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Beer, Bands, and Big Returns(Hour 1)
Nite Lite with Pete Schwaba and Greg Bach · Mon Sep 8, 2025
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Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.
I am Pete Schwabba.
I am not a mountain of muscle.
Certainly not lately.
I feel like kind of a blob, I gotta be honest.
I need to get back, I need to get back in shape.
And I will say, I'm very excited about this today because I...
I did recently turn over a whole new leaf, a lifestyle change, and I'm eating right, and I'm gonna work out more, and I'm three hours in, and it's going great.
I've already got some gelato, but
It's a small.
And I think I told you, I really did, like this is the week I was gonna turn over a new leaf, and then.
my wife reminded me that, oh, our son is coming home for his birthday.
We'll have cake.
Like, well, and I can't just do like, when I start a program, I have to be disciplined.
If I deviate from it just a tiny bit, it's like, well, I might as well just eat Taco Bell for seven hours,
know?
You know, you could just
It feels like a friend.
I could go over and say happy birthday and not have cake.
My son makes a drive.
I'm gonna have cake.
Yeah.
Anyway, welcome to Nightlight, folks.
Got a great show tonight.
It is a Monday.
Finally, we've made it through yet another weekend, and we reconvene here.
during the week to talk about all the things in life that make us happy.
It is great to have you with me tonight as we broadcast here from beautiful city deck landing in downtown Green Bay.
A gorgeous night.
Summer seemed like it was over last week.
It seems like it's back and I'll take that.
I think it's a good.
And it's supposed to be nice all week.
And now we've got, we've got NFL here, we've got some new shows we're going to talk about.
Two great guests tonight too.
Rocker will be here at 6.35.
Rocker is the co-host of WMDX's Max, Inc.
Radio, and he fills in for Terry Barr here on Bar Band Friday night periodically.
Rocker will be here to tell us about a fundraiser, a really cool event that he is helping organize that is open to the public on Friday.
I'm sorry, on Sunday, September 14th, we'll talk to Rocker, and he's got music.
He's going to share some music with us.
That's always fun.
And then this Saturday, folks, this is going to be exciting.
If you're in the Green Bay area, the Green Bay Film Festival is happening this weekend at the Tarleton Theater.
And I'm going to be over there to introduce a film on Saturday and host a Q&A for the film, The Anxiety Club.
This is a really cool documentary.
made by Wendy LaBelle, who is here tonight at 720.
And it explores the connection between anxiety and stand-up comedy.
So something I have both of those.
I was a comedian.
I have a healthy amount of anxiety, I think.
Conrad, are you an anxious person?
Sometimes.
Sometimes.
What makes you anxious?
knew you were
game.
I was like do Luke pickles players hate him like what
here?
So Wendy will be here at 720 and if you're in and around the Green Bay area or if you feel like a road trip come to the really cool Tarleton Theater Saturday night at 7 o'clock The movie looks great.
I'm purposely not gonna watch it until Saturday night.
I'm gonna watch it with a crowd
And she's got an appearance by Mark Marin in the film, who's a very famous podcaster and comedian.
And Wendy will be here at 7.20 tonight to tell us a little bit about the film and the event.
So there you go.
We've got a great question tonight.
Lots going on.
And Conrad Krieger, as you heard, is working the board
you doing, buddy?
you watch the Sylvester Stallone movie over the weekend?
No.
The Packers
Yeah.
don't know a ton about sports.
I like to watch a good sports contest once in a while, but I have to think that my bears got their coach.
And
the Jets got
their defensive coordinator.
They lost a couple linemen.
I mean, it can't be the same Lions team.
Not to take away from the win, but
like they're going to struggle a bit.
Yeah.
And with Parsons, it looks like they've got a dual threat now on the other side too, which is, uh,
havoc.
Yeah, I've seen North.
Yeah.
So lots going on those.
There's some good shows out now.
It is fall.
So there's some new color television out there.
If you guys are looking for something new to watch.
I watched the, tonight I watched, or today I'm sorry, I watched TASC, the new HBO show.
And Jamie McShane, one of the stars of the show, has been on this show.
And he told us probably three months ago,
I think he was headed somewhere to film Task.
Probably Philadelphia, but for some reason I had Ireland.
Maybe that was a different project he was working on.
But Task is done by the same creative minds that brought us Mare from Easttown, which is a really good show.
So I'm excited about Task.
I watched the first show today.
And these HBO shows are great because this was like an hour and 20 minutes.
It was like the length of a movie.
And it's got Mark Ruffalo and our pal Jamie McShane is in it.
So I'm excited.
The first episode was good.
It takes this time, which I don't mind, but there was a pretty intense scene.
And you know what they had?
All right, this is weird.
I don't get, you know, we've seen these ICE raids and they're wearing masks.
I don't get any of that.
I don't, you know, I saw the movie The Purge years ago.
Creepy stuff.
I don't know why federal agents wear masks.
I'm sure they'll give some BS reason.
However, out here on the street today,
Remember that loud motorcycle we heard?
And we were like, what's that guy's problem, blah, blah, blah?
Yeah.
Two more drove by and they had the crazy psycho masks on.
How about my ears from their mufflers?
Yeah.
I mean, what if you just go out and clothesline one of these guys?
Because you feel threatened.
I mean, they're wearing masks that are very scary.
Anyway, I digress.
This show task has a crew.
that is robbing play and they wear those masks.
scary stuff.
Pretty intense scene, but it's good.
I definitely recommend it.
think last night was the first, I think it dropped for the first time.
How Mark Ruffill prepared for that role?
Eating.
Eating Philly cheesesteaks.
He looks.
He looks a little hefty.
Yeah, he does.
He's got, you know, Avengers is coming up.
Spider-Man's coming up.
He's probably had to stop eating the Philly cheesesteaks for those rolls.
That's gonna be tough.
Those are good.
However, okay, so this was interesting.
My wife and I went and saw Caught Stealing last week or two weeks ago.
I can't remember, but Austin Butler's in it.
Zoe Kravitz.
It was a good movie.
She was reading this article about how Austin Butler put on 30 pounds of muscle for the role.
I'm like, okay, cause he had to do some underwear scenes.
There's a couple of love scenes between he and Zoey Kravitz.
And she's like, he plays a down in his luck baseball player who was in a horrible car accident when he was 18, right before he used to get drafted by the Dodgers.
And his baseball career was over.
Now he's a bartender in New York and it's been like 12 years.
And he's chiseled and ripped and he's an alcoholic.
Like, to me, this new generation like,
Why would you have to get ripped and in shape for that role?
You should be like, he's a handsome enough guy.
If he doesn't have a six pack, he's still an attractive guy.
Like why are you looking like a superhero for that?
That doesn't match up.
Whereas Mark Ruffalo, I bet he put on 30 pounds, just all in his gut too.
Yeah.
better than the old gelato
he.
He looks like a veteran FBI agent.
That works.
My wife had a great point.
I don't understand the Austin Butler.
Just because he was doing an underwear scene, he wanted to look good.
If you're an actor and you're looking like this role, look like the role.
He looks like he could play Spider-Man or something.
Does he still
He did not talk like Elvis.
He's good.
I like Austin Butler.
I'm not, I'm not saying like, I just, I do, I did think it was an interesting point though.
But task is good.
Check it out.
I did watch also, you know what?
I'm gonna save this.
Let's go to our nightlight question of the night.
Let's talk about the question.
Okay, question.
Question.
Question.
Okay, I have a question.
It is National Beer Day.
The question is simple, folks.
What is your favorite beer?
We're in Wisconsin.
This is the beer state and the cheese state.
But we like our beer.
We're known for it.
What's your favorite beer?
Very easy one tonight.
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Let us know what
Your favorite beer is, and will read your text on the radio.
I saw what you put.
It's a good one.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a great one.
I love Spotify.
I'm not even like I've said it before I'm I'm not a beer guy.
Yeah, but I've been around long enough where I've sampled just about everything I I Had to choose this was kind of tough for me because part of me for nostalgia sake and Just to be retro.
I wanted to say the champagne
There's nothing like that Miller Highlife original bottle with the condensation running down the colors and the beer.
It's just, I don't know.
It's like a memory from childhood.
Okay.
So, but I didn't say.
I've got another tie, another Schwabba tie and I like Blue Moon.
Yeah.
I mean, non-alcoholic or alcoholic.
It's a great beer.
Dynamite.
But I'll tell you what, it's about a cow.
That's a great one too.
I don't, I had Stella recently.
Well, a few years ago.
I like
It's good stuff.
And you know what I've never tried.
And now I don't really, I haven't drank in a while.
Madello.
I really want to try Madello.
Yeah.
I got to be honest.
I tried the non-alcoholic Corona because I know what a party.
Not impressed.
And I like Corona, but that Madello, those commercials make me want to have a Madello.
I
am going to break
down.
It's just perfect advertising.
All right, when we come back, folks, I'm going to tell you about a show you should probably avoid.
Conrad might disagree, but we'll have a spirited discussion.
I'll read your texts.
And yeah, what's your favorite beer?
That's a good one.
Also, there was a death in the music industry that we'll talk about, too.
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This is Pete Schwabba in Nightlight that Rick Davies passed away one of the founders of super tramp and Great tune.
We're gonna ask our first guest rocker about super tramp.
I believe he's a fan as am I Their stuff just has such a great unique sound to like the long way home great song And there's all these big hits they have but even their B sides are outstanding.
I Had a I was in the story last night
And if you want to hear B-sides from the 80s, go shopping in Marinette, Wisconsin.
Every grocery store will transport you back with a song you didn't really miss.
But I'm walking around and I hear Steve Woodwind all the time.
I hear Brian Adams all the time.
Brian Adams has some great songs.
But I don't need to hear cuts like a knife.
Give me Summer of 69.
Play the A-sides.
It's been 40 years.
You can play the A sides.
You don't have to carve a niche.
The supermarket DJs.
Our question of the night, folks, what is your favorite beer?
It is National Beer Day.
We like our beer here in Wisconsin.
Conrad says spotted cow.
I had a tie between the champagne, a really ice cold champagne of beers.
Miller Highlife, of course, is what I'm talking about.
And Blue Moon.
Kind of a newer beer.
I was as funny I Corey Hartman commented on my Facebook post and he he commented With the exact words of the song I was referencing high life again by Steve Winwood And he wrote like two lines of the song.
I'm like, how did he know that's what I was But that song is on every damn time I go into the grocery store Unbelievable I see a question of the night.
What's the most depressing song to hear when you're shopping,
Why, to drown out the fanfare?
right.
Our question tonight, as I said, is what's your favorite beer?
Let's read some social media responses.
Our pal Rich Tellerico says, Blue Moon or Stella?
Next time I see Rich in person.
Rich and I will toast
Moon.
No question.
And then here at my buddy, Vince Moranto, great Chicago comic.
He's been on the show.
He said, talk about taking a question seriously.
Here's Vince's response.
Vince says, OK, here we go.
For everyday beers, hams with meals.
Landshark, Miller Highlife.
Summertime, PBR.
Colder weather, oh wait a minute, I'm sorry, okay.
Summertime is Miller Highlife, I think I was reading those out of order.
Colder weather is PBR.
Wow, PBR, is that a little heavier maybe?
Okay.
And then he says seasonal, Sam's Oktoberfest, Winter Solstice, Winter Solstice.
Recently, however, I've discovered
I don't even know how to say this, yangling?
Yangling,
Really?
He says amber in parentheses.
And finally, 25 ounce bud ice around a buck nine when I'm broke.
That was the most comprehensive text possibly we've ever had, certainly on social media.
Thank you, Vince.
Outstanding stuff.
I don't know, somewhere I'd probably go, it used to be like a corona with the lime.
Oh, Summer Shani's good.
I forgot about Summer Shani.
You know, they used to make, years ago, they made a Summer Shani watermelon flavor.
It was out briefly.
I want to say it was out one summer and my friend Robin Corwin, who's a neighbor, she said, it's really good.
I tried it.
I liked it.
I had it one more time and then the next summer,
I think I had to look all over for it.
And I did find it, but it was obviously like an experiment.
John on social media says, any good micro brew is great.
A good wheat or blonde ale always hits the spot.
Monaco Brewing Company has some great options and stands for great causes.
Always helps when you can spend some money and you don't mind where it's going.
Thank you, John.
Wonderfully, Wisconsin.
Arpela Paul Vandenplatz says, Dark helmet from Titletown has long been my favorite.
Great introduction to dark beer for people who are typically scared to try anything on that end of the spectrum.
It's hard to go wrong with any Wisconsin craft brewery right now.
So many out there making some incredible beer.
Well, he would know.
Paul is
Give Paul a follow, wonderfully Wisconsin.
He is all over the state finding great burgers and cookout food and drinks.
And he is in the process of compiling a best cheeseburgers in Wisconsin list.
we'll be eagerly awaiting that.
I think he's getting close.
Conrad's home cheeseburger.
Great name for a restaurant.
Conrad's home cheeseburger.
Jeff Schmidt says, Hazy Rabbit from Lakefront Brewery.
Okay, is that Milwaukee?
Yes, I
Oh, great responses.
I knew we were gonna get good beer responses.
Rocker coming up in just a few minutes, he's gonna tell us about a really cool fundraiser.
He is co-sponsoring with a couple other people and it is open to the public and we'll talk a little bit about Supertrap when he is here.
Going to the text line to answer your question or to read your answers to our question of the night and the 414 anything but Jacob's best Well, it's probably a good answer because I don't even know what he's talking about so I haven't heard of Jacob's best either.
It's probably a bad beer Al in the 608 says free.
Yeah, okay I'm with you Al if it's free.
It's me free beer
Conrad's mom says, my favorite beers I miss in Wisconsin is the Blue Bobber from Fox Brewery
Spotted Cow.
You vouch for your mom there?
like blueberry and beer.
You know what I had over the weekend?
I was trying to be good, so I got nuts instead of chips for a snack.
Blueberry almonds.
Oh,
shelves.
Very good stuff.
Dave on the stream says, a cold one.
How about Nuclearis?
Fat squirrel.
Great one, Dave.
And he says, Linie's made a beer called Big Butt Doppelbach.
I'm just going to take Dave's word for it that that's a good beer.
We are coming back with our pal, Rocker.
After the news, it's Pete Schwabba and Nightlight on the Civic Media radio network.
I'm Pete Schwab, and this is Night Lights.
So great to have you with me, folks, on this gorgeous Monday night here in the state of Wisconsin.
We made it to Monday, folks.
You made it.
You made it through a tough weekend.
I was just talking next door to, I went over for a small, small gelato, which is forgivable, I think.
And Jocelyn said she had such a busy weekend, because she's got like three kids, and there's nobody in there.
So sometimes that's how it is.
Your weekend is so busy, you need to get to the week.
to kind of chill out a little bit.
You know what I mean?
So I get it.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to welcome our first guest of the night, and it's time to light it up right with the nightlight first guest of the week.
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Chris was a fun guest remember that
to bring him back But it is now my pleasure for our first guest of the week brought to you by chicken or the egg photography Co-host he is the co-host of wmdx's max ink radio.
He's also a musician and all-around swell guy And he fills in here from time to time when terry bar can't make it for bar man Friday nights, and he is our pal rocker.
Hey, buddy
What's happening
not too much?
How you doing tonight?
I'm doing pretty good.
Thanks for having me on Pete.
My pleasure.
I know you got a really cool thing coming up here on Sunday and we'll get to that I have to ask you though.
I know you're
my favorite beer
Yes, you're a Wisconsin guy through and through whether it's music.
I know you're a huge packer fan.
Whatever.
What is your favorite beer rocker?
You
know, I was thinking about this like question and I thought, you know, uh, I wanted to go back and think about a throwback and like what really like kind of started out the craft beer industry and what really got me into sampling all the just millions of beers that there are nowadays was Pete's Wicked Ale.
Do you remember that year?
I remember the name.
How old, when was that from?
That was, you know, that was back probably the early nineties, late eighties.
Before Pete's Wicked Ale, you used to have import beer bars where you would go to these bars and they would import crazy beers from other countries, obviously, because here we only had the champagne of beers and beers like that.
Right.
And, you know, you would drink it and you would check off each one on the list.
This one from Denmark, this one from Canada,
this one
from Britain.
And, you know, and then, and then that's when the kind of craft beer really came back was Pete's Wicked Ale was in, in my mind, the one of the first ones that really, you know, turned that corner.
And after them, there's been just so many.
But I also think of my childhood as Moosehead.
Oh, wow.
I don't know if you remember Moosehead Canadian beer.
Yeah.
Oh, really, really good.
And, and of course we had a Jacob's Best, somebody said.
And yeah, that was like a horrible beer by Papst.
way back, like I think in the eighties.
And that was in the days of on Decker and Stroze.
Oh my gosh.
Those beers, you know, I do.
I remember the Stroze commercial.
I remember was the guy crawling through the desert and he's about to die and somebody shows up with a big glass of water and he says, no, thanks.
I was really hoping for a stroke.
Yeah.
That commercial.
Oh my gosh.
I forgot about that one.
The
best beer ever, but I don't, obviously it didn't make it.
But yeah, my uncle used to be a salesman for Schlitz here in Milwaukee and.
Oh yeah.
All those Wisconsin beers, some of them you got when you got to college, like whether it was Milwaukee light or like Rhinelander.
Blats.
Or
Blats old Milwaukee.
Yeah.
Like so many beers and you didn't care when you were that age.
Just like, it's just
beer.
No.
Let's do it.
Oh, and what went Blats would do to you?
when you're a rush on, on Langdon Avenue in Madison at the frats, you know, 25 barrels of blasts.
It's not good.
It's not good.
Well, we've matured since then, rocker.
So it's, it's, uh, it's great to have you here.
Tell us about, um, this really cool event you have coming up this Sunday.
It's a fundraiser, but it's open to the public.
Oh, that's right.
It actually is.
So, um, I guess, so the fundraiser is for big John.
Big John is a drummer here for a band in Madison, Go Play God.
And he was hospitalized for, I think, about a year with some severe diabetes and had to have his leg amputated.
And at the knee for a drummer, to me, that was such a nightmare, right?
Yeah.
So we are going to get together to help Big John and to help him through some of these medical expenses and stuff that he's having.
And so there's a show that's being put on by 301 Productions, and it's going to be at the Crucible on September 14th.
And that's from it's an early show.
So doors open at two, and it goes from two to seven.
And the bands are going to be a Badden's End, Mother Hive, Iron Plow and Static Affliction.
So it's a little bit of hard rock and some metal.
John's a great drummer in a in a great metal band called Go Play God.
And so for me,
Uh, the interesting thing is it's, it's going to be my comeback show, right?
Oh,
nice.
So
in December or the day after Christmas, I had a cardiac arrest while I was playing drums.
Uh, and, you know, when I woke up, the doctor said, well, you, you died on stage playing your drums with your band, you know, but there were people there who wouldn't let you go.
So, you know, some, uh, CPR and, and, and, uh, AED.
to bring me back.
And I was in my own hospital kind of journey, a health journey here.
And so now, nine months later, I'm going to be back behind the drums with my band.
And I'm going to be doing it for this great cause of helping my friend out big john.
And we're going to raise some money for them.
There's going to be some silent auctions with guitars and some other really cool stuff that I know that they're putting together.
And the Crucibles over on Madison's east side and just kind of the frontage road for Highway 30.
Okay.
So what, I didn't really, you had a fundraiser like this rocker too.
And this is what I love
about
when
When something happens to a musician, like if my friend
restocked shelves at a store, if I want to have a fundraiser for him, I don't have access to all this great music.
When a musician needs a fundraiser, you guys basically throw a party.
It's a bash.
I mean,
and it's so great that this is
open to the public, right?
So.
Yes, of course.
So what band are you playing with?
I play with a band called Iron Plow.
Oh, that's what I thought.
And I've been playing with the guy since we started during the pandemic.
And it was during kind of lockdowns and the three of us were all have all been friends for going on 30 years, but never really jammed in a band together.
And I just happened to have been at a outing.
It was a wedding actually outside.
I'm talking to my friend and he says, you know, hey, they're looking for a drummer.
And I was like, wow.
You know, it was perfect opportunity.
Of course, I had been doing, you know, maximum make music magazine for 27 years and the lockdowns caused that to kind of stop and there's, you know, nowhere to deliver.
So here I am.
You know, what do you do?
I have radio and I got into a band.
So, you know, I got into this band in 2021, I think it was.
And, um, yeah.
And then I had this, you know, crazy incident last year.
And now the great thing about it too,
is that UW Health is doing what I guess what I could call it, a documentary on my journey back to health.
They really, they
love my
story.
They know about the first incident and now here we're going, coming back, right?
Getting
behind the
drums with my band.
So they're going to come down to the Crucible with a film team to film the comeback show.
And I'll be doing some interviews with them and it's going to be pretty cool.
They're going to kind of document the journey.
It's a lot of fun.
It's a crazy story.
I guess, you know, people kind of dig it.
So we're going to have fun with it.
I think it sounds great.
And I'm glad you're doing well too.
And back, back on stage, that's pretty exciting stuff.
Now Conrad, I did send him a song.
Yeah.
So if you guys wanted to hear a little iron plow.
Absolutely.
Let's have it ready, Conn.
Rocker Smith is my guest.
He is the host, one of the hosts of Max Inc Radio and WMDX every Saturday night from six to nine.
And he is putting on this great fundraiser for his pal Big John Sunday night at the Crucible.
Sunday afternoon, I should say, at the Crucible from two to seven.
It's going to be a music fest in an absolute bash because the music community, nobody rallies around.
fellow colleagues like the music community.
Yeah, that's
true.
Should be a lot of fun.
So let's hear a little bit of a rockers band right now, Iron Plow.
featuring our guest right now, Rocker Smith, who is here tonight to discuss a really cool fundraiser event for his pal, Big John, that is happening at the Crucible on Sunday.
Great tune, Rocker.
We're coming right back.
Don't leave.
And I'm going to ask Rocker about Super Tramp and the death of Rick Davies.
That's coming up next on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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It's just all over the place.
It's great.
Micro brews, big time brands.
It's great.
David from Richland Center says a blonde walks into a bar, Hillsboro Brewing.
You ever heard of that kind of thing?
I have not.
Me either.
It's a lengthy title.
It does sound interesting.
I'm sure it's delicious.
Thank you, David.
On the line with us right now, we're over the stream, I should say, is our pal, Rocker.
He is one of the co-hosts of...
Maxink Radio, which you can hear on WMDX every Saturday night from six to nine, and you can also stream it over the website.
Rocker has put together a really cool fundraiser for his pal, Big John, that happens this Sunday at the Crucible in Madison on the east side.
Three great bands.
We just heard Iron Plow.
You know, Rocker, it's interesting.
That song that you played...
I don't know if you saw a movie called Collateral, but it's got that really awesome grinding guitar as part of the score.
It's a Michael Mann film.
And it totally took me to that movie.
The song is so, it's a great tune.
Thank you for sharing that.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah,
I haven't seen that movie.
It's it's worth a look.
It's Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
And it's just a great kind of caper action film, but a smart action film.
So when people if people decide to go on Sunday for this good cause, is there a cover charge or how does that work?
I believe it's a $12 cover charge.
Okay.
To see the show.
Two to 7pm doors open at two.
And iron plow play is at 5pm.
Excellent.
So go see a rocker play the drums.
That's exciting, man.
It's going to be fun.
Yeah, it's great to be back, you know, to to work this hard from, you know, going from the ICU in the hospital in December to back behind the drums is, you know, it feels a little triumphant.
I would imagine it does.
And congrats for that.
Have you so this is your first time on stage since December?
Well, not on stage necessarily.
Um, but playing drums on stage.
Yes.
Which is probably more of a
little
more
activity.
I do a lot of events and ended up on stage for various reasons, but, um, this particular one will be for, for drums.
That's fantastic.
Uh, all right.
So in our exchange earlier, you told me you did not watch the video music awards, uh, and that
you don't
watch TV.
Do you own
the
color television?
I do.
Okay.
And of course, you know, I guess I more choose to watch particular shows or, you know, plenty of stuff that's that's out on YouTube that are just clips.
Sure.
Instead of, you know, being kind of caught up in live TV or, you know, being in front of the TV a lot and even that stuff, I don't watch too much.
But I love YouTube and I love going back and finding all the, you know, classic rock.
videos that were never available when when I was young of these you know really great bands and now it's you know there's so much stuff that you could never see that's not so available but you just have to find it
let's talk about that because one of my favorite things about youtube especially before the ads popped up you could you could get lost on youtube for six hours and find like a who concert from 1978 or a springsteen
show
whatever it is
It's like a whole world opened up.
I can't imagine for a guy like you, a musician, it must be just fun to crawl down that rabbit hole sometimes.
Oh gosh, you know, interestingly enough, there's a lot of old supertramp out there.
When they were just kind of up and coming, they played a lot of like colleges and local TV out there.
You know, Led Zeppelin was kind of famous for doing that as well.
But it was really kind of fun.
finding that stuff on Supertramp.
Supertramp was a band that I grew up with.
I actually ran into Supertramp because the guy who drove the carpool, my friend's dad, to seventh grade, we were in seventh grade, he used to play Crime of the Century on the car stereo.
And so I, you know, started getting into it back then.
It was kind of weird because it was like my friend's dad's music, but it was great stuff.
And, you know,
grew with that band at from that point forward and was able to actually see him around the time that they did the Paris live album.
So right
kind of
after the logical song Breakfast in America album.
And by the way, I know you're playing it's raining again, which is like a Roger Hodgson song, right?
So there were two kind of guys, Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson that really played and Rick Davies was the piano player and
He was the other voice.
So you might recognize him more from Bloody Well Right or Goodbye Stranger.
Those were kind of some of his really big songs.
And the logical song and it's raining.
And, you know, a lot of other hits take the long way home was Roger Hodgson.
That's what I love
Roger Hodgson too.
And that yeah, it's weird because I remember the logical song was kind of what made me aware of Super Tramp when I was younger.
But it wasn't.
It was all those songs I found after that.
that just kind of, in my opinion, dwarfed it.
Like, Goodbye Stranger is one of my all-time favorite songs anywhere.
Yeah, that's on that album as well, right?
Yeah, and there was a song right before that on the album.
I can't remember, but Give a Little Bit, all these great tunes.
Yeah, that's even in the quietest moments.
So that was a great album.
And even in the quietest moments, there's a lot of songs too, where both Roger and Rick Davies both do vocals.
And Roger Hodgson, he was very talented.
He played the guitar.
And a lot of people probably remember him playing the keyboards often on some of those big hits you were just talking about.
But on the old albums like crime of the century, um, some of those videos, I said, they were out on YouTube.
You can really see, you know, some of those great guitar parts that Roger Hodgson played.
You know, a super tramp was just an incredible band.
And, uh, you know, it's worth, it's worth a watch to go watch the bass player of super tramp.
He's just a, just watching him.
It's so fun.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, and Roger Hodgson, Eye of the Storm is a great song too.
He had like a, that was, I think he did that after he left Supertramp.
Buddy, thank you so much for your time as always and best of luck, break a leg on Sunday.
Hope you had a great
time.
Thanks,
man.
I appreciate it.
All right, that's a rocker.
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