professional animators animating this because we don't want to distract from the conversations that were being had, which were mostly improvised. It was the first time you see in a cartoon where actors stumble over their words or talk over each other. As opposed, it didn't feel scripted because it really wasn't. They had a very general outline of the story, but put them in the studio, you capture three hours of audio and edit it down to 22 minutes, you know, that kind of thing. So that was just difficult. That was the allure. That was what made those shows, you know, really great storytelling. Yeah. Awesome. Man, this was, I'm going to incorporate that video and stuff so people can see it and yes, exactly. Chris, this is awesome, man. I appreciate you being here and thanks again to everyone who's listening to this because it means you're supporting the show on Patreon, which really helps pay for things like the program we're using to record this right now and my Adobe subscription, which I used to edit it. So, Chris, thanks for being here, man. Awesome to meet you. I'm sure we'll do some stuff in the future as well. Likewise, Bart. Thank you for having me. This was fun.