 Episode number 730 of Let There Be Talk on New Year's Day, 2024. I'm going to lose weight. I'm going to, you know, learn Spanish. I'm going to quench it. What the fuck? Don't put that pressure on you. Just get up and live each day. You know what I mean? That's all you can do. You can't be putting all that pressure on yourself. Change. A new me. Spiritual awakenings. All that. It's all good, man. You know what I mean? Just get up and go, oh fuck. It's another year. I keep seeing those guys on Instagram. I got 21 summers left. I got 15 summers left. You know, like, if you, if you count it that way of like, I'm just jumping into the insanity right here. Welcome to the show. Actually fuck. I don't know. I'm just barely awake. I've been out all fucking night. But anyway, don't put the pressure on it. You know, just get up and thank God or whatever you worship. I don't worship anything. I worship comedy actually. But thank you for tuning in and you know, just get up and go shit. I'm alive. What a weird start. I never know how to start these goddamn podcasts when I'm doing a solo episode. It's like, okay, I know what I want to talk about, but how do I fucking start? How do I get in? That's how that's how it is for doing standup comedy. It's always the weirdest. The first like two minutes you're up there because the object of doing comedy is trying to just completely be yourself. And sometimes you get up there and you're trying to be yourself and they're just looking at you like, is there going to be a big celebrity comic next? Or who's this guy? Welcome to the machine. Welcome to the show. What is it? It's one o'clock on New Year's Day. And I'm just getting up. I was out very late last night speaking of standup. I just did the tally. So a total of 14 years has happened in standup, which I can't fucking believe 14 years. And I've done 5,562 sets. That goddamn COVID fucked me up. I'd be at 6,000, but there was two years. I've got asterisks next to it, like the steroid era. You know, that's it. Barry Bonds, 72 home runs with an asterisk next to it. But year 11 and year 12, virus era, I've got on my notes, which I still did 115 on the first year of COVID, which is fucking insane to think about. Because at the time I thought I was never going to be doing comedy again. So, and then year 12 was virus linger. It was kind of a slow get back, but that was 264. This year I ended the year with 314 shows. And I want to give a massive thank you to Bill Burr, one of my greatest friends ever, an incredible human. And just a huge help to my career because even 14 years in, I struggled with finding spots because I don't have the manager agent. I've said it a million times, but it's really that hard. And unless you're selling tickets, man, if you're fucking one of those tick tockers and you threw up a video and it blew up and you can do like a thousand tickets, they don't give a fuck what kind of comedy or what you're doing. They're going to book you. It's all about selling drinks, my friends. And that's all right. That's all right with me. I just keep chipping away at the stone as the great Aerosmith would say. But Bill has just, you know, really been a goddamn fucking saint. Great friend. Thank you, Bill, starting out my 24 with sending love to you, my man, while you're out there doing the tailgate and at the Rose Bowl college football game. And speaking of that ACME in Minneapolis has booked me. I'm going to get in there for 10 years and it is an honor to do this club. So ACME in March. And of course, the bond Scott Bash is next Tuesday. January 9th at the Avalon tickets at dindale ray.com. There's a few tickets left. And then I go to the comedy seller in Las Vegas, January 22nd through the 28. And the great Fort Collins, Colorado, the comedy for it. And also in March. So this is my dates coming up. Please get tickets come out and I got a bunch of new stuff I'm working on. Feeling good. Feeling good. 49ers. Congrats to them. Sealed the buy week and going into the playoffs looked great. I just want to give them a shout out. Also, if you are in San Francisco, I want to tell you this. Frisco choppers is having a bike show. And they're one of the great old school chopper shops in America. January 14th, San Francisco. Amazing. Go see the Frisco choppers bike show. I want to try to get up there for that. I want to see if I can boogie up for a day and come back. Be great to see that. That was a place I very first place I bought some billet grips for my FXR. They were Arlen Ness billet grips and I bought them at Frisco cycles Frisco choppers. I believe it was down on bay street or something down there by on the way to old candlestick. Rest in peace candlestick. It was kind of like just in a warehouse area. It was so long ago, man. But that shop has a lot of history and just just chopper history. They were on the history of the chopper. Jesse James documentary on discovery channel and you know, they're the real deal chopper shop. So January 14th. That's happening in San Fran. All right, let's get into it. What are you guys going to be doing for the January are you going to be quitting sugar. You're going to be working out. You're going to be doing all that shit like I was talking about. I, you know, I've had some on and off over the last six months. I lost my mom tomorrow is going to be the one year. Mark of when my mom passed away and I still, I'm still tore up by it. And I realize some of my inner demons lately have been trying to still deal with that. Especially from the holidays and not having my mom around and then of course her birthday is in March. So it's just been, it's been fucked. And I'll just be honest, it's just insane. The, the soldier, the rock and roll teacher, my hero, my mom, she has gone and tomorrow will be one year ago. When that happened and I still need to properly grieve that I know it. I've been pushing it down. I've been just dealing with a bunch of her, her stuff and then trying to work and keep my head above water. So, you know, I miss her every day. And I think about her and I'm dedicated that bonds got bashed to her since she took me to see AC DC in 1978. And I think about you every day. So that being said, you know, I want to get back on to the super queen eating. I still don't fuck with sugar. But over the last six months, I was eating like some pizza here and there actually the last kind of year I was out on that tour with Marcus King. Late night, nothing around eating some fucking pizza, maybe a burger bun shit. I don't do white rice here that I don't eat any of that but out of some, you know, depression and insanity in my mind. I was like, ah, fuck it. But starting today, I'm definitely back on the regiment. Still, like I said, seven years or so no sugar and I'll fuck with candy, ice cream, so does it's amazing. The demon that soda is, and they can sell it. You know, they'll they'll they'll ban something like weed. They had, you know, weed was illegal for so long. And yet they'll sell soda all day long to like kids. And I was reading that middle America, the soda consumption of an average person in middle America. It was mind boggling. It was something like 2000 gallons a year or maybe it was 200 but I, you know, soda. I haven't had soda since probably 2006. And I used to when I quit drinking booze, I went to Arizona ice teas and I put on a fucking bunch away from that because it's just all sugar and I quit those and went to Diet Coke. And it was just a fierce fucking addiction. You're just moving addictions around. I don't do booze anymore. I'll just drink 1416 ounce Diet Coke today. That's fine. Oh, I'll just fucking do some late night eBay shopping. That's fine. Just addiction movement. It's kind of like a Rubik's Cube. The red is cocaine. The blue side is booze. The green side is is like Diet Coke. The yellow is shopping and you're just fucking just moving those addictions around. I'm dealing with the true fucking demons that are pushing you to that. Sometimes it's not even demons. I don't think I think it's just fucking boredom. People are like, Man, I mean a lot of people out there that just they don't have hope. And then hopefully they come to the show, they laugh and they they leave and they're like, God fuck it. I'll go another day. Anyway, so yeah, I'm going to strict regiment again for 24. I do pizza on my birthday, which usually falls on the Super Bowl. I'll do a pizza and I do pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. And my birthday right around there. I'll do those, which is coming up. I'm going to be 58 February 3rd, which is fucking crazy 58. Speaking of that, I went to one of the greatest parties I've been to in a long, long time. Last night, a good friend, Mr. Scott Ian from anthrax, Mr. Bungle, SOD, and so much more music turned 60. That is fucking incredible 60. When we were young, somebody 25. We would just cast off as old. And there I was last night I was asked to host his party that Pearl, his wife put together. at this incredible venue at Galpin Ford, which was basically just a giant, giant warehouse with three rooms full of the most incredible cars and rock and roll memorabilia and California culture. It's funny when people go at California, when you get a fucking move out of there, that place is a dump. You're out of your mind. I was in this warehouse and looking around and it was just pure California, which by the way, one of the greatest, greatest painters on the planet was there last night, Mr. Robert Williams, the man that did the appetite for destruction album cover, but also did one of my favorite paintings of all time called rust demon. You can Google that it is an amazing painting. And he is the king of the juxtapose juxtapose fucking lowbrow art scene. He is the king. He is the king of the hot rod and lowbrow art guys just amazing. But anyway, Scottie intern 60 last night on New Year's Eve it's his actual birthday, his wife Pearl had put together this amazing secret party, not secret, but she had some surprises and she gathered around, I would say, I would I can count this I've got the list but maybe about 50 musicians to put on a full concert Scott wanted to do a full three hour live concert on his birthday for all his friends that were coming to the party. And he was his dream was to play all his favorite songs in chronological chronological order, meaning from the day he starts to love music all the way to this year. And there was just, he said he started out with 60 songs he wanted to do 60 songs because he's 60 but he realized that would be four hours. So he trimmed it down to 44. And they asked me to kind of semi host and sing a whole lot of Rosie AC DC it was just an honor to be included in that, because I was looking around at the people that were there, and the people that were playing and I was just like, I was just blown away It was just an honor to be asked to do this by a man that I've respected and loved his music, my entire life almost I remember seeing anthrax and I talked to Scott Ian on my podcast about this. If you haven't heard that episode go back and listen I just love talking to this man. And I first saw them anthrax at the river theater in Guernville California on the spreading the disease tour, which I should have looked up what year that was but I'm dumb. Me and my good friend Steve Goodrich, who I still talked to him and he works at Dunlap now, and he's still in the music business and we he played in my band and we, we loved anthrax we drove around in his. Now I'm going to say it was a Datsun. I can't really remember either Datsun or Toyota, and he had the, you know, the shitty little cassette player and we would just crank spreading the disease. Non stop man. And I've been watching anthrax every since that river theater, going to among the living record which is one of the greatest thrash metal records of all time. And of course, that full crossover with public enemy, bring the noise being my man Fletch went to Fresno to see that and public enemy I think Primus was on that yeah, and anthrax, all the way out I've been seeing anthrax I saw him this year at the Palladium sold a course one of my favorite bands of all time Mr. Bungle. And now he's in that with Dave Lombardo. I went and saw that this year and in 2019. I think it was 19 or yeah 19 but anyway my point is, it's so bizarre to see somebody when you're a kid, and then years later you're on stage with them. He's 60 I'm going to be 58 somewhere along the line we became friends. We bonded over our absolute obsession of AC DC, and our tattoos I've got bonds God he's got Angus both from the highway to hell cover. And I just love this man and his family is white pearl his son at rebel kids. I can't even believe this kid's music talent. I don't know how old he is maybe eight or nine. He is so smart and crushing. He played drums on a song he played bass on a song he played guitar on a song and he sang. And this guy absolutely killed. He sang. Oh, I want to get this. I sang like just full blown super punk vocals. I don't want to hear it minor threat attitude regulator bad brands subliminal by suicidal. It was unreal. And then he got up on the drums, and he played territory by sepultura full double bass guys guys a fucking savant man it's got can, he can kill. Anyway, so I was invited down. And there was two days of rehearsal. And it was amazing Scott just for 60th birthday. He wanted to play music I respected that so much it's like that's a dream like to play with all his friends and play all this music and show his diversity. And I was listening to the set and talking to him and I was realizing this guy is exactly like me he loves all music disco thrash am pop metal. Everything man. And I'll give you a rundown of some of the people that played it and I'm going to put a little video up on my Instagram so you can see some of the people Jerry Cantrell was there. And he's saying, oh my god he was great he's saying, you may be right Billy Joel Jerry Cantrell no guitar Lee vocal up there you may be crazy. The whole night started with with a turbo Negro song and that's not in chronological order he just said he felt like that would be the best way to kick off a concert. But they did hey bulldog by the Beatles. Okay, then travel and band credence. John Bush on vocals. Oh my god this guy can sing like a man. John Bush man that that anthrax era. I like both anthra. There's multiple anthrax eras, but I love Joey Belladonna. I also love John Bush and that John Bush only sound of white noise record. Great, great it was kind of like, if it would have been called another band other than anthrax. It probably would have just been super huge, but you got to keep that brand you've fired up which by the way, Pearl put together like a 25 minute mini documentary. He wrote that before the music started. And it was just insane to see Scott Ian success from, you know, small, small little apartment and Queens. And then, you know, starting anthrax and watching that thing grow. I think it's incredible to see somebody start anthrax in New York. Like a million year I don't know maybe 35 years or something later. They play at Yankee Stadium for the big four. There is nothing fucking cooler than that. It is just incredible to see a guy and his dreams come true when you're you know you're at a Yankee game. No way everything and one day we're going to play in here with Metallica Slayer and make it at the big four. Unreal. This documentary was so cool. I hope they posted up on on YouTube because just to watch this man success, his one man show that he went around and did SOD, Mr. Bungle, just numerous, numerous massive accolades that he has reached in his career. And it's just a solid human man. He loves fucking music. I look and I go, Holy shit, I don't even know if we could be in a band together because who would we would just sit at rehearsal and talk music all day we wouldn't get shit done. Anyway, so the documentary was fantastic. Then this concert started with all these players and the rehearsed a couple days got it together and to see some of these incredible players play stuff that you wouldn't expect like Rob from machine head up there playing stay in alive. Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees, you know that kind of stuff was great they played leave on with Pearl on vocals Pearl just a great great singer her dad of course was meatloaf. Pearl's a sound and fantastic. And you can just see the actual joy and Pearl and Scott's face as they were up there, singing together they did. Don't go breaking my heart. But rich girl, holla notes Pearl killed. He's a whore, cheap trick, teenage lobotomy Ramones, all different singers all different players. Charlie, who's just been out there crushing it with Pantera. And, you know, I really feel as I was watching Charlie last night. I was realizing something. I'm working through this right here that I feel this guy's totally underrated man. You know, he's in Pantera right now. But he wrote all a lot of the riffs for anthrax he plays the shit out of guitar, and his drumming man. Last night I was watching him. I got a video of him. He's just fucking pocket back there. Just Vanessa. There's no like battling. He's just up there. He looks great kick ass hair. He's got a dope suit on. And he's just playing the shit out of everything last night. They had multiple drummers, multiple guitar players, multiple bass players, multiple singers. The middle of the show was Scotty and his love of AC DC. So they did down payment blues with Whitford Crane on vocals from ugly kid Joe, who also sings in in Kirk Hammett's side band, his wedding singers band that he does with Rob, Rob Trujillo. My fucking mouth wasn't working. Rob was there last night, and Rob was killing it on staying alive. Fucking, I mean this party, people are going to be talking about this party for years. Scott came in and the Batmobile he made the his entrance into the Batmobile guy drove him in there and landed on this circle thing and just started spinning to swear. Anyway, I'm just rambling now because I'm so excited how how amazing the night was. They would go in and out of like pop to metal to am stuff like you know rich girl into stand alive into down payment blues. And then I did a whole lot of Rosie, which was crazy because I'm going to get this right here. James Lorenzo memory him from white land on base. Early on I hadn't seen this guy since I was a kid. And he played in Zach Wilds side band when Zach left Ozzie he had this band Leonard skinhead, which basically turned into pride and glory. And I booked a California tour with my band and Leonard skinhead, and we went out we did like four or five dates that's where that old arm wrestling story comes from that I talked to Zach about on the podcast but anyway, I haven't seen him since then. So my group had a let's see tempesta on drums, who fucking smoked it in the Phil Rudd pocket back there he's been playing with the cure now for a while but he played with testament and I think he played Rob zombie for a while. But he's a very guy. It was loaded with bear a guys you know, Rob for machine had Gary whole. They did simple man. Oh my God, Gary whole Gary whole. I can go on and on about this man the Ripper they played the Ripper. No class motor head. And then they did you know like, Oh, I gotta tell you the highlight of the night here. So, my good friend J Buchanan was invited to the party and asked to sing like three songs, and it's great J and I don't get to hang that much because he's on the road and I'm on the road. But we spent a couple days together at the rehearsals, and then at this at the party last night his wife and, and, and we were all there just festive and kind of love J. He sang three of the great songs of the night but the fucking smoker of the night was careless whisper and to see J Buchanan just crush this careless whisper. He's an unreal man. I mean he did Zeppelin, and he did. He did some arrow Smith, but to see him do George Michael and after I had just seen that wham documentary a few months ago, and I'm, you know, been cranking wham for months now, just loving it. But to hear J do careless whisper. I mean, this guy, I've said it over and over one of the greatest singers I've seen in 2030 years, he could easily go out and do some badass R&B record. I've been like a flavor of like Marcus King, R&B wham Terrence Trent Darby print style. No problem. And he just killed it man. Holy shit. Well, I left at 2am, which is real late for post COVID grandpa Dean is like, Holy shit man I don't really stay up past midnight. After COVID happened I go out to comedy store I do my spots I hang at the club for about an hour, laugh with friends I go home and kick it with Gertie and go to sleep around 11 or 12 so out. I left it to the last song of the night was food fighters ever long. Oh, by the way, J Buchanan also did Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. Favorite. I fell in love with that song after the Queen movie. It's so great. They call me Mr. Farron. I love that. I'll travel at the speed of light. Don't stop me. Don't stop me. Don't stop me. Hey, hey. There was this guy Zach. And I don't have his last name unfortunately, but I guess he plays with Pearl. He was fucking monstrous man guitar player singer. Just killer shout out to Zach man. God I wish I had his last name I feel like a dick. I'm just going off this giant. A master list I had because I was kind of hosting to if there's any downtime I'd pop up hey guys. It was weird you know you get there. Hey, so how fun is this you know you're just trying to figure it out. Scott's like roast on people but it wasn't that kind of crowd you might be like what are you wearing your fucking dick. It's a total asshole. But anyway, thank you Scott and Pearl and rebel for having me. And I just it just, it was just I couldn't have thought of a better way to spend my New Year's Eve than with Scott Ian and all the Bay Area flavor that was in there. Oh man. Oh that's right. Trey was there. Hold on let me get this. Trey sorry. Trevor from Bungle was playing. Oh you know who was there fucking Doug Pinnick. King's X. Oh my God they played over my head King's X. Pearl saying like a like a prayer Madonna crushed. Anyway you get the idea. I'm going to get out of this topic now because he has it like all right we get it you're at a fucking cool party with some goddamn superstars. I wasn't about that. It's just more about being around all your friends. I think the thought of 2024 is just to try to spend as much time with your friends and enjoy like shit's crazy out there. It was fucking giant earthquake in Japan last night. We had a mini earthquake here this morning. I didn't feel shit. I was out cold from not much sleep. You know. So that's the theme man. You get together with your friends and you do psychedelics and look at stars. You know what I mean man. Not movie stars not rock stars. I'm talking about actual astrology man. You get into astrology and just enjoy the fucking atmosphere. Okay. Scott Ian is 60. Fucking great. Oh I want to live to be a hundred. I don't know how how that's going to happen. But let's get in to my top 10 records of 2024. That's what the end of the year is about a bunch of people's dumb fucking less. And this is what I think was great. And this is the bad and the good of 2023. I said top 10 records of 2024 but it's really of 2023. Man here fucking here's my top 10 fucking hot dog list of 2023. Peter Snitzel is not made the list. All right. So there was a lot of great records and whenever I do this list I realize you know I research it pretty hard what records was I listening to a lot in 23 that were new. And sometimes you miss them and people go oh fucking no. You didn't put anything on your list. And then you know they try to like tweet at it and try to act like a band that's a friend of mine or whatever. Try to cause some kind of bullshit drama. We didn't have boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop. That's what the Internet drama and trolls are to me that the peanuts gang voices. boop boop bop boop boop boop boop. I don't even fucking acknowledge it it's just like. I can't believe you didn't have on your list. I can't even fucking. Anyway, there's a lot of great records out in 23. There were a lot. I mean, fucking the amount of crushing music that came out in 23 is just mind boggling. Let's get into it. I would say number 10 coming in at number 10, and I've got some kind of extra ones that'll be on here. Number 10 is going to be Nick Perry, Underground Thieves. All right, he, let me get this up here. He released a double album that took him a few years to put out, and it just fucking kills, man. Let me look at this real quick. It is just, I mean, it's kind of like a, I guess it's a concept record. It feels like it. So here it is. The record is just fucking great. I want to get it here for you. And that's going to be my number 10, all right? Let me get this fucking thing here. The record's called Terra Ferma, and it came out June 16th. So it was a summer record. And oh my God, the first half of the record is just mind boggling. It's got all these kind of interludes in between the songs. It's got a great album cover. I believe he might have paid for it himself, and it is, it is great. All right? I'm going to give that number 10. Number nine! I had these guys, oh by the way, I've had Nick Perry on the podcast. So if you're wondering what he's all about, it's a great, great episode. Number nine goes to a band called Spotlights, absolutely fantastic. Alchemy for the Dead is the record. And it came out April 28th. I had him on the podcast, and it is a fantastic record. And oh man, I can't recommend this record enough to dig into it. Some of the tracks I recommend are Sunset Burial, False Gods, and Crawling Towards the Light. Just I mean, what a dark, dark, cool record. Alchemy for the Dead, the band is Spotlights. That's going to be number nine. Number eight is the Black Delta Movement. Now I've been listening to this band, hold on, let me get this up here. Black Delta Movement, Big Daddy's, let's see, hold on, okay. I've been listening to this band for a while, and let me get the record here, got to get this, yeah, it's so good. Furry Effects, that is the name of the record, and it is just fucking Smoker. Came out April 14th, 2023, the Black Delta Movement, Unreal Band, Unreal Band. I want to check something real quick here, hold on, because where is it? My other record that I had was 2018 Preservation. So digging into that Black Delta Movement, number eight, that was number eight, right? And then another band that is Black is the Black Angels, who holy shit, man, have they been in my heavy rotation for years? And they really remind me of the time I headlined out in Denver for a weekend, this record came out that they had, let me get it for you, called Death Song, that came out in 2017, and there was a song on there called Currency that I could not stop listening to. Just an unbelievable band, I've seen them live twice, they just blow my mind, man, and let me see here, hold on, I'm trying to find the fucking, this is, wait a minute, I'm fucking up here, I'm fucking up. So anyway, they put out a single, The Era of Dominance, September 22nd, 23, and I guess the record's coming out in 24, but I've got a few of the tunes, and I just wanted to pump this band, oh here, Phosphine Dream, that was the first record I got by them, and this record just kills, oh my God, and this is a great band, if you have not listened to it, dig in. So it doesn't really count as a record, I guess, because I just got a few of the songs, but I want to recommend the band over and over all the time, because some of these indie bands I have on here, I just can't stop pumping them. King Gizzard, Black Delta Movement, The Black Angels, who else, oh that Dwayne Betts record, that was fucking fantastic, that record, I just got into that record like a month ago or two months ago, it's just unreal. Okay, number, so I guess that doesn't really count, because I only got a few songs, but I just think anytime I can promote the Black Angels, I've got to do it, I just fucking love them. Alright, so number seven, and it's two, no I got that wrong, number seven, I'm fucking this up, you know, just because I didn't put it in the right order, I just kind of fucking fried, I forgot it was Monday, it's that fucking Christmas to New Year's where you just have no idea what fucking day it is, so you're just trying to put together your thoughts like I'll just start the recording and I'll be good to go, and then you get into it and you're like oh my god, what I'm going to do is I'm going to number them and put them up on my Instagram, and for now I will just go through the list, because I do know my number one and two, 100%, and my one, two, three punch, yeah, okay, the kills, put out a new record, I still think that Allison is one of the greatest front humans of the last 20 years, just an incredible performer and a great human, and the kills are just unreal. If you haven't seen the kills live, do yourself a favor, man, it is fire, it is fire, man. I just can't believe how good, you know, Allison is, she gets up there just trashing her body with crazy moves and, oh man, get into the kills, they got a new record out and I highly recommend it, and also I recommend all of the kills and her other, the dead weather, so the kills right here, the record came out October 27th, so it's fairly new, God games, album cover, just cool, the classic bullfighter, bullfighting is weird, man, I just don't fucking, I just don't understand bullfighting, but I do love the painting, I don't know who did it, maybe she did it, she's a fantastic fucking painter, anyway, the tune on this one that's really knocked me out is 103, I listen to that song over and over, kingdom come, God games the title track, the kills, get into this record, oh my God, all right, rival son speaking of J. Buchanan, they dropped two records, two records and it is crazy how underrated this band is, oh my God, it makes me so fucking mad, I could talk about this band till I fucking die, them, the mother hips, these bands that I just feel should be massive and you know, rival sons have had like their best year, but I still want them to be like arena level, they were out in Europe just selling out everywhere, just fucking killing it. Lightbringer and Darkfighter, two records from these guys, now Darkfighter had some of the best songs I've heard the guys put out, Rapture, Bird in the Hand, oh my God, I love Bird in the Hand and the videos were insane, insane, nobody wants to die the first single, that should have been huge, that song, the hook is insane, man and then they put out Lightbringer, like six months later and it has some songs that totally blow my mind, man, Mercy, Redemption and the song Darkfighter, both records have incredible artwork and these guys, what I love about them is they're like, fuck you, we put out music that we love and if you love it you're on for the ride, all other records blow my mind, everybody's like which record is your favorite, almost impossible to pick, it would be between Great Western Valkyrie and Head Down, Pressure in Time got me into the band and I love that, it's amazing the output of music these guys have done in the period of 10 years that they've been together and look for Scott Holliday to be playing some fucking incredible guitar at the Bond Scott Bash. Okay, Chris Stapleton who I fell in love with a few years ago and I'm just blown away by him and I saw him on the Marcus King tour, it was the first time I got to see him live at that, what was that, bourbon and blues festival or whatever and he just blew my mind man and his songwriting, his voice, his authenticity, everything about him and his new record is fantastic. It's funny because you think about Chris Stapleton is on a fucking roll, the last couple records had just been insane, the new one higher and then that record, oh fucking, hold on, Traveler, I mean his records are insane, Traveler, what's that song on there, it is insane, hold on, let me find it, God what is it, it's the one he sings with his, wait I don't think it's on there, the one he sings with his wife just blows my, oh Starting Over, oh my god that tune, Cold, this is on the Starting Over record 2020, I'm all over the board on this people sorry, but his new record higher is Kick Ass, it's got some great great songs on it, classic Chris Stapleton and I believe Marcus King is doing some more tour dates with him and Marcus King has a new record coming out and I guess Rick Rubin finally let the word out which I've known over a year, oh I've known actually two years that he produced the new Marcus King record and it's gonna blow some people's minds, it really is, let's get down to the top three, Metallica, they put a record out and at this depth of their career they still are putting out fantastic music, no matter what dummies say, oh man no quick Burton, no Metallica, ah no Jason, no Metallica, they cut their hair, no Metallica, they did a record with Lou Reed, no Metallica, if I could dummies, these guys have been around 42 years just killing it and they put out just straight up molten metal record, April 14th, 2023, 72 seasons, I just saw them play one of the best gigs in their career out at Power Trip, they just smoked everybody and fucking hats off to them man, this record, Luxie Turner, come on man, what else I love on this, oh if darkness had a sun, holy shit, too far gone, whole record kills, it's just a great piece of metal, if this was some new band's record people would be like oh my god have you heard 72 seasons by the broken eyeball, you know, so they're in there, I guess I'm right around the top three here, Metallica would be number three, now my number one is really tough because there's two records that came out this year that absolutely blew my mind, one of them is by a band that I never listened to and they put this record out and I listened to this record for six months straight and I cannot stop listening to this record and then the other record is by a band and one of my favorite humans on the planet, so one and two rotate back and forth so I can't really do a one and two I guess, I mean I guess I could but it would be hard, I guess it'll go like this, number two, avenge sevenfold, life is but a dream, this record blows my mind and I'll be listening to it for years and years and years kind of like jellyfish spilt milk to where I'm just like constantly turning people on to this record and it was an honor to have the guys on on the podcast and I think that this particular record might have weeded out some of the old fans which is a lot of times great if it gains you a ton of new fans and that's what I think this record has done, it is very very divided amongst the avenge sevenfold fans I'm sure from what I read over the year the last year this record it really really blows my mind how fucking good it is and how original it is just the I can't even really describe what it is it's it's outrageous and I've been listening to it like I said since the day it came out somebody turned me on to it I was like ah I'll give it a spin I've been trying to like avenge sevenfold for years and I know they out there waving the flag of rock and I know they came up on GNR and Pearl Jam and you know they they like all the good stuff and then they dropped this record and I'm like holy shit this thing is fantastic man hats off to you avenge sevenfold and like I said it's tough to go from one and two but I would say this next record is uh turned into one for me because it is uh done something that only I think you too octong baby record has done for me which was when the record first came out I was like yeah this is cool record but I didn't really probably have the mindset of taking it all in and this band has so many masterpieces in their catalog that it's constantly the comparison thing but Queens of the Stone Age in times New Roman when I saw them live last what two three weeks ago at the forum I immediately was like oh I fucking get this record and I cannot even tell you how much I've been listening to it ever since and I liked it when it came out do not get me wrong but there was a shit ton of stuff going on in my life and there was a shit ton of music out and I just didn't have the proper bandwidth to sit down and understand how deep this fucking record is and with the stuff that Josh has gone through you start to look at this and you think man how did he make this record with everything he was going through in his life cancer a divorce and you know way deep in your career with Queens of the Stone Age what are you doing do you keep doing queens do you start something new do you go and do them crooked vultures do you who knows you know those questions you ask yourself as an artist what makes me fucking feel good what's going to make me uh you know be able to sit with myself for the next year and this record is just fucking smoking I understand it now emotion sickness unbelievable paper mache uh sorry paper machete unbelievable but live I became a fan of this song time and place and it just now is in heavy rotation with me like daily it is such a great song and this record is kind of dead kennedy's meet some zeppelin it's it's just fucking great so if you haven't listened to it or you're like me and put it on and went yeah okay cool new queens and move on don't do that don't do that do yourself a favor and go back I give this record the proper fucking bandwidth that it takes to you know acknowledge it take it in anyway there you go some mentions the stones 79 years old now they're 80 Keith and Mick put out a great record a lot of dummies were out there best records since uh some girls casting off a masterpiece like tattoo you that's insane I do like this record a lot I like it better than the blues record I'm not a blues guy ba ba ba you know you baby I get it I know it's the uh it's the uh you know the birth of rock and roll and I love original blues guys oh my god baby king freddy king james cotton I love all the blues guys but I don't like when people play the blues other than somebody like Stevie Ray Vaughn that fucking smokes it oh my god but uh you know the stones they put out the blues record a lot of people like did I get it but it's uh to me it's always incredible when somebody and I've said it many times and speaking of Rob Flynn from Machine Head when somebody's in a band for all those years and then they drop some kind of fucking great great masterpiece or killer fucking killer songs I'm looking up the stones record here sorry guys um what the fuck where is it come on um I mean I talked about the stones album pretty fucking hard a few episodes ago I do not know why here we go the rolling stones ba ba ba ba how great is the fucking stones come on man it's fucking absurd that's on sweet sounds of heaven it's just fucking great I hate the album cover I absolutely hate the album cover that the rolling stones put on hackney diamonds it is uh awful stones have had some unreal album covers over their time think about that sticky fingers some girls one of the best album covers ever um that one uh with charlie on the cover the live record oh god it's so cool the tattoo you cover great but this cover straight but the fucking records got great songs they're up for a Grammy for angry which is uh I wish it wasn't that song I hated that song when it came out I was like nope but man sweet sounds of heaven with lady gaga on fucking real um bite my head off killer the first or sorry two three four what a knockout get close it is so good depending on you oh my god 80 years old going out on tour and it just fucking smoking it so that's uh some of the records there that I uh absolutely worship this year thank you to those bands for just setting out unbelievable art into the world and and actually making music in this time where people don't pay for it it's uh I know thank you I can't thank you enough for that so there you go I hope to see you guys at the bond scott bash that will be next Tuesday January 9th please get your tickets I cannot tell you um how great this show is going to be it's just you know bill burr and myself during full-on comedy and then we take a little break and then we come back and we do a full bond scott era acdc tribute and uh I hope to see you guys there and I hope to see you at some of the live shows act me uh in Minneapolis once again comedy seller in Vegas and comedy for in Fort Collins Colorado this is some of the upcoming shows have a great week and uh thank you patreon.com slash dean del re just put up a bonus episode a few days ago and uh thank you for all the patreoners oh and I want to give a 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