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Jimmy, it's time to worship the golden donkey of love, L.Donk.
And to, uh, too lazy to quit, too stubborn to die is the model that drives this rock band
that formed in the Madison area in the mid 90s.
Whitty therex and songs written in keys not yet understood.
L.Donk is tongue in cheek and the jokes should go right over your head, but if they don't,
that's your fault.
L.Donk is, uh, the Falconon guitar and vocals, the Baronon bass guitar.
We'll be K3 on saxophone and bones on drums and financing.
Please welcome L.Donk to live in the layer, presented by the Aaron Weber Group.
Guys, welcome to Maxine Gradio.
Well, I thank you.
Thank you, it's great to be here.
It's great to see you again, Falcon.
Last time I saw you was at Atwood Fest.
Yeah, baby.
Dude, you volunteered your entire weekend after you played your set to help us out at Atwood Fest backstage.
I sure did, because I was that thankful.
And there was a lot of fun.
And there was a lot of beer, too.
It was a lot of fun.
There was a lot of beer.
That was a lot of fun.
Yeah, you know, we just had interviewed the German art students and they were commenting to us
that their very first show was with L.Donk.
Yes.
Uh, at, uh, okay, is Kerala, do you believe?
Wow, that's, that's like, literally we've had some serious, uh, music history here,
through here tonight, Jimmy.
So where, uh, what year?
I don't want to get ahead of rocker, but what year did you, uh, L.Donk start?
In 97, probably.
Oh, well, seven.
L.Donk started in 95.
95.
So L.Donk was around for a couple of years before the first show with the German art students.
Right.
Yeah, we were already settled firmly at Okay Skrown.
You were first.
Kathy didn't like us that much.
I don't think, but, oh, my goodness.
Well, you know, for our listeners, you may not be familiar with L.Donk.
Tell us a little of your band's, uh, history, which spans nearly three decades.
That's right.
We formed in probably like 1995 or so.
We started playing our first real shows in 96.
I think the first show we did was at Open Mike at the anchor in.
And, uh, and then from there on, somehow, someone liked this, like,
someone liked this and we ended up getting this gig opening for Dread Zeppelin at the East End,
which of course is not there anymore.
It was a bowling alley, as I believe.
Yeah.
And, uh, we ended up opening for Dread Zeppelin, which is like,
we'll actually get into that.
We'll get into that later.
Okay.
So, so, and then from there, we've, we've had a couple different lineup changes,
but at this point, um, we've had pretty much the same lineup since 2001.
And I would say, um, well, tell us about, you know, the music scene in Madison.
During the mid 90s, when your, your band started out, you were, uh,
you were just telling us a little bit about okay.
Tell us a little bit about that scene.
Uh, it was a, it was a great scene.
It was a lot of fun.
There's a lot of, there's a lot of places to play.
We liked okays.
We liked, uh, we like Roberts a lot.
We played there a bit, uh, Mr. Roberts.
Mr. Roberts has a great place.
And, uh, you know, we do a lot of collaborations.
We used to play at liquid lyrics lounge all the time.
Basically, all the clubs that are gone are burned down, right?
Telling you, we kind of have this, this saying that like,
if we've played there, it's either going to close or burn down.
So, and I'm not quite sure what that means.
Does that mean that they're desperate by the time we get to play there?
Or we don't know what else, but, um,
yeah, so a lot of the places, in fact,
we played with the, these same German arts
students at the liquid lyrics lounge.
Or no, I think it was the clinic.
So we played at the clinic.
The clinic, the liquid lyrics lounge.
There's a place on Main Street that ended up being the frequency
that we had played a bit to, um, yeah.
It was, it was, it was a fun, fun time and a fun scene.
Um, a lot of energy, a lot of focus.
You know, rocker, rocker asked this question of the German
art students, and I guess it applies to you all as well.
What is your secret to success and immortality?
Um, I mean, immortality as, as a band, I think is, is,
I think at some point you like, like I would tell any artist,
I would say you have to do art because you like to do art.
If you're looking for something else out of the deal,
maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't.
So you, you have to like what you do.
And then if you like what you do and you like what you create,
everything else is gravy at that point.
So I think that's part of the mindset and the perspective that we use.
Like we, we just like playing music.
Like if it all came down to it, we'd still show up Thursday night and,
and jam out just because we can show up.
Sure, Thursday night and jam out.
And we like to play music and, and all the,
and the success and all the other, the accolades and the things that we,
that we have had are all great too.
But to me, that's just gravy.
I mean, I think the secret to success is doing something you like.
Yeah.
And sticking with it and, and apparently we don't hate each other.
At least that much because we've been together this long.
So, all right.
So in, in rocker's intro here, he said something that really peaked my interest.
And I guess keep it PG because we are on the radio folks.
Correct.
But what is this golden donkey of love?
It's our mascot.
It's our idol.
It's, we, we just, we just thought having a,
we just thought having a cult would be way more fun than having a rock band.
Not just a band.
Yeah, not just band, we're a cult.
And, and at one point, we even considered like getting some sort of religious status.
So we didn't have to pay taxes.
But then it just made, make money to pay.
It turned out we didn't make any money anyway.
So we really didn't have to worry about that.
No, there's no taxes, liability at all.
No, no for us.
Do you encourage people to join your cult?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, there, there, there we have a heavy cult following.
We would play shows and we have, we're on our third mascot now.
The first two mascots were stolen from shows.
People just took them home.
We never got, but what we used to do is we'd pass them around the audience.
And then everyone would love on the donkey and do like, you know,
on PG 13 things to the donkey.
Sometimes we're like, hey, knock that off.
You know, but we would pass around the club.
And people would kiss it and love it and take pictures with it.
So or walk away with it or walk or walk away with it.
Yeah, so it was really a lot of fun.
So there's nothing too crazy.
No, nothing off the, just he's just kind of our idol.
And something we, something we, we aspire, you know,
you aspire to be as shiny and golden and as, and as donk like as a stubborn.
If you have questions about this called, you can call them right now and ask.
I mean, I'll always ask is your, your, your, your $2, $3 sacrifice at the door.
Yeah, thank you.
Wasn't one of those darkies set up to do water?
Didn't it have like water coming out of it?
No, that was Susie.
So our, our first drummer, Red Expo, I made Susie.
It was like a mannequin with a pomp in it.
So like some bands have pyrotechnics.
Yeah, he had hydro techniques, which is, I mean, it's a great idea.
Cause you got a lot of electricity and power strips.
And there's water flying, the splash pattern.
I remember the clubs.
Yeah, the clubs loved that.
They really love the water splashing around the stage.
I saw that when he, he set that up on a stage at, atwood summer fast.
Yeah.
Many years ago, I could not believe that.
Well, let's get to some live music in the layer with Eldon,
presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The first song you have for us tonight, it's called banishment.
Is this a song from a rock opera about David Kuresh?
Wow, very perceptive of you there, rock.
Yes, it is.
I wrote a rock opera about David Kuresh
and the branch of audience back in the 90s.
And we've been kind of playing it through the years.
Uh, we are in production now with video performance.
We'll get into that later.
This song banishment is about, it's, it's after the first FBI
siege on the compound.
And then like the time there's like a month that transpired
between the first siege and like the final one, it really,
the, the S hit the fan.
So, um, yeah.
So this is a song where they're just kind of like waiting
there in the compound and wondering what's going to happen.
Let's check it out.
Eldonk is live in the layer, presented by the Aaron Weber group
on Maxine Cradio.
It was listening on the radio.
Falcons getting tangled in the corn.
He must have said something bad about the love donkey.
Run your town every day.
You have your Judas on the inside telling you what I say.
And I say, why don't you be?
Just let us be.
Just let us pick up our dead.
Just let us pick up our dead.
Just let us pick up our dead.
Just let us pick up our dead.
Very nice.
Eldonk live in the layer here on Maxine Cradio, civic media.
844-967-2789-844-96 part.
You can call or text in the civic media app.
Brock, make sure you bring up that text thing next time you think about it.
Make sure we don't, we don't want to miss any takers to the cult of Eldonk.
No, we don't, Jimmy.
Eldonk used to play at the now-defunct Anchor Inn and one of your other early shows
was another defunct at the East End opening for a very popular Dread Zeppelin.
Tell me about this historic show in opening for the great Tort Elvis and Charlie.
Yeah, they had some serious, you know, stick because if people don't know Dread Zeppelin,
Reggae, Zeppelin covers, wait, wait, with an Elvis impersonator lead singer.
It's a perfect combination.
Tort Elvis, you know, here's the disappointing thing.
It was a great show. They were a blast.
It was packed.
The disappointing thing was he'd grown a beard and that kind of, he was dressed as Elvis.
He's got the Elvis hair, but the beard.
I think in real life, he just wanted a beard and he wasn't that committed to the bit where
he was going to take the beard off.
So otherwise it was a blast.
Oh, we got a manager at that show because back in the day, people would say,
hey, who's your manager and Falco would say, you are?
And one person, one woman there believed him.
So she started showing up at all our shows and saying she was our manager and like
ordering people around and like, you know, giving suggestions, yeah.
Right, I remember one.
She stuck around for a while.
Did you get any invoice?
No, never had to pay.
That was true. That's a good point.
I remember showing up at a show and time and I run into Rob's wife and she says,
will be three K's wife and she says, uh, you're and you're not seeing this at home,
your manager air quotes, your manager is here and I'm just like, oh, shoot.
Nice catch there, buddy.
Yeah. Thank you.
Well, it's the kids.
Well, let's, let's get to know the band a little better and get to know some of the members
and let's give the bass player some right off the bat.
Baron, give us a little background on yourself.
How did you get started in music?
Well, you know, in elementary school, I was encouraged to take piano lessons where I
didn't really learn very much, but I do like, I did like the music.
Uh, and then I found a guitar in the garage that was my mom's from the early 70s and
that was more interesting and, uh, you know, I just kind of, there was always music around,
you know, we had, we had some good stuff in the library and then as I got older into high school,
I was like, you know, I, I like playing guitar and then I had some buddies who also like playing
guitar and they said, you should learn bass.
So, so we could play guitar.
You're suggested bass to you.
Yeah, yeah, you know, and then it was high school, right?
I mean, it was high school.
They could drive and I couldn't.
So, yeah, I picked it up, but, uh, hey, I can't, I never put it back down.
So, so I've been happy with that.
And then, well, bones and I have been in bands together pretty much ever since
going back to 89-ish, off and on.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you said, uh, your, your mom's guitar was going to ask you, what role did, uh,
did your parents play in you getting started and going in music?
Well, the encouragement was there, uh, to learn the music.
I didn't really learn music at that time.
Did your mother play?
She started learning at the exact same time I did and, uh, at least the piano and she picked it
up pretty well.
Did you guys ever play together?
Not really.
No.
And then my dad picked up the recorder of all things.
Oh, yeah.
And high-cross bones.
Hey, well, not a piccolo.
You know, so, uh, they, but they were very encouraging and they, they, they,
they played a wide range of stuff for me to pick up.
You know, I was like, you know, when you're
undertanning, you hear Sergeant Pepper's kind of on your own for the first time,
with no one kind of encouraging you to do it.
And then you're just like, I'm going to listen to that last song again and again.
And I'm like, you know, I, this is the music.
This is the, the rock music is where I'm coming from.
They, they, they never, they'd never discourage me, certainly.
I don't know how this, uh, just ties in with what we were just talking about.
But, uh, I have a message you're asking.
What is your favorite Madison restaurant?
My favorite Madison restaurant is technically, uh, in Middleton currently, uh,
Taz.
On Sunday?
The former, uh, Lulu's.
Oh, yeah, Taz.
Yeah, Taz, was it Taz?
Uh, Taz.
Taz, Taz.
Taz.
Potatoes, potatoes.
I should be sorry for messing it up.
It's your favorite.
We should know that there's a sponsor here on Civic Media.
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Yeah.
It's your favorite Sunday.
What's your perfect Sunday?
Well, let's get back to live music in the layer with Eldonk.
The next song you have for us tonight is called Time Me Down.
Is this a song about demons temptation and bondage?
Topus.
Just all over tonight.
You're all over tonight.
Yes, it is.
It's kind of a song about, kind of like,
basically like, Time Me Down to keep me out of trouble.
The type of a song.
Oh, crazy times in the layer tonight,
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We are local music.
Bondage for something.
You're all the place that I love a lot.
You know I'm thinking that I'm behind you.
Oh, you can hope that you're just time it down.
But the whole lot will be too much.
So, if you're not, you can't just let me get my stuff around.
You know I was out of something to be with town.
I made a deal with everybody in town.
It's time that got it so you see it.
Got you in it, hold it, see it.
Time it down, don't know me.
See if I could move on with it.
Don't you hear that?
When the trouble follows me around.
The trouble follows me around.
I'm going to some literature out of the ways.
No, I'm going to some literature.
Start a fight.
Oh man, I'm going to some literature.
So I'll be.
That's what you know I want.
I'll have tea to get you down.
You can't just let me get my stuff around.
Like a clown.
Oh, as I was out of something to be with town.
I'm going to some literature out of bounds.
So, time it down, don't know me.
See if I could move on with it.
Time it down, don't know me.
See if I could move on with it.
Got you in it, hold it, see it.
Time it down, don't know me.
See if I could move on with it.
Don't you hear that?
Yeah, Eldon, live in the lair here on Maxine Curidio.
Sounding pretty good.
I ate four, four, nine, six, seven, two, seven, eight, nine.
Call or text us in the Civic Media app rocker.
Jimmy, we're back with Eldon right here in live in the lair.
And you guys, instead of playing out at the clubs,
the band rehearses in Streams Live once a month
from your studio, tell us about your live stream
and how we can tune in.
All right, well, I'll take the lead on this one.
That's all right, let's go on the mic.
So, during COVID, we had to improvise to keep practicing
and out of that, we built this kind of recording
live streaming studio.
A lot of overlap with what's going on here,
but what it allows us to do is, you know, from Eldonc.com
or on our Facebook page, or YouTube, or Twitch,
or all these places.
You know, we sometimes broadcast our rehearsals
and sometimes we do a live show.
And it's just been a really rewarding outlet to,
you know, be able to keep playing kind of on our own terms.
But also, like, you know, I'll tell you,
musicians listening, if you have a-
A little market.
You have a little project studio,
and you're starting to listen to yourselves very carefully
in your ears.
You hear things you didn't hear before.
You hear cheating that you learned over 20 or 30,
or however many years.
And you have to start correcting
some of these bad behaviors.
So, it's been rewarding as musicians
as well as just being able to-
And it has to be a problem.
I want to jump in and brag about this,
because I could take no credit for any of this,
all the work, and these guys have done some.
I've done none.
They have-
Baron has put together an amazing sound system for our monitors.
And then the stuff we're putting up on YouTube,
if you follow us on YouTube.
Like, there are bands that I love,
and I go online and try to find live audio of them.
And it's not good.
It's not great quality.
We're getting, like, really good quality stuff up there.
Thanks to Baron's work.
Appreciate that.
You know, the inspiration actually came from Radiohead years ago.
I think it was a blue Monday by New Order.
They were covering that, but they were doing it in their-
By Ford?
New Order.
They were doing that in their studio at the time,
you know, with, like, web caps and things.
I'm like, oh, we're never going to be able to do that.
Well, fast forward 10 years, and now we're doing it.
It has to be a great way to connect with your fans too.
I mean, they're going to be tuning in every once in a while.
Not everybody every week, but you get the pepper throughout the times you do it.
Absolutely.
Absolutely, and we carry a hell of a lot less equipment.
Yeah.
And you don't have to do with the very nice clubs that we love so much,
but, you know, sometimes your stuff.
Or if you don't want so much guitar in your phones,
you can lower it in your-
Guitar, for example.
For example, guitar.
Are you guys going to ever host other bands from your studio and stream them?
Yeah, absolutely.
There are some other house bands that are already streamers.
Right.
Or especially locals, you know, and people who don't have, you know,
live streaming or experience to get their feet wet and, you know, try and taste it.
And we always thought too, like if they're like touring bands,
and they're like, they're here for a night or two, and they got a night to go,
it's like, you could come to our studio, play your stuff out to the world essentially,
and then come away with like a high quality video and audio recording of your band,
just playing in Madison, just for the fun of it.
So, you know, that's not in out of the realm of possibility either.
So, we could do it.
Wow, sounds pretty cool.
Elle Donk.
Hey, Woobie-
Woobie 3K.
Yes, saxophonist.
Tell us your backstory and how you got into music.
And how about your interesting job during the day?
Well, yeah, I'm a little nervous talking on the radio.
Oh, actually.
Yeah.
I do butterflies this time.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
My dad would take me, and he took lessons at the same time,
and it was just like woman probably at 60s, 70s,
and she just chained, smoked through the entire lesson.
You know, and you're in this little music store booth, right?
So, it's just like smoke chamber, but it started to be on the path,
and then, you know, I did win instruments,
ended up on the saxophone by high school,
and that's what I really stuck to and fell in love with.
And I love playing saxophone ever since.
What roles did your parents play?
Yeah, like my dad was doing piano lessons with me.
My mom had played accordion.
Now, her, it's a Polish family.
My mom's side.
Her dad and uncles all had a polka band.
Like drums accordion.
I think a bass and a horn.
A saxophone, actually.
So, I got polka in my blood.
And so, yeah, a lot of family music.
Other side, my grandma's saying in the church.
And she was in the choir.
And I grandpa, he's saying loudly and terribly.
We would like fight to see who ended up sitting next to him.
And we figured, grandma joined the choir,
so she could be further away from home.
So, he did this in church?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, boy.
Was he like, does he use a very enthusiastic?
Oh, I see.
I really appreciated that.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
Very, very bad.
Do you still, do you still play polka anywhere?
You know, I've played around with polka a little bit.
I've never actually been in a polka band though.
Oh.
Maybe.
The thing I love about El Donk.
Now, Falcon, I played in pharmacy lounge back in the very early 90s.
And the thing I love about that,
and El Donk is we bought from genre to genre.
I've got very short attention span.
I like playing different kinds of solos.
So, that's what's kept me around a lot.
There's so much variety.
And every song is a different challenge,
a different approach, which is a blast.
That's amazing.
We have El Donk, live in the layer.
Guys, we got to take a quick break here.
We got to take care of a couple of our sponsors.
Get the word out for them.
But we're going to have more live music in the layer.
Let's come it up in just a couple of seconds.
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I sure would.
Well, let's get back to some of my music right away
in the layer without El Donk.
Presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called
Broken Flower.
This is a song about Swaziland.
And what is Swaziland?
Swaziland is a country in Africa.
And this is about a king.
I'm not sure that he's still.
I'm not sure he's still king there.
Get a lot of wives.
He had a lot of wives and yet some bizarre stuff going
and some bunch of rules he made that he didn't follow.
Let's check it out.
Just El Donk.
Live in the layer on maxing radio.
One, two, three, and...
The 877 is not allowed.
Close to the air, cover the tassels to the ground.
Looks fine in one how we can easily pay.
We'll all have a piece of that in.
And now we'll spin the cow.
King time is not what it's now.
Close the cow and leave the cow.
Blessed clouds must be preserved.
So he'll pay the fine for the tender God.
Too much of a man to choose his own words.
He's the king and he will serve.
And now I'll spear the cow.
King time is 11 wives now.
Close the cow and leave the cow.
Close to the village.
Leowsy watercolours change the color.
This means the cow was sly in every corner of the village.
Sword.
Now, we go to the lane because this is the main area.
What a place it has to be!
It has to be sweet, free time to be taste.
We tend to look for the leopard's gate.
And then we'll steer the cow.
It's on its 13-5-0.
Close the cow and keep the cow.
Close the cow and keep the cow.
It's on its 13-5-0.
Close the cow and keep the cow.
Close the cow and keep the cow.
Close the cow and keep the cow.
Close the cow and keep the cow.
Close the cow and keep the cow.
L-Doc live in the lair here on Maxine Gradio.
844-967-27890 for you.
You can call or text in the civic media app rocker.
And Maxine Cubby is coming up at 10 o'clock tonight.
Hopefully you'll be talking to Michele Braun,
who is in town over at the high new insulin tonight for the Wisconsin Metal Fest.
Hey, let's meet the Falcon.
How did you get into music?
What is your backstory?
I don't even know if we can ask this on radio.
I grew up in the days of band programs.
And of course, my dad said what do you want to play?
And I said drums.
And he's like, no way.
He's like, how about the trombone?
So I started playing the trombone from 4th grade and I was a band kid.
And I was a band kid all through grade school and junior and high school.
And I started playing guitar probably somewhere in middle school
when I discovered Jimmy Hendrix.
I saw Jimmy Hendrix and it was all over.
Basically, I wanted to play guitar, love the way he sounded.
I have three older brothers.
I mean, they were getting like Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon and 73 or 74 when it came out.
They got it for Christmas and we played the hell out of it.
And you know, Deep Purple Machine had it and we played the hell out of it.
And all the Pink Floyd and the Hendrix.
And I just loved guitar.
I kept playing through high school, formed a band in high school and just kept going.
Real quick, did you ever play drums anywhere?
No, no.
I'm terrible.
Oh, I'm not terrible.
I can kind of play a little bit.
How come pops didn't like drums?
The noise and the expense.
Oh, the noise.
The noise and the expense.
Got it.
Because I mean, the school, the school was going to give me a trombone, right?
Yeah, the school was not going to give me access.
He wasn't, he wasn't, he was, he's no dumb man.
Well, it all worked out thanks to pops, you know.
Right, thank that.
And you had made a terrible drummer.
So it was a great choice.
Probably so.
Probably so.
So let's get back to music in the layer with Eldon, presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight, it's called Cops.
Is this a song about cops?
No, actually, it's not.
It's about Boy Scouts.
Trainers.
This is one of many true stories that Eldon sings about.
I just take, I just basically clip songs out of the newspaper and then change the person
when I need to, you know, first to third or whatever.
And we tell the story because I'm basically too lazy to write lyrics and I ain't going
to do love songs.
So.
All right.
No love here.
You're alive in a layer without dog.
Absolutely.
No love songs.
I know that's never occurred to me before.
Except love with the golden dog.
It goes along with the rules, not making any money.
We should do some love songs.
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151, 151
Where are you, 151?
It's a neighborhood watch, you're all being watched
24, 7 hours a day
These eagle scouts, they're trained with guns
Just like the cows
The stakes could be made
Teeth are poured in all gray
151, 151
Oh, I can't afford that
Eldonk live in the layer here on Maxine Corradio, 844-967-2789
Hey Rocker, is it just me or is it time to get the drummer some?
I think it's time to give the drummer some
I don't know about that
Bones
You are the drummer
Yes
And you are the fan you see
Or the financial
It's the first time I've heard that
Tell us a little bit about your backstory and how you got into music
Well, I should say too that I'm the second and the fifth drummer of this band
The second and fifth
Yes, I've come and gone throughout the years
The latest student has been like 20 years though or 15 years or something
So I think it's good this time
He's been there
Yeah, I started on a piano just like everybody else apparently so for talking to
By the way, forced into piano lessons as a kid
Which I used to
Yeah, it was forced into I hated it
Well, now we know what overall your parents played
Yep, exactly
I mean they had a good intent
She said I'm glad I actually started liking it right near the end of my stint with it
But by the time I quit piano lessons it was too late I ended up buying a drum kit
The craziest old thing I've ever seen too
Which is...
I guess that's why I've drummed for this band is because I just have a kit
What?
He played drums at the end of the kit
Yeah, in a car, right?
Yeah, I barely have a car actually but I do have a rehearsal space too which is key for me
Oh, I mean that's...
Historic with the challenge
Yeah, you're a drummer man
That's how you stay in a band
It's exactly it, you know
So what drove you to buy a drum set after the piano a little bit?
I wanted to be in a band actually
And I was just desperate it was a high school actually so I bought a...
I think it was 75 bucks and I bought it out of the classified
It's literally in a newspaper back when you bought stuff out of newspapers
Yeah
The symbols looked like garbage candies
Literally I'd cracks in Chris
A baron was actually subject to these things as well
Because we were in a band in high school so he saw this and it was a site to be whole
But they did the job sort of
We had meetloafs like speakers rig
Oh, that's huge right?
Yeah, that's huge right?
That's a different story altogether
Nothing was huge
Wow
I forgot the question at this point, sorry
Where's your...
What's your favorite Madison restaurant?
Oh yeah, I even hear that question coming
I've got a couple, can I have a couple?
Sure
All right, well right now I'm digging red
But I also like Miramoto and I also like Sardine
And they're all close to my place
I've got to know, I'll just the restaurant questions tie in
Yes, I'll dock
They don't
Oh, perfect, thank you
We all eat every one of us eat
That's true
So there is a variation of your band
And it's called Donk Floyd
Tell us about Donk Floyd
Are you guys playing any shows as Donk Floyd coming up on your stream?
We...
Oh, good, good
Oh, I was gonna say I think we were...
Our stream, it like it's the legality of that is...
Is somewhat...
...somewhat interesting
However, I think it turned out that if we played the entire...
Like if we play an entire show on YouTube
And then there's covers in there
It's okay, but if we like single out a song and like post like
Loose for Sam or wish you were here
Then...
Then pay me Floyd
You would have to pay me Floyd
I see
But Baron probably knows more about this thing
If it's live, you're good
You just can't get money off of it
But if you pre-recorded it and then added it in and posted it
Then that's right
So when was the last time Floyd show?
We did a couple for you rocker back in the day
We covered all of metal for an all-pink Floyd cover show
And then we did just kind of a mix of pink Floyd songs
That's right
We just keep some of them up to speed so we can mix them into sets
We haven't done a whole Floyd set in a while
Yeah, I see
They're crowd-pleasers, to be sure
You guys did a Neil Young tribute at the Annex or something
We did it
We did it
We did it
Wow, Jimmy, what a memory
Yeah, that's nice
We did a New Young tribute, but I think that was...
That was your other band
That was my other band in the band
Let's give Sam a room to do that
The covers
We also did a David Bowie show at the Chamber
That's right, Mass Appeal
Or that place has been a million places
And we did a door show at the Annex
The door show that I was breaking up
The door show was particularly fun
Because it's a keyboard band
So I had to like transpose like the...
Basically the songs I played most of the keyboard parts
And then he played like the guitar parts at the time
On the sax
Yeah, on the sax
It was really...
I looked at those since we don't have a keyboard in pink Floyd
Or in the doors
I looked at that as a particularly fun challenge
To be able to arrange that
To represent the parts in such a way
Without the actual instruments of the band
So I...
No, we love that door
So on the Bowie show was a lot of fun
But the pink Floyd stuff
Has Osman has been near to our heart
I love it
Well, you know, let's get back to the live music in the layer
Where they'll don't present it by the Aaron Weber group
And the next song you have for us tonight is called Childhoods and
And it's from the pink Floyd album
Obscured by Clouds
Yes
So let's go ahead and hear some dark Floyd
You sound in your sleep
My surprise is a few things
There's no conscience at birth
We have more than four to attend
We were waiting for the star
With the beat of your heart
With the beat of your heart
With the sky
With the beat of your heart
We said sail across the sea
A long past thoughts and memories
Childhoods and defancy
The urge with hospitality
And then as a sailor's hoist
We'll find your eyes and blowing noise
And all the memories in our voice
So you can have a taste of fire and soil
And everything you've got
And it's from the blue sky
And all the memories in our song
With the beat of your heart
With the beat of your heart
With the beat of your heart
With the beat of your heart
And then as a sailor's hoist
And then as a sailor's hoist
Why you and who am I?
Say we know the reason why
So far more than something died
The people in the sky
There'll be more and there'll be peace
And everything will happen
All the higher turns to rise
All the farther and farther
So when it makes our time away
It's all the fun
Yeah, Eldonk live in the layer
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Everybody, mad Mark is just listening
Yeah
And he says hi
Hi Mark is
Violating that restraining order yet again
The bear's still stuck, it's bear week
It is bear week
If my wife's a bear fan has been really hell at home lately
Oh gee, no doubt
I gave her a little extra sauce this week
Yeah
Rubbing the bear hey
Who was talking to PG-13 there?
Oh
Well, you know
I'll tell you, the game is going to be
It's really important for the bears
But it's even more important for both teams
If the bears lose
Crazy
All right, we got about five minutes in guys
And what's coming up in the future here for Eldonk
What's the best way to get a hold of you guys
Follow you as a fan
As of yesterday when I rested control of Eldonk.com
From the Chinese scam company that took it from us
Through oversight in the first place
This is true
Totally true story
You can go to Eldonk.com
From there we link to Facebook, we link to YouTube
We link to all the stuff
You can even send me money there
And I will point people toward YouTube
We've got five or six individual tracks
We've got a mini set
And also we have a practice session
You can just hang around behind the scenes
As we practice starting to stop songs
It's a fun
Yep
I love that, be part of the Eldonk practice
And worship the golden donkeys
I love them
We called them donkeys and love
Can we squeeze in a three-member?
Yeah, that's what I was going to say
Let's get back to the live music and the layer with Eldonk
Presented by the Aaron Weber group
You have one more song tonight
Take it away
Get into it
Heavy Snacks is Eldonk
Thanks guys
In full cowboy
Good
I'm in the street now
Now he's a sinful cowboy
Outriding the range again
Folks you know that they're a sinful cowboy
He's getting paid in the weight of sin
Ranch hash
She's sports coach out of Hollywood
Young leader, low neck down doll
Violence is ready to explode
A sinful cowboy
I know you're quite the fool for love
He hails from subligant for some reason
Got a raw high vest in a raw high glove
Like you for Texas
That is liberty
Talked away and way down there in the math
I guess Texas
Let it go
Great
Basinful cowboy
Gringo's look out
Doggy look out
He's a sinful cowboy
Here we go
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So, Pregno's look out
Doggy look out
There's in the city
That's where I think his gun is on
So, you know
Look out
What a great song
The end of night with guys
El Donk, live in the layer
Gentlemen, thank you so much for stopping
Instead
Thanks for having us
Thank you so much
We will be sure to check out that YouTube page
Because that sounds really interesting
And more to come
And more to come too
Just to sit and watch the practice
That would be fun
Yeah, we do it every week
We do it every week
Wow
I mean, unless I'm sick or something
Tell me one more time
I'll show in the New Year distant future here
As soon as he gets back from vacation
When he gets back from vacation
We will probably do last week
But yeah, we're gonna double
We're gonna try to redouble our efforts
And get a couple of shows
We were like burrokes
We want to get into Red Rooster
We've done Whisco a million times
We maybe do that again
Crystal Corner we've done
We'd like to get back out there and we will
Alright, bones, get a microphone there
Where are you going for a vacation there, brother?
No, I'm going to New Orleans
New Orleans
Nice
He deserves it after that set
How do you rest in New Orleans?
That's the kind of thing, it makes it tough
He gets away from El Don for two weeks
That's enough
Alright, hey guys, thank you so much
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